Blinded

Heh, finally. With this my spare time for doing far art is now officially finished, since the last exams weeks are soon...
Who the hell has invented Nuclear Chemistry. Had that guy had to find some goddamn latin words we had to memorize in menstrual circle? Or why are there so many factors used in Physics! Heck, there's a frictional force in that system and I want to use it! It makes things much clearer! If there weren't any force that damn ball with a mass of m couldn’t have moved in the first place!
I'm a lunatic. Forgive me.
Now, I'm tired of calculating how many second will it take a child with 2 m/s.s acceleration to finally realize that he just can't ever reach that bus that's just started accelerating, and heck, I'm tired of school altogether...
Now that I'm finished with ranting...
This is a scene from a must-read ItaSaku oneshot, "Blood Limit" Search it on FF. I don't know how to put a link...
Actually I was pretty much limited while doing this. I'm not very used to draw manga-anime style, actually the "drawing" part at all sooo...I wish I could do better. I knew I was not good with poses and anatomy yet, so I focused on eyes and facial expressions. Itachî's face, don't complain, at least he looks handsome - after redrawing it 17 times, he had to be.
Now I know why Kishi actually focuses on Uchiha more than any other but didn't make Sasuke the main character. It's because the amount of time it takes to make the"uchiha face"
Grr. Actually, I' kidding. But had he made Sasuke the main character, there wouldn't be that much of character bashing in Naruto. People tend to be emphatic towards the main char, while simply opposing anyone that rivaled him.

Wanna continue your own version of Sasuke-bashing, go away. Or simply don’t complain about it with a comment. I’m tired of the pigheadedness and insensitiveness of some people, and yes, I do choose to rant here, cuz there’s no other place and I need to let out!


Actually I would say more, but just this is enough, I started Naruto because somebody who abhorred Sasuke got me into it. And somehow I didn't end up hating him. And I hate brunets.
There are only two people in Naruto that has experienced a true trauma, what Naruto, Neji and Rock Lee lived trough were not the same. It didn't include horror, of fear, or most importanty *shock*. And Gaara managed to change because there wasn't anything left that could trigger the trauma. He was ready to be healed.
How was Sasuke before Itachi came to Konoha? He was doing Naruto speeches and was telling how he never wanted to see somebody die in front of him again. Sakura and Naruto. Then came Itachi. He again lived the same night which triggered his trauma. His bouts of jealousy of Naruto didn't start until after Itachi's arrival. He wasn't the same before.
Could you even LIVE through seeing your whole family killed right before your very eyes by the one you idolized and leaned on?
Wasn't Sasuke considered a traitor because he was willing to give up his eyes to Orochi and endanger Konoha? Well, we finally learn that he'd never thought of letting that happen. He also had the decency to not kill anyone he met on his way.
And it's not the question of what's right or wrong. We have a kid who has had a family killed before him-regardless of whether they'd deserved it or not- and had loneliness as a consequence of a trauma at the age of 7. The old “you-can’t miss-what-you-never-had-noooo-having-once-is-better-than-having-none” talks, explain them to a child of 7. He won’t be content with the seven years he had, whatever you say. You’re not talking about and adult here.
The only goddamn reason why people don’t consider Sasuke a sympathic char. is that they don’t even try to sympathize.
Prejudice, character rivaling, prejudice and insensitiveness, choosing the easy way out and just simply hate Sasuke. Narto would be ashamed of you. Ishi is already probably ashamed of you.
Sorry guys, but wasn’t Sasuke the one who boasted up Sakura’s self esteem when Naruto could only look around dumbly? Admitting she was better than him at something? Wonder why he did that.
Hmm. And then he goes and risks his life for Naruto’s. And then Sakura’s. If the guy really cares about nothing at all, why did he do those??
Those only changed after Itachi. What he did say to Naruto and Sakura when he met them, sorry but EVERYONE were thinking the same in the first chapters of Naruto. There wasn’t a goddamn critic who’d praised Naruto at first. Then those Naruto bashers turn “oh-Naruto is awesome” and then” die Sasuke” and then tell Kishi that he screws Naruto because he focuses too much on Sasuke. Guys, Kishi’s favorite IS Sasuke. Read about that Naruto-like author and mangeka a little!
And then there are some who pity Sasuke because now he knows that everything he’s been through is worth nothing, but not because of what he’d lived through cuz it was simply not an excuse for being misguided and that betrayal, a betrayal which we learn later, is not a complete betrayal.
Sometimes I wanna kill everyone such people hold dear. It’s not because I hate people who hate Sasuke, I hate some people who can overlook such event in his past because of some damn prejudice or simply conditioned dislike, and who might as well scoff at little naughty orphans in the streets or outcast madman and do nothing what a real man should to; just empathize. It’s the thought of prejudice getting in the way of mercy and pity in the real life that drives me crazy!
And one other thing; Sasuke is not a Gary Stu. A Gary Stu is a disgustingly perfect character who gives those-holies*than*thou speeches and such and everyone listens to him in awe.
Unfortunately the only thing the guy says is his past with his family, and unfortunately no other character in the history of literature had such a past in such an imaginary world and was accused of being Gary Stu.
The most Gary character on earth is Romeo… No body is bashing him.
Now, I hope you do realize that Sasuke has always been the antithesis of Naruto, even his clothes are in contrast with his. Naruto is always the unacknowledged, physically imperfect one while mentally Kishi emphasizes over and over again that he’s the strongest because of his positive outlook on life, maybe a bit more than necessary. And Sasuke is always the picture-perfect, the sought after while again, the guy makes it clear that he’s the broken, mentally unstable one. Their perfections and imperfections balance each other out.
The only Gary Stu symptom with Sasuke is his cool façade that I find it pretty much impossible for a child to get over such a trauma unscathed like that. Only In recent chapters he’s started showing true signs of trauma, again believe, triggered by the battle of Itachi and also the confrontation with Itachi that made him leave Konoha in Part I.
Yes, the only places in the manga where people make an excuse to hate the guy are where the guy justifies his motives.
And why Sasuke is such an expressionless bastart? Wiki Kishi. He wanted to make him the complete opposite of Naruto, who show emocion at every goddamn panel. Unike Naruto, whom Kishi merges some part of his own character with, Sasuke is a challenge. A little line and bum, he shows an emocion! He has to open his mouth and damn, it has to be cryptic!
Was it ever a wonder why an artist loves the creation that challenges him the most??? Stop bashing Kishi!
Now I'm finally feeling...good.