#gojo with himself and riko and then nanami with haibara.

[tempenensis]

the tragedy of Haibara Yu

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long” 

-- Lao Tzu

The important point of Haibara’s tragedy is not centered on his death, but what his death subsequently caused to two persons he was closest to; Getou and Nanami.  

Haibara Yu is first introduced during the Hidden Inventory arc as Nanami’s classmate. They are sent as backup for Gojo and Geto who are escorting Amanai Riko before her merger. 

Right on his first appearance, his upbeat going-all-out attitude is emphasized, in contrast to Nanami’s seriousness, as he criticizes how the mission is not fit for their level. In his profile, he is said to have not came from jutsushi family, but has a sister who can see curses. He is also described to be someone who likes people. In addition he really looks up to Getou and that feeling is not completely one-sided. 

Getou’s side

When Getou is on the verge of spiraling down to dark hole, it’s Haibara who is still giving him a positive perspective of becoming a jujutsushi despite the evil that Getou fixated on in this work. 

“Haibara, do you think you can continue being a jujutsushi? Is it not hard?”

“Giving it all out on things that I can do well feels great!”

This is the kind of attitude that is rarely found in jujutsushi. He is like Yuuji in that manner - in fact, Haibara’s attitude is maybe more shonen protagonist-like compared to Yuuji. One of his defining characters is that he is a good judge of characters.

“I’m confident in my ability to see through people.” “Even though you are sitting next to me?”

“As a jujutsushi, he should be more distrusting of people”

The last bit of merit Getou sees in doing his work as jujutsushi is because of people like Haibara. Even though Yuki said that he is being sarcastic, I think Getou is half-serious when he asks whether Haibara can see how Getou has become a “bad person”.

This in itself gives Getou another perspective other than the ugliness he had saw during the Riko mission that pushes him to spiral down. Even after his discussion with Yuki where he finds his “inspiration” on how to break the cycle of exorcising curses (killing all the non-jujutsushi), he still does not spontaneously go down to the ‘wrong’ path. 

The thing that finally pushes Getou to follow the “wrong” path is the death of Haibara. This is where he realizes how the end for them all is just mountain of jujutsushi corpses - and Getou is finally ‘cut loose’ from the last strand that tether him on this side.

In this marathon game called jutsushi, what if at that end is the mountain of jutsushi’s corpse?

(“nakama” here is given read “jutsushi” -  a double entendre of saying his friends)

And after this, Getou finally goes down to his chosen path of killing all the non-jujutsushi, starting from Nanako and Mimiko’s village - and even his parents. The thing that he said here when he meets Gojo for the last time directly reflects what Haibara said to Getou before he meet Yuki - but the context is in direct contrast of what Haibara and other decent jujutsushi do. 

“I’ve decided my way of life. All that’s left is going all out on what I can do.”

I hate monkeys. That is the true intention I have chosen.  

Nanami’s side 

Nanami takes Haibara’s death differently from Getou, but he is affected the same. It completely changed his view on being jujutsushi and made him stop and run away from the burden of becoming one. 

Jujutsushi is shit. Having to be prepared to sacrifice our life, and sometimes must compel friends for the sake of other people. That’s why I stopped --more like ran away. 

Nanami’s whole attitude formed from the trauma surrounding the death of Haibara. Needless to say, I think Yuuji reminds him a lot to Haibara with his positive, upbeat attitude and the way he likes people to the point of getting angry for the sake of others. That is one of the reasons from where Nanami’s attitude of protecting Yuuji as the children that he is stemmed from.

One of the reasons that Nanami does not ‘stray�� again after becoming a jujutsushi is probably because of Haibara’s last words. 

Haibara, what was I did after all? I run away. Even though I ran away, I came back with ambiguous reason of it being worth to do. 

To which he sees Haibara responds pointing to Yuuji, suggesting to Nanami to pass forwards -- as Getou said -- the baton in this marathon game.

It is a curse that he felt put upon himself - and it is a curse that he passes next onto Yuuji. To become a jujutsushi and to keep exorcising curse. 

I can’t do that, Haibara. This is different. I can’t say it. It will only become a “curse” for him. 

“Itadori-kun. I will leave the rest to you.”

From Haibara to Nanami. From Nanami to Yuuji. The baton will be passed on in this marathon game until either no jujutusushi or no curse left in this world.   

[vivacissimx]

cracking my heart open like an egg but student geto was the person haibara looked up to & wanted to impress, student geto was the mentor who bought haibara a coke and sent off with encouragement before he left for a big mission, and student geto was the one who covered haibara's corpse when he came back from that mission dead.

geto was the one who offered nanami comfort after his best friend haibara died and nanami couldn't bring himself to hate geto even after he defected.

geto was the one who watched riko die just when she decided she wanted to live! and geto had to live in a world where he believed riko and gojo were both dead, had to bring gojo back from the brink—only to find out that the mission was pointless because there was another way to stabilize tengen anyway.

geto's defining trait is that he leaks compassion, to the point that seeing two children defenseless in a cage breaks him and, in a way, curses him too. the death sentence on his head was omnipresent but his first question when gojo comes to execute him is about his family. after ten years, gojo trusted geto not to kill the students he sends after him because of geto's compassion. and it's the love and care gojo shows his body after that causes all the suffering to follow

but with kenjaku holding his body hostage, suguru—the suguru who cried from happiness when he saw young sorcerers coming together to fight back and defend each other—has to watch himself seal gojo away, his own hands start the culling game that sets sorcerers to slaughter one another. suguru eats curses until he becomes one, which is a perfect metaphor for how he's eating himself up inside. everything about him is cyclical.

when yuji takes his body back after sukuna kills people in shibuya he's straight up ready to die, knowing that he killed people. the same thing is likely true for suguru—whatever is left of him would likely rather sacrifice himself for the sake of those sorcerers who are dying under kenjaku than live on. it would be a fulfillment, in a way, of his ideals—rather than the twisting of them that caused him to break away from jujutsu society.

[togaki-kun]

Gojo “No one is allowed to take youth from young people” Satoru and Nanami “Being a child is not a sin” Kento can actually be so personal.

[tempenensis]

I'm not an anon who ask about Jogo and Sukuna but just want to add my thought in this matter. Some fan theorize that Sukuna compliment Jogo for his strength because he like power or powerful people. It something like when he said to Gojo that hierarchy not base on power is boring. He see that Jogo is strong even though he is stronger but that didn't mean he can't appreciate it.

Hello there!

Yes, that's another possibility, but I don't think I agree. That's kinda... not fit with his character. Sukuna is conceited, he is not the type to dole compliments. He is the type to look down on other, the only ones he appreciate are himself or the one who has use for him, like Megumi or Uraume. Jogo doesn't have that use for him, in fact even after Jogo fed him his fingers, he cut Jogo's head instead. And even, Jogo is crying - something that's very human, very unlike a curse and Sukuna sees human as weak.

That's why I don't think that that scene is something that is really happen, but more like a vision or dream that Jogo sees inside his head. Vision or memory in the verge of death, however, is something that seemingly keeps pop up in the series, like Nanami seeing Haibara, or that one old curse user who Getou fights in Riko's school, he sees his beloved dog before Getou kills him.