#geto: exists

[hinamie]

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[alistair-blackwood]

if you've got a fictional guy you like who sucks you have to be his biggest hater. his high school bully, his sworn enemy. the first to walk to mordor and cast him into the fires of mt doom. the editor-in-chief of his smear campaign. the special witness in the prosecutor's case and they're calling for the death penalty.

[blargberries]

he does not know what personal space is

[bliss-in-the-void]

Suguru appreciation post bc he’s lovely:

You can’t honestly look at this man without falling in love with him, Satoru was so based for loving him blindly and unconditionally. Not to mention, he got to experience Suguru’s gentle, caring, and loving side. How could he not lose his mind over him? (I am right there with you, Satoru)

[sscarletvenus]

yes suguru's plans to exterminate a vast majority of humanity is undeniably evil, but to say that he is murderous from the very start, cruel for the sake of being so, or lacks compassion or any emotional nuance is a gross disservice to his character's writing.

suguru is a case study of a romantic idealist and self-sacrificial saviour whose absurdly rigid, quixotic ideals are shattered brutally by reality intervening. the intense hatred he has for humanity is born out of, is an inverse of, the intense love he once possessesed for it. this is also why even though satoru is portrayed as brash and selfish and arrogant in the hidden inventory arc, it is suguru that turns "villainous."

suguru places his faith in the goodness of humanity, believes the duty of shamans is to protect the weak, their existence solely hinged upon saving the lives of non-sorcerers, and for that he is disappointed so tremendously, betrayed to an extent that makes it impossible for him to recover his ideals and past self.

ultimately there are also more than one reasons why satoru doesn't become "evil" : 1) "protecting humanity" was never his cause to begin with. he hardly cared about preserving human life, as is evident in his intentions to kill the cultists who cheered on riko's death, and 2) he had someone shielding his inner self : suguru. for it is suguru that tells him the duty of shamans is to protect non-shamans and the weak, suguru who asks him to sympathise with riko, suguru who persuades him to not kill meaninglessly.

satoru is indeed attached to riko, as well. he is the one who decides not to hand riko over to tengen if she wishes to return home, and tries to enliven her last days as a lucid person. it would thus not surpass one’s expectations if satoru turned to villainy post riko's demise, since he never even liked non-shamans to begin with. and yet, he doesn't. suguru protects his heart, which is a part of why he is able to steadily process his grief and anguish over riko's death.

suguru doesn't have anyone to do that for him, he is strong in his own right but not the "strongest", nobody notices how deep of an abyss his soul has sunken in, and he succumbs to the lethal loneliness, falters in this marathon of sorcery.

suguru is brimming with love and compassion: it is what drives his heroism in youth and villainy as a cult leader. he is able to protect gojo's heart but not his own. he fluctuates between two polar extremes : utter distaste of humanity Vs. a duty to protect it despite its horrors. three things serve as final nails to the metaphorical coffin : yuki's words, haibara's death, miminana's abuse. he describes imbibing curses for curse manipulation is "like eating a rag used to clean vomit". how macabre, how grotesque, how enlightening - who is he doing all this for? the humans who killed riko? it was these humans haibara died serving, these same humans violently mistreated miminana.

toji and sonoda encapsulate evil very blatantly, and aren't enough to shake suguru's belief in humanity. but the turning point is the non-shaman cultists rejoicing : suguru is thus forced to confront the banality of evil.

and suguru responds by rejecting what he once loved, embraces the darkness plaguing him. believes the only way to eradicate curses is to uproot their source : humanity. humans, for as long as they will live, will give rise to curses born out of their negative emotions. there is no one to tell him any better, or protect his self-identity. he loses himself to his own sense of empathy, his own ideals.

he isn't indifferent at all, cannot pick and choose whom he loves and doesn't. his love and hatred is collective, in both he gives his all. even amidst his hatred, he doesn't lose his love.

who does he choose to target first, once amassing enough money, power, and reputation? sonoda, the man who ordered riko's assassination. someone who lies in wait to enact vengeance does it out of love. if he was nothing more than a corrupt tyrant, he wouldn't remember the circumstances of riko's demise or care enough about them. suguru's rise as a hero and his subsequent fall as a villain has always been about love. and it seems, to me, up until his death, he prioritizes satoru over himself. doesn't see satoru as a weapon at all, or he would have directly asked satoru to join his cause. instead he poses to satoru a question, presents him with a choice - which in turn makes satoru shaken enough to question his identity, his place in the system, becoming a teacher and dedicating his all to a fitting reformist centrism from an isolated and dare i say, individualistic person such as himself, who stands on the pinnacle of power. but he wouldn't have come to such a conclusion without suguru's experiences shaping his worldview (he himself apologizes to riko during his fight with toji because rather than feeling depressed over her death, he feels the pure pleasure of the world in that moment. killing toji endows him with a sense of duty towards megumi, and riko's death but obviously impacts him, but the change from full apathy, to neutral indifference except in the case of his students, was losing suguru.)

as evil as suguru becomes, he is not a hypocrite. that he kills his own parents is to show the seriousness and conviction he has in his ideals. his code of operation is consistent, even when it turns from pro-human to pro-shaman.

reminds you of what mahito tells yuuji: does yuuji ever consider how many curses he kills? so why should mahito account for how many humans he kills? suguru geto presents us with a possible answer : someone has to care about how many shamans are killed.

you can condemn him for his use of collective punishment, but suguru is a villain!

you can criticize his killing of innocents, but jjk conveys the carefully crafted narrative of a villain who once held staunch traditional and moral ideals.

suguru is evil for proposing collective punishment, but it is incredibly consistent with how emotional he is. he is empathetic because he cares about a girl like riko, doomed by the actions of the rest of the world, forgotten in her misery. he cares and it drives him to the deepest pits of despair, where life loses all color and meaning, despite only knowing her for so long and haibara as well, he enshrines haibara in his memory, when no one other than nanami does. hardly anyone remembers riko's existence, haibara's laughing face, but he does! and for that he spends each moment sinking in the quagmire of his grief and torment. his empathy is a sword of damocles hanging over his neck! to say that he is cruel and unfeeling is to contradict the very agony that drives his (wrongful?) actions. and he is indeed wrong for externalizing this indelible pain, wanting to inflict it upon innocents. but suguru is a villain! has been set up as such!

mahito raises this question to junpei,"is the opposite of love really indifference?" to satoru, it is. but to suguru, it is hatred which is the opposite of love.

[hellomayu]

pov: u keep coming back to ur toxic bf

[theopinionatedandhonoredone]

ultimately it's because some people would rather look at everything with shipping lenses than treat a character as an independent person who exists within the bounds of a story and as such has free will (whatever that may look like in their universe).

[qekouu]

Old tears

[nyarasss]

Matching Suguru sketch dump!! Happy birthday to my favorite princess in jjk 🫶🏻

[thedarknesseater]

Suguru sits on him with his legs on either side of his torso.

He is heaving underneath Suguru, one arm caught in Suguru's fist curled tight around his wrist. The other one is holding on to Suguru's thigh, not hard enough to leave a mark, but a soft press. Enough for Suguru to feel its weight on him, the warmth seeping through his clothes, down to his skin.

Satoru is running his thumb back and forth in a soft caress even as he looks up at Suguru with incredulity. It feels like he is doing it on autopilot because Suguru knows that he isn't thinking about anything other than what Suguru just told him.

"Open up!" Suguru says as he leans down pressing Satoru's wrist down into the ground.

"It doesn't even make sense, Suguru!"

"It's just cursed energy," Suguru tells him again like it is the answer to everything, "and I want to see what will happen."

"We're gonna have to exorcise it again. That's what will happen," Satoru whines.

Suguru brings his palm up. He holds the black mass of swirling cursed energy wrapped up in a ball within it. Satoru spares it a glance from the corner of his eye, refusing to take them off Suguru right on top of him.

"I hope you don't believe you can talk me out of it," Suguru says in a gleeful whisper.

"No, I don't." Satoru pouts.

"Good boy."

Suguru lets go of Satoru's wrist to curl a fist in his hair. He moans underneath him, pursing his lips and tightening the hand he has on Suguru's thigh. He wants to feel this forever — a whining Satoru below him, listening and going along with his whims, and the high of a job well done. He doesn't think he can ask for anything more.

"Open up."

Satoru looks at him pleadingly for a while before tentatively opening his mouth, not enough to take the ball in.

"I won't be able to absorb it, Suguru." He says it like he's still trying to convince Suguru of something.

"I know. Don't try to talk, you'll hurt yourself."

Suguru puts the ball against Satoru's lips and just as he thought, it's not enough. The ball is stuck with no where to go because Satoru is being difficult.

"I know you can do better, Satoru. I've seen you do better."

That makes his eyes flash with something akin to anger but the blush creeping up on his cheeks is enough for Suguru to keep going instead of worrying about it. And it works — Satoru opens his mouth wide enough to let Suguru push the curse in. For a few seconds, nothing happens. Satoru cannot close his mouth, he is looking at him with accusations in his eyes and his brows drawn together, and then when he starts to run out of breath, he twitches.

"You have to swallow," Suguru tells him, petting his cheek. He tightens the fist in Satoru's hair to stop him from jerking his head and choking on the ball. He tries to talk again, and Suguru shushes him.

"Relax your throat. You'll choke on your spit like this."

Satoru's grip on his thigh is sure to leave a bruise now. He is panicking. Suguru presses a kiss against his temple. He massages the hinge of his jaw, caresses the apples of his cheeks, kisses his nose, and showers him in praise. And then he puts a hand up to cover his mouth.

"The moment you swallow, you'll be able to breathe easier."

It's almost a taunt.

Satoru gags and jerks, and the only reason Suguru is not thrown off him is because he is still trying to be good for Suguru. Suguru pats his head, shushing him. Satoru follows his hand with teary eyes as Suguru goes from brushing his hair to petting his forehead and then even further down. He takes it away for a second enjoying the wide eyed fear that creeps up in Satoru's eyes before plugging his nose, pinching it between his fingers, cutting off his air supply.

Satoru struggles for a moment. He tries to get free of Suguru's hold on him, his nails dig in sharply on Suguru's skin, both of his hands clutching at him, wrapped up in his clothes. He also swallows. Suguru follows the bulging mass pushing against the thin skin of his throat as it goes down.

He realises once it passes, that he wanted to push against it and choke Satoru, leaving bruises on his neck. He takes his hands off Satoru letting him breathe.

"That tasted awful," Satoru says, his voice choked and torn.

"I know," Suguru sighs in resignation. He's not happy about inflicting the taste of curses on Satoru.

[mrsoharaa]

when you decide to storm off from the strenuous argument you were having with Suguru, he deliberately sends rainbow dragon out to stop you from leaving the vicinity until you inevitably return back to him (with an adorable grimace and all, he adores that look on you honestly, think it's super cute to think that you'd actually stay mad at him for a while...when you both know you wouldn't/couldn't even last a half an hour without smooching all over his pretty face with apologetic kisses lol) ♡

[sashisuse]

THE VOICES.

[isolabellz]

handle with care

[gojosbf]

if you think you're pathetic remember it's 2024 and there are still people out here who'd rather burn themselves to death than admit satosugu exists and it's a gay ship

[tanatola]

forget-me-not

[nequi-or]

✄ Jujutsu Kaisen season two ⸰ֺ⭑

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