op was a terf so here you go: a collection of jughead being aroace

"suguru, i've finally caught up with you."

Chasing after you

never before and never since

it was ALWAYS about him.

Also I think a lot of the problem is the expectation set by people reading jjk as a normal shonen. Jjk is heavy, it always set itself to be heavy, it always showed it's hand in saying "the end will be bad and there probably will be more pain than satisfaction or catharsis". I think jjk much like csm operates kinda like a bridge between shonen and seinen. The meat around the bones is shonen, your got shonen tropes, you got fights, the whole shebang. But the bones, the themes and emotional core are deeper than a shonen, they start to walk the path towards a seinen.

Seeing Yuta in Gojo's body, sacrificing his humanity and his teacher's corpse and maybe even his life to try and win is painful. But it not only operates well within the rules of their power set but also the themes of what we inherit from those who come before us, and what we are willing to sacrifice for those who will come after, which are core themes gojo himself represented very well. Jjk is about the good guys having to make hard decisions and sacrifice even their morality to protect those who are weak. It's about the effects such thing has and about knowing them and still doing it. It's about doing whatever is necessary - even the ugly even the bloody - to try and break the generational chains and make tomorrow better for those who will inherit it. And it's about how doing those things alone will eat you from the inside, but the load becomes lighter when you have others to share it with, tho even that has its price. Jjk incorporate those monkey paw style choices we will all see and doesn't try to give you a catharsis in the end, there is no satisfaction in the fight for a better tomorrow, because you ain't doing it for yourself, you'll only see the sacrifice, and hope the next generation reaps the rewards.

truly a horrible day to be both a gojo and yuta enjoyer... "haven't we been pushing all the burden of becoming a "monster" onto gojo sensei alone? if gojo sensei is gone, then who else will be the "monster"?"

YUTA was there when gojo had to kill his best friend. he knows what the jujutsu society forced his teacher to do, become a "monster" and throw away the very last vestiges of the humanity he had possessed. that's why he tries to kill kenjaku, in his own trying to lessen some of gojo's burden. gojo basically names yuta his successor in shibuya. the fact that he has to use gojo's corpse isn't out of character, it's the TRAGEDY that plagues both of their existence..

this panel isn't just his visceral reaction to gojo's death. it is his slow, horrific, catatonic realisation of his succession as another "monster" and thus what he has to do...

Choso vs internet

dead man walking

⚫️⚪️🐟~

(Curse you Gege)

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

"You can rest now."

you did well

a nameless fish stripped of its scales

reunited in an endless blue

day 195 | low-hanging fruit but i had to make the joke… [id in alt]