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the innocent spring that was lost forever

spoilers for: jjk0, ch236, s2 shibuya arc (relating to stsg)

doomed from the start, geto was born with a cursed technique that literally required him to absorb, and fucking consume the waste from human society in order to get rid of them, to protect the non-sorcerers, geto has to wolf down rags of vomit n shit and fill himself with the trash of humanity so the humans can live.

satoru on the other hand was seen as a god, he was quite literally untouchable. he is all white hair and blue eyes — untainted. he was worshipped, even when he was just a child, as the future head of the gojo clan; no one has ever seen him as gojo satoru, he was the strongest since people found out he had six eyes and limitless, his childhood was stolen away because of his natural strength; naturally he also doesn’t have to hide his feelings with a customer service smile like suguru does.

‘no one is allowed to take youth away from young people. it’s unforgivable.’ (he was an abused that didn’t become the abuser)

and that’s why him and suguru clicked together so well, suguru was the only one who didn’t treat him like an anomaly, and suguru had the ability to keep up with him too.

‘we are the strongest.’

the star plasma vessel incident

now picture gojo and geto (not to mention the absolute satisfaction suguru would’ve felt when he was put on par with the gojo satoru) two teenagers sky-high on their horses, having never come across a single person that was strong enough to even challenge their power, then comes toji fushiguro, some guy with zero cursed energy and some metal weapons, then he absolutely decimated them and left them traumatised.

this isn’t to put down heavenly restriction, as we can see, toji and maki are both strong as shit. but just imagine the strongest duo being destroyed by this toji guy.

gojo on the brink of death figured out reverse curse technique, but before that, he dies first.

then we get to see what geto would have done if satoru did actually die, and this is one of those few universes where we don’t really need a reversed AU to figure out what he would’ve done instead.

immediately, without hesitation, geto brings out all the strongest curses he has absorbed and fights with all his might against the guy who killed satoru.

of course he doesn’t succeed.

he gets knocked out, and by the time he wakes up again, satoru has already finished the job (whose ego just shoots up even more. ‘throughout heaven and earth, i alone am the honoured one.’) and here comes the turning point.

when gojo was carrying riko amanai out the room of applauding people, he asked suguru ‘do you want to kill them all? the me right now probably wouldn’t feel a thing.’

and suguru answered ‘forget it. it’s pointless.’

at that moment, when they both faced death and almost crossed the border, satoru decided to use suguru as a moral compass, and whatever suguru says, goes.

a lot of people blame yuki for the turning of geto suguru, but i think it was that sentence that gojo said, it was probably the first ever mention of such an idea in geto’s head, even if he doesn’t realise it. and it’s ironic, that geto was gojo’s reason of staying righteous, but not the other way around. but it’s also what makes satosugu more tragic and even more beautiful.

‘geto was gojo’s first and last blue spring of youth.’

geto’s spiral

from then on, it all goes to shit. other than the ‘separation anxiety’ geto has from gojo, there’s the death of haibara, then the discovery of mimiko and nanako; it wasn’t yuki who put that maybe into his brain, she was just solidifying his already existent maybe, she’s just the messenger.

to a certain extent, i think toji is also part of the reason why geto calls non-sorcerers monkeys. he fostered a hate for them because the man who robbed them of their innocence was a person without cursed energy, it also explains why he’s particularly mean towards maki in jjk0

he loses weight. but it’s just heat stress. he’ll be fine. (sometimes, i wonder whether gojo ever blames himself for not pressing harder, that maybe if he did, geto would still be there with him.)

‘satoru has become the strongest.’

(hope u noticed the symbolism with the healthiness of the beta fish and that one looks at the fish and the other doesn’t)

kfc breakup

their youth officially ends in front of kfc. when suguru decides to leave jujutsu high and live his own way of life.

‘it’s just that in a world like this, i couldn’t laugh from the bottom of my heart.’

then in jjk s2, we see the truth. it was a sunny and breezy day, and from suguru’s perspective, all is well, gojo stands out because he’s gojo, and that’s it.

‘are you gojo satoru because you’re the strongest, or are you the strongest because you’re gojo satoru?’ (which was given an answer to in ch236, it’s the latter)

again, in jjk0, when gojo held up his hands, ready to blast suguru into pieces, his hand is sluggish, the movement is slow, and it shows that satoru is tired, he’s grown hopeless, he didn’t know what to do, he gave up.

but then in s2, we’re shown the reality again, the movement is like every other one, he’s angry, he’s frowning and he’s shouting, unlike the quiet in jjk0, he puts down his hand fast.

it’s the one thing satoru can’t do. even though letting him go is against the law, he’s supposed to arrest a curse user, but he can’t, how can he?

jjk 0

it’s been a decade before satoru sees geto again. but even then, gojo still recognises the scent of his curse energy, without hesitation.

and it’s sad, the first sentence gojo says to him is a threat, to take his hands off his students.

during the night parade of a hundred demons, gojo was able to save his students because he still knows geto like the back of his hand. he can see through his plans because he’s suguru.

so when finally, suguru is dying in the alleyway, it’s an intimate scene. even us, the audience isn’t allowed to intrude, we’re zooming away, and gojo’s lips move and only geto hears him: ‘at least curse me a little in the end’ (because geto long thought gojo lost his trust for him)

‘we’ll meet again, right?’

then it’s a flashback, to gojo’s first time letting suguru go, and the next time they see each other, gojo has killed suguru; even then, he’s still reinforcing his ideology: ‘i really hate those monkeys’ but even then, satoru still sees him as his best friend— ‘my best friend is the one who picked it up, my one and only.’ (despite geto not believing it.)

so gojo really meant it when he said ‘love is the most twisted curse of them all.’

shibuya arc

suddenly satoru sees geto again. they were the strongest duo, and they were so close that kenjaku wagered their entire plan’s determinant on how gojo would react when he saw geto again.

(this is why gojo vowed to never be emotional in a fight ever again, revealed in ch236, because geto’s burial from his emotional attachment is why the shibuya arc even exists)

satoro’s love isn’t one-sided either.

‘how can you let yourself get used like that, suguru?’

and just like that, geto’s body moved on its own because protecting satoru is like second nature, so much so that even his corpse alone can do it based on purely muscle memory.

ch236

during gojo’s visit to the limbo (hopefully not permanent) he said he would’ve been happy if geto was there to pat him on the back. after some more than 10 years, satoru never truly got over suguru. on his death bed, not even, he’s still thinking about suguru.

2nd gen satosugu— itafushi

that is an analysis for another day, but i think the sadistic gege might just end itadushi in the exact same way satosugu was ended. sukuna might just use megumi against yuuji in just the exact same way, and if he does, goodnight.

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22nd ANNIVERSARY!

July 22, 1997, the first chapter of One Piece was released!!!

Why is Satoru so fixated on this idea of “never letting anyone be alone again”?

The answer at face value is obvious, Suguru was alone after they started taking solo missions, but let’s really talk about the gravity of that statement, and also the relevance that Shoko’s “I was there too, you weren’t alone” has with this concept.

I’ll be discussing the manga so spoilers if you aren’t caught up:

This analysis cooks I tell you

In Jujukai 0, Satoru sees that Yuuta tried killing himself with a knife to prevent hurting other people. He wants to confine himself completely and be alone, exactly like what Suguru had to go through a decade earlier. Satoru recognizes this and forces Yuuta to join the first years so that he won’t be alone and face the same descent into madness that Suguru did. He feels that he failed Suguru, and this is shown time and time again throughout the story, such as here:

Here, Satoru had a discussion with Shoko, who is remembering that conversation. He said that he’ll raise the next crop of sorcerers to be allies so no one will be alone (his prime motivation for everything), and then Shoko responds effectively, “I’d never fall in love with either of you, but even still, I was still there, you weren’t alone”

But she isn’t recognizing the full meaning behind Satoru’s words. Because what happened after Satoru became the strongest? This became his belief:

He advanced at such a quick rate that he left Suguru in the dust. And that caused both of them to be alone. He was alone in being the strongest, and Suguru was alone in being unable to reach that same level, alone to deal with curses on solo missions, and alone in his descent of madness. It drove them apart, and got in between their bond.

I think Shoko recognizes that much. But I thought it was weird when she suddenly said “I’d never fall in love with either of you” because it was like…well, yeah, but why say that? Bringing up love seemed kind of random and out of place.

And then I realized it’s because she recognizes that Satoru and Suguru were in love with each other. Being in love with someone means that you feel a certain level of depth unmatched with anyone else. You feel like the two of you are at the top of the world, or in your very own world, apart from the rest, completely untouchable. Time and time again we see this shown throughout Satoru and Suguru’s interactions.

That is what Shoko means when she says “I’d never fall in love with either of you”. She’s saying “I recognize that I never felt the kind of love you two had for each other, but you were still never alone.”

And I get that. But because she doesn’t comprehend the bond they had (and really, she couldn’t, because the only ones who can truly feel it are the two of them), Satoru and Suguru really were alone once they split up. Maybe not physically, but emotionally, they were all alone.

And Satoru left Suguru first. Not physically, but emotionally. Because of the stark difference in their abilities. And that is what lead Suguru down his dark path, because he felt alone, and Satoru wasn’t there to chase away his contempt for non-sorcerers like he used to.

When Satoru says he wants to raise strong allies so no one is alone, he’s saying that he wants no one to be the strongest, he wants everyone to be at the same level, so that there’s no barriers, there’s no blind reliance on power causing someone to take what they have in front of them for granted like he did to Suguru.

That’s why this hits harder given that context:

“Trust, huh? To think you still had some of that for me.”

Suguru spent these last 10 years thinking that Satoru didn’t trust him, didn’t need to, because of the difference in their abilities. Why trust someone else when you need only rely on your own powers? Or, in the animated version, Suguru says,

“You want to talk about trust? I didn’t think I still had any of that left, with the shit I went through.”

Satoru left him alone when he “alone became the honored one,” breaking Suguru’s trust. From that point, he didn’t pay real attention to Suguru. When he asked Suguru “have you lost weight? Are you okay?” And accepted Suguru’s half-baked answer, that showed Suguru that Satoru didn’t really care. Or at least, wasn’t paying enough attention to know something was seriously wrong. Broken trust. Satoru had abandoned him and their bond.

Too late, Satoru recognizes this. And he makes his vow to raise the next generation to be strong allies so that no one gets left behind like Suguru or isolated and “special” like himself. You can even see it when he decides to put Itadori in the room right next to Megumi. He never wants it to happen again.