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I read all the way until the end, and we need more people like you, fr. this was so well-written!!! ty for pointing out that megumi CANNOT bounce back like that. I feel like some people forget that he's just a 15 year old boy who lost the only two people he could call family. my little pookie bear, I feel for him :(((
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okay, i think some of y'all has forgotten so im here to remind people. megumi is not something specifically made to be a cage like yuji. he should be gone gone the moment sukuna shoved that finger down his throat. the fact that he was able to hold back sukuna's power down that low in chapter 212 was a feat that some people like to downplay. he should not be able to do that, coz he was not made by kenjaku to be a cage like yuji.
And people comparing Yuji and megumi's suffering and calling Megumi weak for not getting up IMMEDIATELY. Like why are we acting like Yuji got up on his own? Like no one helped him every time he broke down? Chapter 8, yuji let sukuna completely take over, and Megumi helped him out by telling yuji he never regretted helping him. He needed someone's words to bring him back up.
Then Shibuya happened. I think some of y'all forgot this, but yuji GAVE UP in Shibuya (in an eerily the same manner that megumi is giving up rn). If Todo did not teleport him to safety at the right moment he would be dead. And then he was given a pep talk by the man Todo himself, coz he was crying on the floor from all the traumatizing shit he had to go through (which is understandable, they're just kids ffs). Not only that but nitta gave him false hope too by making him believe that there's a sliver of hope for nobara. Only then did he stand up to fight again.
After Shibuya, Yuji was roaming around with no direction coz he gave up then too. He would have willingly went to jujutech to get that execution and have all this thing be over with. He didnt fight back against yuta, coz he thinks he deserves death. because to him, as long as he's around people will suffer, in that moment he gave up too. Because he blamed himself for everything. But Megumi gave him a reason to keep moving forward. Megumi didnt come up to Yuji to say 'it was not your fault' coz he knows that shit won't work. Instead what Megumi said was 'it is our fault' sharing the burden of blame with Yuji as well. And 'start by saving me' to give Yuji a reason to push forward. Only then did Yuji decide to live a little longer. He was planning on dying after helping Megumi.
Yuji persisted because the people around him keeps giving him a reason to do so. megumi, nanami, todo and then megumi again.. all gave him reasons to live.
But Megumi is alone in the abyss for a goddamn month.. and the only person he was living for died by his hands. like what do people expect? If he stands up like nothing happened, what did sukuna even do all that effort for?
if megumi just bounces back like that, what did sukuna even do all that for? he waited for the proper moment to say 'enchain' (at the highest point of megumi's confusion), he risked his life just to get inside megumi, did some evil bath ritual that only uraume could do, which shouldve been enough to sink megumi's soul coz, AGAIN, he is not specifically made to be a cage like yuji. but sukuna wanna be extra sure so he targeted megumi's sister, was lucky enough that tsumiki was possesed by his number 1 stan so he didnt have to go looking for her, used 10s while fighting 'tsumiki' so megumi would blame himself further. and to add to that, refused to shift to his ogform against gojo - coz megumi already killed his sister, why not kill his teacher too? like - all that effort and planning! successfully done! and y'all wanted megumi to brush it all off IMMEDIATELY like... how?????
(if anyone managed to read this far, i just wanna leave you with a theory: yuji is the last horcrux. he's literally harry potter. thats my theory bye.)