#ghost of tsushima spoilers

[hickeygender]

wanted to capture one of the two victory lines from ryuzo that i had heard, so i volunteered as a pincusion. i then realized he has SIX victory lines, all of which he sounds suitably unhinged for

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[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

Matching T shirts for Lady Masako, Norio and Jin Sakai that say "I was forced to kill a beloved family member and all I got was this stupid t-shirt"

[peridot-tears]

I got it in my head that Jin has always wanted to be a dad, but once the war starts and he starts becoming the Ghost, that road seems to shut on him. Who wants to live as the wife of a marked man, and what could he pass to the heir of a disbanded bloodline?

But I can't see him being single for the rest of his life, and I don't just mean casual sleeping around. He would be one of those people who somehow get locked down, and once he's quietly married he'll sit there wondering, "When did this happen?"

I do see him as bisexual, especially given that samurai were allowed to have relationships with other men (it's a specific age gap type of relationship, but from what I've read, that doesn't mean the door was shut on adult samurai having relationships with each other either), but when it came to actual marriage, it was expected that they end up with women because of how people expected gender roles to work when it came to starting a family.

So...I think one of two things could happen:

He has a child with Yuna. I absolutely do not ship this by a million miles (no hate to the ship, I just very strictly see them as bros), but she's the only woman he can get close to without dragging her into danger by association with him. It's very much a case of "my best friend and I made a pact that if we're still single by forty, we'd get married."

Or he finds a woman who willingly throws herself into a life on the run, or already is, and they become inextricably involved with each other. It could even be Tomoe. He sneaks onto the mainland on a mission, to the capital of Japan itself...and, well...

I have a lot of complicated feelings about this, given that Jin was most likely raised being taught that blood is everything. But the way he was raised, his relationship with his elders, and eventually the found family he ends up with at the end of the game tell a completely different story.

[sodaequalsbubbles]

Finally finished Ghost of Tsushima last night and I was not prepared. I was drowning in tears at the end of the story.

WTF?! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CHILL GAME WHERE I GOT TO RUN AROUND ADVENTURING AS A SAMURAI TO SAVE MY UNCLE AND THEN LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!

Spoilers:

I really wasn't ready for how hard this game hit me at multiple points.(Ryuzo, Yuna, Lady Masako, and Taka ugh their stories were painful) But the ending brought me to actual tears.

While he saved their island, Jin sacrificed everything to do so. Seeing him lose basically everything due to becoming "the Ghost", and the fact that he will be hunted by the shogun for the rest of his life because of his actions ughhhhhh I felt awful.

When I thought it couldn't get any worse, lord Shimura had to be the final boss🙃 I literally screamed "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" at my screen. When he was telling Jin through his tears that the shogun ordered him to execute him I started to cry too😭 ( idk just seeing a character like lord Shimura that is normally so stoic and composed cry, really got to me) The dream of Jin not only being recognized as his heir, but his son as well is impossible now, and they both know it.

I went for the spare option after the fight because I really didn't want to make Jin kill his only living family member. (like damn my boy has lost enough already, no way I was going to make that my canon ending). But I got really curious about what the ending would be like if you chose to honor his uncle's wish, and kill him. So I re-loaded my save because apparently I like to emotionally destroy myself🥲And boy, if I wasn't really crying then, I most certainly was now.

Lord Shimura calling Jin "son", and asking Jin to find him in the next life. Jin's cries and wails as he hugs his body after killing him, and then cutting to the credits after that. Yeah I'm never picking that option again (;_;) THE END CREDITS SOUNDTRACK DID NOT HELP BTW! ughhh yapping over now.

10/10 game that has made Jin Sakai one of my favorite video game protagonists of all time, but I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

[seaofolives]

“The path ahead may take a lifetime. But I will walk it with you.

Always.”

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’m about 2/3rd of the way into “Ghost of Tsushima”. One, I did not expect that this game would be about the origins of the ninja. Two, in a weird way, this game is secretly a coming-of-age/generational gap story.

Our main hero is Jin, who represents the current generation. He was raised to follow the ways of his elders, namely his father and uncle. However, the old ways are limited since the Mongolian invaders don’t respect them. That’s when Jin meets Yuna, who is the “rebellious” youth who shows Jin a different way of handling the Mongols. Yuna’s way clashes with the elders’ ways, but she’s getting results. This ends up creating a moral panic in Jin since he’s torn between respecting his elders and doing whatever it takes to stop the Mongols.

It’s straight up a generational gap storyline. If you take away the samurai/ninja stuff:

1) Jin is the young man who grew up in a sheltered, conservative home but grows disillusioned with his elders due to the state of the world he’s in.

2) Yuna is the rebellious young woman who wants to save the world (let’s just say, her brother is her world) and has no respect in the older generation since she feels they are responsible for the troubles of the world, such as Yarikawa’s resistance to assisting Lord Shimura.

3) Lord Shimura represents the older generation that is set in their ways and is, albeit reluctantly, willing to punish the younger generation if they stray from tradition. He also represents how older generations have created problems that the younger generations are forced to deal with, such as Jin and Yuna needing to mend the strained relationship between Clan Yarikawa and Clan Shimura.

4) The Mongols in general represent the troubles of the world that both the older and younger generations have to deal with. However, both generations clash over how to deal with their mutual problems.

[pollsoftsushima]

favourite companions if you haven't done that already?

[theeloveofsolitude]

they killed my FUCKING HORSE

my son

my beautiful boy

im finishing this game purely out of spite now

[ornstein]

Tbh the thought of post GhostTsu in which Ryuzo lives and him and Jin arguing and ending up angrier than they were before, only for Jin to crawl back to him because he really doesn't want Ryuzo to leave, and Ryuzo inquiring Jin if his betrayal means nothing to him, and Jin saying with a gentle tone "it means everything." Just

It makes me weak as hell.

[sebastianlynx]

@ttguweiz

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[woundedheartwithin]

I had a dream where Jin found his long lost sister on Iki island. He thought she died when they were kids. She claims she was kicked out of the clan after trying to murder their dad. Whether that's the truth or not was debatable.

Oooooh that’s interesting! Timeline wise it wouldn’t make sense, but I dig the idea for sure. I like the idea of maybe Kazumasa hooking up with a low class woman either before Chiyoko or an illicit affair, and either she leaving to Iki or being sent there either my Kazumasa or Lord Shimura to get her out of the picture. And maybe this little girl’s mother would tell her about the samurai with the deer antler kabuto and the twin mountain mon who ruined their lives. And maybe it was an affair from long before Kazumasa married Chiyoko, so the little girl is an adult by the time Kazumasa’s party descends on the island and she is the one who kills the Butcher of Iki instead of Tenzo, or maybe even alongside Tenzo

[peridot-tears]

In a world without lies, Sakai Jin would have been beheld as the Great Uniter, who picked up the bitter splinters of Tsushima with his bare hands -- the same blood that broke the wood now spilling anew as they pieced Yarikawa, Shimura, and Adachi together.

In a more just world, Sakai Jin is not seen as a threat, but commended for protecting his nation by making the ultimate sacrifice.

In a kinder world, Sakai Jin can breathe easy under the maple leaves with his loved ones, and compose a happier haiku.

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

I finished my Ghost of Tsushima re-play we will be returning to the regularly scheduled programming shortly

In the meantime however may I just say

GOD. FUCK.

[gamingmemoir]

Ghost of Tshushima (2020) screenshots with no context