The thing about Age Swap AU that I really like is the fact that both Mob and Reigen are inherently so much more unstable.
On Reigen's end, most of it is from the fact that he's a kid—he doesn't have the same amount of emotional intelligence because he has less experience overall, and the fact that his relationship with his parents isn't,,,,great, even in a canon setting. A boy still mucking around in the trenches of parental abuse/neglect is always going to be more rickety emotionally and mentally than a grown man who's been given years to heal and distance himself from it.
And then there's Mob. Mob is a bit more a wild card in this area, just because without Reigen his childhood is more or less an unknown. Did Mogami find him? Would it have made him crueller if Mogami mentored him instead? What about Claw? Did they take him in? Is he still with them, did they fall, does he regret it? Is he jaded or riddled with guilt or stuffed so far back in his shell that it takes a little blond boy wielding a huge emotional and verbal hammer to start breaking through it? Either way, I definitely don't see him being as emotionally stable as canon Mob. He likely hasn't reconciled with Shigeo, he probably never truly accepted his powers, and thus has the emotional maturity of a ten year old—Reigen still beats him on this. Mob's only point of positive advice would've been Ritsu, and that's....I mean, it's Ritsu. He hasn't had any significant good influences in his life so he absolutely struggles on how to be one himself.
The potential for these two to be codependent is SO much higher and I love it. Unhealthy dynamics are my absolute JAM (one of the reasons I have this animatic rotating in my head at top speeds 24/7 365) so the inherent prickliness of whatever Wrongness™ these two have going on just. has me. Reigen clings because it's all he knows how to do—even if Mob banishes him from the office, he's a persistent kid that hasn't learned you shouldn't chase after moody grown men with emotions so repressed it manifests as a literal eldritch alter with no morals to curb its desires. And Mob has had to go even longer alone in this sort of universe than ever, and Reigen is likely the only person who's never been afraid of him; he's latching onto that kid like bear trap and never letting go. He's still tenderhearted, but it's plagued with years and years of loneliness and inner turmoil that he's had no one around to soothe; he's over a decade too late for 'healthy'. Not that Reigen minds <3
just a scene I thought of that I had to make a quick doodle of a tired girl after researching endlessly for a new magical case and a troublesome fairy boy trying to play it cool🙈🙈👑⚔️
I can't remember if it was explicitly stated in IDW or not, but I decided in my fic-verse that Tangle and Jewel had known each other since they were babies. Their parents were friends, so naturally the two had baby playdates together.
So like, BABY Tangle and BABY Jewel! 😭 Sitting in a playpen or on a little quilted blanket staring at each other like 👁️👄👁️
I just want to sit on the side lines and cheer on Spathodea like a proud older sibling at tournaments and proudly display her trophies in a glass case!!
RATING: G
RELATIONSHIP: Female Pokedex Holder Blue | Green & Silver (Pokemon)
SUMMARY: green feels that she has a lot to apologize for. silver, on the other hand, doesn't know how to explain to his sister that he doesn't blame her for anything.
EXTENDED SUMMARY:
“I’m proud of you. I don’t know what all happened on your journey,” she starts, looking back at the direction they’re taking, “and I wish you would’ve contacted me before you started working with Lance, but you made it out in one piece and better than I could’ve ever hoped for. I’m just sorry I wasn’t able to be there more for you.”
Silver stares at the back of her head, walking on autopilot.
He wants to tell her that she’s done enough, that he’s sorry for never reaching out until they ran into each other by pure chance. That he’s thankful for her and keeping him together in one piece when they were no more than children and that he wants to get stronger to protect her and keep her from ever having to go through something like losing her family again.
Instead, what he says instead is, “Why did you leave me that night?”
children’s work by dessa is SUCH a tim&cass song oh my god. like a) those two are the epitome of “all some children do is work” who else is doing it like them. b) I just feel like it embodies the ideal of what their relationship is in my head?? like the concept that having each other is enough to make them feel less alone in this world, and the way that they’ve learned from each other, and the way that Tim so deeply admires Cass. the idea that they’ve grown up and they aren’t so deeply connected anymore but the memory of it is still there.
Sorry I deleted my post about them no-homoing magius and Huma I just turned the page and
They did it. Magius and Huma are now officially canonically regarded as Strangely Close Companions by conservative ass people in krynn. Love wins. Knight Jesus had two hands