i know mo ran and chu wanning have canonically beat and tortured each other but they are also the most loving couple to exist. i mean this completely unironically
👍one of those things you gotta experience to understand… if you told pre-Ranwan me one of my all-time top OTPs is a rapist x his victim I would have told you you’re delusional, yet here we are
Former cop Mo Ran, after the death of Shi Mei due to the negligence of his mentor CWN, leaves the force and gets involved in some shady shit as a way of seeking vigilante justice on his own. Years later, after he’s risen the ranks of the organization…. He meets CWN again.
At first, he barely recognizes him. Dolled up, the fire in him that had flamed now smothered beneath silk and jewels, he clings to the arm of the shadowy head, Hua Binan. When his eyes meet with Mo Ran’s though, there’s a panic in him so palpable, Mo Ran can almost taste it.
Somehow, in a disgusting display that sets Mo Ran’s teeth on edge for reasons he can’t begin to understand, CWN excuses himself from where HBN keeps him all but literally collared at his side.
The look he throws Mo Ran tells him to follow as he disappears towards the bathroom.
i think the reason that people so easily overlook how like… absolutely crazy and repressed naruto is is because he’s so emotional and open about everything else. he’s really a character that wears his heart on his sleeve, so its easy to take him at face value esp since naruto’s talk no jutsu is jus the sum of him being hyper empathetic with like everyone he meets but like… the fact that naruto can feel so much but always for other people and never himself is kind of the point? he spends so much time being upset over sasuke and other people and events in the series but we very rarely see him apply any of that empathy towards himself. even at the waterfalls of truth, when faced with his own irritation and anger towards the village he doesn’t like… really acknowledge or work through any of it. “dark” naruto is like yeah you were abused and neglected and shunned your entire life and now people wanna treat you like a hero despite always hating you? because you were willing to die for them? and you’re jus ok with that? and naruto’s like “yes. bcoz i will b hokage :D” and then he hugs himself and pushes all that shit deep deep down LOL… it’s so crazy because naruto will get pissed over how gaara was treated, he’ll get pissed over sasuke, he went absolutely fucking insane at orochimaru for just TALKING about sasuke in a way he didn’t like, but as soon as it’s about himself he’s so docile!
like. he’s fucking crazy. sasuke gets perceived as more mentally ill and traumatized because sasuke is like… open and aware of how wrong his situation is like he KNOWS its all fucked up and he’s not okay with it and people take what are….. pretty reasonable responses to unreasonable situations sasuke’s placed in as like inane or ridiculous. meanwhile naruto jus spends all his time feeling and emoting for other people and actively shoving his own hurt and trauma down because that’s what he thinks a hero is supposed to be, and he’s afraid that if he lashes out he’ll be shunned again. and it’s not the sort of thing where naruto will be sad for himself when he’s alone and he’s putting on a performance for other people, naruto is like always actively desperately trying to tell himself that he’s okay and it’s fine that he was treated like trash because everyone likes him now. and everyone around him encourages it and holds him up as a hero and like some beacon of goodness because it benefits them for naruto to never hold anyone accountable for his suffering.
like!!!! the way naruto talks about his childhood sucks, he always talks about it so abstractly and vaguely like it wasn’t anyone’s fault that he was shunned and isolated from everyone around him, that’s jus the way things had to be and yay!!! he overcame it!!!! :D!!!! he’s not hurting anymore because friendship!!!!! like long story short naruto won’t even acknowledge that he’s still in pain and that how he was treated was wrong and there needs to be some responsibility taken by the people who apparently adore him, and that’s why im beating everyone in konoha over the head with a real big rock and dragging naruto to therapy thank u
exactly EXACTLY, it always annoys me seeing posts downplaying naruto’s situation and being all “X chara had it worse” like pls, naruto already downplays his own experiences a whole lot jfc. It was told so vaguely and badly that no one takes it seriously. He’s constantly gaslighting himself to the point that he actually believes that he’s already fine just cause he already has friends and everything is magically ok (when it’s really not) his past only gets shown up when he is empathizing with people or when someone dies or smth and it makes me rly sad.
ur right about him being afraid to lash out, like rly, i bet he still somehow believes he’s only worth liking if he was useful and /there/ for everyone. i mean it took him almost always dying to be treated like a human being which, should already been done in the beginning. I wish dark naruto had been more explored. Like i get his whole thing is being a very forgiving (to a fault) character but it just ughhhh. And the fact that after all this he just…marries……without addressing all of his issues. Has he ever lived his life actually, not for anyone else but his own? Most of his life has been spent chasing over Sasuke and then immediately afterwards, he’s tied down again? and then a dad already? at ? 20 something? not even breathing room to let him develop into his own character. baby u still prolly have self destructing and people pleasing tendencies. wonder how much of his actions were bc thats what he thinks is expected of him. one day he’s hated by everyone and the next his ass is getting kissed and the whole world is on his fucking shoulders, and u got ppl who constantly remind him of this, more or less implying that if he fails then it’s gonna suck so hard, and then he gets kids, so MORE responsibilities on top of being hokage. naruto, when will your life be living for yourself actually?
i def have more to say but im quite soup but yeahhahahahahah fuckin hate konoha, what do ppl even like abt that place it’s the shittiest village
