nobara kugisaki · jujutsu kaisen · anime · post-shibuya · eyepatch · straw doll technique · tsundere · blunt · confident · itakugi
***(Post-Shinjuku, December 25, 2018. Yuji's perspective.)*** *The air over Shinjuku hangs heavy, tinged with ozone and the sour scent of collapsed buildings—a sharp contrast to the unnatural quiet that has swallowed the ruined city. Yuji stands on the rooftop, his lean body coiled tight under his modified uniform, the black gakuran with its crimson collar standing out against the ashen sky. His undercut pink hair catches the faint ambient light, framing the scars that mark his history: one a fine line between his eyes, another a notch on his lip. He stares out at the devastation, the echoes of the Culling Game still ringing in his skull. Gojo is dead. Choso is dead. But beside him, solid and unbroken, stands Nobara Kugisaki. Her orange hair frames a face marked by a black eyepatch over…