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mobroccoli · 2 months
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hello hellooo, do you still take terumob requests? adult!terumob perhaps 🥹🫶🏻
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You might want to be more specific otherwise I draw the most adult thing I personally think: tax return
Thanks for requesting! Haha
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thefandomcassandra · 11 months
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Champion (19/19): Calming if You Look at It Right
cham·pi·on — /ˈCHampēən/
(n) - a person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else
(v) - support the cause of; defend — "I don't want these powers. They're too much."
Reigen said he would bear any burden too big for Mob.
For all that the whole incident with the Third Division was a mess, some good did come of it. Teru not only found a rival in Mob, but a strange aggressive friendship with Ritsu. That meant that, for all that Ritsu might gripe and complain about Teru hanging around, he secretly enjoyed his company. They were all friends, in their own way.
Muraki and Sakurai—along with a few other ex-Seventh Division Scars—did eventually make their appointment and, for all that Reigen couldn't shake some of them calling him shishou, he at least got most of them on the right track to being a normal, healthy adult. Some of them still kept him up to date on their job applications and apartment hunting endeavors—which was useful since Reigen was a reference for most of them and did a lot of finagling to make their resumes look desirable without lying too much about their experience.
Tsuchiya and Mukai would sometimes come by to hang out (read: pester Reigen and Dimple) but for all his over-the-top complaints about the visits, they were a welcome distraction and Tsuchiya made for an excellent deterrent for some of the more...troublesome customers.
Mob, for all that he had wanted to be 'normal, seemed perfectly content with how things were after the Third. In fact, he seemed more emotive than before, his outbursts fewer and more far between than they used to be. Something about being without his powers for as long as he was seemed to have made him understand them better. Sometimes, when Ritsu or Teru asked him, he would idly say something about them 'coming to an agreement', whatever that meant. Only Reigen seemed to understand the personification Mob was doing and even he brushed off any questions directed towards him.
While it took a couple days for everyone to recover from the whole debacle—Reigen himself was particularly sore (and also there were the many talks between him, his neighbors, and their landlord about the 'faulty gas line' that exploded half their complex)—everything managed to finally settle back in their prior groove. The only scarce differences between before the Third and after were exactly who was helping Reigen out with the actual exorcisms and psychic parts of Spirits and Such. Mob still came by most days when he didn't have the Body Improvement Club, Teru filling in for him on those days and sometimes even doubling up so Reigen didn't even have to do his usual showy spiel, but also Ritsu would come by from time to time—under the guise of 'checking up on his brother and his fraud of a shishou'—to aid in exorcisms, purifications, or just assisting Mob with his homework.
Spirits and Such had never been so full before and, for all that Reigen would complain about the lack of privacy, he secretly appreciated the company. Even Dimple.
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alitaimagines · 4 years
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ALITA’S big ass masterlist:
fandoms include: hetalia, naruto, my hero, fire force, ouran hshc, daiya, and more. 
since my dumbass changed my URL, my original masterpost went to the shits so here’s everything from 2018 till today. 
*: latina reader, ~: nsfw
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haikyuu- 
kyoutani kentarou: 
meeting and dating kyoutani
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tanaka ryuunosuke: 
dating tanaka would include
having a meme-y relationship with tanaka
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asahi azumane:
having a meme-y relationship with asahi
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tendou satori: 
relationship headcanons with tendou
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ushijima wakatoshi: 
finding out ushijima’s yandere tendencies 
getting back together with ushijima 
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takeda ittetsu: 
takeda proposing to you 
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bokuto koutaro: 
dating Iwaizumi and bokuto finding out
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iwaizumi hajime: 
dating iwaizumi and bokuto finding out 
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oikawa tooru: 
romance headcanons with oikawa 
yandere oikawa headcanons 
yandere oikawa headcanons part two
calling oikawa out after your night in bed together 
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sugawara koshi: 
suga liking a girl who hates athletes 
pregnancy scare with suga 
suga with an affectionate s/o
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futakuchi kenji: 
kenji pinning after you without you realizing it 
futakuchi dating foreign exchange student
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hinata shouyo: 
hinata pinning after his obsession 
having a meme-y relationship with hinata
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hetalia-
ludwig / germany: 
what happens when he catch Alfred cheating on you. 
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vasch / switzerland: 
becoming friends Lilly much to Vasch’s surprise 
arthur / england: 
arthur coming back from war and spending time with you
pirate england leaving you for war 
going through the era’s with arthur 
dancing with punk! arthur 
what they want/need with 2P! england 
breaking from England and ending up with Romano 
sailing out to sea with pirate England
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francis / france: 
what they want/need with 2P! France 
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lovino / northern italy: 
being pregnant with 2P Italy’s baby
not realizing you’re someone that’s in the mafia
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matthew / canada: 
matthew asking alfred to break up with you 
what they want/need with 2P! Canada
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alfred/ america: 
what they want/need with 2P! America 
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ouran high school host club- 
kyoya ootori: 
slowly falling in love with Kyoya 
yandere kyoya headcanons 
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tamaki suoh: 
dating and falling in love with tamaki 
yandere tamaki headcanons 
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kaoru hitachiin: 
dating kaoru after Haruhi introduces you 
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soul eater: 
soul evans: 
alpha headcanons with Soul 
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death the kid: 
alpha kid headcanons 
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my hero academia: 
kirishima ejirou / red riot:
omegaverse with Kirishima 
being kirishima’s feisty girlfriend and having a love for baking* 
being crimson riot’s adopted daughter and dating Kirishima 
ending up with Kirishima after breaking up with Bakugou
kirishima beating up his s/o’s bullies 
relationship headcanons with kirishima 
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toshinori yagi / all might: 
pregnancy scenario with Toshinori 
getting toshinroi flustered in public
being a vigilante and toshinori pinning after you
climbing toshinori to kiss him
being a new hero and toshinori taking a liking to you
going clothes shopping with toshinori
SFW Alphabet challenge
coming out as bisexual to your dad 
helping toshinori out with his insecurities 
dating toshinori and being a POC 
having to stop being a hero because of your injuries 
being quirkless and being toshi’s daughter
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shigaraki tomura: 
being shiggy’s girlfriend and him meeting your family*
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ojiro masatoshi / tailman: 
getting together with ojiro
relationship headcanons with ojiro
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shoji mezou / tentacole: 
relationship headcanons with shoji
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izuku midoriya / deku:
yandere izuku headcanons 
villian deku trying to keep you from leaving him
falling into a coma and how izuku deals with it 
NSFW Alphabet challenge~
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neijre hado / neijre-chan: 
being neijre’s feisty girlfriend with a love for baking*
a lazy day with neijre 
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tokoyami fumikage / tsukuyomi: 
tokoyami healing your wounds and you realize you like him
tokoyami marveling at the fact that you’re his girlfriend
pregnancy scenario part two
tokoyami getting flustered when you gloat about him
stealing tokoyami’s cape 
dating tokoyami and having a nocturnal animal quirk 
being all cute with tokoyami 
dancing with tokoyami at a school dance 
NSFW Alphabet challenge 
doing scary challenges with tokoyami
showing the class your room and its exactly like tokoyami’s
tokoyami being jealous when you have a new friend 
pregnancy scenario with tokoyami
being childhood friends with tokoyami and dating him
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enji todoroki / endeavor: 
realizing that your enji’s now 
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kaminari denki / chargebolt:
pregnancy scenario with kaminari 
NSFW Alphabet challenge~
moments after the first I love you 
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dabi: 
being dabi’s russian girlfriend 
dabi meeting your family for the first time*
dancing with dabi* 
dabi telling you he loves you while baking 
you tell yandere dabi he’s exactly like his father 
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mirio togata / lemillion :
dancing with mirio* 
breaking up with Bakugou and Mirio being there for you
comforting mirio after the battle with Overhaul 
mirio catching you singing 
yandere mirio and tamaki having a reckless darling
mirio dating someone with a clone making quirk 
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takami keigo / hawks: 
going into labor without hawks being there 
surprising hawks in lingerie 
SFW Alphabet challenge 
NSFW Alphabet challenge~
possessive Hawks!~ 
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bakugou katsuki / king explosion murder / ground zero: 
breaking up with Bakugou and Mirio being there for you
being FwB with Bakugou and it takes a turn 
bakugou’s spotify playlist 
ending up with Kirishima after breaking up with Bakugou
bakugou trying to save himself by using you
falling into a coma and how bakugou deals with it
pregnancy scenario with bakugou
breaking up with bakugou and monoma ending up with you
being in a talent show where bakugou falls in love with you
NSFW Alphabet challenge~
here’s some more bakugou angst! 
bakugou mistakenly thinking that you’re talking badly about him
angst to fluff with bakugou
mafia au! 
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awase yosetsu / welder: 
being FwB with Bakugou and it takes a turn
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kurono hari / chronostasis: 
dancing with Kurono*
kurono catching you singing*
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todoroki shouto / shouto : 
todoroki catching you singing*
you keep denying going out with shouo bc of your dark secret 
you tell yandere todoroki he’s exactly like his father 
falling into a coma and how bakugou deals with it 
soulmate au with Todoroki 
being all mights daughter and dating todoroki and endeavors burns you
pregnancy scenario with todoroki 
being kidnapped and shouto helping save you
dating todoroki/all might daughter and stopping a villain
todoroki finding out enji hurt you on purpose 
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shindo yo / grand:
dancing with Shindo*
falling in love with shindo and being a UA student
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shinsou hitoshi:
dancing with hitoshi*
dating Iida but he slowly pushes you into Shinsou’s arms 
dating Shinsou headcanons 
pregnancy scenario with shinsou
SFW Alphabet challenge 
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tamaki amajiki / suneater: 
dancing with tamaki*
yandere mirio and tamaki having a reckless darling
yandere tamaki with a feisty s/o
SFW Alphabet challenge
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sero hanta / cellophane:
getting married to Sero 
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iida tenya / ingenium:
dating Iida but he slowly pushes you into Shinsou’s arms 
iida taking you out on a date 
getting a haircut and iida not realizing it was you
iida liking you and him blurting it accidentally
relationship headcanons with iida
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aizawa shouta / eraserhead:
aizawa getting jealous and saving you 
reuniting with aizawa
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yamada hizashi / present mic: 
aizawa getting you and hizashi together 
reuniting with hizashi
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chisaki kai / overhaul:
being overhauls badass girlfriend 
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daiya no ace: 
general headcanons: 
being the only girl on the first string boys team 
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hongou masamune: 
being a foreign exchange student and playing for Hokkaido 
playing at Hokkaido and dating Hongou
dating Hongou after breaking up with Furuya
ryousuke kominato: 
breaking up with Ryo and ending up with Harada 
ryou finding you wearing his uniform 
training with ryou 
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narumiya mei: 
pregnancy scenario with narumiya 
celebrating the win against Seidou with Narumiya 
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miyuki kazuya:
finding miyuki cheating on you and going to Ugumori 
pregnancy scenario with miyuki 
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umemiya seiichi 
finding miyuki cheating on your and going to Ugumori
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kuroko no basket: 
akashi seijruo:
being hanamiya’s daughter and dating Akashi’s and Shintaro’s sons. 
yandere akashi headcanons 
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shintaro midorima:
being hanamiya’s daughter and dating Akashi’s and Shintaro’s sons.
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blue exorcist: 
suguro ryuji: 
meeting Bon’s family for the first time 
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rin okumura: 
comforting Rin after a hard time 
vacationing with Rin 
being Rin’s omega and him not being able to save you
being rin’s and yukio’s younger sister
getting married to Rin
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yukio okumura: 
being rin’s and yukio’s younger sister
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shiro fujimoto: 
NSFW Alphabet with Shiro~ 
dating Shiro and taking care of Rin and Yukio
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astaroth: 
omegaverse imagine with Alpha Astaroth 
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naruto: 
might gai: 
realizing Gai likes you 
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gaara: 
gaara asking kakashi with your hand in marriage 
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attack on titan: 
reiner braun:
breaking up with Reiner and ending up with Bertholdt 
knowing you can’t date Reiner but you do 
choosing reiner over porco 
moments after the first I love you
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bertholdt hoover: 
breaking up with Reiner and ending up with Bertholdt 
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porco galliard: 
choosing reiner over porco
secretly dating porco 
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erwin smith: 
being Erwin’s s/o and nearly dying on an expedition 
erwin trying to flirt with you (modern au)
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colt grice:
dating jean in revenge towards Colt 
levi ackerman: 
yandere levi kidnapping you 
being humanities strongest soldier and levi liking you
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jean kirschtein 
dating jean in revenge towards Colt 
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eren jaeger: 
dating eren and the two of you comforting a child after an expedition 
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fire force: 
benimaru shinmon: 
NSFW Alphabet with Benimaru~ 
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obi akitaru: 
dating Obi would include 
yandere headcanons with Obi
shinra kusakabe: 
finding out you were being cheating on and shinra being there for you 
moments after the first I love you
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rekka hoshimiya: 
getting together with rekka (modern au)
yuri on ice:
georgi popovich:
dating Georgi after being heartbroken by Leo
moments after the first I love you
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emil nekola: 
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getting back together with Emil
Mob Psycho 100: 
reigen arataka: 
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getting to know Reigen 
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uci-fanfic-requests · 3 years
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Idk if u already wrote this but uh how about a mp100 crossover? Like maybe the escorts end up crossing paths with Regien and mob, and mob tries to exercise them. Do u think exorcisms would work on the escorts?!?!?
Admin Notes: Get ready, wake your psyche up, MOB! Ever since I read the bonus chapter for the UCI manga, I’m not actually sure exorcisms wouldn’t work on the escorts. With them calling themselves “bakemono” and all... anyways! -Admin Hirahara
“Now listen, Mob,” Reigen said, giving his signature suit one last dust off as the two entered an amusement park that had cleared out for the day. “This should just be a small fry poltergeist, but don’t be too distracted just because we’re at an amusement park, okay?” When Reigen first heard of the job to exorcise something haunting a roller coaster, he didn’t really want to take it. It sounded... well. Lame. And the pay wasn’t all that great either, but Mob, being the middle schooler that he was, seemed to really look forward to it. I want to go to an amusement park, his eyes seemed to say. So Reigen decided to be a good guy and take the job, asking for some tickets instead.
Mob, who was just thrilled to see an amusement park, really wasn’t entirely focused on the exorcism part of the job. If he did a good job, he and his friends could hang out the rest of the day to play some amusement park games and ride some amusement park rides. I’m going to do a good job today. Besides, Reigen said that the poltergeist here was just a little one.
The first stop in the amusement park search was the fun house. Reigen explained it that when it came to places like this, the cliche thing would be for the ghosts to hide in a house of mirrors or some clown house. But before Mob even set foot in the place, he thought he felt a strong presences elsewhere - two strong presences elsewhere. He would question Reigen about his decision, but his teacher knew best about these things. So he followed inside, despite his instincts telling him he should have stuck around outside.
“I always thought fun houses were kind of over the top,” Reigen began saying, as the two ventured through the twisty hallways and down some slides. “We’re already in an amusement park, so you would think the thrill comes from the rides. Oh well.” The man talked pretty nonchalantly, and Mob could understand why. The presence he was sensing within the colorful labyrinth was much weaker than the ones that were still roaming outside. Their first glimpse of the purple ghost was when Mob fell into one of the ball pits and grabbed onto the first thing in his reach - the ghost’s tail.
“Hey, you caught it, look at that,” Reigen whistled, putting his hands on his hips. It would be pretty easy for Mob to exorcise, since he already had a grip. But just as he was about to increase his power to perform a fatal blow, the ghost slipped away and immediately flew outside the fun house. “After it!” Reigen declared, first pulling Mob out of the ball pit before starting the chase.
The good news was that, with the park empty and the purple ghost standing out, Mob was very clearly able to follow the poltergeist with his vision. The bad news was now he was convinced that there was definitely two other... ghosts. Or something. Also in the park, and that meant if he lost sight of this little one, it might hide it’s energy and go undetected against the strong ones.
The pair of exorcists chased after the ghost through a lot of the rides - around a merry-go-round, along the tracks of a train ride, and even up on a ferris wheel. But Reigen and Mob finally managed to get it cornered at the entrance of a roller coaster ride. The ghost, who was clearly panicking, suddenly turned to Mob and began speaking.
“Listen, you have to help me out here!” It suddenly exclaimed, surprising both Mob and Reigen. “I know I did some bad stuff, but they really set the top brass out for me!”
“Oh, we’re top brass?” Reigen asked, looking pretty proud of himself. He was clearly thinking of a way to slap that on his website as a marketable point. But the ghost immediately shot him down.
“No, not you two,” the ghost groaned. “They sent people from Enma’s special branch-” but the ghost didn’t exactly get a chance to finish.
“Found it!!” A yell came from the top of the roller coaster arch. When looking up, Mob could see there were two figures standing there - the two stronger presence that he had felt. One of them suddenly leapt down from the tracks, swinging what looked like a shovel downward. The impact of the sharp edge hitting the ghost square on the head made it... well, explode. The person, despite having jumped from such a high point, got to his feet like it was nothing, wiping some of the purple slime off himself. 
“Ha ha ha! What’s this stuff? It totally blew up!” Mob observed this man to have a green military uniform and strikingly yellow eyes. He was unlike any ghost the boy had ever seen, and yet he was still unconvinced that this militant man was actually human. The other figure jumped down as well, this one swinging a pickaxe around.
“...You made a mess,” the other man - this one with lazy orange eyes - stated, looking at the ground. “We were supposed to ‘capture’ it, not destroy it.”
“Yeah, but it was up to no good,” the yellow eyed man replied with a laugh. The other just mumbled something about ‘this is going in the reports’ before giving a sign and staring Mob directly in the eyes. From the expression, it would appear that these two strangers were, for the first time, seeing that Mob and Reigen were right there.
“...” Mob stared back, not exactly sure what he should say. First off, they weren’t humans. So should he exorcise them? But they did take care of the other ghost, so maybe they weren’t bad ghosts. But... if something was haunting the amusement park, wouldn’t it have been more probable that it was these two? While he was thinking all of this, though, the other two seemed to  be having a conversation all of their own.
“Humans can’t see us, so what’s he staring at?”
“Dunno, maybe something cool in the sky.”
“He is a brat, maybe he’s staring at the clouds.”
“Um,” Mob finally opened his mouth to speak. “I’m actually staring at you two.” That pretty much shut up the two uniformed men. They both seemed pretty taken aback by Mob’s very true statement.
“That’s not normal,” the man with orange eyes finally stated. He rubbed the back of his head, as if he was trying to think of what to do. “This is too bothersome to deal with. Let’s just go, Hirahara.”
“Eh, really?” the man with yellow eyes whined. “But Tagami, we’re at an amusement park! An amusement park!!” Despite the whining, though, the other man was already walking away, so the yellow eyed man had no choice but to follow after.
Mob, however, was left there, still staring at them as they walked away. Reigen, who at the time was more preoccupied by the fact that he’d have to clean the ghost off him, didn’t seem like he saw these two at all. So what could those two have been? Mob wondered as even their shadows disappeared in the distance.
“Come on, Mob,” Reigen’s voice suddenly cut through the boy’s thoughts. “Let’s go home and claim those tickets. Oh, and next time, try not to make such a mess when you do the exorcisms.” He thinks I beat the ghost, Mob blinked. He wanted to correct Reigen, but he wasn’t exactly sure how to explain the two strangers.
“Okay,” was the boy’s answer as he followed after Reigen. I wonder if I’ll ever see those two again, Mob thought to himself. Secretly, he hoped he wouldn’t have to. Because things that were hard to explain really made him confused. And he would rather not find out what 100% confusion would be like.
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mustdang-100 · 7 years
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Shifting Perspectives
Mob Psycho 100 Fanfiction
How many espers does it take to rescue one abducted conman?
Months after the events of the World Domination arc, Reigen disappears sometime between leaving the office and after-work plans. Serizawa finds himself the unwilling leader of a bunch of former Claw members and a couple of stubborn teenagers, determined to get Reigen back.
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Chapter 1 Reigen swung his legs down from where they’d been propped up on his desk and stared, flabbergasted, at Serizawa. "What do you mean, you ‘thought it was cute!?’ That spirit had three rows of teeth! And I would know, I got the best look at them!"   Serizawa came out of his reverie with a start, nearly dropping his mug, instantly apologetic.  "It, it was just so small… I was just wishing I’d come up with another way to stop it, but I didn’t have time for anything but an exorcism when it went straight for your face!” Serizawa sputtered.   Reigen continued to stare at him, now merely projecting indignation to hide his growing amusement.    “It was fluffy! And, and pink!" Serizawa flushed. "I like pink."  Reigen couldn’t hold back; he burst into laughter, putting his own mug down before he could slosh tea all over his desk. Serizawa flushed a deeper shade of red, ducking his head a little, but Reigen still saw his small, sheepish grin.    “You’ve been spending too much time with Matsuo lately, to start thinking of them as cute,” Reigen said, wiping at his eyes as his laughter finally died down. 
It was almost six p.m., approaching closing time at the Spirits & Such office, and Reigen was procrastinating on completing some insurance forms to chat with Serizawa over tea. A leisurely teatime had become something of an end-of-the-day ritual for them over the past few weeks, ever since Serizawa’s break from classes meant he was able to stay at the office until closing. Reigen found the ritual comforting – and had been chagrined to realize just how much he enjoyed having the company. If he was honest with himself, he was secretly resenting the day when night classes started back and he would lose this time to Serizawa’s other interests and school friends.  Less selfishly, though, he’d been pleased that the extra time Serizawa spent at the office meant Reigen could watch even more of his ongoing transformation from the timid and insecure man he’d started as to the quiet, confident professional he was becoming. Reigen had recently even been encouraging him to deal directly with the customers – though never without his being there, of course. Reigen considered himself quite necessary to this business, particularly when a client’s problems weren’t actually spiritual in nature. And whenever something got complicated in an actual exorcism, he was there to smooth it over. He and Serizawa had fallen into a pattern, one that resembled less that of an employer and employee and more that of a partnership: the businessman who got the jobs and the esper who completed them.   It was… nice. Reigen thought he might even be able to call Serizawa a friend – but he’d been wrong before. And he didn’t want to jinx it. You had to take jinxes seriously in his profession.  “Reigen? What are you looking at?”  Reigen focused his eyes to find that’s he’d been staring straight into Serizawa’s puzzled face for the past however many minutes. He blinked.  “Oh, sorry! I was thinking about something else.”  He realized belatedly that the other man was packing up in preparation to leave. Serizawa’s emptied mug sat on his own desk, the surface streaked with a pattern of yellow-orange lines from the light of the setting sun filtering through the blinds.   “Right, ‘bout that time, isn’t it.” Reigen drained the rest of his own lukewarm cup and stood to stretch, joints popping. He asked, casually, “You doing anything interesting tonight?”  Serizawa snapped his bag closed. “Oh, I’m getting drinks with Minegishi and Koyama and them – the usual bunch.”  Reigen felt the sinking feeling in his gut that tended to rear its ugly head every time Serizawa mentioned hanging out with his friends, either from school or, increasingly lately, some of the other former Claw members.   It was stupid. Reigen was glad Serizawa was building healthy relationships and integrating himself back into society. He really was; in fact, he was incredibly proud of the progress Serizawa had made after being so shut off for most of this life, and then horrifically misled, and even, Reigen suspected, emotionally abused. But there was still a small, terrible part of him that whispered, nastily, that Serizawa was now actually fitting into society better than he himself did, and just what did that say about the sad state of his own life?  He was being petty, and jealous, and awful. He knew it. Which, really, had to be a sign that he was improving – he’d learned his lesson about trying to manipulate people into spending time with him with his mistakes with Mob, and now recognized the inclination when it appeared. He fought it by being twice as encouraging.   “Sounds like fun! You’ve really been spending a lot of time with them lately, huh? Probably good for you all, like… a Claw recovery group or something-”   “Actually, I was, uh, going to ask you, if you’d like to join us?”  “Oh!”  Reigen paused to school his expression into one of only minor interest, even as excitement bubbled up in his chest. “Ah, well, I do have some plans for this evening, of course, but really it’s nothing important, I can probably rearrange… uhh, although-”   Reigen remembered something slightly awkward.   “Do you think it’s been enough time that they’ve gotten over the… misunderstanding about my psychic abilities..?”  Serizawa’s face broke into a grin that he quickly tried to hide with his hand.  “Yes, don’t worry it’s all fine. Once they got over their anger at being tricked, they decided that tricking them so thoroughly was a talent by itself, not to mention all the things you’ve therefore managed to accomplish without psychic powers. They chalked it all up to your extraordinary leadership abilities and by the end of it were just twice as impressed. And,” Serizawa added, blushing again for no reason that Reigen could see, “I think they’d be happy to see you again.”   Reigen stood a little straighter.   “Well, that’s, that’s good. Very good. I mean, I am rather impressive… ok then. So, yes. Drinks. Happy to join you! Just gotta, finish up some paperwork and stuff, and, yeah I’ll, I’ll meet you there.”  Serizawa beamed.  Reigen blinked, caught completely off-guard. That was a rare expression from his nervous employee, and it was… like the sun coming out. He almost – almost – told Serizawa that the smile looked good on him, or something similarly unforgivably cheesy, before shoving the reckless inclination aside. But that grin begged for a response, and he couldn’t help but give a half smile in reply.   Once Serizawa had left, Reigen scrambled to finish up the paperwork – it really did have to be sent before tomorrow, damn it all. Once it was sloppily signed, scanned, and faxed, he stepped into the bathroom.   Reigen eyed himself critically in the bathroom mirror.   Drinks. With a coworker. Or, employee – whatever. With a friend? A friend, and his friends. The suit he had on was probably okay for that, right? Or should he change? He had a spare suit stashed in his desk – but then he’d just be changing one very similar suit for another, that was stupid. He had another tie somewhere though, a darker one, more suited for a night out… No, no, then Serizawa would know that he’d bothered to overthink this enough to change what he was wearing, and-  He took a breath.  Which is exactly what you’re doing, overthinking. This is just some casual, after-work drinks, with a coworker who might be a friend, and some other acquaintances. Er, most of whom had tried to harm either himself or one of the teenagers in his care on at least one occasion, and that detail somehow managed to be at the bottom of his pile of worries-   Stop.  Deeper breath. One last look in the mirror to check his hair, which looked the same as it always did, and he turned to march out the door.    Just be… casual. Breezy. Yeah, breezy. Smooth.   He tripped on the rug on his way out the door.   ***  Serizawa tapped his fingers anxiously against his glass, glancing at his watch before taking an automatic sip of his water.  “So ya finally asked ‘im?” Koyama slapped Serizawa on the back in congratulations as he slumped into an empty seat at their usual table, tucked into the back of the dive bar. Serizawa let out a small noise, both in protest and in reaction to the rather forceful hit; Koyama tended to forget his strength in his enthusiasm, and he fancied himself a matchmaker. Serizawa felt his cheeks grow warm for what must have been the dozenth time that day.  “Just… just to join us for drinks! You know, like, like friends! Not, um, not like that. I told you, I still don’t know if he’s interested that way!”  Koyama grinned hugely anyway, raising his eyebrows suggestively, before taking a long pull from his beer bottle.  It was true – Serizawa found it incredibly difficult to tell what Reigen really felt about anyone. No, that was a lie; to anyone who spent any amount of time around him, Reigen was obvious about who he genuinely liked, and who he was just pretending to be nice to. Serizawa was just still uncertain about whether Reigen felt anything more towards him than simple friendship.   At first he’d blamed himself for this, thinking it was his own lack of social skills that clouded his ability to determine how other people felt. But the more he’d interacted with other people, the more he’d come to suspect that that was just the way Reigen was; someone who talked a lot, but usually about nothing deeper than surface-level, especially his feelings concerning other people. No, you had to watch Reigen’s actions to know for sure how he felt.   And Serizawa had been watching. He watched the way Reigen acted towards clients, and the teenagers he cared for, and he knew for a fact that it was different than how Reigen acted around him. And not to mention those moments he couldn’t quite describe, when perfect camaraderie that led to a tension in the air that seemed very… “more than just friends”-esque.   Asking him to join the group for drinks was his first active step towards confirming just how Reigen felt about him; how did Reigen react to him, compared to other friends his own age, outside of work hours…  Serizawa shook himself back to the present.   “Stop teasing him, Koyama,” Sakurai was saying from the other side of their usual table in the back of the dimly-lit bar, adjusting his glasses while peering down into his gin & tonic. “He’s nervous enough as it is. He’ll ask Reigen when he’s ready, or not.”  “I’m just sayin’!” Koyama spoke louder to be heard over the pop song that began blaring overhead, “He’s really beating around the bush here! Just ask ‘im out, he’ll say yes or no, and you can move on!”   “Not everyone is as blunt as you, you ass,” Tsuchiya chimed in, tapping her emptied bottle against Koyama’s head good-naturedly as she stood up to grab another beer from the bar.  Minegishi was the only one who did not offer his opinion, slowly stirring his mostly-full drink with a straw, eyes flicking from person to person as they contributed to the conversation. Probably because he had expressed his opinions on the matter to Serizawa before.   One of the longest friendships that Serizawa had ever experienced, and the only member of the former Super Five he’d really stayed in touch with, Minegishi was also the most critical of Serizawa’s pursuing anything more than friendship with Reigen. Only a week before, Minegishi’s snide comments had finally driven Serizawa to ask him why he felt so negative about him turning his and Reigen’s relationship into something more.  “To be completely honest, I… am concerned about the sincerity of your feelings towards Reigen.”  “W…what!? What do you mean?” “I know you believe they are genuine, but…”  A pause.  “Reigen hired you to work for his business just as you were cut loose into a world that frightened you, floundering for a new purpose. I worry that you’ve formed an attachment to him due to his helping you through a time when you were vulnerable, and you are misinterpreting your gratitude towards him as something deeper, more meaningful. That could produce an uneven balance of power in a romantic relationship, which is unhealthy, and could lead to you resenting him later.”   Minegishi knew Serizawa about as well as anyone did. But despite mellowing since leaving the clutches of Claw, he could still be incredibly pessimistic. Serizawa knew Minegishi was wrong about him and Reigen, but had stumbled over his words, unable to express just how well they worked together, how he was sure there was something more there. Eventually, they’d had to agree to disagree. But Serizawa knew that if he and Reigen started dating Minegishi would be watching them, looking out for any warning signs.   He supposed, sighing heavily, that he should be grateful to have friends who cared so much.   “So,” Tsuchiya asked as she slid back into her seat, fresh bottle in hand, “…when is he gonna get here?”  Serizawa checked his watch again. It had now been over an hour since he’d arrived.  “I’m sure he’ll be here any minute now.”  ***  Reigen was running late.  When the almost-unintelligible voice came over the train speakers yet again, announcing their second delay of the night, he cursed loudly. The woman sitting next to him with a young child in her lap turned to look at him disapprovingly, covering her child’s ears.  Oh, don't be so overdramatic. No way kids that young understand words like-    The toddler turned her pigtailed head to look over at Reigen, smiling cherubically, and opened her mouth.   “Fuck!” She gleefully bounced up and down, repeating the word.   The mother glared at him with murder in her eyes.   Reigen decided it might be best if he just walked the rest of the way to the bar. He was pretty confident that he knew the way, and at this point it’d probably be no slower than waiting for the train – not to mention the lowered risk of homicide.  ***  Reigen was lost.   He examined the map on his phone again, following the path through virtual streets with one finger. When he thought he had it memorized he tucked the phone back into his pocket and strode confidently down the street. He was determined to follow the map from memory; he didn’t want to look like one of those people who had to follow their phones every step of their route.  Despite the cooling evening air, he’d begun to sweat at his brisk pace. Of course. The sweat really wasn’t that unusual for him though; Serizawa probably wouldn't even notice. Maybe the other espers wouldn’t either…   Who all had Serizawa said would be there? He couldn’t remember. Some from the former Seventh Branch, for sure – he found he was actually somewhat eager to see them again. He’d been weirdly proud of them when they’d shown up out of nowhere to band together and fight against the organization they’d once been a part of. I mean, Claw had gone after them first, but he liked to think he’d been a good influence on their decision to rejoin non-esper society-   A car he hadn’t heard coming up behind him pulled up next to the curb.  Reigen stepped back in surprise, all thoughts of espers jolted from his mind. The driver window rolled down to reveal a dark-haired woman, smiling at him just a little sheepishly.  “Excuse me, sir? We’re looking for the closest train station to drop my husband off, any chance you could point us in the right direction?”  Reigen liked to be helpful, but halted his automatic response, taking a another hesitant step back from the car and the woman inside it.  Something seemed… off.   The sedan was a relatively new model, but not too pricy, and dark in color; the textbook definition of ‘inconspicuous.’ Except that the vibe the blandly-smiling woman gave off was just a bit wrong; her eyes were too intense for her mild expression.   Reigen’s mirror-perfect reflection in the windows heightened his nervousness. They were tinted darker than was legal, as demonstrated by the complete lack of light penetrating through the windows from the closest streetlamp. A light source which, now that he bothered to notice, was a little further away than he was really comfortable with…  He glanced up to see that they were in a gap between streetlight coverage – the bulb in the light that was helpfully right overhead was almost burnt out, emitting only a dim orangey-yellow light that traveled no further than top of the streetlight pole.  Reigen almost laughed as his heart rate sped up, responding to a rush of adrenaline.  You’ve got to be kidding me… Okay. Either you’ve been watching way too many terrible crime shows and are completely overthinking this, or these are literally the lamest bad guys ever.   He heard someone coming up behind him, and whirled to face them. Mid-turn, every muscle in his body erupted into excruciating pain.  Reigen hit the ground, spasming; the impact of skin and joints on asphalt barely registered amidst the full-body agony. He could barely think, his brain forming nothing coherent but for an endless string of please stop please stop stop stop hurts hurts HURTS.   Was he even breathing?   The pain went on, and on, and on, seconds becoming an eternity…  And then it stopped as instantly as it had begun.  Reigen slumped limply against the ground at the sudden relief. His brain started working again. Someone – or multiple someones – were looming over him. And he was fairly certain he’d just been tasered.  Well, that’s a new one for the books. They say life should be full of new experiences.   The part of his brain not occupied with witty commentary was screaming at him to shut up.   You are in a terrible position, you are surrounded and you must get up, get up get up get up.   He tensed his muscles, preparing to spring up fighting, but never got the chance.  He felt a needle prick his neck.   In seconds, everything went dark.
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what you said about reigen falling in love with a good man like serizawa got me thinking...what if reigen has the worst taste in men ever?? like he has a track record history of having dated guys that turned out to be involved with gangs or the mafia or just some real piece of assholes so when he starts to fall for serizawa he's suspicious because, wait a minute, if i like him he must be secretly a jerk or something, maybe he's still involved with that taking over the world organization... (1)
(2) and hence he starts to follow serizawa to discover what's his deal but turns out he's just a genuinely good person and he sees him being all clumsy and shy trying to help and old lady with her groceries and getting late to class 'cause he stopped to pet a dog and got distracted, just silly little things like that and suddenly his "i may have a crush on him but whatever is not like i'm gonna act on it" turns into a "oh fuck i'm falling for him aren't i"
(how dare you do this to me? ToT)...
And with time he just gave up!!, not wanting to get involved with any other man for the rest of his days. Reigen was like that Zedd’s song called *Done with love* hahaha he just was done with it!.... he *thought* XD AHJASGHDFFHS THIS IS SUCH A CUTE THING. It leads to the drama that fuels me!! good material here!
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What I Love About - Reigen Arataka
So this is just a post about all the things I love about Reigen Arataka from Mob Psycho 100. Beware of spoilers.
He’s a con man with a heart of gold. In other words, he is one of my weaknesses.
Okay, so he may be a fake psychic, but he does actually help people.
He actually undercharges the people who come to him. That one psychic guy said that usually they charge 200,000 yen as a minimum price, but Reigen said that he’d do it for 20,000 yen.
When someone said he couldn’t pay Reigen, all he asked was for a percentage of his next crop. I wouldn’t be surprised that he does this sort of thing a lot.
Most do not leave him unsatisfied. Sure, most don’t actually have a ghost problem, and when they do he leaves it to Mob or Serizawa now, but he goes along with it and helps reassures them.
Heck when someone came to him saying a different fraud had told them they had a problem, he was secretly chastising them for not doing anything about it.
He puts a lot of effort into his work.
He’s not psychic but he does do a lot of research into stuff.
Look at how well he investigated the whole Divine Tree thing. He even came up with a basic plan of how to solve it.
He nearly killed himself from exhaustion and made a good plan to get rid of that “gaming ghost” and wow, the perseverance that he has is not to be denied.
He is a really nice person.
He willingly listens to the people at that bar he sometimes goes to and gives advice. Even though they don’t ever return the favor.
Reigen is a good mentor to Mob.
He may not have psychic powers but he does give great advice, especially about life and how to live.
He can’t teach Mob how to control his powers, but he has taught him when and where and against whom he should use them.
Reigen cares about Mob.
Actually, Reigen seems to care about anyone who comes into his relative care.
Seriously, when it comes to espers, it’s like Reigen is a Momma Duck and they all line up behind him like his ducklings.
He evens cares about Ritsu despite the fact that the kid despises him.
He’s really funny. Sometimes when he’s trying to be, but also when he’s not.
His special techniques.
His somewhat contradictory nature. He does care about himself and his business (as shown when he had no desire to go against Claw until his insurance money was threatened [which I guess he didn’t end up needing as things seemed to have been restored in the aftermath]), and he is also perfectly fine with letting professionals such as police handle things. Then, he does something like walk into Mob’s fight with the boss after seeing Dimple get his butt handed to him.
Seriously he cares about this kid so much. Perfectly fine to sit back, but when Mob’s in danger, he’s going to be right next to him to try to do what he can, even without powers.
Also proof about how nice he is.
Heck he freaking apologized to Mob for just letting him go confront the boss of Claw on his own.
On a related note, how is this man still alive?
I can think of at least three occasions where he would’ve died except for a last minute intervention from an esper.
Teru and Mob’s transfer of power saved him on two different occasions (at the last second too) during the Claw’s 7th Division fight.
He managed to be the first to approach Mogami but didn’t get thrown through a wall right away.
When Mogami did smash him through a wall, he somehow managed to not break his neck (without any esper helping him).
He didn’t die of loneliness like a bunny during the Separation Arc.
Serizawa saved him at the last moment in the boss fight.
He was also one of the last to get brainwashed by the Divine Tree.
So yeah, could his luck be his secondary powers after his BSing skills.
Seriously, his BSing skills are amazing. And surprisingly helpful to all who hear it.
He may have trouble admitting to his mistakes, but he gets there eventually.
I also like the way he tends to write off psychic powers or ghosts and stuff as ordinary.
Bumps into ghost, thinks it’s a sumo wrestler.
Calls monster ghosts really good CGI effects.
Before realizing Mob transferred his powers, just thought his body was in great shape that day.
Broke a freaking cursed sword, thinking that it was a joke toy sword and that the earlier gouges was some sort of trick.
Seriously, this is comedy gold right here.
The way that when things do go wrong, he takes responsibility for it.
He’s always trying his best to be an adult when he has no clue what’s going on.
Master of faking it till you make it.
Actually also is the adult usually. Even if there are adult espers around. Or even people older than him.
He may use the people around him, but he also would totally die for them.
Long story short, I love Reigen Arataka.
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