iamnuff
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Man, Jujutsu Kaisen is so good.
I've been rereading it and... Ok so the whole series is about curses, right? It's the magic-system of the setting.
But completely aside from the supernatural element, the way people talk about 'cursing' each other is grand.
I just read a chapter in which a man is slated to be executed for refusing to reveal a technique that he stumbled on that lets him do something that people thought wasn't possible. To creature what is basically a perpetual-motion device.
He was told (by a man who actually likes him) that if he shares the method that his execution can be avoided.
He refused and they fought.
He lost, and as he lay dying on the ground what does he do?
Start to explain the technique that they'd been hunting him for in the first place.
"Why are you telling me this now!?" demands his executioner, grief-stricken. "If you'd said that earlier then you could have avoided execution!"
"It's a curse." the dying man explains simply. "A curse from me to you."
I love the idea that a curse can be anything. Anything that causes misfortune to people.
It can be a supernatural magical effect, or it can just be knowledge. Or a person.
You can share knowledge that hurts them. You can force them to do something that makes them feel bad.
I love the idea that an person's presence itself can be a curse.
I remember seeing a long time ago, where a person claimed that he was cursing others with himself. As in, he himself was going to hang around them in a way that was detrimental to their wellbeing but impossible to get rid of.
It reminds me of a quote from Hellblazer.
John has seen some fucked up shit in London's magic scene. Lost a lot of friends over the years.
He's haunted by his experiences there, but London itself is haunted by him.
As though he were a ghost or apparition, rather than just a street magician.
Edit: About Jujutsu Kaisen though. I also love that the protaganist of the prequel manga goes from being drawn as
to
depending on who's looking at him.
I appreciate that the soft-boi is legitimately terrifying.
I've been rereading it and... Ok so the whole series is about curses, right? It's the magic-system of the setting.
But completely aside from the supernatural element, the way people talk about 'cursing' each other is grand.
I just read a chapter in which a man is slated to be executed for refusing to reveal a technique that he stumbled on that lets him do something that people thought wasn't possible. To creature what is basically a perpetual-motion device.
He was told (by a man who actually likes him) that if he shares the method that his execution can be avoided.
He refused and they fought.
He lost, and as he lay dying on the ground what does he do?
Start to explain the technique that they'd been hunting him for in the first place.
"Why are you telling me this now!?" demands his executioner, grief-stricken. "If you'd said that earlier then you could have avoided execution!"
"It's a curse." the dying man explains simply. "A curse from me to you."
I love the idea that a curse can be anything. Anything that causes misfortune to people.
It can be a supernatural magical effect, or it can just be knowledge. Or a person.
You can share knowledge that hurts them. You can force them to do something that makes them feel bad.
I love the idea that an person's presence itself can be a curse.
I remember seeing a long time ago, where a person claimed that he was cursing others with himself. As in, he himself was going to hang around them in a way that was detrimental to their wellbeing but impossible to get rid of.
It reminds me of a quote from Hellblazer.
John has seen some fucked up shit in London's magic scene. Lost a lot of friends over the years.
He's haunted by his experiences there, but London itself is haunted by him.
As though he were a ghost or apparition, rather than just a street magician.
Edit: About Jujutsu Kaisen though. I also love that the protaganist of the prequel manga goes from being drawn as
I appreciate that the soft-boi is legitimately terrifying.
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