*20 minutes of uninterrupted screaming*

Trauma!

Kakashi: “father committed suicide when he was a child. he was a child soldier in a brutal war. everyone on his team died, one by one, and each time he had a reason to blame himself. one of them literally killed herself using him as the weapon. did I mention the child soldier thing.”

“so so much its been so long since ive read Naruto but hes pretty up there in traumatic moments”

“Kakashi's father killed himself while Kakashi was still a kid, and left him alone because his mom was already dead. While dealing with his difficult feelings about it, he ended up on a mission that killed his teammate pretty horrifically. He lost his eye on that mission too, and replaced it with the eye of his teammate. He's literally actually died but the plot wouldn't let him rest and brought him back. He's had to train the son of his deceased mentor and a member of the same clan that his teammate who gave him the eye, which probably didn't feel great. Kakashi's really been through it and I haven't even finished the show yet, so there's probably more!”

---(Note: Kakashi had so much propaganda added to his post last round that for the sake of post length and my sanity, I have only included the ones that were written reblogs instead of tags:)

“I said everything under the sun here: https://www.tumblr.com/ripitachi/811418735987638272/hang-on-now-i-can-do-one-of-those-for-kakashi

But this ☝️ touches on the very end of the war arc, which I breezed thru bc it's honestly boring I'm sorry 😭 But the one thing I did totally forget and also isn't mentioned above, so, the red eye he gets "gifted" from his apparently dying buddy.... when they go to war 20+ years later, they rip that thing outta his head all over again. Again bc it's war arc it's ...pretty stupid and Naruto is laughably overpowered and he just holds his hand over his eye socket and just magically creates a new eyeball..... But still. He lost his eye as a child, got gifted a replacement, had it drain his chakra for decades before the guy who gave it to him and his evil boss decide "hey I need that actually" and then they rip it out of his head ....... Mind you, one of Kakashi's monikers is "Kakashi of the Sharingan" bc he made his name for himself mastering its ability to discern jutsu and is now known as Dude Who Can Do Pretty Much Everything.... and now he no longer has that sharingan. Not huge in the grand scheme of his trauma, but having your eye stolen for the sake of killing you with it (bonus points that it's become synonymous with your identity) is kinda harsh”

+ Writeup about his trauma with pictures

+ @00technocolor00 sent us an ask directing people to this post about Kakashi

Jon: “The show's villain's plan DEPENDED on traumatising him. In a way the purpose of the show was to traumatise him. He saw a boy get eaten (and blamed himself) as a child, then as an adult he had worms crawl into his flesh, his hand burned, himself stabbed several times, went into a cursed coffin and thought he wouldn't come out, stared into an evil anti-Sun of darkness, his rib extracted while he was aware, he was blown up, thrown into the void, alienated from his coworkers who considered him a monster, had one of his coworkers replaced by an actual monster that tried to kill him (and blamed himself), another one of his coworkers blew himself up, he was in a coma with freaky supernatural dreams, a cop took him to the woods to paralegally execute him, and after filling in his collectible trauma card he was able to be used by his boss to literally end the world and plunge into terror (for which he also blamed himself).”

Propaganda!

Kakashi: “he's got a neat mask” 

“Look at him. He's so cool.”

From @reineyday “oh friend killer kakashi. chuunin at 6, jounin at 12 and anbu at 13 😔

carrying his father's suicide with him as well as his inability to save his mentor or do anything abt the kid they left behind

watched one of his anbu team members who was even younger than him go off the rails and murder his ENTIRE family. except for one (1) kid that kakashi then had to mentor and then THAT kid ALSO went off the rails

nobody's tried and failed harder than u 😔👊”

Jon: “Jon was kidnapped three times - one of those times for a MONTH - during which he was forcibly moisturised and gagged. no one cared that he was gone for a month or that he was kidnapped (except Martin). Jon was turning into a monster against his will. the fact he’s a orphan is the least interesting trauma ab him.