so i've noticed something about orufrey's body language
and i have been going insane about it ever since! kamome shirahama your attention to details will be the death of me /pos
hands are the most expressive non-verbal tool humans have, and since it's also quite literally the tool that gives the witches their magic, watching hands in witch hat atelier is beyond important. implied spoilers up to ch93 under cut! [don't mind the language of half the screenshots, that's beside the point]
qifrey so very often tends to clasp his hands together, rubbing them against each other or simply clinging to his long robes. a gesture so telling of just how uncomfortable due to silverwood he constantly is, always slightly nervous, always tip-toeing around the edge of a cliff.
and he's been doing so since childhood! his emotions are so closed-off when it comes to casual body language, which is both an indicator of his character and the ways in which he deals with his curse. unable to trust even his closest friend, he chooses the only vaguely soothing thing: to curl into himself, to detach, to distance.
meanwhile olruggio, despite his scruffiness, generally comes off as a more open, "simple" man, hands flying all over the place when he's agitated. he expresses his emotions freely, without restrain.
qifrey curls into a ball for comfort, meanwhile olly splays like a star, comfortable in his skin an in qifrey's presence
and what happens when they start to interact?
olly keeps reaching for qifrey, talking some sense into him with his hands, with spontaneous and emotional physical touch.
he does so even upon first meeting
he keeps and keeps reaching out to qifrey, both literally and symbolically.
no matter how hard qifrey tries to run away, to hide deeper into himself, olruggio will always be there to offer him a friendly hand or otherwise
this particular parallel is especially dear to me:
they changed so much,
but they also haven't changed at all
and the culmination of this dynamic in a single image for me is this:
qifrey, gaze averted, hands uncomfortably clasped together, fake smile on his face
and olruggio, calm and confident, leaning into qifrey's personal space with familiar ease, resting an arm on his shoulder in a friendly gesture.
everything that shirahama consistently portrays as the manga goes on and the history unravels, neatly and wordlessly shown in a single static image. the art of showing, but not telling, thus nurturing a deeper understanding of these characters. absolutely brilliant
some more qifreys bc at some point i genuinely started saving all the times i noticed him clasping his hands tightly together or around his clothes
i just feel like shirahama-sensei is so deliberate in her poses and smaller details. she always Knows what to do with the characters' hands. it's so very amazing and important to me. do you get what i mean??????
I’m coming back to this having just read chapter 96
which could straight up be titled ‘Man Viscerally Uncomfortable with Current Situation™ (unexpected social call from a near stranger)’
like my god.
clenching hand at abdomen to awkwardly massaging the bad shoulder to self-consciously rubbing at face. all in the course of a 60 second conversation.
Qifrey you could not be more anxious-looking if you tried 😬
It's so funny too because you get tricked into thinking qifrey is very suave and charming!
And he is!
…When he has a script. Or is in control of the situation. Or he’s interacting with people he's close to. He's perfectly comfortable making his request of coco's mother in their shop. he has no trouble offering assistance to the ladies of the pegasus carriage.
But he also gets steamrolled by the tavern owner during the fire. He gets bullied by medical professionals. He reverts to a preteen in the presence of his old master.
When in his element—teaching children—he is confident and engaging and elegant. But put him in front of a stranger without his family to act as a buffer? ...well
Suddenly he's back to being that little outsider boy who never fit in at the great hall
Otomedia Autumn 2022 - Mob Psycho 100 III Interviews [Translation]
Otomedia Autumn 2022 contains three interviews with Mob Psycho 100 staff - one with Character Designer Kameda Yoshimichi, one with the voice actors of Mob and Reigen (Itou Setsuo & Sakurai Takahiro), and one with the new director Hasui Takahiro. The interviews contain information regarding season 3 and what we should look forward to seeing.
Otomedia Autumn 2022 - Mob Psycho 100 III Interviews [Translation]
Otomedia Autumn 2022 contains three interviews with Mob Psycho 100 staff - one with Character Designer Kameda Yoshimichi, one with the voice actors of Mob and Reigen (Itou Setsuo & Sakurai Takahiro), and one with the new director Hasui Takahiro. The interviews contain information regarding season 3 and what we should look forward to seeing.
3. Who smokes and who pulls the cigarette from between their lips every time they try to light one?
Zag smokes, Than snatches it out of his mouth. If we're talking modern AU, Zag would pick up smoking as an act of rebellion and then lack the self-control (or desire) to quit. Also, I think it makes sense because Thanatos is literally the god of peaceful death. He'd just glare at Zag like, "do you know how many smokers I have to bring down here? Every day?"
13. Who packs the other’s lunch and who repays them in sexual favours?
Zag packs the lunch. I feel like Than doesn't eat much, which tracks with how busy he is in-game. I can see cooking being a love language for both canon and modern AU Zag. He'd leave him little notes, too, that Than would scoff at but then keep in his pocket to read over and over again.
As for the sexual favours, well. Than is the one who shows up in Zagreus' bedroom, after all.
21. Who’s the fantastic kisser and who has the beautiful eyes?
I think Zag is probably the better kisser out of the two of them given that he's had quite a bit more practice, not that his eyes aren't pretty. A little unsettling, maybe. I quite like Thanatos' golden eyes. I could see Zagreus complimenting Than on them and him getting all bashful and embarrassed because very few people comment on his physical appearance, if at all.
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