#but i should watch jjk 0 at some point...

[hollow-lime-green]

I think you summed it up pretty well for jjk, that Gege had a lot of great ideas with poor execution because most plot points/character beats weren't well thought out. But for me, the biggest problem was the lack and/or complete disregard of character development, interaction, and depth (there's also little to no emotional beats and emotional depth, too, but that's a separate argument). I can't believe the manga has ended with a lot of characters - MAIN characters - being one note, one dimensional, concluding their character arcs exactly how they began, or not concluding their character arcs at all. I would even go one step further and say that jjk has a whole lot of plot devices that happen to have names (like Megumi and Nobara), meanwhile, there are about 5 real characters. All this tells me is that somewhere along the way, Gege stopped caring about his characters, and that's a cardinal sin for any author to make. Because if the author doesn't care about their own characters, why should the readers? And they don't care about the characters, why should they care about the story? And that's where I find myself (actually, I've felt like this for over a year now). Liking or hating the ending of jjk or the series in general are way too strong of emotions to attribute to how I feel. I'm simply indifferent, which I believe to be worse than outright hating it. I've lost the love I had for this series, but hating it takes too much energy and is honestly a waste of my time.

Still, like anything else, this is nothing fanfic can't fix. So, there's that, I guess…

All in all, I hope that the ending doesn't deter you or any other fanfic writers who also didn't like the ending from finishing their ongoing fanfics. Despite me not really caring about jjk anymore, I'm still very much invested in your stsg fic and can't wait for the next chapter! 😊

yeah, well said.

to be honest, i'm not super affected by the ending. i watched jjk s1 because it was popular and felt very nothing about it. i never bonded with the younger cast, and that is true even now. i started reading around maybe july of last year? and still, i felt a whole lot of nothing until 236. the first time around, gojo's past arc actually did nothing for me. it wasn't until 236 that I was like "wait is there something here?" i didn't have a lot of love to begin with, so i didn't have a lot to lose.

then i went back and reread, read fanfic, and began to get invested in stsg. and then, because I'm a redditor, I began to read some of the theorycrafting stuff and got invested in that too. jjk is kind of like star wars for me. I like the world, but I am somewhat uninterested in the Main Story that people have chosen to tell in it. (which is why games like KOTOR and extended universe stuff are so good and cool to me)

FIYM is certainly safe from the ending, because I'm simply doing something different. clearly i have never cared about what gege thinks his mechanics/universe rules are, because I am simply rewriting them all. if I do lose steam on it, it'll be because of real life/energy or the very scary and realistic possibility that the fandom starts to decay with time and I can't finish it while I still have active cheerleaders. i hope that doesn't happen, but I've experienced it before.

ending thoughts -

I actually do like the power of friendship ending and I kind of was hoping that we would get something like this, IF it was paced well, which it wasn't. and it needed more 'break the cycle' energy. and it needed a lot of people to die. (if i'm writing jjk, 100% yuta is doomed. he is yuki 2.0.). with the pacing we got, I was hoping for a brutal twist. when gege announced 5 chapters left, my brother asked me if I thought it could end well in that time, and i think i said something along the lines of "no, definitely no, 0% chance, absolutely not". and yet I was still somehow surprised.

there's so much setup on the themes of love, sacrifice, and enlightenment (letting go of attachment), and gege fumbled hard on the pacing to convey any coherent message about any of it. there are so many endings that would have worked and what we got was not one of them, but again I think largely due to the pacing and priority.

i think that gege does care about his characters, but he doesn't know what to do with them, and specifically when to kill them.

I think nobara is great and I like how she goes out as a cost of her ambition/bravery. leave it there, greg.

I think yuta is great and i like how he goes out trying to turn himself into a monster to save his friends. kill him, greg.

I think it is understandable to lose hope after you lose and kind of kill your sister and everything is hopeless and you take 200 years of brain damage. tragedy is GOOD, greg.

higuruma did enough, kusakabe did enough, let them sacrifice like choso! fights have a cost, greg, this goes with your theme of adult vs child responsibilities, GREG.

Gege actually had a lot of good character arc concepts imo, but because he is allergic to strong, definitive writing choices, he cheapened and undid some of those arcs, and that is disappointing. but I think when you look at gojo, geto, yuta, and (maybe hot take) mai, there's a great character writer hiding in there. he's just being held hostage by the worst storyboarding/planning you've ever seen in your life.

also yuuji shouldn't have been the mc, he is by far the least interesting main cast character of jjk, and I think a large part of why the last 20ish chapters were so... like that, is that gege wrote himself into a massive corner trying to make yuuji feel like an appropriate choice/power match for the final battle (and he still failed)

which, by the way, is crazy, because you could still do the same ending thematically without trying to powerlevel yuji with replacement training and all that bs. like, this is fantasy greg. if you were going to give yuuji a domain expansion anyway then his domain expansion can just be winning the battle through friendship lol

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heyyy how many episodes of jjk would. in theory. i need to watch to read sea glass gardens and understand wtf is going on. i love your writing but idk this show and based on your descriptions if i try to go in blind i'm doomed. i have a bad habit of exclusively watching shows so i can read fics about them because my taste is fucking cursed, thanks

If you're looking to just understand at a baseline level what's going on in sea glass gardens, the answer is actually zero episodes.

sea glass gardens takes place before the main series, directly after the prequel movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0. And, good news, the fic takes place entirely from the perspective of the protagonist of JJK 0 (who is not the protagonist of the main series), who is also new to the sorcerer society of the JJK universe. So the movie does a good job of explaining the premise of the world and introducing most of the people who I use as the main characters of sea glass gardens as like, new people whose entire schtick needs to be explained. There are some characters in sea glass gardens who don't appear until the main series, but they're also strangers to the narrator of sea glass gardens, so I actually introduce them to the narrator and explain who they are.

I do not do that for the panda. I assume you also know why the panda is supposed to be there. The panda is in JJK 0.

Now, just watching JJK 0 and not the main series means you won't be confused and you'll be able to enjoy what's going on in sea glass gardens, but you admittedly won't have all the relevant context. But it shouldn't make you unable to follow the plot and what's going on, you'll just miss out on a few nods to the main series. Again, the narrator is also new to the world, so if you've watched JJK 0, you have pretty much all of the same context that he has. You'll just basically be getting a different introduction to some people or concepts than you otherwise would if you had met them in canon. So basically, like Yuuta (the narrator), you'll be meeting characters like Naobito for the very first time through sea glass, whereas people who have watched all the way through will have more background knowledge from what they know of him in canon, but you don't need any of his canon appearances to understand Naobito or his role in the fic.

And anyway if you want to have like, 100% of the same knowledge of canon that I had going into writing the fic, then you need to join me in hell with a total deep dive. Some of the characters mentioned in sea glass haven't shown up in the anime yet. Some of them haven't shown up in the anime or the manga, but the mangaka referenced them as a single bullet point in a character sheet and I decided to use them. You will be totally fine without this background knowledge. It is completely useless.

The thing about sea glass gardens is that it sort of exists in this niche part of canon that canon does not. actually. care about. Its primary conflict centers around the major clans of the Jujutsu Kaisen world and the tensions between them.

And the thing is. That canon. Doesn't. Really. Talk about that. It's just the tiny irrelevant part of canon that I cared passionately about. I don't know why I'm like this.

Like, one of the most important characters in the series, Gojo Satoru, is the head of the Gojo clan. He is also the only gojo clan member that we ever meet. Canon's just got other shit going on and the clan drama is mostly a background thing. I have built my little house of a few vague, scattered lines throughout the series and then wholesale made a lot of shit up.

That being said, that means sea glass gardens should actually be intelligible even if you're bypassing the main series, because it's a terrible representation of what this series is actually about. Whatever you think the plot of JJK is after reading sea glass gardens, it isn't that. The protagonist of the actual main series will never even appear in sea glass gardens. the primary antagonists of the main series will, for the most part, not be there at all. I am playing in my little sandbox of clan political intrigue because it enthralls me.

The prequel movie is actually really well done, and it only requires under two hours of investment. If you want a slightly more comprehensive introduction to the world before reading sea glass, I'd watch the first six episodes or so of the main series as well, but it isn't mandatory to understanding the fic.

I personally stream the prequel movie off of crunchyroll. I'm not sure where else, if anywhere, it's available, but it should be fairly easy to track down and watch if you're just looking to dip your toes into the JJK world.

[tatakaeeren]

Since lavender is my favorite color and scent I can be lavender anonie 🥰. I’m 21 btw! I feel like I should always say age just for peeps sake but the way after every jjk episode I have to go watch free! (Season 2 specifically aka the best season) bc I keep thinking about the future of what’s to come (I’m caught up in the manga) and I just go 0-0

ALSO I’m so happy you post bleach too :0 I’m on like episode 308 and I’m reading it and even though I haven’t finished (I know the whole arcs bc I’m not spoiler sensitive really) it’s what I think got me REALLY REALLY into anime 🤓 who’s your fave bleach character? Mine is Urahara bc I’m a SUCKER for wet napkin loser men like him. I also feel like I sound so insane right now I’m a huge rambler especially since irl I have no one to weeb to over the bleach lore and how aizen and Urahara to me are similar parallels to gojo and geto in the sense that both groups have these ideals that they want for the greater good (soul king versus jujutsu society) and the villains on both side have some frustration against their counter bc of their strength and intelligence but they seemingly “don’t do anything” even they also want a greater good ANYWAY AH SORRY TO RAMBLE MORE

Aww how lovely!! Lavender Anonie 💖 it is then! :D Good to know you are not underage (even though I don't post a lot nsfw) but it is good to know just in case I post something or say something 👍. We all need our comfort something after an intense episode or chapter.... especially if we know what is coming... jjk ep 4 and onwards...😭 and the manga right now 😨. Damn... we only had 3 episodes of happiness.

YAASSSS BLEACHH!!! I'm so glad we have another one in common! bleach was the anime that got me into anime and my first ever physical volume and also what got me into reading manga. So bleach holds a special place in my heart. Ep 308! you have 58 to finish! :D. My list of top 5 hahah (don't make me choose just one because I can't XD) 1) Byakuya, Urahara, Aizen, Jugram and Grimmjow 💖. What other characters are your faves? from what other anime/manga? I'm curious to see if we have more faves in common!

OOHHH niceeee i never thought about it but you have a point there!! there are some similarities between those 4! I always find it interesting when there is a "battle" of ideals and see how people follow them and the decision they make. + those 4 are also hot as hell 😎💖 hahahah.

[rwqv]

bro mahito was such a good villain like he was the first villain that genuinely pissed me off.,, his writing is soo good i love it so bad but like comeee ONNNN

DADDYJAKU IS CRAZY WORK but i sgree full heartedly

pls im doubling over in pain godd GODDD i luv jjk analyses especially with megumi. no matter how bad i love gojo, megumi will always be my favoeite with his writing. my brother was super annoyed that he kept summoning mahoraga, kept flashbacking to sukuna sayinf "thats kinda a waste of your talents right?" and kept flashbacking to gojo saying hes not using all his potential ... but thats the point!!!!!!!!! hes falling behind compared to yuji and he knows it ... and hes super depressed and hes willing to summon mahoraga so much because he literally does NOT care about his life in the slightest that man actively wants to kill himself... UGHHH AND HIM BEING CALLED POTENTIAL MAN LIKE DID U GUYS EVEN READ SLASH WATCH THE SHOW...... THATS THE POINT hes like a foil of yuji AND a parallel to geto.

yghhh yuji sarcrifuce would tear me apart like i literally gave birth to yuji hes my baby my sonnn ... but i cant lie that would be a great ending

plot twist gojo comes back talking about some "im for real real!" LMFAOOOOOO jk ... as mych as i truth him to come back i think his like character development and arc was at a good enough point for him to die. like nanami's character did seem fully fleshed oht when he died but nobara (at the time) didnt seem that developed when gege killed her. but shes back baby so maybe we'll see more of her (in the remaining 5 chapters ........)

YES OMG UGH the gojo 30 questions was like the smallest glimpse we had of the gojo clan. what do you MEAN his parents are still alive and everythint TELL ME MOREEEUHHH..

did u see getos mom was on the popularity list thing rven tho we've never seen him LMFAOOO i just know shes bad asf

oh my god imb so mad. i wrote up a full lengthy response but i crashed and everythkng got deleted. ill type up what i remember but its pretty bad 😭 i was cooking before it gor deleted

ANYWAYS

i never actually thought of megumi that way holy shit… esp with the fight between toji and him in shibuya… like father: 0 cursed energy, no weapon vs. son: the 10 shadows technique and all his shikigami and he still “lost”. megumi would probably win if he couldve apply himself better. he def feels left behind just like geto did when gojo surpassed him quickly thats horrible

i feel so much more sympathetic to megumi now i feel bad 😢

ALSO ABOUT HOW HES DEPRESSED AND EVERYTHING AND WANTS TO DIE BECAUSE OF SUKUNA INHABITING HIM AND USING MEGUMI AS A WEAPON

i do also think gojos character arc is pretty finished. like i want him to come back but also he feels completed. he was the strongest but he lost (mommyraga saved sukunas ass) . gojo finally did what no one thought could be done, and he could no longer be used as a weapon (not cool yuta 😡) and he died on the same day that geto did + on the most romantic day.. i think gojo should finally truely rest now (with his shitty ass sleeping schedule he needs it)

to add on, gojo killed his best friend and had to watch as his adopted son was used as a weapon to kill him he needs to lay down and sleep. his whole sense of family too is pretty messed up w the clan things and also riko (i think they have a sibling bond but also it seems like he doesnt fully like her but that might just be siblings) and everyone who came close to him died

more things about the clan workings would have been cool too!1 the story only sorta fleshed out zenin but what about kamo? or gojo? like what would gojos parents think about gojo dying and stuff like that? the clans are supposed to be like a big part of jujutsu society but i feel like they barely get any screentime. did he love his parents? did his parents love him? did anyone love him as a kid? how did the clans clash back then?? like PPPLLLEEASSE WHAT ABOUT NORITOSHI AND HIS CLAMMN WHY

my point is gege is leaving so much open like the merger€? more character interactions would definitely allow people to feel better… what about cursed tools backstories? cursed speech clan? international sorcerers? i know everyone was like jjk is dragging on and everything but 5 chapters could not resolve these plotppoints

10 spinoff series with all slice of life fluff now PLS

GETOS MOM WOULD DEF BE A BADDIE all of his genes are from her majestic ahh bro… that nurse kenjaku(geto) relly shows it

OOH MY GOD I THOUGHT I POSTED THIS EARLIER WJOOPS SORRY

[bitchgray]

Hey! No worries about the slow replies! I'm pretty slow myself so no problem here 😅 Hmmm what ships should I ask about for the lore 🧐 Why don't you tell me about Yukimiya, Nanami, Solomon and Satan? I think that's a good bunch.

- L&L Anon

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Okay, so I'm gonna put this under a read more because some of these guys I've thought a lot about and some I haven't thought any about.

If you have any additional questions, lemme know.

Yukimiya - I have thought about him

So extra fun fact about me, I am a shy person. Given my behavior on the server, it might be a little surprising, but I am shy and I have astoundingly little presence for being 5'10" with a very broad frame.

The idea of someone seeing me easily and keeping on noticing me is kinda. It hits, y'know?

So the idea in my head that pairs these two concepts together is the fact that I have a crush on him very early on--as in, regardless of reasoning, I come across him practicing briefly, watch, he sees me watching and smiles at me, and I kinda panic and walk off, but the good news is that's enough to get me a crush.

Bad news, the crush gets worse. 0/10 experience. But I do somehow get around to actually being able to talk to him on a regular basis.

There's really not *much* in the way of Thoughts I have for him. But like. The big one is this kinda...belated 'oh' moment, I guess you could call it?

I like him, I'm not hiding it, but I'm also not obvious given that I don't actually want to be rejected by him. But one of the things I do is I offer him snacks. I just start carrying around snacks for him, he like blueberries, so I have these little packs of dried blueberries to offer him.

I hate blueberries. And he operates under the assumption of "oh, they have a food they like, they share it with me, nice", while failing, for a while, to notice, that A, I don't eat any of them, and B, I don't give them to anyone else. Other snacks, sure, I share, but the blueberries are specifically for him.

Someone *else* takes notice of it, though, and does him the favor of pointing it out.

At which point he realizes.....yeah no I really don't eat the blueberries. Or offer them to anyone else. I have just been doing that little bit to care for him and just him this whole time, huh?

.....WHOOPS. WHOOPS I'VE HAD A HUGE CRUSH ON HIM THIS WHOLE TIME, at least he finally noticed.

No like. Confession thoughts, per se, but he'd have to be the one to say anything.

I wanna take him to an aquarium and show him the penguins. He likes penguins, and that makes me happy.

I also need to tell him that he needs to go to therapy.

He listed his type as someone who laughs a lot and will watch over him. The idea of him noticing me for either of those reasons will send me to my grave.

Nanami - I have *not* thought about him

I think part of what it boils down to is I don't have many self-insert thoughts for JJK? I have one, but that was more of a thought experiment (an angsty, angsty thought experiment) than anything of note.

I think part of it really comes down to that I want to care for him. I think he deserves someone able to protect him, and I want to be that someone.

Another part of it is also he's the type of person I really want to get praise from. I want to impress him, at least a little bit. And yeah, I wanna hear him laugh.

I think he's the type of person who would like my sorta. Cat-like affection/relationship with people I like. Someone invites me to hang out with them, there's no real need for it to be a Big Thing. Sitting in the same room for three, four hours, maybe putting on something to watch, but generally just doing our own things, being happy sitting together in the same room in silence? Maybe occasionally showing each other something, maybe leaning against each other, or just occasionally poking him? Choice.

Satan - I have thought about him

So--sue me, I don't like *everything* about Nightbringer, but it did give the delicious delicious thought that early on he's got very much a vibe of separation anxiety? Like--there's maybe a couple people who he can stand to be around for an extended period without worry about them suddenly irritating him for literally no reason. I want to be one of those people.

Which is funny, because my self-insert also fell before the brothers for asking god who died and made him king (joke, I don't know exactly how it happened yet, so until I do, this is the cover story) so, whoops.

I have big fuck-off wings that occasionally manifest and knock something over when I'm startled, or just on accident for a hot minute. I knock over his books a lot, but I help put them back.

He's--sure, I irritate him just a *little* at first, right, like. I just *show up* and he's already on edge about all his 'brothers' (the air quotes go away eventually) always around and on his case, he doesn't need another idiot with wings invading his space like this and looking through his books. But I also don't really cower away from him when he gets all pissy, and I don't provoke him any further. I just sit exactly where I am and keep reading, and then when I finish my business I leave.

The irritation eventually goes away because at least I'm generally *quiet.* And whenever I talk, I actually talk about something he knows about, and I don't ever talk about any "before" this, right? And I do like cats.

So eventually I just. I become one of Those People for him. And that means that now he's following me around and doesn't like it when I leave. And I'll give him a feather to play with in my absence every so often, or I'll just stay the night with him. Just quiet talks. He just goes and grabs my sleeve whenever things are a bit Much for him so I can at least stick around him.

And when feelings develop, it doesn't really *need* to be said. It's not a matter of us shying away from the concept of being "together." We'll call our trips out to bookstores and cafes and out to categorize odd fauna for my work 'dates', and we won't say that anyone's wrong when they assume we're a couple. We just. Bonded together. He'll read me poetry, and I'll improvise something to say to watch him blush. I'll kiss him out of nowhere on occasion. Normal stuff.

I want to watch him grow! He goes from barely being able to enjoy the presence of anyone around him to having friends just about everywhere, I want to be around to watch that happen, be proud of him about it.

I also want to nap with him. He seems like he'd be comfy to nap around.

Solomon - I have *sort of* thought about him

Having a self-insert already in mind helps this, right? Wrong.

I want him to look at me. Why? Not a clue. I want him to see me and be a little annoying about wanting my attention.

Annoying man.

I don't know, he can fluster me a bit if he flirts with me, but I *will* look unimpressed if he makes note of it.

He's not ever allowed to notice the fact that I'm looking at him. He's not. He ever get any sort of >:3c about it, I will vacate the premises. No exceptions.

I want to sit around with him and watch him work on spells and the like. It's like--a universal trait across most of my self-inserts that I find magic difficult past one or two types, but like. The idea that I'm okay at magic, just do it in a way that he can't make sense of? Choice.

I want to make him feel tender for no real reason. I want to fall asleep around him and have the first question in his mind be whether he should get a blanket for me. I want to surprise him with the fact that he's catching feelings so at least *then* I'm not *alone*.

The idea of him touching me gets me flustered. Truly awful man.

He gets *one* feather. And that's if he's nice.

The poly ship with him and Satan has the same vibes in the sense of None Of Us Say Anything, we just get closer and closer until, Surprise, We've Been Dating This Whole Time. We just all love cats.

[foxstens]

my dress-up darling sequel and jjk 2 both confirmed...

[lavenderslemonade]

Hi! I saw that your requests are open so can I ask for a childhood friends to lovers with yuuta okkotsu (sfw please!)

Just some fluffs of them (like, showering him in attention) or maybe some pda (cause this boy deserves the world and I want to show off how much I love him) can the settings be them in 2nd years? Bc i would love to have the 1st year trio in there. Thank you !!! <33

Requests: Open (Please tell me if you want a HC or a Fic, or you will be skipped)

Warnings: None

Contains spoilers for JJK Manga 0 and Shibuya Arc (one line)

Yuuta Childhood Friends to Lovers

- In your early years the two of you had simply gone to the same elementary school and just so happened to have lived just a few houses down from each other.

- It wasn't odd for him to wake up on weekends to you screaming outside his home, calling out that he should join you to go play in the park or to come play out in the snow.

- He'd try and ignore you for a few minutes, that is, until his little sister would come running down the hallway and slam his door open demanding he go outside to shut you up.

- You were also there when he met Rika. You teased him constantly about his and her crushes towards each other and even demanded you play a part in their future wedding which never ended up happening.

- When Rika was gone, you were there for him as he mourned, at least, you were there until he just stopped coming out of his house.

- Ti The two of you ended up going to separate middle schools and your cries on the weekend for him to join you outside steadily died. Out of curiosity after a night of not being able to sleep, he peered outside his window, spotting you walking by his house.

- You simply stared up at the home you used to frequently visit before adjusting your bag over your shoulders and heading off to complete whatever tasks you had planned to do that day.

- He didn't see you again till his first year at Jujutsu Tech. You'd already moved into your dorm but you had been bringing in your last bit of stuff when you bumped into him.

- Gojo just watched as the two of you awkwardly stared at each other for a few minutes before you darted away, an apology dripping from your lips.

- Things are honestly awkward between the two of you the first few weeks, to which his classmates blatantly point out.

- It isn't till the incident with Getou, and Rika the two of you really start to connect again.

- Conversations in classrooms from earlier that day were quickly picked up in your room after he had slipped in after-hours. Sure the two of you could have waited and kept talking the next day, but the vibe in your room of being in there after hours, his head on your thighs as you play with his hair while you two talk just hits different.

- Instead of simply leaning over to whisper in your ear either you grab his hand and gently pull him towards your lips to whisper or his arm ends up snaked around your shoulders to bring you close, his lips tickling your ear as he fills it with an inside joke or a secret.

- As amusing as it is for your classmates to watch the two of you dance around your feelings for each other, they lowkey get annoyed at some point.

- They convince Gojo to set up a fake mission, lying that he needs to meet you two at a cafe to discuss the details for some reason. Instead, it just ends up with you two being there by yourselves, basically ignoring the fact that your teacher never showed up as the two of you talk.

- Instead of returning back to school the two of you indulge in the day, going to see a movie together and grabbing a bite to eat.

- As the two of you go your separate ways when you arrive back at school, within the hour Yuuta is in your room, snuggled up to your side as you pepper kisses along his face. A silent agreement that after that day the two of you officially crossed the friends line, and into new territory.

- Your friends thought that once the two of you got together everything would be okay. No, the two of you worsen.

- Originally thought that the two of you would be the type that would take forever just to hold hands or kiss. No, you two are the type to always be on each other.

- You're always holding hands. Your friends wanted to try an experiment to see if someone came to walk between the two of you if you'd separate. Panda was the one who volunteered.

- You two were simply walking down one of the schools many paths, enjoying the fall weather when you came across Panda. The three of you stopped, giving each other a greeting before silence fell between you.

- He kinda makes a motion that he wants to get by, and expects the two of you to separate. However, Yuuta simply leads you off to the side, you leaning into his side lovingly at the two of you watch Panda walk away.

- Your friends cringe but aren't surprised.

- If anyone needs Yuuta for anything they know not to check his room, because he's always in yours.

- He has definitely opened your room door wearing a facemask and lil bear ear headband to keep his hair out of his face while the mask dries. Gojo just stares at him for a moment before taking multiple pictures.

- When he has to prepare to leave for Africa he gets the two of you those types of bracelets that can connect with each other when you hold hands.

- When he leaves for Africa you're not as heartbroken as you thought you'd be. Both send texts throughout your days and try to facetime at least once a week.

- When the new first years come along Nobara literally glares whenever it's girls' night and your phone goes off. Maki has gotten used to your blushing face and love a sick smile as you respond to your boyfriend.

- Nobara gets curious as to what your boyfriend looks like, and when you show her a picture of Yuuta she just comments that he's cute. However, when she's alone with Maki afterward, looks at her senior and states he looks like the walking dead.

- Itadori is honestly excited to meet him

- Shibuya happens and that excitement turns to fear after he meets him

- When the two of you are reunited you can't help but run your fingers through his longer hair when you kiss. Everyone is cringing.

- You're both holding hands all the time so your bracelets are connected constantly.

- Both of you are each others wallpaper on your phones. Your's is a picture of Yuuta getting yeeted by Panda in midair during training, meanwhile, his a picture of you sleeping with a facemask on, drool slipping from the side of your mouth.

- Literally a contest between the two of you of who can get the most cringy pics of their S/O.

[awarmcupofmilk]

Geto x reader “Between Stares”

summary: geto keeps visiting your crepe shop

content warnings: fluff, angst (?), crepe shopkeeper!reader, post-gojo's past arc, deviations from jjk 0, nanako and mimiko are very young (a few years after gojo's past arc)

word count: 853

note: thought I'd try a (kind of angsty) fluff :3 thoughts on this becoming a series? maybe geto pov :D

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You stood behind the counter, waiting for the girls to decide. You observed their faces with a smile and decided they were twins. “Mm, I'll have strawberry,” the blonde one said, looking up at you pleasantly. The other tugged on her twin’s sleeve and whispered in her ear. Receiving a shrug for a response, she turned towards you. “Can I have banana?”

“Sure!” You smiled easily. 

You saw a man standing behind the girls, too closely to not be in the same party. “Sir, would you like anything?”

He flinched when you addressed him. Strange. The look in his eyes made you shiver. It was nothing short of hatred. Still, you had a job to do. You held his gaze and smiled politely; eyebrows slightly raised in wait of a response. “No, nothing for me,” he said after a second, not rudely. 

You nodded, slightly confused by the off-putting interaction, turning away to make their order. 

You arranged the fruits and piped on the cream with care, using chocolate sauce to draw cute faces on the rolled crepe. It was why your store was doing so well. 

When you turned back with the crepes and some napkins, the man was at the register, wallet ready. “13 dollars and 25 cents,” you said, smiling. 

“You should charge more.” The man said, not unpleasantly. You just laughed. 

The blonde twin squealed at her crepe; the brunette smiled. 

As they went to sit down, the man’s gaze on you lingered. It was difficult to describe. 

✧ 

As you finished wiping down the counter, and unraveled your ponytail, the blonde twin ran up to you, the brunette following close behind. The man sat at their table, gaze questioning as he watched. 

“I’m Nanako,” the blonde girl giggled, “Can you give us your number?”

You raised your eyebrows, politely confused. 

“You make great crepes,” Nanako’s twin nodded, as if that explained everything.

“This is Mimiko, by the way,” Nanako said as she beckoned her twin forward.

 They were so small and cute, smiling up at you. It couldn’t hurt, you thought. “Sure,” you chuckled, writing your number down on a napkin, even drawing a smiling teddy bear next to it. 

The twins grabbed it eagerly, running back to the man. They handed it to him, and the man, hearing what they had to say, seemed torn between laughing and scolding them. 

Mimiko pointed back at you and Nanako waved. The man cough-laughed and stood up, guiding them towards the door. He smiled at them so adoringly it was hard to believe those same eyes gave you such an unsettling stare. 

Before he left, he waved at you. Unsmilingly. Huh. Was all you could think to yourself. 

✧ 

You thought it would be the last time you saw them. And it’s true that they never dialed your number. But Nanako and Mimiko became quite the loyal customers. You found out later the man’s name was Geto. He started speaking more to you as the trio made more trips to your shop. After that first meeting, he was almost always dressed in golden robes. You wondered if it was monk attire. When the topic of what he does came up—you weren’t sure how that entered the conversation, you didn’t bring it up—he didn’t quite confirm nor deny it. 

You could tell he was an unusual person. It was in his eyes. 

✧ 

Geto didn’t like people, it was clear. Besides Nanako and Mimiko, his lip always seemed to curl in disgust, shoulders always seemed to tense at others. The gaze in his eyes matched the one he had first given you. You’d never forgotten it, such loathing towards a complete stranger. 

What made him soften towards you, you had no idea. But he conversed almost normally with you now. Sometimes he was even kind of sweet, leaving you generous tips. Still, everything about him was… odd. 

✧ 

Today, Nanako and Mimiko ran through the doors. They were taller, you thought. You took their orders, about to turn away, when Geto speaks. “I’ll take a bubble tea. Original.” You looked back, surprised, before smiling and giving him a nod. 

He, so slightly you thought you might have imagined it, smiled back. 

And then, right as you had wrapped up Nanako’s order, three people rushed in. One was blindfolded, and platinum blonde–no, completely white-haired. “Suguru,” he said, almost angrily. “Come with us.” A black-haired boy and green-haired girl stood behind him. 

And that was that, he excused himself, Nanako and Mimiko sat at a table waiting. You brought out their orders, concerned. He came back a while later. You thought he looked rather disheveled. 

✧ 

Geto Suguru was strange, there was no denying it. Some part of you was probably scared of him. But where he was intimidating, he was also gentle. He had really warmed up to you, it was almost… hypnotizing. 

You reckoned him rather handsome. And when he smiled at you after handing you the bill, you could feel your stomach somersault. 

But as you stared, you couldn’t shake the question. 

Who was he? 

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