You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your favourite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people! No skipping!
this comes from my big driving playlist which is a light and breezy 386 tracks long
1. anjali - 4th curtis
2. is love forever? - spoon
3. heaven’s only wishful - mormor
4. easy on your own? - alvvays
5. here it goes again - ok go
6. archie, marry me - alvvays
7. better go - mal blum
8. sports - beach bunny
9. body was made - ezra furman
10. drunk voicemail - pom pom squad
ty casey!!! i will be tagging ummmm @queen-eevee @leonstamatis @thehallstara
If you have the time, I would like to hear your thoughts on the parallels between itadori and suguru pretty pls😌🎤
omg i would love to. it’s honestly one of my fav parallels in jjk. i think it sometimes gets overlooked bc itadori is more jovial/fun/light color schemed like gojo and fushiguro is more serious/dark color schemed like getou BUT. just listen!!
to begin this parallel, we can start with the most obvious one in my mind. and that’s the fact that itadori and getou both ingest curses. they quite literally eat them. they’ve both talked about their taste—how gross they are. getou remarks that no one knows the taste of a curse. but now itadori does.
my next parallel between them is more in terms of their story arc. both of them have very strong morals; morals which their counterparts (gojo and fushigro) sort of scoff at in the beginning. itadori and getou both believe that people need to be protected. and those who are stronger, should work to protect them. NOW….getou’s do change. but let’s look at the moment that forever changes him; it’s strikingly similar to a moment itadori has, too.
the moment riko dies for getou is incredibly similar to how junpei dies for itadori; in the sense that, here was this person they had worked to protect and save, here was this friend who they wanted in their life, and all their ideals they had placed in them, being torn very gruesomely away. this is also a pivotal moment for every wide-eyed sorcerer. they must deal with death. and the death of those closest to them.
morally, this is where their paths diverge. but we certainly see itadori begin to spiral the way getou also had to spiral when faced with the constant death and loss of other sorcerers. specifically i’ll show these next two panels to depict that;
same position. same idea is being conveyed for both. lost, traumatized, uncertain of the morals they once held; where did it get them? where did it get others? for both, many ended up dead.
now the other parallels i’ll draw…one of which is almost an exact replica of the other, is the way in which their bodies are not fully their own anymore. kenjaku inhabits getou completely and uses his body to do things he would not have done. similarly, sukuna does the same to itadori. and there are moments where getou and itadori have tried to fight back against the one controlling them;
that parallel is the one that really did it for me. oh it’s so poetic in the most wretched way. i love it.
beyond that, both itadori and getou are not from prominent families in the sorcerer world. there is little expectation placed upon them in this regard. also, they both get entangled in the politics of the higher ups and both are ordered to be hunted and executed at a point in their story.
now i could also bring in gojo and fushiguro, too, which would also highlight the parallels between them. both are from prominent sorcerer families and have a lot of expectations placed upon an extremely powerful inherited cursed technique. both grew up in the sorcerer world. getou and itadori juxtapose them in which they have to learn how brutal this world is. in fact, they serve to remind gojo and fushiguro that the world doesn’t have to be the way it’s always been.
now, of course, morally, itadori is not like getou. and their parallels are not exact nor should they be!
itadori (and fushiguro) serve to try and end the cycles that getou (and gojo) were trapped in.
in my mind, the parallel here was always one of hope; itadori is supposed to do what getou failed to do. narratively, he has been set up to end the cycle.
at least, he had been. i’ll stop here before i start cursing out akutami and his absolute assassination of itadori’s character in more recent arcs and chapters. but really truly the getou/itadori parallel is a favorite of mine, much like the gojo/fushiguro parallel. i think this is where jjk’s writing is at some of its strongest.
thank you for asking!! i hope you enjoyed my lil analysis/presentation!
with less than two weeks left till protocol, I think it’s time for me to share my insane, probably incorrect theory
I call it “How Agnes Montague Can Still Win”
To start, I think it’d be really interesting if protocol was centered around a different entity instead of the eye. This would actually make sense since the institute was burned down, meaning the eye no longer has its main place of power. There’s two main reasons why I think tmp could be desolation focused:
1) the green used in tma is heavily associated with the eye. The logo for tmp is red, the opposite of green. The desolation is associated with red (though it’s not the only entity) and while it’s not the complete opposite of the eye, I think it still fits. The eye watches, but does not interfere. The whole point of the desolation is to interfere through destruction. Also in tma, the eye and the desolation were enemies. Continuing with the color theory nonsense, red and green are complementary colors. Agnes and Gertrude’s dynamic feels very similar to this: neither chose to be an avatar, and they could have gotten along had circumstances been different, but the eye was largely at fault for Agnes’ death. Opposites that complement one another very much describes the eye and the desolation.
2) The institute burned down. Seems pretty desolation to me. (Keeping this reason short and sweet, there’s really not much else to say) (Although I will take this time to say: Gertrude desolation avatar? Her two main methods of dealing with the supernatural was to burn it or blow it up)
So, where does Agnes come in to this? In a qna, Jonny said that Agnes was a character he’d have liked to have explored more in tma (paraphrasing, I don’t remember the exact wording) What if he uses protocol to explore Agnes’ story more and give her a more satisfying ending?
So that’s my insane theory! Protocol will be centered around the desolation with Agnes montague returning as a character