#....also i regret using sakura as my torture-ee example bc i'm kind of faded and i like sakura :(

[mixelation]

Another possibility - torture as a way to make the victim lose control of any mental barriers they were keeping up, so that the mindreading goes smoothly - and they maybe don't even realize their mind was read because they are too busy thinking about AAAAAA PAIN. And then the torture stops and they are confident they didn't "break" and spill actual secrets, meanwhile Inoichi already has everything (of course then Konoha uses the info carefully, so peope don't catch on on)

reference posts: 1, 2, 3 (3 is a reblog of 2 but 2 had some tags with further ideas about what the torture department does so i linked both lol)

OH THAT COULD BE NEAT WORLDBUILDING. I don't think anything we know about the Yamanaka mind techniques counter this? Like it would kind of make sense if trying to read the mind of someone being actively tortured would make it harder to find shit because they're going AAAAAAAH at you the whole time.... but maybe AAAAAAAH is easier to get around than someone's actual, trained mental blocks? Like maybe Inner Sakura squeezing the life out of your soul gets weaker if Outer Sakura is being actively tortured, even if Inner Sakura going AAAAAA PAIN is more distracting than a brain with NO Inner Sakuras.....?

#i'm trying to think about what we know about yamanaka mind reading but unfortunately i think most of it is some the last part fo the manga #which is when i was only reading because i'd been following this shit since 7th grade #i know there's a filler episode where there's a lady with a bloodline limit that lets her reverse mind read her yamanaka interrogator #and also i know at some point a yamanaka reads the mind of a DEAD PERSON #i don't remember that actually happening but i remember people online losing their minds about the implications #tbh if you can just get whatever you want out of a dead person then the whole torture thing seems even more pointless #but i bet they do occasionally have to give their prisoners back #and also reading the mind of a corpse is a TERRIFYING ability and i bet they don't want THAT getting out #so there are probably circumstances where you WANT a prisoner to think they were tortured but didn't break even as you steal their secrets #....also i regret using sakura as my torture-ee example bc i'm kind of faded and i like sakura :( #made myself sad