As a fan of character relationship dynamics, I'm seeing a lot of odd "Serizawa and Reigen's relationship has no weight or substance" discussion on my tl recently, and it's important to me that this fandom actually understands the connection between these two characters.
The most prominent and probably most important narrative parallel being how Toichiro "freed" Serizawa by having him depend on him and CLAW, whereas Reigen freed Serizawa by encouraging him to be his own person while still including him in S&S and promoting real healthy connections with other people.
Toichiro towering over Serizawa while Reigen kneels to be at his level... Reigen sees Serizawa as an equal. Despite technically being "his boss," he includes him and encourages genuine discussions in both a personal and workplace environment.
This, and the way the two of them seem equally amazed and supportive/reliant of the other. Serizawa in Reigen's logical knowledge and street smarts and Reigen in Serizawa's psychic powers and spiritual experience.
On a more wholesome and personal note, there's also the fact that, after the climax of the finale, Serizawa was definitely calling Reigen in a panic to find out if he was alright.
Long story short, there's a lot of character interactions and development of these characters and their relationship if you really pay attention! Sure, they both have their own lives (Serizawa going to night school and Reigen... doing what Reigen does), but it's not like they're "just coworkers." They're very close, and they have a lot of canon material to work with!
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If it's for you, I don't mind being trapped in this endless maze
id like to imagine saikis friends hate kusuke. like, absolutely despise him. they just get this...vibe, yknow? one that makes them tense up everything he opens his mouth, one that makes them want to pummel him into the ground the moment they see him next to saiki.
You get me. I think the moment all his friends find out that Saiki has a brother, they sorta expect this equally quiet kid that can be just as fun.
They meet Kuusuke and it's MEGA red flags. Like Nendou and Kaido do not like him since London, and Teruhashi has a HATRED for Kuusuke.
I get giddy thinking about it. Cause now it's jsut a matter of everyone seeing how *weird* Kusuke is with Kusuo and fighting tooth and nail to make a barrier.
They gotta choose the most levelheaded of them to be the buffer, so clearly they have Hairo up there.
"Look at the monkey's you gathered!"
"Stop being Mean to them."
It's just the Staunch Buffer that Saiki now is like, he pulls his friends away instead of them protecting him cause Kuusuke is weird and he doesnt want him to infect them.
Like *argh* I live for his friends trying to get him away, and Saiki fighting for their honor when Kuusuke is being mean.
I think it's the same with Makato and Teruhashi btw. Teruhashi gets the same treatment and is WAY more willing to beat up her brother if it means her friends stay with her.
I have thoughts about themmmmm
This is one of Reigen's special moves:
The other day I was trying to sleep but instead I thought about what kind of like... super powers Ivo and Stone would have.... which turned into a whole AU.
Like people who have powers are called EVOS. The powers arent necessarily genetic they can just happen in anyone but also relatives tend to have similar powers? Or something. The population is a 50/50 EVO/NonEVO
Theres also no Mobians... theyre just EVO humans in this AU. Sonic Knuckle and Tails just have Speed, Strength, and Flying EVO powers. Shadow has Teleportation.
Ivos power is Amplification. Allowing him to radiate and/or touch someone to power up their EVO power.
When his power is working on others it causes glowing lines to form on the body as well as making the persons eyes glow. If used too much too quickly it can cause someone to lose control.
I wanted his power to be something unrelated to his intelligence but also be a power people would want to exploit with it so I thought a support power like this would be perfect. Gerald also had a similar power which is why GUN did what they could to get Ivo in their ranks.
Because his power is completely in his control (he must be conscious for his power to work and he can fully control the radius & power of the amp so it cant be manipulated.) so he can hold it over peoples heads to get what he wants.
NonEvos are often recruited into military positions because the military can Bio Augment them and give them kinda... lesser/general abilities (like super soldiers.) they dont augment EVOS because theyre afraid of giving people too much power...
Stone was thought to be NonEVO and the test they give new recruits ran negative but its only because his ability is almost impossible to detect. His power Technopathy lets him communicate with and control machines, he used his ability to skew his results and got augmented powers as well.
His desire to work with Ivo comes from 'meeting' some of Ivos inventions. Theyre much more intelligent then most machines and very sweet despite being killing machines technically. Theyre also VERY loyal to their creator so he doesnt try to manipulate them.
More and more Stone relates more to Ivos Badniks than the humans hes around. Like the Niks he becomes completely loyal and loving to Ivo.
When Ivo Amps Stones power it connects him to basically every bit of tech within his controlled radius. The first time he does it it doesnt end well (they were at the GUN compound in Ivos lab.... it was a lot of tech and a lot of information).
Ivo may or may not be completely infatuated with Stone.... 's circuit board-like Bot Amp lines. But if he were it would only be because the lines are cool cuz he likes tech and no other reason. [citation needed]
uhmmm... YA.
ayayya saiki doing reigens dumb hand movements bc he doesn’t like speaking
For the people that think Lee is the only one who ships Stobotnik,
This is all from Jim Carrey
teruhaschich 🍃 sorry for making this
ALAS THE W.I.P OF THE KUBOSAI FROM THE START ANIMATIC IS HERE!! The real thing will be a little longer, but here’s just a small snippet to get you all excited. This is one of my first big projects in a long time, so hopefully it’s not too bad…
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AFTER 3-4 HOLE DAYS OF LISTENING TO THAT DAMN SONG OBER AND OVER AND OVER AND AKSNKSNSND I AM CRASHING OUTTTTTT
All the fave art under cut:
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