cur!ouscat would NOT let me post this so i'm pretending it was on retro, especially because i wanted to answer it properly!

love the way this is all canon for midochia (now with the correct answer)

• regularly looks up any topic to do with chiaki online

• knows what's going on with chiaki faster than the rest of the ryuseitai members (hello?)

• memorized his talk shows "even though he isn't his fan"

• implied to search his name up MUCH more frequently whenever chiaki breathes 2 seconds away from ryuseitai

• LOOKS AT THE COMMENTS FOR AN AD CHIAKI STARRED IN AND READS THEM???

• was somehow able to block all of chiaki's accounts in a short amount of time??? ? ? i guess one could argue this is doable as they're unit members but ? THAT quick? this guy definitely has a list of them in a notepad idgaf (just my speculation though, we still don't know why/how he was able to be so quick to block them all lmao)

• my ultimate personal favorite: how, in my opinion, midori was only able to reach the following analysis of chiaki because of all the social media exposure and online searching about chiaki he'd been doing:

Midori: "He’s too good at [acting/imitating heroes] in fact, that not even society realizes Morisawa-senpai’s just an imposter acting as a hero. So they misunderstand and start unreasonably raising the bar for him — to the point that if he shows his true self now, they’ll accuse him of being a liar and a complete fraud… It’s pretty sad."
Chiaki: "You understand me far too well, Takamine. It just goes to show how much you love me."
Midori: "Just die."

mind you, chiaki HAS NEVER ONCE TOLD HIM ABOUT THIS PROBLEM HE'S FACING WITH SOCIETY. so midori literally figured this out all on his own through his own personal issues with social media (when he got paranoid over how fans perceive ryuseitai/him, so he'd try his best to keep an image in public to avoid slander) and from looking up about chiaki (which is inevitably mostly going to be idol hero chiaki). WHAT THE FUCK.

i'd link my thread on it but it's way too old so i'll just post the relevant part: "midori experiencing the hell of fans' perception, expectations, and absolute mercilessness... and since he's an empathetic person, it made him come to understand a partial amount of why chiaki keeps up the mask in public even when he was told he can rely on them..." — and then chiaki's only response to it is "wow you get me so much you really do wub me he he he" like? it literally drives me fucking crazy ???

but all in all, the best part? he's this insane because chiaki was insane for a whole year with HIM. chiaki made him an unhinged stalker, actually 🥰🥰🥰🥰 good for them !!