#pro Sasuke

[sasukeuchiha-24]

Gahara,sasuke&naruto

[bluebobatea]

if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)

an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.

my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.

which is really sad given all that he has been through.

[motheryoon]

do not mock the uchiha.

[moon-trees]

I absolutely can not stand when people say Sakura deserved better - SHE LITERALLY GOT WHAT SHE WANTED. She's the one who chased after, obsessed over and basically annoyed the boy she wanted into getting with her, when Sasuke REPEATEDLY told her to fuck off. He could not make it clearer he was not interested and now she's miserable with a husband who couldn't care less about her and IT'S EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED.

It's not Sasuke's fault he was pressured into getting with her. He was literally guilt tripped about how he doesn't love her even though she apparently loves him so much (she literally tried to kill him).

One of them deserved better, and it definitely wasn't Sakura.

[justsasuke]

“Save Sasuke from the dark path he was going down” sounds so deep and romantic or whatever until you remember that the “dark path ” being referred to was the search for answers and closure made necessary by systematic oppression, a corrupt political system, surviving a massacre, and constantly being invalidated.

[sasuke-naruto]

[arwents]

friendly reminder that sasuke was the one to push teamwork with team 7, he is the one who risked his entire career just to feed naruto. he is so empathic and loving. ppl want to believe that he is selfish when his whole character is built from his love for his family and clan and like i’m not saying that everybody should love him because everyone has their own personal taste but? don’t lie?

[narutinhos]

sasuke really did nothing wrong. "oh, he killed people-" THEY ARE SHINOBI!!! "oh, he wanted to enact revenge-" HE IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A GENOCIDE!!! "oh, he ran away-" KONOHA IS TRASH!!! and so on and so forth

[auroraborealisreylo]

12. 17. 32.

[punkeropercyjackson]

2000s ship wars were a whole nother level of headassery because the fandom would prattle on about how their rival ships love interest was totes abusive and a shitty character and then they were the realest niggas in the whole franchise

[enby-axels]

incredible how kishimoto repeatedly asserts that naruto and itachi chose sasuke over the village, when in fact the exact opposite is true. itachi tortured him, took away his entire commmunity, tried to brainwash him. naruto's grand solution was murder-suicide and even after learning the truth about the massacre, he still wanted to be hokage and was confused by sasuke's refusal to forgive and return. they both aligned themselves with the village, but the simple act of performative love for sasuke is enough (according to kishimoto and konoha) for them to be considered exceptionally pacifistic, self-sacrificing characters who defied the village. it's such a fucked moral standard that offers zero compassion to the real victim of the situation: sasuke

[sasukeuchiha-24]

Sasuke Curse Mark

[leportraitducadavre]

Alright, quick rambling because you lot keep, to this day, misreading panels of a manga aimed at teenagers:

No. Sasuke never doubted his path. No, Sasuke never thought about quitting his revenge. No, Sasuke was never "considering" forfeiting or letting Itachi go. No. No. No.

Sasuke, at most, doubted whether to leave or not Konoha (and his friends, Naruto and Sakura) behind -yet there was NO DOUBT in his mind about carrying out his revenge, once Kakashi (the genius), told him to "quit seeking revenge", there was almost no reason for Sasuke to stay, as the man who was teaching him to (again) fulfill his goal, something he specified he was aiming for on their very first meeting and the thing that pushed him to go further; suddenly told him to forget it -to focus on something else.

Naruto and Sakura made him doubt whether to seek help outside Konoha's framework, yet there was never any single indication that he was actually rethinking his entire revenge.

Learn how to read.

[motheryoon]

the girls go see a horror movie

[moon-trees]

sasuke: genocide survivor, made it very clear the only reason he's in the village is to get stronger and kill itachi. very angry, self-deprecating, and being influenced by the curse mark

kakashi: yeah i'm not really gonna help you catch itachi. you should just give up on your revenge and become a slave to the state like me

sasuke: leaves the village

kakashi:

[justsasuke]

the irony of people accusing Sasuke of being a used as a pawn when in reality Sasuke is like the anti-pawn of all people. Listen to the narrative Konoha was feeding him? heck no, he left. Be blinded by the name of "friendship" and forget about his goals? forget about it. Get turned into a glorified container by the snake sage? was never that stupid Actually join in the cause of Akatsuki? (bc he was planning to use them, remember) don't make me laugh. you get the idea. The only person, I repeat the only person that ever succeeded in "using" (manipulating, I guess) Sasuke really was Itachi. And how rightfully fitting. In a world that was trying to use all the Uchiha and brainwash them and neutralize them and lull them into silence it's fitting that the only people that ever came remotely close to succeeding with Sasuke was literally another Uchiha.