TRAGIC! Aromantic coded character has close friendship with another character of the same gender and now you're gonna get called homophobic for not wanting to interpret them as a couple
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TRAGIC! Aromantic coded character has close friendship with another character of the same gender and now you're gonna get called homophobic for not wanting to interpret them as a couple
Just realised I haven’t posted this after rushing it to this stage for Sasuke’s birthday before. Well it’s still unfinished though but I like how it turned out so far. Hope I’ll have time to finish it soon 🫠
[Analysis] Why Sasuke’s tragic backstory doesn’t resonate with many readers
Word count: ~1,800+
Back then on my analysis on why Sasuke’s character is extremely anti-self-insert, I wrote, [The magnitude of Sasuke’s trauma—losing his entire family, community, and sense of security in one single night by the hand of the person he loved and admired the most—is incomprehensible to most readers, whose lived experiences rarely approach such extreme loss. The human mind struggles to empathise with trauma that exceeds everyday understanding.] Today’s analysis is to dwell deeper into the whys: Why is he so misunderstood? Why can’t most people emphathise with his pain? Why was his trauma often dismissed as “just another sob story, many others had it bad and still remained on the good side (of the narrative) unlike him”?
In the middle of the city’s noise, everything stopped.
[Analysis] Sasuke’s character is extremely anti-self-insert (and how it made a ‘bad’ first impression).
From the very moment Sasuke was introduced in Naruto, it was clear he was never meant to be a character the average reader could easily project themselves onto. He was academically brilliant (top of the class), physically attractive (frequently complimented on his looks), and was a member (the last heir we knew of at that moment) of an elite clan (in real-world terms, this equated to having an impressive family background with high social status). On top of that, he was effortlessly “cool”: aloof, indifferent, and seemingly unaware (or uninterested) in how talented or admired he was.
Sasuke embodied the dreaded “golden child” archetype; the kind of person many people, if they were honest, had never been and would likely never become. But everyone had known someone like that: the kid everyone praised, the one who seemed to glide through life so effortlessly as if they never ever had a single struggle.
i have to get this out of the way, re: dungeon meshi discussions
major spoilers ahead, obviously.
you know for a series that focuses so much on platonic and familial relationships it’s weird that dungeon meshi has attracted so much useless ship wars though. the most important driving force in the story is two sibling relationships (laios’s search for falin, thistle’s search for delgal) and one of the central themes is how loving others way too much can lead to your downfall (thistle’s desperate attempt to keep his loved ones leads to his mental state deteriorating so much he starts torturing people he claims to protect, marcille’s fear of losing her friends leads to her being easily manipulated by the main antagonist)
even with regards to falin. thistle wants to bring the ‘brother’ he raised back at all costs, he saw a young human woman as nothing more than a dragon, his tool. marcille wants to bring falin back at all costs, she didn’t care about the repercussions of using monster meat instead of animal meat even though she was an expert at ancient magic and should know why it’s such a dangerous practice.
each and every single one of the major characters has some form of tragedy with their family one way or another: the toudens, marcille and her dad. chilchuck and his wife. senshi’s entire backstory. izutsumi’s hidden desire for a mother. namari’s father. shuro and his family. kabru and his mother(both tallman and elf). mithrun and his brother. thistle and the melinis.
even some of the minor characters: flamela and her dead twin sister. the twins and the floke couple. kuro being the closest mickbell has to a family. etc etc
as someone who has reread this manga several times by now, i wonder if people just… read it once as fast as they could and act like they’re some sort of authority on fan discussion. i’ve seen people brag about reading the entire thing in one sitting as if it’s something to be proud of. this manga isn’t meant to be read that fast, that’s how you get people claiming that laios doesn’t reaaally love falin as much as marcille does.
to these people, laios just gets in the way, as if it wasn’t his idea to go down the dungeon in the first place, it wasn’t him who said his pain doesn’t matter because falin suffered more than him, it wasn’t him who felt immense guilt for leaving falin behind, it wasn’t him who found her skull, it wasn’t him who killed her to save her from her chimera form. i feel like people forget about the ‘too’ part when marcille said “i miss falin too”
marcille knows how much falin and laios love each other. that’s why she asked him if she’s allowed to resurrect her and didn’t act on her own. that’s why when both times a shapeshifting monster copied marcille to trick laios, it was what she looked like at the time she was reviving falin.
as someone who DOES ship farcille, none of the romance is canon. this isn’t meant to be anti-farcille. one of the post-canon comics is about falin gently turning down shuro because she wants to travel the world, “you can’t tie a dragon down” after all. she wants to travel the world and find herself because she doesn’t know who she is outside of marcille and laios. even marcille, who was hoping she’d reject him, tears up because of how beautiful and tragic it was.
there are a lot of ship teases because what author doesn’t like a good ship tease. but to say that dungeon meshi is a romantic love more than it is a story about family(both real and found) is a great misinterpretation of the text.
I actually think (doppelgänger) Sasuke’s square jaw in Burrito anime and the funny wavy hair in Ike’s style are blessings. Like every time I see those things it’d only remind me that yep, ain’t no way that ugly ass mf is my boy LOL
How it feels navigating through the treacherous water of ship wars on my tragic Sasuke x Justice gondola 🤧
Team Taka’s dynamics & the theme of autonomy
One of the reasons I appreciate Team Taka’s dynamics is the presence of free will in their bond, at least to a certain extent. Sasuke didn’t force any of the members to join him or stay with him. He freed Suigetsu, then he asked both Juugo and Karin in a way that involved no coercion or manipulation on either side. And the members’ decisions to follow Sasuke in the end were all voluntary, which already sets their group apart in a series where most alliances are shaped by duty, ideology, or control.
Does romantic love always triumph all?
(And also my thoughts on SNS as a queer platonic relationship)
Okay, let’s get this outta here first, I do draw fanarts for SNS and write some fanfics, too, so I won’t deny I’m a shipper of SNS, or at least an enjoyer of that aspect for their dynamic. Though when I scrutinise hard enough, I have to admit that I’m not a hardcore fan of them as a romantic couple.
I don’t really have a problem with their connection being viewed through a romantic lens. What bothers me is the widespread tendency to default to romance every time two characters share a connection that is emotionally intense, transformative, or intimate. There’s this underlying implication that once a bond reaches a certain threshold of depth or devotion, it must inevitably be romantic or sexual, and there’s no room for any other explanation or interpretation, as if no other kind of connection could possibly justify that level of closeness.
That frustrates me because it implies that romantic love is inherently superior to all other forms, which I strongly disagree with. That mindset is not only limiting but also reductive. It reflects a broader cultural narration to prioritise romantic love as the apex of human connection, as though it’s the only kind of relationship worthy of narrative climax or personal sacrifice.
If I have a nickel for every time I take a liking to a cat-coded character with teleportation skill, a brilliant brain of a tactical genius, a fierce love for their siblings/ family, an unimaginable amount of trauma that nobody should’ve experienced, and a disappointing character assassination at the end of the series I’ll have two and almost a half nickel. Not many, but weird that it happened twice.
Can you lot fucking stop with the “Sasuke’s a hard-worker and Itachi’s a prodigy” thing?
It. Is. Not. Canon!
For fuck’s sake, stop! This is made-up bullshit. It’s so goddamn infuriating now to see this moronic take plastered across many a post, from Sasuke fans no less, when it’s got no basis in canon. None! And why’s Itachi a prodigy, exactly? What sort? Clue me in. I’m all eyes and ears. I’ve asked this question many times on here, but with no response from the people that insist on this nonsense. Let’s look at some facts:
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One of the most perplexing things about die-hard Sakura fans who ship sssk to me is how they think it’s a good end for her.
I mean, imagine yourself in a relationship/ marriage in which your spouse is already spiritually connected to the deepest, most meaningful extent possible to another person. They might still love you in a way, maybe, since there are many kinds of love, but you will never be able to connect to them to that level. No matter how fiercely you care for them, no matter how much effort you pour into the relationship, there is always an invisible wall you cannot and will never be able to breach.
A close up of Sasuke's eyes in one of my recent pieces. I enjoy drawing his Sharingan (and by extent, the Mangekyou and the EMS) more than the Rinnegan or his normal eyes, not because they’re less beautiful but because colouring in red feel more fun to me smh 😂
Also his Mangekyou & EMS designs are just so peak, I especially love the inverted colour palette and the lotus-like shape of the six-pointed star 🥹 There’s no canon explanation for all that but knowing Kishimoto and his love for symboIism, I doubt that the designs were purely just an artistic choice without any deeper meaning. I might dive deeper into this topic of how highly likely there’s some Japanese philosophy behind that when I have time to do proper research then...
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They’re both in the “looking like a cinnamon roll but can actually kill u” category u honour 🍥🍅
Just got some new ear piercings yesterday and it reminds me that I haven’t upload the (almost) finished version of this NaruSasu couple earrings fanart.