Junpei Yoshino (Mr. Steel Bullet)

**Junpei Yoshino** (吉 (よし) 野 (の) 順 (じゅん) 平 (ぺい) , *Yoshino Junpei*?) is a supporting character in *Jujutsu Kaisen: The Star, The Blight, and The Rose* series. He was a high school student in Satozakura High School who befriended Yuji Itadori.

## Appearance

Junpei was a thin young man with green eyes and brown hair that reached to his shoulders. His side parting let a large portion of his bangs cover the right side of his face. This helped to cover the scars he received from his bullies.

He initially wore a purple and pink striped t-shirt or a simple white t-shirt with a green rectangle printed on the front. He also wore a pair of calf length olive green pants and off-white sneakers with black laces and golden soles and toes.

Later on, after his mother's death, he wore one of her black jackets in mourning.

## Personality

Junpei is a reserved and apathetic individual with a distaste for other people. He has very negative views of people and society as a whole. If there existed a button that would kill everyone he hates, he wouldn't press it. However, if there was a button that would kill everyone who hated him, he'd press it without hesitation. He claims that he feels indifferent towards people and believes that it's no worse than hating them.

Junpei's indifferent towards other humans because he expects them to be evil, so even people's deaths don't seem to affect him. This is due to all the trauma he received from being bullied and rejected in his life. He has always been a recluse, but Junpei loves movies and tried to start his own club at school. It was unfortunately taken over by bullies who burned Junpei while nobody did anything to help him or reprimand his assaulters.

Despite being a normal student, Junpei's dejected attitude made him easy for Mahito to manipulate. Mahito fed into Junpei's darkness and encouraged him to take his indifference a step further into hate and revenge. This resulted in a shortsightedness that made Junpei unable to see Mahito for what he truly was.

Yuji, someone else who is around Junpei's age who's interested in movies, became one of Junpei's only friends. Even after Junpei had rejected all those around him, Yuji was able to begin to bring Junpei out of his troubled mindset. Something that should be noted is he is extremely protective over his mother and he actually cared for her well being even calling her a good person and later this would lead him to meeting an ancient Heain Jujutsu Sorcerer named Meirei who he started to respect due to him being more respectful to women and accepted her deal to reincarnate.

Following the Culling Games and his reincarnation he actually still remained Apathetic and Indifferent to all except the ones who doesn't bully others as he quickly turns into a ruthless and cold person willing to kill them or outright bluntly harm them the way they did to the ones they bullied.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Prior to meeting Mahito, Junpei was weak. He was an average non-sorcerer who was constantly picked on and bullied, however he did possess the ability to see curse spirits and jujutsu something he always could do. Mahito altered Junpei brain and turned him into a sorcerer, allowing Junpei to get his revenge. Mahito explained the alterations allowed him to access a powerful innate technique he calls "Poison" and through this he could summon a powerful Shikigami that he used on his classmates and bullies in cold revenge as they were calling him Physic in reality he was using his shikigami to harm and injury his classmates even his bullies, though they couldn't see it.

Despite never being born a true Sorcerer and was a modified transfigured human despite this he actually start developing a sense of using his Jujutsu and began to develop a combat based prowess never seen in a shikigami user as this fact allowed him to singlehandedly hold off Yuji's attacks for a short period of time, however he was killed by mahito technique.

However this wasn't the end for junpei as his corpse had changed into a cursed object following the meeting with meirei before his fight with yuji and death to mahito and was reincarnated as a modern era reincarnation something that even Kenjaku though was impossible and junpei cursed energy and power with his shikigami grew as now he was way more capable of holding his own able to effortlessly kill many powerful sorcerer's and his Innate Technique with the Moon Dregs allowed him to be one of the many culling game players to gain 30 points in many days showing he has accepted and adapted to his new life as a culling game player and sorcerer.

When fighting alongside Nozomi he was able to hold of Kosen attacks and was able to keep up with her despite being harmed once by an extremely weak beam from her and Junpei even poisoned her enough for Nozomi to defeat her.

**Tactical Intelligence**: Despite being a new sorcerer he was extremely calculated able to tactical think through any situations as he shown a little of it against Yuji Itadori and was able to deduct how powerful he was using moon dregs to shield him constantly knowing one punch can kill him showing he knows he is not very durable in a combat dual and in the culling games he displayed the ability to constantly stay one step ahead his enemies.