hello lafaiette! First of all, Irori, Jizai, and Saru is the trinity of sukuna fics !!! When I found out Irori, I. Was. Obssessed. I was a woman possessed reading chapter after chapter. Sukuna's characterization, the story's plot tying to the canon story, other jjk characters was also spot on based on their canon stories, and Moriko !! I !! Love !! Her !! So !! Much !!
Need I say, the historical accuracy and the cute commissions you share based of the stories T^T
Please don't stop writing author !! But do take needed rest when your body and mind requires for it <!3
But I do have one question tho, do you have any inspo images on Sukuna and Moriko's house on Mount Kurai? I want to imagine it but my mind cant 😓
Looking forward for the completion of Saru <33 I hope life blesses you with joy, same on how your fics made us giggle and smile :))
Ahhhh thank you so much!! 😭❤️
I'm so glad you like Moriko and Sukuna's characterization! It means a lot, I'm always worried about that 🫠
Heheh, there are so many wonderful artists with so many beautiful styles, I'm so happy to commission some art for this series whenever I can!
As for Sukuna and Moriko's house on Mount Kurai, it's a Shinto shrine, which follows this layout!
Theirs has been abandoned for some time, and Moriko restored the largest, most useful buildings to use them as housing. I didn't mention some of them because it would have been too complicated and long, but Moriko does say they should live in the shamusho when they first arrive at the shrine.
As the picture shows, it's the building where the shrine "office" is: priests and miko would keep the shrine records, organize rituals, and assist visitors there. But in ancient times, it could also house their sleeping quarters and everything else they needed for life at the shrine, and that's why Sukuna and Moriko turn that particular building into their new home:
Before the honden, where the holy effigy of the shrine's kami is usually kept, there is the haiden, where people made offerings. In Saru, it's said that Moriko and her family leave the offerings directly before the door of the honden instead, and she, Sukuna, and the children even move in there for a few hours, which would be an unthinkable thing to do, since it's a sacred space not even priests can enter freely 😂 But I figured that since the shrine is abandoned, Moriko slowly begins to accept that the kami might not be there anymore. Since they basically trespassed already, turning the shrine into a secular house, and nothing bad happened, she stops worrying about it after a while.
Please imagine their shrine and the courtyard as quite large! The first picture showing the layout is missing the goshinboku, a sacred tree usually placed in the courtyard, which is mentioned in the fics, and other buildings, such as the sessha and massha, the auxiliary shrines, where Moriko's family lives. The picture also doesn't show the kaguraden, the building dedicated to the sacred kagura dance.
I usually imagine Sukuna and Moriko's shrine looking like this:
Sukuna and Moriko deciding to live there can be seen as a disrespectful gesture, but it was not unheard of back then. The shrine was abandoned, after all, and there are old reports of beggars and poor people living in dilapidated Buddhist or Shinto temples that lost favor with their wealthy patrons and were ultimately abandoned.
Finally, a sacred forest, the shinju no mori, usually surrounds a shrine, and the same applies to Sukuna and Moriko's! Their house on Mount Kurai is full of nature and life <3
Thank you so much again for your kind words, they brightened my day! ; v ;
