#satosugu yin and yang coded

[lxmelle]

I think it’s safe to say both Gojo and Geto had a problem opening their hearts after they separated. Like an emotional scar they never resolved.

It’s kinda Husband & Wife-coded imho. (Husband&Husband, Wife&Wife, whatever - you get my drift).

Geto at his death asked about his family. He wasn’t concerned about how they’d mourn for him or considered if they’d want him saved, etc. Like the scrolls adorning the back of the temple, he didn’t view himself to be much if he couldn’t be strong - punishment to the weak and foolish.

Gojo upon the lead up to the battle seemed to believe he would win either way (aligned with what he told Megumi) and that wasn’t bothered with his body - but he admittedly did feel annoyed that his longest living friend, Shoko, wasn’t upset on his behalf. (I HC that I think he understood that there was no other person who had love for him like with Geto.)

Spoilers for 261:

Given the circumstances, Shoko also had to do what was necessary to support him, regardless of her feelings towards the request. She has always been respectful of boundaries I think. More avoidant with her feelings (remaining stoic) rather than ambivalent. She is a medic after all... you have to put aside your personal feelings.

To some extent both Gojo and Geto it difficult to regard themselves as worthy of loving and genuine care. People may have cared like Geto’s family etc. but the problem lies in their ability to recognise and reciprocate it. He felt alone and couldn’t smile sincerely in his life. It was easier for him to give love than to receive it.

Gojo had a few students who did, but they perhaps came at a time too late (it was mere months after Geto died?) where he didn’t have the time to actually open up his heart too much in the end... before he was sealed, and then had to make the decision to enter the battle. Fortunately, by that time, he didn’t feel lonely anymore as he said in ch236 after death, but there was certainly a line where he didn’t feel he could be understood by others. He was born too different, perhaps? His pragmatic and callous facade made it difficult for others to get close enough to see the real Gojo Satoru. A part of it was about unparalleled strength. The magnitude of it. It wasn’t something Sukuna understood either, since he never knew love and lost it.

We can see that Gojo held different standards for Geto than he did himself though. In the anime many speculated that he was bringing the bouquet for Geto’s grave (or something similar). He must’ve given his body back to Mikiko and Nanako (or hidden it) because he didn’t have it processed & cremated by Shoko, (which would’ve been completely adhering to the orders of the institution). He also wanted to reclaim it for a proper burial from Kenjaku.

This feels so much like a husband & wife thing.

Widowed Husband goes: “Ah, just toss my ashes in the river.” But will get his wife flowers for her grave, ensure she has a clean gravestone, no weeds growing on her plot, leaves a plate out during anniversaries, etc.

Gojo’s love for Geto is also very Yang-coded (which is inherently more male) where he will cling on unwaveringly and there is something about reverence in how he patiently accepts Geto and tried to fulfil everything he wanted. In this sense, where he is portrayed as a loyal widower, he may surround himself with friends, activities, look after the kids, etc. but he will always honour and cherish his wife until his dying day.

Geto who is Yin-coded loves maternally, self-sacrificially. She will be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of her kin. Even if separated from her husband, she will nurture and build a family around her, uncomplaining. She may appear to cope on the surface, as she is used to her emotional needs being unmet without her partner/Husband, until her own dying day.

This is totally anecdotal of course, but to give myself some credit, I’ve talked intimately with more than my fair share of people in grief to see a pattern (and understand it in a personal level too)... we all grieve differently, love differently, value different things...

This is just my two cents. Any thoughts?

Feel free to comment or reblog with your own take.

[virgobingo]

For years I believed Yin was good and Yang was bad because my grandmother would say the rude bullies were Yang. I looked into what they mean and the associated traits because of satosugu lol

Geto is totally yin coded and Gojo is totally yang coded. Gojo has the bright, chaotic, masculine energy and Geto for sure is the passive feminine character who hides his feelings and withers away in the dark.

If you look it up even their powers are like that. Geto uses Playful cloud which was his before JJK was written, cloud is a Yin trait. Gojo's Hollow technique can be equated to a sunbeam which is Yang trait.

that's so funny but it does prove that it's hard to assign morality to yin and yang because it's kind of relative.

for satosugu it goes beyond the paths they take in life too. from their techniques to their personalities and the way they relate to one another, i think gege uses it to show how interdependent they are.

and yeah.. actually the fandom is a little weary of discussing the feminine/masculine traits because they're rather restrictive (maybe thinking of these terms as surpassing gender and people possessing both helps? it's a slippery sloap ik)— but gege does make geto more yin balanced and that includes traits commonly associated with "femininity" such as the ones you mentioned. he also goes the extra mile with other things in my opinion (x) (+literally has a curse spirit call him mother).

... and just as gege makes geto yin balanced, he makes gojo more yang balanced by going out of his way to associate him with more "masculine" traits such as power and ambition (literally described as someone with the mindset of an old military general).

anyways it's really just cool to think about. need someone more eloquent than me to write a detailed analysis about it haha

[muninnhuginn]

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Sorry this took so long! (Also, am aware there's another I need to answer which is in my drafts rn)

Answering the asks from this list.

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

Where Our Blue Is - Tatsuya Kitani. Well. That's an easy one at least. SatoSugu from JJK. I still haven't watched anything after Hidden Inventory but between that arc and JJK 0 I got swung around so hard on this particular pairing. Before JJK 0, I'd sorta presumed shippers were mainly just mashing popular characters with a history together (and my opinion of Gojo was kinda "he's like an older Itadori in a lot of ways so I'm sure he's interesting for some people but he doesn't really capture *me* because he's mainly there to be OP and/or comic relief". Meanwhile, my opinion of Geto was "he's racist" - admittedly, I still think that about him, but he's got more layers now), but JJK 0 itself leaned in so much on the "old friends" and "love is a curse" stuff that I came out of the film like "oh, wait fr?" (Also, keeping the whole first name no honorifics deal even as enemies, but my memories of s1 are so blurry that I can't remember if that came up before then) But yeah, Hidden Inventory. The whole stuff around Geto acting as Gojo's moral compass and low-key being the social buffer to smooth things over between Gojo and everyone else is so fascinating when you know full well where they end up. And the way that Gojo's OPness *does* actually get explored in terms of how there's this whole gap between him and everyone else that Geto is heavily conscious of. The fact that they were a "them against the world" to Gojo and to Geto it was "Gojo against the world (with everyone else just along for the ride)" but when Geto snaps Gojo remains. He could have fulfilled "them against the world" but he chose not to. And Gojo ends up taking the role that Geto previously occupied, mimicking the moral compass that Geto was trying to convince himself of. Something about fake it 'til you make it, trying to act as an example to your counterpart without necessarily being fully convinced yourself. Also, the yin-yang visuals, obviously.

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

Oof, I have a few tbh? I'll just list a few off rather than going into any depth (though I can say more if asked). (Update: Ngl, this started as specific tropes and quickly devolved into something else but go with it, thanks.) - The main tropes I dislike relate to the idea of mandatory romance ngl, so stuff like pair the spares (where you eventually end up with absolutely everyone paired off by the end of it) and that whole thing where you get two female characters who barely interact in canon together but in doing so entirely ignore their canon personalities and/or interactions. - Cinnamon rolling of characters, especially ND-coded ones who are given actual depth in canon and then the fanon flattens that all out, removing the agency they have in canon in favour of proclaiming them "innocent" but not much else. I feel like people doing this may like the versions of the characters that they see, but they're missing so many layers that they're actively making them more boring. - And finally, pregnancy stuff. I know some people really like to read that kind of stuff in fic or see bio kids as some natural "progression" of a relationship, but it just really squicks me out personally (and there's some intersection there where the main fandom I see that's weirdly into this is one where the main pair already have an adopted kid so the idea they need a bio one as well has some weird implications to me even if I can't say that every single instance of it falls into that) (Please take this list as me generically complaining rather than judging anyone that does like these things btw)

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

Klavier Gavin is very confident in what(?) he wants. Possibly more than any other character in Ace Attorney. Whilst every other prosecutor/defender is off creating convoluted roundabout methods of showing that they care for others, he's just straight up offering the opposition his help from the get go.