I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why itadori thinks he has to die for megumi.
but if you need someone to clue you in, both of them are very convinced the other one couldn't possibly want to date them, a totally normal thing for boys who are only interested in being friends to be fixated on.
Is it at all possible that they are both, in fact, not the brightest crayons in the box? Megumi is generally so much more perceptive than that. Itadori ... I genuinely love that boy but sometimes I think he's the densest human being on the planet.
thank god I was starting to wonder how many times you dropped my kid on his head after you got custody.
I asked if being sukuna's vessel caused brain damage but beginning to think it's a pre-existing condition.
anyway you better not be hiding anything from me about itadori thinking he has to die for megumi. do you actually not know what's going on there or are you avoiding the question because you hate me?
You can't just go around asking if things cause brain damage, my god. But Itadori means well, in everything he does, even if he sometimes doesn't go about things in the smartest way.
I'm not hiding anything from you, you have my word on that. And I don't hate you, either. For ... reasons beyond my comprehension.
But unless it has something to do with the way time works here as opposed to back home and I am missing something, I would assume it has something to do with his wanting to protect Megumi from Sukuna.
huh, no kidding? now I'm gonna have to stop fucking with you, shame.
[ he was so sure. now he's out of a hobby, damn. ]
think maybe the kid is just too uh
[ he's trying to be nice now, because gojo doesn't hate him. he's trying so hard. ]
simple to accept that you can just beat the snot out of sukuna if it comes down to it?
oh shit wait does this have to do with you being dead? fuck I forgot in the middle of everything else. did you die? megumi told me he's clan head of the zenin now. that was only supposed to happen if you died or became otherwise incapacitated or whatever.
No kidding. Looks like you're going to have to find a new hobby.
( a for effort on the front of being nice. we're proud of you, toji. )
The problem with beating the snot out of Sukuna is that he is possessing Itadori. He has no physical form to manifest on his own. ... Though his original one was pretty terrifying, I have to admit. But that would also mean beating the snot out of Itadori, and there is no way I'm letting that happen. Unless I have no other choice.
( even then, he's going to be big mad about it.
but. hold up wait a minute what. )
I'm not dead, last time I checked. But now Itadori being all sniffly when he first saw me here makes more sense. I have no idea what I did.
my deal with the geezer was megumi gets to inherit the clan ahead of that little shit naoya if you died or got incapacitated at any point after he died. wrote it up and stuck it in the will, iron-clad.
either something serious happened to you or naobito located whatever hole he shoved his basic human decency in and even knowing you I'm more willing to bet on the first thing.
look, I don't care about the details of whatever you've got cooked up in your crazy little head about sukuna and his vessel, if you're attached to the host then good for him. I trust you to get it sorted.
[ he's trying to say he has every confidence that gojo will take care of sukuna while protecting megumi and probably even save itadori somehow while he's at it so he's not fussed about the details, but that's how it's coming out. still trying. trying so hard. ]
but if you're fucking dead then we all got big fucking problems.
( forgive the delay in his next response, he's mulling all of this over and over and over and over in his head, because now he's kind of itching to ask both megumi and yuuji what they aren't telling him but at the same time.
it's their right to keep things to themselves if they choose to.
make no mistake, though. he will protect those boys with everything in him. not because, as their teacher he is essentially responsible for them, but because he genuinely loves them. as long as he's around, nothing bad is going to happen.
so he thinks. )
This just means that I have a lot of questions I'm not going to get any answers to, even if I ask. I'm getting the feeling they aren't telling me something on purpose. And it's their right, really. It isn't mine to pry. But I think things are a lot more dire for them than they were for me before I woke up here.
[ if text could convey how dry toji's tone is right now, satoru's device would be turning to dust in his hands. ]
I know you don't need me to fucking tell you that even you being 'incapacitated' is a pretty significant problem for all the idiots counting on you to wipe their own asses. which, last I checked, was clocking in at about 90% of the people who know you.
( why does his device suddenly feel like it's full of grains of sand? what an interesting phenomenon. )
No, I don't. But lingering on the thought of it isn't going to do me any good if I don't actually know what happened, and if the kids aren't saying anything, that means bottom line ... That we're in trouble. And it's not as if I can do anything about it while I'm here.
buddy, you got blind spots a mile wide. you're just also a cocky asshole so you're sure they're not there because you can't see 'em and you can see everything and whatever.
[ anyway. ]
you should be thinking because you care about them. otherwise when it comes down to it, you just might freeze and lose them both.
us mere mortals have to think about this sort of thing all the time.
( well. we suppose that's close enough for him. we'll take it. )
I don't mind you talking to me. So much.
( this is weird. but we're going along with it. )
Is now when I ask when you got so bold about using given names, Toji?
( somehow that feels more natural than 'fushiguro', but maybe it has something to do with the fact that yuji hasn't called megumi anything but since they met. )
I'm taking care of them for both of us. Just so you know. And I think they're so close neither of them knows how close. But I'm sure they'll figure it out for themselves one of these days.
[ it still doesn't sit right, not being hated. to be given any consideration at all. he'd been worried, there at the end. that megumi would have a hard time from everyone to spite his father's memory. not worried enough to live any other way, not really able to change everything about who he was and how he lived, but. worried.
and here gojo is, not hating him. not clarifying that he's taking care of toji's son out of gojo's own attachment by now, but simply reminding that it's an undertaking gojo maintains for them both.
toji was so sure gojo would spite him for his phrasing.
he doesn't understand this man. ]
I really have no fucking clue why you don't hate me, but. thanks. I guess.
anyway, I can call you 'six eyes' again if you like that better.
I'd encourage helping them figure it out before they learn it the hard way.
( if it makes you feel better, toji, there had been a time when he wanted to hate you. for everything you'd done in your past, for putting your son up for sale like the only thing he's good for to you was to make a profit — but he's had time to let things sit, let them simmer and then boil down to essentially nothing.
he's had a lot of time to think, as it were.
and if it makes you feel even better, there is a whole host of people that don't understand him. he prefers it that way, most of the time. let him stay some manner of annoying-ass enigma that nobody gets, let alone wants to. )
That makes two of us. Humans are really odd things, if you think about it. But I figure if someone can hate for no real reason, they can do the opposite just as easily.
Call me whatever you want, within reason. Just don't call me late for dinner.
( yeah, yeah, he fucking went there. who'd have ever thought he would be sitting here making a dad joke in fushiguro toji's general direction? not him. )
You know they don't even call each other by anything other than their family names? They would die for each other, and they both know it. And they're still at that stage. Sometimes I worry about our future, if these children are going to be a part of it.
they're just fucking idiots, no one's perfect or good at everything, etc. reverse heavenly restriction of zero brain.
[ toji also thinks he's funny. but he's pondering the issue, because he likes a good puzzle. problems to pick at are like a meat stuffed pumpkin in his enclosure. ]
I could probably fix half the issue. I'm 'fushiguro' too, so. could just start loitering and wedging myself between them whenever I hear the name. bet that'd get them to drop it quick.
'itadori' though...
[ toji mulls on it, and he mulls on it, and— ]
stop me if I'm wrong but your students are definitely used to you acting like a goddamned clown, right?
( he likes to think his children aren't complete idiots ... but ... together they seem to be, don't they? okay, okay, he's going to hear you out on what you have to say --
he reads the last bit of that message more times than he should, probably, because there is no lie there and it makes him laugh for the realization, even if he knows well that he plays himself off as someone not to be taken seriously.
toji would, perhaps, know this by now, wouldn't he? hm. )
They're used to a lot of things, but that one in particular ... maybe.
just start answering to 'itadori'. what are they gonna do about it? bet you could be like "oh no I'm sooo old my old man hearing is going I SWORE you said gojo-sensei" and they'd have no choice but to deal because I'm sure it's not the dumbest shit you've pulled.
[ have we mentioned this is what it sounds like when toji likes you okay. ]
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Date: 2023-01-26 11:07 pm (UTC)but if you need someone to clue you in, both of them are very convinced the other one couldn't possibly want to date them, a totally normal thing for boys who are only interested in being friends to be fixated on.
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Date: 2023-01-27 12:02 am (UTC)Is it at all possible that they are both, in fact, not the brightest crayons in the box?
Megumi is generally so much more perceptive than that.
Itadori ...
I genuinely love that boy but sometimes I think he's the densest human being on the planet.
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Date: 2023-01-27 12:45 am (UTC)I asked if being sukuna's vessel caused brain damage but beginning to think it's a pre-existing condition.
anyway you better not be hiding anything from me about itadori thinking he has to die for megumi. do you actually not know what's going on there or are you avoiding the question because you hate me?
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Date: 2023-01-27 06:19 pm (UTC)You can't just go around asking if things cause brain damage, my god.
But Itadori means well, in everything he does, even if he sometimes doesn't go about things in the smartest way.
I'm not hiding anything from you, you have my word on that.
And I don't hate you, either.
For ... reasons beyond my comprehension.
But unless it has something to do with the way time works here as opposed to back home and I am missing something, I would assume it has something to do with his wanting to protect Megumi from Sukuna.
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Date: 2023-01-27 06:34 pm (UTC)[ he was so sure. now he's out of a hobby, damn. ]
think maybe the kid is just too uh
[ he's trying to be nice now, because gojo doesn't hate him. he's trying so hard. ]
simple to accept that you can just beat the snot out of sukuna if it comes down to it?
oh shit wait does this have to do with you being dead? fuck I forgot in the middle of everything else. did you die? megumi told me he's clan head of the zenin now. that was only supposed to happen if you died or became otherwise incapacitated or whatever.
the fuck did you do satoru
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Date: 2023-01-27 08:19 pm (UTC)No kidding.
Looks like you're going to have to find a new hobby.
( a for effort on the front of being nice. we're proud of you, toji. )
The problem with beating the snot out of Sukuna is that he is possessing Itadori.
He has no physical form to manifest on his own.
... Though his original one was pretty terrifying, I have to admit.
But that would also mean beating the snot out of Itadori, and there is no way I'm letting that happen.
Unless I have no other choice.
( even then, he's going to be big mad about it.
but. hold up wait a minute what. )
I'm not dead, last time I checked.
But now Itadori being all sniffly when he first saw me here makes more sense.
I have no idea what I did.
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Date: 2023-01-27 08:34 pm (UTC)either something serious happened to you or naobito located whatever hole he shoved his basic human decency in and even knowing you I'm more willing to bet on the first thing.
look, I don't care about the details of whatever you've got cooked up in your crazy little head about sukuna and his vessel, if you're attached to the host then good for him. I trust you to get it sorted.
[ he's trying to say he has every confidence that gojo will take care of sukuna while protecting megumi and probably even save itadori somehow while he's at it so he's not fussed about the details, but that's how it's coming out. still trying. trying so hard. ]
but if you're fucking dead then we all got big fucking problems.
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Date: 2023-01-28 04:41 pm (UTC)it's their right to keep things to themselves if they choose to.
make no mistake, though. he will protect those boys with everything in him. not because, as their teacher he is essentially responsible for them, but because he genuinely loves them. as long as he's around, nothing bad is going to happen.
so he thinks. )
This just means that I have a lot of questions I'm not going to get any answers to, even if I ask.
I'm getting the feeling they aren't telling me something on purpose.
And it's their right, really.
It isn't mine to pry.
But I think things are a lot more dire for them than they were for me before I woke up here.
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Date: 2023-01-28 04:48 pm (UTC)[ he's an expert in this, after all. ]
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Date: 2023-01-28 06:11 pm (UTC)I think something happened that they aren't telling me.
And maybe I'm ... incapacitated.
( trying to remain objective? perhaps.
which is kind of terrifying, but.
look bro it's your own gay that gets you sealed, and you don't know it. )
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Date: 2023-01-31 01:48 am (UTC)I know you don't need me to fucking tell you that even you being 'incapacitated' is a pretty significant problem for all the idiots counting on you to wipe their own asses. which, last I checked, was clocking in at about 90% of the people who know you.
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Date: 2023-01-31 03:59 pm (UTC)No, I don't.
But lingering on the thought of it isn't going to do me any good if I don't actually know what happened, and if the kids aren't saying anything, that means bottom line ...
That we're in trouble.
And it's not as if I can do anything about it while I'm here.
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Date: 2023-01-31 09:37 pm (UTC)if it came down to one or the other though.
which one do you pick?
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Date: 2023-02-03 12:35 am (UTC)( a-hyuck. )
Maybe I am being optimistic.
But I care about them both too much to think about it.
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Date: 2023-02-06 09:07 pm (UTC)[ anyway. ]
you should be thinking because you care about them. otherwise when it comes down to it, you just might freeze and lose them both.
us mere mortals have to think about this sort of thing all the time.
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Date: 2023-02-09 04:00 pm (UTC)I'm just as mortal as you are.
Just better at faking it.
( that's not funny. you are not funny. )
You have a point ...
Much as I'm sure you'll remind me every chance you get after this.
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Date: 2023-02-10 07:45 pm (UTC)Don't worry, I'll try not to make a habit out of talking to you. Just...
You can't turn back now, Satoru. You wanted this. You let it happen. You're the strongest. Survived us all.
You don't get the luxury of faltering anymore.
Take care of him for me. Both of them. Hypotheticals aside...
Sometimes there's no choice at all. I know you know. I think they're close, or already there. Where saving one is the same damn thing as saving none.
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Date: 2023-02-13 10:59 pm (UTC)I don't mind you talking to me.
So much.
( this is weird. but we're going along with it. )
Is now when I ask when you got so bold about using given names, Toji?
( somehow that feels more natural than 'fushiguro', but maybe it has something to do with the fact that yuji hasn't called megumi anything but since they met. )
I'm taking care of them for both of us.
Just so you know.
And I think they're so close neither of them knows how close.
But I'm sure they'll figure it out for themselves one of these days.
Maybe.
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Date: 2023-02-14 12:32 am (UTC)and here gojo is, not hating him. not clarifying that he's taking care of toji's son out of gojo's own attachment by now, but simply reminding that it's an undertaking gojo maintains for them both.
toji was so sure gojo would spite him for his phrasing.
he doesn't understand this man. ]
I really have no fucking clue why you don't hate me, but. thanks. I guess.
anyway, I can call you 'six eyes' again if you like that better.
I'd encourage helping them figure it out before they learn it the hard way.
[ like when one of them dies. ]
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Date: 2023-02-16 07:02 pm (UTC)he's had a lot of time to think, as it were.
and if it makes you feel even better, there is a whole host of people that don't understand him. he prefers it that way, most of the time. let him stay some manner of annoying-ass enigma that nobody gets, let alone wants to. )
That makes two of us.
Humans are really odd things, if you think about it.
But I figure if someone can hate for no real reason, they can do the opposite just as easily.
Call me whatever you want, within reason.
Just don't call me late for dinner.
( yeah, yeah, he fucking went there. who'd have ever thought he would be sitting here making a dad joke in fushiguro toji's general direction? not him. )
You know they don't even call each other by anything other than their family names?
They would die for each other, and they both know it.
And they're still at that stage.
Sometimes I worry about our future, if these children are going to be a part of it.
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Date: 2023-02-16 09:50 pm (UTC)[ toji also thinks he's funny. but he's pondering the issue, because he likes a good puzzle. problems to pick at are like a meat stuffed pumpkin in his enclosure. ]
I could probably fix half the issue. I'm 'fushiguro' too, so. could just start loitering and wedging myself between them whenever I hear the name. bet that'd get them to drop it quick.
'itadori' though...
[ toji mulls on it, and he mulls on it, and— ]
stop me if I'm wrong but your students are definitely used to you acting like a goddamned clown, right?
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Date: 2023-02-21 02:39 am (UTC)he reads the last bit of that message more times than he should, probably, because there is no lie there and it makes him laugh for the realization, even if he knows well that he plays himself off as someone not to be taken seriously.
toji would, perhaps, know this by now, wouldn't he? hm. )
They're used to a lot of things, but that one in particular ... maybe.
( pause for dramatic effect! )
What are you suggesting?
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Date: 2023-02-24 01:00 am (UTC)[ have we mentioned this is what it sounds like when toji likes you okay. ]
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