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#hiiro is mentioned but not enough im not gonna tag him
mirrortouchedsea · 5 months
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Hinata asking Rinne about how to be a better big brother when Rinne feels like a pretty awful big brother sure is... a thing I think about often. Like Rinne feels so guilty about leaving Hiiro alone in their village but at the same time he just couldn't stand to be there anymore. It takes a lot to make a kid want to run away from home so the situation must have been worse than what we've seen even from his "I've always been told I'm wrong" speech at the end of the Main Story.
So when Hinata, this kid who looks up to him and has a lot of the same problems he did at that age (the identity issues, the big brother issues, the parent issues and the dead mom issues... you get it) and asks him how he's such a good big brother... he's genuinely not sure how to react. He covers it up pretty quickly and Hinata just brushes it off as not expecting the question which is partially true, but it really makes Rinne reflect on his own relationship with Hiiro. Maybe that's what pushed him to pretend to be drunk and tell Hiiro how proud he is of him and his work. And maybe he can be a big brother (and a big brother figure) he would be proud of.
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