Gojo, You Are NOT Hiding It Well.

some characters just deserve a wife and kids

When are we going to start teaching kids that it’s okay to disagree with adults? That it’s okay to demand respect from them and that them being younger doesn’t mean they deserve to get treated like shit just because adults are “always right”? When are we gonna start doing that?

Sir, so can we safely assume you don’t like Harry Potter :( ?

I never got interested in it enough to like or dislike it. I went, as a scholarship kid, to two British "public schools" so I have a deep lack of interest in any school fiction that makes that kind of education seem anything other than monstrous and inhuman. (Honorable exceptions being Tom Brown's Schooldays and Stalky and Co, neither of which, I felt when I read them, romanticized the British boarding school experience.)

STOP. STOP.

HAVE I NOT CRIED ENOUGH?

HOW MANY MORE TEARS MUST I SHED??

"In another universe" they say.

Here are my thoughts on this.

I found that particular scene interesting because of how Geto shut Gojo out. We can compare how he interacted with Gojo to how he interacted with Ieri.

With her he was completely chill, he had no issue telling her about how he'd massacre all non-sorcerers, I feel like he'd have no problem telling anyone else that (if they weren't actively trying to arrest him). He willingly answers her questions.

But when Gojo confronts him? It's "you already heard about it". Geto loves talking about his vision. Why not with Gojo?

I would argue Gojo isn't that good of a person, well yes, that scene about him is understandable, but he also did mention how he's frustrated of protecting the weak. And in Shibuya, he opens his domain while knowing it'd endanger everyone. Plus, Gojo's reasoning for not approving of Geto's goal is not because it's bad. In that scene, Gojo reasoned that "it's impossible". Not "it's wrong", "it's bad" or "it's evil", no, "it's impossible."

And even in that scene, Gojo asked Geto if he should massacre everyone, had Geto said yes, Gojo would've wiped out everything. He trusted Geto to the point he'd allow himself to become a mass murderer because of his judgement.

If Geto had persuaded Gojo, then they could've succeeded.

But Geto made zero effort to even recruit Gojo, with his power Geto's vision for a sorcerer-only world would easily succeed. He just pushed Gojo away.

I think that's because Gojo would be doing most of the killing, so all crimes would mainly target him. And we know Geto really loved Gojo, his vision is something he'd willingly sacrifice his life for, but not Gojo's.

You know what is FOUL?!

The fact that Geto told Gojo, "Well, you know, you could do it!" Excuse me??? No the fuck he couldn't!!! Gojo could never do that. Would never do that. Sure, there was that one time that Gojo asked him "Should we kill everyone here?" BUT (important to fucking note) Gojo said "with the way I'm feeling RIGHT NOW I wouldn't even feel it" bc Gojo had literally just brought himself (practically) back from the dead. He was the least human he had ever felt with all the trauma caused by Toji, BUT THAT WAS AN EXCEPTION, THAT IS NOT GOJO ON THE REGULAR.

To tell your bestie, who YOU KNOW is inherently GOOD, a guy who kept his infinity on 24/7 even when it was frying his brain just to protect Riko, who didn't sleep, who made sure her last moments were filled with happiness before she merged with tengen, THAT is who you're saying could wipe out the world?? Then, he has the nerve to ask him if he's the strongest because he's Satoru Gojo or is he Satoru Gojo because he is the strongest? When Geto is the only one who Satoru has ever let himself just be Satoru with. Satoru pushes against Geto's ideals but ultimately acts with the same conviction, fights by his side, made pacts with him to save Rikos life against the power of tengen who is the balance of everything BECAUSE THAT IS HOW MUCH SATORU VAULES PEOPLE'S LIVES,

and Geto has the audacity to look at Gojo and say to his face: "You could do it. You're telling me I can't do something that is possible for you."

Like, Geto, baby, it's not possible for Satoru Gojo. ABSOLUTELY NOT. But, it is possible to do it with his abilities and for the first time, that's how Geto was addressing him. As someone with the Six Eyes and Limitless technique.

That's tragic! That's heartbreaking. And I think Gojo realized that that is how Geto was looking at him too when he had never looked at him like that before.

Geto really said, "You think your Hollow Purple is devastating? Let me break your heart, Gojo."

i have nothing else to say except we have to get wreck & the original nice set to good luck babe

One thing i will always praise JJK for is how they handled the "Strongest" archetype

in so many stories, there will be a "strongest" of one thing or another only for it to be subverted later by either introducing someone just as or even stronger, or they were just being manipulated, thus once the manipulator shows up they're no longer a threat

Take Naruto for instance. Pein was supposed to be the ultimate big bad, the leader of the final villain group, the bearer of they eyes of the sage with godlike power at his fingertips. Then he dies and it's revealed that Obito was not only manipulating him, but he was stronger than Pein the whole time and could've ended him at any time. Then Madara comes back and you think "Oh, this is the guy, not only does he have the power, he's got the history and plot relevance to be the ultimate big bad," then he gets merced by a guy with no actual feats and replaced by Yet ANOTHER big bad this time with actually no relevance. Like none. Kaguya, never heard of her, but apparently she's responsible for everything bad that's ever happened ever.

Then let's take a look at All might and All For One. they're supposed to be the strongest hero and the strongest villain bar none. But it doesn't work for me personally because we never see them in their primes and we never actually see what they do. Like, sure All might supposedly waged a war on villainy that was so successful that Japan is one of the safest places to live period. But we never see any of it. Any time we see him fighting it just seems like one more battle until the next, like it doesn't seem like he's actually made a dent in crime rates. Hell, the second minor thugs hear there's even a chance they could take him on in the USJ, they take the chance. As for All For One, he never really seemed scary either, like he did evil things, he blew up that one chunk of a city, but he never felt like a main bad guy, he was like mid tier villainy for me. It doesn't help that most of his villainy was, for lack of a better term, retconned in. Oh yes, you were the one that fixed Dabi up, and made people racist against mutant quirks so they would turn to crime, and you gave Shiggy a quirk that would kill his parents and raised him to hate All might. Here's an idea. For your big comeback, blow up UA. Murder All Might on national TV. Interact with Deku once outside of battle. that would be a big bad thing to do, actually interact with the story

But not JJK. From the beginning of the story, we're told Gojo is the strongest sorcerer and Sukuna is the strongest curse, and that never changes. They feel big, every time they come out a city is wrecked. No one ever doubts that either of them would lose. Even Kenjaku, who is the usual manipulator,secret "I was in control the whole time," knows that the second Gojo gets close to him or Sukuna gets tired of him, he's dead. And it's not just the enemy sides that act like it, which really sells that they're threats. When Sukuna gets even slightly annoyed at Mahito for coming too close to his stuff, he backs off and never tries again. And the elders are constantly afraid and being reminded that Gojo is always about 5 seconds from just killing them all

Bath time with little scientists

(Cottage by the stream!!)