#bros conniving but cowardly..

[stormypip7]

...I refuse to elaborate. If I don't know why I did this, none of you get to!! *evil laugh*

[kairi-chan]

Sarada is very selfish in igy. Not like her original character in canon.

Hello, Anon! 

You’re right, Sarada is selfish in IGY. But so is Boruto. At some point, so was Mitsuki, Kagura, Inojin, Shikadai, and Chocho. Everyone tried to stir things into the direction they wanted, and instead of helping, it became one giant mess. I’ll get back to that in a bit, but first, I’d like to tackle her not being completely in character in IGY. 

Her personality in IGY will really not be the same for two reasons:

1. It takes place in a real word AU, not in canon setting. Expecting characters to be 100% like their canon selves in an AU isn’t realistic (at least for me), as there really will be slight changes with how they carry themselves, react, and interact with people given the circumstance you threw them in. 

2. She’s a lot older, almost 18 in IGY. Her canon self is 12/13 years old. There’s no canon depiction of her yet in this age. It’s a free playing field for her, with, of course, the basis of how she is like now that she’s 12/13. 

In terms of her being “very selfish,” I would say she’s selfish, but not use the term “very” because it isn’t selfish to want to date someone when you’re single. What was selfish of her was to keep dating someone when she was already coming to the conclusion that she was in love with someone else. It isn’t easy for some people to let go, or to easily do what’s right. I’m not saying I condone this behavior, but I wrote this in to emphasize that it happens.

I write IGY to be as realistic as I can, basing situations and even conversations from my experiences or others that I have witnessed. Mistakes were made, and apologies were given, but what was more important to me--and what I think the real Sarada would do--is really swallow her pride and fear to set things right. Which is what she did, no matter how painful it was for her and everyone involved. 

Boruto was selfish in his own way, expecting that Sarada had to tell him everything, and still flirting with Sarada when she already had a boyfriend. Worse--he and Kagura were friends. Yes, he was in love with Sarada, and yes he did try his best but he still disrespected Kagura, drank his fill of alcohol, and used Sumire to cover up his feelings. Again, not condoning this behavior but a lot of people fall into toxic habits as a means to cope. 

Kagura wasn’t selfish in the beginning, only really wanting to date Sarada, knowing she was single and he was interested. He only started exhibiting toxic behavior when his insecurities got to him. I understand his pain, anyone would be insecure if they knew their girl was glowing different with a man that wasn’t them, and that man had a thing for their girl. Bro code, guys. But he also ended up just hurting himself because he forced continuing their relationship, despite these hurts and didn’t properly communicate his feelings. 

The rest of the lot was selfish in a way that they knew Sarada and Kagura were together but would meddle to help Boruto get the girl. In terms of “friendship”, I supposed you would say a lot of friends would do anything to help their friend out but looking at it from an outside perspective, you shouldn’t be homewrecking because your cowardly friend didn’t have the guts to get the girl first. For the sake of fiction and entertainment, I do hope you found it amusing, though because I have fun writing the parts of the crew conniving to get these two together. 

This has gotten way longer than I expected. haha! I love talking about IGY. It’s my fic that gets the most reactions, be it good or bad. Possibly because it’s controversial and “feels true to life.” It probably feels like the latter because I shit you not, I based a lot of the scenarios and conversations from a close friend of mine’s life. I told them if this makes me money I would take them out for dinner. Hahaha! 

Anyway, thank you for the ask, darling. I had a lot of fun answering. Remembering the plot and talking about it is making me miss writing IGY. If a lot of you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting here, it’s because I’ve been posting on ffnet a lot more. I’ve been working on Sincerely Yours with @ss-tyytyy. The chapters are around 4-6k long, and it’s too much work to format on tumblr when we work on googledocs to write it. I hope you do check it out. :) 

And for those who don’t know yet... I’m writing smut now. ;) 

Teehee. 

Cheers,

Kairi