Mikasa Hagaromo
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You guys have cited MANY good reasons why SasuSaku is ****ed up, but I haven't seen anyone mention the very important matter of the balance of power in their relationship.
I'm all for forgiveness. I can get past Sakura ending up with him. The ONLY reason I have issues with this pairing is bc SAKURA REVERTS TO HER CHILDLIKE SELF when around Sasuke and everything is on SASUKE's terms.
Look at these PATHETIC panels. These are TERRIBLE optics for a relationship:
These panels don't look like two ppl with romantic interest to me. This looks like one of them is in complete control of the situation (Sasuke) and the other looks childlike (Sakura.) And please note that while the forehead thing was something special between Sasuke and Itachi, note the relationship dynamics between Sasuke and Itachi. Sasuke always looked up to and chased after Itachi and Itachi did the forehead thing to 1- show love, 2- keep him at a distance. When Itachi truly stripped himself of his defenses and embraced Sasuke, he did forehead to forehead.
Although Sasuke has returned to his part 1 self and although he UNQUESTIONABLY cared about Sakura in part 1, he was still a bit blunt and aloof. It would be one thing if Sakura could brush off his bluntness and genuinely not be affected by it, but it often hurt her feelings. Sakura is not emotionally equipped for a guy like Sasuke (Karin, however is but that's off topic).
All that's going to happen in this relationship is Sasuke's going to dominate and call the shots and Sakura going, "...oh....ok..."..... just like in part 1.....she sure has a lot of mouth when it comes to Naruto and others, but she folds like a paper fan when it comes to Sasuke. NOT good for a relationship AT ALL. It's expected that she'd be gentle and affectionate toward him, but you still have to be able to hold you ground when you feel your spouse is making an unwise decision. Not her though. SMDH.
Sasuke's going to roam the world bc that's what HE wants to do without consideration of the needs of his wife and child (though he has very good reasons for roaming the world) and Sakura is going to sit there and take it while feeling sad, lonely, and emotionally neglected, bc she loves him and is just happy to have finally landed him.
What this amounts to is Sakura being able to FINALLY land Sasuke, but not having what it takes to keep him at home. If they're featured prominently in part 3, expect him to completely ignore her on-panel and have her pop up randomly pregnant just to remind us that, '...oh yea, they're married. I forgot...'
We have NOT seen Sakura make ANY demands of Sasuke or do anything to indicate while her love was long suffering, she's an equal in the relationship and will expect Sasuke to consider her in his life decisions from here on out (though I HOPE and PRAY that we'll see it in the movie....not holding my breath though).
Kishi did seem to hint at Sasuke seeing the light with Sakura in 699 when he said, "...I feel like now I'll be able to see things I've overlooked..." here:
Now, obviously he was talking about the state of the world, but he may have very well been also talking about Sakura and how she has always been there for him.
Even with that, though, I can't see Sasuke being as affectionate and thoughtful as I think Sakura's type would need to be happy.
Here's a really good (and hilarious) vid that breaks down their relationship very well, IMO:
[video=youtube;s8LfAWt45qE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LfAWt45qE[/video]
I'm all for forgiveness. I can get past Sakura ending up with him. The ONLY reason I have issues with this pairing is bc SAKURA REVERTS TO HER CHILDLIKE SELF when around Sasuke and everything is on SASUKE's terms.
Look at these PATHETIC panels. These are TERRIBLE optics for a relationship:
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These panels don't look like two ppl with romantic interest to me. This looks like one of them is in complete control of the situation (Sasuke) and the other looks childlike (Sakura.) And please note that while the forehead thing was something special between Sasuke and Itachi, note the relationship dynamics between Sasuke and Itachi. Sasuke always looked up to and chased after Itachi and Itachi did the forehead thing to 1- show love, 2- keep him at a distance. When Itachi truly stripped himself of his defenses and embraced Sasuke, he did forehead to forehead.
Although Sasuke has returned to his part 1 self and although he UNQUESTIONABLY cared about Sakura in part 1, he was still a bit blunt and aloof. It would be one thing if Sakura could brush off his bluntness and genuinely not be affected by it, but it often hurt her feelings. Sakura is not emotionally equipped for a guy like Sasuke (Karin, however is but that's off topic).
All that's going to happen in this relationship is Sasuke's going to dominate and call the shots and Sakura going, "...oh....ok..."..... just like in part 1.....she sure has a lot of mouth when it comes to Naruto and others, but she folds like a paper fan when it comes to Sasuke. NOT good for a relationship AT ALL. It's expected that she'd be gentle and affectionate toward him, but you still have to be able to hold you ground when you feel your spouse is making an unwise decision. Not her though. SMDH.
Sasuke's going to roam the world bc that's what HE wants to do without consideration of the needs of his wife and child (though he has very good reasons for roaming the world) and Sakura is going to sit there and take it while feeling sad, lonely, and emotionally neglected, bc she loves him and is just happy to have finally landed him.
What this amounts to is Sakura being able to FINALLY land Sasuke, but not having what it takes to keep him at home. If they're featured prominently in part 3, expect him to completely ignore her on-panel and have her pop up randomly pregnant just to remind us that, '...oh yea, they're married. I forgot...'
We have NOT seen Sakura make ANY demands of Sasuke or do anything to indicate while her love was long suffering, she's an equal in the relationship and will expect Sasuke to consider her in his life decisions from here on out (though I HOPE and PRAY that we'll see it in the movie....not holding my breath though).
Kishi did seem to hint at Sasuke seeing the light with Sakura in 699 when he said, "...I feel like now I'll be able to see things I've overlooked..." here:
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Now, obviously he was talking about the state of the world, but he may have very well been also talking about Sakura and how she has always been there for him.
Even with that, though, I can't see Sasuke being as affectionate and thoughtful as I think Sakura's type would need to be happy.
Here's a really good (and hilarious) vid that breaks down their relationship very well, IMO:
[video=youtube;s8LfAWt45qE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LfAWt45qE[/video]
