#if this is a weird doublepost bc the curse made me forget the other one: sorry.

[scribefindegil]

Obviously every fandom has issues with the fanon versions of characters ending up flattened and mischaracterized and having specific traits blown out of proportion, but I do think it's especially a problem in Mob fandom because of how deliberately self-contradictory the characters are. Accurate characterization is dependent on your ability to accept that two apparently mutually exclusive traits can exist within the same person--that, in fact, they're often inexorably connected, like Reigen's ego and his self-loathing. And that's hard! We (general) have a tendency to want to simplify things to one side or the other. But one of the reasons that the show is so good is that it categorically refuses to do that. Everyone is a contradiction. Everyone is made up of a multiplicity of traits. They don't cancel each other out.

Listen to me. Reigen is a pathetic loser AND he is extremely clever and competent. At the same time. Accept this truth into your life.