i already know what you’re gonna say about this lol but sukuita/itasuku? :’)
Send me a ship and I'll give you my (brutally) honest opinion on it
:0 that’s amazing cause i’m not even sure what i’ll say, and whats even more surprising is that i 100% get the feeling you genuinely know what my take is gonna be lol~ i know we’ve chatted about sukuita multiple times but
I ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ can’t ‘member lol~
I think sukuita is very interesting and i think their relationship in canon was well-written. It’s good stuff! Very compelling and there’s lotsa good meat you can really sink yer teeth into.
It just doesn’t hit me in the autism so i doubt i’ll ever write fic about em (only situation i can imagine in which i’d write it is for your birthday tbh) but i do feel the same way about sukuita as reading a story i very much enjoy, going ‘that was good’ and then immediately moving on to whatever story catches my eye next~
🧐 sukuita just doesn’t make me mentally ill the way other ships do~
One of my favorite ship dynamics is adversaries, enemies, rivals etc. that have a lot of feelings towards the other, regardless of if those are positive or negative feelings, and that they are ultimately extremely weird about each other or down right obsessed with each other~ ships like oikage, shizaya, obikaka, rinsagi, hannigram, natsuo and yuzuko from Teppuu, makimai~
I love the weird intimacy that these types of ships have~ sukuita definitely fits in there and i guess itafushi and satosugu do as well but idk 🤷♂️ its just not yummy to my tastebuds when its done in jjk
Hmm thinking about it more in depth~ i think it probably has something to do with the “flavors” that the context of canon adds to the ship
The fights between Izaya and Shizuo for example are very violent, but there is an undercurrent of whimsy and like compared to that
This just feels like Yuuji is getting tortured one-sidedly. Usually i’d still find joy in that but Sukuna’s weaponization of Yuuji’s feelings of guilt, horror and responsibility for the things Sukuna did whilst in control of his body…
It reminds me of my own relationship with OCD… which yeah, after all the many years of trauma caused by that fuckin illness i am only able to feel passionless artistic appreciation but no real affection for sukuita. All i strongly feel is a deep desire to protect Yuuji from that horrid bitch
