#padmerrie and i got to this point in our rewatch last night and we both looked at each other like WHO IS THIS | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

panharmonium · 2 years ago

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“it would be meaningless if the citizens of the hidden leaf are dead”

WHO is this root operative??? i need to know more

danzo is listening to this like ‘god no not another one who’s ready to have a life-changing chance encounter forcing them to re-examine their ideology and reject their misguided beliefs in favor of joining hatake kakashi’s found family; not again’

#naruto #pan watches naruto (again)#*#padmerrie and i got to this point in our rewatch last night and we both looked at each other like WHO IS THIS #in all seriousness though this is so interesting #in that it shows that there are other root members who are starting to ask Questions #like yamato did years ago #and like sai did more recently #i spend a lot of time thinking about post-4th war root #and about the enormous challenge of reaching them/connecting with them and rehabilitating/reintegrating them into society #and this makes me wonder if pain's attack had a similar effect on them that (in my own mind) sakumo's suicide had on the general population #in that it's a bit of a wake-up call #and even though it doesn't revolutionize society overnight it does make people start questioning certain things #and maybe make them more receptive to potential changes in the future #(and unrelatedly it's also really interesting to see how few agents there are here. only 16 in this scene)#(i'm sure danzo has some others scattered around doing his dark bidding in other lands)#(but i also assume that he's currently speaking to all the agents available in the village right now)#(and that makes sense bc if the foundation was officially 'disbanded' it would have been much harder for danzo to acquire new recruits)#(it's just interesting to think of the foundation as kind of a dwindling force)#(and danzo's bid for hokage as a kind of last-ditch desperate power grab)#(because his ideology IS losing and being pushed out in favor of changemakers like kakashi and naruto and tsunade etc)#(and popular opinion is changing with them)

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