#intentional and he wasn't trying to fool anyone and serizawa literally was just scared and wasn't able to find out who he was until

[that-was-anticlimactic]

i think it’s really interesting how ritsu is just as big of a conman as reigen is. like, reigen is a financial conman and ritsu isn’t, but they both put on masks and they both hide who they really are. reigen tricks everyone into thinking he’s psychic and that he’s this charismatic, has his life together, happy guy and he fools a lot of people. and ritsu tricks everyone into thinking that he’s the perfect loving brother and student, that he’s got everything together, that he’s just the kindest most normal middle schooler. and it works. and i find it interesting how it... it doesn’t really seem to work on each other? like, ritsu sees right through reigen even with “proof” that he may really be psychic. he knows it’s all a lie. and i honestly feel like reigen can see through ritsu’s whole facade and knows that he’s hiding who he really is. and in a way, they both resent each other for it. ritsu doesn’t want to turn out like reigen, but he’s scared and is so used to suppressing everything about himself that he doesn’t know how to be himself. and reigen sees ritsu and sees bits and pieces of himself when he was younger and sometimes that makes it hard for him to be around ritsu. and sometimes he just wants to throttle ritsu and tell him to stop and not to do what he did, but he Knows that won’t be enough to convince ritsu and he’s also scared.

they’re both just two conmen fooling everyone around them because they’re cowards and are scared that they aren’t lovable unless they are their mask

#sorry had a breakdown in the shower #maybe this is a stretch but i also just. do not care because the reigen and ritsu parallels are just. THEY ARE THERE!!! #and they aren't supposed to be the main focus and maybe aren't intentional but. they EXIST!!! #i mean... they're the biggest conmen in the series (except dimple ig but his was like evil conman until he decided nah so he doesn't count) #like yeah mob suppressing parts of himself but he doesn't put on this whole facade that he's someone totally different from who he really is #and you could maybe argue that teru had a facade but really he just confused who he really was for someone he wasn't so it wasn't #intentional and he wasn't trying to fool anyone and serizawa literally was just scared and wasn't able to find out who he was until #post world domination arc and he was probably trying not to think about who he was as a person so he just Was #and shou knows he who is and he embraces it and prolly Definitely exaggerates his personality when he's scared or because he feels like he #has to but he doesn't try and trick anyone into thinking he's someone he's not bUT RITSU AND REIGEN DO #AND I JUST #OUGH #sorry for the breakdown lol i have had ritsu feelings All Day #mp100 #ritsu kageyama #reigen arataka