Mimiko and Nanako spying on Master Geto's late night visitor.
I 100% subscribe to the theory that Satoru visited Suguru during those 10 years
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i can’t recall when exactly i’d seen it, but there was this argument that some have said about mimiko and nanako: that they agreed with geto’s end-goal and wholeheartedly supported it.
but i’ve always been under the impression that they followed him because he was their savior, not necessarily because they wanted to enact revenge on non-sorcerers (though they would’ve had valid reason to dislike them). i saw their hatred towards non-sorcerers as something they learned from geto (or at least, it was exacerbated by geto), as well as their capacity to kill with no remorse.
but then i also remembered these panels.
“master geto’s story has come to an end.”
you would think that out of all of them, mimiko and nanako would be hellbent on continuing his legacy, to finish what he couldn’t. yes, perhaps the body should be laid to rest—but you would think that they’d share that same passion, a hatred that “runs in the family.”
if anything, though, these panels tell me that geto was and had always been the most important thing to them. following his ideals was just a means to closer proximity to him. they loved him—if one day he decided to stop in his tracks and end his campaign to annihilate, they would’ve followed along, too. happily, no questions asked. because they loved him, not his ideals. because they loved him, not the idea of revenge. they needed him to show them, to learn. “a moral compass.”
they were children who wanted more than anything to be seen by their father.
of course, we’ll have to fill in the blanks a little. humor me: i’m sure that as the closest people to him in their found-family, mimiko and nanako had first-hand accounts of his headspace, or at least they’d see the cracks in his facade during the times he’d accidentally let his guard down, from fatigue or overthink. witnessing his weakness, his time of vulnerability, must’ve made them feel as if they were somewhat responsible for his mental state. i know children can get like that sometimes.
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in honour of geto's birthday, i want to talk about the fandom discourse that paints him as a mother. he definitely has a degree in motherology (with a minor in babygirlism), but i also think it’s possible that gege is genuinely using his character to say something interesting about motherhood and maternity.
this post is inspired largely in part by @virgobingo's thoughtful meta on geto and monstrous femininity, which you can find here. i want to extrapolate from the trope of monstrous femininity and extend it to monstrous motherhood. (which @virgobingo also touches on; you should really check out their meta— it's awesome!)
geto's character is immediately established in a protector capacity, which is intensely reminiscent of the tropes that mothers embody in media. his whole thing is that the strong must protect the weak; it's his core belief. his character is premised around this belief, much like the way mothers' constitutions in media are premised on the principle that they'll go to any length for their children.
we're repeatedly shown his caring side during hidden inventory— he cares for riko, he expresses concern for gojo, he even asks about kuroi after he finds out toji supposedly murdered his best friend. it's made very clear that he's an outwardly caring person with a strong sense of duty. in this way, he parallels the textual role of mothers, whose function is to care and provide above all else. the repeated emphasis on his caring nature is what directly likens him to maternity, whose characteristic trait is tender love and care.
he also houses curses in his body. he unleashes them from inside of him, almost like children leaving the womb. these curses obey him and operate according to his will in a very parent/child dynamic. they are powerful, but they can only do what he tells them to do. he uses them to fulfil his duty according to his core belief: to protect the weak.
when he defects, his ideology fundamentally does not change— it just inverts. instead of the strong protecting the weak (the weak necessitating their strength because they can't protect themselves), now the strong must be protected from the weak (because the weak leech the strength from the strong, therefore rendering them weak).
nothing really changes; he still cares —fiercely— it's just in the opposite direction. he takes the tropes associated with motherhood and inverts them— he'll do anything to protect those under his care, including killing, because he wholeheartedly believes in fulfilling his duty as a protector (like a mother). his unwavering conviction and willingness to die for his beliefs (which are directly about those he's protecting) is the most flagrantly maternal thing about him.
toji's worm calls him "mommy" and it's not wrong. he takes in daughters and becomes the central figure of his "family"; his emphasis on family throughout the story (even as a youth) also speaks to his maternity, as mothers are often written as the binding emotional centres of familial structures.
after he dies, his body is taken over by someone who is Iiterally a mother. he embodies monstrous motherhood during life and after death, leading us to the question of what gege is trying to say about all of this. is caring too much a bad thing? does caring in one way open the door to caring in another? what happens when a mother's love, supposedly strong enough to lift fallen trees off their children, goes in the “wrong” direction?
there's also the fact that geto is male. i think gege is also asking us to reckon with how the tropes of maternity have been confined to women, showing us that these intense convictions and the depth of care attributed to mothers can apply to anyone, even (especially) if they are distinctly masculine. in doing this, he's also expanding the conceptual definition of motherhood, suggesting that mothers can exist beyond their provident care and one-dimensional duty to their beloveds.
geto's monstrous motherhood is an explosive reclamation of agency in a trope where women have been historically limited by the categorical imposition of maternity. it seeks to disrupt not only who we consider to be mothers but also what we consider a mother to be. perhaps the monster is not the maternal figure whose love turns vicious or violent, but us, who monstrously imprisoned them in the fixed role of "mother".
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yes the "my best friend, my one and only" and "at least curse me a little in the end" lines are sad but the way stsg's relationship is told thru miminana's eyes and also reflecting how much they loved geto is genuinely heartbreaking
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Just a fanfic idea, but…
Holw's Moving Castle AU! Satosugu
And that. That's the post.
Think with me:
Single father Suguru Geto is cursed by the Wizard Kenjaku (I'm still on the fence about the curse) and so has to go after the handsome (annoying) heartbreaker Satoru Gojo who, get this, is a magic teacher to two beautiful children (Yuji and Nobara) and has a flare of bad temper that he considers his main treasure (Megs).
How the story unfolds is up to you. I just really like Howl's Moving Castle.
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