#cursed corpse

Panda is a second-year student at Jujutsu Tech. He’s assigned “semi-grade 2″.

Despite being a cursed corpse made by Yaga (“abrupt-mutation cursed corpse”), he possesses intelligence and is capable of having feelings. His intelligence is proven by the fact that he was able to think ahead of Mechamaru.

He thinks human beings are gross and their principles are weird to him, but he still respects them as a species.

Panda does not have a heart but instead, he has three confirmed cores: the balanced Panda core, the power type Gorilla core of his big brother and an unknown type core of his big sister, which was destroyed by Mechamaru. (I speculate that it’s a defense type core = “shy big sister”. And we also do not know how much time or the conditions a core needs to recover.)

Furthermore, Panda can fake his cores’ locations by using cursed energy manipulation, therefore successfully tricking Mechamaru into thinking that Panda was hit fatally.

Note: Normal cursed corpses only have a single core that is located at the spot where the strongest concentration of cursed energy is. They do not have the ability to think or feel. An example: Kathy (the cursed doll who attacked Yuji during his interview) or the cursed doll that was used during the Movie Appreciation Training.

We know some stuff about the Gorilla core: The Drumming Beat attack is a ‘technique’ that makes each hit resonate, his specialty. However, it “goes wild with cursed energy”, so Panda cannot use it for a long time in a fight as it uses up a lot of cursed energy.

What makes Panda special?

Tutorial on how to create a cursed corpse (chapter 147):

An independent cursed corpse is created by replicating a soul’s information by using physical information. In essence, you use something physical (DNA maybe?) to somehow recreate the soul’s information.

Afterwards, you insert the soul’s information you have created into the cursed corpse’s (premade, physical? I imagine it to be some kind of glassy orb?) core. The same has to be applied to the other two cores. There will be a total of three inhabited cores. However, there is a catch. Those three souls need to be compatible with one another.

The three souls must constantly observe each other, so they will be stabilized and a unique main personality will emerge (”give rise to self-awareness” in the manga). I believe Panda talking formally to Yaga when he was a baby was a direct effect of the instability of the souls in the first stages.

After three months, the cursed corpse will have fully independent cursed energy to use freely = self-supporting cursed corpse that doesn’t drain out its creator’s energy.

I strongly believe out of every independent cursed corpse Yaga ever made, Panda came out the best. And it’s most likely that Panda is also his first ever made.

As for the “abrupt-mutation cursed corpse” thing, I think that’s because Panda has the ability to transform into Gorilla and ??? mode.

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