#UTAHIME MA'AM I LOVE YOU

[needlxd]

@norxii: Here comes Utahime, wrapping her daughter in the warmest hug! One hand even begins to play gently with her hair, and there's the gentlest little kiss pressed to the top of her head too!

ah... how warm. sometimes it startles you to find yourself draped in her warmth, so similar to that of your birth mother... but it's pleasant. she's a constant in your life, a rock & a motivation to keep going in the times that you would rather do anything but. but this is not one of those times― you have no intention of wilting now.

you do, however, melt into the embrace she graces you with. arms rise to wrap around her middle― stiffly at first, but soon relaxing & moving much more naturally. your eyes come to a close soon after she starts playing with your hair, easily soothed by the touch in a way that you never allow anyone else to see. only her, the woman who has given you more grace & love & security than any other in your life.

« love you, mom... » you have to pull back to make the signs, but the small smile upon your face is genuine to make up for the broken embrace. « missed you, too. »

[seoafin]

Sooo i may or may not have become obsessed with the rip!verse (each of your posts make my day and white lighters what a delightful read, holy shit) and i have so many questions! (Pls ma'am... feed us... we need the high quality content you provide...)

1. What is reader's cursed technique? I remember toji saying she had potential upon (brutally) trying to kill her and her examining yuji to... idk, try to seal sukuna, but you've never explicitly said anyting and i am dying to know more (pls help)

2. We all know poor, poor Megumi suffers from the incessant pining between reader and gojo. But what about Yuji and Nobara? And the second years? Do they try to set them together, crossing out the ideas/plans they've already tried, becoming more and more desperate each time it inevitabely fails in the most improbable way? Or does gojo asks for their help?

3. And how could i not talk about the Shibuya Arc? (also known as "gege please for the love of god stop" arc) Where is reader? Did she manage to follow gojo abd watch the... incident unfold? Did she stay behind with Shoko? Did she go with the students? Did she join the kyoto school? How did she react upon learning that gojo was chillin' in his lil cube while the whole world was going to hell? (And did she see Getwo??? What was her reaction??? I have whole scene in mind and am now itching to write it down although i must sleep?? Why??)

(Yep, the rip!verse leaves rent free in my mind. Not that i complain though. It never ceases to amaze me no matter how many times i read it. Plus it inspires me for my own writing so *bows* thank you so much for creating such a bloody brilliant masterpiece! Have a lovely night/day!)

THIS ASK??? Hxhsbndnd i’m so glad you like the ripverse!!

prepare for an info dump + general information on rip!mc which I probably should have typed out/ elaborated on earlier LOL

1)

honestly i'm still working out the details but it's probably going to be something along the lines of the ability to suspend time for a person/object with certain conditions that must be met. but once they're met you can hold it for as long as you wish. It’s not exactly an offensive cursed technique, but deadly if utilized properly! it also comes in handy when trying to study curses!

rip!mc is a historian/researcher who classifies curses which is a fascination which was born after geto left. weirdly, it helps you feel closer to him. your research takes you around the country, and even abroad some times (which gojo despises), but you’re more than well equipped to defend yourself. you trained maki with the polearm!!

I also like the idea of them occasionally teaching as an adjunct professor at Tokyo University (grad student MC ftw), so they know what it’s like to be a teacher, although it’s not exactly the same! the semesters you do teach—you occasionally stay with gojo

the reason why toji said that is bc rip!mc caught toji's eye a split second before he stabbed gojo. since you’re very very sensitive to cursed energy and by default, other people, the pure absence of cursed energy made you instinctively turn. toji was referring to the fact that if you honed your skill a little more, you maybe would have even sensed him!

also the reason why rip!mc is more sensitive to cursed energy than gojo is because he probably automatically filters out the sheer number different cursed energies (since the sensory overload would be crazy while rip!mc never really learned to do that and as a result became more attuned to cursed energies in general)

Also more about the cursed seals! Rip!mc is exceptionally good at making seals because of how sensitive they are to cursed energy. In harmonious, you had to gauge sukuna’s overall (at the time) power in order feel out whether or not you could make a good enough seal (the higher ups requested it) to contain sukuna.

2)

Everyone is tired of gojo’s pining. And suspicious at how oddly ignorant you are. When gojo makes himself at home on your lap in the middle of a meeting for the umpteenth time, and you’re completely unfazed, everyone’s like?????

It kinda goes back to how rip!mc refuses relationships because she knows she’s going to die (hazards of the job), and she’s afraid of leaving a lover behind more than anything (childhood trauma. involves parents), and in her head, friends and lovers are two distinctly different things (they really aren’t). Getting over a friend's death is different from getting over a lover’s death (once again, not really, who’s going to tell her???)

And gojo, for as much as he lacks boundaries (ie; has none) tries to accommodate it the best he can although you’ve always been his. shoko always tells gojo that (like always when it comes to rip!mc) he’s jumping the gun, but he shoots her with finger guns and says that he has no idea what she’s talking about :)

Maybe the reason why you’re never home is because you doesn’t want to confront your feelings haha

When it comes to the nosy students. Nobara likes you but can’t fathom gojo in a relationship. Yuji automatically assumes you and gojo are dating. Maki thinks that you can do so much better than that idiot. Panda thinks it’s cute. Inumaki: Salmon. Yuta sees the way gojo “looks” at you but thinks he’s overthinking it, and doesn’t want to say anything.

Megumi, on the other hand, tells everyone to leave it since he’s a bit protective over rip!mc.

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You’re not the only one!! I’ve gotten messages on ao3 asking about the shibuya arc LOL 😭

the reader was called back from Okinawa as backup and reached tokyo as soon as gojo entered the curtain. he texted her saying not to worry (haha). They entered with shoko and yaga to protect her and the patients. And when she hears that gojo’s been sealed, she’s completely bewildered. Gojo can take care of himself wherever he is, she’s more worried about the students than him tbh LOL (gojo is definitely going to whine about that later)

When megumi’s dropped off by yuji (ugh!!!) this is where it could go either way.

1) Shoko sees how worried you are about yuji, whose cursed energy you picked up before he ran away, and tells you to go. You find him but he runs away from you. If this happened I could see a getwo reunion (I’m hurt, did you already forget my face?) where getwo reaches out to touch your hair and gets stopped by surprise, surprise, original geto deep inside. Cue some more body vs soul philosophical talking points before you eventually meet up with the kyoto gang AND utahime!!!

2) Stay with shoko. Eventually get called to the Kyoto group.

Meanwhile inside the prison realm gojo is playing with a ring the size of your ring finger (how he got the measurement nobody knows)

[shoyowo]

gojo and utahime for headcanon asks 👀

yuhhh tho adding a readmore again bc this will also be long

gojo first 👊

sexuality headcanon: he's gay he's the f slur <3

gender headcanon: HMMMM i didn't think abt his gender tbh BUT he cld transcend gender yk? i feel like he'd say smth pretentious abt being a god i see it

a ship i have with said character: only stsg and pain

a brotp i have with said character: him, suguru and shoko 🥺 and him being an annoying ass to nanamin >>> and HIM W THE KIDS !!!!!

a notp i have with said character: anything w the kids... that's just plain nasty

a random headcanon: he's a walking talking sad love song - like hear me out, he'll always say sad shit abt love randomly and out of context like "love can burn you up to ashes..." or sm shit equivalent when nobara is talking abt like,,, loving ramen

general opinion over said character: wanna beat him up <333

next utahime 😋🥰

sexuality headcanon: she's a lesbian of course 💖

gender headcanon: she's trans, no explanation

a ship i have with said character: utahime and shoko!!! they look like a disaster power couple.... i dig

a brotp i have with said character: w her kids !!! i think their dynamic is relaxed and fun and ngl i love her interactions w gojo too akshskd get his ass ma'am so true

a notp i have with said character: her and gojo 😬 sorry but they're both gay and utahime hates gojo canonically so....

a random headcanon: hmm so i feel like even tho she argues w mai and momo etc she's fiercely protective of them and will drop kick anyone who even insinuates anything bad abt them

general opinion over said character: go off ma'am nothing but love and respect <33