Satosugu and Hashimada Parallels (Part 2)
By their third year, Suguru has plunged into the depths of depression: while a year earlier he had firmly believed in his moral principles (that a sorcerer’s duty was to protect the weak, specifically, non-sorcerers), the experiences of the past year (the deaths of Riko and Haibara) have caused him to question everything he once thought.
Why must sorcerers sacrifice themselves for people who are unaware of what is being done for them and will never even thank them? People who, in fact, hate and fear them.
Why are they, the stronger ones, forced to suffer for the sake of the weak and ungrateful ones?
The final straw is, of course, this terrible scene.
Madara, meanwhile, gradually comes to view the village (a project he once believed in with all his heart) as nothing more than an illusion, a childish dream. Even with the village, there will be no peace, especially not for the Uchiha, who remain feared and hated by other clans because of the Sharingan.
His primary concern is, naturally, Tobirama, Hashirama’s likely successor as Hokage.
Despite their wrong methods, Geto and Madara are both ultimately right in their criticisms.
Madara foresaw the treatment the Uchiha clan would eventually face after Hashirama's death. He predicted that the village's clans could not coexist peacefully for long, just as he realized that establishing ninja villages would not lead to peace at all, but rather to further wars, even if in a different form.
And that is precisely what happened: other wars, other children sent to die on the battlefield. The very things Madara and Hashirama had spent their entire lives to prevent.
Geto, meanwhile, is actually right about the senselessness of sorcerers' sacrifices: what's the point of fighting and dying in a battle that is endless? His frustration and growing hate for humanity is understandable, especially because he is the only one who can know the horrible flavor of curses. He is the only one who know how the worst side of humanity taste.
Thus, Geto and Madara find themselves at odds with the ideals of Gojo and Hashirama.
All of them seek to challenge the status quo of their societies.
Yet, they do it in different ways.
Suguru and Madara want to destroy that society.
Satoru and Hashirama want to change it from within by training the next generations.
Hashirama rebels against the existing order by founding the village, an endeavor initially viewed by everyone as an utopia, while Gojo is in a constant struggle against the conservatism of the sorcerer world, to which he is openly hostile.
Ultimately, however, the divergences in their views are too great, these relationships cannot endure.
And so, a definitive break up occurs: Suguru and Madara abandon respectively Satoru and Hashirama, leaving behind everything they had built together and everything they had known until then, to pursue their own ideals.
Satoru and Suguru, much like Hashirama and Madara, meet again years later, this time as enemies.
And the strongest prevail.
Satoru and Hashirama still love Suguru and Madara.
But for the sake of what they swore to protect, they must destroy every threat. And so, Satoru has no choice but to kill Suguru, just as Hashirama is forced to kill Madara at the Valley of the End (or at least he thought he had kill him).
But their stories don't end there. Like all great love stories, their bonds transcend the boundaries of death <3
Suguru's body is taken over and possessed by Kenjaku, so the man inhabiting it isn't truly Geto.
Yet, incredibly, that corpse still retains flashes of autonomous bodily memory, meaning his consciousness is still in there somewhere.
And what does that tiny remnant of Suguru's consciousness do? It rebels against Kenjaku to protect Satoru.
And Satoru - the invincible Satoru, viewed by all as more god than human - has a single moment of weakness that proves fatal.
That weakness, so deeply human, is none other than Suguru Geto.
Madara and Hashirama, meanwhile, return from death with Edo Tensei tecnique, reuniting on the battlefield after decades.
They too remain obsessed with each other, especially Madara >:)
I’ll let this famous scene speak for itself, it says it all.
(the way Madara's face switch from excitement to disappointment is pure gold, I love them-)
Conclusion: Idk I just love overthinking about characters and ships I like, and I want that more people see the parallels between these two ships that I love so much!
I mean, I know that Hashimada is (unfortunately) way less popular than Sasunaru, but I want people to see my vision 😭
I’ve always loved the parallels between these two pairs, not only becaus of their similar dynamics and personalities, but also because of the absolute devotion and mutual respect that endure even after they’ve become enemies in a love-hate relationship.
I love the fact that they always reunite somehow, even after their death, as well as the way they keep protecting each other despite everything.
Like when Hashirama and Madara choose each other over their own clans (you know, the scene where they use stones to warn one another about their parents' ambush), or when Suguru continues to protect Satoru even if he is dead because, I quote, "Geto's body fought back against Kenjaku not because he was alive, but because protecting Gojo Satoru came easy, it was all muscle memory."
Yeah. Great. But if you want, you can keep call me delusional for shipping them, okay? ✋😞
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