Gen: I Don’t Think We Can Mansplain, Manipulate, Or Malewife Our Way Out Of It This Time.

Regulus and Sirius: We listen and we don’t judge.

Regulus: I’m dating your best friend

Sirius:

Regulus: We listen and we don’t judge

Sirius: I’m dating your best friend

Regulus:

Sirius: We listen and we don’t judge

thinking about it senku drags gen in chapter 57 and 2 chapters later, kaseki drags gen in the same manner with chrome commenting in the background about how kaseki has taken a special liking to gen..... if we take into context that statement from chrome and add on senku's comment on how gen is different because he is a modern man, we'd get canon text that senku has a special fondness of gen so sengen cano-

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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What the media won't show

Gonna try to get through as many characters as possible

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

List of explanations for why Senku’s clubmates thought Yuzuriha would reject Taiju’s confession:

They simply did not know Yuzuriha at all and only perceived her as a pretty girl who was out of Taiju’s league. Most plausible, but also the most boring.

Yuzuriha was very subtle about her own feelings for Taiju and so no one but really close friends knew about her crush. Also pretty plausible, adds a bit of characterization, but not very interesting.

Yuzuriha has rejected boys “at full power before.” Slightly more interesting, implies Yuzuriha was popular enough to get asked out and felt strongly enough to reject them in an intense way. Perhaps these boys disparaged Taiju and Senku, or made fun of her interests?

Inagaki didn’t really think much of writing the boys betting Taiju would be rejected because that’s just how a lot of fictional background characters react to “dorky boy asking out cute girl who must be totally out of his league.” Dullest explanation ever, but we’ve all read something involving a romantic thread where the author is clearly just going through the classic tropes. Frankly Taiyuzu would be very boring as a ship to me if I did not immediately fall in love with their characters and their dynamic with Senku, and I kind of stumbled into that. Like, all we know about Yuzuriha for the first few chapters is that Taiju is madly in love with her enough to motivate him to stay awake for 3,719 years, and she made fun of him for the sparrow thing. If it weren’t for that bit (which seems to be early-installment-weirdness since she doesn’t really act like this again), then up until the hostage scene Yuzuriha could practically be replaced by a cute lamp. Hm. This kinda turned into a mini-rant about how easy it is for authors to not bother putting in the effort to write convincing romantic hooks because everyone can see the tropes. Oh well. Y’all know I love her.

The boys were surprised to hear Senku specifically betting on Taiju not getting rejected because they thought Yuzuriha was in love with him. Hilarious concept, I’m outlining a fic for it now.

i have adhd, ocd + am currently obsessing over lots of ships from different fandoms instead of studying for my exams like im supposed to :P

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it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore