I always found intresting how Megumi is (mostly) associated with water and Yuji is associated with snow BUT Sukuna is associated with fire. The fact that fire can on extreme temperatures melt snow, evaporate water(melt and evaporate are read as "crush the spirit") but also a lot of snow and a lot of water estinguish fire and now is just basically another form of water while fire and water are fundamentally incompatible and...and idk i'm making shit up but i feel like it means something, i just don't know what. Especially how Yuji, who has such a warm personality and all, is given the cold, the unforgiving snow, which is so weird for a shonen protagonist. It also as a nostalgic element to it. It almost feels like it fits modulo Yuji better
I'm not articulate enough nor good at analysing characrer themes, and it's also like 2 a.m for me, so forgive me if some of this(or all) doesn't make much sense but i'm curious what are your thoughts on this
*Bonus for your Megumi was a star plasma vessel: Megumi is associated with water as we already established, guess who else is HEAVLY associated with water in jjk? Riko Amanai, THE star plasma vessel (it's mostly in the anime though, if i remember correctly, so i get it if it doesn't count)
im gonna be so real, only thanks to you just now i realised that snow is like, yuujis thing. like on a character symbol level. which is super interesting, but also is perfect for yuujis duality - snow, As Yuuji Says And Shows Himself, is the ultimate symbol of childhood innocence. it will also kill you and mutilate you brutally.
which is also interesting in sukunas "family" constellation, the three people closest to him - megumi's water, yuuji's snow, uraume's ice.
which, i dont know what to make of it aside from #noticing, but megumi and uraume are the only people (aside from ino, but this isnt about him)* in the entire series whose techniques revolve around water in two different states of matter - solid and liquid.
and im pretty sure uraume utilises the reaction of turning solid h2o into gas h2o, and they are called "the frozen star". and with megumis possible star plasma vessel status? thats all 4 states of matter submitted to sukuna, consensually and non-consensually. with the entire constellation (uraume, gojo, megumi, tengen).
uraume is an element. one of the few needed to create and sustain life.
megumis both elements (water, light) and the lack of it (shadow), a superposition of nature (connected to both earth and space), if you will.
sukunas fire is a reaction (literally, fuga is about barothermic explosions or sth, im no good at physics, and fire itself is air burning).
yuujis a natural phenomenon. which juxtaposes his creation as a bioweapon.
but as i said - snow, even as its used in the series - is both representative of childhood innocence and joy, family and community (yuujis domain expansion, ozawas epilogue); as well as running someone down and putting fear of god into them and making them beg the snow gets to them before you do. the cold, the inevitability of nature that will kill you.
when you put it like that it makes perfect sense for yuuji.
what's also interesting (sukufushi soulmatism i hate you) is that taming fire and water are the very first signs and achievements of humanity. you need both fire and water for life to exist. just like you need both sukuna and megumi for this story to exist. and they belong to the two people who consider themselves monsters.
and the thing is neither of them are associated with their elements on the surface. and peoples reactions to it are the exact. same. (jogo: "fire? i thought sukunas technique was severing and slicing". noritoshi: "water?!") because their elements symbolise their humanity.
and isnt the only time in modulo, that couldve only happened with both of them gone, when sukuna is mentioned by name immediately followed "in fushiguro megumi's body"? intertwined. i hate them. sukuna stay the fuck away from my child.
*his technique and character isn't about the elements and shikigami and (said with love) being a cheap copy of ten shadows, but about him being the intermediary, as thats his purpose in the showdown - to be the channel for nanami's technique and carry on his memory.
and dont ask me where kirara fits into the grander star constellation of jujutsu, because I Have No Clue. love her to bits, but genuinely, no idea how she fits into it all, cus she has no major or minor connection to either of the world makers (kenjaku, tengen).
also i need you to elaborate on melt and evaporate can be read as "crushing the spirit". you mean in japanese?? the kanji or the kana??
and YES water is connected to riko The Star Plasma Vessel!!!! and the anime is laying it on thick, with three seperate instances - the okinawa beach, the aquarium and riko in a bath. (THE BATH ❗❗❗)
and the thing i hate about megumi star plasma theory is that it ties everything in this story about fate so beautifully. because if it is true, his dad broke fate itself which led to megumi not becoming tengens vessel. tengen, six eyes and the star plasma vessel are connected by fate and megumi and satoru are the only two people cannonically connected from their last life four hundred years ago? wdym the story started with failing to save the star plasma vessel and ended with saving the star plasma vessel? wdym the myth of gojo satoru started with failing to save the SPV and ended with failing to save the SPV by himself, but because of and thanks to him, they saved him in the end? same way megumi saved satoru from the prison realm?