#narutos tragic backstory

[qlsvn]

so uhm erm shikanaru transmigrator au where shikamaru is the tm and things went a LITTLE bit different where naruto never got the love and acceptance in the OG and uhm.. Bingge’d it up (sans the 600+ wives) and no one, including Shikamaru, rlly gave Naruto the time of day,

and tm shikamaru is all like “omg im in my favorite animanga !!” but then also like “but as side character cannon fodder oh no” haha wtf

(so like ironically he doesnt rlly like any of the side characters for their mistreatment of naruto despite his jinchuriki status) but he does admit he relates a lil bit to shikamaru’s laissez-faire attitude and quiet lazy genius reluctantly meanwhile everyone who knows him and the story is like “that’s TOTALLY you dude what r u talking about !?”)

so anyway in true svsss fashion (bc its my favorite transmigration story shut up) he makes it his goal to befriend naruto and stay alive unknowingly completely throwing “canon” (the canon of this universe at least) off through Naruto

UNLIKE w sqq its not him directly who befriends and changes everyone, he just befriends and changes Naruto. Naruto does the rest

I’LL ALSO ACCEPT Naruhina w transmigrator Hinata bc i love love LOVE Shikanaru and Naruhina more than ANYTHING !! ♡

i’ll also maybe accept transmigrated author uhhh Shino or smth idk if anyone sees this u can decide this was a very shitty synopsis bye

[edgy-senju]

You bite at the hand that feeds you

[fungh0u1]

this THIRTEEN YEAR OLD killed FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE with SAND ABILITIES! but i forgive him.

[im-still-watching-anime]

enemy: *begins long winded bad guy speech*

kakashi: hey sorry just could i sit down for this? would you be mad? my knees are aching from just standing around

[coockie8]

Sorry just remembered like over ten years ago my sister tried to play Oppression Olympics™ between Sasuke and Neji, claiming Sasuke's had a harder life and like yeah his entire family was killed and his brother made him watch it and that sucks.

Neji's family literally owns him.

Look I don't want to compare them or anything, and having to watch your family die is, objectively awful, but being actively kept as a slave by your own family is also an objectively awful thing lol

[beatriceportinari]

sorry can't get over this i know oc in fics are fine and often necessary if you want to flesh out a whole village so it's unfair to put them under more scrutiny but 😭😭😭😭😭 this poor lady only exists to punish izuna girl help

[placebozone]

《Naruto, Lucy & Sanji》

I used to think that my favourite character would always be the main character of an anime. But it turns out I actually just like the one who has a tragic past and then goes through even more shit yet still is the kindest soul to ever exist.

It wasn't until I watched one piece and realised I love Sanji more than Luffy along with a denial phase that I made the connection.

I've cried over and over again for these three and they were the only ones I desperately wanted to give a hug. They just hold the same space in my heart.

I don't know why I'm typing all of this out hahahaha I should have just posted the image. Anyways I'll probably be drawing more of these three together. After all, they are my top 3.

Also, I went through alot of work to get their ages before drawing and lucy is around 20 in 100 year quest so thats a relief.

[cosmicrhetoric]

"sakura is the only one without a tragic backstory" liking sasuke IS her tragic backstory. you can really only go up from here

[woman-respecter]

why is everyone comparing all the shounen anime mentors to kakashi when none of them will ever have suffered as much as kakashi did

[qlsvn]

first actual post i think i never use tumblr

naruto like that kid never had parents but the anbu were always around ik their whole thing is detached unemotional invulnerable secret mission thing but imagine they (or at least SOME of them) felt some sort of emotional familial kinship w the kid

[aceyanaheim]

"is this all Kunoichi have to offer?"

Neji respectfully fuck off lmao.

[bookanimeart]

It's been a while since I've seen or read it, but I think Haku and Zabuza are the first times Sasuke's seen death since his clan.

[vitos-ordination-song]

I think I figured out what’s made Naruto stick with me, comparatively to something like One Piece. The main reason I liked OP and its characters was the found family aspect. It was wish fulfillment—what if I could be an awesome pirate out on the high seas with friends who’d die for me, and I’d die for them in return?

As much as I liked the relationships, though, they were missing something, so once the wish fulfillment aspect wore off and I moved on to more mature media with similar themes, I didn’t need OP anymore. Naruto has what OP was lacking: bonds based on shared pain.

I guess you could say that OP is more positive—the bonds in it are based on ambition and striving, comradeship and love. But relationships which don’t have that self-recognization in the pain other often feel fake to me; the more they try to push the idea of eternal bonds where love conquers all, the more they feel like a dream.

My favorite OP character was always Nico Robin, and I still like her. Her story was important to me as a teen, since I was trying to believe that someday, I would find a place where I belonged too, and people who would care about me. But now that I have more relationships and more experience, I don’t need that hope any more, and there’s no reason to return to that place. On the other hand, my appreciation for the fact that communion begins in shared pain has only grown. Although Naruto doesn’t go as far as other stories I’ve explored since, its portrayal of suffering and the relationships that form out of it is still powerful.

[yellowocaballero]

i very much enjoy the extremely scientific analysis of the naruto verse in which there are three genders, aka naruto, sasuke, and Woman.

AM I WRONG? AM I WRONG? pulls down projection screen and plays powerpoint

Obviously let's give room for nuance. A ton of Naruto characters don't fall into these gender norms. This does predominantly apply to the rampant proliferation of the three-person dynamics that were assigned by the government and dictate your entire life. And, like, society. It does not end. Gender isn't a biological factor in Naruto, it's a social dynamic constructed entirely by your homoerotic tension with other men. And there are so many.

Madara (S), Hashirama (N), Mito (W). Izuna (N) and Tobirama (S) - tragically, Izuna died before women could be invented. Sarutobi (N), Danzo (S, horrifically) - see above about women not being invented yet. Jiraiya (N), Orochimaru (S), Tsunade (W). Yahiko (N), Nagato (S), Konan (W). Obito (N), Kakashi (S), Rin (W). Shisui (N), Itachi (S), that little deeply unimportant girlfriend (W). Um, fucking, Naruto (N), Sasuke (S), Sakura (W). Even - even, fuckin, Rock Lee (N), Neiji (S), Tenten (W).

And what do they all have in common????

(OT3. They're all OT3s. Is what I'm saying).

There is some room for alternative gender expressions here, like being butch or femme. Naruto gender expressions: teacher, otouto, woman who you can't even tell is woman gendered because she has no backstory but you just have to kinda assume that she has a polycule-based backstory where she was Woman Gender. I feel almost as if 2/3rds of the Rookie 9 are liberated from this. InoShikaCho just doesn't fit (their chaotic cousin energy is just too strong and Ino's too much of a lesbian). Hinata's too busy being defined entirely by a different throuple's N to have codependent dynamics with her own N and S (and I'm hesitant to even say that, since I actually don't know if Kiba and Shino have a codependent rivalry - do they?).

I get, like, the reason for all of this. Curse of Hatred. Cycles. N and S Genders being sourced from demigods or something. Narrative parallelism. Sympathy points. It's not the bad guy's fault he's evil, his N and W gendered counterparts died :(. But an extremely strange side-effect of this is that all of the male characters are, like, Just Naruto or Just Sasuke. But the vast majority of the female characters are - like, completely defined by the men in their lives - but also they are more likely to be a unique person. Mito, Sakura, and Rin have actually nothing in common. Writing so sexist it creates more interesting characters?!?!

Unironically, this is why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the ship of all time, nothing will ever top it, you will NEVER do it like Sasunaru, etc. Every important relationship in the series is meant to evoke Sasunaru. (Notably, none of the explicitly romantic ones. But we're beyond such paltry understandings of the most iconic pairing of all time as fundamentally based in romance. We're operating on a higher level than that). This unbroken chain of toxic yaoi has culminated at the end point of Sasunaru, and it exists to parallel Sasunaru and define their relationship by the dysfunction of generations of tragedy. That's why Naruto has to consciously break the cycle and free them from the generational hate - it was the only way to save Sasuke. This is also why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the point of Naruto, and that the entirety of Naruto is about Sasunaru. Come back to me when your work has invented new genders in the all-encompassing pursuit of toxic yaoi.

This also means that the only truly gender non-conforming individuals in Naruto are its mightiest heterosexuals: Minato (W) and Kushina (N). Truly insane. The N/S/W configuration is the societal norm, it's bonkers to make a major good-aligned male character a wifeguy. By Naruto standards Minato and Kushina are the only queer couple.

[razorblade180]

HEAVY MHA MANGA SPOILERS

People: Horikoshi loves subverting expectations! How could this be what he’s written!?

Me:…You wanted the 15 year old Shonen protagonist to achieve everything he ever wanted and for everyone to make it out okay. He did subvert expectations. They just weren’t yours.

People:I like how realistic children of Endeavor acted in the end because that what happens in abusive households. You don’t have to reconnect.

Also People:I can’t believe we didn’t save the villains, some citizens don’t care, and Deku failed.

Me:Man, it’s almost like it’s realistic that a teenager with strong conviction came up short despite trying everything he possibly could against someone who never once said he wanted to change; how could a growing boy possibly not achieve perfectly going against the weight of the world?

I don’t mean to be completely insensitive but a section of this fandom really just can’t seem to balance reality with extreme optimism. (delulu) Admittedly, I’m shocked about Toga but when it comes to everyone else there really is no reason to have expected them to get any semblance of a nice ending. Bare minimum they’d all go to prison because they destabilized a country and murdered so many people. No tragic backstory is getting you out of that.

Now I will say the most recent chapter feels a little rushed to me but the overall message the show has been preaching is still communicated. They never looked away from taking the hard path; to the very end, they tried to save everyone they and they will do it again despite the risk. We even get the panels of an old lady deciding to reach out this time instead of waiting for a hero to take care of it because “The essence of being a hero is meddling where you don’t have to.” People are starting to actually look at their fellow man! That was the original complaint from the league; hero society just letting people fall through cracks without a second thought!

Everyone has a right to be mad, but you can be mad and still see the point even if it’s not point you wanted to be made.

All and all I can’t say I’m particularly mad about how most things generally went, but that’s because anything that would’ve upset me would have to come from immense character favortism/bias that muddies narratives and character traits. For example, you can’t have Izuku save Tomura and he gets some kind of decent ending, but then have Overhaul rot in prison. Touya can’t have a happy life but Endeavor is condemned forever by everyone. Doing that doesn’t make with any sort of messaging and character ideals that want to be presented. None of that happened though so I’m chillin.

As for the shippers, I don’t know what to tell ya? Welcome to your Naruto initiation? Balance your preference with what text and scenes are actually saying to see the obvious boats that will probably make it to end so you can at least brace impact next time. You can ship proudly and be fully aware your boat is sinking, or in some cases, smile snuggly because you always knew you’d make it to the finish line.

[doodlegirl1998]

Hi, reading a fic (shig x hawks hear me out I was bored and want to see different charactizations of Mr. Sexy man) and in one scene as shig talks about his past...

It hits me once again how Izu doesn't have a mc trait.

Not saying he should be an orphan or anything like that.

But think this way: shig is the grandson of Nana. He is a Shimura.

Izu has nothing. I do like how he is from no important family...but he has no mc trope. He is an extra in his own show.

His traumatic past is BK abusing him but that doesn't count, ofc, and what else Izu has in his storyline? He wants to be a hero (everyone does) he is good with quirks sure and good with lil kids but....what else?

To be clear, don't think shig is better written or developed at all...and his reveal as SHIMURA was weak sauce and no one gave a shit.

But like there SMTH.

When you think about it....Shig had a better childhood than Izu...and yes, Kotaro was abusive. Yes, not denying that but like...he has monchan, friends and a mom who cared for him.

Izu has nothing but bk...forever.

Hi @mikeellee 👋

I'm not going to judge, read whatever interests you, but Hawks / Shig isn't a ship I like.

You are right when you say that Izuku doesn't have any traditional MC traits.

Now, it could be argued that OFA / "the chosen one" trope is used with Izuku being the final user. However, that, quite frankly, is bullshit because this ended up meaning nothing narratively, and Izuku lost OFA anyway. And an OFA user didn't end AFO - Bakugou (a no-name bastard) outside this passed down legacy of OFA did.

Izuku came from a no-name civilian family in MHA, no DFO, no other secret important linnege (unlike Shig and Dabi) - Inko is barely explored and Hisashi is mentioned in name only.

Unlike other MCs with tragic backstories (i.e Naruto and Tanjiro) Izuku's traumatic past abuse at the hands of Bakugou is undermined at every turn to make Bakugou look better instead of being treated with the respect it deserves.

To make matters worse, Bakugou is the reason Izuku suffered so much. No such abuse of the quirkless is seen LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE in canon. In canon, there is no Quirkless Discrimination seen in society (perhaps because there are so few of them). All of Izuku’s suffering is down to Bakugou being a bastard because he liked to be and couldn't handle being helped out of a river once.

Izuku is stuck with this literal narrative parasite until the very end and accepting pity payments from him so he can get his very own 'big boy' Hero Iron Suit after 6-8 years. I am disgusted by this ending.