#((I don't have a clever name for this AU yet. Might call it something along the lines of 'Becoming Human' or 'RA9 Loves You'))

[revrads]

“Who exactly is your God, Father Ward? Who will save you from damnation?”

Heurr more DBH AU nonsense! I like the idea that while John is a religious helper android, he has moments where he’s unsure where his faith stands between God and RA9, the foretold Saviour of androids

Also kudos to @merlilica for his serial number!

[captnjacksparrow]

What if Kishimoto actually made Sasuke and Naruto together and adopt a family. Would that bring chaos in good or bad way?

Regrettably, in a BAD WAY. 😞

Look at this.

If you don't know what this is, it's 2014 Naruto Official Facebook page, Where they dedicated this SNS fanart on Naruto's Birthday, not NH or NS but only SNS (not even an AU where his parents were alive and wishing him Happy Birthday). Look at the details of the fanart, like N and S being married, Sasuke's dino toy, Naruto's Frog doll, Hokage wardrobe....

But look at the homophobic comments😒😒😒

That picture was taken down later after the backlash they received. But an SNS fan immortalized this screenshot on Tumblr and it lives even today.

So, How do you think the outcome would be if the author made N and S end up together and adopt a baby??

There is this article about Gay people living in Closet which was published in March 2001 in The Daily Yomiuri Newspaper. Check it out here. I’ll just pull out some important points from there. 

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“Steve Dodd, 44, a lecturer in Japanese literature at London University, comes to Tokyo for a few months each year to do research.

"I had no idea really what the attitude toward homosexuality was in Japan, in the small town where I was teaching kids. I felt this terrible fear of being exposed," he said.

Perhaps it was because he was still only about 20, he says. "But they were all saying, ‘Do you have a girlfriend yet?’ Or they were promising to take me to a prostitute or something. I can remember always living in fear that I would be dragged along to a brothel."

[[This ‘Do you have a Girlfriend yet?’ thing is very similar to people asking Naruto ‘Is she your Girlfriend?’]]

Assuming that everybody is straight in Japan, as anywhere else, the onus is on gays to tell people that they are "different," with all the stigma that can entail, particularly in a country that likes to claim that everybody is the same. No wonder then that some prefer to keep quiet, even if that means hiding what they really are.

There aren’t many people in Japanese public life — whether actors, athletes or politicians — who have publicly announced that they are gay, except for cross-dressers and the occasional activist.

"People tend to think of being ‘out’ as an either/or thing — either you’re ‘out’ or you’re in the closet — but it’s not that simple," says George Mirren (not his real name), 37, president of the Japanese subsidiary of a multinational corporation. Originally from a small town in Arkansas, he has been living in Tokyo for 15 years. He speaks fluent Japanese, and has a steady Japanese partner. "There are varying degrees of outness. No one is completely out all the time."

Although there may be less overt discrimination, social factors — especially the overwhelming emphasis on the so-called "traditional family" — can make life difficult for gays

Kazuya Kawaguchi of OCCUR (Japan Association for the Lesbian and Gay Movement) in Tokyo, says that a lot of people would be not shocked, but puzzled, by the idea of two men living together. He says, "In Japan, people think that any full-fledged adult male who’s single should be living on his own two feet — in other words, alone. There’s no concept of two men living together. They might think, for instance, that neither of them had any money. Naturally, they wouldn’t want to rent to them."

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Despite having a large Fanbase for SNS, I still think majority of people over there are very conservative by all means. Like, they don’t even know that such concept exists. But hey, this is a very old article and we can’t judge everything based on this and things might have improved a lot over there too. 

In these days, I’ve seen Chinese media creators are finding very clever ways to portray LGBT content in Mainstream media by passing the Lead Characters off as Soulmates Which Kishi did it way back in 2010 itself by making Naruto declare that “We’ll die together”. 

So, Yes... Considering all these, Open Ending would’ve been so much better than this. Or they should’ve made them adopt some random kids and Co-Parent them together without making them as Official Couple but as ‘Friends’. 

But an SNS ending would’ve created more controversy in bad ways where there is a possibility of deeming this manga as inappropriate for Teenagers, the demographics they are targeting basically. But on the other side, it would’ve boosted other creators to come out and create similar contents like this without any hesitation.