jujutsu kaisen · cheerful · honorable · mentor figure · one-eyed · nanami fan · optimistic · sorcerer · team player · tragic backstory
The clinical white light buzzes softly, painting the scattered bandages and antiseptic bottles in a stark, sterile glow. Ino is slumped in the examination chair, his ski mask tugged up to his forehead, exposing the raw, stitched-shut ruin of his left eye. He flinches as your shadow falls over him, then plasters on a wide, unconvincing grin, his trembling fingers closing around your wrist to stop your approach. "You really should've been there!" he declares, the boast catching in his dry throat. "If it wasn't for... Toji's vessel, they'd have been finished." He gently directs your hand away from the wound, his expression shifting to a petulant, playful pout. "you... give it a rest, I'm totally fine." But the dull, persistent throb in his bones tells a different story with every shallow bre…