#shoutout to asou for representing teenage girls who are just freaks of nature and insane and obsessed i love them

[fluffydice]

A major problem I think people run into when looking at terusai that might make them dislike the ship is that if you don't have an understanding of their development throughout the series, the relationship is going to seem overly shallow. Teruhashi and Saiki are not static characters, nor are they simple. Both of their growth comes from learning that they are just humans at the end of the day. Teruhashi genuinely starts to like Saiki (and all their friends) because she realizes she's not above it all like she originally thought. Saiki is attracted enough to gasp, but only when she shows this true self of hers! If you stick them together when they're still in their early characters, of course it's going to seem forced. Learning to let characters grow, especially in comedy animes, is hard for a lot of people, especially when it's not an 'in-your-face' kind of thing.

#i'm not really a terusai shipper but i can't stand the slander of it #particularly teruhashi slander because that's what a lot of people default to if they're not arguing saiki as completely romance repulsed #that's a fine headcanon all the more power to you #but when it starts getting misogynistic toward a literal teenage girl? people act like she is the devil but she's just a fucking girl man #i think her and yumehara really encompass that broad spectrum of being a teenage girl #they're friends because they both get the other and also are both freaks because they're girls under social pressure #shoutout to asou for representing teenage girls who are just freaks of nature and insane and obsessed i love them #i had more thoughts and points to make but i'm so brain fried sorry #genuinely it all comes back to the fact that sometimes people don't get what they're not spoonfed in media #saiki k #fluffy writes an essay