What do you think is wrong with Boruto!Sasuke? Aside from the… well… “I’ll just disappear from my family’s life because I care and let my daughter be traumatized enough by my absence to awaken sharingan” part? Oh Sasu :’>
Quoting myself: (Sasuke) has a phone, two summons, and the ability to teleport, yet can’t write a letter or make a single call once in like a decade; nearly kills his kid when he first sees her, then belittles and invalidates her totally legitimate questions; the narrative basically absolves him of any lasting bitterness from his daughter from this, or any of his other shitty decisions (”lmao what do you mean I should train my own kid? I’d much rather train that kid over there that looks like NARUTO”). Remember kids, Father knows best!!!
That’s… that’s about it.
sasuke left to protect his family and his village. any sort of communication would have put them in danger. second, you can’t talk about family matters in a mission but you can still see very well how affectionate he was especially when he was home with sarada and sakura. you see him caring for sakura and saving sarada from that knife attack, how he immediately jumped to save her. he “nearly killed” his daughter because of the circumstances like when he was attacked by the onion head not because he wanted to, and at this point i’m pretty sure you haven’t even read gaiden because you’re just too bitter. sasuke didn’t say that him coming back would erase everything bad that he has done and you can see how sad he feels to leave again because of this mission. but he hasn’t done anything bad at all, relating to his family, to even begin with. he left to protect them but he also felt bad for leaving again. so you can stay salty and pressed but that won’t change anything. there’s not even a point in making these posts and tagging them with “anti naruto ending” because nothing will happen anyway. kishimoto won’t make another ending version just for you salty pricks that don’t appreciate his work.
and THAT’s… THAT’s about it.
Oh boy, it’s been a while since I had a pro-Bort challenge.
First off, let’s get one thing clear, and this is my only warning on this: no more personal attacks, and yes “salty pricks” is a personal attack. If you can’t discuss a manga without resorting to name calling, I personally am not here for that.
Ok back to the issue at hand.
“any sort of communication would put them in danger”
Why? How? Really? Continuously, and for roughly a decade straight?
Bad writing is the most charitable explanation for Sasuke’s actions here. The only in-universe explanation is that he doesn’t give a shit. It is quite simply unbelievable that near-god Sasuke with two summons, a cell phone, and a teleportation power, operating 100% under his own direction and not in any way imprisoned, can’t send a simple “I miss you” one goddamn time in nearly a decade. Even shitty parents who don’t care that much make more of an effort than that in the real world.
“you can’t talk about family matters in a mission”
Ah yes because The Mission is more important than family. Yep. Oh wait, no, that’s part of the toxic bullshit that made shinobi such a mess of trauma in the first place, the kind of shit that Naruto was supposed to change when he became Hokage.
“there’s not even a point in making these posts and tagging them with “anti naruto ending”
I do that so that people who don’t want to see it can blacklist it, and people who do want to see it (hint: a non-zero amount of people, judging by the number of likes, asks, reblogs, and comments this content gets) can find it.
“kishimoto won’t make another ending version”
God! That’s the last thing I want at this point. Every new piece of material Kishimoto releases with regard to Naruto is more horrifying than the one before, and that’s not even getting into the Studio Pierrot and the new Boruto manga writer and mangaka.
Yeah. Keep that away from me. God. No.
Instead, what I’m intending is rallying together people who are producing alternate ending content. Which they are! It’s good! It’s really, really, REALLY good stuff! There are one-shots! There are doujinshi! There is art, there are novels, there is meta and headcanons! And yes, many of us like to mock the bad stuff. What’s food without salt? Bland, that’s what.
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