#i haven't even actually talked about Teru or shigeo or ritsu much

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MORE ISSHO META FOR @babovens <3 

Again, under the cut for spoilers.

Cameos/Mentions:

The stinker who yells at Teru for being loud in the movie theater in chapter 16 is none other than Jodo. I cannot stand that man. He can shut the hell up.

In chapter 16 Inukawa talks about his cousin who goes to a high school where there is a film club. I absolutely meant Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken.

In chapter 17 Reigen talks about having called around to other psychics to gauge their pricing, and one tells him he should have just checked his website. That was our good friend Shinra :D

Fun OC Facts:

Officers Hayakawa and Seki- These two policemen are named in chapter 19 as the police that show up when Teru and Shou are taken, but it is not the first time they have appeared! They are actually the same officers that came when Teru was attacked in the parking garage in chapter 4. Teru’s mom flew off the handle at Hayakawa when he mentioned that the owners of the cars that had been damaged and that someone needed to be responsible for the damage, but he in no way was trying to imply that Teru was at fault. He meant it from an insurance perspective so that the owners could file claims, but Mrs. H was not listening and Teru didn’t know any better. They were ALSO present in chapter 13 at the Kageyama house after Ritsu awakened. Teru was too out of it to recognize anyone. They care about Teru quite a bit and are just as dedicated to his case as Daigo. They just get less screen time.

Nurse Sora- Sora is a darling love of mine, and they are damn good at their job. They’ve been working in Pediatrics for only a few years, but is a favorite of many of the kids who pass through. I wish I could write a whole fic from their pov. It would be really soft. I had to get every hospital thing I wrote approved by Devi (my roommate/proofreader) who works in a hospital lab. 

Chibana Daichi- This EMT was never meant to show up more than his one appearance in chapter 11, but Nap asked if we would see him again, aaaaaaaand so I brought him back around in chapter 15 as well. And.... maybe he will show up again in one of the side fics. No promises.

Daigo and Yagami (that girl at the children’s home that said Teru just wanted attention)- I try really hard to use original names for all my OCs, but hot damn, I couldn’t stop myself from using some from Digimon.

Teru’s Imagery:

I didn’t get a whole lot of opportunities to do this, but I tried to bring in Teru’s canon association with stars. While his canon talk about stars is a self centered lecture, I adore that he is indeed... bright? His name means sparkly. He has bright hair and a bright aura, and I managed to get in the smallest reference I possibly could hahah.

In chapter 4, right before the slider incident, Teru is watching TV in the middle of the night, and he is watching a nature documentary about nebulas and stars forming.

Stars On My Ceiling was a little more blatant hahahhaa

Princess Mononoke:

Fun fact, I have never seen this film and probably won’t ever. It was popular with my cousins when I was smaller, but I have officially deemed it much too violent for me. Teru watching the film in chapter 1 was my first way to establish that his parents reaaaaaaaaally were not monitoring him or what he was watching.

BUT.

In chapter 18 Teru wants to watch a movie after coming back from dissociating and is looking for something familiar. Something from before Reigen, and Claw, and everything else. But he does not want to watch Princess Mononoke anymore. And that is solely because I looked more into the film as I was writing and found out that one of the main character’s parents literally abandoned her to a pack of attacking wolves when they were in danger (that they caused themselves).

The accidental parallels had me lying on the floor for an hour.

There was no way in HELL Teru would ever want to watch it again after his own parents left him.

The Elementary Schools:

Teru and Shigeo originally go to Togarashi and Shichimi Elementary in the beginning of the fic. Schools that I 100% made up. Schools that I am way too amused by, because “Shichimi Togarashi” is a popular Japanese 7-spice blend.

On that note...

Mount Fugu:

I really have way too much fun naming all the places I make up in the mp100 universe, and this one took the cake. 

For the most part it seems like all the schools are named after spices, and all the parks after body parts. I pushed this and let the Children’s Center be named after a seasoning as well (Mirin), but I expanded the naming pattern to include foods as well as seasonings. When I wanted to name the mountain that was hiding Claw HQ, I wanted something that would be clearly recognizable as Mount Fuji, but you know... a food hahaha.

I googled “Japanese foods starting with F” and wouldn’t you know it? Fugu was the first one that popped up. And what is Fugu?

Pufferfish.

Something horrifically poisonous if not prepared properly. No antidote. Can kill in as little as 17 minutes depending on how much someone consumed. 

A food that sounded so much like Fuji, and was dangerous as well? I couldn’t have been happier to hide Claw there.

Okay. This is getting long and there is MORE jfdksgjskgl but I have to go to bed. More tomorrow? Bc I think WAY too hard about Issho? Yes.