#have left to spend /outside/ of that. Kei & Maiko have a whole house when only he works so while Tobias wouldn't be /as/ rich

[yeonban]

I'm thinking about psypass Tobias rn and how his financial situation would be in this verse bc... in the majority of his verses, 99% of his money comes from his criminal work which he started at 16 when he left Wammy's accommodations (he had no money for his entire life prior to that; outside of whatever fleeting budgets Wammy's allocated him for specific missions), but in psypass he'd need to be in Japan by ~17 to have enough time to learn everything needed to become an inspector at 18. Since his situation is also different from Mika's who became an inspector at 18 (<-she lived under Sibyl her whole life so she knew the ins & outs of how general life is under there, plus she didn't have to worry about how immigration would play a role in how she'd be perceived/what opportunities she'd receive), he'd also need to figure everything else of this sort before starting work at the mwpsb.

Which means he'd really have very little time to focus fully on his criminal network and thus, on gaining money. He'd either have to go all out during that 1 gap year and source as much money as he can during that timeframe which he'd then take to Japan with him; have to rely on Wammy's House to hand him enough money upfront for this assignment out of L's funds (which likely wouldn't happen, he'd probably only receive enough to last him the first year before he starts work as an inspector); or have to live mainly on his paycheck as an inspector which. we don't know exactly how much it pays but as a job meant only for the top-ranking elites of society we can assume it's a good sum, especially when you consider how unlike most people working in the field he wouldn't need to use any of it on hue meds as a criminally asymptomatic man.