i think now i understand why gege despised gojo so much
he himself built him as the strongest character right from the beginning and he kinda went off on building his character from the moment he was born. like, it was such a great story, his whole character, his very essence was so so good,
like, there is no way this character was only loved based on the headcanons, you know? some characters are like that, but i think gojo was really loved for everything that he was.
but then he remembered that he had a kind of a main character whose story had to be done and like yeah, it was an exciting thing to see sukuna vs gojo but WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE POINT OF THAT FUCKING “THE STRONGEST” BUILD UP? WHYYYYY
why would you do that to this poor character? i’m not i could do better or whatever, no way i’m downvoting gege akutami’s abilities, but … seriously man💀
and him still not being over his break up with geto after so many years, after killing him(which i think is being mentioned in every 10 chapters just so people could still commit to reading, just like gojo’s cameos) gives him a very emotional depth, but like WHAT IS THE POINT ? WHAT IS THE POINT OF GOJO THEN?
is he just a pretty face for cool panels? just a fucking tool to use to show off how characters are so fucking smart? what is the point of them too if they still rely on gojo to defeat sukuna
I’m not saying gojo should’ve won in the battle of the strongest but like don’t fucking do that battle with every other panel screaming “nah i’d win” just for the character to be off-screen killed bro OFF-SCREEN UGHHHHH
i just think he didn’t know what to do with gojo
either he uses him and sukuna is pointlessly killed or gojo is killed just so others can show their abilities and fail again and again until they come back to using gojo. poor gojo.
can you imagine that? your body barely put together and then your brain removed and your soul trapped, restlessly watching everything.
what the fuck
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i cant believe ive seen no one rotate the 'peter was There' concept fully. enough coworkers to lovers we need to put these bitches in a situationship NOW !!
peter seems to constantly be at odds with himself in how he treats miguel, on one hand he tries very hard to be friendly and caring towards him, but on the other miguel keeps doing things that he believes are wrong. unfortunately, miguel keeps making very good points (for the greater good and all that) and we see him struggle to come up with refutes, like in the scene where miguel cages miles.
theres only a few scraps of it, but it really seems like they used to be Close. stuff like peter being (seemingly) the only person nearby when his world was evaporating, a task that he would want to call in spiders he trusted to help with. or peter knowing nueva york & miguel well enough to go downtown as soon as theyre out of spider society hq, and wait in the uptown infastructure for a chance to nab miles. or miguel asking someone to catch spot and peter immediately assumes its a task hes expected to take on--miguel has to explicitly shoot him down.
whatever peter is trying to build (or rebuild...) with miguel, miguel wants No part of
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145.
It's a recent thing. Soren has never had a reason to be anxious before, but he's never had his dead father come back to life before either, and there are nights when he wakes, shaking, screaming, unable to breathe until he knows where he is and that Viren isn't there.
Tonight is one of those nights.
He startles awake, half falling out of his hammock and shoving Callum out of his in the process. The ship—the ship?—rocks beneath him, and Soren scrambles, wide-eyed and terrified, for something solid to hold. Wood chips under his nails, his chest tight, his lungs caught between an inhale and an exhale, his vision, already dark and blurry, going blurrier still.
"Soren—Soren, hey! Hey, it's me!"
"Wh-what—"
"It's okay! You're safe!"
"Stay away from me!" He lashes out, his elbow connecting with something solid, his other hand reaching blindly for his sword.
There's a groan in the darkness, a scuffle, and someone half choking the word, "Bait!" before the world lights up and Soren blinks the nightmare out of his eyes.
"Callum?"
Callum groans again, his arms over his stomach the wind clearly knocked from his lungs, and—
"Oh."
"Yeah," rasps Callum. "Are you okay?"
"I—" Soren swallows, his throat still tight. "Yeah. I'm—"
Callum waves him off. "I'm fine. Take a minute. Sounded like a heck of a dream."
Soren's breath shudders in. It's the first one that actually reaches his lungs, and in the clarity, he realises that he's crying and that his hands are still shaking. "I—um—"
"You don't have to explain," says Callum, shuffling over to sit next to him. "I get it. This isn't the worst reaction I've had."
"What do you mean?"
Callum chuckles and nods at the hammock on the other side of the berth. "Rayla used to get them all the time. She pulled both her swords on me once. That wasn't fun."
Soren scoffs despite himself. He rubs at his eyes, hoping Callum will just assume he's trying to clear his vision, but Callum's always been smarter than that and he keeps his head respectfully turned away. "Did they—uh—get better?"
"She left, remember?"
"Oh."
Silence stretches between them. The ship creaks as it rocks.
"But she came back, too," says Callum after a minute. "And... I dunno, part of me thinks that she just didn't know how to deal with them, or how to let other people help." He sighs. "Don't make that mistake too."
"What?"
Callum breathes out carefully, his elbows against his knees. "I just need you to know that we're all here," he says quietly. "And that you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, but you don't have to deal with it on your own either. Please don't think you have to deal with it on your own."
More silence, but within it, Soren can hear his heart starting to slow again, and feel his hands beginning to steady. And underneath that again, there's... warmth. Safety. The reasurrance that the family that will choose him is here. "I didn't think you cared that much," he says finally.
Callum chuckles a little. "I just don't think we can manage losing anyone else."
Soren snorts. "No," he mutters. "I don't think we can."
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So I don't know if it was ever revealed how Duncan felt when we killed Malistaire all three times but I'm wondering if maybe some part of him could hate us for that too. Like you hear that and you go "but why. Malistaire was terrible and even Duncan knew that(?). Why would he hate you for getting rid of him."
But like I think it's so....... interesting in a very, very, very sad way how Duncan so easily latches onto anyone who directly feeds into his delusions of grandeur. And that's no fault of his own that he was manipulated by the nasty Schism but when you think about how desperately clung to the idea that Malistaire, easily one of the greatest necromancers any of us had ever heard of (at that time), somehow actually recognized Duncan's talents (even when canon supports that Duncan wasn't all that talented, at least no more than the next necromancer) and then praised him for it so often that Duncan believed that he would be the next Death Professor is. I mean ☹️
So like with that mindset I unfortunately feel like it would be quite easy to twist even Malistaire's death as something that's horrible and awful and all our fault. ESPECIALLY if the Schism was feeding into Duncan's already broken mind and shattered ego and was constantly telling him that everything bad that ever happened to him ever in his life was Our Fault. That's like a realistic conclusion that someone like Duncan could come to
And like, at this point in time, are Malistaire's crimes even a factor in how he thinks????? Was Duncan ever able to separate Malistaire's talent and skills and prowess from the terrible and awful things he did? If Duncan wasn't able to consciously tell that distinction in the first place I can't imagine it would be any better during the years he was being manipulated and isolated and lied to
Like in Duncan's mind it probably isn't, "maybe I shouldn't idolize a national criminal, or idolize anyone at all for that matter, and aspire to be like someone so harmful when I can recognize my own talent and build from there" it's probably more like, "you (the wizard) permanently got rid of a brilliant mind, an innocent person who just made a few mistakes, and someone who believed in me no matter what just so that you could be the better than me and loved by everyone else" and that's! very sad actually!
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