#rin answers stuff

[zhongrin]

Honey.

No questions. Just go there. And thank me later ;)

ohhh thank you! i'll save this and keep these in mind! hope you've been enjoying the new update's content ᰔᩚ

[townofcadence]

✏️ (gives you reason to draw Rin)

Muse Art (Closed!)

I only did half-bodies, so two for the price of one!!!

[cindersnowsstuff]

I started a vocal synth ita bag! I plan to add more to it over time, and I'll be updating this post as I do! I'll be looking for SynthV items to add to this. I hope I'll have enough room to fit all the charms I want to put in here 😅

UPDATE 1: Flower and Teto have been added!

[cangrellesteponme]

Genuine question after reading the mey-rin essay (which I love btw, the way you wrote it? Immaculate): do you think the writing of women in Kuro could improve if they had more focus? Like, with Lizzie i personally did a whole 180° on how I feel about her once her past was more shown during book of Atlantic. Mey-rin I already loved her and after her own "focus" my love for her increased even more, it felt like reading something more real other than just a stereotype or a trope. I feel like they would all be more enjoyable (tho I'm biased because I love them) if they had more time to shine. *pls Yana, Ran Map focus one day, I would love to know more*

hi anon, first of all thank you, i’m glad you liked the essay :))

short answer: yeah, no. focus is not inherently redeeming.

so, we all clear on my take ? good, good. let’s get into a bit more detail. (and into some proper capitalisation)

Now, focus is great and all, but there has to be a reason the new information we get is interesting. In the cases of Lizzy and Mey-Rin, it kind of is the same phenomenon: now that we have more of this background information, it recontextualises aspects of the character we might not have cared for before, and we gain a renewed appreciation for a character we understand better. This works well, and kind of is a requirement, because they both got very rocky starts. We’re turning elements readers have identified as “bad” into parts of a more complex, “justified” whole.

However, I’m going to be very honest here, I think it’s stupid and doesn’t change the fact that the writing of women in Kuro is fucking horrendous.

It’s great for Mey-Rin: it doesn’t necessarily detach itself from previous characterisation and actually strengthens it (hence the feeling of it turning the stereotype more real), and causes no real change in the character. On top of that, the timing is perfect: right before a demonstration of pure loyalty, Yana shoves a big, red “THIS CHARACTER IS THE WAY THEY ARE FOR THIS REASON” sign, which associates the recontextualised elements with a virtue readers will absolutely love. All in all, absolute banger (with a few problems), let’s not write another essay.

But what the fuck was that with Lizzy? Don’t get me wrong here, I love writing about how awful gender is sometimes, but did we really need to do it… like that? In case what I mean isn’t clear, let’s do a quick recap. This very normal child with normal child behaviour (being girly, childish, emotional, and lowkey annoying, in a normal kid way) was very strongly hated (and. well. mocked by the narrative) for those traits, and her turning point is…? Let me check my notes. Ah, yes, the turning point is that Lizzy behaving like a girl is okay not because it just fucking is, but because it’s actually all a lie and deep down she’s a strong warrior who’s just acting like that because she was told to. Obviously you can’t just be both, silly! And yeah there’s more nuance to that, but I’m not writing a Lizzy essay, for a plethora of reasons. What bothers me is that the readers’ enjoyment of the character is dependent on the denial of her previous femininity, and it’s not just an unexpected effect – it’s how it’s written.

(and, sidenote: as a lizzy enjoyer i kind of hate the fandom’s general perception of her? at least with mey-rin it truly improved with time, but with lizzy… people still think of her the exact same way, they just spend a lot of time talking about how much they enjoy the “cooler” parts of her, instead of spending time shitting on the rest of it. anyway, no lizzy essay, i should keep my takes to myself before i end up in trouble!!)

So, based on those two examples: no, focus is not enough to let Yana show that she’s always been capable of writing women.

And as much as I love Ran Mao (which is a lot) I think I will have to deeply sigh at every single aspect of her character if we get more detail. I’ll take it, because I love her, but I will be even more acerbic in my criticisms. Because focus won’t fix her. If you pull a magnifying glass on shit it’s still shit. And the writing of women in Kuro is, in fact, very shitty.

so, anon, i hope my answer is at least interesting? obviously if yana somehow puts her head on straight and starts writing ran mao well i will be here for it but the odds are… not in our favour. as for the other women… well i’d love to see more of lady midford, but that seems unlikely, and i’m always here for more grelle, and her writing is… a complicated issue other people explain way better than i do. so yeah.

[crystalflygeo]

(no pressure, no need to reply if you don't feel like it but i thought i'd send one in anyway!! am kissing your forehead and surrounding you with zhongli plushies <3)

😍😘🍼🌌

✅: how would you or your f/o react if the other 'teased' them in public? ;)

RIIIIIN PLS YOU'RE TOO PRECIOUS ;;w;;

😍: Name your three favorite things about your f/o

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Zhongli: -His voice/hair/eyes/appearance in general SORRY THAT SOUNDS SHALLOW BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE HUSBAND? //jazz hands at zl -His kindness and gentle nature, I feel like ppl overlook this a lot pls he is so soft I love him. He has lost so much yet still has so much love to give <3 -His lil trivia and fun random facts bchjasncjasck nuff said I love him your honor

Baizhu: -His hair, his eyes, his smile, I am so WEAK PLS //sobs -He is so kind, so soft and selfless to a FAULT he's self sacrificing and prone to just go along with things that would harm him just to keep the peace and help others -can I also say his voice?? his chuckles?? he is so pretty and so funny bye I love him sm

😘: What’s your f/o’s favorite thing about YOU?

WHO KNOWS REALLY//HIT

Zhongli: -My loyalty/trust/devotion //hit -Whenever I do these lil skips/jumps and dashes as we walk together. (?) -FURRY EARS V EXPRESSIVE, he likes when they stand up to attention to his voice or fold back cutely when embarrassed dvhdbvhsbnvkj

Baizhu: -The high pitched squeaks and noises I let out whenever I drop or bump into something -How easily I get along with kids and how soft and patient I am with them -My open-mindedness (?)

🍼: Want kids?

FUN FACT no //HIT

Imma get v in character here but- There's been some talk about it since people keep bothering me asking how a mated 4kyo adeptus doesn't have children but I just.... don't want to??;;;; CR, Ganyu and the other adepti understand fully and don't pester about it anymore, same with other archons, surprisingly it's mostly the mortals who ask all the time ehhhh... Zhongli hasn't expressed a want outside of that raging breeding kink//cough but he wouldn't be opposed to the idea either?? He just respects and accepts that I don't want to, and if one day that changes then it's ok too. I do sometimes feel lowkey guilty though.....

🌌: What was your first date like?

RIN PLS THIS IS SO HARD NO I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ON THIS YET AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ngl probably just spending some time alone atop Mt Tianheng with a great view, soft breeze, basking on each other's company with some good food and wine, his head resting on my lap as I play with his hair and hum a song...

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✅: how would you or your f/o react if the other 'teased' them in public? ;)

OH YOU.

Zhongli would give me a look whenever my hand rests at his thigh during an outing at an opera or teahouse dinner lmao. He'll lean in to whisper/growl something along the lines of "do you want it that badly? behave." and revel in the shivers, but hey, that's exactly what I wanted and who knows, if I keep pushing the dragon might snap ;3

[puppppppppy]

what's an anime you've watched (not necessarily loved) but would never recommend to anyone?

i had to think for a bit bc im stupidly easy to please but i guess id have to say.. hanyo no yashahime?? i went into it optimistic, but i just dont think it lives up to the original (although the first opening song is pretty good)

[jeanmoreaux]

rin destroyed her uterus? i've tried reading tpw but never finished, would you mind spoilering 👀

she did! it’s actually an aspect of the novel i really appreciate. sooooo here’s the spoilery content. after she starts at sinegard she gets her period and with that some really really painful cramps that basically take her out. however, her exams are just around the corner and she has to pass them with flying colors or the military academy will send her packing (can’t remember how many students are selected, just that at least one of the teachers has to claim you for their subject. otherwise the school will just drop the student like a hot potato). and rin ofc wants to stay at sinegard and she cannot really see how menstruating every month will benefit her in any way when she’s not planning to have children anyway. in a school full of men (she’s one of a handful of girls) and a male-dominated career (military), she see this function of her female body as a disadvantage that will hold her back. so she talks with the medical staff at sinegard and one offers her a concoction that will destroy her womb but leave her period free. and she chooses to drink the medicine and spend a couple of days in utter pain while one of her organs is basically killed off.

some people choose to take this decision as a basis of their moral judgment of rin, especially in connection to info that is later revealed ((under the cut some major spoilers that kinda relate back to this))

we, and rin herself, later learn that, like altan, she’s speerly. with rin infertile snd altan dead by the end of book one, the speerlies as an ethnicity will noe die out for real. rin never regrets her decision though. she wouldn’t have changed it even if she’d known at the time that she was speerly.

some people in the fandom really have an issue with her decision to destroy her uterus to get rid of periods, but in the context of her character and the society she navigates in it makes perfect sense. they take it as her denying her womanhood when it’s simply not about that. there’s A Lot behind her decision to free herself of menstruation (including her plans to stay childless) that people tend to ignore

also, these same people like to take this circumstance to paint rin as uncaring and anti-feminist and selfish and self-absorbed and morally corrupt/bad, when it is clearly super questionable to attach any moral judgment to the choices a woman makes about her own body…….

[rin-the-shadow]

On the one hand, I do not like it when a show I am watching changes its theme song. On the other, I can't help appreciating the subtle shout out to the 60's Batman theme in this one.

[the-bar-sinister]

i keep thinking your icon is Tohsaka Rin from Fate

Hmmmm! the colors are definitely there!

[coeurify]

squirting everywhere when you post about abby I swear to GOD

HELLOOOO??wanna kiss?

[zhongrin]

WAIT OMG IVE BEEN MEANING TO ASK!! modern!au Zhongrin. Right.

In the normal au Zhongrin are like .. Coviellos parents right.

Did modern au Zhongrin .. adopt Coviello then !? *le gasp* :O 💕

Or do they have a different connection with each other or no connection whatsoever? 🥹❤️💕

( also imagine Quacker in modern!au 🥺 just a smol cute teeny tinie duckie which is very curious of hoomans and likes to be fed by them 🥺💕 )

i haven't thought too much about this but i feel like we wouldn't legally adopt them simply because modern law wise, i believe there are a few criterias you need to adopt someone... and one of them is age limit?? which. i do not qualify yet sdhflksdj

they're still essentially family to us, though ᰔᩚ i'd like to think they met zhongli somehow in one of his classes, and they developed a bond because zhongli saw how 'aimless' they looked, and this man can't help but try to help his students 🥺

[calmlythrilling]

Do you see Rin as a son?

Venomous hesitates, then shakes his head. "No. No offense to the kid - but I'm confident we haven't spent that much time together, I don't know him as well as I do Molly... and, really, I shouldn't be anyone's dad in the first place." Might be hard to avoid that for two main reasons, one simply being that if things do work well being given the role is bound to happen, and the other being realizing how much he became a sobbing joyful mess at Molly calling him papa once.

"...I do like Rin, though. And I want to keep trying to put in the effort to be there for him... But it wouldn't be good for him."

[heatwa-ves]

I wanna yap

[townofcadence]

“Is there a reason yer here on yer own?” (From Rin LET’S GO ARTAIR!!)

First Meeting Starters

Artair blinked at hearing the voice, before wheeling around. There was a kid-- well, a kid by his standards, if the rounder edge to her face was an indicator of her age-- standing there, about his height. She was a young girl with brown hair and warm gold eyes. He could immediately see freckles down her nose until they disappeared behind a band-aid, a scar on her cheek and one on her lip.

She looked a little scruffed, with grease in a few places, like maybe she'd been out here in the scrapyard too for a while. If he had to guess she might frequent here, given she looked strong, and recognized it was weird he was here. Maybe she worked around here or something? Or if there was a buddy system rule, she might know he shouldn't be here alone.

He supposed it was weird either way, to see a random guy out here alone at night.

"Uh--" He rubbed at the back of his head, tilting it slightly into his hand to offer her a curious, but sheepish look. Maybe he'd look clueless enough not to come across as bad news. "Am I... not supposed to be?"

[choicesmc]

1, 3, and 5 for the Pride Asks

For Rin and Fiona

thank you \o/ from [this] ask game

1.What's your oc's gender identity? What's their relationship to their gender?

answered for rin + fiona [here]

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

rin -> yes and no. I imagine Rin really solidifies her perception of herself as gnc sometime during college. Specifically, I think rin played around with a couple different presentations and landed back on masculinity as her preferred presentation :D additionally!! she does have a couple other gender qualities mixed into her presentation but it's predominantly masc so… as for aromanticism, i don’t think Rin realized she was aromantic till early into college. Prior to college, all the social coding around romance felt… fake? Like she genuinely thought romance was over exaggerated for some reason and it’s not till college that she realized people actually do feel like that. <- it was a mind blowing moment.

fiona -> he’s always kinda knew. to be clear, he hasn’t always acknowledged that his identities were real but he’s always had that fuzzy knowledge <3

5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?

some characters just have a very strong sense of who they are and all it’s up to me is expand on that + find labels that fit (<- think fiona + sawtooth). for those OCs, I don’t do much “figuring” as I do “discovering”

for others (like rin), I do some researching for stuff that vibes with my idea of her. <- there’s a lot more trial and error since my idea of who she is fluctuates a lot.

most fall between these extremes tho (like rams + jia)

[hoshiros]

—✯ TRY IT, BITE IT, LICK IT, SPIT IT

cw. 18+ mdni. all chars 20+, pro-player!rin, afab!reader, oral (f!receiving), praise, petnames, established relationship, inspired by that one leaked panel of rin because what the hell

When ITOSHI RIN wins a game, your face is always the first one he wants to see.

Oftentimes, he'll search for you in the crowd with your embarrassingly noisy neon poster boards cheering him on. Other times, you'll already be waiting for him at the gates with your arms opened wide for him to run into.

For the last four weeks, though, he’s had to suffer the agony of your absence.

Rin called you incessantly while in France, reminding you of how many days separated him from being in your arms. "Wait for me. I'll be home soon," he said. "And be good," he'd add on, almost cheekily.

His promises were always sincere and lethally calculated. He wanted you to need him so badly that you'd fall apart on his tongue in minutes. Then he'd do it again, and again, and again, until he was satisfied.

When he finally came home, you barely had time to breathe before his lips were crashing into yours. You wanted to ask him if his flight was alright, if he had dinner yet, but then he licked himself into your mouth and the entire thought vanished.

And now you're being devoured by a monster.

Rin's been between your legs for so long that you're dizzy, head airy and light as he fucks into you with his tongue.

"Stay still," he warns sharply, words muffled as he stuffs his face closer into your sopping cunt. His warning is followed with his hands circling around your thighs, palms flat against the skin and leaving seas of heat along it.

You whine pathetically when he presses your hips down into the mattress, forcing you to be still for him.

"Can't—" you choke, spine curling from the bed so far that your head tilts backward. "Slow down, Rin!"

"Slow down?" He murmurs roughly. Rin furrows his brows, like he genuinely can't comprehend your request. "Actin' like it's your first time," he mocks, finishing his sentence by wrapping his lips around your clit.

You squeal, hand shooting down to shove his head back. He almost laughs when your weak attempt only pushes the bangs out of his eyes, giving him an even better view of you.

Rin pulls back enough to click his tongue, amused by your squirming but equally frustrated at your protests. He draws away from you. You feel cold as he does, the space he occupied suddenly devoid of his warmth.

"M'sorry princess," he coos, trying to coax you into relaxing. Peppering light kisses up your thigh until he gets to the spot resting on his shoulder, Rin can feel every shiver as you recover. "Too rough?"

You take a moment to catch your breath, waves of overstimulation crashing in your stomach. Finally, your gaze slowly drifts down to him, roaming over his face.

Your pussy clenches around nothing at the sight.

Sweat gleams across his forehead, stray strands of hair stuck to the skin as he also finds his breath. The entire bottom half of his face is so wet. You did that. You did.

"Hmm?" Rin hums, trying to get an answer. He looks so fucking cocky. So hungry. His tongue runs across his lips as if he can't stand not tasting you for even a second longer.

You shake your head, fingers still in his hair tugging lightly until he groans. "I can take it," you sniffle, guiding him back down closer to your heat.

"I know, baby. You're so good."

Rin dives back in as if he's starving for you, lathering your cunt in rough, long licks until you're shuddering. His hands travel down to the base of your thighs once again, pulling your body closer so that he can finish his meal.

You cry out softly, aching hole desperately trying to squeeze his tongue. He was the one who was so good to you. You dare to gaze at him again, just to admire his beautiful face.

Your breath hitches.

Rin has that same look on his face as he does on a football field—like a winner chasing a goal he knows he'll always get.