hello, what made you to like and ship satosugu? I love satosugu so much
I see you. I love them so much and they’re giving me so much joy.
So. There were a couple of things that made me go “oh,”
And I think these are just… very basic? I’m so sorry I’m going to be boring 🥹
- Hidden Inventory, the KFC break up. Iconic, incredible, heartbreaking. Up until that moment I was jokingly shipping them. Then I watched the KFC break up, and thought that Gojo wasn’t the most emotional character. Or rather: they show him happy and joking around and angry, but they never show him losing his composure until that moment. And with losing his composure I mean something different than, e.g. when he goes feral in Shibuya. It’s one of the few moments where he’s incredibly emotionally vulnerable and it shows. And this was the first moment when I went “okay, so this guy was down badly”
- Shibuya, “My six eyes tell me you’re Geto Suguru but my soul knows otherwise.” This is one of my favourite tropes and again, what can you say, what can you do, if barely hearing your long lost dead lover’s voice makes you stop for long enough to be trapped in the prison realm. What can you do when his voice alone floods you with memories of your youth. What can you do, if you can recognise him by the way he says your name? Nothing. Hence, here it’s when I gave up and opened ao3.
- The JJK official fanbook. There’s a line in there about Geto’s body reacting to Gojo’s words in Shibuya, when he tried to strangle Kenjaku. I don’t have this in English, but in my version it says that the reaction it’s “like a dragonfly that keeps moving after you cut off his head.” And, in my head, there are two layers to this. The first is that Gojo provokes this reaction — “Suguru, are you really letting this thing use your body like that?” - and even if you don’t read it romantically, it says a lot that this ignites the body’s muscle memory, and speaks about the type of character Geto Suguru is. The second, is that, well, protecting your friend is an instinct that stays in your body (not even your soul, geez) after you died and I cannot. I cannot.
There’s more and I can keep going, but these are the key moments that made me ship them. I’m not commenting on the bike scene in the opening because that’s straight out of a BL. Or the fact that the first time I read a stsg fanfic I thought that most of the things mentioned in the fic as canon events were fanon and made for the sake of shipping — when, in fact, where not.
And anon, hope it’s ok - I’m interpreting this question as “things in the show/manga” that made me ship them, rather than adding too much on narrative/themes! Thanks so much for leaving this question in my inbox, I always love to yap about those two 🥹
are you currently watching the new season of jjk? :)
i pop in and watch an episode every now and then. i haven’t watched linearly. i did watch all of the star vessel stuff (needed to see gojo kill toji) and then the ep where gojo is sealed cause i loveeeeee that satosugu bit in the manga
oh to know someone so deeply your soul goes against everything you see, refusing to believe your forever best friend really is standing in front of you, feeling so clearly that it’s not him it’s not him it’s not him, my six eyes tell me you’re geto suguru but my soul knows otherwise, has your mouth ever opened up in hope?, have your eyes ever sparkled with yearning?, suguru, suguru, suguru?, no, it’s not him it’s not him it’s not him
with 314 votes these were the top 10 stsg moments people can’t believe are canon (top 10 based off of the ones i listed lmao) this will be long but i did say i was gonna make a post of the results so -
10: in last place with only 1.9% - their names complimenting each other + Geto’s robes being called “gojo-gesa robes”
i included these together cause they are similar imo. both being based around the other.
9: “the only one i have”
the iconic quote with 3.2% that is so misquoted cause of that translation that i’m pretty sure people ignore that that’s actually what he says rather than “my one and only”💀 (myself included but for the sake of the poll i did the accurate translation)
8: the light novel in general
maybe i’m biased cause of my user but only getting 3.8% of votes surprised me lmao.
i mean i just think about “Even if everything was different now, there was still one thing- from that very moment it all started- that had never changed” as well as “Geto Suguru It was a name that the Jujutsu tech organization feared…but to Gojo Satoru, he was—“ all the time
i posted more quotes from it here
7: with 7.3% (nanami surprise appearance) we have their official songs stated by Gege.
Shame On Me being Gojo’s
and Come Back Home being Geto’s.
6: 8.9% of votes for this insane moment from the newer chapters after Gojo’s resurrection lmao
him and Kenny are fighting and Gojo offers to fight on Dec. 24th (Geto’s death anniversary) with Kenny replying “How romantic”
this legit made me scream when the chapter came out… anyways
5: i almost didn’t include this moment because i was sure it was gonna win because of how often it’s brought up but i’m glad to see i was wrong💀
but still in the top 5 with 9.6% is Gojo recognizing Geto by smell in JJK0… i have nothing to add to that cause like. what.
4: with 10.5% we have Gojo’s last words to Geto being “3 words” as stated by Gojo’s english va! (which i also mentioned in the post linked above)
(that being paired with the light quotes above and “such embarrassing words” and it being words they had “never said to each other before” … we all know what he said…🙄)
3: with 12.4%, the one that made me spiral and realize Gojo is probably done for, Gege himself saying “one cannot exist without the other” about Gojo and Geto…
so either Geto is miraculously gonna come back or they are sharing a death anniversary lmao
2: at 18.8%!
the infamous vol 0 quotes that are 100% parallels because the entire movie is.
Gojo, to Yuta in reference to Rika: “Love is the most twisted curse of them all” (idk why i said 'worst curse' in the poll lmao)
Geto as he dies: “At least curse me a little at the very end.”
bangs my head into a wall… okay and number 1!!
1: at 23.6% is the stsg moment. “My six eyes tell me you’re Suguru Geto but my soul knows otherwise! Hurry up and answer, who the hell are you?!”
not only was seeing Geto the reason for him getting sealed but he went against his own power, his own technique which makes him the strongest, to listen to his soul. and to quote Song of Achilles (which i made a joke the other day about stsg being modern day achilles and patroclus) “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
okay this was the first poll i’ve done like this besides some random funny ones on my other blog and i can’t believe it got 300+ votes. maybe i’ll do more in the future if i can think of some topics.
Yk I think it might say something about me that some of my favourite characters are rooftop trio and satosugu because let’s look at the parallels here okay stick with me
Gays (EraserMic and Satosugu)
Chaotic, silly guy + depressed (Hizashi and Oboro + Shouta, Satoru + Suguru
Parental figures (Eri, Shinso, Megumi, Tsumiki, and doesn’t Geto have daughters? I’m only on season one I literally haven’t even met him yet and I already have Satosugu feels from edits)
Came back wrong trope (Kurogiri and Kenjaku. It even both begins with K!)
The character who came back wrong works closely with a blue haired villain with a similar power and a hand motif (Tomura and Mahito)
High school friends (UA and Jujutsu High)
Emotional Reunions (‘Who would wanna babysit that gloomy little punk all day long?!’ ‘I’m not the type to neglect a friend’ vs ‘all the information provided through my six eyes is telling me you’re Suguru Geto.. BUT BOTH MY HEART AND MY SOUL KNOW OTHERWISE!’)
Members of the group becoming teachers (Sho and Zashi, Gojo)
A girl who isn’t technically part of the group but Does Exist (Shoko, Midnight)
I feel like what Satusugu is, is what people focus on in the rooftop trio. Hizashi gets ignored a lot of the time. Which I won’t stand for, he’s everything to me.
What does it say about me? No idea. But it says something.
Shibuya manga spoilers ahead but oh my god the thought I just had while re-reading
“Your body…even your cursed energy…my Six Eyes tell me you’re Suguru Geto, but my soul knows otherwise.”
There’s something about the fact that Satoru says he recognizes Suguru’s body so indisputably that he knows he’s looking at Suguru. Not someone who looks like him, but the Suguru.
And then in turn Suguru’s body recognizes him. Because his arm suddenly gets a mind of its own and tries to stop Kenjaku from sealing Satoru.
When Satoru is immobilized and loses his body, all he has is his soul, which knows that Suguru’s isn’t there.
When Suguru’s soul is gone and all he has left around Satoru is his body, it knows Satoru is there.