#i rly need to post more lore for my warring era munchkins bc. i had so much lmfao

[imaginarianisms]

just thinking about how. aiko is just. such a genuinely good & kindhearted person. like. even for his time, like, in his main verse, where the era of warring states had stopped relatively recently & a lot of people discouraged that kindhearted nature but he. genuinely didn't care. he may have compassion fatigue at times & he's by no means perfect & sometimes, as a genin, he'd be almost too merciful if there's unnecessary bloodshed outside of missions ofc, but hikaku & toka encouraged him to be kindhearted in a world full of people that tell him that you're supposed to Always Suppress Your Emotions. he's seen firsthand what that's led to. it's the entire reason why he decided to become a medical nin. after accidentally killing his own brother akio in his main verse in a training session (back then training wasn't as supervised as it is today) & seeing how many people suffered unnecessarily in times of war & how he himself was a victim of abuse by his classmates to the point of being assaulted by one of them (with said classmate being a hyuga & the hyuga clan's influence was very prominent, that's why he didn't speak up until years later when he was standing over his corpse while he bled to death in war & he did nothing to save him, only hushed him with a finger over his lips), that's the whole reason behind his purpose. he wasn't considered "uchiha enough" by the clan because he didn't have the sharingan like his older sister momoka because he failed to inherit it, but he's a skilled illusionist like his mother. he may be soft & kind & sweet but he isn't naive & that doesn't mean he can't snap at people & genuinely get angry at & hate other people bc he's still human ykno.