Sarada Uchihas Possible Power Source Theory

Sarada Uchiha’s Possible Power Source Theory

Reasons I think Sarada will get an animal summon:

-both her parents & her sensei, Konohamaru have one

-if Sarada gets at least a summon, her, boruto (who has been using toads in TBV) & Mitsuki can fulfill the next generations 3 way deadlock.

-her encounter with sasukes snake in the anime. She was the only one not scared of him and was the most open minded about the snake. It’s important the animals actually like and choose you as well and Sarada has that going for herself!

Sage mode potential?

-as of chapter 11 it’s looking like Sarada may have to leave the village due to Hidari, sasukes 10 tails clone, hunting her down. If she goes back with Boruto she may have a chance to train with a sage animal due to Kashin Koji. This would give Sarada a place to hide from the shinju as well as train to get stronger to go back and face them. Also keeping Konoha safe with her absence

-she constantly reaffirms how Naruto is her role model, & due to his uzumaki genes & jinchuriki status, most of Naruto’s sources of power aren’t attainable for her. But sage mode can be. The databook gives her a high chakra reserve & Sakura training her in chakra control would make her a good candidate for a sage mode.

- the parallel with boruto taking on some of sasukes skills (like kenjutsu) would make it perfect for Sarada to take on something like Sage Mode in the spirit of Naruto

**since mitsuki has snakes covered, & Boruto is using the toads, I think it’d be more interesting for Sarada to get slug Sage mode so I drew her with Katsuyu. Which would be both unique to her (outside of hashirama) and a nod to her mother!

random boyfriend hcs for my favorite haikyuu boy because i would do literally anything for this man

what dating kuroo is like ♡

→ loves getting into arguments about meaningless things with you (is a hot dog is a sandwich? he thinks yes)

→ and really likes pulling at your hair when you’re not paying attention to him, like an elementary schooler who has a crush 

→ kuroo just enjoys seeing you get riled up because of him, and he thinks your reactions to him – like rolling your eyes or scowling at him – are really hot

→ you often catch him looking at you with the softest smile, especially when he sees you talking to his friends and getting along well with them

→ other people notice, too, but kuroo thinks people calling him a simp is a compliment

→ he has a habit of saying “i love you” whenever you two say goodbye to each other or end phone calls, which has resulted in him accidentally saying “i love you” to friends and teachers multiple times

→ will do anything to make you laugh!! he’s not afraid of embarrassing himself as long as it makes you crack a smile

→ if you’re shorter than him and walking down the stairs, he likes when you stand a step or two so you’re taller than he is and then bend down to kiss him

→ loves telling you about dreams he has, but he also gets embarrassed because a lot of them involve you

→ he secretly thinks you’re way out of his league, so dating you is like a dream come true. had to pinch himself on your first date together because he wasn’t sure if this was real life

→ kuroo hides his phone screen whenever he’s texting you because he wants your conversations to be just for the two of you

→ and if you send him a suggestive picture or text, he will drop everything and go to wherever you are immediately

→ he doesn’t actually know how to flirt, and if you say anything remotely flirty to him, he’ll go beet-red and just stutter for a few seconds. he’s not nearly as suave as he thinks he is lmao

→ likes to kiss your neck and make his way down to the rest of your body, too

→ also loves coming up to you from behind and resting his chin on your shoulder or the top of your head (!) kisses on the top of your head are very common

→ insists on giving you his jacket if he notices you shiver, even if it’s hot outside

→ the first time he sees you wearing his shirt, you can see him having a meltdown

→ 100% boyfriend material, and it’s obvious how much he’s in love with you <3

babes wake up, official kuroo hair-down art is released 😱😱

hehe he’s so cute

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i’m! gonna ramble abt haikyuu (and specifically its good writing choices) bc special interest really does give me that sweet sweet serotonin

i think most of the main and secondary cast’s timeskip job choices were super on point, but one i wanna highlight is kuroo’s

ik some people don’t like it, some ppl think it came out of nowhere, but idk imo it’s the one that makes more sense considering his role in the story

he doesn’t have an arc or really changes in any way. but he changes others. his role is p much 100% mentor (along with generally being fun and contributing to comic relief moments here and there, usually with bokuto involved)

he helps multiple characters - kenma, tsukishima, lev, even hinata - change and grow and go through their own arcs, teaching them to love volleyball or how to work in a team or how to be better in a way that helps build their joy with the game 

i’ve seen one person say that this moment was probably the one that made kuroo want to work towards getting more people into volleyball and tbh i agree. seeing kenma, who never really took much interest in vball, saying he’s having fun and thanking him for getting him into it... that must’ve been huge. no wonder he starts crying the very next page lmao

and this is after an arc that showed him also go head to head with tsukki, and the chapters highlighting that were called “teacher and student” for a reason! this both helps establish kuroo’s role in the story as a whole - teacher, mentor - and showed another step in tsukki’s arc - surpassing his teacher, being highly skilled on his own and working better in a team, which are all things kuroo contributed to

combining that with how kuroo’s story started - nekomata lowering the net to make volleyball easier for kids to play, thus making it easier to kuroo to get back into it and grow out of his anxiety and insecurities through something he loved - it only makes sense for him to want to do the same for other kids who are just like he used to be, or just like his best friend was, or like any of his disciples along the way were!

so. yeah this is why i think this job is perfect for his role hehe

(i generally love his role in the story a lot, bc it’s really interesting tbh! especially considering how different he is from other mentor characters, both in other franchises or haikyuu as well! part of it comes from him just being younger, only one or two years older than his mentees, but also because of his more carefree vibes and the comic relief contribution i mentioned earlier, along with him also fulfilling another role in addition to being a mentor and that is a rival - tho mostly for daichi, bokuto, and daishou heh. it’s a super interesting combination but hq is really good at playing with tropes and roles so it’s no surprise kuroo is such a loved character when he’s enjoyable AND contributes a lot to the story despite being a side character) 

friend: what's your type in men?

me: a man who has the voice of nakamura yuichi

friend:....what?

me: what?

friend: 👁👄👁

me: 👉👈

Letting go - Chapter 259

One thing this chapter makes me think about a lot is, what does "letting go" really mean? Is it something to absolutely aim for? and where does Hak position himself in relation to it today?

Hak is worried above all about the dragons right now, but we know well that he's also making a reference to his experience with Soo-won here. After all, even if Zeno did talk about forgetting them, he never said anything about "letting go" specifically. To let go is however very much something he said word for word about Soo-won in the past (chapter 153). If it wasn't already obvious enough, Hak in his turn makes the parallel between what happened with Soo-won and what is happening now with Zeno.

The end of chapter 153 hinted that even if Hak hasn't reached the point where he can let go of Soo-won yet, this is something that will eventually happen down the road thanks to Yona. And how can we not wish it for him? He suffers from it, it makes him angry, depressed, frustrated, it makes him grieve. Hak has always struggled from Soo-won's betrayal, he first tried to repress the feelings, then started walking a long road of trying to reconnect with and make sense of them, the present and their past together. He was slowly healing, he started being content with having a role in the sky tribe as long as the Yona and the hhb were with him. It was all for the best, everyone was walking in the same direction.

And then chapter 243 happened.

To be honest, when I read chapter 259 I couldn't help but have mixed feelings about this. After all, chapter 243 happened just one year ago, and this chapter devastated me like no story had ever before. This past year I thought hard about chapter 243, I tried to make sense of it in multiple ways and get over the devastation it made me go through. I also needed time, a lot of discussions with friends and the distance to see that yes, it is a chapter where both Soo-won and Hak are at their worst emotionally, and they both give up (among many other things but this isn't a ch243 post) but it won't be the end, it's them both failing to get out of this maze. But I just couldn't accept it. I felt angry. That Hak simply accepted how Soo-won, in a way, pushes him away again and the fact Soo-won will die, be replaced, and there is no hope for him. That he didn't contradict Soo-won saying the country will be fine without him, that this is their goodbye and it's over for them. That Hak will forget what they shared in chapter 61. That Hak is letting go and moving on.

So technically speaking I should be more than happy with chapter 259 and Hak saying he sucks at forgetting and letting go! But well, I got fond of chapter 243 with time. I spent so much time thinking and discussing about it, to engage with it, to question every line and to give them a meaning that slowly started to make more and more sense to me. It became precious to me. Yes I'm this dramatic over a single manga chapter but you have to understand the degree of emotional turmoil it made me go through, it was that bad! Anyway,

So when I read chapter 259, while I feel validated and relieved, I can't also can't help but think "But then, what was chapter 243 for?" What did it change in Soo-won and Hak's relationship? Does it not matter at all anymore because anyway Hak said sike and he actually just can't forget and let go? I can't accept this either. And I don't think that's the case.

And in a way, Hak did let go. But forgetting his dream of walking side by side with Soowon as his equal, on the same path, is different than forgetting Soowon whatsoever. Hak decides he won't remember it anymore and takes a different path. But what does it entail? What does he keep and embrace and what did he let go?

The vow of 10 years that tied Soo-won to the people following him, and the vow of 10 years that tied Hak to him. The formers cling to it, not taking into consideration Soo-won's true self and his ability to change. It chains him. It forces him to act not as his real self, but as the ideal image they project on him. They don't respect what the real Soowon wants, they try to make him the Soo-won that /they/ want. Soo-won changed from 10 years ago and corresponds to neither their ideal, neither Hak's. That's why it was so violent for Hak in 243. Hak couldn't see Soo-won's own circumstances, experience and current struggles and even less accept them. But in chapter 251, Hak doesn't let this vow chain them anymore, and in a way, that helped him gain confidence in the entirety of their history together instead of clinging into one aspect of it, no matter how precious it is to him. So I believe Hak needed chapter 243 to realize he was again projecting on Soo-won, and he needed to part ways to put things into perspective right now with the Zeno plot, so for that it's a good thing.

Still, when I put chapter 243 and 259 together, when Hak said he would forget his past vow to Soo-won and that there was no need to remember it anymore, I still think it was also him giving up, not having the strength to fight back because yeah, what can Hak or Soo-won even do about the Crimson Illness? Soo-won himself is convinced he will die, that he will be replaced and things will be perfectly fine without him, and so that he has to let go of Yona and Hak because what they want is the dragons, not him. He's not completely wrong, but this is not taking into account that both of them still care for Soo-won and want him to be there. That it's not about being replaceable or not, that they can care for the dragons and still want Soo-won to live for no other reason than because he is Soo-won. This is something Hak and Soo-won have both been struggling with since they said goodbye, and they are still coming to term in their own pace that they actually don't want things to end there.

Hak let go of his vow of walking by his side as his equal, but he still cares, he still can't forget, and he needed Yona to put it simply into words for him. It's okay to still feel conflicted, to carry contradictory feelings. What is undoubtely there is he wants him to live and to be there. That even apart, even when his priority is saving his friends and protecting Yona, Soo-won is still a part of him and he can't just erase him from his life. And it's fine. I don't think he should have to if ultimately putting things with Soo-won behind him, letting him go, hurts him so much. He deals with things differently than Yona and he doesn't have to do the same as her if that's not what is good to him. Yona shows that even after letting go of the hairpin, it still doesn't mean she can't think of Soo-won and wish for him to live. Letting go isn't erasing someone's existence from your life, it can just be taking a different path without tearing the bond apart.

But what this all makes me think about is, maybe letting go, in the sense of completely putting things behind them, is precisely the problem with Soo-won and Zeno. They're too good at it. We know they struggle to do it completely and honestly, but they are much better at killing their feelings than Hak, and they're able to at least act and pretend as if they were really letting go. What is so similar between Soo-won and Zeno besides betraying Yona and Hak to accomplish their respective goal and their tendency to hide their most unpleasant feelings, is that they are driven by the conviction that they have no other choice. Why does Soo-won discard people, his soldiers, prisoners, his friends? Because he doesn't believe in a path where he can keep them that wouldn't compromise the rest of the country. Before the coup, despite how much he longed for it, Soo-won couldn't believe a future with Yona and Hak by his side would ever be possible. So he gave up this dream, he acted with this fact in mind, he didn't try to pursue it. A self fulfilling prophecy. Chapter 243 was the same. And Zeno now is exactly the same as well. He doesn't believe in any other solution he could come up with together with Yona. He does what he does because if he doesn't, he is convinced he won't have another chance to be free and to end the cycle. Soo-won pretended the one they knew never existed, while Zeno pretends he already forgot them and that they should do the same.

They push them away, they tell themselves that Hak will protect Yona anyway and they will be fine without them. They let go, put an end to their bonds themselves in an (probably unconscious) attempt to have some agency on the end rather than to wait to be left behind.

But Yona's grip is strong, and despite everything Hak sucks at letting go. For their friends and for Soo-won and anyone on their path. And maybe it is important too to not let go. To be stubborn and selfish about it. To not leave anyone behind, to not avert your eyes from those in the shadows. Maybe "to let go" isn't something to wish for as an absolute solution to grief. Maybe letting go just brings more pain sometimes and is the killer of trying to fight for a better solution. Maybe there is worth in keeping what is precious to you close to your chest and fighting for it against all odds.

Honestly, as I write this I am not even sure of the answer. Zeno does deserve rest and to be allowed to go. And I can't tell if Hak will let go of Soo-won for good in the end. There is definitely a lot of good out of letting people and things go sometimes, even in Hak's case. It gives him the space to explore his feelings and come to term with them, and I don't expect him to live his life with anyone but the HHB. But all I feel is, surely, there is a better way to say goodbye. A way to say goodbye not out of resignation and despair. A way for them to listen to their hearts and be honest with their feelings. So I can only wait and keep faith for it, as I watch the characters slowly but surely try to change their fate and not submit to it.