#naruto tbv

[lilifg789]

“Forget who hurt you yesterday. But don’t forget those who love you every day.” | “Esqueça quem te machucou ontem. Mas não se esqueça daqueles que te amam todos os dias.”

– Boruto Uzumaki

[stu-dyingstudent]

I know a lot of people are upset that Sasuke and Sakura didn’t have a son, but I think it’s actually perfect. Sasuke being a girl dad is honestly just so fitting (I love it). He truly just doesn’t understand Sarada’s feeling sometimes, but he’s trying and I just find it so endearing to see. We saw him in his teens, a time where he was consumed by revenge and hatred, so to witness this softness he has reserved for his family is almost healing in a sense. It feels like he’s finally come to rest with the past.

[hanarte]

Sarada Uchiha: Matrix AU - part 1

[sunny-pandas]

HIMAWARI! 🌻

PRINCESS! 🦊

ICON! 💖💖💖💖

SHE IS THE MOMENT!!!

[yuenai]

25/FEB/2024

[lunaneko14]

Full Volume Three cover! Look at my baby!

[miri-chan0509]

BoruSara fanart

[kakeimygirl]

Se você gostar ou salvar, curta e reposte, por favor.

💜🧡

[itachis-eyes]

Sasuke Every Day Until He's Freed From Tree Prison: You Think he's regretting leveling Obito's base full of those spare eyeballs...

May 26th, 2024

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Send me a Kofi maybe? :3

[boybolt]

[mayaketu]

Character analysis: Naruto vs Boruto’s forgiving natures

Naruto is a kind person. But a lot of people interpret all of his actions to being foolishly kind, when Naruto really is just a traumatized & principled character that empathizes with people based off that.

Both are traumatized & principled, but have different traumas driving their actions.

Let’s examine Naruto first:

Notice, Naruto does not decide to be understanding until he draws a connection between himself and his opponent being victims of child abuse. Naruto never tried to empathize with Orochimaru, Danzo or Madara, nor had much of a negative reaction to their demise at all. Naruto also knew all 3 of them had repeatedly committed the worst sin- abused children. His biggest trauma.

Naruto hasn’t been advocating for people to escape consequences, he wanted people to atone because he understood that they were traumatized as children & never got the guidance that saved Naruto from going down their exact path. He wasn’t rly being gullible (he had nothing to lose by the time he tried talk-no-jutsu lol), kind or even forgiving- he decided no matter how difficult to stick to his principles he learned from Jiraiya. To try to stop the cycle of hatred by having people atone rather than to punish them through revenge.

Naruto’s biggest flaw though, is that he is overly blinded by his abandonment trauma- he feels he has to “save” people who went through child abuse like he did. He projects too much of his own feelings onto them- when they are their own people who won’t necessarily turn around as easily as Naruto did- which is why he lost his arm to sasuke who wouldn’t relent until beaten into submission. & (temporarily) lost his life to kawaki.

In psych terms, Naruto is trying to reinforce to himself that he was always worthy of being saved, which is what drives him to go as far as he does. It’s not really his kindness, or passion but his trauma is the way Naruto deeply connects to others.

Episode 10 of boruto NNG. This convo is not in the manga but it’s clear from the manga as well that this is how Naruto feels:

This is why Naruto struggled so much to connect with Boruto. Boruto wasn’t an abused child- thats why it seemed Naruto didn’t “care” about Boruto and Himawari as much as Kawaki. His bio kids were the first people very close to him without significant trauma for him to build a relationship on. Hima was still pretty young, & not as outspoken as boruto, so we didnt see that dynamic as much with her.

Boruto is still early in his story & has a lot more to learn. So this is as of chapter 14 of TBV.

Boruto’s current analysis:

Boruto has spent his whole life building healthy connections unlike Naruto, yet seems to have the same desire to “save” even the most “irredeemable” people. There are 2 reasons why.

Reason 1, For Boruto he is able to forgive kawaki because he understands that he’s not in a position to judge him. Boruto recognizes that he is a threat because of momoshiki, and blames & hates himself for everyone being endangered, not kawaki who is actually protecting them in his own twisted way. & now, feeling the pain of abandonment, he also empathizes with kawaki, thus forgiving him. This is how BORUTO sees it right now.

He’s also trying to make the right choices he knows ADULT Naruto would make, but adult Naruto has confronted his self hatred & knows not to take or blame everything on himself. Boruto hasn’t learned that yet, he’s willing to accept help when it’s dire, but still believes the overall burden is his alone. He has also been mainly taught by Sasuke, who still hasn’t overcome his own self hatred as much as Naruto has & desire to handle everything alone.

*boruto has actually been struggling with self hatred since getting caught cheating, that’s why he irrationally hated all ninja tech- it’s from the shame of being exposed. Self hatred is a huge underlying part of his character I could expand on later; I’m focusing on this comparison to Naruto here.

Boruto is blinded by his self hatred in the same way Naruto is blinded by his abandonment trauma. That’s why some of their actions seem so irrational, they are fueled by trauma. & These blind spots are where they both make their most costly mistakes.

That’s why he naively defied Koji’s order to escape and instead released code. He knows from Naruto he can’t do everything alone, but he lacks the wisdom to understand when/how to apply it. He should’ve relied on Koji’s advice rather than trying to plan on his own which led to a huge mistake. Code is still loose.

Reason 2, Boruto’s will is to be shadow hokage. To bear burdens for the sake of the village and people he loves. Part of bearing the burden is swallowing your pride for the greater good, which he learned from Sasuke. He’s not being kind or forgiving by saving Code. He wanted to kill the shinju ASAP before they could evolve further and needed his help.

Same with asking to train Kawaki. Kawaki’s fate is tied to both Naruto/Hinata, the EARTH & boruto’s fates. Outside of any emotional reasons, he literally cannot afford to let Kawaki die + kawaki’s unique abilities (shrinking claw marks particularly) are instrumental in defeating the shinju. & Especially now that the shinju are growing in number and in other villages, boruto cannot always be there to protect kawaki. Kawaki needs to get stronger fast for the sake of the planet.

I’m interested in the larger convo between boruto and kawaki and training him, but we’ll have to see once chapter 15 officially drops.

[userboard]

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex

Chapter 9 - Official Cover art

[stu-dyingstudent]

You know, I’ve been thinking… To fix Gai’s leg, could they not just cut it off and replace it with a prosthetic made of hashirama cells??? Like, they did that for Naruto and they offered it to Sasuke as well (I think), so considering he is a war hero they could offer it to Gai right?

Maybe I missed something saying otherwise, but rn I don’t see why this wouldn’t work 🤷‍♀️

[hanarte]

Captain Sarada headband - spoiler ✨

[sunny-pandas]

(Sneak Preview)

THIS PANEL???!!!

[ghosttownmettie]

Mitsuki Two Blue Vortex drawing~!

I haven't drawn him in quite awhile