#dragoneer99

oooohhhhhh a chance to talk about h*nata let’s GO

i cannot get over the fact that she wasn’t an actual character. hinata was a plot device from the moment she was introduced. her team was stunted the most, she lost every fight she was in, her few moments of bravery were always bolstered by her crippling crush on naruto, and she didn’t even have her own “ninja way.” she heard naruto’s and was like “yeah that sounds good!” the absolute lack of effort put into developing hinata hyuga is astounding and equally upsetting and hilarious.

and there’s nothing wrong with her goals in life or where she wound up. there’s nothing wrong with being peaceful, or softspoken, or a wife and mother, or gentle, or anything like that. but if you’re going to have a character like that in a world that is not peaceful or gentle, you cannot make them a throwaway character until you need your main man to get married. (very similar to how tenten’s story is not a tale of feminism even though she’s the only one of her peers to not get married and have children; it feels more like her lifestyle is an explanation of her absence than a definitive choice for her character.)

just imagine if they’d given any of sasuke’s storyline to hinata, or at least expanded on those themes with her as the central figure. easiest example is “bonds.” she has so many ties to other characters (re: plot device) and could have been an excellent model of why those bonds are so important, how to repair breaking bonds, things like that. imagine if we saw the revolution of the hyuga clan through her eyes in contrast to the infamous downfall of the uchiha clan. the parallel that could have been drawn between hinata and sasuke, ultimately making her later relationship with naruto more plausible.