#hi may

[eccentricmoonlight]

Hi! I was the anon from your reblog blog (didn't realise it was a reblog blog at first when I sent the ask, my apologies)

So this is Rei during the war. He has a blue tie so he was a second year at the time (card is from the Element event back in 2016)

As for how we know that Rei was held back in his second year, it's more of a detail that is inferred in some of the war era stories and not something that is explicitly stated, afaik

In Meteor Impact, during one of the scenes where Chiaki and Kanata are first years, Kanata mentions that Rei is a second year (This is from chapter 12 and you can find the translation here)

The in-game translation of Element implies that Rei was held back in his third year too. When Eichi and Tsumugi are discussing who should end up being the Five Eccentrics, they bring up Rei. They immediately compare him to the third years, saying no one else in the third years are like him, which suggests he was a former third year as well

Neither animated version of Element mentions this, so it's very easy to miss esp with the Wiki stories being taken down. Same with Meteor Impact. It's a long story about Chiaki and Kanata, not about Rei's school life. It's not exactly a detail you will immediately pick up on if you're trying to absorb the main plot points

Everything else you mentioned in your rb for him was right though. I completely forgot he left his coffin in the club room after graduating. Why is he like this

Oh I see. Thank ya much for the correction and explanation! Your username certainly does not lie.

The coffin thing I noticed while looking at the background in one of the stories before immediately being brought up by koga in that same story lol. It’s part of what brought me from being neutral on rei to genuinely liking him.

[snakesnifter]

every day i log on tumblr and add a may ask to my may pile

[batsandbirdsandothers]

Inspired by this post - Jason and Duke having glowy eyes and freaking Bruce out

Bruce: Have kids, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. I thought I was gonna shit my pants.

Dick: But they’re so adorable, aren’t they?

Bruce: Unfortunately yes.

[fanaticalthings]

Jason Todd with his goons:

[great-and-small]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[trekkerac]

he's like a faulty lightbulb

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[ruushes]

sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

[paradiserotting]

Good morningggggg!!

- may

morning cutie

[a-a-lost-munchkin]

I Can’t Help But Wonder

Odysseus, who just violently and mercilessly murdered 108 or so men, who claims in the next song that he’s no longer a kind or gentle man, actively listens to Telemachus and kindly and gently responds to everything his son’s expressed.

Telemachus asks, “Am I like you? Am I strong like you? Will you embrace me? Will you love and accept me as yours?” He says, “I’ve felt so alone.”

And Odysseus claims him in a heartbeat, answering, “My son. My boy. My sweetest joy I’ve ever known. I embraced you twenty years ago. I’d do the impossible for you. I’d die for you.” He says, “Seeing the men here today, I can only wonder what you’ve been through for twenty years. My son, you’re already strong. You’re my own. You’re not alone. I’m home.”

And then they fucking embrace.

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[eccentricmoonlight]

You get it

It’s the ritsu in me. Rei is just so kickable

[bluebeesknees]

𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘰 ✨

[bixels]

Baffled.

[humming-fly]

He was feeling left out

and the higher rez stills, since gifs always export as if you're sending messages through a metal can~