Why are people so shocked about the current circumstances? Sasuke had the most traumatic childhood imaginable and we all [should] know that broken children do not magically grow to into happy adults who live happily ever after.
@bold- He had a traumatic childhood, but not the most. There are a handful of people who went through worse or close trauma and did better- already being mentioned in this thread in a prior post.
Also, there are darker seinen series that demolish the tragic pasts in Naruto in terms of how horrifying they are.
However, I completely agree with the main point outside of that minor detail.
What kishi does best is portraying emotion raw as they can be. To expect sasuke to play happy families after all that pain and darkness is laughably unrealistic. He has [and probably will always have] unresolved problems/emotions from the past. That's life. If you want the alternative, read fairy tales.
Don't really agree all the way here.
Many characters are unrealistic in NV and have achieved that. Also, no one is asking Sasuke to be a happy dad, encourage Salad, none of that. Just that he visit her once in 13 years. Didn't know that was too much to ask given that he's not living a facade, looking for an imaginary threat (Kishimoto could have come up with a better excuse, Kaguya is irrelevant and he doesn't need to learn her origins), nor does anyone significant hold any malice towards him in Konoha that would prevent him from coming to the village.
Part of the blame must therefore fall to sakura who has had no such excuses. Sasuke turned down her offer to join him for reason. He just wanted a different life as apposed to sitting idly in Kohoha. He wasn't ready.
As for Sakura, her unfortunate decision to remain obsessive about sasuke has had great [negative] impact on her life. She's still unhappy and miserable. And sadly that decision has lead to Salad's dad troubles. Ones does simply not breed with someone who does not want to commit. That is the ultimate parenting mistake.
You make it sound as if Sakura raped Sasuke. They had consensual *** and Sasuke accepted. Meaning, in his mind he thought he was ready.
But to be fair to Sakura, at least she is trying with Salad. But the dishonesty won't help her. We get the best of Sakura when her mind is off sasuke. Like early part 2 Sakura who fought bravely and was a total badass.
Just like Sasuke having no good excuse. There's nothing Kishimoto can conjure up next chapter to absolve him of this- even Itachi took care of Sasuke by giving him a goal and saw him more than a few times within the 8 year time span they were apart- to top it off he had great reasoning for this method as the latter's life was on the line. If someone who is wanted dead throughout the shinobi nations and is considered Konoha's worst scumbag can have the guts to walk into Konoha to assure their loved one's safety and consistently keep a tab on them- there is no way to cleanse Sasuke's character of this failure as a parental figure.
It's either he's a dead beat father who doesn't care for his family and is going to receive a sub-par reason for being away in order to please his fandom who will support his character no matter what happens to it or he's a dead beat father who's clueless and has not visited due to not being irresponsible & not knowing of Salad's existence since he never contacted Sakura after the night he had *** with her.
There are no winners in all of this. Naruto and bolt are have some issues too, granted not to SS scale. Bolt is crying out for attention probably because Naruto is trying to hard be the perfect dad that he use to dream about as a kid.
Compared to part one and part two- all these matters are trivial. People just like Slice of Life Dramas.
The past shapes the future. Kishi is just portraying that well. Stop bashing Sasuke.
Not really. Kishimoto has just done a poor job of writing Sasuke since he had him throw away those ideals he rambled on about for years and said his family was just a past memory and nothing more. Sasuke's resolve is weak, tbh with you. There are real life people who are wronged and they always die with their ideals. Sasuke's character is like a parody. He's beautifully written at some parts whereas at most and in the end those sparse moments become negated.
And I say this not with disdain, just with my honest opinion. I'm indifferent to all of Team 7 right now.