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rinkitay in the sinegard library (and nezha after fumbling rin)

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Isn't it funny? How none of them ever stood a chance? Isn't it hilarious? How none of it could've been prevented? Isn't it comical? How it was all so much bigger than themselves? Isn't it just hysterical? How it was always gonna end like this?

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i can reread tbg a thousand times but the second kitay gets up to fight rin i CRUMBLE. what do you mean rin never fought kitay before. what do you mean they fought everyone else at sinegard at some point, but they could never fight each other because they couldn’t stand the thought of trying to hurt the other, not even for pretend. what do you meannnnn

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i can reread tbg a thousand times but the second kitay gets up to fight rin i CRUMBLE. what do you mean rin never fought kitay before. what do you mean they fought everyone else at sinegard at some point, but they could never fight each other because they couldn’t stand the thought of trying to hurt the other, not even for pretend. what do you meannnnn

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i can reread tbg a thousand times but the second kitay gets up to fight rin i CRUMBLE. what do you mean rin never fought kitay before. what do you mean they fought everyone else at sinegard at some point, but they could never fight each other because they couldn’t stand the thought of trying to hurt the other, not even for pretend. what do you meannnnn

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Nezha and Rin are water and fire, elements that naturally oppose and cancel each other out. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils water until it evaporates. Their relationship is marked by conflict, incompatibility, and mutual destruction. Neither can contain or balance the other without one being consumed.

In contrast, Chaghan and Altan are ice and fire, creating a different dynamic. Though still opposites, ice does not immediately extinguish fire; instead, it tempers and controls it. Likewise, fire does not destroy ice at once but melts it slowly, revealing what lies beneath. Altan is fire impulsive and destructive while Chaghan is ice calculating and restrained. Yet rather than canceling each other out, they balance one another: Chaghan is the only one who can withstand Altan’s fury without being consumed, and Altan is the only one who can break through Chaghan’s cold exterior and make him feel something.

So, while Nezha and Rin are doomed to destroy each other, Chaghan and Altan manage to coexist, albeit in a tragic and obsessive way.

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i go absolutely completely totally just a little bit insane when i think about tearza and the red emperor. him building a statue in her honor despite it all. his disbelief and devastation and rage and grief when he realizes what she did to herself, just like nezha's disbelief and devastation and rage and grief when he realizes what rin did to herself. history moves in vicious circles

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i simply can not bring myself to believe the woman who wrote the poppy war when she says her new book (katabasis) is a love story. i already know this book is going to destroy my heart and soul.

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I was thinking about altan's death and how the cike never got to see his body and couldn't give him a proper burial, wich made me think about rin and kitay when they died in speer and whether they got a proper burial or not. yeah nezha was with them, but he was manipulated by the hesperians and they wanted rin dead for so long and they've already experimented on her when she was alive I cant help but think that they took her body and nezha couldn't do anything about it. maybe he fought for it but eventually had to give in, or maybe rin was respected at least after her death. maybe the hesperians took her for research but left kitay, nezha hiding the fact that their souls were connected, to at least protect the boy who always outsmarted him since they were kids

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“Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”

face close ups and rin after realising she just showed nezha a jug of her piss and said she’ll give it to jinzha

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If you think about it, both Chaghan and Rin should be cautionary examples of how a situationship will absolutely destroy your life.

Stay safe out there kids.

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Every rinkitay interaction

Art by @/feluart on insta

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burning god rinezha

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there is something so pure about rinkitay that just wretches you to your soul; the constant choice to forgive, to turn a blind eye, to sacrifice, because in a world that was unkind to rin, kitay knew that was enough; rin needed one person — at least one person — to be kind.

whereas rinezha was all about the tragedy of how love was there but it wasn’t enough, not when duty holds them both back; rinkitay was all about how sometimes, with the right people, with the soul that yearns for your own, love is enough.

yet in the end, all were doomed by the narrative in their own ways.

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this singlehandedly broke me love simply wasn't enough they loved each other so much but it wasn't enough

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“At Sinegard they had been about the same height… But then, at Sinegard they had just been children,”

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chaghan