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Reigen Arataka’s Guide to Societal Reintegration! (I know it has been done, but, always room for more! link to some beautiful AO3 age swap stories I def used for inspo):

@tinkertoysdamn “you’re still young, that’s your fault”

@mallowjum “in the woods”

Chapter two!

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So I had this little series project that is currently named “Trunks and Goten in High school” AU that I will try to put all of my DB headcanons in. It’s my take on what happens with Trunks and Goten during their teenage years before they turn 17 and 18 (and if I’m able to, may span into their adulthoods too) so it will be somewhat based on EoZ and DBGT.

To sum it up, Goten and Trunks, now at 15 and 16 years old, enter new high schools and begin to have their own lives and different ways of growing up, but what they don’t expect at all is some complicated feelings they have for their best friend that accompany them along the way. So yeah, it’s a coming of age story mixed with friendship, romance, actions, family moments, etc. You can think of this like a LGBTQ+ romance shounen manga/fan-comic, it’s not 100% a Toriyama style manga (in terms of drawing style and storytelling) ok lol my apologizes to the pure DB fans 😂

These are some of the setting up sketches I made along with some information so if you skip this you’ll probably be a little confused reading the comics, but if you don’t read this, it’s ok too since you’ll be able to experience new feelings when you read them I guess. This series will contain many short comics, every comic is around 8-10 pages, and, be it just setting sketches or short comics, will be updated from time and time again, based on my ability in continuing this.

It’s a series I somewhat do for fun, so I’ll be happy if you can enjoy reading it, and it’s completely fine if you’re not interested in it too, don’t need to think too much about it, and feel free to skip this ^^ But I hope you’ll have fun reading it just as much as I have fun drawing it!

P/s: I almost forgot, Goten is the protagonist while Trunks is more of a deuteragonist, but yeah both of them are the main characters. And Goten is bisexual (or, Trunksexual lol)

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(Updated on August 16th, 2022) The comic series project is a work in progress, the reading order is below:

Prologue | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 (loading...) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) | Chapter 6 (prologue)

Soft-rebooting preview

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REBOOT INTRO

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That’s the intro of the Reboot.

Then comes this.

And with that, this project got kickstarted again. It’s an art project that even if it takes up years off my life and no one or veeeery few people support it, I would still commit to it until the end.

Remember its name everyone 🤟🏼 This webcomic’s original name was “Trunks and Goten in High school AU”, but it got a proper name now and it’s “The UNSPOKEN”, alright?

- For read-only peeps, you may wanna visit this Tapas link: you know what embed link in here has some problems on my side again, i’ll try it later. Just search the name of the comic and it’ll appear on Tapas.

(i also haven’t finish uploading everything, and haven’t created a Webtoon link neither lol)

- For someone who want to support the project, come join my lovely patreon gang: http://www.patreon.com/kahnguyen (embed link in here sucks…)

Every single cent that you support will all being used to help this project, not me of course, I just use it as an excuse to have a small community where I share intimate stuff with👌 This patreon site will remain opened until this project is finished.

The next post will be some proper character introductions I guess, maybe a very brief artist bio as well.

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TERUMOB WORMS IN MY BRAIN

inspired by this tweet of dorky mob

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people won’t say "domestic terumob" near me for the same reason dog owners wont say "walk" cause the moment i hear it i go crazy and start destroying furniture

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‘Offline Meeting’ - Full MP100 Omake - English Translation

The ‘Offline Meeting’ omake (That begins with ‘selfie’ in chapter 98.4) is available in the original digital release of Mob Psycho 100, up until the 9th page… after which, it ends abruptly with ONE and Reigen having a conversation in which ONE says he’ll finish it off when he publishes the manga. The full omake appears in Volume 15, completely redrawn and given 3 new pages that aren’t available online, finally concluding this mini story. All under read more!

Keep reading

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hey! let’s talk about teru’s relationship with food!

all three of us get the feeling that food is a love language for teru, or at least, we feel like it’s important to consider how food plays a role in his story arc when doing a character study of him.

okay so first off, right from his introduction he is a foil to mob.

[ID: four manga panels featuring teru getting ready for school. from right to left: the first panel shows his hand and a pan frying an egg. the second is his hand holding a remote. the third shows a tv of a meteorologist saying: “today’s weather.” The forth panel is teru pulling on his school blazer, watching the tv. the meteorologist continues: “a lot of sunshine through the country, though the air is a bit unstable. /END ID]

when teru first appears, we as an audience don’t know it yet, but he lives alone and has been living alone without his parents for several years. here he is cooking his own breakfast and getting himself ready in his apartment by himself.

[ID: five manga panels of mob being woken up for school. from right to left: the first panels is a shot of the roof of the kageyama house. the second is mob, asleep on his futon. his mom is talking from off screen. she says: “shige, get up! you’re gonna be late!” the third is mob yawning and stretching his arms about his head. the forth panel is ritsu opening the door to mob’s room. he says “bro. mom said breakfast is ready.” the fifth panel shows ritsu looking at mob. mob is putting on a pair of pants saying: “yeah ritsu. let’s go.” /END ID]

meanwhile mob, is woken up by his mom and is checked on by his brother to make sure he was up in order to get a breakfast that was more than likely made by their parents.

when mob plans on confessing to tsubomi, teru brings up how homemade things tend to make him feel happy when someone confesses to him.

[ID: manga panel of teru being offered a gift from a girl. it reads: “I tend to be on the receiving end of confessions, but…when someone gives me a handkerchief, or a letter, or homemade cookies or something, it makes me kinda happy, so…I was just thinking, there’s that kind of thing too.” /END ID]

also we see teru tend to overindulge when someone (reigen) is offering to buy food for him

[ID: panel from yakiniku omake. teru is ordering food. he says: I’ll have have 4 orders of top ribs, 2 orders of sakura yukhoe, 2 orders of choice salty beef tongue, the extra special zabuton-cut beef, the offal sampler, 3 orders of rice, a tomato salad, and the naengmyeon…and a green tea.” /END ID]

[ID: cropped screencap of official art. teru has finished two ice cream parfaits. the empty glasses sit in front of a third one, which he is using telekinesis to float the toppings near his face. /END ID]

this often played for laughs, but stick with us here…

in the fanbook teru is asked if he cooks for himself and he says yes, and mentions that he’s confident in his pasta making skills.

[ID: cropped screencap from the fanbook that reads: “Q1: do you make your own food? What are you good at cooking?” Teru answers: “I cook lots of different kinds of things! but what I’m confident in is my pasta.” /END ID]

at first this may seem like a very 14 year old answer…I mean, pasta is fairly easy to make. But knowing teru and how he tends to become and expert at the skills he learns, odds are pasta started off as something simple to throw together on a school night. Pasta is easy and convenient and kid friendly, but it is very easy to experiment with and eventually become a speciality.

and one thing we know about teru is that he has too many specialities to list.

this kid has been needing to make his own food 100% on his own since the start of middle school. we can infer he’s getting money from his parents, and we aren’t exactly sure how much or how he spends it regarding food, but the only time we seem him eating alone, he is making a meal for himself outside of something premade or takeout. he said it himself, he makes lots of different kinds of things! he knows how to cook!

but with all things teru something simple and silly comes with tragedy. while it’s nice fore a kid his age to know how to cook, he NEEDS to know because he doesn’t live with his parents. if he didn’t know how to cook he would be relying on others, and that’s just not what teru does. He is fully capable and learns for himself out of necessity. teru is responsible for all of his own meals.

so what happens when he is no longer responsible? it could be an issue with humbleness. it could also be just normal 14 year old boy hunger, but when reigen takes him out to eat there’s no limits. but here’s the thing…when’s the last time teru has had a home-cooked meal that was made for him by someone else? not from a restaurant, but someone making something for him?

this is why we have the omurice scene in backdraft. there’s a comfort in the domesticity of having food prepared for him in a familial setting that he has not realized he has been missing from his life.

we’ve focused on the fear of him getting cut off from his parents and how money scarcity turns into food scarcity. he’s always been in survival mood, it’s just that money was the breaking point for him.

going back to mob. he and his family are normally seen sitting at the dinner table together. a normal domestic setting.

[ID: screencap of the kageyama family eating omurice together]

something teru doesn’t have. he eats alone at a table in his apartment…one with multiple chairs around it.

[ID: screencap of teru in his apartment. In the background, he is getting ready, looking in a full length mirror. next to him is a tv showing the weather. in the foreground is a table with an empty plate, mug and saucer, and a basket with a single roll. two chairs are seen at the table. /END ID]

teru has not invited anyone into his apartment until mob got attacked by koyama.

who are those chairs for teru?

of course, in backdraft we have the restaurant scene that mirrors this. empty chairs for absent parents.

BUT ITS NOT ALL SAD

back to food being a love language and specialty to teru…imagine once he’s no longer in survival mode due to trauma. food as a comfort, not only receiving, but making it for others as well. tying into him wanting to be a teacher, sharing his skills with others…the fact it feels good creating and sharing something. no longer taking care of himself out of necessity, but learning what his skills and hobbies are and genuinely sharing them because they make him feel accomplished and happy! it just ties everything together with this dude.

in short, cooking is more than likely another speciality teru has developed due to needing to live on his own. since mp100 has themes that involve human connection and relationships with others, we feel food is something that brings people together and our boy teru here should experience that firsthand.

that is why it plays a big role in what we have so far in backdraft!

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The Tragedy of Teru: An Unnecessarily Long Thesis

I’ve seen some people ask: why the sudden change in Teru? Why did he suddenly go from a total menace who was okay with choking Mob to unconsciousness to a good guy/best friend type whose moral axis now completely revolves around Mob? I’ve seen some people claim that Teru’s redemption was so sudden that it’s unconvincing.

I don’t think the redemption was a sudden shift in Teru’s character. Actually, it’s the most natural progression for him. Consider Teru’s life circumstances. His parents completely abandoned him with no remorse. It wasn’t even because of Claw, they were just “busy” and moved overseas. He has no one to look after him at home. His relationships at school are largely superficial. He probably has severe attachment issues because of childhood neglect. He has no connections, no one truly rooting for him.

It’s an extremely shitty situation—but Teru convinces himself that he’s okay. In fact, he’s better than okay. He’s doing great. He’s doing the best because he’s better than everyone else—he has psychic powers, he’s popular, he’s talented in pretty much everything. Why would he need people to love and care for him when he has everything else “average” people dream of?

And so Teru’s entire emotional state revolves around a shaky thesis: that he’s better than everyone else. The main character. Main characters don’t need families. They don’t need love and support. Teru’s too superior for those things. And he HAS to be superior, because if he’s not, if he’s like everyone else, then he has to acknowledge the facts: that his parents left him, that there’s no clear cut purpose for his life, he’s completely alone, and there’s nothing he can do about it.  

If Teru’s the main character, then trauma and abandonment are just part of a tragic backstory—necessary hardships that will pave the way for all the great and superior things that Teru is destined to do. Whereas “average” people don’t have tragic backstories. When “average” people are abused and abandoned, it’s not part of some epic tale. It’s just sad. If Teru’s average, then the trauma is meaningless. Purposeless. 

And the weight of that is just too much for him to bear.

And so he dates girls he doesn’t like, and he cheats on tests, and he wins at sports, and he runs a gang. And he copes. For a while, it works.

And then it doesn’t.

Enter Shigeo Kageyama.

Mob’s existence rocks Teru’s world. The idea that there’s another natural child esper as powerful as him shatters his core belief that psychic powers made him the main character. Not only that, but Mob withstands all of Teru’s attacks, and refuses to fight back–a move that Teru finds insulting.

When Mob insists that psychic powers are average, and that Teru’s average, Teru is enraged. (“You’re the only one who can make that point. And that’s why your very existence pisses me off!”)

Finally Mob puts the nail in the coffin: “You and I are the same. We both have no self-confidence.” Up until this point, I believe that NO ONE has genuinely seen through Teru like Mob does, or, at least, they didn’t point it out. Mob sees Teru for who he is: a sad and insecure kid with no real connections. And THAT’S what makes Teru put him in a chokehold.

In a move of infinite kindness, Mob refuses to use his powers against Teru. Only when Mob is knocked unconscious are his true powers revealed. Teru then sees how outmatched he was from the very beginning, and how intentional Mob’s pacifism was towards him.

Teru did nothing but try to hurt Mob, but Mob refused to hurt him back. This is probably the most intentional love and care Teru’s received in a long time.

It’s a turning point. Because here’s the thing about Teru: he latches on to any gesture of genuine kindness and holds onto it for dear life. Mob’s kindness is enough to make Teru completely reject his old ideals.

Teru’s emotional state depended on the idea that he’s superior, but now that this belief has been dismantled, he needs a new life purpose to fill the vacuum, something else to distract from the loneliness in his life. And Mob has given Teru a new purpose: to be a good person. A kind person. Teru wants to be Kageyama’s rival—not in terms of psychic power—but in terms of kindness. (That’s why Teru claims to have won against ???% even though he’s clearly overpowered. He was talking about winning a contest of kindness, about repaying the kindness Mob showed him when they met by refusing to use his psychic powers to hurt ???%—even when ???% was hurting him).

So, Teru’s new purpose: kindness and doing good for the world. It’s a good purpose to have. And Teru is good at being kind. He risks his life to fight Claw just because he cares about Mob. He takes down Claw’s splinter organizations all on his own. He fills in at spirits and such for probably negligible pay when Mob trains for the race. He gives advice. He practices intentional humility (sometimes). He always says thank you.

And, of course, he puts his life on the line to stop ???%’s rampage and get through to Mob. He almost dies to save every last civilian.

Teru is good at being good. He is the type of person who spins every stray thread of kindness he receives into gold. He multiplies every rare gesture of love tenfold. It’s a beautiful example of how the human spirit can withstand so much neglect and agony and evil and still come out good in the end. Teru’s name means “brilliance,” and his whole character is about shining a brilliant light into the darkness that surrounds him.

As much as I’d like to believe that’s the whole picture, it’s not. There’s a darker, sadder side to Teru’s redemption

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that Teru cares about his friends very much and is a genuinely kind and good person. BUT that’s not the only reason he’s kind and good. I believe that Teru is so obsessed with being good/putting Mob on a pedestal because “being good” is his new coping mechanism.

See, his coping mechanism before was being superior and having refined psychic powers. But, since Kageyama dismantled that, he found a new purpose: being good. And he uses the pursuit of being good to distract from his empty apartment, neglectful parents, and lack of personal connections.

And isn’t there something so utterly heartbreaking about that? Think about Teru single-handedly taking down all of Claw’s splinter organizations. Think of him spending constant hours refining his psychic powers to be able to beat the bad guys. Going into the forest to meditate to “improve” himself. Training the awakening lab kids. Working out until he is more ripped than any 13-year-old should be. All of it, he probably enjoys, but is it not also a distraction? Is he doing these things solely to become better or also to busy himself and fill the days? Anything to not be by himself, tiny and alone in an empty apartment with strange noises and the bleak reality that there is no one, no one who will even know if Claw sneaks into his house and kills him.

Teru is a tragic character. At the beginning of the story, he is a menace who is completely alone. He is then redeemed. He orients his life towards being good–and gains some meaningful connections, but at the end of the story, Teru is still functionally alone most of the time. Though they care for each other very much, Mob and Teru don’t really hang out in canon. (Fanbook) They’re not even on a first name basis. Teru comes by Reigen’s office sometimes, but not often. He still has no one at home to care for him.

At the end of it all,—months and months later—Teru still has to ask for the occasional hang out with Mob. He is sipping tea sadly when Mob talks about his friendship with Tsubomi, jealous. And then he will go home to an empty apartment, alone. There is no one to take care of him when he is sick. There is no one to discipline him, or tell him “no,” or to prepare him for his first date, or to help him apply for college.

And doesn’t that go against the usual abandoned child narrative? Where the abandoned and neglected child ends the story with so many deep connections and so much love pouring into them that they can barely breathe? Where is that love for Teru? He is doing everything right. He is repaying all of the love and kindness he has ever received, so why is he still alone?

Teru never talks about any friendships besides Mob or adult influences besides Reigen. I truly believe Teru is still relying on his sparse interactions with Mob and Reigen to stay afloat emotionally. And he’s not used to kindnesses—when Reigen takes him to the amusement park, he’s overly thankful (”Reigen-san, you went to all this trouble”) And Teru literally idolizes Mob for the kindness Mob has given him. But this is kind of heartbreaking too.

No child should have to subsist on stray inklings of love and support. Love should not be a limited resource. One of the reasons that Teru treasures kindnesses so much is because he knows that gestures of love towards him are few and far between.

It’s no life for a kid. Teru should have a support system that gives him so much love casually that he’s not afraid to let it slip through his fingers. He shouldn’t have to be overly thankful for kind gestures, he doesn’t have to say “you went to all this trouble,” after someone takes him on a fun summer excursion. Teru should be loved so much that he forgets to say thanks. Love should be an expectation, not just a treasure.

Maybe this is why I’m constantly reading fics where Teru is adopted or where he spends a lot of time with the Kageyamas. Because in canon (especially manga canon), Teru’s ending is incredibly tragic. I really love the way ONE wrote him, and I’m not complaining about the ending—I think it’s great. But I want to see this boy happy. There’s something so sad about someone who loves so much but never gets what they deserve. 

But fanfiction exists! So write him having happy moments. Write Teru at the water park. Write Teru being hugged by Reigen before his graduation. Write him planting a tree. Write him having his first kiss in the rain. Write him going to cosmetology school and becoming a hairdresser. Write Reigen saving up for Teru’s college fund. 

Write Teru experiencing all of the love and joy and beautiful things because he deserves them. I will read all of your fic just put it in my inbox. I will do anything to see this boy be loved.

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the thing is. you know Teru’s situation is fucked up. i know Teru’s situation is fucked up. any adult (Reigen) who knows even a fraction of what he has going on knows that Teru’s situation is fucked up.

Teru has no idea. He is so deep in denial that he genuinely and wholeheartedly believes that his life is fine. Great, even! He doesn’t understand why people get so weird when he tells his funny stories about taking down terrorist cells and de facto child abandonment. He’s doing fantastic! Sure, maybe other people would have “complexes” and “trauma” if they hadn’t seen their parents since age nine, but not him.

And this is why Reigen is the only adult equipped to help him! If anyone approaches him from the perspective that he is a traumatized abandoned child who needs help he would shut them down in .2 seconds and refuse to engage. If he felt like someone was pitying him his immediate reaction would be to light them on fire (he wouldn’t go through with it though. because he’s so humble and well-adjusted).

But Reigen can approach the problem sideways. He can pointedly complain about how it’s hard to buy food for one person, and can’t Teru take some of it off his hands so it doesn’t go bad? He can roll his eyes and go oh, of course, your school doesn’t believe that you’re mature enough to do this yourself, what idiots, let me just add myself as your emergency contact so they’ll get off your back. He can keep coming up with Very Important Very Real Jobs that absolutely require Teru’s help aren’t at all an flimsy excuse to make him have fun, no siree. He can talk about how even the most independent adults need help sometimes, so it isn’t a sign of immaturity or weakness if Teru asks for it (yes he is being hypocritical no he will not acknowledge it).

He’s a liar, so he can actually give Teru what he needs.

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Every character in Mob Psycho is so lonely at the beginning of the series, but they all express it in different ways so they don’t realize they’re all dealing with the same problem!

Mob makes himself small and quiet and blends in and does his best to never make a scene and never ask for anything and never think about what he wants. Reigen makes himself big and loud boisterous and takes up as much space as possible–but it’s all show, it’s all slight-of-hand, it’s a magic trick so everyone looks where he wants them to and he doesn’t have to risk anyone seeing through him. Ritsu makes himself perfect and dutiful and studious and pours himself into the mold of A Good Son, A Good Student, A Good Brother, and thinks that if he buries himself deep enough no one can touch him. Teru makes himself sharp and brilliant and frightening and puts himself at the top of the pyramid and convinces himself that it’s a feature that no one can get close to him. Dimple does the same thing–makes himself into a god and a monster, someone who only sees humans as pawns. Never equals. Never friends.

Everyone has walled themselves off from genuine connection, convinced themselves that there’s an important reason they’re alone that isn’t just that they’re afraid, and the series is about all of those walls being torn down, bit by bit. There are a million ways to be lonely, but the solution to all of them, every time, is vulnerability and kindness.

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Sometimes I think about Teru And The Narrative and lose my mind. like. I joke that he's the only character who knows he's in an anime and that can be funny, but the truth is that he's so desperate to find a story to fit into because that's the only way his life will Make Sense. No, his parents didn't abandon him; they just had to go somewhere else to keep themselves safe, and he has to be the one dealing with the threats because he's The Protagonist. It doesn't matter that he's a kid; the protagonists of the stories he reads are as young as him and they deal with worse than this all the time! He has to {learn to fight off adult attackers} {hone his powers so he's unbeatable} {violate the Geneva Convention} because that's what protagonists do!

And then he meets Mob.

But instead of the experience making him realize that he isn't in that kind of story, it convinces him that he is, but he isn't the protagonist. Mob is. (And obviously, from our perspective, he's right, but he has the genre wrong. Teru has never seen a story with themes as kind as Mob Psycho's).

So then: he's a side character. He's Mob's rival (complete with intense homoromantic adoration). He redefines his role in the story, but he doesn't redefine the rules that tell him it's okay that he lives alone and is constantly fighting for his life. In fact, he keeps going out to find more ways to get in trouble. He goes to confront the broccoli alone. He makes himself a superhero outfit and starts flying around Seasoning City hoping he could gain some fulfillment from playing superhero. His after-school activity is taking down terrorist splinter groups!

Because if he tries to change the genre or abandon the conceit, tries to live his life as an ordinary middle-schooler, suddenly he doesn't have an excuse anymore. For his parents leaving. For what he needed to do to survive. It stops being fun and becomes horrifying.

In Confession Arc, one of the things that he has to face is that Mob isn't the protagonist of the world any more than Teru himself was. I don't think that he's broken out of his narrative thinking completely (he still calls himself Mob's rival), but it finally shakes some of those foundations when he sets himself and Mob on equal footing for the first time.

So afterwards, maybe he can become the protagonist of his own life. Maybe, finally, he can start making decisions about the story he wants to be in instead of trying to adapt himself to fit the one he thinks someone else has defined for him.

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10 years later. Fic

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by god…Naruto and Sasuke, they’re…no, I shan’t say….

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you know how teru suddenly and inexplicably gets really sharp teeth whenever he’s angry? that’s good character design i like that

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JUST SOME ASSORTED NOTES ON A SCENE WHICH I THINK ABOUT LITERALLY CONSTANTLY: 

first of all just the plain & simple fact that teru – last seen naked, bald, & humiliated after trying to choke mob to death – debuts back into canon by giving ritsu a sanctimonious little lecture about the dangers of violence & egotism while wearing a foot-high wig

thats the obvious glory of this scene BUT THERES SO SO MUCH MORE

the fact that teru is absolutely ready & willing to stop a total stranger in the street and lecture him about his life choices at a moments notice

the fact that teru is lecturing ritsu from the lofty pedestal of having tried to murder ritsus big brother with his own bare hands about a month ago, not that ritsu knows it

the fact that one month on teru now considers himself a completely reformed person who is fully qualified to tell others how to improve themselves for the better, just like he did, because he is now NOT ONLY good, virtuous, and humble to the core, but also ready to explain to a total stranger just how fantastically humble he is

the fact that teru is not even slightly self-conscious about his own raging hypocrisy

the fact that teru exhibits zero self-awareness about the (STILL) breathtaking size of his own ego

‘i dont take advice from anyone’ – kageyama ritsu, age 13

which is an even more wonderful line for the fact it is multi-purpose, i.e. he wont take terus sanctimonious advice to reform himself, and he also wont take dimples advice to run the fuck away from teru

just the plain wonderful fact that dimple loses his shit in the presence of teru, who dimple last met when teru brutally exorcised him

the fact that ritsu is absolutely not going to be reasonable 

SPECIFICALLY: the fact that ritsu is not going to be reasonable because hes so high on his own power. intoxicated by the thought of himself. unable to think clearly because his own incredibly minor successes have severely gone to his head. kageyama ritsu: the boy, the legend, the untouchable psychic superstar who can bend up to twenty spoons…… at once. ritsu is ready to take on the world, starting with teru. 

the fact that ritsu decides teru is probably no stronger than the awakening lab kids based on nothing but the instincts of his own freshly supersonic arrogance

the fact that even though ritsu has already decided hes going on the offensive, teru is so extremely quick to strike that ritsu never even gets the chance

the fact that barely 30 seconds after concluding his lecture on how wrong it is to use your psychic powers to bully, intimidate, and cause harm to others, teru uses his psychic powers to bully, intimidate, and cause harm to ritsu

the fact that teru presumably believes whole-heartedly that hes doing this for ritsus own good, and not even slightly to satisfy his own need to show off, because of course teru is officially humble now

it took abject humiliation and extreme power before teru saw the error of his ways, so it stands to reason that ritsu will need to learn the hard way too. hes so lucky that teru is here to help him. hes so lucky that teru is willing and able to crush him right here in the street, just to save his soul. 

the fact that teru gently & condescendingly tells ritsu hes still very young while a) also subjecting him to god knows how many brutal megawatts of psychic energy, b) having no idea how old ritsu actually is, c) in reality being only one year older than him anyway. the facts of the matter are irrelevant, this is all about patronising ritsu to show him the error of his ways. AS IT SHOULD BE. 

the simple & timeless beauty of the fact that ritsus imminent destruction is called off by a slight breeze which threatens terus wig

the fact that sour sensible down-to-earth ritsu is left so awestruck by teru that hes fully ready to believe terus hair situation was caused by his phenomenal psychic capacity

the fact that ritsus only takeaway message from this encounter is that hes not as strong as he thought, SO CLEARLY HE NEEDS TO GET STRONGER

NO MORE SELF-RIGHTEOUS BLOND ESPERS WILL GET THE DROP ON RITSU

ALL OF THE ABOVE AND EVERYTHING ELSE AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THIS HORRIFIC SHOWDOWN <333

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i like shou hanging out with pre-humility teru bc he would be rlly mean