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what's your favorite thing(s) about mama and papa? 🫶

Kenshiro (5 years old): Mama knows a lot of songs to sing to me. Papa asks him "where did you learn this?" and Mama says "on the 'ternet". He sings me songs about fish and rocks and how I love my body from my head to my toes. Papa sings too, sometimes. He buys me suits so we're twins. He always tells me he's proud of me, and I'm proud of him too, 'cause he's so cool, and if he says we're twins, then that means I'm cool too.

Mayu (5 years old): Mama hugs me so tight I can't breathe. But it's okay, I don't mind. When I asked for a pink dress, he said yes and that I'm so so pretty, even though I'm a boy. No boy at school wears a dress, but Mama said I'm allowed and he showed me lots of pictures of boys and grown ups in dresses. Mama even told me he used to wear skirts, and I said he should do it again, so we can be twins, like Papa and Kenshin. Papa also says I'm pretty. I think he's pretty too, when he cooks with his pink apron. He makes crepes and pancakes and waffles on special days. Sometimes we only eat crepes for dinner! But not every day. When I'm sad, Papa takes me to places where I can have tons of desserts, and then I'm not sad anymore.

Juri (5 years old): Mama plays with me all the time in the garden and the jungle gym! He teaches me how to climb rope and make big jumps. He pushes me so high on the swing and we chase bubbles together. Sometimes Papa says to be careful, but I don't cry when I fall and scrape my knee. Papa lets me sit in his lap when he writes on important papers, and he teaches me how to read. I already know how to read a lot and I can write my own name and Mama's name and Papa's name and Mayu's name and Kenshin's name! I can't wait to write on important papers at school.

Yuren (5 years old): I love to draw with Mama. Sometimes he lets me draw on his face and on his arms, and I always color in the lines. I drew on a wall one time, but Mama says I can't do it again. I cried because I thought my drawing was ugly, but he said it's beautiful. Then Mama told me he drew on the walls too, but Papa prefers clean walls, and I can't draw on walls at school either. But if Mama puts my drawings in frames and puts them on the walls, Papa says that's okay. Papa reads the best bedtime stories, and sometimes Mama joins in when there's two characters talking. But Papa says bedtime story must be a quiet time, so it's not really like a show. Papa's books have nice pictures too, and it's so interesting but I always fall asleep before the end.

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Yuren, what do you enjoy the most about your profession?

Oh, definitely the attention! All curses dream of being as seen as I am — I mean, those who are smart enough to understand what it means to be famous. And except the really ugly ones. 

Which brings me to my next point: I can change my appearance at will; hair color, weight, muscle mass, you name it. Of course, I can't make alterations that are too drastic. So no nose job or bonus height, which I would've appreciated because I'm a bit too short for my liking. Too bad, I should've fixed that before my image began to circulate around. I mean, I could pass off the nose job as regular plastic surgery, but what if I wanna go back after that? I can't just get my old nose back, the public wouldn't buy it. They think I'm just a regular human, after all. Though my fans do make me feels like a superhuman~

Anyway, I change my mind all the time, which is a good excuse to get drastically opposite roles. I'll shoot a movie where I'm a fitness coach, tanned and dark-haired, and then I'll be a blond chubby and awkward nerdy type, and people will praise me for being a chameleon, so dedicated to my roles! When I just did it in two seconds in front of my mirror on a Sunday morning. But I have to let them believe it was the result of intense training and extreme diets for weeks on end. 

Now, I also enjoy the artistic part of my job. Performing as a way to express myself has always been a passion for me, whether it was dancing, singing or acting. I also draw a little, when I have the time. Because I'm a very busy man! Or curse. Whatever, I'm both.

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Juri, what’s your favorite thing to do in your free time?

Oooh, I like that one! Well, I love my job, working in my office, chatting with my team around the coffee machine and working on making the world a better place for humans AND curses. Project Coexistence, but I've already mentioned it.

Anyway, liking my job doesn't mean I don't also appreciate my free time. I love taking naps, going to restaurants or getting takeout when Mayu is over — we're both huge foodies — and practicing my combat skills, which is the "nice" word for going to underground fighting rings. I made a name for myself there, though not everyone I know is aware of my night life. 

I'm also a part-time teacher at Jujutsu High, which I know will raise a few eyebrows because, yeah, I have no cursed energy. But things have changed a lot since Mayu joined Jujutech themselves, so now we have lessons on curses, how to communicate with them, how to evaluate how we could help them instead of fighting them; basically, Jujutsu High is now more about students learning how to master their technique, if they have one, rather than just exorcizing curses. And even if they don't have a technique of their own, I'm here to train them on hand-to-hand combat and using cursed tools. 

Which means that Kenshiro, Mayu and I often run into each other at school, with Kenshin being a sorcerer too. Papa and Mama are often around too, so at this point I think we can claim this school is a family business.

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Mayu, would you dye your hair? And if the answer is yes, then what color?

I don't need to dye my hair, I have idle transfiguration for that.

As a full human, transfiguring my own body is extremely painful. It's a technique no human is supposed to have, even Mama lost it when he became human. But I was born with it anyway, and learned how to use it on others very early.

As for hair color, well, it's basically the only transfiguration that doesn't hurt at all, so I've tried all different kinds of colors. My natural hair color is blue-gray like Mama's, which is already unusual for a human, but you can imagine what my teachers at school told my parents when I'd show up with bright pink or neon green hair.

I made it black for a while too, but Mama said he didn't like it.

I can also dye my siblings' hair, in fact I did turn Kenshiro's colors that I knew he hated just to bother him when we were younger. Mama told me early on that I should never transfigure his body, so when Kenshiro used his technique on me, the only thing I could do was ruin his hair.

He inherited 7:3, but found out when he was older that he could use idle transfiguration too. The only time I transfigured his body was during our fight when I ran away from home because I couldn't stand the fact that he'd joined Jujutsu High to become a sorcerer. I couldn't accept that he was going to hurt curses. They were my only friends. I nearly killed him. Thankfully Juri's godmother's reverse cursed technique saved him.

The first time I saw him use idle transfiguration was when we fought again a few months later. He used it to give the fatal blow. 

He did the right thing. I was too far gone.

Anyway, as we're speaking, my hair is currently periwinkle~

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Kenshiro, what was your hardest mission as a sorcerer?

The hardest missions are when the curses look and sound a little too human. If they only look human, it's fine. But sometimes they'll look nothing like us yet you realize they make sense when they talk and you start to think they have a point.

Papa told me that Mama used to be very different before I was born. I know what he did to humans, and only being half-human myself, it never really affected me. I mean, he was a curse, born from human hatred at that, it's not like he knew any better. My point is, the only Mahito I've ever known is my Mama. So I can't know for sure if a curse reminds me of him, but my imagination works against me. 

Being a sorcerer despite my cursed side, I've been called a traitor often by curses articulate enough to realize I'm one of them. I'm used to it.

But the hardest mission I ever had was one of my first, when I was just fifteen. Mayu had just come home as a curse, and I was still shaken by having to kill them when they were human. And the curse I had to exorcize with my classmates and teacher, the one we knew had killed multiple people already, the one it was obvious there was no chance to reason with — they looked and sounded so much like Mayu. Maybe it was because the memory of killing them was still fresh in my mind, maybe the curse didn't really look like my sibling that much, but all I could think of was that I was killing them again. I got distracted, they hurt me, and I spent the rest of the fight curled up on the ground and sobbing while the rest of my class finished them off. 

Now that I think about Mama, and how Papa was successful in reasoning him, it got me spiralling into the same thoughts I had when Mayu almost killed me when they ran away, and how I killed them, and how they'd almost killed Mama, and— I just didn't know if I'd done the right thing. I just couldn't see the point in being a sorcerer anymore.

I called my parents while I was in the nurse's office and begged them to not go to school the next day. Thankfully they understood and I got a week off at home with Mayu and Juri. I didn't tell Mayu what had happened for a long time after that. I don't know why. I guess I just didn't want them to feel guilty anymore.

Papa and I had a long talk about how sorcerers were here to protect ordinary people, like my baby sister. But he also told me I didn't have to go back to school and pursue this career if I didn't want to. 

So I gave Mayu and Juri a big hug and went back to school.

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Question for everyone again: What’s the best gift you have ever received?

Kenshiro: It's not really a "gift" in the traditional sense of the word, but the day I finally got the permission to go to my godfather's domain when I was two years old was a big moment. He taught me how to swim and showed me all different kinds of fish. I'd never seen most of them from up-close! I'll never forget how I felt when I saw a real whale for the first time. Also I got to swim with dolphins, which is most people's dream, I think? So I consider myself lucky.

Mayu: We got a new kitten when I was six. A couple years earlier I'd transfigured our family cat and since Mama couldn't fix him because he'd lost his technique, Papa had to put him out of his misery. Growing up without anyone to teach me about my technique was hard, and I would've understood if my parents decided that we would have no more pets at home. But once I was old enough to understand my mistake, they got me a new cat, and I appreciated it a lot. Feeling like a normal kid was an occurrence rare enough to be noted. I took great care of that cat.

Juri: I think that was when we went to Malaysia for my birthday, Mama, Papa, Kenshin, Mayu and I! I was nine. Mayu was already a curse back then — actually I have no memory of them as a human — so they flew next to our plane, and turned into all kinds of creatures to entertain me during the flight. I especially liked the gryphon and the winged snake. We stayed in a cabin right next to the beach, and we spent most of our days swimming or reading. We also did some sight-seeing, and I took pictures of every single thing with my camera. I still have those stored in an external drive, and now that you mention it, I'm gonna look at them again!

Yuren: One day after elementary school, my godfather Kiyotaka picked me up in his car and wouldn't tell me where we were going. He said it was a surprise, but of course I wouldn't leave him alone. Eventually he told me that Mama and Papa were waiting for me somewhere. That somewhere turned out to be the biggest amusement park near the city! I'd cried and begged to go there since I was little, but my parents were too afraid to lose me in the crowd or whatever. So they got my godfather to come with us to keep an extra pair of eyes on me. You should've seen the look on his face when we rode on the rollercoaster! I also got an ice cream, a waffle and a helium balloon. Papa tied it to my wrist, and now I think it was because it made it easier to spot me in a crowd if I had a big Perry the platypus floating over my head.

Now that I think about it, the day I got a cellphone was also pretty memorable.

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Helloo! This question is for each one of you: What’s your favorite childhood memory?

Kenshiro: Hmm, that's a tough one because I have cursed memory. I can remember every single day of my life, including my own birth. It's not overwhelming, my brain is built to handle it, but it means the bad stuff stays with me too. 

But it's okay, because I have many happy memories to balance it out. Feeling my parents' love as a baby is a memory I come back to often for comfort, though they still love me today of course. The day Mama became human is also an important one, because even though I didn't understand what was going on back then, I knew it had to do with him not being deathly sick anymore until Mayu was born.

I told you it was going to be hard to pick. I think the one that brought me the most excitement was the first time we went to the aquarium. I was six months old, and I was obsessed with fish. My favorite toy was a whale, and although I ended up losing it at the aquarium, Papa found it again at home and I was happy again. Now that I'm older, I'm pretty sure it was a spare, but as a baby I didn't notice or didn't care.

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Mayu: I wasn't the happiest kid. I can barely remember anything from my childhood, which is for the best I suppose. My parents and Kenshiro had nothing to do with it, my mental health was just shit. 

I think my happiest memory was the day I became a curse at fifteen. I don't know if it counts as a childhood memory, but it was the first time I felt like myself. I finally allowed myself to take up the space I needed, and I saw how much my family really loved me. It just felt right, you know? It's not easy everyday, a sorcerer could decide to come after me at any moment, but I'm working on changing the way the sorcerer society treats curses with the help of my family and other curse friends. Kenshiro and Juri both work for Jujutsu Tech too, so we can tackle this issue from within.

Now that I think about it, the day Juri was born is also one of my happiest memories. She was two when I turned into a curse, and that was how we found out she wasn't curse sensitive. She can only see me when she wears glasses. In fact she only wears them when I'm around. I love her.

Juri: I think I had a pretty happy childhood! I mean, I was a happy kid. Having two siblings much older than me was fun, it was like I had four parents to take care of me. Kenshiro had been taking lessons in multiple combat sports, so he could teach me a lot. I love the memories of us wrestling in the garden, and when he swore he wasn't going easy on me. I help him with his physical training as a sorcerer now. I have no cursed energy and no desire to use cursed tools, so we practice hand to hand combat! In fact I'm stronger than him in that field.

I think my happiest memory was when I was eight years old and Mayu got accepted in Jujutsu Tech as an ambassador for curses. It was the moment I realized things could be changed for them, because I remember Mama, Papa and Kenshin having a few good scares when Mayu was out and wouldn't answer their phone or when they'd come home late. In case they'd run into a sorcerer, you know.

Anyway, it was also the moment I decided to join Jujutsu Tech as well. I wanted to be a lawyer at first. Now I'm a chief project officer, my team and I are in charge of processing the data around Project Coexistence for Jujutsu Tech. We still have a long way to go, but we're getting there!

Yuren: I've been taking dancing and singing lessons since I was a small kid because I was hyperactive and loved to express myself artistically. I can't deny that I love the attention too. So my favorite childhood memory is probably from the numerous times I was on stage for the annual galas. 

I was really shy at first, because I've lived a very sheltered childhood, being a half-curse and all, so I rarely got confronted with many people, let alone been the center of attention. I went to a small private school with few other kids, I wasn't allowed to go to sleepovers… You can imagine.

I'd put on little shows in the living room for Mama and Papa, that's why they eventually decided to sign me up for dancing and singing lessons. Once I got a hit of positive attention from an audience of strangers, I was hooked. 

I'm an actor as well as a singer and a dancer now, and I like to think — I can't say it in interviews — that I'm the most famous curse for ordinary people.