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Cus now I’m wondering if there is a way to make him face himself that ISN’T defeat/death. Or at least a permanent one that erases his memory and whatnot. Cus a forced time loop is something too. Also an idea explored in asura’s penance by asteriacrows if that’s interesting to you. Plot summary below:

(sukuna gets striped of his autonomy and free will and forcefully relives his choices leading to his death at yujis hands up to 20 times as penance except he can’t indulge in eating (taste), sleep (rest), or intrigue (nothing new to him) anymore. For a self sufficient warrior hedonist it’s horrible.

Also interesting plot line and missing information that’s slowly revealed about the 19th cycle which changed the rules of the penance to give sukuna more freedom in mysterious ways. Other major characters in the story [Gojo, yuji, Megumi, Mahito so far] are affected by the time loop as well, but only yuji is aware of it out of the 4 due to supernatural consequence of sharing a body with sukuna. The big question is what comes of sukuna once the 20 cycles of being fates puppet ends.)

I mean go wild with the ideas. Introduce a new Jujustu concept or take inspiration from spiritual theology about whatever. What do you think would make sukuna’s skin crawl to his core?

your ask came at the perfect time anon because i've been contemplating this exact thing for like a week lol.

the genuine simplest and most effective answer is just to take away his ability to kill people. whether by binding vow or CE confiscation or whatever, just make him unable to cut down all his problems. the brainworms would genuinely eat him alive.

what would make sukuna's skin crawl to his core? having to live as a human.

when sukuna says that he couldn't help but spit out the curses stirring in his viscera, lest he be immolated by his own curse, what he means to say is that if he didn't turn all of his hatred and pain externally, then he would turn it internally and die from his own curse. Basically, if he didn't kill other people, it would've been himself— there's no other way to cope.

in the yuki and choso vs kenjaku fight (forgive me for not remembering the chapter), choso asks yuki if he's even human. he willingly chose to live as a curse because he knew his brothers would never be accepted in human society for their deformities, only to realize that this was actually the easy way out and that he was forsaking meaningful relationships with humans (yuji) because of it. it's the easy way out because he could've fought for his brothers and tried to carve out a space for them in society, but instead decided to give up before even trying.

now is this not literally sukuna? choosing to live as a curse because his deformities wouldn't allow him to be accepted in human society, choosing the "easy way out" of burning everything around him rather than face his own curse.

which is why I think forcing him to live as a human would make him sick to his core. without an outlet to burn everything around him, it will inevitably turn inwards, just as he said. he WILL be immolated by his own curse. trying to live a normal day-to-day life, even without the social stigma around him, is already difficult enough as it is. he exists in a world that is not designed to accommodate him at all. on top of that, he is dehumanized in some way or form by the people around him— if not as a curse, then as a monster, if not as a monster then as a criminal who should hold no rights in society, if not a criminal then a tool to be exploited, if not as a tool then a freak to be gawked at, if not a freak then a specimen whose anatomy needs to be studied for sake of science, and so on and so forth. he would despise it and have no choice but to suffer, because after all, he himself says the weak have no choice but to chew on their own suffering and that they deserve whatever is coming to them.

so we have a scenario where 1. living in society in general is just difficult on a physical level, 2. living in society is difficult due to his dehumanization, 3. living among sorcerers is difficult due to his reputation, and 4. he has no outlet for this other than to be petty and cruel. it's genuinely his worst nightmare, having to live as a human and having to be caged at the same time. his strength and freedom are taken away from him, there's no more running away from his problems.

like i said in this post, every conversation sukuna has happens with his explicit consent. his strength and CT are a way for him to avoid any uncomfortable conversations or situations where he might have to face his own curse, by just killing whatever is the source of this forced self-reflection. but take that away? it's only a matter of time before his curse immolates him because it would be genuinely unbearable to live like this. he would have no choice but to face it again and again and have no way to eliminate it. so either he faces it or he genuinely just kills himself.

if I had any discipline when it comes to writing fanfic id honestly write something like this because i find it really interesting. alas the discipline is not there and i cannot write longfics for the life of me lmfao.

Says flocking with others brings weakness yet integrates his most favoured opponents moves into his own style.

Sukuna says others are merely a pass time until he dies yet goes out of his way to continue living past natural death so he can see and experience sorcery from another era aka fight and meet other sorcerers.

Uruame, a loyal monster who follows him unconditionally, could’ve been something but there was a distance in their relationship still (uruame has him on a pedestal and sukuna refuses to entertain that maybe he wants more from people than use).

He refuses to change and lives stagnantly for it until he is killed, only then when there’s no point in denying that part of himself does he accept the possibility of changing and companionship. He accepts the possibility of change only when he no longer alive to actually live that change in this life.

How are you gonna be a self-sabotaging hedonist?

this is what i love about sukuna honestly. the contradictions in his character are an active feature of who he is. sukuna is two-faced until the very end— not in the sense that he's disingenuous about who he is/what he desires (i have no doubt that he does truly believe that what he says is true), but that two seemingly contradictory readings of him and his actions can exist at the same time. he has two faces, not a mask, which means that he can simultaneously be a curse and a human, a calamity and a person, the devil and a god, detached from society while being fully shaped and reflective of it, having attained enlightenment while also having a distinct emotional immaturity. while i do believe that sukuna is a character best analyzed through doublethink, i do feel like him being a self-sabotaging hedonist makes a lot of sense if you really break it down a lot...

sukuna's self-sufficiency and his ideology around strength join very nicely to deliver this horrible lack of emotional self-awareness. to put it simply, his self-sufficiency has rendered it so that it's unimaginable to him that he would "need" someone else to fulfill him emotionally, his belief in might makes right makes it so that he goes completely unchallenged in this assumption. this metapost by irwd2 puts it really well:

But, at the same time, it seems that he finds it very difficult to look inwards. Whenever someone says something or has some attitude that goes beyond his ability to cut and slice what's in front of him (in short, makes him have to face his own curse), it seems that he has a couple of small seconds of reflection and after that returns to his normal state of violence and demonstrations of superiority. (tr. by me)

every conversation sukuna has happens with his explicit consent. there is no way to force sukuna into facing himself, no way to really change his mind, because he is so powerful that he dictates the terms of the conversation. if it causes him discomfort, he will just kill you. if he finds it offensive, he will do the same thing. it's why yuji pisses him off so deeply, because he's a problem he can't just solve by cutting this time.

at the same time, it is the exact same factors which create the conditions for his hedonism in the first place. his overwhelming self-sufficiency makes it so that sukuna always puts his own desires and needs first. to him, he's the only one that really matters, and focusing on others and actively taking them into consideration when making decisions undermines his own self-sufficiency. he doesn't need anybody's approval, anybody's help, and doesn't care about any of their opinions, because if he did then he wouldn't be fully self-sufficient. there will always be external factors (other people) influencing his decisions, and his own autonomy is something sukuna refuses to give up. his belief in might makes right and his own strength gives him the ability to actually be self-sufficient and hedonistic in this way, and makes it so that his hedonism is ultimately justified in his eyes. if he's the strongest, then that means his ideology is correct, since there is no way to concretely enforce another truth upon the world.

honestly, i'm not entirely sure if sukuna's hedonism is even actually hedonism, i feel like it's more accurately described as egoism/stirnerism/yangism. hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure, but sukuna seems to be more motivated by the pursuit of self-interest than anything else. or maybe there's another philosophy that more accurately describes his deal than what i know of. but i digress, either way, him being a self-sabotaging hedonist makes perfect sense because these traits ultimately come from the same root cause.

the only way to end this cycle of curses was to kill him, haha. this truly was our jujutsu kaisen

and this is why sukugo is peak. not gonna lie i'm a sucker for those "gayer than gay sex" type relationships and i really love when ppl lean in to that side of them. like they could be having gay sex but they could also be having some crazy convoluted grand display of intimacy that's basically gay sex but not actually gay sex. which is what happened in canon

we know from canon that domain expansions are a way of "showing someone your heart." consider that gojo and sukuna did this like 5 times and their domains are also the only ones that are just straightup compatible with eachother.