Mushroom soup for the soul

But the best part—the BEST PART— about it is they DONT do it in a coy way like “you are so cool 🥺🥺🥺 and amazing 🤩🤩🤩 and fascinating with your power but…! Alas…! 😔😔😔 God’s coolest soldiers must bear the burden of using power responsibly…! You must in fact bear the great burden and be the coolest and specialist protagonist of the world silently…!”

And it’s very important to clarify that Reigen did not -accidentally- give Mob good advice. Because one of Reigen’s most distinct traits is his ability to come up with genuine advice and tell people what they need to be told. But he’ll do this on the spot. He’ll do it wrapped in bullshit. He’ll camp it alongside some conman string. He’ll go along with anything. He’ll pretend anything is true. The grift is, in fact, integral of it.

And I love this dichotomy in him because he’s so precariously set up at all moments to topple. For anyone to call him on his bullshit and use that to dismantle everything he’s said. He was lying. He was scamming you. He was using you.

And yes, he was. But it wasn’t really for service of the con. It was for service of the customer, who needed to hear something important.