#maybe this will be saiki's method

[delucoko]

do you do requests and if you do can you do a deaf reader x saiki where she can only hear him bc he puts his voice in her head and gets super scared about it and realizes after why she got so scared

★; I do take requests, happily so actually, it just takes a while for me to finish so...

hope you enjoy!1!1!!

𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜��𝐭𝐬...

Life's weirdness pops its eery little head in every once in a while, that's a given. All it needs is a trigger. Though, if life had a trigger, you hope that your existence was the finger pulling it.

Because, there you stood with your eyes wide, mouth slowly unhinging itself, and hairs on the back of your neck raised.

You have been deaf for years, the continuous ear-related accidents affecting your hearing greatly. You've accepted that part of yourself, after months of grieving for it, and that you'll never get to hear more than what your hearing aids could provide.

So, why is it that, the one time you take it off, a boy with pink hair and two totally normal-looking hairpins bumps into you and you hear something a clear voice for the first time.

"Sorry." you hear, your heart drops at that. Hands lifting up to check for your aide, to feel nothing, as you watched the boy walk off to the desserts aisle of the supermarket.

You can't help but eye him for a moment or two, trying to piece together some form of explanation--there's no way that your hearing had suddenly just healed itself for a moment or the bump caused yourself to get an auditory hallucination.

Meanwhile, the psychic had. just realized his mistakes after hearing your mile-a-minute thoughts go wind at his mistake. Thinking of ways to fix his mistake, straying from the methods that were...morally questioning, like batting her head in public with the memory banana. Or to let her live her life thinking that she had now suddenly developed auditory hallucinations.

"Sir?" his train of thought halt, feeling a hand poke at his sleeve. He looked back, his body still facing forwards, but you could feel the cold gaze he had on you. When you fall quiet, he tilts his head--reading through your mind, he understands that you're starting to regret trying to confront what could simply be just your imagination.

To which, you give up, you just bow your head down and point at an advertisement starring a new delectable dessert package here in the market. "Which aisle..?" you say, just above a whisper, embarrassment creeping in as you retract your shaking hand from sight.

"Aisle 5, with the snacks."

. . .

"HUH?!" you shout a gasp in shock, jumping back like a stray cat.

'Good Grief...' the psychic mutters, realizing his mistake, once again.

--

One thing about losing one sense of the human anatomy, it trains all your other senses to heighten. Maybe that was why he couldn't get rid of you now. No lie was good enough, no excuse lasted long enough, and nothing intrigued you more than how he could talk to you.

He's tried to wipe your memory, however, you've soon become so benign, so grateful, in his presence that he gave in to your desire to hear something other than the blurred sounds you could hear off your hearing aide.

All you wanted was a voice to hear.

To talk to without feeling misunderstood or slowed down, because you couldn't talk right or that others couldn't understand you signed language.

Saiki simply lets you feel into this human experience that you haven't felt for so long--at the cost of manipulating your thinking pattern into thinking that you could hear him because of some telepathic that you had, with him.

So when people may ask you why you're always talking to him as if you could hear him, all you'd reply with was (even though Saiki would prefer to not be associated with anybody, or so he says):

"We're just friends like that" you hum, with a smile on your lips.

requests are kinda fun... hopefully my first shot wasn't that bad tho--

[dermy-der-demp]

plus,saiki would NEVER let toritsuka do this without kick his ass but since it would prove that he's "bullying" him in front of hairo so he'll just go like

"I want you to be the better person of yourself saiki!,and bully someone is never good!"

Saiki goes silent for a solid second,Tori and Miko see a really small and demonic smile in him before he looks hairo again,they're fucked.

["Even if it's a pervert?"]

"No it is not- wait what?"

"yeah I mean he has *some creepy pervert shit that Tori did in pk* I was trying him to not do that anymore"

"..."

Hairo is shocked he turns to see Tori and Aiura frozen, with Tori giving a very awkward smile trying to excuse himself with a very poor acting,Miko goes silent for give hairo the easy "I didn't have idea!" Look,hairo looks at Tori and his eyes are on fire

"TORITSUKA I DIDN'T HAVE IDEA THAT YOU DID THAT,YOU COULD NEVER DO THOSE THINGS TO GIRLS,THEY DESERVE RESPECT AND KINDNESS YOU HAVE TO RESPECT EVERY WOMAN BODY AND CONSENT!,I BELIEVE EVERYONE CAN CHANGE BETTER BUT IN THIS CASE IM OBLIGATED TO INTERVENE!"

"WAIT WHAT U MEAN-"

"I'M ASKING MATSUZAKI-SENSEI IF WE CAN USE THE COOKING CLUB!"

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??"

"WE ARE GONNA MAKE COOKIES AND DESSERTS FOR ALL THE GIRLS YOU MAKE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AND YOU'RE GONNA APOLOGIZE WITH ALL OF THEM TOMORROW"

"WHA-BUT I-"

"SORRY BUT NO EXCUSES THIS TIME"

["you should help him with that"] *saiki points at Miko*

"M-me!?"

"Ah! Miko-san!,of course! you're his friend after all and if he hasn't do anything pervy with u that means you know how to keep him off of the line right?,let's go then,you can help us! we have to make so much desserts!"

And suddenly Tori and Miko are being dragged by hairo to make "sorry for being a horny teenage" desserts,he completely forgot abt saiki and he's giving them the most happiest smile at the end of the hall,satisfied.

The main Saiki friendgroup and pk psychics are mostly seperate group right? And Saiki acts deferently with both of them so what happened is someone from the main friendgroup (like Kaidou or sth) witnesses some "weird" Saiki behavior? Like Saiki being more sarcastic and mean or even violent thowards Toritsuka, while hanging out with him. Or he hears Saiki calmly saying "kill yourself" and he's shocked that Saiki, who is so nice and calm could say something like that, even to the germ. Or Teruhashi overhears a conversation between Aiura and Toritsuka that goes like: "Yo wheres Saiki" "oh he's stalking that guy again" "again? Damn he needs to leave that poor guy alone" and she's like "what? Stalking? I never thought Saiki was like that". Or the groups combine and they’re playing "who is the most likely to..." and there’s a question like "whos most likely to tell you to kill yourself/beat someone up" and the psychickers are automaticaly like "Saiki" "Saiki-san" "Kusuo" and everyone else questions if they even know him.

[bedpsyching]

Saiki texting with anyone (Akechi used as example):

Saiki texting with Kusuke pre cat tank arc:

A bit more info below

I talked about it on my tt but bringing it over here n e ways!!! Of course this is inspired by volume zero but in my hc stuff similar to the Yumi incident keeps happening to Nendou and Saiki intervenes every time using the same method (if the victim were someone else he might’ve changed it up each time but since it’s nendou) but the thing is this is becoming his only texting experience so eventually whenever he gets his tablet he just naturally texts like this, whoever snags his number and texts him first gets jumpscared

Also some bonus info I haven’t posted to my tt yet!! But once everyone has seen Saiki’s texting style they wonder why it’s like that until they manage to find a satisfying answer which is

“Saiki’s texting style is so cutesy and sweet… Sweets… Saiki loves sweets!! So maybe that means Saiki secretly likes cute things too?!” Cue his friends starting to gift him plushies or other things they think Saiki would find cute

[sometimess-sam]

After discovering the psych k method (i still think saiki-k T_T) I think I'm going to finally shift! Although i don't really care where lol, I just want that god complex fuel <333

Places I want to shift/manifest past the cut (just my ramblings, really.)

Manifesting

A boyfriend who i had ONE dream about (I love him too much -_-)

A more masc face

SLIGHTLY curlier hair (anything but straight ong)

Height (I'm 5ft. On the dot. why, south Asian genetics, why????)

A bedroom that has a lot of decor. and shelves. and action figures. and spiderverse posters. and those weird fake leaves with lights. And a bunk bed where the top part is a bed and the bottom part storage/desk

Plushies. A lot. A lot a lot of plushies

A whole closet change. my vibe is not hoodies and sweaters and jeans but that's all i have ):< I prefer grunge and neon stuff and / or cottagecore and PIRATES AND

money.

Ipad!!! Specifically one with procreate and a nice pen and one that won't go out of date with updates

Shifting

Spiderverse as my spidersona :3

harry potter as. um. a teacher ._ .

MHA!!! Just because, as an op kid with tragic backstory TM

Um, i was thinking maybe TADC? Just a thought. Idk about that one though

and of course, rich person AU and actor AU because I want to play Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton and be rich what else is there to wish for

[danganronpa96]

And already again! (Final one for a bit)

What if Saiki and Kaidou switched places? What if Saiki was the one who killed Retsuko and Kaidou had to work through the trauama of losing Saiki? Would he be able to work through it quicker? How would he react to the next two cases? And how would he be able to prevent Hayasaka's suicide attempt in Chapter 4?

The funny thing is, I've already answered this question before in this post here!

However in that post I don't go into much detail about what Kaidou would get up to in chapter 4 so I'll give a small run-down of what I think:

I feel like Kaidou, at this point, would have more energy to want to do more dangerous things like the VR world, seeing as they would have a potential beneficial pay-off to their investigation on Nesos. When he gets the hallucinations (probably being Saiki, some friends and some family members), with his past use of 'playing pretend' we shall say, he either gets caught up in the grief, or actually manages to see past it. Or, funny third option, play alongside the hallucinations.

And you do bring up an interesting point about the whole thing between Hayasaka and Saiki, since his interference was riding on the use his powers (that I can know freely talk about since ch5 daily exists). However, I would either change the person saving him to either Kurumada or Brian, or perhaps Kaidou would've stepped in with his own methods, aka lunging towards Hayasaka and tackling him to the ground 👍(maybe Hayasaka would receive minor injury in this scenario)

But like I said in that post, I don't think Kaidou would have much effect on the chapter 4 case. He might provide Latte with a safer alibi if the two were enjoying some mother-son moments the night before, but that's really it.

[no-psi-nan]

20) part of canon you found tedious or boring

The crossover parts in the light novels... thog dont caare (minor bit of canon but I literally paid cash money to get it translated so... -_-U)

Also that one episode in the second season / later volumes that was basically a repeat. The one with Saiki being invisible while Teruhashi tries to find him. We've already scene this exact same sitch play out, there's no development to either their characters or relationship, everyone knows their deal at this point so it's not even funny.... The anime should've replaced this one with the YouTube episode SMH, 10000% more value.

21) part of canon you think is overhyped

Not necessarily overhyped but I personally would have never picked the domestic abuse chapters to be the first ones in the series hsfjdlshfks. Yeah it's funny but like. It's still domestic abuse. Let's save the terrible home life for when the audience is more invested yeah? Though I guess people also don't notice the domestic abuse as much since it's front-loaded maybe?? I would like to see some research on this sort of thing tbh!!

22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

All of the Aiura moments... She's always so so funny and sweet, and the way she and Saiki interact is wonderful, she's the person he's the most real around (Toritsuka doesn't count because he mostly gets Saiki's bad side for good reasons hsfjdlshfks).

When they work so well together at saving Yumehara's life despite being strangers... When Aiura shows so much kindness to Mera and is so determined to help her that Saiki ends up helping her even though he was originally against it... When Saiki saves Aiura from the gang and she still trusts him completely even though they'd fought and Saiki just did something violent, which most other people would consider monstrous... Her willingness to help out Saiki anytime, no questions asked, just because she cares about him... Their hilarious & effective co-performances against Imu and Yumehara (as Kaido)... When Aiura realizes "lucky feel" moments / her usual methods of seduction won't work and switches to just finding out when Saiki's free and hanging together eating dessert + talking... When Saiki clearly enjoys those dates so much that he immediately agrees to another in his tsundere way when she asks him... When Saiki chases her around for coffee jelly, so brain-empty and silly (see: my blog header)... Her faith that Saiki will fix things even when he has a death mark on him too... When Saiki trusts her with the fate of the world... When Saiki's clones carry her so closely when they could literally just levitate her completely physically apart and she never tries to cop a feel or get fresh... When she asks Saiki if he wants a kiss and respects his "no" but just has to share the physical comfort they both need in that moment...

And yet everyone always mischaracterizes her and cheapens her relationship with Saiki, especially when favoring another ship for him.

Or they think that she would be soooooo emo about it if Saiki rejected her. Hello?? She literally told him to fuck off because he tried to stop her from helping people, and did NOT look back or change her mind. Just because she's into bdsm doesn't mean she's going to compromise her morals for a dude, even if he's her soulmate. And she's clearly had no trouble pulling dudes before, so it's not like she'll be pining after him for long if he's being a dick.

On the other hand, she knows he's tsundere as fuck and that she'd have to play the long game with him, and she's clearly fine with it. She has confidence in her powers and has already seen how well they work & play together, so it's just a matter of time.

Anyways I get so so heated when people don't do my girl justice, as I'm sure you can tell hsfjdlshfks

Thanks for the ask @hillbilly---man 💜💜💜💜💜

[akirameta84]

Akechi being Rivulet definitely works! And can also act as Aiura both desperately wanting to help Saiki, and get some vengeance for Saiki via having Akechi be built specifically for ripping out Kuusuke's Rarefaction Cell, whether he consents to it or not. And maybe she included a secondary purpose afterwards. One geared towards giving Saiki a companion after the Rarefaction Cell transplant happens.

Aren could be the Spearmaster Scug, but his creation was completely different. Like, Saiki could've created him as a desperate attempt to communicate with Kuusuke and get him to stop draining all the water, even if it's probably too late, via acting as his messenger because Kuusuke wasn't listening to all other methods of communication. And when that didn't work, he finally gave up and had Aren send out his final message. The ability to tap into the Iterator network could've been a side effect of Saiki's attempt to figure out why this is happening bleeding into Aren's creation process, and by the time he switched focus from investigator to messenger, it was already coded into the genome. ...and I'm adding angst via throwing out the idea of Aren sticking around Saiki's collapsed Super Structure until things have both cooled down enough, and there is an opening even there, so that he can finally reunite with his creator.

Mera as the Artificer. Her siblings and mother were killed by the Scavengers, so she decided to go a little crazy. ...yes if there was a way for her to have learned what happened to Saiki due to Kuusuke's actions she wouldn't be happy with him whatsoever. But for a while she had no way of learning and by the time she can learn she's living on top of Kuusuke's Super Structure taking care of some Slug Pups she found because it's safe from the rain so she probably won't learn about it until way later on.

Hairo is a less chonky Gourmand, but that's only because of his energy because otherwise he still cooks to keep up with the amount of energy he burns just by existing. Anyways he just got a bit lost scouting, met Saiki once, surprisingly without Nendou or Aren nearby, helped him out with a lizard, left, met Nendou and Aren individually and helped them hunt a bit, then met Kuusuke, got him to open the gate, then left. But he still visits on the occasion. Not at all realizing the two loner slug cats and the other Iterator know each other until Teruhashi arrived and helped them.

Speaking of, Teruhashi, she's the Survivor. She was swept away, and is now desperately trying to survive. She met Aren who chucked some food at her then left, and later Nendou who guided her to Saiki, alongside Saiki, Toritsuka, and Aiura's Overseers. Which she trusts because they've helped her so far. Anyways she ends up getting the necessary Neurons for Saiki because Nendou and Aren are too busy guarding him from the wildlife to go, and despite his body language it's obvious Saiki is nice via how he didn't hesitate to absent mindedly pet all the Scugs around him. ...when she meets Kuusuke the dislike on her side is great and Kuusuke is trying very hard to ignore her reasoning for grabbing his neurons, instead acting like she isn't grabbing them.

Kaidou is the Monk. He was a member of the colony Teruhashi was from and after a bit decided to go after her. He's fucking terrified the entire time, somehow ended up meeting Kuusuke before meeting literally anyone else, and had to be guided by Kuusuke to Saiki, and as a result Saiki's group of Scugs. Including Teruhashi. Saiki is just extremely confused on how they know each other.

Now then, as for the Monk... I honestly have no clue the Monk could be the same Slug Cat for all I know the little guy is wack like that.

yes. very much yes. i have 2 rain world aus now it seems lmfao, a scug one where its an isekai and everyone is a scug, and this one, where they replace the canon cast <3

akechi was definitely designed to also be a companion after he did his job. hes sleek and fast but strong, as aiurs didnt know how hard stealing a rarefaction cell from a mostly functioning iterator would be.

rain world kinda implies that rivulet was a purposed organism (being so unique + already having the mark), so in this au its just the actual truth

you did Monk twice but i think you meant Saint can just be the same crazy fella, and i agree haha

spearmaster aren is perfect. kuusuke hsd closed all communication networks so a messenger was needed, and kusuo was still functional enough to make one. and hes there as a companion too <3

mera, as the most feral character, works well as the most feral scug lol. those scavengers didnt stand a chance.

everyone who wasnt a purposed organism has to got through kuusuke to get the mark of communication, since the other closest iterstor cant exactly do that. so them winding up there makes sense lol

ty for the ask i agree with everything so so so much <3 love getting these even if i apologize for a lackluster response because honestly all i have is agreement ahdb

[skania]

Seriously though, Saiki in The Disastrous Life of Kokomi Teruhashi is at his most ridiculous ever.

Teruhashi wanted to go and drink a shake with him. So Saiki being Saiki, he makes sure she won't get to ask him out.

Except he just... turns invisible and goes with her anyway?

He doesn't have a shake of his own because of his clownery, so he just... goes and drinks from Teruhashi's straw?

Like if Teruhashi would've gotten to invite him, she would have bought Saiki his own shake. But no, here goes Saiki making things worse for himself and giving Teruhashi more than she would've even bargained for.

Then, when Teruhashi stands-up, he follows her and stands so close to her for absolutely no reason whatsoever, that Teruhashi almost accidentally touches him?

Plus, what's up with his thoughts?

Does he even realize how ridiculous he sounds here? He's the one who's getting involved with her right now. He could've just saved himself the trouble, bought himself a shake and drank it at home. Teruhashi didn't even get to invite him, he invited himself.

THEN, to top all this off, he looks all smug when Teruhashi notices she's missing some of her shake??

Sir?? What do you even have to be smug about? She just wanted to drink a shake with you and you not only did that, you also gave her an Indirect Kiss™?

He is such a tsundere that he willingly just went on a date with Teruhashi, yet he still acts like it's a win for him because Teruhashi didn't realize he was there. LMAO. 😂

[gay-dorito-dust]

Can you write a saiki and gn!reader, where gn! just transferred the school and saiki can't read their mind and tries to figure out why so he starts following them only to discover that they can teleport, turn invisible and is able to prevent people from reading their mind

Also can it be a platonic relationship? Sorry if I'm asking for too much 😅

I left this for a LONG while but now I’m kinda back on my Saiki K brain rot, I’m here to finally do this!

Was this stalking? Potentially…Hypothetically speaking from a certain moral standpoint…yes.

However what made this different from stalking was that Saiki was good at masking his stalking and by ‘good,’ I mean that his friends -mainly Nendo and Kaidou in specific- lack the social awareness skills to detect that he was doing it in the first place; Which was the perfect excuse Saiki could use in continuing to delving deeper into his self appointed mission. To understand how we got to this point in the story where our beloved pink haired, cynic psychic found himself tailing you from a distance under a suspicion, we must go back to that morning where PK Academy was in the midst of receiving of initiating a new transfer student.

First Kuboyasu Aren, then Saiko Metori, now you? Hasn’t the whole transfer student trope ran itself into the ground by this point? Saiki questioned whilst you were going through the mandatory self introductions to the rest of his home room but that wasn’t as engaging as the fact that within the sea of thoughts belonging to his peers, yours, much like Nendo’s, didn’t seem to be there; Not a blip, not a sound, nothing. Almost as though you were made out to have possessed a higher level of comprehension which rendered internalised thoughts and speech almost unethical. Saiki knew that you were smarter then Nendo, which wasn’t saying much as seemingly everyone and their domesticated animals such as dogs and cats were smarter then Nendo.

So why was it that he couldn’t hear your thoughts? He immediately ruled out the probability of you being just like him because that was just wishful thinking based upon little to no factual evidence that could’ve potentially pointed him towards that conclusion. Maybe your thoughts were just too quite for him to hear? Then again Saiki could hear the thoughts of a mouse as clear as day and they were usually quite loud for something so small bodied and generalised as quiet. So before Kaidou begins to inevitably spout his rhetoric. No, Saiki didn’t think you were an impeccably built android with the strength to bench press a bus or two, sent to PK Academy under the employment of Dark Reunion; He just had to get that out there before he would unfortunately be asked by the blue haired boy later on.

With the mystery concerning his shortcomings in reading your thoughts driving the pink haired psychic into a state of potential paranoia. Saiki did what he does best when faced with similar situations; observe from afar. (Read: stalk the person until they’ve proven themselves no longer a threat to him.) which leads us back to where we originally left off.

It was lunch period and Saiki knew something was off when you didn’t follow everyone else to the cafeteria and instead chose to walk in the opposite direction towards the school gates. Where are they going? Don’t tell me they’re already getting lost. Good grief someone should’ve at least shown them the school layout first before dropping them off at home room. On another note it only just occurred to me that in certain tv shows set in a high school and or college, the whole ‘getting lost’ trope just grows increasingly more redundant when you consider the fact that it’s a sloppy, unoriginal and overplayed method used in introducing the love interest(s) to the audience. Goes to show that Show runners have gotten lazier as of recent.

Saiki peers his head out of the doorway just to see that you turn round the corner, unsuspecting of his deadpan gaze, before he checked the hallway of any potentially unwarranted encounters, mentally sighing in relief when he found it vacant of any and all hinderances. Before he turned the same corner, Saiki expected you to be a few paces away from but to his slight surprise, you had vanished; Well corporeally vanished as the pink haired male could still sense that you were still well within his 200 meter radius. Then it occurred to him that you had just turned yourself invisible when you sensed that you were being watched. However before Saiki could react, you had disappeared from his radio is entirely. Enter your second ability: teleportation.

“What’re you following me for?” Your voice came from behind him so suddenly and without warning that almost let slip some emotion across his face. You’re just like me. “What’re you talking about, your making no sense.” You said, noting how Saiki didn’t speak with his mouth but more so through a telepathic link, connecting the two of you. Saiki sighed, closing his eyes briefly before opening them again. Just watch. After he said that, Saiki himself vanished before your very eyes, causing your eyes to grow wide and a gasp of surprise to leave your lips as you tried to figure out where he could’ve went; praying that no one saw either of you displaying your powers.

Come to the school gate. Saiki commanded shortly but sensed that you were about to question why he adds, look, I’m not stupid enough to put us at risk of being spotted. I’m not Nendo, you chuckled at the comparison, besides I think it’s high time we have a talk about what else your capable of doing. So just get down here, I don’t care how you do it, teleportation or not, just get down here before I start rethinking my choices. “Alright, alright. I’m coming, no need to get all mardy at me. ‘I’m just sceptical is all.” You muttered. I heard that. “Yeah your supposed to genius.” You retorted as you teleported to the school gates where Saiki was waiting for you with a plastic bag of…coffee jellies? Your face must’ve said it all for Saiki as he huffed, subconsciously holding the bag closer to his being. What? I got hungry and decided to treat myself.

“You’re unbelievable, could’ve bought me something.” You scoffed lighthearted. Please, I don’t even know what you like because you’ve been blocking me from your thoughts, so why don’t you go buy it yourself rather then relying on me. Saiki rebutted as he entertained himself to one of his coffee jellies as you then took up his advice and teleported to the nearest convenient store to buy yourself a couple of snacks before teleporting back to the school gates; Saiki was already on his second coffee jelly. You parked yourself next to him and began to eat in silence.

“May I have a coffee jelly?”

No

[cocomilk-subs]

fun(?) ways to manifest

reminder that you don't need methods to manifest, i made these just to have fun lol

watch shows and read mangas with the same genres/themes with the certain vibes that you want in your own life (the feeling comes much easier for me)

for self concept, some characters in tv and movies for me include teruhashi from saiki k, luffy from one piece (or any shounen mc's), elle woods from legally blonde, haruhi suzumiya (she's literally a god) and also this video and this one on loop

picture a magical girl/boy/other transformation on a certain phrase (e.g. moon prism power!!!) that propels you into your ideal self if you're spiraling

read books that your ideal self would read while you listen to a playlist who makes you feel like your ideal self

make a vaunting blog (a private one if you have personal stuff) that posts about all of the fun things you're doing, how good your self concept is

randomly quote poetry or lyrics suited towards the kind of person you're embodying, instead of repeating affirmations mindlessly maybe

keeping a sketchbook that your ideal self would have if they were drawing out their life in their perspective (including all the things that you want in your life)

wear the same perfume and clothes as your ideal self

incorporate a new way of talking that you now associate with embodying the you with a great self concept (e.g. ending your sentences towards people with "my love <3" or now always adding "totally" to your sentences)

incorporating something new that you eat often that signifies that you are a person who now has your desires (e.g. now you always eat tangerines!)

get into a state of flow with something you really enjoy or work or anything, and while you're happily engaging in your tasks, repeat and remind yourself that you're so powerful, that you have all your desires, etc.

fall asleep with a pillow or a plush toy that you tell yourself is your SP

whenever you get something a the store or something to eat, remind yourself that you have to get a second one for your SP (naturally, cuz both of you are dating, right?!)

remind yourself that certain things of yours were given to you by your SP because you're both dating

[bannock-freak]

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Is Hairo a genuinely sweet guy or does he hide his dark side under performative activism to reap social capital?!?!!?!? dun dun dun

I AND MY ASSOCIATES HAVE GONE THRU EXTENSIVE EFFORTS TO COMPILE THIS EVIDENCE POINTING TO HAIRO SECRETLY BEING AN ASSHOLE THAT HE REALLY DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!! 

We put our lives on the line for this one folks so GET READY. The CONCLUSION will SHOCK YOU.

Hairo lies and misleads to get his own way!! Hairo you know damn well that party is getting started and that if Kaidou, Nendo, and Saiki don’t get there soon they’ll miss it. This is such an odd departure from his ‘hustle it’ attitude...maybe he doesn’t WANT them to come? He is consistently shown to BULLY Saiki...

They are literally pointing and laughing at Saiki but does Hairo care? No.

In the classroom party episode his ringtone is his own voice yelling. That feels so narcissistic.

He literally impedes traffic by doing sit ups in the school hallway. Where’s the stickler for the rules now, huh? Is the location a coincidence, or did he choose it for how PUBLIC it is so people would fawn over and praise him?

This is a hard one to witness, folks. He has no respect for other ppls boundaries or health, and encourages people to ignore their health and anxieties for the sake of ‘improvement’ if they don’t do what he wants them to do! Note too how hard he pushes Saiki to step outside of his ‘comfort zone’ in addition to this poor schlub he’s got on the phone.

Also, he’s a SCENE STEALER.

Saiki does this...

AND THEN HAIRO IMMEDIATELY DOES THIS? Was he only INSPIRED by Saiki’s so called sacrifice, or was he feeling threatened that Saiki might upstage him? He even pulls the same ploy by sacrificing himself, but ten fold! Saiki even says, 

That Hairo skinning his knee shouldn’t be enough to make him vomit blood. There’s no signs of Hairo being a hemophiliac. I think he had FAKE BLOOD PACKS in his mouth to win him the sympathy vote!

He puts himself into dangerous situations, but makes sure to take his top off first? What is the point of that unless he wants everyone to admire his vulnerable, held at gun point, shimmering abs? (Also is he oiled for extra shimmer? did he know this was gonna happen? did he arrange for this?)

He’s always yelling at people w/no respect for indoor voice or sensory issues!

He’s always looking to make a spectacle of himself in public! Hairo did you really need to collect an entire tree from somewhere? You were supposed to get a replacement hammer.

Animal abuse. So! Awful!

He’s a method actor like Jared Leto. And again, impeding walkways and endangering others! Hairo what if someone tripped over you!

He routinely volunteers other people for torment w/out their permission! Hairo did you ASK if your team mates wanted to run fifty laps? Cus I bet they didn’t. All because YOU need to be the BEST so you’ll even compete with your COACH. Shameful.

He literally incites his classmates to violence and the DESTRUCTION of school property. Is this the class rep who can lead Class 3 to glory?! I THINK NOT.

And most egregiously of all

HE CHEATS TO BEAT BEST BOY, RENOWNED SCHOOL SWEETIE, RIKI NENDO.

Is this really a good guy... or is there a dark shadow cast over the heart of Kineshi Hairo that yearns not just for so called ‘self improvement’, but to win no matter the cost so he can get the attention he so desires???? 

To really convince you all, a coffin nail.

Why doesn’t Teruhashi make Hairo say “offu”? Well it might be because he’s gay, but Kaidou says offu around her so I don’t think that’s the ONLY reason.

BEHOLD.

The only one who beats out Hairo’s charisma, who sways the attention of the populace more than him, who is more popular and seemingly more virtuous than him...

Is Kokomi Teruhashi.

Not only does his egomania bid him to injure himself (or at least feign as such to manipulate people’s sympathy) and others, to strip in public, to cheat to win win win no matter what, it is so strong it overpowers Teruhashi’s charisma. The only other person who can do that is the over powered protagonist SAIKI KUSUO!

Saiki even asks Hairo, “Are you a demon?”

Hairo never answers. Because he can’t.

And so I submit to you that Hairo, noted sweaty pyrokinetic is not lit up from the inside by the flames of passion, OH NO

BUT THE FIRES OF HELL.

And THAT is why he shall forevermore be doomed to never enjoy snowcones, or icecream, or a snowball fight. It’s karma, babee.

(Hairo its melting its melting!)

[cornfarm]

hi! love the alphabet event! you're doing a really good job writing them! but please remember to take breaks and stay hydrated! 😤 <3 anyways, can I ask for J and R for saiki? thank you for doing God's work!

WAAA thank you ;__; i'm having a lot of fun with it! and thank you, i'm taking many-a-breaks and drinking lots of yummy water, make sure you do the same!

and of course ;-; if there's not enough saiki content, i'll just make my own!

this is part of an alphabet event! click here to view!

J ealousy - Do they get jealous easily? How do they deal with it?

i have seen some people headcanon that saiki isn't the jealous type. i would like to politely disagree. he is a leo, and as a leo myself, i'm horrendously jealous.

only kidding, we see how jealous he is of people with normal lives without psychic powers, and he's very protective of his friends and family. i'd like to think he's jealous of you, you're everything he's not. i digress- i think it's safe to say he can get pretty worked up about you.

he's not overbearing, he doesn't really care how you spend your freetime, and he's comfortable knowing your friends don't have any funny business with you, regardless of their gender. but for example, if you're out in public and someone is hitting on you, he'll quietly usher you away, and lay a lifelong curse on their poor soul.

he's incredibly discreet about his actions, but you can see his jealousy on his face. he has this grim frown on that just screams upset.

although, a lot of his jealousy just comes from insecurity. he sees you as some sort of angel. you're brilliant and kind and everything he's not, and deep down, he's not really sure what you like about him, even if he hears you think about it. he cares about you, and he knows the feeling is reciprocated, but he can't help but feel sometimes that maybe he's not good enough for you.

if you tease him about how he's jealous, he'll get genuinely upset, so don't tease him. instead, ask him very politely, he'll embrace you- a rare initiation of physical affection. please reassure him. he'll get it through his head eventually.

R omance - How romantic are they? What would they do to make their s/o happy? Cliché or rather creative?

i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but saiki is not the romantic type. like his parents are, he may be utterly infatuated by you, but the apple can only fall so far from the tree. don't expect grandiose exclamations of love from him.

he knows this about himself, and you know it too. that doesn't mean he doesn't do anything for you, as i've said before, his methods are different.

he's your biggest fan! he'll support anything you want to do and make as long as it's not hurting anyone or yourself. if you make art, he might not get it, but he's interested in your ideas, so he's willing to learn to understand it just for you. if you play a sport, or do performance arts, he'll always go to your games/shows. he'll be hesitant to help you practice, but he'll always be there for you.

he'll also spend weeks planning surprises for you. you can't surprise him, sorry! but he can surprise you. his surprises are very thoughtful and expansive. he'll make you cute little scavenger hunts and surprises in the video games you play together. he'll pre-order you a limited edition collection of something you like months before it'll be distributed. if there's somewhere you're dying to go, he'll teleport you two there without a second thought.

his methods are a bit unorthodox, but he never fails to surprise you. to him, seeing you so excited and happy from the things he prepares is the best gift he could ask for.

and maybe a new pokemon game!

[uten4]

Shun and Aren's relationship is simultaneously so adorable and hilarious.

Like first you've got Aren, who when he was introduced had just transferred schools and dropped his usual (very physical) method of befriending others, but is now lonely and wants to make friends.

And then you have Shun, whose main goal in the series before he befriended Aren was to make friends! And he did... sort of... succeed in befriending Saiki and Nendou-- they hung out a lot and cared about Shun in their own way. But clearly Shun still wanted to have a really corny poster-child of best-friendship, showing frustration for Nendou's annoying tendencies and Saiki's resistance to being around Shun almost all the time. Like in one episode, when Shun is daydreaming about being a hero, he fantasizes about Saiki calling him by his given name (as opposed to his family name), so you can tell that increased closeness is something he still really wants. And what gets me about that in particular is that very same episode, Shun and Aren become friends, and from then on you only see them referring to each other by given name ^D^ By being friends with Aren, Shun gets some of that cheesy closeness he really wants, but that Saiki is too reserved to offer him.

But yes, when Shun and Aren first speak, Aren is already disheartened by all his friendship attempts up til then failing... and they do that amazing bit where Shun does his chuunibyou monologue and Aren mistakenly thinks this is how all normal people sound. And THEN, even better, some of Shun's chuunibyou terminology are actually things that Aren recognizes... from the world of delinquency. So they're able to have Aren's first satisfactory conversation at PK Academy, and it's completely incomprehensible to anyone else. Beautiful. Amazing. In the anime I don't think they ever do that again, so I thought it was a one-time joke and from then on Aren has become more aware of Shun's delusional qualities... but they actually do it again in the video game. Several times (you can check it for yourself on tumblr user silenthikari's blog). Shun makes some really weird dramatic statement, and Aren either translates it into something meaningful, or translates it into having some equally weird meaning in the delinquent world, and they are able to have a terrible and hilarious conversation this way. Overall their dynamic of Real-life Delinquent Who's Trying To Seem Nerdy and Real Nerd Who's Trying To Seem Tough And Cool is so funny when you think about it (and made more compatible with the fact that Shun is brave when it counts !!). I honestly don't know if I prefer the version of Aren who responds to Shun's chuunibyou monologues with delinquent monologues, or with passing over it while slightly confused... Maybe both. Both is good.

But yeah, Aren is super concerned about keeping his delinquent past hidden, but when Shun figures it out, he decides to judge him based on his current self and not his past, which Aren really appreciates, and it's sweet.

I also like how they spend so much time together and share their interests. In the manga Shun is really into the series Odd-Eye Persona Cerberus, but no one else he knows likes it or even really likes the magazine it runs in, but Aren shows up and HE LIKES THE SERIES... and he follows the other series in that magazine, and of course he and Shun immediately have a conversation about it that is unintelligible to everyone around them. ❤️ In other words, Shun finally gets to share his nerdy manga interests with someone else now that he's friends with Aren! And in turn, Aren is able to share his interests with Shun-- they of course get really into motorcycles together. Also they just hang out in general all the time; they're constantly sharing panels together and in the manga it's mentioned that they spent one summer break just hanging out all the time, to the point where Shun has been influenced by Aren to become foul-mouthed, which is very funny.

I also like that they're so supportive of each other. They compliment and hype each other up A LOT, on their actions, looks, accomplishments, whatever. That doesn't mean they're blind to each other's faults or unfailingly sweet to each other though, which I think is realistic and interesting. They have their casual petty arguments where they make fun of each other or call each other dumb. Also, Aren is aware that Shun is not the best at drawing and even avoids being paired up to do portraits of each other in art class. He's not a big fan of Shun's writing when he first sees it either, which (along with the disapproval of Nendou and Saiki) hurts Shun's feelings-- but in the manga he at least tries to compliment (pretty awkwardly; that's Aren for ya) Shun on something by saying he used a lot of complicated vocabulary. He also privately expects Shun to show up to the class play unprepared, thinking he can be unreliable. But when Shun shows up with an epic costume, Aren mentally takes it back and thinks he's amazing. And when everyone was stranded on an island, he doesn't put Shun on the raft group even though he wanted to go because he gets motion sickness, but Aren just states this straight-up and doesn't dwell on it. He is a person who's very geared towards showing his feelings and acting on them, so he doesn't spare Shun the harsh truth (except when he does), but to my knowledge he never goes out of his way to put Shun down, esp for things he's sensitive about.

And Shun also has moments of not supporting Aren's actions 100%. When Aren draws the protagonist of their manga with a ducktail, Shun tries to let him know that he finds it weird, and after going back and forth a little Aren's like "yeah sure I'll draw him with the hairstyle you want" and they immediately get over it. And in the video game Aren explains the instructions of something in a really vague way and Shun's like "that's so unclear man, here let me", and after he's finished Aren's just like "as expected from Shun! That was so detailed ^D^". And then there are several times in the series where Aren's about to get into a fight or do something aggressive and Shun holds him back, and honestly that's just a Good Friend thing to do. I think it's cool-- Aren looks out for Shun (ex. taking care of him when he gets motion sickness), and Shun looks out for him in turn. And this is kind of just my thinking but it seems like Aren gives Shun more... confidence by being his friend (and a really supportive one at that) and rubbing his delinquency off on him a little, and Shun helps Aren with his own goal of living a peaceful life by trying to keep him out of trouble and doing non-aggressive activities with him, like building forts, studying, playing video games, etc.!

[eyezari]

math tutor (tsukki x f!reader)

you’ve been annoying tsukishima to be your math tutor considering he was the top student and he keeps rejecting you,, one day you finally give up and ask the second top student for help and he clearly was not happy about it

consider this!!!

→ gender-neutral y/n!  

→ little angst.... if you squint..

→ possessive tsukki?? is this even a warning

→ not punctuated correctly

“just this one question? surely...!” you plead, holding tightly onto your textbook. you were so close to failing this semester and you really needed your average to be lifted through the upcoming exams. when everyone thought it was the easiest subject, you found it the most difficult. 

so you’re back again, the next day. tsukki was used to you coming up to him every lesson to ask for help,, in fact its been going on since the beginning of the year. and he never helped. not once. 

you don’t know why you kept coming back and begging him when you knew damn well he was gonna give you the same harsh answer. he would say things like, ‘are you dumb? of course not.’ or ‘not in a million years.’ and his personal favourite, ‘please come back during business hours.” (you still don’t know when that is)

yamaguchi, who sat next to him looked at you two amused. “please! this is probably the most difficult one yet. khan academy didn’t help. i’ve tried everything.” tsukishima didn’t even bat an eye, he didn’t even spare a glance and his head down onto his page. you sigh. 

“y/n, who do you take me for?” he finally said and you sigh again. you were seriously lost and the math teacher is always out of the room doing whatever. the revision notes, you just didn’t understand. and your friends just gave you shallow explanations. 

the reason why you went to him in the first place is when you overheard him teaching another girl in class. she didn’t understand anything but it’s like he adapted her learning method and explained it to her like it was the easiest thing in the world. after that, that girl never failed to get good grades. ‘why doesn’t he wanna teach me?.. it’s just one question..’ you thought. 

to be honest, your heart would just ache whenever you thought about it. he decided to help someone else and they passed the whole year but couldn’t give you a single answer. you groan, scratching your head when you read the question again. then you turned to hinata, “hey, tsukishima has helped you guys out before right?”

“tsukishima? yeah but he gave up after and refused to teach us anymore, lol.” he smiles at you before going back to playing with his volleyball keychain. oh. so it was really just you who he refused to help. maybe it’s because you’re not close? no, you’ve known each other for quite sometime.. as.. friends. wait, no.. acquaintances? your jaw dropped as you realised, ‘does he not even think of me as a friend......bruh..’ 

you shook your head and just kept doing the rest of the practice test, skipping questions that you were unsure of.

the next week after you marked your practice test; you realised you were still way behind. you barely passed half of it, with an underwhelming score of 30 out of 58. you still didn’t understand most of it. not even photomath explained well. you sneak a peek at tsukki’s paper... 58 out of 58.. huh. interesting. he recently went on a training camp for volleyball club and still managed to study well. you stood up to stand in front of his desk which was next to yours. 

“tsukki.” you try and get his attention, but with his headphones on his head, it might be difficult. you repeated his name several times, nervously fidgeting with your fingers. you noticed he was in a sort of sour mood after his volleyball training camp and you couldn’t help but to feel bad you were disturbing him. 

with a scowl on his face, he removes his headphones. “what now?”

you became even more nervous now that his attention was on you. “um, can i just ask how you did the quadratic relations part.. i just don’t quite understand.” you said quietly. 

he only glared at you. “y/n, you must be fucking with me.” he said suddenly, catching you off guard. “how many times do i have to say no? it’s been too long. don’t you know how to give up? you’re so annoying honestly, get it through your brain. i’ll never teach you anything” those words hit you like a truck. especially because they came from tsukki. 

tears stung at your eyes and honestly, you were at a loss for words. you wanted to apologise and explain yourself but you couldn’t. a thought went through your head, ‘maybe it is annoying to constantly ask him for help..’ 

you muttered a “sorry” before quickly returning to your seat, not to mention that yamaguchi was quite shocked too and gave you an apologetic smile. you felt extremely embarrassed he just said that in front of the whole class. a few minutes later, you excused yourself from class and ran to the bathroom just to fix yourself up. somehow, you were choking on your tears.

it really shouldn’t have hurt you this much, but knowing you made tsukki dislike you even more just hit a different nerve. 

the next few days, you’ve been trying hard. but clearly not hard enough since you are still barely passing the revision. you were extremely disappointed in yourself since you did make an effort to learn but it simply wasn’t enough. you really wanted to apologise to tsukki but knew it would make things worse so you didn’t even try to talk to him. but you were hopeless, you just needed the explanation to the topic because you didn’t have anyone around you to ask. 

then you had an idea... the second top student named saiki came back from his trip. surely he’d help you just a little bit. you glance to your right, to where his desk was. and he did attend school! working up the courage to ask him, you turned to him. “welcome back.” and he smiled at you, waving at you. 

“how are your studies?” he said, resting his head on his palm. 

you groaned, “bad. i am literally hopeless at this. do you mind just explaining the parabola thing? i just don’t get it.” this caught the attention of many people around you. especially tsukki. your classmates suddenly thought it was weird you weren’t bugging tsukishima, maybe you have finally learnt your lesson. 

yamaguchi’s ears perked up as well, and suddenly everyone was lowkey trying to listen. “yeah!” and you smiled brightly. saiki moves his desk to get closer to you and he starts explaining the problem. at first it was confusing, but he tried to dumb it down for you as much as possible. you were seriously grateful because you understood most of it.

“thank you so much, jesus christ.” you sighed in relief. “so it opens downwards and the directrix is 2?” 

“yup. good job.” he pats you on the head. you smiled back. 

“wrong.” someone called out randomly, and you turned to your left to see it was tsukishima. “it’s 4.” he looked displeased. extremely.

saiki looked lost. “hm, i wonder where i made the error. do you mind explaning it to me then?” he asks tsukki.

his face darkened. “i do mind,,” and saiki just smiled awkwardly.

“y/n, it’s been a couple weeks. i’ll teach myself and i’ll get back to you later. is that fine with you?” saiki offered, returning his desk to the original position.

“yeah, thank you.” you grinned. you turned to your left again and saw tsukishima basically frowning.

why is he so rude today? what’s going on? is he okay? your head fills with random thoughts as you worry about him. 

the lesson seemed to go for hours and the heavy atmosphere between the two of you grew and it was excruciating. when you were finally dismissed, you had to stay back to clean the classroom. but you didn’t expect tsukki and yamaguchi to stay back too, considering they have club activities.

“hey yamaguchi, don’t you guys have club activities?” 

“yeah, we do but tsukki is on class duty. i’m about to leave soon.” he said sheepishly, grabbing his bag. 

so coincidentally you were on class duty with tsukishima. out of all days, you sighed heavily. 

you two were left in the class and he didn’t hesitate to start moving the desks. but you stood still, and stared at him. he was so pretty. 

heat rose to your cheeks as you recollected your thoughts and started packing up. it was an awkward silence as you two tidied the room. you were in the middle of wiping the board when he suddenly said, “open your textbook.” 

you were taken back. “what?” 

“you heard me.” he said bluntly. “open your textbook.”

“but why?” you stuttered a little bit.

“do you want me to teach you or not?” 

your face flushed. teach you? your mind blanked. “hnnn...” you couldn’t form coherent sentences “yes.. please.” 

he began to tutor you the study material. tsukki was obviously frustrated trying to teach you. it was like teaching a cat how to do dog tricks after all. you scratched your head at one question, still not getting it. 

you pursed your lips. it’s been 10 minutes and you’re not past the first half of the question. tsukki groans. “what you do is..” he explained it perfectly. but it went straight through your ears. you were too busy staring at his features, he was so close to you. 

this was the first time you realised how hard you fell for him, and tears pricked your eyes as your cheeks began to turn red. holy shit. i really like him. but chances are, i’m just a nobody to him. 

“y/n. are you even paying attention? this is why i didn’t wanna teach you.” he pinched his nose in stress. your heart sank. you didn’t want to inconvenience him any further.

“we can stop now, it’s getting late and you still have club activities right? i can buy you snacks tomorrow. thank you tsukishima.” you said with a sheepish smile. 

he furrowed his eyebrows. you just used his real name and not his nickname. he just found it odd how you wanted to stop so soon. you started packing up your things.

“it’s not even past 5. you need to learn this chapter.” he said abruptly. 

you stood up and grabbed your bag. “no, no seriously, it’s okay. i’ll just study tomorrow and-”

he grabbed your wrist and pulled you down. “and let you talk to saiki? no thanks.”

you were speechless once again, face red once more. “only i can teach you. understand?” he looks at you right in the eyes and all you wanted to do in that moment was to disappear. reluctantly, you nod. 

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you can clearly tell my language is eu/au LMFAOO its the ‘surely’ for me GUYS COMMENT PLS ! I NEED INTERACTIONS 

[andersunmenschlich]

Episode 10: Vampire Killer

All right—I'm out of packing tape, and it's really tough to pack flat boxes, so I guess I'll listen to the statement of one Trevor Herbert, an itinerant vampire hunter. Statement given... huh, I was 21.

He says he's been meaning to visit the Magnus Institute and give a statement for almost fifty years, which means he's been doing this for a while. And that (of course) means that either vampires aren't that tough, he's really good at killing them, or he's making this whole thing up.

So he's homeless, which I suppose means he blends into the street, and he has a knack for guessing ages....

Ha. I wonder how well he'd do at guessing mine?

This face throws everyone off.

...I wonder if he'd think I was a vampire. I mean, plenty of people think that already (or at least joke that they do), what with my cold skin and aversion to light (especially sunlight) and the fact that I don't actually appear to age and all that. At least none of them have ever tried to stake me! I get the feeling that this Trevor Herbert might.

Oh, and he straight-up says two of the people he's killed he's not sure about, and one he's positive was actually human (but also a violent criminal so that, apparently, is all right).

He's leaving what he claims are vampire teeth with this statement. Neat.

Apparently Trevor Herbert expects to be reported to the police for murder, but doesn't mind because he has late-stage lung cancer and hasn't long to live anyway. I... can't help but wonder whether the Magnus Institute is the kind of institution that reports things to the police.

So far they don't seem terribly interested in legality to me.

Anyway.

Trevor Herbert says he killed his first vampire in 1959 (I would've been -30), and that he was... lessee... about sixteen at the time.

His dad killed his mom when he was about thirteen, then died himself four months later. Trevor and his older brother started living on the street in preference to being split up into different foster homes, which frankly seems perfectly understandable to me. Family is family. There's a reason it's so close to the word "familiar," and frankly I've always liked the familiar—and my family.

So it's October 1959 (almost November) and it's starting to get cold out, and Trevor (16) and his big brother (18) are shivering in a side street next to a big fancy hotel when the vampire comes along. The vampire's name, apparently, is Sylvia McDonald.

Trevor, incidentally, insists on referring to the vampire as "it," which I find rude.

Clearly vampires are intelligent beings capable not only of having thoughts and feelings and desires of their own, but also of actually communicating with humans: that makes them people. Murderous people, maybe, but still people! And you don't call people "it" unless they ask you to, that just isn't polite at all. Kill people if you have to, but don't use a word for them that makes it plain you don't think they're people! That's taking rudeness too far.

So.

Sylvia McDonald takes the form of an older woman who looks like a widow, and xe offers Trevor Herbert and his brother some food and a place to stay. The two of them talk about it for a bit, and decide to accept.

Here Trevor goes off on a bit of a tangent—an interesting one.

According to him, vampires don't speak aloud.

The way he describes it makes me think of Kusuo Saiki's method of communication. If you've ever read or watched The Misfortunes of Kusuo Saiki, you know that the eponymous character never opens his mouth to speak; but people understand him anyway. Kusuo doesn't remain silent because he lacks a windpipe the way vampires do (though apparently he also doesn't actually need air), but the method still seems similar.

When Sylvia McDonald comes to the two brothers in that alleyway, xe doesn't say a word, but they understand that xyr name is "Sylvia McDonald" and that xe's offering them a meal and a bed—it sounds like a form of telepathy to me.

What's more, just like the people around Kusuo, Trevor and his brother don't find this odd.

Trevor Herbert says he thinks this is "some instinctive form of hypnosis or mind control," but I don't see why that should be the case at all. It certainly isn't for Kusuo. Bit of a leap to conclusions, is my point.

He goes on to describe the vampire's sensitivity to sunlight, which makes it sound like they actually do a bit better than me during the daytime. I find this idea simultaneously annoying and amusing. Oh yes, I'm more sensitive to sunlight than a vampire. Brilliant. (Not that I catch fire, mind you! I just get a horrible pounding headache, then start hallucinating for some reason, then I throw up and pass out.)

Sylvia McDonald takes the two brothers down to xyr house on Loom Street. The house smells of old blood, though Trevor's not familiar enough with that smell to recognize it at this point in his life. This suggests to me that Sylvia is messy and wasteful. I do not approve.

Also, the house is so badly taken care of that it looks like xe only walks through it, taking the same path each time, and otherwise doesn't really use the place.

Xe takes them to separate bedrooms, next to one another on the same hall, and then brings Trevor, at least, a bowl of really old, gross fruit. He finds an apple and a couple of grapes that're still edible and eats them while the vampire watches. Then Sylvia leaves, and he lies down on the bed (which is also old and musty, like everything else in the house), and considers the fact that all the windows are barred, the front door's locked and, despite the fact that the place is old, it seems plenty sturdy enough to keep them in.

Sixteen-year-old Trevor Herbert figures they'll wait until Sylvia McDonald has gone to sleep, then sneak out.

There's no electricity in the place, but there is a candle.

That seems like a fire hazard in a place that badly kept. Yes, all right, I prefer lamps and candles to light bulbs myself, but that's mainly because light bulbs tend to be blindingly bright and candles are better, and though I may live surrounded by thousands of books made (naturally) of flammable paper, I at least keep things clean and don't put fire near anything that might catch.

In any case, Trevor uses his own cigarette lighter to spark the thing up, and goes to conference with his brother next door.

Oh, and finally we get a name for the brother!

Trevor's older brother is named Nigel.

Trevor and Nigel talk for a little while, refining their escape plans, then they hear a noise outside the bedroom door and the handle starts to turn. Trevor goes under the bed, and Nigel pretends to be asleep—and presumably the candle gets blown out, which of course would leave a nice, smoky smell in the room as a total giveaway, but hey.

I suppose it's better than taking the lit candle under the bed with you, right? Now, that would be a fire hazard.

Sylvia McDonald enters the room. Xe attacks Nigel.

Trevor, under the bed, sees his brother get thrown to the floor, then he's treated to a clear view of the inside of the vampire's mouth, which is very toothy. Sort of sharkish, really.

Sylvia tears Nigel's throat out, spilling blood everywhere and confirming my hypothesis regarding xyr messy wastefulness.

Vampire tongues work like straws, apparently. Interesting.

Apparently Sylvia takes ten minutes to drink maybe a gallon of blood (given the messy, wasteful spurting caused by the throat-ripping and the fact that Nigel's undoubtedly at less than peak health, I'm going with "around a gallon"), and xyr stomach becomes visibly distended, which is interesting because it suggests that vampires don't have extra space for blood—just the same stomach capacity your average human's got.

Dripping blood untidily, Sylvia McDonald's tongue retracts into xyr throat and xe subsides into a pleasant after-dinner lassitude.

Trevor, meanwhile, has come out of his frozen, horrified terror.

He's considering killing Sylvia with the small knife that fell out of his brother's pocket onto the floor when he was attacked. As potential courses of action go, this one seems fairly suicidal, but he's right: what else could he do that would give him a better chance of surviving?

He decides to stab xem in the stomach.

...Messy.

Yup—he's definitely making a mess. Sylvia's stomach pours blood everywhere while xe does that "I have no vocal cords and I must scream" thing. Trevor even ends up with blood on his face, which I'm certain is not healthy.

Hang on, wait a minute: the candle's still lit?

Nigel was pretending to be asleep in a room with a lit candle?

That does not seem like a believable ploy to me. Everyone knows you don't leave an open flame unattended. No one would go to sleep without first putting out the candle.

Even those fancy Aladdin lamps ("A bright light for any night!" "Modern white light from kerosene!") have to be extinguished before you nod off, it's just a matter of common sense safety. And besides, who can sleep with a light on anyway? Sylvia McDonald should have spotted that one right off.

Anyway, Trevor sets fire to the vampire.

Xe burns surprisingly well—and so does the rest of the house, so Trevor Herbert decides to leave, which strikes me as a good move.

He starts looking for the key to the front door. He assumes it's in Sylvia's handbag, which he finally finds in xyr bedroom. Sylvia's bedroom is a mess, further confirming my hypothesis regarding waste and general lack of cleanliness and tidiness.

As if that needed more confirming at this point.

The key, it turns out, actually is in the bag, so Trevor unlocks the front door and runs for it before anyone can accuse him of being a pyromaniac murderer.

His next vampire turns up about a decade later, so I guess that would make him about 25?

He's still homeless, begging for change on the street, and at this point he says he's just about convinced himself that the vampire was his brain's way of dealing with the horror of watching his brother get murdered by another human being. Almost. But then, on a warm night in June 1968, he's panhandling around a sort of bar, hoping to hit up happy sports fans—and he's doing quite well until one of the people who turns him down does it without talking.

Trevor assumes the person in question is a "he," walking with someone who he assumes is a "she," which tells us something about Trevor: he doesn't understand how pronouns work, and thinks he can assign them himself.

Which I suppose makes sense, given the era he's living in.

...Of course, I've been assuming pronouns this whole time, too. Like Jonathan Sims—our narrator never bothered to give us any pronouns, did they? "He" could easily be a she, or a xe, or a shey, or... there are any number of pronoun sets out there, and how'm I supposed to know which is correct when I'm never told? It's very annoying. Still, because it's fiction, I went with the pronoun set that usually goes with the name "Jonathan" and figured I was unlikely to be wrong.

In real life, of course, you ask!

(I, for instance, am agender but male-leaning: I typically go by “he” offline and “they” or “xe” online.)

Trevor Herbert follows the pair of people through the streets and confirms: when the human asks questions, the vampire responds with a simple look, and the human acts as though something's been said aloud.

Somehow Trevor's managed to make it through nearly a whole decade without once upgrading his weapons set.

He's got his brother's old knife, and that's it.

So he improvises. Spotting a broken wooden pallet sticking out of a trash can, he breaks off a bit and sharpens one end, turning the thing into your standard vampire-killing stake. Somehow he manages to do this without losing track of the people he's following, and without either of them noticing the nutty tramp with questionable taste in whittling hobbies.

The vampire (who he later learns is named Robert Arden) leads the human into xyr, uh... lair... and closes the door before Trevor can get up there and whisk inside with them.

Going around the windows, he sees the vampire lead the human into a mostly-empty living room.

...Which he says has no obvious signs of previous slaughter.

My first thought was, Oh, so this vampire's tidier than the last, but then he says "I remembered how cleanly Sylvia McDonald had sucked up all the blood from my brother," which suggests he's forgotten the way the blood spurted when Sylvia ripped Nigel's throat out, not to mention the way xyr tongue was dripping blood afterward, and hey, didn't he imply it was obvious in which room Sylvia did most of xyr feeding?

That doesn't sound very clean to me.

Anyway.

Robert Arden sets xyr victim on a couch or something, slides in behind the human, and goes in for the bite. Trevor Herbert chucks a rock through the window. The drunk human freaks out—then sees all the vampire's teeth and freaks out more.

The vampire, meanwhile, has definitely spotted Trevor. Xe jumps straight through the broken window and tackles him.

They wrestle for a while, Trevor compares the feel of the vampire's skin to the inside of a bruised apple, then Robert finally gets a bite in. Xe doesn't rip his throat all the way out, but it's enough to make him bleed, so out comes the living bendy straw and xe starts drinking. Unfortunately for xem, Trevor's poisoned.

Apparently vampires don't like heroin. Bad reaction.

Robert Arden's lying on the ground choking. Trevor Herbert's lying on the ground recovering. And the vampire's would-be victim has gotten a kitchen knife from somewhere.

Robert gets stabbed repeatedly by xyr own dinner. Dear me.

And then Trevor goes for the stake, because of course he does.

Having staked the vampire to the ground (he notes that xe doesn't seem to have a rib cage, so I guess it's kind of like pinning a worm), he gets out his lighter and sets fire to xem while the other human drops the knife and heads for the hills.

Robert Arden burns just as well as Sylvia McDonald, so apparently that is a vampire thing. Really dry. Huh.

After this, Trevor Herbert makes killing vampires his vocation.

...Though he sometimes messes up.

At this point our statement-giver starts into his ideas about vampires—he thinks they're very rare, and don't feed very often, and don't turn their victims into new vampires (though he has no idea what they do with the bodies once they're done drinking them)—but he hasn't gotten very far into this when the statement ends. Jonathan Sims says that Martin says this is because he took a break at this point, went to sleep, and didn't wake back up again. I wonder how the Institute handled that?

Well, whatever the case, it looks like Mr. Sims is willing to admit the truth of just about every part of this statement but the vampirism. There are records of Sylvia McDonald's house burning down, Nigel's remains being found in it, Robert Arden vanishing and leaving behind not much more than a broken window and a scorch mark on the pavement, etc.

...Hang on, first he says there was "a small bag left on top of this statement which appears to contain six shark teeth of varying sizes," and then he says he "can't find these supposed vampire teeth anywhere in the Archives or the Secure Containment Room"?

How would you know what the bag appears to contain, Mr. Sims, if you've never seen it?

[sigh]

Ah, maybe there was a photo or something.

Anyway, he says the Institute checked with the zoology department at King's College, and the teeth didn't match any species of shark that was known at the time.

So there must've been a note and probably a photo in with the statement.

Ooh, he also says the Magnus Institute has contracts with government and law enforcement! That makes sense—in a world like this one, any number of agencies would need information about spooky stuff. I bet the Institute has underworld contacts, too. ...Which might explain why Tim gets away with being so cavalier about bribery and whatnot.

I'm just saying, they don't strike me as an entirely aboveboard operation, here. No, indeed.

And now I guess it's time for work. Well, I'll do the next one the next time I've got time! This is a good show and, even under stress, I'm enjoying it.

[sfiltron]

Other question here is "What type of connection Saiki & Co. would have with the goverment?" speaking about the first method.

Like, I don't think they do nothing for free, it would cost Saiki & Co a good amount of money if they want to keep the ESP as secret, and otherwise the payment method would be that the adults with ESP of the institution and future graduates have to work using their powers for the government, which I'm sure is not something they are willing to do.

Maybe they would have someone on the goverment as an ally, may can be Teruhashi, she got the power for control the world anyways, or in any case they can have them under threat, among the weapons of Kusuke and the powers of Saiki (and some other powerful ESP that may be out there) it would be very dangerous for anyone to try to fight them, and it wouldn't be worth it either.

Well, everyone who knows Saiki knows that the guy just want to be as normal as posible, but I think about it and I just can't imagine the guy having his own children on the average way, like- I can't.

Probably it's because I see him asexual as fuck, but even if he stays at the end with Aiura or Teruhashi or anyone else, well, I can't imagine him do the thing.

This thought is reinforced by the one that he would probably want to prevent his offspring from having powers as well, or worse yet, that Kusuo are scared to confirm that his genetics are different enough from normal human and that he is in fact a distinct species.

But on the other hand I can see him adopting, but not actively, more like "I found that poor child with no house and I can't found him a family, so now I'm his dad" or something like that.

In conclusion: I can't see him having a completely normal family.