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The Answer to the Anti-Prompt

Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma - anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution. 

Prompts belong in Purgatory, as should everything that belongs to this blog. To qualify for Purgatorial status, the nature of the matter - in this case being a prompt - must be contradictory and grey. Its’ form must exist in the middle space where right answers do not exist and truth can be called into question, hence the Purgatorial status. 

To begin, prompts smother creativity and restrict the full flow of ideas and thoughts. Though they may seem open ended, like the one written above, they invariably try to guide the writer into giving a specific kind of story or narrative. A prompt is the invisible hand that guides into the belly of the prompt-creator, giving a constricted sense of freedom. The prompt is pulling the story from you, rather than allowing the story to run free from the naval, as would be natural and unrestricted. Therefore, in natural, rebellious behavior, it is only right to combat prompts by writing an anti-prompt. This, of course is ironic as well, because writing an anti-prompt still acknowledges the original prompt and is a prompt in of itself. However, such is the way of antagonism - it cannot stand independent of its’ antagonizer. 

Onto the answer to the anti-prompt. 

Here is a problem that will never be solved: Who is stronger - Kakashi Hatake or Gojou Satoru? 

Both are devilishly strong ninjas and sorcerers in their own respective universes, and though it is wildly unlikely that a cross-over fight between the two would ever happen, the question still stands: who is stronger? 

Never before have there been such characters who are equally charming, childlike, sassy and strong. Of all the white-haired, good-looking senseis, these two take the cake. Between fighting dark-eyed shinobis and demonic curses, both Kakashi and Gojou lead their respective fields in mastery and specialization of skill and strength. They are tremendously feared by their enemies yet dearly cherished by their students. Having achieved god-tier status, Kakashi and Gojou exist in a realm of their own, and their fight scene would be in everyone’s Top 10 for the next millenia - hypothetically, if it were to happen. 

Kakashi Hatake is a masterful shinobi who achieved renown at a young age due to his tenacity, cool temperment and overwhelming ninja-abilities. He has fought some of the toughest shinobis such as Zabuzu and Obito and still lived to tell the tale. Best known for his devilish sharingan, Kakashi has earned the name, “Copy-cat Ninja” for his ability to perfectly imitate any ninjutsu style, making it difficult for opponents to overwhelm him. This particular style causes serious strategic issues for his opponents, who must quickly decide what jutsus to perform so as not to have their own arsenal used against them. Should they risk using a high-skill, deadly jutsu, only for it to be copied and retaliated? Or, should they play it safe and stick to the basics and hope to win based on physical strength and raw skill? Those unfamiliar with Kakashi’s style will quickly find themselves in a game where your own strength will be used against you. 

Gojou Satoru is a newer player to the game, but should be considered lightly. In contrast to Kakashi’s aloof airs, Gojou is like the cool senior with a devil-may-care attitude. As one of the leading jujutsu sorcerers, Gojou has been entrusted with the training of exceptional young, budding students who adore their starlike sensei. When he’s not engaged in experimental training sessions, Gojou is out exorcising special-grade curses - those that even the most seasoned sorcerers struggle to expel. In his iconic fight against Jogo the Volcanic curse, we see the full extent of Gojou’s power with his mind numbing Domain Expansion technique, Infinite Void. In the Void, he exposes his opponent to infinity in which they are forced to feel everything and nothing simultaneously which results in the absolute wreckage of their consciousness. Though curses are not technically humans, the mind is only capable of processing so much information at once. To overwhelm the mind by forcing it to acknowledge the vastness and emptiness of the void in its’ infinity, the mind is unable to cope and compartmentalize, therefore, lobotomizing his opponent. 

Therefore, in battle, the main question that must be addressed is this: Can Kakashi use his sharingan to copy Gojou’s Infinite Void? Is Kakashi’s jutsu capable of immitating Domain Expansion? If yes, then the two would be forced to fight it out within the doman, which boils the battle down to strength, fighting style and jutsu-jujutsu ability. If no, then Kakashi would certainly lose, as it is highly unlikely that his mind could handle the infinite void. Though he has had experience with mind-altering techniques in fights, these battles left him in defeat (see, Kakashi vs. Obito). However, should Kakashi be able to recreate the Infinite Void technique, then the question remains to be answered - who is stronger? 

Let me know what you think!

My money is on....