Happy pride month everyone! Y’all are being allowed a break from IB this pride month. Good luck everyone, stay safe and (hopefully) enjoy stuff, no matter if the month tells you to or not!
Hii !! This isn't at all meant to come across as rude, but I genuinely would like to know what you see in sukugo as a ship?
I ask this because I think your art is so beautiful and cute and amazing, but I personally don't know much about the ship. I just wanna know more from sukugo shippers on why they see love between the two characters? Unless it's like a "just for fun" thing, which is also totally cool lol
Sorry if this comes across as rude I just genuinely love your art and you seem to love the ship a lot so I figured you may be interested in explaining why you like the ship
the shortest answer i could give is i see love between sukugo because gege puts it there. as in they are the two characters that has "love" being a main theme spelled out by the narrator in a whole arc centering around them .
(it's also 愛 ai, not even the 恋 koi one. gege used the kanji for unconditional, selfless, true love in that "the one to teach you about love" line)
but if you're interested in a longer explanation this has lore that traces all the way back to mid-2022 when elden ring came out, i had a post where i said i wished gojo had a redhead love interest to make a Rebis symbol with him. never in a million years i expected gege to actually make that real with shinjuku showdown 😭
Rebis, also known as Red king & White queen marriage, symbolises the intermingling of red sulphur with white mercury to create perfect gold. It's the unification of opposing qualities in alchemy. this is reflected not just in sukuna and gojo's character design, but their whole character arc and thematic relevance to each other.
yap session ahead
their domains: domain expansion is a sorcerer’s manifestation of their inner mental landscape and Sukuna and Gojo's meld together perfectly. For a while the omniscient cosmos acts as the cradle for an uncaring shrine, blue starry sky meeting the red blood sea.
Thousands of years and the only domain that is compatible with Malevolent Shrine is Unlimited Void, to the point that when Gojo died, Sukuna couldn't deploy his domain for a whole while and when he got it back, Yuta- the patron saint of mutual love in the verse, wore Gojo skin to run in back again.
Sukuna could deploy his domain without barrier which is unimaginable to other sorcerers cuz it’s like painting without a canvas. A king that conquers all just like the all-consuming purifying fire that he wields. Meanwhile Gojo could make the barrier of his domain so tiny it’s also unimaginable to others because they couldn’t imagine being trapped in such a small space. Gojo did because he has also folded into himself for the sake of those he loves his entire life.
They are both doing such advanced techniques to the power system that’s out of reach for everyone else, but they are also doing it in the opposite direction of each other, in a way that’s reflective of their life philosophy. Two equals standing at two polar axis.
their approach to becoming strong: they are both jujutsu nerds, but Sukuna's thirst for knowledge & self-improvement is in service to himself, while Satoru seeks to give knowledge & encourages growth in his students. If his community is strong, he is strong. Therefore in that month of preparation before the big fight, Gojo was shown training Yuta & Yuuji rather than digging more on Sukuna.
How they approach life and make their choices is a mirror to their own personal stories & struggle. It's these little push & pull of meanings that makes them so compelling as a pair.
There's a meta commentary here about how since Sukuna kept possessing Gojo’s students & gaining their memories, whether he knew he was doing it or not, he reacts to/ follow the lessons Gojo gave out. Him using Gojo’s hand sign & techniques later on is also a part of this larger theme that Gojo had unwittingly been like a teacher to him too. It makes the “the one to teach you about love” “I want him to understand” lines hit even harder.
I elaborate more here on why Sukuna's upbringing and curse is its own can of worm that makes his interaction with Gojo so poweful. Gojo who kept rescuing cursed children and protecting them is the kind of protective figure Sukuna never had, and I always felt like a part of Sukuna's resentment to the students and Yuuji in particular does stem from that (i do understand if ppl say this is a reach, but !! i'd like to show you guys the character that i believe is one of the main inspiration Gege took to develop Sukuna:
yes, the main character from the BL Gege once recommend The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window. when his love interest chose to protect innocent civillains instead of him (because he's already strong), he literally asked "why protect them, and not me?")
fish metaphor: the fish imagery in the sukugo fight is always so peak since ningyo flesh in japanese mythology is said to grant immortality + the "scale of the dragons" incantation in sukuna's world slash is a throwback to the fish scales lines. there are layers to this:
according to the myth of Four Divine Beasts in Sinosphere culture, control over dragon grants one's control over aquatic life, specifically fish
there's also the myth of a determined koi fish that swims upstream and is rewarded by the God to become a dragon. it's one way to show how Satoru transforms from a nameless fish to a dragon in Sukuna's eyes throughout the fight. which, again, runs another parallel to the alchemy imagery where the royal beast lion transforms into its true form after a dragon’s death, like Sukuna did after Gojo died.
you see how many parallels and analysis we can have of the sukugo fight with just one line here? it's how gege crafted this fight with such concise and powerful imagery that makes it go so hard.
gege has always been building up to sukuna vs gojo since the beginning: probably a hot take, but to me sukugo chemistry is what JJK0, the very first 3 chapters & HI arc built up to 😭 (their fight is literally a constant throwback to their first meeting)
“love to the strong” “a curse must be exorcised using another curse” “love is the most twisted curse of all” being centered around Gojo means the biggest fight of his life, the one he’d put his everything into would ofc be him facing off someone he wants to convey such a thing to.
The line Geto said about being jealous in that airport was there for a reason. The recognition & affirmation of “love to the strong” that Gojo showed Sukuna was what he wanted. But then he got blindsided right after when Gojo said if he’d been there with the students cheering him on, Gojo would have been satisfied too, cuz once again Geto got a reminder that Gojo’s love wasn’t just about strength, but community & support of all the “flowers” in his life as well.
THAT is the type of love Gojo was trying to show Sukuna. The understanding & sympathy, never stop seeing humanity even in the “monstrous”. The type of kindess Sukuna wasn’t graced with as a child, leading to the cursed existence he was trapped in now. Hell, the first line we got about how Sukuna used to be a human was from Gojo himself!
When everyone thought of Sukuna in fear and hatred, the Sukuna in Gojo's eyes to the bitter end is never a malicous grinning calamity, but someone calm and dignified with his gaze forwards. And despite thinking Sukuna could not reciprocate his feelings in kind, he gave Sukuna everything.
meanwhile mr yearnatron3000 Sukuna over here already sees Gojo as a goal to reach since the beginning:
after Gojo died he legit started comparing everyone else to him and thinking in terms of "me and gojo satoru vs anyone else"
(if i write about the meaning behind the incantations of World-Bisecting Slash, this would become a real manifesto, so please see this here. basically, Sukuna made Gojo's whole existence a part of his technique. if that's not the most romantic thing in the world idk what is)
side note from character design perspective: the spelling of Six Eyes is "Rikugan" and sometimes it's used as a title to refer to Gojo (the same way Ryomen is for Sukuna). so we have: Ryomen (Two Faces) - Rikugan (Six Eyes) / Sukuna - Satoru.
what i mean is in a roundabout way sukugo do have matching initials
marketing from JUMP and song lyrics be like: in the the JUMP promo video for vol 25 (which they have private now for some reasons... but i think it's because they are fr going to make the sukugo fight anime rollout the biggest blast ever), they have a banner that coins Sukuna and Gojo as "the existence of an equal"
be it a demon god or a child prodigy, ultimate strength comes with solitude. the only thing they have yet to obtain is an existence equal to themselves. so, how long will you entertain me now?
they also have some crazy contrasting wordplay to introduce them:
鬼神 (demon god) / 神童 (child prodigy) -> share the same 神 (divine)
堕天 (fallen one) / 天才 (genius) -> share the same 天 (sky)
In the soundtrack of the JJK Phantom Parade game (Avant by Eve - came out a few months after the sukugo fight), the lyrics “my yearning towards you alone cuts through space like a heartfelt wish” is always accompanied by Sukuna and Gojo imagery:
for the “like a wish” phase, the word is 希う which has a very beseeching and imploring connotation, so it reads like being able to cut through space and reach that unique person is all he’s ever wanted. Eve cooked like crazy with this ngl
and in JJK Modulo, Gege made "wish" an actual manifestation of a technique possessed by Maru and Cross - the alien twins that everyone jokes that they look like Sukuna and Gojo's lovechild.
talking about lyrics, here are the character songs gege picked out for sukuna and gojo... idk what to even comment on this 😭
that concludes my presentation on why sukugo changes my brain chemistry (i think). there are more obvious ones like "cut me open and see my love buried in this flesh", the legendary "you were magnificent/ cleared my sky", etc... but i want to touch more on the less discussed imagery here.
i hope this could offer you a great look in the very normal brain of a sukugo-pilled person !! thank you for liking my art and giving the ship a chance ! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
It's so funny to me that in the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom people are losing their shit trying to prove that Kirara is anything BUT a trans woman even though she obviously is, meanwhile in the Amazing Digital Circus fandom people are like BLOODHOUNDS scavenging evidence to prove that Jax is transfem. I have no stakes in the game as I am but a casual TADC watcher but I want this theory to be true now. The JJK fandom could learn a thing or two.
6. What is your favourite gender? not your gender. your favourite.
7. What is your least favourite colour?
@incognitostunner @woman-offical @stagefrightbaxter @callofwinter @holymolyitssam @tagging-officals-offical @archangel-gabriel-offical @eric-cartman-offical and open tags. ok? answer my questions. DO IT.
2. Crashed at 21:30, but i woke up multiple times during the night
3. 4:10 am and i started doing homework
4. NO
5. ofc i do i have one big teddy, then one small teddy, then my first plushie ever which should be a dragon but looks more like a donkey so we called it "ciucciodrago" (ciuccio is dialect for asino which is donkey) then an autism creature i made, two kitties i made, harethur Lester which i also made and then a hermit crab my mother gifted to me
I DON'T KNOW maybe like... 12:45-1:00... I was tired
ooughh like. 9:00 (eight full hours of sleep !!!!! this is so rare for me)
YES ::(
YEAH I have three on my bed rn 🥰 duck (matching with my best friend), corgi Thing (qlsooo from her) and this freaky long cat thing from my other friend, her name is Debby
dunnoo if they have specific names for specific sets of neopronouns but ? neopromouns usersss ooo... I rememeber seeing big long comprehensive lists of neopronouns and thinking they were so epic
y'know the color of those butter or snot flavored jellybeans. ickkyy color and icky candy I do not like
@hauntieannes @entity-system @howardisawkwardlyexisting @jadealaide anndd anyone else I am not great at remebering usernames
Well there’s: Willoughby the Buffalo, Mimikyu, A white cat with pink wings that @featured-the-creature gave me, a plush dog that looks like and is named after my childhood dog: Stryker, Luffy and two Laboons (one big and one small) that mom crocheted, and a couple of others I can’t remember rn
I quite enjoy the people who looked at gender and said: “No thanks” like Agender, Nonbinary, Voidgender, etc.
Uhhhhh I’m not sure I actually quite like most colours… But if I had to pick then like the colour of cat puke, yk? That dull greenish-yellowish shit.
@thetravelingfrogwizard, @featured-the-creature, @ramdomassaccountname, @blinddetective, @churchedcannibal, @urfriendlyneighborhoodbiderman + the ones who scroll now past this post (open tags)
honestly cloudgender and colourgender. But the thing is im genderfluid so sometimes those are mine. There are no genders that are not occasionally mine.
orange. I quite emphatically dislike orange
@myphycopharmacologist @ink-stained-ambition @hyyl18 + open tags!
A Mexican pizza from taco bell…don’t judge me, I’m broke.
went to sleep at 2:00 am.
woke up at 12:00 (again, don’t judge m…
Yeah, decently often, actually.
Yeah, I still have most of my childhood stuffed animals.
Um? Is this something I’m supposed to know? Is this something people think about? Do people have a favorite gender that isn’t their own? Huh… well, I like being a woman (y’know, apart from the oppression and misogyny) and generally think women are pretty cool. And nonbinary and agender seem pretty cool. I’m pretty androgynous myself so I can vibe with people who looked at gender and said ‘nah’ (of course nb and agender people can look very binary, but I just mean I vibe with that aspect of it).
I really tend to dislike blue. But it’s, like, everyone I know’s favorite color. I don’t care for it. I think it’s mediocre.
@sunny-omor1 @forgetmenotsys @parapara-paya @regressorkel @epicmilly @clearlykelsey @satimil @papayariya @infinitelypurple @yourl0calqueer @artsoftheace @artock395 @aubyismychild but also whoever wants to can join
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