#reirit

[getintok]

In desperately need of A Little Party Never Killed Nobody by La_Marionette_Grotesque UPDATE

[grimalkinmessor]

Fic Drop ✨

Fractal

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Kageyama Ritsu/Reigen Arataka

Tags: Post-Canon, Blackmail, Consensual Underage Sex, uh. sorta., Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues, Kageyama Ritsu Has Issues, Autistic Kageyama Ritsu, You Will Pry That Tag From My Cold Dead Hands, Reigen Arataka is So Done, Falling In Love, Guilt, Secret Relationship, Yule Log, Underage Drinking, Brat Kageyama Ritsu, 1328, Size Difference, Hand Kink, Drunk Reigen is More Shameless Than Sober Reigen, Pet Names, Unsafe Sex, Aggressively Safe Sex

Summary:

Ritsu learns a new trick, and decides to test it out by spying on Reigen. But Reigen is more observant than he counted on.

...And yet not observant enough.

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Beautiful artwork gifted for me by @rikomoriyama01 for a server secret Santa event! Look how gorgeous this is!

[grimalkinmessor]

And I hate to say it but I think what you’ve rightly pointed out, that Reigen and Ritsu don’t have that inherent ride or die instinct for each other, is what makes reirit as its own thing less appealing to me?

I’m all over reirit as a reaction to or proxy for mobrei though. There’s nothing more interesting (to me) than being loved or hated for someone else’s sake and that’s basically Reigen and Ritsu’s canon dynamic anyway. That they’re very much alike as people makes it even more compelling

Reirit on its own without Mob feels weird to me too, yeah—just because he's such a huge part of both of their lives and it's hard to think about who they each would've been without him. Mob influences both them and their relationship to each other just by existing, which makes it really hard to picture Reirit existing at all without him lmao. Load bearing third-wheel ong 😭

I feel like a lot of the appeal of reirit for me depends on Mob in a lot of ways. His reaction, his relationship with each of them, his very character. Like you could change one thing about Mob and I feel like it would change the entire dynamic of the reirit you're writing around it. Which is,,,admittedly a lot of the appeal for me too lmao like I wanna see the situations that these two incredibly similar idiots get into when Mob's the one balancing both of their strings. Imagine your best friend getting with your brother. That's the type of sway Mob has over their relationship, even if it's not romantic for him or them @ him at all.

This is also why Reirit tends to dissolve into some form of Mobreirit for me most of the time lolol it's just so easy to slip him in there when he's already such an integral part of them 💕💕

Reirit without Mob is just a normal toxic couple, if that 😭 But again, Mob is my favorite character so this is very rarely a problem for me, I love talking about him and his influence on these two goobers 💘

[grimalkinmessor]

Mobrei is a dynamic— platonic or romantic— where both parties (mostly) make each other better. Reirit is a dynamic where both parties would almost certainly make each other worse. So so much wors

Oh definitely. Right on the money, Anon.

Mobrei absolutely has it's own problems and angstiness but there's a grittiness to Reirit that I really like. I think it's because while they're both very similar in personality, they don't get along very well. They care about each other far less than Mob and Reigen care about each other in canon. I think Reigen would balk at the idea of charging into a hurricane for Ritsu like he did for Mob. I think Ritsu would point and laugh whenever Reigen gets chased by murderous ghosts. I mean sure they'd save the other eventually, but it's definitely not as instinctual as it is with Mobrei. There's a lot more room for them to fight without hurting each other, if you know what I mean, which makes them a lot of fun to play with >:3

[grimalkinmessor]

The main reason I say that one of Ritsu's main love languages is arguing/bickering is YES because of his "We couldn't even have a fight as brothers" when he's trying to convince Mob that he doesn't love him. My boy LOVES to have arguments talk to the wall

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Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

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MobReiRit (Mob is queer platonic with them, though), from a server idea