#prokarin

[ulquiorraswife]

[konohawaswrong]

i don’t think sasuke should’ve tried to kill sakura, naruto, or karin [karin especially], but you have to understand that sasuke was just a kid who was constantly abused, manipulated and lied to all his life. i feel bad for karin since he was in the middle of a mental breakdown but naruto and sakura were little bootlickers for the village that caused everything in his life to go wrong.

[yo-aloe-vera]

Yeah, about that...

Came across this passage in an article on Sasuke’s character: “ Sakura spent pretty much her entire childhood pining for Sasuke, so it’s a nice reward for her that Sasuke did eventually return her affections. It’s a bit of a letdown for some fans of the relationship that he left (again) to travel and atone for his sins once they got together. “

Rhetoric like this makes me literally want to vomit.  Why is chasing after someone, almost to the point of harassment, then deciding to kill them when they don’t hew to your viewpoint, something to be rewarded? Why is Sasuke’s love something Sakura “deserves?” If love is something that a girl earns from Sasuke, because he’s clearly so messed up and wrong inside that he couldn’t possibly be trusted to make his own decisions (snark), then Karin--not Sakura--deserves it more.

Karin’s behavior with Sasuke is gross, but it’s the logical extension of Sakura’s behavior with him prior to his defection.  Moreover, Karin loves Sasuke because she sees both the good and the bad within him.  Her affection for him makes her stronger, unlike Sakura, whose endless pining for Sasuke weakens her (so her character only progresses in his absence).  I mean--look at how Karin took out the wooden statue when she thought Sasuke had died.  

Like Hinata’s love for Naruto, Sakura’s love for Sasuke is shallow and self-serving.  When she accosts him as he is leaving, the points she makes are all about her, Sakura, not Sasuke.  Even Naruto has good reasons to give to Sasuke against joining Orochimaru; “his power won’t come for free,” “He only wants your body.”  Sakura’s reasoning? “I love you and want to be with you.”

Sakura has zero empathy for Sasuke, which she demonstrates time and time again--most vividly when she decides that she’d be kind to kill him before anyone else could, and ends up nearly killing Naruto in the attempt.  

I like Sakura as a character, in many ways. But this reasoning, both in canon and in fanon, makes me retch.  Love is not a reward. It’s something to be given freely.  The fact that it’s not just highlights how fucked up the shinobi world was--and makes one sympathetic to Sasuke’s ideas of revolution. 

[jehannee]

“I am quite sure that karin longs to be part of the happiness of sasuke...”

[pxiao]

Do you like Karin, Hinata, or Ino? (sorry just found ur blog and am wondering)

I do like Ino and Karin. I like Ino’s bond with Team 10 and her friendship with Sakura. I like Karin for making Sasuke human. I honestly don’t like Hinata for 573. I was okay with her before. But rereading 573, made me loathe her. When Naruto is in trouble, what does she think. I want to hold his hand/date him. I mean everyone else was thinking I want to help Naruto. EVERYONE. Why is Hinata only thinking of herself. The world is in danger, Naruto is in danger. She’s not worrying about him, she just thinking she’s sick of not dating him. That was horrid. In comparison Sakura thinks, “Naruto you’ve done so much alone. I refuse to let you do this alone”. Do you wonder why I like Sakura?

[lindiizzle]

Does anybody else kind of... Twitch when someone calls Karin a whore because she has bite marks over her body? I mean honestly, do they just not pay attention that those marks are due to her healing abilities or do they just want a reason to hate her that they come up with bullshit from nowhere? Because I'm very confused on this matter. I don't want to call them ignorant because I don't want to offend some people... But seriously? This is kind of the equivilant(I probably spelled that wrong, forgive me) of saying you hate Sakura just because she is flat-chested :/