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the most important boy in the universe

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Tobirama really looked at Uchiha Kagami and went “you’re a credit to your clan”, huh.

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Hey, Kishimoto, I have some notes for you.

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Tobirama really looked at Uchiha Kagami and went “you’re a credit to your clan”, huh.

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rly you can only blame konoha’s entire system + the higher ups for the mishandling of sasukes trauma because they left him w no support until the age of 12 in which his ‘’’support’’’’ consisted of two fucking twelve-year-olds and a severely traumatized man who just got off of a 10-year service to a fucking death squad and as a society all thought ‘hmm. nothing could go wrong here’. you cant really blame any of team 7 who were in no way capable of handling his trauma in the first place imo

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Honestly the waves arc had SO MUCH potential like the whole being a ninja, a weapon and just a kid narrative from two shinobi who deserted bc of their villages tyranny and still having to die in the mud bc the world didn’t care for them paired with Sasuke being just there dead and Sakura reciting the books rules to cope and all of this bc this man didn’t have the money to get real ninja to protect his people like….. I just want these 12 years olds to demolish a centuries old system is that too much

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i dont really like the idea that the sharingan is a curse bc it feels like tobirama senju-made propaganda to make ppl hate the uchihas… like ik the sharingan canonically has a lot of horrible bs like it being awakened due to trauma, the curse of hatred, how the intense the mangekyou is etc but again kishimoto hates the uchiha we see that a lot with him reiterating that they in fact have an Evil Gene thats the curse of hatred or something?? and its somehow proof that theyll always end up evil or whatever the fuck i just do not like that in the least

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i think the worst kind of love to feel for a piece of media is “this is mostly garbage but there’s just enough good there that i wish it was better” 

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I feel like I like half of the characters of Naruto not just IN spite of Kishimoto’s writing, but TO spite it. Like fuck you I’m going to take the building blocks of these characters and I’m gonna take the implications of your writing that you never thought through, and I’m going to build them to a better place and respecting them as characters.

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It... actually really bothers me that Itachi’s torture via Tsukuyomi of his seven year old brother is... kind of rewarded by the narrative by having Sasuke’s trauma manifest in exactly the way that Itachi wanted and planned for? In that Sasuke was intensely motivated to come find him and kill him, and had the drive to seek the skills to do that? I mean, if you disregard all of the ways it didn’t go to plan, what with Sasuke leaving the village and not being in a position to be labeled a hero, but he doesn’t seem to care about Sasuke’s mental wellbeing beyond ‘alive’, and he has a back up plan to literally brainwash the brother he loves into working for the canonically corrupt village if he turns against it, so that’s not an issue. But if Orochimaru never bit Sasuke and put the curse mark on him, it could be argued that Itachi’s plan may have worked to a T.

And trauma... doesn’t work that way? People react to it in different ways and you can’t predict at the outset how it’s going to go? Honestly if somebody told me that it was canon that Itachi added an element of suggestion or outright brainwashing to his Tsukuyomi to make his brother act in the way he thought was best for him, I would not be surprised and consider it in character. I suppose there’s the argument that he knew that Sasuke would react that way because of the Curse of Hatred, but even if I didn’t hate the CoH for reminding me too much of those bigots who use “science” to prove another groups inferiority, I would hate it from a writing stand point because it actively makes the situation LESS nuanced and the writing weaker.

And then the few people who find out what he did are like “wow,,, what a tragic and noble hero” and Kishimoto goes OUT OF HIS WAY to convince us (via informing us that Itachi was fit to be Hokage as a fricken toddler or something, which, NO) that every part of Itachi’s plan was literally the only thing he could have done in that situation and there’s not a single person in my memory who tells Sasuke that no matter what his intentions were, Itachi was in the wrong for hurting him. Or even that Itachi was put in a difficult situation but it still sucked that Sasuke went through that much pain and suffering.

(And look;;; I KNOW that Sasuke is a controversial character. I know what people think of his canon self and sometimes I even agree. Sometimes I feel like Kishimoto completely destroyed his character after Itachi’s retraumatization-no-jutsu, sometimes I feel like his character makes sense when I look at in from an in-universe perspective, and that Kishimoto just did a bad job conveying his grief and trauma in a completely unshallow way. BUT. Even in the interpretation that Sasuke is trash and completely irredeemable after he leaves the village, THAT STILL DOESN’T MEAN THE LITERAL SEVEN YEAR OLD DESERVED WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. The fact that his trauma doesn’t excuse the fact that Sasuke hurt other people doesn’t mean that Itachi’s actions were any way right or good).

And... it makes me want SO MANY FIC where Itachi’s terrible, controlling, traumatizing plan was destroyed before it could get off the ground JUST by... Sasuke having a different reaction to trauma than the one he wanted. There are so many ways you could go:

-Sasuke becomes depressed and washes out of the academy! Trauma can effect you executive functions, and having Sasuke just... not be able to keep up with his training and school work, not even being able to get out of bed some days. Being the last Uchiha and the council seeing themselves as entitled to his powers and his loyalty, they try to find ways to push him but ultimately they can’t justify passing him when he won’t be useful in the field. All that potential stagnating because he had a response to trauma many real people have. (This Sasuke is super in danger from Danzo because you really think he’s just going to let him lay around as a civilian?)

-Sasuke passes, but even though he was ok fighting with other kids back at the academy, when he gets in a real fight he has flashbacks and panic attacks. If it doesn’t straight up get him killed in battle, it almost does, and they are eventually forced to bench him when it becomes clear the problem isn’t going away. (Hey,,, maybe in this world they’ll realize that he needs some mental treatment and give him some instead of leaving him to waste away in the Uchiha compound? ...unlikely)

-Instead of becoming obsessed with vengeance, Sasuke becomes obsessed with the idea that a) you cannot trust anyone, no matter how kind they seem, and b) Sasuke is a danger to everyone around him and cannot let himself get close to anyone who is ACTUALLY good because if he does then Itachi will come back and kill them. This Sasuke still comes across as an arrogant loner, and still wants to get stronger, but in this case the motivation is explicitly to protect people or at least not be a danger to them. He’s terrified of letting anyone in but when he finally gets close to his team or something his Nindo is to protect them even at the cost of his own life. There’s a case to be made that a lot of these aspects are present in pre retraumatization-no-jutsu Sasuke, but here it’s the main focus, and he puts their lives over potential vengeance, etc.

-Some actual post traumatic growth? IDK, i don’t know how likely it’d be given that the village sent him back to the place of his trauma and left him to live there for years completely isolated from the rest of the village, but I guess it’s possible.

And in all of them, Itachi having to confront that HE DID A BAD and him hurting his brother was not something necessary for the greater good but a cruel attempt at controlling him that didn’t even work. Because... it REALLY bugs me that it DID, in a fashion, work.

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Hi! Was wondering if you could try drawing the bijuu?? I want to see them in your art style~ Maybe a little naruto playing with a little kurama omg

screaming match

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Au where everything is the same except the reason why Sasuke’s hair is Like That is because Uchiha hair puffs up when stressed. Like an angry cat or a ghibli character. It’s like that for the entirety of the series because he’s always stressed and angry.

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i just realized i haven’t drawn iruka since i was like fourteen or something, so, here. take this.

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being a fan of naruto in this day and age is like….it’s just you and your thirty page thesis on konoha’s corrupt military system

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imagine saying this to a 6 year old orphan