i know it's cliche to love gojo the way i do. i know. but i genuinely cannot help it — gege made something close to a perfect character and then did what he did with him, and i have not recovered.
what gets me isn't his power or his looks or his voice (though the voice doesn't hurt). it's that he is a deeply tragic character underneath all of it. used from a young age, shaped into a weapon, and all he ever really wanted was to give the next generation a freedom he never got to have himself. there is something so quietly devastating about that.
and then he died for nothing. that's the part i can't get past. his death was shock value. it was character assassination dressed up as a plot twist. he killed the elders — which should have meant something, which should have changed things — and it was written off. it went nowhere. he went nowhere.
you can build a character that carefully, make them mean that much to that many people, and then just... do that. i don't think i'll ever fully make peace with it.
i know it's silly to get this worked up over a fictional character. i know. but he means a lot to me — enough to be tattooed on my body permanently, enough that i have a small army of gojo plushies. some characters just get you and you can't explain it. gojo got me.