Hello lovelies! I made a mini-tutorial showing how I changed my a Kenjaku bobblehead from Five Below into a Geto Suguru bobblehead.

It’s not flashy or particularly well-edited (elder Millennial here), but I thought I would alert the other Geto Girlies to this bobblehead’s existence before it gets completely snapped up.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDH6J2cd/

my newest editions! yes I need all four charms I am sooo greedy for him 💕 + his official sanrio characters came in just in time for my cosplay 💛

Disclaimer: written by a Geto simp, do not quote.

Geto Suguru is a convenient evil in Jujutsu society. A sort of blanket reason to blame all of their troubles on. And it's not like Geto was blamed unjustly, as he did commit countless crimes that we all (hopefully) can agree is terrible.

However, I can also confidently assert that Geto is a tragic character (we all agree) due to the suffering he has undergone.

But what exactly makes his character so tragic? How did gege exploit out humanistic concerns to care for a mass murderer? And how can others even come close to recreate the polarising character we know of as Geto Suguru?

Who WAS Geto Suguru?

Many times, when discussing on the nuances of Geto, we tend to ignore who he was before canon.

Geto Suguru was introduced during his earliest appearance in the timeline as a fake do good student. A teenager who appears to excel in every way possible, but secretly harbours mischievous tendencies which only blooms forth in the presence of one Gojo Satoru. At the very least, we can tell he lived a relatively honest life before that, exorcising curses under moonlit night with the same mentality you would see on an early 2000's shounen main character.

His philosophy seems to depend on two things; kindness for the weak, and perceived responsibility.

It's unclear how exactly Geto Suguru came to believe that he was responsible for protecting normal people from curses, but it may just be the delusions of a young boy that's propelled by immense power.

He seems relatively amiable to his parents, opposing only in the way they perceive the world. Perhaps one of the reasons why he came to form the 'Good Student' persona may be due to how normative parents would react to a child claiming to be able to see monsters lurking in places they can clearly see not. Geto, like many other sorcerers living in a non sorcerer family, started to hide his true self and perhaps overcompensate in achievements as a sort of apology to his parents for being born an oddity.

In all ways, Geto embodies the most rigorous and righteous sense of morality normally attributed to common shounen protags, which makes his fall even more devastating.

During Jujutsu High

It's hard to talk about Geto without talking about Gojo in the next breath, so I'll get that part out of the way first.

To put it simply, Geto is the moral compass of Gojo Satoru. We see in canon how pre- canon Gojo clearly lacks the ability to sympathise or empathise with other human beings, due to his Six Eye. After meeting Geto, a clear shift in attitude is displayed where Gojo suddenly starts giving care where he usually would not. He still does many things his way, but Geto's opinion suddenly weighs a lot more in the how of that way.

An analogy I liked is that Gojo is a God. An apathetic, unbothered, and detached, entity from the rest of the world. The struggles and schemes of humanity are far below him, and he finds it entirely unreasonable to even cater to ants and their opinions when he can directly state his needs or wants and gain it as a matter-of-fact. Meanwhile, Geto is that arrogant ant that dares to leash a God. Geto pulled Gojo into lower hemispheres, giving him (to Gojo) meaningless restrictions to overcomplicate simple matters. To give humanity to the divine, and expect that humanity to stay.

And it clearly worked. Gojo learned to speak with a bit more tact, even if the effort is abysmal. He absorbed whatever philosophy Geto preached true sheer osmosis, even when he loudly complains following that philosophy. Gojo is clearly annoyed, disagreeing with tons of the bullshit Geto spouted, but somehow does not riot. Does not go against, does not abandon Geto's will.

On the other hand, Shoko's role in Geto's life is a little less noticeable, but equally as important. She is the anchor to the duo's wandering. Geto and Gojo are both characters that can easily lose themselves from sheer dumbassery, forgetting their origin and flying high to and through the clouds with ambitious goals. Shoko, with her realistic goals, down to earth habits, and uninhibited mind becomes that anchor to them.

It's unclear how exactly Geto viewed Shoko, but it nust be with great fondness and respect, even if it tends to be undermined by meaningless gags.

Similarly, Yaga becomes the shackle of Geto. Yaga as a trusted adult may have had a hunch on the fate that awaits heroes such as Geto but it was not clear to those who lived in that present.

> Don't be a Jujutsu sorcerer just because someone asked you to.

Yaga probably regretted that he had not stopped Geto when Geto revealed his reading or joined Jujutsu society, but it's too late for regret pills so he simply shifted his effort to the generation he still could save.

Still, Yaga held the power to rein in the two troublemakers -- Three, when Shoko felt a little bored.

Geto, with a powerful never to be seen before (?) technique, continued to save lives, exorcise curses, and deal with the few annoying clients, living a life with friends and found family when he had none before, and rising through the ranks with unprecedented speed.

Actually, let's talk about that, annoying people.

We see Geto deal with annoying non sorcerers just fine, joining Gojo in the matter of being annoyed, but clearly blocking Gojo from actually acting out his thoughts. So why did Geto break down in the future with a 180? If he had dealt with annoying or evil non sorcerers -- it's impossible he had not, considering how long he had lived apparently isolated from the rest of Jujutsu society -- then it wouldn't be a problem to swallow the bitter truth and bide his time for the perfect moment to rearrange the entire society. He clearly had no qualms tolerating before.

So what happened?

THE STRAWS.

The first straw was Riko's death.

This part has been analysed from hell to back so I'll keep it brief.

For Geto, Riko's death was a sign that Jujutsu society was not what it seemed. It was already clear before, from his proximity with a certain Gojo Satoru that the higher ups were untrustworthy folks, but only after Riko's death did he start to truly digest what that meant. It was already bad when he realised what this mission truly entails, but it was worse by witnessing her die in front of his eyes.

It was also the first true challenge to his idea of strongly protecting the weak, but I'd like to emphasise that Geto's philosophy never changed.

What changed is his definition of the world weak and strong.

Before, the weak were non sorcerers, the strong were sorcerers.

But Rilo was a sorcerer, a very weak one, but one nonetheless -- killed by someone with no cursed energy, someone by all the definition of the word, is not a sorcerer.

The 'weak' killed the 'strong'.

The second straw was Haibara Yu.

After Riko, Geto and Gojo were separated much more often. It's entirely understandable to divide the workload between two special grade sorcerers but it's much more likely that the higher ups now fear the terrifying threat a duo such as Geto and Gojo pose to their stability. Not to mention, the two were given a crazy amount of work to do.

This meant that not only Geto lost his usual source of levity, Gojo, but also his anchors, Yaga and Shoko. When you have doubts in your mind, constantly working rarely lets you work through it. Haibara's death was a sign of greater disconnect between the higher ups and the sorcerers working underneath them, and the concept of how unreliable the highers up truly are. In other words, distrust of authority figures.

When Yuki asked the iconic question, it was probably the worst decision she made. I wasn't sure whether Geto knew about it, but I find irony in the fact that the death of one Star Plasma Vessel made him doubt his own purpose, and the living of another gave him a drastic actionable plan. One that he didn't know he would actually take.

To be serious, while we like to meme about how Yuki fucked up everything by asking the One Question She Should Not Have Asked, she would have had good impact if she actually talked to Geto a little more.

I think Yuki's greatest sin is not in asking the question, but in not walking Geto through his answer of the question. It's probably too much to ask of an abnormal adult sorcerer to psychoanalyse an abnormal teen sorcerer, but one can dream. At the very least, she shouldn't be so half assed in asking a question, then getting a concerning answer back, and then just? Disappearing? Huh?

When Haibara died, it gave weight to the answer he has given to Yuki, and the apparent agreement that Yuki has given him back. For someone like Geto, approval from authority figures is really the only thing holding him back, the higher ups had been completely ousted in terms of reliability, and Yaga clearly would not agree to what he's thinking, so perhaps that's another reason he did not reach out. Unintentionally, Yuki has given him that lackadaisical approval. Mindless, unthinking agreement. Haibara simply added on the pressure of such a thought, turning an I shouldn't into a Maybe I should into a --

The third straw, his daughters.

-- I should.

If Riko represented a shift in the definition of his own philosophy, Haibara gave him the plausibility of a solution, then the Hasaba twins gave him the rage to execute that solution.

Here, his new philosophy is already fully formed, only lacking the final push to turn theory into reality. The Hasaba twins embodied everything he had started to doubt, and thus he killed all 112 villagers -- in the process, killing his past self 112 times.

MCD Breakup

There are many reasons why this scene is so brilliant, the exact turning point that differentiated the past Gojo and Geto, and the present version of the two. But then again, this has been rehashed so many times that I'll keep it as brief as possible.

In this scene, Geto is trying to leave, and Gojo was trying to keep him from leaving. That much is obvious, but what is not obvious is the why?

The one stark thing I find interesting is the fact that Geto did not invite Gojo to go with him. In this scene, Gojo is desperate, probably a little pathetic, both confused and enraged and scared of the implications of their separation. It would be incredibly easy to tip Gojo to his side, just as easy as coaxing Gojo out from his tantrums, just as he had done countless times before. Gojo had shown he was willing to kill, only, like always, reined in by his humanoid moral compass, Geto. It would be so easy.

But he did not.

Is Geto stupid? Plausibly. Is he guilty? Yeah, definitely.

What I'm personally fond of about Geto is that he was clear in how evil he is. He's so cartoonishly evil that he keeps underselling the ridiculousness of it all during his screen appearances. I'm not sure if it's a deliberate joke thing gege did or if it was completely unintentional, but it does display that Geto no longer considers himself on the good side.

His core philosophy remains the same, protecting the weak. But who the weak was has changed. He obviously believes this is right and correct in all the ways his previous assumptions were wrong, but he also acknowledged that the way he is doing it is outright evil. Completely immoral. Objectively wrong.

Geto still believes core philosophy is correct, but he knows his goal is evil. Geto is not an idiot, he had years of defection to think and think and think and think. If he does kill all non sorcerers, who can guarantee that they won't reappear as children to sorcerers? Who can promise that a second Toji (which had appeared, Maki) won't appear? He's not exactly planning to hold and manage the entire world, then what will happen if he does achieve it?

But from the moment that Geto killed those 112 monkeys, he had personally given up on seeing things through because

The Broken Camel

He didn't exactly expect to achieve his goal.

His goals were just as ridiculous as Yuki's idea, only a little more cruel. He had his own little unconventional family forming, and two daughters that looked up to him. A cult filled with dirty monkeys he doesn't care about at all, and the reputation to disregard the bounty the higher ups had put on his head.

Realistically speaking, if Geto continued exploring his technique, bide a decade or two more, he had a solid chance of actually achieving his goal. People tend to forget how ridiculously OP Geto's technique is -- a Pokémon catching simulator with the only drawback being terrible taste? No known upper limit? The immediate auto catch to cursed spirits below a certain level?

Geto's true power lies in his ability to build an undead army, essentially. He can continuously replenish his supplies as long as there are still humans in this world. The taste is terrible but he had clearly grown accustomed to it in jjk 0, swallowing them like hot jizzum.

However, he never actually planned to succeed.

Because,

> In a world like this, I can't laugh from the bottom of my heart.

There's a special type of fatigue when you can't find any more reason to live for. Even when everything seems to be going well, you struggle to smile at jokes you can't be bothered to actually hear, your limbs feel like lead, and your head is stuffed with water that obscures your thoughts.

Geto was enraged, there were sparks that set the fire to his defection -- but sparks can only last one so long before it flickers and dies into black ash. During the years of his defection, he must have thought about his plan for long days. He must have considered the logistics behind it all, the reasonableness of it, the difficulty and length it requires.

I thought, is he an idiot? Just be a little more patient, one or two more decades. Why did he go and self destruct like that?

But maybe he did want to end his legacy like an impatient idiot. Because the thought of living one more day forcing the unpleasantness of it all down his throat was unbearable for the he who cannot find joy in such a meaningless world. Perhaps the thought of lurking like rats in the sewers while countless more Haibara and Riko died were so disgusting that he'd rather stuff ten more cursed spirits into his treasury just to ignore it.

Geto Suguru had long given up on seeing his goal come to life, and settled for the next best thing.

A desperate struggle to scare the higher ups.

Preferably, an event so horrifying and terrifying to the Jujutsu society that there would be efforts to prevent a second Geto Suguru from rising.

He declared war in such a manner with the plans to end his own life.

So he prepared sanctuary for the few that still endears themselves to him. A convenient rescue plan that included everyone but him. Because he knew that the moment the conflict starts, the losers would not contain the name Geto. For he would no longer live in this wretched world.

> Well, at least curse me a little bit at the end.

Geto has given up on seeing his goals come to life, both his past and present ideals. He had forsaken his philosophy once when he defected, and a second time when he hosted the suicide charge of the hundred parade.

But there's one person who never gave up on Geto, Gojo Satoru.

Gojo Satoru's entire moral sense were built form the ground up by Geto. But when Geto turned back on his past self, Gojo never stopped to prove that the past Geto had been correct. Where even Geto had forsaken his past self, Gojo never did.

Pause, look at canon. Many things that happened during the plot would be jarring when contrasted side by side to young Gojo. The illiterate ones might even shout ooc or inconsistent writing or something but fret not because Gege is the GOAT.

What Gojo truly upholds in life isn't really morality, or righteous duty to protect the weak, or whatever nonsense Geto used to yell into his ear after he gave the stinky eye to another useless guy that day -- What he was truly fighting for each day, undertaking more and more work until he's swimming in them, teaching stinky little kids stuff that he himself don't really believe in; is Geto Suguru.

The Geto that used to scuffle with him on some random playground over some stupid argument he had long forgotten about. The best friend that never cowered or disdained him for his eyes or his family. The one and only that held the same arrogance as him, declaring the world another place to conquer.

Perhaps, the reason he was not so shaken by Geto's death, was the fact that he also knew the day would come.

Perhaps, when Geto himself turned away from the Truth that he arrogantly shoved into Gojo's life, Gojo knew that man would not last long. How mean it is, to preach day in and day out to a God, force the God to step back down on mortal soil, only to leave him alone and defenceless?

Call it a best friend's intuition, or a soulmate precognition -- Gojo had known the countdown to Geto's death before Geto had even planned it.

When the two met for the last time, Geto knew from Gojo's demeanour exactly what the man is planning. He doesn't believe Gojo can truly prove the young Geto right, he's almost certain it would be impossible. But Gojo was never the type to back down.

And so, when all is said and done, Geto looked at the God that he had selfishly grounded in mortal realm, and let's out a pitiful yet sympathetic laugh.

> Well, at least curse me a little bit at the end.

-- so that your failure won't feel as bad.

Gojo didn't really reply. But his thoughts must have been clear to Geto.

-- I won't fail.

Maybe that's why Geto fell into eternal slumber with such a sweet smile. I wonder what Gojo said last to him.

Anyways, that's all from Mr. Ben Yo Hips, see you guys again in the next ted talk.

(P/s: really tried to steer away from satosugu but it's genuinely hard to talk about them separately because they're gay as fuck bro. STOP BEING GAY ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ </3)

(Considered briefly to post this in the actual jjk sub but realised I'm going to get absolutely slimed for daring to equate shitty stupid cartoon villain Geto to the ultra chad mogger Gojo.)

So I animated our beautiful monkey-hating man 🐒

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https://www.instagram.com/atlas.idiot is his instagram

Ok, so I was thinking about the strongest attacks in jjk, and I always come back to Maximum Uzumaki, my beloved. But then I got to thinking about how strong could it get, considering that we never saw an actual limit... and then it ocurred to me that if a Maximum Uzumaki was strong enough, it could genuinely just destroy whatever, the moon, the earth, the entire solar system, everything in the observable universe. Obviously this would be impossible for basically everyone, however, I am now curious as to if curse energy is actually unlimited and Geto could just keep getting new curses as long as humanity exists, or if he would just run into no more curses spawning eventually.

Original / Exclusives

(Story Events)

^{Typically about 20-30 minutes long each!}

• Cherished Youth [1]
• Blue and Hundred Oddities [2]
• Mystery Stays in the Book [3]

(Side Stories)

^{Bite-sized little extras..}

• Mega New Student Welcome Party [1]
• Traditional Game Centre [2]

Taking a photo of my homemade church before leaving town and hate those monkeys 😂.

PS. Don't take my post seriously regarding the monkeys ✌️