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lakeside and peace ✨

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Loved this view when walking along the river yesterday. Photo didn't even need any editing.

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by daniel_casson

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sasuke & c-ptsd: a meta

okay so i talk a lot about this headcanon and i decided to finally do a detailed meta about it.

first and foremost, let’s talk about what c-ptsd is. c-ptsd stands for complex post traumatic stress disorder, a differing disorder from the more common ptsd. it’s worth noting that c-ptsd isn’t an officially recognized disorder in the DSM - it’s been deemed too similar to ptsd and bpd for its own diagnosis, but it’s still used informally and i believe has its merit. i have ptsd, and would describe it more specifically as c-ptsd.

anyway, onto the specifics, and what this means for sasuke himself:

1. the trauma

putting under a cut because this baby is looong and image-heavy. sorry if you’re mobile and it shows the whole thing.

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Hello! Have you ever done an analysis about the UCM? I wanted to read more about it but I'm afraid I keep running into ones that tend to demonize the Uchiha.

I’ve talked endlessly about the Uchiha Massacre before but I’ll make a new post about it, I think it’s an important topic to discuss.

The Uchiha clan did plan a coup d'etat against Konoha government but that didn’t come from nothing nor was it simply to take over Konoha just for the hell of it… it’s the ill-treatment they received over the years that built up to it, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

People tend to ignore the fact that the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, did, in fact, use the Uchiha instead of treating them as equals, this discrimination against them along with his biased views of their clan mainly came from his grudge against Madara whom the Uchiha clan actually refused to join or follow. Yes, after Konoha has been established the issue of who would rule it surfaced, that was when Tobirama voiced his concerns about the Uchiha clan and shared that rumor about them being a “cursed clan” with his brother so he too won’t trust them, a conversation that Madara happened to overheard and, as a result, has opened his eyes to the future that awaits his clan if they stayed in Konoha. It was after then that he realized that the village will always be the Senju’s and that Tobirama, the next Hokage in line, might end up killing the Uchiha clan. That’s why he decided to leave along with his people before it was too late, however, the Uchiha who were tired of war, refused to join him and chose to live in Konoha instead. 

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Why do I hate Itachi Uchiha? - Anti Itachi

Since many people have asked me why do I hate Itachi, I’ve decided to write about it. This will be a really long image-heavy rant, so be warned. Also, if you like Itachi, I suggest you don’t read this. I’m not answering.

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Streams around Rampart Lakes.

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How is Sasuke Uchiha - The same character that Kishimoto called "pure" and spent years crafting to tell a beautiful yet tragic story about a young boy wanting to bring honour to his clan/family after having had his entire life ruined and turned into a slave to the system that took everything away from him (and being guilt tripped into a marriage he never wanted) is also the character hated by everyone ???

Like make it make sense to me

People hate sasuke yet in the same instance they want their self-inserts to be validated by him ????

The bar of standards is that low huh

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No sasuke cannot be your favorite character if the only versions you like of him are non manga canon spin offs where he is weak-willed, seems to have no mind of his own, and does everything for sakura. You don’t like him you just want a character to be obsessed with your self insert 😂

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Itachi fans can be pretty annoying. Going around acting like his life was so sad, I'm sorry I don't feel sorry for someone who murdered his family for a fucked up system. They act like it's a good thing he spared sasuke, that's what kishi did to make people feel sorry for him, it's pathetic

More like extremely annoying. I never get what’s sad about his life. Cos he cried when he killed his father? Imagine the horror, the screaming and crying when he killed the uchiha kids in front of their parents. I’m supposed to feel sorry over his crocodile tears? He killed his parents over and over again in a genjutsu he forced on his brother unnecessarily. Tbh, I think he’s addicted to mentally torturing people. Not only did he do this shit repeatedly to Sasuke, he also did the same to Kakashi. He didn’t just do enough to knock them out, he put them into a life threatening coma!

There’re people who feel pity for him cos he’s a brainwashed tool for the village, they think he’s forced into a corner at a young age. I’m sorry, but even as adult, he never realised he’s an brainwashed idiot. He’s still all self righteous and condescending when he came back as an edo. He thought the uchiha deserved to die cos they had “stupid ideas”. Not only did he have no remorse, he’s also soo arrogant in his own warped views.  How can you feel sorry for someone like that….He’s like a terrorist who spared one kid in a mass execution and people treat him like a saint?? His fandom is a joke.

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Yeah I agree on the retconning getting really obvious, and the ending was just major lip service to me. Though mentioning Endeavor’s father reminded me how I felt about his back story- it explains his character a bit better, but it also makes him less sympathetic in my eyes.

Yes, and it was a pity that Horikoshi kept retconning things. It spoke of a lack of foreplanning, the Todoroki family plot keeping on changing direction to adjust to whatever idea stuck him.

The ending has the trouble he wanted it to be 'happy' when it's technically all but that.

The family is ruined and in (social) hell.

Touya is in some Villain hospital/jail, trapped in a horrid contraption and dying, there's no hope for him to sit down with his family and eat with them, he can't even spend with them more than few minutes awake.

Natsuo is leaving the family in a hurry and so much he's changing his surname and refusing contacts and the panorama illustration seems to remark it even more.

Fuyumi is scarred and had to leave her job and will never have her family again.

Rei is badly scarred too and reducted to Enji's nurse just after she left her own hospital and Enji is scarred and on a wheelchair.

Shouto, to fulfill his dream, has to fight the public backlash.

In real life they would be victims of ostracism, discrimination and bullying that would made their life hell as Natsuo claims but the story, instead than wanting to focus on their drama prefers to tell us that they're all happy because they'll be talking with Touya for a few minutes each day he's alive and people are helping them so everything is fine. Also the fanbook says Enji will manage to walk again because if Edgeshot can recover why can't Enji since they're Heroes?

They're not like Villains who die for a blood transfusion.

So everything is happy and the ending is happy even if it's actually quite terrible and it annoys me that they want to fed me this fake happiness when it's a tragedy, especially considering the Todorokis supposedly love Touya and he's dying and they can't even hold his hand as he does and this should be viewed as a tragedy that shouldn't be easy to shrug off.

Honestly maybe it's just me but this cheap happy mood Horikoshi wants for them doesn't work at all to me.

As for the whole thing with Enji's father's death I'm not a fan of it because it's handled poorly, in an extremely rushed manner and way too late.

We don't know if the guy was a Hero or a Vigilante or just a random civilian. We don't know if the guy he faced was a Villain or just a civilian committing a crime with no Quirk involved. We don't know if Enji had to face legal and social repercussions for his father's failed attempt at helping (if he wasn't a Hero he couldn't act... but maybe he didn't use his Quirk or maybe he did). We didn't know what caused that devastation (did they have a bomb? Was it Enji's father's Quirk? Something else?) We don't know about his mother or about his relation with his father, how he went by now that he was fatherless.

His drama, the reason why he feels he's not an inborn Hero seems to be same as Kirishima, he watched and didn't jump into action and his father died but that's too late to say after volumes telling me his problem was his envy and wasn't foreshadowed at all. Nobody ever mentioned his father before, this is a stunt Horikoshi made up right then to give us 'Enji's dramatic moment' and, considering the situation, at this point I would have preferred if his dramatic moment had focused on his kids, not on his father's death pulled out of nowhere.

So while Enji's backstory had plenty of potential that potential was wasted completely because it feels a retcon of Enji's origins and one that's not even done well or that has consequences in the future plot. Enji's father never get mentioned again, he's just forgotten, all that little story was needed for was to give Enji drama and a kick that would push him back in action.

Really, at that point if he'd thought of his family and of how they needed him it would have been more emotional to me instead than Horikoshi going and retconning Enji's motive to give him a cheap sad backstory he didn't plan to devote time developing and making relevant for the plot.

Maybe it's just me though.

In a way it's highly ironic how I still love the Todoroki family despite the poor way their plot was handled...

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not to post even more Villains Discourse on main but it really bugs me how people read giving villains tragic backstories as inherently excusing their actions and/or demonizing trauma survivors.

the actual message of Tragic Villains is (almost) always “people who are never taught or given any healthy, constructive outlets for their emotions will often find unhealthy, destructive outlets.” it’s that people who are traumatized and never learn how to cope with that trauma can become a danger to themselves and others. the message isn’t “trauma makes you evil!!!!” or “genocide is okay if you’ve been sad before!!!!” it’s “people need compassion and help to recover from trauma instead of becoming increasingly angry and harming themselves and others in the process.”

this site takes an alarmingly behaviorist and punitive approach to everything and it’s literally the most annoying thing. y’all have this concept that “if we just punish people hard enough, if we just scare them enough, if we just make them feel guilty enough.” that people just Do Bad Things Because They Do Bad Things, I Guess, and Because We Didn’t Threaten Them And Shame Them Enough. but humans are an innately social species. at our very core, we need compassion and kindness. we need healthy relationships with other humans.

you can keep looking at traumatized villains and being like “haha this dumb pathetic sadboi thinks murder is okay because his parents died” but as a survivor myself, unaddressed/untreated trauma absolutely can make you ragey and destructive. i was lucky enough to have support and eventually get the treatment i needed. but it’s not hard at all for me to imagine how, if that hadn’t been the case, that could’ve been me. obviously not on a movie-villain scale like murder or war crimes, but it’s so irritating as someone whose trauma has always manifested as anger to watch people on this site be like “this is just bad writing!!! real survivors/good survivors don’t end up like that the writers just hate survivors and want the audience to condone murder!”

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I'd like to add how comical it was that a man who just entered the prime of his life, gave up so quickly

Shows how he fails to live up to his Hero name Endeavor

*Endeavor at age 20*

Endeavor: I give up

I can't surpass All Might in my 2 whole years of becoming a Pro Hero

Time to delve into eugenics and make a weapon kid with a woman with a very specific quirk

That'll show All Might I'm truly the best

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I totally agree with your opinions of the panorama! There are several villain characters missing that had more story importance than some of the characters in it, and i hate the placement of the Todoroki family so much.

This is my own personal gripe cause I actually do hate the ship, but I’ve just grown to hate endeavor’s character in general because I truly feel like a lot of faults within the story is related to his character.

People were upset when others complained about Todoroki’s design, and they think it’s because he doesn’t look like a “pretty boy” anymore, but it’s not that at all! It’s about how the series has given priority to endeavor so much that it has seeped into many others’ story, including Todoroki’s, and now it feels like it’s showing in his future design. It feels like he lost his half-and-half design in favor of referencing most his father. And yeah, you’re right about his height, and so I wonder why does he have such a dramatic look change while other characters don’t have that?

Something interesting I’ve seen is someone pointing out is how Horikoshi wasn’t able to get Natsuo’s design completely down in the manga too. But it’s also weird how the Todoroki sons all have nostrils while most of the other characters don’t??

Welcome in the club of the disappointed! ^_-

Yes, I think the problem was originally Horikoshi never meant to represent the Villains, just the happy good people so as to represent that 8 years after everything is well and everyone is happy... but then his editor or someone else pointed out about how beloved the League was and how people would want to see it and he had to add them and, since he was at it, he added some characters who died because otherwise depicting the dead Villains only would feel unfair.

But it's not really well planned, Native for example, was more relevant than that doctor or Shuriken man and yet he's not included... and while I get that Endeavor/Hawks is a popular ship really, it's the last time we see the Todoroki family, let them be a family instead than random guys who fill white spots.

I'm generally indifferent to ships in the BNHA universe but this choice bother me because it ends up prioritizing the ship other the whole atonement arc Enji was meant to have and more than hating Enji I just feel like Horikoshi simply didn't know what to do with him.

His prototype wasn't meant to be abusive and I tend to think Horikoshi never managed to deal well with the fact he indeed ended up depicting him into an abuser and even decided he couldn't be forgiven and yet he had to go into an atonement arc that Horikoshi didn't know how to handle as he tried to tone down Enji's actions.

So for me the problem is just Horikoshi didn't know what to do with him, more than him, and seemed to toss and pull him around, giving him (and the Todorokis) an inconsistent backstory and feelings as they get retconned at every turn... which is a pity because the ideas are good but... the retconning is a mess.

I mean, for more than 30 volumes we're told Enji's problem was his envy for All Might and then it turns out his problem is tied to his father's death? A death that's so vague and unclear that not even the anime wanted to spend much time on it?

Touya wants to denouice his father as a horrible person and... forget to say he used to beat his mother? He never knew about it? Really?

He was an abusive trainer and then... Shouto decides to intern under him because hey, he's the Number 2 so who cares? And this BEFORE ENJI STARTED HIS ATONEMENT ARC?

And wait, there's more, he beat Rei up because she tried to stop Shouto's training but Shouto can: backtalk to him, insult him, decide not to use his fire, decide if to intern with him or not, dump him while they're in a mission and all this comes with no repercussions whatsoever?

He had to persuade Rei's family to sell their daughter to him? Dear God, the moment he showed up at the Himura's doorsteps they were already tying up a ribbon on Rei and presenting her to him, which persuasion did he have to do?

Rei had no choice but to marry him... no wait, she had, she just decided for Enji.

He caused Rei's mental break up, no it was Touya's death, ops no, it was him.

And I could go on.

I love the sheer potential the Todoroki family has but the way their story is handled is a mess.

Shouto also ends up dragged into this mess, with Horikoshi caring very little for the trauma he should have suffered, that first he almost decided to ignore it, then tried to integrate it again in the plot, then decided he wanted to elevate him into a model poster boy for suffering in silence, not feeling anger and saving and being the 'family Hero' Enji couldn't be so that Shouto's arc becomes basically being the person Enji couldn't be, down to getting his rank and part of his body structure and being all happy because he's Number 2 instead than envious because he's not Number 1... never mentioning Touya was created from Shouto's prototype to be Shouto's adversary but then, since he was created from Shouto's prototype which was created to give Enji something, Touya ends up being more connected to Enji than to Shouto and while Shouto gets to save the day he's mostly cut from the family reunion.

And should I mention all the nonsense in Touya's backstory?

In the end I think that the problem was Horikoshi didn't know what to do with the Todoroki family. His plans kept on shifting but they somehow got really popular and beloved so he had to keep them game in ways he wasn't interested into exploring or didn't have the knowledge to develop properly.

Sure, part of the problems we have with the Todoroki family are tied to strong cultural bias (note how the characters in BNHA find horrible how Touya wants to kill his father because this is considered one of the worst crimes in Japan regardless of the father being a terrible person and care little about Enji's abusive behavior as this was mostly allowed in the past) but even if we remove them, the plotline is just a mess of retcons and the editors just didn't help Horikoshi fix/avoid them. And this is just too bad.

In the end poor Natsuo ends up being a mirror for Shouto. While Touya is the other the top version, with Shouto being a Hero and Touya being a Villain, Natsuo is the guy who just can't make the cut to be a Hero for his family but doesn't become a Villain either.

LOL, I didn't really check if the other characters have nostrils or not so I'm not sure about it but a lack of nostril in a character design makes the nose look smaller so the character can seem more petite if she's a girl or younger if he's a boy. So Natsuo having nostrils might be due to him being older than the kids... and then, when supposedly 8 years passed and the kids grew Horikoshi still didn't want to change much their design, which is visible also in how many of them still have round youthful faces despite being much older.

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The anime account posted Endeavor for Father's Day, but they edited out the flashback to the abuse from the scene. Pure ragebait.

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[MHA Manga Spoilers] (ಥ﹏ಥ)...💚🦎

I'll be having a good day and then remember Spinner's backstory/plotline and how no one takes him seriously & just sees him as a background character for the League.

He was born with a massive societal disadvantage from the get-go with being a mutant/heteromorph. The heteromorphic oppression in MHA definitely parallels racism with how certain heteromorphs are treated better or worse based on their mutation and place of residence.

Shoji brought this up during the riot episodes in season seven, how mutants like Tokoyami and Kota were "city kids" and living in a more urban area so they faced less open oppression and discrimination compared to himself and Spinner, who grew up in suburban locations.

Heteromorphs with certain mutations were also treated differently compared to other heteromorphs - with Spinner having a reptile mutation, a species that humans already don't like - I'd see that as a parallel to how dark-skinned POC tend to be treated worse than light-skinned/mixed POC.

Another parallel is the fact that there's an organization called the "Creature Rejection Clan" (taken down by the LOV), a religious cult-like group that goes out of their way to deny the acceptance of others with physical abnormalities such as heteromorphs/individuals with mutations - going as far to hunt them down and eliminate them. The word "Clan" in there, even spelled with a "C" instead of a "K," is enough to draw that connection.

So, for Spinner, we don't know much about how he grew up. We don't know if he finished middle/high school, but we know that by 20 years old, he was living alone. He was never taught how to drive properly, but he is the only League member who actually KNOWS how to drive. It was later confirmed by Horikoshi that Spinner learned to drive from playing GTA.

During his time living alone, he had become somewhat of a shut-in due to an experience where he was just "walking, living, out in the daylight," and hateful individuals sprayed him with insecticide (poison) just for the way that he looked.

I truly feel like this made him lose all motivation for and any concept of his future. He realized that no matter what, there would always be people out there who would limit his capabilities and oppress him. If he couldn't even go for a walk outside without being attacked for something he couldn't control, then what COULD he do with his life?

This was when he turned to Stain's ideology. He realized that if he couldn't hold his own ambitions or find his own motivation, he would make himself useful by devoting himself to someone elses cause - and Stain's ideology was something he truly believed in - a reformation of the hero society through purging the corrupt heroes who tainted it.

Shortly after Stain's arrest, however, Spinner started to devote himself to Shigaraki instead.

"For years I had nothing. I was...hollow inside."

Spinner was the only person genuinely concerned for him as Shigaraki was undergoing hell.

During Shigaraki's trial with Gigantomachia, Spinner was there - watching and asking questions.

During Shigaraki's fight with ReDestro, Spinner was there, watching Shigaraki's rebirth.

During Shigaraki's battle with Class 1-A on top of Gigantomachia, when he became unconscious, Spinner was the one trying to shake him awake, explaining how the League NEEDED him.

When Spinner started noticing the changes in Shigaraki - All for One taking over his consciousness - Spinner's concern was not only rooted in losing a leader - he was losing a friend, someone he trusted and looked up to - someone he had a common ground with.

Spinner even went as far as to allow All for One to give him an excruciatingly painful quirk, just to be able to aid and protect Shigaraki during the war.

"I never imagined I would amount to anything, but then I figured - if I followed you, I could be somebody. Shigaraki! Do you see me? Are you watching?"

"I did think about it - and all I wanted - was to keep following him. To lift him up, and...stand by him."

Imagine you've lived your entire life at an immediate disadvantage to the extent of losing all concepts of your own future, to where you only find value in yourself if you're helping another person's dream. Then, you find that one person who you share an actual common ground with, an actual shared goal and concept of the future - someone you're willing to sacrifice everything for - and you have to watch that person slowly descend into madness and internal turmoil at the hands of someone truly evil - to where neither of you can prevent it.

So you do everything that you can to still protect this person, allowing your mind and body to fall to destruction - only for them to end up getting killed in the end, with you left as one of the sole survivors.

Your team - that person - most if not all of them are gone, and you're left to ponder that. You're right back where you started with no motivations, no ambitions, but you still want the world to know what you saw in the people you considered to be your found family. So, you write a book to spread that message.

Then it's over - there's nothing left - and you're alone again. With nothing except for survivors guilt.

God I wish people gave Iguchi more credit where credit is due. He's not just some random lizard background character with no significance. He's given an actual, tragic plotline. I mean, fuck, we don't know shit about Compress, and for some reason he's still a fandom favorite over Spinner.

Sighhh...( ཀ ʖ̯ ཀ)

Iguchi Shuichi the man that you are.