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reitziluz · 1 year

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so i was making good headway on ch2 but then needed to check a thing about reigen's dad to make sure i squeezed all the deliciousness from canon to flavor this fic stew.

so reigen's dad is in the fanbook stated to be a local level civil servant, and to think that reigen's essentially jobless. i already thought that he's probably working with some nebulous sort of admin stuff, because if he was a teacher or something, it would have said he's a teacher, right?

the kind of nebulous bureaucrats i could think of for reference, well, make it pretty easy to think that reigen's whole rant to the 7th branch gang about growing up and becoming proper members of society might be coming from stuff he heard a lot at home.

a discussion with a friend sent me double checking all this. so, naturally, i go to a japanese site that provides information on various careers for students. hey, it'll be the exact kind of clear and practical information i need, and i can just throw paragraphs into translate and they'll come out fine.

then i threw in the section about what kind of person would be suited to work as a local civil servant.

"[--] best suited for the type of person who can get close to local residents and find it rewarding to provide services directly to them. Since departments change every few years, it is necessary to have the ability to adapt to any kind of work."

i swear to gods

i swear to gods if reigen ended up working at the miserable water cooler phone sales place when he's exactly the person described as ideal for working as a local civil servant because he refused to follow his father's footsteps and work the same job as him.

i swear to the fUCKING GODS

the worst part is that in the third season of the anime, in the first episode. they added the heartfelt talk between him and mob. and he tells mob, all but saying the exact words out loud, that his reason to continue with s&s was him. and then that what you want to do doesn't have to be your job at all. and that ends this whole subtle character arc with a pretty bow on top.

did reigen self-sabotage himself into actually ending up happier than he would have been if he followed the ideal path set up for him??

#reigen arataka #mp100 #how am i supposed to cope with this ocean of headcanon possibilities #by writing reidad saying eerily familiar lines ofc #but still what the fuck #yea fic talk

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