#rinrei

[ashery24]

A butterfly tattoo lowkey highkey inspired in RinRei :3

[preusterreich]

RinRei Week 2025 Day 5!

Underwater/Beach

yes this is very much inspired by @choking-on-roses fic "By the Light of the Moon" and no i will not elaborate... just know that Rei is blind and they are in LOVE.... Rin's giving him a shell for some reason.. food maybe?

I just wanted to practice more painted backgrounds...

[kuma-tori]

RinRei Week 2025

Day 3: Pet(s) / Companion

I was going to draw Winnie first, but who can resist drawing a fat cat? Steve is a chonky boi and Rin can't believe Rei is still alive, holding said chonky boi.

[amazingzozo1]

Kinda rushed but I saw this reference on Pinterest and wanted to draw it as RinRei with Nagisa 😭

[caramelmochacrow]

some polyaround to celebrate maho not being against tumblr's guidelines or whatever now! :D

[fallen-lucifiel]

Do you still ship rinrei?

YESSSS YESSSSSS I TOTALLY DO 😭😭

I STILL CRY ABOUT THEM AS HARD AS I DID A DECADE AGO... I cried about them yesterday and today

Everytime I find a new OTP, I'd be screaming THEY ARE SO RINREI-CODED and nobody understands... I have to get into a quick RinRei 101 and scare off new friends

Just yesterday I told some moots that Buddie (my ship from the TV series 9-1-1) is so RinRei-coded. I had to hold back from screaming about their similarities so much 😭

Watch me make a crossover at some point 🥴

[starsbegantofall]

rinrei week!

Day 4: Library / Study date

They are not studying! Or they are studying each other. That's because I was too lazy to draw books lol. These outfits are so 2010s, I based it off some official magazine artbook art.

I just wanted to post one new fanart for this week, I hope my fellow butterflies are flying free and beautiful!

[myriahkamm]

As promised, here's a RinRei ficlet (also on AO3)!

That's What I Love About You

“What the heck do you even like about me, anyway?!”

It had come up during one of their silly little arguments, but for some reason, it had stuck with Rei.  It kept popping into his head while he tried to focus on homework.

It bothered him, he realized.

Not because he didn’t have an answer, of course.  He had myriad answers, too many to easily articulate.

No, what bothered him about it was the fact that Rin apparently didn’t know any of those answers.

After an hour or so of struggling to finish his homework with that knowledge popping into his head over and over, Rei switched gears.  He set his schoolwork aside, grabbed a blank sheet of paper, and began writing with intensity.

The next day…

“Rin-san.”

Rei frowned when Rin rolled his eyes before sighing and approaching him.

“Look, I’m sorry, okay?” Rin began.  Despite the dismissiveness of his words, his tone was sincere.  “I’ve just been really stressed lately, and I took that out on you.  I shouldn’t have yelled at you, and I shouldn’t have said what I said.  I’m sorry, Rei.”

Rei raised a hand and shook his head.  “It’s all right, Rin-san.  I understand.  That’s not what I wanted to talk about.”

“Oh?”

“I wanted to respond properly to your question.”

Now Rin looked confused.  Rei sighed, pulled a folded sheet of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and cleared his throat.

“These are not listed in order of importance.  Number one:  Your perseverance and tenacity are incredibly admirable.  Number two:  Your ability to set goals and find a way to achieve them is exceptional.  Number three:  You are physically quite attractive.  Number four:  You—”

“What the heck are you doing?”

Rei’s brow furrowed.  “I’m outlining the things I like about you.”

“Huh?”

Rei was incredulous.  What was so confusing about this?

“Yesterday, you asked me what I ‘even liked about you, anyway,’” he explained, trying to speak slowly and clearly so Rin would better understand.  “So, I made a list of things I like about you, and now I’m reading it to you.”  He cleared his throat once more.  “Number four:  You—”

He stopped again when Rin burst out laughing.  Feeling defensive, now, Rei folded his arms across his chest and frowned.  He waited while Rin laughed heartily for a few minutes.  Once Rin quieted, wiping tears from the corners of his eyes, Rei gave him a pointed look.

“I fail to see what’s so funny.”

“Oh, Rei.”

Rin threw his arms around him in a tight hug.  He held it for a few minutes; Rei felt himself relaxing in the embrace and uncrossed his arms as he leaned into it.  Rin finally pulled back, smiling [warmly].

“We were having a silly argument,” Rin said, shaking his head.  “People just say stuff when they’re arguing.  They don’t always mean any of it.”

“Well, that’s incredibly illogical,” Rei quipped, frowning.

“Like I keep telling you, you dork:  love isn’t logical.  And that’s what’s great about it.”

“So…you do know what I like about you, and I didn’t need to write a list of reasons to explain it to you?”

Rin took Rei’s face in his hands and pressed a kiss to his lips.  Rei closed his eyes, leaning into the kiss.  His grip on the piece of paper loosened; he faintly heard it flutter to the ground at his feet.

The kiss was both fleeting and timeless—another illogical contradiction Rei unconsciously noted.  Before he knew it, the kiss ended, and he was staring into Rin’s mulberry-colored eyes.

“Of course I know what you like about me,” the redhead assured him.  “You gave me the whole spiel when we started dating, remember?”

Rei did remember.  Rin had laughed that time, too, once he’d realized that Rei was trying to ask him out, as the colloquialism went.  He nodded to show his understanding.

“But that doesn’t mean I don’t like hearing how awesome I am from time to time.”

“Rin-san!”  Rei playfully slapped Rin’s shoulder.

“Besides, that fiercely, ridiculously logical part of you is one of the things I love about you, Speedo-Megane.”

Rei felt his cheeks grow hot as he unconsciously analyzed Rin’s words in his head.

“Did you say ‘love’?” he asked breathlessly.

“You bet I did.”  Rin crouched down for a moment and rose again holding the piece of paper Rin had dropped.  “Now, what was that part about me being ‘physically quite attractive’?”

“Rin-san!  That’s private!”  Rei tried to grab the list from Rin, who snatched it away quickly.

“Not that private—you were reading it to me, after all.”

“Rin-san!”  Rei’s cheeks grew warmer as embarrassment replaced the affection he’d felt previously.  He tried to pluck the list from Rin’s hand, but the latter flicked it just out of reach.

“Ooooo, you drew pictures!”

“R-Rin-san!”  Again, he tried to retrieve the page, and again, he was unsuccessful.

This was going to be a long, embarrassing evening.  And Rei was all for it.

[vanillamatchadove]

one(1) rinrei, peaky p-key, all time high, halloween, skate boards, and volleyball.

[rainebowevee]

[dandywonderous]

20 Questions For Fic Writers

Tagged by @kiaxet

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

210, but about 110 of those have been copied over from my old FFN account (almost all of the One Piece fics, basically).

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

709,457

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently I'm mostly only writing for Rise of the TMNT, but I have written a lot for One Piece and Free!, as well as Twisted Wonderland, Persona 5, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, FFXV, KnB, and others.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. I May Be Invisible, But I Still Look Good (ROTTMNT) 2. Tight Fit (FFXV) 3. Tapping Out (ROTTMNT) 4. Lab Accident (ROTTMNT) 5. Things Overheard (Hiding Under the Bed of the King of Athens) (Hades)

5. Do you respond to comments?

No |'D I don't know why but it just gives me anxiety so I don't. I do appreciate the comments, I'm just bad at responding. I'm sorry!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably this old fic where Sanji just dies in the end, but I think I have fics that are angstier in the middle even if they end better. For something that's not just the character dying, probably Herbal Tea (ROTTMNT), or maybe Failures and Heroes (You and Me) (ROTTMNT)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of my fics have happy endings so this is hard! Probably a tie between Tight Fit and IMBI, since those have their central characters going through pure hell but getting all kinds of love in the end (including romantic love in Prompto's case).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Once. This is the hazard of writing AkeShu (P5) lmao.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY I sure do. I write all kinds of smut, including a few gross kinks most people put in their hard nos. If you're poking around in my full fic list proceed with caution. Lately since I've been writing so much ROTTMNT I haven't been writing smut, though, since I'm more into the canon for the fluff and family feels. The last smut fic I wrote was The Appearance of Impropriety (FE3H), which is a Dimitri/Edelgard/Hubert threesome. And before that, it was a TWST AzuJami fic that, well, took advantage of Azul's octopus anatomy, if you get what I'm sayin'.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I haven't really written fandom crossovers since I was a teenager and tbh I don't remember much about them, I think they were more crackfics than anything serious. I have written several AUs that use other fandoms, though. Probably the weirdest one I've actually written is a Free! RinRei Dragon Age AU, where Rin is a templar and Rei is a mage (the forbidden love of it all). I also have waaaay too many ideas in my head for an ROTTMNT FFX AU where Mikey is a summoner.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I remember back in my FFN days I would occasionally search up my fics and find them c/ped to random clickbait sites, probably as a bot scrapping operation. But to my knowledge I've never actually had anyone take one of my fics and claim it as theirs. Even that bot reposting still had my username attached lol

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yep! The fabulous @e-turn has translated several of my ROTTMNT fics into Russian! I've had other requests before, too, but I'm not sure how far those went. If anyone does want to translate my works, feel free! Just be sure you're crediting me, and if it's going on AO3 be sure to link the original!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have done some co-writing and some fic round robin events but none of them ever got to the point where they actually got published, because someone would flake out or we would just lose steam. I might be up for it, if it were a project we were both really invested in, but I'd probably have to be friends with the co-writer first.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

MMM this is hard... probably RinRei from Free! I've never felt quite as intensely about a ship as I did that one.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Hold On To Me (KnB); I love it but I am so far out of KnB fandom at this point haha.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Character voice, I think; it's what I usually get compliments on and what I feel the best writing. In a way, fanfiction (and fandom RP) has really helped me think about characterization. Something I was certainly guilty of in my younger days (and that a lot of amateur writers are guilty of) was having my characters act as vehicles for plot, doing or saying whatever I needed them to in the moment to move the plot where it needed to go. This meant none of my characters had any kind of consistent characterization and all of them were samey. We joke about "he wouldn't fucking say that," but in a funny way this kind of thinking really got me to think about characterization and character agency. Before I would say, "we need to get from point A to point B, so let's do that." After trying to get into the groove of writing already strongly characterized characters, and please an audience with certain expectations, I found myself thinking really hard about what would motivate a character from point A to point B, and if the circumstances I'd set up weren't enough to cause that, I'd need to tweak them, or better yet, explore what I think the character WOULD actually do in that scenario (which may be more fun anyway). This is a skill I think fanfiction is great for helping new writers develop.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I wish I had stronger word choice at times, and had stronger imagery. I'll read lines in other people's work that just blow me away haha. I could never write so poetically, I think.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

If you are good at a language, or have someone fluent helping you out, then go for it. There's no reason any work needs to be written in only one language. I'm not a purist on this. That said I also think writing "he said in Spanish" or something like that is fine. If it serves your purposes better for your fic to all be in one language, or you aren't confident enough to write in a different language, then you can just make it clear to your audience that a different language is being spoken now. Especially because I come from a lot of anime fandoms, I'm used to there being a sort of unspoken understanding that the characters are not speaking English and what we're getting is just the English approximation/localization of what they're saying. So this doesn't bother me. And of course, throwing in random Japanese exclamations in an otherwise English language fic always comes off a bit campy. I do think it's fine for things like terms of address and nicknames, though. I've never really gotten the hubbub over not having honorifics like "-san" or "-chan" in fics because the same people who usually hate that are also fine with "Señor" or "Mademoiselle" in writing and, like, what's the difference? Idk if any of what I said answers the question. My thoughts are that it's variable, ig.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Technically it was for the book Alas, Babylon, and it was a class assignment in 9th grade English.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Ah this is hard... IMBI is my longest fic and I'm really proud of how it turned out, but I think I'll always have a soft spot for I Keep on Hopin' (We'll Eat Cake by the Ocean) (TWST) - warning that this fic is NSFW and has explicit smut.

Idk who to tag. @aria-faye @unpredictable-probabilities @daboyau ? Anyone else who wants to do it feel free!

[ashery24]

My grandfather, from the other room, checking on me bcz I'm moving so much (It's fucking hot): Are you ok?

Me, externally: Yes!

Me, internally: No, I need more RinRei content

[preusterreich]

RinRei Week 2025 Day 3!

pets/companions

of course it has to be stevu!!! i think about him a lot... love that fat boi... i guess this kinda goes with kuma's pic.. maybe just before rin tries to pick him up and gets scratched in the process??? lmao (wait no, he drew rin with a different shirt! oh well, still counts!)

[kuma-tori]

RinRei Week 2025

Day 2: Vacation / Day off

For today I chose the theme "day off" and made them play videogames. Of course Rei sucks at it, because all he knows is books and theories. But I'm sure Rin will let him win a couple of times!

[amazingzozo1]

I haven’t drawn these two in a while I miss them

[caramelmochacrow]

"I want our hearts to beat together as one... Please take me along with it"