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The Basics
Canon: Mob Psycho 100
Character Name: Reigen Arataka
Character Journal: saltsplash
Player Name: Kippie
Best contact method: fancyfennekin


Character Details
Canon Point: Chapter 95
Species: Human
Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:

• Reigen meets Mob for the first time, giving the kid counciling and hiring him for his psychic powers under the guise of becoming his "shishou".
• Spring of Youth Arc/LOL Cult Arc:
  
  • Start of canon.  Mob is currently Reigen's student and hired as an assistant for Reigen's Spirits and Such Consultation Office.
  • Mob rejects the Telepathy Club as per Reigen's advice, but joins the Body Improvement Club instead.
  • Mob is menaced by the LOL cult, run by an evil spirit named Dimple. After reaching 100% Rage, Mob defeats the spirit and dissolves the cult.
  • Reigen listens to the account from Mob's perspective, asking Mob why he has to be like other people and being frank about how bad Mob is about reading social cues.
  • Reigen hears about the cult's dissolution and tells Mob that it's a good thing, and that this time, it was a good thing for Mob to be exactly who he is - because he doesn't follow social cues, he didn't get swept up in a cult, and saved people.  Mob's anxieties are washed away in an instant.
• 7th Division Arc:
  
  • Ritsu is kidnapped by an organization named Claw. Mob, Teru and Dimple pursue them.
  • Reigen notices that Mob doesn't come to work, and had not called to inform him why like he almost always did.  He follows the GPS in the phone he bought for Mob, finding the secret facility of the 7th Division of Claw.
  • Upon approaching the secret base with total confidence, Reigen nearly unintentionally fools the underlings into thinking he's the boss of Claw. He has all of the children that were kidnapped released.
  • The 7th Division leaders (The Cadres) intercept Reigen, Mob, Teru and Ritsu before they can walk out.
  • The Cadres attack them after Reigen fails to talk them out of violence.  Mob prepares to fight them with complete killing intent before Reigen stops him, telling him that it's okay to run away.
  • Mob perceives "It's okay to run away" as "leave it to Shishou", and pours all of his psychic energy into Reigen.  Reigen then proceeds to use the psychic power to scold the Cadres, calling out their childish intentions and behavior and dragging them back to the realm of reason without hurting a single one of them and instead simply overwhelming them with his borrowed psychic power.
  • Only Ishiguro, the division leader, was not receptive to Reigen's words.  He instead gets taken out by Shou, who calls Mob weak before disappearing.  Reigen, drained of the power he got from Mob, gains the ability to see spirits for real.
• Urban Legend Arc:
  
  • In an attempt to expand business, Reigen takes Mob to a town where a large number of urban legends were said to be active (The Kuchisake-Onna, the Jinmenken, the Dashing Granny and the Red Raincoat).
  • Working together (begrudgingly) with a local psychic named Banshoumaru Shinra, they begin debunking the local myths.  Shinra unfortunately discovers the one myth that is not fake, the Kuchisake-Onna, and nearly dies.  Only Mob, who's never heard of the story of the Kuchisake-Onna, has no fear for her to feed on and thus was easily destroyed by his power.
  • Reigen takes a job at an all girl's high school, and comes up with a scheme to crossdress to get inside.  He's thoroughly unconvincing, which allows Mob to slip in with no suspicion.
  • In the countryside, Reigen is hired to clear a field of whatever evil forces are keeping the plants from growing properly.  Reigen and Mob encounter an evil spirit that controls plants, and Reigen is saved when Mob takes over the plants in the same way that the spirit did, and exorcises it.  Reigen gives Mob broccoli seeds as payment.
  • Next is the start of Mob beginning to more seriously question the world around him.  Reigen notices the start of it when he sells a fake curse to get a persistent customer off of his back, watching as Mob struggles with morality.
  • Hired for a job about a haunted apartment building, Reigen and Mob discover another esper that was able to astral project.  Were it a spirit, it would be torn apart and exorcised, but as they discover that it's an esper, the man is simply detained and arrested.  Mob begins questioning why they're treated differently.
  • They escort teenagers to visit a haunted place, and return when the teenagers express that they're grossed out by the spirits haunting the area.  Mob is instructed to exorcise them, but refuses, not wanting to destroy a family of spirits that were living peacefully in seclusion.  Reigen recognizes the strife, and takes over, feigning the end of the exorcism and reflecting on how Mob sees the world.
• Keiji Mogami Arc:
  
  • Reigen is invited, as well as a huge number of other exorcists, to the property of Masashi Asagiri to deal with a case of possession of his daughter, Minori Asagiri.  The exorcist that successfully removes the evil spirit from her has been promised an unfeasibly large cash reward.
  • Reigen, who earned the right to speak to Minori first, sat down and listened to her side of the tale.  The other exorcists were convinced by the story of an abusive father that's lying to everybody, but Reigen catches the inconsistencies in the conversation, causing the spirit to reveal himself.
  • Dimple informs Reigen that the spirit is Keiji Mogami, a man who was an extremely powerful psychic when he was alive and who consumed evil spirits even when he was a mortal man, which has transformed him into an unfathomably powerful evil spirit.
  • Mob attempts an exorcism anyway, realizing that he cannot pull the spirit from the body as he normally does. He mimicked the power of the stalker esper, attempting to possess Minori and force Mogami out.
  • Over the course of 30 minutes in the real world, Mob was stuck in a dream world for 6 months, experiencing suffering and loneliness as Mogami attempted to reshape him into someone that would be as violent and cruel as he was.
  • Reigen and Dimple did their best to keep Mob's body safe in the meanwhile, Reigen being thrown around by the empowered Minori and Dimple possessing Mob's body until Mogami was clearly too busy to keep moving.  Powerless, Reigen watched as Dimple went in to save Mob from his 6 month brainwashing.
  • Dimple and Mob both successful, they leave Minori's body, as does Mogami.  Mogami is captured by Matsuo (a reformed Cadre), and the Asagiris are reunited, though the father had been gravely injured during the exorcism process.  Reigen refuses the money, both out of a guilty conscience and for the sake of avoiding any future responsibility for the damages.
• Separate Ways Arc: do you mean: all my tears
  
  • Reigen usually is able to pull Mob along to work no matter how much Mob resists.  However, he attempts to pull Mob away from the friends he's finally been able to make, and Mob refuses, and doesn't return to work.
  • Reigen finds himself alone on his birthday, realizing that he doesn't have any friends besides Mob.  After getting sloshed and going home to sulk, he gets sick of his own misery and decides to be proactive.
  • He resigned himself to working on his own again, beginning to work on other projects such as video taped exorcisms, or teaching courses to help people avoid being conned.  He became locally known as "Spice City's Bro".
  • Kirin Shoudou, a famous psychic that had been at the Mogami incident, laid a trap for Reigen on live television.  He had Reigen exposed as a fraud, destroying Reigen's reputation.
  • Former clients began forming groups, the people he thought were friendly with him at the bar turned him away, and the press began seriously harassing Reigen, dragging him through the mud.  He agrees to a press conference, cornered by their persistence.
  • At the press conference, Reigen is initially antagonistic.  But he reflects on how he'd treated Mob and, feeling guilt and hoping that his former disciple would hear him, he looked into the cameras and simply said "You have grown up."
  • The press conference was then disrupted by a violent supernatural shaking, stirring doubt into the press and scattering the meeting.
  • Mob met with Reigen again, and responded to Reigen's attempt at an apology, saying "I knew it all along.  My master's true identity... he is a good person."
• World Domination Arc:
  
  • At school, Mob has a marathon to run with the rest of his class.  Reigen helps him train for it.
  • When Mob and Reigen part ways, Reigen meets with someone to give his business building some upgrades, only to find that it was quite nicely burning.
  • This apparently was happening with all of the espers connected to the 7th Division incident, and nearly all of the former Cadres and children espers gathered around Reigen.  They learn that Claw is beginning an all-out attack against the city, and Reigen hears that Mob found his family's corpses in his burning home, though Dimple insists that the bodies were fakes.  Reigen comforts Mob, which relieves Mob enough that the kid passes out.
  • The conscious espers all left Reigen, Dimple and Mob behind as they began their counterattack plan, Reigen taking the responsibility of making sure that Mob would be safe.  One of the Super 5, Suzuki's top fighters, was sent specifically to kill Mob in his moment of vulnerability.
  • Reigen does his best to protect Mob, but ultimately lets Dimple possess Mob's body and escape to keep Mob safe.
  • Reigen eventually meets back up with some of the espers from his group, finding them fighting Shimazaki, an esper that can use his power to read other espers' movements - this, of course, didn't save him from getting clocked right in the face from Reigen's completely normal punch.
  • Everyone offers to go in and help fight the leader of Claw, but Mob tells them to stand aside - they will only be in his way.
  • They all stood and watched as Mob fought Suzuki, the both of them displaying impossibly huge shows of power.  It concludes with an explosion, Mob attempting to syphon all of the energy in Suzuki to save his life and keep him from dying in his own power's explosion.
  • Mob avoids exploding himself, and prevents the energy from completely leveling the city by channelling all of the energy into the broccoli seeds in his chest pocket that he received as payment from Reigen.
  • As a result, the nuclear bomb level of energy is used to create The Divine Tree, which is a giant broccoli growing in the city.
• The Divine Tree Arc:
  
  • The giant broccoli, dubbed "The Divine Tree", began fostering a number of cults dedicated to its arrival.
  • Reigen's rebuilt his business, and an esper that was formerly Suzuki's secondhand has joined Spirits and Such Consultation. His name is Serizawa.
  • Mob pondered whether to finally accept the role as leader of the Psycho Helmet Cult, and Reigen encouraged him. When Mob returned with no success, they looked up a video and found someone vaguely resembling Mob in a theater, growing a new broccoli tree to prove that he was Lord Psycho Helmet.
  • Reigen's business is rebuilt, and an esper named Serizawa (a former underling of Suzuki Toichirou) joined as Reigen's employee, beginning training as an exorcist. A youkai hunter named Haruaki Amakusa alerted Reigen to a number of youkai that were causing a problem, particularly the king, and called for Reigen's assistance. The youkai not dispatched by the pair were absorbed into the Divine Tree. The Psycho Helmet cult was growing traction with the growth of the tree, and Reigen encouraged Mob to claim the leadership - however, after finding out that "Lord Psycho Helmet" debuted already, he looked up the video with Mob, watching someone that resembled Mob growing a broccoli plant on command to convert all of the disparate cults into a single religion. They also came to learn that there were severe cracks and foundation damage throughout the city, all from the broccoli's roots - together with Mob, Reigen decided to spearhead a plan to remove the broccoli from the city.
• Reigen is taken from the moment before he becomes brainwashed by the Psycho Helmet Cult.
  
  Personality: Reigen is a force of personality that few people can truly contend with. With the raw charisma to waltz right into the secret base of an organization of people that are hell-bent on world domination, and to walk in with such bravado that they mistake him for their boss, it’s easy to see how someone like Reigen is able to run such a successful con in his day to day life. He proudly boasts of his ability to debate people and to talk them in circles until he wins the argument. He’s extremely sharp, able to identify the holes in people’s ideas and catch the slightest slip up of their speech to find their deceptions or their weak points. Naturally, he’s extremely confident of this incredible talent, and is able to use it to also convince people that he has far more extraordinary powers besides his talent for persuasion.
  
  For most people, he sells a performance. For others, a placebo. But at the end of the day, he intends to have a happy customer every time. After all, sometimes people coming in that are certain that they must be cursed…. but all they need is a good massage. Reigen recognizes that some people will refuse treatment because they are certain that they are being assailed by the supernatural - why not slip in the cure to someone’s ills in the snake oil they’re insisting on buying? And for everything else, for the real supernatural stuff, Reigen has Mob, Serizawa and even Dimple, at times.
  
  Even with the willingness to con people out of their money with fake exorcisms, he refuses to take cases that are harmful or mean-spirited. He doesn’t usually take cases to curse others, and he won’t force the people he’s responsible for (or especially the people he cares most about) to suffer for their work. More often than not, in fact, Reigen will respond to people’s suffering by shouldering the burden himself. He injects himself into these dangerous situations even despite his lack of powers. He steps in, claiming that he’s responsible as an adult in a given situation. He has no qualms or hesitations about accepting responsibilities like that, and it makes him an extremely trustworthy sort of man, and that confidence and intelligence are just as potent a tool for Reigen as psychic powers are for other people.
  
  Despite his impressive strengths, Reigen is still a very domineering presence. That confidence can easily inflate to overconfidence, leading to missed judgment of an emergency situation. And his forceful, overly energized personality often pushes around the meeker people around him, easily the sort of thing that can accidentally push those who aren’t ready to be pushed or might push him back. He can be blunt, rude, and demeaning to people who the people around him regardless of whether or not he likes or respects them. This also means that due to his air of authority, he is actually quite bad at making real friends, and his only real friend happens to be a socially awkward middle schooler.
  
  After a serious falling out with Mob, Reigen’s separation from him made him step back and realize that he was being too controlling and that he was using Mob too much. He recognized his selfishness, and began to reform himself, working to make the community better under his own power and influence so that he could become popular that way. More than anything, just like the awkward teenager he helped through tough times, Reigen just wants to be well-liked by the people around him. He’s anxious and fears rejection, and all of those talents and tools of his ultimately come down to Reigen’s drive to be loved by the people around him instead of feeling listless and lonely.
  
  Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions: He can see ghosts.
  
  Dragon & Magical Element
  Elemental Alignment:
• Shadow; Ideal for Reigen's preference to be deceptive, and more importantly, to escape from conflicts.
• Lightning; Reigen has always been extremely full of energy, very fidgety and talkative, and just restless.  Electricity is a good metaphor for him.
• Wind; Reigen's a guy that dreams big - and what dreamer doesn't dream of flying?
  Dragon: Full post with art here.
  Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:
• Energetic
• Dominates a space
• Highly empathetic and comforting to unhappy people
  
  Writing Samples
  First Sample: Test Drive Starter
  Second Sample: PSL with Ruby