#mp100 takeuchi

[cattliv3]

7th division art

[marbleboa]

The Scar birthdays are not yet over for this month…today is Takeuchi’s! Hope he’s doing well, whatever he’s up to…

[cattliv3]

7th division... I love each of them too much, and it's been a long time since I drew them. I also wanted to take the opportunity to re-upload things here, most of my content is on my Twitter account, but I'm very embarrassed to say it directly here.

By the way, I incorporated most of them with the personal headcanons that I have of each one, I think it is more noticeable in Matsuo, Tekeuchi, Ishiguro and Miyagawa, I love Miyagawa uuuhhuhh

[cattliv3]

THE SEVENTH DIVISION IS HERE,, not all of them because I based myself on a panel of the manga for this drawing... Still I think it turned out well, I painted it more in the style of anime, and I changed one thing or another from the original designs just for the sake of it, especially Takeuchi

This is the panel I was inspired by ↓

[cattliv3]

I'm going to redraw this in my style because I LOVE THIS IMAGE IM CRYING SO BAD

[marbleboa]

Hiii sorry but lately I've been hyperfixated on the 7th division and Takeuchi ended up being my fav... And I saw your art of him and I loved it, I wanted to know if you had any headcanons about him ;3

Absolutely delighted to see a Takeuchi guy here, take my hand op. I do indeed have Many Thoughts, a lot of these more character musings than straightforward headcanons but! I hope these rambles interest you!

-I made this post a bit ago talking about how his whole Battle Mode deal changes his body, and further building on that— I imagine the frequent use of this has taken its toll, similar to Shibata: issues with his back, joints, etc. Projecting my TMJ on him as well, though I think all of this does ease somewhat as he uses his powers less and starts taking better care of himself.

-The power of his energy blasts is somewhat dampened by comparatively long charge up times and the way he always announces his attacks to enemies. He’s very particular about making sure all of his battle moves have impressive names—often several-words long.

-He and Mob are on a similar wavelength to me. Something something Ishiguro talking about how hard to read Takeuchi is, the way he skirts on the edge of the rest of the Scars’ circle, the way his powers seemed to be the only part of him valued by others…it’s like a different, lonelier path Mob could’ve gone on. I think he has similar difficulties figuring out what he wants from his future, like we see from Mob at the start of season 3.

-I think he’s close with Tsuchiya. Granted this is an anime only thing, but I really liked the detail where when Tsuchiya tackles Shimazaki off a building she calls out for Takeuchi by name and he immediately moves to help. It feels like a maneuver they’ve done before, like they know each other well enough to know what the other needs in a fight. It makes sense that they’d train together with both their powers being classified as qigong too.

-Post-Claw I feel like a few of the Scars go through this phase but Takeuchi especially, he gets in this mindset of like. I must now use my powers against Evil™️ so I can make up for what I’ve done. Because…fighting with powers, black/white ideologies, that’s a lot more familiar to the Scars than writing resumes or apartment-hunting or dealing with other people. Once Claw falls he does this vigilante stuff aimlessly for a while(maybe even runs into Teru again doing the same thing, haha).

-Following from that, I think eventually he gets back in touch with Tsuchiya and stays with her and Mukai for a while as he figures out what he wants to do. (I’m. Not quite sure what that is myself. I’m working on it)

-After Claw, he, Muraki and Sakurai have a book club every other Saturday. Takeuchi enjoys mystery novels.

-There’s more I’d like to research on the particulars re: ethnicities especially so I can improve on how I draw his features, but thus far I’ve been imagining at least part of his ancestry being somewhere from southern India.

-I’ve dabbled with the idea that his name is actually a tsūshōmei, or legal alias, something long-term residents of Japan from other countries can get for various reasons. One thought I had was that Toichiro picked him up in his global search for espers, and he was given another name by Claw to cover up any connection to his family. Or, someone in his family made that change after they started living in Japan, and he was born there under that name. Not sure if I’ll commit to this though, more to look into there too.

-I definitely think he was kidnapped by the organization some way or another— his powers were likely very strong at a young age so they probably got to him under the guise of mentorship. I’d like to think he eventually tries to get back in touch with his family once Claw’s gone.

-Really likes birds. He and Muraki are in close competition for Pigeons of Seasoning City’s Favorite

-He’s ambidextrous!

[marbleboa]

I know he isn’t really discussed in the fandom outside of the Detestable Anime Design(which I absolutely get, it’s SO bad), but man, Takeuchi is a character I’m still so intrigued by. In particular I really like the concept of the whole “face changes when powers are activated” thing, especially knowing that psychic powers are never really just in Mob Psycho. What they are, how they’re used, a lot of times they end up reflecting a bigger picture.

We don’t really see any powers that affect a person’s physical appearance that drastically(according to the fanbook, even Takeuchi’s height/weight changes), and it only really happens for him and Toichiro at the end of his fight with Mob. There’s Shibata and Udo’s muscle abilities, sure, but those strike me as more of a purposeful use of their powers, not an unconscious effect.

Faces are important things—a way to express your feelings outside of words, and something people often remember you by. Ishiguro says he can’t get a read on Takeuchi, but he’s powerful—so it probably doesn’t really matter to him. Takeuchi joins Teru & co against a group of Scars during WD arc, and as shown in this one omake they don’t even recognize his normal face(despite previously recognizing Terada). One of the Scars basically goes “Oh, I thought this might’ve been this one really powerful guy in the 7th division, but this can’t be him.”, Takeuchi activates his ability to show them otherwise and that’s that.

Despite Claw’s indoctrination the other 7th division Scars still kept their quirks, their stories, their interpersonal relationships, but Takeuchi—it seems like he’s always known by his powers first. The face crafted by them is the only one so many others have cared to remember. And he’s only 21, one of the youngest out of the Scars(save for Mukai of course)—I have to wonder how long he’s lived in that sort of isolation. All the Scars had the mindset that their powers gave them worth, set them apart, but I think Takeuchi takes it a step further and sees himself as just a vessel for his powers. When all of that got shattered, I’m curious how he worked through that fallout.