#except of course if you dont know anything abt naruto then thats fine

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Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

kishimoto himself didn’t even care about the hyuga clan so i don’t think any of his characters did either. that sounds like a joke but it’s really just my main thesis statement when it comes to the whole hyuga clan’s plotline/conflict and characters and actually like everything involving them and their abilities and how all that was handled.

to answer your question, tbh I think it was mostly forgotten by the narrative after neji and naruto’s fight in the chunin exams, so even if hinata didn’t care it seemed that the entire rest of the world didn’t care either so she wouldn’t be alone. I wouldn’t put it so bluntly as to say she or anyone else “didn’t care” just that it was a case of kishimoto deciding it wasn’t relevant and not addressing it again. I don’t think she “didn’t care” in universe, I just think from a narrative standpoint it was almost completely dropped. she’s established to be a highly compassionate and incredibly kind-hearted person who doesn’t like watching people she loves be hurt and wasn’t willing to hurt her little sister in a sparring match even if it meant getting her father’s approval, so it wouldn’t make any sense that she just wouldn’t care (though maybe assuming kishimoto could write a character coherently, especially a female character, gives him too much credit). from what I was able to understand she did care but she was kind of powerless to do anything against it, being a child and having a lot of problems with being confrontational speaking her feelings due to her trauma and also since she was almost entirely disowned by her father. this isn’t necessarily stated outright, I don’t remember one way or the other, but it would be easy to assume this was the case since she was young because she really did love neji even if she started being scared of him at one point (though they eventually patched that up which brings me to the next point). at one point in the war, hiashi proclaims the main family and the branch to be on equal standing, as a result of hinata and neji working and fighting and growing strong together, which is about as much of a resolution to that plot thread as we ever got. in the end, it’s really just a case of kishimoto moving on and not addressing it any further. I think we’re meant to assume it got resolved without anything actually being resolved in a fully satisfactory way.