Hiya mr fbi agent in my computer

living in my brain for a

full 24 hours

And it’s not until Mob has the Mandatory Middle School-Assigned Future Prospects worksheet where all the 14 year olds have to fill out what career they think they want to have as adults, which Mob is stressing over, and Mob asks Dimple “hey Dimple what are your future career prospects?” that Dimple THEN goes “oh yeah I was supposed to be taking over the world?” and he literally disappears without a word to go do that.

Then in the World Domination arc he does, intentionally, transfer some of his power to Shou to help Shou get back up. And this is a very big deal because Touichiro is like “what the hell power transfer is MY thing.”

Where I’m going with this is the realization that Mob DOES know how to do the power transfer thing intentionally and I am picturing a post-series-finale case where Reigen calls up Mob frantic like “Sorry I know you’re not working today but this is a real case and Serizawa is at school and this thing is going to eat me please come help.”

And Mob shows up like “Okay here you go” and raises his hand but the spirit does not disappear. And Reigen is like “Mob please I don’t think that did anything.” And Mob is like “I didn’t exorcise the spirit Shishou. I’m off work today. I gave you some of my powers though. Please use them responsibly.”

And Reigen is just standing there staring at his fingers in crisis going wait holy shit, my whole body is buzzing, I can move shit with my mind, oh shit I have powers (temporarily) (Mob’s powers), wait I’M still supposed to exorcise the spirit?

And Mob is like “have fun Shishou bye” and Reigen is like “Mob wait I want an instruction manual” and Mob is like “that would look bad to the client” who is currently cowering in the corner.

Like all the kids were there for that. Shou of course immediately decided that was weak sauce. Ritsu just kind of doesn’t acknowledge it because he’s ready to choose violence at any moment. Teru SEEMS to be deeply swayed by Reigen’s teachings but he will reliably forget this every arc when it’s time to water-board the terrorist du jour.

That would have been the easiest way to write it for sure. Dimple even presents it this way. Reigen absolutely did say some foot-in-mouth terrible things claiming that Mob’s friends are using him and Mob can only rely on Reigen.

And while Mob absolutely took issue with the accusation that his friends are using him, the words that really got to him were Reigen going “you gotta grow up for crying out loud”

Mob is someone who thinks deeply about the things people says to him, and he’s someone who wants to put in the genuine effort to live his life.

Mob’s take-away from this wasn’t “I’m mad at Reigen.” His take-away was “I tend to just follow what Reigen says because it’s easy and works out. But I think to grow up and live my own life, I need to start making my own decisions and figuring out what I want.”

This arc could so easily have been about a petty squabble or a classic “your business won’t last a day without me!” style bet. But Mob isn’t that type of character.

Mob gets a hair cut :D