#GEGE YOU COWARD. YUJI'S SHIT GETS RIPPED OFF EVERY 2 CHAPTERS ----

[limitlesses]

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍. Satoru's time spent in the Prison Realm translated roughly into 40-50 years for him, at least mentally, given how time did not pass normally within its confines. He did his best to spend the majority of it suspended in a near-comatose state of meditation, but that grew difficult given the skeletal company gnawing and clawing at him every waking moment. He had no access to Limitless to any extent or any of his cursed energy in general, making the entire ordeal an unpleasantly powerless and borderline tortuous experience -- though he'll never admit to feeling that way about it.

The Prison Realm's "one escape" being that its prisoner kills themselves cannot be overridden by a temporary death, like stopping his heart for a brief moment, though Satoru considered the gamble of trying and then hoping his RCT could kick in once the Realm released him for being "dead" -- he didn't want to chance the possibility of it not working. In the very real sense, that one way out tried gnawing at him, a temptation, practically demanding he cave, flaying off flesh from bone, constant teeth and boney fingers digging in, ripping, but never dying. The duration of their imprisonment and the treatment they endure is expected to drive any prisoner into insanity and to then take the suicidal route. The skeletons surrounding him tear him apart regularly, cannibalizing flesh at the same rate as it regenerated -- not allowed to die, not allowed to bleed out. No light, no sound other than the noise of his own skin splitting and bones gnawing.

In my verse back before the fall. // 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝟎𝟎𝟓. where Satoru is spat out from the Prison Realm back in time, into his teenage body, he is convinced initially that the Realm was simply making him start to hallucinate his life before things went horribly wrong (with Suguru defecting) solely to torment him further. He has difficulty recognizing whether or not the world around him is real, and has breaks in awareness in which he believes himself still stuck within the Realm's grasp if he shuts his eyes for too long. He feels fried, his power's glitchy, and his mind can't adjust to the fact that his body hasn't mastered Domain Expansion yet. He has to play catch-up in more ways than one, all while faced with the very hopeful possibility that this is all real and he can, in fact, reach out to Suguru and help him fight his demons ---- if his own don't bury him first.

Alternatively, in my i have love and dreams too. // 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝟎𝟎𝟒. route, Satoru's stability is forcibly maintained because of the circumstances; Sukuna's possession of Megumi, their final fight, take precedence over Satoru experiencing any lasting side-effects from his lengthy stay in the Prison Realm. He doesn't have time to open up about his experience, nor does he find it important enough to mention. But in the month before the final fight, Satoru doesn't sleep at all. In the case of @svgurugeto's canon divergence and him becoming a teacher alongside Satoru, he may in fact confide in Suguru about his time spent there (assuming Shibuya proceeds as canon laid out regardless of Kenjaku having access to Suguru / Suguru being alive, yet him potentially still "used" to draw Satoru in for a minute to be sealed) yet he also won't want to burden Suguru with any guilt if he did, in fact, become sealed because Suguru was used as a weakness.

Either way, the experience has scarred him in more ways than one.