Midnight Thoughts In Genjutsu

Midnight thoughts in genjutsu

from a mind that barely remembers naruto.

I was thinking of the differences between normal genjutsu and Sharingan fuelled genjutsu. Why one seems to be stronger than the other? How does genjutsu in itself works?

Genjutsu is the art of making illusions, and Yours Truly believes that normal genjutsu not casted by a dōjutsu works more like a mental virus, and that genjutsu casted with the aid of a dōjutsu (Sharingan, Ketsuryūgan) is more like an autoimmune disease.

Why though?

There are two types of regular genjutsu, but in my mind all types of genjutsu work kind of the same.

Regular Genjutsu inserts the caster's chakra in the castee's brain, and it twist and tangles your senses, causing the hallucinations. I think that it is very hard and not as effective as a dōjutsu because of the use of the foreign chakra, your brain and your body will notice something is *wrong* and it will try to purge it out of your body, so i think the better a caster can trick your brain into not going into STRANGER DANGER mode, the better their Genjutsu is.

Of course that only in the "convincing your brain part", because even if they do that perfectly, I think you are bound to question reality if you find a pink elephant in the middle of a valley, or, speaking about valley's, your uncanny valley might skyrocket if the caster doesn't know how to properly imitate a human face.

Unless the caster convinced you that, yes, a pink elephant appearing out of nowhere in this valley is completely normal, yep, totally okay, nothing weird here! I guess.

So what about a Genjutsu casted by a dōjutsu?

Like I said, it is more like an autoimmune disease. Instead of pushing your own alien chakra into your victim, you are actually making THEIR chakra cast the illusion on themselves, knotting their five(six?) senses, creating their own hallucinations.

You are making their chakra do the job with your own, though, I do not believe you can just control the chakra system of a rando with your goddam mind yk, makes no sense.

Of course I also think the caster with a Sharingan has to have at least some understanding of genjutsu and it's theory before being able to pull shit like Itachi off.

Alright I'm off to bed, good night supernovas!!

Simone DiMeo killing it as always

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god please take every traumatic incident i had as a younger sibling and give it to tim drake

For that matter, I also kinda wish we saw more of like….characters during the time period Dick was believed dead, looking at Bruce’s behavior and feeling it was just plain WEIRD given how it differed from his behavior after Jason and Damian’s deaths. Did nobody really go….hey, something is fucked up here, that Bruce hardly seems phased that Dick’s dead, when he completely lost his shit the two previous times his sons died?

Tbh, most of my issues with the reactions of various characters to Dick’s return, like….a lot of it has to do with how they made themselves out to be the victims of HIS callous lies or whatever, with zero regard to what he’d suffered and what all of that had cost him, yes, true. 

But beyond that, a large gripe of mine is how none of their reactions led to any kind of….awareness about their own past histories with Dick and the double standards they held within their own personal dynamics with him.

The way Jason punched Dick and gave him shit for letting him believe he was dead, that Jason mourned him, grieved for him, that you just don’t do that to your brother, to another Robin….but nowhere in canon or fanon did this ever lead to Jason reflecting on his and Dick’s history together and from this and his experiences here, like….revising his impression of the time HE was believed dead and what Dick must have felt and gone through….when for several years, Jason was off training with the League while Dick still believed him dead, still mourned him, grieved for him, even though Jason could have at any point revealed to him that he was alive.

The way Tim judged Dick for doing what they all would have expected Bruce to do, but never Dick to do…..but nowhere in canon or fanon did this ever lead to Tim reflecting on their past conflicts and examining past expectations he’d held that had led to problems between them. Like the fact that Tim historically has a hard time accepting any loved ones’ deaths, especially in light of how often heroes come back from the dead, and all of that was a huge part of what he cited as his problem with Dick not believing him about Bruce being alive….and yet none of that behavior was on display in Tim’s own reaction to being told Dick was dead. 

There was no sign of Tim ever having doubts about Dick being dead, searching for alternative explanations, when the one he and the others were given had to be extremely flimsy at best, just to begin with. That there was no hint of Tim ever having considered going to extreme lengths to bring Dick back, like when he’d tried to clone Kon, or contemplated using the Lazarus Pit to revive his parents, or tirelessly searched around the globe for proof that Bruce was alive even when all he really had at first was a hunch and was looking for anything he could hold up as evidence he was right, when pretty much no one believed him.

The way Barbara said Dick Grayson managed to disappoint her yet again…..but nowhere in canon or fanon did this ever lead to Barbara asking herself or explaining to anyone else just what the hell has Dick ever done to her that counts as such a massive disappointment that her first reaction to seeing one of her oldest friends alive and back from the dead is disappointment, rather than celebration? And that similarly, nowhere in canon or fanon did this ever get examined in reverse, to ask if Barbara has ever been the one disappointing Dick instead - did he maybe hope for her to take his side when Bruce fired him, instead of Barbara continuing to work alongside Batman and offer no actual objection to Bruce giving away a name and title she knew didn’t belong to him, to give out to someone else? 

In fanon mergings of timelines, did he maybe resent her for sending him away when Firefly burned down his circus, or other times he tried turning to her but got rebuffed? Again, nothing about Barbara’s reaction, just like Jason and Tim’s, ever led to an honest examination of their dynamic or deepening of it by acknowledging that things are a two way street - instead it was just accepted, noted and moved past, all at face value: Dick’s return after being believed dead was obviously just evidence of him having disappointed her yet again - without even mention of what those previous disappointments on this level were supposed to have been.

Like, I’m just saying….post-Spyral is hardly the only time I think the characters have been too quick to view their dynamics with Dick as a one way street, and them somehow always the ones who are being subjected to his actions, and never the other way around…..but it is one of the most evident examples of it, IMO, and how rarely its picked up on…let alone capitalized on as an opportunity to explore the reverse for a change.

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about