personally ive never been a huge terumobber but i also think everyone else is doing it wrong. i guess a lot of people like fluffier depictions (often w/ teru providjng guidance/advice in some way, which he does on a few occasions tbf) but i can actually see him wanting to suck up to/appeal to mob. we've seen that teru has a pretty hierarchical worldview that takes him a while to shake off even after mob defeats him. the only thing that changes is that he's been displaced from the top by mob (it takes him a shockingly quick time to accept this). based on personal experience, if you have tgis type of worldview (and you're near the top of the hierarchy you've internalized) then your relationships w/ people (at least in relation to the skill you value & are good at) are probably something like
dismiss people lesser than you (most people)
compete with (& try to surpass) people on par with you (though healthy collaboration is possible in some cases)
try to appeal (mostly by proving your competence) to the (few) people greater than you
we've seen 2/3 from teru in the source material but i think it would be interesting to explore the 3rd. mob was not only the first person to fight teru w/ the same powers, he fucking obliterated teru once he stopped being on the defensive. teru experienced full ego death when he got flung into the sky. that's huge. if anything he should be weird about mob bordering on obsession/idolization