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IC INFORMATION

Name: Choso
Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
Age: Technically 150, appears to be in his 20s
Gender: Male (He/Him)
Species: Death Painting Womb - Half-human, half-cursed spirit
Appearance: Image
Canon point: Chapter 259 of the manga, right before he is incinerated by Sukuna's Divine Flames

History: Here

Personality answers:

Who in your character's canon influenced the most growth in your character? What do they think about this character?
I think the character in canon who has influenced the most growth in Choso would be Yuki Tsukumo. They first met during the Shibuya incident and later worked together to fight against Kenjaku. Choso originally asked to fight Kenjaku alone, and said that if he went with Yuki, they would just get in each other's way. However, during the fight it's obvious that he needs her there with him, both for her talent and her support, and we see a flashback of them where Choso opens his heart to Yuki to talk about his conflicting emotions regarding being a human. She tells Choso that he has to die as a curse and live on as a human--this has a great impact on Choso's beliefs about himself, his thoughts about how to protect his family, and influences how he acts in canon going forward. To Choso, Yuki is someone strong, someone kind, and someone that he truly feels he can respect; I think his respect is not easily earned, so this shows how highly he thinks of her.

What would your character say is their best trait? What is truly their best trait?
I think Choso would say that his best trait is his inherent technique. While this isn't necessarily a personality trait, I think he would still say it because it's one of the only things that he valued about himself at the beginning. Being a Death Painting Womb, he was already essentially being used as a tool, and his technique is one of the inherent techniques of the ancient Kamo family, highly coveted and highly powerful. In addition, since he's a Cursed Womb, he was ranked special grade and exceptionally powerful, able to hone his technique for 150 years. I think this is something that he prides himself in as well, since he wants to be strong for his younger brothers. However, I think that his actual best trait is the love and care that he shows for his family. He is a fiercly protective older brother, wanting to avenge the deaths of his brothers and protect the others. He wants to be an exceptional older brother who shoulders the burdens for his family, which shows the depth of his empathy and love for them.

What would it take to truly upset your character, enough that they would act upon their feelings? Are they the sort to forgive?
An attack on any member of his family would be enough to truly upset Choso. We even see evidence of this during the Shibuya Incident, as Choso is so determined to eradicate Yuji Itadori for the murder of his brothers. He fights him brutally, with a single-minded intention, and doesn't even seem to care much about the plans of Kenjaku or the other curses. We also see this when he works to defend Yuji later, after accepting Yuji as another member of his family; he only seems to get upset when it's his family at risk, and has even stated that he would be fine dying if it successfully wrought revenge for his brother's deaths. However, he is the sort to forgive. We see him forgive Yuji, after all, and treat him like a brother; I think when it's someone that he cares about, he can find it in himself to forgive them no matter the heinousness of their mistake. This speaks to his more human side, I think, and the human traits that do reside within him.

What is justice to your character? How important is it to them?
Judging by canon events, justice to Choso seems to be the concept of "an eye for an eye". He seems to see justice as retribution that is equal to whatever the crime or the mistake is. For example, he firmly believes to start that he should kill Yuji in response to Yuji being responsible for the deaths of his brothers. He doesn't take that anger or grief and direct it at anyone else, or spread it out as though justice should mean making many suffer for the mistakes of one; he focuses it in on equal retribution, or cause and effect. To Choso, this sort of justice is very important to him in the beginning, because it's really the driving force behind a lot of his actions. Since he cares so deeply about family, he also cares about getting justice for their deaths. However, we can see that while this justice is important to him, and while he does seem to be single-mindedly focused on it, that doesn't mean that he can't be redirected. Once he figures out the truth about Yuji (and that they're technically related), he offers forgiveness instead of driving forward to 'revenge'.

Inventory:
• Soul Research Records: This was left to Choso by Yuki Tsukumo after her death, which he then passed along to Yuji Itadori. It's mostly sentimental value, given that Choso was heavily impacted by Yuki and her death. Image.
• Board Game: This is played by the villains (Kenjaku, Mahito) and Choso when he learns of his brother's deaths. Presumably seems to be the Game of Life. Also just sentimental value, or bad memories. Image.

Powers/Abilities:
General Skill Level: Choso is ranked as a special grade in canon, which is rare for curses. This is the most powerful type of curse. In sorcerer standards, he is comparable to a grade 1 sorcerer, which is the second most powerful. He was intelligent and self-aware when he existed as a cursed object and was able to hone his technique during that time. By the time he was incarnated into a human body, he had already mastered his technique. He excels at taijutsu, which is essentially martial arts that use body movements/hand-to-hand combat. He has high physical endurance and determination, often able to fight through his injuries or use them to his advantage. He has high tactical intellect and is quite clever otherwise.

Death Painting Womb: As a Death Painting Womb, he can sense the "transformation" of his younger brothers, including death. His blood is also poisonous, taking effect fairly quickly and draining the victim's stamina. He can also convert his cursed energy into blood to use for his technique; as long as he has enough cursed energy, he can prevent his body from dying of blood loss, essentially using reverse cursed technique to heal himself.

Cursed Technique - Blood Manipulation: Choso's inherited technique is called Blood Manipulation. He can manipulate his own blood and use it in combat. For example, he can unleash sharpened blood that can fly through the air and slice at a target. He can also shape it into long streams at a wide range, or form it into a rotating chakram, etc. He can condense and compress his blood with cursed energy in order to fire off attacks like Piercing Blood, where a blood beam is fired from his clasped hands, or Supernova, where he detonates several orbs of blood like bullets.

Here are a few other manifestations of his technique, for the sake of clarity and transparency. These are taken from the Wiki -

Blood Edge: Shapes and strengthens blood's lethality by rotating it at high speed, allowing Choso to shape blood outside his body into a dagger.
Flowing Red Scale: Used to improve the performance of Choso's body by pumping blood faster throughout his body, allowing them to take in more oxygen. This improves Choso's pulse rate and the number of red blood cells, granting a drastic increase in strength and speed. When Choso activates this technique, the blood mark going across his nose grows two vertical lines on each of his cheeks that extend past his eyes.
Flowing Red Scale: Stack: Further improves the increased output provided by Flowing Red Scale to an even higher degree. When Choso activates this version of the technique, the three blood marks going across his nose and eyes all gain arrowhead designs at the end of them.
Blood Meteorite: A technique that hardens the user's blood. Choso has used it to create a small stone made of super condensed and hardened blood. He also used it to harden the blood inside his body to reinforce himself despite the risk of thrombosis.
Wing King: Creates a halo of blood that sprouts four wasp-like wings. These wings are a medium to create vector lines of blood which can be used offensively.

Anti-Domain Technique: Choso is able to use the New Shadow Style: Simple Domain to disable a domain's guaranteed-hit effect by neutralizing its barrier.

Samples: Here (continued to overflow) & Here (continued to overflow) ( TDM Top Level )
Goals: I'm very interested in seeing how Choso grows, less as a curse and more as a human. I think being able to explore him taking steps to live a life that is more human is really interesting, and I think this setting is also great for it because it forces him to contend with the Natural Soul, as well. Does that make him more or less human, or how does he react to that? I think being challenged with that addition will make for a lot of interesting character development, and I'm very driven by character development and how that is affected by CR. As his canon point is basically at his canon death, this also provides juicy material for internal conflict as well as possible conflict with others. I think him potentially opening up to others or expanding on his idea of what 'family' is would also be so interesting to write and explore.
Soul Choice: Terra-type