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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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CRYINGGGGGGGGG

(taps mic) is this thing on?

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AWW HE IS JUST A BABY 😭 ❤️

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RIN..

YOU'RE THE ONE BROKE UP WITH HIM..

YOU'RE THE ONE INITIATED THAT HIM & YOU ARE GONNA BE RIVALS OR ENEMIES

(after ur nii-chan praised isg instead of you and broke up with him after)

AND YET UR BEING A HOMEWRECKER RIGHT NOW.

DAMN JUST SCORE ALREADY LOLOL

DON'T MIND UR EX WITH SOMEONE ELSE SMH

(all jokes)

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If Blue Lock was reality tv than chapters 288 and 289 are

Isagi asserts his position as not just the other woman now during Kainess divorce proceedings and kicks Ness out of the house. Ness will not be getting alimony.

We look back to last season and Rinsagi's ex situationship that ended cause Rin is too into his older brother... now Rin is trying to stage an intervention about this new german that Isagi is dating but Isagi is Not receptive.

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For scientific reasons, need to hear more on that Deku/Shigaraki and Isagi/Rin parallels (what r u cooking)

Stopppp DON'T ENABLE ME

Okay too late

First let me explain something lol--I find that I often look for specific dynamics in stories that I've found in other stories, ones that have impacted me and stuck with me. Deku/Shigaraki stuck with me (others have too), so I subconsciously look for dynamics like that. So whether it's valid to say Rin and Isagi are ACTUALLY similar in any way whatsoever, I'm not the best person to ask because I'm kind of searching for it lol. But I do have my reasons for feeling that way!!

I would say that "parallel" is a strong word because it's not exactly that they parallel, it's just the overall VIBE and the TYPE of dynamic I'm seeing reminds me so much of Deku/Shigaraki and I can easily break it down explaining why. BUT FIRST I did kind of dive into detail about Isagi and Rin here (and Bachira, my other son is important!), so if you're bored at some point today read that too. But to explain why, the number 1 reason is Rin's role and position in the story.

If you look at the Blue Lock cast as a whole, exactly how many people are dealing with true emotional turmoil that is detached from the world inside of the Blue Lock project? As far as I can tell, Rin and Kaiser are the only ones who fit the bill. Even if characters came with baggage, like Bachira, their baggage became intertwined with the world inside Blue Lock. So in other words, there are only 2 people who really have deep shit that they're struggling with that, should Blue Lock disappear, they'd STILL be struggling with and couldn't really escape from. So THAT in itself already puts Rin in a really unique position compared to everyone else in Blue Lock.

That's the long version of saying that Rin is this manga's little damsel in distress (like Tomura lmao). I personally really believe that his issues revolving around his brother, and his issues regarding himself and his sense of worth are the core emotional conflict of the story. I think they're absolutely crucial to Isagi's story too, because at this point there is no Rin without Isagi and vice versa. More on that later though. So what really made me start being like "ah yes, I think I've seen this before" is when the idea of Isagi "saving" someone was written into the dialogue AND then later shifting onto Rin completely falling apart because of Isagi.

Bachira brought the idea of Isagi "saving" him into the story by outright saying it, that wasn't an interpretation I came up with! It was said:

So now this idea is planted into the narrative that Isagi could be someone's fixation because they want him to help them. Bachira was that person first, but Blue Lock isn't a hero/savior story, and Bachira--despite him being the adorable little token freak of the manga--is actually QUITE emotionally stable lol. He had baggage for sure, and he wanted Isagi to carry that baggage with him, but he decided that he didn't want to NEED Isagi to be happy, he'd rather be okay no matter what but still want Isagi in his life and keep him there. He found a really solid answer that would be an ideal answer in a real life scenario. Bachira set a really good precedent for what the characters in Blue Lock might be expected to do, especially because Bachira's inner conflict was the first true interpersonal dilemma that was brought to the forefront in the manga. Like it was the first real emotional conflict we got to see present and resolve itself.

So Bachira put that idea out there, that someone could want Isagi to save them in some way (which is when the Deku/Tomura part of my brain somewhat started working lol). So what connects that to Rin is when I started seeing Rin relive some of Bachira's moments later in in the NEL arc. And I connect Bachira to Rin because Rin is the reason Bachira was able to even figure out his problems at all:

And like...Rin of all people should know when to apply this to himself. But he doesn't. Especially at this point ^^ in the story because nobody had ever come close to reaching his level when playing soccer, so he was able to just play with his goal of defeating his brother in mind and not think anything more of it.

I could go on all day about the process that led Rin to where he currently is now in the manga, but I did all that in my longer post already and I'll just continue by explaining why they remind me of Deku/Tomura.

Again, there is nobody else in Blue Lock (the team, not the story) who is being shown having anywhere near the level of inner turmoil that Rin is having. He's clearly a lone wolf in this area, and not only that--he's directly associated his turmoil with Isagi's presence as a soccer player and has obsessed over it ever since the U20 arc. There is nobody else who is suffering inside on the level that he is (again, we're not counting Kaiser here), so he very very obviously needs help in some way. And bringing it back to when I mentioned Bachira and Rin linking this all together--Rin is also putting his baggage on Isagi. He isn't asking for help or hoping for Isagi to notice something and actively do anything for him. What he's hoping for is that if he beats Isagi in a way he sees fit (who knows what that would even look like, seeing as how he's literally been ranked number 1 the entire time with Isagi at number 2), he'll have satisfied his brother (at least what he perceives to be satisfying to his brother) and the painful memory of his brother abandoning him will stop haunting him:

That's why he pulled a chapter 2 Isagi move and opted to not score an for sure goal, and do it in a way that would be "going after the strongest" and in a way that he believes his brother would approve of:

Another thing that made my Tomura/Deku brain switch on---having similar moments that are clearly parallels, literally the exact same except with one carrying an entirely different weight to it.

Everything explained so far is just the set up to what really made me start to fall for their dynamic (the same exact way I fell for the Deku/Tomura dynamic). What really did it was during the France vs. Germany match, when you really see just how damaged Rin is and how much he's completely fallen apart because of how threatening and painful Isagi's presence is for him. More specifically this was the first big moment:

Isagi...did not do anything to hurt Rin. Putting them next to each other in this context is so out of pocket honestly. But it's because of what Sae said about Isagi at the end of the U20 arc that Rin cannot let go of this idea that Isagi is his problem, and now he's obsessed with Isagi in a way that just isn't doing him any favors. Isagi is simply just viewing Rin as his rival, as someone standing in his way at being the best in the world because to Isagi, RIN IS THE BEST. And Rin's dumbass is literally number 1 and has STAYED AT NUMBER 1, and he's STILL over here saying shit like this:

So....Rin's seriously unnecessary fixation on Isagi is another thing that made my bnha brain turn on lol.

Moving on though because there are moments that only solidified this feeling of familiarity from their dynamic:

Rin was in a lot of pain and getting so desperate here, and then Isagi shows up and makes Sae disappear!** And look at Rin's surprised face ;---;. To me, it just felt so much like a moment where Isagi really did save Rin from completely unraveling in that moment. AND THEN IT GOT WORSE BETTER:

The whole "collide with me" and "the one who brings this side out of me is you" I think is the moment I was done for lol.

**Bachira and Isagi had a moment like this too btw!

Now granted--even with how this moment went it didn't fix anything, and Rin still puts a lot of misplaced responsibility on Isagi for his pain. But for a single moment Isagi matching with Rin, saying he'll take everything serious enough to put his life on the line like how Rin feels he's doing when he plays soccer, made Sae and his cruel words disappear and kept Rin from falling apart in that moment.

So like dynamic-wise, Isagi will be something good for Rin, I think. The same exact way he was for Bachira. I don't think Isagi can actively do anything for Rin, more like just his presence and his effect on others is something that Rin needs, and eventually he should be able to use this rivalry as something motivating not as something self-destructing--which is what he was doing for a sec during this match.

I think I explained it better in my longer meta--since I went into detail about how, like Bachira was, Rin is also searching for someone with his soccer (his brother, and indirectly Isagi). What makes me think of Deku/Tomura is just the dynamic of someone really REALLY needing help somehow, and fixating on someone because that person is clearly what they need, but instead they'll put the blame on them because actually facing the real problem (in Rin's case, the problem is how to cope with the overwhelming loss of his brother) is too painful (until they figure out exactly how that person is what they need).

No idea if that is coming across coherent or not. Good luck lol.

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Hmm

Oh interesting...

HMMMMMMMMM

*clears throat* HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Further emphasizes that when Rin told Bachira he was "looking for someone with his soccer", Rin wasn't looking in the mirror.

Rin's been looking for someone too. Someone to replace his brother, in a way. Someone who makes soccer worthwhile for him, makes it fun to keep playing even without Sae. Isagi is the person he's been looking for. That is represented both visually and in Rin's thoughts.

Unfortunately by this point he's so distraught over his relationship with his brother that when he finally finds someone he can't feel happy or enjoy playing. He can't reach the same conclusion that Bachira reached ("I can live without you and still play for myself, but I want to play with you because you make it fun.")

Even though he found what he was looking for, all he did was redirect the pain and anger from his brother to Isagi. He's still miserable, and he can't move forward, which is why Isagi improving before his eyes is so frustrating, and why he's become so dependent on Isagi putting pressure on him in order to awaken his instincts.

And with that, his brother will never come back or acknowledge his abilities (to Rin's face) as long as he continues using other people (whether it be Sae or Isagi) as an excuse to play soccer. And Rin isn't able to hide this problem on the field (see: U20 match and France match...I mean jesus, dude is not subtle at all).

I cannot emphasize enough how paralleled Rin and Bachira are when it comes to Isagi. It drives me insane.

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DONT WORRY ISAGI, I AM ON MY WAY TO GET YOU THAT EYELINER

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TEARS FROM MY RINSAGI CAPTIVATED SOUL

Blue Lock art~💙

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It's funny how Rin went from ignoring Isagi...

To this, by Sae's words.

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damn I guess today’s a Rinsagi field day in r/BlueLock.

not that i have an issue with it tho 🤭

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Okay so I'm a security guard, right

And part of why I like my job is cause I'm pretty good at deescalating conflicts without violence or police involvement

And that *might* be because my primary coping mechanism for stress is humor, and if the guy in the uniform isn't stressed out, usually nobody else is either

But anyhow today I witnessed a crime, which 911 had already been called for

And I'm telling the guy, you know, as he's running away, that nobody's gonna touch him, we don't do that here, I don't have any weapons and he can totally walk on out if he wants to

And he gives me this 'go-fuck-yourself" type answer, right? As you do

And I fucking

I fucking. Start danCING

I DONT KNOW WHY

I WAS JUST LIKE "aight guess I'll go fuck myself then, cheerio" AND START FUCKING DANCING

LIKE MY BRAIN WAS LIKE "Cool not being attacked, gotta keep the witnessed calm, gotta stay chill and breezy" AND THE PHYSICAL RESPONSE FOR THAT WAS TO SYART DOING THIS SASSY FUCKING JIG

I DIDNT EVEN REALIZR I WAS FDOUNG IT UNTIL SOMEONE POIU TED IT OUT AFTER

and it all ended fine and the dude is in custody and I get a call from my boss like "Yeah we're gonna need to send footage to police"

AND

FUCKING

THIS IS GOING TO BE SHOWN IN COURT SOMEWHERE

IM DOUNG A SRUPID LITTLE DANCE ON CAMERA AS THIS GUY LOSES HIS MIND AND ITS GONNA BE ON COURT SOMEWHERW

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IVE WVER DONE

I HATE MYSELFD

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blue lock objectively is insane and probably bad. but the thing about blue lock is that once you watch it youre like holy shit this is peak. its a disease.

other powerpoints ive made: chainsaw man, kagurabachi

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I can't believe Rin, of all the characters from Blue Lock, felt the power of friendship?

Nevermind, he hates it and rejects friendship

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Rin. I misread it. I didn't think Japan was capable of producing a decent striker. The one who awakened your instincts and can change the soccer of this country... That egoist, Isagi Yoichi, might be the one to do it. This country can still change.

Blue Lock Episode 38 - Last Attack

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Androgyny challenge: Krishna or Mohini?

Krishna, cuz I've never seen Mohini in a skin colour besides the Fair and Lovely Ad one

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Only the idiots who can keep up with me will get to see the scenery that comes next - Blue Lock S02E13