#so when he picks up haku he drills the same thing into this kid who 100% buys into it too
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that last rb....thinking about Neji really gets me GOING
#like idk if i am reaching here but i see neji and hinata's story as such missed opportunity for comparison against zabuza and haku's story#like zabuza and haku's relationship was the way it was bc zabuza grew up being taught that the world had a natural order#in which the more powerful exploited the weak. used them as tools. and he 100% bought into that#so when he picks up haku he drills the same thing into this kid who 100% buys into it too#haku only views himself as a tool#BOTH of them are devoted to the philisophy that tells them tht haku's life is only worth anything in as much as it can be#used and sacrificed to zabuza's benefit#and the whole tragedy of their story is that neither of them can even fathom that there's another way to live their lives#that there's literally no reason that they have to continue to live by that system#and they dont realize that until its TOO LATE#well actually in haku's case specifically it is too late#dude dies with complete faith in the way he's been living#its zabuza who has to die knowing that he's made the most monumental fuck up of his life with this boy and how he raised him#meanwhile neji and hinata do not suffer from the same devotion to the hyuuga family system!!!#they are introduced as people who actively resent it!!!#hinata who was 'entitled' to use and abuse the lives of branch family as heiress#in much the same way that zabuza felt entitled to using haku#basically threw away that power and that title because it meant that she had to hurt hanabi#and neji begins the series with absolute resentment and bitterness for the system that seeks to use him#such a different attitude from Haku who only saw love and devotion in his abuse and gave up his own agency with absolute enthusiasm#neji is resigned to his fate at first but there's never a point where he does not hate it#and then after the chuunin exams he decides to take fate into his own hands and fight for a new future without this boot on his neck#zabuza and haku ended tragically because they were miserable but they didnt even see it#they couldnt even conceive of a better future for themselves#but neji and hinata saw the brutality for their family for what it was!!! they had the tools to fight back against it!!!!#and WHAT does the story have them do with those tools?!?!?#neji willingly throwing away his life JUST like his father????#and hinata honors his legacy with WHAT?#giving her son a stupid name#and making no effort to stop the system that destroyed her cousin and uncles' lives
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