he likes the popping feeling in his joints, the stretch and pull of his bones, almost just to remind himself that he’s human, almost just to rub it in sukuna’s metaphorical face. he likes breaking up his concentration, dividing the darkest thoughts in his mind with an audible crunch like gravel under his shoes, like his scull under sukuna’s hand, like his hopes and dreams once the last finger’s gone. he likes that its associated with blood and gore and violence, he likes that it’s what the hero always does before they throw the first punch, he wonders if maybe he can still be a hero despite the destruction he’s caused. when his mind is racing against the clock and his skin feels tight and his heart won’t stop hammering against his ribs; when his eyes keep jumping around and it always feels like there is someone standing over his shoulder, laughing in his ear; the pop pop popping of his bones bring his feet back to the ground. yuji doesn’t know why everyone is so bothered by him cracking his knuckles. maki kisses her teeth, telling him he’s going to have “old man hands by 18.” yuta grimaces, tells him he might effect his hand-to-hand combat abilities if he keeps that up. panda covers his fuzzy ears and tells him that the noise is offensive, loud, too abrupt, another example of ridiculous human antics. and inumaki. well he just stares straight through yuji like he can peel back his skin and read the contents of his soul. it’s inarguable, however, that yuji’s newest habit bothers megumi most. his eyebrows furrow, his eyes harden, his jaw clenches every time yuji bends his fingers. even before they crack, if megumi is in the room and yuji lifts his hand to crack his knuckles, there’s a 99% chance he looks up and sees megumi looking back at him, displeased. one rare day, yuji and megumi are sitting around just waiting for someone to tell them what they’re supposed to be doing in gojo’s absence. yuji’s fighting back against the sickly feeling in his stomach and tightness in his chest by bouncing his leg. up and down and up and down and up and down again until finally it starts to boil. his breathing is picking up and he feels twitchy and he hates when this happens, it never used to before. he exhales shakily and makes a fist with his hand, pressing the edge of his knuckles against the middle of his palm. he’s eager to hear the sound, to reset his body and thoughts, to refocus is mind. before he can force any weight onto his fingers, megumi grabs his wrist, looking at him carefully. yuji is confused, normally he would ask megumi what’s wrong but he can barely even see the boy in front of him past the rapidly welling tears. before he knows it, his cheeks are wet and his shoulders are shaking and he can hear himself making the most desperate, pathetic, broken noises while megumi sits there and watches. yuji tries to stop, telling himself he looks weaker than megumi already thinks he is, this isn’t the place to get all worked up, really, he has nothing to cry about and he’s just about to go pick up his fist again when theres a gentle tug from where their skin meet. megumi just shakes his head and pulls yuji in, wrapping his arms around his friend. shocked, yuji hangs limply, surrounded by pine trees and black and kindness. there’s that funny feeling he keeps getting recently, not the shakiness or the overstimulation or the tightness rendering his lungs useless, but the light, ticklish, youthful feeling that spreads out from his chest whenever he sees megumi. it’s time for a new habit, yuji thinks.
wake up everybody we’ve got another destiel canon in the spanish dub situation, satosugu just went canon in the english dub - they changed the “but my soul knows otherwise” line to “but MY HEART AND MY SOUL knows otherwise” im SHAKING
AGAIN I AM SAYING how much I fucking notice Gojou’s influence on Megumi
Megumi scarcely ever mentions that this hooligan raised him, then he subconsciously emulates him over and over when Gojou’s no longer there to take the lead.
[ID: A three-quarters headshot of Nanami, wearing his usual blue collared shirt and yellow splotchy tie. He has a small smile and has one eyebrow raised, as if softly indulgent. The first image is a lineart-only version, and the second is coloured in. END ID.]
Now this Gojo looks like the one in the jjk vol 26...
gege artstyle changing for him is really so cool to see because he looks way too soft and chubby now comapred to the sharp jaw and pointy nose in the early days...
i still can’t get over how yuta’s fake reason for going after yuji is that sukuna cut off toge’s arm. not “he killed all those people” no the “believable reason” he gives the higher-ups for being down to kill yuji is that he supposedly harmed TOGE.