listen iām just saying. iām just saying.
if you (āyouā being kishimoto from here on out) create a series where at a certain point it becomes clear who the endgame couples will be, long before theyāre established in canonā¦
⢠and you pair two of them up from a young age (perhaps even put them on the same genin team), implying they spend a lot of offscreen time together, and you give those two characters the same theme music
⢠and they fit the grump x sunshine dynamic
⢠and the grump was a notoriously Difficult Person To Be Around, Much Less Be Friends With and the sunshine was one of grumpās few friends (if not grumpās only friend)
⢠and the little onscreen time they did get was almost always with each other (and, notably, involved saving the otherās life or protecting them)
⢠and you make one of them obsessed with the sky, using birds as an allegory of personal freedom for this character, and you give the other one a name that translates to āheavenā twice (knowing that most people associate the concept of heaven with the sky)
⢠and then you give these characters a storyline in which theyāre supposed to get one scroll labeled āearthā and one scroll labeled āheaven,ā and a crucial (and unexplained?) plot point of this storyline is one of them winding up with two āheavenā scrolls and being explicitly asked āwhy didnāt you say anything about us having two heaven scrollsā followed by a dramatic shot of said character holding the two heaven scrolls side by side, staring at the way it spells out āheavenā twice
⢠and then you kill off one of them and subsequently make it canon that the other believes in ghosts
⢠and THEN you show us the manifestation of the otherās perfect reality in a dream and it has the departed directly saying āiām alive and everyone is safe because of youā
⢠and THEN, years later, you release official art of these two as yin and yang, alongside similar art of other characters, but all of the other characters are canon couples
ā¦congratulations, youāve just written what could have been an epic friends to lovers slow burn that spanned hundreds of episodes.