Nanami Kento does not go out of his way to frighten children. It just happens.
There is something about the way he exists—tall, severe, measured in movement and speech—that makes small creatures wary of him. Dogs hesitate before wagging their tails. Babies squirm when they sense his presence. And children, most unforgiving of all, take one look at him and decide he is someone to fear.
It is not something he does on purpose. It is not even something he particularly minds. But it is something he has noticed.
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The first time it happens, he is twelve years old.
He is at a family gathering, the kind that drags on forever and smells like heavy food and too much perfume. His mother has given him a task—keep an eye on his cousin’s toddler while the adults talk.
He does not like children. He does not dislike them, either. They simply exist, in the way that birds and passing clouds do—present, but not worth much thought.
The child is small, unsteady on his feet, and when he sees Nanami, he immediately bursts into tears.
Nanami does not know what to do. He has not done anything. He has not spoken, has not moved. He has simply existed in the same space as this child, and yet, somehow, this is enough to warrant terror.
His mother scolds him later. "You should try being friendlier. Smile more."
Nanami tries. It does not help.
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Years pass. He grows taller, sharper, more deliberate in his actions. He learns to choose his words carefully, to measure his tone, to move with the kind of efficiency that makes the world a little more tolerable.
But the pattern remains.
Children do not like him.
He is sixteen when he volunteers at a local library, mostly because it is quiet and does not demand much of him. One afternoon, a group of children comes in for story time. The librarian, a woman with a kind face and tired eyes, asks him to help.
Nanami sits down, book in hand. He does not make any sudden movements. He does not raise his voice. He simply reads.
Halfway through, a child starts crying.
The librarian pats Nanami’s arm. “Maybe try sounding a little less... serious?”
He does not understand what she means. He is reading the words as they are written. He is being careful, thoughtful. Isn’t that what people are supposed to want?
But when he looks at the children—small, fidgeting, casting wary glances at him—he knows.
They do not like his voice.
They do not like his face.
They do not like him.
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He does not try again for many years.
It does not come up often. His life is not the kind that requires interaction with children. His job is not safe, not kind, not something that should be seen by those who still have softness left in them.
But then there is a mission—a simple one, supposedly—and he finds himself standing in a half-destroyed street, staring down at a child no older than six.
She has lost her parents.
She is shaking.
And when she looks up at him, all wide eyes and trembling hands, she does not cry.
Nanami does not know what to do with this.
He kneels, slow and careful. “You are not hurt?”
She shakes her head.
She is too quiet. Too still. He recognizes this—shock, fear held too tightly, the kind that makes people collapse hours later when their bodies finally catch up to their minds.
So he does something he has not done in years.
He smiles.
It is small, just the barest movement of his lips, meant to reassure, to make him seem less imposing. It is an effort. It is, he thinks, something that might be kind.
The child’s face crumples.
She bursts into tears.
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Later, Gojo laughs so hard he nearly falls out of his chair.
“You made her cry by smiling?” he wheezes, wiping at his eyes. “Man, I knew you were scary, but damn.”
Nanami sighs. He regrets telling him.
“Maybe it was a bad smile,” Gojo continues. “Like, creepy. Serial killer vibes.”
Nanami does not dignify this with a response.
But later, when he stands in front of a mirror, he tries again.
He does not smile often. He never saw the point. But now, looking at his own reflection, he studies the way his face shifts, the way his expression pulls at the edges.
Does it look unnatural?
Does it look forced?
He does not know.
He does not try again.
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Years later, when he is older, when the weight of his own choices sits heavier in his bones, he finds himself in the presence of another child.
This time, he does not smile.
This time, he simply crouches, keeps his voice steady, his movements slow, and waits.
The child does not cry.
Nanami exhales.
(It is enough.)
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
You know, I think I might be Nanami. Or at least, I deeply relate to his struggle with children. I don’t know if it’s a lack of patience or just the sheer confusion of what am I supposed to do with this tiny, unpredictable human? But yeah, I struggle.
Case in point: My maternal aunt once asked me to watch over my toddler cousin, Riya, during a family gathering while she cooked. Simple, right? Should’ve been easy. Except, the moment my presence registered, she started crying. And I mean, really crying. And what did I do? Nothing. I just stood there, because what do you even do in that situation? Pat her head? Start singing? Apologize for existing?
Anyway, that incident stayed with me, and when I wrote this, I couldn’t help but channel some of that energy into Nanami. The man just exists and children find him terrifying. I get it.
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So yeah, let me know—do kids like you? Or are you, like me (and Nanami), just out here unintentionally scaring them with your mere presence? Drop a comment, share your thoughts, and let’s collectively figure out how to interact with tiny humans.
✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day ✨
There are things that happen all at once.
Sudden, sharp, irreversible things. A blade slicing through skin, a building collapsing, a name being spoken for the last time.
And then there are things that happen slowly, so gradually that you don’t realize they’re happening until you’re too far gone. Until you wake up one day and everything that was once yours is gone—your beliefs, your convictions, your place in the world. Your best friend.
Geto Suguru didn’t break all at once.
He unraveled.
Thread by thread, thought by thought, moment by moment—until he was standing at the edge of the world he used to know, waiting for someone to stop him.
Waiting for Satoru to stop him.
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He had already made up his mind. That’s what he told himself. That’s what he told everyone else. That the moment he looked at the pile of corpses in that damp, rotting village, the moment he realized just how little sorcerers meant to the world—they were nothing but disposable tools—that was the moment he knew.
That was the moment he chose his path.
And maybe that was true.
But maybe, in the back of his mind, in the deepest part of himself that still remembered being sixteen and invincible, he thought Gojo would come for him. That Gojo would grab him by the collar, shove him against a wall, and tell him to stop being such a fucking idiot. That Gojo would remind him that they were supposed to change the world *together*.
That Gojo would refuse to let him go.
But Gojo never did.
And that was how Geto knew—he really was alone.
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The first time he saw Gojo after he left, he almost laughed.
Because Gojo still looked the same. Still carried himself with that easy, careless arrogance, still spoke like he had never known loss, still acted like nothing in the world could touch him.
And for a second, for a brief, aching second, Geto almost believed it.
Then Gojo tilted his head and said, “Why?”
Not in anger. Not in pain. Just—*curiosity.*
Like Geto was just another equation to solve, just another variable in the grand, meaningless world of sorcery.
Like he wasn’t the person who had once known Gojo better than anyone else.
Like he wasn’t the person Gojo should have *stopped.*
And Geto felt something inside him go still.
Because this was it. This was proof.
That Gojo had let him go.
That he had walked away, and Gojo had *let him*.
And if Gojo wasn’t going to stop him—if even *Gojo* wasn’t going to fight for him—then maybe there really was nothing left in the world worth saving.
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But years later, standing on a rooftop in Shinjuku, watching Gojo smile at him for the last time, Geto wondered—had it been the other way around all along?
Had Gojo been waiting for him?
Had they both been standing on opposite sides of a war neither of them wanted, waiting for the other to say it first?
“Come back.”
“Don’t go.”
“Stay.”
But neither of them had. And now it was too late.
Now all Gojo could do was stand there, looking at him like he still knew him, like he still understood him, like nothing had ever changed.
Like, despite everything, despite all the blood and death and years between them, Satoru still looked at him and saw Suguru.
Not an enemy. Not a traitor. Not a mistake.
Just Suguru.
And Geto almost wanted to laugh.
Because wasn’t that ironic? Wasn’t that the cruelest, funniest, saddest joke the universe had ever played?
That in the end, Gojo still saw him.
That in the end, it had never mattered.
That in the end, Gojo had lost him anyway.
(That in the end, neither of them had ever been strong enough to stop the other.)
Not really.
Not where it counted.
Not where it mattered.
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And as the world faded, as his own voice echoed back at him—“At least, let me curse you a little”—as Gojo stood there, smiling, still looking at him like they were kids again, like nothing had changed—
Geto thought "You should have stopped me."
But maybe Gojo had been thinking the exact same thing.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
Man, my heart actually hurt while writing this shit. Like, physically. These two should’ve just shut up and kissed already because let’s be honest—both of them wanted to say it. They just never did. And that’s the tragedy of it, isn’t it?
That’s how the story goes. Not just for them, but in real life too. We wait for the other person to speak first. We wait for someone to reach out, to stop us, to tell us, “Don’t go,” or “Stay,” or “I still care.” But they’re waiting for the same thing. And in the end, all that’s left is what if?
What if Geto had said something? What if Gojo had? What if just one of them had stopped being so damn stubborn?
But they didn’t. And that’s why we’re here, writing and crying over two emotionally constipated disasters who loved each other in a way that neither of them could admit.
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Anyway, thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts—what do you think about their dynamic? Let’s talk about these two absolute babies who ruined my life.
✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
—The Violet Hours—
The thing about truth is—it never arrives politely.
It kicks in the door, pours wine in your mother’s good china, and asks if you’re still pretending.
—From Journal Of Elora Haventon, 1975
When she was nine, Elora asked her father if power made people kinder.
He gave her a polished smile and said, “Power makes people busy, darling.”
That night, she wrote in her diary: 'So kindness is a hobby, I guess.'
She never stopped watching after that—quietly, precisely, like a girl measuring the world before deciding whether it deserved her.
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Birth : Haventon Manor, Outer London— 12th October, 1960, 2:06 AM
Age at Hogwarts acceptance : 10 years, 11 months
Date of death : 21st July, 1979
Place : A quiet field, still dressed in flowers. (Some say it was meant to be a celebration. Others say it was the last peace before the war found her.)
Known as: "The Ghost They All Knew"
Appearance : Dark hair like spilled ink. Eyes the color of twilight before storm—too blue to be black, too violet to be safe.
Sharp in mind. Silent in grief.
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Jennifer Vance : Her first real friend. A half-vampire Ravenclaw girl who laughed like she was already bored of eternity. She once gave Elora a gold locket. Elora wore it even after her heart stopped.
Remus Lupin : A quiet understanding. They spoke like people who knew how to wait. She figured out his secret long before he confessed it. A bond built on books, trust, and not needing to explain.
Sirius Black : An occasional clash of fire and ice. He thought he could make her laugh. A boy who mistook silence for mystery, and misread indifference for elegance.
Adrian Del Marlowe : The boy she was meant to marry. The only one who saw her quiet ache and didn’t ask about it. He just handed her books and soft smiles instead. They wrote each other letters.
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There’s a portrait of her in Haventon Manor.
Visitors say it’s just a painting, but something about it feels too alive—like the violet of her dress might rustle if the wind blew the wrong way.
She’s smiling. But it’s the kind of smile you only wear when you’ve learned how to survive.
And yet still—
no one survived 'The Violet Hours'.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
So yeah. Elora Haventon. She's been living rent-free in my head for months now—quietly, politely, the way ghosts do. at first, i thought she was just another side character. and then suddenly she had a name, a cursed locket, an entire tragic backstory, and this way of looking at the world that made me go oh. so here she is: the ghost they all knew. my third OC (yeah, we’re deep in it now lol I think I’m addicted to tragic girls with sharp minds and deadpan humor), and maybe the one closest to my chest.
she’s sharp. ironic. too observant for eleven. the kind of girl who would sit quietly at a political dinner table and memorize everything—not because she wants to be part of it, but because she’s already writing it all down in her head. her voice came to me so naturally it was a little scary. like she’d been waiting for someone to finally let her speak.
what inspired her? honestly? that song Dollhouse. you know, the whole smiling-perfect-family thing but under the surface it’s all porcelain cracks and red wine stains and quiet disappointment. that’s Elora. a girl raised in a house where truth isn’t forbidden—it’s just considered bad manners.
i’ll be posting more of her story (it’s called The Violet Hours, and yes, it gets worse), but for now, here’s a little introduction. if you’ve ever been the quiet girl in the room, the one watching more than speaking, the one trying to hold yourself together with pretty manners and sharp thoughts—i think you’ll get her.
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feel free to scream in the tags, message me, ask questions—i literally love talking about her. just bring tea or trauma. both work.
✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day ✨
Sleep is a mercy he cannot afford.
Gojo Satoru has never been good at resting.
It’s not just about the nightmares—the ones that creep in like thieves, whispering names of the dead in his ears. It’s not just about the fear—that if he lets go, if he closes his eyes for too long, the world will crumble without him watching.
No, it’s deeper than that.
Sleep is vulnerability. And vulnerability is something the strongest man alive is not allowed.
So he doesn’t sleep. Not properly. Not often.
Instead, he runs himself ragged, burns his energy down to the wick, pretends exhaustion is something that only happens to other people. He hides behind laughter, behind endless motion, behind the overwhelming force of his own presence.
Because to stop—to be still—means to listen to his own thoughts.
And there is nothing more terrifying than that.
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You notice it, of course.
The way he’s always moving, always talking, always shifting from one thing to the next like silence might swallow him whole. The way he rubs at his temples when he thinks no one is looking. The way he leans against doorframes just a little too long, like standing upright is a battle he’s barely winning.
"You don’t sleep, do you?" you ask one night, watching him sprawl out on your couch like he owns it.
He grins, too wide, too easy. "Who needs sleep when you’ve got these?" He gestures vaguely at his eyes, like the sheer force of his existence makes him immune to basic human needs.
You roll your eyes. "That’s not how bodies work, Satoru."
He shrugs, lazy, dramatic. "Maybe yours."
You don’t press the issue. Not yet.
But you see the way his hands still for a fraction of a second. The way his smile flickers, just briefly, like a neon sign struggling to stay lit.
And you know.
You know that beneath all that brightness, beneath the godlike arrogance and the infuriating charm, there is a man running on borrowed time.
A man who is tired.
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When Gojo does sleep, it’s not gentle.
It’s not peaceful, like in movies, where lovers rest entangled in soft sheets and morning light. It’s not slow and dreamy, where sleep comes like a lover’s touch, warm and welcome.
No.
When Gojo Satoru sleeps, it’s like something in him collapses.
Like a puppet with cut strings. Like a body giving out after carrying too much for too long.
It doesn’t happen often—not really. But when it does, it’s as if his body is making up for years of neglect in one go. He sleeps like the dead.
No amount of shaking, nudging, or even yelling will wake him. You’ve tried. Once, you even held a mirror under his nose to make sure he was still breathing.
(He was. But it was unnerving, seeing him so still.)
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"You should go to bed," you tell him one night, watching as he leans against the counter, eyes half-lidded.
He smirks. "What, you worried about me?"
You don’t bother answering. Instead, you grab his wrist, tugging him toward the bedroom.
"I don’t need—"
"Shut up, Satoru."
Surprisingly, he does.
He lets you drag him, lets you push him onto the bed, lets you pull the covers over him like he’s something fragile, something worth protecting.
And when you card your fingers through his hair—slow, soothing, like a lullaby made of touch—he doesn’t protest.
His breath evens out. His body melts against the mattress. And before you can even make a joke about it, he’s gone.
Fast asleep.
Completely, utterly, unmovable.
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Gojo Satoru, the strongest man alive, is impossible to wake up.
You learn this the hard way.
You try shaking him—nothing.
You try calling his name—still nothing.
You even flick his forehead, the way he does to others—but he doesn’t so much as twitch.
It’s honestly a little terrifying.
It’s like he trusts you enough to completely let go.
Like, in this moment, in this space, he believes—just for a little while—that he is safe.
And that realization sits heavy in your chest.
Because Gojo Satoru is not a man who allows himself to feel safe.
Not with the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Not with the ghosts of the past clawing at his heels.
Not with the knowledge that the moment he closes his eyes, something else might be taken from him.
But here, now, with you—he sleeps.
And that means something.
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In the morning, when he finally stirs, stretching like a cat in the sun, he blinks at you blearily.
"You let me sleep," he murmurs, voice thick with something you don’t quite recognize.
You hum, tracing lazy patterns on his wrist. "You needed it."
A pause.
Then, a quiet chuckle. "You didn’t try to wake me, did you?"
You don’t answer.
Because if you admit how hard you tried—how impossible it was—you might have to admit what that means.
Might have to admit that Gojo Satoru, for all his power, is still just a person.
A person who gets tired.
A person who needs rest.
A person who, in the end, just wants to lay down his burdens—if only for a little while.
And somehow, impossibly, he’s chosen to do that with you.
So instead, you smirk, flicking his forehead in revenge.
"Don’t get used to it, Satoru."
His laughter is bright, easy, filling the room like morning light.
But when he pulls you close again, burying his face in your shoulder, you think—maybe, just maybe—he already has.
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They send you in after the damage is already done.
You’re not a hero. You’re what comes after.
The body bag. The Suture. The ghost that cleans up after gods.
You were trained to fix what can’t be fixed.
To close wounds that were never meant to be opened.
To make dying quieter.
And that’s when he noticed you.
Not because you were brave.
Not because you were powerful.
But because you never flinched.
Even when he stood over you, soaked in someone else’s blood, smiling like he was born to ruin.
You didn’t look away.
That’s what got under his skin.
That’s what kept him coming back.
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You didn’t speak to him with reverence. You spoke to him like someone who'd seen too much to be impressed anymore.
“Move,” you said once, knee-deep in what used to be someone’s liver. “Unless you’re going to help.”
He tilted his head like a dog hearing thunder.
“You’re awfully calm for someone standing in a massacre.”
“It’s Tuesday,” you said.
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You were the kind of person the world forgets until it needs you.
Invisible until someone starts bleeding.
And maybe that’s what made him stay.
You never looked at him like he was legend or apocalypse. You looked at him like he was inconvenient.
That kind of irreverence should have made him crush you.
Instead, he lingered.
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The first time he watched you lose someone, you didn’t cry.
You didn’t scream. You didn’t pray.
You just pressed your hand to the boy’s cooling chest and whispered, “I’m sorry.”
Not to the gods.
To him.
He saw the way your shoulders locked, the way you didn’t breathe for a full minute. Like maybe if you didn’t move, you wouldn’t feel it.
You didn’t notice him watching.
He didn’t speak.
But later, you found the curse responsible strung from a tree, head twisted the wrong way.
It had taken you three hours to get there. Sukuna must’ve gotten there in two.
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You weren’t kind to him. That’s not what this is.
You were honest.
He once asked, casually, why you didn’t run like the others.
“Because I’ve spent my whole life cleaning up after men who think violence is the only language worth speaking.”
“You think I’m just another man?” he said, voice sharp.
“No,” you replied. “I think you used to be.”
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And that haunted him.
Because he’d burned down whole cities just to forget that—
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The first time he touched you, you were bandaging his side. A jagged gash from something that didn’t know better.
You didn’t ask why he didn’t heal it himself.
He didn’t ask why your hands shook a little.
But when your knuckles brushed his ribs, he stilled.
Not because it hurt.
Because it didn’t.
And that scared him more.
You didn’t make him human.
You reminded him he still was.
That was worse.
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He started showing up more. Missions you weren’t supposed to survive. Places no one should be. You’d find him in the aftermath, leaning against rubble, watching you with that same expressionless violence in his gaze.
Sometimes he asked questions.
“Do you believe in saving people?”
“Not anymore.”
“Why still try?”
“Because someone has to.”
“You always do things that don’t work?”
“I stayed talking to you, didn’t I?”
He laughed. It sounded like breaking glass.
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It was never romantic.
But God, it was intimate.
The kind of intimacy that doesn’t look like love.
It looks like two people who can’t lie to each other anymore.
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You started dreaming about him.
Not in soft ways.
In recognition ways.
His voice in the dark. His blood on your hands.
Your name in his mouth like a secret he hates knowing.
It wasn’t love.
It was something older.
Like grief. Like guilt. Like home.
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One night, you asked him something you’d never dared to ask anyone.
“Do you think people like us get better?”
He didn’t answer for a long time.
“No,” he said eventually. “But sometimes we get understood.”
You nodded.
You didn’t speak again for hours.
He didn’t leave.
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You told yourself it wasn’t connection. Just mutual ruin. Two broken things orbiting the same grave.
But then you got hurt. Badly.
And he lost his mind.
Not loudly. Not with roars.
Just with silence.
The kind that feels like a closing door—
When you woke up in a makeshift shelter, your wounds stitched with unnatural precision, he was already gone.
But outside the door, you saw what he left:
A trail of bodies. Eyes gouged. Faces melted. Blood spelling out a name.
Yours.
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You didn’t thank him.
You never did.
But the next time he appeared beside you, you didn’t ask why.
You just said, “You’re late.”
And he replied, “You’re alive.”
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You don’t belong together. You know this. You knew it from the start.
He is the myth that devours the world.
And you? You’re the woman who keeps trying to tape it back together.
But sometimes he sits close enough for your knees to touch, and doesn’t flinch.
Sometimes you reach for the same gauze at the same time, and your fingers linger.
Sometimes, you both exist in the same silence.
And it feels like the closest either of you has ever come to peace.
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He once told you that your eyes made him feel guilty.
You said, “Good.”
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You never tell him you love him.
But once, while half-conscious, he whispered:
“You’re the only thing I’ve ever seen that wasn’t ugly.”
You never bring it up again.
But you remember.
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You won’t survive this.
He might.
But not you.
And he knows it.
And that’s the tragedy.
Because for the first time in his life, he doesn’t want to win.
He wants to keep.
And the world doesn’t let men like him keep people like you.
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But for now—
You sit in the rubble.
He watches you patch another dying sorcerer together with trembling hands and exhausted breath.
And he thinks:
Your violence reminded me of home.
But your silence reminded me of being known.
And he hates you for it.
And he keeps coming back anyway.
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How the Mighty Fall :(Quietly)
Gojo Satoru met her on a day so ordinary, he almost didn’t notice her.
Almost.
She was standing by a cracked vending machine outside a jujutsu conference hall, jamming the return button like it had personally insulted her.
Her uniform was rumpled, sleeves half-rolled, phone balanced on her shoulder as she muttered into it.
When she hung up, she let the phone fall into her pocket without ceremony, kicked the vending machine once (precisely, as if she’d calculated it), and grabbed the stubborn can of coffee that tumbled out.
When their eyes met, she gave him the same look she might’ve given a mildly interesting cloud.
He wasn’t used to that.
Gojo Satoru was used to stares that held awe, fear, lust, envy.
He wasn’t used to being dismissed.
He told himself he didn’t care.
(Later, he would realize that was the first lie.)
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Inside, introductions were made. "Gojo Satoru," the principal said, almost with a bow. "The strongest."
He flashed his trademark smile. The room tensed the way rooms always did around him — shifting in awe, or jealousy, or terror.
Except for her.
She glanced up from her can of coffee, blinked slowly, and said, "Congratulations," in a tone so dry it might’ve been sarcasm or exhaustion or both.
Gojo actually missed a step.
It was like tripping on a stair you hadn’t noticed.
Ridiculous. Forgettable.
Except the body remembers how it fell.
And the pride remembers harder.
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He found out her name later — a relic name from a once-great family.
Fallen into disgrace. Neutral.
Neutral in a world where neutrality was treason.
She hadn't come here for prestige. Or power.
She hadn't come to heal the broken system or tear it down.
She had come because, somehow, life had shoved her into it, and she hadn't found a way to shove back.
There was something about her that infuriated him.
The way she didn't try.
The way she didn’t look at him like a miracle or a weapon or a god.
He tried, subtly at first, to impress her.
(The strongman tricks. The lazy jokes. The almost-accidental flashes of power.)
She sipped her bitter coffee and said things like:
"You're flashy. That’s not the same as important."
Or worse:
"Sometimes I think the world doesn't want saving. It just wants witnesses."
He laughed it off, of course.
Loudly. Carelessly.
(And hated how much he thought about it later.)
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One night, after a mission gone sideways, they ended up on the same train platform.
She sat two benches down, damp with rain, bleeding slightly from a cut on her forehead.
She looked small, but not fragile. Just very, very tired.
He sat beside her without asking.
After a long silence, she said, "You don't have to sit here."
"I know," he said. "But maybe I want to."
She gave a dry, almost-smile. "Your charity is overwhelming."
Gojo tilted his head back and stared up at the grey sky, feeling the ache of bruises under his jacket, the throb of exhaustion deep in his bones.
"You ever think," he said, "that saving people is worth it even if it’s selfish?"
She didn’t answer for a long time.
When she did, her voice was very soft:
"Wanting to be needed isn’t the same as being good."
The train rattled by. Neither of them moved.
He didn’t know how to answer her.
He didn’t know how to stop wanting her to believe in him.
He didn’t know when wanting her belief started to feel more important than winning.
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Weeks passed.
Gojo Satoru, who had outrun every emotion in his life by being faster, louder, brighter,
found himself slowing down around her.
Not because she asked him to.
But because she didn't even notice when he sped up.
Because around her, there was nothing to prove.
No war to win. No audience to perform for.
Just the terrifying idea that maybe being "The Strongest" meant nothing if nobody was watching.
And maybe that was okay.
Or maybe it wasn't.
He wasn’t sure which scared him more.
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The fight, when it happened, was stupid.
A cursed spirit too small for his attention, too slippery to ignore.
She fought it first, knives flashing, blood wetting her sleeves.
She fought like someone who didn’t expect to survive, but would be damned if she made it easy for death.
When he stepped in — easy, graceful, efficient — she didn’t even thank him.
Just leaned against a wall, breathing hard, looking annoyed more than anything else.
"You didn't have to," she said.
"I wanted to," he said, before he could stop himself.
She wiped blood from her mouth and smiled, thin and crooked.
"Of course you did."
As if kindness was another form of violence.
As if saving her only proved her point.
-----
They sat on the curb afterward, side by side, rain seeping into their clothes.
He pulled down his blindfold, let his eyes roam the ruined street, the broken lamplight.
Everything was grey and wet and stupidly, achingly beautiful.
"You know," she said, conversational,
"all stars burn out."
He looked at her. Really looked at her.
Not as a mission.
Not as a critic.
Not as a fantasy.
Just — a tired girl, soaked in rainwater and blood, laughing at how the universe devours everything eventually.
"Maybe," he said, "some are just slow enough to light the way for a while."
She didn't respond.
Maybe she didn’t believe him.
Maybe she didn't need to.
Maybe it was enough that he believed it for both of them, for once.
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He would never tell her that she ruined him a little.
That she made him gentler, angrier, sadder, more human.
That she made the invincible feel a little more mortal.
That she made the strongest sorcerer alive wonder what strength was even for.
He would never tell her.
Because she already knew.
Because she didn’t care.
And that, somehow, was the most beautiful thing about her.
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Unlike Gojo, he enjoys silence and will often sit with someone for hours without talking.
Some people fear silence.
They see it as an emptiness, a gap that needs filling. They rush to fill the space with words, laughter, noise—anything to push back against the quiet.
Suguru Geto is not one of those people.
He has always understood that silence is not the absence of something. It is its own language, its own presence. It is the space where truths settle, where emotions breathe.
Gojo fills the silence because he does not know how to sit with it. But Suguru?
Suguru lets it stay.
And so do you.
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The first time you realize this about him, you are both sitting on the temple steps, watching the wind move through the trees. It has been over an hour, and neither of you has spoken.
You shift slightly, waiting for him to break the quiet, but he doesn’t. He just sits there, eyes half-lidded, hands folded in his lap, his presence as steady as the sky above.
And for some reason, that steadiness makes you stay.
Minutes pass. Maybe hours. The world moves, but you do not.
You look at him and wonder if he is thinking about something or nothing at all.
“Suguru?”
He turns his head, slow and deliberate.
“You ever get tired of sitting in silence?” you ask, half-joking.
A small smile tugs at the corner of his lips. “Do you?”
You think about it. Shake your head. “Not with you.”
And that is enough.
-----
Suguru has always been like this. Quiet, contemplative. His silence is not an empty thing—it is full of thoughts he does not say, emotions he does not spill.
But sometimes, you wish he would.
Sometimes, you wish he would speak the things you only catch glimpses of in his eyes. The weight he carries. The exhaustion that lingers in the corners of his smile.
“Do you ever wish you could turn your brain off?” you ask one evening, lying on the floor of his dorm, staring up at the ceiling.
Suguru hums in thought. “Sometimes.”
“Do you ever succeed?”
A pause.
“No.”
You turn your head, watching him in the dim light. He is leaning against the bed, arms resting on his knees, his gaze far away.
“You could talk to me,” you say softly.
He looks at you, something unreadable flickering across his face. “I know.”
But he doesn’t. Not really. Not in the way you wish he would.
Instead, he lets the silence settle between you again.
And you let it.
-----
There is a difference between comfortable silence and avoidance. Between peace and distance.
You notice the shift before you name it.
It happens after Riko. After her laughter turns to memory, after blood stains the ground where she once stood.
Suguru stops filling the silence with meaning. Stops letting it be a presence between you.
Instead, he uses it as a wall.
You sit together, as you always have, but something is different now. He is farther away, even when he is right next to you.
You reach for him—not physically, but in the way you look at him, the way you wait for him to meet your eyes. But he doesn’t. Not like he used to.
One night, when the distance becomes unbearable, you finally break the quiet.
“Suguru.”
He blinks, as if pulled from somewhere far away. “Hm?”
“You’re shutting me out.”
He exhales slowly, rubbing a hand over his face. “I’m just… tired.”
It is a half-truth. You both know it.
But you do not press.
Because some things are too heavy to say out loud.
-----
You do not hear him leave.
One day, he is there. The next, he is not.
And suddenly, silence is no longer a comfort. It is an absence. It is something hollow, something sharp.
You sit on the temple steps alone, the same place where you once sat together, and you realize that silence is not always peaceful.
Sometimes, it is unbearable.
Because this time, it does not mean understanding.
It means he is gone.
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Years later, when you see him again, he is different.
His silence is no longer soft. It is a weapon now, honed and sharp-edged.
But when your eyes meet, just for a second, you wonder—
Is there still a part of him that remembers?
The quiet mornings. The easy stillness. The unspoken understanding.
You do not ask. And he does not say.
But when he turns to leave, you swear—just for a moment—he lingers.
Just long enough for you to know:
Some silences never truly end.
( Being the Strongest Means Dying Alone)
They call him the strongest. As if it’s a blessing. As if it’s anything more than a curse dressed in praise.
Gojo Satoru walks through Jujutsu Kaisen like a myth that got stuck in a man’s body. Limitless, Six Eyes, a bloodline older than reason. He’s the kind of person stories exaggerate—only, with him, there’s no need to exaggerate. He is the exaggeration. Power personified.
But there’s something no one tells you about being a god.
It’s cold up there.
And nobody stays.
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The Cage That Shines Like Heaven :
There’s an irony in Gojo’s existence that the story never says out loud but bleeds through every panel he appears in: he’s not just the strongest sorcerer—he’s the most trapped.
He can do anything. He can beat anyone.
He just can’t save everyone.
He couldn’t save Geto.
He couldn’t save Riko.
He couldn’t save himself.
And that’s the thing, isn’t it? When you’re the strongest, everyone assumes you’re fine. That you don’t need help. That nothing touches you. That you’re floating above it all, untouchable.
But Gojo is not floating. He’s sinking.
Under expectations.
Under grief.
Under the knowledge that he could destroy the world in a heartbeat, and yet—somehow, he still wasn’t enough to save the one person who asked him to choose love over duty.
Satoru walks around smiling like a boy who never grew up, like the world still has color in it, like he doesn’t hear the echo of Suguru's voice saying “You’re the only one who ever understood me.”
He understood. And he let him fall anyway.
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Power As Exile :
Power isolates. That’s something people like to romanticize in stories—“with great power comes great responsibility” and all that. But they never talk about the quiet horror of it. The silence.
Gojo is revered. Worshipped. The entire jujutsu society depends on him the way a city depends on electricity: blindly, constantly, without gratitude.
But nobody really knows him.
They know his strength.
They know his sarcasm.
They know the way he walks into a battlefield like God just clocked in for work.
But not his grief. Not his loneliness. Not the way he stands in that empty white cube (the Prison Realm) for nineteen days with only the sound of his own thoughts—his own regrets—for company.
You realize something, watching him. Being strong doesn’t make you invincible.
It just makes it harder for people to admit you’re in pain.
And Gojo is in so much pain.
But who would believe that?
The strongest sorcerer in the world?
The man who can rewrite physics?
Cry?
(That’s the tragedy. People only want Gojo to be strong. Not human.)
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Suguru Geto And The Ghost That Never Left :
All great tragedies have a ghost. Gojo’s is Geto.
They were twin stars. Heaven and earth. The two most powerful jujutsu sorcerers of their generation. But while Gojo kept choosing the world, Geto stopped pretending he could live in it.
Geto fell. And Gojo let him.
Not because he didn’t care. But because he believed in the system more than he believed in the ache between them. He believed power could fix things. Could save them. Could protect the next Riko.
He was wrong.
(Geto’s death wasn’t just a loss. It was a mirror shattering. The first real crack in Gojo’s limitless reality.)
And when they meet again—Geto’s body desecrated, taken over by a puppet with a smile like a scalpel—Gojo doesn’t fight. He reaches out. Gently. Like he’s touching the ghost of a future that could’ve been.
And what does he say?
*“At least… curse me a little at the end.”*
That line. That line.
The way it aches. The way it strips him bare.
Gojo doesn’t ask to be forgiven.
He asks to be hated. Because even now, he can’t forgive himself.
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The Empty Center :
For all his power, Gojo Satoru is a man without a center.
He has students. He has duty. He has power enough to rewrite reality. But he has no home. No constant. No love that stayed.
He’s funny, flirty, dramatic. He fills every room with light and noise. But all of it—all of it—is scaffolding. A mask. A distraction.
Because once the battle is over, the students are asleep, and the world is quiet—he has nothing.
(Nothing but a memory of a friend who walked away and a world he promised to protect, even as it devoured everything he loved.)
And maybe that’s why he’s always smiling. Because if he doesn’t laugh, he might shatter.
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The Irony Of Salvation :
Gojo believes he can save everyone. He wants to. He trains his students with real care, not because he loves the system—but because he wants to break it. Fix it. Undo the rot from the inside out.
But the system he wants to destroy?
It’s the same one that made him.
And the thing about systems like that? They don’t let you win.
Not without bleeding.
Gojo isn’t a hero. He’s a consequence. A byproduct of everything the jujutsu society created and condemned. They made him a weapon. They crowned him king. And now they expect him to keep smiling while the whole kingdom burns.
He is the cage and the prisoner. The God and the Sacrifice.
And when he finally dies—if he dies—it won’t be in glory. It will be in silence.
(A myth swallowed by the machine that birthed him.)
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And Still. And Still. And Still—
And still, he smiles.
And still, he teaches.
And still, he hopes.
Because Gojo Satoru, for all his sorrow, believes. In people. In his students. In a world where things can be better.
And maybe that’s what hurts the most.
That the strongest man in the world is still just a boy who wanted to protect his friends. Who believed he could carry everything if it meant no one else had to suffer.
But no one can carry that much alone.
Not even Gojo.
Especially not Gojo Satoru.
---
They’ll say he was the strongest.
They’ll say he was untouchable.
They’ll put his name in textbooks, his techniques in archives.
But no one will say:
He was tired.
He was lonely.
He was trying, God, he was trying.
That’s the real tragedy of Gojo Satoru.
Not that he died alone.
But that he lived that way, too.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
this one took a weird kind of toll on me.
not in a dramatic way, just… quietly exhausting, yk? like i sat down to write about gojo and somewhere in the middle i realized i wasn’t just writing about him.
i think the thing that gets me is—everyone calls him a god. The Strongest. The Honored One. The Chosen. Yet… the people closest to him still die. Still slip through his fingers like he wasn’t even holding them.
and i can’t help but wonder how many times gojo's thought, “am i really a god?” or worse—“if i’m not, then why would god make me like this?”
no mortal should ever be handed this kind of power and still be expected to carry that much grief.
to smile like it’s fine. to protect everyone except the ones that matter most.
it’s almost cruel, honestly.
like he’s not god’s favorite child—he’s god’s favorite toy.
anyway. that’s where my brain’s been lately.
not to be that person but yeah, school’s started and life’s been kind of heavy so maybe this meta feels a little different. more tired. a little sharper around the edges.
still, i’d really love to hear your thoughts. if it resonated or if you felt anything while reading it.
i write because i love these characters—because i want to understand them, not just worship them.
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so yeah. feel free to drop a comment or scream with me in the tags.
✨ Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
People Like Us Don’t Survive Love :
You met him when he was still almost whole.
Geto Suguru—with his easy smile and sleepless eyes, the boy who said the world was cracked like glass and still tried to carry it in his bare hands. Back then, he hadn’t yet decided to hate it. Not entirely.
And you—naïve enough to believe that love could be a soft place to land. That maybe, just maybe, you could be enough to keep him tethered to the light.
You were wrong, of course. But that’s the thing about people like you and Suguru.
You want to believe in beautiful endings even as you sharpen your teeth for the fall.
-----
He used to say things like:
“If we were gods, would you still love me?”
And you’d laugh, kiss the corner of his mouth, say:
“Only if you didn’t act like one.”
He didn’t laugh back. Not really—
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You knew he was slipping long before the massacre. Not by his actions, but by the pauses between them.
The silence after missions stretched longer. The way he’d stare at children with something like dread curdling in his eyes. His hands still touched you gently, but his words grew heavier, like they were being dragged out of a well.
He told you he was tired. He told you that saving people started to feel like holding sand with bloodied fingers. He told you that no one cared.
You told him you did.
That was the problem.
-----
When he finally broke, he didn’t shatter. He peeled. Like an old wall cracking in slow motion, truth flaking off with every breath. You watched him rot and rebuild in the same breath.
“You love me,” he said once, “because I haven’t hurt you yet.”
“That’s not true,” you whispered.
But it was.—
-----
The last night you saw him before he disappeared, the moon was hanging like a sickle in the sky. He wouldn’t look at you when he spoke.
“You make me hesitate,” he said.
You stood still, heart in your throat. “Good. You should hesitate.”
“No.” His voice was quiet, almost reverent. “That’s why you have to go. I can’t carry this part of myself anymore.”
And by this part, he meant you.
-----
But he didn’t kill you. He could’ve.
Instead, he left you alive with the softest kind of violence: the knowledge that he was still out there, being terrible, being brilliant, being lost—and that somewhere deep inside, he still loved you.
That was the cruelty. Not the leaving. But the not-quite.
-----
You dream about him sometimes.
In those dreams, he comes back. Not reformed—don’t be stupid. No, in your dreams, he’s still the Geto Suguru who believes the world needs fixing, but he’s tired and he crawls into bed beside you, smelling like blood and smoke, and he doesn’t say sorry.
He just touches your face like it’s still sacred.
You always wake up aching. You never tell anyone.
-----
When the world speaks of him, they call him a traitor.
You never correct them. What’s the point?
(You just nod and keep your mouth shut and bleed quietly in places no one can see.)
Because how do you explain that you were loved by a ghost long before he died?
How do you explain that you watched him become the villain, and still sometimes miss the boy who asked if you thought cursed spirits cried?
---
You’ve tried to hate him.
God, you’ve tried—
But how do you hate someone who was sick and brilliant and yours before the sickness won?
How do you hate someone who once touched your hand like it meant something?
How do you hate someone who almost stayed?
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And the worst part?
You understand him.
Not the killing. Not the cruelty. But the loneliness beneath it. The isolation of knowing too much, feeling too much. You’ve seen the way the system feeds itself—how kindness is disposable and the weak get left behind. You know how loud the silence is when you scream into the void and no one listens.
You just chose to survive it differently.
He burned.
You buried.
-----
You saw him again once. Years later.
He didn’t smile.
You didn’t cry.
But when your eyes met across that broken corridor—battle rising, blood in the air—you saw it again: hesitation. The ghost of the boy he was. The boy who once made you tea when you were sick. The boy who told you cursed spirits were just grief given shape.
He didn’t say a word.
Neither did you.
And then he left you standing there.
Again.
-----
Sometimes you wonder if he ever loved you.
If maybe it was all projection—an echo of his old self reaching for something warm before he extinguished the last light.
But then you remember the way he looked at you. Like you were the only thing in a crumbling world that made him consider staying.
And that’s worse.
Because he did love you.
And still chose this.
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People like you and Suguru—
You don’t survive love.
You dismantle under it.
Because when you give yourself to someone who’s breaking, you don’t just lose them. You lose the part of yourself that believed you could fix them. That love could be an answer.
You survive the aftermath, sure. You keep breathing.
But you are never, ever whole again.
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He exists now only in half-memories, in the spaces between sleep and sobering clarity. You never say his name. You don’t need to.
It echoes anyway—
Suguru.
Suguru.
Suguru.
A name like a wound.
A god who tried to save the world and hated you for being the reason he couldn’t.
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