Re: The Final Villian we all missed. How he's been hiding right under our "noses"
If Sojobo is the cycle of hatred, then the Shinju is the cycle of love? It would probably make more sense if Sojobo is death and the Juubi is life.
Lol. Well, not exactly. I don't think there is a "cycle of love" or at least never one I heard mention; there is only an absence of the "cycle of hatred". I think without the hatred you naturally have love.
If the tree suppresses Sojobo, then why when Sojobo resurfaces, he would resurface on the Shinju of all places? Futhermore, the Shinju should have the power to crush any human that even gets near the fruit, let alone eat it.
Look at Madara says here..
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"The action of two opposing forces created everything in nature.."
Many people wrote that off as the Sage splitting the Juubi into his two sons, but "created everything in nature" makes me think otherwise. How was the creation of the two sons responsible for creating "everything in nature"...it wasn't. The opposing forces he is talking about are Sojobo and The God Tree who existed in the same pillar, the Tree. So if you look at it this way, with Sojobo and the Tree (Juubi) being the same thing at one time, then the fruit (being Sobjo's will) existence starts to make a little more sense. The fruit is simply Sojobo trying to break free, which he can only do by getting some one to eat the fruit. Much like our sinister serpent in the story of Adam and Eve.
Also, after the fruit was eaten, the Juubi went on a violent rampage, possibly bring ending millions of lives. It wasn't only after Hagaromo and Kaguya. It was said in the manga that the Juubi brought complete destruction and despair to the world. Doesn't sound like something a benevolent tree of life would do. That is why I suspect that the Shinju and Sojobo are two sides of the same coin: "God" and that after the fruit was eaten, Sojobo was reborn as the violent Juubi and the benevolence of the Shinju was reborn as Hagaromo.
I see the point you're making but I have to disagree, simply because of the first thing you said. "After the fruit was eaten the Juubi went on a rampage." You see the problem with this? What you're saying is that the essentially the "final villain" of the story, whom you are saying is the Juubi, needed people to steal the fruit that was specifically said not to be touched in order to then take on his role as "final villain", otherwise, the Tree would still be living in peace no? This final needs to have a plan, not just be reacting to something. So the differences in our ideas is that you're saying the "final villain" (the Juubi) wanted no one to touch the fruit while I'm saying the final villain (Sojobo) wanted people to touch the fruit. With my theory, an evil is already in place without the need to motivated by theft, which again, would seem to go against was Kishi has been writing.
Another point I would like to bring up about the Juubi. What do we know about it? It was said to be the Progenitor, it created the world, it carried mountains, split oceans, etc. The Juubi is basically the personification of Nature, for these are things that Nature does, carries mountains and so on. So with this in mind, would it really make sense for the Juubi to be evil? Nature = Evil? The Progenitor = Evil? It doesn't quite add up. You could even compare it to the Bible or at least the Old Testament. God is the Progenitor he created all things, yet it is his rival that is ultimate evil, one could even call him the "final villain." So I think it parallels nicely with out story, God or the Juubi is the Progenitor, creator of the world, and his rival Satan/ Sojobo is the evil we se messin everything up.
Again, it just wouldn't make sense that the Progenitor is at the same time evil. Nature is never evil.