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Okk this a weird question, but how does Itachi talk? Like in all noble like way? Or just you know, normal, or commoners type of talk? In one of the english dub, he says “hey, whats up”to his brother, that is a talk most people talk in, in a easygoing way. I know weird question, but i wanna know.

[[ It’s not in a noble, stuck-up way. But it’s not entirely too casual, too. It’s in the middle, there. Itachi has some vocabulary that is not normal for people his age, given the whole ~more mature than others~ thing he has going on. He is more intelligent, and rational in a lot of cases, and his speech reflects this. He doesn’t show too much emotion in his speech and in his Akatsuki time it’s really close to levels of monotone. (to keep the cold, emotionless killer mask up.)

But he’s also not reading a thesaurus at you, or refusing to use contractions ala Lee. To be fair on the part of English, they have a hard job ahead of themselves, to match things like character speech styles vs mouthflaps. It’s why Naruto’s catchprase used to be Believe it, before it was “Yanno/Y’know”.

Personally, I’d like to rewatch the English dub to nail his speech mannerisms down a bit more. The voice I have is through years of practice but may be rusty. …Plus I miss Crispin Freeman. ]]

Do you think Kishimoto writes his female characters horribly??

[[ Not at all. Too many people have misconstrued “Girl acts in way I don’t approve of” to mean “Girl character is written horribly.” And it’s usually when the girl’s make mistakes or show qualities which are negative. Newsflash, women are capable of feeling a differing range of emotions, and acting in ways which aren’t always totally helpful, or being selfish, and so on. 

Plus, when the girls do things which negatively impact other people, they always get away with it under the guise of the author being at fault.

Case In Point: Sakura is excused for screaming at Sarada and destroying their house because “Kishimoto made her do it and he’s a shitty writer” while Sasuke is continually insulted and berated for not returning home for 15 or so years to see his wife and daughter. Didn’t Kishimoto make Sasuke stay away, too? 

Sounds mighty suspicious. ]]

How did Itachi get sick?

[[ As far as I know, we’re never told in canon. 

Given nothing is mentioned about him being sick pre-massacre, we can only assume it’s something that happened during his time in Akatsuki, and rapidly began shortening his life.  There’s a super good theory about what he has, but in the end it’s just a theory. (a game theory….)

Here’s the page I have on it. 

At the best I’d assume it’s the stress that went into working for Akatsuki. He pushed his body too hard. His guilt might have made his body weaker, too. 

I believe in the Jinraiden volume, it’s mentioned that Itachi went to a special village to get his medications. I should read that and see what else about his illness is mentioned. ]]

Why are people ignoring Itachi is 13 when this happens? He’s a teenager and possibly one that hasn’t even hit puberty yet?? Plus he didn’t kill the whole clan. Didn’t he have help with that? Obito or whoever?

[[ Because people have this awful mindset that Itachi was “too mature” and therefore he’s solely responsible for his own actions as if other people aren’t capable of manipulating him or using his fears against him. For Christ’s sake, he’s the same age as when Sasuke left Konoha. He was a kid. A kid with vulnerabilities, and with too much pressure on him and a superior who was deadset on getting the Uchiha killed, no matter what. 

Obito helped him, they had a deal, he’d let Obito help, as long as he didn’t harm Sasuke. So that was one more person who really wanted to get in on it, and not hurting Sasuke was just the one rule. Itachi even admits in manga he alone couldn’t have fought off the entire Uchiha clan. 

If Itachi had said no, if he sided with his clan, they would’ve died anyways. Danzo wanted them dead no matter what, a fact the person arguing with me just likes to ignore. Itachi was convenient and useful, he wasn’t some monster who was gung-ho on the idea of killing them. He avoided it as long as he could, he refused at first. The thought that the fighting might spill out and involve other countries and the loss of Shisui is what finally got him to cave and agree to the order. Itachi is fully aware what he did is heinous, and wrong, and was a betrayal. The only deaths he felt were justified were Yashiro, Tekka, and Inabi, because they were also aggressive to him, and if anyone was an example of aggressive and unhelpful Uchiha pride, it was those three. He cried when killing his parents. 

Put the blame on Danzo and Hiruzen, where it belongs. Not on Itachi. ]]

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[[ I really hope people like that don’t say that…

That sounds liken line STRAIGHT from a villain. :/

[[ It’s a classic tactic to put the blame on the person who was used, instead of the abuser.

“Well you didn’t say you were abused, so it wasn’t real.” It puts the responsibility on them to have known better, avoided it, put a stop to it, etc. The world doesn’t work that way. Itachi was 13, scared of war, suffering from PTSD and grieving the loss of his best friend and still working under the man who killed him. He felt powerless and only wanted to avoid mass fighting and protect his little brother. He was played, yet these people have the nerve to come after him as if he was solely responsible for the massacre. ]]