Sae

**Sae** ( 彩永 ( さえ ), *****Sae*****?) is a special grade jujutsu sorcerer known as one of the "big three" alongside her classmates Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. She is known for her innate technique to manipulate time, the first to be recorded in history. During a mission to escort the designated star plasma vessel for the 500-year merger, she died in the midst of battle against Toji Fushiguro after burning her "time" and forfeiting her life in the process.

## Appearance

Sae is a woman of below average height and slender frame.

Sae in the manga.
## Personality

Sae was easy to get along with despite appearing somewhat unsociable at first. While she is normally seen without an expression, she has in fact a good sense of humor, even going along with Satoru's antics and frequently indulges his prideful streaks without being bothered in the slightest. "He just needs the attention," Sae answered upon asked once how she could put up with Satoru for so long.

Sae was an optimist and downright forgiving to a fault. This is best reflected by her taste in literature, consisting of romance and wish-fulfillment with happy endings. However, her values appear misconstrued. Sae finds the happiness of others as hers which comes at a cost of her own well-being, similar to Yuji Itadori who has a tendency for self-sacrifice. Suguru wistfully recounts that she is most purest person he knows while Satoru bitterly scoffs at such mindset, lamenting that she was the type of person to never live long in the jujutsu world, something which would eventually become prophetic as she dies while saving someone else.

A rare exception to her kindness are the higher ups, which might as well be exclusive to them. One of the manifestation of this "hate" is in the form of her dislike with commitments, in part of the constant pressure to establish her lineage and preserve her innate technique for future generations to come. Nevertheless, Sae has come to terms with her circumstance and doesn't allow it to stop her in living the best person she could possibly be.

Being the beacon of good in an unforgiving world, Sae's departure was not without any lasting effects. Her death sent the young Suguru into a wayward spiral and would eventually come to conclude that the world was much too unfair to those who do good, vowing to rid the world of all evil; Satoru, on the other hand, becomes greatly disillusioned with the current system in place, aiming to overthrow the higher-ups for fostering such an environment.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Leve**l: Despite being one of the select few special-grade sorcerers, Sae's general mastery of cursed techniques was subpar, falling short even among her peers hailing from non-sorcerer families. However, her ability to manipulate time makes up for her shortcomings as a sorcerer and even granted her the title as one of the strongest when she was alive. Satoru fondly describes her as a savant whose only redeeming feature is her innate cursed technique, citing her lack of ability to learn.

As a student, Sae alongside Satoru and Suguru, were considered part of the "big three"; the strongest-living sorcerers in modern society. She was capable of freely manipulating time and make short work of powerful cursed spirits and experienced curse users alike before they could even realize what was happening. Limited only by her meager cursed energy pool, she is able to stop, jump forward, and rewind time. Although they were treated as equals, she was stated to be able to defeat Suguru in a short fight but would quickly lose if it became prolonged, whereas Sae would be capable of somewhat incapacitating an awakaned Satoru during a final stand. Satoru himself admits that her potential even trumps the combined might of Limitless and Six Eyes, which were tantamount as the pride possessions of his clan. Given enough room to grow, she could have made a massive impact on the jujutsu world as a whole.

Before her demise, Sae was hghly-valued as a sorcerer and was sought after by the higher-ups, to the point where they tried to forbid her from accompanying Satoru and Suguru on a mission related to the Star Plasma Vessel. This act would instead catapult her demise as she was late to arrive at the scene to prevent Riko from getting shot, thus sealing her fate by forcing her to rewound time. However, it is later revealed to be part of a grander scheme orchestrated by Sae to give birth to a sorcerer that could accomplish what she could not.

**Great Tactical Intellect**: Sae was noted to be a savant. She had difficulties learning new cursed techniques, to an extent that it seemed hopeless, but in everything Sae did good she did them better than anyone. Her mastery over her own innate cursed technique proved second to none, surpassed only by an awakened Satoru. Her grasp of Time Manipulation allows her to be highly flexible in battle, adapting to the circumstance in a heartbeat. Suguru explains that her fighting style was jarring; she would always abide by the book then sucker punch her enemy out of nowhere. Combine this with her unseen attacks, it became practically impossible to anticipate her next move.

In her fight against Toji Fushiguro, Sae managed to deceive the Sorcerer Killer to misunderstand the effects of her Domain Expansion. The unsuspecting Toji believed Time-Displaced Altar had an offensive sure-hit function after Sae made him age rapidly as a front, causing the Sorcerer Killer to be more wary, and thus vulnerable to her main source of attack; the "unseen" attacks. Sae theo capitalized on the advantage and subverted Toji's expectation even more by engaging in hand-to-hand combat and managing to land several blows, which was something that the Sorcerer Killer never expected. Sae would have won had it not been for the fact that she was forced to use Golden Hour a moment prior to save Riko Amanai and was already running out of time.

### Jujutsu

 **Chronostasis** (クロノ スタシス, *Kurono sutashisu*?): The passive form of Time Manipulation. The user is able to stop time by projecting their cursed energy and nailing the metaphorical "flow of time" in place. An extension of this form is to halt the time of one's object, which detaches said object from interferance of the outside world, turning them into anomalies that can potentially cause devastating effects. Satoru jokingly commented that even a speck of dust affected by Chronostasis could kill Sukuna.
 **Golden Hour** ( カーラーの救命曲線 ( カーラーの きゅうめいきょくせん ), *****Golden Hour*****?): Sae dispenses her own time as "tax" to perform cursed techniques without needing the use of cursed energy, allowing the user to temporarily surpass their curse output. Unlike cursed energy, dispensed time can never be recovered and is finite. Running out of their own time results in the user's demise.

## Trivia

* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Non-Official Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment method: Scouted.
	+ Sae likes to read Korean Romance Manhwa and Japanese Isekai Manga.
	+ Favorite food: Pepsi. And Coke. And Fanta.
	+ Least favorite food: Bland food.
	+ Cause of stress: Commitment.
* Sae is a half-Korean half-Japanese born in Korea. She was forcefully naturalized in Japan the moment her cursed technique was discovered.
* When Sae rewound time to prevent Riko from getting shot, fate have already dictated that someone would die in that scenario. Since that was the case, it opened a future where Sae would die instead.
* Sae wears a JoJo pin on her left shoulder.