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Manga spoilers in this one. Question and answers are from Jump GIGA Summer 2004 Gojo Satoru Q&A with Gege:
"Q: Is there anything Gojo enjoys doing the most? When does he feel joy?
A: I can't really picture anything, but I think maybe he'd be pretty happy meeting anyone who is a talented sorcerer."
What do we see Satoru want? And I don't mean the sweets he enjoys or the silly things he does with the students. I mean, what does the manga or anime show us that Satoru desires? To the point of giving it his all?
Jujutsu
Geto Suguru
That's it.
He's a pretty simple guy. But so are we all. However, I think Satoru's upbringing is certainly an influence here. We know that Satoru is a very isolated guy. No matter how many people are around him, and no matter how much fun he has with others, there is a distance there because of his strength. This was happening from the very beginning of his life.
"A: A distance developed between Gojo and his parents very early on since they weren't able to be involved with his education as a sorcerer."
"A: He's an only child. as a member of one of the Big three, he had a lot of relatives, but since he was the only one given special treatment, I don't think he ever formed proper relationships with his family members."
"Q: How did Gojo's upperclassmen view him? Did he interact with them?
A: I don't think there were very many, and I think it must have been difficult for them to get along with a kohai who was ridiculously powerful and came from one of the Big Three families."
"Q: Did Gojo have a master to teach him sorcery?
A: His basic sorcery training was done within the Gojo family so he probably did have some. But for his cursed technique, he had to do his best on his own using old family records."
Okay, Gege...
Got it. So Satoru had no deep connection with other people. So...what did he have?
"Q: Did he take on any missions before becoming a jujutsu tech student? Did he have any experience fighting or exorcising cursed spirits?
A: So. Much."
Oh... I see.
Jujutsu.
I suppose it makes sense since he was the first Limitless and Six-Eyes bearer born in over 400 years, making him the strongest sorcerer of the modern age immediately upon his birth, and causing him to be whisked away from his parents so he could be "rigorously" trained to be a jujutsu sorcerer because the Six-Eyes bearer is tied to Tengen by fate, and "The Gojo clan operates almost entirely through Gojo Satoru alone. The fate of the jujutsu world rests on his shoulders."
Jujutsu is there for Satoru. Jujutsu is what Satoru is good at. Amazing at, even. Better at than everyone. Praised for. Lauded for. Born for. It probably feels amazing for Satoru to use his cursed technique and get stronger. In fact, we know it feels amazing. We see the incredible high he gets upon his awakening during the fight with Toji. Jujutsu feels so good in his body, it's like a drug. Who wouldn't want to keep doing that?
Part of being able to do jujutsu means he has to protect non-sorcerers? Annoying and exhausting, but not a big deal. Especially if it means he can be a jujutsu sorcerer. And he has to be one because he's the strongest. He's going to head the Gojo Clan. He's the Limitless and Six-Eyes bearer. But more than that, he wants to be one because he wants to do jujutsu.
This conversation happens in the very first chapter and episode that we get to see teenage Satoru. Satoru makes it clear he is in this for the love of the game. Satoru does jujutsu for jujutsu's sake. Not for a higher purpose or moral meaning. Nanami states this straight out in the end:
And whether this moment in the airport is a dream in the microsecond of Satoru's dying mind or a real purgatory doesn't change anything. Because if it's just a dream, it means Satoru thinks this about himself. Considers it, at least.
Suguru, in direct contrast, cannot experience jujutsu in the way Satoru does. He must attribute meaning to it. Suguru's CT brings him direct and immediate suffering.
Think about the things you do in life because they're necessary but they suck for you. They're painful, or boring, or irritating. But you have to do them for a reason. So you do it for that reason. Plus, Suguru was not raised in the world of jujutsu. He was completely new to it all when he started at Jujutsu High.
When things start to fall apart for Suguru, when it all becomes too painful, and the meaning that allowed him to push through the bits that made him suffer was gone... He didn't have a desire for jujutsu itself to fall back on. So it was easy to walk away from that world. To erect a new meaning to apply jujutsu to.
And so, Satoru and Suguru become enemies. The things they want at this point, and the things they need to do in order to have what they want, are diametrically opposed. One cannot exist in the presence of the other. Satoru needs to protect non-sorcerers in order to be a jujutsu sorcerer. Suguru needs to kill non-sorcerers in order to eliminate the need for jujutsu sorcerers to fight and die.
Sure, you could argue that Satoru could have left jujutsu society with Suguru and become a curse user. He could still use his CT, and no one would be able to stop him anyway. Or, Suguru could've tried to find another way, like Yuki. But that wouldn't actually give either of them what they wanted.
"Q: Has he ever thought about quitting his life as a sorcerer?
A: Unlikely."
Why would Satoru not think about quitting? How would Satoru get to fight as much as he does if he wasn't a jujutsu sorcerer? There would be no missions. No intel from jujutsu society. He'd lose access to any records about Limitless and the Six-Eyes or any other information. But more than anything, I don't think he's ever even considered it a possibility to be anything but a jujutsu sorcerer.
He was raised for this from birth. He was born for this. Fate gave him Limitless and the Six-Eyes. There has never been another option even presented or considered. Is the sky blue? Do fish swim? Is water wet? Gojo Satoru is a jujutsu sorcerer.
But there is one other thing that he wanted.
I've written about why I think Satoru and Suguru are so important and special to each other, and it explains why Satoru's only other desire is Suguru. That gulf between him and everybody else? It didn't exist with Suguru. But sadly, once Suguru massacred an entire village, killed his parents, and decided to work towards eliminating all non-sorcerers, it put the two things Satoru wanted directly in opposition to each other.
This is why Satoru does nothing about Suguru for 10 years. Because Suguru is still something that he wants. But he can't have Suguru because he is a jujutsu sorcerer. However, Satoru knew that if Suguru forced his hand, he would have to kill Suguru. He was the only one physically capable of it. Even Yuta's Pure Love attack didn't kill Suguru. Suguru's Night Parade was forcing Satoru's hand. Satoru had to kill Suguru because he is a jujutsu sorcerer.
Satoru's love of jujutsu is what enabled him to meet and love Suguru. And it was also why he had to kill Suguru.
Having to lose Suguru, made him choose to be a teacher and develop the dream of resetting the crappy jujutsu world. The one thing left that he has. The thing that took Suguru from him. Of course he'd give everything to that.
"Q: According to one of your previous answers in the fanbook, Gojo got it together after Geto's defection. What do you think changed?
A: I think maybe a sense of nurturing the next generation was borne [out of that experience]"
As Gege said about Satoru: "五条悟は諦観の人" Satoru is a person of 諦観
諦観 - clear vision, resignation (to one's fate). And, more specifically, as always with Gege, there is a Buddhist connotation here. Understanding and accepting that one must detach from worldly desires.
God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit
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