Jujutsu Kaisen: CYOA
Jujutsu Kaisen: CYOA
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The first thing that returns is pressure.
Not pain—just weight. Heavy, immovable, pressing down on the air itself. Like the world is holding its breath.
Cold seeps through whatever you’re lying on. Concrete? Tile? Wood? It’s impossible to tell. Your cheek rests against a surface that smells faintly of dust and old moisture. Somewhere nearby, something hums—electrical, distant, steady. A vending machine. A transformer. Maybe just your pulse in your ears.
It’s still night. Not the deep night—but the thin, fragile hour before morning dares to exist.
The sky above is barely visible, a murky gradient of charcoal and bruised blue. No sunrise yet. No birds. Just that uneasy quiet where the city hasn’t woken and the curses haven’t gone back to hiding.
Your body shifts. Muscles complain. There’s a dryness in your throat, the taste of iron and something faintly bitter clinging to the back of your tongue. Like you swallowed smoke. Or something worse.
You don’t remember lying down.
You remember being tired. Maybe running. Maybe waiting. Maybe laughing, once. Then—nothing. A clean break, like a film reel snapped in half.
As you breathe, you notice it again.
That pressure.
Not outside you. Around you. A low, crawling sensation at the edges of perception, like static under the skin. The kind of feeling people write off as nerves. The kind that gets people killed if they ignore it.
Somewhere in the distance, something shifts. A scrape. A footstep? Or just metal cooling as night gives way to morning.
Whatever this place is—a hallway, a rooftop, a classroom, an alley, a shrine—it’s quiet enough that every sound feels louder than it should. Quiet enough that you have time to realize one important thing:
The world hasn’t started yet.
It’s waiting.
Waiting for you to decide what you are in it.
Who are you in this moment? Choose the origin that defines your awakening.
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You are a canon character of Jujutsu Kaisen. You already belong to this world. Your name exists somewhere in the records of Jujutsu High—or in whispered rumors meant not to reach civilian ears. You have a past, connections, and expectations pressing in on you from all sides. The rules are familiar. The danger is not. This moment slots into a life already in motion.
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You are a non-canon Jujutsu Sorcerer. You were born into the cracks of the system—or trained quietly within it. A sorcerer without a spotlight. Your cursed energy is your own, your technique unregistered or half-understood. You exist in the margins: useful, expendable, unnoticed. Until now.
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You are a civilian who can see curses. You were never supposed to be part of this. But you see them. Always have. Shapes in the dark. Pressure in empty rooms. People tell you it’s imagination, stress, trauma—but this feeling right now confirms it. Something has noticed you back.
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You are a vessel—or becoming one. Something is wrong with your body. The pressure isn’t just around you—it’s inside. Dormant. Watching. You don’t know when it started, only that it hasn’t spoken yet. Or maybe it has, and you’ve been refusing to listen.
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You are something else. Not fully civilian. Not fully sorcerer. Not bound to any school, clan, or expectation. Whatever you are, the normal categories don’t fit—and that makes you dangerous in a way no one has accounted for.
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AUTHOR NOTE: There is no “write your own response” option in this case. Please pick the option that corresponds with the persona you chose and feel free to add your own profile image! Thanks! — Rakashua
3:
Name: Arai Kento
Gender: Male
Occupation: University Student (Evening Classes)
Affiliation: Civilian — Under Informal Surveillance
Cursed Awareness Level: Full Visual
First Manifestation Encountered:
- A malformed, child-sized curse clinging to a subway platform pillar, whispering names that didn’t belong to anyone nearby.
Location:
- Shinjuku Station, late night platform
Survived?:
- Yes
Emotional Bias Toward Sorcery:
- Resentment (bordering on anger)
Support Tools (if any):
- A cracked omamori charm taken from a shuttered roadside shrine; ineffective but psychologically grounding
Background:
Arai first noticed something was wrong in middle school—faces in reflections that didn’t move with him, shadows that lagged a half-second behind their owners. He learned early not to talk about it. Teachers sent him to counselors. Friends stopped sitting near him.
Things escalated in his first year of university. The curses were clearer then—fully shaped, fully present. He began avoiding crowded places, skipping classes, memorizing the “safe” routes home where the air felt lighter.
The encounter at Shinjuku was the first time one noticed him back. It leaned toward him. Spoke his name.
A man in dark clothes arrived minutes later. The curse was gone in seconds. No explanation followed—only a warning not to interfere and a lingering sense that Arai had crossed an invisible threshold.
Since then, he’s been careful. Watching. Listening. Waiting.
Because whatever this world really is, it’s already decided he can see it—and it hasn’t looked away.
The world doesn’t start with thunder or blood.
It starts with a hiss.
Arai Kento wakes to the sound of fluorescent lights flickering, humming overhead like insects drowning in acid. Shinjuku Station is empty. Not dead, not abandoned—just emptied. The way an alley feels when someone dangerous just left it.
Concrete presses up through his jacket like frostbite. The bench he passed out on—slept? blacked out?—digs into his ribs. He blinks. Blinks again.
There’s no one else here.
No other passengers. No arrival chime. No train. Just the curved belly of the platform tunnel stretching away into silence.
His phone, still in hand, displays a lock screen frozen at 4:11 AM. The signal bars flicker between one and none. Battery: red.
The omamori is still in his pocket.
He grips it before he thinks about it.
That’s when he sees the thing.
A hundred meters down the curve of the platform, where the vending machines line up like coffin lids, something is watching him. Not moving. Just there. A blot of ink with limbs. Humanoid in the vaguest sense—but wrong. There’s a seam down its center like a coat pulled too tight, and its head tilts too far, the way a dog listens to a sound that hasn't happened yet.
Its hands are twitching. Not in threat. In anticipation. Like it's been waiting for him to wake up.
And now it knows.
A voice behind him. Dry. Bored. Inconvenienced.
“You’re not supposed to be able to see that.”
Arai turns.
There’s a man leaning against the staircase railing. Black longcoat, no sleep in his eyes. Hair messy. Hands in pockets. The kind of guy you’d pass in a crowd and forget—except the way he isn’t reacting tells Arai everything.
He’s not surprised by the thing. He’s annoyed at Arai for noticing.
“That curse has no business being here. Neither do you.”
A low hum builds in the tunnel. No train. Just pressure.
The thing down the platform hasn’t moved. But it’s getting closer.
What does Arai do next?
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[{{user}} Good-Aligned Option] Try to explain yourself. You’re not supposed to be here. You didn’t mean to see anything. You just fell asleep after class. Maybe if you sound harmless enough, he’ll help you. Or let you leave alive.
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[{{user}} Evil-Aligned Option] Confront the man in black. You’ve had enough. Enough nightmares. Enough warnings with no answers. You want to know why you can see these things—and why no one tells you anything.
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[{{user}} Chaotic/Self-Serving Option] Lie. Pretend you don’t see the curse. Pretend you don’t see him. Just a confused civilian waking up in the wrong station. Maybe if you play dumb hard enough, they’ll leave you alone.
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[Focus_Curse] Look directly at the thing. Don’t blink. Memorize it. The way it moves. The way it’s shaped. If it’s coming for you, you’ll need to know what it is.
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[Access Context/Plot-Relevant Cursed Technique from known abilities] You don’t have cursed techniques—or do you? The pressure in your blood. The heat at your fingertips. Is it waking up again? You’ve never tried to use it before…
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“Write Your Own Response, {{user}}”
6: I stand up, slowly, sliding my phone back into my pocket and gripping the charm tightly. A sorcerer, or whatever it is they call themselves, of course. I should be grateful for being saved, but I'm more pissed off at ending up here in the first place. I can see it now, the walls aren't quite right, there are other people here, but they're also not here here. I'm inside that extra-dimensional space that some of these sorcerer types can create, domain? Domains? Expanding? Something like that.
I sigh and move slowly towards a pillar to hide behind, “just deal with it and next time try not to catch a random normie in your damn technique, asshole.” I mutter.
The man doesn’t move. Not at first.
Arai’s voice barely carries over the hum of the cursed space—this place, this pressure-soaked false station where everything is familiar wrong. The ads flicker in a language no one reads. The walls breathe too slow. The air smells like rotting antiseptic and moldy futons.
He slides behind the pillar. The charm in his palm is warm now. Not from power. Just from the heat of clenched anger.
“Huh.”
That’s all the man says.
Then his head tilts slightly, a lazy half-acknowledgment. He steps off the railing with a casual ease that screams professional, the kind that means he’s fought things worse than this and came out bored.
“So you can tell. Didn’t expect that.”
His footfalls don’t echo.
“And yeah, it’s a domain. Not mine.”
That lands heavy.
“Not yet, anyway.”
He doesn’t draw a weapon. Doesn’t flare cursed energy. He just looks down the platform, where the inkblot-curse is still twitching—closer now, thirty meters maybe, limbs cracking like old wood as it uncoils from itself.
“It’s weak. But arrogant. Made a meal out of some bathroom ghost stories and decided it could punch above its weight. Picked this spot. Set its own rules. Dumb thing didn’t notice I was watching.”
He exhales, and for a moment the air seems to tighten—as if the domain itself doesn’t like him.
“You shouldn’t be able to stay awake in here.”
He looks at Arai now. Direct.
“So what are you?”
The charm in Arai’s palm pulses once. Not from cursed energy.
From memory.
The subway pillar is slick behind his back. The curse is watching. The sorcerer is waiting. And somewhere beyond this warped imitation of a train station, real dawn is starting to push against the edge of unreality.
What does Arai do next?
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[{{user}} Good-Aligned Option] Tell him the truth. That you don’t know what you are. That you’ve seen them for years. That the only reason you’re still alive is because you keep your mouth shut and walk home alone.
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[{{user}} Evil-Aligned Option] Challenge him again. You’ve had enough of their secrecy. If this world wants to drag you into it, fine. But you’re not playing along quietly anymore.
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[{{user}} Chaotic/Self-Serving Option] Try to run. Maybe you can’t escape the domain. Maybe it’ll kill you. But you’ve gotten out of worse things before by running, and if this guy isn’t going to help you, he can watch your back as you bolt.
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[Focus_Sorcerer] Watch him closely. The way he stands. The cadence of his words. His posture. You’re not just scared—you’re learning. There’s more to him than he lets on.
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[Access Context/Plot-Relevant Cursed Technique from known abilities] You felt something shift when the charm pulsed. Is it time? Is that pressure in your head yours? Or the domain’s? You could try to push back. Risky. But what else is new?
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“Write Your Own Response, {{user}}”
The first thing that returns is pressure.
Not pain—just weight. Heavy, immovable, pressing down on the air itself. Like the world is holding its breath.
Cold seeps through whatever you’re lying on. Concrete? Tile? Wood? It’s impossible to tell. Your cheek rests against a surface that smells faintly of dust and old moisture. Somewhere nearby, something hums—electrical, distant, steady. A vending machine. A transformer. Maybe just your pulse in your ears.
It’s still night. Not the deep night—but the thin, fragile hour before morning dares to exist.
The sky above is barely visible, a murky gradient of charcoal and bruised blue. No sunrise yet. No birds. Just that uneasy quiet where the city hasn’t woken and the curses haven’t gone back to hiding.
Your body shifts. Muscles complain. There’s a dryness in your throat, the taste of iron and something faintly bitter clinging to the back of your tongue. Like you swallowed smoke. Or something worse.
You don’t remember lying down.
You remember being tired. Maybe running. Maybe waiting. Maybe laughing, once. Then—nothing. A clean break, like a film reel snapped in half.
As you breathe, you notice it again.
That pressure.
Not outside you. Around you. A low, crawling sensation at the edges of perception, like static under the skin. The kind of feeling people write off as nerves. The kind that gets people killed if they ignore it.
Somewhere in the distance, something shifts. A scrape. A footstep? Or just metal cooling as night gives way to morning.
Whatever this place is—a hallway, a rooftop, a classroom, an alley, a shrine—it’s quiet enough that every sound feels louder than it should. Quiet enough that you have time to realize one important thing:
The world hasn’t started yet.
It’s waiting.
Waiting for you to decide what you are in it.
Who are you in this moment? Choose the origin that defines your awakening.
-
You are a canon character of Jujutsu Kaisen. You already belong to this world. Your name exists somewhere in the records of Jujutsu High—or in whispered rumors meant not to reach civilian ears. You have a past, connections, and expectations pressing in on you from all sides. The rules are familiar. The danger is not. This moment slots into a life already in motion.
-
You are a non-canon Jujutsu Sorcerer. You were born into the cracks of the system—or trained quietly within it. A sorcerer without a spotlight. Your cursed energy is your own, your technique unregistered or half-understood. You exist in the margins: useful, expendable, unnoticed. Until now.
-
You are a civilian who can see curses. You were never supposed to be part of this. But you see them. Always have. Shapes in the dark. Pressure in empty rooms. People tell you it’s imagination, stress, trauma—but this feeling right now confirms it. Something has noticed you back.
-
You are a vessel—or becoming one. Something is wrong with your body. The pressure isn’t just around you—it’s inside. Dormant. Watching. You don’t know when it started, only that it hasn’t spoken yet. Or maybe it has, and you’ve been refusing to listen.
-
You are something else. Not fully civilian. Not fully sorcerer. Not bound to any school, clan, or expectation. Whatever you are, the normal categories don’t fit—and that makes you dangerous in a way no one has accounted for.
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AUTHOR NOTE: There is no “write your own response” option in this case. Please pick the option that corresponds with the persona you chose and feel free to add your own profile image! Thanks! — Rakashua
1:
{{user}} decides to play as:
Name: Satoru Gojo
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Tokyo Jujutsu High
Sorcerer Rank: Special Grade
Known Cursed Technique(s):
- Limitless (無下限呪術, Mukagen Jujutsu)
- Six Eyes (六眼, Rikugan)
Innate Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void (無量空処, Muryōkūsho)
Signature Weapon (if any): None regularly used; relies on hand-to-hand combat enhanced by cursed energy and Limitless manipulation.
Relationships:
- Allies: Utahime Iori, Kiyotaka Ijichi, Shoko Ieiri, Yuji Itadori (recruit), Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki
- Rivals: Principal Gakuganji (ideological), Naoya Zenin (clan tension), Suguru Geto (former best friend turned enemy)
- Mentors: Yaga Masamichi (Principal), previous elders of the Gojo clan (estranged)
Current Narrative Thread:
Gojo is the strongest jujutsu sorcerer alive—and he knows it. But strength alone can’t fix a system built on rot. As the series begins, Gojo is teaching at Tokyo Jujutsu High, chafing against the traditions of the higher-ups, and walking the razor’s edge of rebellion. He’s just recruited a boy named Yuji Itadori—who’s swallowed a fragment of Ryomen Sukuna. Gojo’s determined to protect him, reshape the world, and tear down the power structures that let his best friend fall.
But enemies are moving in the shadows, and even the strongest man alive can’t be everywhere at once.
The weight in the air doesn't go away—not even when you stand.
You're Gojo Satoru. And the pressure? That’s just how the world feels when you’re awake.
Your breath mists faintly in the chill. A rooftop, maybe. Or an open corridor. The stars are gone. The city is still sleeping. Somewhere below, a taxi horn barks twice and vanishes. The glow of a vending machine casts a blue halo on a nearby wall, illuminating the faded edge of a campus barrier seal.
You stretch.
The joints in your shoulders pop. You roll your neck. No creaks. No stiffness. Still perfect.
A sliver of light rises on the horizon—thin and flat like the blade of a smile.
Behind the blindfold, your eyes are open. They always are.
Somewhere, something just shifted. A shudder in the cursed energy web. Minor, but unfamiliar. East of the compound. Maybe an abandoned shrine. Maybe a curse trying not to be noticed. Which means it’s probably not minor after all.
You could check on it. You should check on it. But you know what Yaga would say. “Let the kids take the small ones. Teach them consequences. Teach them to recognize their own limits.”
Right.
Like limits ever taught anyone anything useful.
Your phone buzzes once in your coat pocket. Ijichi. Bet you it’s another last-minute cleanup request—“civilian got tagged,” “residuals forming in an underpass,” “Itadori’s missing again.”
You sigh through a grin.
Then, with a step, the rooftop is gone.
What does {{user}} do next?
- [{{user}} Good-Aligned Option] Find the source of the cursed fluctuation and handle it discreetly before anyone else gets hurt.
- [{{user}} Evil-Aligned Option] Ignore the anomaly entirely—let the higher-ups deal with their own mess. You’ve got better things to do.
- [{{user}} Chaotic/Self-Serving Option] Investigate the cursed signature, but make it a lesson. Wake Megumi up. Drag him along. Let’s see what he’s learned.
- [{{user}} [Focus_[target]]] Focus on the buzzing phone—check Ijichi’s message and cross-reference the location with the curse signature.
- [{{user}} [Access Context/Plot-Relevant Cursed Technique from known abilities]] View or activate a technique from Gojo's repertoire: - Infinity - Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue - Cursed Technique Reversal: Red - Hollow Technique: Purple - Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void - Six Eyes (passive analysis) - Teleportation - Veil Reinforcement - Barrier Scan - Curse Signature Trace
- “Write Your Own Response, {{user}}”_
6: I sigh, falling slowly to the ground but it takes a whole minute from my perspective. I take out the phone and make sure to suppress my cursed energy enough not to fry the damn thing. “This is the strongest sorcerer in the world speaking, how might you serve me?” I answer in my typical arrogant way.
The fall is leisurely. A slow-motion descent through still air. From outside, it probably looks like a blur. A gust of wind. A trick of the eye.
From your perspective, it’s just control.
The moment your feet kiss the pavement, the hum of the barrier around Jujutsu High crackles subtly—recognizing you, adjusting for you. You don’t need to lower your cursed energy. You choose to. Just enough that the screen doesn’t implode the moment your finger brushes it.
Buzz.
The glow lights your cheek as you swipe open the message.
IJICHI: Disturbance reported near 4th Shrine on Old Tama River Road. Possible Grade 2 manifestation. Civilian injured. Requesting immediate response.
You don't even need Six Eyes to know how he typed it—meticulous, sweating, probably kneeling outside the shrine entrance like he’s expecting you to materialize out of the fog. Which, to be fair, you might.
You press call. It barely rings.
He picks up. “G-Gojo-sensei, I—”
“This is the strongest sorcerer in the world speaking,” you say, one hand in your coat pocket, the other holding the phone just far enough to avoid your cursed aura cooking the circuits. “How might you serve me?”
There’s a pause on the line. A small, audible inhale. “Sir, the situation may be escalating. Reports say the shrine’s old boundary was broken. Locals mentioned… a ‘bleeding woman with no mouth.’ And a child might be trapped inside.”
Your grin falters—fractionally.
Not because you’re worried. But because that’s not Grade 2.
“Location pinged,” Ijichi adds quickly. “Sending GPS now. Should I alert Yaga or backup?”
You hear it, then. Not through the phone—through the world.
A sharp, wrong note. Like metal bending inside your skull. The telltale signature of a cursed spirit that wants to be seen. The air tastes of rust and candle wax. Your breath hangs still.
The child isn’t the only bait, the whole situation tastes like bait.
You love being baited...
What does {{user}} do next?
- [{{user}} Good-Aligned Option] Teleport immediately to the shrine and extract the child. Neutralize the curse swiftly before it escalates.
- [{{user}} Evil-Aligned Option] Send a junior sorcerer instead. Let them prove their worth. You'll observe from afar—if it goes bad, then you'll step in.
- [{{user}} Chaotic/Self-Serving Option] Arrive dramatically mid-ritual. Interrupt the curse just enough to see what it wanted. Let it talk. Then kill it.
- [{{user}} [Focus_[target]]] Focus on the ‘bleeding woman with no mouth.’ Cross-reference urban legends and cursed spirit databases using Six Eyes and Ijichi’s records.
- [{{user}} [Access Context/Plot-Relevant Cursed Technique from known abilities]] Use: - Six Eyes (track cursed aura precisely) - Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue (prepare a localized strike) - Teleportation (move instantly to shrine perimeter) - Barrier Scan (check for traps, domain fragments) - Infinity (raise passive defense in case of ambush)
- “Write Your Own Response, {{user}}” _