#of the nature of the relationship itself + how it'd interact with the actual canon romances

[laufire]

just because a dynamic didn't include romance doesn't mean it was "a waste of potential." going from platonic to romantic is not an upgrade, it's a change of from one type of relationship to another, and in fact there are cases where I firmly believe such a change would flatten the dynamic in question, lessening its complexity and stagnating its progression.

[seoafin]

if akutami’s involve in the vol 0 movie promotion,, it would probably be deadpool-esque promo for vol 0 movie :

"merry christmas ❤️" ; "a story about love"

crossing my fingers for some ovas for the lightnovel(s)

we'd be lucky if we get 5 seasons, but judging by how sensei wants to end it quickly,, well, 4 is pushing it. i think.

i rly want to see what actually happened in the goodwill event where yuuta won,, and how he left with miguel? it'd be the perfect way to tease shibuya arc (assuming that they'll release the movie before S2)

from the PV itself, i'm guessing it's gonna take 6 months (unlikely) or a year or 2 before the movie comes out,, so same rules apply with season 2, unfortunately. or, they'd release the movie during S2's break ,, or the most plausible one: after S2 (if they plan to include the time-skip and geto’s appearance in season 3 instead)

i wonder,, if they would give a glimpse of toji since playful cloud is in geto’s possesion at that time

i rly wish rika got to grow up and become the feral curbstomping gremlin shaman we all know she would have become,, the more i think of her backstory details the more i feel there’s so much unsaid abt the nature of her and yuuta's relationship

AND ???? (HOPEFULLY) JUJUSANPOS WITH SHOKO?? akutami,, u have 1 job left 😩

*clench fist* u-utashoko content pls

tbrh i feel that it's hard to say sth abt shoko from a canon pov bc we don't see her interactions with them as much, but that gives us room to play!! ,, i think she’s just as nasty in personality as they are (for some reason,, i feel like it’s fight in first sight in their first year, gojou is definitely more of a brat before meeting them) , lol, but in a more dry, cutting way - and it's telling that geto approached her after he defected even though he said he didn't think he could convince her.

i think she's quite clearheaded but very firm in her stance, and i think she would have found gojou and geto dynamic very interesting and entertaining to watch. I imagine in many cases if either of them wanted to talk about the other, they would have gone to her, bc of her familiarity, and bc she's so plainspoken. i think she knows them on a level very few other people do. in a way, she is their witness and observer. i also think it's notable her promoted ability is reverse CT - bc that's just a way of using curse power but it's not an inherited technique in and of itself. this suggests to me that her CT could actually be sth else! since the satosugu dynamics does play into the theme of power in the jjk world, it makes me curious what shoko's ability is and how it would factor into their interactions. In the team, i would wonder if shouko holds herself apart from gojou and geto

@/&/$:&3@ the way i’ll get my hands in any fan works abt shoko 😭 ,, one of my favorite doujin shows shoko’s view as an “outsider” after geto’s death, it’s privated now 💔 but i’m pretty sure it was made by either : AND__re or sin_chin_taisha

iirc the doujin took place in the summer after geto’s death and gojo barged into shoko’s office to visit his grave which confused shoko like “u made a grave for him?? when??” but gojou was “anyways, do u want to come?”— and they went over to geto’s grave and clean it,, all the while shoko had flashback of their student days and her last line was that : “in the end, both of us are a sinner” (referring to how they couldnt stop geto when he spiraled) while the panel shows gojou carefully arranging the flowers + that wistful expression

the last two panels were of stsg visiting a beach together (i assume before HI arc) and it goes like :

gojou : “what if we conquer the world?”

geto : “eh? that’s too much of a hassle”

gojou : “but we can do it anyways, after all, we’re the strongest”

geto : “*laugh* well, you’re not wrong”

gojou kept on talking but when he turn to look at the place geto sat beside him, geto has vanished and all he can see is the vast ocean 😭😭😭😭

also this (though it’s in cn, u can still google translate it) : https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/85662072 ,, this one is abt shoko’s pov starting from their 1st year and what i actually want from akutami 🥴

+ https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/77685037 (the grim/ bittersweet atmosphere + utahime 😩) - 🐱

The movie is going to kill me 😁

I am SO curious about rika like her character profile in the book was fishy as hell 😭

YES!!! if shoko was utilized RIGHT then she could be such an GOOD character. shoko is the only person in the world who knew gojo and geto on that personal level as surface level friends while still being an outsider to their relationship. she has a perspective nobody else in the manga has and yet........and YET!!!! that tentative trust on geto’s end when he approached shoko and how shoko was like “lmao you loser” god.....

that’s such a cool idea omg if shoko’s CT is actually something else and akutami shows us....I’m going to go FERAL. i just want to know more of her outside of stsg you know??? like not just shoko the thirdwheel but more about her family, her friends (whether or not she has civilian friends), etc.

the fanbook didn’t give us SHIT give it to me akutami!!!!!

[gece-misin-nesin]

#especially because though shippers are often wilfully blind to this#sometimes turning these relationships romantic would mean having to fit them in a previously set structure#of the nature of the relationship itself + how it'd interact with the actual canon romances#the results would be far more constricted than you'd think#especially if you add people's very normative expectations about romance#some relationships thrive BECAUSE they're not subjected to that#ofc some relationship are restricted BECAUSE they're set as ''platonic''#but i think more people are sensible to this in a way they aren't to the opposite#because they interpret romance as friendship+

just because a dynamic didn't include romance doesn't mean it was "a waste of potential." going from platonic to romantic is not an upgrade, it's a change of from one type of relationship to another, and in fact there are cases where I firmly believe such a change would flatten the dynamic in question, lessening its complexity and stagnating its progression.