#and even then he’s mostly fighting defensivelessly

[depressedhatakekakashi]

‘Kakashi should have been a parental figure to sasuke’ is a terrible argument for hating Kakashi, cuz no tf he shouldn’t have

Kakashi is in no place to be a parental figure to ANYONE in his state. He’s not ‘parental figure’ capable until post war arc when he finds some damn closure

But also, Sasuke does not NEED a parental fogure and he’d be insulted at anyone trying to fill that role. Where Naruto had no one (and thus a parental figure stepping in for him was good) sasuke has parents he loved

Parents he adored, who’s desd bodies he saw laying on the ground after his big brother murdered them

The last thing he needed was a parental figure. What he needed was a friend and support, and he had people trying to be that

Naruto was and wanted to be his friend

Kakashi wanted to be a support system for him

For many reason’s, of which fall on no specific person as being totally in the wrong, that did not happwn.

Sasuke pushed Naruto, Kakashi and everyone else away to seek his own goals, because he was so consumed by revenge he was willing to do anything. Which is exactly why Kakashi told him to stop seeking revenge

He was fine with Sasuke wanting revenge until he saw just how much Sasuke was willing to sacrifice to get it, and only THEN did he step in and tell Sasuke to stop seeking it

Because he saw how it was destroying Sasuke.

How this desire was eating away at Sasuke so much he was willing to harm his friends, people who cared for him and who he cared for, because he felt they were in the way of him achieving that goal.

Kakashi tried to be what Sasuke actually needed. Not a parental figure, but a support and guide. A role no one could fill cuz most people wanted to use sasuke (orochimaru, obito, even itachi at the start) and the one person who genuinly wanted to help Sasuke (Kakashi) was not the person who could both because their world views were vastly different because of how differently they experienced their trauma’s, and because Sasuke chose to push everyone who cared about him away

People need to stop expecting Kakashi to fill a parental role for Sasuke. That is not his role

It should never be his role

You cannot fill a role where someone already stands, and even dead Fugaku was Sasuke’s father figure. His real, loved, respected father.