#<- this was technically liveblogging

[starswallowingsea]

It takes 10 chapters before we really see Renga with his mask down completely (we've had a few instances of it especially in a07 where he mentions eating frozen gyoza and then proceeding to tell Yachiyo tissues are okay to eat because they're sweet?? Okay buddy) and he's by himself getting frustrated with the rose bush because he can't tend to it properly. His relationship with his recently deceased grandmother also isn't helping, he's got this perception of her that she didn't like him (and we'll find out later why exactly he didn't quite feel like he fit in with the Nishizono family) and it's feeding into just everything else in his life right now.

And I mean, he isn't entirely wrong that she was shaking her head at some of his choices but Renga was struggling just making it through high school. By his own admission, the only class he didn't struggle with was physical education and we can assume that there's probably a lot of other underlying issues as to why he couldn't do well in other classes (didn't learn to read when he should have, felt isolated and didn't want to ask for help from others, again pushing people away thinking he still needs to do everything for himself). Being a celebrity model requires a lot less effort on his part if he can hire a manger to do the reading for him and explain things to him, thus keeping his faults to a minimum.

Then the butler comes out and they end up discussing the tiny golden bloom but quickly move on to the rose Shuunin gave to Renga when he was standing in the rain a few days prior. He has a lot of struggles that mirror Nagi in trying to find happiness and approval in people that don't really exist in his life anymore (for Renga that's his newly deceased grandmother and for Nagi it's the mother that abandoned him at the laundromat). But despite that, the family butler noticed that Renga seemed to have something (finally?) that he treasured, something that was precious to him and wanted to do something to show Renga that he, and by extension Renga's father, care for him and want to be closer to him.

Especially since Papa Nishizono also seems to be really bad at expressing himself and communicating with his son, the butler picking up the slack to try and say something but the gap is still there while both of them don't talk about their feelings (though this gets a really nice resolution at the end of the main story... ah I'm excited to reread that section).

Following up on the school thread, Renga also doesn't appear to have been particularly popular in high school, or at least didn't develop any meaningful relationships and having someone he can actually call a friend (even if we, the reader, can see through that charade put up by said "friend") is important for him. His father is clearly excited that Renga is getting out and talking to people, finding his place in the world and letting people in. He's going to have to do a lot more work to really open up and make more friends through HAMA tours but it's a good start (and also I think Renga will end up as the number one guy pushing HAMA Tours found family stuff, he really loves everyone there, including Liguang to an extent, but that'll be a post for another time...). And looking at the end & by extension going back to the scene where he and Ten go to the izakaya in the first place, we can see the Nishizono family is struggling financially (along with his comment towards his grandmother about doing his celebrity work for the good of the family, trying to bring money in so they can like. Stay in their house, as well as the tissue comment earlier) and how he grew up on the streets, having to ration every yen and find deals to make it stretch.

And at the end of his section of this chapter, we have this. Renga wants to be loved and to make the people he loves happy. Obviously he's our little dogboy about it sometimes but he is still willing to put the work into trying, even if he's really bad at showing it sometimes. This was supposed to be a short post but oops. Anyway I might do more of these as I keep re-reading Sun will R1ze because it was fun dissecting things now that we know a little more about him and everyone else.

[spotlightlover]

making this its own post so i can rb this every time something fucked up happens in tbhx

[sisaloofafump]

Classic panel, from Dark Nights: Metal #2 (2017)

[quarkfancam]

sometimes we have to remind ourselves the first man to kiss another man on star trek was quark. respect your queer elders.

[deliriousblue]

really enjoying every time saint says the most insanely romantic things and then the camera cuts to the Live Classmate Reaction

[graceful-not]

????? LITERALLY TOXIC MARRIED STRAIGHT COUPLE "you should apologize for cheating on me in my dream >:(!!" ENERGY???? HELLO????????? THIS IS SO FUNNY I FELT LIKE HE OR KAI WAS GONNA SHOUT "THATS IT IM GETTING A DIVORCE" EVERY 2 SECONDS OF THIS SCENE

[fagbearentertainment]

Love when in One Piece someone will be freaking out and Luffy is in the background just standing like this

[kristiliqua]

IM DYING

[beliefdust]

Gant watching the courtroom from his Fujothrone.

[bisexualdisasterwenkexing]

wen kexing!!!!! crashing his own death party wearing almost straight up mourning white and telling everyone TO THEIR FACES that he's not the most hated man in all of society who THEY JUST KILLED

[thewertsearch]

PCG: I WAS JUST SITTING HERE WONDERING WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE WRONG THIS TIME PCG: TO MAKE THE TIMELINE TAKE A WRONG TURN […] PCG: I THINK LOOKING BACK PCG: I KNOW WHAT IT IS NOW. […] PCG: […] I THINK THE FINAL FROG MUST BE IMPORTANT. […] PCG: BILIOUS SLICK NEEDED THE GENES OF THAT FROG, AND BECAUSE I HALF ASSED THIS SO BAD EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE.

Could've been worse. Losing it was part of the Alpha Timeline, so you'd have been screwed if you did find it, too. Ain't Paradox Space fun?

PCG: SEE, I WAS THINKING PCG: ABOUT JACK, AND HOW HE CAN'T STAND FROGS. PCG: AND I THINK I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. PCG: I THINK I KNOW WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN AT THE END OF OUR TIMELINES. PCG: I THINK I KNOW WHAT THE CRITICAL MOMENT IS.

You do? I’m not following your train of thought at all, to be honest. It looks like the Scratch is imminent, Jack still doesn’t have his bloody arm, and the only person around is a girl he can't harm...

...as well as a colony of frogs.

A colony of frogs which is about to include one very important frog.

One very important frog, that every Dersite explicitly hates.

Jack is going to kill Bilious Slick.

[mmyashas]

they have added only one creator because the new dynamic for korean members is really different– its going to be treated w/ attention because it's the first time a creator that has a totally different alphabet joins the qsmp!

[heartcircus]

castle arc ref ^_^

Zam: [reading chat] Wait like how the sunlight reflects so brightly off snow and ice, staying in the snow only makes you shine more. Zam: Oh my god- wait, that's why Mapicc harassed me for a month! 'Cause I was in the snow and because of the beacon, there was a light and the light was me actually. It wasn't the beacon- it was the light- the me- it was me the whole time, woah. That's so cool. Zam: 'Cause I'm the light that shines so brightly in the snow. That's why I never go to the snow again ever in my life. Haunted by the snow.

[mamawasatesttube]

superman: the man of steel #34

"dying or not, i've got to help... even if--" *collapses onto the floor*

buddy can you just like. get back in bed. please. we can work on growing you a sense of self preservation or even Value For Your Own Life, Outside Of Your Utility As A Hero, later. but my god man

[brisingr-sword]

house’s head and wilson’s heart are just. wilson and the horrible terrible no good very bad day

[ballgame]

During the mouse balloon puzzle, Noelle doesn't acknowledge Ralsei at all when assigning everyone roles. No one comments on this and Ralsei and Susie just opt to take turns jumping on the switch.