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solemer · 2 years

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Oopsie i forgor to post this

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solemer · 2 years

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Translated by myself, typeset by @justheretortwt4

2023/03/24, @ONE_rakugaki

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solemer · 2 years

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solemer · 2 years

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I find this series of panels really interesting because of

1. what it implies about Saiki’s powers

2. the way it trusts the reader to figure out what’s happening based on context & knowledge of Saiki’s powers and how they work.

In the first panel, Asou makes a point to draw Saiki shutting up Toritsuka and Aiura with towels so they can’t speak to one another. Why? Well, because direct thought to thought connection is more efficient, in Saiki’s mind. He notices that Aiura and Toritsuka immediately start arguing with one another and creating misunderstandings, so he wants to skip ahead to the important part where they understand and acknowledge each other. So Saiki stuffs their mouths shut and uses forced telepathy to transmit Aiura’s thoughts directly to Toritsuka and vice versa. They get what’s happening really quickly.

This, significantly, implies that those affected by Saiki’s forced telepathy can’t tell the difference between regular speech and inner thoughts. We see the same thing happen in the early chapters when Saiki uses this exact same technique to resolve the quarrel between his parents and make them understand their true feelings for one another. It takes them a while to figure out that neither one of them are talking out loud to the other. The reader is trusted to remember this scene when reading the above panels.

I personally find this detail of how Saiki’s powers work (people not being able to tell the difference between thoughts and speech) to be unintuitive, so I think it’s interesting that it’s brought up more than once.

I don’t think it’s coincidence that Saiki’s one on one telepathy also works this way. The person on the receiving end of his telepathic message can’t actually tell that he’s not speaking aloud. However, Saiki is able to filter which of his thoughts others hear. But because there’s no filtering between other’s thoughts when there is a direct connection between two people running through his powers, they will eventually figure out that they aren’t hearing speech, even when it sounds like speech.

So, how does Saiki get away with ‘talking’ using telepathy constantly? I’ve always explained this as some form of hypnosis (or subtype of hypnosis) that Saiki’s always projecting at a low level, which makes people not notice that his mouth doesn’t move. Something to do with what people focus on when they listen to him, I’d think. It also probably operates off of other’s expectations that everyone talks by moving their mouth. It probably isn’t hard to make people believe what their brains naturally expect to happen.

I think this scene also implies that Saiki’s powers negate the need for conversational turn order. The reason Saiki uses it, aside from evading misunderstandings, is because it’s probably a lot faster. People can think much faster than they can talk. This is another reason why I think some form of hypnosis must be used in conjunction with his telepathy at all times, because otherwise people would quickly notice that Saiki is communicating with them abnormally quickly.

#saiki k #brb

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solemer · 2 years

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