changed my mind sukuna and uraume are my favorite dynamic ever. oh my god. sukuna who insists that power is worth the isolation because it was his power that isolated him - who took in uraume, someone whose power isolated them. and yet,
"why is it that, when sukuna-sama is near me, he doesn't get cold?"
"that goes for you as well, uraume - why you did not get cold being by my side."
uraume meant it literally, sukuna meant it figuratively - but both are asking the same question:
why are you not scared of me? why do you stay by my side.
and maybe the answer is as simple as that sukuna saw himself in uraume, taking them in in an act against his own ideology. because despite being alone for so long, you can still crave that connection that was repeatedly denied you. sukuna was human, is human, and therefore can never truly relinquish the humanity he claims to have abandoned.
or maybe sukuna and uraume are content to leave that question unanswered, as they walk into the gentle night - because after centuries of living, it doesn't really matter why someone stays by your side, does it?
it just matters that they stayed. it is devotion, plain devotion - your attachment to one another that makes you human. it is attachment that keeps sukuna's soul human, even after centuries of metamorphosis, that allows him to finally concede to yuji's ideals, that allows him to move forward while mahito cannot.
and uraume walks with him, as they always have, because -
despite everything, it's still you.
lies down and cries. goodbye you all this was really our sukuna kaisen