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You can read the entire series at this link here.

I would reccomend starting at the first fic though, a Satosugu fic called Exponential Decay, because it's the shortest and it's mostly self contained.

WIP WEDNESDAY

Another work in Progress for my Azulaang fic Burn this City Down. Featuring my second favorite Fire Teen.

My last Jujutsu Kaisen fic won't feature any new ocs. It's just the conclusion to Michi and Lio's stories. I'm planning on the sequel to Owl of You which doesn't use any ocs because I actually don't have Tokyo Ghoul Ocs.

So there's no ocs for upcoming fic project, but I can introduce you to the two main characters for a completely original story I'm working on.

The Title is Generation Exo, and basically the idea for the story came from when people kept asking me if I was going to write an MHA fix it fic after I wrote my 10,000 essays on how much I was disappointed by the ending. I was seriously considering writing a fic where the league survives, but that seemed like so much effort for a series that I've mostly fallen out of love with that I'd be better off using those ideas to write my own superhero story.

So, here are the two heroes.

Anastassya Filippovna Barashkov

Nastya Barakov, also known as Nasty to the people who dislike her. She's the former leader of this story's equivalent of the League of Villains. She was raised her entire life to be a leader, and basically has been training to use her powers since she was 12 but she is basically a bully with an inferiority superiority complex and sucks so hard at being a leader than the entire team turned against her and tried to kill her.

She almost died but was saved by a random stranger. However, she's not particularly grateful to this stranger and instead of thanking him she decides to turn him into her lackey, and use him as a pawn for her revenge against her former team while pretending to be training him to be a better hero.

She's considered a madwoman by most of her ex-friends, she's dangerous and unstable, and is deep down aware that she's not a good person and doesn't think she deserves to have friends which is why she can't trust other people and relies on manipulation or outright abuse instead.

She can steal powers from others, but there are a lot of conditions for using her power. She can't just take them she has to form a contract with the original power owner to let her borrow the power. They have to like, actually sign something. She also can't control which powers she uses, when she decides to use someone else's power she has to roll a roullete and gets a power from one of the many she's collected at random. Basically like Chrollo but if he was forced to flip to a completely random page in the book.

Her hero name is Risk because of how much her power is completely up to luck.

Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

Also called Mysh by his friends, and mockingly called a Prince at the private school both he and Nastya attend because of how insanely rich his father is.

Mysh is the random stranger who saved Nastya. She is immediately surprised to find out he's not just some rando who passed her by on the street, but a superhero just like her. However, at the moment he's not interested in going to one of the hero schools or being an official hero, so he just uses an app his friend made for him to do random chores for people around his community who post on his app. He's basically an errand boy with superpowers.

Mysh is incredibly unambitious, and pretends to be a normal, boring person in order to avoid responsibility. Right away that's proven not to be true, because not only is he insane enough to just, save a random stranger on the street, learn she's a former villain and then let her stay at his house anyway. He also falls in love with her almost immediately. Mysh also, despite being inexperienced, possesses the power to control gravity which is insanely broken.

Unlike Nastya who had a shitty life, Mysh was born with a lot of luck. He basically won the superpower lottery by having a strong, easy to use power with almost no drawbacks. The only thing really holding him back is his own laziness and lack of drive. He's thoroughly convinced himself he'll never be anyone special and doesn't bother to try. He does dream of being a hero, but he doesn't want to leave behind his normal, every day life.

One good metaphor for this is Mysh is actually pretty decent at art. He fills piles of notebooks up with doodling, because he hates paying attention in class and only puts in the effort to maintain a solid C+ averange, but they're just doodles. He wanted to be a comic book artist when he was a little kid, but then his dad took an interest and said he would pay for art school which made Mysh immediately hide his notebooks away in his closet out of embarrassment. Since, being an artist isn't a REAL career, and he doesn't think he would ever be succesful at it.

Mysh is a really sensitive pure hearted soul, who is kind of too pure for the world he exists in. Which is why he is very blind to people's dark sides, and doesn't suspect Nastya at all which leads to him being manipulated for most of the story.

(Michi's official design just for you. He 's 29 in this not 18, he grew up from a Twink into a Mommy).

Michi is baiscally immortal. In the sense that his entire story revolves around the fact that prostitutes are treated like they're completely expendable by both our society, and also most of fiction. Michi the son of a prostitute and another victim of sexual abuse stubbornly refuses to die, because in this version his little life in worth something.

I'm glad you liked him. Michi is basically someone I created to characterize Gojo, by one being a narrator observing Gojo from the outside, but two being an unreliable narrator to illustrate that there's really no understanding Gojo the best you get as a reader is Michi's interpretation of Gojo which is heavily biased and flawed because of Michi's own projections and jealousies towards him.

However, Michi just kind of became a character of his own and left the role of Narrator. That's why I don't describe what Michi looks like at all until his conversation with Geto where he sees his reflection, like oh yeah, he's a person with a face. He has an identity of his own he's not just a pair of eyes watching Gojo. Michi himself is just a tertiary character in Geto and Gojo's narrative because he's observing from the outside but he's still his own person with his own story to tell.

Michi is the midpoint between Geto and Gojo, deeply empathic like Geto and yet unable to relate to his fellow human beings like Gojo even if for completely opposite reasons. However, I do think Michi has given up on the idea that Gojo will ever understand him in spite of the fact that he still feels a lot towards Gojo.

However, Michi still desperately wants to be understood, which is why in spite of acting like a mastermind who wants to entrap both Gojo and Geto in his scheme he goes out of his way to try to explain himself to Geto and try to get Geto to see the world the way he does because Geto is the only person, perhaps in his entire life, that has given any kind of inkling that he might care.

Michi wants to be cared about, but he feels like when his mother died, there was no one else in the world obligated to care for him or take care of him. Geto is just someone who genuinely cares, Michi didn't think people like him still existed in this world.

On the other hand I think the reason Michi immediately connected to Geto, is because Geto actually wears his human weakness on his sleeve. Geto's inability to show human weakness is what destroys his friendship with Gojo, especially since Gojo doesn't want to see that weakness in his best friend who is the only person he sees as an equal. On the other hand Michi is attracted to Geto because of his unwavering humanity.

Geto really is too sensitive to survive in this world, and Michi knows that, while Gojo is oblivious to that, but that knowledge just kind of makes Michi find Geto as someone precious. Geto is someone who's actually not all that mentally strong, he's vulernable and weak, and gets hurt because he cares too much and he can't actually just suck it all up and handle the strain of being a sorcerer but those things make him human in michi's eyes. He doesn't want Geto to suck it up and be stronger, he doesn't want Geto to become someone unfeeling and untouchable, to lose his sensitivty and empathy even if both things end up driving him mad. And after the fact, Michi decides to do the opposite of Gojo, and stay by his side and walk the same path as him.

I think simply because Michi wants to protect him. He doesn't want the world to kill this caring person the same way that it killed his mother, even though Geto has completely lost his way.

Uh so word of god. Michi is in love with Geto. It's not what you'd consider traditional romantic love, because Michi doesn't really feel romantic love. If I had to compare it to anything it would be Itsuki fell for Sensui.

Loving Geto for being pure as the driven snow and continuing to love him after he fell into despair and became defiled.

I don't think Michi would ever sleep with Geto though even though he sleeps around with men a lot. Not because I'm like Oc X Canon is bad, but because he thinks Geto belongs to Gojo.

Michi's plans definitely shifted halfway through when he connected to Geto so quickly. I think it's like you said, Michi believed he had to show Geto the cruelty of the world. It's that logic that parents sometimes say, "I have to be cruel to you to teach you, because the world won't be easy on you." Also, like Itsuki above I think Michi detected those dark impulses in Geto brewing just under the surface, and wanted to drag them up. Because one, he saw a common spirit in Geto, and two I think he knew Geto was repressing himself so hard he was basically killing himself to function as a cog in society.

I think Michi just wanted Geto to leave cursed society though, he never could have predicted Geto would go on to be a mass murderer, and never would have wanted that to happen. Even if he still stuck by his side after the fact.

Michi's decision to ask Geto to do it instead of Gojo is simultaneously a calculation (he knew Gojo was going to kill him without hesitation but he was counting on the fact Geto would hesitate) and also a small act of mercy. Even though Gojo would kill him and forget about him soon afterwards, he doesn't think Gojo should be forced to kill his own family member because of how inhuman that act is.

Gojo shouldn't have to get his hands dirty and give away just another piece of his humanity for Jujutsu Society yet again, is Michi's logic.

I'm glad you got the metaphor that basically the whole fic was built around. If you like this, it's an idea I explore further with Mei Mei's character in my most recent fic. Basically, Mei Mei like Michi has the same point of view. That Sorcerers are basically prostitutes who sell their body and enter a dangerous line of work where their lives mean nothing for money.

That every sorcerer is an expendable target, and when they die it's their own fault. That the system makes them put themselves in danger, and then blames them for becoming Jujutsu Sorcerers in the first place because they should have known the risk, nevermind how rigged society is against them. How the elders and people in charge do absolutely nothing to protect them.

Anyway, I'm glad you liked the fics and I try just as hard to explore similiar themes in my later fics. I basically like to build each fic around a central idea, like "Don't you hate how prostitutes always die in the beginning of mystery novels?" So I hope since you're such a good reader you'll enjoy the themes of my later fics.

Thank you so much for finishing my fic and sending your comments. As my favorite reader I wanted to do the responses to your comments justice so sorry if it took awhile.

But moving on.

You've got it, my central idea I was trying to get across was that pure white Gojo, almost transparently white Gojo, was innocent like a child. Innocent in the sense that children don't really know right and wrong, or at least Gojo doesn't really think about it. Gojo is, what happens if you gave godlike powers to a thirteen year old. If god was just a child with too much power.

Gojo's an interesting case because he loves being powerful, but he's not really power hungry or sadistic like Sukuna. Just because he doesn't act like Sukuna though, most fans sweep his abusive behavior under the rug, especially the way he just kind of stole Megumi's whole childhood from him so he could get a free child soldier. The thing is, I think, Gojo can be awful, and a bully, and he'll at any moment remind people how he can crush them and throw his power around to get what he wants. At the same time, I don't think he acts that way because he has bad intentions, just that society has raised him to believe this is how powerful people should behave.

Gojo is so nearly all powerful, he doesn't have patience for other people, especially normal and weak people. He just doesn't want to deal with people, and as an end result of just not thinking about other people's perspective at all and only about his own godlike one he's emotionally stunted and egocentric like a child would be.

Gojo is kind of like Gon from Hunter X Hunter in a way. It's easily to mistake them for being pure of heart, when they're kind of just kidlike and empty. One of my favorite scenes to cite from Hunter X Hunter is Gon asking the Phantom Troupe how if they have friends, then can hurt people who have nothing to do with them? Then, cut to the Chimera Ant Arc and Gon is threatening to gruesomely murder a blind girl in order to get back at Pitou. It's not really that Gon is a cruel person who hates blind people, it's just his complete lack of self-awareness like Gojo, can lead to him doing bad things because Gon only ever does what HE THINKS is right. He ignores everyone else's perspective including Killua who was right there next to him telling him to calm down.

The spider is basically a metaphor for how Gojo views other people. Especially weak people like Michi. Gojo doesn't have a reason to hate the spider, he just crushes it because it's smaller than him. He does it because he can. Gojo's strength empowers him to do whatever he wants, and while he doesn't abuse it as much as other characters it's wrong to say he never abuses it.

Gojo's general attitude is also "Well, it's their fault for being weak." This is kind of off topic, but it's kind of funny that Gojo also blames weak people for not being able to understand him. It's not that doesn't ever try to open up or communicate him, no it's because human beings are stupid, nonthinking plants compared to him.

Something which Sukuna of all people calls out. Gojo liked being powerful, and liked being on top, and he was perfectly happy to bully everyone underneath him. Sukuna even says the people who challenged him all loved him in their own way, he was loved by the people beneath him and he chose to crush them. So, why does he get to whine about being lonely?

Also there's a reason both Gojo and Michi think in math equations. Gojo's power manipulates the laws of physics, and Michi loves math, and relates everything in his narration in mathematical terms because he's desperately trying to understand Gojo who basically acts more like a machine programmed to perfectly follow a role than a person.

I'm glad you picked up on the Dionysian symbolism. I'm going to elaborate on that because that one line is actually something I put a lot of thought into at the time of writing. So, the idea to reference Dionysus in this scene came from a greek tragedy I read at the time called The Bacchae.

This is based on the Greek Myth of the King Pentheus of Thebes, his mother Agave and the punishment by the god Dionysus who is Pentheus's cousin. Dinoysus arrives in Thebes to punish his aunt for spreading a rumor that he's not the son of Zeus. In order to prove to Pentheus he is the son of god, he tricks Pentheus into dressing as a woman. Pentheus becomes crazed thinking he can see two suns in the sky, believes he has the strength to rip mountains with his bare hands. While Pentheus is still dressed as a woman, Dionysus reveals himself before a cult of his followers the Maenads, who then attack Pentheus, ripping off his limbs with his head, and tearing his body to pieces and then eating it.

In this metaphor Gojo would be the Dionsyus, the son of Zeus who's divinity is being called into question by his cousin spreading rumors. The same character who's goal is to prove to everyone he's divine, by orchestrating some heavenly punishment. Michi is the cousin who is questioning Gojo's divinity, because Michi tries really hard to see Gojo as a human being. Michi tries to fight Gojo, but Gojo remains an untouchable god. Michi in the end is "eaten" by Jujutsu Society when the dragon swallows him whole. Thankfully he lives though because Geto't not an asshole.

You're definitely right that Gojo experiences fits of madness (which like Dionysian cult members would also associate with being on the level of the gods, or seeing the world the way the gods too, or being possessed by Dionysus or touched by him). He is also someone who, distorts the world around him just by existing. It's like that panel you posted earlier, when Gojo Satoru was born into the world, curses simply got stronger because of his existence. It's kind of like he's a glitch in the matrix, he's not supposed to exist, but he does, and because he does he breaks reality.

Gojo is also a foreigner like Dionysus. A lot of people doubt Dionysus godhood because he came from a human mother, but Dionysus doesn't belong with the humans he belongs on olympus. Diyonsus is also like, you know, the most incomprehensible of the gods, the one associated with madness and ecstasy as you've already said. Also my teacher once said that the reason Pentus crossdressed in the Bacchae is to show that around Dionysus the world gets a little bit crazy, and things kind of flip. Man becomes woman. Sanity becomes insanity. The mortal pentheus temporarily feels like a god.

Gojo like dionysus also hates his divinity being called into question. Gojo is a stranger, but he almost prefers it that way. He doesn't want to be normtal like everyone else, he wants someone to live on olympus with him. That's why the only person he acknowledges is Geto, someone who also has a god complex, and Gojo sees both him and Geto as inherently superior beings on top of everyone else.

Which is why in the end he's still a stranger to his own best friend, because Gojo fails to see Geto is the most painfully human character in the entire cast.

I still have a lot of JJK meta that I want to write, but like not feeling pressured to write it every week with each new chapter is so freeing. I can write about whatever I want now. I might just become a Bachibro.

There are some villains who show so much grit and determination, they are basically Shonen protagonists. Especially since unlike the good guys they don't have PROTAGONIST PRIVILEGE TM, but still don't give up on their goals. The entire plot is against them, the story is rigged in the protagonist's favor because the good guys always win, and they just DO NOT GIVE UP.

God, the nuke twins probably take another college thesis paper to get all my thoughts out. It would take a while to write but yeah, that sounds like something that would be fun to write.

Also, I stan Knives and Vash equally if you play good victim bad victim you are little missing the point of the pacifism manga about pacifism and forgiveness. For any knives haters reading this post.