#LET THEM LIVE

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

i have made a comprehensive list as to why i think that itadori yuuji and fushiguro megumi love each other and are soulmates (platonic or otherwise)

edit: i also may or may not have an entire stanza by stanza analysis of the first year trio’s songs if anyone wants that too….

i read the entire series from start to finish in one sitting for this. here it is:

saving each other without question or second thought (volume 1)

megumi: “i don’t want to let him die.” gojo: “personal?” megumi: “yes.”

yuuji eats the finger to save megumi.

note: in the manga he is not trapped in a curse’s mouth

their entire interaction during the detention center (cursed womb arc)

yuuji: “fushiguro! please.”

 yuuji to megumi before fighting finger bearer alone

Megumi: “it was a selfish, emotional decision.”

megumi telling yuuji why he saved him

megumi running back to grab the name off the body of one of the inmates because it’s what yuuji would have wanted

“what kind of woman is your type?” “as long as the person is compassionate (see also: has unshakable character, unwavering kindness, etc.), i can’t ask for more.” (chapter 17)

yuuji’s kanji quite literally translates to unwavering humanity. could be a stretch, but an interesting connection considering that gege does not just throw things around like that

not necessarily a moment where i think they love/care for each other, i just love it, but… (chapter 33)

“i don’t know what he was up to while he was gone, but if it comes down to a brawl without any cursed energy involved… itadori would win.”

nothing special, just megumi appreciating and acknowledging yuuji lol

before the exchange event, megumi noticing something happened to yuuji (junpei’s death) (chapter 33)

megumi: “itadori, you okay?” yuuji: “well, it’s a big job but i should be fine.” megumi: “no, something happened, didn’t it?” yuuji: “huh, what are you talking about?”

megumi can tell that something has been/is bothering yuuji, even after his insistence that he’s fine

megumi being worried about the kyoto students trying to kill yuuji; specifically, he’s the one who figured it out (chapter 36)

yuuji stepping into the fight with hanami after fushiguro gets the bud curse (chapter 48)

yuuji: “fushiguro, don’t worry”

btw, this is a direct parallel of point two, back in the detention center

megumi: “if you die again, i’ll kill you” yuuji: “i guess i can’t go dying on ya then”

yuuji checking on megumi at yasohachi bridge when tsumiki was mentioned to have gone to the bridge and being worried when megumi tried to send him and nobara back to the school so he could exorcise the curse by himself (chapter 56)

megumi telling yuuji to go after kugisaki from the domain, parallel of the detention center when yuuji told megumi to go after kugisaki (chapter 57)

yuuji: “if you get in trouble, you better get out too!”

after the fight at yasohachi bridge, both megumi and yuuji are protecting each other from their burdens (chapter 63)

megumi: “don’t tell him.”

explaining to nobara that yuuji eating the finger caused curses to start killing people

yuuji: “hey! don’t tell fushiguro. don’t you dare tell him”

yuuji to sukuna after being told that because of him people were going to die.

see: cursed womb arc; “why’d you bother saving me then?

this one is just another funsie thing that i wanted to add, but in It’s Like That, megumi is the first person that yuuji notices when he arrives at the diner, completely bypassing nobara and ozawa (chapter 64)

the entire fight with the inverse guy was just peak duo-ism, you can’t even deny it, there is so much content in there (chapter 94–98)

megumi: “itadori!” yuuji: “no worries, it’s just a scratch!!!”

giving parallels with gojo and geto when toji first snuck up on gojo

megumi, using rabbit escape: “let’s retreat for now.” yuuji picks up a bunny, bc of course he does

inverse guy: “man up and come at me!” megumi, pointing at yuuji: “that’s really more his style.” yuuji: throwing a fucking car

yuuji: “i’m heading into the station” megumi: “fine, but–” yuuji: “’if you die, i’ll kill you,’ right”

them just working together in general, we love to see it

fellas, is it gay to think of your friend during your last moments? (chapter 117)

“i’ll see you later!” “sorry… itadori…” megumi summons mahoraga and apologizes to yuuji.

post-shibuya arc, yuuji spends the entire time between shibuya and the culling games avoiding megumi in order to protect him (volume 16)

megumi and yuuji taking on the burden of the deaths in shibuya arc together (chapter 143)

yuuji: “i killed people! because of me, lots of people died!” megumi: “it’s our fault, don’t be selfish and give up all alone.”

megumi tries to explain to yuuji that they need to save who they can

parallels grandpa itadori’s last wish

yuuji: “no, fushiguro, it’s because… as long as i’m around… you will suffer!” megumi: “so start by saving me, itadori! … i’m begging you, itadori. i need your strength.”

yuuji has a purpose and a reason to keep going (see chapter 212: “thank you for giving me a role to play”)

yuuji telling yuuta to kill him if he ever switches to sukuna, without hesitation, in order to protect megumi (chapter 144)

yuuji: “sukuna is plotting something involving fushiguro”

megumi not caring about the dangers of sukuna so he can stick with yuuji (chapter 146)

megumi: “if that happens and i die, just have him (yuuta) kill you” yuuji: the point is to not let that happen

they just care about each other, your honor

yuuji trying to avoid megumi once again before the culling games (chapter 146)

megumi panicking at yuuji getting beat by hakari (more so than panda was) to the point where he was about to jump over the rail and start interfering (chapter 157)

megumi: oh no! if he gets hurt anymore… “itadori! that’s enough!”

yuuji (again) trying to avoid being with megumi during the culling games in order to protect him from sukuna (chapter 160)

yuuji: “i’m just worried!” megumi: “are you going to say that every time? it’s annoying a waste of time!” (he is stubborn, refuses to be separated from yuuji)

they are bickering like an old married couple here imo

megumi and yuuji are split up and start working to find higuruma. they are each told different locations and immediately think of each other (chapter 162)

megumi: “shinjuku…” i hope itadori is on his way there too… yuuji: “ikebukuro?!” is fushiguro there too?

another cutesy one that i just wanted to add: megumi smiling when he realized that yuuji got the points to add a rule to the culling games (chapter 168)

megumi waking up and immediately speaking to yuuji (he doesn’t acknowledge hana or anyone else in any way, shape, or form for like an hour (chapter 199)

megumi immediately notices something is up with yuuji when they learn about “the disgraced one,” and this has one of my fave duo interactions with them (chapter 200)

megumi: “itadori, what’s wrong”

always so akin to yuuji’s feelings bruh

yuuji switches with hana to communicate to megumi that sukuna is the disgraced one. hana is just staring lovingly at megumi, megumi is only concerned about yuuji

their cute little charades act, oh my god they are so fucking silly bro

megumi: i don’t get it. what’s he trying to say?

oh my god bro pls

yuuji: *nod nod* did he get it?

yuuji is fully resolved in dying because megumi and tsumiki (as far as they knew) are safe, so he is okay with dying as long as they can live

megumi is immediately worried about yuuji killing himself and dying to end sukuna

my god they are both so worried about each other all the time

megumi is quick to notice yuuji’s disposition towards hana (chapter 210)

megumi: “this isn’t like you.” yuuji: “you sure about that?”

megumi: “don’t be dumb.” yuuji: “i’ll apologize later…”

can they stop flirting in dire times?

yuuji thinking of both gojo and megumi as they gave him a role in the world (chapter 212)

maybe i should have done it sooner. i could have helped fushiguro and disappeared. thank you for giving me a role to play

megumi suppresses sukuna’s technique when he first incarnates in his body (chapter 214)

literally any point during the fight with sukuna where yuuji is locked in on saving megumi (shinjuku showdown arc)

“wake up, fushiguro.” (chapter 251)

i’ll do it as many times as it takes! “wake up, fushiguro!” (chapter 263)

“you’re right, sukuna. i have the ability to end your life. if you release fushiguro and return to me, i will spare your life.” (chapter 265)

literally all of chapter 266 bro this entire fucking chapter hurts me so fucking bad??????

megumi just wanting a peaceful life with his sister and yuuji

yuuji knowing and understanding megumi’s pain to the point where he knows it isn’t fair to force or expect him to want to live

“i’ve started to understand and emphathize with the decisions made by people who encounter unavoidable realities, like grandpa. for that reason… for that reason, i can’t tell you to continue living, fushiguro.”

megumi: “huh? what’s with that face?” yuuji: “nothing, it’s just that… it’ll be lonely without you, fushiguro.”

what if i was suicidal?????

megumi hears yuuji telling him it’ll be lonely when he’s gone and sees one (1) tear form in his eyes and immediately locks in, using his technique to throw sukuna off guard and allow yuuji to land a hit

yuuji smiling when he realized that megumi was fighting back

see chapter 168: megumi smiling when he realized yuuji got the points for the games

EDIT: OH MY GOD CHAPTER 268????????

megumi: “i think i’ll try to live for someone else.”

also, see yuuji and megumi’s theme songs that were selected by gege:

yuuji’s songs:

heart ni hi o tsukete by 9mm parabellum bullet – a song about two people struggling to recover from their traumas and pain and wondering if they will find love within each other.

the last line of the song is “will we love each other? will we not love each other? will we turn to ashes?”

itsuka dokoa de by kuchiroro – this song overall seems to be a sort of conversation that the narrator is having with an unknown person. there is mentions of belief, love, and a desire for a simple, mundane life.

love is mentioned a lot throughout this song (it’s 13 minutes long and translations are hard to find online though)

megumi’s songs:

hakujitsumu by uchujin – the song is about wanting to save someone, but also battling with their own internal struggles as they try to navigate their trauma.

“don’t disappear yet, i’ll rescue you.”

island in the sun by weezer – this song is about a narrator and their desire to run away with someone and live a peaceful life, away from their troubles so they will “never feel bad anymore.”

this song i feel reflects most with that idyllic life that megumi wanted to build for tsumiki and yuuji

[llamasofchaos]

One thing I am tired of in both canon and fandom is the idea that if a Jedi slips or gives into their fear or anger and channels the dark side that that's it. There's no redemption or coming back from it. That if a Jedi were to slip and struggle along the way that they can never come back from that choice.

That makes no freaking sense.

Literally the original trilogy ended happily because Luke was able to reach out and help convince Darth Vader, his father to make the right choice for the first time in literally twenty years.

And before anyone says anything no I am not trying to say that you shouldn't or can't explore an alternative universe or take to certain situations in canon (Ezra originally becoming a sith, Cal falling after fallen order) that is an entirely different thing and can be very enjoyable to write or read. What I am saying is that people are so quick to condemn characters to little boxes that don't exist in canon when doing characterization or character studies and that sucks.

Ezra was tempted because he was afraid of losing everything. He came back from that and was okay. Obi-Wan lived in darkness and fear for years because he lost everything, he found his way back to the light. Ahsoka was raised and trained to be a soldier instead of a Jedi and spent more years running and surviving than she did living as a Jedi, and yet she eventually found her way back. Anakin Skywalker fell and helped bring about the end of the Republic and the Jedi order, and yet after twenty years he made the first step in coming back to the light.

Jedi aren't 100% light and good. Some can carry that light, but most have to struggle along the way, that's simply how it works. That's how life in general fictional and real works. If there wasn't redemption possible life would be really sad and honestly awful. If Jedi fell after one mistake there wouldn't be a Jedi order.

Stop making characters worse than they are because you don't want them to redeem themselves, they are allowed to make mistakes, fix their mistakes, and grow.

[polin-brain-rot]

I don’t know about you guys, but I hope Nicola and Luke and whoever they are dating / not dating are having lovely days without all the bullshit some of you guys are posting …

😊 hope this helps.

(This shouldn’t be a hot take just fyi)

[cheerfullycatholic]

Good job team, let's make 2025 another good year!

[ganondoodle]

im 27 now

[mairon-goth-minion]

ok, but hear me out:

Evan Rosier who didn’t believe in love

Evan Rosier who came from a powerful family and therefore had to act accordingly

Evan Rosier who suppressed his passions for dead things

Evan Rosier who hid everything that made him ‘weird’ to seem ‘normal’

Evan Rosier who slowly died inside every time he had to pretend to be someone he wasn’t

Evan Rosier who, despite being one of the ‘popular kids’ hated everyone and himself most of all

Evan Rosier who didn’t believe that anybody would ever love him for who he truly was

Evan Rosier who couldn’t love himself

Evan Rosier whose world was shaken when he met a boy who seemed just as unstable as him

Evan Rosier who pretended to hate that boy because it’s what people expected from the Heir of the Rosier House

Evan Rosier who found himself slowly falling for this wild ‘freak’

Evan Rosier who, during a party, drunk out of his mind, kissed that outcast, that boy who he’d been dreaming about for years

Evan Rosier who was kissed back by avid lips who’d desired him since day one

Evan Rosier who felt something for the first time in his life

Evan Rosier who only showed his true colors to his feral lover

Evan Rosier who slowly learned how to love both himself and others

Evan Rosier who died with Barty’s name on his lips

“I promised you I’d be here when you got out of that wretched prison. I promised that as long as you lived, I’d never give up on you. Looks like I can’t keep promises that well. Sorry I didn’t say goodbye. I fought, but not hard enough, apparently. I’ll see you on the other side. I love you, Barty.”

[blackflash9]

The other Guardians being saved negates their story are the two takes that people in fandom say that annoys me to no end.

Tell me about it. If I hear one more person claim that Roxas, Naminé, and Xion don’t deserve to exist or have even a sliver of happiness after the endless suffering they’ve endured since day one, I’m unleashing Zettaflare.

[lxndonorris]

People took what Max said about the papaya family seriously?

During a gaming charity stream? Forcing him to clarify its just fun and games?

Give me a break.

[avataraloy]

guerrilla games giving Aloy a girlfriend and then making me wait who knows how many years to find out if they reunite/survive nemesis together is so cruel of them

[takeachillpilljungkook]

Tyme loves Great so much, he went into his own 4minutes to try and change things AND NOW I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF

[platter-o-teeth]

everytime someone refers to percabeth as enemies to lovers, i detach from my humanity more and more. soon enough i will become the new godzilla and i will rip my own head off

[aaandbackstabbed]

Beakley: Scrooge, you’ve received a lot of calls today

Beakley: I’ve organised them into three piles; ‘goldie’, ‘death treats’ and ‘death threats from goldie’

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

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Please reblog.

[deepcreekvulture]

I always thought it was so crazy that shows would go on for 15+ seasons. It's always the shows with the most emotionally unstable characters, too. I guess the show runners just don't know how to let their characters be happy.

HAVEN'T THEY SUFFERED ENOUGH, PLEASE LET THEM GO.

[cheerfullycatholic]

[lafdbitch]

why are we doing this to madney they’ve been through enough