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guys i think i’m becoming an mp100 blog

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ryan • he/him • 🏳️

i’m pinning this here just as info:

my name is Ryan. i post like a dumpster fire. that’s okay. my mob psycho 100 ageswap au… i need to work on writing and drawing more of it.

link above to my ao3. unfortunately updates are not consistent, but i’m trying my best to keep the writing going.

hope you like it here 🎇

I just love what is done with Tsubomi in that like… we don’t know her well but it’s not because she’s a flatly written love interest, it’s because Mob stops talking to her after he starts to hold back his emotions more (because of his powers) so he doesn’t really know her anymore. But the little bits we do get of her show that she’s more like Mob than Mob realizes, her situation is just different because she’s pretty and slightly better at social interaction than he is but, like him, she doesn’t seem to put her emotions out on display. She gets scared that her “friends” will bully her for accidentally blowing snot on herself after sneezing so she clearly wouldn’t view them as people she can be open with. And when Mob helps her with that situation she comments that she’s been thinking about how they “haven’t talked in awhile,” clearly showing that she’d enjoy talking with him more but not actually making the move to do that, and Mob doesn’t either!

Tsubomi clearly thinks kindly of Mob, she notices what he does for the girl who got her novel ripped up and thinks it was nice and she (almost) roots for him at the marathon, but in both of those situations Mob doesn’t notice because she doesn’t go out of her way to make herself known. Tsubomi is kind of a foil to Mob in that Mob’s entire arc is him working on putting himself out there more and trying new things and exploring himself, inspired partially by his interest in Tsubomi, but Tsubomi herself plays it safe for the entire series, she just goes with the flow. And she’s not bad for doing so but I think the show ending with her & Mob becoming friends again, highlighting how much they talk now, is meant to show (along with all the other little things we know about her) that she wasn’t living the most fulfilling life, because now she has someone to talk to who she doesn’t think will look at her differently for getting snot on her face.

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mp100 is a very very kind show, i love how compassionate it is and how forgiving it is, but i also love how hard it hammers in that there’s no such thing as a perfect person with endless bounds of patience and forgiveness, and that living your life only to please others isn’t living much at all.

the confession arc is very special to me for this reason, and below the cut is some analysis as to why! obviously, this contains spoilers for all three seasons of mp100.

Rewatched Confession Arc recently because I love crying and also feeling all the weird calcified emotions around my heart shatter in real time and I found myself really focusing on Toichiro’s line, “I just need to do what he did for me last time.” The actual thing he says this about (turning himself into a vessel to absorb Mob’s energy) doesn’t happen, but the concept, the idea that everything people do for Mob during this arc is a reflection of what he’s done for them, is I think a really crucial component of the narrative.

Mob tells Teru that he’s just an average person (and sees through the “protagonist of the world” fantasy to recognize the insecure part of himself he’s subsumed), and later Teru tells ???% that he’s just an average person (and sees through his rampage to recognize that “Mob” is still in there, which is what wakes him up). Mob sees Ritsu reject their entire relationship after getting carried away with his powers but unflinchingly affirms that they’re brothers and he loves him, and later Ritsu is the first one to accept that ???% is truly his brother and not a separate entity. Mob refuses to let Toichiro escape the consequences of his actions by dying, and then Toichiro does the same to him. Mob looks at Reigen on the bridge in Separation Arc and knows the best and worst of him and accepts him for who he is–but not completely.

That’s the thing about all of them; what Mob did for them wasn’t enough at first. There’s this block that keeps it from being resolved until they’re able to turn around and offer it back to him. Teru couldn’t help but put Mob on a pedestal, which kept them from truly connecting. Ritsu couldn’t communicate with Mob in the way he needed to in order to resolve their traumatic history. Toichiro still thought that the best way to make up for what he’d done was to sacrifice himself. Reigen couldn’t come clean about his lies, so as much as Mob tried to accept him, all the hurt was repressed instead of resolved, and it didn’t do anything to help Mob accept himself.

That can only happen at the end, when everyone takes turns reflecting back what Mob had given them in a way that lets them finally reach apotheosis–and gives Mob the tools he needs to resolve his own character arc.

Teru knocks him down from the pedestal, realizes that he’s average and tells him so, and although ???% can’t accept that yet, it’s true. He’s just another person like everyone else. His powers don’t make him a god or a monster. And Teru also wakes “Mob” up, recognizing that trapped part of him and fighting tooth and nail to reach him.

Ritsu finally faces his trauma and accepts that it was his brother that hurt him way back then, refuses to let himself be hurt again, and vows that they’ll stop avoiding their problems out of fear. And it’s this that finally makes Mob face the fact that ???% is a part of himself.

Toichiro chooses not to sacrifice himself to stop Mob, forcing both of them to continue to live despite the hurt they’ve caused instead of taking the easy way out.

And Reigen tells the truth.

Reigen breaks open the huge unspoken gulf between them and tells Shigeo the same thing everyone else has been saying: You’re just like me. This isn’t unique; this doesn’t make you special or monstrous or divine. This is what every single human has to deal with. We are all made of contradictions, and we all try to hide from them, but that’s no way to live. You just need to accept yourself. So he does. And he accepts Reigen too.

(Technically, this isn’t about saving your hands… but if you draw, you’re probably doing a lot of sitting, so…)

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screechyboi

This has such extreme shitpost energies but it’s 100% serious

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Looks pretty useful for everyone endlessly working at home at their dining room table.

As a movement professional who helps get people out of pain. This is a fully pretty great and relevant for a lot of people.

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gonna leave this here as a reminder to myself to never try to colour anything before painting the background. im never gonna finish this but eh i really liked the kitties

I like how MP100 fully sidesteps the "But Who Deserves Redemption?" question bc honestly it's a bad framing that gets extremely bogged down in philosophical debates about Good and Evil and who gets to make the call and becomes an awful quagmire and is also not necessary. the better questions are:

  1. Is this person capable of change? (Answer: Yes, always.)
  2. Are they actually going to change? (Answer: That's up to them.)
  3. Do you want them in your life? (Answer: That's up to you.)

i hope that one person that draw dimple in the Scariest realistic expression when he catches serirei making out knows theyre doing a service to our community that shit is so fucking funny oh my god

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It’s the reigen effect