As A Ukrainian I Feel This So Much. Like, Yeah, I Sure Am Thankful That I Am Not Under Bombing Anymore

If we are being technical about it, Obito definitely regretted a lot of political and economical miscalculations or coincidences he did not or could not predict 😅

Aside from every major or personally hurtful fail...

Frankly, I do not think Minato's death and everything around it would make it on the list of regrets - partially because, well, Minato did fail Kakashi, the only kid he was still responsible for, big time, and quite a lot of Obito's reasoning was about "well, I suffer, Kakashi suffers, let's drop this gig"; also, not being there for Rin (which was like a year before N's birth?). Main reason, though, imo is that Obito was in a very bad place then, conviction-wise. You can't convince me that he completely switched his world view in a year, it's just not done, his brain would not have dropped the associations and thought patterns it got used to so fast. So, he definitely felt at least somewhat guilty, after. And what do you do if you are guilty over something you did for "the greater good"? You rationalise why it was okay or a right/only decision. (See Dumbledore sending Harry to Dursley). The seal would have broken anyway, Kushina would definitely have died from it, Minato would likely still sacrifice himself one way or another, no matter if Obito made some rude small talk and controlled the beast or not. And the concept would have stuck to the point where it is a fact that Obito didn't question anymore.

Kiri is unlikely for the same reason, "Yagura would've still done it, I just chose the specific actions"/ "those kids would've died anyway, only causing even more bloodshed prior to that", etc. Plus, of course, personal vendetta.

Massacre? Dunno, really depends on what his relationship with the clan really was, if he had any positive interaction with anyone, if his grandma was still alive why is it never touched on??? If they were just a bunch of rich folk who refused to associate with him I guess it wouldn't be that hard. Besides, again, Danzo assigned Itachi to do it anyway. Ostracizing Uchiha? As far as I recall Obito did not do anything about it aside from controlling Kurama, so it was actually the justification, the proof of how rotten the world was, the fellow villagers hating so easily, Uchiha turning to violence as solution, Hokage allowing it because friendship goals. It's also easy to dehumanise people if you do not let them talk to you as you kill them after being absent for almost ten years. Just another shinobi to fall, and what do a last name and clan insignia even mean in the large picture?

Kisame is likely to be a regret. I'd feel guilty over being the reason for his death, especially since the secrets he was keeping were a moot point. Deidara, maybe, if we think that Obito liked the kid?

Aside from those, Onto does not strike me as a person who regrets the actions, unless they concerned specific people he cherished - and there were super few of those. Otherwise it's "Welp, I'm a bad apple, shame about it" and just embracing it all. I'd add Kakashi, but he was more of a collateral, except for when "Tobi" reveal happened, and the Chidori scene, but that does not really seem to count since it was part of the ongoing situation at that moment.

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Not many regrets whatsoever. Maybe missing the shark and regretting making a fool of himself when negotiating for trade routes through Kiri when he was like 17. Otherwise, he either felt like he made no difference because of the shinobi society's inherent violence and flaws, or had convinced himself he was right and justified even if originally he might've not thought so.

In one of my last posts, I mentioned that there are probably some actions that Obito has little or no regrets about doing. What do you think that would be?

I agree! The only people for whom it is okay to mention this is for us Ukrainians but only when we mock Russians who parrot their propaganda's bullshit about us being a "lost sheep" or whatever. And even so, I am feeling vaguely like Shan Yu from Mulan is going to appear in the corner and stare at me disapprovingly each time I mention again that Moscowia was created by a Golden Horde khan long after Kyiv Rus was established (and Shan Yu isn't even a Mongol!). It feels like an insult. Lets call Russians Russians and judge them for what they are today. "Sins of fathers" trope is no longer so popular, somebody give the Wall Street Journal writers a swift course in (truly) modern culture.

Fucking bizarre watching people try to eject Russians from whiteness in real time

It is truly sad that the whatever-we-are-with-Scar-with-benefits isn't an option 😞 I frankly do not much care abt the fine people who had bagged us as a hero of their story, but Scar's lil club is a bit much even so. If there was a possibility of us clashing on a biweekly basis, then utilising passionate distraction technique and parting once one of us gets what they want (aside from the other kind of booty) it would be great!

he's trying his best to convince us to join his silly little crime gang (it's not working)

thinking about if konoha ninja who became anbu frequently 'died' so they wouldn't be on any registry and so other villages would get word that notable shinobi have 'died'. they don't do it often, that would be suspicious, but they do it to kakashi. minato assigns him to anbu and apologizes blandly when he tells him his death is going to be faked. kakashi, broken traumatized and depressed, thinks nothing of it.

kakashi 'dies' on a mission months after the death of rin, after obito watched, after he lost pretty much everything and any sense of self he had. his body isn't recovered and the circumstances of his death are unclear.

if im being entirely cruel, this means that no one in the village (guy, asuma, iruka, etc.) would know that kakashi is still alive. they all think he's dead and they grieve him and kakashi... disappears. he doesn't know himself anymore and he can't, because he's dead and he's in the anbu now and that's all that matters. his life for konoha in life and death, always.

obito, being the stalker he is, looks for kakashi. he missed him entering the anbu, he missed the faked funeral, he missed a lot. he tries to find him in his shoebox apartment, stakes out minato's home, sits at the memorial stone and rin's grave. but kakashi never shows up and obito decides he'll check the active missions in konoha, just to know where kakashi is (definitely not to follow him and watch him, that'd be weird, duh). so after sneaking into the hokage's office with kamui, he rifles through the piles of s-rank and a-rank missions, but kakashi's name is nowhere to be found. confused and almost insulted on kakashi's behalf, he checks the b-ranks and below, but no dice.

now obito is getting...nervous might not be the word but he's definitely feel angry at this point. if kakashi isn't home, on a mission, grieiving, or with minato then where is he. obito stalks guy next, finds him sitting on a rock by a stream, glum. he's pale, his eyes are watery, he looks exhausted and obito is definitely nervous at this point. he'd never admit it but for something to get guy of all people down... obito fears for the worst.

through much stalking and espionage, obito finds out where kakashi is.

he's dead.

that can't be right.

he would've heard if kakashi was dead, right? zetsu would've told him. he would've known. kakashi has one of his eyes, he definitely would've known. and obito, pissed, scared, and indignant, opens up the connection between him and kakashi, searching for kakashi's vision, for what he can see. he hasn't done it since that night when rin...

he didn't want kakashi to know it existed, never even wanted to take that chance. but he doesn't care anymore. kakashi isn't dead. it's just not possible.

obito was right. kakashi isn't dead.

but he might as well be.

kakashi has no way out of the anbu now, no way that wouldn't give away konoha's secrets. guy can't help him because guy thinks he's dead, minato can't help him, he killed him in the first place. kakashi will forever live, breathe, and die for konoha. it makes obito's blood boil, he feels reminiscent of the night rin died.

he hates kakashi. he wants to hate kakashi. he can't hate kakashi. he can hate the world, he can despise konoha, he can want to kill minato. but kakashi...

he's never been able to hate him. no matter how hard he tried, how easy kakashi made it for him. when it came to kakashi, his balance between love and hate was never more skewed.

there's a particularly awful mission, kakashi is the only one to return to the village and he's...he's not good. obito watches him laugh hysterically as he washes his hands of blood that isn't there. he's never seen kakashi so broken and it hurts more than he ever thought it would.

obito gets kakashi out of the anbu. kakashi hates him for it, fights him, thrashes against him and his will and ideologies. kakashi doesn't know him, obito was too ahamed to reveal himself. it doesn't matter though, kakashi wants to die. he was happy in the anbu, he says. it'd be a quicker death, a noble death.

you've already died, obito shouts at him, enraged and torn apart. how can't he see it? how can he be so naive and blind to it all?

kakashi doesn't answer, doesn't know what words to say to make this stranger believe he isn't worth the trouble. obito has no choice.

with a shaking hand, he removes his mask. kakashi watches, eyes wide and wet and obito throws the mask to the side to hold out his hand. you've already died, but you can be reborn.

with me.

kakashi, broken tattered and thoroughly sure he's lost it, takes obito's hand. yes, kakashi thinks, he's died. but if this is the afterlife, than maybe things won't be so bad...

I personally like to cancel the canon HORRORS™ that i find to be illogical, unsatisfying, and lacking in proper resolution, and instead provide the characters with the ones that make sense in social and historical circumstances going on, therefore being far harder to shrug off and affecting every aspect of the characters’ lifes, making them see their society from a different, ugly side, lose all hope, embrace living with all of that, very likely abandon everything they’ve been living for for the last forever, etc. AND THEN they get a happy ending - the one, may I add, that they have been denied in canon despite the far lesser extent of The Horrors™️.

Though unsatisfying not-really-happy endings are also great, but only when they follow something that is more than a lukewarm tea of a plot.

writing fanfiction is wild. i could make these two characters do anything. i could make them get married rn. the possibilities are endless

While I do agree, it really is conditional. You have to remember that our society at large and the separate pockets of it in particular are still not only homophobic but often simply... unaware of the gay option existing (yeah, it mostly concerns kids and really sheltered youth. still). I personally was introduced to the idea of gay ship when I had a really "groundbreaking" and "original" idea of a fic where Harry was a girl and (*gasp*) Draco fell for him. This was the turning point where I was introduced to the amount of non-gb fics with the pairing and realized that if I wanted more, those were the ones to go to. (It's also my main argument for why Drarry really, really works.)

Genderbend used for making gay ships into het ones is not the nicest thing out there, but it has its uses - and at least these fics are a good proof of there being gay chemistry that is obvious even to het-only people ;)

If you genderbend only 1 character in a gay ship to make it straight, I will be squaring up with you when we meet in hell.

Cue to me realizing only now that as a kid I’ve mixed up pergament (animal skins) and papyrus (plant stems) and since then have been assuming that’s that. Therefore, my issue has always been that papyrus I have tried making as a kid was a shit surface to write on and fell apart easily (duh) so why on Earth no-one ever complained about that? To be fair, as a kid I knew of papyrus because of Egypt, and I’ve never questioned why people in UK used Egyptian (for me) stuff.

I don't think about Harry Potter all that much these days but sometimes I just randomly remember that these kids were writing on parchment. Like I know they have an aesthetic but WHY are these children writing their essays on ANIMAL SKINS in this day and age. It just isn't practical. At least go with old-timey paper or something.

To be fair, he IS an Uchiha. What else is he supposed to make if not a scene? Pottery? That spot's filled, I'm afraid.

oh how Obito likes to make a scene

you just didn't have to do it, honey. you didn't have to if you didn't want to deal with him anymore. oh, you just wanted to show off in front of your man and be like "look it's me, will you find out it's me?" well fuck he will. as you wish.

Acceptance, cookies, bro love. What else one can wish for? Especially since at least one of them I can make come true without relaying on fate at all!

2021 looks bright!!!

Ugh, I know, right?? When I (age ten, probably) first got my hands on the book I read the first and the second volumes in a day? Maybe two, can't recall. I loved it. I loved it for years and was perplexed when I told my father about it offhandedly and he said he really thought Mowgli was a much better take. Book of Jungle was cool, but I read it far earlier in my life and was convinced it paled in contrast.

So of course I reread Tarzan about a year ago, and it was awful. Oh, the sweet time when I would read a book and be amazed by a man swinging through jungles, jumping over great pits, battling both man and nature, and carrying inconceivably heavy gold bars (though even then I realized it made no sense because it didn't even look pretty as jewelry does, and unlike rich American Colonists Of British Ancestry kids and guys raised by X-Men style apes do not value gold for itself, at all). This is why I try to not reread books - or rewatch movies - that I liked for physical prowess of the main characters. Most of them turn out to be painfully macho and with weird sexual content that both went over child-me's head, while what I want is the description of how well that dude climbs a tree or catches a certain scent. Heartbreaking.

You know what Tarzan isn't actually what you could call a "good" man.

Yes I can expand upon this point if asked.