#also onmyoji are mostly shinto and jujutsu sorcerers lean buddhist from what I've gathered

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Geto Suguru from Jujutsu Kaisen is like if Sumeragi Subaru from Tokyo Babylon/X discovered that after Seishiro betrayal and his sister death at his hands he couldn't stand the humans who made all the ghosts and harm he keeps being bombarded over and over.

They both got that permeability and empathy, that ended up fucking their lives. Only Geto also got a superiority complex about his power and also is much more in danger of death by the system he's in (the powerscale and the nature of ghosts in Tokyo Babylon make it so the danger is more about emotionally ruin and isolation specifically for Subaru) so he went nuclear on killing not sorcerers when he snapped instead of closing himself emotionally to the world. (He did that, kinda, bc he has to bury thhat part of him that cared, but he did create attachments to other sorcerers in the meanwhile).

Also Subaru is so so empathic. (By design bc he has to contrast Sakurazuka "Tragedies like these are commonplace in Tokyo" Seishiro) He can't rationalise to himself that most of humanity is trash and detach from it although he becomes indifferent when Seishiro dies in X, and pases those 9 years from TB to X in a haze of depression from what we can see, wishing he could give in. Suguru is king of rationalizing what he's doing driving himself deeper into the hole.

Subaru goes numb emotionally and keeps doing his job until he encounters Kamui and sees in him an opportunity to help someone like himself not end like his own tragedy.

I guess what I wanted to say is that although they're very different charas in personalities and about what kind of story they're in, they have that core? Suguru kinda reminded me this afternoon of Subaru, thinking about his downfall, so I had to share. They also share the unlearnt lesson of their less emotive counterpart. Yes I'm comparing Gojo Satoru and Sakurazuka Seishiro; they have the detached vibe and the clinical worldview about power and people. Satoru is like, the bening version of it. They both survive surprisingly well their supernatural jobs with a healthy dose of whatever happens happens and I'll worry about myself (and mine for Satoru).

Thinking again, satosugu is the less gay less extreme opposites version of that chara archetype. May be all the exorcism on the stories and the tragic air; SeiSub of course is the superior version bc, shojo and angst and canon but. Yeah.

EDIT: on retrospect I don't even know how I got here but I'm gonna left it up bc I feel like there's something even though I'm like. Reaching a lot. Bleh.