#gojo actually does assume he’s the clan heads son and not his nephew

[lesbiankoby]

[remembers my gojos mom oc] really gotta get a handle on her cursed technique… i associate her with ringu lol. in my head. something like that. i think her technique is impractical for battle but she uses it to maintain an information network that keeps her on the good side of tokyos curse user population

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

how do you think jinichi felt about megumi ? ogi is jealous, naobito is obsessed and naoya hates him so how does jinichi feel about his nephew? his brothers son who looks just like him? what was his role in this whole thing? i personally think he’s conflicted bc he’s constantly reminded of his brother but he also sort of believes that megumi is jesus reincarnated—

Jinichi’s got a lot of mixed feelings and bitterness about Megumi—mostly because he feels like Megumi should have belonged to him.

We just don’t get a lot about the exact details of the overall Zenin family tree or their dynamics, but it seems like Jinichi was toji’s closest relative. In that respect, the person with the best claim to Megumi would be him or toji’s unnamed parents.

Instead, Naobito brought him into his household.

In my mind, Naobito leveraged the family’s disownment of Toji with the fact that he purchased Megumi personally to cut them out of any claim to Megumi. To this day, Megumi has no idea who in the Zenin clan he’s even related to. Like, he knows that he’s generally related to all of them, but immediate family? How he’s related to people? He doesn’t know. He just knows that the clan head was the one who bought him and the clan head was the one who served as his foster parent, so to speak, and he assumes that the clan head only gave that much of a shit because Gojo got involved. He thinks that if Gojo hadn’t made a claim of his own, he’d have been largely unwanted and ignored by any actual family in the clan, and the fact that he doesn’t seem to have any real direct link only supports that impression. He thinks his immediate family couldn’t give less of a shit.

He doesn’t know how hard his immediate family fought to personally claim him, but that doesn’t have anything to do with love. It’s sort of fucking huge if the Ten Shadows is born into your direct line. Jinichi is already really high in the Zenin—he’s a member of the Hei, he’s a part of discussions about clan head and the future of the clan—and being the closest relative of the Ten Shadows would have given him a new way to garner influence.

He’s another person who felt entitled to Megumi and is bitter and angry that he doesn’t have him. His line was blessed with the Ten Shadows, not Naobito’s. But instead of reaping the benefits of that blessing, Naobito stole Megumi out from under him, and he was left holding the bag for Toji’s stain on his line.

He feels entitled to Megumi. He wants him back. But he doesn’t care about him as a person. All he cares about is how he should have been his line’s greatest honor, and instead he’s been used to humiliate and shame them.