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I love your jujutsu Kaisen posts, you and @wellnoe literally have had so many thoughts I had reading/watching the series but had never seen them discussed in fandom. Reading your guys’s posts is always so fun and interesting.

Who are your top 5 favorite and least favorite characters and why?

OH MY GOD I never answered this, sorry.

Ahaha, I am glad Brenna and I are bringing the interesting thoughts! I don't think my interpretation is always the only one, but a lot of the stuff I say does seem like it should be a layer that is considered!

Ooh okay, favorite characters. I am gonna say that my top four characters have been my favorites from pretty early on, and they just rotate depending on what I've been feeling lately.

Maki!!!!! My current blorbo par exellence. I just really enjoy how she's abrasive and a jerk and also narratively right much of the time. She has such interesting relationships and parallels with other characters--that whole Zen'in tangle was one of the first aspect of JJK to really take me in. Her child abuse revenge narrative is really satisfying. Also yeah, her fights slap. The joy of seeing her in a sumo stance or when she throws Sukuna in Shinjuku Showdown? Hell yeaaaah! I want to put her in a jar and shake her.

Megumi. I love herrrrrr. I have a fondness for self-defeating repressed characters. I've said to Brenna before that if I read JJK as a teenager, I would have identified with Megumi the most. A character who wants very much to accept that life is unfair but cannot is so compelling to me. Like Maki, she exists at this fascinating confluence of jujutsu society repressive structures.

Yuta. This is Brenna's favorite character! He took a while to grow on me, but by his Sendai Culling Games fight, I was IN. Akutami plays this fun little trick with writing him where his heroism in JJK 0 becomes cast in a dire light when he reenters the narrative because it makes him a part of jujutsu society. Guy who is so nice and loving and constantly lying to himself and everyone around him!

Gojo. Gooooojooooooooo! He is at the center of what JJK is trying to say in some ways. Poster boy for their evil eugenics society who is Like That because he was raised being told he's the specialest boy in the world because he is naturally talented at violence. He is so funny and insufferable.

Hmm, I don't have a solid answer here. I might say Yuji, since his optimistic good-hearted character type works really well in a world where almost everyone is not that, and his character arc is all very clear and effective. Or Mai--of course, as a Maki fan, I have to care about Mai. Mean and petty and playing a losing game and she knows it! I also love Higuruma as an illustration of how unjust systems within and outside jujutsu society interact. You're here forever--no suicide for you!! And I also adore Kirara, who is just cute and funny and transgender and has a cool technique.

I'm not sure I really have least favorite characters. There are characters who I find repulsive, like Naoya, who are intended to be that way. There are also characters that are badly written, but I don't dislike them--I just kinda feel sorry for them.

Oh, actually, the answer is Kusakabe. I cannot fully explain my antipathy for him and I am aware I am one of the only people who feels this way, but it pisses me off so bad that he was a coward at Shibuya and then is a leader and plays the upstanding adult in Shinjuku. FUCK KUSAKABE. Give all his screen time to Shoko.

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As a black girl, who is both a Laenyra and a Rhaenicent from viewing the show, only finding out about the former later on I want to say something to that anon who told you about Rhaenicent. (Not doing this on anon for that reason) It’s clear from the narrative structure that Laena’s diminishment as a character as a whole is heavily due to Daemyra’s place as a central relationship in House of The Dragon. Many people blame Rhaenicent’s existence for Laenyra’s erasure and Laena’s diminishment but that’s not true IMO for the reasons you described. By the time Laenyra should’ve been happening in the narrative, the writers wanted to create this idea of Daemon and Rhaenyra being miserable due to their separation, for THEIR romance. We get Rhaenyra being jealous of Laena at her wedding and a brief interaction prior to that. Nothing else, which sucks. However, Rhaenyra is also propped up over Laena in that she’s the one Daemon is showed to be longing for, they even have Laena saying things like “I’m not the wife you would’ve wished for”, he neglects her daughter, and is consistently dismissive of her and not listening to her until she dies a “strong black woman” death of being burnt alive by her dragon.

In the books, it’s debated that Laena not only taught him how to love but he was also the only person he truly loved. Nobody brings that to contention. Not to mention, with Laenyra in the text. There should’ve been more to begin with. We get this rich idea of close good sisters who fly on dragonback together and are present at each other’s birth but it goes unexpanded on. Not to mention, this makes me wary considering in the books, it is much more likely that Rhaenyra and Daemon deliberately murdered Laenor, Laena’s brother, They loved her SOOOO much but they killed her brother so they could marry. Fire and Blood in general is very vague with sm details on purpose, the show made the choice not to expand on it but when I do the math, the subtraction of Laenyra all seems to come from the portrayal of Daemyra, nothing else.

Thanks for your input! This is a much better description of how Laena was sidelined than I outlined in my earlier reply so thank you

[brw]

Nadia! 1, 13, 17

a fun headcanon

nadia definitely listens to music in her lab when she's not working with like riri or viv, n when she does i like to imagine its like. death metal. just the sweetest most serene person ever having a lovely time doing innocuous science and if she takes her headphones off its some finnish guy yelling hoarsely. also she isnt very good at making food i dont think but jarvis still lets her help with cooking :)

their happiest memory

HMM its hard to say, i would imagine either a) getting adopted by janet after fearing she was going to be alone without a family bc her father had died after she wanted 2 meet him for so long, but she DID manage to find a family after all n have a stepmother who loves her, or probably one of her missions with the champions, who again r like family to her n i think she has a lot of really happy memories with them.

favorite fanon relationship

OOOOOOOOOO hmmm hard 2 say bc there's a bunch that technically are canon but i've built them up a bit more so gonna say jocasta.... i imagine at first they'd not quite know what to do around each other??? jocasta might feel awkward bc of how close nadia is with jan so its like, is she hanging out with me for me or is it because i'm like janet, but eventually i think they'd get close n its cute to imagine jocasta doing nadia's hair :)))) i also think she n simon would also be awkward bc they don't have an awful lot in common??? but he'd want 2 spoil the shit out of her as his his perogative as Fun Uncle so they'd also get close eventually. basically just her n her extended family r so sweet 2 me.

Send me a character and a number and I'll tell you...

[fandomshatewomen]

Ok I know Hailee is problematic

and I know she’s been whitewashed in Hawkeye...  but I really love her?!?!  also I’m really bi and I love her in this tux. mod laina

But like hear me out the actors that play Kate bishop's parents are white in the show. It doesn't look like they plan to acknowledge hailees mixed ancestry.

[amarakaran]

I’m so sorry that guy was a dick to you, he had no right to do that. I hope you feel better today! 💕

thanks, chloe ❤️

[sjw-dipper]

The whole “Death Of The Author” ideal bursting into popularity is ultimately useless and helps no one. It doesn’t do anything real, it’s just an entire fandom turning their ears off and willfully closing their eyes. I can understand wanting to still engage with the content because you enjoy it, but you should simply be careful, the content still belongs to the creator, it’s still promotion of them because it’s their creation, it’s still has their values and ideas ingrained. There’s a reason 1/2

2/2 so many reading teachers teach about historical context and encourage research into authors as a person. Consume and content critically. Produce fan content carefully. Not to mention, to claim any and all media released to the world “belongs to the fans now” basically increases fandom entitlement which can become problems in certain areas. Also, when creators are deemed problematic you’re encouraged not to engage in the first place. Thus be critical, not purposely blind.

[turnaboutcrashout]

💌 When you joined the chat I DEADASS did not know we were mutuals for the longest time it still has me shook to my core (ily tho ❤️)

I’ll keep it real: I didn’t know it was you either! I was like “Wow...another Chloe who likes fairy tales and Peter Pan! NEAT!” 

And then the two braincells came together and was like “HEY WAIT A MINUTE!!”

[brw]

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this picrew

mutuals send me a 📷 and I’ll make you a picrew of what you look like in my head