I just cannot let go that Megumi's model "good person" is Tsumiki, his sister. When he thinks of who deserves to live a long, good life, it's her because to him she is the kindest, and most pure hearted person. So understand how important and just. HUGE. It is that next to Tsumiki, someone he holds in a pretty much equal regard is Itadori Yuuji, the boy who saved him by eating a special grade cursed object. "I just couldn't bear to see a good person." "Selfish, emotional reasons."
What gets me more is how often Yuuji and Tsumiki are set up side by side. When asked his type, Megumi thinks of Tsumiki first. And of course we have a facet of geniuses (sarcasm) going "incest?!" He thinks of Tsumiki, and then he answers someone with "unwavering humanity" per one of the translations. We see constantly how much he views Tsumiki as an ideal human being. How she embodies "goodness". She is an example of unwavering humanity. (Now I'm putting this in parentheses because I'm unsure of how true it is so I'm separating it kinda, but it is said that Yuuji's name also translates to unwavering humanity, which is like. Does it even need to be said. But it actually doesn't matter if this is true or not because--) It also so happens that someone Megumi equates to Tsumiki is Yuuji. Someone whose humanity he guards, defends, and believes in with his LIFE.
β οΈ Manga spoilers ahead
...and then we get to the climax, the worst of it all. His body is taken over, stolen, and what Sukuna does to Tsumiki, Megumi is mentally broken. After EVERYTHING he has been through, he can't go on. But for a moment, he rehearses what would have been a perfect life; domestic, mundane, peaceful, with the people that matter most to him standing side by side ahead of him. Two wonderful, good people. Like I see people say "oh he would love for tsumiki to have someone like itadori" in a romantic way and i just dont think thats it at all. Megumi wants the two people he loves to surround themselves with other, equally good people. He doesn't see himself that way, so he's not really in the picture as much as he is a spectator.
It also speaks to how much he values Yuuji, to completely open up his family to him. His ideal life was for Yuuji to be a part of his family.
But what I think of this also is that he also views Tsumiki as a role model, of sorts. I don't think he's quite like her, obviously not in the way that he believes that she is "good" and he is "not", but that Tsumiki is who everyone should want to be or be like, or even someone to have in your life. And, right alongside her is Itadori Yuuji, whom he thinks of in the same way, but inherently differently because of how person it is that Yuuji even exists in his vicinity. Yuuji saved him when they were strangers, and continued to fight to save him and protect him and help him whenever he could, because Yuuji is kind, and he is good. They were strangers at the start of the year, and yet he did all of this for him. He stayed. He continued to show up. He continued to care and care and care recklessly and wholeheartedly and sincerely. Because he is good. Tsumiki is his sister, his family, and that implies a dynamic from the jump, but Yuuji came into his life and changed him.
So i think back again to Megumi's type. Someone with unwavering humanity. Someone like his sister, his model of humanity and goodness. Someone like Yuuji, who matches it to a T.
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