#and the Gojo (who have the most powerful techniques) can’t keep their issues gracefully silent

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All the clans are clearly mentally ill, that’s the trade off to being hereditary aristocracy clinging to antiquated power, you get the brain demons. The cursed techniques come with curses. But whereas the Kamo keep their embarrassments locked down tight (curse wombs secured, possessed old patriarchs symbolically folded back into the family tree, illegitimate children assimilated) and the Zen’in have the sort of of simmering rot-in-the-walls, sprawling gothic horror disease that only rears its head once every few generations, I think the Gojo have been having public breakdowns since the Meiji era. It would go a long way to explaining why everyone reacts the way they do to Satoru, and why his family is so invisible in the narrative. Oh, a Gojo having manic episodes, saying unsettling things, making vague grandiose threats, and exhibiting eccentric behavior? A likely thing for him to do.

#jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #it’s a shame the godhead rests in a family tree prone to completely losing it! #nobody think too hard about why what might be the case #listen to me listen to me #that is a man who has multiple family members on benzodiazapines #rich and very very unwell like a family of 1920s railroad tycoons #which in turn makes them a little underrepresented in leadership #even if they still get their credit as one of the leading clans on historical merit and raw power #the expectation in jujutsu society is that you’ll handle your literal hereditary curses quietly #and the Gojo (who have the most powerful techniques) can’t keep their issues gracefully silent #it’s about the literal and figurative curses #it’s about failure to conform and social embarrassment and ths advantages of being an easily dismissed eccentric #even if you’re the strongest you’re still a flighty little oddball whose threats no one really takes seriously #it just makes sense! #Give Gojo Satoru’s Mom Canonical Xanax 2k24