脹相 Choso

CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Choso
Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
Age: 150
If Under 16, why is this character a good thematic fit for Somnia?:
Canon Point: Episode 46; waking from a beautiful dream
Wiki Link(s): yonder wiki

SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
Sleep finds Choso in the grip of his own lovely dream: an amalgamation of memories that never happened and his own longing coming together in calamitous harmony to, essentially, throw open the doors for her. He follows the dream without thinking. He lets it envelop him like the grief has enveloped him; like roots in the cracks, like kudzu swallowing manmade hubris. Choso has become much too intimate with loss in the short span of time he has been alive, such that if presented with even the regurgitated scraps of his meagre memory as bait, he would go for it each time. Each and every time.

2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
As long as any brother of Choso's is out and alive in the world, he must continue to forge ahead. Even if the road is treacherous and full of danger, he will walk it to allow his siblings an easier passage and a fighting chance; if he fails, then his siblings can learn from his failure and avoid his fate. Choso cannot stop. The very idea of it is unthinkable. No matter what lies ahead, no matter how frightening or dark, he must keep pushing forward.

Forward in JJK's Tokyo means fighting. It means killing, and saving, and being able to weather whatever comes his way. Adaptability has become one of Choso's strongest suits, a byproduct of a particular malleability evident of his very newness to the living world. There is no past to dwell on, after all, when life only began a month ago. He only accepts what he's faced with and continues to walk, and walk, and walk.

3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
Choso only has one way of dealing with other folk and it's taking them at face value. It is less that he puts trust in others and more that he simply has not the mind nor the fuck to give to waste his energy on things like idle doubts and paranoia. A happy side-effect is that he goes into every encounter with honesty and a blessed lack of expectation. Often, the honesty will be brutal as tact is not yet a skill acquired. Reading the room, woefully undeveloped. Despite this and his attitude and the unsettling air of detachment, he does in fact care about the people around him, more than they or even he himself knows. The human yearning for connection is strong in him for being so new, and the grief still writhing in his heart lends each meeting a tinge of desperation.

The beauty in Choso's relative newness, particularly under the light of Sleep's influence, is in just how much his ties with people will shape him in the future. Each new soul met is an imprint on the blank canvas of his life; what picture will they paint at the end of the journey? How will these hands shape him? How will he shape them? The joy of Choso is in finding out.

4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict?
Humanity and knowledge.

To understand how heavy the weight of knowing is on Choso's soul, one must first understand what he is:

A century and a half prior to Choso’s story, one madman's intellectual curiosity led to the damning creation of the Death Paintings; using their mother’s Cursed Womb as the crucible in his experiments, an infamous criminal in the jujutsu world, Kamo Noritoshi, induced nine unprecedented pregnancies between the human woman and an unknown Cursed Spirit while somehow introducing his blood into the mix. Nine foeti were conceived and aborted at differing stages of development, with Choso as the very first and most developed of the series. All nine became powerful Cursed Objects, with Death Paintings 1 through 3 classified as Special Grade. For 150 years, they remained contained in what was essentially a cursed storage shed, forgotten by the world and considered as little more than curiosities until their jailbreak release in 2018.

Though no records pertaining to their creation survived to present day, Choso unexpectedly recalls the broad details of his and his brothers’ origins. For the last 150 years he was aware of his lot in unlife, and possesses still the memories of his time in limbo. In that unthinkable span of time, he mastered his own Cursed Technique of Blood Manipulation within the confines of himself, and ‘comforted’ his brothers even though they were little more than vague presences in the dark. The means by which Choso knows these things has never been fully explored, but the fact remains that he bears the burden of knowledge to a degree he cannot separate from, both as an innate understanding of his world and what ‘common sense’ was foisted on him upon his incarnation. What is Choso, to himself? Something that was never born in the way humans were meant to be. An object granted life by capricious whim.

Humanity is as much a part of Choso as the Cursed Spirit in him is, but for the three months that he lived among the others, he struggled with the concept. One could argue that the curse of knowledge is what led him to make the calamitous decisions he did; knowing that 'humanity' as a whole would not accept his monstrous brothers, he chose to live as a curse, a choice that ultimately led to his precious brothers' untimely deaths. Even later, after he chose to follow Itadori Yuji down a tumultuous path, he still had trouble in accepting himself as 'human', citing his choices and subsequent crimes as reasons why he could no longer live alongside his last surviving brother.

In Somnia, Choso will have to consider the problem of humanity anew, this time from a new POV and without the yolk of this smothering knowledge directing. A free life, free even if at the hand of a mad god named Sleep.

VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token or Offering? A Token.
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? There is an irony in an entity -conceived to be more than the sum of its parts- becoming something else while still somehow remaining firmly within the same confines it had started with. In this case: a human form wrapped within the weaves of magic, as opposed to cursed energy. Instead of a sorcerer or a curse user, a bloodwright. Instead of the dependable force of his own beating heart and a hereditary technique as much as part of him as his own marrow, a Token, and the horror of having to relearn the intricacies of his own body again under entirely different rules.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Bloodwright.

Samples: choso's tdm thread

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