The Pink Lighter made me ship sashisu, but what made you ship sashisu?
awesome question. okay... oversharing session with nosferatuix right before work at 6:47 am, it is
i got into jjk while i was trying to find something to sink my claws into during my second year of uni because i had just lost all of my friends and fixating on media has always saved me from the dissatisfaction with life. and it started with me taking one good look at suguru, reading his arc and going, holy shit this guy is both my type personified AND animated and i also completely relate to him, give me more of him. and while reading the hidden inventory and shibuya arc, i unintentionally ended up diving into a bottomless shoko well because there was so little material of her & ravaged through tumblr and twitter and ao3 to see if there were any others who related to her and/or wanted to know more about her. satoru was trickier, everyone loved him but interpreting/analyzing his behavior was always difficult but i have an entp friend who acts almost exactly as he does so... enough projections were made, that's what's up here.
as for their relationship with each other, like i said, i was very lonely back then and craved an unconventional and odd friendship with people i'd always come back to. the reason i'm specifiying it as an unconventional friendship and why i've also never explored their relationship through a strictly romantic/poly lens is partly due to my own projections, i'd just experienced something that made me repulsed from all forms of traditional romance and relationships of sexual nature and i was just obsessed with the idea of relationships that are not clearly defined by any norms or rules – just people loving people, never completely being able to be one without another, completely understanding of each other's nature and never owing anyone an explanation as to why they are the way they are, not even to each other. oddly enough, halfway through writing 220k words of this mumbo-jumbo, i practically found myself in a 3-person-unconventional-friend-group and it ended up being the awesome coincidence that all three of us were all freaks of nature and also lonely, just in different ways. and believe it or not, i would've never even met either of them despite existing in literal physical spaces with them before we knew each other, if i hadn't started writing the pink lighter when i did. i've been confronted by that period of my life a bit too frequently these days, haunted even, so that's why i wanted to share this on here – and despite starting my sashisu obsession to run or heal myself from a horrible experience, i never find myself wishing things were any different.
tldr: i sashisu'd so hard i got a sashisu of my own













