Hello hello! I'm Hare, late 20s, multifandom, pro-ship/dark content friendly, please be aware! I try to tag dc stuff, but feel free to let me know if I missed anything!
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I heard this metaphor growing up, and in my case, it backfired supremely, because I went out into my neighbor's backyard where a rose bush was growing, and the one I tested had like 30 petals (it was yellow, but definitely a rose of some kind), and as a very logical lass, I came to the conclusion that you could have premarital sex AT LEAST ten times before your future husband would even notice something was up. Moral of the story? Test your metaphors on the weirdest and most neurodivergent child you know before writing your weird religious propaganda.
So like, one of things I really wish we had official translations of was the Gojo Q&A we got after he won that last popularity poll, because I heard some conflicting things about Gojo being taken from his parents (that he was taken, and that he hadn't been taken but likely his parents had less say in his life.)
My take on it is like, I actually find it a bit more sad if he wasn't taken away. Because like, I want to recall that Gege said he was very much a wanted child?
So imagine being just an ordinary sorcerer couple and boom. Special baby. Once in several hundred years kind of special baby.
You now get no say in how you raise your child! Its no longer just your child. Its the clan's special child. Every decision about your child is made by distant relatives and discussed about behind your back without any input of yours. You have no power to protect this child from anything they decide. You can't leave, because the clan can and will find you. You also don't want to leave because there is a bounty on your child's head, and you know you're not strong enough to protect him.
So yeah, while getting some higher status in the clan is nice, you end up in both a situation of nearness and isolation from your child. Your child lives with you. The clan decides what he can and cannot eat. When he sleeps/when he trains. Dictates all of his education. Decides how much affection and coddling he receives; can't have you spoiling him and turning him into a brat. All with the fear that if you go against what is decided, they really will take him from you. So you persist with the idea of maybe just being close is enough, all while essentially being a shadow in your child's life and not having to lift a finger to be his parent.
You barely see your child. Between lessons and jujutsu training, especially as he gets older, he is more of an always working roommate than your son. He knows you are his parents. He also knows you get no say in his life what so ever so you may as well not be his parents. He's only gotten the bare minimum of parental affection from you, as much as is allowed by the clan elders, and you are as much a stranger as to him as he is to you. You wonder if he resents you for the distance.
Your son tries to make a decision for himself once he is old enough and surprise! It is to leave and go to school as far away from you as he can get. (Its not really to get away from you. Its to get away from the clan elders. The people who actually raised him. Your feelings are of no consequence to him as he barely knows you, and the idea of getting a scrap of independence is more important to him than the parents who have always had to hold him at arms length.)
Your child is emancipated young, and in a blink of an eye is over a hundred miles away. He gets to make his own decisions now, something he does without ever asking your advice as you've never gotten to help with any part of his life before, why should you now? You find you don't notice how infrequently you see him now, as its not much different than when he was with you to start with. Conversations now happening over brief phone calls and text messages instead of quick stolen away moments of his precious time.
As your son ages and grows without you, you are praised for giving birth to such a strong sorcerer. You must be proud of him. You think you are. You don't know much else about him to be proud of beside his strength. You think he's only ever failed one mission. He didn't tell you about it himself, you had to hear it from one of the clan elders. They see him more often than you anyways, especially now that he's the clan head and a teacher. He's always busy, so seeing him outside of family holidays is rare.
Your son gets sealed, and exiled, but not hearing from him for those 19 days doesn't feel any different than the past several years of his life. You're sure he will be fine.
When he gets unsealed, you are low priority with everything else going on, and so besides a quick text response to your missed calls you don't hear from him. Its not until you watch him die on a live stream that you realize you can't honestly remember when the last time you had heard his voice was.
it'll be ages before i can afford yume commissions bc I love buying clothes and good food. but i can pick up my pencil and draw my yume ships myself, sighs