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okay so what we’re not going to do is villainize shoko.

jjk 261 spoilers, thoughts, and a brief analysis of shoko. (and touching on some sashisu stuff. more specifically the sash part.)

i see a lot of people bashing her for not having a reaction to the body swapping plan and that satoru was like ‘i’m mostly surprised shoko didn’t object’ SO. here’s what i’ve got to say.

shoko didn’t object because she was fully under the belief that satoru was going to win. that it wasn’t going to happen. it was literally the worst worst worst WORST case scenario. she had SO MUCH faith in satoru.

let’s rewind back to the shibuya arc. what we knew about shoko at that time regarding her use of cigarettes was that she had quit five years (iirc) prior to those events. her smoking habits literally revolve around satoru’s wellbeing.

mind you this was after she and yaga learned satoru had been sealed. she heard the news and immediately began smoking. why? because shoko is a person who masks her emotions and she does it well. she’s not the type of woman to break down in tears. she’s going to hide it and instead light up a cigarette.

we saw this with her interaction with suguru. she acted very nonchalant about his defection and the massacre he committed on the village and his parents. but when we fast forward ten years and go to jjk0, it’s made abundantly clear that she still cares about him. during the meeting where yaga declares they’re going to kill suguru — i’m pretty sure his words were ‘exorcise the curse that is geto suguru’ or something along those lines — shoko leaves. she flat out walks out. and during the night parade of 100 demons, we have a moment where see the most emotion out of shoko that we have for the majority of the series. she’s angry. she’s hurt. she has these thoughts of something along the lines of like ‘you sure made a mess for us’ regarding suguru. and it’s especially prominent because it’s the first time we’ve ever seen her like this and only time. the closest we get to seeing that again is during the sukuna fight.

she literally cares so much but she’s just emotionally constipated and doesn’t know how to show it 😭 it’s an issue both she and satoru have. they deflect. they mask. they move on and yet the carry it with them somewhere deep inside them.

so we go back forward to satoru and sukuna’s fight. where we do see emotion from shoko but what’s most important to note is the panels she’s in. when they focus on her, she’s either smoking a cigarette, lighting a cigarette up, or we see her surrounded by cigarette butts.

we see her genuinely fearful at this point. she had full confidence that satoru was going to win. that’s why she said ‘do what you want’ and didn’t object. because in her mind, it wouldn’t happen.

it’s very important to remember that sashisu, whether you see it in a romantic or platonic way, was a group that cared so fucking deeply for one another. their bonds were deep. their love for their found family was deep. it’s part of the reason why suguru defected in the end. which i can get it into but not at this time. but at the end of the day, sashisu had ass communication skills and failed to properly understand one another.

and that seems to continue on with the satoshoko side of that, which was left after suguru left. and after he died.

also, it’s really important to remember that shoko is not like satoru and suguru. she’s a healer. that’s it. that’s all she does. she doesn’t get to fight or be on the front lines like they do. she’s the one who gets to wait behind and wait until the damage is done to do her job. she’s been doing this since she was (probably) 15, maybe even younger since we don’t know her backstory. she’s going to be emotionally detached. also, keep in mind this page:

specifically her first piece of dialogue. ‘it’s more like we have to do it.’

and that’s the bottom line.

whew. this was rough. shoko ieiri you will always be loved by me.

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THE VOICES.

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hm… thinking about childhood best friend!suguru…

you saw him for the first time when you moved away from the city after the unfortunate passing of your parents. your grandmother stuffed you into her car and drove off, taking you to a little town where doves were stuffed into cages so that they may never spread their wings. you are sad and lonely on the day you move in, and right away, you spot a gloomy looking boy your age watching you from the window of your neighbor’s house. despite everything, you smiled and waved at the boy next door. he seemed surprised at first, but he smiled and waved back.

(you don't think you would ever regret smiling at him, no matter where you would wind up twenty years from then.)

you properly meet him only a few days later, when you are looking for a quiet place to sit outside of the house. he is there, too, and you approach him with the same smile you offered him days prior. you introduce yourself to him and ask him for his name.

“geto suguru,” he told you. suguru stared at you for a moment after that, observing you silently. you would come to learn he often did that. “would you like some tea?”

(you don’t think you’ll ever regret accepting his invitation, either.)

in that miserable town filled with miserable people, you and suguru just clicked and stuck together. you two were practically conjoined at the hip, despite the fact that suguru had a reputation for being so strange. you never minded or understood where that came from. you heard from your grandmother, who spoke with suguru’s mother from time to time, that he was just a strange boy. that he made stories up and blamed things on ghosts. that he was unfairly gloomy and difficult to raise. you never understood why people were so mean to him. he was quiet and polite, the best friend you had ever had. you followed him everywhere, and that made you a bit strange, too. but there wasn't a single thing anyone in the world could say that would make you not want to follow suguru around. you would follow him to the end’s of the earth if he asked. he was your best friend, after all, and you were his.

you both could talk for hours and hours about anything and everything. books, movies, tv shows, games, school... you laughed together and played together and that was the way it was. the way it was always supposed to be. you and suguru. suguru and you.

you remember the day everything changed oh, so clearly. the cold weather nipped at your nose while the air felt dry and cold in your lungs. you were trailing a bit behind suguru as you both ventured home from school. he was looking off at something in the forest but quickly diverted his attention away. the action did not go unnoticed and your eyes moved to the forest as well, trying to see what suddenly made his expression sour.

your feet stopped moving the second your eyes laid upon the thing in the woods. it stood out amongst the gray and brown of the cold trees — that strange, ugly beast. it twisted and curved in what should have been an impossible way with seven eyes, each of them oozing some green liquid.

"suguru?"

your fearful cry of his name caught him off guard as you reached forward, grabbing at the sleeve of his sweater. he looked at you in concern. you looked like you want to cry and he hated it. he hated that you looked so fearful, that you sounded so fearful. he wanted nothing more than to make it better, than to fix the problem that he wasn’t even aware of yet.

"what is that thing?" you asked with a quiet whimper.

suguru almost didn’t believe it at first. up until that very moment, he had lived his life hearing that something was wrong with him. something was wrong with him, because he saw things no one else could see. monsters, ghosts, creatures — whatever word you wanted to use. he saw them. his parents never understood. they seemed more disturbed by the fact that suguru never grew out of it, rather than the words he was saying. instead he kept it to himself. he learned to lie about it, so his parents stopped looking at him with such disdain. and at some point, maybe he began to lie to himself. maybe he began to believe that he was driving himself crazy. that he really was just seeing things.

but in that moment? in that moment, when you, his best friend, the one person in the world who had never once looked at him like he was strange or treated him as such, were seeing it, too?

you saw it. you saw it, too. you saw the monster. he’s not crazy.

he was not a liar.

and then, none of it really mattered. not when he snapped back to reality and realized just how scared you were. he couldn’t have that. he couldn’t let that happen. what kind of best friend would he be if he let you hurt like this? you saw them, too, which meant they wouldn't leave you alone like they did most people. they never left suguru alone once they realized he was watching them. so, he decided. he decided that from then on out, suguru would be your protector. because he may be young and he may not fully understand the concept of love, but suguru geto understands that he loves you. he loves you so much that he cannot bear to see you hurting. he loves you enough to decide he will bear it for you, and if he cannot take it all away from you, then he will still be right by your side to bear as much as you will let him.

by the time you are both teenagers, you have both become acutely aware of the things you could each do. magic or perhaps superpowers. you both had your theories, but you couldn’t think of any superhero that had to eat monsters and get sick from the taste of it. you would hold suguru’s hair back as the contents of his last meal threatened to come back up after he had to eat one of those things. suguru would hold you up as your vision blurred and darkened, as your body grew tired from the strange abilities you had. but you did these things to protect one another.

to take care of one another.

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IM WEAK IN THE KNEES. NEW SASHISU ART…

i want to speak on their drink choices for a moment… satoru with his monstrous, sickeningly sweet drink. probably some odd type of milkshake or float?? idk i’m having a hard time telling. all i know is that being next to that would make me break out in hives (it’s hard out here being strawberry’s no. 1 opp ☹️) but he probably goes out of his way to request something so horrific to the workers… suguru and shoko look on in terror.

suguru and his drink… hm. we know how he makes his tea. with one sugar cube. but it doesn’t really look like tea based on the coloring so i am going with black coffee. i also thinks he puts in. one sugar cube. or (judging by the little shakers next to his cup) one little shake of sugar. it is my personal belief that suguru does not like overly bitter things but he doesn’t like particularly sweet things either. he’s somewhere in the middle. he cherishes taste though in his younger years because it’s so much better than having to swallow curses… i have this thought that when he’s older, so around jjk0 time, he doesn’t have much of a sense of taste anymore. in those 10 years, he has consumed A Lot of curses and at a certain point i think his taste buds just kind of went numb… poor guy.

bonus, i can see suguru turning for a second and satoru taking the sugar shaker and dumping some in his coffee like he did with the spices to riko’s ramen in okinawa… a menace, that man.

anyway!! miss shoko!! again, a bit hard to tell by the coloring. maybe it’s cola? iced tea? i really did like zoom in and try to tell but i can’t guess. maybe she does like cola… maybe it’s something she and satoru bonded over too because we know his soda of choice is cola. except for when he’s with suguru, in which case he takes whatever suguru is getting (based off of the hidden inventory outro) shoko is lovely and a healer but let’s not act like this girl doesn’t practice the most unhealthy habits you’ve ever seen… definitely would not put her past drinking soda bright and early in the morning. silly girl…

in case you could not tell, i am very normal about them.

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this is so extremely important… satoru and suguru enthusiasts… what do you guys think they would major in… i have the workings of a college au in my notes but i’m struggling to figure out what they would major in… shoko is easy (we love women in stem) but i’m struggling with satosugu 😞😞 this is of the utmost importance. send help

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i think he deserves a little kiss first thing in the morning… i could give him that little kiss… just saying…

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tokyo jujutsu tech first year, gojō salma.

[small lore drop under the cut.]

heyyyyyy *tucks hair behind my ear* a lot of you were interested in salma so i thought i would post the only other piece of art i actually finished with her in it… because she is my silly and i love her and will take any opportunity to talk about her. don’t EVEN get me started…

anyway miss salma is satoru’s half sister… gojo siblings world domination. also megumi and tsumiki are basically her siblings as well… she loves them so much. UM. UM. what else to say… she’s 5’10. a bisexual disaster. (might run in the family?) has an insane sunglasses collection because she suffers from migraines and is bordering on being legally blind. will never admit this out loud… everyone knows. (also a tad bit self conscious about her bright ass blue eyes. it was over for her when she was in elementary school and someone said her eyes and hair color were off putting. has not known peace since.)

she’s a grade 2 sorcerer at the start of the series… she has a lot of love to give… uhhhh she is a bit scary sometimes… salma really likes cooking for people… and her uniform design is definitely intentional… OKAY!! introduction over.

i have exactly one other character sheet like this done for one of my other characters (okina) and i will post them eventually. but i have a total of four main jjk ocs who will all inevitably make their appearances on my account. but as salma was made first, she gets the spotlight!!

salma gojo 🔛🔝‼️

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wip… *sighs wistfully*

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i changed my blog name… the brain worms told me to