Ahh, come on, man. I already had my JJK OC half-built in my drafts, all planned out and everything—but I guess that’s how it is.
But hey, I’m glad so many of you voted and actually enjoy my JJK one-shots! I’ll keep posting them, then.
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Feel free to comment and throw your ideas at me—I’d love to hear what you guys want to read next.
: Life and Lies of : ~Lady Rowan Baelish~
"The court loves a tragedy, but the audience? Oh, they're worse. You all watch with bated breath, waiting for the fall, for the blood, for the spectacle of it all. You’re no different from the vultures that circle the Red Keep—except you do not even pretend to mourn. But then again… what’s wrong with being a little wicked, hmm?"
—Lady Rowan to Viewers
(A jest, perhaps. But there’s always truth in a well-timed jest.)
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Rowan Baelish learned young that silence was a weapon sharper than steel. She had been a child of quiet corners and half-heard whispers, of watching men lie and women smile as they twisted the knife. 'Clever girl,' her father had once murmured, pride curling in his voice like smoke. But cleverness was a double-edged thing.
Once, when she was very small, she had asked a whore in her father’s brothel if the world was kind. The woman had laughed—a soft, bitter sound—and kissed her brow. "No, little bird," she had said. "But if you learn how to sing the right tune, the world might pretend it is."
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Born: The only acknowledged daughter of Petyr Baelish, a girl born on the fringes of power and raised within its shadows.
Age: 13 years old at the start of A Song of Ice and Fire
Titles: “Baelish’s Girl,” “The Mockingbird’s Daughter” (Later: Lady of Highgarden)
Appearance: Warm copper-colored hair, mint-green eyes, favors dark blue and green gowns
Personality: Socially charming, observant, strategic, kind-seeming but never naïve
(a girl who understands that power is not just taken—it is earned, owed, and wielded.)
Role in Court: Lady-in-waiting to Princess Myrcella, navigating the world of power and deceit
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Petyr Baelish – The father she respects but does not trust, the man who shaped her but does not own her. A lesson and a warning, all in one.
Loras Tyrell – A husband in name, a friend in truth, a partner in ambition. A marriage of convenience that became something more—an unspoken understanding, a promise of survival, a bond that no bedchamber could define.
Aegon VI (Young Griff) – A love written in stolen moments, in hands that reached but never held for long. A romance that could never be, a longing burdened by duty. In another life, perhaps. But in this one? Love is a sacrifice, and kings do not keep what does not serve the crown.
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She is the daughter of a man who built his fortune on whispers and deceit, a girl raised not on lullabies but on half-truths and well-placed smiles.
Born from a fleeting moment of want and accepted only when it suited him, Rowan Baelish grew up learning that love and loyalty were currencies—rarely given freely, always traded for something.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
Alright, after seeing the polls (tf it was a tie 💀) ( after much internal screaming and debating), I’ve decided to officially step into A Song of Ice and Fire! And what better way to do that than by introducing an OC I’ve been obsessing over for way too long?
Of course, I’ll still be writing my usual one-shots and headcanons, but I really wanted to dive into a full character study because, let’s be honest—I’ve been consumed by ASOIAF for years now.
So, meet Lady Rowan Baelish. Petyr Baelish’s only acknowledged daughter, a girl born into manipulation and ambition yet trying to carve her own path. She’s everything I love about morally complex characters—sharp, observant, deeply self-aware, and walking that fine line between survival and power.
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I hope you all like her! Feel free to send in questions, theories, or just yell at me about her—I’d love to talk more about the world I’m building around her. First chapter should be up tomorrow, so stay tuned!
✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day✨
(A eulogy for the other half of the story.)
People talk about Gojo like he’s a myth. A phenomenon. A force.
The strongest.
The honored one.
The boy who walked into battle laughing, who blinded the world and somehow still burned quietly inside.
But nobody talks about Geto.
Not really. Not in the way that counts.
Not in the way you'd talk about someone you lost too young.
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Geto Suguru didn’t fall.
He unraveled.
Piece by piece. Year by year.
Not in one great tragic moment, but in the quiet, steady disillusionment that happens when you love too much in a world that keeps asking you to be okay with cruelty.
He was the best of them, once.
Sharp. Kind. Smiling. He used to laugh so loudly it echoed. He used to believe in saving people.
Until belief wasn’t enough anymore.
Until the children kept dying, and no one cared unless they were born with power.
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And what do you do when you’re powerless in your grief?
You either collapse…
Or you radicalize.
Geto didn’t want to destroy the world.
He wanted to make it stop.
He wanted silence after years of screaming.
Peace after endless loss.
A future where the people he loved could live without watching civilians beg them for help and then flinch at their existence.
That kind of hope can rot you from the inside out.
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They always say Geto left Gojo.
But maybe Gojo left him first.
Not on purpose.
Not by choice.
But when Gojo became the strongest, Geto became the one standing still.
Watching his best friend evolve into something divine while he stayed painfully, helplessly human.
And Gojo Satoru kept moving forward because he had to.
And Geto Suguru stayed behind because he couldn’t.
That’s how people break—not from a single fracture, but from the silence between footfalls when you realize you’re no longer walking beside each other.
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You want to know something unfair?
Even after everything—after the ideology, after the murders, after the war—
Suguru still loved him.
You can see it.
In the way he smiled, tired and soft, when they met again.
In the way he said, “You’re the only one who ever understood me.”
And in the way Gojo couldn’t bring himself to kill him, not really.
Couldn’t even finish the sentence.
“At least curse me properly in the end, Suguru.”
Even when they stood on opposite sides of a ruined world,
(They never stopped being each other’s first home.)
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So if you cried for Gojo Satoru—
For the burden he carries, for the loneliness he wears,
For the way his laughter covers something too quiet to name—
Then cry for Geto Suguru too.
Because Geto is why Gojo hurts the way he does.
Because Gojo lost the one person who saw him, not as a weapon, not as a god,
But as a friend. As a boy. As someone who could be laughed with.
Because every time Gojo smiles now, it feels just a little bit borrowed.
A little bit hollow.
Because the strongest sorcerer in the world couldn’t save the one person he wanted to.
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Geto wasn’t the villain of the story.
He was the tragedy no one was ready to hold.
So here’s to him—
The one who stayed kind for as long as he could.
The one who carried too much.
The one who gave in to silence, because it was the only thing left that didn’t hurt.
You don’t have to agree with what he did.
But if you really loved Gojo Satoru…
You should’ve cried for Geto Suguru too.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
So, here’s a random thought that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while. I swear, Gojo and Geto are basically two sides of the same coin. I know, it sounds cliché, but it’s true. Whether you ship them or not doesn’t even matter—there’s this unspoken bond between them, this shared history and pain that’s just too strong to ignore. And, honestly, it’s like they were meant to be connected in some tragic, inevitable way.
It’s funny, every time I write about Gojo, Geto’s right there. Like, I can’t get one without the other, and I don’t even want to. It’s like a natural thing, a reflection of each other’s choices and consequences. They are the embodiment of that one truth that always haunts us—people become the very thing they try to escape.
I don't know. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but there’s something so tragic in how they’re both broken by their own choices. It’s like they were never meant to be fully happy or to save each other, but somehow, in the wreckage, they’re the only ones who understand. That’s the tragedy, right?
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Anyway, this is just me rambling about them again, because, well... someone has to say it. I hope you liked this meta, and if you’ve got thoughts—please, let me know. I’m all ears. Always love hearing different perspectives on these two, especially when it comes to this tragic duo.
✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
Unlike Gojo, he enjoys silence and will often sit with someone for hours without talking.
Some people fear silence.
They see it as an emptiness, a gap that needs filling. They rush to fill the space with words, laughter, noise—anything to push back against the quiet.
Suguru Geto is not one of those people.
He has always understood that silence is not the absence of something. It is its own language, its own presence. It is the space where truths settle, where emotions breathe.
Gojo fills the silence because he does not know how to sit with it. But Suguru?
Suguru lets it stay.
And so do you.
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The first time you realize this about him, you are both sitting on the temple steps, watching the wind move through the trees. It has been over an hour, and neither of you has spoken.
You shift slightly, waiting for him to break the quiet, but he doesn’t. He just sits there, eyes half-lidded, hands folded in his lap, his presence as steady as the sky above.
And for some reason, that steadiness makes you stay.
Minutes pass. Maybe hours. The world moves, but you do not.
You look at him and wonder if he is thinking about something or nothing at all.
“Suguru?”
He turns his head, slow and deliberate.
“You ever get tired of sitting in silence?” you ask, half-joking.
A small smile tugs at the corner of his lips. “Do you?”
You think about it. Shake your head. “Not with you.”
And that is enough.
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Suguru has always been like this. Quiet, contemplative. His silence is not an empty thing—it is full of thoughts he does not say, emotions he does not spill.
But sometimes, you wish he would.
Sometimes, you wish he would speak the things you only catch glimpses of in his eyes. The weight he carries. The exhaustion that lingers in the corners of his smile.
“Do you ever wish you could turn your brain off?” you ask one evening, lying on the floor of his dorm, staring up at the ceiling.
Suguru hums in thought. “Sometimes.”
“Do you ever succeed?”
A pause.
“No.”
You turn your head, watching him in the dim light. He is leaning against the bed, arms resting on his knees, his gaze far away.
“You could talk to me,” you say softly.
He looks at you, something unreadable flickering across his face. “I know.”
But he doesn’t. Not really. Not in the way you wish he would.
Instead, he lets the silence settle between you again.
And you let it.
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There is a difference between comfortable silence and avoidance. Between peace and distance.
You notice the shift before you name it.
It happens after Riko. After her laughter turns to memory, after blood stains the ground where she once stood.
Suguru stops filling the silence with meaning. Stops letting it be a presence between you.
Instead, he uses it as a wall.
You sit together, as you always have, but something is different now. He is farther away, even when he is right next to you.
You reach for him—not physically, but in the way you look at him, the way you wait for him to meet your eyes. But he doesn’t. Not like he used to.
One night, when the distance becomes unbearable, you finally break the quiet.
“Suguru.”
He blinks, as if pulled from somewhere far away. “Hm?”
“You’re shutting me out.”
He exhales slowly, rubbing a hand over his face. “I’m just… tired.”
It is a half-truth. You both know it.
But you do not press.
Because some things are too heavy to say out loud.
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You do not hear him leave.
One day, he is there. The next, he is not.
And suddenly, silence is no longer a comfort. It is an absence. It is something hollow, something sharp.
You sit on the temple steps alone, the same place where you once sat together, and you realize that silence is not always peaceful.
Sometimes, it is unbearable.
Because this time, it does not mean understanding.
It means he is gone.
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Years later, when you see him again, he is different.
His silence is no longer soft. It is a weapon now, honed and sharp-edged.
But when your eyes meet, just for a second, you wonder—
Is there still a part of him that remembers?
The quiet mornings. The easy stillness. The unspoken understanding.
You do not ask. And he does not say.
But when he turns to leave, you swear—just for a moment—he lingers.
Just long enough for you to know:
Some silences never truly end.
so—wanna know where i’ve been all this time?
Well. school started. and it’s been exactly as soul-sucking and exhausting as you'd expect.
i’ve been floating through days like a ghost that didn’t even get a tragic backstory. just assignments.
but in between the mess, i ended up writing a few jjk meta pieces. not planned, not polished—just… thoughts that wouldn’t shut up. little rants. poetic breakdowns. trauma essays disguised as fandom content. you know the deal.
i’ll be posting them all by this evening—there’s like 2 or 3 for now. they’re less “analysis” and more “me yelling into the void about how the jujutsu society is evil and i would physically fight god to protect every broken, bloody, emotionally-damaged character in that show.” so yeah. feel free to read, scream, cry, or argue with me in the tags. i’m down for it all.
they’re not perfect. but they’re honest.
and weirdly enough, they feel like the most me thing i’ve written in a while.
see you in the ruins.
( Being the Strongest Means Dying Alone)
They call him the strongest. As if it’s a blessing. As if it’s anything more than a curse dressed in praise.
Gojo Satoru walks through Jujutsu Kaisen like a myth that got stuck in a man’s body. Limitless, Six Eyes, a bloodline older than reason. He’s the kind of person stories exaggerate—only, with him, there’s no need to exaggerate. He is the exaggeration. Power personified.
But there’s something no one tells you about being a god.
It’s cold up there.
And nobody stays.
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The Cage That Shines Like Heaven :
There’s an irony in Gojo’s existence that the story never says out loud but bleeds through every panel he appears in: he’s not just the strongest sorcerer—he’s the most trapped.
He can do anything. He can beat anyone.
He just can’t save everyone.
He couldn’t save Geto.
He couldn’t save Riko.
He couldn’t save himself.
And that’s the thing, isn’t it? When you’re the strongest, everyone assumes you’re fine. That you don’t need help. That nothing touches you. That you’re floating above it all, untouchable.
But Gojo is not floating. He’s sinking.
Under expectations.
Under grief.
Under the knowledge that he could destroy the world in a heartbeat, and yet—somehow, he still wasn’t enough to save the one person who asked him to choose love over duty.
Satoru walks around smiling like a boy who never grew up, like the world still has color in it, like he doesn’t hear the echo of Suguru's voice saying “You’re the only one who ever understood me.”
He understood. And he let him fall anyway.
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Power As Exile :
Power isolates. That’s something people like to romanticize in stories—“with great power comes great responsibility” and all that. But they never talk about the quiet horror of it. The silence.
Gojo is revered. Worshipped. The entire jujutsu society depends on him the way a city depends on electricity: blindly, constantly, without gratitude.
But nobody really knows him.
They know his strength.
They know his sarcasm.
They know the way he walks into a battlefield like God just clocked in for work.
But not his grief. Not his loneliness. Not the way he stands in that empty white cube (the Prison Realm) for nineteen days with only the sound of his own thoughts—his own regrets—for company.
You realize something, watching him. Being strong doesn’t make you invincible.
It just makes it harder for people to admit you’re in pain.
And Gojo is in so much pain.
But who would believe that?
The strongest sorcerer in the world?
The man who can rewrite physics?
Cry?
(That’s the tragedy. People only want Gojo to be strong. Not human.)
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Suguru Geto And The Ghost That Never Left :
All great tragedies have a ghost. Gojo’s is Geto.
They were twin stars. Heaven and earth. The two most powerful jujutsu sorcerers of their generation. But while Gojo kept choosing the world, Geto stopped pretending he could live in it.
Geto fell. And Gojo let him.
Not because he didn’t care. But because he believed in the system more than he believed in the ache between them. He believed power could fix things. Could save them. Could protect the next Riko.
He was wrong.
(Geto’s death wasn’t just a loss. It was a mirror shattering. The first real crack in Gojo’s limitless reality.)
And when they meet again—Geto’s body desecrated, taken over by a puppet with a smile like a scalpel—Gojo doesn’t fight. He reaches out. Gently. Like he’s touching the ghost of a future that could’ve been.
And what does he say?
*“At least… curse me a little at the end.”*
That line. That line.
The way it aches. The way it strips him bare.
Gojo doesn’t ask to be forgiven.
He asks to be hated. Because even now, he can’t forgive himself.
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The Empty Center :
For all his power, Gojo Satoru is a man without a center.
He has students. He has duty. He has power enough to rewrite reality. But he has no home. No constant. No love that stayed.
He’s funny, flirty, dramatic. He fills every room with light and noise. But all of it—all of it—is scaffolding. A mask. A distraction.
Because once the battle is over, the students are asleep, and the world is quiet—he has nothing.
(Nothing but a memory of a friend who walked away and a world he promised to protect, even as it devoured everything he loved.)
And maybe that’s why he’s always smiling. Because if he doesn’t laugh, he might shatter.
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The Irony Of Salvation :
Gojo believes he can save everyone. He wants to. He trains his students with real care, not because he loves the system—but because he wants to break it. Fix it. Undo the rot from the inside out.
But the system he wants to destroy?
It’s the same one that made him.
And the thing about systems like that? They don’t let you win.
Not without bleeding.
Gojo isn’t a hero. He’s a consequence. A byproduct of everything the jujutsu society created and condemned. They made him a weapon. They crowned him king. And now they expect him to keep smiling while the whole kingdom burns.
He is the cage and the prisoner. The God and the Sacrifice.
And when he finally dies—if he dies—it won’t be in glory. It will be in silence.
(A myth swallowed by the machine that birthed him.)
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And Still. And Still. And Still—
And still, he smiles.
And still, he teaches.
And still, he hopes.
Because Gojo Satoru, for all his sorrow, believes. In people. In his students. In a world where things can be better.
And maybe that’s what hurts the most.
That the strongest man in the world is still just a boy who wanted to protect his friends. Who believed he could carry everything if it meant no one else had to suffer.
But no one can carry that much alone.
Not even Gojo.
Especially not Gojo Satoru.
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They’ll say he was the strongest.
They’ll say he was untouchable.
They’ll put his name in textbooks, his techniques in archives.
But no one will say:
He was tired.
He was lonely.
He was trying, God, he was trying.
That’s the real tragedy of Gojo Satoru.
Not that he died alone.
But that he lived that way, too.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
this one took a weird kind of toll on me.
not in a dramatic way, just… quietly exhausting, yk? like i sat down to write about gojo and somewhere in the middle i realized i wasn’t just writing about him.
i think the thing that gets me is—everyone calls him a god. The Strongest. The Honored One. The Chosen. Yet… the people closest to him still die. Still slip through his fingers like he wasn’t even holding them.
and i can’t help but wonder how many times gojo's thought, “am i really a god?” or worse—“if i’m not, then why would god make me like this?”
no mortal should ever be handed this kind of power and still be expected to carry that much grief.
to smile like it’s fine. to protect everyone except the ones that matter most.
it’s almost cruel, honestly.
like he’s not god’s favorite child—he’s god’s favorite toy.
anyway. that’s where my brain’s been lately.
not to be that person but yeah, school’s started and life’s been kind of heavy so maybe this meta feels a little different. more tired. a little sharper around the edges.
still, i’d really love to hear your thoughts. if it resonated or if you felt anything while reading it.
i write because i love these characters—because i want to understand them, not just worship them.
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so yeah. feel free to drop a comment or scream with me in the tags.
✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
Gojo Satoru has a playlist for every mood.
You think that means something. That it’s deliberate. That he sits down, carefully curates songs, matches them to the moments in his life with some kind of precision, like a film director setting up a perfect shot. You assume that when he walks into battle, he has something dramatic playing in his ears—classical, maybe, something weighty and orchestral, like he is the tragic hero of an opera no one else is privy to.
(maybe he is)
But Gojo Satoru has never been what people expect.
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You catch him once, sitting on the couch, eyes half-lidded, fingers tapping lazily against his knee. A rare moment of stillness. You pause, listening, assuming—just for a second—that maybe, just maybe, he’s indulging in something introspective. Some quiet, soulful melody, something that carries the weight of everything he refuses to say out loud.
Then the music filters through.
"Tell me why—"
You stare.
Gojo doesn’t even look up. Just nods along, entirely at peace, like the Backstreet Boys are revealing the secrets of the universe.
“You’re kidding.”
He finally opens one eye. “Disrespect one more time and see what happens.”
And the thing is—he means it.
He listens to early 2000s pop unironically. He has a dedicated anime opening playlist. He has hours of video essays queued up—ridiculous things, debates over the best artificial grape flavoring, five-hour breakdowns on why Scooby-Doo is an anti-capitalist masterpiece.
He watches them like they’re gospel.
And if you call him out on it? He just shrugs. “It’s nice to pretend dumb things matter.”
That sentence sits with you.
Because Gojo is a man who understands exactly how much things matter. He lives in a world where people die when he blinks. Where life is a sequence of battles and sacrifices and impossible expectations. He is too powerful, too untouchable, too aware of the fact that most things in life have already been decided for him.
So he listens to nonsense.
Because the alternative is unbearable.
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You don’t get it at first. You think it’s a joke, that he’s just being obnoxious for the sake of it. But then one day, the silence catches him off guard.
It’s late. The world is quiet in a way that feels unnatural, like even the city has taken a breath, waiting for something to happen. Gojo is sitting on the floor, legs stretched out, phone abandoned beside him. No music. No videos.
Nothing but quiet.
He doesn’t notice you at first. He’s staring straight ahead, not moving, like he’s listening to something. But there’s nothing to hear.
And suddenly, you remember something he said once.
"You ever notice how loud silence is?"
You thought he was joking. But he wasn’t.
Because Gojo doesn’t get silence. Not the way you do. Not the way normal people do. When everything is quiet, when there’s nothing to distract him, he hears everything else.
The past.
The future.
Every mistake.
Every loss.
All the things he couldn’t protect.
All the things he will lose, eventually, because that is how life works.
You clear your throat. “You okay?”
He blinks, just once, then looks at you like he’s surprised you’re there. Like he forgot about the present entirely. Then, with a grin that’s just a little too sharp, he reaches for his phone, presses play, and fills the silence the only way he knows how.
"Oh, I think that I found
myself a cheerleader—"
You almost laugh. Almost.
But you don’t say anything.
because now you understand.
Gojo Satoru doesn’t listen to music because he likes it. He listens to it because he needs it. Because the moment the noise stops, the real weight of his life settles in. And Gojo Satoru—who can bear anything, who can win any fight, who can carry the world on his shoulders without flinching—has no idea how to carry that.
So he fills his head with things that do not matter.
And if you ever see him alone on a rooftop at 3 AM, staring at the city like he’s trying to belong to it, do not ask him what he’s thinking. Do not ask him what he’s hearing.
Because he will just grin. He will push his sunglasses up his nose. And he will press play.
And somewhere, in the dark, Carly Rae Jepsen will start singing.
And Gojo Satoru will pretend that it’s enough.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers 🌸✨
Honestly, who doesn’t do this? We all have that one playlist, that one show we put on just for the background noise, that one stupidly long video essay about something irrelevant that we suddenly need to know everything about. It’s almost funny how universal it is—how so many of us keep the volume up just to avoid our own thoughts.
But then there’s Gojo. And the thing is, he’s just like us. And at the same time, he’s nothing like us.
Because we can let ourselves stop. We can sit in the quiet, let the weight settle, and maybe—maybe—find a way to live with it. But Gojo? Gojo doesn’t get that. He’s not allowed to stop, not really. So he buries himself in nonsense, clings to the stupid, the mundane, because it’s the only thing that isn’t heavy.
And honestly? That’s kind of pitiful. But also… kind of him. And somehow, weirdly enough, it makes me like him more.
anyways— I'll love to hear your thoughts on this one shot.
✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day ✨
They send you in after the damage is already done.
You’re not a hero. You’re what comes after.
The body bag. The Suture. The ghost that cleans up after gods.
You were trained to fix what can’t be fixed.
To close wounds that were never meant to be opened.
To make dying quieter.
And that’s when he noticed you.
Not because you were brave.
Not because you were powerful.
But because you never flinched.
Even when he stood over you, soaked in someone else’s blood, smiling like he was born to ruin.
You didn’t look away.
That’s what got under his skin.
That’s what kept him coming back.
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You didn’t speak to him with reverence. You spoke to him like someone who'd seen too much to be impressed anymore.
“Move,” you said once, knee-deep in what used to be someone’s liver. “Unless you’re going to help.”
He tilted his head like a dog hearing thunder.
“You’re awfully calm for someone standing in a massacre.”
“It’s Tuesday,” you said.
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You were the kind of person the world forgets until it needs you.
Invisible until someone starts bleeding.
And maybe that’s what made him stay.
You never looked at him like he was legend or apocalypse. You looked at him like he was inconvenient.
That kind of irreverence should have made him crush you.
Instead, he lingered.
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The first time he watched you lose someone, you didn’t cry.
You didn’t scream. You didn’t pray.
You just pressed your hand to the boy’s cooling chest and whispered, “I’m sorry.”
Not to the gods.
To him.
He saw the way your shoulders locked, the way you didn’t breathe for a full minute. Like maybe if you didn’t move, you wouldn’t feel it.
You didn’t notice him watching.
He didn’t speak.
But later, you found the curse responsible strung from a tree, head twisted the wrong way.
It had taken you three hours to get there. Sukuna must’ve gotten there in two.
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You weren’t kind to him. That’s not what this is.
You were honest.
He once asked, casually, why you didn’t run like the others.
“Because I’ve spent my whole life cleaning up after men who think violence is the only language worth speaking.”
“You think I’m just another man?” he said, voice sharp.
“No,” you replied. “I think you used to be.”
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And that haunted him.
Because he’d burned down whole cities just to forget that—
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The first time he touched you, you were bandaging his side. A jagged gash from something that didn’t know better.
You didn’t ask why he didn’t heal it himself.
He didn’t ask why your hands shook a little.
But when your knuckles brushed his ribs, he stilled.
Not because it hurt.
Because it didn’t.
And that scared him more.
You didn’t make him human.
You reminded him he still was.
That was worse.
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He started showing up more. Missions you weren’t supposed to survive. Places no one should be. You’d find him in the aftermath, leaning against rubble, watching you with that same expressionless violence in his gaze.
Sometimes he asked questions.
“Do you believe in saving people?”
“Not anymore.”
“Why still try?”
“Because someone has to.”
“You always do things that don’t work?”
“I stayed talking to you, didn’t I?”
He laughed. It sounded like breaking glass.
-----
It was never romantic.
But God, it was intimate.
The kind of intimacy that doesn’t look like love.
It looks like two people who can’t lie to each other anymore.
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You started dreaming about him.
Not in soft ways.
In recognition ways.
His voice in the dark. His blood on your hands.
Your name in his mouth like a secret he hates knowing.
It wasn’t love.
It was something older.
Like grief. Like guilt. Like home.
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One night, you asked him something you’d never dared to ask anyone.
“Do you think people like us get better?”
He didn’t answer for a long time.
“No,” he said eventually. “But sometimes we get understood.”
You nodded.
You didn’t speak again for hours.
He didn’t leave.
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You told yourself it wasn’t connection. Just mutual ruin. Two broken things orbiting the same grave.
But then you got hurt. Badly.
And he lost his mind.
Not loudly. Not with roars.
Just with silence.
The kind that feels like a closing door—
When you woke up in a makeshift shelter, your wounds stitched with unnatural precision, he was already gone.
But outside the door, you saw what he left:
A trail of bodies. Eyes gouged. Faces melted. Blood spelling out a name.
Yours.
-----
You didn’t thank him.
You never did.
But the next time he appeared beside you, you didn’t ask why.
You just said, “You’re late.”
And he replied, “You’re alive.”
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You don’t belong together. You know this. You knew it from the start.
He is the myth that devours the world.
And you? You’re the woman who keeps trying to tape it back together.
But sometimes he sits close enough for your knees to touch, and doesn’t flinch.
Sometimes you reach for the same gauze at the same time, and your fingers linger.
Sometimes, you both exist in the same silence.
And it feels like the closest either of you has ever come to peace.
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He once told you that your eyes made him feel guilty.
You said, “Good.”
-----
You never tell him you love him.
But once, while half-conscious, he whispered:
“You’re the only thing I’ve ever seen that wasn’t ugly.”
You never bring it up again.
But you remember.
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You won’t survive this.
He might.
But not you.
And he knows it.
And that’s the tragedy.
Because for the first time in his life, he doesn’t want to win.
He wants to keep.
And the world doesn’t let men like him keep people like you.
---
But for now—
You sit in the rubble.
He watches you patch another dying sorcerer together with trembling hands and exhausted breath.
And he thinks:
Your violence reminded me of home.
But your silence reminded me of being known.
And he hates you for it.
And he keeps coming back anyway.
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The Brightest Lie :
Everyone said Gojo Satoru was the strongest.
They said it like a blessing, like a curse, like a song.
Satoru knew the words by heart. Had known them before he even knew himself.
He thought — if he had a grave someday — they would carve that phrase into the stone before they ever remembered his name.
The Strongest.
The Brightest.
The Untouchable.
(And if he shattered under it — well, that wasn’t anyone's business.)
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It was winter when he met her.
Snow clung to the stone sidewalks like stubborn ghosts.
He had slipped out of the school that night with nothing but his jacket and a vague, gnawing ache he couldn’t name.
Tokyo was a graveyard at midnight.
Only vending machines and stray cats witnessed him.
He found her by accident — in the empty park near the bridge.
She was sitting on a bench with a cane resting against her knee, her head tilted up like she was listening for something beyond human ears.
For a moment, he thought she was a ghost.
Tokyo was full of them, after all.
But then she smiled — small, real — and he realized she was just... living.
“Cold night,” she said, voice soft.
He blinked behind his glasses. “Yeah.”
She didn’t flinch at his voice. Didn’t bow, didn’t whisper, didn’t freeze.
Just turned her face toward him with a polite kind of curiosity.
“You lost?” she asked.
Satoru laughed under his breath.
Lost.
If only it was that simple.
“Nah. Just walking,” he said, slipping his hands into his pockets.
She hummed, brushing snow off the bench beside her.
An invitation.
For reasons he couldn’t explain — not even to himself — he sat down.
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Minutes passed.
The snow kept falling in slow, weightless drifts.
He kept waiting for her to ask.
For the inevitable flicker of realization.
For the fear, the reverence, the edge.
It didn’t come.
Instead, she asked, “You have a name?”
He hesitated. Then said, “Satoru.”
She nodded like it meant nothing and everything.
“Nice to meet you, Satoru. I’m Aki.”
(He realized, distantly, she was blind.)
The idea bloomed in his chest like a strange, painful flower:
She doesn’t know.
She didn’t see the white hair that marked him like a warning.
She didn’t see the height, the swagger, the way space bent politely away from him.
She didn’t see the "Strongest Sorcerer" at all.
Just a man with cold hands and tired shoulders.
-----
"You always walk alone?" she asked after a while.
"Yeah," he said, shrugging. "Better that way."
She tilted her head, thoughtful.
"You sound lonely."
He almost laughed.
Almost told her about centuries of history tying themselves into nooses around his throat.
Almost told her about dying friends and dying enemies and the way his students looked at him sometimes — like he was a god and a monster and a brother and a curse, all in the same breath.
Instead, he said, "Maybe."
Aki smiled a little. "Lonely isn’t always bad. Means you’re still waiting for someone."
"Maybe," he said again, softer.
---
They sat like that until the streetlights buzzed and flickered.
Until the sky turned a bruised, electric purple.
Until Satoru forgot for one brief, staggering moment that he was supposed to be anything other than human.
When he finally stood to leave, she smiled up at him — clear and unburdened.
"Thanks for keeping me company, Satoru," she said.
He wanted to say something back.
Something stupid and raw and real,
like no one’s thanked me in years or stay blind a little longer, please.
Instead, he just shoved his hands deeper into his pockets and said, "Yeah. You too."
Then he walked away, leaving only footprints behind him.
-----
Later, standing at the top of the bridge, he looked back once.
She was still sitting there — small and bright and terribly, terribly human.
And Gojo Satoru — The Strongest — felt something splinter in his chest.
Something old.
Something breakable.
He pressed a hand against his heart like he could hold it still.
Like he could hold himself still.
You’re not meant to want things, a cruel voice inside him said.
You’re not meant to need.
But under the falling snow, for just a moment, he let himself wonder:
If someone could love him — not the title, not the strength, not the salvation he was supposed to be —
just him—
would he even recognize it?
Would he be able to stay?
Or would he run, the way he'd always run — bright and blinding and lonely —
until even the stars forgot how to find him?
-----
The city swallowed him up.
The night closed behind him like a door.
And Gojo Satoru — myth, weapon, miracle —
kept walking.
Kept pretending.
Kept being the brightest lie the world had ever told.
-----
Sukuna does not remember the faces of the men he has killed.
They blur together, indistinct, insignificant. A thousand screams, a thousand lives, all reduced to echoes lost in time.
He does not remember the first time he tasted blood.
Only that it was warm. Only that it tasted like power.
He does not remember the last time he spoke without cruelty.
Perhaps he never did.
Perhaps he was born sharp-edged, made only to take, to destroy, to rule.
And yet—
Sometimes, something shifts.
Something rises unbidden, uncalled for, unwanted.
A scent, a sound, a fleeting phrase spoken without thought.
And suddenly, he is somewhere else.
Suddenly, he is something else.
Something before.
-----
It happens on an evening like any other.
The fire is low. The air is thick with the scent of whatever you’re cooking, something simple, something forgettable. He is not paying attention. He does not need to.
Until you hum.
A tune, quiet, absentminded. A fragment of something old, something small.
And the world lurches.
Because he knows it.
Not the song itself, but the shape of it, the feeling of it. The way it pulls at something he does not remember storing away.
The air changes.
Sukuna does not move. He does not react. But his fingers twitch, curling just slightly where they rest.
It is nothing.
It is nothing.
Except—
His mind betrays him.
A flicker. A glimpse. A place he does not recognize, a life that is not his.
Or perhaps it was.
Once.
Long ago.
Before he became a god. Before he became a curse. Before his name was spoken in fear and reverence and hatred alike.
He does not remember.
And yet his body does.
The way his shoulders tense, the way his breath slows. The way he knows that if he reached out now—if he closed his eyes, if he listened just a little longer—
Something would come back.
And he is not sure he wants that.
-----
"Why did you stop?"
Your voice snaps him back.
He blinks, sharp and immediate, as if tearing himself free from something he does not want to acknowledge.
"You were humming," he says, and his voice is too even. Too careful.
You tilt your head. "Did it bother you?"
He scoffs, the sound rough. "Hardly."
A lie.
Because he does not forget things.
Not like this.
Not in ways that matter.
And yet, when he closes his eyes that night, long after the fire has burned down and silence has settled over the room,
The tune lingers.
It settles into the quiet spaces of his mind, the places he does not look too closely at.
And for the first time in centuries,
Sukuna remembers something he never meant to.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
Sukuna having an internal crisis? Maybe. Or maybe I’m just delulu. Who’s to say?
But honestly, music is one of the most human things there is. It lingers. It carries. A song from centuries ago can still be sung today, and I feel like that’s the kind of thing that would get to him. Maybe not in a way he’d ever admit, but in that quiet, unwanted way where he finds himself listening when he doesn’t mean to.
And that line—what is immortality if not a curse? To be left behind when the other part of you is gone?—I swear I’ve read it somewhere before. It sounds like something that should be carved into a tombstone or whispered by some tragic figure who’s lived too long. (If you remember where it’s from, tell me because my brain is blanking.)
But yeah, completely agree with that sentiment. Who the hell wants to live forever? Tom Riddle was as stupid as he was good-looking.
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Anyway, let me know what you think! I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one. Feel free to comment or send ideas—you know I love them.
✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
17 | Writer | Artist | Overthinker I write things, cry about fictional characters, and pretend it’s normal. 🎀Come for the headcanons, stay for the existential crises🎀
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