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Kakashi's little angel and demon

the uncropped version is here!! - aaand a color alt!

Hihii

Surprisingly this the first time I've ever drawn minato (well...not counting the other two LOL) As a color theory nerd I absolutely adore his design! Being able to have such a vibrant tetradic scheme without it being chaotic is quite impressive to me.

I got beef with minato but he's low-key still one of my comfort characters so I call him silly names like minitmaid and minitoes 😅

first meeting at the ball? they had the riverbank. a place where they weren’t senju and uchiha, just two kids skipping stones

feuding families? the montagues and capulets are literally toddlers compared to the years of bloodshed between the senju and uchiha

the balcony scene? instead of a balcony, they had that cliff overlooking the future konoha where they planned their "happily ever after"

shakespeare made his characters die in less than a week. kishimoto was like: “too easy. let’s make them build the embodiment of their dream, lose their understanding of each other, have madara go into exile, return with a demon fox, die, get resurrected many decades later just to lose and die again..”

that’s it. curtain call. shakespeare is crying in the corner because at least romeo and juliet didn’t wait a hundred years just to say: “we’re still on the same side.”

this isn't just a tragedy, it's Tragedy with a capital T. and i can’t believe that kishimoto created such a canonical story about “star-crossed lovers” by accident

but you know what?

shakespeare’s couple fell in love in 0.5 seconds and died before they even knew each other’s favorite color, but hashirama and madara spent an entire century building a world and destroying each other just to realize they were each other’s only home

…the gold standard of slow burn…

tsunade was struggling to put lee's bones back together with ninja magic and probably also normal doctor stuff i guess meanwhile madara just made obito a new half-his-fucking-body while sitting in his life support chair with a single eye that did not belong to him (as opposed to his actual eyes which he wasn't born with but if someone gives you a gift then that's yours now. especially if it's a dying person and an eyeball in narutoland, we know this)