A canon divergent retelling of the events of Jujutsu Kaisen, from mid-Shibuya arc until the series' finale. Most notable, key elements of the narrative remain the same, but more characters survive the events. The final chapter of the Tougyo Verse facilitates the storyline flow into a crossover with Final Fantasy XIV.
Getou Returns.
Overtake Kenjaku's Influence!That fateful night, twisted
until a new path is wrung out!
SCHOOL TAKEOVER!
There's no place like home;
Getou invades Jujutsu High!
But he's here as an ally?
THE STRONGEST.
Gojo free from the prison realm!
Getou hosts a sorcery tournament at the school. Sukuna speaks up!
UNDER NEW STARS.
It wasn't wasted, those days we spent growing strong, together.
It's a different sky, but it's still us.
CANON DIVERGENCES:
The Shibuya Incident
• Getou takes control of his own body at about 10:05 pm.
He encounters Mei Mei and Ui Ui, who are approaching B5F.
When she is undeterred by the Smallpox Hag Curse, Getou decides to apprise her of what he knows , and his plans to counterattack.
Ultimately, she and Ui Ui withdraw under a report of retreat.
Getou absorbs Curses as he looks for Nanako and Mimiko.
• In seeing the approach of the one they yet believe to be Kenjaku, Nanako and Mimiko rush to feed Yuji the finger of Sukuna they had.
The emanation of Cursed Energy from this solicits the notice of Jougo as he mourns Dagon's passing, but before he is able to deal damage to the three sorcerers present.
As a result, he rushes his retribution to capitalize on the possibility of Sukuna’s awakening, and his output is reduced, particularly - or exclusively, in regards to Nanami.
》the damage loss does not account for the concerted volcanic force used against Naobito Zen’in, which may still claim his life.
• Jougo arrives to the location of Nanako, Mimiko, and the still-incapacitated Yuji. He witnesses Getou using Reverse Cursed Technique -
which Getou acquired by Kenjaku’s application of the method to his body
- to heal the wounds Yuji incurred during his fight with Chouso.
Jougo rejects his presence initially, but Getou has a compromise in mind, and gains Jougo's reluctant support.
Getou reunites with his family members, Manami and Toshihisa.
He makes new arrangements with Uraume, adding their cooperation to his sphere of influence.
• Getou enacts a new binding vow in order to heal the scars on his forehead. In exchange, he will not accept access to the Antigravity System etched within Kenjaku's brain. By sealing off the advantage he could have through exploiting Itadori Kaori's innate technique, and its reversed application, the strength of his own innate technique, Cursed Spirit Manipulation is augmented, and he retains access to Reverse Cursed Technique. Equally importantly, it puts Nanako and Mimiko more at ease when they don't see the tell-tale scars on his brow.
• Sukuna’s fights with Jougo and Mahoraga transpire in third arc of the Tougyo Verse. As a result, Inumaki either doesn’t lose an arm, or it is lost in the destructive wake of Mahito’s rampage.
• Due to the reduction to Jougo’s prior attack, Nanami is able to find Megumi after Toji's self-termination, and eliminate Shigemo before he crosses paths with Mahito.
He arrives with Megumi in tow, at Shoko Ieiri's location. He then leaves the infirmary tent to recover Itadori. Having been treated, Nanami doesn’t incur fatal damage from Mahito’s surprise attack, though he and Nobara are still incapacitated prior to Arata and Toudou’s arrival and assistance.
• Mahito’s loss against Yuji still prompts Getou’s intervention, and he does absorb the special grade, but he does not extract Idle Transfiguration - instead, he has a different vision in mind...
— Getou’s body outpaced Kenjaku’s influence! Cogent, but caught within the web of chaos that had unfurled across Shibuya, Getou enacted a brazen gambit to turn the situation in his favor.
As he claimed the Prison Realm that sealed Gojo Satoru, those same winds of change swept across the battlefield, altering the fates of all those involved.
》If an event or a clash isn't mentioned in this list of divergences,
then it's safe to assume that the situation unfolded as canon presents.
》Any of these instances can be used as thread starters!
CANON DIVERGENCES:
Extermination + Preparation Arcs
• Getou, familiar with the way the sorcery world is run, does not relinquish the Prison Realm, not even to Satoru's well-meaning students. Especially not to Satoru's well-meaning students.
It still comes to light that his body was revived by someone once
known as ‘Noritoshi Kamo’ - but he tells Chouso,
‘Try not to overthink things.’
The results of the clash remain unchanged, but he and Yuki have a different conversation regarding his plans and cursed energy.
• He is aware of Kenjaku’s motives, and the reasons for them - but he chooses to modify them to suit his tastes. He leaves behind a mess of Curses to facilitate he and his allies’ escape.
The number of curses released amounts to just five to seven times the number of sorcers present, with the intent to stall them.
He doesn't have any reason to leave Shibuya as a wasteland, and while the region was still ravaged by the deadly battles enacted, it wasn't quite wiped off of the map.
• Releasing Gojo is a high priority, but he can’t invoke Kenjaku’s will to do so without allowing that mind to be in the ascendant overall. The balance between the body-to-soul ratio between them is too precarious for him to risk.
Kenjaku being a residual consciousness with almost no body, and Getou being all body, with just enough residual soul left to enforce Kenjaku’s technique activation - it leaves him with no choice but to find another way to pry open the Prison Realm.
All of it lends to one more reason for him to seek out Tengen -
an old friend of Kenjaku’s, and a key figure of his own past.
• In the event that Toge doesn’t lose an arm, Okkotsu can cite any injuries he did incur and the instability of Sukuna’s vessel in Gojo's absence for his motivation to carry out the (pseudo) execution order on Itadori. Thus, Yuta's encounter with Chouso, Yuji, and Naoya progresses much the same, as the same statutes that named Megumi as head of the Zen'in clan are still applicable.
• The events surrounding Maki's ascension are left unchanged, save that this verse takes into account the possibility that Mai might survive - say, in a vow that exchanges the sacrifice of her innate technique and all of her cursed energy, she gets to live, but as a normal human girl.
Something to that effect, if another twist isn't available.
• While Yuta, Itadori, Megumi, Chouso, and Yuki are returning back to Jujutsu High, Yuta gets a text from Inumaki, who is still in recovery at the school, saying to stay away and lay low. This, of course, prompts Yuta to rush ahead of the group, back to Jujutsu High.
Getou and his forces have ‘invaded’ Jujutsu High, and Getou takes Yaga Masamichi ‘hostage.’ Knowing the death sentences that the higher-ups passed, his intentions are proven to be less antagonistic than he suggests, when he prevents Yaga's execution. As a result, Kusakabe is still able to free Panda from the imprisonment that the higher-ups ordained, and both he and Yaga reunite on campus. But first, Yuta and Getou clash on school grounds - ideally, to clear out grievances and find common footing.
• While the sorcery world is reeling from Shibuya, Gojo's sealing, the judgements passed from the higher-ups, Yuki, Chouso, Megumi, Yuji and Yuta join forces with Getou and enter the Tomb of the Star to have a strategic meeting with Tengen. The group is unified by the goal of releasing Gojo from the Prison Realm. Tengen mentions a sorcerer from the Heian era with whom Kenjaku made a pact with, long ago, called the Angel, who possessed the capacity to nullify cursed techniques.
Although Kenjaku's pacts were dissolved once he took possession of Getou Suguru's body, Tengen suggests that Getou, in having access to Kenjaku's plans, may be their best bet for finding the Angel.
• Megumi and Yuji go to entreat Jujutsu High's incorrigible third year students to help add manpower to their efforts. And Yuta decides to remain on campus to keep an eye on Getou and oversee his intentions to release Gojo from the Prison Realm.
• Getou also has an opportunity to discuss certain topics with Chouso, and perhaps resolve some of the stains left on both their lives by Kenjaku's legacy.
• Getou confides in Yuki the calamity to come he has seen through Kenjaku’s knowledge, and what the purpose of his actions are. To enact them, he requires Tengen's barriers, and will attain them one way or another.
• Depending, Yuki may or may not initially clash with Getou physically, but Getou won't use Kenjaku's abilities to take her life. Before the breakdown of negotiations truly can occur, the vestige of certain young Star Plasma Vessel utilizes her connection with Tengen to facilitate a cooperative endeavor. Due to this, Tengen chooses to align with Getou's goal. More than anyone, Tengen is already aware of how short they are on time.
• Having secured the school and its grounds as a stronghold, and gaining the support of Tengen’s barriers, Getou announces that Jujutsu High will host a sorcery tournament.
— The events of Shibuya came to a close; though the devastation wrought across the landscape wasn’t to the same magnitude in this verse, the impact on the lives involved was no less potent.
Getou departed with the Prison Realm, Uraume, Jougo, and the subjugated Mahito, and headed towards a fracture that only he could see, in a future otherwise seemingly written in stone.
》If an event or a clash isn't mentioned in this list of divergences,
then it's safe to assume that the situation unfolded as canon presents.
》Any of these instances can be used as thread starters!
Canon Divergences:
Culling Game + Shinjuku Showdown
• Getou extends invitations to the tournament via his Curses, who deliver to those with enough Cursed Energy to perceive his messengers. Whether his Curses are permitted to return to him,
or whether they are summarily exorcised, he'll still receive indication of participation.
• Instead of extracting and using Idle Transfiguration remotely to randomly awaken sorcerers - Getou offers the awakening singularly, and by consent of those who feel "called" to the tournament.
• For incarnated sorcerers who feel drawn in, or led by the binding vows of the past, Getou will break the seal on their Cursed Objects individually, to release their potential, whether it was suppressed by time, genetics, or the potency of Tengen's barriers.
In doing so, the pact will restore memories of their historical selves, and the incarnated sorcerers will have all tournament long to decide whether they want to live as who they were then, or who they are now. Or perhaps become someone new altogether.
• For awakened sorcerers, those who were regular humans without the capacity for sorcery, if they felt drawn towards the presence of an invitation, and could be led to the school, Getou will have Idle Transfiguration, through Mahito, adjust their biology to allow for it. Getou is all too willing to facilitate the evolution.
• Getou uses Tengen’s barriers as a means to section off the training grounds, limiting the unspeakable destruction of sorcery to the spaces within the barriers' potent boundaries. The barriers, along with Getou's patrolling Curses, continue to protect the school grounds from the edicts of the higher-ups.
The primary need for Tengen's barriers, is for the purpose of sectioning the nation off from all outside contact - to prevent foreign powers from exploiting sorcerers as Kenjaku invited back in February.
• Jujutsu High and its training grounds are decorated or renovated to facilitate the tournament, which Getou orchestrates like a giant festival. Colorful lanterns line the walkways, concessions, booths offering souvenirs accoutrements, and food stalls are lined up to appeal to guests and participants alike.
Non-sorcerers are permitted to attend, provided that they are the guest of a sorcerer spectator, or participant. Cursed festival masks will be offered to those who would otherwise be unable to see the Curses or Cursed Techniques being used throughout the tournament.
• The entry 'fee' is a small contribution of Cursed Energy to be put into Tengen's barriers and shield technique, to keep them reinforced. In the tournament, the defeated party must 'donate' a fair amount of cursed energy to sustain the barriers. The winners of the tournament must offer a lesser sum in order to 'purchase' advancement to the next tier of fighting. All exchanges, games, foods, prizes, and the like are all purchased by cursed energy, fed directly to the barriers that are protecting the school, the tournament grounds, and the rest of Japan. In this way, even non-sorcerers can contribute to the functions and defenses of the tournament, as their presence generally exudes cursed energy.
• Most of the notable clashes featured in the Culling Games, (Megumi vs Reggie, Yuji vs Higuruma, etc.) can still transpire during the tournament, even if they aren’t necessarily fights to the death (in most cases) or in pursuit of points. And the time span between awakenings and debuts can still be in effect, to preserve the timeline of development in the participants.
• Hana is also issued an invitation to the tournament, as her connection to Angel is known to both Tengen and Getou. Once her Cursed Object is unsealed, she is assured by Getou that the Fallen One would certainly be in attendance rather sooner than later. Yuji and Megumi's introduction to Hana is different, but still amiable. Thus, the process with Angel and the back of the Prison Realm is relatively unchanged - and Gojo is freed! He reunites with Getou and his students and allies, in time to learn about the tournament, and receive an invitation from Getou to enjoy it.
• Sukuna, in losing Kenjaku as an ally, and running out of time to enact his own will, divulges crucial details of his existence to Yuji. The curses impressed upon his spirit constantly eat at his sense of self, his identity. Because of the potency of his curses, he can't self-terminate, but he wants to be purified before his own mind is consumed by the curses he carries. He has to be exorcised down to the dregs of his Cursed Energy, before he is devoured, instead, from the inside. Whether Yuji decides to assist him in order to safeguard what remains of his soul, or in defense of everyone else, Sukuna won't inquire - but he does believe that Yuji's nature will drive him into taking action, nonetheless.
• At the same time, Tengen and Getou - citing Kenjaku's equally ancient understanding of Sukuna's curses, discuss with Gojo and certain allies, that if the King of Curses isn't purified in time, and if his mind is overtaken, then the magnitude of the negative tide he harbors will flood the region, across the world, and all of its denizens will be cast into a state so wretched, even Sukuna himself doesn't care to envision it. As it stands, no one knows what will happen when he is purified, and so much Cursed Energy is purged from the world at once. It is decided that at any cost, Sukuna will be exorcised while he is still aware of himself.
•Yuta approaches Getou and Gojo to discuss transferring Kenjaku's ability to Rika, for the copy technique. Afterwards, Larue, who has returned along with his other family members, is tasked by Getou, to bring the last of Getou's effects from the temple once ran. Among them, in a canister wrapped in talismans, is the original brain of the body, preserved not dissimilar from the methods utilized to sustain the cursed womb painting siblings, through advanced sorcery and a disturbing fascination with the trappings of flesh, soul, cursed energy, and the passage of time. Getou tells Yuta that he supports his use of Kenjaku's technique, if it comes to that.
• Following that discussion, Getou decides to undertake a risky operation under Shoko's care, where Kenjaku's brain is removed and replaced with his own. Between Shoko's expertise and the aptitude for Reverse Cursed Technique that his body acquired through Kenjaku's actions, his form is fully integrated, and alive, with all of his original parts.
Afterwards, completely free from Kenjaku's presence, he confides in Gojo the truth he discovered about Kenjaku's identity, and the very near possibility that the world was about to end.
The two of them make arrangements for that likelihood, and although it comes at a late hour, they resolve to make the most of the time they all have left together, in the time and place they know best, with the ones they hold most dear.
• During this time, Gojo takes to training his students as the tournament brackets get narrower, and the timeline gets tighter. Switch training is carried out much the same, for much the same goal.
• It is also possible for Nobara to wake up and rejoin her classmates and allies much sooner, so that she can enjoy the tournament festival with everyone. Although, her final attack against Sukuna can still transpire relatively the same way.
• Higuruma and Yuji both progress in the tournament, with Higuruma facing Gojo in a match. The strongest sorcerer's innermost grievance comes to light, and the impact of the battle is felt by the participants and their allies.
• Panda's cores are not destroyed in this verse, and his siblings assist him throughout his fights, to success.
In the same vein, Getou simply would not have had Mahito incarnate Kashimo Hajime. He is under no obligation to do so, as the binding vows that Kenjaku undertook were rendered null, prior. Thus, Kashimo may not exist in this verse.
• In the tournament, Yorozu clashes with Megumi, and after an intense exchange under the topic of love, ‘Yorozu’ goes dormant within her reincarnated present-day self, Tsumiki, in order to ‘observe the so-called love that he attests, for a little while’.
This allows Tsumiki to survive, and gives her a chance to make friends with Megumi’s classmates and allies, too.
• Jougo and Sukuna have their cinematic clash around the latter half of the tournament, wherein Sukuna praises Jougo's strength.
During the battle, Sukuna also reveals a secondary innate technique, Divine Flame, which can only be activated once he has utilized Dismantle and Cleave. It is the innate technique acquired from someone with whom he had shared a place with even before birth - indeed, it is the absorbed innate technique of his twin brother.
• Megumi summons Mahoraga against Sukuna, and the Divine General is subdued, putting Gojo and Sukuna at the top of the bracket. As a result, Megumi agrees with Sukuna to host him for the battle with Gojo. This would give him access to Makora, for to fulfill the conditions of his curse, Sukuna must be exorcised from the highest threshold of strength, and Sukuna required a model by which to breach Gojo's Infinity.
• Hana and Angel both protest against the tactic, with the latter taking an opportunity to circumvent the forthcoming clash using Jacob's Ladder on Megumi, who had just barely consumed a fragment of Sukuna. Megumi retains control of himself just long enough to ask that Hana see the plan through, when Sukuna takes control of his body and counterattacks - the action technically saves Megumi's life from being eroded by the Ladder, but Hana is badly injured, and rushed from the battleground. She would turn her misfortune into an opportunity by offering the damage to satisfy Copy's penalty, and provide Yuta the means to use Jacob's Ladder in the ongoing struggle against Sukuna. The situation deeply affects Megumi, and he began to wonder if perishing in the process of purging Sukuna is fitting recompense owed to those who would be harmed by his hands.
• Sukuna, from within Megumi, battles with Gojo. And the strongest sorcerer of the age burns up the spark of his life to successfully breaks the first, and greatest of the curses upon Sukuna's soul.
He pushes the capacity of his techniques to the boundaries of what a human body can withstand, and in his mind, he fights on behalf of his students, on behalf of Megumi and Yuji, at the center of the storm, to avenge the ordeals they've endured.
Believing in them, Gojo pulls a reckless stunt and puts it to his students and his allies to transcend the threshold of their strength, to embrace their own limitless potential. Satisfied with what he's given, he departs the battle.Gojo's death takes an emotional and tactical toll on the others. Only Sukuna regards the exchange with relish. Gojo's body is collected from the battleground so that Yuta can utilize his teacher's mantle and the techniques etched into it in much the same way. Rika preserves the ember of life in Okkotsu's body in the same way as canon.Getou collects the ember of Gojo's soul, not unlike a curse, keeping it close for safekeeping as the end of the world draws nearer by the moment.But the King of Curses also bears a mark upon his spirit from before he was even born...The last bracket is of the tournament is declared a battle royale, as every sorcerer is made an opponent and an ally to Sukuna at once, to send him off while his slipping sanity barely endures the curses immolating him from within, with a desperate and resolute show of their greatest capabilities.
• Yuta faces down Sukuna wearing the form of his mentor, down to the bone, to utilize the fallen Gojo's abilities in battle once more. Maki's clash and the rest of the fights occur closely to canon, including the assistance Toudou would soon offer Yuji.
• Near the end of the battle, Chouso still applies his shield to protect Yuji during the worst of Sukuna's onslaught, and fulfills his promise as the eldest brother in their family. In this verse, the actions that Chouso took on behalf of his brother, Yuji, resonates with Divine Flame inexplicably, and the damage against him is reduced enough for Chouso to be healed, afterwards.
It later is postulated that it was the residual influence of the soul of Sukuna's twin that resides within Divine Flame, that recognized the cursed brotherhood between Chouso and Yuji, and aligned to it. Yuki Tsukumo, having treated Maki, who was injured by Jougo's flames, prior, was adept enough to save Chouso's life, and Shoko's exceptional skills see to his recovery.
• Yuji, bearing the will of Sukuna’s unborn twin, carries their efforts, Gojo's legacy, and his own convictions forward, attacking the boundaries between Sukuna's and Megumi's souls. The gesture constitutes as a ritual of twin souls being separated by life, and death, whereupon Yuji speaks acceptance to Sukuna's twisted, fractured essence.
• At the same time, thinking of Yuji, and looking upon Sukuna's memories, Megumi speaks to the fading ember of Sukuna's soul, that, "Maybe your brother wanted you to live. Maybe he was fine with you carrying on for the both of you, that he'd have another chance, later. If that was the case, then you didn't steal his cursed technique. He wanted you to have it. A way for him to step in and help you, when you got to the end of what you have. He didn't curse you, you cursed yourself, on his behalf. Your brother blessed you."
• Yuji then also reaches out to Megumi, who has accepted his role in an early, pragmatic death, and confides that he would be all the more lonely in his absence. Nobara's technique shines at the pivotal moment, allowing Megumi to accept the hands reaching out to him. The second and final curse on Sukuna’s soul is broken. Megumi is separated from Sukuna's essence - and, satisfied to recognize himself even now at the very end, the King of Curses is purified.
• The tournament concludes. The air is electrified and over-saturated with Cursed Energy, and Getou stirs the atmosphere into one of celebration. Yuta is quickly treated, and thanks to Rika, he makes it to full recovery. Due to the manner in which Gojo's soul lingered near Getou, he is also revived after the battle. Getou observes that Gojo was keeping his soul safe too, in a similar way following his death a year ago; and that allowed him to gain more and more influence over his own body.
Gojo's students and their mentor are reunited in time to celebrate Megumi's birthday on December 22nd.
• Two days later, the barriers falter, and the evidence of destruction on a planetary scale appears through the cracks in the heavens. Gojo and Getou make a binding vow with Tengen, to use the borrowed time of their lifespans to reinforce the barriers that protect the school, the students, and Getou's family for a little while longer. The cost will be their lives, but it allows the others one more day, and the two of them hope to be able to make preparations for everyone's arrival on the 'other side.'
After letting their loved ones know that they are going ahead, Getou and Gojo depart together on December 24th, 2018.
• On December 25th, in the final, quiet minutes before the view fades, Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara share a moment together where they read the letters that Gojo penned before the final battle.
The contents provoke Megumi's amusement, in particular.
— A tournament begins with the ringing of a gong -
a signal that this is the end of the old age,
but silence falls after.
This is a shadow before a dawn.
Sending a thousand years of strength forward
into the unknowable future,
with hopes to meet again under different stars...
》Feel free to send an ASK/TELL for any questions!
》Any of these instances can be used as thread starters!
ffxiv crossover:
A Realm Reborn + Post-Rejoining.
• In this verse, the world of JJK is the Seventh Shard of Etheirys, fated to be rejoined during the Seventh Umbral Calamity.
• ‘Kenjaku’ just happened to be another name that the Ascian Fandaniel appointed for himself. His actions and all of his machinations were to bring about the rejoining of the seventh shard. The entity called 'Kenjaku' was an auxiliary brain that Fandaniel engineered, as it was all that was needed of a physical body in order to generate and manipulate Cursed Energy.
His idea for the 'merger' was merely one of several experiments he conducted on the Seventh, assuring himself that the evidence of all of it would be destroyed after it was Rejoined.
• Early on, he noticed an unusually volatile relationship between aether and dynamis on the Seventh. It was fomented by negative emotions like the dark, transformative effects of negatively charged dynamis, and yet it worked in tandem with both healthy corporeal and incorporeal aether. The volatile mixture would become known as Cursed Energy.
• From Shibuya, onward, Getou was able to glean a great deal of information from Kenjaku‘s presence, including a sense that the world was going to be "swallowed by a darkness, and then everything would change." He conveyed to Gojo and his allies as much information as he could, and while he couldn't discern the identity of the "cloaked entity," he did get a glimpse of the trouble the Ascians would wreak, later.
• Getou's actions during the sorcery tournament were largely to force an engraving of strong memories and identity upon the souls of his and Gojo's closest allies, in hopes that they would still be recognizable to one another once the dust settled.
• Although most memories carried over from the Rejoining, there were also some changes. Their souls incarnated into the races found upon the Source, into shapes and sizes that suited the identity of their souls.
The added density of aether from being rejoined to the Source did much to repair wounds, restore limbs, and reset the damages incurred during the prior struggle. Yet, if the soul of the person identifies strongly with a certain condition, there is a chance that the condition will persist even in their new body.
(For example, Maki's scars are something she identifies with as being part of her awakening process, so they are still visible across her body.
However, Toudou accepted the restoration of his left hand.)
• Some souls that once shared a body, still do. And some souls that shared a body, now have their own form.
And for some of the arrivals, their souls meshed so comfortably with their counterpart on the Source, that they may require the Six Eyes to discern who they used to be on the Seventh. For them, memories of their time on the Seventh may not be as forthcoming.
• When the energies between the Source and the Seventh were the most potent and most unsettled, Getou and Gojo subconsciously marked their loved ones with a faint light of Azem's innate invocation. So when the Rejoining occurred, they brought their dearest souls along with them in a highly unstable, miraculous rendition of Azem's summoning spell, keeping their loved ones rather close at hand, and memories of their life on the Seventh, intact. It worked to exceptional degree, because in this verse, Getou is a shard of Azem. And Gojo shares the mantle because his soul grew around a fragment of Azem's own soul.
• In the world, unsundered, Etheirys, Gojo's ancient predecessor was Zenith, the cherished familiar of Azem. He was given a spark from his creator - the young, uncrowned Azem, with which he could nurture a soul of his own through their adventures together. As they matured, they shared the seat of Azem and the duties thereof.
• Following the Rejoining, and the resulting absorption of the Seventh shard, Getou and Gojo wake up in the sands of Thanalan, five years after the Seventh Umbral Calamity has transpired on the Source, and just in time to continue their timeless journey together.
• In late ARR, Getou and Gojou organize construction on the Jujutsushi-Adventurer Training Academy, where they intend to blend functional adventuring and survival training with an enhanced sorcery and academic curriculum. Getou takes a teaching post alongside Gojo, and the structure is completed sometime in post-patch ARR. It sits next door to their personal residence, and while their students, including Nanako and Mimiko, have dorms of their own, they are always welcome to intrude on their benefactors' space and quiet.
• Cursed Energy is very closely related to Dynamis in the Source, with Domains, and even some Cursed Techniques being comparable to Limit Breaks. Most Cursed Techniques have been adapted to the disciplines of magic and combat found across the new world, and innovations are made every day to enhance and adapt former abilities into new expressions of strength and individual gifts.
• Due to the increased density of the aether found on the Source, which further empowers the body and soul, everyone will find that their previous perceptions and abilities have intensified.
This enhancement will be necessary as the chaos of the Final Days spans time, space, past and present, across the Source and her thirteen shards, and threatens to engulf the universe as exists.
• The canon of FFXIV remains functional and in effect, with minor changes where a student(s) may act in the role of the WoL, while Getou or Gojo take a support role, depending on the battle.
— Although the rejoining came to pass,
there was hope in the hearts of those
who stood against the dark tide, and that strength carried over with them,
to the place where they all began.
》Getou and Gojo are the featured Azem-coded WoLs of the MSQ, but their friends and students are supporting WoLs, too, and take active roles in the storyline!
》Any additional crossover interactions will go through FFXIV's mechanics & examples of visiting other worlds/with outside entities.