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so with nobara and maki. nobara does have a crush on maki. that is just what is happening. she admires her and looks up to her and her eyes shine when she thinks maki is cool and she very obviously has a crush on her. and what is interesting about that, to me, is that nobara also does not seem to know maki very well.

like during the goodwill event, you have the nobara and momo fight. and this is momo's thesis on being a woman in the jujutsu world, but she's also talking about mai specifically, and linking those two things in a way that seems appropriate to mai as we know her. and ig with that, i would expect nobara to respond with something to indicate that she herself knows maki very well, that her care for her is connected to her recognition of her, in the way momo's seems to be for mai. and instead she really just reiterates her own world view. which i like and think is a fun nobara moment, but its not something that really speaks to an understanding of maki really.

which feels a bit like a repeated pattern with nobara. bc there's saori, the other cool older girl from the city that nobara really loves and admires and looks up to and is devastated by the loss of. but when we meet saori, while she does have a lot of affection for nobara, its also made very clear that nobara was a child, and there was a lot she didn't understand and pick up on. and idk. feels relevant to the way nobara acts with maki!

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yutamaki is such an incredible ship if you ignore everything the fandom says and also the epilogues

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not sure if I got stared at in the pool locker room because I have top surgery scars or because I was wearing a mask or because I have purple hair and pink iguana print trunks or because I was wearing glasses in the shower rinsing out a shirt

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Nobara's one-sided petty grudge against Yuta is soooo funny to me and I think she should be given other silly reasons to hate him. (Maki has never called Yuta this once in her life, which does not stop Nobara from wishing she was Maki's silly rabbit)

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[Image description: Sketch of a young Gojo in traditional dress looking moody in a line of faceless people. Naoya stares through the crowd. In the middle is Japanese text. /End ID]

Gojo before his enrollment in Jujutsu Technical College The coming-of-age ceremony for Gojo Satoru, held by the Gojo clan: Gojo Satoru, somewhat forcefully, decided to leave the Gojo clan to attend the Jujutsu Technical College. At that time, to ensure that (at least) the Zenin clan, the Kamo clan, and the Jujutsu Headquarters would not misunderstand the Gojo clan and Gojo Satoru as being in conflict, the clan set the condition that he undergo the coming-of-age ceremony before enrolling, and he accepted.

Akutami Gege gave us a deeper look into the dynamics within the Gojo clan, as well as the political and social dynamics of the influential groups within the Jujutsu world, with a single sketch, so here is a bit of my (unorganized) thoughts.

The main purpose of holding Genpuku (元服: a traditional coming-of-age ritual, marking a person’s transition from childhood to adulthood and their formal assumption of responsibilities within their family or social role) was to publicly affirm Satoru’s allegiance to the clan before he entered the Jujutsu Technical College, where he would have to directly interact with other clans and the Jujutsu Headquarters. The clan was sending a political signal that, despite leaving for the college, it was not an act of rebellion but a sanctioned move, and that Satoru remained tied to the Gojo clan’s values and authority.

At the same time, it was the clan utilizing his status (being feared and perceived as powerful even at a young age). The Genpuku ceremony served to formally establish his status as an adult and a key figure within the Gojo clan before he fully entered the Jujutsu society. This move would ensure that other clans or the Jujutsu Headquarters viewed him as a representative of the Gojo clan rather than an independent actor.

For Satoru on the other hand, his compliance with the ceremony shows both his desire for independence and his understanding of the political necessity of maintaining appearances within the Jujutsu order. Being tied to the influence and power held by the Gojo clan would allow him to create freedom for himself within the system that he otherwise would not have if he were to outright reject the clan. In this sense, his enrollment was a step toward establishing his own identity, separate from but still connected to his family name. It would allow him to grow on his own terms. His willingness to meet the clan’s condition was not a sign of submission but of strategy. He accepted the ceremonial obligation in order to secure the freedom to operate in a larger sphere of independence.

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I think that post-canon Yuji might actually try to convince Yuta that he doesn't have to become the Gojo clan head. Yuji would tell Yuta that it's okay, that Gojo actually wanted them to move on and do things differently than him! And Yuta would think that Yuji just didn't understand Gojo like he did, and that's good. Yuji is innocent and can be the hero doesn't have to be burdened. But he and Gojo, they're the people who do the monstrous things.

(The problem, of course, is that Gojo told Yuji and Yuta contradictory things, and they are going to have to live forever with the fact that in many ways, they knew different Gojos.)

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the verdict from guy 1 was leaning towards geto until I described their personalities, then he didn't like either of them. guy 2 (my brother) picked gojo because he's in jjk more.

Was at a party where a guy and I started doing a bit about giving each other shit throughout the night. It ended up with him repeatedly putting an arm around me and pulling at my collar and threatening to punch me (which of course I also started doing to him), but he's straight. I know this for certain because we made the straight guy name as many Mitski songs as they could and then rate whether Geto or Gojo was hotter.

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Was at a party where a guy and I started doing a bit about giving each other shit throughout the night. It ended up with him repeatedly putting an arm around me and pulling at my collar and threatening to punch me (which of course I also started doing to him), but he's straight. I know this for certain because we made the straight guys name as many Mitski songs as they could and then rate whether Geto or Gojo was hotter.

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It is so hilariously clear on revisiting the first half of JJK that Akutami did not settle on a cursed technique for Utahime until FAR later than he should have

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Headcanoning that Gojo did not destroy the Inverted Spear of Heaven but rather sealed it, keyed to his death. And he left it to Maki! (Thinking here about how Akutami mentioned it was rather cruel of Gojo to let one of the only cursed tools that Maki actually owned herself get destroyed.) With a note reading "My bad for letting Demon Slaughter get broken, but this makes up for it. Sowwwwy!"

(Megumi and Nobara are disgruntled that somehow Maki got left something actually good.)

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infinity emptiness

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my brother told me that the jujutsu kaisen character I'm most like is a combination of gojo and pre-snap geto. BRUTAL

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my name is Will, 

and wen its nite,

or wen blud shines

in payle moonlite,

and wif Dragun

us two did tiff -

i hug my lov. 

i jumpe the cliff.

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[Image description: Black and white sketch of Okkotsu Yuta kissing Itadori Yuji's ring finger. Yuji is hugging mini-Panda and looks dazed. /End ID]

#I thjnk yuuta eats yuujis finger personally teeth to flesh as an act of respect #as opposed to how he distances himself from the violence of his technique via rika #Yuuji is used to inhumane amounts of pain by now but yuuta speaks softly massages his hand and makes him hold panda anyway #yuta wipes blood off his mouth bandages the wound he just made and apologizes #does he feel guilty? does he secretly savour the taste? Another one of the many yuta mysteries (Tags via OP)

Do you guys think okkotsu did a little foreplay before he bit off yuujis ring finger

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parents are an extremist movement that cannot be reasoned with

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YEP....now does this make Megumi Gojo's Scott? (Orphan on his own preoccupied with the idea of justice that a mentor kind of manipulated into a bad situation, giving him leverage to make the kid work for him forever now...)

yuta and gojo’s relationship is truly so jean grey and charles. to me.