#HE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE MOGAMI INCIDENT

[m00ngbin]

i lied. i dont actually like sex. put your clothes back on. im going to explain to you how one weird little kid changed the lives of tons of people for the better and at the end of of the series everyone he's helped and changed comes back to help him and return the favor. Let me explain to you the parallels between each of their arcs with the last few episodes. Let me tell you about how his brother finally realizes that it was all him. Every part of that kid is him and they all need to learn to live with it and accept and love him and help him not repress himself because that's what caused the problem in the

first place. Let me rant about how his friend/one-sided rival uses what he said when they first met back to him. (about not using powers to hurt other people) Let me scream about how the friend's first fight with him and last fight are direct parallels. Let me scream about how he shows how much that boy has changed him by opting to protect civilians instead of himself. I'm going to tell you about how after the former terrorist he saved finally realizes that instead of sacrificing himself to save the city he should survive and be there for his son and try to make amends and continue to be better. Let me talk about how even though the people he works out with KNOW that really they're no match for him and they don't really know what's going on, they still try to help him anyways. Because they're friends. That's what friends do and they love him. They just want to support him in every way they can. Let me scream and cry about how his mentor, the man he's known the longest, the man he trusts the most in the world finally admits that he lied to him and he's been lying to him and he finally tells the truth and that's exactly what that boy needs. He needed the truth. It shocked him back to reality, and everyone he's talked to up until that point, INCLUDING HIMSELF, shows him that everyone loves him, and they all accept him, the only problem is that he's unable to accept himself. He's been refusing to forgive himself since he was a little kid for something he didn't even mean to do, and he's been repressing and hiding important parts of himself because he's afraid. And he doesn't need to be afraid because he has people that are there for him and they all love him. LET ME THROW THE BIGGEST FIT YOUVE EVER SEEN WHILE I EXPLAIN TO YOU JUST HOW IMPORTANT THAT TALK BETWEEN HIM AND THE PART OF HIMSELF HES BEEN TRYINF TO REPRESS IS AND HOW MUCH IT CHANGED HIM. HE FINALLY ACCEPTS HIMSELF FOR WHO HE IS AND HES FINALLY ABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF AND MOVE ON AND GROW

#can you tell that this show actually means the world to me #and let me just say that while i understand that she wouldn't have been able to do anything i wish Tome had been there #shes also super important to the story and i wish that she'd been there too #AND LET ME ALSO SO HOW UTTERLY UPSET I AM THAT SERIZAWA DIDNT SAY ANYTHING UNTIL PROBABLY AFTERWARDS #SERIZAWA WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY PERSON TO TRULY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING SHIGEO HAD GONE THROUGH #HE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE MOGAMI INCIDENT #HE WAS THE ONLY ONE AND IT BREAKS MY HEART THAT THEY NEVER HAD A MOMENT #anyways i get why it didnt happen but i wish they had gotten to have a little moment together #anyways special shoutout to the seventh divison guys i didnt mention that were working at the store #sorry to sakurai and koyama i would have absolutely mentioned you too but my hand is getting tired and you werent there for very long #but i will say something now #i love how seriously they take protecting the store. even if they werent able to save it from destruction #it really goes to show how they took what reigen said to heart and tried as hard as possible to live normal average lives #they were willing to protect that store at the cost of their own safety just because they were so thankful for the chance to be normal #so sick over everyone in this show #sorry guys #had to get this out #AND I COULD WRITE MORE #but my hand is getting tired again

[justphilia]

Lactose Tolerance (Terumob, 2k)

Based on this post I made a while back.

Shigeo has a special way of enjoying milk, and after some upsetting incidents, he starts drinking chocolate milk more, aka his comfort drink whenever he’s sad. Teru mistakes this as Shigeo’s favorite flavor and even after Shigeo’s done feeling sad, he’s still serving it to Shigeo.

Now on ao3 because I still worry that I didn’t italisize some stuff,,,

Shigeo loves milk. Everybody knows that, there isn’t a time or day you wouldn’t see him drinking a glass of milk at home or a carton of milk at school. But what they don’t know is that Shigeo has a systematic way of drinking his milk, specifically the flavor of it. Nobody notices it, since the way he does it is so subtle, it never crosses their mind. 

It’s pretty simple. Regular for normal days, strawberry for particularly happy ones, and chocolate for days that aren’t so glam. His facial expressions barely change whenever he drinks a specific flavor, so it isn’t easy to tell that his feelings are correlated to the milk he drinks. Not even Ritsu knows about it.

Recently, Shigeo had started to drink more chocolate milk than usual. It wasn’t a surprise on his part, since the past few months had been pretty rough. Mogami Land, nearly losing Reigen, World Domination, and The Incident had left Shigeo feeling rather gloomy lately. Despite this, nobody has connected the dots yet, nobody but Teru.

Or so Shigeo thinks. 

“I have chocolate milk in the fridge if you want some,” Teru says after stepping inside his apartment with Shigeo, who lights up at the mention of chocolate milk. Teru inwardly praises himself and outwardly smiles, he so badly wants to tell Shigeo that, ‘Oh, I’ve noticed that chocolate seems to be your favorite flavor, ha ha.’ but it just sounded so creepy in a way that Teru decides against it. The last thing he wants Shigeo to think of him as is a stalkerish boy that takes note of the smallest, most insignificant things.

Of course, nothing about Shigeo is small or insignificant, but Teru wants to play it safe. Just in case.

Receiving the cup of chocolate milk, Shigeo feels his cheeks grow warm, because although Ritsu has done the same to him before, this was something different. Teru gave him chocolate milk right when Shigeo started feeling terrible since last week, it’s so perfectly time, there’s no way Teru doesn’t know about his milk flavor system. It’s so sweet of the blonde to notice things like these that seem so stupid to Shigeo. 

“Thank you, Hanazawa, you’re wonderful,” Shigeo smiles after taking a surprisingly large gulp that shocks Teru, just a bit.

Teru blushes, flicking his hair back to hide his embarrassment with charm, “Of course I am!”

This became a constant routine for them, where Teru would get Shigeo chocolate milk whenever he could, and then Shigeo would feel his heart soar more and more whenever he does. It feels dumb, falling in deeper love with someone just because they managed to guess a deep secret of his. Perhaps the comfort of drinking chocolate milk managed to seep into his feelings for Teru, making it grow stronger. Like water to a little sapling. 

Whatever the case is, Shigeo’s glad to have Teru as a friend, and maybe they could be something more if this went on long enough.

This is going, possibly, too long.

It’s not like Shigeo stopped liking Teru just because the blonde was starting to give him too much chocolate milk, but it was starting to get pretty tiring and unnecessary. Shigeo stopped feeling bad ages ago, thanks to Teru being there for him, but it took a while for Shigeo to notice that Teru was still giving him chocolate milk regardless of how Shigeo felt on those days.

He’s beginning to question if Teru knew about his habit at all, and if this had been a funny misunderstanding from the start. 

“Shigeo?” Teru tilts his head into the raven’s view and the other blinks, noticing the carton of -you guessed it- chocolate milk in his hand. 

Shigeo smiles, though very awkwardly, and politely takes the carton from Teru. His friend takes a seat beside him on the park bench, it’s a pretty sunny day and Shigeo would’ve much preferred to have a carton of strawberry milk instead. But he’s afraid to upset Teru, so he says nothing.

“Is something bothering you?” Teru asks, noticing the uneasiness from Shigeo’s hunched over shoulders and soft grip on his carton of milk, as if the shorter boy wouldn’t mind dropping it to the ground right now. 

Honestly, yes, something is bothering Shigeo, but he doesn’t want to tell Teru because that would make Teru feel upset, and the last thing Shigeo needs is one more upset person. You see, due to the fact that chocolate milk is associated with feelings such as contempt and frustration, drinking it when he isn’t feeling those feelings would just make him feel those feelings. If that makes sense.

And if this really is a misunderstanding, if Teru really didn’t know about his habit from the start, then Shigeo would have to go through the embarrassment of explaining it. That’s just too awkward! Too much for him!

So with that, Shigeo only smiles, because lately he’s been learning how to do that properly, “I’m fine, thank you for the milk.”

Teru smiles back, a small blush dusting his cheeks. Shigeo was never great at lying, but Teru’s patient enough to wait. For now he could only help in the smallest ways, like providing chocolate milk.

Chocolate milk.

Don’t tell me… Teru’s smile threatens to drop at the sudden realization. Don’t tell me he’s sick of chocolate milk because of me. 

He panics just like that, almost running both his hands into his blonde locks and only barely manages to suppress a yell. There’s no way Teru could’ve ruined the milk experience for Shigeo, but the evidence was there and it’s only started to click into place.

Way to go dumbass! Teru’s hand curls against his lap. But just to be sure, I’ll watch him carefully right now. 

One thing about Teru is the fact that he sucks at being subtle, everything about him is over the top, so whenever he’s struggling to keep down his inner bursting feelings, it looks like he’s about to explode on the outside. Shigeo takes note of this, biting the straw of his milk.

Oh no, Teru’s upset. Did he find out? Shigeo sips quietly, breaking into cold sweat. His plan had completely backfired, what should he do? “Ah, Teru, I’ve been meaning to say this…” Shigeo suddenly speaks out of nowhere, no plan in mind, and completely winging this from sheer panic.

Oh here it comes, rest in peace, I wish to have Shigeo’s favorite flowers at my funeral. Teru nearly weeps, a little overdramatic, but that’s how Teru is sometimes and that’s how he’ll always be. “Mhm?”

“Thank you, for...being my friend. Not a lot of people...notices that...I like...milk,” that’s a lie, everyone knows he likes milk. “Especially...um...chocolate.” Nailed it. Hopefully it’s convincing enough, with the way he looks now and the way he phrased it, there’s no way Teru would know if he’s lying.

Teru blinks and Shigeo holds his breath, mouth not leaving the straw of his milk. Was it too much? Too out of place?

“You’re welcome!” Teru brightens up, smiling so wide it almost blinds Shigeo, or maybe it’s the fact that a huge wave of relief had washed over him that made him feel this breathless. “Honestly, I was a little worried that I might’ve made you hate chocolate milk. Silly right?”

Shigeo hums, just for the sake of acknowledging Teru. Fantastic, now to find a way out of this without hurting Teru’s feelings.

Funnily enough, that opportunity came up two days after that ordeal. It was one of those rare days where both Shigeo and Teru were present in Spirits and Such, just to hang around in Reigen’s office and catch up.

Reigen prides himself in being an excellent people reader, mostly because he’s the only one that knows about Shigeo’s milk habit, which seemed so blatantly obvious it makes Reigen laugh out loud sometimes. He didn’t tell Shigeo he knew of course, he never got around to saying it, so it never came up until today.

Seeing Shigeo drinking chocolate milk had shocked Reigen a little, because even though he isn’t as close with Shigeo as he was before, he still keeps up with Shigeo’s mood status, and as far as Reigen knows, Shigeo’s perfectly fine. So there’s no reason why Shigeo should be drinking his comfort beverage.

No harm in checking with Shigeo though, so the man gets up from his desk and walks over to the couches where the two boys are chatting. He squats down, getting down to Shigeo’s eye level, and very seriously asks, “Are you okay?”

“...Yes.” Shigeo answers, extremely bemused with the sudden question.

“Mob, you’re drinking chocolate,” Reigen says, growing more worried. He hopes that Shigeo isn’t lying.

“I--” Shigeo starts, but Teru cuts in, confusion written all over his face.

“What’s that gotta do with his feelings?” Teru says, his past worry about accidentally making Shigeo sick of chocolate suddenly comes back to him as quickly as it had gone away that day. 

Shigeo sighs, placing the carton down at last, and he uncomfortably rubs his arms, “So you really were mistaken from the start…”

“Mistaken?” Teru didn’t think he could be more confused than before, but here he is, completely lost and in the dark, and feeling rather stupid. 

“Uhm,” Shigeo squirms, his face going from a light cheerful pink to a bright embarrassed red. He mumbles something, which neither of the other two could catch. 

“Sorry?”

“I...I have this thing,” Shigeo finally starts, a note too high and a tad bit too loud. “I drink milk...depending on how...I feel…on...the...day…” He trails off, realizing how dumb it sounds out loud. “I’m sorry...for lying to you...I promise I wasn’t trying to be mean…”

Reigen watches as Teru stands up, waving his hands around before gripping Shigeo’s hands, holding them tight, “I’m the one that’s supposed to be sorry! Oh goodness, I can’t believe...I’m sorry I got it all wrong from the start, tell me what I’ve been doing wrong, please.”

Shigeo blinks, wide eyed and very surprised at the sudden outburst, and he’s pretty sure his hands are pretty gross and sweaty from all that embarrassment. “I drink chocolate only when I’m sad. But I’m not sad anymore, and it makes me sad when...I drink it when I’m not sad. Does...that make sense?”

“Of course it does, definitely, I understand. I’m sorry again. What milk do you want to drink? Or maybe you don’t want milk anymore? I can finish your milk...AH! NO THAT’S STUPID, HA HA, IGNORE THAT!” Teru flushes, the thought of an indirect kiss practically has him melting on the spot.

“No, it’s okay, you can have it,” Shigeo says, fingers wiggling in Teru’s grasp. “I’d...really like strawberry, actually. Because, um, it’s my...happy drink, and you make me happy...so…” Words. How does Reigen do it? How does he say so much without missing a beat? Speaking of Reigen, he’s been awfully quiet.

Reigen isn’t bored per se, but he thinks he should probably leave the conversation before he becomes the third wheel. Guess all they needed was a good push into the right path. Way to go, Reigen, you’re doing great as a parental figure.

Teru’s actually melting, not literally of course, but with the way he’s sweating, he might as well be. “I make you happy?”

“Yes?” Shigeo softly replies, not sure what to do with the fact that his friend is probably going to faint on the spot.

“Go out with me.”

“Huh?”

“I MEAN GO OUT WITH ME TO GET YOU STRAWBERRY MILK!” Teru is screaming at this point. Oh god what a mess.

“Like a date?” Shigeo slowly says, taking Teru’s first sentence into account since Shigeo could perfectly hear Teru. 

“Y-Yes!”

Shigeo’s not sure whose heart is beating louder, his or Teru’s. He has the feeling it’s Teru, with the way he is right now. “Okay then, let’s go. Here, my chocolate milk.”

“Thank you! Yes let’s...Bye, Reigen!” Teru takes the milk and basically drags Shigeo towards the door. “Thanks for your help!”

The door slams shut and Reigen’s yet again left in an empty office, and he wishes Serizawa was here to keep him company. “Help with what though? All I did was ask a question about milk.” He says to the open air.

#might've forgotten to italisize some words #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #fanfic #kageyama shigeo #terumob #hanazawa teruki #reigen arataka

[witchreflection]

Hello friends, I not only translated from Spanish my MP100/GO crossover, I expanded it a bit 

The one where Mob is the Antichrist (WIP)

As it happens with all important projects, when the moment to set the apocalypse into motion arrived, the infernal powers appointed (or may be, sentenced) a committee to oversee all details, and as it happens with all committees, no one ever agreed on anything and only one person (or in this case, being) did all the work[1].

In another world, the unfortunate sap in charge of the allocation of a human family for the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan and Lord of Darkness, chose the family of the American Cultural Attaché in the United Kingdom as the best suited for the task, and then devised an ingenious plan (for a demon) where all the actual planning for the interchange of babies was delegated to other even more unfortunate infernal agents.

In this world, however, the outcome of the committee representative’s game of eeny, meeny, miny, moe was different, so the chosen family was that of the daughter of a Japanese home appliances tycoon, and then the committee’s representative forgot to actually delegate the planning until the last moment. This is why the demon Crowley received the following orders alongside a basket with a perfectly average looking, dark haired male baby:

“Corrupt a human so they can be persuaded to steal a child from his mother’s arms, to be unknowingly replaced by our Lord’s son.”

And,

“DO NOT MESS IT UP, CROWLEY.”

Crowley offered ₤100[2] to a nurse he found smoking in the parking lot to do the deed.

And well, many years later Crowley will wash his hands over the whole affair, arguing that his plan would have worked if that same day, at that same hospital, at the other end of the same hall where Hoshino Nadeshiko-san (full-time heiress) was in labor, Kageyama Akane-san (programmer, alongside her husband at the UK for work) was not in the same situation. Or maybe it would have worked if this nurse were not terribly racist, on top of unscrupulous, and didn’t think that “all Chinese people look the same”[3].

***

Eventually, the Kageyama family (now including their much-loved Shigeo) had to return to Japan once their contracts and visas expire. In the meanwhile, the young Hoshino Asahi-kun grew a bit neglected by his parents, but with the constant attention and counsel of his kendo instructor[4] and the housekeeper.

***

Asahi-kun’s 15th birthday comes but no hellhound does.

Crowley and Aziraphale scramble to find out what happened to the Antichrist, and they first search for the nurse who is now in prison[5] and doesn’t know anything of use, then the hospital, where they pick up a paper trail[6] that leads them to Japan.

“Well,” says the demon to the angel. “On the bright side, you do like sushi.”

***

Kageyama Shigeo is a very normal baby. Average size, average weight, reaches the developmental milestones at the expected ages. His parents love him very much and if Shige-chan has an habit of always managing get things he shouldn’t into his hands, they don’t think too much about it and gently correct him, just as they do when he tries to lick the neighbour’s cat or pulls from mommy’s hair.

When things start to float a bit, they take it on stride, because, well, it is not really problem, it is only small things and not very high, and Akane is pregnant again.

It does take them by surprise when Ritsu-chan keeps dropping his pacifier or a preferred toy and they have to keep picking it up for him, which immediately raises a concern about how many things that touched the floor ended up on Shige-chan’s mouth, and relief that they don’t have to worry about that with Ritsu-chan[7].

As Shige grows, so do his powers, and his family also grows accustomed to them. Soon, every time he cries –which is not often– the furniture will rattle, the rain will not touch him and he would make little and not so little animals swim through the air, or the bath water would float in shapes, but is always to entertain Ritsu or their friend Tsubomi. Sometimes the cutlery will bend, or Shige would accidentally make everything in the house hover 2cm over the floor in his sleep, but he is a good kid and it’s not like he does it intentionally.

Then, after an incident where Ritsu returns unharmed but covered in blood and Shige in in tears, and they don’t tell no matter how much Akane and Hisao ask their children what happened, Shige stops using his powers deliberately while the accidents increase, but they can’t do anything about it, because who do you ask about your child ESP problems? 

***

Later, people will debate if the well-timed appearance of Reigen Arataka into Shigeo’s life was in fact as “godsend” as the Kageyamas thought the day their child returned home from school happier and more at ease that they had seen him in months.

The fact that the man would also act as a quick response free babysitter and chaperon also helped to improve their opinion of him[8].

***

Kageyama Shigeo is a very unremarkable boy, but he tends to have a tangible effect in the people who cross his path, and he achieves this despite his powers and no thanks to them, mostly.

Had this been a different world, his powers would have not been obvious, but would have arranged the world around him to his liking. In this one, they never get him what he wants and he has to figure that one all on his own[9].

***

A list of times the world could have ended ahead of schedule:

After the incident when Shigeo lost control of his powers for the first time and believed, for a second, before he heard him cry, that Ritsu was dead.

All the times Dimple tried and failed to convince Shigeo to help him become a god[10].

The time a technician’s shoelace got caught in his desk chair’s wheel, making him trip and smash his keyboard, almost starting up a chain of events that would have resulted in a Chinese Navy ship colliding with an American one, had he not also accidentally disconnected the ethernet connection of his terminal in the process.

The time Mogami almost managed to make Shigeo lose his faith in humanity.

The time Dimple did achieve godhood thanks to Shigeo’s powers, before Shigeo’s powers decided they could do give it a try on their own and Dimple realised his mistake.

That one incident by the end of Shigeo’s second year at middle school, which is not discussed in public by people in the known, for plausible deniability, you understand. Even thought it was not his fault, he is very sorry and very sure it won’t happen again and he helped put everything together again, and he has been reassured that no one died, miraculously[10].

But the important bit is that it didn’t happen.

*** For a being that some of the time is a snake, Crowley has way too much leg to fit into a tourist class plane seat, and he has time to complain about it at length during the 12 hours flight.

You see, due to the intrinsic nature of airlines, miracling two last-minute first-class plane tickets, does not mean that those two first-class seats actually exist in that flight.

The fact that Crowley was responsible for making flying a terribly uncomfortable ordeal for the masses, was an irony lost on him.

So was the fact that he was directly contributing to the flight attendant’s path to sainthood, attained by her infinite patience.

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[1]Except that, in fact, none of them did anything.

[2] The money was fake, but the nurse deserved it.

[3] Yeah, neither I know what Crowley was expecting to happen.

[4] If he’d had the time to pay attention to these things, Hoshino Katashi-san (CEO of his father-in-law’s company and absent but demanding parent) would had made an issue out of the kendo instructor being British. Fortunately, not only he never asked who was teaching his son, but the instructor wasn’t even really British in the first place, nor Japanese as Hoshino-san would preferred, nor anything, simply because the instructor wasn’t born in any country, or region, or geographic zone, as he had been brought into existence by Divine Will before the Creation, and he has been issued the physical form he inhabited after a long and tedious bureaucratic process, and he very much prefers to never have to go through it again, thank you.

[5]After noticing the money she had been paid with was fake, the nurse took a very pragmatic decision by taking the extra baby she found herself with to an adoption agency for rich people, where she received a quite large “fee”. This inspired her to a change in careers and became a full time “recruiter” for the agency, until it was closed under investigations for human trafficking.

[6]Not literally. The paper archive was burnt in a freak accident which was in no way caused by infernal agents with no knowledge about electronic databases.

[7]What they don’t know is that, soon enough, Shige-chan starts picking up things for his brother too when they are not looking. Maybe this is the reason why the brothers built extraordinarily strong immune systems and rarely get sick, maybe it is the other way around. I’m betting in the later.

[8]So did the discreet background check they did(a) on Reigen to make sure nothing untoward would happen. It also revealed that the man had his driving licence and an updated certification in first aid, making him qualified enough to take up child-care professionally.

[8.a] A leftover form their youth, before they decided to use their skills in a more legitimate manner as “cybersecurity”.

[9]With the support of loving family and friends, not that it lessens his effort in any way, but it is nice to mention it and Shigeo likes be reminded of it, too.

[10]But not a god as in God, more like a god as in the inaccurate translation of kami in Shintoism. Unbeknownst, back then, to Dimple, had he succeeded in making a god out of Shigeo, the results could had been less like the Emperor (like he envisioned) and closer (but not quite) to the actual Almighty.

[11]This is still being debated by the people in the known.

#auri sometimes writes things

[eyedelater]

???% hypothesis

what if ???% is the product of the inferiority complex that mob developed after tsubomi rejected his display of psychic powers?

specifically, this incident we learn about in chapter 4:

mob hasn’t always been the type to avoid showing off his psychic powers. he used to use them just because he could, like how inukawa cited various tricks mob had shown him in elementary school. but tsubomi taught mob that some people won’t be impressed by such things, that he can’t use psychic powers to get everything he wants. in fact, because of how highly he valued her opinion, he seems to have learned that his psychic powers are worthless and maybe even repulsive. after tsubomi’s rejection, mob began to feel that using psychic powers in front of people would make him undesirable.

(note that “mob not using his psychic powers in front of people” is not the same as “mob subconsciously repressing his emotions in general.” he’s been doing the latter his whole life just to keep his psychic power under control. this post addresses the former. do keep in mind, though, that psychic powers in the mp100 universe arise directly from emotion.)

the “tsubomi rejects mob’s dog levitation” event seems to have occurred before ???%’s first appearance, which is what led to mob’s first interaction with reigen. that is to say, tsubomi changed mob’s attitude before reigen did. reigen gave mob a context in which he could safely use his powers to help people, but he didn’t solve all of mob’s problems (or really even most of them).

so the hypothesis is: this tsubomi-inspired change in attitude led mob to impose new restrictions on himself, and as a result, a spiritual entity began to develop inside of him, kept hidden in the deepest depths of his “vessel,” without mob himself realizing it. not so much a part of himself that split off, but rather, a mass of suppressed feelings that eventually gained some degree of autonomy, pushed away far enough to become fully isolated from his “self,” but too strong to be erased completely. an entity based on the same idea that once corrupted hanazawa teruki: [“my psychic powers make me extraordinary, and it is my right to use them as i please.”] that would be the base essence of ???%, its true nature. it is a feeling that, i think, would naturally arise in any child with such powers. but mob strongly repressed that sentiment, refusing it (based on what he learned from that experience with tsubomi) and likewise bottling up the self-resentment, the “why shouldn’t i?” feeling that came with that refusal. he probably did this without really thinking about his own feelings, since he was already accustomed to pushing emotions down rather than expressing them.

mob repressed his natural desire to use his powers because his interaction with tsubomi made him believe that doing so would make him undesirable. yet he still naturally has strong psychic powers. does that in itself make him undesirable? will he be undesirable no matter what he does, just because of the psychic power he was born with? is he doomed to either hide his true potential forever or live a life of rejection? such questions probably arose in him and led to strong feelings of self-doubt, self-hatred, resentment, and indignance, which he bottled up and tried to ignore, helping to fuel ???%’s growth. only during occasional brief lapses in emotional self-control do we get a sense of how much mob has internalized these negative ideas about his self-worth. (e.g. “yeah, i’m the worst.”)

???% is only able to manifest under certain circumstances. i imagine mob keeps ???% thoroughly (and subconsciously) shackled at all times. but that internal barrier can be broken when mob is traumatically knocked out (regular sleep doesn’t count because there’s no jolt to disrupt his internal security system) AND/OR when mob gets so freaked out he loses control of himself completely (which is what almost happened when he found the fake corpses of his whole family after the marathon.) ???% was able to manifest in mogami world because mob’s internal security system got... eaten.

TLDR/conclusion: the idea is that ???% is a separate entity of a psychic/spiritual nature that mob accidentally and unwittingly created within his own soul by compressing and trying to ignore negative feelings arising from tsubomi’s rejection of his psychic powers. it is, and has been, locked away as mob strongly resists the urge to run wild using his powers, BUT the metaphorical locks that bind ???% are not invincible. they can be broken by as much force as it takes to knock mob out.

AND, the point i wrote this post in order to make: the connection to tsubomi is why ???% is currently heading toward tsubomi. its goal is not the same as mob’s goal to ask her out. instead, it wants her to acknowledge that mob’s psychic power is something extraordinary after all, because that is the very feeling it is made of. 

though i suppose both mob and ???% are essentially seeking her approval.

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notes: 

i don’t think of ???% in terms of dissociative identity disorder at all, because i feel like the canon system of emotion-based psychic powers makes for a better explanation as to why ???% has this much autonomy and separation from kageyama shigeo’s true ego. but if you have DID and want to project that onto him, don’t let me stop you...

if my theory is correct, mob is not at fault for this, and neither is tsubomi. it’s nothing but a tragedy. WHICH IS WHY IT HURTS SO MUCH!!!

i don’t know what ???% will do when it reaches tsubomi... but i do know one thing: it won’t keep going. it is making a beeline toward tsubomi. it might be impossible for anyone to stop it on the way, but it will stop on its own once it gets there.

i think ???% has autonomy that is separate from mob, but its sense of self is incomplete and based on mob’s self, because mob is what it has access to and where its origins lie. that’s why ???% uses boku pronouns. however, i don’t think ???% has enough breadth of mind to be considered an entirely new character; it isn’t an entire extra human’s worth of “self.” i think it’s more of a tumor, a shadow of a being, capable of expressing only the emotions that comprise it, pressing itself into a blank template of a “soul” but only filling the mold halfway. or something convoluted like that, y’know. anyway that’s why i refer to ???% with “it” pronouns

the grip mob has on his unconscious psychic restraint of ???% is, in my mind, similar to the conditions required in One Piece for sugar’s devil fruit’s effect to remain in place. that’s why regular sleeping is fine, and if you scared mob so hard that he screamed and passed out, that would probably give ???% a chance to get behind the wheel

still haven’t sorted out how ???%’s goals align with mob’s personal safety as a goal. like, given the way the mogami debacle ended, you’d think that maybe ???% does have mob’s best interests in mind, since it seems to have delivered his soul safely back into his body in ch67.3. but recent events show us quite clearly that it does not care about what mob wants or what mob thinks is best. maybe it knows that it can’t exist without mob, and their goals happen to rarely overlap on the point of self-preservation...

i said “TLDR” but i was being facetious. don’t bother interacting with my posts if you TLDR them

i reserve the right to have my ass proven wrong. by ONE-sensei.

#never ask me about ???% again until this is actively disproven #question mark question mark question mark percent #mob psycho 100 spoilers #mp100 spoilers #meta #MOB BLOG MOB LOG #i've been mulling this over for like... since before chapter 100 started. and nothing in chapter 100 has contradicted it... #so i'll put it out there. probably just in time to have my ass proven wrong who knows