holy shit holy shit SAKUMO is how fugaku got his mankegyo? is that what you're implying. with the bloody tears and the guilt. holy shit i love this comic. and damn fugaku IS a lot of where itachi gets his itachiness. wanted to be a medic and instead became a cop trying to start an uprising. understandable yet still terrible. and always tragic. holy shit.
Fugaku canonicaly has the Mangekyou (in the anime, anyway), but we’re never told who he lost to obtain it, so I snuck in this explanation for the comic instead :3c And yup! I originally wanted Itachi to be like his mom, but then I realized, wouldn’t it be way more hecked up if Itachi’s peaceful nature is more like his dad’s original personality, and it was actually Mikoto who started the uprising?? sickk i love it
YEAH! I haven’t elaborated much on Sakumo’s samurai days, mostly because it’s not relevant to the comic and I haven’t developed the saumrai world as deeply as I have the shinobi one, but Sakumo probably met a younger Mifune in Rain, yeah. Originally I planned on Tomoe being Mifune’s brother, or, at the very least, related to him, but then I discarded it because involving more unnecessary characters quickly gets convoluted. Plus, I like hearing people speculate as to who Kakashi’s mom really was with such few context clues. She really could have been anyone :’)