#put the energy that's expended into him saying 'fuck' 300 times in a fic into him being a su!cidal political reactionary.
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i feel so so crazy every time i think about the expressions obito pulls during the kamui fight... everyone always focuses on his "crazy smile" and it's become so prevalent in fanart and fanfiction that you'd almost think his character was defined by that emotion...
instead i want to talk about the way the animators used the (very sparse) light in his eyes during that fight to convey something different about him that i think is so much more important to understanding his motives and feelings during this part of the series: determination (to, in his mind, "save the world") and grief (knowing, at least somewhere deep, deep down that things will be the same. after all- he wants to create a perfect dream world, not a perfect world because when reality refuses to change... then you settle for second best).
during the start of the fight between obito and kakashi in kamui, both of their eyes are lightless and faraway, they've closed themselves off emotionally to stay resolute in their convictions. this is the first time they've fought face to face in twenty years, and we can tell this takes a toll on both of them because the shots switch back and forth between them fighting as kids to them as adults and back again, with their expressions and reactions mimicking those of when they were younger. it stands out less on kakashi, because while he did change as he grew up he still has a fairly reserved attitude and sticks to the shinobi rules of not showing vulnerability in front of his students and teammates.
it's more obvious with obito, because the distinction between him as a kid and an adult are just so different. whether it's quiet sadness (when he talks with minato about kakashi and sakumo before the kannabi bridge mission) or frustation (not graduating fast enough) or worry (they've lose a teammate in enemy territory), his emotions are drawn exaggerated from the get-go. obito is emotional outwardly and that's a staple of his childhood self as well as another reason he's a "black sheep" shinobi.
then, we have several chapters and episodes after his face reveal where his expressions hardly expand past a frown and a deeper frown. it's easier for him to close himself off, dissociate into someone who can take on an entire army, because that army represents the bulk of what he sees wrong with the shinobi world. alone with kakashi, though... feelings slip in. he doesn't have a character to play, a mask to wear.
kid obito's determination not to lose slips through, and you can see the bitter sadness, the desperation behind his feelings. this expression drags out significantly longer than kakashi, and in many ways gives the impression that his will is stronger than kakashi's. kakashi can't bring himself to kill obito, no matter how close he gets. his resolution is weaker than obito's conviction to free himself, destroy his last shred of humanity (his heart) by throwing himself on kakashi's blade.
kakashi's "determined gleam":
versus obito's:
i don't have much else to say really HAHA... i've just been thinking about this like ten second long snippet of their fight since i rewatched it a few months ago because it's something i totally missed when i watched it air years ago. this isn't a kakashi snub either! he just doesn't get his character quite so brutalised by fandom the way obito does, and i'd looove to see more content that doesn't diminish him to "angry guy that swears a lot" LMAO
#he's rude! for sure! but he's not a hazbin hotel character guys... please... i can't take it anymore i'm not strong enough#put the energy that's expended into him saying 'fuck' 300 times in a fic into him being a su!cidal political reactionary.#<- not a revolutionary mind you. or an 'activist' or anything like that#he has emotional conviction and feels things very strongly but unlike sasuke and madara he's emotions based- not logic based#ANYWAYYY i'm nuts about this guy#whatever#obito uchiha
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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Ramble Fest Part 3 *Spoilers*
Day three: It's frustrating when the writing is good but everything is annoying.
Okay. Where to start. I should start with the last thing I heard. Professor Piper.
"This is college, what we do here is real."
Um... No.
More accurate? "This is college, what we do here is more pressure filled, but ultimately only slightly more real than high school."
Real my ass. And I say that as someone who has earned two degrees. What you do in college teaches you how to think critically, creatively, helps with perspective taking and working collabratively. All very valuable skills. But what you do? It's no more real then when you had to write a book report for 11th grade. No one is going to make you summarize Fahrenheit 451 before before giving you a job, just like no one is going to quiz you on Mendel's pea plants before approving a loan application.
What you do is a vehicle for learning how to think. And I wouldn't trust the fictionalized version of this college to teach anyone that considering how they set Cath up for failure. She tested out of English Comp and she didn't know not to use a fanfic for an assignment? Well, they do not test right.
I tested beyond Freshman level in writing and comprehension when I started college. Guess what I still had to take before they would even let me glance toward the section of the bookstore where the advanced writing textbooks were stocked?
Writing 101
What did I learn in writing 101? So many things! That even freshmen in college don't know how to properly use a comma (prof said she had to go over that with every class), that I would come to loathe the words "12 pt. Times New Roman", and (this is the big one) if you didn't think of it, cite it. Hell even if you think you thought of it, but someone else thought of the thing that made you think of it, cite it. If it didn't spring forth from your brain like Athena from the mind of Zeus, cite that fucker (Hesiod, 8th century BC).
And if you can't cite it, don't use it. I cringed when I got to the part where Cath used a fic for an assignment.
There is no accidemic citing that is the equivilent of a fanfic disclaimer (as far as I know, I haven't written academically for a couple of years and they change the citing rules fairly often). While I stand by what I said, fanfic is a valid form of writing, in that a talented fanfic writer is a talented writer, full stop, using charaters not your own for credit is the college equivalent of using them for profit. And Cath would have known that if she would have been made to go through intro writing like she was suppose to, because for whatever reason she did not learn it in high school.
It pissed me off because Piper sat there all sympathetic and patronizing "This was an immature mistake."
Mistake? Yes, the college's for letting a 100 level student into a 300 level class before she learned the technical parts of writing.
Ugh!
Now the rest. I like Reagan a little more, I liked that she asked if Cath should be on drugs and that she herself is on drugs, and it's a wonderful thing. And she's right. The proper drugs can be a wonderful thing for mental illness.
It makes me sad that Cath didn't tell her to fuck off when she decided to be Cath's friend because she thought Cath was pathetic.
I like Levi, though it took a while for him to become a more fleshed out character that Cath actually felt friendly with rather than just tolerant of.
Cath and Wren's dad is amazingly written. I love that Rowell puts so much effort into depicting mental illness in a real way. No one is a cartoon of a crazy person. Cath has an anxiety disorder, her dad is bipolar both are people with feelings, talents, interests and worries that don't center on their illness.
Something else I like about how Cath is written, too often I see anxious or depressed characters depicted as weak willed or mousey. Cath isn't, she just choses what to expend her energy on. She's got steel where she feels it's important.
She often doesn't text or call Wren out of pride. She doesn't let Piper's criticism and view of fan fiction stop her from doing something she loves. She has her stance set on her mother and she digs in her heels.
Now, are all of these the best way to handle stuff? Not always. The "You don't need me? Well, I don't need you" thing with Wren could have been handled better. Piper's criticism didn't keep her from writing Simon and Baz, but it did keep her from even attempting her own stuff and made her doubt her skill.
The more I read this, the more I find myswlf trying to do the Myers-Brigg test on Cath, because by God I see a fellow INFJ. The sort of frustrating side of it. The set-your-teeth You want me to do a thing? Just watch how hard I don't do that thing side.
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