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The Divine Within: Jesusā Teachings on Our True Nature
In many Christian teachings, the concept of sin often overshadows the more empowering messages found within the Scriptures. Yet, Jesusā words offer profound insights into the divine nature inherent in each of us. By revisiting his teachings, we can uncover a more uplifting understanding of our spiritual identity. John 14:20: āOn that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are inā¦
#Biblical teachings#Christian community#Christian doctrine#Christian faith#Christian spirituality#divine nature#divine potential#faith and dignity#Godās image#inherent divinity#inner divinity#Jesus teachings#kingdom of God within#New Testament insights#original sin#religious teachings#spiritual empowerment#spiritual identity#Spiritual Transformation#unity with God
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i cannot explain how much kristen needs to change her marketing tactic
she keeps going around and saying that cassandra is the goddess of mystery and doubt and the night, but thats not quite true. cassandra is the goddess of finding safety in the unknown. of not being afraid of doubt.
she is the belief that even if you don't know where you are or what to do, if you are lost and alone in a dark forest, there will be something on the other side, and all you have to do is get there. Cassandra is the goddess of staring into the cold, uncaring void and feeling a warm hand clasp your own, of a whisper in your ear saying youre going to be okay. you aren't alone. it is going to be scary and hard and uncertain, but you will never be on your own because i am here with you. you will never be lost because i know where you are
#though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death#I will fear no evil;#For You are with me;#girls the religious trauma is showing back up#the inherent comfort and safety in having a divinity#there are times i still miss it :(#fhjy#kristen applebees#cassandra#fantasy high#dimension 20#d20#fantasy high junior year
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Honestly, itafushi is just that āI have two wolves inside meā meme but both these wolves fucked upā¦.Also Yuuji being a white wolf and Megumi being a black wolf šŗ
#I know Gyokuken is mix of white and black divine dogs donāt correct me please I am just trying to push agenda here#white and black inherently more romantic with Color schemes thatās why#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#itafushi#yuji itadori#megumi fushiguro#fushiita#jjk megumi#jjk itadori#itadori yuuji
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"Qin Zhou's" throat trembled as he quietly closed his eyes, no longer looking at those souls. "I will protect all of you." "Qin Zhou" slowly spoke his promise. In this moment, everyone heard only the promise, but Mu Sichen heard the words that Qin Zhou could not say out loud. "I will protect all of you, so that no divine monster can harm any of you, including myself." Accompanying these words, all of Qin Zhou's emotions vanished. Even desire, even aspiration, even hope ā silently, he obliterated them all. All that was left in his soul was that promise. From this moment, he became Him.
ok ok ok I'll admit I haven't read many books that regularly use ē„ ta (the divine third-person pronoun) so maybe this is me å°č§å¤ęŖ but GENUINELY this was such a cool moment. I almost had to take a lap around the subway car because this was so well done
#I didn't take a lap because I was. y'know. in a subway car. on the way back from work. with witnesses.#still!!! this is making me very !! for reading the chinese translation of orv because I know the translator also used ē„#for the constellations. which. VERY cool#also dream town anon I am starting to understand why you comped this to liehuo and. well. yeah#it's about the (clenches fist) the inherent dehumanization in elevating a person to a divine position. the unbearable weight of being a god#and it's also about your main character's adventures with his cute chibi squid toy. y'know. the good stuff#hunxi book tag#I suspect ē„ is actually a Thing in unlimited flow/genres that actively play with divinity as an element of worldbuilding#distinct from xuanhuan which one might argue is uninterested in its gods being gods āĀ xuanhuan I'd argue is more interested#in its gods being people. but unlimited flow (and adjacent genres) is interested in gods being gods. also gods being monsters.#gods being divine existences that defy human comprehension. gods being eldritch abominations. y'know. the good stuff#(vibrates gently) I'm continuing to learn SO much about this genre and it's awesome#(weakly) I don't even like this genre... believe me...#came for the unlimited flow stayed for the octopus
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Happy to say that I am back in my "every time I remember the ineffable husbands exist I have to sit down for a second" mindset
#THEY'RE LITERALLY SO ROMANTIC ITS INSANE#if it weren't for them I would be a very different person I promise you that#the way they defy their nature AND learned prejudices to be together#the inherent divinity of humanity and not being completely good or bad but somewhere in the middle out of pure choice and love#THE 6000 YEARS OF PINING.#theyre a bickering old married couple theyre teenagers in their first relationship#they arent even dating yet theyve been in love for centuries#they wont even admit that theyre friends and yet they KNOW the feelings are mutual#i haven't been this feral over them since 2020 pray for me#good omens#good omens 2#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#ramblies
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the moon will sing a song for me (i loved you like the sun)
zutara month, day seven: divine intervention, @zutaramonth.
summary: when zuko takes the lightning aimed for katara, it takes a little more than her usual healing to get him back from the brink. feat. yue's words of encouragement and empowering influence on katara, medically necessary bloodbending, and a zuko who is too out of it to understand much of what is going on, but that's okay. katara has him.
content warnings: general references to violence and wounds, nothing more explicit than the show.
notes: title is from "the moon will sing" by the crane wives. yes i do too many lyric titles. no i will not stop <3. idk when sozin's comet officially ended but for fic purposes we are imagining the timing makes sense for the moon to be out after the agni kai. two pieces of dialogue were taken from the show.
Zuko groans as he's being turned over. His bones feel like liquid, his skin set alight, his heart like a crater in his chest.
Katara, he thinks, he tries to say, he doesn't know.
Katara looks at him with a worried expression, her lips turned in a frown, her eyes wide with fear and sadness as she presses a watery hand to his crumpled, prone form.
She is worried but alive. She is alive, and if she is here, then she must have defeated Azula.
Katara is alive. That is what counts. This was his destiny, then. To save her.
It wasn't a bad note to end on.
Zuko closes his eyes. There's a hammering thud in his chest. He is so tired. Normally, he'd associate the feel of it with exertion, or else desperation, and he would feel frantic. But he is so tired. He has been so tired.
"No," he thinks he hears Katara say. It sounds like she's underwater, or perhaps he is. "No, Zuko, don't you dare."
He struggles to open his eyes again because he doesn't want her to sound so angry with him and doesn't want her to be sad. It only feels like a moment has passed, or maybe it has been hours.
She is looking up. Pale, yellow light shadows her.
Katara is speaking with the moon.
The moon is also a girl.
Someone told him a story like that once.
A spirit, he thinks a little redundantly, with white tresses of hair and a glowy form and a gentle smile. The moon spirit?
Zuko jerks, a spasm of his body as he lights up again with the pain, and Katara looks back to him, alarmed.
"ļæ½ļæ½ļæ½but you know another way," the moon-girl insists softly to Katara, whom Zuko looks at as her mouth sets in a thin, determined line. Unless he's imagining it all, which is possible. "And I am here with you now."
After a moment's hesitation, Katara nods and sets her left, water-encased hand against his chest again and raises her other in a motion he faintly recognizes.
"This is going to hurt," she says warningly, sadly. "But it will help. I think. It has to." She shakes her head, torn.
Zuko doesn't know what's going on, but if Katara says it will help, that's all that really matters.
"I trust you," he slurs. Is that him? Does he sound like that?
Katara blinks. Zuko watches tears slip from her cheeks.
And then, it starts. She did not lie about it hurting. Despite himself, Zuko feels his body rising from the ground in pain and panic, and Katara has to keep him pressed down. His blood is boiling, his chest swelling. This must be what dying feels like. But then, he's pretty sure he was dying before. He supposes it's a process.
"āsorry, sorry, I'm so sorryā" Zuko makes out the words, faint in his ears, though Katara sobs them out.
Eventually, though, the beat of his heart evens. His blood begins to simmer down. The pain melts.
He watches as Katara pulls back, resting on her knees. The moon-girl smiles down on them before fading back into being just the moon, high in their war-torn sky again.
Nothing that just happened makes any sense, Zuko decides dazedly. But it was Katara who saved him, and that made all the sense in the world.
"Thank you, Katara," he rasps, looking up at her through heavy eyes. Looking at her made everything in the world seem alright again.
She looks down at him with a soft expression and a watery smile.
"I think I'm the one who should be thanking you."
#zutaramonth2024#zutaramonth#zutara month#zuko x katara#katara x zuko#day 7: divine intervention#atla#zutara#zuko#katara#my fic#the moon will sing a song for me (i loved you like the sun)#yue#shoutout to my girl yue. personally i think she would tell katara bloodbending is not inherently evil. god bless <3
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Thinking about how when Chrom talks to Robin at the beginning of chapter 6, just after war has broken out, he specifically says "Not everything Gangrel said was a lie." And then his next line is talking about how his father waged war on Plegia, which makes it sound like, oh, okay, Gangrel was telling the truth when he said the former exalt led a crusade against them. But I'm wondering if the line that was truly eating at Chrom was actually "Yours is now a haven of hypocrisy." Because this is when Chrom goes into detail about how Emmeyn suffered ending the war and bringing peace to Ylisse, and he's, y'know, way more bitter about how the Ylissean people acted than anything Plegia did. He talks about how Plegians "rightfully remember" what his father put them through and he does mention that their desire for vengeance was part of the legacy their father left her to deal with, but what he goes into detail about, what he complains about, what he's really upset about is the Ylissean response. They hurt her and she hid the fact that she was suffering from everyone while continuing to work to heal them. And then they "forgave" herāChrom literally uses scare quotes. Now, he doesn't say "those damn hypocrites" aloud, but the implication is pretty much "how could those damn hypocrites 'forgive' her when she did nothing wrong and they did nothing but attack her? They should have been the ones begging for forgiveness."
And like, this all started when he was 4 years old, you know? He brings up how Emmeryn wasn't even 10 yet when she became exalt, and that means he was only 4! It's been 15 years. He's had these feelings about the situation for most of his life! And then you've got Gangrel over here, mouthing off because he wants to start a war but he needs to be able to paint Ylisse as the aggressor, and he throws out "yours is a haven of hypocrisy"ā How horrific and sickening must it feel to hear the enemy who openly claims to want all of your people dead make a statement about them that you agree with.
And perhaps Chrom is thinking about himself, too. This conversation is where he gives his "perhaps I must be death's agent" line. Emmeryn would never order Gangrel killed, and he wouldn't WANT her to do so, but he is fully ready to take the matter into his own hands. He believes in his sister's ideals. But. They're not as important as HER. Virtue isn't his priority and he knows it.
Honestly, the whole Plegia arc is such a dark time for him.
#this post brought to you by me thinking about plegian king chrom again#because even from the start he understands the plegians' desire for vengeance better than he understands his own people changing their tune#grima would relate to that hard i think. 'they have no qualms asking for divine assistance when it meets their fickle needs' and all#once again i would argue that chrom is actually aligned with grima's beliefs more than anything. at first anyway. by inclination#which is why he can challenge those beliefs. you can't prove you aren't bound to your nature if you're inherently benevolent and pacifistic#if you struggle for those things then that's how you can prove that 'fate' can be overcome#fe13
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i truly have no tolerance for this fandom shittin on random fans personal trans headcanons. someone saw themselves and their experience in this character, isnt that beautiful? why dont you mind your business and focus on your own fan stuff? wouldnt that make you happier? someones headcanon doesnt negate yours. what the fuck is wrong with yall. its playing make believe x2. its just a headcanon. real life trans folks are in active danger right now and some of yall are wasting all your energy abusing others over which pronoun set figments of someone elses imagination 'should' be using
#our t#this is *any* trans hc it doesnt matter the flavour of the trans headcanon. i dont have time for that shit i have real problems#if i see one more fight over jegbert or dave on this site i s2g#if june happens on screen like if we SEE june happen on screen then that will be canon. even for a single panel she will be canon#but genderbend aus have existed since the dawn of fuckin time and an au isnt gonna suddenly blast june's canon transness outta existence#like what are yall TALKING about.#and im saying 'if' w/ a heavy fuckin sigh bc while the hsbc team has stated that they have plans no one knows#when or where or how thats gonna happen. i want it to happen & i have my own hopes for how it will but we'll just have to see#but this aint abt rep yall just want justification to punch e/o in the face & call it 'fighting against ur intercommunity oppressors'#or whatever cause none of yall are brave enough to get organized#and actually try to make changes in ur communities.....headcanons will never be actual representation#as for dave. yall know that transmascs and cis boys also struggle with masculinity right? esp hegemonic pressures and ideals?#thats kinda what LE is about? thats why so many trans guys see themselves in the striders. thats why i think theyre supposed to be cis#but thats ALSO why so many transfemme folks see themselves in dave. and that should be rlly beautiful!!! we're not so different!!!#its almost like that power structure harms everyone in different ways bc of how we treat e/o inside of the structure!!!!!#i cant TELL you how many of my cis guy friends have cptsd from just not being allowed to express sadness or joy in an acceptable way#and davepeta being nonbinary only adds to this!!! davepetas existence in contrast to dave DIRECTLY MIRRORS roxy in meat/candy#but yall are never gonna be fuckin ready for that so what the fuck ever i guess#i just feel constantly forced outside of this fandom or scorned as a Bad Tranny bc im very literally in the middle of this shit#and i dont believe one style of presentation is inherently better or morally righteous than the other. like what are yall expecting#are yall expecting to be let into tranny heaven bc u wear a skirt and say 'haha yeah all instances of mascness is grossss' be for real#just rlly highlights the fact that no one in this fandom wants to care abt intersex trans ppl or hear them talk or try to#contribute to gender analysis. its not girlboss enough i guess. sorry for not drinking the radfem rhetoric thats embedded itself#into this site i suppose. hope the fandom gets better but idk i dont think thats gonna happen anytime soon#stop treating femininity as smth inherently Morally Good its all 'divine feminine moon phase' bullshit slightly repackaged#to include transfemme folks. which none of yall should want. its a direct pushback to actual feminism but ok all mascs evil bc LE i guess#im not missing the fact that this fandom cracks down hard on queer mascness & tries to 1:1 equate that hegemonic cismasculinity either#yall aint slick at all. sorry im just. fucking tired. feeling like i dont exist & my words dont matter
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You lose the plot when discussing and fighting for minorities when you buy into the specific brand of (specifically christianity) "suffering is Divine, and the more you Suffer, the More Divine you are."
Suffering is suffering is suffering - when you choose to ignore a marginalized group's suffering because they are not suffering enough or are not "good victims," you have lost the plot.
#politics#i've seen this a lot in some trans spaces and it's kind of scary#because honestly the whole 'suffering is divine actually' is pretty victim blame-y and it expects victims or whatever to carry that burden.#...if suffering is divine then is it not sacrilege to refuse that suffering? surely if you're suffering you are either...#...Deserving of suffering or you are Chosen for something Higher Than Yourself and are therefore a sacrificial lamb (not a person)...#...like do you see how that is inherently dehumanizing to have your SUFFERING be sympathetic but not you as a HUMAN BEING#like i need to stress that all you are doing is essentially fetishizing that somebody is suffering...#...and that you deem yourself high enough if an authority to Judge that suffering...#...and if it isn't good enough or they aren't being a Good Victim about it then they are shit out of luck in term of your help...#...i use the impersonal 'you' here but i need to highlight *why* this line of thinking is (imo) actively dangerous..
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if anyone knows of more references to stained glass in bears in trees songs i am searching for more please
#bears in trees#please and thank you i need them for art project#im not religious i just like how making something out of stained glass highlights its inherent divinity#and i think bears in trees gets that
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i appreciate that the starbreaker fandom (and the jace stans specifically) all looked at the finale and said "well if brennan is gonna let this perfectly good twink go to waste, we'll take him." now he's ours and i think that's beautiful.
#starbreaker#jace stardiamond#brennan clearly went for the best comedy angle with jace and porter both and that's valid and it was great for what it was. but.#brennan have you considered the DRAMA? the ANGST? the inherent homoeroticism of divine worship?#have you seen 'midnight mass' brennan?#have you ever read a CLAMP manga brennan#'they're just dumb and incompetent and also jace is mind controlled' that's great but have you considered the tragedy of a doomed romance#have you considered what would happen if you willingly chose to follow a man down a dark path and let him cut your chest open#and put a magic rage crystal in it so you can help him achieve godhood that you truly believe he deserves#could you imagine how much more narratively satisfying it might've been if they'd actually been smart and maybe even achieved their goals#it's okay brennan you don't have to consider anymore because we got you. we got you. we'll do it for you#don't worry
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favored acolyte
#joy.jpg#dragon age#cremisius aclassi#dragon age inquistor#inquisitor adaar#oc: meduka adaar#dragon age inquisition#fanart#digital art#something about transgender romance that is inherently divine. more than being a herald even#suggestive
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i've seen posts before drawing parallels between FFXIV paladins and 5e oath of the ancients paladins since the name and principles of the subclass are fitting for the warrior of light
what i've never seen anyone point out before, however, is that this is not the only thing that makes it relevant, because it also has access to FFXIV's most impactful ability: the power to summon the Cutscene Chains
at long last...the power of the ancients, in your hands...
#paladin#ffxiv#pld#also the reason ffxiv paladin isn't like regular dnd paladins is because like...it's a different thing.#and the only real reason it's called that and not āknightā is probably because they didn't want to overlap knight and dark knight#reading people complain about the ffxiv paladin not being divine is one of my pet peeves lmao#there's nothing more inherently religious to the figure of charlemagne's paladins than there is to say arthur's knights imo#you only think they have to be divinely associated because you were bamboozled by dnd. and probably not even a good edition!#shitpost: i got a good feeling
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contracts, clauses, and causes for action
It seems to me that the ball is entirely in the gods court. Like the only way for Ludinus to become compelling is if the gods leapfrog over the divine gate, rendering their word null and void.
Then there's a cause for action because the mortals will realize "hey, we have no way of keeping you honest, there's no consequence that we can enact when you fail to fulfill your oath". Like a contract is only binding if there's way to enforce it - when you pinky promise to take your kid to disneyland, is that a valid contract or just performative? because if you break a pinky promise, the only consequence is your kid loses faith in you - is that penalty enough?
and the thing is: the divine gate is proof that yeah, the gods do believe that's penalty enough. the one thing that downfall managed to reinforce (which granted we already knew but deeper context only further supports) is that the gods are capable of acknowledging their harm (however unintentional) done to mortals. And not only are they able to acknowledge it, they are able to correct themselves.
and so far, thats holding true. they are demonstrating their discipline and willingness to follow through even if the mortals remain powerless and hold no leverage against them, they can keep themselves beholden to their word because they are in fact Good.
so literally, the only way Ludinus can be proven somewhat compelling is if the gods decide to hop the divine gate. then we'll have some proof that their word is not that ironclad but even then its not to the level of "all gods must die". Thats more on the level of "all gods need to come to the table and renegotiate this contract so theres clauses to allow you exceptions". because absolute contracts tend to force people's hands anyways.
and the only implication that a god hopping the divine gate gives is to reintroduce the idea that the gods are not beholden to mortals in any way and there is no way to keep a god honest - that mortals will have to rely on a god's inherent Goodness to keep themselves honest. but again - what the fuck have the Prime Deities done in this world that has ever pointed in that direction truly? (and no, dont attest the workings of their mortal followers when the gods have banned themselves from interference).
the gods would have to break the contract twice - once to stop predathos, and a second time for less dire purposes - in order to really showcase that they arent trustworthy. thats a Fucking Lot to mess up. and again they dont seem willing to even break the divine gate for Ludinus so what is even the problem here?
the problem, narratively speaking, is that the current world is built by fairly Good gods who really havent done anything of significance to showcase tyranny. none of them is on the level of Marika, from Elden Ring, whose personal history has led to death and discrimination of innocent children - which she actively campaigned for and did to her own children. (No slander on Marika btw)
Matt has not made any of the Prime Deities bad and sure, the Betrayers are bad and sure, maybe the mortals would prefer to have them entirely eliminated. but like mortals live under so many threats with less protections against than they currently do against the Betrayers. That deprioritizes them from the level of "eliminate at all costs". There's nothing dire or urgent that hasnt been manufactured by the Big Bad himself.
the gods are traumatized yes. theyre stuck in a toxic family situation yes. but none of that toxicity has affected their desire to protect mortals. and the only time a mortal became worthy of destruction by divine hand was when those mortals nearly unleashed oblivion? like come on man.
the gods are in their lane and the mortals are thriving and ludinus needs fucking therapy plus a better hobby.
#cr spoilers#critical role#downfall#like at the end of day ludinus just aint that compelling#hes too much of an extremist#hes not even remotely convincing moderate parties#hes the homeless guy on the corner with a sign saying the end is nigh#and in the end there is no previous problem that remains problematic in the current day#the stakes are not inherent to the system just entirely fabricated by one guy with a grudge#stop profiling the divine dude
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Okay so the thing is that I wanted a āthe Zenin raised Megumi instead of Gojoā fic but the thing is that Iām absolutely convinced that if the Zenin were the ones that took Megumi they wouldnāt actually take tsumiki too. The fandom consensus Iāve personally seen has been that she would have been taken and mistreated by zenin for being a female non sorcerer but I personally think they would have just straight up left her behind.
They only bought Megumi. They keep non sorcerers and women as servants in their compound but all of them are Zenin themselves. Tsumiki isnāt related and I couldnāt really see any reason why theyād want her. Which turned this into a fic where Tsumiki loses her brother, but sheās trying to find him again, she swears. I think of it as my āsiblings doomed by the narrative desperately try to write a new one where they can be togetherā fic.
The thing is that Tsumikis mom was one of those people who thought love and consumption were synonymous. She had a habit of getting caught up with assholes and justā¦ having both of them chew on each other for a while until it turns into this horrible fucking bloodbath.
Tojis just another loser her mom got caught up in, but heās Tsumikiās favorite out of all the losers, because he gave her her brother. Her mom marries this random guy she barley knows and Tsumikis pretty sure she does it so they can both ditch their kids twice as much, secure in the knowledge that thereās supposedly another person checking in. It works out great for them, because they both stop coming entirely. Itās fine, because Tsumiki has Megumi and Megumi has Tsumiki and they donāt need anything else.
Itās one of those things where they were in really unhealthy circumstances and it made their relationship a little bit unhealthy but not necessarily bad. They both had to grow up way too fast and deal with way too much too soon and become codependent on each other because they are, in the most literal way possible, dependent on one another. Neither of them know how to love in a way that doesnāt involve sacrificing themselves for their sibling, mostly because they donāt have a way that doesnāt involve that.
Theyāre in a sinking ship and tsumiki knows it. Their parents arenāt coming back. The money is going to run out sooner or later. Their problems are stacking up.
Megumi has confessed to her that he sees things that no one else does. When she asks him how he knows no one else sees them, he explains that theyād say something if they did and wonāt say anything else. And she doesnāt know what to believe but she refuses to call him crazy. He tells her that monsters cling to her back and he fights them off for her. She patches up his bruises and cuts and tells him heās brave and tries to figure out if sheās just imagining that her back feels lighter after. He tells her that there are dogs that only he can see that have started following him around, and she tells him she believes him and can never remember, later, if she meant it or was just saying it.
The last time Toji came by, he left them more money than tsumikis ever seen in her life, took them to ice cream, told them that he was sorry he was so shit at this and that the money was Megumiās share in a payment. It was for something he was going to help daddy with later. Tsumiki and him were to use it to take care of themselves and be healthy, because Megumi couldnāt help him later if he wasnāt. And tsumiki was always afraid of what he meant by that, but in the end, she let it slip her mind. After all, Toji hadnāt been by in ages. He probably wouldnāt come by at all.
And he didnāt. But others did. Two men sheās never met before are waiting outside their building one day, and when they see Megumi, they laugh. But the thing that Tsumiki can never get out of her mind later is that she swears they werenāt looking at Megumi directly. They were looking at his dogs.
Tsumiki basically tries to get Megumi and powerwalk past them, but theyāre a lot bigger and a lot stronger and thereās nothing she can do, really. They have a brief conversation about whether they should take her too, before one decides that Toji only sold him his kid and to leave the other behind. This makes both of them try to run, but thereās nothing either of them can do to overpower the men, and the men say that āNaobito would go ballistic if they left the ten shadows behindā so they take Megumi and leave her.
They put Megumi in a car and shove Tsumiki to the curb outside of it, and she tried to hold onto his hand, she swears. She grabbed at the car door even when the car started moving, and she banged on the windows, and she watched as Megumi kicked and punched and screamed inside, until one of them hit him and he went still. She ends up falling and hitting her head when the car picks up speed, and when she wakes up again, the cars gone and she has no idea where it went.
And it becomes a foundational moment for who she is. I think she was just intensely lonely before Megumi and poured a lot of herself into this idea of a family together. Tsumikis never able to shake the moment of her being outside the car and Megumi being on the inside, and not being able to get into him. She can never again get what she felt in that moment out of her head.
She goes to the police and tells them that itās her little brother, his dad sold him but she wants him back, and theyāre like āā¦ā. The issue is that apparently her mom can pick up the damn phone if the police call and she shows up, spins some lie about how her and the stepdad split up and he took the kid with him, they never adopted each others kids so it was within his rights, Tsumiki was taking the separation hard and acting out. She lies, basically, because toji hadnāt kept up his end of the deal and dropped in to check in (neither had she) and his kid wasnāt her responsibility, he could do what he wanted with him. She doesnāt want the police poking around the way she lives. Just let the kid go because heās probably dead and not her real brother anyway.
Tsumiki refuses to give up on him. They were both kids who no one cared about but they cared about each other and that had to be enough. But sheās seven with no support and zero idea on how to find him. She starts skipping school to look for him in random streets, puts up flyers, canāt go outside without looking for him. She gets held back a year in school because of how much she skips and she canāt bring herself to care. She buys him gifts on every birthday and writes him letters she canāt post because sheās going to find her brother and sheās going to prove to him that she never once stopped looking for him. She just. She needs him to know that she never stopped looking for him. She needs to find him and be able to honestly tell him she never stopped trying.
One day her mom comes back in clothes she canāt afford and comes with movers they shouldnāt be able to afford and announces a move they definitely canāt afford. Tsumikis absolutely opposed to going because if her brother comes to look for her, she needs to be in their old apartment so he can find her. She doesnāt have much of a choice in the matter. They have mysterious new benefactors who are setting up a trust to take care of tsumiki with a very generous stipend for her mom but they have to move to Sendai as a stipulation of getting the money.
Itās not until the attorney whoās managing her trust hands her a set of glittery blue butterfly hairpins that tsumiki realizes her mom sold her brother a second time.
The thing is that tsumiki had this one cheap set of butterfly hairpins sheād always stopped to look at in the store when she took Megumi to go grocery shopping. Shed never buy them, because they couldnāt afford it, but it was the thing she wanted most openly in front of him. She was always secretly really insecure about her hair, because they were the kind of poor where bar soap was a luxury they could only sometimes afford and kids at school made fun of how her hair was dirty and frayed. Megumi was the only one who ever saw how badly she wanted those stupid hair clips. If they had to give her a set of butterfly hair clips, itās because he demanded that they did.
Itās basically implied that the Zenin are the ones paying for her care and upkeep due to an unspecified deal they cut with Megumi, but when they approached her mom with it, they added the caveat that Tsumiki had to be moved to a new city entirely and there could be no forwarding address left anywhere.
The zenins stance on tsumiki is, effectively, that sheās a weakness Megumi needs to be weaned off of. They honestly assumed heād just like, forget she ever existed and he. Did not do that. He actually pitched a total bitch fit. Tried to scale the compound walls. Bit multiple people including the clan leader. But heās got the ten shadows, heās heir to the clan, and he canāt be caught up on some random non sorcerer who isnāt even a Zenin. They end up agreeing to pay for her to live very comfortably if he starts cooperating more but they want to make sure that he canāt ever find her again if he does ever succeed in running away.
Tsumiki is at once full of hope and hopeless, because on one hand, the butterfly clips prove that Megumi still loves her and remembers her, at least in her mind. But at the same time, sheās being moved to Sendai and doesnāt know how theyāll ever find each other again. She doesnāt honestly know if theyād recognize each other if they saw each other again. She wears the butterfly clips every day, even when she gets too old for the style, because sheās more confident about her brother recognizing them than her.
The thing about tsumiki is that she doesnāt understand hate. She just doesnāt. Her mom and toji always got caught up in these perceived slights and revenge and never once let go of the past. Theyād destroy themselves if it meant taking down the people they hated with them. She never wanted that. She wanted to live with the people she loved and sheād happily turn around and forget everything, all the pain, all the searching, if it just meant she could go back to being megumis sister.
This isnāt about hate. This is about that moment outside the car, where her brother was inside and she couldnāt get in to him. This is about how helpless and small she felt when they shoved her to the curb and ripped megumis hand out of hers. She needs to make sure that when she finds Megumi, she can take him home again. So she decides she needs to learn how to fight.
Itadori Yuuji has the constitution of an ox and the strength to match it, and he is known for getting in fights with bullies and trouncing them so thoroughly that itās never a question of who wins when the fight starts. Heās insanely physically capable and can hold his own in a fight with ease. Heās also nice and kind and Tsumikiās comfortable enough asking him to teach her how to throw a punch or two.
She is bad at it.
So fucking bad at it.
But she never gives up, and Itadori is nice enough to keep teaching her despite how embarrassingly horrible she is at it all. He always asks her why she wants to learn so bad, she doesnāt seem to like it all, and she never answers his question honestly.
In their last year of middle school, their class has a trip to Kyoto. She, Itadori, and the rest of their group walk into some random restaurant in the city and have barely sat down when someone comes inside, starts searching every booth in the restaurant while shouting Tsumikis name.
And oh. They could recognize each other after all.
She looked for Megumi in every crowd she was ever in, but she didnāt consider that he was doing the same. Or that he would see her first.
Her brother grew up without her seeing it. Hes older, dressed in strange, expensive clothes, has a slightly bruised up face and split lip, but his eyes are the same, and he looks like the brother she remembered.
But a lot more nervous than Megumi ever was. He was a tiny, stoic child who didnāt take any shit and never showed fear, even when there were monsters that only he could see. But heās nervous when he tells her that she probably doesnāt recognize him or remember him, but when she was a lot younger, heā
Megumi. Heās her little brother. Of course she remembers him. Sheās been looking for him everywhere.
Megumi didnāt smile much as a child, but he smiles at her then. He tells her he doesnāt have a lot of time and she tells him that they can leave out the back, and he never let her hold his hand as a child but he takes her hand so easily in that second. And just for a second, sheās his sister again, and itās everything she wanted.
They never make it out the back.
Two men come in. Megumi calls one of them uncle, and he goes stiff and flat the second he sees him. His uncle apologizes for his nephew, tells everyone that he always makes scenes when theyāre out in public, tells him to apologize to the nice people and leave. Megumi was mistaken.
Tsumiki trĆes to keep ahold of his hand. Really, she does. She tries to tell people to call the police. But megumis āuncleā steps towards her and Megumi slams him into a table, and then suddenly Megumiās the one insisting that they leave immediately. They can go. Itās fine. Theyāre leaving. She loses ahold of his hand.
She tries to follow, but the other man restrains her. She learns that sheās better at slamming plates into peoples heads than she is at punching, and at this point itadoris Friend In Danger Override has been triggered and he fucking tackles the dude, which gives tsumiki the clearing that she needs to chase outside after her brother. She gets out just in time to see him be pushed into a car, and sheās had years to think about the last time this happened and figure out what to do differently. She throws herself in front of the car and refuses to move.
See her entire stance is that sheāll sooner get run over and killed in the street than let them do this a second time, but she also can see Megumi trying to fucking punch the drivers head in from behind because heās about to hit his sister. His uncles trying to restrain him, and just for a second, she sees his hands make the shape of the shadow puppets he used to show her as children. Something invisible slams her out of the way just as his uncle knocks him out.
She picks up a rock and tries to smash in the fucking window with it, and itadori has to pull her out of the way to keep her from getting her feet run over when the car finally tears out of the parking lot. She goes ballistic on him for stopping her because her brother was right there and she lost him again and she didnāt even get the license plate. He was right there.
The police basically do jack all again. Thereās no license plate, no names they can follow up on, and theyāre still half convinced this is a settled custody issue even though tsumiki insists her brother was sold by his dad and is very plainly getting hurt wherever he is. Itadori is now a devoted advocate of finding tsumikis brother and reuniting them, and both basically kind of end up becoming really close to the other? Heās taking care of himself and his grandpa alone, sheās alone while her moms awol again, and they both become the others support system.
At one point, thereās this random girl and boy who doesnāt speak who shows up to their school for indeterminate reasons. The girl is bored and twirling her glasses in one hand while the person in a suit that theyāre with asks the principal questions, and when tsumikis eyes catch at the right angle, she sees an invisible monster clinging to a classmates back through them. She realizes itās exactly what Megumi always talked about and still remembers that the people who took him could see his dogs. She corners the two others in a room and tries to demand information about the invisible monsters or see if they know her brother or the people who took him, and immediately gets blown off. The fight escalates until the girl tells him that actually, yeah. She knows tsumikis brother. He is a very special person to some very powerful people, and the only way she can ever help him is to tell him that sheās let go of him and that he needs to do the same to her. Thatās the only message that the people who have him would ever let get through, and his life would get a lot better as soon as he got it.
The people who have him would give him anything in the world, except for her. He could be a lot happier and healthier than he is right now if he just agreed to stop trying to find tsumiki. If she really wants to help her brother, then she needs to let him go.
Tsumiki nails her in the back of the head with a milk carton when she tries to walk away. It sloshes out on her. Tsumiki did not intend this. She cannot admit that fact. There are some actions you just have to own when you do them. She tells the girl that heās her brother and sheās never letting go of him. Sheās going to find him. They canāt keep him from her forever. She doesnāt care how long it takes her.
For a second, tsumiki really thinks this girl is going to kick her ass, but she doesnāt. She wishes her luck and tells her sheāll need it, and itās only later that tsumiki realizes she slipped the eyeglasses into her pocket.
And as it turns out, her brothers monsters were real all along.
There was a knife that toji left in the frame of his bed. Tsumiki confiscated it from Megumi as soon as he found it, and it was odd and strange and gave her bad feelings when she held it, and it can kill the things that gather on her back. When she follows Itadori to their local high school and joins the occult club in an attempt to find more people involved in this world of invisible monsters, she wears the eyeglasses and keeps the knife hidden in her bag.
It comes in handy when her senpais are trying to open this thing and suddenly thereās like a fucking portal opening and Actually Letās Not Oh Too Late Letās Run Letās Fucking Run.
They run.
Meanwhile at the hospital Megumi found out in very quick succession that his sister has fucking sukunas finger and also that thereās a very over enthusiastic himbo who is the self appointed vice president of the Find Fushiguro Megumi And Bring Him Home Club who absolutely fucking refuses to leave his side. Sorry who are you. Why are you so enthusiastic about finding him. Megumi sort of was the one doing the finding there was a whole tracking situation and him waiting dramatically in the shadows like they just did it.
Anyway they run very very quickly to tsumikis school where she is dodging she is serpentining this is a fuckton of monsters oh holy fuck is that her brother?
The fight goes bad.
Tsumiki manages to follow itadori and her brother out at a much slower pace because sheās not a freak of nature like itadori and shows up just in time to see her brother shouting at itadori to not eat the fucking finger while itadori is absolutely trying to eat the fucking finger.
She chucks her shoe at him. The finger goes flying.
Then the monster eats it instead.
Tsumiki: :o
Yuuji: :o
Megumi: fuck
Now thereās a bigger monster and the fight goes even worse. Thereās a lot of shouting. Itadori ends up with her knife. Then he ends up getting eaten and theyāre down both a knife and itadori, whoās probably fucking dead. Then megumis insisting she run and sheās insisting he shut the fuck up because itās sort of taken a decade to get this close to him again and sheās not fumbling the bag now because of a monster on the rampage. Have a sense of fucking priorities here.
Then itadori bursts out of the monsters stomach with the knife like the fucking Kool Aid Man and the fight is suddenly very over. Good job, team.
Gojo rolls up to his most stoic and eternally pissed off student having a dramatic and emotional reunion with his sister.
Yuuji, in a very bad whisper: no no so like sheās been looking for him for years but he saw her in the restaurant
Gojo: :o go on
Yuuji: and then he got caught by like, I donāt know, he said he was his uncle or something but the dude acted so weird and creepy and they put him in a car and Tsumiki tried to stop the car but they got away
Gojo: *gasp* what no
Yuuji: I know! Anyway then I start helping her look for him but we canāt find him anywhere until Iām at the hospital and he just walks up to me right?? And Iām like ādude I have been looking everywhere for youā and heās like āI have no idea who you are, Iām here about that fucked up demon fingerā and Iām likeā
Megumi, really trying to have a moment here: we can both hear you
And megumis like āthis is uh. My new teacher. I guess. I am his only student. And he is uh. Enthusiastic. Do not linger in conversation with him.ā
Tsumiki is lingering. She needs fucking intel so he canāt disappear again. Where does he go to school and can she transfer there. Itās fucking wizard school? Will they take her even though sheās not a wizard? She cannot emphasize enough that she will study any fucking subject they want so that way she can be close with her brother again she does not care if itās applicable to her education or life. She can throw things at people itadori tell the man tell him how enthusiastically she will throw things at monsters for their weird fucking wizard school.
Itadori: she hit me in the face with her shoe like five minutes ago
Tsumiki: see???
Megumi keeps trying to forbid her from wizard school but sheās technically the older sister so she has override rights. She will go to wizard school. How does she get wizard school to accept her.
And Gojos just really weird and off and keeps looking at Megumi and saying that he ādidnāt know he had a sister.ā
He really didnāt know that Megumi had a sister he wanted to stay with.
And then suddenly itās like a switch is flipped and heās back to his normal self telling them to leave everything to him, because heāll make sure tsumiki can come back with them. And uh? Itadori? Weirdly physically capable kid who will apparently eat anything? Is he going to be good getting home after all this?
Itadori: actually if itās not too much trouble can I go to wizard school too my grandpa sort of died half an hour ago and I donāt have plans for the rest of my life. Tsumikis kind of my best friend and Iād like to make sure sheās all good at wizard school. Iām a really good fighter and I stabbed the last monster so like can I come too because you know. Dead grandpa. No family or future to speak of. Haha.
Gojo:
Megumi:
Tsumiki, softly: dude
Thereās more after they make it to jujutsu high but this is already really long so we leave it here
#ask games#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#continuing my streak of becoming obsessed with minor background characters#other highlights include itadori trying to platonically wingman for tsumiki with her brother (because itās been like a decade and she knows#nothing about him and he knows nothing about her and sheās terrified he wonāt like her once they get to know each other again) so that way#itadori can be the one asking the get to know you questions and tsumiki doesnāt have to admit out loud that she and her brother know nothing#about each other only the inherent problem is that her brother is actually unfairly pretty and has a sort of dry wit and is reserved but#when you get to know him heās such a genuine dude and oh fuck oh no heās in trouble this is his best friends long lost brother he has to be#violating some kind of code here. Kugisaki stop laughing at him this is a crisis.#gojo basically backed out of teenage fatherhood when he saw Megumi walking around with the divine dogs because itās one thing to butt heads#with a major clan over an outcast member itās another to do it for their most sacred technique#he thought that Megumi would be better taken care of than anyone else in the clan as the person with the ten shadows and that heād probably#be better off than with an emotionally broken seventeen year old who works at least 28 days a month and has no idea how to raise a child#he never realized that Megumi had a sister he wanted to stay with who the Zenin separated him from#he tells himself he would have intervened if he had known because heās been secretly worried and guilty about not taking in Megumi after all#since Maki showed up and said some worrying things about the clan heir and his standard of living and got the confirmation when he met#tsumiki and realized that he could have kept them together all those years ago and didnt. megumi and tsumiki kind of haunt him with lost#potential because not only could they have grown up a family but they could have grown up his family. megumi doesnāt know why satoru gojo#of all people is being so weirdly helpful and intense about about sponsoring tsumiki and keeping her close to him
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SKYSTAR DOES WHAT TO ARC
Man send this guy to cat hell let his dark forest edition be one eye eating him
HE MAULS HIM
Arc goes into his territory and Skystar RIPS! THAT! BOY! UP!!!
And then later Skystar uses the will of StarClan to justify his invasion of RiverClan, which BTW is 10000% consistent with A Forest Divided (a post redemption arc book) where he completely misinterprets Fluttering Bird in a way that would get him more power.
So if you just ignore the fact they tried to write him as being so scared :( he doesn't know what he's doing :( for the 400th time, it totally tracks. That's Skystar. That's who he is.
#For the record I'm like ACTUALLY laughing#This is DELIGHTFULLY awful I couldn't have asked for better#Anyone who is here who thinks I'm not having the time of my little impish life rest assured#I feel like I'm a small plover or perhaps a seagull nestled on the syracruse shoreline#and I just watched Archimedes fire a death ray incinerator blast at a roman ship#the flames reflected in my tiny black eyes#Verily I am witnessing a destruction beyond anything my little seagull mind could comprehend#but i am inherently a being of chaos and it nourishes me to be close to the divine glow of death and terror#It is Cathartic to watch more content of the arc I hate most be SO bad#This is the love that only a true hater can feel#Riverstar is the only cat I really TOTALLY like in DOTC but I knew this would happen.#I am the one true DOTC Understander.#And it was inevitable that they would do this to him. it was never good on purpose.#riverstar's home spoilers#So while on one hand there is a disappointment I feel. It's tempered by the deep knowledge that it was always meant to end this way#A tragedy in real life.
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