Introduction
This is going to be a thread kept as brief as possible to explain ideas I have about the elder son ( TES ) otherwise known as the Uchiha ancestor and his dojutsu and how it relates to the rest of the manga.
The Elder son
Not as if you don't already know but TES was the oldest of the sage's two sons, said to have inherited his fathers powerful chakras and eyes.
He was said to have believed that power and not love was the key to achieving peace.
Now previously, the common belief was that his descendants, the Uchiha, also placed power and jutsu above love, however Tobirama's assesment of the Uchiha disagrees with that.
The Uchiha actually place so much value in love that they can't cope with it, forcibly sealing it off themselves. If you read through that chapter you will get a good idea of how emotions and the sharingan are related if you don't already. My emphasis is on what Tobirama say's in the above image, "sealing" off their love. When that "seal" is broken, the sharingan awakes.
If TES is the ancestor of the uchiha, could he be the one responsible for this seal?
In a bid to achieve true peace, and to focus solely on power, sealing the love from himself in ultimate rejection and defiance of his father and brothers ways.
Or did he, like madara, see that love can only breed hate, and the only way to create and maintain peace would be to obtain the power to achieve through force?
Sealing Away love
What is left?
Just like how the gedo mazou is what is left when the juubi's chakra is separated, when TES sealed love away from his eyes something else was left. I believe this was the byakugan. The hierarchical nature of the hyuuga clan shows how much of an absolute and unwavering emphasis they put on power and birthright. No other clan we know of functions like they do. The branchhouse being entirely subservient to the main house through use of the special seal.
Furthermore evidence is that the byakugan doesn't need to be awakened, it is a power inherited by every hyuuga and they are simply born with it.
People of the uchiha clan however have regular eyes until they awaken their sharingan, another indication that
TES sealed the power away.
The Discussion Points
The issue most people have with this idea is that we have already seen the sharingan progress to the rinnegan, so they take that to mean that the byakugan has no part to play. I disagree, and here's why ( brace yourself! ) :
I think the sage had his own different dojutsu before and after he was the juubis jinchuriki. This is the reason we were not shown his eyes when we saw him speaking to the bijuu. Why would they be hidden unless there was something to hide? We have seen them before why not show them again? Of course, they are not shown because there is something worth keeping secret!
What that secret is, I think it is the byakugan, the all seeing white eye or an even more powerful version of it. First obtained by kaguya when she ate the fruit, leading to hagoromo being born with it. When TES inherited the sages eyes, he also inherited the juubis too, creating his unique dojutsu appearance. When he sealed the love from his eyes he separated the two powers again, leaving the sharingan ( the power of the juubis eyes ) and the byakugan ( the power of the sages eyes ) .
Hope this makes for a brief and interesting read.
This is going to be a thread kept as brief as possible to explain ideas I have about the elder son ( TES ) otherwise known as the Uchiha ancestor and his dojutsu and how it relates to the rest of the manga.
The Elder son
Not as if you don't already know but TES was the oldest of the sage's two sons, said to have inherited his fathers powerful chakras and eyes.
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He was said to have believed that power and not love was the key to achieving peace.
Now previously, the common belief was that his descendants, the Uchiha, also placed power and jutsu above love, however Tobirama's assesment of the Uchiha disagrees with that.
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The Uchiha actually place so much value in love that they can't cope with it, forcibly sealing it off themselves. If you read through that chapter you will get a good idea of how emotions and the sharingan are related if you don't already. My emphasis is on what Tobirama say's in the above image, "sealing" off their love. When that "seal" is broken, the sharingan awakes.
If TES is the ancestor of the uchiha, could he be the one responsible for this seal?
In a bid to achieve true peace, and to focus solely on power, sealing the love from himself in ultimate rejection and defiance of his father and brothers ways.
Or did he, like madara, see that love can only breed hate, and the only way to create and maintain peace would be to obtain the power to achieve through force?
Sealing Away love
What is left?
Just like how the gedo mazou is what is left when the juubi's chakra is separated, when TES sealed love away from his eyes something else was left. I believe this was the byakugan. The hierarchical nature of the hyuuga clan shows how much of an absolute and unwavering emphasis they put on power and birthright. No other clan we know of functions like they do. The branchhouse being entirely subservient to the main house through use of the special seal.
Furthermore evidence is that the byakugan doesn't need to be awakened, it is a power inherited by every hyuuga and they are simply born with it.
People of the uchiha clan however have regular eyes until they awaken their sharingan, another indication that
TES sealed the power away.
The Discussion Points
The issue most people have with this idea is that we have already seen the sharingan progress to the rinnegan, so they take that to mean that the byakugan has no part to play. I disagree, and here's why ( brace yourself! ) :
I don't think the sage of six paths had a rinnegan originally!
I'm not saying he never had the rinnegan, I just think they were not his original eyes and that he awakened them due to being the juubis host.I think the sage had his own different dojutsu before and after he was the juubis jinchuriki. This is the reason we were not shown his eyes when we saw him speaking to the bijuu. Why would they be hidden unless there was something to hide? We have seen them before why not show them again? Of course, they are not shown because there is something worth keeping secret!
What that secret is, I think it is the byakugan, the all seeing white eye or an even more powerful version of it. First obtained by kaguya when she ate the fruit, leading to hagoromo being born with it. When TES inherited the sages eyes, he also inherited the juubis too, creating his unique dojutsu appearance. When he sealed the love from his eyes he separated the two powers again, leaving the sharingan ( the power of the juubis eyes ) and the byakugan ( the power of the sages eyes ) .
Hope this makes for a brief and interesting read.
