not saying the potency is irrelevant because it’s certainly a huge portion of it but you can make many pairings devoted to each other, and if the characters dont have an interesting setup it’s just not as good
it’s not even the potency of the relationship or the obsession with each other that makes sns so good it’s their characters too and how their personalities mesh bc i feel like you can put them in any AU and i’ll be sat
naruto had baggage jealousy and denial baked into his feelings for sasuke so i also dont like the pro ss argument that it’s somehow an L for sns that this moment was set up this way when to me it adds to the dynamic and makes sense for naruto’s character in general
low iq: lmaooo naruto and sasuke love each other and not sakura
high iq: cute girl caught between two guys who are secretly in love w each other but still care ab her and her development is heavily centered around her desire to protect them is a fun dynamic to explore
an opinion i hold that i think will trigger ppl was that even though naruto was obsessed w sasuke from an early age the maturation and realization of his feelings only fully triggered during the timeskip so it makes sense that he didn’t realize sasuke left like sakura did . sorry
i know i seem like a sock puppet bot account programmed to defend sakura in relation to the men but i don’t feel the need to post the same takes ab sns being the best ship ever that everyone else also posts bc we all already know it 😋
“kishimoto doesn’t care ab writing romance” babe he wrote a dramatic fake love confession where the girl is stuck between two guys just to lead into a mutual suicide declaration he lives for drama and romance
it’s hard for me to deeply gaf about other anime ships knowing i ship anime classic epic love saga and it’s hard for me to gaf about other series’ characters when i stan dramatic pink haired monster strength girl