seeing people be surprised about the jjk game saying
gojo -> geto: trust
geto -> gojo: hostile
is very confusing to me. this was so obvious are u srs….. their final conversation literally makes it dead obvious. geto believed gojo hated him for leaving so he hated him in return. they never spoke for real after geto’s defect. he had no idea gojo didn’t blame him. (hated is strong wording but he definitely had bad feelings)
“yeah, unlike you, i’m a kind person.”
“trust huh? i didn’t think you still felt any connection to me”
gojo never blamed geto for his defection. he blamed himself, it’s glaringly obvious throughout the series. in the way he decided to become a teacher to give the students youth instead of being solitary soldiers. building the world geto wants in his own way. proving to himself that there was another way to accomplish geto’s wishes.
gojo made the world geto longed for. he saw how the way things were run crushed geto and broke him. he changed it, tries to make it better everyday for future sorcerers. geto was so moved by this he began to cry. it upsets me that they will never be able to discuss this.
he won’t curse geto even at the end because he truly doesn’t resent him. [i have a theory that he did attempt to curse geto with love, seeing as he views love as a curse. geto in the end didn’t resent him enough to stay as a curse, gojo accepted, let go and he passed on.] (in brackets bc there is no real proof to this, only subtext.)
he still considers geto his best friend. that never changed for him. for geto he refers to gojo in past tense not present tense
geto -> gojo: “he was my best friend”
gojo -> geto: “my best friend did. my one and only”
i can’t add anymore photos but more panels i would use is geto declaring war
gojo -> geto: “leaving? not on my watch.”
geto -> gojo: “don’t try it” and summons his curses.
gojo also doesn’t mention he knows geto is involved until someone else brings it up (ijichi and then he tells yaga)
ijichi -> gojo: “somebody cast another curtain on top of mine. … i accept full responsibility for this”
gojo -> ijichi: “no the enemy is too strong”
ijichi -> gojo: “do you know who’s behind this?”
gojo -> ijichi: “…”
yaga -> gojo: “we still can’t confirm geto’s involvement. maybe you’re just being paranoid.”
gojo -> yaga: “sorry principal, but i’m sure about this. there’s no way i would mistake his residuals.”
unnecessarily long thread to prove how easily it is to see that geto was hostile while gojo held trust.
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In Satoru's Room
The door of Satoru’s room opened to reveal a neat and clean place, much to Suguru’s dismay. He had almost expected food wrappings and dirty laundry all over the place, but instead, found himself in front of one of the most elegantly decorated rooms he’d ever seen.
“What the hell?” Are you like… rich or something?”
“Yeah.” Satoru said, with utmost simplicity, which had Geto’s jaw dropping. He was only joking when he asked the question.
Suguru entered the place willingly now, to inspect it carefully, as one enters a museum. The space was exactly the same as his room in terms of size, except Satoru’s seemed like a place where someone actually lived there, and not some cheap, tasteless motel room like Suguru’s. The closet was filled with several sets of school uniforms and the most expensive brands of clothes, some of which Suguru had never even heard of before. There were also some posters of bands hung on the walls, mostly popular rock bands like L'Arc en Ciel or Miyavi, and a few American bands, among which Suguru could only recognize the names “Blink 182” and “The Offsprings”, and only because some emo kid in his previous school was obsessed with them. Suddenly, Suguru’s plain, empty room felt lame, and wondered if he should maybe start hanging up band posters. Not like he knew many anyway. He didn’t really listen that much to music, other than whatever was popular on the radio. The only CD he owned was an Utada Hikaru CD that a girl in his previous school had lent him, which he didn’t particularly like, but just happened to keep listening to because he never got the chance to return it before he changed schools and houses.
In his exploration, Suguru made his way through the room as if it was a lion's lair he was entering, and continued to the bed now. In front of it, there was a TV with a DVD player, and a large shelf with a wide collection of CDs, movies, video games, and every single gadget that Suguru could ever think of, and more.
The only thing that seemed out of place was a poster of a girl in a bikini on the ceiling. Strange . For some reason, Satoru did not strike him like the kind of guy that would put up a picture of a girl in his room. In fact, he didn’t strike him as the kind guy who would be interested in girls at all. Or men. Or… humans, for that matter. But who knows? There was no denying he was handsome, surely he’d broken some hearts out there. Maybe he had a secret girlfriend waiting for him somewhere and kept a picture to remember her. Or, maybe he simply liked to jerk off to a picture at night, like all his classmates back home did.
The image of it made Suguru squirm. He did not want to remember that. Least of all picture Satoru in that state.
“Sit,” Satoru patted the bed, signaling Suguru to sit by his side, which, right now he really didn't feel like doing. Not with the ever present picture above his head, and the lewd image he tried so hard to get rid of.
“Is that your girlfriend?” Suguru asked, in a lousy effort to keep the intrusive thoughts away.
“Pff, I wish.” Satoru dropped on his back in the bed. “You seriously don’t know who Waka Inoue is?”
“Should I?”
“Dude, she’s like, all over the TV and the streets.”
It was no wonder that he hadn’t seen her, since he hadn’t gotten a TV for his room yet. Although her face did seem to ring a bell, maybe from one of the dramas that his mother used to watch. Suguru titled his head to take a better look, which was apparently funny, because Satoru let out a laugh.
“She’s a model,” he said.
“Oh,” Suguru hummed, trying to sound impressed. “She’s, uh… she’s hot.”
He didn’t really think so, but it seemed like the right thing to say, given how into it Satoru seemed.
After carefully assessing that the bed covers were clean and not stiff, Suguru finally took a seat at the other end of the bed.
“I haven’t been to the city yet, that’s why I haven’t seen her. But I'm thinking I should get a TV when I go.” He confessed.
From the bed, Satoru turned his head to look at him with furrowed brows. “You’ve never been to Tokyo?”
Suguru simply shrugged, somewhat embarrassed for some reason, wishing he hadn’t said that. He was not there to be judged, especially not by him .
“So, anyway, why are we here?”
With a swift movement, Satoru got on his feet, then searched for something on the TV stand. The screen went on with the words “Play Station 2” on it.
“Because… I got this game, but it’s a co-op.”
“A what?”
“A co-op. You know, like, two or more people playing it. I’ve been meaning to play it for ages, but Shoko doesn’t want to play. She only likes to play Mario Kart.”
Suguru frowned in confusion. What did any of that have to do with him?
“…And?”
“And,” Satoru handed him a controller, “you and I are going to play it.”
Suguru raised an eyebrow at him, reluctantly.
“I don’t even know this game. I’ve never played it. Actually, I’m not really good at any games at all.”
“Oh, come on, it’ll be fun!”
“I…”
The genuine enthusiasm in Satoru’s face really had him speechless, wondering if his frustration was only one-sided, because Satoru seemed oblivious. Perhaps Suguru was delusional and he was the only one staying up at night dwelling about these unimportant things. But a few days ago Satoru didn’t want to talk to him, and now he had dragged him into the intimacy of his room to play games with him, like they’ve been doing this since the beginning of times. Suguru might not have been an expert in the art of making friends, but he was pretty sure that was not how it worked. They were not little elementary school kids that would fight and make up like nothing happened the next moment, but he wasn’t sure Satoru was aware of that.
“Come on,” Satoru insisted with the most honest smile and the biggest puppy eyes. “I would really appreciate it if you played with me.”
It struck him then. That this was probably Satoru’s own strange, immature way to apologize.
Hesitant, Suguru looked at the clock on the wall. They would have to wake up in just a couple of hours. “It’s late.”
“Please?” Satoru titled his head, his smile was charming. Surely he knew it was, and the effect it had on people, because it was having the same effect on him right now, and Suguru half-hated him for it.
In spite of himself, Suguru sighed in defeat, taking the controller. “Alright. But first...”
“What?”
Suguru cocked an eyebrow at him. “You said you had tea.”
Satoru flinched, suddenly all signs of softening around his edges dissipated, yet did not protest. He simply moved to the kitchenette to grab the kettle, put on a sarcastic smile and said, “Anything else your majesty would like?”
“A sandwich would be nice too.”
“Ok, now you’re pushing your luck, bro...”
Putting the controller down, Suguru opened his eyes wide at him, arms crossed and a wicked smirk growing on his lips.
“Fuck— fine…”
Satoru took in a deep breath, then turned to grab a bag of bread and nearly smashed it on the counter to prepare a sandwich. Suguru watched him do so with delight.
When he was done improvising two cups of tea and a ham sandwich for each, Satoru moved everything to the night stand next to the bed. It took one flick of his fingers for the items to travel smoothly across the room. It was just as amusing to watch as the first time.
“How do you do that?” Suguru shook his head, not caring to hold back his amazement. “That’s so convenient. You think you can teach me to do that?”
“Nah. I was born like this,” he said, placing a plate with Suguru’s sandwich before him.
“Why, thank you, how very thoughtful of you.”
“Yeah, yeah, now shut up and eat. Unless you want me to feed it to you too.”
Suguru’s silent grin was answer enough.
“Oh god, you gotta be kidding me…”
“You shouldn’t give me ideas, Satoru.”
“Dude, I’m not gonna feed you.”
Still smiling, Suguru put the controller down again, and opened his mouth the slightest, ready to take a bite.
“Fucking unbelievable…” Satoru grumbled, yet took the sandwich in his hand violently, and brought it to Suguru’s mouth. Blue eyes gleamed at him with spite. “God, I can’t believe I’m actually doing this.”
Without breaking eye contact, Suguru took the smallest, most delicate bite, savoring the moment. Satoru’s lips parted as he watched him eat, hungry eyes fixed on Suguru’s lips now, as though he could taste the bread in his own mouth. When Suguru swallowed, Satoru swallowed. When Suguru licked the crumbs off his lips, Satoru’s tongue mirrored his. He must have been really hungry, because he seemed about to drool.
“That's a more than decent sandwich,” Suguru said, running his thumb over his lips to wipe the crumbs. Satoru followed his movements with his eyes, speechless, still staring at him with his mouth open. The way his Adam’s apple bobbed when he swallowed didn’t feel right, and it suddenly became less fun to tease him now for some reason. So Suguru took the sandwich in his hand, and Satoru’s eyes went from Suguru’s lips to his eyes again, his mouth closing instantly as he cleared his throat.
“You know what goes really well with it, though?” Said Suguru, to ease the tension, his eyes going to the full cup of tea on the table. Satoru was less than amused.
There was horror in his face, and joy in Suguru’s.
“I swear to god I’m gonna shove that cup up your ass if you keep this up.”
He reached for Suguru’s neck, and Suguru had to catch his hands to stop him from strangling him.
“I’m joking, I’m joking,” Suguru was laughing now, which made it all the more difficult to resist Satoru’s strong hands, so he had to twist a little in the bed to avoid him. Luckily, Satoru seemed to have calmed down with his words. He was shaking his head now, giving him the most bombastic side-eye, but Suguru was certain he could see his lips curving upwards.
“We better start playing now,” Satoru said, taking his controller. “Or else I’m gonna end up either killing you, or myself.”
“Alright, I’ll try.” Suguru mirrored him, the grip feeling awkward in his hand. “But I don’t promise anything.”
(From Our Last Summer by Naus)
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