First of all, big big fan of your art and your Minato interpretation, glad it's catching on >:).
Sort of related to the ask you answered about your interpretation of Minato - what's your interpretation of Naruto as a character and where the falls on the crazy scale, if at all?
(I think he takes after Minato "least traumatized man on the continent" a bit more than folks give him credit for - he did live in basically child neglect for an unspecified portion of his critical development years and somehow emerged mostly well socialized??)
And, do you think his personality would've been different had one/both parents lived? What would the biggest differences be?
Very curious about your take!
Hahah, thank you!! <333 I'm also glad people are enjoying my portrayal of Minato!
About Naruto... sorry anon, I'm not obsessed enough with him to think too deeply about his character, but I'll do my best 😂. A few things that come to mind about him:
Canon!Naruto is a very obsessive person, we see it multiple times during the manga. Whether that characteristic would remain with his parents alive is difficult to say, but if we consider that fixation with his bonds as a result of his lonely childhood, then yes, it would change with his parents around (you could argue that wouldn't change too much no matter his live conditions since his parents are pretty obsessive themselves)
He's also far less empathic than the fandom gives him credit for. He's praised for understanding others, but he doesn't: he's incapable of putting himself in the shoes of people who haven't been through a similar situation to his (it's one of the few things Boruto has done well. This thing is very obvious in the original manga, so I'm glad it was picked up in the sequel)
I'm also not a fan of his "I'm just like you" mentality. No, you aren't; most of the villains in the series have had it much worse than you, keep quiet lol
Whether all of this would chage with a family around I guess it's up to every person's headcanon. I personally think he would change for the better, be more mindful of his words and actions.
Going back to the "empathtetic thing", I don't know about you guys but I'm not a fan of the way Naruto forces his view of the world, of Konoha, onto Sasuke. Nah, pal, Sasuke might be wrong about his methods (arguably. He only fully went against Konoha once he learnt what they had done to his clan. He was pretty chill before that), but he's not wrong. Trying to change his mind and bring him back to Konoha by force? That's not it, and I don't appreciate the story trying to tell me it's a good thing; it's actually a very selfish thing.
The same thing can be said about many of the villains resolutions (just to be clear, I don't consider Sasuke to be one)
I do think this would change with his parents alive.
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