#i thought about those panels[TM] again and developed a heart condition

[defeateddetectives]

"have you ever considered quitting the exorcist business?" and the way the answer is different the two separate times he is asked it in rapid succession by two separate people who will forever represent two very different parts of his life and his self and try as he might to compartmentalize this he just cannot fully do so

the way the second time he's asked it there isn't the same reflexive response the way there is no response at all from someone who has never once as far as we have witnessed seemed at a loss for words about anything and the way the person who is doing the asking this time around met him saw him knew him and explicitly cared for him before he was this and only this and inevitably this

or: miharu arc (literally making me rattle the bars of my cage every single time for a different reason) crafting the finest of cracks that are barely perceptible to the human eye--so easy to miss on first or second or even third glance--in the steadfast certainty that matoba seiji is and has displayed from day one act one scene one the same certainty he stands for and that we all expect of him (in and out of universe) and that he expects of himself until his dying breath IN THIS ESSAY I WI--[is forcibly removed from the premises]