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1. On the Nature of Change by Inkonstantin

   Fandoms: 銀魂 | Gintama (Anime & Manga)  

   • Not Rated
   • Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   20 Dec 2022

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Utsuro & Yoshida Shouyou
   • Oboro & Utsuro (Gintama)
   • Oboro & Yoshida Shouyou
   • Sakata Gintoki & Yoshida Shouyou
   • Sakata Gintoki & Utsuro
   • Takasugi Shinsuke & Yoshida Shouyou
   • Takasugi Shinsuke & Utsuro
   • Yoshida Shouyou
   • Utsuro (Gintama)
   • Oboro (Gintama)
   • Sakata Gintoki
   • Takasugi Shinsuke
   • Katsura Kotarou
   • Canon Compliant
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Angst
   • Angst and Feels
   • Philosophy
   • Character Study
   • Relationship Study
   • Everything Hurts
   • or at least that's the first chapter
   • second chapter starts a fix-it AU
   • i don't exactly know how to describe the premise of the fix-it tho lol
   • Shouyou wakes up a bit earlier that night to find his sword and Oboro gone
   • has a bit more time to think about things and has a kind of divine revelation of sorts ig
   • Oboro is #1 Catalyst for causing things to change
   • Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
   • but it's ok the pain won't kill or break anyone
   • Shouyou learning how to overcome his suffering and not hate himself or humans or being alive
   • Utsuro doesn't come to exist
   • Oboro is smol confirmed
   • it's sort of just a philosophical and psychological exploration of the power of mindsets
   • and self-hatred vs self-acceptance
   • change has to start from within
   • no i'm not writing this story to try to change my own thinking what are you talking ab-
   • i just want Shouyou to succeed bc if he can do it then maybe i can too
   • no beta we don't die we just keep carrying on

   Summary

   Yoshida Shouyou and Utsuro had both tried to change from the way they had been; but had they actually?

   Ultimately, they both failed, in the end—and why?

   (Maybe, maybe, there's a way that the immortal could have changed.)

   Series

   • Part 4 of a torture chamber full of wips
   • Part 25 of Echoes from the Depths of Gintama Rare Pair Hell

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   4,645

   Chapters:

   2/?

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