Please Stop

Renaître

Summary: A very old soul finds herself in an unfamiliar world where she has no idea what's going on but damn it could these people please stop trying to exorcise her?

Genres: Dark Comedy / Parody, Feel Good, Family Focus with a side of RomCom, Sprinkle of Satire, and a Dollop of Angst

Warnings: Murder, violence, depression, desensitization, death, standard Jujutsu warnings.

Note: This old soul is one I have used for a lot of my stories. You don't need to read them to follow along–I will add plenty of explanations for what is relevant–but heads up as some of my readers like to make comments / references to those stories.

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April 13th, 2000

Éclosion was a town of over 25,000 citizens in France. It was a suburb a few hours from Paris, and was known as one of the safer towns in France.

On April 13th, in the year 2000, the entire population of Éclosion instantly died from an "unknown" cause.

To most of the world, it was a bizarre tragedy, something to be marked down as an unsolved mystery for the history books. Each citizen had simultaneously suffocated within a few minutes of being exposed to... something.

Something that could not leave behind a physical trace of its existence yet was so overwhelming it simultaneously strangled over 25,000 living beings within Éclosion.

To a very small group of people, they knew the truth.

That town did not die by ordinary means, rather, from the sheer pressure exerted by a very dangerous being.

To that small group of people, they assumed it was the work of a Curse.

Curses were created when Cursed energy leaked from humans as a result of their human emotions. Cursed energy would build up in areas like sediment until it became strong enough to manifest a form. They were known to be lethal when left alone.

Populated locations such as schools and hospitals were hot spots for creating Curses because many negative emotions were associated with those places. The same concept applied to humanity's collective fear and hatred. An image of fear shared by the masses could create a powerful Curse even if the subject was not real, such as famous monsters or ghosts. The negative emotions that humanity directed at that singular fear would cause it to manifest as a Curse and in time... a Cursed spirit.

Cursed spirits' bodies were entirely made up of Cursed energy—or spiritual energy. Their metaphysical existence made it impossible for normal humans to perceive or touch them.

Only a small group of humans were able to interact with Cursed spirits, and in turn, combat them.

They were known as Jujutsu Sorcerers.

Jujutsu Sorcerers formed a society over the past thousands of years to work in the shadows to suppress Curses in an effort to protect humanity.

All Jujutsu Sorcerers were trained in their youth at one of the two Jujutsu educational facilities in either Tokyo or Kyoto in Japan. They were primarily based in Japan as the country, for an unknown reason, had the highest rate of generating Curses. At those facilities, they were taught how to utilize their own Cursed energy in order to exorcise Cursed spirits.

After graduating, alumni Sorcerers who remained aligned with the schools typically used one of the two facilities as a home base. Those facilities served as the cornerstone for the Jujutsu Sorcerer community. They mediated issues, assigned missions, and officially established a payroll for all their employed exorcists. The higher-ups were in charge of the schools and by extension all Jujutsu sorcerers.