You know what I find really, really funny?
You know how Reigen drops his "oh, I don't think anybody would like me if they saw the real me" on Serizawa (that definitely was not on his job's description)? Obviously there's a whole thing there with how he sees himself but how in the end he stops lying to Mob and confesses the truth to him.
And then... he kinda just stops there.
In the spin-off he doesn't tell the truth to Tome until he thinks he has no other choice because she's putting herself in danger by working under the wrong assumption that he's a psychic, and while doing so, he asks her not to tell Serizawa. He was honest with Mob, but that was with him and only him. His default mode is still lying and hiding.
And the thing is obviously these people he has surrounded himself with, purposefully or accidentally, don't like him because they think he's an esper —at this point I don't think he's fooling even half of them, frankly—, or even because of his whole... energetic, over the top persona. They like him because of the kind of person he is, whether he's keeping his whole salesman attitude or whether he's a bit quieter and less self-assured.
Now, it's kinda easy to see why he would think he has to keep that up, initially he presented himself to Mob as this wise mentor figure, half of the other people he knows are kids for which he feels the responsibility to be a reliable adult figure, and then there are cases like Serizawa and the ex-Scars who do hold him in high regard and see him with a certain degree of admiration, all of that sort of tied with his fake psychic status.
And so it's very amusing to me that the one person who could show him VERY clearly that people care about him regardless of all of that is... Ritsu.
Because here's the thing, he was jealous of Reigen to some degree since he was someone Mob could confide in, unlike Ritsu due to the distance that had formed between them after the incident. And I think part of his irritation with Reigen was definitely that he was so evidently (to him anyway) a fraud, so that put Ritsu pre-awakening of his powers and Reigen at the same level and yet... Mob always went to Reigen for advice and guidance. It's very understandable for him to have been annoyed considering that.
Through the story it's more than evident that Ritsu is very, very aware that Reigen is a fraud, and though he's open with his distaste, at some point it feels a bit more like a normal kind of distaste. Reigen might have his morals and principles as a fraud, but he's one nonetheless, plus his personality doesn't mesh particularly well with Ritsu, and quite honestly? If I were 13yo and had to interact with someone like Reigen, I think I would be feeling a good amount of second hand embarrassment that ends up in annoyance.
But Ritsu doesn't really hate Reigen. He's comically annoyed by him, sure, but it's more than obvious he doesn't hate him.
When push comes to shove, he never wishes any actual ill will toward Reigen, he helps pull him away from Ishiguro in 7th Division Arc, for example, and when he goes to face Toichiro to help Mob, Ritsu is the one showing visible concern for what's going on when they see the explosion and the fire from down below, with his little "Reigen-san..." (as a sidenote, I love how the English dub does this with the "please, be okay").
My favorite example of this by far is Separation Arc, because Ritsu has genuine reasons to be pissed at Reigen this time around, if he sort of gathered that he mistreated Mob, and yet what he does is... he watches the press conference. It isn't even because of Mob, he's not sitting down with him or even watching with his parents or anything, it's just him, he had to have made the active choice to watch. And he could be vindictive and it would be such a reasonable posture to take because, again, Reigen was a goddamn jerk to his brother and the situation snowballed from there, but he isn't, he's visibly concerned for him.
That is NOT a boy who doesn't care, much less one who hates Reigen.
And it's so funny to me that the one person who could show Reigen all of those fears he has about that side of him he hates being a deal breaker for the people around him is also the one who makes faces at the idea of going to stay over at his apartment.
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So fucking funny that Chase has slowly but surely become my favourite duckling. He's House's son. One of the few of his relationships we've known about included s&m. He makes terrible jokes. He's incredibly fatphobic for literally no reason. He went to seminary school. He's Australian. He's arguably more emotional than Cameron. He's bisexual. He does everything wrong all the time. He decides the best way to woo a girl is remind her every tuesday that he likes her. He was the only duckling to genuinely hug House when they thought he was dying. Literally what is he doing here. I don't even know his first name.
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i was ranting to my friend about timkon clone baby again and this came to mind
tim: um well. have him i guess *hands a whole ass baby to dick* i need to. um. go to find bruce BYE
dick: tiM WAIT WTF AT LEAST GIVE HIM A NAME??
tim: eeeerm jack?? jackie, jack, whatever BYE *disappears*
dick:
dick: oh he's so going to regret this *designs the entire nursery with ducks and ducks only*
tim, coming back: ...why would you do this to me
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Direct response to someone’s headcanon ‘Punk was 5 minutes late to class because they were herding a flock of ducklings across a busy street.’ which is, if you’re new here and don’t know this character, ENTIRELY accurate and I loved it so much I had to make a little art.
Enjoy! As always, the ambiguous punk is an original character from my comics Seemingly Dark and Mil-Liminal.
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I made a chicken design with a hen followed by ducklings a while ago but now I hate it and as I’m on break I decided to freshen it up. So now this new fowl family is on my Teepublic here and Redbubble here and you can have a stoic chicken and her various babies on all manner of goods.
You could also pop me a tip over on Ko-fi if you don’t want a stoic chicken and her various babies but you do want to kick a broke student a few bucks.
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