The Un-Chosen One

I've talked again and again on the parallels between Yuji and Geto, so what about Megumi and Gojo? If Yuji and Geto are both deconstructions of "The Hero", ie: they both want to be the hero of the story, but the story doesn't let them play hero. Then Megumi and Gojo are both a deconstruction of the chosen one. They are characters who both demonstrate realistically, what having all that power thrust upon the shoulders of what is otherwise a normal teenager would do to that person.

1. Being the chosen one, sucks.

There's a lot of visual parallels [taken from this tweet.] between Megumi and Gojo, especially of them as children, because they were both born into a similar situation in life. Gojo as a child inherited both the six eyes, and the limitless, he didn't do anything special really, just by being born he was already the strongest and disrupted the balance of the world.

Megumi despite being an outsider to the Zenin clan, not only inherited their strongest technique, something that could defeat the limitless, he also is the son of the clan's black sheep Toji. It's nothing Megumi did specifically, it's just something he was born into.

Gojo as a teenager isn't shown being exactly Mr. Altruistic good guy, he's not really Luke Skywalker in that he's all that excited about being the magical chosen one of the force.

Both Gojo and Megumi fall into conflict with their best friend who is much more interested in using Jujutsu Sorcerer as an oppurtunity to play hero and save people.

However, their attitude makes sense if you consider that they were born into the Jujutsu World and it's controlled basically their whole lives. Toji was going to sell Megumi to the Zenin clan, and when Gojo showed up on his doorstep, it wasn't to save him, it was to recruit him as a JUjutsu Sorcerer on his side. Megumi is considered a prodigy, but, just like characters like Mechamaru no on ever really asked if he wanted to be one.

I mean, Gojo shows up on his doorstep looking like this and making grabby hands, Megumi knows to an extent that Gojo's motivations aren't entirely altruistic he's being used. He has the potential to be the strongest sorcerer, but it's not like he asked for that. The things that Megumi actually seems to want, a normal dad, the love of both parents, his sister's safety, are all taken away from him.

Which is where we get to the next parallel between them. Gojo and Megumi, despite being given the strongest technique, are surprisingly agenciless characters. Yuji always runs to save someone. Geto literlaly breaks free from the entire sorcery world to become it's enemy. However, that's not really an option for Gojo. Can Gojo even quit his job? Of course he could if he wanted to, but rhe sorcerery world would collapse without him.

Gojo has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and it's something that holds him back and limits his options, and it's not like he can shrug his shoulders either (get it atlas shrugged joke) because the world really would collapse. Gojo is, callous, but he's not irresponsible. Which is another thing he shares with Megumi, even if Megumi isn't interested in saving everyone, he still thinks hard about who he can save. While Yuji and Geto are off trying to save the whole world, Gojo and Megumi are characters who at least think long and hard about the people they can save. It's precisely because they are not interested in being heroes, that this is just a job to them, that they can do this.

While they can seem callous, and even selfish, they both are responsible and feel the weight of their responsibility. They try to carry that responsiblity to some extent. They also go through very similiar arcs. Gojo isn't the strongest at first, but he nearly gets beaten to death by Toi, and experiences an awakening when he's fored to fight all on his own, and when he wakes up he goes just a little bit crazy. Megumi does the same thing in Yasohachi bridge, after holding himself back for a long time, he nearly fights to the death one on one. The same way Gojo was defeated by Toji, Megumi was handed a defeat by Sukuna at the very start of the story. However, being pushed to the edge rather than dying both of them come back stronger.

They have the strongest Jujutsu techniques in the story bar none, but even when they start to live up to the role of the chosen one, they're uncomfortable in the role, it chafes them. That's why they adopt a selfish attitude to protect themselves. Gojo can't save everyone because he's too busy being the world's support system. Megumi is literally a kid with no parents, and no support system, raised by the Jujutsu World, he's not really interested in being a savior because he was roped into all of this because who his dad was.

Megumi takes a very self involved attitude with these things, something he even admits to. He's only trying to be the hero for a few people. It's funny because Megumi pressents himself as the opposite of Gojo, Gojo is loud, noisy, constantly attention seeking boisterous and confrontational, Megumi is quiet, subdued, and avoidant.

However, it's Sukuna who takes an interest in Megumi's potential. Yuji bores him. They are opposites in their behavior, but they are both self involved in the sense that they place their goals and their ideals as more important than altruistic ideas of good and evil. Wielding that much power, they don't really feel like they are the good guys even. For Gojo, Geto was the good one, the responsible one, the one with ideals, not him. Gojo saw himself as someone willing to massacre the crowd and who probably wouldn't feel it, and he asked Geto what to do. Megumi always puts other people on pedestals of being the good one, Tsumiki is good, Yuji is good, Megumi never considers himself a good person either. It's because they look at themselves that way, Megumi is much more willing to make sacrifices unlike Yuji.

However, Megumi is also self-centered in the fact that much like Gojo he tends to be apathetic. When the leadership of the Zenin clan gets handed to him, he for the most part doesn't really care. It's interesting because it's all Maki would ever want, but Megumi doesn't want it, because it was just handed to him.

Megumi cares about, helping the people who are closest to him. The same way Gojo cares about helping his students. They both do their jobs, but they don't go out of their way to play politics or play nice with the elders, because they are for the most part uninvolved. They have to be, the crushing weight of responsibility and everything, if they weren't just a little bit selfish it would be too much for them.

It's why Sukuna is such a clever foil to both of them. Megumi and Gojo both have the potential to have the strongest techniques, but they're also not as selfish as Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer ever because there is something holding them back. Gojo is responsible to the sorcerer world, Megumi is responsible towards his friends and his sister. They're selfish, but they can't be all the way selfish either. By Sukuna's logic they would be the strongest if they were all on their own. Sukuna's quote is "He alone an the honored one, all he sees is his pleasure and his displeasure."

Megumi and Gojo are characters who occasionally toy with that attitude. They can get close to acting like all that exists is their pleasure and displeasure. Sukuna maybe, believes he can make Megumi become more like that. Gojo believes Megumi's true potential will come out when he learns to be more selfish, instead of acting like he has to take sacrifice bunts. There are times when Megumi does act this way and only think about himself not the consequences of his actions, such as him summoning his ultimate monster in Shibuya.

However in the end Megumi and Gojo are also not as alone as they think they are. They are human and being human they actually do want to be closer to other people. They can't be all the way selfish like Sukuna, or go full monster and care only about power. Even when Gojo tries to be a sorcerer all the time, Gojo is tricked by his human connection to Geto, and Megumi tries to summon Mahoraga and go out in a suicide attack all alone, but the story doesn't let him. The two of them are not alone, even when they want to be. Megumi has within him the potential to become all powerful like Gojo, the chosen one of the Jujutsu World.

However, I don't think that Megumi even wants that. While him and Gojo both share the role of the chosen one, Megumi has the potential to surpass Gojo by learning to work with others rather than being a one man show. Instead of carrying the weight of the responsibility of the whole world on his shoulder, Megumi can learn to share that responsibility - and therefore ultimately subvert his role of the chosen one.

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The Facade Master : because Khun is actually weak

So welcome to this very uncalled for essay about yours truly, Khun <3

⚠️ CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE WEBTOON ⚠️

1. Khun uses a strong cold front so people can't see how traumatised and weak he is

Yes! Khun is someone who hurts... A LOT

The best evidence Khun is GREAT at faking his well being is because you only notice the extent of his trauma later on on the webtoon.

Khun's interactions with Kiseia, his father (the old version of Eduan I mean) and the flashbacks of Maria are the rare moments we CAN SEE who Khun really is. I mean, there are several other moments Khun let's his guard JUST A BIT DOWN but most of those are related to Bam because you guys know... Khun is soft from Bam and stuff 😏🤣

BUT MOVING ON

1. Kiseia / the trauma of an empatic kind hidden soul - I think this one is the main topic, cuz just the fact that she is Khun's main antagonist, means he is VERY afraid of her. And why is that? Because deep down, Khun was traumatized by the fact that his biological sister killed herself when he decided to help Maria

Khun says his sister was very cold and he didn't interact with her much, but Khun is not the heartless dude he claims and shows to be (well, expect for his enemies and RACHEL)

Khun is actually an individual capable of strong empatic feelings. He analizes people and tries to judge their character based on their actions and non verbal language. When Khun formed a team to climb the tower and bitch Rachel stabed Edian's legs until he couldn't almost walk, Khun was in pure sock, and very very conserned for Edian's well being. He stayed up all night by his side to make sure he was all right.

When it comes to Bam, Khun is even more peculiar in his empaty... is almost a possessive kind of empaty. Khun doesn't want Bam to go somewhere he himself can't reach. That's why he hates when people (in the name hunt station) called him " God". But at the same time, Khun wants to shield Bam from those high expectations that might crush him. He doesn't want Bam to have that burn because... he knows the burden of high expectations

2. Maria / the deathly choise and first step to freedom- Maria is a very important person in Khun's life. By the little flashbacks we have, we can see that Maria has sort of an "outcast" in the Khun family because she was unusually kind. When Maria asked Khun if he would help her become a princess of Jahad, Khun had nothing to gain from it.

Khun usually manipulates people and does what he has to do to get that benefits him the most. But when it came to Maria... he choose the worst option. It wasn't a rational option, because Khun is VERY EMOTIONAL. He is bindled to his emotional self because he considers himself a very rational human being, which makes him unable to see how emotional heighted his choises are.

In truth, Khun was captivated by Maria. He was curious because she was different. He decided to help her because she showed him another option, another way... an escape route to a word Khun didn't even know it existed... the world of kidness, a world where life was valued, people didn't kill each other and he could be the child he was without having to be concern about power games inside his family.

And Khun chose Maria in the first place because he HATED those power games. Because he, in truth, kind and never wanted to take part on those dirty, manipulative games. Maria destroyed Khun's life. The price to pay was the heavy trauma and guilt of having his sister kill herself, but Khun got his FREEDOM

Maria presents Khun with the ideia of " struggling is beautiful" and Khun, for the first time, knows that life has value and his family ways are not all the world has to offer

3. Khun Eduan / all not to be and all he can be - Eduan represents Khun's incompetence in leaving the past behind. Even tho he was abandoned by his family, and wants to follow a different path from the Khun family's values and atitudes, Khun is unable to seperate himself from his origins.

But Khun HAS the need to make himself different from other Khuns, shown by how he felt the need to make a spear of his own, so his was not a copy of his father. He, by any means, doesn't want to be associated with Eduan, because Eduan represents all he hates in his family, in his previous life.

But Khun still uses his family name with "pride". More like... a guilt coat I would say. Sometimes he claims how despicable, sneaky, sly and mischievous he can be... but isn't that just a way to TRASH himself? To speak badly of himself?

Isn't that coat just a way to put the weight of others people's shoulders on his? In truth, Khun views himself as someone "dirty" he has blood on his hands despite everything. So he gives himself the dirty jobs he thinks he is worth of doing.

That's the only way he knows how to act. The only way he knows how to survive. If Khun dropped that facade of the sly man that trusts no one... what would be left of him? Someone vulnerable, someone afraid to be abandoned once again, by Bam, just as Maria did. Someone unable to free himself from his family because other than that, he doesn't know who he is, he can't see himself.

And he struggles to find who he is, because he was never able to be anything else than a KHUN . He is still searching for that sensible persona he truly is, but in the harsh reality of the Tower, Khun's sly facade is the best mask to have

4. Bam / protective projection and affection - " I keep my most precious jewel hidden so I never get to use it on me"

SO we had to finish with the best part, right?

Bam is alm Khun wasn't able to be. Innocent, care free, unbounded by anything in the tower. Khun feels the intense need to make sure Baam is not a victim of the same cruelty and raw violence and malice he was victim of. That's why Khun takes care of the dirty jobs himself... because he wants to keep Bam's hands clean, even if it means he was to stain his own hands.

The quote by the start of this topic resumes pretty much Khun's relation with Bam: Khun wants to protect Bam so badly, and shild him from all warm even if he knows that's 100% IMPOSSIBLE but he also wants to live openly with Bam by his side, without hidding. He wants to fully enjoy the pure hapiness of having a real friend by his side.

Khun is VERY VERY afraid of being abandoned. He "choose to be", but that did impact him for the rest of his life. When he judjes someone as someone who is a GOOD PERSON he tends to hold on to them even if his life depends on it. Because in truth, Khun is desperate for that human connection and bonds that Maria showed could exist if he reached for something different.

Bam is a good person in Khun's eyes. In Khun's eyes he must not suffer. But if Bam lives openly, he will SUFFER, because he will show the Tower his true power, the will become the " GOD" and Khun wouldn't be able to reach him any longer. " Isn't better being human? " shows how much Khun wants Bam to free himself from high expectations, just as much Khun needs to still free himself to the weight of his name.

In the end, Khun is fighting a battle he knows he can't win. He is acting on emotion alone when he follows Bam, when he makes sure his jewel is save on his pocket. He knows he was to let it go eventually, but Khun will do everything NOT TO LET GO. Because Khun sees in Bam everything he wishes for, everything he wants in the relationships with others.

Bam is the personification of Khun's resolve to chose the hard, yet better way to live life.

There is nothing sly and evil in his persona. He is just a boy who wasn't able to grow his own personality, self - worth and self - value because of the rudness of the world. Khun doesn't want to be like his family, but not being like them is not enough... because that's a emtpy pit of dispare.

Khun has to be his own person, find who he is.

But until he realizes and admits that those emotions live inside him, until he is able to face himself and his traumas and weakness... Khun will never be able to be more than just " someone different from his family"

Who knows who Khun might turn out to be when he is truly free from himself, when he shows his true colors. I am sure he is far from dirty and rude. He is beautiful, hurt and kind 💙

Ps: I find it interesting how Khun and Killua Zoldyck (from Hunter x Hunter) are so so similar in the way they think and their relationship to their significant other (Gon in Killua's case)

But Killua has able to free himself from his family and find himself at the end. But I think Khun's situation is more complicated than Killua's since there are more people and power games involved. And Khun is even more blind to his emotional side than Killua is...

Let's hope for the best we got your back Khun 😤💙

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