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I read that post you reblogged about the village using people as weapons and the terrible way they were treated, but im curious what you would say about itachi in all of this?

[[ What do you mean exactly, anon? Would I agree or disagree that Itachi was also used  by the village? Because he was definitely used. 

In fact, a lot of the reason pro-village and pro-ending people hold Itachi up as a saint is because he never fought back. Even if he could recognize the village had faults, he never had it in him to actually fight against the system. That’s what makes him the perfect victim. Itachi would actually be perfectly justified in fighting back and being angry, but that’s simply not in his personality.

Sasuke is a “brat/selfish/made bad choices” because he fought back against a system that got his clan killed and their eyeballs handed around, but Itachi is “perfect/better/to be looked up to” because  he sacrificed himself for the village, who barely did anything in return for him. ]]

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Send “✋” + a body part to find out if my muse likes being touched there.

[[ He doesn’t really care for being touched on his ears, from people close to him and from people he doesn’t trust, either. He might let people he trusts touch him there if they want to– but it does absolutely nothing for him. It doesn’t really feel nice. Ears are weird places to want to touch. ]]

Why is itachi obsessed with sasuke? You mentioned it is because of how he came into the world..what do you mean?

[[ What I mean specifically is that the timing of Sasuke being born + the things Itachi was going through at the time resulted in Itachi’s obsession. Itachi was still dealing with his Father showing him the battlefield– a gorey mess of shinobi from all nations. Though Fugaku’s intention was to show Itachi the world would always be at odds and he needed to become strong so he wasn’t a body on the field, Itachi disagreed. He wanted to become strong to end the fighting once and for all.

When Sasuke is born, Itachi swells of feelings with protection. He wants to be more grown-up so his job can be protecting his sibling. Sasuke is innocent, he has yet to see the things Itachi has. And if Itachi does his job well? He never will. He wants Sasuke to have the peace he never got. 

Itachi is an oddball in the case of kids who get an infant sibling. He never once feels jealous, and he actively wants Sasuke to get more attention from his parents. It actually ends up making Itachi angry when Sasuke gets ignored, or when people act in a way that Itachi thinks is negligent of Sasuke. Fugaku is too pre-occupied with Uchiha clan business to come to Sasuke’s Academy Ceremony? How dare you, I’m going to threaten to abandon my own mission. I’ll show up if you won’t, I actually love Sasuke, etc etc. (not at all saying Fugaku doesn’t love Sasuke, just how Itachi sees it.)

I’m going to pull the section where Sasuke is born. ]]

can obsession be considered love?

[[ I think the terms should be separate. They are two different things, and sometimes a person just feels one, and mistakes it for the other, and sometimes a person can feel both. Itachi did love him, but he also let that fester into an obsession with protecting his innocence.

At the end of his life he’s able to dial his obsession back into an unconditional love. So Itachi felt both. ]]

can itachi love izumi more than sasuke? why /why not?

[[ Itachi cannot love Izumi more than he loves Sasuke. Izumi would not come close.

The circumstances in which Sasuke entered Itachi’s life made for his obsession– they cannot easily be replicated. Itachi’s obsession with Sasuke is pretty extreme, and it wouldn’t actually help Izumi if Itachi obsessed over her in the same way. We shouldn’t wish that on other people >_>

He does care for her, and with his choice of death for her he would’ve willingly entered a relationship with her in the future had the massacre been avoided. But she would more or less be down on the ladder where everyone else is. Shisui is 2nd, and Sasuke is first. All “third” place is generally the same place and then people just fall off of it. ]]

Do you think sasuke had bad breath too

[[ From around Part 1 to 4th World war, no, or at least, definitely not as bad as Itachi had it.

Sasuke always had a home and amenities available to him. Itachi’s case is different– he is traveling with one more person, they are criminals, and they are constantly being hunted. They do not have the time to brush their teeth daily nor to carry around the tools to do so. It’s secondary to survival.

Sasuke’s always had the district, and if his Mother instilled the habit, then it would’ve stayed after she died. Sasuke was alone but learned to take care of himself. 

There may have been a few periods where dental hygiene became secondary, such as the day (two days) ??? when he left the Leaf to travel to Orochimaru. Or when he left Orochimaru’s, collected Taka, and hunted down Itachi, or the period of the war. All times when his “home” was not one stable location, and he was constantly moving. But the times when Sasuke’s residence is stable, and he has the amenities to brush his teeth/enact hygiene, he will. 

Adult Sasuke wouldn’t be as bad as Itachi, though. It is the future, and it’s likely he can carry around a little more to take care of himself while he’s traveling and finding out info about the Otsutsuki. ]]

hmm i’m thinking of ways itasasu could work out, do you think if sasuke was a girl they could get married non-massacre even though itachi seems to like izumi?

[[ I think your definition of “could work out” is different than mine. None of the examples I provided in the past are meant to say Itasasu can’t happen, simply that it will realistically have some trouble. And that’s ok– I’m not saying you should avoid that trouble. I like writing the trouble, it’s what draws me to the pairing. Perfectly healthy, functioning, Itasasu actually bores me. I don’t want to pretend the ship sails smoothly or they will never have issues, it’s not what the pairing is fundamentally about.

But– if Sasuke was a girl, it still wouldn’t happen smoothly. While the Uchiha clan has to have a degree of incest to continue to produce Sharingan bearers, they wouldn’t marry a brother and sister. The clan is not so down on numbers they would have to resort to that, nor are they as obsessed with the bloodline trait as other clans, like the Hyuuga.  Itachi would still end up with Izumi. ]]