[[ Unfortunately, there’s a few roleplay blogs (and one claiming to be a shitposting blog?) that share the headcanon that Suigetsu can’t read.
This isn’t treated like an AU, it’s treated as if it could’ve been canon, it’s used in analysis, meta, so on.
Now, obviously we’re rolling into the territory of “what? people can’t have their own headcanons now?” but the thing is a headcanon can’t work against canon. Suigetsu has proven he’s easily capable of reading. His databook page lists him as having completed multiple missions, many A and B rank, a shinobi who could not read and write reports to turn in would not have been near Jonin-level. Kirigakure is not a dump of dumb, violent brutes. This also serves to just….prop up Orochimaru. Nevermind Orochimaru experimented on him and captured him…he is nice now, and taught him how to read!
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Muses will have to be 18 or older, or you can age them up simply for the game.
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The room is Uchiha Sasuke (36 y/o) ‘s house. Please respect it as if you were entering a real person’s house. So let’s not rip up the furniture and punch holes in the walls or start brawls c:
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And here we see Suigetsu finding a scroll in Orochimaru’s secret room, being able to discern that it is something special amid a whole lot of other papers, reading it, comprehending how it can be used, and deciding that Sasuke needs to be given that thing.
He’s a competent shinobi. From a village that does have a ninja Academy. He has had at least one older family member he can remember who could have taught him things.
(He’d completed 92 official missions prior to his capture, the databook says – 2 D-rank, 33 C-rank, 40 B-rank, 13 A-rank, 4 S-rank. While 13 or younger, judging by the hints.)
Yes, he can read. No, he didn’t learn it from Orochi-fuckin-maru. If Naruto, orphaned and isolated, not paying attention in class, can read, Suigetsu definitely can, and we see him do it.
L-O-L at whoever assumes that because
Suigetsu speaks and acts rather crudely, and
he is from a pretty violent village,
he must be illiterate.
Leave your real-life prejudices at the door, people, because
what this is is the insinuation that shinobi from Kirigakure are automatically ‘less
civilized’ in comparison to villages like Konohagakure and Sunagakure. And this
is all somehow based on some assumption that Kirigakure is supposed to
symbolize a version of ‘the hood’ that happens to be full of a bunch of
illiterate hooligans taking over. Or something to that effect.
Let’s not dumb down Kirigakure to that, yeah? Their culture
and values might be different from most other villages but it does not automatically translate into ‘nothing
but barbaric and full of illiterate people’. Stop stereotyping.
Besides, Suigetsu is:
a Jonin from
one of the five great nations. Having completed 92 official missions and with
his specific abilities that are well suited for infiltration and espionage? He most definitely knew how to read, write
out reports, comprehend written information, as well as disseminate that
information whenever necessary.
a member of the Hozuki clan—one that produced a Mizukage; why would you think such a clan would want
their clansmen to be illiterate??
Suigetsu talking and acting crudely does not equate to him being stupid by any
means. He is hailed as a prodigy by
at least one person (Kisame) from the same village who held quite a high
position in the shinobi ranks there (and internationally, because heck the
Seven Swordsmen are internationally renowned).
Now we come to the Orochimaru
teaching Suigetsu how to read part. Like what the actual fuck—where did that
come from? From whose tiny mind? Orochimaru clearly
didn’t intend on teaching Suigetsu any damn thing. The only reason he picked
him up was to steal the secrets of his hydrification technique. He was a
prisoner and he was tortured. Suigetsu himself claims that his stamina’s not as
great as it used to be when Hebi/Taka take off and everyone else is complaining
about how many breaks he keeps on taking.
If he’d been in top shape and was constantly training, his stamina wouldn’t dip so low. (We’ve
been told over the course of the series that chakra levels can dip low due to
age and if a shinobi stops using ninjutsu/taijutsu etc. for a while. Two examples
would be Hanzo the Salamander, and Gai’s explanation of how building up chakra
reserves requires quite a bit of physical training) So haha yeah. If Orochimaru
‘cared’ at all, he would’ve kept him in top shape. But no, the kid was stuck in
a tank and people want to say Orochimaru taught
him to read?
Orochimaru didn’t give a shit if he died—as long as he died
giving up the secrets to his family jutsu.
So, to sum up:
Orochimaru didn’t give a shit about Suigetsu’s well-being
and cared only about the hydrification technique
Suigetsu learned all he had to learn from his family and
from his village. It was his perseverance and his will to live that saw him
through years of torture and imprisonment. Orochimaru does not get fucking credit. None.
Stop trying to paint Orochimaru as ‘uwu best Mom’. He isn’t. He
wouldn’t even know where to start.
Stop trying to trivialize imprisonment, torture and
experimentation.
And here we see Suigetsu finding a scroll in Orochimaru’s secret room, being able to discern that it is something special amid a whole lot of other papers, reading it, comprehending how it can be used, and deciding that Sasuke needs to be given that thing.
He’s a competent shinobi. From a village that does have a ninja Academy. He has had at least one older family member he can remember who could have taught him things.
(He’d completed 92 official missions prior to his capture, the databook says – 2 D-rank, 33 C-rank, 40 B-rank, 13 A-rank, 4 S-rank. While 13 or younger, judging by the hints.)
Yes, he can read. No, he didn’t learn it from Orochi-fuckin-maru. If Naruto, orphaned and isolated, not paying attention in class, can read, Suigetsu definitely can, and we see him do it.
[[ This.
I am so tired of seeing headcanons/meta/analysis claiming that Suigetsu can’t read. It infantalizes him awfully. He’s not some dumb Kiri-redneck who needs Momma Orochimaru to teach him how to read. He already KNEW how to read. He was a Jonin-level Shinobi by the time he was captured, of course he’s going to know how to read.
Stop treating him like he’s stupid. Stop treating him like a child. Stop treating him as an object to prop up Orochimaru and make him look better. Orochimaru kidnapped him and tested on him in a tank for three years, why do you people want to ignore that so much? ]]
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