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The Book of Sukuna

From unwanted little wretch to king of curses

A cursed child marked for “disposal” is left at a shrine’s steps… what will become of him?

Why is Sukuna being raised by a monk? (My Sukuna Monk Theory)

Why did you write Sukuna like that? (My Sukuna Character Analysis)

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1. “Boy” Chapter One: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

2. “Old Man” Chapter Two: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

3. “Mononobe Tengoku” Chapter Three: Coming Soon!

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illustrations (which I did for the artmarket in the "zine") on the theme of oriental fairy tales! Sinbad the Sailor

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I realized I missed a page!!! My bad yall, next part coming soon!

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Yo bro i used yiu comic and i didn't give you a credit and im actually really sorry for that...

i uploaded the vid and stop checking it, im really sorry, you work so hard to make it, now I've added you link to comments so everyone can how amazing of an artist you are

love your comic and thanks

R u the one that uploaded it on TikTok? Honestly, I don’t rlly care if people reupload my comic as long as they give credit. If it gets more people to see my comic I’m glad!

I’ve been kinda scared to post on TikTok so I was pretty happy to see so many people liked it on there 😭

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Sukuna’s 2 Paths: My Character Anyasis of Sukuna and his Backstory

This will contain minor spoilers for the Sukuna Backstory comic I am working on, I’ve flagged them just in case. Also, you should check out my explanation on why I think Sukuna was raised by monks first!

This is kinda long so if you don’t wanna read all that, just read the parts in bold, you’ll get the gist of it.

I believe Sukuna is an extremely nuanced character that can be interpreted a number of different ways, and this is my interpretation of him. I’ve had some people be genuinely mad at me that I gave Sukuna a loving figure in his life and that he’s not pure evil from birth. I understand that is how some people see Sukuna, which is completely valid, but I also wanted to make my own analysis that will explain why I made these choices and how they still align with Gege’s writing of Sukuna. This analysis will also inform how I’ll be characterizing Sukuna in the rest of my backstory comic! I also want to preface that Sukuna having a “tragic” backstory does NOT absolve him of his actions, he is 100% pure evil in JJK and aware of the own cruelty of what he does.

Was Sukuna Always Evil?

The Sukuna we see in JJK is pure evil, there is no denying that. However, I am of the personal opinion that he wasn’t just born like this but was instead made this way.

His conversation with Mahito at the end of JJK I believe supports this best. Here it’s revealed that Sukuna never truly followed his own ideals of being “detached” from humanity’s afflictions and the pursuit of only pure strength, instead his underlying motivation has always been seeking revenge against a society that shunned and persecuted him. Sukuna was never above human desire, he was always motivated by his own desire to retaliate against those who had treated him with cruelty. Now to me, that doesn’t sound like the underlying motivations of someone who is evil by nature, instead, evil is Sukuna’s response to his circumstance. His own reply to Mahito is “what’s the difference? I lived in the only manner I knew,” because to him cruelty is what he was taught and what he began responding in turn with.

Sukuna then explains why he went down the path he did, and it is because he “feared his own curse would immolate me.” This could mean a number of different things, he could have feared the way others persecuted him and those around him for his appearance or he could have feared his own capacity for destruction. Either way, this shows that Sukuna was motivated by a desire for revenge and motivated by his fear above all else. Cruelty probably became a necessity for Sukuna as the only way to survive his “curse” and once he embraced that cruelty, he “couldn’t help but spit out the curses stirring in his viscera.” His purist of strength was also probably came out of necessity, because if he was strong enough, he would no longer need to fear.

Toranosuke and Sukuna

I believe Toranosuke, the tiger that appears in Modulo, is meant to be Sukuna. Considering how much Gege associates both Sukuna and Yuji with tigers (Itadori literally has the kanji for tiger in it), I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he picked a tiger out of all animals to appear in Modulo. Also interesting that the tiger lives in the Gifu providence, which is where Mt Hida is, the mountain that Sukuna’s corpse was inside. The mythological Sukuna was also from the Hida providence (which is where Gifu is now).

Here’s a summary from the JJK wiki about Toranosuke for those who haven’t read Modulo:

“[A] man Osada, a former jujutsu sorcerer [is] hunting the true culprit behind the recent killings: a tiger named Toranosuke. When Tsurugi expresses disbelief that a tiger could even exist in Japan, Osada explains that Toranosuke's grandparents were smuggled into the country by illegal foreign traders over twenty-five years ago and eventually made their home in the mountains of Gifu. However, the recent restoration of a massive solar power plant atop the mountain caused the river to dry up from the heat, forcing Toranosuke to descend in search of water and prey, leading to the attacks on villagers...

Osada reveals his intention to save Toranosuke rather than kill him, planning to contain the tiger in his home far from town. Tsurugi objects to the idea, insisting that any beast that has eaten humans must be exterminated…

After Tsurugi kills Toranosuke… a tiger cub emerges from the bushes. Instead of attacking the cub, Tsurugi gently hands it over to Osada, asking him to raise it well and ensure it doesn't become another Toranosuke. Tearfully, Osada promises he will.”

The parallels in this one page to Sukuna are crazy. I have no idea if Gege ever intends on giving us a straight Sukuna backstory but I feel like this is pretty close. Both Toranosuke and Sukuna began life innocent, but because of human circumstances, they were forced to become “man-eaters” for survival, changing them completely.

*Minor spoilers here* My backstory for Sukuna will be based on Toranosuke. The Old Monk that raises Sukuna is Osada, a lonely soul who finds another lonely soul to take care of. However, similar to Osada, the Old Monk will be unable to help Sukuna and by the end of the story Sukuna will become entirely unrecognizable to him. Also like Toranosuke, Sukuna will be forced down from his mountain (the mountain shrine he lives at) then be forced to fight for survival down below. I hope that makes sense lol *End of spoilers*

I also believe the new tiger cub that Osada gets after Toranosuke represents Yuji. Yuji and Sukuna are foils to each other, at their core they are same person, but circumstance changed who they eventually became. It’s the same as how Toranosuke was once the same as the tiger cub, but because of their different circumstances, they will most likely end up very different.

Sukuna Understands Love

I disagree with the idea that Sukuna has never experienced love and doesn’t understand it. He clearly does, this can be seen in his conversations with Kashimo and Yorozu, yet for some reason known to us, he rejects it. He has enough understanding and experience with love that he finds it reasonable to deem it worthless (he also literally says he understands it here LOL).

I have also seen some interpretations of the “one who will teach you about love” line during the Sukuna v. Gojo fight being about Sukuna trying to teach Gojo his version of love (the same version he explains to Kashimo), the love the strongest grants to those weaker than them. His understanding of love could also be the reason why he laughs at Yorozu here, he thinks it’s foolish that she wants to “teach him about love” when really he understands it quite well and even teaches it to others himself.

Sukuna understands love and had someone in his life that showed it to him, however, he feels nothing from it. He understands love but it “stirs no emotion in him” as he explained to Yuji here after Yuji shows him his love:

Sukuna’s Two Paths

I’ve seen a lot of people say that Sukuna had absolutely no one in his life but Uraume. I agree, but I only think that is true for the Sukuna we see in JJK, which is after his whole human life and 1000 years as a cursed object. I believe earlier in life, Sukuna had at least one other person who thought he could be good and tried to teach him such.

I believe this because of this page right here. The woman on the left 100% isn’t Yorozu. If Gege had intended her to be Yorozu she would have actually resembled her, as other than having black hair, they have nothing else in common. She is also dressed as a shrine maiden, and I love Yorozu but she is the farthest thing from a shrine maiden LMAFO.

In this panel Sukuna talks about how a life driven by fear and revenge wasn’t his only option, he did in fact have another path open to him. Uraume represents the path we see him take in life, the path of a curse and a monster. As while I do believe Sukuna cared for Uraume, Uraume simply walked along with Sukuna down the path he was already on. Uraume never challenged Sukuna’s perspective, held all the same beliefs and is complicit with him in his actions.

The shrine maiden then represents the other path he could’ve taken in life. She was probably his teacher, someone who tried to show him the path of good, but instead he chose to give into his fears and desires and go down the other way.

Sukuna is more than aware that his actions are wrong, cruel and selfish. Despite the cruelty he faced, he must have had at least one person that tried to teach him wrong from right, tried to show him love, so that he could reject it later.

I also think that it is important Sukuna did have the option to be good at some point in his life, but he chose otherwise. If his life was nothing but rejection and cruelty, if he had no option but to become a monster, then that deprives him of the agency of choosing to be evil. He chose to be evil, he chose to embrace his curse and become a monster. His “tragic backstory” shouldn’t absolve him from his sins, because he ultimately chooses to go down the path of a curse despite having another option. This is why Yuji pisses him off so much, because despite everything Yuji has endured (even the stuff Sukuna put him through personally), he stays on the path of good, something Sukuna failed at. Someone he considers weaker than him and beneath him can do something he couldn’t, and that infuriates him more than anything else. Yuji recognizes this too, and that’s why the only time we ever see Sukuna truly angry is when he realizes Yuji is pitying him.

Imagine you’ve tried to be good, but the world is horrible and cruel so you just give up and decide being evil is wayyy easier but then this STUPID BRAT comes along and cages you and then shows you you’re actually the weak one for not being able to stand by your ideals and giving up. AND THEN he’s the one who looks down on you and pities you!!! Shiiii I’d be pissed asf too!!!

I find it so interesting that the only name Sukuna refers to himself as is “the fallen.” It implies he had to come down from somewhere ya know? The backstory I am writing will not try to make Sukuna a sympathetic character, you are NOT ment to forgive him for all the horrible things he’s done just because he has a sad backstory. If anything he is supposed to be a tragic character, where the tragedy lies in the fact that he’s let the cruelty he’s experienced become his own.

Thank you for anyone who read all of that!!! It’s a long ramble but I really wanted to make sense of Sukuna’s character. If you have any questions or anything I can elaborate on, let me know!

Edit: Other things I forgot to address

Sukuna “eating” his twin in the womb

I’ve seen people point this out as proof that Sukuna has been evil since before he was born, but I don’t think this is why Gege mentions this. One twin absorbing another in the womb is an actual thing that happens (See Vanishing Twin Syndrome) and would explain how Sukuna was born with 4 arms and 2 faces (by getting them from his twin). From the way Sukuna himself describes this action, it came more from necessity than malice as he literally says it’s because his mother was starving that he had to consume his twin.

Sukuna not having a Wasuke Figure

This section is about my comic specifically, not apart of my general Sukuna analysis. I agree that Sukuna did not have a Wasuke-like figure in his life. His main good influence in his life will be the shrine maiden I mentioned earlier, she’s the one that will try to set him down the path of good, to which he will fail.

*SPOILER FOR CHPT 3* The old monk and Sukuna’s relationship is more akin to Osada with Toranosuke than Wasuke with Yuji. He is only in Sukuna’s life briefly, provides guidance and advice but ultimately does not change his fate. The old man COULD HAVE been Sukuna’s Wasuke figure, but is unfortunately taken from Sukuna’s life too soon. If you’ve noticed, chpt 2 is the first time the old monk shows Sukuna any real affection. They would have gotten much closer after this moment, but their time together is cut short. If Sukuna had been able to get his ordination and have more years with the old man, he would’ve certainly turned out like Yuji. But the world is cruel, and Sukuna will quickly learn that his curse affects both himself and those around him.