Naruto Hell

Monologuing about how there's nothing in his heart with a hole in his chest, posing right as lightning strikes behind him, all the Manga panels with weird angles and dramatic shading. I live.

He was also traveling with Deidara for a while; and we know how important dramatics are to him. His whole thing is art as explosives. Loud, bright, literally changes the landscape around it.

So I guess what I'm saying is

Why is this all that Orochimaru can dream

let’s break it down

worst first date in history

when hashirama offers a truce, madara is like: kill yourself or your brother. he literally invented the most unhinged compatibility test ever… and it’s the only time he actually won. hashirama chose to end it all and told everyone not to touch madara after he's gone, proving their bond was worth more than his own life. madara saw that proof and finally agreed to the whole “konoha project”

hokage? nah, democracy

hashirama promises him the entire world and then goes “oh wait sorry my little brother said i’m not allowed to.” for madara, this wasn't just about a job title, it was hashirama choosing tobirama and the system over a personal promise. the first red flag that madara was just standing in a very long line behind the village

who is your real brother?

that one panel that still makes my heart ache. madara is leaving and asks: “you call me brother, but who would you actually kill—tobirama or me?”

this is peak “if we’re both drowning who are you saving first?” drama. since he didn’t get a straight answer, madara realized he would never be as important as blood ties and ideology

death by that one

valley of the end. hashirama says he’ll kill anyone to protect the village

hashirama: “you’re a gift from divine!”

also hashirama: stabs him in the back

it’s the final choice in madara’s head. village > madara

madara made hashirama his whole universe, but hashirama made madara just another threat to the status quo

madara spent his entire life asking the same question in different fonts: “am i your number one?”

but let’s be real: even dying for the second time, he just wanted to hear: “you were right, the village wasn’t worth it, you’re the most special one to me. let's go drink some sake!”

Sasuke's memory of them often betrays him, because he's so focused on the trauma of their deaths that he doesn't consider the trauma regarding them he had prior. It's also probably why he appealed to authority figures for praise (albeit subtly), as he never 'properly' got that from Fugaku.

Furthermore... Even at the top of his class as Sasuke was, he was unable to impress Fugaku. Fugaku was stern and distant, consistently disappointed in and disregarding of Sasuke. And then with Itachi, Fugaku was overly pushy, directly endangering Itachi in ways that if not considered physical abuse at the very least are child endangerment.

Also me: 

deidara is a loving hommage to famous japanese artist tarō okamoto. their connection runs like a thread through his entire character, ranging from his famous quote "art is an explosion", to his interest in sculpting, to the designs of his art pieces and even to his characteristic hand mouths. this post is intended as an overview for naruto fans to understand him and his art better.

men aflame (1955), tree of children (1985), the salon of the tokyo tarō okamoto museum

tarō okamoto is a sculptor and painter of the 20th century japanese avant-garde. while his art is more colorful and abstract than deidara's more simplistic white clay creatures, you can see an obvious inspiration in their design. okamoto studied ethnography and was inspired by the ancient pottery of the jōmon people (a hunter-gatherer society from 14k-300 BCE), giving his art its characteristic archaic touch. similarily, deidara was given an interest in sculpting and clay work, and more often than not he represents a more primitive approach towards art and life as a whole. i recommend to look up okamoto's many artworks and see for yourself, especially his sculpture garden.

okamoto's tower of the sun is his most renown piece and many fans will recognize it as the shape of deidara's final C0 explosion. while many have seen the outside, the inside of the tower is less known: a spectacle of hundreds of simple life forms at the bottom, gradually evolving to humankind at the top. deidara's C0 suicide bomb is not just a hommage to the real life version, but a contrasting commentary to the life-affirming original.

deidara's iconic exclaimation "art is an explosion" (geijutsu wa bakuhatsu da) is a direct reference to okamoto as well. it became famous through a maxell tv commercial, the video is sadly not the original one, but one of many featuring his quote. it's fairly well known across japan and even got him the silly tokosatsu alter ego taroman using this phrase. there is depth to this quote: okamoto explained that he sees art as a spontaneous eruption of life and creative spirit, much like the big bang. while it isnt taken as literal as deidara's explosions, they certainly share an outlook. there is room to philosophize about how this aligns with deidara's destructive nature and how he percieves his own art using the lens of okamoto. how an explosion can both destroy and create, how all of our movement and progress stems from one singular explosion from the beginning of the universe, how art is just a smaller version of this bang of creation inside of us, and so on. i believe it gives a better picture as to why deidara has such a deep-seated obsession with this concept. for some additional fun, compare it to sasori's contrasting perspective.

last but not least... looks familiar, doesn't it?