#which goes to show how successful the Zenin are at loving people

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when I say sea glass gardens has me frothing at the mouth I am not exaggerating. All you opinions are correct and true regarding everything. Gege who? Character dynamics are chefs kiss and the humour is on point. Yuuta's power of love is the funniest thing I have in a really long time. Every time it shows up has me cracking up. Also the 'i stole a car' bit.

I read it this morning and will probably reread it three times before tomorrow even though I have an exam coming up. Every character really feels like themselves which I really appreciate.

As an aside do you have any thoughts on Toji's parents? Iirc his dad was naobitos brother and wondered if they added anything to megumi's feelings about the zenin clan.

Also I can't help but wonder if the person tsumiki was texting was her bio mom??

Love love love the story and I hope you have a nice day!

Megumi doesn’t actually know who in the clan are his grandparents.

There was sort of an internal power play when they found out that it was Toji’s kid who inherited the technique. Normally, it’s a huge boon to have the ten shadows come from your bloodline, but I imagine that Toji’s parents bent over backwards to distance themselves from him. For one thing, he had absolutely no cursed energy at all. For another, he turned into the sorcerer killer and killed the star plasma vessel.

They formally disowned him and his descendants a long time ago, when Megumi was still an infant, and Naobito used that as leverage to swoop in and say he had the best claim on Megumi. He made the purchase; he was clan head; he was Megumi’s uncle by blood. He had the right to raise the ten shadows and bring him into his household. Tojis parents would have no contact with him.

It was a huge, bitter bitch fight that was going on simultaneously with the custody battle with gojo. Tojis parents lost a lot of political mobility when their kid turned out to be a total failure and then the killer of the star plasma vessel. Raising the ten shadows was their chance to reclaim their own relevance. But they had already severed their ancestral claim to him by disowning him, and Naobito had made the down payment on Megumi’s purchase from his own funds, and he was clan head. He ended up winning the right to claim megumi as a member of his household, and it’s openly acknowledged that he would have raised Megumi as his heir if gojo hadn’t intervened. It’s part of why Naoya was so terrible to megumi.

Megumi doesn’t have any real feelings about his grandparents in particular. He doesn’t know them, and they obviously don’t want to know him if they couldn’t pop by to say hello when he was literally living in the same compound. All he knows is that they’re still alive, had disowned his dad and him a long time ago, and he wasn’t allowed to see them. He just takes it as another sign that the Zenin don’t give a shit about him and only ever fought for custody to spite Gojo. They’re supposedly his closest family, and they hated him so much they disowned him as a baby and refused to ever see him? That was just more proof that the entire custody arrangement was just designed to hurt him. They obviously aren’t driven by love of their own blood.

You’ll see with who Tsumiki was texting.

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