Hi, y'all! I've had this piece of work deep within the archives for a little while and it was always pretty incomplete, so I wanted to refine it and finish it up to post (making Cursed Techniques is surprisingly fun).

(Also yes, the name of this technique IS a reference to Scary Monsters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, however parts of the technique (like the appearance) are inspired by things like Super Beast Imitating Drawing from Naruto Shippūden.)

INNATE TECHNIQUE: SCARY MONSTERS – 恐怖怪物 (Kyōfu Kaibutsu)

USER: SUMIKA ESHITA

Scary Monsters is relatively simple in use at face value: anything creature, monster, or cursed spirit drawn/painted using her specialized cursed energy-imbued calligraphy ink becomes a part of reality, acting as

a form of Shikigami. However, this Innate Technique is the embodiment of Sumika Eshita and her creativity. Its fundamental uses follow this order:

* Cursed Energy is imbued into specialized high-durability calligraphy ink.

* A creature (from an animal, to a monster, to an entirely new cursed spirit) is painted/drawn against any flat surface. Size does matter, as the size of the painting/drawing dictates the size of the creature.

* The creature forms completely and listens to commands, though the level of skill used in the painting/drawing dictates how complicated the instructions can be.

Fundamental Capabilities

Scary Monsters manifests through Sumika Eshita’s precision, speed, and anatomical mastery. While the technique’s core remains the creation of ink-born creatures, Sumika has refined several foundational applications that allow her to adapt fluidly to any battlefield, which can be seen through these capabilities:

* Rather than constructing full-bodied masterpieces mid-fight, the user relies on ultra-fast, minimalist anatomical sketches that prioritize accuracy over detail. With a broad-tipped brush, the user strikes a handful of clean, deliberate lines across any surface—her smock, a wall, the ground. These lines immediately erupt into swarms of small, simple Shikigami: razor-beaked crows, horned centipedes, snapping ink-hounds. Due to their minimal detail, these constructs can only comprehend basic directives such as “Attack that target” or “Distract them.” They are fragile but fast, acting as shock-troops that give the user precious seconds to reposition or prepare a stronger creation.

* To counter the limitations of rain and the time required for complex paintings, the user prepares large-scale, high-detail works long before battle. By channeling cursed energy into a scroll with a pre-drawn creature in it and unfurling it, the creature manifests instantly.These Shikigami possess immense structural durability and can follow multi-layered tactical commands. Their precision allows Grade 2 to Semi-Grade 1 level performance, executing instructions such as “Flank left, hold position, strike only when I lower my brush.”

* The user can apply her ink directly onto living bodies—hers or her allies’—to temporarily overwrite anatomy with ink-born constructs. She paints the skeletal and muscular linework of a beast’s limb onto her own skin: raptor talons over her boots, a tiger’s forelimb across her arm, a serpent’s spine along her back. The ink manifests instantly, forming a physical, armored overlay. It grants bursts of strength, speed, mobility, or protection. However, contamination from sweat or blood destabilizes the graft, causing it to dissolve immediately.

* The user's technique doesn't just replicate natural beasts; she can actually draw and manifest Cursed Spirits. However, mimicking a curse introduces a unique, high-stakes set of rules to the technique. To draw a Cursed Spirit, the must have closely observed it or have a perfect conceptual understanding of its negative energy source (e.g., drawing a curse born from the fear of plagues requires her to visualize rot and sickness). She imbues the ink with a specifically altered, malicious frequency of her own cursed energy. The resulting Shikigami possesses the bizarre, reality-bending properties or minor innate abilities of a true Cursed Spirit, rather than just the physical traits of an animal.

* To mitigate her greatest vulnerability—water—the user developed a defensive application that alters the behavior of her ink. By shifting the cursed energy frequency within her ink, she can separate the pigment and generate a thin hydrophobic barrier over a Shikigami at the moment of manifestation. This coating allows her creations to endure light rain, mist, or humidity for a short duration. Maintaining the barrier demands intense focus and constant cursed energy output, preventing her from summoning multiple creatures simultaneously.

Restrictions

Due to the technique operating on strict anatomical and spatial rules, there are a few restrictions and requirements that must be met or avoided to make sure that the Shikigami form correctly:

* For a Shikigami to manifest, the drawing cannot be messy, rushed, or incomplete. The physical form requires precise proportions, clean linework, and clear intent, as less detail means weaker understanding of instructions and weaker power it can produce. If it's drawn partially/something is malformed, the Shikigami will not form.

* Only the user's cursed energy-imbued calligraphy ink can form a Shikigami. While a bit of dust getting into it isn't an issue, the ink being diluted by another liquid like someone else's blood or water will dissipate the Shikigami faster than other attacks.

Speaking of, the worst weakness is if it rains, as the technique becomes weaker to completely unusable in a wet environment.

Extension Techniques:

Draft Copy – 下書き (Shitagaki): The user quickly sketches small, simple creatures (like crows, rats, or centipedes) for scouting or distraction. Because they require fewer strokes, they manifest almost instantly but dissolve into black puddles after taking a single hit.

Masterpiece – 傑作 (Kessaku): The user spends time beforehand perfectly drawing a massive, mythological beast (like a Nue-like chimera or a massive serpent). The user seals the folded up parchment holding the massive drawing in her notebook and can manifest it instantly during battle. The user can usually only maintain one "Masterpiece" at a time due to the massive cursed energy drain.

Ink-Wash Mirage – 墨絵霞 (Sumie Kasumi): By intentionally splashing excess ink, the user creates a smoke screen of raw cursed energy that blurs the enemy's vision, buying her time to sketch undisturbed.

Maximum Technique: Opus Magnus – 極ノ番「大作」(Goku no Ban: Daisaku)

This is the ultimate form of artistry for Scary monsters.

To activate her Maximum Technique, the user mixes her own blood directly into her specialized calligraphy ink—biting her fingers, slitting her palms, or forcing any method that produces immediate flow. Unlike foreign liquids, which dilute and destabilize her creations, her blood acts as a hyper-conductive primer, binding her cursed energy into a volatile, heightened state. Once the blood touches the ink, the user enters a trance-like focus, abandoning pain, fear, and self-preservation. She splashes, hurls, and drags blood‑ink across every available surface within a thirty-meter radius—ground, walls, trees, debris, even the bodies of her enemies. In this state, her mind processes dozens of anatomical “wireframes” simultaneously, each one a complete creature blueprint.

From these massive strokes, an overwhelming legion of hyper-detailed Shikigami erupts at once—Grade‑2 and Grade‑1 constructs tearing themselves free from every surface. Unlike her standard sketches, these creatures inherit fragments of the user's active consciousness through the blood medium. They move with terrifying synchronicity: flying curses lift ground-bound beasts into aerial assaults, defensive chimera units shield the user's position, and the entire horde responds to her intent with orchestral precision. The battlefield becomes a living ink ecosystem. When an enemy destroys one creature, its splattered remains immediately reform into a new, anatomically perfect monster, shifting the tide of combat with relentless adaptability.

However, this technique exacts a brutal toll. Because it relies on her own blood, prolonged use rapidly drains her physical reserves, pushing her toward anemia and cursed energy collapse. Worse still, her cursed technique's weakness to water becomes catastrophic as she suffers of it due to her blood being used (it acts as a sort of shared weakness that she wouldn't suffer usually because her blood usually isn't in her ink)—a sudden downpour or high-pressure water attack will wash away the blood‑ink entirely, erasing her constructs and inflicting severe blood loss and cursed energy burnout.

Domain Expansion: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons – 領域展開「百鬼夜行 (Ryōiki Tenkai: Hyakki Yagyō)

To open this Domain the user forms the Taishakuten (Śakra) handsign. When deployed, the barrier expands into a pitch-black, infinite void where the floor is a perfectly still, reflective mirror of pure black calligraphy ink. The sky above looks like heavily textured, raw parchment paper. The atmosphere is completely silent, save for the rhythmic, dripping sound of heavy ink hitting a canvas.

Sure-Hit Effect

Within her Domain, the foundational laws that govern the user's drawings are completely rewritten. The space itself becomes a living canvas, and every rule that once restricted her technique is overridden by the Domain’s absolute authority.

Inside the Domain, the user no longer needs her hands, brushes, or physical ink strokes. The space interprets her active thoughts directly. If she imagines the anatomical structure of a creature—a cursed spirit, a beast, a chimera—the ink floor paints it flawlessly in an instant. Every concept becomes reality the moment she conceives it.

The Domain’s guaranteed-hit effect eliminates the possibility of malformed or incomplete drawings. Her thoughts cannot be messy, therefore her creations cannot fail. Every Shikigami manifests in its absolute peak form: fully shaded, anatomically perfect, and overwhelmingly powerful. Even creatures she has never drawn before emerge as if she had studied them for years.

The reflective ink floor contains an inexhaustible reservoir of cursed energy pigment. Hundreds of unique, high-grade beasts and grotesque cursed spirits continuously claw their way out of the ground, forming an unending parade of ink-born horrors. The target is assaulted by a ceaseless tide—every second, new monsters rise.

Because the Domain is a sealed pocket dimension, external weather cannot intrude.

Rain, humidity, running water—her greatest weaknesses—are completely locked out.

Inside her Domain, her ink can never be diluted, ensuring perfect stability for every creation.

The true horror of the user's Domain lies in the fact that the opponent is standing directly on her canvas. Every step the target takes splashes the ink floor. Every movement coats their body, clothes, and shadow with pigment. With the Domain’s guaranteed-hit effect, Sumika can force her Shikigami to manifest directly from the ink clinging to the opponent—causing clawed, shrieking entities to tear themselves outward from the enemy’s own silhouette, garments, or footprints. Escape becomes impossible. Every motion the opponent makes becomes another brushstroke for Sumika to weaponize.

Binding Vow: Partial Painting

By enforcing a slight yet strict power loss to her cursed technique, Sumika established a Binding Vow that slightly warps the restrictions of her paintings/drawings and the power of the more simple constructs at a cost.

The Core Change and Restriction

With this Binding Vow, the user no longer has to only draw creatures, as she can now draw partial parts of them like a maw of ink-teeth or a cage of skeletal ribs through puddles of ink. This allows her to create more in a shorter amount of time, but it also lowers the damage that her Shikigami and creations do, meaning she has to be more intelligent and creative to maintain high attack power and potency with lower overall damage.

(Tried doing something a bit different with more restrictions and things that could clearly negate and work against Scary Monsters instead of it being too greatly overpowered. I was thinking of making a paintbrush Cursed Tool but I doubt this technique needs the extra aid with how it works, so I made a maximum technique instead since I thought it'd be cool to do. Let me know what y'all think. I might make an actual profile (I suck at art so none of that 🤪) for Sumika. Thank y'all for reading!)

IK I said Gojo was gonna be first... BUT absolute Sukuna's story was in my head and I just HAD to get it out but don't worry Gojo will definitely be after. Now lets begin...

I've thought about this for the longest time, and truth be told, there is NOTHING to take from Sukuna because, realistically, he never had anything to begin with.

But what if we did the opposite?

Instead of taking something away from Sukuna, what if we gave him something? Something he never EVER had in his original life. 

A family.

Not just a family in name, either, but people he genuinely cared about. A brother he grew up alongside (wait Brother???), a clan he believed he belonged to, and a life that, despite its problems, he actually enjoyed living. During the Heian era, which is remembered as the golden age of jujutsu sorcery, several powerful families dominated the political and military landscape. Of course, everyone knows the Gojo, Zenin, and Kamo clans, but in this version of history, there was actually a fourth major clan that existed alongside them. This being the Abe Clan, a forgotten 4th great clan of Jujutsu. The Abe were one of the oldest sorcerer families in Japan, and unlike the other great clans, they were known primarily for their military strength and their reputation as hunters. They weren't necessarily uninterested in politics or inherited techniques, but their greatest source of influence came from their ability to wage war. Whether it was hunting powerful curses, eliminating rival sorcerers, or destroying entire organizations that threatened their interests, the Abe were extremely effective at what they did. They believed that strength was something you had to demonstrate, not simply inherit.

Now that we’re done with the pretext we can say that 2 kids were born. Tsuyoshi and Takeshi Abe were born from an affair involving the patriarch  of the clan or something, (who would either be Abe no Yoritoki or Abe no Yoshihara), depending on where exactly the story is placed historically. (they are twins but this is not an HR situation). I’d like to add how he was conceived and his clan is inspired by u/Plug01 

Their mother wasn't their father’s legitimate wife, nor did she possess the political standing necessary to protect herself once the affair became known. So eventually, she was abandoned. And when I say abandoned, I don't mean she was simply sent away with enough resources to survive. She was deliberately deprived of food and assistance and left to die during a period already devastated by warfare and instability. The twins, however, were spared. Not necessarily because the clan felt any particular compassion toward their mother or the circumstances of their birth, but because both children displayed an unusual amount of cursed energy.

From a very young age, Tsuyoshi and Takeshi were considered extraordinary. Both possessed immense potential (already special grade sorcerers by 15-16 years old), both developed powerful innate techniques, and both demonstrated an understanding of jujutsu that was unusual even among the Abe Clan's most talented children. They were also practically inseparable. Despite being twins, however, they couldn't have been more different in appearance, personality, and the way others treated them.

Tsuyoshi Abe,  The Unwanted Prodigy:

Tsuyoshi was born with four eyes strangely (if Gege doesn’t have a reason, then I don’t need one either… it's just a genetic mutation). Yes, four eyes, even before becoming the monster everyone would eventually recognize as Sukuna. Naturally, this made his appearance extremely unusual. Even in a society where sorcerers could inherit bizarre physical traits, Tsuyoshi's face was considered unsettling. He wasn't particularly attractive by conventional standards, and plenty of people viewed him as some sort of bad omen (to be fair, he was looking really kooky fr). Some even believed he was cursed from birth. This meant that while his brother received admiration for his appearance, Tsuyoshi was often subjected to ridicule or outright hostility. But there was one thing nobody could deny about him, his talent was ridiculous.

Tsuyoshi possessed Shrine, the same innate cursed technique associated with Sukuna in canon. Even as a child, his ability to manipulate cursed energy was abnormal. He learned techniques faster than almost anyone around him, understood the mechanics of jujutsu with very little explanation, and could adapt to unfamiliar combat situations almost instinctively. What made him especially dangerous wasn't just the amount of cursed energy he possessed. It was how naturally he understood it even more so then practically ANYONE in his era. He could observe an opponent's movements, recognize weaknesses in their technique, and adjust his fighting style almost immediately. Things that took experienced sorcerers years to understand came surprisingly easily to him. And yet, despite all this, Tsuyoshi wasn't particularly arrogant. I MEAN HE KNEW he was strong. There was no point pretending otherwise. But he didn't spend every waking moment thinking about how much stronger he was than everyone else and honestly just enjoyed life. He liked fighting, obviously, but not to the obsessive extent that canon Sukuna does. Fighting was exciting because it gave him something to improve at, and he genuinely enjoyed encountering opponents who could challenge him.

Takeshi Abe, The Beloved Prodigy

Where Tsuyoshi was considered strange-looking, Takeshi was blessed with an almost unnatural beauty (they both needed some kind of strange thing about them so imagine that Takeshi has amazing bone structure IG). He was the kind of person who attracted attention without even trying, and his appearance made him extremely popular among members of the clan. He was also charismatic, intelligent, disciplined, and considerably more interested in how others perceived him. Unlike Tsuyoshi, who was perfectly content with simply being strong and wore practically well… rags, Takeshi wanted to accomplish something with his abilities.

He wanted recognition and he definitely wanted influence. And eventually, he wanted to become the head of the Abe Clan and help them rule over the world of Jujutsu or at least be the most known. His innate technique was called Sanctum, and it was an incredibly versatile ability that involved manipulating the structural relationships between matter. Essentially, Takeshi could mend, lock, bind, and fuse things together. Depending on how he applied the technique, he could repair damaged structures, immobilize opponents, reinforce objects, heal wounds so he never really bothered with RCT, etc.

In many ways, Sanctum was the perfect counterpart/opposite to Shrine. Tsuyoshi could separate and destroy things, while Takeshi could connect and restore them. And when they fought together, their abilities complemented each other almost perfectly (imagine Yuji and Todo, YEAH thats how they were boxing). But it's important to know for future events  that Takeshi wasn't always some secretly evil person who hated his brother. He genuinely loved Tsuyoshi, I mean hell when they were children, Takeshi was usually the first person to defend him whenever someone made fun of his appearance. If another child called Tsuyoshi a monster, Takeshi would confront them. If someone insulted their mother or brought up their illegitimate birth, Takeshi would stand up for both of them and that includes of course beating the bully’s ass.

He was protective, sometimes unnecessarily so, considering Tsuyoshi was more than capable of defending himself but Tsuyoshi appreciated it. In fact, Takeshi was probably the main reason Tsuyoshi never developed a particularly strong resentment toward the clan during his childhood. Whenever something bothered him, his brother was there to make him feel better. The problem was that Takeshi had another side to him….he was jealous. Not of Tsuyoshi's appearance, obviously, and not necessarily because Tsuyoshi received more affection, Takeshi was actually favored in several ways (not even several, it was all ways honestly). What bothered him was his brother's talent. No matter how much Takeshi trained, Tsuyoshi always seemed to be slightly ahead. And as they grew older, that difference became harder and harder for him to ignore.

Together, they were capable of overwhelming entire groups of experienced fighters. Tsuyoshi's Shrine allowed him to cut through defensive formations and destroy opponents with terrifying efficiency, while Takeshi's Sanctum gave them control over the battlefield by reinforcing structures, immobilizing enemies, and creating openings.

They understood each other's movements almost instinctively (YUJI AND TODO FR) and because of them, the Abe Clan began expanding its influence at an alarming rate. Entire organizations were destroyed, rival families were forced into submission, and the clan's military reputation became almost unmatched. Of course, this also meant Tsuyoshi was becoming increasingly famous, or infamous, depending on who you asked IG…. People outside the Abe Clan already disliked him because of his appearance, but now they had another reason to fear him (Because he was obviously so fucking strong). Stories began spreading about the four-eyed warrior who could slaughter entire groups of sorcerers almost single-handedly and while Takeshi was still recognized as an extraordinary fighter, people gradually stopped treating the brothers as equals.

By the time the twins reached 25, there was no longer any debate about who was stronger. Tsuyoshi had completely surpassed Takeshi. In fact, he had surpassed practically everyone. His mastery of Shrine, his understanding of cursed energy, his physical abilities, and his combat intelligence had reached a level that very few sorcerers could even comprehend.

Ryomen Sukuna.

Unfortunately, the Abe Clan had reached a point where his existence was becoming a serious political problem. Their father was getting older, which meant a successor would eventually have to be chosen. And while Tsuyoshi couldn't have cared less about becoming clan head, Takeshi wanted the position more than almost anything. He had spent years preparing himself for leadership. He understood the clan's politics, knew how to command loyalty, and genuinely believed he could lead the Abe into an even greater era of prosperity. Tsuyoshi, meanwhile, would have gladly supported him if Takeshi wanted to become clan head, then good for him.

Now, don't think Takeshi suddenly stopped loving his brother at this point. He still cared about Tsuyoshi. He still remembered their childhood, their training sessions, and the countless times they had fought alongside each other. But he had convinced himself that those feelings were less important than the future he wanted. In his mind, Tsuyoshi was standing in the way of his greatness. And the worst part was that Tsuyoshi wasn't even trying to. Eventually, Takeshi decided that there was only one way to resolve the situation. Tsuyoshi had to die. (OHHH LA LA LA**)**

Killing Tsuyoshi wasn't exactly an easy task (I mean killing Sukuna isn’t easy for anyone after all). By this point, he was so powerful that no individual sorcerer could confidently challenge him and even Takeshi knew that fighting his brother alone would almost certainly end in defeat. So the Abe leadership began organizing something much larger. They approached several of the most powerful factions in the jujutsu world, claiming that Tsuyoshi had become an uncontrollable threat. The Gojo Clan, Zenin Clan, and Kamo Clan were eventually drawn into the conspiracy. The Five Void Generals, all of whom were special-grade sorcerers, were also involved. And to make matters worse, Takako Uro's assassination group was recruited as well. Essentially, several of the strongest military and sorcerer organizations of the Heian era were preparing to eliminate one man.

The Celestial Palace would eventually become the location of one of the most infamous battles in jujutsu history. When Tsuyoshi arrived, he discovered that the entire meeting had been a trap.

Thousands of warriors, sorcerers, and assassins had been gathered to kill him. The Five Void Generals were present, along with Takako Uro's assassination unit and members of the Gojo, Zenin, Kamo, and Abe clans. At first, Tsuyoshi was confused. I mean he obviously recognized several members of his own clan among the attackers, but rather than immediately assuming they had betrayed him, he actually thought there might have been some sort of misunderstanding. Maybe someone had accused him of treason. Maybe the elders believed he had done something wrong. Maybe they thought he had betrayed the clan.

Whatever the reason, he assumed there had to be an explanation. Unfortunately, nobody was interested in giving him one, and the attack began almost immediately.

And what followed was absolute FUCKING carnage. Despite being surrounded by thousands of opponents, Tsuyoshi fought back with everything he had. I mean Shrine tore through enemy formations, cutting down warriors and destroying defenses with mere ease (he did use Fuga as well which destroyed a whole squadron). The Five Void Generals attempted to coordinate their abilities against him, while Uro's assassination group looked for opportunities to strike whenever his attention was divided. The great clans deployed some of their strongest fighters, hoping that their combined numbers and techniques would eventually overwhelm him. But Tsuyoshi just kept fighting (LIKE A BOSS). And just like that, hundreds of enemies fell then thousands.

And why were members of his own family participating? Of course, even someone as powerful as Tsuyoshi had limits. The sheer number of opponents gradually began wearing him down. His body accumulated injuries, his cursed energy reserves were being pushed to their limits, and the constant pressure made it increasingly difficult to defend himself. Still, he refused to fall, not now, not ever. And somewhere in the back of his mind, he believed that Takeshi would eventually arrive.

After all, his brother had always been there for him. Surely he would come this time too and eventually, Takeshi did arrive but not for the reason Tsuyoshi expected.** **When Tsuyoshi first saw Takeshi approaching, he was relieved and for a moment, he genuinely believed his brother had come to help him. But then he noticed something.

Takeshi wasn't standing apart from the people attacking him. He was standing with them and suddenly, everything started making sense.

Takeshi had known.

This was the same brother who had protected him when they were children. The same person who defended him whenever someone called him a monster. The same person who reassured him that the opinions of others didn't matter. Tsuyoshi had always known Takeshi was jealous of him, he wasn't completely blind to that. But he never imagined his brother would actually try to kill him over it, he didn't think he’d kill him over anything…

For the first time in his life, Tsuyoshi froze. Not because Takeshi was stronger and definitely not because he had encountered some technique he couldn't counter. But because he couldn't bring himself to fight his own brother and for the first time, he started crying (not even that, he was sobbing).

The strongest sorcerer of his generation, a man who had just fought against thousands of opponents, was completely overwhelmed by the realization that the person he loved most had betrayed him. Takeshi hesitated when he saw this because despite everything, he still loved Tsuyoshi. He wasn't completely incapable of feeling guilt, and seeing his brother like that genuinely hurt him but he had already convinced himself that killing Tsuyoshi was necessary and In his mind, his brother had been given an absurd amount of strength and had done practically nothing with it beyond serving the clan.

So he went through with it.

Using Sanctum alongside the remaining forces, Takeshi helped deliver the final attack. Tsuyoshi, already exhausted and emotionally devastated, failed to properly defend himself. His body was crushed and reduced to dust and they left him there…. just like that, Tsuyoshi Abe was dead.

Unlike canon Sukuna, who would eventually preserve his existence through cursed objects, Tsuyoshi genuinely died that day.

But because he trusted his brother. 

C’MON YOU AINT THINK IT WAS OVER DID YOU

Tsuyoshi had been killed, his body was gone, and the Abe Clan had finally gotten rid of the person they feared most. But there was one problem, Tsuyoshi wasn't willing to accept his death because why the hell should he?

It was Takeshi.

They loved each other….. Right?

IT REWARDED POWER.

POWER.

And Tsuyoshi was furious because he had possessed more power than almost anyone alive, yet he had allowed himself to be killed for the sake of people who never truly valued him. He had spent his entire life trying to belong to a world that had never fully accepted him and now that world had taken everything away from him.

If the world was going to crush people who simply wanted to live, then perhaps the world deserved to be crushed too.

Every damn thing….

He wanted the entire world to experience the same helplessness and despair he had felt. He wanted to destroy the society that had created people like Takeshi. And if strength was the only thing anyone respected, then he would become so overwhelmingly powerful that nobody could ever threaten him again. That was the moment Tsuyoshi's love for the world finally turned into hatred. And that hatred refused to die with him.

Tsuyoshi's death had produced an extraordinary amount of resentment and negative emotion. His body had been destroyed, but the circumstances of his death had failed to prevent his soul from returning as a curse (as they left his body and failed to fully kill him, he's such a beast I know) and considering the sheer amount of cursed energy he possessed in life, his transformation was unlike anything the jujutsu world had ever experienced.

He returned as a vengeful cursed spirit but not an ordinary one (obviously….) His new existence was something far beyond the special grade curses people were familiar with.

His skin had turned a darkish tanned, resembling the appearance of an Asura, and his hair had grown considerably longer than it had been during his human life. He still possessed the same four eyes he had been born with, but his face had become more deformed (looking the exact same as his canon face). His body now had six arms instead of two, and dark reddish tattoos covered his skin as if they were etched in him along with 2 mouths on him. He looked less like a human sorcerer and more like a supernatural embodiment of violence.

He improved overall after all, I mean even as a human, Tsuyoshi had possessed an unnatural amount of cursed energy. As a vengeful cursed spirit, however, his reserves had become almost limitless. The sheer density of his cursed energy was enough to overwhelm weaker sorcerers, and his physical abilities had increased dramatically. He retained the Shrine technique, but his new body allowed him to use it in ways that would have been considerably more difficult during his human life plus he underwent an insane awakening (his CT has awakened along with his mental change of beliefs).

Of course, because he was now a cursed spirit, positive energy produced through Reverse Cursed Technique was still dangerous to him. And while he wasn't immune to it. His cursed energy reserves were so enormous that he could resist and endure positive-energy attacks that would ordinarily destroy other curses, somewhat similar to what was demonstrated by Rika. (Essentially, he was still vulnerable to RCT, but actually exorcising him with it would be extremely difficult.)

And despite all these changes, he still remembered everything. Unlike regular vengeful spirits, Sukuna was a unique case (OF COURSE HE WAS), he retained his mind as well… not just the vengeful emotions (everything he does as a curse is HIS WILL and not the will of his emotions… so he's not mindless like Rika. What you see IS SUKUNA)

After returning, Sukuna made one decision that would define the rest of his existence and promised he would never use the name Tsuyoshi Abe again. That name belonged to the man who had trusted his family, the man who believed loyalty meant something and the man who genuinely loved his brother.

And as far as Sukuna was concerned, that man had died at the Celestial Palace. He would instead embrace the name people had once given him because of his appearance and terrifying strength.

Ryomen Sukuna.

He was going to be its destruction.

Naturally, the first thing Sukuna did after returning was go after the Abe Clan. And this wasn't some carefully planned military campaign where he intended to overthrow the leadership and establish himself as the new clan head.

The Abe had believed that killing Tsuyoshi would secure their future, but in reality, they had just created something infinitely worse. When Sukuna appeared, the clan initially struggled to understand what they were seeing. The man they had supposedly killed had returned as a nine-foot-tall, six-armed monster with dark skin, four eyes, and an almost incomprehensible amount of cursed energy (he’d seem like an other worldy being in all honesty).

Sukuna attacked without hesitation. The clan's warriors attempted to defend themselves, and its strongest sorcerers deployed everything they had but lets be honest…. Nothing could stop the destruction in his wake. The elders who had once ordered Tsuyoshi around were now completely helpless against him and Sukuna definitely showed absolutely no mercy.

It didn't matter whether someone had personally participated in the assassination or had simply belonged to the clan. As far as he was concerned, the entire family was responsible for what had happened to him. This was also one of the clearest signs that Tsuyoshi was truly gone, the old Tsuyoshi might have wanted answers and he might have confronted the people responsible and demanded to know why they betrayed him.

Sukuna didn't care about explanations anymore. He wanted them to just suffer then die.  And eventually, he found Takeshi and Sukuna smiled but this time… it wasn’t out of love in the slightest

Takeshi immediately recognized his brother.

Even with the monstrous body, he knew It was indeed Tsuyoshi, this was probably a few years after Tsuyoshi’s death. And this was him or at least, what remained of him. For the first time, Takeshi was forced to confront the full consequences of his actions.

Instead, he had created a monster who was about to destroy everything he had worked for in one second and he couldn’t stop that storm. Takeshi fought back using Sanctum, attempting to restrain Sukuna and exploit whatever weaknesses he could find but it was hopeless.  Even when they were human, Tsuyoshi had been stronger and now the difference between them was almost impossible to comprehend.

Sukuna utterly overwhelmed him and rather than simply killing him, he tortured him, slicing off each layer of his skin, broke him apart and he did hear Takeshi utter the words with his busted lips, “I- I’m so-”, but no he didn’t finish. This was because Sukuna using his second mouth devoured him whole and smiled all the way through, laughing at all the blood surrounding him. ( for the record Sukuna didn't inherit Sanctum from doing so, too broken to have both but I will say that he undergoes growth as a curse in this fight I guess).

Sukuna continued until the entire clan had been exterminated.

The fourth great clan of the Heian era was gone.

And the irony was that the Abe Clan had feared Tsuyoshi would eventually become a threat to them, despite him never showing any real desire to rebel. By attempting to prevent that possibility, they had caused it themselves (HA!).

Of course, Sukuna wasn't finished. The Abe Clan had been responsible for organizing his assassination, but they weren't the only ones involved. He remembered everyone who had participated in the Celestial Palace massacre.

Takako Uro's assassination group (Uro obviously survived because she died via fujiwara’s framing her) 

What followed was a devastating campaign against the surviving conspirators. The same factions that had once gathered thousands of fighters to kill Tsuyoshi now found themselves being hunted by his vengeful incarnation.

However, unlike the Abe Clan. The Gojo, Zenin, and Kamo clans weren't completely exterminated and they survived, but they were left in terrible condition. I mean their strongest warriors had been killed, their leadership structures were devastated, and much of their political influence had collapsed and it would take generations for them to recover.vAnd the consequences extended far beyond the clans themselves because the entire balance of power within the jujutsu world had been shattered.

For years, the great clans had maintained their influence through military strength, inherited techniques, and political alliances. Now, a single cursed spirit had demonstrated that none of those things could protect them and the Heian era was about to become something much worse for the world ENTIRELY

Before Sukuna's resurrection, the Heian era was remembered as the golden age of jujutsu sorcery (because I mean it was). After all, tere was powerful sorcerers were everywhere, cursed techniques were flourishing, and the great clans were constantly competing for dominance. But after Sukuna returned, the situation changed dramatically. His rampages spread fear throughout Japan. Entire communities were terrified of the possibility that he might appear and sorcerers who had once confidently hunted curses were now facing something they could barely comprehend.

And because cursed spirits are born from negative human emotions, all that fear, hatred, and despair had consequences. More curses began appearing and existing curses grew increasingly dangerous (some reaching special grade tiers). The sheer amount of negative emotion spreading throughout society created an environment where cursed spirits could thrive. The golden age of jujutsu gradually transformed into a period dominated by curses and widespread destruction.

This era became known as The Feast of Curses.

“The God of Curses”

Now, in canon, Sukuna is known as the King of Curses but I don't think that title would be enough for this version. Because unlike canon Sukuna, who is fundamentally a human sorcerer who later becomes a cursed object, this Sukuna is an actual vengeful cursed spirit. And not just any cursed spirit, either because he was so overwhelmingly powerful that even other special-grade curses were terrified of him.

Sukuna occasionally entertained himself by acting like a ruler among curses. He would give them orders, force them to carry out certain tasks, and sometimes establish temporary hierarchies simply because he could. But he wasn't particularly interested in maintaining some organized kingdom and he definitely didn't care about building a better society for curses. He wasn't fighting for their rights or trying to replace humanity with a new civilization. He just wanted to do whatever he pleased.

He wasn’t their god because he was some benevolent deity who protected them, but because his power was so overwhelming that resisting him was practically pointless. He had become a calamity. Something people feared in the same way they feared earthquakes, plagues, or natural disasters thus calling him “King of poisons” despite not really having much to do with it as they saw him as a bad omen. Except Sukuna was arguably worse, because unlike a natural disaster, he could choose where and when to strike and sometimes or who am I kidding, most of the time he destroyed things simply because he felt like it.

At some point, Sukuna stopped caring about whether the world learned anything from his actions. He simply wanted to enjoy himself and just keep killing and that's what he did along with his right hand Uraume who he kept around on a whim (I will expand a little on Uraume in her own section and a bit about her in the second half of the sukuna section where we discuss some of his abilities)

And that was when he encountered Kenjaku. Unlike most people who approached Sukuna, Kenjaku didn't immediately attempt to fight him or beg for his life (he quite literally approached with a smile). Instead, he offered him something interesting. That was a chance to experience another era.

Twenty cursed objects or should I say twenty fingers. They contain fragments of Sukuna's own vengeful spirit and each finger carries a portion of his cursed energy and spiritual essence, essentially preserving pieces of the God of Curses himself.

And this also changes the nature of the finger bearers. Rather than being ordinary cursed spirits that happen to be empowered by Sukuna's fingers, the finger bearers in this version are incomplete manifestations of Sukuna himself (they’re like eggs, some are still JUST fingers but some have accumulated so much CE, they manifest into miniature sukunas and you have to kill them to take it). They are pieces of his existence given form and while that doesn't necessarily mean every finger bearer possesses his full consciousness or personality, but they are fundamentally connected to him in a way that goes beyond simply absorbing his cursed energy.

But because the thought of wreaking havoc in another era sounded entertaining. And so, the God of Curses allowed his existence to be divided into twenty fingers.

His reign over the Heian era came to an end which technically saved the Heian era I guess (so thanks Kenjaku), humanity would’ve never recovered with Sukuna around.

Too much to put so I didn’t delve into Yorozu, Uraume and Sukuna’s interactions with Angel so there is more to discuss in Part 2 I suppose.

Can’t wait to say why I’m gonna love absolute Yuji and absolute Sukuna relationship…later.

Note:- "🎯" signs are the markers for the Curse Technique. You can skip the story if you wish but I would suggest reading it for better clarity.

At the dock areas, a bulky man is waiting for a ship to come which will take him and his lover out of the country with their stolen money.

[The Man]: Tsk "That mf still hasn't come. I have already sent her to pick up the money if he doesn't come in time, we're done for."

Hears a sound from behind, turns around and sees a young man with White hair, white suit and goggles coming while talking on the phone.

[Souta]: "Moshi moshi, Can you hear me?? The signal is bad here. Btw Baldy-chan.... What? Yeah, you have already told me his features. But seriously who keeps his code name Mr. Banana. It's even worse than your "Bald Head" code name. Haa what was it? Eh?? Moshi Moshi, Moshi moshi. Did he hang up on me? Talk about rude."

Looks up and meets the eyes of the man ahead.

[Souta]: "umm, old man Do you know someone named Mr. Banana her—"

The Man, upon hearing the code name without beating an eye launches himself at our OC, with his fists clad in a rocky gauntlet.

Souta dodges the punch which creates a small crater in the ground.

[Souta]: "otto, Old man are you trying to break my leg or what? Are you perhaps that Mr. Banana? Thank God, now I don't have to go around looking for you in this stinky place."

[Mr. Banana]: "Who sent you here brat? Was it "Bald Head"? They are now sending a fledgling to hunt me? What a shame."

[Souta]: "You know that baldy? Well he said he works for somebody but..... Idk it's complicated. Now answer my one question, who tf chose this code name for you? Was it because you love Bananas or perhaps......" Souta looks towards his crotch "some defect maybe" Hollow chuckle

Mr. Banana's face turns red as a tomato.

[Mr. Banana]: "Hey brat, you have talked enough. Now give up every penny you have on you including your clothes then I might let you go with one or two broken limbs."

[Souta]: "Ara~ Did I catch a nerve? But you have mistaken old man, you're the prey here."

Souta takes out a coin from his pocket and starts rolling it between his fingers. Mr. Banana squints his eyes, wondering when he took the coin out or if it was always in his hand.

[Souta]: "You sure, you should focus on the coin?'

Mr. Banana's eyes go wide. He hurls himself on the ground and rolls to take cover when he notices a Gun in the hand of the man.

[Mr. Banana]: "When did you—"

He couldn't complete his sentence before souta came from behind and slit his throat with his dagger.

[Souta]: "Did you mean to say, "when did you take out the Gun"? Too bad, you aren't perceptive enough."

Souta ends with a slow chuckle. Mr. Banana places both hands on his neck, trying to stop the nonstop blood gushing out of the wound.

[Souta]: "You mean how I did that. Well normally that's a trade secret but since you're gonna die anyway, I will make an exception today. That's my Curse Technique "Perception" :-

🎯 We Humans are bound within our perception of this world. We only see what our brain shows us like... Have you heard of the Mona Lisa effect? It has nothing to do with "Mona Lisa" tho but people still call it that... Sheesh.. well back on topic, when you look at a flat painting which is painted looking straight ahead (at a 0-degree angle relative to the canvas), you see it moving its eyes according to your position like it is following your movements. Because the painting is flat, the visible parts of the eyes remain in the exact same position relative to the canvas no matter where you stand. So, Your brain tries to interpret the flat image in three dimensions, making it feel like the subject is turning their head or tracking your movement. Or When you see a mirage in the desert. Well I guess it must be going over your head. In short With my Curse Technique, I can bend your 'perception' as I wish.

Like when I pulled out the coin, I made sure that you were focused on my taunting. That's why you didn't notice it. Same for the 2nd time as well. You thought my power had something to do with the coin so you failed to notice me pulling the Gun out. It's the first application of my Curse Technique, I call it: 'shift' which ironically doesn't let you shift your attention from where I want it to be...."

Mr. Banana, eyes red with blood, losing the power to talk, looks at the dagger with wide eyes.

[Souta]: "ohh.. you mean the dagger.... Well bullets aren't free so I can't waste it on somebody who is going to die. 🎯 There came the 2nd application of my Curse Technique: 'Lock'

It locks your perspective on a single point until an external stimulus pulls you out of it. You will keep seeing the same thing even if the person or the thing has been moved from that point.

When you looked at the Gun you were sure I am gonna kill you with it but you failed to notice that you were looking at an outdated image. I had already moved behind you and points at the dagger and does a neck slitting sign.

Well That wraps it, I suppose I shall end your suffering now." Stabs him at the heart and ends his life.

A loud bang comes from behind and souta barely dodges the bullet which impacts the ground beside him. He hurls on the ground, rolls and gets back on his legs to see the shooter. It was a lady with a bag slung on one shoulder holding a pistol with shaky hands and tears falling down from her eyes to cheeks all the way to the ground.

He drops the dagger and gets his hands up and the lady starts screaming.

[The Lady]: "HOW DARE YOU BASTARD, I WILL F*CKING KILL YOUUUU!!!"

[Souta]: "Are perhaps his accomplice Ms. Apple pi..."

He couldn't complete his sentence before she fires again but because of her watery eyes and shaky hands it barely misses again.

[Souta]: "H-hey-y now..... I wouldn't be so hasty. You sure, you want to waste time on me when you can still save him?"

[Ms. Apple pie]: "LIAR!!! I SAW YOU...."

She took a quick glance at the body of her partner which was on the ground full of blood. She was about to shoot again, when the body suddenly and slowly extended his blood slicked hand towards her and asked for help. "S-save me-ee....."

"BANG!"

[Souta]: "You shouldn't have looked away from me..."

She got shot at the chest, right at the heart. while falling she looked at her and her partner's murderer, he had no expression on his face just a bit of pity behind his sickening eyes which he hid well enough not to be noticed easily and a Gun in his right hand. She then closed her eyes and with a thud fell on the ground.......

With a prolonged sigh he said. "well I guess I had to use the bullet after all."

"You see Mr. Banana looking at the corpse, 🎯 it was the 3rd application of my Curse Technique: 'Trick'. It's a trick, sometimes funny and sometimes..... a cruel joke. Looking at the corpse of the lady.

We Humans are way more intelligent than other species but we are also more susceptible to our emotions as well. Mainly when it's hope. Everyone tries to keep holding on the hope forever even if it means tricking their brain to think that. It's easy to show them what they want when they already have their backs on the wall." Sigh

Nudging the corpse of Mr. Banana, "I must be looking stupid talking with a corpse like that." A low chuckle

"Well I guess I should inform them..... He takes out his phone and dials a number." Someone picked up the call.

[Souta]: "Moshi Moshi, Baldy-chan I have dealt with that Mr. Banana and his accomplice." Someone talks from the other side. "Hmm, they had the money on them, I will be bringing that back shortly. You take care of the bodies." Someone again talks from the other side. "Yes both of them. What?? You're increasing my pay 3-folds. Ohh Baldy-chan, sorry, I made fun of your shaved head. You're a ray of sunshine. You got it? Your bald head reflects the sunlight, hahahah. Eh??? Moshi moshi, moshi moshi, Did he hang up on me again? I am still getting my extra pay, right?"

⚪ Note:- Tbh I think it can cringe but after thinking this through I decided to post it anyway. Hope you like it 🤧

i want to see some overpowered ocs, whether they're just for jokes or are implemented into the actual lore with meaning and care

with art would be nice

Technique: Falcon Burst

Falcon Burst is a fictional Middle Eastern-inspired speed technique based on the falcon, a powerful symbol across the region.

The user starts completely still at 0 speed. They lower their stance, focus their energy, and make one powerful forward movement. In an instant, their speed rises from 0 to extremely fast.

As they accelerate, a glowing trail shaped like a falcon appears behind them. The user can change direction smoothly while maintaining their speed.

Special ability: The acceleration happens instantly, with no fatigue, loss of control, or other drawback. The user can stop or slow down whenever they choose.

Grade 1

I see that this technique is unique and not op for example if the user fight a projection sorcerer user they both can reach high speeds except that the user of falcon Burst doesn't need time to get to higher speed but if the battle took long enough the projection sorcerer can get faster.

base Naoya speed: > Mach 3 ≈ 1,029 m/s

Acceleration: Unknown/not canonically given

Falcon Burst: 0 → 1,000 m/s in 0.5 s = 2,000 m/s²

Acceleration rate for falcon Burst: 2,000 m/s²

Koshin is a cursed spirit born from humanity's relationship with the forward march of technology; being displaced, replaced, left behind, forced to adapt to it, and watching the world they each knew be destroyed in a way that cannot be reversed.

Its personality is naïve, childlike, and cruel; however, it takes no pleasure in its cruelty. At most, it finds a mild satisfaction in learning from the death and destruction it causes, navigating it all with a cold and uncaring affect. Unlike other disaster curses, it has no concept of right and wrong nor any understanding of human suffering. When it was presented with the concept of curses conquering and replacing humanity, it found that to be exciting and the natural goal of its existence. It was the ultimate expression of change and progress. Despite its seemingly robotic nature, it is still born of humanity and still experiences emotions and connections that grow as it develops and learns.

Cursed Technique - Empire Tomorrow
Its technique manifests as a domain expansion with the appearance of a desolate wasteland. All those inside the domain forcefully have their knowledge and experiences shared with one another in an instant flash. Special grade cursed tools inscribed with all their innate techniques are created and distributed, allowing for the temporary use of one another's unlearnable abilities while those tools are held. These tools are destroyed when the domain ends or when they cross the border of the domain. The knowledge that was shared will be forgotten unless a conscious effort is made to memorize it. Its use of this domain relies on it having a better mentality for it to use and abuse the shared information and techniques.

photo by @dikaseva

How it feels of others:
Towards Dagon (cursed womb), it feels a sense of curiosity. It appreciates getting to see the process of a similar being making those basic connections it had to make at some point. He is an interesting case study that should be made to develop.

Towards Hanami, there is a sense of estrangement. They essentially represent completely opposite concepts. Koshin is a manifestation of the imbalance humanity creates that disturbs nature. It does not feel wronged by any resentment or disgust she holds.

Towards Jogo, it feels a sense of respect. It enjoys his revolutionary philosophy of progress. His association with the earth and fire also has feelings of familiarity with its own nature.

Towards Mahito, it feels an affinity, sharing his experimental nature and desire to learn and grow as well as a more direct connection to humanity than the other disasters who are rooted in nature and the world. It also wants to pull humans apart and take whatever can be taken from their existence.

Towards Kenjaku, it feels intense fascination. If only it could have what lay inside his mind, all of the progress, invention, and knowledge he has amassed, all of his designs. There is perhaps no greater a repository of everything it values than that human.

Extra notes (may add more):
Its name is a pun on koshin (更新), meaning update or innovation. While its name roughly evokes connotations of (continued/further/renewed) + (invasion/violation/encroachment).

The art used for the thumbnail/cover is an edit of one of the monsters from the game SOMA.

Edit 1: The name Empire Tomorrow is a continuation of the themes set up by the curse's name. Technology is an empire that conquers and incorporates everything it touches.
This is why knowledge and techniques within the domain are shared among everyone. It is as if the process of study and innovation has already happened. You're added to the metaphorical empire.

Overview

Astral Projection allows the user to separate their soul from their physical body, manifesting it as an independent astral form connected to the abandoned flesh by a spiritual Silver Cord. The technique is normally activated through a complete ritual that safely loosens this connection before separation, though the user can bypass the process by forming the required hand sign alone and forcibly project within seconds. A properly completed ritual allows the astral form to travel up to 30 meters from the physical body, while an emergency projection is restricted to roughly 10 meters. These ranges are centered on the body itself, meaning Obariyon moving the body also moves the user’s effective range. Reaching the limit pulls the Silver Cord taut, while attempting to force beyond it immediately recalls the soul. The astral form exists primarily on the level of the soul, allowing it to pass through ordinary physical matter while directly perceiving and interacting with the souls of living beings and objects. Its capabilities remain tethered to what the user’s physical body could ordinarily accomplish, and it must still rely on cursed energy reinforcement in combat. Body and soul remain intrinsically connected, so damage inflicted upon either is transmitted through the Silver Cord. Injuries to the abandoned body immediately affect the projected user, while severe damage inflicted directly upon their soul can manifest physically. Ordinary matter cannot meaningfully obstruct the astral form, but cursed energy can. Reinforced objects, barriers, cursed tools, and especially those capable of perceiving and interacting with souls can resist or directly harm the user.

Ritual: Astral Departure
The complete ritual begins with the user sitting cross-legged and drawing a circular boundary around their body using cursed energy. Four personal possessions are placed at the cardinal directions around the circle, each being something the user regularly carries or uses. These objects serve as physical references for the soul, affirming the body and place it is meant to return to. The user then closes their eyes, regulates their breathing, and gradually draws the cursed energy circulating through their extremities inward until their physical body becomes completely still.

Once prepared, the user forms the Ksepana Mudra, interlocking their hands while extending both index fingers together, and recites the technique’s incantation:
“Empty vessel. Silver cord. Wandering star. Threshold of dreams.”

Each phrase completes another stage of separation until the astral body rises from the seated flesh. The full ritual takes roughly one uninterrupted minute, but produces the safest and most stable form of Astral Projection, granting the full 30-meter range and a much stronger connection to the body. When immediate projection is necessary, the user can form the Ksepana Mudra alone and forcibly separate their soul, essentially ripping it from the body without completing any of the ritual’s safeguards.

Binding Vow: Abandoned Sanctuary
Originally, completing Astral Departure caused the ritual boundary to remain around the user’s vacant body as a stationary protective barrier. While useful against weaker threats, it left the user’s life dependent upon a defense that sufficiently powerful sorcerers or curses could simply break. Through a self-imposed Binding Vow, the user permanently surrendered this protection in exchange for the technique producing a shikigami capable of operating their body while its soul is absent.
The exchange is absolute. Astral Projection can no longer erect a protective barrier around the abandoned body, even if the shikigami is destroyed or otherwise incapable of defending it. Rather than entrusting their life to a stationary defense, the user traded guaranteed protection for the ability to keep their body moving.

Shikigami: Obariyon

Obariyon is a small shikigami modeled after the yōkai of the same name, resembling a grotesque child wrapped in a loose black robe with an oversized white face similar to a crude Noh mask. Its limbs are thin and disproportionately long, ending in enormous jointed hands. Whenever the user’s soul leaves their body, Obariyon crawls onto the vacant body’s back, locks its legs around the waist, and places its fingers along the shoulders and spine. Thin strands of cursed energy spread down the limbs like marionette strings, allowing it to operate the body as a puppet. Obariyon possesses little independent intelligence and cannot replace the user’s consciousness. It can make the body run, dodge, block, hide, brace itself, or perform simple physical counterattacks, as well as maintain crude cursed energy reinforcement. Advanced jujutsu is beyond it. Obariyon cannot activate the user’s innate technique, perform RCT or barrier techniques, execute sophisticated cursed energy manipulation, or properly reproduce the user’s martial skill. Its sole purpose is to keep the body alive until its soul returns.

Extensions:

Possession:
By completely overlapping their astral form with the soul of an inanimate object, the user can temporarily inhabit it. Their movements are translated into the physical object, allowing weapons to wield themselves, doors to open, statues to move, and other objects to be manipulated without ordinary physical contact. Greater size and mechanical complexity make an object increasingly difficult to control. Living beings cannot be possessed, as their bodies are already occupied and governed by their own souls.

Dislocation:
By landing a sufficiently forceful blow directly against another person’s soul, the user can knock it slightly out of alignment with their physical body. The soul is not removed, but the temporary mismatch interferes with the body’s ability to perfectly follow its movements, resulting in delayed reactions, stumbling, interrupted hand signs, dropped weapons, and mistimed attacks. Powerful opponents and those with a strong awareness of their own souls are considerably harder to dislocate.

Silver Recall:
The user deliberately pulls upon the Silver Cord connecting their astral form to their abandoned body, causing their soul to rapidly retrace its connection and return to the flesh without physically traveling back. The return becomes more violent the farther away the user is, and abruptly awakening inside a body already moving under Obariyon’s control can leave them briefly disoriented.

Maximum Output: Dislocation
By pouring their maximum available cursed energy output into Dislocation, the user can violently throw a targeted portion of another person’s soul completely out of alignment with its physical counterpart. Striking an arm can leave its spiritual counterpart hanging outside the flesh and make the physical limb nearly impossible to properly control, while dislocating a leg can immediately destroy balance and coordinated movement. A successful blow to the head or torso can briefly throw most of the target’s soul out of synchronization, leaving them conscious but severely disoriented as their flesh struggles to respond to their intentions. The displacement remains temporary, as the natural relationship between body and soul constantly attempts to restore itself. Powerful reinforcement and conscious awareness of one’s own soul can resist the initial displacement and accelerate realignment. The user must also personally land the astral strike, making Maximum Output: Dislocation particularly dangerous to attempt against someone capable of fighting them on the level of the soul.

Maximum: Exodus

Exodus pushes Astral Projection to its absolute limit by applying its fundamental process to someone other than the user. Through direct contact with another person’s soul, the user forces the technique to temporarily recognize that individual as a valid subject for projection, then pours the maximum amount of cursed energy the technique can handle into the connection. Rather than merely knocking portions of the soul out of alignment, Exodus completely separates the target’s soul from their physical body. The victim remains alive and can perceive, move, and fight in astral form, with their capabilities similarly reflecting what their physical body could accomplish. Exodus is therefore neither an execution nor a guaranteed victory. It instead forces the opponent into a state the user has spent years learning to navigate while leaving their physical body completely defenseless. Most importantly, the victim possesses no Obariyon of their own, turning the aftermath into a struggle between two exposed souls while only one of their abandoned bodies has something actively trying to keep it alive.

Domain Expansion: Path of the Welcoming Fire

Mudra: Raigō-in Mudra of Welcoming Descent

Path of the Welcoming Fire manifests as an endless Japanese residential neighborhood beneath the deep blue sky of a warm summer evening. Cicadas call from the trees, laundry sways from balconies, bicycles rest against fences, and the smells of dinner and bathwater drift from warmly lit homes. Small mukaebi, welcoming fires meant to guide returning spirits, burn along the streets toward an ordinary home at the center of the Domain. Its door is slightly open, shoes rest beside the entrance, and food waits on the table. The surrounding roads stretch impossibly far and connect incorrectly, yet that house and its welcoming fire can always be seen somewhere in the distance. Rather than representing death, the Domain embodies the user’s attachment to physical life. Their soul possesses the freedom to wander almost anywhere, yet what it ultimately desires is somewhere to return to. The Domain’s sure-hit recognizes opponents by their souls rather than their physical location. While projected, any attack the user deliberately directs toward an opponent is guaranteed to reach the corresponding portion of their soul regardless of distance, positioning, or physical obstruction within the barrier. A punch thrown into empty air can strike the soul’s ribs, an outstretched hand can seize it directly, and Dislocation can be delivered through the same guaranteed contact, visibly wrenching the victim’s spiritual form out of alignment with their flesh.

Let me know if y'all want a full lore drop, and ask if y'all have any questions

For some context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CTsandbox/comments/1wwufne/comment/pe13z4t/?screen_view_count=2

https://www.reddit.com/r/CTsandbox/comments/1wvjzhv/comment/pdyjpla/?screen_view_count=2

(Inspired by Donquixote Doflamingo’s Devil Fruit power from One Piece and Lubbock’s Cross Tails Teigu from Akame Ga Kill)

Cursed Technique: Puppet Manipulation

Master Strings: this Cursed Tool is a set of fibers made of a collection of synthetic spider-strings kept within a glove, with similar durability these strings have a tensile strength about 5 times stronger than steel, these strings link to the user’s brain via the glove and can be controlled telekinetically with just a thought

Weapon Weaver: by making the strings solidify in a designated pattern, they can take the form of any weapon the user wants, a sword, a mace, a kusarigama, chains, staff weapons, a super armor or even a robot döppelganger

Puppet Master: by attaching the strings to a target that has Cursed Energy, like a Puppet, Cursed Spirit or a Jujutsu Sorcerer, the user can take control of their body and command them to do their bidding, they can even "borrow" their Cursed Techniques via a direct connection

Technique Ruler: by imbuing a fiber of string with a different Cursed Technique or continually exposing it to said technique’s energy, the string can become permenantly imbued with Cursed Technique just like any Cursed Tool, the user can then safely hide the string inside the glove and share the CT’s power amongst all strings they have access to (but they will lose the CT if the imbued-string is destroyed)

(based on Doctor Doom’s Armor from Marvel Comics, uses Kokichi Muta/Ultimate Mechamaru’s CT, made in response to a request)

Cursed Technique: Puppet Manipulation

Machiknight Armor: Merlin: this armor is constructed using Titanium alloy, it is modified with numerous weapons, gadgets and defenses meant to protect the user in every possible way, the armor can also be controlled using Puppet Manipulation while the user is paralyzed by using strings made with Cursed Energy

King’s Power Core: the armor possesses a nuclear power core, providing the armor with tons of power and can keep it running without the user having to spend too much Cursed Energy to keep it running

Queen’s Gambit: in case the armor needs an extra charge of battery power, it’s equipped with solar panels which charge a hidden battery inside the armor and acts as a backup power source in case the armor either needs an extra boost to it’s attacks or runs out of power

Jack of All Trades: in case the user gets stranded somewhere without access to food, the armor is equipped with a life support system that can provide nutrients to the user and keep them going (but it will need to be resupplied if it ever runs out)

Weapons: (based on Doctor Doom’s vast arsenal, Source: Marvel Fandom Wiki)

Finger Guns: the armor’s fingers are armed with small bullets which upon contact with their target inject them with a small "string web" which is designed to stop them from moving, causing paralysis given enough time

Missiles: the armor has retractable cannons that use Kamikaze-Shikigami as projectiles, the armor’s visual system can lock on to a target and once fired the Shikigami will chase down their target until they either hit it or are destroyed

Dust to Boulders: the armor’s fingers are equipped with small jets that emit tiny particles towards the opponent, once released these particles are imbued with a special technique that adds virtual mass to the particles to increase their size at a molecular level until they are as large as boulders, these make for useful hazards that can push down, knock back or trap a target

(BV: "the particle-boulders" have a limited maximum size of up to 2 Meters in width)

Thunder Force: the armor possesses tasers that can discharge high voltage electrical pulses which can also be expanded through strings located within the armor which are controlled by the user CT, the armor also has built-in lightning rods for absorbing electricity to recharge the armor or amp up it’s attacks even more

Brain Scrambler: by grabbing a target an placing their hand on the target’s head, the user can inject CE-Strings into their brain which "randomizes" their electrical signals, this can prevent their body from functioning properly and will leave them disoriented and unable to move until the effect wears off

Energy Staff: the user can weave together a handfull of CE-Strings using their CT to create a quarterstaff, this staff can be used as a weapon for close combat and can inject strings into technology upon contact, allowing the user to hack and take control of any machinery it touches

Statue Makers: by imbuing a bomb with a charge of the "Simple Domain" technique, the user can expand a limited Domain through the bomb’s blast range, anything with CE caught in the bomb’s blast range (other than the user) will be encased in a layer of titanium and have a version of Puppet Manipulation applied to them which nullifies all movement (the only way to break out of this entrapment is to overpower it’s CE)

Gadgets:

Infrared Vision: the armor possesses infrared cameras which can detect targets even while invisible and locate nearby heat sources

Jetpack: the armor is equipped with a jetpack used for flight

Timeshift Bomb: these bombs emit a charge of "Simple Domain" which binds affected targets and forces their body to move up to 15 seconds backwards (if they were performing an attack, that attack would be reset)

Vertigo Device: the armor’s left hand it equipped with a device that emits high frequnecy pulse which can mess with others, this can be used to disrupt the balance of nearby foes, leaving them open to counterattacks

True Cross: if the user knows RCT, they can imbue it into a device within the armor, this device will use RCT automatically if the user’s mind is controlled, it can also imbue the armor’s weapons with RCT to take down Cursed Spirits

Shield: the armor can protect itself by conjuring a CE barrier around the user to protect from attacks, this shield possesses it’s own battery seperate from the armor’s main power source (meaning even if the armor runs out of power the shield will not, but it will need to recharge if overused)

Cosmic Siphon: through physical contact, the armor can apply a Puppet Manipulation technique to a target that drains them of their CE and stores it inside a battery capable of holding years worth of CE (this technique is at it’s strongest when all five fingers are placed on the target)

Techniques:

Cursed Magic: the user creates an open Domain arounds them in the form of a complex "Spider-Web", grealty increasing the distance of their expansion at the cost of some loss in area-of-effect, this "Domain Web" can can be used to perform numerous different moves to the point where it’s almost like magic

Telekinesis: They can wrap CE-strings around affected targets to perform telekinesis, not just on opponents but also physical objects caught in the web

Mind Control: The user can implant a Puppet-Shikigami inside the brain-stem of a target, taking control of their body’s functions and forcing them to fight on the user’s behalf

Power Sharing: The user can link themself and their allies to each other, allowing them to collectively share their CE and CT’s

Teleportation: The user can enter their Domain’s pocket dimension and exit anywhere the "Domain Web" has expanded into, allowing them a basic form of teleportation

Power Nullification: Should a target get caught in the "Domain Web", the user can use Puppet Manipulation to isolate the connection between the part of the brain containing the CT and the target’s body, shutting down their primary means of fighting

Illusions: The user can manipulate the air the "Domain Web" has expanded into to create mirages around certain areas

Energy Absorption: If the "Domain Web" grabs hold of a target, it can drain them of their CE and restore the user’s own power reserves

Mind Swap: By making eye contact with a target, the user can create a direct connection and forcibly swap bodies with their target, when this technique is performed a Shikigami takes control of the armor for as long as the user is not in their own body

(The user may or may not have techniques that involves dropkicking targets with both feet and tooting their own horn)

Shikigami:

Döppelgangers: these are Puppets piloted by Shikigami, the Puppets possess a similar arsenal to the main armor (such as: CE blasters, Electrical blasts via Lightning Rod, a Jetpack, a Radar, Self-Repairing Shikigami, Infrared Scanners, Guns, Shikigami-Missiles, Sleeping Gas and a Slef-Destruct function),

(the Döppelgangers can also use recordings of the user’s own voice to pretend to be them, acting as decoys to fool enemies)

Potential Weaknesses:

(the user may gain a Napoleon complex, a fear of Squirrels and start to think that using doors is "something that peasents do")