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[jaguarys]

I really wish Gaara's arc had been a little more involved because I truly don't think the sheer horror of it all is delved into enough. In the end it's sort of like he just. Snaps out of it. But then you start thinking about it and you're like. Oh. This kid literally could not sleep for years. Oh this kid was being tormented by Ichibi 24/7. Oh this kid had everyone trying to assassinate him when he was tiny. Oh this kid trusted one single person and they tried to kill him too and then died in front of him. Oh this kid was told everyone including his family hated him and that he was a monster and should die. Oh ok. Like sure murder was not the answer but also considering the circumstances he should've been even more out of it than he was

[badly-drawn-pigeon]

We've all heard about the Curse of Hatred or the curse of eternal conflict between Asura and Indra, but what is really slept on is the Curse of Monogamy that seems to affect the entire Naruto world without anyone noticing. I'm not even talking about the lack of poly relationships, it's much more than that.

When it comes to canonically confirmed romantic interests, it seems to be a rule in Naruto that if you fall in love with one person, you are cursed not to ever end up in a relationship with anyone else for your whole life. Even if your love interest dies, you are cursed to stay single forever, even if it means being alone for decades. You want examples? I give examples.

Obito Uchiha

Tsunade

Itachi Uchiha

Konan

Kurenai Yuhi

Hiruzen Sarutobi

Mito Uzumaki

Rasa

Jiraiya gets a honorable mention because his love interest didn't die but his feelings were largely unrequited so he died forever single

Hell, this goes so far that The Last movie (afaik, I didn't watch it) retcons Naruto to never have really been in love with Sakura and states that he confused attraction towards her with his drive towards rivalry with Sasuke.

The only character who ever managed to somewhat escape the Curse of Monogamy is Ino Yamanaka, but it's only because Sai fulfills the role of a "we have Sasuke at home" for a large part of the narrative.

[askaarii]

while i do understand that Rasa did give Gaara a traumatic childhood, as a history student i cant really help but feel for Rasa as well. This man had the pressure of a whole economically drained terrain on his shoulders, his wife died at childbirth when he was what? 27 barely? his council deemed his son as a failure, his son was going on rampage and killing his village, and the fate of his village was hanging by a thread

and i don't even want to think about the nights he might have spent mourning his wife and blaming himself for being a failure, a failed husband, a failed father, a failed ruler, because he was obviously tortured by guilt when he was reincarnated

did he commit mistakes? yes. did he make his children's childhood traumatic? yes. but do i understand why he did what he did? obviously yes. he had so few choices at hand, none feasible enough to sustain the barren desert economy. moreover, the kazekage clan is so much like a historical royal clan you can't really judge it according to modern parameters.

Rasa's character is also so tragic, i love the depth and complexity of it and also the dilemmas and duties a king had to face, duties as a single father of three children, duties as a ruler of a barren economy, you can't really just label him as "he was an asshole father" as a shallow statement

[kai-chisaki-x-overhaul]

i think these two should be best friends in an alternate universe

[narutwitter]

[aleksandracoffan]

"Heritage" Color sketch for understanding the atmosphere

[bakapandy]

Karura was the best thing to ever happen to Rasa but for the power he sought, he lost her and with her, his own humanity

[ash-arts-a-thing]

Something about youth, something about rivals

they are gay

[atoriv-art]

simpler days

[thena0315]

Shikamaru is now the 8th Hokage

Thus also meaning:

Shikadai is the 8th Hokage's son, the 4th Kazekage's grandson and the 5th Kazekage's nephew

Temari is the 4th Kazekage's daughter/eldest child, the 5th Kazekage's elder sister and the 8th Hokage's wife

Gaara is the 5th Kazekage, the 4th Kazekage's youngest son/child and the 8th Hokage's brother-in-law

Kankuro is the 4th Kazekage's eldest son/middle child, the 5th Kazekage's elder brother and the 8th Hokage's brother-in-law

Shinki is the 5th Kazekage's adopted son, the 4th Kazekage's adoptive grandson and the 8th Hokage's adoptive nephew

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Shikaku was the 8th Hokage's father and the 4th Kazekage's daughter's father-in-law

Yoshino is the 8th Hokage's mother and the 4th Kazekage's daughter's mother-in-law

Rasa was the 4th Kazekage, the 5th Kazekage's father and the 8th Hokage's father-in-law

Karura was the 4th Kazekage's wife, the 5th Kazekage's mother and the 8th Hokage's mother-in-law

Yashamaru was the 4th Kazekage's brother-in-law, the 5th Kazekage's uncle and the 8th Hokage's uncle-in-law

[alybur635]

NARUTO POLL TIME:

PLS reblog to spread this!!

[archer3-13]

Its kinda funny that the naruto fandom when presented with dozens of effectively blank slate female characters in the form of the various throw away mothers in the series, and by and large they collectively lumped them together into a generic perfect mother figures amorphous blob in fan characterizations. the abused or long suffering perfect victims in light of their husbands stupidities/abuses.

and thats boring. dont give me yet another karura who angelically smiles in blood soaked pain as shes forced into turning one of her children into a jinchuriki.

give me a karura who willingly goes along with the plan, one who also sees the dire economic strains sunagakures fallen into and per the blind shinobi demagoguery agrees that only a jinchuriki can change their villages prospects. or hell, consider gaaras sand. if it was always infused with karuras love as opposed to shukakus/the ichibeis power, what does that say about the kind of love karura infused into it? a sand that violently lashed out, maimed and killed without distinction at the smallest hint of a threat regardless of its veracity? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if people hand waved away that line about gaaras sand [outside of forgetting about it anyways], because of those implications it raises about karuras love. that its not just some idealized perfect clean form of love, but a violent almost possessive one unwilling to broke challenges or threats to what it thinks is right. that in trying to protect him, karuras love ended up smothering and isolating gaara before snowballing into the misery young gaaras life would become. i would certainly argue kishimotos unwilling to interrogate these implications anyways.

anyways, this is to say that my new headcannon of karura is not of some demure flower, but rather a twitchy elite jounin hopped up on an endless amount of coffee, trauma and hair trigger murderous reflex impulses. a woman who, when presented with her husbands bad ideas does not softly rebuke them but instead doubles down on them because its go big or go home when you live in sunagakure the shittiest village of the big five hidden villages. and aint that saying something when "caught in perpetual civil wars cause they can't stop murdering their own citizens" kirigakure exists.

[vote-gaara]

The majority of the Naruto fandom disregards Gaara as if he didn't carry the entire war arc on his back.

[kuromatchi]

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