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@rinfestedwaters
Hellllllooo!!!!
Does the Free! Community of the RP variety still exist on heeere?
BYE
( I cannot find where I got this from but this is Momo coded. )
"What even is that question... No more sugary stuff for you before bed, like, ever."
"What do you take me for, anyway? A fish? Worms, geez... like you wanna bait a hook or something. I'm a shark, and don't you forget it."
"And for the record- yeah, of course, don't be stupid. It'd just be difficult to cuddle, I guess. Like, real difficult."
Indie Momotarou Mikoshiba Free! Roleplay Blog
- formerly @ottorable - Crossover friendly.
Plops ontop of without warning. š¦¦š§”
"Hey, HEY! You're mistaking me for a piece of furniture!" He grumbles, shaking his head, but not doing anything to get rid of the sudden weight on top of him. "At least give a guy a warning, will ya..."
Rinharu WeekĀ - Day 7: Light (Feeling)
I'm afraid we can't do anything about that now. We're the ones having a problem here. Aren't there any other rooms available? We're full up tonight. If you don't want the room, go find another hotel. But remember, we'll be charging you cancellation fees. Seriously?! It's your mistake! No. Our cancellation policy's stated in our agreement. You were informed of this when you made your reservation.
"Ai? Are you in here?" He called out as he entered the room, balancing a tower of books in his hands. "I brought you some of your compulsory reading..."
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He wasn't expecting Rin back so soon, so Ai startles from his desk a little when the knob of their door turns and Rin enters through the threshold. Worse still is what he comes bearing - not gifts, not food, but.... Second year learning material....!
He scratches his cheek, at the spot just below his beauty mark.
"Rin-senpai, did you go to the library? Careful you don't drop those...!" He's up and out of his chair in a flash to walk across the room and start taking books off from the top of the tower.
...
And then his eyebrows fold,
"Actually, how did you know what was on my reading list?"
"Ah, well, you see... my first thought was the oujia board, but it's never quite certain what you manage to summon, right?" He replied, walking closer to Ai's bed. "Then I thought I'd try tarot cards, but I actually don't have a deck, can you believe it?" He went on, teasing his kouhai. "And then I figured I could read tea leaves... if only I had the right kind of tea. So at the end of the day..." he went on, carefully dumping the remaining books on Ai's bed, making a neat little pile. "I remembered- I was where you are last year!" He pointed out as he grabbed a book to gently bonk Ai on the head with, grinning impishly. "Well, that and I asked the librarian for help. Pretty shrewd of me, huh?"
I received an email about being mentioned in a post.
On my old blog I've not used for so long, I didn't even have my password saved for it.
And the mention itself? Turned out to be more than NINE years old.
What the bloody hell, Tumblr???
So I came in here to look around.... š
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"Heyyyy"
"Heyyyy yourself. What's up?"
Walks into the room and just plops down on the bed, face first.
Glances up from his desk, wondering what's Momo up to. "You uh... is everything ok?"
Oh, well......
MOMO....! š I miss my cute little otter.... š¦¦š„³
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MOMO....! š I miss my cute little otter.... š¦¦š„³
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Yeesh. I stumble upon the 2-act finale of Free!, with the English subs. Not on purpose, itās just there in front of me while Iām looking for something else. It hits me how I couldāve, probably, found it with a bit of effort, a lot sooner. And I think about how I - havenāt. Consciously or not, I did not want to put in the effort.
2013 saw the first series air, I watched as it happened. Itās been ten yearsĀ since.
2014 introduced us to Momo, in the second series, who still has a special place in my heart... for so many reasons. Despite never really getting enough screentime (and then even less).
2015, March, got us that OVA that I still consider one of the overall bests, due to how well it ties in to the universe, into the main story, while serving some totally no-strings-attached fun at the same time. Then, in July, my grandpa passed away. In December, we got the High Speed! adaptation, which of course takes us back into our main castās childhood, a little anachronistic to be sure, but it managed to make it feel like weād known these guys even longer, practically a whole lifetime. It also introduced us to Ikuya - another one I grew very fond of, very quickly...
Although it wasnāt until the very end of 2016 that I got around to watching High Speed! - more than a year after it actually hit the theatres.
And that too only because of the upcoming two not-quite-just-recap movies in 2017: Kizuna in April, and Yakusoku in July.
Once again, I was a good year late in getting to these, in July 2018. I suppose somewhere in my subconscious, I kinda justified it byĀ āwell, theyāre kinda just recaps anyway, right?ā...
At this timeĀ five years ago, we just started watching Dive to the Future - the long-awaited third series dropped in July 2018. It felt... different, trying to balance what was basically two separate casts by this point, juggling bothĀ āoldā characters from the first two series, as well asĀ ānewā ones from High Speed!. I think it was... hard. For me. To keep track, a little bit to keep interest, and a little bit to relate as we saw our main cast oh-so-grown-upĀ now. Iām still both lost in the world of adulting, and alone. Though, delightfully, Free! never tries to shoehorn in token romances anywhere that it wouldāve no idea how to handle - like so many other anime, in the genre and outside of it, do.
July 2019 saw Yume released, the third not-quite-just-recap movie. This is where I lost the thread, as I still havenāt gotten around to watching it. And then, of course, not a full two weeks later, the KyoAni arson attack happened, and the entire Free! fandom (among others ofc) scrambled as one to raise awareness, to donate, to buy whatever digital or real merch they were pushing out in an attempt to recoup the losses...
In April 2020, my grandma passed away.
And holy shit, even the first act of The Final Stroke, Zenpen, is close to two years old now, having been released in September 2021.
Followed by the final-final stroke, Kouhen, in April 2022. At the same time, OLDCODEX also disbanded, following, ofc, that whole nasty ordeal around our gentle giantās VA. (Of all people... who wouldāve thought, right?)
And since... Free! has been doing Memories of Summer and all sorts of blue, music events obviously because Free! also has an immenseĀ amount of music to be enjoyed,Ā various collabs, even having our guys show up around actual sport events (like here for the FINA World Aquatics Championships happening in Fukuoka now).
And now of course theyāre preparing for events to celebrate the 10th anniversary, even compilation album is in the works.
It has been a decade.
It feels like another lifetime. Practically none of the people are around from back then. None of theĀ āfriendsā, none of the RP partners, none of my Japanese study group, even...
Iām just here, on the lookout for the new BLEACH episode, when The Final Stroke swims right into my face, and brings all this to my mind. And-Ā BLEACH!Ā Indeed. Holy smokes. BLEACH! You thought Free! is a blast from the past? Ha. This one goes back to my highschool years, itās actually almost terrifying tbh.
It also makes me think... Here we are, as well, waiting for similar 2-act final for Haikyuu!!, which I think most of us are at least somewhat apprehensive about, because howās that even gonna work? Either way - Haikyuu!!, the anime, is also right around the decade corner, having been released in 2014, yāknow.
And to thread the same needle... DAIYA no Ace? Premiered October 2013. And even though the animeĀ Act II concluded in 2020 - the manga Act II didnāt end until October last year. So, presumably, thereās still material to work with even there.
Itās kind of mind-boggling, isnāt it? For all the ephemeral nature of high school years...Ā Whichever franchise youāre into, any or all of them, it feels like these boys have been around for ever. Which... they obviously havenāt. But they do have their own lifeās stories - and whatever way you slice it, ten years is a hell of a long time. Even if it really isnāt.
And when it all ends... What then? Will they go on being cherished andĀ āliveā with us, in our everydays, as it were? Or will they be forgotten... will there even be anyone around to remember them?
Happy birthtday, Ai...