Teppi starts as a wild kid who does not belong in a classroom and is not impressive with a sword. The charm of Super Brat Teppi is not that he is secretly a genius. It is that he keeps showing up after looking ridiculous.
Courage is the second attemptLink to this heading
A lot of stories define courage as the absence of fear, or as a win in the decisive scene. Teppi's version is plainer. He fails, he is embarrassed, and he goes back to practice. The courage is the return, not the highlight.
That is a useful correction if you grew up around people who were good immediately. Their head start is real. It is not a verdict on whether you are allowed to continue. Quitting early is the only way to guarantee you stay the person who was bad on day one.
Do not confuse slow with stuckLink to this heading
There is a difference between stubbornness that ignores feedback and stubbornness that uses it. Teppi is not a sermon about ignoring every teacher. He learns. He just refuses the story that a clumsy beginning is the whole biography.
If you are learning to code, to fight, to speak, or to sell, the first weeks are supposed to look bad. The question is not whether you are good yet. The question is whether you will still be in the room after the day you were obviously not.