Haru. Always there for his friends.
For the free_69min prompt on Twitter!
The prompt was “matching clothes” and this popped into my mind before I could stop it…
Yeeeees Kris did Free! fanart life is complete!
needed to get this out of my system after todays episode
everyone needs a hug
sske and haru too
group hug for everyone
If this doesn’t happen next week I will be disappoint.
the first text post meme i made was mostly humorous and then i slipped in some harumako toward the end but then i thought ‘why not make one completely about harumako’ so here it is
ALSO i am so saddened by all of this recent angst and i know a lot of others are too so pls use these snapshots of haru being madly in love with makoto to soothe ur hearts
*ships it like crazy*
Yokotani + Hatta Animage Interview, August 2014 (4)
Interviewer: So who was the character you were most looking forward to writing in Season 2, Yokotani-san?
Yokotani: “That’d be Makoto, seeing as I left his scenes largely up to other writers to handle in Season 1. Dealing with things like his relationship with Haruka, Makoto’s a really tough character for me to write.”
Hatta: “Makoto only really focuses on Haruka and his immediate surroundings, so it’s difficult to discern his own feelings, what it is exactly that he wants to do himself.”
Interviewer: In Season 2, we saw him express his desire to face off against Haruka in an official race.Yokotani: “That would be Episode 6. That was a really great episode. For Makoto, when it comes to swimming, he’s just not as good as Haruka or Rin—he’ll never be able to be a part of their rivalry, he’ll never be able to be their rival. So it was our job to figure out how to really use those feelings of Makoto’s.”
Hatta: “The reason Makoto wanted to race Haruka in freestyle was because he wanted a chance to finally face his feelings.
Yokotani: “That’s what the Director said. By making Episode 6 a Makoto episode, the plot has thickened. Initially, we’d been planning to only fleetingly touch on the individual stroke races for Prefecturals.”
Hatta: “By writing this important scene involving the Prefecturals race in Episode 6, we see a shift in Makoto’s emotions, with the hazy feelings Makoto had been shouldering internally finally being resolved through swimming with Haruka.”
Yokotani: “He’s finally been unburdened.”
Hatta: “In that sense, this was a really important scene for Makoto. The director also really wanted to write about Makoto’s emotions with regard to Haruka and Rin, so I feel that this was one of the major hurdles we needed to get past.”
Yokotani: “Though there’ll be plenty more of those to come!”
Hatta: “Episode 3 was something of a hurdle, too. It was an important episode for Rei and Rin.”
Baybee~ ;__;
In which I ramble about Free again because that’s a thing that happens now
Spoilers to the latest episode because Makoto, right?
I don’t want to be sad anymore, I want to talk about how baby Makoto was smaller than baby Haru.
I want to talk about Makoto always hiding behind Haru because he was bigger and could protect him from monsters. I want to talk about how even as they grew older Makoto never grew out of this habit. I was to talk about Haru realizing that his best friend is getting bigger than him and starting to doubt whether or not he could still protect Makoto. I want to talk about Makoto getting scared and hiding behind Haru even tho Makoto is much bigger than him and how silly it probably looks, but Haru just lets out a sigh of relief because no matter how much bigger Makoto gets he is still the same.
*cries all over the keyboard*
