Jaken And Rin - Tumblr Posts
Time to overshare my silly love for this silly funny grumpy snobbish masochistic irritating cutie pie
Jaken humming Rin's name while she's recovering from Magatsuhi's miasma just as the soft-hearted dad he is IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE (it dub)
You know, it's just like he was saying: "Forgive me Rin, from now on Master Jaken will allow you to sing all the nothings you'll want, but please, please, wake up!"
The truth is, we know, Jaken knows, no matter all the "My master will kill me for sure if I don't keep her safe" or "She's such an annoying, insignificant brat why even dragging her around?", he adores with all his gruff heart this little girl and she likewise.
Four Seasons p. 44
Though I can't figure out Jaken really complaining aloud about how heartless Sesshomaru is, still there's a bit of jealousy he harbors for Rin being so high in his Lord's consideration and however grown fond of the girl himself, I can bet it that sometimes he does have bursts of the sort (it is part of their bond after all bickering all the time but not seriously).
And then we have THAT line "Don't try to possess him, just fly with him". To me this is the whole point, if you don't get this, you can't get what sort of thing Rin and Sesshomaru have. It doesn't even count if you think of them as father and daughter, friends, lovers, travel companions, husband and wife, they are soulmates because they understand and accept and love each other just for what they are.
Interesting enough, in the passage above from "The Storm" (Ao3 sessrin ff, see link) we have again Rin basically accepting Sesshomaru's wild nature with no need for taking root but on the contrary of the Rin from Four Seasons to whom loving Sesshomaru and living in the wild are one, she's come to learn that there's beauty in the quiet life of the village too and chooses to love Sesshomaru from afar with the certainty that nothing can actually separate them.
(Reminder: personally I don't ship them, the main reason why I came to love Rin, Jaken, A-Un and Sesshomaru even more than Inugang is precisely because no romance was involved and lately I'm more into stories exploring this kind of relationships, but I still enjoy those sessrin fanfics which manage to tell something true and interesting about these characters).
