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therealstonedelephant · 5 days ago

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sukugo is a crack ship TO YOU. to me it's a perfectly legitimate ship, held back within the canon universe principally due to adherence to classic genre structures and not by lack of character compatibility

#sukugo #not to be a crack ship definition purist. but it doesnt qualify as a crack ship if the characters are totally compatible #and if a major reason that the ship is not canon is just because the characters aren't main characters and thus not the focus of the story #what i mean is that jjk has a pretty normal structure for a coming of age martial arts story #it has the young protagonist who is the focus of the story #who has a wise teacher who is killed by the villain to provide the protagonist with more motivation to defeat the villain #gojo and sukuna were both doomed by the narrative in that the narrative followed this classic structure. so long as yuji is the protagonist #and main character then gojo needs to die to allow him growth and focus #and sukuna needs to be defeated by yuji #sukuna and gojo's relationship could only develop to a limited extent within their fight because its only setting the stage for the final #fight between yuji and sukuna #BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY MANY EXCHANGES BETWEEN GOJO AND SUKUNA THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE COMPATIBLE AS A SHIP IF THEY HAD #TIME AND SPACE TO DEVELOP THE STORY IN THAT DIRECTION #“teacher and villain set up to be on opposing sides but finding understanding and an equal and love in each other” is totally legit dynamic #thats the premise of tian ya ke/word of honor #what im saying is that sukugo are very compatible as a ship #but to have a ship like sukugo be believable in canon. their relationship needs to be given time to develop #more time than jjk is able to give it within its structure without more genre subversion and without them being main characters #jjk

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