if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)
an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.
my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.
which is really sad given all that he has been through.
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so theres been a recent rise of people asking "What is snowbugs" "where did the ship name snowbugs come from " so here I present 3 residents of the local flower ranchers discord trying to explain it to the best of their abilities
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i think about it constantly but i’ll never get over the middle name system in (at least) america. you’re telling me you just pick whatever name you fucking want??? like some of them don’t even have a significance your parents just thought it sounded cute with your first name??? it literally haunts me it feels so lawless
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Do you think Home and Bardaby would end up- if not friends than at least allies eventually in your fantasy au? I think it would be a real shame if Wally's best friend & his patron couldn't find some common ground. Maybe they could both keep an eye on Wally for each other? I know Home is literally Always There with him, but there are some human(puppet?) issues that an elder god just wouldn't really get. idk, I just think it's a bit of a shame that they don't get along, since Barnaby's the only other person besides Wally to actually interact with home in the original ARG.
oh no yeah! they do Eventually! it just takes a while and some work. Home in this au is pretty protective of Wally for Reasons, and it takes a lot to make them go "hey, you're chill. i like you". unfortunately Barn is also protective (not nearly to Home's extent but yk) so they naturally clash where they should get along
i have the full process In My Mind but essentially: Home, if given express permission, can "possess" Wally (put in quotes bc technically Wally is already possessed by them). this happens either when Wally wants a fucking break / is overwhelmed and wants Home to take the wheel (Wally's consciousness is kinda 'turned off' - it falls into a deep sleep!), or if Home does Wally a favor - they trade the favor for a set amount of possession time. because Home would like to have a body & make the decisions from time to time <3
during one of these "Home has the wheel" periods, i imagine that some shit goes down that forces Barnaby & Home to work together w/o a mediator. and during this time they're trying to get through this while keeping Wally's body relatively unharmed - Barnaby experiences a nice disconnect of "this is Wally but its also not Wally & its also a being i don't like very much bc its a dick-". but through the power for Forced Interaction, they realize that yeah, they have common ground, but they're also not too bad :]. catch Wally taking the wheel and being perplexed at how Barnaby is all "hey say hi to Home for me!" or asking for Home's opinion on things.
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jabksjbdkjasKSDSBJFSKDJBDFKJB if you saw.... me reblog that cool disability writing post three times with slightly different tags each time...
I want you to know that I was fighting for my life, each time I reblogged it I thought it didn't go through so I would have to manually write the tags back in each and every time and reblog again only for it to seem like it didn't go through again--
And of course, as the monkey paw dictates, every single one was actually posted on my blog. Which. is fine. But I wanted to give some insight into the phenomenon. The range of emotions I felt. Disappointment. Determination. Growing annoyance. Horror. I had a whole ass character arc today istg.
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[ID: an image of a kid smiling, holding a single Uno card, labelled as "Roy, just existing." Across fromj the kid is someone else, with three +4 cards, and one +2 card in hand, each labelled differently. The labels are "his bio dad dying:", "Brave Bow dying:", "Ollie dying:", and "Lian dying:" END ID]
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