the quiet strength of satoru gojo: why parts of the fandom underestimate the strongest
time for a deep dive into one of the most misunderstood characters in jujutsu kaisen—satoru gojo—and why the fandom's persistent framing of him in comparison to suguru geto reveals something deeply uncomfortable about how many people process strength, trauma, healing, and emotional resilience. this isn’t just about two characters. it’s about the narratives people choose to uplift, the pain they validate, and the quiet courage they ignore.
the empathy gap that drives me insane
here’s the thing that’s been gnawing at me for months: this fandom will go to wild, mental-acrobatic extremes to empathize with suguru geto. people say things like: “he was traumatized by watching his friends die,” “he was exhausted by the expectations of protecting non-sorcerers,” “he was too young to handle the burden of being powerful,” or “the system failed him and pushed him to that point.”
and listen—none of that is untrue. trauma is real. the curse of empathy is real. grief and pain can twist even the most grounded person. suguru’s fall is tragic. the world he inhabited was cruel and unrelenting. he was pushed to a breaking point. his descent into villainy wasn’t born out of malice, but anguish.
but here’s what boggles the mind: the same people who empathize with suguru’s unraveling turn around and paint satoru gojo—who endured every single one of those agonies and then some—as emotionally shallow, arrogant, naive, or even emotionally dependent on suguru to keep him human. as if satoru only had worth when filtered through suguru’s emotional lens.
the double standard is staggering. the math isn’t mathing. the logic unravels when you actually sit with it.
the uncomfortable truth about relatability
here's what i think is really happening: people empathize with suguru because his response to trauma is relatably human. giving up when things get too hard? most people have been there. choosing cruelty when the world feels endlessly cruel? they can imagine that spiral. breaking under pressure and lashing out at the world that hurt you? that's a very human-sized reaction to human-sized pain.
suguru's villain arc follows a pattern people recognize: good person faces trauma → trauma overwhelms their coping mechanisms → they break → they choose a path that hurts others. it's tragic, it's understandable, and most importantly, it's something many can see themselves potentially doing under the right (wrong) circumstances.
but satoru represents something that makes people fundamentally uncomfortable: incomprehensible resilience in the face of circumstances that should have broken him.
he had every single reason to become exactly what suguru became—isolated, bitter, convinced that non-sorcerers were beneath him, willing to burn down the system that failed him. the fact that he didn't isn't just impressive; it's almost alien in its strength.
and because many can't relate to that kind of resilience, they diminish it. they rewrite his story to make it more palatable, more human-sized. they make him dependent on suguru for his moral compass. they act like his principles came from somewhere outside himself rather than from an internal strength most people can't even comprehend.
a personal perspective: why suguru's actions are inexcusable
as someone who tends toward pessimism about the world and human nature, i find it fascinating that i can't muster even a shred of empathy for suguru's choices. i understand being disillusioned. i understand seeing the worst in people and systems. i understand feeling like everything is fucked and meaningless.
but genocide? murdering innocent people, including children? deciding that an entire group of humans deserves to die because some of them are awful? that's not a trauma response—that's a moral failing. that's choosing to become the exact kind of monster that makes the world darker.
pessimistic people often have the clearest view of how broken systems and circumstances can be, but recognizing that the world is cruel doesn't make cruelty acceptable. if anything, it should make you more determined not to add to the suffering. the fact that people can empathize with "i'm hurt so i'll hurt others" while struggling to understand "i'm hurt but i'll try to heal others" says everything about what kind of strength they can imagine themselves capable of.
satoru saw the same darkness suguru did—saw it even more clearly because of his isolation—and his response was "i'm going to try to make this better." that's not naivety. that's choosing hope as an act of defiance against despair.
the myth of suguru as satoru's moral anchor
this might be one of the most persistent misreadings in the entire fandom: the idea that suguru was responsible for satoru’s humanity. that he grounded him. saved him. kept him kind. that without him, satoru would’ve become something monstrous.
but let’s actually look at what canon—and context—shows us.
suguru's background: he had a loving family, recognition, camaraderie, a sense of purpose. people looked up to him. his morality was affirmed and echoed back.
satoru's background: born into isolation. groomed for a title, not a life. dehumanized from the moment he displayed power. forced into leadership before he was ready. no one taught him how to care—he just did, anyway.
and here’s the key difference: satoru didn’t learn restraint from suguru. he didn’t need a moral compass handed to him. this is someone who, as a literal child with godlike power, never misused it—not even out of spite. he had every reason to lash out, to fall, to become everything the world feared he would—but he didn’t. he made the choice not to. over and over. alone.
people point to lines like “should we kill them?” and treat them as some crisis of ethics, as if he was one breath away from becoming a villain. but that was a teenager processing grief and asking for a second opinion—not a boy on the edge of darkness. the fact that he even asked proves he already had the conscience people think he lacked. and when suguru fell, when he committed atrocities, when word reached satoru that his best friend had massacred an entire village—he didn’t believe it. he couldn’t. not because he was blind, but because he didn’t want to believe it was true.
that denial wasn’t proof of emotional dependence. it was grief. real, raw, deeply human grief. but grief doesn’t erase autonomy.
because here’s the truth: if satoru had truly needed suguru to stay good, then he would’ve broken right alongside him. but he didn’t. he chose to keep going. he didn’t become bitter. he didn’t turn cruel. he became a teacher. he started reforming a system everyone else accepted as immutable. he chose the future.
their bond mattered—but it wasn’t his foundation. people reduce satoru to “the boy who lost his best friend” as if that’s the most interesting thing about him, as if that one rupture defines every action after. but that flattens him. suguru was significant, yes. but significance isn’t destiny. and grief isn’t identity.
satoru's emotional arc isn’t about trying to rewrite the past. it’s about refusing to let that past define him. his love doesn’t rot into vengeance—it turns into action. he protects kids who could end up like suguru. he shoulders responsibility others run from. he teaches. he reforms. and he does it despite the pain, not because someone pulled him back from it.
he’s not a weapon on a leash, held back from destruction by a single lost friendship. he’s the one who disarms himself. every time. not because anyone taught him how—but because he wants to do better. because he knows what he’s capable of. because he cares, even when the world doesn’t care back.
so no, suguru wasn’t his moral anchor. he was a companion, once. someone who could relate to the burden. someone he loved. but satoru’s principles were never borrowed. they were born in silence, held together through loneliness, and reaffirmed with every act of kindness he chose after he lost suguru.
and that’s the kind of strength people keep refusing to see—because it's the kind they can’t imagine themselves having.
the empathy that never arrives
and that’s maybe the most frustrating part: that satoru—despite carrying more weight than anyone else in the story—rarely receives the empathy people so freely extend to others. the fandom will analyze every angle of suguru’s pain, dissect his fall, explain his choices, mourn what he became. but when it comes to satoru? the same kindness isn’t offered. people praise his power, his technique, his fights—but they rarely sit with how hard it must have been to stay soft. to keep choosing others. to keep choosing hope.
it’s like he’s too strong to be seen as vulnerable, too capable to be comforted. even fans fall into the same trap the jujutsu world did: they assume he’ll always endure, so they don’t bother asking if he’s okay. and they certainly don’t pause to understand how lonely that endurance must feel.
he never asked to be the strongest. and yet he lives every day carrying the cost of that title, quietly making the right choices when the wrong ones would be so much easier. he shows up. he gives. he believes. and still—he gets picked apart more for what he didn’t do than he gets recognized for everything he chooses to hold back.
when people say satoru gojo is emotionally shallow, or arrogant, or only human because of someone else—they’re echoing the same erasure the jujutsu higher-ups inflicted on him. they saw a weapon. fandom sees a trope. both refuse to look deeper. and maybe that’s what makes his quiet strength all the more tragic: that even now, after everything, so many still can’t find it in themselves to treat his endurance with the same empathy they give to someone who gave up.
the strength nobody wants to acknowledge
everyone talks about satoru being the strongest in terms of raw power. six eyes, infinity, hollow purple—yeah, he's op as hell. but his real strength, the one that actually defines him as a character, is something entirely different.
satoru gojo looked at a world that:
isolated him from birth
treated him as a weapon rather than a person
gave him godlike power with no guidance on how to use it responsibly
failed to protect his best friend
constantly demanded everything from him while giving nothing back
would have been perfectly fine with him becoming a tyrant as long as he protected their interests
and he said “no, i'm going to be better than this.”
not because someone taught him to be better. not because he had a strong support system. not because the world gave him reasons to hope. he chose to be better because that's who he decided to be, in the face of every circumstance that should have made him worse.
he chose to:
become a teacher who genuinely cares about his students' wellbeing and growth
work within a corrupt system to change it rather than tear it down
use his power to protect rather than dominate
maintain his sense of humor and humanity despite carrying unimaginable burdens
believe in the next generation enough to literally bet his life on them
never stop trying to save people, even people who've given up on themselves
the mischaracterization that reveals others' limitations
the way parts of this fandom consistently underestimate satoru's internal strength reveals something uncomfortable about how many people process exceptional resilience. they're so used to stories where good people are broken by bad circumstances that they don't know what to do with a character who endures and remains good anyway.
so they rewrite his story. they make him naive instead of recognizing that he chooses to see the world's potential for good despite evidence to the contrary. they make him emotionally dependent instead of acknowledging that he formed deep bonds despite having no model for healthy relationships. they make his strength into a weakness, his principles into privilege, his resilience into denial.
but here's the thing: satoru gojo spent his entire life surrounded by people who would have been perfectly fine with him becoming a monster. the zenin clan would have loved a satoru who believed in might makes right. the higher-ups would have been thrilled with a satoru who saw non-sorcerers as expendable. a corrupt system would have welcomed a corrupted strongest sorcerer with open arms.
the fact that he looked at all of that and said “i choose to be kind anyway” isn't naivety. it's not privilege. it's not emotional dependence.
it's moral strength on a level that most people can't even conceptualize, let alone replicate.
why suguru's fall makes satoru's resilience more impressive, not less
suguru had advantages satoru never did: a loving family, natural social connections, validation from others, a clear sense of purpose. and when the pressure became too much, he broke. that's human. that's understandable. that's tragic.
but it also makes satoru's resilience even more remarkable. he had fewer resources, less support, more pressure, and greater isolation. by every logical measure, he should have broken first and broken harder.
the fact that he didn't isn't a failure of the writing or a sign that his trauma wasn't “real enough.” it's evidence of a kind of internal strength that's so rare it seems almost fictional—which, ironically, is probably why it appears in fiction.
the flower quote and understanding without reciprocity
satoru once said something about being able to admire a flower without expecting it to understand you in return. it was about his relationship with regular people—how he could protect and care for them without needing them to comprehend his experience or validate his choices.
that quote encapsulates everything about his character that people miss. he didn't need others to understand his burden to make it worth carrying. he didn't need validation to know his principles were right. he didn't need reciprocity to keep giving.
most people in his world either feared him, used him, or put him on a pedestal. very few actually saw him as a complete person with his own struggles and growth. and yet he kept protecting them anyway. that's not emotional detachment—that's love so profound it doesn't require understanding to exist.
the love that bears the unbearable
satoru himself said that “love is the most twisted curse of all,” but his entire character arc is proof that love—not romantic love, but love for humanity, for the future, for people who will never know his name—is also the only force strong enough to bear the unbearable.
he loved his students enough to die for the possibility of their future. he loved the world enough to keep protecting it even when it gave him nothing but pain in return. he loved the idea of change enough to work within a system he could have easily destroyed.
that kind of love doesn't come from external validation or support systems. it comes from a depth of character that's almost incomprehensible in its strength.
recognizing true strength when you see it
as someone who naturally tends toward cynicism about human nature and the world's capacity for good, i find satoru's character deeply moving precisely because his hope isn't naive—it's defiant. he sees the darkness clearly and chooses light anyway. he understands how cruel people can be and decides to be kind anyway. he knows the system is broken and works to fix it anyway.
that's not the behavior of someone who doesn't understand pain or hasn't experienced trauma. that's the behavior of someone who has looked directly into the abyss and decided not to become it.
people who truly understand satoru gojo recognize that his greatest power was never his cursed technique—it was his refusal to let the world's darkness consume his capacity for love. that's a strength so rare and so valuable that it deserves to be seen and celebrated, not diminished or rewritten to fit more comfortable narratives about how people respond to pain.
the real tragedy
the real tragedy isn't that suguru fell—though that is tragic. the real tragedy is that satoru spent his entire life being misunderstood, even by people who claimed to care about him. he was seen as a weapon by his enemies, a tool by the system, and apparently, according to large portions of this fandom, as incomplete without the person who ultimately chose to become everything he stood against.
satoru gojo deserved to be seen for what he actually was: not just the strongest sorcerer, but one of the strongest people to ever exist in any story. his power was never his most impressive trait. his most impressive trait was that he had every reason to become a monster and chose to be a protector instead.
conclusion: putting respect on his name
satoru gojo might be overrated in powerscaling discussions, but he's criminally underrated in character analysis. large portions of this fandom will write thesis-length posts about why various morally gray characters deserve sympathy and understanding, but somehow can't extend that same analytical energy to recognizing the almost supernatural level of moral fortitude it took for satoru to become who he was.
his greatest strength was never infinity or six eyes. his greatest strength was looking at a world designed to corrupt him and choosing love anyway. choosing hope anyway. choosing to believe in others anyway.
if that's not the most powerful character writing in the series, then people are reading different stories.
it's time for more people to stop underestimating satoru gojo's heart and start recognizing it as the most impressive thing about him. because in a world full of characters who break under pressure, he stands as proof that sometimes—rarely, miraculously—people can endure the unendurable and come out kinder instead of crueler.
and that's a kind of strength that deserves more respect than certain parts of this fandom have ever given it.
Rereading Hashirama’s flashback, I honestly don’t understand why Tobirama hated and feared Madara so much. Madara didn’t even go near him and was willing to put behind the death of Izuna yet somehow that wasn’t enough for him to trust him. Madara having a breakdown after losing Izuna and fighting Hashirama a full day is understandable given just how much Izuna meant to him. I don’t see how that justifies the curse of hatred theory or the Uchiha massacre.
Maybe it was when Madara attacked Konoha with the Kyuubi?
Still the entire fight was away from Konoha and it seems to me the purpose of that fight was to goad Hashirama out for Madara to obtain his cells. Hashirama also sealed the Kyuubi in Mito and distributed the tailed beasts to other villages so the threat of the tailed beasts just doesn’t make sense. The uchiha also turned their backs on Madara and devoted themselves to Konoha. I literally can’t find any rational explanation to justify his irrational fear and hatred towards the uchiha.
All my life I had believed that no sane man would kill his own brother. Yet you come here, old friend, and strike me down from the back after you called me your brother. Am I not honourable enough to die like a proper ninja? To receive your strike from the front? I see that you come and impale me in the way as ambushers do, because you ambushed me.
These eyes of mine don’t only see through the movements, they see through you, Hashirama. You have been lying to me. All this time you had the power and influence to give my peacemaking efforts some of its deserved relevance. Why did you ignore me? Why would you ignore your brother? Or was it all a scheme of yours to get me into complying?
You know that I miss my brother. The real one. And you used my grief in the most cowardly way to drag me into whatever you’ve decided to turn Konoha into. This is also mine! I shook your hand in the name of all my family members who died in this pointless war!
Old friend, you should have killed me when you rightfully striked me down. That time where I first used the Susano’o I could’ve died a honourable death by your hand, yet you denied that to me. And now you take me from the back. It is clear to me now that you never had the intention to respect me, but you still had the nerve to call me your brother. You played me into the illusion that I could find a family that wasn’t mine by blood but by covenant, so don’t complain when I try to give everyone the illusion that is your peace with the Eye of the Moon.
Purple's notes:
Day 5 is finally here! This is my submission for today, a bit of a heartfelt letter/monologue. The Madara Week event is hosted by @uchiha-event and I encourage people to check the wonderful pieces that the Madara fandom is making.
To give you an idea about what I think of Tobirama: My friend, with whom I have been discussing the Founders and stuff for over a year, believed until recently, that I hated Tobirama. Which is not true. I love him! I just also think he’s terrible!
Do you perhaps have any headcanons on the relationship between Senju brothers and their father? The little we got to see of Butsuma Senju showed only his bad sides; do you think he was actually that cruel to his kids? Especially towards Hashirama, since he questioned his father's principles the most.
yES.
This got preeeetty damn long, so this is all under a cut! :U
he just stomps around everywhere?? like you will hear him coming! the man is not subtle!
speaking of not subtle, every time he arrives on the battlefield he somehow always manages to jump down from some high faraway place and then proceeds to create his signature billowing cloud of dust. when he lands, the earth shakes. he’s hard to miss
never really talks about his personal life in a manga full of highly dramatic characters with extremely tragic backstories (which is especially interesting because he is one of those highly dramatic characters with an extremely tragic backstory)!!! like fuckin go for it madara!! repress that shit!! never address the origins of your own trauma!!! relatable!!!!
the second meteorite. i laugh every time
his big huge evil plan that he carefully orchestrated for decades or whatever literally failed at every single turn and he’s always offhandedly like “oh well” while getting his arm cut off or something. he is the embodiment of the shrug emoji. he is the painting of the guy who’s like “lol getting stabbed what can you do”.
has a great villainous laugh (arguably the best villainous laugh out of all the uchihas)
but also, his normal laugh is cute
sat right down in the middle of a world war and waited for hashirama to show up and fight him
so desperate for hashirama’s attention and admiration??? also relatable
ok picture this: madara uchiha (the real madara, mind you) has been dead for what? 20 or so years? he gets revived with edo tensei, busts down the door to his own coffin (creating yet another big cloud of dust, of course), steps out all dramatically (of course), and then is looking around like “finally.” excuse me???? finally??????? you have been Dead this whole time, my good bitch, you were not AWARE of the PASSING OF TIME. i swear to fucking god madara
Whenever any question comes up about Madara's leadership one thing I see is that most individuals concur on the thing that Madara is a terrible leader. People judge his authority for the most part based on one scene from Hashirama's flashback where Madara leaves his clan on the battlefield and flees away with a mortally injured Izuna.
Other things like him depending on Izuna to lead their clan and him being incapable to have somebody standing behind him are also brought up to justify that he is a totally bad leader.
So firstly depending on others isn't a characteristic of a terrible leader. It shows that you simply care about your people's opinions.
And depending on his brother was a great choice I might say.
Like Izuna was not somebody unreliable in addition,if Madara was incapable to see any flaws since being a leader is one hell of a task Izuna would have been able to see them and correct Madara in case he was to take a bad decision.
Besides, I figure his weakness of people standing behind him isn't about him being incapable to lead others, it's about him being incapable to trust others with things since of the environment he grew up in during the warring states period.
So the only thing that justifies not calling him a great leader is that he fled with Izuna and left his clan individuals. Whenver things include Izuna he continuously puts his small brother first.
He acted based on his emotions rather than judging the situation. His primary action as a leader would have been to put his feelings aside and stand his ground and empower his people to battle on even though one of the stronger and more vital members is lethally harmed.
Though I can't justify his this choice as a clan leader I won't call him a bad leader either. Why you may ask it's because if you are judging his leadership and calling him a bad leader based on one of his mistakes, you ought to too bring up his good side as a leader.
A bad leader would continuously attempt to force his people to follow his every choice whether it's great or terrible, but have you ever seen him doing that? After the settlement when he proposed to his people that they should leave the village with him and his clan denied he did not force them to come with him . the clan was free to express their conclusions and had the freedom to think on their own.
Also, a bad leader would try to blame others for his failure, but have you ever seen him doing that either? He from time to time transparently admitted inferiority to Hashirama.
He was exceptionally straightforward and honest as a leader and did not twist things to gain sympathy.
One other thing people say is that he looks threatening and unapproachable. how could his clan individuals talk about their needs and all. Well, it's not like he ever said don't try to talk to me.
Like if you can't talk to somebody since you think he is scary and unapproachable it's completely your fault, not theirs it's you judging them.
Moreover, another thing while Madara being weaker than Hashirama was a reason there are other reasons for the Uchiha's defeat.
Obito explained to Sasuke how the clans were enlisted by nations for their purpose by bidding and foe nations were enlisting the Senjus and Uchihas to clash against each other.
We have seen how Senjus from time to time overwhelmed the Uchihas so it is highly possible that the Senjus were getting the leading offerings whereas the Uchihas were not so the Senju had the advantage of having better types of gear and armours and medications.
Whereas the uchihas due to their desperate condition were incapable to accumulate nessesary things that are required for shinobis like appropriate war equipments, armours and medication this played an important role.
Moreover it is specified that not each Uchiha can gain fully developed sharingan indeed between the clan it was a rarity to awaken MS or EMS so it is safe to assume most of them did not have ems or ms. So we should too take their physical and visual capabilities in consideration and say it too played a vital role.
Additionally I believe they did not agree with Madara to leave the village not because Madara's a bad leader it's because after the settlement they were in a much monetarily steady position than before and did not think through about their place in the village and also they did not want to fight any longer. And started to distrust Madara and thought he was trying to reignite the flames of war.(I could not think of any other reason about why they decided to stay with the senjus even though the village was senju-centric and rumours were flying around about them. maybe they did not think they'd be mistreated. If anyone knows about other reasons feel free to mention them since I can't remember anything other than this at this moment).
Afterall what I'm saying is that you can call Madara a flawed leader. He was not perfect as a leader(well no one else was whether they were clan leaders or Kages), but he was not completely a bad leader .It's not like all he did was bad and his leadership was the sole reason why the uchihas were defeated. If you're bringing his bad side up then might as well bring the good side up and say that he is a flawed leader rather than a completely bad leader .
In Naruto, the Warring States Era (戦国時代, Sengoku Jidai) is a period of near-constant wars between the countries. It was an armed conflict between the countries, not the shinobi clans. The Senju and the Uchiha clans happened to face each other, while fighting for opposite countries, and ultimately started their own war because they believed that one clan must be defeated at all cost.
Since there was no predominance for decades, the two clans had to prepare for their next challenge: overcoming their differences, and signing an eventual peace treaty. The peace negotiations were started by the innocent, yet truly devastating, friendship between Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, both the future heads of their respective clans.
Hashirama and Madara met as kids during their hardest times. Both had just lost their siblings in the war, and both desired to bring peace to the world.
Madara, however, had a quite different idea of peace than Hashirama
His views were more simplistic, and emotionally oriented; all he wanted was to be able to tell his last name without having to fear that he’ll be killed. He wanted people not to hide their real selves of fear. His ideology had nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with villages or creating an entirely new system. He didn’t want to abolish the war, because he knew that in this world wars were an essential instrument for expressing a country’s interests. Yearning for world peace seemed more like an utopia rather than a well-structured plan for surviving. Even Tobirama have suggested that if the two clans want to end the war, they should sign a peace contract.
So, where do the problems come exactly from?
Madara is said to have been one of Tajima’s five sons (or four, correct me if I’m wrong), ultimately losing his siblings with Izuna being the only exception. Madara’s only goal towards his early twenties is to protect his little brother. This is his idea of peace. It’s not for the collective, it’s for the individual’s survival, the separate human being, the unjustified suffering of the shinobi. By ensuring peace between the clans, he’d ensure a good life for his family, more spesifically for Izuna. He had never pictured Hashirama along his family, his clan, nor he ever planned to include Hashirama in his own plans for peace.
This is where Hashirama’s delusions come to life
Let’s admit one thing that’s right for sure. Hashirama is way more deluded, and, of course, it’s not his fault. I’ll explain why I think in this way.
Hashirama grew up as the oldest son of Butsuma, and also lost two of his siblings one after another within a very short span of time. I’d be left with a severly damaged emotional health if I had to witness my siblings dying at the bare age of seven, while holding a sword 3x bigger than them. It’s awful. According to Butsuma, this is probably the best childhood a child could afford to live in the Warring States Era: fighting and dying for the sake of your clan. Because, you know, people will honour you.
Hashirama wants to change things. He wants world peace so that children won’t have to fight adults, won’t have to fight at all. He sees that Madara also wants peace, but it’s not the same peace. Probably Hashirama came to realise that Madara has a very different way of thinking, yet he might have refused to accept it for some reason. Otherwise, why would he keep insisting that Madara was a gift from the divine, when Madara clearly wasn’t any of it? For fuck’s sake, he even dared to choose Madara over his family, over his only living brother. I undestand that he was traumatised, depressed, couldn’t overcome the hardships of being a prodigy (LOL, as if being an alien’s reincarnation will make you a better person), but come one, don’t drag other people into your own tragedies.
He wanted someone to symphatise with his unrealistic ideals for which he already knew that they were impractical, impossible to achieve. He found Madara to be the perfect person for his purposes. No, he wasn’t. Hashirama does the exact same thing Naruto does to Sasuke, no wonder why there are cycles of hatred, wills of fire, prejudices, etc. It doesn’t matter if he does it unconsciously, he still does it. Hashirama thinks of himself as a martyr, and condescends Madara with saying things like: “yOu DeSeRvE tO bE tHe HoKaGe” or worse: “yOu AlSo HeLpEd To CrEaTe ThIs ViLlAgE, oUr ViLlAgE”, and other bullshit as well.
No gifts from the divine, no brotherly love, nothing
Hashirama blandly seeks attention, and thinks that no one before him has ever thought of world peace. He’s the inventor of the mutual love, cooperation, friendship, overcoming together the hardships of being soldiers, etc. He’s indeed the God of Shinobi, right? No single soul before his birth has ever though of that, has ever suffered as much as he did, right? He viewed his own clansmen not as comrades, but as mere soldiers.
He didn’t abide by his clan’s values, like the Uchiha did to theirs, and I wonder why, LOL. He even dared to disrespect his own father during Kawarama’s funeral. Yes, Butsuma may be strict and live by the clan’s rules, but he surely doesn’t deserve that disrespect from his oldest son. No wonder why Tobirama interfered, otherwise things would’ve been VERY different, LMAO.
What’s a family, anyways?
Hashirama has a very complicated relationship with his remaining brother, Tobirama. It’s not like Madara and Izuna’s, don’t freaking compare them. Have you noticed the way Tobirama addresses to Hashirama, and how Izuna speaks with Madara? And how Hashirama never really gets to appreciate it?
He doesn’t seem to keep in mind anything Tobirama tries to tell him. Yeah, okay, Tobirama was scared as fuck from the Uchiha clan, but I’m pretty sure the Uchiha clan had the same attitude, or at least held a grudge for losing the war. Hashirama forced his utopian dreams on everyone, with no exception.
Even Izuna knew how dangerous a peace treaty with the Senju clan would be. Both he and Tobirama try to take their brothers’ asses out of this bullshit.
Well, unfortunately, Tobirama takes this sort of a competition too far when he kills Izuna, and guess what?
(Note: I can’t really tell whose fault was this, but it’s a fact that Izuna was weaker than Tobirama during their last fight. I’m all pro-Uchiha, but come on, they’re not immortall.)
Hashirama decides that the best way to overcome this is to create a village, and the two clans begin to heal up through love and mutual cooperation. Cool, isn’t it? It’s not like Madara wanted Hashirama to choose between killing himself or killing Tobirama, nope, nothing like that, right? No one was traumatised, everyone was happy at the end.
There’s no coming back
The first hidden village was established, and other countries also followed the same pattern. It happened literally within a couple of months after the Warring States Era’s end. Madara surely had nothing to lose after Izuna’s death. I’d be very, very frustrated to live with the murderer of my sibling, too. I’d also be very frustrated if I was the murderer of someone’s sibling, and had to live with the guilt on. (Well, since Tobirama never expressed any emotions at all, I believe that he doesn’t feel sorry? I dunno. He may be, he may not be. No one really knows shit about this guy.)
And he was right for declaring war on Hashirama. I don’t get why some people still think that Madara had to become the Hokage when he clearly didn’t want to be in peace with the Senju clan AT ALL? His idea of peace was not collective-oriented, like Hashirama’s was.
And to make things worse, Hashirama decides to name his ideology.
The Will of Fire
There is literraly no such thing as will of fire. Like, literally. If there’s anyone who can name their ideology like that, it’d be the Uchiha clan because of their fire affinity. Not Hashirama Senju with his Buddha hands, Wood Release, and other totally undeserved power-ups.
How many are the victims of this ideology?
Tobirama - Iiiiii kinda feel bad for him, though most of his actions cannot be justified, for example his prejudice against the Uchiha clan. However, the only evidence we have is Orochimaru’s statement, LOL. He was indeed a genius for his times, despite him having created the Edo Tensei, which freaking creeps me out. There were grave robbers in our history, too, when we didn’t have the required technology, so I guess it’s not a big deal, lol. Anyway, the reason I think that he’s a victim of Hashirama’s ideology is obvious. He was already wise when he was a kid, and he had such a horrible downgrade as an adult. I’d be freaking mentally exhausted if I had to take care of every single problem my brother has caused. =(
Madara - It’s obvious, isn’t it? He was right. Don’t argue with me on that.
Izuna - LOL, sounds funny, but it’s actually sad. My boy died for nothing.
Mito - LOOOOL, girl???? Was she mental at all? I mean, she was pretty, obviously power enough to contain a beast, but come on.
Hiruzen - um, more like the hardcore believer than the victim. Was 99999x times deluded than Hashirama.
Danzou - DO I REALLY NEED TO SAY IT?
Sakumo Hatake - My boy was rejected by his own village for neglecting the rules.
Obito Uchiha - ah, shit, here we go again.
NARUTOO UZUMAKIII - he’s the freaking main character, yet he completely turned out to be a carbon copy of Hashirama =(
Neji and Hizashi - :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Tsunade, Dan, Nawaki - lol, but yeah
Itachi Uchiha - lol, more like he killed his entire clan in the name of the Will of Fire
Shisui Uchiha - who are you???
Kagami - he was a good guy, I guess, good enough to be liked by Tobirama, which means he was A GOD????
Sasuke Uchiha - the greatest antihero and martyr of all anime characters. That’s it. He was done dirty in Boruto.
I still think that this problem can be fixed in some way.
If we go back to the Warring States Period, the Senju clan could’ve easily signed some peace treaties with other clans, AND establish a village.
The Uchiha clan is likely to follow their example, AND do the same.
The hidden villages system could still exist, without people having to cope with long-term traumas, without having to force your ideas on entire ethnicities, on your family, on your friends, etc. There you have it. I guess it’s perfect now, lol.
The New Generation
Honestly, I don’t really give a shit about Boruto. Some character designs are nice, some chapters catch my attention, but nothing else stands out.
