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Not the freshest but sketches of Pongorma.

everyone gets a turn to be the one to fuss over their hair while the other waits

Mezato is a very intriguing person despite her position as a side character restricting the audience's knowledge on her, but there are some implications I have become very interested on.

During her conversation with Ritsu post-LOL Cult arc, she mentions something akin to "people really aren't born as equals", referring to how Mob is so disadvantaged compared to Ritsu even thought they're siblings. However, that also says a lot about her motivations. Mezato has two main reasons for organizing the Psycho Helmet Cult and trying to make it influent (with Mob's help as their messiah): 1) it sounded fun; and 2) she wanted to take part in such a massive event. Although the "fun" part can be attributed to the fact that well, she is a fourteen year old with a weird perspective, both motivations are directly associated to not only Mezato's passion, but her opinion on herself.

First of all, she becomes fixated on anything that appears worthy of her attention. It kickstarts her adventures as the school journalist, hunting for any kind of news that she believes to be interesting, and by that she doesn't mean "math class is cancelled": Mezato goes far beyond, from catching shoplifters red-handed to infiltrating a cult that supposedly brainwashes its members. It's clear that the mundane is not enough to her. Mezato wants the current biggest thing. This is one of the reasons she gets so interested in Mob, and being so obsessed with the worldchanging, Mezato cannot bring herself to care as much about the common, the mundane. This way, she can only see entertainment, or better put, value, in what stands out.

Equally, Mezato wants to participate in something she sees as 'big'. Being someone who is so attracted to the flashiest parts of reality, she wants to have an active, direct role regarding them. It makes her feel entertained. It makes her feel fulfilled. It makes her feel special, most of all, because even being in the Biggest Thing's shadow removes her from the condition of banality she disdains so much. That's what makes the Psycho Helmet Cult sound like such an excelent idea, as hollow and uncritical it could be.

But what does these beliefs say about Mezato? Simple. Mezato doesn't think she can be interesting or valuable by herself. She is not shown as pretty, or academically gifted, or athletic. She doesn't appear to have friends. She doesn't even have an ability with the occult like Mob does. Mezato is a normal, lonely girl who has no other excuse to be noticed besides her imprudent detective work, but worse than that, she thinks she can't change. Mezato will never be attention-worthy as herself, so she appeals to inserting herself in whatever interesting thing she finds in the hope that it'll make her Someone by association. She could be a loser, a nobody, but at least she helped build something that is wonderful, and that is the closest she can get to being important.

Her interests and achievements, in this sense, are more like an extension of herself than a result of her passion. A passion that isn't understood by anyone else. A passion that others ignore and are annoyed at, which only reinforces her loneliness and her obsession with chasing after Big Things. If she succeeds, she will finally have a part of herself she can be proud of. After all, there are a hundred wonders in the world with the potential to change everything; there is only one Ichi Mezato and she can never be like them.

TeruMob Week 2025 Prompt List

Hello everyone!! I am so excited to share the official prompt list for TeruMob Week 2025!!

Dates: April 28th - May 4th

Prompts:

4/28 - Family or School Life

4/29 - Spirits or Space

4/30 - Confession or First Date

5/1 - Idolization or Repression

5/2 - Whump or Seperation

5/3 - Wedding or Adult Life

5/4 - FREE DAY

I will reblog as many TeruMob week fanarts, writings, gifs, videos, and everything in-between to this blog during that week!

Please use the hashtag #terumobweek2025 so I can find your posts.

No requirement to do each day!!

TeruMob week is for anyone who likes TeruMob! Platonic, romantic, age swap, rivals, yuri, toxic, trans, aged up, QPP, friends--any TeruMob is welcome for this week!! I want us all to have a week to just enjoy and gush about these two characters we love so much.

A round of thank you's are in order: The most massive thank you goes to my sister @emeraldoodles who did a majority of the work on the prompt art and did some amazing rendering. I did the lineart and she colored, made the font, and I couldn't be happier!

Second thank you goes to @sodasexual for helping come up with the prompt list, and always being there to chat through ideas with me. You are so amazing <3

Thanks everyone, and have a fun TeruMob Week!!! Can’t wait to see what everyone creates!

-Matraca

gotta love how ONE made reigen respect women so hard. like some guy was creeping on his female neighbor. PUT HIS ASS DOWN. he tells mob people who hit women are losers. HELL YEAH!! its just amazing and going back to the person who was creeping on his female neighbor. im so glad that that moment was taken seriously and not just for laughs like it would be in most anime. like they actually made that moment creepy instead of some weird ass fan service and i love it.

of course i had to put mob in one too

☆ Day 3 : found family or fever

Alternative versions/prompt list:

hi *i say as i spread the shoumob truth*