One of my absolute favorite parallels for them is whenever she looks at vault boy, It’s clear she turns to him for guidance in doing ‘The right thing’ and we all know who vault boy was originally.
It tied around your finger and led you to where your soulmate was. Regardless of who you were, everyone had one.
The strings were indicative of what the relationship would be like if the soulmates ever met.
For some, it was frayed and coming apart. For a minority, it was tangled with knots. For the majority, it was thin and barely even there.
But for God’s chosen select spirits, it was smooth and thick, gleaming with a glassy sheen and basically indestructible.
And, Gojo added with distaste as he stared at his ring finger, tied in a little neat bow.
It was no secret that Gojo was God’s favourite. His looks, his inherited curse technique…but having a perfect soulmate story? Really?
Due to his six eyes, he could see the string all the time. He wasn’t like other people, who could make it appear and disappear as they pleased. It was always there. Eating? It was there. Sleeping? It was there.
It could filter through walls and lead you to the direction your soulmate was, the other end of the string being tied to your soulmate’s hands. It could stretch and-
“ow!” Y/n gasped.
-if you tried to cut it, it would send a searing pain to both parties’ hearts.
“He tried to cut it again?” Y/n’s best friend Ichigo sighed. Her head rested on her left hand while her right hand held a giant mug of coffee. “Mhm,” Y/n responded. She was browsing the web for job opportunities at the local cafe. “Ooh! There’s this job offer at a nearby bank.” Y/n turned her laptop so Ichigo could see. Y/n was used to the pain now. At least once a month her soulmate tried to cut their string, to no avail. Y/n learned to be indifferent to this. She could still find love - not everyone ends up with their soulmate.
“Hey, What’s that?” Ichigo pointed a carefully manicured finger at a job proposal on the side of the screen. “Holy crap! It says Jujutsu tech!”
“NO!” Y/n gasped, disbelief written across her face. She snatched the laptop out of Ichigo’s hands and her eyes traced back and forth the words of the job advertisement.
*Manager Job applications open* Right next to the advertisement was a funny little badge.
And Y/n knew exactly what that badge meant.
This was a job application for Jujutsu Sorcerors.
Unfortunately for Y/n, not everyone with cursed energy was cut out to be a Jujutsu sorceror. But Y/n had experience in corporate workplaces. She would definitely snag this job.
She would 100% be a manager.
“Hopefully I’m not the manager of some bratty kids.” Y/n sighed and ran a hand through her hair. “Wouldn’t it be worse if you were the manager for some snotty Special Grade?”
Y/n’s eyes widened. “God, that would be so terrible. Imagine being at the beck and call of a stuck up prick!”
Little did Y/n know, she wouldn’t have to imagine it for long.
the fact that Nico canonically gets flustered easily is really funny to me given he also is heavily implied to listen to emo/punk/etc music. poor guy puts his playlist on shuffle and the most nsfw rock song starts playing and he just slowly takes off his headphones.
Something about the red string of fate and the ways you can be tied together and the way people tie themselves together and what people take from their relationships and what people crave and how you can build and create your own fate by tying your own fate to yourself and the people you love.
meaning the experience of feeling unfamiliar with something that is very familiar to you.
✒ an h.iwaizumi smau + written series
✒ decades have passed and in another life, they've found their way back to each other's arms. could they finally get the happy ending they missed out on years ago? now that he got his second chance, hajime would do anything it takes to spend forever with you.
✒ reincarnated lovers/romance, friends to lovers, red string of fate (just a small reference of it), pining
✒ swearing, characters may be ooc, modern and "of age"/vintage/1950s au (alternates in chapters), extreme lovesickness especially when iwa's writing letters, oikawa mattsun and makki being wingmen
✒ taglist: open (send in an ask or reply to be added<3)
✒ status: ongoing
(✎) for written chapters
00. the heading (prologue) ✎ letter: unsent
HIS SALUTATION
01. then
02. and now
THE BODY
03. then
04. and now
navigation ✉ haikyuu masterlist
a/n: a (hopefully) short iwa smau so I could indulge in iwa some more 🙋🏻♀️
okay so. in the newest Imp & Skizz podcast ep (the one about the Life Series, for those who find this later), Skizz talks about the concept of the boogeyman. specifically, he talked about a really interesting Reddit post he saw, framing him as sort of the creator or the source of the boogeyman curse.
(if the op of that Reddit post should happen to find this, I apologize if I'm just reiterating things you've already said.)
so, according to that post (or at least Skizz's summary of it), the boogeyman actually starts back in 3rd Life, when Skizz charged the Crastle out of sheer bloodlust and permadied in a 2v1 against Impulse and Grian. that kinda lines up with Martyn's lore, which I'll get to in a second.
this theory of Skizz being the source of the boogeyman curse continues throughout the rest of the seasons; he was in Last Life and Limited Life, both of which had boogeymen, but he was not in Double Life, which did not have the boogeyman mechanic. plus, Skizz has never actually been the boogeyman. he said it was kinda like a transfer of energy; he can't be the boogeyman because he created it.
this is where Martyn's lore comes into play.
the boogeyman curse, according to Martyn, was created as a means for the Watchers to feed on even more trauma and negative energy than they already were. and Skizz - he's a positive presence. he's a sweetheart. he's kind, he's a leader; hell, he took the time to compliment every single person on the server during Limited Life. of course he can't be the boogeyman. there's no negative energy to feed off of.
now hear me out: that's because the Watchers are spreading it to everyone else.
maybe Skizz's energy is too concentrated, or maybe there's something else about it that the Watchers don't like. they can't work with Skizz's negative energy the way that it is, so they spread it out to the other Players in the form of the boogeyman curse.
I'm not sure where I was going with this, I just haven't seen anyone talking about the theory of Skizz being the source of the boogeyman curse.
art is all about drawin the most self indulgent shit possible. have Crane from this one undertale oc insert fic i adore deeply that hasnt upd8ed since 2016 and haunts me and Siffrin In Stars And Time hangin out :)
I think they'd be friends <3
I'm gonna be mad as hell if Vee actually turns out to not be Wat and, for the absolute life of me, I don't understand why anyone would want him to not be Wat.
They've already put the red string of fate on them, quite literally, so I don't see how it would make any narrative sense to not have Vee be Wat (unless they say Wat was never San's soulmate, but then the stone shouldn't have worked?).
I do hope San is conflicted with, who I'm calling, decoy!Wat for the good angst and tears, but I will refuse to accept Vee isn't Wat, even if the show ends with him not being her. Sorry I'm not sorry.