Yuta Okkotsu

Overview: [Yuta Okkotsu was initially a special grade cursed human haunted by his late childhood friend, Rika Orimoto. Satoru Gojo enrolled Yuta at Tokyo Jujutsu High and trained him to become a jujutsu sorcerer.

As a first-year student, Yuta defeated Suguru Geto in battle and freed Rika's soul. He left Japan to train with Miguel in Africa in his second year until after the Shibuya Incident. He then returned to Japan. Yuta Okkotsu is currently a second year student.]

Appearance: [Yuta is a young man with disheveled black hair and dark blue eyes. As a first-year, Yuta's body language made it obvious that he was under a lot of stress. His posture was very unconfident, and he still has dark circles under his eyelids from a lack of sleep. As a second-year student, Yuta's hair has grown longer and he wears it in a more relaxed style instead of a spiky one.

After transferring to Tokyo Jujutsu High, Yuta received a specialized uniform. Yuta has a loose white uniform jacket with sleeves that stop at his forearms. He also wears slender black pants that tuck into white sneakers that match his jacket. Yuta also often carries his katana case on his back. ]

Personality: [Yuta was a very timid and lonely boy who was bullied a lot while growing up. Due to Rika haunting much of his early life, Yuta was unable to connect with other people and has lost all confidence in himself. This makes it difficult for Yuta to interact with others, as they often scare him without meaning to, or he's just too shy to speak to them.

Even so, Yuta genuinely cared about other people and decided to isolate himself from them even if it means remaining alone. Maki Zenin called Yuta out for being a moody kid who's lived his entire life without goals. He acknowledged that this was true and used her advice to gain a resolve for being a jujutsu sorcerer. This helps Yuta realize that deep down, he truly desires the confidence to feel like he belongs.

While his timid nature stays intact, Yuta slowly becomes more social and interacts with others normally. Even after early signs of improvement, Yuta still struggled to understand someone like Toge Inumaki. He was initially scared of Toge until he realized how kind of a person he truly is and made an effort to establish a social connection.

Gaining friends helps Yuta gain confidence in himself and establish the goal to help set Rika free. He felt responsible for her turning into a curse in the first place and worked extremely hard to find a way to help her. He pushed himself during training and took all his friends' and mentors' words to heart, showing a more determined side of himself. At his core, Yuta wants to become someone who can help keep others out of danger.

Against Suguru Geto, Yuta showed the darkest side of himself. Geto hurt Yuta's only friends, and the young man was more than willing to kill him for it. Yuta's rage allowed him to even command Rika's power at will. He was willing to sacrifice his life to use Rika to kill Geto to avenge his friends, the only people who give him the confidence to continue living.

Yuta is a boy who appears creepy and overwhelmingly powerful from the outside, but is actually a kind-hearted and truly caring person.]

Physical Prowess and Skill: [Overall Skill Level: Overall Skill Level: Yuta is one of only four special grade sorcerers recognized by Jujutsu High. While being haunted by Rika's vengeful spirit, Yuta was immediately registered as a special grade due to Rika's immense power, making him the most recent person to receive the ranking.

Yuta was completely unaware of how to fight or control his cursed energy when Satoru threw him into his first mission. He relied on Maki until they were swallowed by a curse and it came down to Yuta to rescue everyone inside. Yuta was able to tap into his emotions and fully manifest Rika, ripping the other curse apart and freeing everyone. Yuta barely carried everyone outside the barrier but he used what little physical strength and stamina he had to finish the mission.

This made Yuta painfully aware of how weak he was, so Maki trained him on the basics of armed combat for three months before his next assignment. He was never able to land a hit on Maki but always trained hard to improve himself and started to move a lot better. However, in his second mission, an exorcism with Toge, Yuta still found himself relying on his classmate's skill. When a semi-grade 1 curse ambushed them, Toge was injured saving Yuta. Yuta stepped up on his own without relying on Rika and helped Toge exorcise it. Yuta's training allowed him to avoid most of the cursed spirit's attacks and he even landed a counterattack. It was just a shallow slash, however, due to the toughness of the curse and Yuta's poor cursed energy control at the time.

Apparently, during the 2017 Goodwill Event, Yuta completely dominated all of the Kyoto Jujutsu High competitors, including Aoi Todo. There is no record of him fully manifesting Rika at that time but Maki noted she was still around and was likely the reason Yuta won the event.

Continuing training throughout his tenure at Jujutsu High, Yuta continued to grow stronger and built a solid foundation as a sorcerer. On December 24, 2017, Suguru Geto targeted Yuta and injured his friends while invading the school. This set Yuta off, unleashing extraordinary levels of cursed energy throughout his body. This resulted in a mighty increase of Yuta's physical abilities and fine-tuned of his senses.

Alongside Rika, Yuta was able to match Geto one-on-one. He revealed not only the ability to use the extremely rare reverse cursed technique but the capacity to copy other cursed techniques like cursed speech as well. This led Geto to claim he was glad that he attacked Yuta before the student learned to properly wield Rika's power. Yuta was only able to defeat Geto by vowing to give his life in exchange for removing the limiters on Rika's boundless power, ultimately overpowering Maximum: Uzumaki and Tamamo-no-Mae Incarnate. The major difference in their battle was that Yuta was willing to give his life to win while the cursed manipulator didn't have the vast majority of his curses, with over four thousand serving the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

Following his victory, Yuta discovered he was the one who cursed Rika when they were young, not the other way around. He is a descendant of Michizane Sugawara, one of the greatest sorcerers to ever live, making Yuta a distant relative of the Gojo clan. Yuta severed the bond tying servant to master and Rika didn't desire to punish him, so the curse was broken, freeing Orimoto's soul.

Yuta originally thought that after Rika passed away he wouldn't be able to be a sorcerer anymore. Kenjaku believes that Yuta's vast cursed energy and his ability to copy cursed techniques were tied to detaining his loved one's soul. However, these are incorrect assumptions and Satoru Gojo has stated on more than one occasion that Yuta still has the potential to surpass him.

By March of 2018, only three months after the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, Yuta regained his rank as a special grade sorcerer. He is a prodigy who boasts incredible power and unusual abilities second only to Satoru Gojo. Satoru forced Geto's comrade, Miguel, to train Yuta. Miguel mentored Yuta overseas while they searched for the Black Rope. By the time he returned to Tokyo following the Shibuya Incident, Yuta was able to dispatch large cursed spirits without much effort.

Expert Weapons Specialist: While first training as a sorcerer, Yuta was given a katana mainly as an object to stabilize his cursed energy. Through vigorous training with Maki, the most proficient cursed tool user at Jujutsu High, Yuta became decent with a sword, able to hold his own against cursed spirits and even Geto, who has exceptional physical prowess.

Yuta has continued to hone his skill as a swordsman and still wields a katana as his weapon of choice. His skills have improved dramatically and are perfectly balanced with his enhanced cursed energy manipulation, allowing Yuta to wield a blade with superhuman physical prowess. He's fast and makes decisive attacks that Yuji could barely avoid. The blade is constantly surging with cursed energy just like the rest of Yuta's body, giving it superior cutting power. He defeated a large cursed spirit with a diving stab so powerful it cracked the ground beneath them.

Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Yuta has grown into a very capable hand-to-hand combatant who is more than comfortable engaging his opponent's up close. He generally throws single powerful smashing blows that can crush his opponent in a single move.

Enhanced Durability: Yuta is incredibly durable for a human even by sorcerer standards due to his cursed energy reinforcement abilities. Hitting him can often feel like hitting at a brick wall, even if using a weapon.

High Tactical Intellect: Yuta is a smart individual but was initially a complete novice sorcerer and could hardly apply his intellect to battle. However, he's always had a good idea of his skillset and how to best use it. When he and Toge were faced with a semi-grade 1 curse, Yuta was aware he couldn't win on his own and focused on restoring Toge's cursed speech so he could exorcise it.

Currently, Yuta is entirely capable of solving most conflicts with brute force, but now he has the experience to properly apply his intellect to battle.]

Cursed Energy: [Cursed Energy Capacity: Yuta's immense cursed energy comes from his genetic relation to Michizane Sugawara. It only first manifested when he transformed a loved one into a cursed spirit. Rika became a vengeful spirit so powerful that Geto, an avid collector of curses, dubbed her the "Queen of Curses." Rika's boundless cursed energy could be shaped into any technique, allowing Yuta to use advanced curse techniques within a year of learning the fundamentals of jujutsu.

Yuta retains the massive amounts of cursed energy that were unraveled from Rika's curse even after her spirit passed on. His cursed energy capacity exceeds even that of Satoru Gojo.

Cursed Energy Manipulation: In his second year as a sorcerer, Yuta improved his cursed energy control dramatically. Yuta understands that he carries vast levels of cursed energy and now knows how to apply it accordingly. He has been training his weak body and constantly strengthens it in battle with massive amounts of cursed energy. This puts Yuta's reinforcement technique on a level that far surpasses even an elite sorcerer's, making his attacks difficult to predict.

Not only are Yuta's attacks unpredictable upon reading his cursed energy, but his physical capabilities are enhanced tremendously. Yuta's strength and agility are improved to such a degree that he can contend with superhuman prowess. Yuta's every attack carries enough destructive power to end a fight and his defense is so dense that it can restrict all incoming damage to a minimum.

In addition to his superior reinforcement technique, another testament to Yuta's delicate control over his cursed energy is his mastery over positive energy. Reverse cursed technique is notoriously difficult to perform for sorcerers but Yuta can use it repeatedly without issue.

Cursed Energy Output: Yuta can unleash exceptional levels of cursed energy with his attacks. A single swing of his cursed energy charged katana can create powerful blasts. Yuta also has the unique ability to convert positive energy into output and imbue his attacks with it as well.

Cursed Energy Reinforcement: Yuta compensates for his small physical frame by strengthening himself with cursed energy. This reinforcement to his physical power is enough to put him on par with superhuman strength, able to throw cars with little effort.

Improving his muscles' performance with cursed energy allows Yuta to greatly increase his speed, agility, and maneuverability.

Thoroughly fortifying his body with cursed energy has made Yuta extremely tough. He can leap from the top of a building and crumble the side of the road from the impact without doing any damage to himself. Coupled with his ability to heal himself, Yuta comes off as near invulnerable to even the strongest assault.

Black Flash: A phenomenon that creates a spatial distortion when a user connects an impact of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit, causing cursed energy to flash black, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of the hit. Yuta achieved a Black Flash for the first time against Suguru Geto during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.]

Rika: [Rika is the cursed spirit that remains with Yuta Okkotsu even after Rika Orimoto's soul was unbound from it. Orimoto bequeathed the last vestiges of her will to the cursed spirit, symbolizing a manifestation of her love that she left behind to protect Yuta.

Rika resembles Orimoto as a vengeful cursed spirit, but she has several new distinguishing characteristics that are more refined than before. She can partially manifest a white skull-shaped head with horizontal lines going down it, no eyes, and long teeth. Most of her body is made up of a black mass, and she also has two muscular human-like arms with black fingernails that are trimmed and more kept than in the past.

When completely manifested, Rika is almost identical to Orimoto in her curse form, with a few minor differences. She has long white hair instead of grotesque tentacles protruding from the back of her head. Her upper body is more muscular, and her torso doesn't show as much bone around the rib area. Like her predecessor, Rika's bottom half is a black mass in the shape of a tail. When she goes beyond her limits, a single eye opens between the lines on her head, in the same fashion it appeared when Orimoto went beyond her limits against Suguru Geto.

Due to the circumstances revolving around her creation, Rika does not have a strong individual ego. Rika inherited the last remnants of Orimoto's will and exists to protect Yuta. She communicates with short, direct statements and questions, or by simply saying Yuta's name. Rika is far less volatile than when she was Orimoto's vengeful spirit and is now completely cooperative with Yuta at all times. She will sometimes manifest without being ordered to do so, but only in cases where Yuta could be in danger. In such cases, Rika acts calmly and concisely, but tends to go overboard. While Rika always acts in Yuta's best interest and will always prioritize protecting him, she will follow his orders above all else. Even if Yuta is injured several times throughout a battle, Rika won’t leave her post unless she is explicitly summoned to his side. Rika acts on Yuta's accord during battle and never becomes overly aggressive, but she can be angered.

Cursed Energy Capacity: Yuta and Rika retain the immeasurable amounts of cursed energy she possessed when bound by Orimoto's soul. Rika can not only store cursed energy for Yuta, but she can refill his massive amounts of cursed energy, which exceed that of even Satoru Gojo, in mere moments. Throughout their sustained connection, Rika is able to share her supply of cursed energy with Yuta in order to fuel his copied cursed techniques.

Cursed Energy Blast: Yuta can only fire a directed high-output blast of cursed energy when Rika is completely manifested.

Full Manifestation: Yuta can manifest Rika by calling her while Rika and Yuta are connected through Orimoto's ring and he can sustain this connection for up to exactly five minutes, no longer even if in a dire situation. While they are connected, Yuta can access Rika's cursed energy as well as a plethora of cursed tools stored within her and cursed techniques copied. He can also copy cursed techniques by using Rika to fulfil the conditions by consuming part of its original user's body.

Cursed Technique Storage: Rika and Yuta's boundless cursed energy can be woven into cursed techniques copied from their opponents. Yuta can only copy the techniques and access them through Rika or his domain expansion.

Cursed Tool Storage: By ripping open her chest, Rika can expose an arsenal of cursed tools stored within her body. Yuta can access any of them and if they require any effort to equip, Rika can do so for him.]

Cursed Technique - ‘Copy’: [Copy allows the user to utilize an innate technique after Rika consumes part of its original user's body. Depending on the strength of the cursed technique and the number of times the user wishes to use it, the amount and part of the body changes. Therefore, a strong technique requires a more vital part of the target's body in order to be copied, though the user can circumvent this by placing a binding vow on the number of uses for the technique. When copying a technique from a target that can use reverse cursed technique, if the consumed part is regenerated by the target, the value of the body part is lost and cease to satisfy the condition of copying it, preventing the user from using the technique.

After consumption, the cursed technique is stored within Rika and can only be accessed by the user when she is fully manifested or through domain expansion. Having Rika function as an external storage for cursed techniques is necessary, as the user's brain would be overloaded by the multiple techniques otherwise. Once accessed, the user is able to fully use the innate technique's capabilities as well as any of its extension techniques.

The main strength of Copy lies in the wide variety of abilities at the user's disposal. Using a copied technique, the user essentially possesses the same advantages and disadvantages of the original user they copied it from, although their ability to swap between techniques makes them a more versatile and unpredictable opponent to deal with.

The nature of Copy causes the user's opponents to focus more on their stockpiled techniques, making them less wary of the techniques' original users. Those who are informed of Copy's conditions especially have the preconceived notion that the user stole the cursed techniques rather than copying them. As a result, when a technique's original user assists the user during a fight, the opponent is usually caught off-guard. Yuta believes this is the true strength of Copy.

The effects of the copied cursed techniques will continue to remain active even if the user switches out the technique. For example, after commanding Sukuna to not move with Cursed Speech, Yuta switched to Takako Uro's technique and struck him with Thin Ice Breaker while he was paralyzed.

Copy is heavily restricted by its accessibility. While the user can copy a technique, they cannot access it unless Rika is fully manifested or they are within their domain. Both conditions are restrictive in their own ways, with Rika's complete manifestation only lasting five minutes at a time, and a domain expansion expending immense amounts of cursed energy and also having the risk of cursed technique burn-out afterwards.

Furthermore, the user's own cursed energy output can also limit a copied technique's effectiveness.]

Domain Expansion - ‘Authentic Mutual Love’: [The domain constructs an environment that features a vast, seemingly endless ground, densely crowded by vertical cross-shaped pillars of varying sizes. The entire area of the ground and the pillars themselves have countless katanas embedded in them. Above, the sky surrounding the environment is encircled by mizuhiki.

The user selects one of his copied cursed techniques to be imbued into the domain's barrier as its guaranteed-hit effect, with varying effects depending on what technique is used. Every other stockpiled cursed technique is randomly imbued into the katanas within the domain. Only the caster can activate the cursed techniques within the swords, although they don't know which cursed technique is in a katana until they grasp it. Although each katana is destroyed after a single use, there are an unlimited number of katanas.]

Equipment: [Katanas: Early in Yuta's training, Satoru took him to the cursed tool vault and provided him with a katana. The goal was for Yuta to learn to fight while also learning to channel cursed energy into an object. At first, Yuta struggled to properly focus his cursed energy on the blade and only managed shallow cuts against cursed spirits. After vigorous training and experience on missions, Yuta learns to properly wield the sword with Rika's power. However, it was a standard katana and could not take an overflow of cursed energy, breaking as a result. Yuta is able to replace his katanas whenever they break and his preferred form of combat eventually evolved into swordplay reinforced with jujutsu.]