Don't ever talk to me or my two dads again
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Kishimoto having both Hashirama and Naruto only get married when Madara and Sasuke leave Konoha makes me giggle. We get it, both Hashirama and Naruto were heart broken and settled with women, because they couldn't run from heteronormativity and their one and only left.
The way Mito doesn't show up at all in Hashirama and Madara's backstory. It's not Kishi hate for woman, she just doesn't matter lmaooo. And don't get me started on The Last and the need to make a whole movie to justify naruhina, after Naruto left her on read when she said she loves him.
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Welp, that was anticlimactic...
Oh, well! What can you expect - other than Hashi being Hashi? 😂
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Thinking about how Hashirama and Madara's love languages are in direct opposition to each other because of the circumstances they were in and how that along with so many things transmutes their tragedy into something inevitable.
In Naruto and Sasuke's first fight at the Valley of the End, Sasuke says that when two powerful shinobi fight, they can read each other's thoughts. What's young Madara's greatest wish? For people to see each other's guts. And when is this guy the happiest? When he's fighting Hashirama.
To Madara, fighting Hashirama was a way to show love. He gave up peace at the river when he awakened his Sharingan, and the only way he could spend time with his beloved friend was by fighting him. It was the only way to speak to him, to show what was in his heart. It's why he looks back on his fights so fondly, because to him, fighting Hashirama was the ultimate act of love.
Hashirama didn't see it that way. He saw fighting as an obstacle in truly understanding the other person, a thing he did with his enemy, not as an act of friendship and certainly not love. He admired Madara's battle prowess, but what he wanted most was to stop fighting. Fighting was a means to an end to him. His way of showing love was in sharing, believing, and eventually bringing to life the common dream Madara and him held as children.
This is most apparent when Madara brings the Kyuubi to fight Hashirama. For Madara, it's a final act of love before he twists himself into something monstrous, a dance exchanged with his dearest friend. For Hashirama, it's a bitter exchange of blows. In attacking Konoha, Madara rejected their dream, and in doing so, Hashirama's act of love. It's this that transforms Madara from friend to enemy, and in the end, like Madara, he rejects Madara's love language by sneaking up on him and stabbing him in the back, telling him in no uncertain terms that Madara's rejection of their dream means he's dead to Hashirama (or so he wishes). Madara cements this further by saying Hashirama has changed. They are no longer-- if they were ever-- on the same page.
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i'm brainstorming ways to be more tragically gay than madara but that guy literally had his "best friend and rival"'s face implanted into his heart so what the fuck am i supposed to do
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