"Can't say I'm thrilled with it, but I won't stop you from visiting. You were his 'family', after all."

In which you were a follower of Suguru Geto and discover the makeshift shrine Satoru visits as his gravesite.

Setting: Between JJK0 and Season 1; a shrine in the woods near Jujutsu Tech which Satoru uses to honor Suguru's memory.

Scenario: Satoru runs into {{user}}, one of Suguru's followers, at this shrine and reluctantly agrees to allow them to continue visiting it, seeing this as a way to honor Suguru's memory.

(There's a bit of false advertising here: at the point that the bot's opening ends, he hasn't yet agreed to let you stay, but by making an appeal to your status as his 'family', you should be able to crack him.)

And another fun potential plot thread: does your character know about Kenjaku inhabiting Geto's body? Will they tell Satoru about this circumstance? That could change everything later down the road during the Shibuya incident.

The bot has three starters for different POV characters:

Message 1: Gender Neutral

Message 2: Female POV

Message 3: Male POV

Other than {{user}}'s gender, the openings are identical.

Just to be clear, when I say 'shrine' in this context, I'm referring to what is essentially a gravesite without an actual grave, not what (in the west) we would consider a creepy or obsessive spot to worship someone. I'm not going to pretend to be culturally literate in ways that exceed the average anime-enjoyer, but for my friends in the back with even less knowledge than me, it's common for Japanese to have shrines in their homes for deceased relatives as a way to memorialize and honor them, a practice which is often depicted in anime and other Japanese media.

Storytime! I watched the JJK anime, and I watched it in the order Season 1 -> JJK0 -> Season 2, as arranged by Crunchyroll-senpai. Zoom in to Season 1, second opening. Weak theme, by far my least favorite of the four we've had so far, but one of the few things that I remember from it was the visual of Satoru walking down the road with flowers. As I watched it through the first time, my reaction was very much "Haha, there goes my bf on his way to visit me, teehee." Then I watched Jujutsu Kaisen 0, and then I watched the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death arc, and oh. Suddenly Satoru walking down the street in the rain with flowers is put into an entirely new context. (I'm not 100% sure that it's 'confirmed canon', but let's be real: he's going to visit Suguru's grave with those flowers.)

I like that, actually. I enjoy looking back at something after I have more information and seeing things I didn't notice at first.

But that aside, there's something deeply tragic about the situation. Not just that Satoru is visiting the grave of his 'super best friend, wink wink', and not even that Suguru was executed by his own hand. It's the fact that instantly after the harrowing and traumatic experience of killing Suguru, Satoru is back to his usual self. Literally. In JJK0, Satoru pops up within probably ten minutes of killing Suguru to join Yuta and the rest of the main cast, and he's acting as carefree and nonchalant as ever, cracking jokes and everything.

Like, sir. You just told your best friend "▤▤▤▤▤▤" and then put him to death. Take half a second to emotionally process that.

No, but I understand why he couldn't. He's got a job to do, right? He's the Strongest, and he's a teacher. He can't just be going off to brood when he's needed elsewhere. But that brings us back to the Season 1 second opening. Evidently, he does take the time to grieve Suguru, but he presumably does it in private. So we're presented with Satoru as a character who is never actively mourns Suguru on-screen (until his composure over his death is momentarily rattled for that one minute cheap shot of Kenjaku's before Satoru's yoinked into the Prison Realm) but that tiny snippet from the second opening... Gah. My heart.

New tangent: I'm not a shipper. I don't like shipping. I like very few ships. But SatoSugu has been fascinating for me to examine as a ship that I don't want to see actualized, but that I find extremely compelling and tragic in its unrealized canon form. (Is this something that normal people feel about ships all the time? I've had, like, a couple non-canon ships that I've loved in my lifetime, but very, very few, and even a good chunk of canon relationships are poopoo to me. So having one that I simultaneously don't ship - like, no interest in reading fics or looking at fan art - but also consider the unfulfilled/unrealized elements of it to be canon and narratively and emotionally compelling... This is a complete paradox to me, and I wonder if it's what people mean when they say they feel 'neutral' about ships or that they 'sort of' like them. Traditionally, for me, when I'd make tier list of ships, 'neutral' and 'okay' were just less intense versions of 'dislike'. Is this something anybody else feels about this relationship, or am I alone in my 'keep it exactly as it canonically is' point of view on it? I'm sure I could easily find out by entering JJK fandom spaces but to be honest, I'm too old for fandom. It's exhausting and stressful.)

MY SATORU GOJO BOTS :

Adult: Your Temporary Boss / Training the Foreigner / The Shibuya Incident / Childhood Acquaintance / Sewer Rescue / Shrine Visit / Arranged Marriage / Merry Christmas / Happy New Year!

Teen (18-20): Rescued / Your Trainer / Childhood Friend / Goodbye

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jjk, jujutsu kaisen, satoru gojo, gojo satoru, angst, curse user!user, suguru geto