#sasuke my beloved

[stardewpoesie]

I want to fight Kishimoto for a number of reasons, but he really did his best work with Sasuke. I feel like his story is the most interesting to follow in the series, and he kind of acts like an audience surrogate. Because he, like Naruto, has been systematically and routinely let down and exploited by the village. But Sasuke expresses actual, explicit anger for this. While Naruto never really reaches that point

Which make sense, in a way, because Naruto had always wanted acceptance and recognition. His way at "getting back" at the village is by making them see him and acknowledge him for the person he is and not the "monster" inside him. But Sasuke already had that acknowledgement, he already had the love(and pity) of the Village. His anger at the village isn't from being ignored or living in poverty, it's that the village directly facilitated the death of his clan.

And honestly, not to make this a matter of race, but I feel like people of color can empathize a lot easier with Sasuke's story than they can Naruto's. Because Naruto shows frustration but never anger at his situation. He remembers the Third Hokage as a kind, wise leader of the clan. While we see him as an adult who failed this child in literally every way.

Sasuke, on the other hand, is so heartbroken and so angry and so vocal about it. He's what we feel Naruto should be feeling. The village is deeply flawed, something they both saw, but their idea of fixing it is what separates them.

Idk, I love Sasuke so much, I was always on his side.

First of all I'm so sorry It took so long for my reply :( I wanted to respond to it thoroughly, but then life also got in the way ;;

I love your analysis about sasuke's characterisation and his anger and how it juxtaposes Naruto's own behavior and his response to the treatment he'd received. You are right; Naruto had felt anger and hatred towards the village when he was a child, but it was through learning to bond with people that he realized he wanted people's acknowledgment. For many set of reasons, Naruto's response puts me off as a reader and a person because, while I understand he's a child and that it's normal he seeks validation and acceptance through wanting to prove himself, I don't like it as much. Because it pushes this idea that you have to conform to society in order to be "accepted".

And Sasuke, as you very well phrased, actually expresses his anger against the oppression he and his people faced. In my opinion, i would even argue that Sasuke was more rational about his response than many would have (I know I wouldn't have had the same grace he did). Even after the racist remarks from the second Hokage later on in the manga, he showed more maturity than in the way he viewed the justice he wanted to get -not for himself, but for his clan and to right this world.

And yes! I agree so much with the race statement. I've noticed this a lot online. Most white people get this immediate reaction of recoil when Sasuke had intended to "destroy Konoha", when that is actually the most logical reaction -not only as a human, but also narratively! I say most because it's generally speaking, and the global north is known for their privilege in comparison to people living in third world countries. It's honestly a shame that many people refuse to understand the masterful writing behind Sasuke's character, despite some minimal shortcomings that can be discussed when people are actually in agreement of his well-written character. He represents a lot of oppressed people of color who are failed and demonized by systemically by fascist empires and who experience racism; and also as a character his absolute refusal of *backing down* on what is his right to bring justice to his people resonates with many minorities.

Naruto represents his counterpart, so he "thematically" has to be more "positive" in a simplified sense of the word for the reader. I partly don't agree with that aspect of Naruto's character development, but it makes sense with his background. What I get from it is that Kishimoto walked himself into a corner with that, and shounen jump and his editors are homophobes who had a fair involvement in making Naruto's general ending what it was. I don't know if I'm phrasing my thoughts well, but I hope it made sense?

Gosh, yes!! Thank you for this great ask. Sasuke really means the world to me too :') and i believe people who are on his side will always be on the right side of history haha

[sasukemad]

Sasuke, always beautiful😻😻

[hellcifrogs]

The Witch, The Fox and The Fire Forest Creatures - Sai Version.

[brighteuphony]

As per usual, posting without the wall of text.

[wispforever]

happy pride month to the biggest cheaters in ninja hell

[strawbellyx3]

I will never get over how Sasuke kept being shown with cherry blossoms – literally "Sakura" in japanese

[oranin]

naruto smooching a sleepy sasuke 😴

[atoriv-art]

tried to do older designs for some of my guys. since those definitely don't already exist

[elysium-mons]

This official wallpaper:

It's so funny how Orochimaru is taking Sasuke away, while Sasuke sends taunting eyes to Naruto, and Naruto is panicking his boyfriend is parting from his side. I'm-

Also, to me, this perfectly illustrates the drama of Telenovelas / Soap operas: The evil step mother is set on separating the main couple because of egotistical reasons. 😅

[chialattea]

(leans into the mic) my ideal team 7 dynamic is one where Uchiha Sasuke, former terrorist who has tried to kill his teammates multiple times and was such an edgelord he likely practiced his one-liners in front of a mirror ends up, somehow, being the voice of reason on his team.

[10sokii]

sunset / sunrise ♡

[oh-no-its-bird]

Speaking about au crossovers, suddenly absoloutley infected w the idea of a team ro time travel au + the team ro defects from Konoha to join sound au mashup

So many time travel to the warring state aus hit the beats of "oh yeah were from the future village u made, which btw is awesome" but what happens when that diverse team of clans, that team of mismatched uchiha/hatake/suspected senju that people of the time gape at seeing work so smoothly together, instead of vouching for the village condemn it?

But there's also an added layer of like— some of these characters still care about the village. Honestly all of team ro does on some level.

Itachi and Shisui are still village loyalists, just forced to leave for their own self preservation when Danzo would have them killed

Tenzo is still struggling with his own brainwashing and even tho he may have chosen the team and his friends over konoha, he still has that "you live for the village you die for the village" mentality implanted deep in his heart. He may actually try to compensate for it by being vocally against konoha when given the opportunity (lying to himself ab it)

Kakashi is complicated. He's probably the one among them who it can truly be said is against konoha— for a refresher on the detector au, he left after finding out Danzo had his father killed, then walked in on him trying to kill Shisui + this was around the time where Danzo was trying to get him to kill Sarutobi (and he was straight up willing to do it too) so there's a LOT going on in that head of his. I think he considers Konoha to be it's people— and unfortunatley he has very little people left there to truly care about. Doubly unfortunatley (for Konoha) a chunk of the people he finds himself willing to "allow" himself to care for have also come with him in this defection. So.

It's complicated.

Anyways, all of this is to say is that these guys have some seriously complex thoughts on Konoha and whether it's truly "good" or not, and I think that'd make for an interesting read when they eventually meet the founders

Also like. There's a pretty heavy Uchiha bias among them, let's be real.

Tenzo may have the Mokuton and may or may not be some sort of Senju bastard, but his education wasn't shit. He has absoloutley no opinions on the Senju in general but his only friends in the entire world are 2/3rd uchiha, so.

Shisui and Itachi are literally Uchiha. Itachi is the fucking clan heir. I don't even need to elaborate.

Kakashi is the only one who could claim to be any sort of neutral (hes even distantly related to Tobirama, though he doesnt even know it) but it was also established in the detector au that he has some sort of positive relation to Mikoto. I like to HC that Tsunade was a good friend of his father and even babysat him when he was younger tho, so there's that. But like. Still. There is a much bigger Uchiha influence on (literally his entire) life than Senju.

Anyways I don't really have any specific thoughts for this one? They don't have the same konoha loyal motivations as the original team ro time travel au, but they also don't have any motivations to like, STOP the founding of Konoha itself. They're smart enough to recognize it was a net positive for all of shinobi kind. But they don't wanna be involved.

If Orochimaru came with them maybe they can try to create sound way back when? That could be cool

Call up the Hatake and the Orochi of the warring states and see if we can make a new first ever shinobi village with a different image in mind

Fucking Orochimaru headed medical revolution 100 years earlier than it has any buisness being ,,,

Mmm this is just making me think ab an Orochimaru time travel fic actually and that's not what I want with this specific thing so let's shelve that for later maybe

But like. Team Ro time travels to the warring states but it's the team Ro that defected from Konoha

OH FUCK THAT MEANS SASUKE IS WITH THEM TOO

Rip Sasuke, my favorite little Izuna look alike. He's like 8 and the second any Uchiha see him they're going to have a stroke and go tell Madara and Izuna they might have stumbled upon something seriously sinister

Oops <3

[loser-magoo]

I wanted to practice lighting…. And nothing else

UPDATED:

I MADE IT LOOK BETTER

[tora-the-cat]

An interesting little fun thing with team 7 is that you assume that Sakura's gonna, like, woobify and simplify Sasuke by putting him on a pedastal,cause her goal is centered around him and shes a 12 y/o fangirl so like of course her understanding of him is skewed cause she doesnt see him as a person, just an object of affection, right? She's can't get Sasuke, can't imprint on and/or traumabond with him like Naruto and Kakashi do. They don't see him with rose tinted glasses, because they've lived through their own Horrors and empathize with Sasuke's experience.

......right?

WRONG lmao!! They have too many ghosts!! Naruto's single-minded codependent ass won't get out of his own way long enough to see Sasuke for who he actually is, only able to empathize with the parts of his trauma Naruto relates to and not really capable of understanding him outside of the context of himself (because Sasuke is. His other half). And Kakashi is far too jaded to be fair to him!! He can't decide if Sasuke is gonna end up as a mini-him or a mini-Obito or maybe a mini-Itachi, but either way he ALSO is too traumatized to see Sasuke AS SASUKE.

meanehile SAKURA'S autistic ass may have dogshit empathy, but you know what she does have? A special interest in sasuke. Nothing better to do then give herself a degree in Uchihaisms. She can write character studies about him. she can read his soul. Whenever she says something about him she is right. Every fucking time! She is RIGHT!!!!

'sasuke would NOT compliment me this directly or explicitly express worry unprompted, especially if it gets in the way of his goals' correct.

'Sasuke shouldn't hide that curse on his neck its not healthy BUT if I tell anyone about it he'll never trust me again, which might be even more dangerous for him then the curse mark. Like he can probably handle the curse mark but no one else can stop him from ripping peoples arms off.' correct.

Speaking of! 'Sasuke would not hurt me even when he seems to be...possessed? whatever the only way to knock him out of it is to present myself as Alive and thus something to be protected rather then something to be avenged, because he gets really stuck in his own head about revenge' CORRECT

'hey so um. like. Sasuke's gonna leave Konoha. I'm not sure anything can stop him at this point and honestly I'm kinda starting to doubt anything should, so the only thing I could possibly do to help him at this point is ALSO defect.' CORRECT!!!!

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

today i’m thinking abt megumi and how overlooked tsumiki’s importance to his character is sometimes ……….. itafushi is lovely and they mean a lot to each other but tsumiki is the center of megumi’s world, not yuji :’) tsumiki raised him!!!! she taught him to be kind!!!!! when he was younger he felt so bitter towards her because he can’t forgive people who forgive as easily as she does but he admires her & her way of thinking more than anything …. he comes soooo close to killing remi but tsumiki’s voice literally plays in his head telling him not do it…….. she’s his moral compass … she’s his whole world ………….

[itachis-eyes]

Sasuke Every Day Until He's Freed From Tree Prison: Master and Student....

September 28th, 2024

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