#anyway it's 2am again so it's definitely poorly written and I'll be editing it tomorrow for sure

[hellolulu]

Shigeo Saves The Cat

A Dive Into What The Cat Symbolises

During the Mogami Arc, Mogami had created a world in which Shigeo had no powers, and was hated by all the people he loved. In this cruel world, Shigeo was presented with a cat, and this cat died because he was unable to protect it.

During the car crash, Shigeo used his powers in public, to save the cat. He has, at this point, come to accept that his powers can be used for good, and that they're not just to be used in dire situations. He used them to help the others call a ufo, after all! That's pretty chill! For... you know, having super cool powers that you can do just about anything with.

Although he hasn't begun to use them for his own sake, he saw the danger coming, and was able to save the cat. [And, to a different extent, using his physical powers, saved the kid. But this isn't about the kid or the fact he used both sides of himself to save 2 different entities, haha]

Then he gets hit, and ??? takes the stage. He still rejects his powers as part of his personhood; (a conscious being made from his own repressed self) he can accept them as if they're a certain muscle in the body, or an extra limb, but only now is he able to see that this is a mental thing, not physical.

During the final arc, in large part thanks to Reigen (of course, also thanks to Hanazawa, Ritsu, and Dimple, but the point is Reigen's words are the ones to calm him down) this repressed self is accepted not as part of his body, the way the body is a case for the mind, but as part of himself. A part of his mind. Which he very much had been sealing up and repressing.

Then, in the after-part, Shigeo sees a cat, and assumes it's stuck. He acts, moving forward to climb the pole. He doesn't think anything like "it might be easier with psychic powers, but I should use the body I've been working on" or "I would rather use my physical body than my powers to save this cat" he simply moves. Not a single complicated thought goes through his mind. He acts. His powers are part of him; his body, his person, his ESP - all of it is him, and he simply did the most natural thing that came to mind. He climbed the pole using muscles he'd worked on, but not as opposed to his powers - just because it was the first response he came up with. [And as a muscle obsessed boy, it's unsurprising haha!]

But he does not save the cat.

Because the cat, regardless of him and his story, is just that. It's a cat. It's got nothing to do with him; it's neutral. It's an entity with its own path, it doesn't need him in order to survive. It's not on him to save or to protect it, not on him to do anything at all about it. It's on him just to want to act, to want to care. He's changed from a boy who was afraid to act at all, to one who acts without reservation.

And saving the cat was never his goal in the first place.

Tldr:

Mogami presented a cat that he needed to save, but that he was unable to save.

The car-crash presented a cat that needed saving, and that he was able to save.

And the finale presented a cat that, at the end of the day, has nothing to do with what he must do to live life to the fullest. He's just a teenage boy who has a girl he likes, and who goes to school like everyone else. His powers are just a part of him, nothing he has to pay the universe back for. There's no big magical destiny, no cats to save.

He can finally simply exist.

...

For now!! Dun dun dun...

I'm kidding.

Or am I?!

#haha thanks for reading I hope you liked the twist ending! #anyway it's 2am again so it's definitely poorly written and I'll be editing it tomorrow for sure #why do I always disappear for days and then come back with Stuff To Say ugh why can't I just partayyy #anyway I'm signing up to Hanazawa's boyband's fanclub did you see his hair he's popping OFF #excellent I loved the finale #reigen I'd die for you any day bro any day ur a real one #mp100 #mp100 spoilers #mob psycho 100 #mp100 analysis #lulu on the mic #shigeo #mob #kageyama shigeo #shigeo kageyama #usually I at least save these posts to drafts if I'm writing them at 2am and then rework them before posting but uh #I'm glancing at the tsubomi post I've been writing and re-editing because it ended up being So Much lmao #my drafts are full of absolutely too many essays I'm writing and rewriting and short essays and jokes and stupid dumb stuff #anyway if you're reading these tags know that I'm very boring and love to overanalyze dumb crap #this? this is 100% me looking way too deeply at the secret hidden unlockable meanings #but am I still gonna post it? uh yeah #cuz otherwise it goes to draft purgatory with the others #draft... superhell...