Thank you! I hadn't realized it (i wrote this one 3.5 hours of sleep before rushing off to work) but Kakashi is projecting what he would would (the happy love life, the beloved teacher) on the people he feels deserve it.
nd Kakashi's wishes for a happiness and normalacy that Kakashi needs and probably doesnt even know that he needs/wants
Oh, he so does. I find it really psychologically telling that he disconnects from the world through reading, and is reading porn/romance, which is all about connection, wether that be simply sexual or more emotional. (I've always had the suspicion that there was more to Icha Icha than met the I, and finding out about what Jiraiya was writing before made me positive that those books are rich with gratitious sex and Jiraiya's unrequited longing for Tsunade.)
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nd Kakashi's wishes for a happiness and normalacy that Kakashi needs and probably doesnt even know that he needs/wants
Oh, he so does. I find it really psychologically telling that he disconnects from the world through reading, and is reading porn/romance, which is all about connection, wether that be simply sexual or more emotional. (I've always had the suspicion that there was more to Icha Icha than met the I, and finding out about what Jiraiya was writing before made me positive that those books are rich with gratitious sex and Jiraiya's unrequited longing for Tsunade.)