Jin Russell

Jin Russell (ジン・ラッセル Jin Rasseru) is the current leader of the community No Name. Despite his age Jin is a rather smart boy and quick to adapting to situations. As the leader he strives to improve on his knowledge and has even taken ques from Izayoi to become a better leader.

Appearance
Jin is a blue eyed young boy of average height for his age with tealish green hair, his bangs drop from the outer sides, leaving some space in his middle forehead, with a little piece of hair up top. He wears a very long sandy colored robe. For some reason Jin continues to wear the robe despite it being too large for him to the point the sleeves cover his hands and the robes completely hide his feet. He wears a white shirt with a red shirt type clothing on top of that. The inside of the hood on his cloak is also red.

Personality
Despite his age Jin is rather mature for his age. He is willing to take the fall for the sake of others and studies hard to become a better leader. His sense of responsibility is so strong that he will keep promises no matter what, even if it means abandoning his own goals for the sake of fulfilling that oath. Originally he lacked confidence and commented that he relied on Black Rabbit to get by. He feels shame for his past actions and works hard to become a better leader, making him rather diligent and striving to be more confident in his abilities. However he is empathetic to those in a similar situation as himself, being rather shocked that Sandora became a Floor Master when she was so young and feeling sorry for the people who were tricked into [Fores Garo]'s Gift Games. When it comes to matters of chastity, he can also become quite embarrassed in the most awkward situations that Sandora drags him into, such as when she took a bath with him, Percher, Highness and Rin.

In the end though Jin's priority is reclaiming the stolen Flag and Name of the community. To that point he studies as much as possible to become a better asset to the community. While he is afraid of failure he is more willing to learn from disappointment than remain traumatized by it. He becomes more assertive in his decisions and actions.

Relationships
Sakamaki Izayoi - Originally Jin and Izayoi had a rough start, though the boy admired Izayoi for his strong Gift. After spending more time with him that admiration grows to Izayoi himself, growing to depend on him for his sound judgement, often consulting him for important matters such as the vetting of the main points to be brought up in the negotiations. Izayoi often calls Jin O-Chibi-sama (Runt in Japanese but with a respectful pronoun, meaning to be taken as an insult).

When he first met Izayoi, they had a talk about winning a gift game and what to do afterwards. At first, Jin did not like his plan but understood it, and when the game against Fores Garo was won, Jin decided to go through with it. Izayoi forced him to speak to the people that he and his community will fight the Demon Lords.

Black Rabbit - Jin is like her little brother whom she just cannot stop worrying about, to the point where she was scolded by Izayoi for having so little confidence in her own leader. Jin relies on her the most when he needs someone to catch the problem children who have gone to create trouble again.

Lily - Jin's childhood and closest friend. She does her best to support Jin after he was made the new leader.

Sandora - Jin's childhood friend and Leader of [Salamandra]. Sandora is very close to Jin and used to bathe together, as she reminded him of their past and wanted to repeat it again in volume 6. Though it was sternly rejected Jin had no choice but to accept. While he respects her status he still will cut her off during the negotiations if she happens to endanger them with careless though, albiet with logical words.

Black Percher - He summons her back to Little Garden again in Volume 3 in the Battle against the Dragon. Originally Jin wasn't much to Percher, but he cared enough and was able to get through to her closed off mindset. At the end of Volume 6, she finally became close to Jin and even said that it wasn't fair for Jin to promise to help her achieve her dream when he had so many more problems to work out first.

Highness - Jin was originally welcoming of Highness for being a friend of Sandora, but once Percher implied she had met him before, Jin became wary of him.

Rin - As a friend of Sandora's Jin was pleasant to her until he learned Percher was involved with Highness. Just as with him, Rin became a source of suspicion for Jin.

Galdo Gasper - Jin despises him, not just for the harasement but for also what Galdo has done to order to win Gift Games against others. He was more than willing to join in the Gift Game against him and felt no remorse that Galdo was being used by a then unknown benefactor and killed.

Volume 1
Jin was waiting for Black Rabbit to return with the new guests, but was suprised to know there were three instead of two. Once Black Rabbit left to go find Izayoi, Jin took Asuka and You inside of the Little Garden. He explained several things, such as the transparent curtains and the races living within the Garden.

Volume 5
Jin was in charge of the negotiations with the other Communities in the setting up of an Alliance, Will-O-Wisp, Six Scars, No Name and another Community that has bad blood with No Name before.

Gifts
[Genie Contractor]: A rare Gift that is said to belong to those descedent of King Solomon. The ability to summon Geniers that have their essence stored in item form with a contract. For Percher's case, it is a ring. It is also hinted that his Gift is not fully utilised yet and the Ouroboros Community led by his Highness seeks to develop his Gift if he joins them.

Natural Abilities
Intellect: Jin possesses an intelligence that is uncommon to his age and development. By studying with Izayoi and following his examples, Jin has been able to improve on his critical thinking and adapting skills while also growing in several aspects.
 * Analytical Abilities: Jin is able to detect what gift people use based on information he has, like he did in Episode 3 when he finds that the tree's of the [Fores Garo]'s Residential District possess a certain power. He was able to deduce the source (Leticia Draculea) of the odd circumstances of the Gift Game's stage area and of Galdo Gasper's change into a demonkind Tiger.


 * Negotiation: By studying with Izayoi and following his examples, Jin has developed in negotiation and leadership skills. He took the lead in speaking with Percher regarding herself, her community and the game rules, and was able to add the additional rule of adding a time limit to the game in order to have the date for the continuation be pushed forward.

Trivia

 * Jin is stated to be a descendent of King Solomon.
 * While "chibi" means short, the "o" part is a respectful addition to a word, to indicate greatness in Japanese. The final result would be something like calling him, "Great Lord Runt." So the additional respectfulness on the word chibi is just heightening Izayoi's casual disregard for Jin's inherited position, especially when he adds the respectful -sama to the end of the pet name. (Credit goes to Baka Tsuki for the information regarding the nickname!!)