Someone please draw this…
Skeptic: Hello, my name is Failure, and you're watching my life crumble into pieces.
Skeptic: *waves their finger and sings like they're in a Disney Channel intro*
when… WHEEN
Finally got my hands on vol 30 and
Omg
The king will return!
Sometime I come to this app, just to see my favorite writer of they’ve written anything related to my favorites characters.
Only to find, nothing
(Which I totally understand since we all have lives outside this. But it still hurts man.)
Maybe I should stand in the role for now?
That's it...
I've finally fallen off the deep end and it's all his fault.
I was about to search something in Pinterest and it showed me this
Yes.. skeptic do indeed be a Disney princess
Skeptic/Tomoyasu Chikazoku:
- I've noticed that he really doesn't have any major aging lines or details in his design, although his eye bags and chin details could be seen as his aging, it just seems that they are just part of his face shape and his working habits.
Ex: His eye bags would probably form from his time in front of computers and in dark rooms
My age guess for him would probably be his late 20's, maybe 27 or 28
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Trumpet/Koku Hanabata:
- Trumpet is very obvious not young, a lot of his dialogue is very formal and he does say "My, is that what the kids are saying these days?" + He's a political party leader, where you would have to be a certain age to legally be a party leader. He very obviously in either his late 30's or early 40's. He also has obvious aging lines in the manga. Eye lines and forehead lines are apparent, but I hate how they took them away in the anime, but all of the MLA got screwed over by Bones
Age Guess: About 42 or 43
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Curious/Chitose Kizuki:
- It's obvious that she's aged, she has the same eye lines in the manga, so I couldn't find any more description or design for her age. But it's very clear that she is over the age of 30. Eye lines are very common aging factors and by her small flashback with Re-Destro, she was definitely around her 30's cause of Re-Destros design at the point
Age Guess: Around 41, possibly 42
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Re-Destro/Rikiya Yotsubashi:
- We all know our favorite silly old man. He has very very clear aging lines, along with stress lines as well (his ability side effect). Also considering he's a CEO of Dentrant, the grand commander of the MLA, and his speech pattern, he's finely aged.
Age guess: Around 45, possible 46.
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Geten:
- Geten is very obviously not aged at all. He has a young character design, but it's said that he never went to school, and ran away from his family young, cause fuck his family (they are so gross and what they did to Rei ruined her life.)
Age guess: Around 20 or 21. I really don't think he's older than that, still very young by MLA standers
I like a headcannon/theory that I'm gonna share. It's simple with not much to it but here we go.
I personally believe that before the Meta Liberation Army commanders, became commanders, that they had different personalities completely, or were much more shy/nervous/not really knowing where they fit in the world, but the MLA or Redestro gave them confidence and they adapated new personalities.
My main example of this is Chitose "Curious" Kizuki
This is younger Kizuki, from what I see she seems alot more nervous and shy (I blame this on the facial features and the blush) then the older and outgoing Curious we saw in the manga/anime-
I presume younger Curious was before she was officially a commander or hell even completely in the MLA. But the older Curious we see is a commander of the MLA.
Also we know from how Rikiya talked to her, that she originally wasn't good at capturing emotion. But she later tells Toga she "threw away all restraint long ago". This made me think that Curious changed because of Rikiya, and developed a bit of a worse personality. To me her discussion and how far she went with Toga made me think she'll do anything to get what she wants/needs, and this doesn't make me think of younger Curious at all.
Another idea I had for this that I don't have much evidence for is Tomoyasu "Skeptic" Chikazoku. We know that Tomoyasu has an intense fear of failure, and has only failed once it his life according to him (as far as I know thanks to a post, his failure was a failed IT security system for Feel Good Inc.)
I believe that before joining the MLA and/or becoming a commander, Skeptic didn't really have confidence with himself at all. I've seen some people say his upbringing must have been not to well for him to see everything as a possible failure/react so badly to failure. He's even gone close to crazy to prove he didn't fail:
This makes me feel that perhaps Rikiya saw Tomoyasu's success and wanted him in the MLA. And I believe Skeptic took it quickly as a chance to not fail again, since Rikiya praised his success and didn't criticize his failure. Hence his personality coming through as the person he is now, determined not to fail again whereas old Tomoyasu may have just accepted he was failure. This may also be part of while his personality changed, a part of his old self (his fear of failure) stayed with him.
In conclusion: This isn't a really deep headcannon/theory, but I do believe Rikiya made the members of the MLA into brand new people then what they may have been before.