I see people everywhere all the time raving about how flawless and satisfying MP100’s ending episode is, and I agree. But sometimes it kinda takes me aback exactly how well-planned the entire story is, especially because it began as a webcomic.

The individual relationships Mob has with the “Big Three” (Reigen, Teru, Ritsu) each follow their respective themes from start to finish, with the application of each theme to the story changing as it progresses but the major idea remaining the same—until the final arc, which is broadly split into three episodes, each featuring the culmination of the respective relationship.

Teru’s theme is strength, Ritsu’s theme is communication, and Reigen’s is acceptance.

More under the cut bc this got a little long.

We find each of the Big Three struggling with these concepts throughout the series. Teru grapples with what it really means to be strong, Ritsu struggles to open up and communicate his feelings with his brother (garnering resentment), and Reigen refuses to accept the self he hates, opting instead to build his career and his relationships out of lies to hide this despised identity.

These are also, coincidentally, things Mob is struggling most with. Mob’s terrified of his strength, he’s unwilling to open up about his guilt and self-hatred, and he outright refuses to accept his powers and his repressed self on many occasions throughout the story.

But the finale is structured to not only perfectly demonstrate and polish off the ways in which the Big Three have overcome the struggles of their themes, but also how that growth powers their love for Mob, subsequently helping Mob achieve the same growth.

In S3E10, Teru finds true strength by enduring pain and humiliation in order to save people and forge connections with others. Not only does he rescue Shigeo’s victims, but it’s his love and strength that allows him to push through Shigeo’s powers at any cost to wake Mob up internally and begin the process of ending the disaster. It’s because of Teru that Mob wakes up and realizes what he’s done, in much the same way that Mob helped Teru realize what he’d done at Black Vinegar.

In S3E11, Ritsu manages to communicate his unfiltered feelings to Shigeo for the first time and ends the tentative, repressive resentment boiling between them (both Ritsu and Mob harboring resentment for “Shigeo” specifically). He talks about how he hates this destructive side of him and how scared he’s always been, but this honest communication is what allows Ritsu to see the situation clearly beyond the scope of his repressed resentment and accept Shigeo as a part of his brother that’s not to be feared. It also opens the door from Shigeo’s end, finally knowing how his brother feels and not having to tiptoe ineffectually around the issue. Ritsu’s open and honest communication allows Mob to locate where Shigeo is being held in his psyche, opening up a channel of communication between him and his repressed self. This communication is what allows Mob to be confronted with the truth of the disaster he’s created, and this ability to talk it out with himself is crucial to ending his suffering.

Finally, in S3E12, the finale, Reigen is confronted with the ways in which he’s inadvertently worsened Mob’s condition with his inability to be genuine and makes the decision to drop the smoke screen and come clean about everything. The fear and gravity of it brings him to tears, but he bares his true self to Mob, admitting the things he’s done wrong and confronting the side of himself that he hates. He has to come to terms with this aspect of himself, even if it hurts him, and even if it hurts Mob. Self-acceptance is, in this moment, non-negotiable. Seeing Reigen’s true self in its entirety for the first time leads Mob to realize that everyone has flaws and a darker side to them, and it doesn’t make you a bad person to mess up, but you have to embrace it all unconditionally and own up to it honestly and without hesitation. Reigen, and everyone else, saw this ugly and angry side of Mob and continued to love him unhesitatingly and unfalteringly. And so, Reigen’s acceptance inspires Mob to accept Shigeo, ending the disaster and finally making Shigeo whole and happy again, unfettered.

It’s honestly fucking masterful. It makes my chest tight. ONE is genuinely something else.

Hunter Being Omega’s Dad -> Paths Unknown (1/2)

Jaune: Why didn’t you tell me that you were on a domestic terrorist watch list?

Cinder, playing with her hair and giggling: I’m shy…

Pyrrha: Hey, can we stay in your dorm tonight?

Ruby: Why?

Pyrrha: Nora fiddled with an ouija board and cursed ours.

Jaune: Ren doesn't know how to banish spirits, so he just throws salt at them and yells "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A HOTEL TO YOU?!"

JOAN RIDING INTO BATTLE

featured in Tales from Far and Near (1915), ed. Arthur Guy Terry

i have a very important question for humanity: why isn't Scythe series more known and popular while it's a beautifully written sci-fi masterpiece?? The logic this series hold is on a whole new level and it needs more recognition.

JFK: Hold on! I’m having one of those things... a headache with pictures.

Joan: What the fuck?

Confucius: He's having an idea.

Echo: Fives is laying down depressing fire!

Rex, over the comm: Don't you mean "suppressing" fir-

Fives, firing while crying: LIFE IS MEANINGLESS!

Echo: No I do not

heaven help us - mcr // joan of arc in prayer - hermann anton stilke

Orion Pax: You played me like a fiddle!

Megatron: Oh no, Orion. Fiddles are actually difficult to play. I played you like the cheap kazoo you are.

No! He shouldn’t be held down by trauma!

An AMV I made thinking about the three traumatic near-death experiences that led to the confession explosion: Mogami, Toichiro, and the car accident.

Song is Sleep by My Chemical Romance

Warning for flashing lights and eye strain!!

The tide will come.

[ID: a digital painting of Mob from Mob Psycho 100. It depicts him being submerged up to his shoulders in water underneath the night sky, which is speckled with stars and is adorned with one big star shining right above Mob. The ocean waves reflect the blue of the stars, seeming to almost glow, and underneath them, the depths of the water turn purple, with specks of pink and blue and yellow, filling with what looks like static the deeper it goes. Mob's eyes reflect the pink of these waters, and his figure, submerged, turns a swirling, inky black. End ID.]

Nezuko, looking over Kanao’s shoulder: You can draw? Kanao, stopping what she was doing: You can speak?

Jaune: So... who's the big spoon and who's the little spoon?

Yang: We're chopsticks!

Jaune: Well... that's cute!

Jaune: Does that mean you two snuggle together perfectly?

Blake: No, it means that if you take the other away, the only thing the other is good for is stabbing.

is this a weird crossover of fandoms. probably. but-

riptide pirates as trolls!!!? ouuughwa? gillion and the tidestriders whaaat, they started their tours after the 2nd movie.. trolls were kinda suspicious of them for a while with good reason but now they’re well renowned!

i just think they’re neat :D

Spoilers for Today’s Episode

Alright so new episode dropped today and they cut out someone I feel like shouldn’t have been cut out cause of how important they are to D’s beginning world view and the current manga arc.

But tell me what y’all think are they important or not.