protecting Rin M. from the fandom

It shouldn't have to be a thing, but thanks to part of the fandom, it is. This blog was made in order to compile the cases made defending Rin from all the misconceptions about his character some fans have had, but nowadays it's more for me to cry about Rin's character arc/growth, Haru's growth/arc, rinharu in general, and anything else that's going on right now, since I first wrote this after s1 aired. Some important posts, particularly about Rin (and/or Haru), and specifically against certain erroneous claims made about them are in the "important posts" tag on the side. (Basically, this is my free! (but mainly rinharu-centric) sideblog.)

[devotedtorin]

My contribution to the RH Delicious event! 😋 the theme was eating but sorry y’all I wasn’t thinking about food 🤭❤️💙

Two extra doodles below from when I was originally gonna make this in sai

[hitomikisugi]

[kudouusagi]

Haru’s face when Rin puts his arm on his shoulder is so adoring I love it.

[rhmare]

RH Week 2020 Day 2 - Family

“Ah yes. Me. My boyfriend. And his hand-made one meter tall Iwatobi-chan.

…and his hard-won two meters tall special edition Northern Stoplight Loosejaw-kun.

And that giant Samezuka-chan doll that I still have no idea where he got.

And-”

[maru-nage]

[redxblueihateloveyou]

Final stroke… more like me having a stroke. If Haru truly is standing in Sydney, that means we’re gonna have Harurinralia 2.0 with them all grown up returning there happy and with their mutual dream finally being a reality. I’m gonna need like 20 boxes of tissues for this, I’m gonna cry an ocean, if they’re gonna visit Lori and Russel again to show off their new uniform T_T FUCK HOW DID WE EVEN GET THERE, it was all fanfiction before. FUUUUCKK.

It’s also seriously true that the date of the first movie is the same as the date Harurinralia episode aired. I thought “there’s no way they did it’, when I saw someone wrote this, but I freaking checked and holy shit:

Kyoani, I’m dead. They just freaking decided to release the movie the day Rin and Haru found their future together. Now we all can officially celebrate September 17th as a Rinharu anniversary (not that we didn’t already xD).

Now about the endless possibilities, that are gonna kill me until the movie is out: willl they revisit their hotel? will they sleep in one bed again just like Rin predicted (for “a tradition” purpose of course lmao)? they will 100% make parallels to 2x12 and that’s gonna be the moment, I’ll die for real, goodbye. Nothing happened yet, but I’m already dead.

The whole trailer is focused on rinharu, I’m on the floor.

How to deal with this and all this info now, idk. This is l too much for my soul. 2 movies, god. I’m warning you all, I’m gonna read every spoiler that will come out in may from ppl who went to theaters lmao I’m sorry in advance.

And I’ve said it already, but… HARU LOOKS SO FREAKING HOT IN RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kudouusagi]

Final Free! movie announced!

It will actually be two movies!! They are titled The Final Stroke and the first half is coming out in September 17th of this year and the second half is coming out April 22 of next year.

Watch the trailer!

[kudouusagi]

Kisumi Theme 02 "something you want to fix about him?"

Haruka/Sousuke: That he gets too close.

Rin: Huh? You guys said the same thing at once.

Sousuke: He gets closer than you, Rin. It’s a huge problem.

Haruka: Yeah, it really is.

Rin: Huh!? Why are you talking about me? We’re supposed to be talking about Kisumi, aren’t we!?

Sousuke: That’s right. Kisumi really leans on you so he’s heavy.

Haruka: That’s true. He really puts his body weight on you. It’s honestly pretty smothering.

Rin: bu-but I think it’s nice that Kisumi does so much skinship? And he’s kind, and considerate, and cleaver!

Sousuke: His mind changes so fast. He just goes from one topic to the next so sometimes I lose track of what we’re talking about.

Rin: Ah, and so that’s why you have such a far off look when you talk with him sometimes?

Sousuke: Shut up. I sometimes get that look with you too, don’t I?

Rin: I- I said to stop talking about me!? That reminds me, I don’t think Kisumi means anything bad by it, but sometimes he says some confusing things. Once I thought we were all going to play on the Iwatobi beach together, but when I went there only Haru was there.

Haruka: Yeah that was awkward.

Sousuke: One time he said to me “you should get along with kids more, Sousuke!” and abandoned me in front of a monkey enclosure at the zoo where a whole bunch of kids were for 2 hours. Even though I wanted to go home I didn’t know the way.

Rin: ……What’s with that surreal scene……?

Haruka: But it’s because of Kisumi that even though we go to different colleges we’ve gotten more chances to meet up. I’m grateful for that.

Rin: See. Kisumi is clever and nice. Fundamentally.

Sousuke: We’ll, he’s annoying, but I don’t hate him.

[maru-nage]

Free! and MIZUNO are collaborating to sell a new product.

https://www.mizunoshop.net/disp/CSfDispListPage_003.jsp?dispNo=003002392&ecid=twitterfree2021040269

[yinyu]

in my mind these images are all linked so if the bottom two are rh the top one is rh it’s called logic

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ok. ok LISTEn

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Rin Spotlight Color

An unexpected side? Haru and Makoto

Makoto: An unexpected side huh? …… Ah, for Rin, it’s that he’s always weak to Nagisa’s requests I guess?

Haruka: I guess that’s true.

Makoto: Even in elementary school, Nagisa would say “give me a bite of your ice cream!” and he’d usually give it to him. And in games, if Nagisa was complaining because it seemed like he’d lose he’d be nice to him.

Haruka: He’s nice to Gou too. It seems he gets messages from Gou every morning asking “What score would you give your muscles today?” but he always responds without complaining.

Makoto: Ahaha. Rin’s pretty stoic but sometimes his kindness shines through…… I guess he’s the type who spoils younger people.

Haruka: That’s you too, Makoto.

Makoto: Eh? R- really?

Haruka: When Ren and Ran cry when they don’t want to eat their vegetables you said you would give them your ham in exchange for their vegetables and eat them for them.

Makoto: Woah, when are you talking about, Haru!? I always tell them to eat them now! Ah, speaking of, recently I got a picture from Nagisa. He got this from Rin!

Haruka: ……? This is…… a strap I got from Nagisa recently…… it’s a limited edition super rare mascot strap from Australia……!!!

Makoto: Eh? Really? I see. Then Rin got one for you too Haru! Rin’s weak to you too.

Haruka: Really……?

Makoto: I’m sure Nagisa said to him I’ll give it to Haru too so “Please Rin-chan♡”

Haruka: …… No, Rin is weak to you, Makoto.

Makoto: Eh? Really?

Haruka: Because you think like a kid.

Makoto: Huh? Haru what does that mean……!? Hey, haru~~!!

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Rin Spotlight Color

Special Memory Episode 2 Memories from the second year of high school

Nagisa: Thank you for that strap! Haru-chan was super happy! I told him Rin-chan said, “I searched for this for Haru!”

Rin: I never said that did I? Weren’t you the one who wanted it?

Nagisa: Eh, but I could feel it pouring off of you? That feeling of “I want to buy this for Haru too”

Rin: What’s that. ……well, I did think it seemed like something Haru would want. And I couldn’t think of any other gift for him.

Nagisa: See see! You really did want to buy it for him! Woah! Ah, hey! That hu~r~ts~! Rin-chan!! I’m just happy that you and Haru-chan are close like you used to be!!

Rin: Shut up. Besides we’ve never been close because that Haru is always so cold. He hasn’t changed at all.

Nagisa: You think? But Haru-chan looks like he’s having so much fun when he’s talking to you, Rin-chan. And in that relay we swam together in high school, Rin-chan was glowing, and I’m SURE Haru-chan felt his heart go like SQUEEZE. I’m sure his heart was pounding when you did the exchange. Since my heart was pounding too!

Rin: R-really? Well but, that relay is an irreplaceable memory. I felt the same way. My heart was really pounding.

Nagisa: Hehe, at that time you were so excited and said something like “our swimming will start a revolution~”……

Rin: Ah~ Nagisa, don’t talk about that……

Nagisa: Eh~ but it was so fun. Ah, that’s right! Let’s go to that new sports center they built next time! With Haru-chan and everyone! We can all play around and make even deeeeper friendships!

Rin: No, you just want to go, right? I don’t really……

Nagisa: eh~~!! But you went with me to the game center and to dinner before too~~! PLEASE~~~!

Rin: Ugh…… ……f-fine……

Nagisa: YES YAY!! Let’s call Haru-chan right away!!

Rin: Ah, Nagisa, I don’t think he’ll answer right now. His phone is always off during training camps.

Nagisa: ……Hehe, see! You and Haru-chan are close! Then let’s go next week! It’s a promise!

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Rin Spotlight Color

Special memory episode 4 Memories from studying abroad

Rin: Haru, how’s university life for you? Have you gotten used to your team?

Haruka: I told you last time. Not much has changed. What about you?

Rin: What’s with that. You’re so cold. You never tell me anything.

Haruka: I tell you a bit. So, how are you?

Rin: ……!!!! Well, it’s moving along. Because of Mikhail’s training schedule, I’m able to keep my speed up at the end of races. But I still feel like I did my best swimming on the day I first trained with Mikhail.

Haruka: I see. Speaking of, I think the first time I swam with the Hidaka swimming club the time I swam the most natural with the water. University pools have a different feel than high school ones.

Rin: I don’t really get it but university pools have good equipment so the pool’s water and feel are probably different.

Haruka: Right. The university has an indoor pool so I don’t get exhausted and no sunburns so it’s nice.

Rin: Ahh, there was one time you got a really tan wasn’t there? You were so dark. Hehe

Haruka: …… There was also that one time you turned red swimming at a joint training at Iwatobi right? Didn’t you say it hurt when you touched it?

Rin: Shut up. I’m delicate. ……but, but I swim a lot at the indoor pool near the bridge recently. ……By the way, Haru, when I talk to Mikhail he says lots of words I’ve never heard of before. Do you know what “M-K-FIVE” means?

Haruka: If you don’t know then there’s no way I would know.

Rin: Right. Also, the other day when I asked about training my Tensor fasciae latae muscle he really got into it. He talked to me all night with this book called “winning muscles”……

Haruka: I’m interested in that too. Tell me about it.

Rin: What, you’re interested in muscles now too? Then, next break let’s get together and I’ll give you a lecture. We’ll talk through the night so be prepared, Haru!

Haruka: got it. I’ll look forward to it.

TN: M-K-FIVE is an old slang term that means It’s 5 seconds before I get seriously pissed off.

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Rin spotlight color interview

Q&A

Q1 Say one thing about your personality? I hate losing If there’s someone stronger, then I’ve got to become stronger. There’s someone I can’t lose to.

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The sea breeze brings the smell of home with it It connects me with my friends who I’m separated from The pure water is full of the things I’ve taken back From those days I took a detour

I glared at you with impudent eyes But the future of that day is why I’m here

My admiration will always cheer me up no matter what Because of that, I’m able to move forward now without getting lost and believe in my dreams that are still far off, I’m going to meet them

Every day changes as I swim But because of those unchanging memories connecting to today rather than worry, I’ll make a promise To my friend I’ll meet again

It’s a difficult world, but let’s overcome The walls and limits. Let’s go, to the future

I’ll dive full of hope into the unknown that continues forever No matter the weaknesses or strengths or anything I’ll face them all with the bonds I have made

The blue sky is reflected in the clear water I’m so free I’ve been waiting for this day Ah, pulling and pushing and understanding each other… And still, we’ll continue forever

My admiration will always cheer me up no matter what Because of that I’m able to move forward now without getting lost I believe in my dreams that are still far off, and keep swimming no matter where I go I’ll take my bonds with me

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[redxblueihateloveyou]

10 signs you’re in love.