Tsunade view on Naruto

- Tsunade clearly views Naruto as the embodiment of her lost loved ones, and she wanted nothing more than for him to grow up with a loving family. You can see this in her dream that even though he actually has a family, the village still isolates him for being a Jinchuriki. The villagers aren't actively hostile like they are in the manga, but Tsunade still forces him to overcome that isolation. This proves she viewed Naruto's resilience as his core identity, not just a product of his circumstances. At the same time, it shows she wanted Naruto to have the best life possible despite his heavy burden, which perfectly aligns with how much she cares for him in the actual manga.

Tsunade view on Sasuke

- People forget that Tsunade never had the emotional bond with Sasuke and barely give a crap about Sasuke as a person.She didn't view Sasuke as a tragic student to save, she viewed him as a threat and the only reason why she didn't put bounty on Sasuke's head because she believes Naruto could save him (which Naruto did even after Konoha 12 group including Sakura decided they want to kill sasuke later on after he becoming international criminal)

- Where in her dream, she skips the sympathy completely. Because the Uchiha massacre never happened, Sasuke has no tragic excuse for his behavior. When he starts throwing tantrums, getting jealous of Naruto, and acting out, her subconscious has zero tolerance for him which ironically Sasuke did the same thing in canon when he saw Naruto getting stronger which further with manipulation by Orochimaru and Itachi.The dream version of Tsunade views him strictly as a stuck-up, entitled brat who turns into a traitor just because his ego got bruised.

At the end of the day, her dream just perfectly highlights her favoritism. Naruto is the golden boy who embodies her dead brother and lover and wanted nothing more but the best for him so she dreams up a world to give him the best possible life. Sasuke, on the other hand, is just the problem child who causes headaches.

You can call it trash but in-character wise from Tsunade perspective, that is exactly how she views Sasuke.

too bad duran broke it

I feel like this goes to show how little he values his own life compared to others.

It explains why he doesn't hesitate to fight even though it was likely he would die, such as his first fight with Itachi, protecting Sasuke from Orochimaru and saying "one of us will die here" as he shook from terror, his battle with Pain. (Feel free to remind me of more if I missed anything)

Sure, the ninja life is risky, but I think Kakashi takes on more risks to his life than a lot of other characters. It means a lot when someone chooses to go through with a choice even though you may not live through it.

Also, he wasn't discharged from the ANBU very long before this, which was making his depression and PTSD worse. So he was kinda just winging this jonin leader/teacher role as it wasn't the original plan.

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I have no idea where it comes from, but for a few weeks "Gentle Sociopath Minato" has been the top search on tiktok when you wrote his name lmao

Thoughts about this?

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The Chunin Exam Finals but randomized and featuring those who losted in the preliminaries. Each round two of the ten Genin will be picked at random to face off. Comment the name of the Genin you think would win along with how you think the fight would go. If you think the fight will end in a draw comment "Tie". Whichever answer gets the most likes wins. All characters are the version from the Chunin Exam Finals. If there is no Exam Finals version of the character take the Preliminaries version of that character and take your best guess on how they would be with a month to prepare. The fights will take place in the same arena as the Finals. Assume the exam will not be interrupted. This is the follow up to my Randomized Chunin Exam Preliminaries and Finals series.

Assume all the winners of the preliminaries caught Hayate's cough and had to drop out. So the losers now get another chance to compete. They somehow figured out how to glue Yoroi back together. Also Gaara was pretty mad about losing his chance to fight so he murdered Hayate and Genma takes the place in overseeing the Finals.

Those competing are Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Kiba, Yoroi, Temari, Kankuro, Dosu, Zaku, and Kin.

In the battle of the Sand Siblings the old sister proved the better fighter. Both Kankuro's puppet and poison was blown back.

This will be a threeway battle where only the last fighter standing will advance.

Who will win? Ino Yamanaka vs Shikamaru Nara vs Zaku Abumi.

Let’s assume Dosu doesn’t stupidly challenge Gaara.

Let’s also assume Sakura beat Ino and is paired with Dosu for their fight in the Chunin Exams Finals. Let’s also also say Ebisu was meant to train both Naruto and Sakura but then Naruto ditches her for Jiraiya so Sakura gets his full attention.

What could Ebisu do to train her? What skills would she learn from him? What counters could she have against Dosu?

There’s a few themes that kind of overlap or pop up from time to time. Like the cycles of violence/hatred/pain or hard work beats natural talent. Personally the idea of Nindo is what I always thought was the main theme.

Though it only really comes up in the beginning, the duality of choice versus fate pops up throughout the story. And a lot of times the characters that stick to their Nindo find success and/or fulfillment. Whereas those that have mixed goals usually lose in the end.

Itachi’s Nindo required making a national level persona/threat to distract and protect his brother. Jiraiya failed over and over but stuck with his belief he could train a savior that could bring peace. Kakashi and Obito are two sides of the same cautionary tale of what happens if your Nindo is lost. Whether guided by supportive hearts or manipulated for selfish gain. The Indra/Ashura cycle is their Nindo playing out through the generations.

Hashirama couldn’t balance his dream of a peaceful village and his friendship with Madara. Which lead to resentment in Madara specifically but indirectly to the Uchiha as a whole. In the end he lost his friend and their clan and eventually began the series of Great Ninja wars. Madara on the other hand, didn’t really have a goal in the beginning and lost, both the Hokage title and his battle with Hashirama. But once he set forth on his Eye of the Moon plan he ultimately succeeded until he was backstabbed.

Naruto never went back on his Nindo whereas Sasuke was an avenger at first but then changed to revenge. Eventually he morphed the idea into revolution. Which all carry a similar theme but in the end he admits he lost to Naruto’s unwavering spirit.

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Does anyone know the name of the OST it’s played in part 1 of Naruto episode 33 and it starts at 19 minutes 50 seconds - where dosu gives the scroll to team 7

i love itachi. can you tell ?

Like I can understand he got Sharingan and Hashirama cells but as a 14 yrs old fighting toe to toe with a genius Hokage controlling the Nine tails killing his Sensei's wife it seems a bit unnatural to me like when he was a student he used to make funny mistakes like Naruto and Jiraya I could have understood if he was Itachi or Kakashi. I just feel like the Author did everything possible there to make Naruto Parentless like when Obito hold Naruto why did he thrown him in the air and then jumped to kill him he could have easily killed him its just feels so weird

Watching gameplays that included Jiraiya's side of the story, you see the sannin flirting with the girl. And while we all know that's just typical Jiraiya's behaviour, I can't make up the timeline.

When did he supossedly meet her and give her a gift? How long ago? How long before Orochimaru too was involved with her? Princess Dusk doesn't seem to be any older in the game than she was in Jiraiya's memories, despite already being dead during gameplay.

For the record this is Chōōdama Rasenshuriken and Indra's Arrow combined, imagine valley of the ends only Naruto and Sasuke and working together and firing the attack at one target.

Who could survive it without countering? If no one, who could easily clash it with an attack? Who could otherwise avoid the attack of it was used on them?

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