If there ever was anyone remotely human and genuine in the whole mess that’s the Naruto world, that was Sasuke. After everything he went through and seeing all the shit he saw, I can’t imagine myself at that age having any other reaction, specially if I was left to deal with all that bs on my own while being just a child.
It’s so messed up how almost all of the Naruto fandom forgets Sasuke was barely 7 YEARS OLD when his most precious people we’re massacred and he was forced to witness the whole atrocity not once, but thousands of times by being put in one of the most heinous genjutsu there is by the person he trusted and adored the most in the whole world. Sasuke was a child and his elder brother was his world and he did that to him, how did people expect his young mind to deal with all that mess and cope with the trauma in any sort of decent way if he never received any form of therapy, NOT EVEN A FN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HIS BROTHER DID THE THINGS HE DID. Only what Itachi told him and how Itachi himself molded Sasuke’s life the way he pleased. Itachi sentenced Sasuke to a life of vengeance and hatred and loneliness and not once I’ve seen him (as the actual ADULT of the two) be hold accountable for his wrongdoings, but a shit ton of assholes shitting on Sasuke for acting as, well, THE VERY UNSTABLE TEENAGER THAT NO STUPID INCOMPETENT NEGLECTFUL ADULT AROUND HIM WAS ABLE TO HELP.
Like, be serious and tell me you would be totally chill if your whole family was murdered and you discover it was all orchestrated by the authorities of your own town because of some unfounded nonsense of a “curse of hatred” some old asshole that’s been dead for ages invented to have a reason to mistrust and segregate your clan and force them to submission in case they needed your power in future conflicts with other villages, the same power they later used as an excuse to label you all (even the smallest children) as a potential “threat” and eventually slaughter everyone... That’s just too much even for a child who grew up in the context Sasuke did, being from a prominent shinobi clan and in the middle of a war.
Of course it makes perfect sense for him to turn out the way he did, no one ever bothered to fucking sit down and have a proper conversation about how he truly felt or offer some selfless help, comfort him or take care of the simplest things “have you eaten yet?” “how did you sleep?” “what are you doing today?” things that are so simple and yet so important for kids. Instead, the only people who were slightly close to him after his family were constantly harassing him, questioning him, pushing his boundaries, forcing themselves onto him, undermining his trauma and experiences because “others had it worse (yeah i don’t think so, Kakashi, but ok ig)”, treating him like an object to insert their own goals and ideals, guilt tripping him into compliance and forcing him to fit in what THEY had idealized him to be, when in reality they didn’t even know him truly bc they never tried to do so.
