conversely i also like the idea of ritsu as a lawyer who comes across shigeo's criminal record and while he technically has done no crimes there are a few instances where police briefly connected him to a (clearly psychic-related) homicide before dropping it because they didn't have sufficient evidence to make an arrest. maybe even one actual instance where he was tried for a murder and was miraculously acquitted on the grounds of justified self-defense.

it's not necessarily a closely-held headcanon of mine, but i think it's great food for thought. because of the unreliable nature of DR:T's narrative and possibly Imposter's account in his FTEs, the actual amount of prospective Togami heirs is debatable, all we know is its anywhere from 16 to 108. given what we can derive about what kind of family the Togamis were from different installments of DR it feels uncharacteristically inefficient to imagine Kijo just went out there and banged that many women. especially in what i would assume is a relatively short amount of time, if making sure the contestants don't have too large of an age gap is of importance.

additionally, it's safe to say that the Togami family likely didn't see the heirs as actual children, or even people, no? the existence of the Legacy Crown Championship and (if we take it to be true) the ranking system they have for the heirs which is based on their mother's "breeding" implies that the heirs are, like in many rich and influential families, little more than a means to the ends of further expanding and maintaining their status quo. they are closer to tools, to cattle, or to product. they make as many as possible, pit the best among the bunch against each other, until they are left with only best.

and it's also easy to imagine that the act of having offspring with high-class women was transactional in nature; the Togamis get to add another one to the pile and these high-class women get a chance to become part of the Togami Family should their child win the championship. of course it's still possible that Kijo slept with at least a handful of women he had chemistry with under these terms, but to me there's a non-zero chance that at least a little over half the Togami children were born without coitus. given that the women or Kijo or both could just not be interested, the availability of the technology, and the fact both are most likely ridiculously wealthy, why bother?

hell, if the women themselves didn't want to deal with the struggles that come with pregnancy, they could even get a surrogate involved. since if both the egg cell and sperm cells are from the High-Class Woman and Kijo respectively, the child will be related to them and not the surrogate mother. neither have to actually bother with the actual baby-making process. it fits of the narrative of the supposed survival-of-the-fittest, cutthroat worldview Byakuya has in his FTEs

and wouldn't that be such a incredible, harrowing addition to Byakuya's background, if he was one of those children born from the cold sterility of said transaction? if he was produced for the sole purpose of becoming an heir? if he was born from glass to be among the dozens upon hundreds of other children to be either discarded for circumstances beyond their control, or made to beat each other down until only one is left, in the slaughterhouse that is the Togami family?

to be born without love and raised without compassion. to be the next arbiter of this inane cycle.

omg hiiii!! thank you for asking actually i don't think i've ever spoken at length about what i think about okkoita's dynamic (and i am so glad you're taking an interest to them given how small okkoita nation is Lmao)

i think this reply thread sums up a lot about what i like about okkoita, but in my own words: i think their narrative parallels are reeeeeaaaaaally good and really Awesome. i'll try to be comprehensive but pardon if this gets kind of messy and hard to follow

TLDR is that i think they're both extremely similar but also fundamentally different and this makes for a great hypothetical relationship where they understand each other in ways no one else can but also have differences that contrast each other really well. on top of that they have pretty agreeable personalities and their quirks bode well to a lot of classic shippy tropes/trends/shitposts/etc. (also this is more of a me thing but i like senpai-kouhai dynamics lol)

as for the actual quasi-analysis,

right off the gate both of them embody the 2 most common shounen protagonist archetypes:

yuuji is the naive and brash but also empathetic and considerate kid-next-door type who gains overpowered strength and uses it to protect his friends/save the world/etc.

yuuta is the shy meek nice boy who is the underdog of some social class or underwent some personal tragedy who gains overpowered strength and uses it to protect his friends/save the world/etc.

and they both embody and subvert these archetypes in really neat ways:

yuuji plays his archetype a little straighter but embodies it kind of tragically; in the wake of losing the people he loves he dehumanizes himself as a cog in the machine that exorcises curses, and uses this as a renewed motivation to continue using his power to fight on. slowly its becomes less about "i can't pretend that sukuna/the world of jujutsu/etc. has nothing to do with me, so i have to act" to "i have to justify my existence after all these people i cared about died [because of me]"

but it's also worth noting that to this end yuuji does as much as he can to prevent unnecessary casualties. from the beginning he takes issue with defeating mahito's transmutated humans and more or less considers it close to killing innocent people. in the culling games he tries to avoid murdering other sorcerors.

he dehumanizes himself but simultaneously attempts to hold himself to a near impossible kind of moral standard (given the circumstances) and extend humanity to others. at his core he is someone who is resilient and caring and that manifests in the way he values to the people around him, especially in how he can often lift up morale in ways others cant (him patting gojo in the back where everyone didn't know what to say to him is a prime example, panda even mentions early in the series that he's cheerful in a way that's rare for sorcerors)

yuuta looks like he plays his archetype straight until you see that he doesn't really uphold the same like.... moral virtuosity that yuuji has, for lack of a better word? neither are necessarily perfect paragons but yuuji is closer to being one where yuuta is further from it. a lot of the love and loyalty yuuta extends manifests itself in really monstrous ways, he's basically the poster child for the series' theme of love being "the most twisted curse of all"

rika is an obvious example, but there's also when he swears to kill kenjaku himself so gojo doesn't have to kill geto twice, his fight in sendai where it's implied that if his friends didn't need the points he would've murdered ryu and uro, piloting gojo's dead body for the sake of unloading his burden and "becoming the monster" for everyone else's sake, etc.

(for something specific to okkoita, you could say him choosing to execute yuuji so no one else can and because he knows he can revive him, is a show of this love too.)

yuuta cares deeply for the people around him, but the difference between him and yuuji is that he is willing to and has already gone off the deep end if push comes to shove. to quote the reply thread i linked earlier, yuuta believes in salvation through suffering. this does not necessarily mean his love is more or less than yuuji's, more so i point it out to highlight an interesting contrast in who they are as people how the mechanism of their affections work

their parallels even continues into modulo, and this post from user @/karutas explains it super well!

they are people who are so SO similar in both who they are and the pains they have suffered and the cycles they are in, which makes me inclined to believe that they can relate to each other on a deeply intensively all-encompassing level and can find comfort in each other because of it. but at the same time, they are still fundamentally different people in spite of this in several key ways which adds a lot of narrative contrast and profound sources of interpersonal friction when they realize there are things they don't see eye-to-eye on in spite of their shared similiarity. and it's just. it's just.... its just!!!!!!

i dont think he just gets plastered on the job and i do think he can hold his alcohol very well. just takes a few sips every now and again to try and ease himself down. i feel like he tried smoking for a while but didnt really like the smell and i can't really see him as a Vape guy. so he lands on just having a flask of kahlua and milk mixed together tucked in his trenchcoat and taking a sip before he has to do customer service.

2. What type of bad habits has shigeo gotten as a way to suppress his emotions if you have any to share?

1) the terumob situationship

i hit them with the satosugu kfc break up special basically LMAO. in my ageswap au a few details go similarly in canon and one of those is terumob's first meet. but aside from being averse to harming others due to what happened with ritsu he doesn't quite have the vocabulary to teach teru anything. they fight, become friends, and teru gets an ego check + the fixation on mob but he keeps a lot of his pre-mob personality. because they're the only other natural esper they know for basically their entire middle school to high school lives + the fact that they're both pretty isolated regardless they get really close and a little (really) codependent.

but they don't actually agree on a lot of their philosphies regarding how their powers should be used and viewed and its not like they have anyone who would really Understand to discuss this with so eventually the disagreement reaches a breaking point and they "break up" around end of highschool. teru eventually joins claw and shigeo takes up tome's offer in helping her run an exorcism office.

fast forward a few more years and lo and behold, they re-unite on the battlefield...

2) shigeo's bad habits

the one i have set in stone for Sure is alcoholism. pre-reigen he has a flask of kahlua and milk in his trenchcoat that he takes a sip from throughout the day. post-reigen he just drinks a lot after work. he's a heavyweight so its not like he's getting plastered on or off the job but it's not a very good coping mechanism either way.

this one isn't nearly as frequent, but he also self-harms. he often scratches/grips his forearms as physically trying to restrain himself to the point of injury when he feels like ???% is going to come out as a poor attempt of grounding himself / physically trying to cast ???% away. this is more of an abstract version of self-harm but 100% or ???% simply being unleashed also tends to do more bodily damage to shigeo beyond fatigue

other habits i thought of that im still on the fence about / i imagine he tried but gave up on:

i see him as having tried smoking but he didn't really like the smell so he switched to alcohol

i had a thought of him having slept around like once or twice more as a funny little "kageyama shisho has game??????" joke than an actual Thing he's done but i can see him getting lured to bed a few times while tipsy but ultimately not continuing because he's there's just too much going on in his head to enjoy sex like that and trying to get intimate with a stranger actually ends up making it Worse

similarly i had a thought of him having done edibles or something more as a funny little "kageyama shisho does drugs???????" joke than anything lol. after looking into it, it seems that kind of thing is outrageously difficult to obtain in japan so its probably not something shigeo can keep doing in the long run, or even do At All. ill probably still make jokes about it though

ive heard of interpretations of ageswap mob where he becomes dependent on meds (like, not-illegal-but-still-addictive meds) but i dont really know enough about both the technicality of acquiring or getting prescribed drugs like nor the actual experience of struggling with an addictiion/dependency in that way, so if it's something i end up wanting to explore ill definitely have to do more research

MATRACA OOMF HAIII!!!!!! and yes he sort of is in a way!!!!

one big conflict terumob has in this au is that teru really Really capital H Hates how mob represses his powers, and mob feels like teru doesn't understand the sheer terror of it all from mob's perspective. this is already something well-established since basically the moment they met and there's a lot of reasons why they see it the way they do but the literal boat im on is making me too dizzy to really put into words right now-- at some point teru figures out that mob repressing his powers is actually actively harming mob an he just doubles down on this even more. (and after the death pact he like, QUADRUPLES down on it.)

problem is, as an emotionally neglected child hiding behind a mask of conceited arrogance he doesnt really know how to express this worry very well, and as an adult he would sooner have his teeth and nails pulled no anesthesia no glue no borax than be honest in a way that sounds too vulnerable. so unfortunately half the time it sounds like he's just ultra horny for a no bars held rematch with ???% (to which mob obviously responds with a resounding "No??????? Are you fucking crazy??????" in various different fonts)

obviously teru's not a big fan of how destructive ???% but it's a part of shigeo kageyama and we all know how he feels about shigeo kageyama (a lot. he feels A lot of different things about him)