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@shikadainara
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Temari loves her ugly ass family
have i missed literally anything of note in b*ruto btw like has yoshino nara been seen at all orrrr
Chocho, and Akimichi family stuff
so let me get this straightā¦ā¦. seeing someone you care about trapped in a genjutsu, yelling at them essentiallyĀ āif youāve forgotten what youāre like, itās okay, because iām here and iāve remembered for youā, breaking them out of said genjutsu, with a smile⦠gee where does that sound familiar????
this but also. to quote shikadai directly here:Ā āi canāt imagine your past, or understand how tough it was. i donāt have a clue about that. but itās going to work out.ā that is⦠very much also exactly how shikamaru feels about temariā¦
Hehe
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hi chat i just want to say i think i somehow JUST realized the relationship between me and the guy ive been pining over for exactly a year now is st-core as fuck and i feel like iāve been hit in the head with a pile of metaphorical bricks
we met when we got paired at a tournament: i lost. not only did i lose, it was the kind of loss that pissed me off because i really felt like i shouldnāt have lost that one. we didnāt become friends until later because he didnāt start going to as many tournaments until about half a year later, so imagine my dismay when i found an old screenshot that just-so happened to be for pairings for that round that i mustāve just accidentally saved. i was so distraught when j realized āwait that was YOU???ā
last time i demanded we have a rematch over that first game we played, he teased me by saying im never going to get one
i think heās brilliant and a phenomenal player. i really look up to him. but the part i like the most about him is that i can tell heās genuinely such a kind person to everyone. and especially as someone thatās flat out never really had anyone be kind to me irl my whole life, it means a lot to me
itās been a few weeks since iāve last seen him. we went to an international tournament together, and on the layover for our flight back there was a moment where it was just us. he didnāt do well at the tournament and was being so incredibly harsh on himself. he called his mom and said his confidence was destroyed. (which especially hurt to hear because heās the one thatās always encouraging me and our whole group!!) like yāknow the āiām not fit to be a shinobiā scene thatās basically exactly what it felt like!!!!!!!
fuck!!!!!!
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okay i saw yodo's thong hanging out and that's enough of b*ruto for now i think
so true she should get a divorce and marry me instead
happy birthday temari i love you dearly š„°š„° stay tuned for my giant st meta post that's nearly done lmao
hey! We miss you. Have you been following tbv? Completely ok if not, just miss your updates
ty i appreciate it!! š„ŗā¤ļø
ngl i haven't really kept up with any sort of media at all this whole year. my main hobby is that i play pokemon cards so that is where the majority of my time has been going!
i am upset i did have to miss the flow concert because my manager wouldn't let me have the day off or at least change my shift to an hour and a half earlier so i could go... :((( especially since the venue was a fucking 10 minute walk away AAAAAAA i mean i did see them before. but that was with my ex and i would prefer to have a memory of seeing flow without my ex DF()HU(WUTa
as for tbv. no <3 i don't think i read past the first chapter lmao. genuinely i think the decision to make shikamaru hokage kinda broke me from going "i need to hate read this for morbid curiosity" to ".... okay this just genuinely makes me feel sad" since it was such a core part of my analysis that having him be second in command is the best for him, and anything more just feels. wrong
I DID HOWEVER SEE THAT THEY FUCKING IMPALED INOJIN AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY UN-IMPALED HIM WHAT IS THE GODDAMN POINTTTTTTTT I'M SURE WE WILL NOT EXPLORE THE EMOTIONAL TOLL OF THIS AT ALL WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS SONG AND DANCE BEFORE!!!!
real "i hate [x]. now replace [x] with women. not so funny anymore, is it?" level analysis š
first of all. everything in a narrative is a plot device, moving on,
to entertain the thought..... seriously who are you thinking of??? sure, if someone else saved his life the result would've been the same i guess but narratively it makes the scene itself wayyyy less fun and interesting. (like, i love the kiba kankuro section but their part is obviously the weakest for being the only two that didn't know each other prior)
you can't have asuma save him Again that's lame, his father probably would come off as too similar to asuma, kin died... who else??
more importantly, i am struggling to see anyone else in the hospital scene. that scene is such a pivotal character moment for him. shikamaru is a self-described coward who's best at running away. quite frankly, he needs someone to be harsh with him. the scene works because temari gets under his skin, causing him to admit that he's a coward, and try to run away once more before shikaku breaks through to him. i think maaaybe the only other way you could do that is if you had yoshino or only had shikaku in the scene but i don't think it would come off the same way?
(not to mention, uh, reintroducing the sand sibs and establishing their new relationship towards konoha is is kinda important when the very next arc is about suna)
this one is interesting because, depending on how you look at it, to an extent i agree!!! narratively, i do wish she got more to do that didn't involve him!! (it's almost like kishimoto can't write women, shocking i know)
but from an in-universe perspective??? she is so very much her own person, and her goal is to make the world a better place. admittedly, it does take some inference work but my evidence is:
1) it's just kinda a given looking at how her own childhood was like that she wouldn't want anyone else to go through that
2) she was vocally against the konoha invasion to begin with because she didn't want pointless deaths (... and especially after what happens you can assume she takes it upon herself to want to make things right)
3) in her intro scene (this was sadly cut from the anime), she explains that the reason why they take the chunin exams together is for political relations. you can tell she's really into it too because she gets mad when naruto interrupts her
4) given that she ends up running the chunin exams herself (which requires multiple trips between villages), in addition to the above point, you can assume that she really likes her job for the politics of it
5) she outright tells naruto that she's in awe of his ability to change people, so here you can see that the concept of changing for the better is very important to her
6) just look at the scene where she was immensely proud of gaara for his speech that united the nations
like, yeah i do wish the last databook gave us something else about her character too but. just look at what you're quoting, "to create" means that she's the one ACTIVELY doing the goal! "alongside" is not a passive word either!!
as for where shikamaru fits into this
1) i mean. she does love him
2) given their relationship as chunin exam co-proctors, they're already on the same page about where they stand about intervillage relationships
3) protecting the king is his main driving force, which is again basically just creating a better future so they're on the same page there too. they were already heading the same direction
as for her not supporting her brothers or suna?? what??? for one thing. um. the use of the word "world" in "new ninja world" does... include suna... also. like. what do you think gaara's job is lmao.
now if you want to talk about how she's living in konoha that's a whole discussion in and of itself. (i personally still have mixed feelings about it) but even with how incredibly inconsistent her character is written in b*ruto like. in episode 97, even if it happens off-screen, she does say she's going to suna to a banquet to support gaara for political reasons. also just in general you cannotttt tell me she doesn't love her brothers!!!!
re: the tsukuyomi. admittedly i think it's hard to make heads or tails of analyzing anything going on in there, but, uh. temari didn't have one in the manga that was entirely anime-added sooo make of that what you will. (... also shikamaru wasn't even in it???)
if you want to talk sakura and hinata all i have to say is
1) lol
2) lmao