Choso

Choso is a supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He and his two brothers, Kechizu and Eso are incarnated Cursed Womb: Death Paintings No. 1-3. Choso initially sided with Kenjaku's alliance with Mahito until he discovered one of the curse user's past identities was the cruel father of the Death Painting Wombs, Noritoshi Kamo. He also found out that Yuji Itadori is another relative of Kenjaku's and has aligned himself with his new "younger brother".

Appearance
As a Death Painting Womb, Choso is a half-human, half-cursed spirit who has a flesh and blood body that is fully visible even to non-sorcerers. His appearance is predominantly that of a human man with long black stringy hair tied into two high ponytails that jut upward and outward. Choso has small dark purple eyes with slightly thin eyebrows and a blood mark that extends from both sides of his face across the bridge of his nose. He can make this mark bleed at will in order to produce ammunition for his cursed technique, and the mark changes shape if he uses Flowing Red Scale.

As far as clothing, Choso wears a loose, light tan robe that covers his torso, arms, and legs. It's worn underneath a purple gi-like vest that covers his torso in a "v" shape and has a bottom section that extends to Choso'ss waist and groin area. He also always sports a round scarf around his neck that matches his gi and brown boots.

In the anime, Choso has violet eyeshadow around his eyes and his hair is a light brown color.

Personality
Choso is a very calm and reserved person who tends to fade into the background of social groups. Unlike the vast majority of cursed spirits, Choso doesn't have an inherent desire to attack people and doesn't even harbor any disdain toward jujutsu sorcerers. He's not cruel or vicious in any way and generally doesn't speak often unless it has to do with his family. In fact, Choso loved his human mother and the sorcerer who toyed with him was the only one to earn his hatred.

Despite appearing to be a very disassociative person, Choso is very attached and protective of his brothers. Upon being incarnated, Choso told his two brothers that three of them lived only for one another and that they were all one.

With a bored expression on his face, Choso was going through the motions of a simple board game with Mahito and Pseudo-Geto when he learned Eso and Kechizu had perished, deeply upsetting him. He agreed to fight alongside Mahito and Geto but ultimately only pursued the goal of avenging his brothers during the Shibuya Incident.

Even during the fight against Satoru Gojo, Choso barely committed himself to attacking Gojo and stayed far back out of his range the entire time, upsetting Jogo. He also clashed with Jogo's more abrasive personality over keeping Yuji alive to revive Sukuna because Choso wanted to kill the vessel outright to avenge his siblings.

Choso earned the opportunity to take revenge on Yuji but could feel his impending death right before dealing the killing blow. It's a side effect of his composition as a Death Painting Womb and of his cursed technique. Choso can feel the death of his brothers and felt the same intense sensation from Yuji's impending death as he did from Eso and Kechizu's.

Once Choso realized that Noritoshi Kamo survived by moving from body to body, he surmised that Yuji must be his relative through that connection. Choso was quick to deem him one of his younger brothers and align himself with him. He devoted all his strength to protect Yuji for the remainder of their time in Shibuya and focused his vengeance on Kenjaku for manipulating him into hurting his little brother.

Choso takes pride in being the oldest of ten siblings and his values and who he is as a person are all related to this. Due to his family values and unconditional love for his siblings, Choso can't understand someone like Naoya Zenin. Naoya hates all of his older brothers because they are weaker than him. Choso argues that older siblings either present the road to travel or the one to avoid. He believes perhaps someone like Naoya is only strong because his brothers are weak. Unlike Naoya, Choso didn't have an older brother to show him the way so he always stumbled and made mistakes. Even so, Choso stands tall and walks the path ahead of his younger brother's and it is from this dedication that he draws strength.

Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill: Choso is a special grade Death Painting. This is due to the fact that he not only has massive amounts of cursed energy, but also an extremely powerful and well-balanced cursed technique. He has enough skill and experience with his technique to create original techniques and modify existing ones. Despite being an inexperienced fighter, Choso has contended and won against Yuji Itadori and Naoya Zenin, two powerful and experienced fighters, further solidifying his place as an extremely powerful curse. He is the strongest Death Painting, even among the special grades. He is, however, arguably the weakest member of Pseudo Geto's group.

Enhanced Strength: Choso has great amounts of physical strength to go with his cursed energy. This is further enhanced by his Flowing Red Scale. He greatly injured Yuji during their fight and hit him hard enough to crack walls numerous times. With blood-hardened fists, Choso hit Yuji hard enough to make a dent in the latter's shoulder and even incapacitate him.

Enhanced Reflexes: Choso has immensely fast reflexes. He was able to go back and forth with Yuji during their fight, dodge some of the student's blows and sometimes, counter too fast for the student to handle. Choso's reflexes are so good that he was able to react to Naoya's speed even when caught off-guard. Even when Naoya increased his speed, he was able to adapt and react using his Flowing Red Scale: Stack.

Enhanced Durability: Choso has great durability, able to continuously take hits and continue fighting. Even Naoya commented that Choso was unnaturally tough. He not only has a sturdy body but great endurance. He continued taking heavy hits from Yuji during their fight and eventually lasted to the point of victory. This might be due to his nature as a Death Painting. It is possible that Choso is more durable than Jogo. However, he is far behind Hanami in terms of durability.

Enhanced Speed: Choso has great speed, able to even catch Naoya off-guard when the latter was overwhelmed by a tide of blood. He is fast enough to string extremely fast attacks together and match Yuji's rush of punches blow for blow.

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Choso has exceptional martial arts skills, being his main form of combat. He used a variety of techniques when fighting with Yuji and Naoya, such as sweep kicks, punches, kicks, palm strikes, hand chops and many more. He repeatedly matched and overwhelmed Yuji Itadori during their fight using martial arts alone. As expected of his age, Choso has an extensive knowledge of martial arts techniques which he uses in his fights.

Poisonous Blood: After successfully wounding Uraume, Choso revealed that like his two younger brothers, his blood also possesses poisonous properties that can fatally injure even a powerful curse user.

Blood Connection: Choso has implied and later confirmed that he possesses the ability to "sense any transformations" that occurs to those he is related to by blood. This is seen when he was able to immediately detect the deaths of his younger siblings due to death being the final transformation of organisms. As shown with Yuji Itadori, this occurs when he experiences a vision right at the moment of his relatives' "death".

Blood Conversion: As one of the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, Choso possess the unique constitution of being able to convert his cursed energy into blood, allowing him to create a nearly unlimited supply of blood for his Blood Manipulation Techniques. This effectively eliminates the technique's weakness of possibly killing its user due to blood loss and allows Choso to easily resupply himself with blood as long as he has cursed energy. This allowed Choso to overwhelm Naoya and eventually win during their fight by creating a tide of blood that obscured the latter's line of sight.

Trivia

 * According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
 * During the Shibuya Incident, despite not being interested in the plan, he was willing to cooperate. However, he had no reason to take lives after Gojo was sealed.
 * The blood of Choso’s younger brothers, Eso and Kechizu, has the same toxicity as his. However, since Yuji is Sukuna’s vessel, and he has resistance to poisons, he’s fine when exposed to their blood. This rule applies to Choso's blood too.

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