#jjk premature death

[yutamayo]

[stsghrs]

"geto-sama, who's gojo satoru anyway?"

"he was my best friend..."

"...but we fought..."

"...and it's been like that ever since."

[nuppu-nuppu]

" Suguru, should we kill these guys? "

[sscarletvenus]

yes suguru's plans to exterminate a vast majority of humanity is undeniably evil, but to say that he is murderous from the very start, cruel for the sake of being so, or lacks compassion or any emotional nuance is a gross disservice to his character's writing.

suguru is a case study of a romantic idealist and self-sacrificial saviour whose absurdly rigid, quixotic ideals are shattered brutally by reality intervening. the intense hatred he has for humanity is born out of, is an inverse of, the intense love he once possessesed for it. this is also why even though satoru is portrayed as brash and selfish and arrogant in the hidden inventory arc, it is suguru that turns "villainous."

suguru places his faith in the goodness of humanity, believes the duty of shamans is to protect the weak, their existence solely hinged upon saving the lives of non-sorcerers, and for that he is disappointed so tremendously, betrayed to an extent that makes it impossible for him to recover his ideals and past self.

ultimately there are also more than one reasons why satoru doesn't become "evil" : 1) "protecting humanity" was never his cause to begin with. he hardly cared about preserving human life, as is evident in his intentions to kill the cultists who cheered on riko's death, and 2) he had someone shielding his inner self : suguru. for it is suguru that tells him the duty of shamans is to protect non-shamans and the weak, suguru who asks him to sympathise with riko, suguru who persuades him to not kill meaninglessly.

satoru is indeed attached to riko, as well. he is the one who decides not to hand riko over to tengen if she wishes to return home, and tries to enliven her last days as a lucid person. it would thus not surpass one’s expectations if satoru turned to villainy post riko's demise, since he never even liked non-shamans to begin with. and yet, he doesn't. suguru protects his heart, which is a part of why he is able to steadily process his grief and anguish over riko's death.

suguru doesn't have anyone to do that for him, he is strong in his own right but not the "strongest", nobody notices how deep of an abyss his soul has sunken in, and he succumbs to the lethal loneliness, falters in this marathon of sorcery.

suguru is brimming with love and compassion: it is what drives his heroism in youth and villainy as a cult leader. he is able to protect gojo's heart but not his own. he fluctuates between two polar extremes : utter distaste of humanity Vs. a duty to protect it despite its horrors. three things serve as final nails to the metaphorical coffin : yuki's words, haibara's death, miminana's abuse. he describes imbibing curses for curse manipulation is "like eating a rag used to clean vomit". how macabre, how grotesque, how enlightening - who is he doing all this for? the humans who killed riko? it was these humans haibara died serving, these same humans violently mistreated miminana.

toji and sonoda encapsulate evil very blatantly, and aren't enough to shake suguru's belief in humanity. but the turning point is the non-shaman cultists rejoicing : suguru is thus forced to confront the banality of evil.

and suguru responds by rejecting what he once loved, embraces the darkness plaguing him. believes the only way to eradicate curses is to uproot their source : humanity. humans, for as long as they will live, will give rise to curses born out of their negative emotions. there is no one to tell him any better, or protect his self-identity. he loses himself to his own sense of empathy, his own ideals.

he isn't indifferent at all, cannot pick and choose whom he loves and doesn't. his love and hatred is collective, in both he gives his all. even amidst his hatred, he doesn't lose his love.

who does he choose to target first, once amassing enough money, power, and reputation? sonoda, the man who ordered riko's assassination. someone who lies in wait to enact vengeance does it out of love. if he was nothing more than a corrupt tyrant, he wouldn't remember the circumstances of riko's demise or care enough about them. suguru's rise as a hero and his subsequent fall as a villain has always been about love. and it seems, to me, up until his death, he prioritizes satoru over himself. doesn't see satoru as a weapon at all, or he would have directly asked satoru to join his cause. instead he poses to satoru a question, presents him with a choice - which in turn makes satoru shaken enough to question his identity, his place in the system, becoming a teacher and dedicating his all to a fitting reformist centrism from an isolated and dare i say, individualistic person such as himself, who stands on the pinnacle of power. but he wouldn't have come to such a conclusion without suguru's experiences shaping his worldview (he himself apologizes to riko during his fight with toji because rather than feeling depressed over her death, he feels the pure pleasure of the world in that moment. killing toji endows him with a sense of duty towards megumi, and riko's death but obviously impacts him, but the change from full apathy, to neutral indifference except in the case of his students, was losing suguru.)

as evil as suguru becomes, he is not a hypocrite. that he kills his own parents is to show the seriousness and conviction he has in his ideals. his code of operation is consistent, even when it turns from pro-human to pro-shaman.

reminds you of what mahito tells yuuji: does yuuji ever consider how many curses he kills? so why should mahito account for how many humans he kills? suguru geto presents us with a possible answer : someone has to care about how many shamans are killed.

you can condemn him for his use of collective punishment, but suguru is a villain!

you can criticize his killing of innocents, but jjk conveys the carefully crafted narrative of a villain who once held staunch traditional and moral ideals.

suguru is evil for proposing collective punishment, but it is incredibly consistent with how emotional he is. he is empathetic because he cares about a girl like riko, doomed by the actions of the rest of the world, forgotten in her misery. he cares and it drives him to the deepest pits of despair, where life loses all color and meaning, despite only knowing her for so long and haibara as well, he enshrines haibara in his memory, when no one other than nanami does. hardly anyone remembers riko's existence, haibara's laughing face, but he does! and for that he spends each moment sinking in the quagmire of his grief and torment. his empathy is a sword of damocles hanging over his neck! to say that he is cruel and unfeeling is to contradict the very agony that drives his (wrongful?) actions. and he is indeed wrong for externalizing this indelible pain, wanting to inflict it upon innocents. but suguru is a villain! has been set up as such!

mahito raises this question to junpei,"is the opposite of love really indifference?" to satoru, it is. but to suguru, it is hatred which is the opposite of love.

[kath-trashh]

for a life i can’t get back

[jieunsies]

hidden inventory arc !!

[happybirthdayanime]

November 7th

[criesingayscale]

🌀🌀

[gabbyp09]

[yumaisbored]

Geto’s silence when Yuki asked his type in women really says it all.

no desire for women, only genocide.

[sakurm]

i have this hc where shoko wanted to learn how to use cursed tools back when she was a student so she could join suguru and satoru on missions, and the boys tried to train her and help her get fit (bc i also hc her as extremely out of shape lol). things were working out decently even if it was a bit grueling for shoko, and they were all kinda excited about going on their first mission together; shoko wanted to be more productive as a sorcerer than just waiting for people to get injured for her to do something, and stsg wanted to spend more time with their gal.

unfortunately, when it was found out that shoko wanted to do field work, the higher ups got on yaga's ass about it because she's too valuable as someone who can heal others with rct, and so he had to force her to stop training. all of them, yaga included, were pretty pissed about this because, even if she is one of the very few who can heal others, it's a waste to not have more sorcerers on the field. hell, having a healer on the field in general would be more useful because, if someone gets injured on duty, shoko would be able to heal them right then and there, instead of waiting for them to die where she can do jack shit at that point.

i mean, if they had let her keep training to the point where she was proficient with cursed weapons, maybe she could have gone on the protection for riko. maybe she could have healed satoru on the spot when tōji got his ass, and he wouldn't have gotten to riko. maybe, even if he did still shoot riko, she could've healed her quick enough since it's possible to survive a gunshot wound to the head. maybe, even if the events of hidden inventory played out as they did, she could've been there more when suguru started spiraling. maybe, with satoru becoming the strongest and getting sent on more solo missions, she could have joined suguru on his. maybe she could have joined haibara on his mission. maybe, if she was allowed on the field, she could have saved haibara, instead of just waiting for his corpse to end up in the morgue.

maybe she could have actually been there more.

needless to say, shoko isn't particularly fond of the higher ups either.

[yutamayo]

uwu

[welcometolansstudy]

SO GAY!!!! THE TITLE THE COVER EVERYTHING IS SO GAY (in my mind they're holding hands)

[gojosrighthand]

"The moon is beautiful tonight"

INCL- HS!SatoSugu, confessions(kinda), down bad Satoru

Could not get these boy-kissers out of my head, so have a drabble I wrote in second-period math surrounded by homophobes ^-^

The wind is chilly, blowing Suguru's hair around. He had let it down, allowing his raven hair to frame his face. He sits perched on the roof atop a JJT campus building with his favorite person; Satoru Gojo.

The tall sorcerer couldn't help himself from stealing glances at his pretty, 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 friend. Every time their eyes met, his heart skipped a beat, and his throat went dry. His hands were shaky and clammy, something that never happened before. Satoru Gojo was objectively gorgeous, turning the heads of women and men alike. He always found it effortless and natural to be flirty and blunt about his wants. He was always confident, but not now, not with Suguru.

His throat closed up when the ravenette said his name. His pale aflame with a deep red flush. One thing was for certain, he was smitten with Suguru Geto. He had to do it, he had to tell him how he felt. He didn't care that the Gojo clan would die with him. He didn't care Suguru was a guy. And he especially didn't care what anyone else thought.

Satoru turns to his friend, determination burned into his eyes. He's not backing down, but not this time. "It's like this Suguru!" The dark-haired man looks on at the blushing sorcerer in front of him. "I've kept this inside myself for a long time-" Satoru sees the long-haired teen shake his head and laugh. Looking at the big, bright, celestial body in the night sky. And to someone like Satoru, he shuts up immediately, wracked with instant fear and regret. He thinks to himself, spiraling down a tunnel of self-loathing. 'Does he not feel the same way? Does he hate me now?'

"Satoru..." He starts. "The moon is beautiful tonight-"

The white haired teen just stares at his friend. "S-Suguru, I-"

He's cut off by a hand on his, gently squeezing around his slender fingers. Suguru softly turning his gaze to him.

"Isn't it, Satoru?

Dividers by- cafekitsune

AHHHH I'm so proud of thiss!!

A/N: Did any1 catch the DRST reference?

[le-panda-chocovore]

I'm on the way to my dentist appointment and I thought about SatoSugu (as usual). And I have no idea what the fuck was wrong with my brain but I imagined if Suguru arrived to the Cult's place after Shoko healed him and found Satoru's body near Riko's. Like, what if Satoru didn't manage to understand the reverse cursed technique and really died ? What if Suguru lost his one and only ? What if Toji really won ?

I immediately started crying on the street (and I'm still trying to stop the tears) because WHY WOULD I THINK ABOUT THAT ??

[asofspades]

I'm doing a jjk piece but I'm doubting if I should colour in Riko's eyes blue as a colour accent for the B&W piece