#fanon consensus seems to be that he's in his late 20s at the youngest and that's way past marrying age during this time period

[peridot-tears]

I got it in my head that Jin has always wanted to be a dad, but once the war starts and he starts becoming the Ghost, that road seems to shut on him. Who wants to live as the wife of a marked man, and what could he pass to the heir of a disbanded bloodline?

But I can't see him being single for the rest of his life, and I don't just mean casual sleeping around. He would be one of those people who somehow get locked down, and once he's quietly married he'll sit there wondering, "When did this happen?"

I do see him as bisexual, especially given that samurai were allowed to have relationships with other men (it's a specific age gap type of relationship, but from what I've read, that doesn't mean the door was shut on adult samurai having relationships with each other either), but when it came to actual marriage, it was expected that they end up with women because of how people expected gender roles to work when it came to starting a family.

So...I think one of two things could happen:

He has a child with Yuna. I absolutely do not ship this by a million miles (no hate to the ship, I just very strictly see them as bros), but she's the only woman he can get close to without dragging her into danger by association with him. It's very much a case of "my best friend and I made a pact that if we're still single by forty, we'd get married."

Or he finds a woman who willingly throws herself into a life on the run, or already is, and they become inextricably involved with each other. It could even be Tomoe. He sneaks onto the mainland on a mission, to the capital of Japan itself...and, well...

I have a lot of complicated feelings about this, given that Jin was most likely raised being taught that blood is everything. But the way he was raised, his relationship with his elders, and eventually the found family he ends up with at the end of the game tell a completely different story.

#there are also so many things that factor in #fanon consensus seems to be that he's in his late 20s at the youngest and that's way past marrying age during this time period #so why didn't he court anyone before the invasion? #there are so many dynamics that we don't probe in the storytelling #he's closer to his uncle than to his own father #and yuri is like a second mother to him #you know that when he was growing up he was taught that blood is everything if filial piety during kamakura was still a strong value #but after the events of the war i don't think he holds that view anymore #he still regards shimura as his father even without adoption papers #his found family are yuna kenji and co #so if he really wanted a child he could adopt right? #blood shouldn't matter to him anymore right? #but for some reason i can't let go of the idea that he still wants that and that eventually he does obtain it #ghost of tsushima #gots #ghost of tsushima spoilers #spoilers #sakai jin #jin sakai #tomoe #gots tomoe #yuna #gots yuna #tears falling like peridots