#non the less. i mean everything in the ninja world is kinda abt power. either physical or political. power and the absence of power

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I agree with a lot of your points, at least in part. I was being very blasé in the tags because I wrote this after watching the senju propaganda arc (tsunade's tsukuyomi dream filler) where it really just feels like the writers were reflecting the ideas of all the 10 year old who genuinely hated sasuke because he and the rest of the uchiha behave like bloodthirsty, power hungry freaks. Except fugaku, who seems like a fine leader but as a father he's like every other naruto dad (catastrophically awful and i cant stand him). But I couldn't decide if I'm supposed to accept that as how they were behaving or not (because I choose accept filler episodes as canon when it makes things more interesting)

I mean, to clarify that I'm not anti-uchiha. I hate them as much as I hate every clan in naruto. Everyone is terrible and that's the point of the show. Showing compassion in the wake of profound suffering and decades of war crimes.

Below is my musings on the frustrations behind this post:

The synthesis of the uchiha rift in konoha is messy to me. Because from what we're shown, it's hard to tell where the uchiha are being getoized vs where they're doing the weird clan self isolation thing like the Hyuga. I think im just frustrated with 1) how we don't see how the other clans are being treated under Tobirama, so there's no contrast for what's happening and 2) the weird way the Sharingan is treated by the structure of the show.

To address point 1: this only applies to the period where Tobirama is in power becase by the point that danzo is around the uchiha are an active target. I don't understand enough about how konoha works to decide how terrible Tobirama was being when he made them the village cops. I don't understand why you would give entire jobs like that to one single clan or how flexible that system is. Like, other clans are similarly self isolated with very specific tasks given to them but they apparently aren't resentful. We aren't shown enough of how they work and interact with power to see a contrast in how the uchiha are treated.

Like clearly they feel slightly and pushed to the side and maybe part of that is because as the cops they're being placed in direct opposition to the general population, insighting resentment toward that clan. Because the types of people who are drawn to being cops generally suck. And if you believe the filler, it's implies that some of them were being really fucked up. But if you want to subjugate a population, you don't make them the police? That it's like asking for them to build a militaria, which they effectively do because of course. And by danzo's time he wants them to lash out as an excuse to annihilate them but was that Tobirama's intention? Probably because he's a fucking demon. But idk I either don't remember enough or there's not enough information given for me to have a clear picture of what happened with that initial decision. Was that a decision of pure evil or was it complicated? It's more interesting to me if it was complicated.

To address point 2: I really don't think the uchiha as a group are better or worse than other clan, I think everyone in the situation is terrible. Everyone has blood and war crimes on their hands but at a certain point you just have stop the violence and choose to forgive. But the way the uchiha gather their power (by becoming increasingly traumatized with a visual signifier of their trauma level) is an insanely poinient example of how fucked up the ninja world is but its not framed that way. It's framed as: wow the uchiha are so powerful the sharingan is a gift. Like, if you ran into someone with mangekyou sharingan, someone who's endured agonizing emotional pain, chances are they aren't an stable individual because there is not ninja therapy and there's a history of people ripping eachother's eyes out.

So, i dunno everything's complicated. The uchiha aren't innocent because no clan in this world is innocent. Which makes my feelings toward them complicated.

God. The thing abt the uchiha is that. Yes. It was fucked up that no one trusted them and they got pushed further and further from the village center. However. They were also a clan of ninja cops with fucked up magical eyes that they supercharge by getting horrifically traumatized. So like. I also would not fucking trust them.