Incredibly curious what Kenjaku thinks of everything in the whirlwind romance au. Iāve never forgiven Gege for not addressing the whole //waves hands// genderfluid body snatching brain being Yuujiās mom.
But even aside from that, their plan is so contingent on Gojo not knowing about them and Yuuji (eventually Megumi) eating the finger that I wonder how things will go. Despite the shadow of itself jjk has become by the end, thereās ideas there that I think are still very compelling. Will yet another genocidal plan get destroyed by the power of love?
Kenjaku is screaming into his own hands. He literally put out for this plan and it got completely fucked by his sonās bisexuality.
Gojo Satoru, the man who he was planning to overcome via pure shock value, is now on the lookout for someone with his distinctive head scars and knows he possesses corpses. His entire plan for the prison realm is now undermined and he doesnāt know if he should risk it. And his backup plan of bringing back Sukuna via Yuuji is now at risk because Yuujiās literally has Gojoās full and undivided attention at almost all moments that heās off campus, Gojo is trying to glare a hole into Yuujiās hand with his mind so Yuuji will stop putting it in Megumiās back pocket. Did he lose something in there.
And itās not even fucking Gojo as the only problem because his son is attached at the hip to the fucking Ten Shadows, who is rumored to have finally figured out heās a special grade and started acting the part.
The Ten Shadows is also something kenjaku didnāt exactly plan for.
The Ten Shadows is a wild card to him. Gojo Satoru had existed without the ten shadows being reborn for much longer than anyone expected. They usually are born within a few years of each other. But the Gojo clan announced that the six eyes had been reborn and the Zeninās silence became increasingly pronounced. Rumors were flying that the Zenin clan had been scorned by fate for failing to protect the last ten shadows.
I egregiously reuse my own backstories, if you havenāt noticed. Maki mentioned in sgg that the last ten shadows was killed as a child and that everyone knew the six eyes had done it. Thatās true in the whirlwind romance au too.
But the thing is that in both AUs, it really hadnāt been the Six Eyes. It had been Kenjaku.
Kenjaku was testing the bonds of fate. Canonically, the Six Eyes is bound by fate to the Star Plasma Vessel and Tengen, which is why Tengen requested Gojo for the mission with Riko. Kenjaku once killed both the Six Eyes and the Star Plasma vessel, only to have both be reborn in time to still complete the merger. Fate bound them to the destiny and Kenjaku couldnāt divert it. The only reason why the cycle broke was because Toji was the one who killed Riko this time. He has no cursed energy. He exists outside of fate and can break its bonds.
In the AUs, everyone said that the Six Eyes and the Ten Shadows were bound by fate, and it had merit. They were always reborn at the same time. They were always in enmity. And they always rivaled each other. While the six eyes and limitless, for example, was always an enormously powerful combination, thereās still discernible differences in the power scaling of the different six eyes, with Gojo Satoru being the strongest of them all.
The power of the reborn Ten Shadows user always seemed to track with the six eyes. They were always each otherās natural rival. And they always ended up in conflict with the other.
But the Ten Shadows was always just harder to pin down from Kenjakuās point of view. Not in terms of powerāin its relationship to fate. The Six Eyes had very discernible bonds, like its bond to Tengen and the Star Plasma Vessel.
But the Ten Shadows only seemed to be bound to the Six Eyes. And it was the natural opposite of the Six Eyes. Whereas the Six Eyes was a suffocating blunt force, the ten shadows was a sleeper hit. You can feel the six eyes bearing down at you if youāre within a mile of it. But you wouldnāt know it if the Ten Shadows was standing behind you until their knife was in your back. Kenjaku legitimately could not tell if it just wasnāt otherwise bound to fate or if he just couldnāt figure out how it was bound. The Six Eyes was a borderline impenetrable obstacle but the ten shadows was a wildcard. He wasnāt sure how it would factor into his plans.
Honestly he thought that kid was just gonna come back when he killed them. He thought itād be a few years and thereād be some new Zenin brat with those dumb fucking dogs popping up. No one was more surprised than him when fate didnāt immediately force that thing back into the cycle of birth and rebirth. He cannot fucking believe that actually stuck.
His theory was that maybe the ten shadows is legitimately only bound to the six eyes. Theyāre inverses of each other, after all. Maybe if the six eyes is burdened with fateās bonds the ten shadows only has a single tether. And maybe that strand of fate got fulfilled when Kenjaku killed the last ten shadows.
The ten shadows exists in enmity with the six eyes. And even if the last six eyes was fully innocent of the murder, no one believed them. The clans were plunged into brutal, bloody round of fighting because of this that frankly has yet to fully end. The Zenin clan have never forgiven or forgotten that the Six Eyes stole the last ten shadows right out from under them. It fuels the interclan rivalry to this day. And Gojo taking in Megumi made it so much worse.
But while Kenjaku doesnāt know the whole story, he has figured out that Megumi must have landed on Gojoās radar because of Toji.
Toji, who could sever the bonds of fate.
Kenjaku has literally no idea what Megumi can or may do if he gets involved. Before, at least he could rely on the fact that Megumi seemed to be completely unaware of his own potential and unable to properly use it. Now he has no goddamn clue how much of his own power that Megumiās figured out how to use.
And he doesnāt know if Toji severed the tie between the ten shadows and the six eyes. Are they still in enmity? If you listen to the Zeninās bitching, Gojoās just sabotaging Megumi and the answerās yes. But itās becoming increasingly less clear if thatās really the case.
Kenjakuās been fully fucked over by his son getting all moony eyed over the fucking ten shadows. And itās not like he can just make another vessel for Sukuna getting this one required waiting for the twin that Sukuna ate in the fucking womb to be reborn, possessing his dead wife, fucking him, and pushing out the baby after eleven agonizing hours of labor. Like Kenjaku cannot pick up a new one of these at the store he needs the one he already made
