#the disaster curses are the world’s weirdest found family prove me wrong

[jacenbren]

Disaster Curses headcanons:

Regardless of what he tells them, Kenjaku sees the disaster curses less as individuals and more as personal projects, of sorts. He wants to see just how far he can push them, just how strong they’ll get before he ultimately absorbs them. They’re like science experiments—fun to play with and test the limits of, fun to put in scenarios to see just how much they’re capable of, but ultimately nothing more than a mild inconvenience for him if they break.

Jogo is the oldest of the disaster curses, and he knows exactly how Kenjaku sees them. It pisses him off, but he knows he can’t say anything, because that would risk the others’ safety. He sees himself as their caretaker of sorts, and when Kenjaku came along, Jogo only agreed to work with him out of common interests.

Jogo doesn’t trust Kenjaku. He never will.

Being a cursed womb, Dagon has about the same mental capacity as a human five-year-old. Ever since Mahito brought him some, his favorite toys are Legos.

Speaking of Mahito, Kenjaku heavily favors him over the others, due to his abilities and potential, and treats him as a sort of “golden child.” Mahito is unaware of the fact that Kenjaku’s love for him is little more than an act to keep him complacent and easy to manipulate, and that he sees Mahito as little more than a means to an end.

Choso is extremely jealous and resentful of Mahito because of how Kenjaku dotes on him, even before he finds out that Kenjaku is his father. Choso doesn’t understand why he and his brothers weren’t treated with the same love and affection (no matter how insincere), and were instead locked away as cursed wombs and left to rot.

Hanami has a MASSIVE crush on Jogo. Unfortunately, he sees her more like an apprentice, or a ward, of sorts, so she refuses to confess. This doesn’t stop Mahito from teasing her mercilessly about it.

If Jogo could go anywhere and do anything, without fear of being discovered and exorcised, he’d take his family the disaster curses on a vacation to Hawaii. Hanami would love the greenery, Dagon would love the ocean being so close by, and Mahito loves doing anything new, really. Jogo himself would go visit the active calderas. Then he’d take a nice long nap, because wrangling the other three is a full-time job.

The reason Mahito is so compelled to kill and torment is because of the strange line between worlds he’s forced to walk—he’s too human-like to fit in with curses, but too monstrous to fit in with humans. Kenjaku and the disaster curses are the only family he’s ever known, and he wants to please the closest thing he has to a father, so he has to be as vicious as a curse, obviously. He needs to kill the human part of himself again and again, because if he thinks for too long about where he came from, he gets so confused and scared that his stomach hurts.

He loves human things though, like their food and entertainment. Mahito’s favorite byproduct of humanity is their literature, and given the opportunity, he’d cuddle up in a nice cozy library with a good book for hours.

His favorite book is Frankenstein. He likes the monster more than the doctor.

Mahito might annoy the fuck out of him sometimes, but Jogo really cares about him. He’s especially bitter that Mahito sees Kenjaku—a human who ultimately doesn’t care about his wellbeing and intends to use Mahito as a pawn in his little shell game—as a parental figure, instead of Jogo himself.

Hanami is the one who looks after Dagon most of the time, while Mahito is more of an irresponsible older brother figure who teaches him swear words.

Jogo’s favorite smoking pipe is one Mahito made him out of a transfigured human. It still warbles and whines sometimes when he uses it.

The disaster curses automatically assume that because he’s half human, Choso knows everything there is to know about humans, so they go to him when Kenjaku gets annoyed by their questions. Choso’s too awkward to tell them he’s almost as clueless as they are, so he’s been bullshitting the answers for a while now.

Because of this, Hanami is fully convinced all humans can levitate like Gojo and just choose not to. She is confused and terrified.

Hanami really wishes cursed spirits showed up in photographs, because Dagon really likes it when she grows flower crowns for him to wear and play with. He looks so cute, and Hanami hates that she only has her memory to rely on.

There’s a small part of Mahito that feels guilty for killing, but he squashes it every time, because what would he be without his family?