Drink Up With Me Now

[redbrunja]

gacked from rachelthedemon:

Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you either (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason she/he is awesomecakes, (d) three things that never happened to that character or (e) three people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.

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[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

Shikamaru really doesn’t strike me as the type to really care about appearances that much. Probably comes from him understanding that they’re far too much work to maintain, and that any girl that thinks they are worth the effort obviously has her priorities all messed up. And that is why he thinks Temari is so hot.

Also, the second Sakura one makes a scary amount of sense. As in it sounds like fic material…

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think he's smart enough to know why people care about appearances - it's just that Ino's focusing on the wrong thing. ^_^

But yes, Temari's straighforwardness towards all things is most likely one thing that attracts him to her.

And that Sakura fact may wind itself into other fic - I just need to figure out the specifics on how her homelife is bad.

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

We never do quite see her parent's do we? I've always thought there was something going on there, but exactly what is something else.. I'll look forward to it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

We never see anything about her parents, and I think she's one of the few kids who because a ninja and DIDN'T have ninja parents, which says something right there.

Also, I bet money her family was one of those 'everything looks perfect but totally isn't families.'

I'm leaning towards father having an affair/affairs, lots of fighting going on, and it being explicitly stated that they're staying together because 'it's best for Sakura' even though it totally isn't.

What are you thoughts on what Sakura's home life might look like?

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

My personal theory (which I like a lot more than I think is actually true) is that Sakura’s parents are low level chunnin that never rose above mediocrity but were passionately (and nauseatingly) in love. They were married a few years before she was born. She was an accident, and has never really risen above that in terms of how she got along with her parents. It’s not that they don’t love her, or treat her well, but she’s superfluous. They have a much closer relationship with each other than with her. This is why she has always outsourced for emotional security.

My other theory is that neither of her parents are shinobi. She only became one to keep up with Ino, but it’s something that drove a wedge between her parents and her. Quite what that wedge consists of I’ve never gotten around to thinking about…

One thing I’m pretty sure of though is that Sakura was an only child for the majority of her life. This shows up with how she initially treats Naruto and Sasuke. If she had siblings she would have been able to cope with them better. Especially Naruto. I wouldn’t rule out her having a really young or old sibling though, but essentially never having to interact with them. A younger –baby- sibling would almost explain the distance between her and her parents, you know, the whole shifting attention to the new baby thing, but I have the sense that her distance with her parents isn’t a new thing.

In all honesty I don’t think Kishimoto ever really built them as characters, so it’s all basically fanon, which is something of a double edged sword.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Interesting. Whatever the details are, I do think it's clear that you are dead on the money about Sakura outsourcing for emotional security, and i would be SHOCKED if she wasn't an only child.

I personally go for the parents are not ninja theory, and actually think it was at the academy that she met Ino. Of all team 7, I think Sakura is the only gennin who became a ninja to serve Konoha, and not for the recognition or pursuit of revenge.