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ANLG Drabble

I wrote this forever ago for @uncannycookie​ and put off posting it until I forgot about it.

It’s a little drabble post Teru moving in with the Kageyamas in And Nearly Letting Go.

Regardless of whether the fic that inspired this is ever finished, uncannycookie’s writings were what jumpstarted me back into writing after….a long time. So thank you for that, my dear. 

tw: child abandonment

The first evening, Teru makes the entire family dinner.

He doesn’t ask permission, instead taking control of the kitchen before anybody can tell otherwise. Perhaps his mom would have been upset, Shigeo thinks, if she hadn’t looked so exhausted coming home from work today. 

So they let him cook, and it isn’t until they’ve all sat down to eat that they notice that Teru hasn’t joined them. He hasn’t even set a place at the table.

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TERU SAID GAY RIGHTS

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i'm back with terumob! ah yeah the beginning of a wonderful friendship,

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back at it again

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terumob…. but make it even more tender

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i'm back with terumob! ah yeah the beginning of a wonderful friendship,

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if they keep making teru wink in official art im gonna start thinking theres something up with his eyes

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Moreeeeee terumob!

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I have no excuse for this

-Lisbeth

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shopping trip with teru ～

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this is like the oldest trope in the book. one character brainwashed and attacking and the other giving the impassioned “this is not who you are/you must remember me” speech. i read the manga but i forgot the extent to which this happened lmaoooo not even mentioning the fact that Teru’s admiration and affection for Mob got such a surge during this fight that it effectively overpowered Dimple’s brainwashing.

(+ bonus points for the “interrupting an attack by holding their hands/wrists and using that position to look them in the face and plead to them directly” position lmao)

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I need a minute

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THANK YOU BONES FOR GIVING US ANOTHER TERUMOB MOMENT 😭🥺❤️

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season 3 was a true loss for gay teru. i'm not really talking about shipping. (what is canon doesn't really matter for what people ship) its the fact that teru is implicitly gay in the manga, and very on the nose about it, but not in the anime. there are little moments, toned down versions of what we see in the manga. breadcrumbs compared to the original. but i don't want breadcrumbs. i want the whole bread.

i want this:

note: teru "shines" when talking with mob (from an omake and his shopping trip), something usually reserved to mob talking about tsubomi, but i have to reread the manga and confirm that.

so lets see why the manga works but the anime doesn't. i want to touch two scenes for now. again, i need to reread the manga

lets start with this gem of a line:

i made a post complaining about this, but people misunderstood my point at the time. its not about the words its about the face (although i think handsome makes more sense, the original means both cool looking and handsome). its about the overly serious gaze. an explanation i like is that, in the manga, teru is caugh by surprise (you can see him nervously thinking about what to say) which leads him to lose his composure.

this is the first and only time teru comments on mobs physical appearance, only to say he's handsome in a overly serious and nervous way. its far from the stereotypical getting all flustered reaction, but its still very obvious that teru doesn't really feel confident enough to share these feelings

you could say that anime teru has been waiting for this moment. he saw an opportunity and took it. but it takes off a bit of the impact, doesn't it?

once again bones changing teru's expressions. my personal interpretation is that teru is saying this both to mob, and himself. my idea is that he doesn't want mob to go out with tsubomi, but at the same time he doesn't want to get in the way. the latter feeling is probably aided by the idea that mob is perfect, an unachievable goal.

after his idea of mob gets less god like, this feeling disappears, which leads to my favourite:

this right here? THIS?? this is THE proof that teru is in love with mob. and its so on the nose im amazed studio bones had the guts to not show it.

this is really simple, so let start. while tome, mob and ritsu talk about tsubomi, their speak bubbles overlap a panel of a distressed teru. which obviously connects their conversation with teru's annoyance. its obvious the idea of mob dating tsubomi annoys him because he also has a desire, even if unconcious (but lets be real) to be with mob

AND THE ANIME GETS RID OF EVERYTHING. by showing teru after the conversation is over, they separate these ideas. if there was anything to separate that is! because they also got rid of teru's pained look! giving this more of a "someone just enjoying his tea" vibe. it was such a simple scene and they managed to ruin it

and people talking about the loud obnoxious slurp! i hear you. i get you!

but i can't do this!! this is breadcrumbs! i don't wanna do mental gymnastics to see him as "suffering inside" when its so obvious in the manga that he is suffering OUTSIDE (also mostly because this goes with the "you need a terumob bias to see this as terumob" idea i was going for in the beginning)

in conclusion

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ERASED the "teru is uncomfortable with mob talking about a possible girlfriend" subtext was ERASED. its so on the nose in the manga, but nowhere to be seen in the episode ;_;

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Teru pls

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"Yo! Shinji has something for you!"