Rina Higashikata

Rina Higashikata (東方 理那 Higashikata Rina) is a minor character from Part VIII: JoJolion. She is the wife of Johnny Joestar, the main protagonist of Part VII: Steel Ball Run.

Personality
Much like her original counterpart, she is described as a loving & caring wife. She is also seen as faithful during her peculiar ailment as she trusted Johnny to save her. While she was cured by the corpse parts, she shown great concern for her son George II, as it is revealed that he contracted the disease as well.

Synopsis
After the events of Part VII: Steel Ball Run, she meets Johnny Joestar on the ship crossing the Atlantic back to America with her father Norisuke. The two fall in love and eventually marry and live together on a ranch. Years later, Rina comes down with an incurable illness causing her to lose her memories and and eventually turns her skin stiff and folded like origami. Johnny decided it was best to bring her to Japan to spend the last few days of her life in her hometown of Morioh. Johnny eventually travels back to New York to re-obtain the Corpse Parts as a way of curing his wife's illness. After she is cured, thier son, George II was given the disease. This leads to her husband Johnny to use Tusk to take it for himself, sacrificing himself for the sake for his family. Afterwards she is charged with Johnny's murder, but is released due to lack of evidence. She is not seen again, but it is assumed that She raised George as a single mother in Morioh for the rest of her days.

Trivia

 * Rina is named after the wife of the original Jonathan Joestar, Erina Pendolton.
 * Much like Erina, She raises her child by herself due to how her husband died beforehand.
 * Although she is introduced & named in Part VIII as Johnny's wife, she is first seen in Part VII alongside her father greeting Johnny in it's last chapter.