If OoS!Tenma was catapulted back to his first day of junior high like AR!Tenma, how do you think things would go? Would he be able to keep the timeline on track despite being on the verge of a mental breakdown every time he sees his teammates? I'm not sure his terrible self-esteem would survive those first few weeks where they all hate him 😭
Now there's a question, damn. I guess he'd be really torn between ''wanting to save soccer'' and ''wanting nothing to do with Raimon''. I think, maybe, he'd start out with trying to keep things the same - because he's scared that changing the timeline might have really bad consequences, not just for the whole Fifth Sector thing but also for the later two series. What if changing the timeline means El Dorado succeeds in destroying soccer? What if they don't save the Second Stage Children? What if the Grand Celesta Galaxy is not resolved as peacefully as it was - what if the Earth suffers because of it?
So Tenma would force himself to go through with it, to act the same way he did back then, but it's slowly breaking him inside. Especially, as you said, because of how Raimon behaves in the beginning. And the thing with OoS!Tenma is, if he traveled back in time like this, he could never, ever trust Raimon again. Even if they're not the people who left him behind, they will become those people, and he can't let that go. That scar runs too deep. He'd carry the weight of it all the time and even if he told Raimon the truth, and they'd swear to him that they'd never do that in this timeline, Tenma can't believe it until something actually happens and they'd prove their words - seeing is believing - and for that, he'd have to get into a similar accident and that is one thing that he would be desperately trying to avoid. And besides, even if he did manage to put his worries aside - a large part of his struggles is that he's had no closure. He has questions, he's got a lot of bottled up feelings, and ''younger'' Raimon wouldn't be able to answer to it. Tenma would always be left wondering why, and consequently what would be the breaking point for this Raimon, and those feelings he has? He wouldn't want to take those out on this Raimon, because they're not the same people, and so he'd just... keep it locked up until it ruined him.
So, the sad news is, Tenma would never be able to be a part of the Raimon team in those circumstances. He'd try, and eventually someone would have to make him see that this would not work. But, Tenma being Tenma and not wanting to risk bad things happening, would still try and solve things... probably by joining a different team. Arakumo!Tenma, anyone?
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