A Wild Headcanon Meme Appears!

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✭ A HEADCANON/QUESTIONS MEME ✭
Because there's never a wrong time for headcanon.

→ Post with a list of your characters.
→ Comment to other people asking them questions about their lineup. Ask anything you can think of: questions about personal headcanon, thoughts on your CR, hypothetical situations, off-screen interactions, future plans, serious business, random crack, whatever!
→ Respond to the questions you receive!
→ LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS THAT YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
→ Discover things your characters have in common and forge excellent CR and shenanigans accordingly.
→ Repeat steps 2-5 forever.
→ Holy Voltorbs.

Comments

[aflashoffaith]

I DIDN'T FORGET ABOUT THIS.

Minato has a good bit of guilt over the deaths of the kids, in each circumstance he wasn't there, he arrived too late. Yeah they were in a time of war and teams were already spread thin and separated, it was going to happen to someone but nothing really makes him feel okay about it being his team.

Remembering dying... he doesn't think that's necessarily a bad thing. All three died ("died") protecting someone/something, it was a choice they all made and he respects that. Even if in Rin's case she didn't have much choice at all but, she still had the guts to do something incredibly difficult because it was what needed to be done. A part of him is proud of them for that, HE DID GOOD INSTILLING VALUES IN YOU GUYS. But it does get to him that they were so young, their lives cut way too short.

It might be "easier" if the kids didn't remember/didn't know about it, but he thinks it's important to talk about... even if it's kind of awkward and he's been not so great at bringing it up so far haha. Their sacrifices shouldn't have been in vain, or not talked about because it hurts to- they can't pretend like it never happened and they shouldn't. And for him remembering it has been a pretty good thing while in game here, he's more motivated to make his time with the others count, doesn't want to have more regrets pile up. It does sadden him to see how much he's missed out on, absolutely, but none of them can change what's already happened and dwelling on it doesn't help either.

He's at least heard that Kakashi is still around and doing things with his life, so while he worries about how Kakashi would handle everything there's some reassurance that he's mostly okay. Death is just something shinobi have to accept and is all around them, but being the last of a team must be pretty awful and he feels guilty for leaving Kakashi alone too.

BASICALLY he wishes things could have been different, that he could have done something more to protect them, remembering death should make them appreciate a second chance more and make them stronger, and he hopes Kakashi is strong enough to handle the loss and continue on, understanding and taking a lesson from their deaths.