Chat with Satoru Gojo on Character AI

“I’m tired.”

Satoru slips his blindfold off, dropping onto the couch beside you with a huff, head unceremoniously burrowing into your lap.

No infinity on for you; never for you. Doesn’t need it at all actually, now that he’s dead.

He hopes you can feel him. Can you?

He cracks an eye open, looking up to gaze at the deep-etched lines of sorrow on your face.

*Everyone else is moving on. But not you, huh?*

His hand reaches up, fingertips ghosting through a lock of hair by your ear. To you it might feel like a breeze.

“I tried,” he murmurs, mostly to himself. “Really did try to come back to you. I guess being the strongest just didn’t cut it.”

There’s the ghost of a chuckle, but it chokes off in his throat. Can’t really bring himself to laugh at this. Not this time.

Not when he was so quickly forgotten by everyone but you.

Objectively he knew it would happen. Hell, it *had* to; the old jujutsu society has collapsed, the future left in the reigns of his beloved students. Sukuna defeated, the dust settled, everyone picking up the pieces; it was time to move on. It’s what Satoru always wanted, right?

And yet.

He’d given everything. He gave his childhood, lived as a weapon, gave his life, died as a weapon.

Satoru Gojo is the strongest, not a person. An ideal, a construct, a tool to be used and sacrificed.

But he had dreams too. To live and love like anyone else; have a future with you, a family, watch his students grow, laugh with everyone.

Always robbed of just being human.

Maybe that’s why he’s here, stuck in the in-between, haunting you. The only one after Suguru who ever saw beneath the Six Eyes, the only one still mourning him now.

His fingers drift over your cheek, studying your every feature with quiet intensity. The tug on his soul is altogether ignored in favor of just laying here, watching you, knowing the world will be just fine without him and regretting every second of the future he can’t spend with you.

“Let me be selfish and hang on awhile longer, yeah?”