#ch. 117

[everyillumi]

[nickel-name]

Yoshida, why do you look like you know Fami?

[pinepickled-jujutsukaisen]

I am looking respectfully

[justaghostingon]

Tori, Kodya, and Projection.

A Tori theory.

In this latest chapter, Tori said that she believes Gyrus deserves a “worthy champion to defend him” in a conversation with Kodya, and that got me thinking. Because Tori has at muliple times compared Gyrus to her Queen, claiming her treatment of him is in large part because of that connection. But these words, along with when she scolds Kodya for not having a back up plan to save Gyrus, claiming “I would never put my queen in harms way” make me think that the connection doesn’t stop with Gyrus.

I think that not only does Tori see her queen in Gyrus, but her own relationship with her queen in the relationship between Gyrus and Kodya, and thus sees herself in Kodya. Specifically, the worst parts of herself that she doesn’t want to acknowledge.

Now, before I go any further, I should mention that this theory could easily change if we ever get to see Tori interact with her Queen, as it was largely based off of assumptions on their relationship that she has said or details from the truth realm. But still, I think there’s something to this.

For example, one of the main things Tori holds against Kodya was hiding the truth of his identity from her after she kissed him. At first glance, this seems to be about honestly, as Tori is someone who has sworn a lot of oaths and is, as Alistair put it, “a woman of her word.” However, in the truth realm, the one time we have been able to see Tori and her Queen interact, Tori also chooses to withold a secret from the Queen, even when the queen is embracing her. Tori does exactly what Kodya did, so why is she so angry at Kodya? Unless Kodya’s choice reminds her of her own choices, and that’s why she’s mad.

Furthermore, her other objection to Kodya is his inability to come up with a plan to ensure Gyrus’s safety. However her own queen is dying of a mysterious sickness that no one could plan for. And even if she is on a quest to try to find a cure, she’s a knight, not a doctor, and the chances of anything she does helping are slim to none. She couldn’t make a plan to save her queen, except apparently the desperate deal she made to get her trapped in the Room of Swords, and even this may not help if she truly sides with Gyrus and destroys the Room of Swords. Her Queen will still be sick, and there is no guarantee that she will recover after its distruction. She doesn’t have a guaranteed plan for her own Queen’s safety, so she projects that helplessness onto Kodya.

And then there’s her own abandonment of Gyrus. When she found out the same information at Kodya, she too chose to abandon him. Which is really the same action as Kodya took when he chose to kill him. Then she discovered the truth, and earned her way back into Gyrus’s gang’s trust. But Kodya, Kodya didn’t seem to do anything to gain Gyrus’s trust back. He was just instantly forgiven and trusted with the important job of protecting Gyrus’s body. Now, we know about the black box and all that happened in there, but Tori doesn’t. And Tori, who as stated in the truth realm, had to earn her spot by the Queen’s side through a long road of hard work, sees Kodya as being trusted before he’s earned it. Like the younger version of herself who she uses as an example of how far she’s come as a person.

So she looks at Kodya and sees not only her worst traits, but also someone she used to be. Someone she believes she has changed from. And to see that version of herself forgiven and excepted doesn’t make sense. Because why would anyone want the worst parts of her?

Obviously this behavior is not healthy for either of them. Kodya isn’t Tori, and his situation is very different from hers, and she needs to see that and treat him as such.

Also Tori really needs a hug and to realize that she’s never been just her worst traits, and that she’s always had good traits inside her too.

[sinayahweebo]

AoT Ch. 117 goes like:

- Fight or fuck

- Bar Fight for the nth time

- Keep your friends and enemies close, now that you can't disinguish both

- Monkey bro "I got yo' back, bitch"

- You know the feeling when shit starts happening upstairs while you're still in a cell?

Bonus references:

- Ghost still in the shell

- Missing since Ch. 115

[youthandtears]

the way touka talks about how she feels if she were akira is like hEEYYY ARE U TALKIN BOUT KANEKI THERE OR ?????????

[nickel-name]

Let’s just ignore the end of the chapter.

[blconnoisseur]

I’m gonna kill the writers omg

What in the character regression…

Don’t get me wrong, Garam mishandled this situation BUT JAEHYUK IS BACK TO BEING AN ASS AGAIN!!! I’M SO FUCKING MAD!!

And whack him one more time for me translator!!!!