Thanks! Awesome answers! And way more detailed than I would have dreamed of XD They also give rise to new questions but I don't know how to phrase them yet. Same for what I've reread of Teamwork 1 & 2 :/
Yeah, Teamwork 1 is pretty old ^__^ but it doesn't really feel so. Your style has been good from the start and pretty constant throughout so there isn't this horrible clash between the first and last chapter that you usually see when someone has been writing for that long. It's like you had a mature style from the get-go (though I haven't read anything earlier than No Kunoichi and Teamwork 1). Plus the Teamwork verse is very well defined and pretty separate from canon ('canon-independent'?) so really Teamwork 1 doesn't feel old at all. Maybe from a fandom perspective - there was a freshness to the fandom back then that's given way to something more settled imo.
What you've said in your posts helps me understand teamwork!Sasuke better. He's... less repressed than how people usually write him. I think I like that. He's usually pretty exaggerated and I was so used to reading him like that I got confused over his normal reactions in Teamwork ^__^
"And there's a part of him that admires and is grateful to Naruto in a very platonic, kid with a hero crush way, but like fuck he is mentioning this." That's touching and IC. I think manga!Sasuke had a lot of admiration for Naruto while he was still in Konoha. It was definitely there, though I'm not sure how important that is to him anymore or what he thinks of it (as of start of The Fourth Shinobi War - where I'm at with the manga).
"It's gonna come out anyway, of course, not fun if it doesn't" so true XD though I'm not sure what would bother Naruto about that. too intense? too twisted?
I do have a couple of questions that I can ask now:
- I was rereading the dinner over at Sakura's parents and I'm very curious to know what each of her parents were thinking throughout the evening; what were their impressions of the boys and the whole situation? And I have to add I really like Yukihiro. He's one of the best OCs I've seen so far and he's such a likeable man.
- Sasuke's breakdown and vulnerability the evening he burned down his family home brought him very close to how I think he actually is. He knows it too. And he seems to know how much of what he does is just pretend. Does he really think shutting away what he feels and being so out of touch with himself is a mark of strength? Or am I being insensitive and that's something he needs to do to keep it together? Being so out of touch with yourself is such a glaring weakness, and he is completely aware of doing it. Does he do that because he honestly doesn't know it's weak and confuses it with being strong? Or he does know better but he's already doing the best he can and it would be asking too much of him to do more given what he's been through? Maybe he's actually in control and not fooling himself at all. He's a smart guy after all, and resilient as well. I like that idea but it doesn't seem likely.
kinda off topic: it's incredibly irritating when people who take the manga (semi)seriously are condescending towards the characters like all the shit going on in Naruto is as simple as a walk in the park, 'how dare he leave the village?!?! if I had all my family murdered I'd totally have the strength to make all the right decisions'. *insert any variant of 'they are doing it wrong' here, especially 'why can't he just open up'... hmm... really? seriously?* That's not what the second question is about. It's more about Sasuke's mindset and how he sees himself. I know it's not very clear but I've waited long enough to post and I doubt my thoughts on the issue will get any clearer any time soon, if at all hehe
(still off topic: not to mention, I don't necessarily agree leaving the village HAS TO be completely wrong. The way he let himself be pushed into it is more of a problem than actually leaving imho.)
I really appreciated getting a glympse of an unguarded Sasuke in Teamwork 2.
Despite my best efforts, my posts may tend to ramble. Hope you don't mind ^__^
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They also give rise to new questions but I don't know how to phrase them yet. Same for what I've reread of Teamwork 1 & 2 :/
Yeah, Teamwork 1 is pretty old ^__^ but it doesn't really feel so. Your style has been good from the start and pretty constant throughout so there isn't this horrible clash between the first and last chapter that you usually see when someone has been writing for that long. It's like you had a mature style from the get-go (though I haven't read anything earlier than No Kunoichi and Teamwork 1). Plus the Teamwork verse is very well defined and pretty separate from canon ('canon-independent'?) so really Teamwork 1 doesn't feel old at all. Maybe from a fandom perspective - there was a freshness to the fandom back then that's given way to something more settled imo.
What you've said in your posts helps me understand teamwork!Sasuke better. He's... less repressed than how people usually write him. I think I like that. He's usually pretty exaggerated and I was so used to reading him like that I got confused over his normal reactions in Teamwork ^__^
"And there's a part of him that admires and is grateful to Naruto in a very platonic, kid with a hero crush way, but like fuck he is mentioning this."
That's touching and IC. I think manga!Sasuke had a lot of admiration for Naruto while he was still in Konoha. It was definitely there, though I'm not sure how important that is to him anymore or what he thinks of it (as of start of The Fourth Shinobi War - where I'm at with the manga).
"It's gonna come out anyway, of course, not fun if it doesn't"
so true XD
though I'm not sure what would bother Naruto about that. too intense? too twisted?
I do have a couple of questions that I can ask now:
- I was rereading the dinner over at Sakura's parents and I'm very curious to know what each of her parents were thinking throughout the evening; what were their impressions of the boys and the whole situation? And I have to add I really like Yukihiro. He's one of the best OCs I've seen so far and he's such a likeable man.
- Sasuke's breakdown and vulnerability the evening he burned down his family home brought him very close to how I think he actually is. He knows it too. And he seems to know how much of what he does is just pretend. Does he really think shutting away what he feels and being so out of touch with himself is a mark of strength? Or am I being insensitive and that's something he needs to do to keep it together? Being so out of touch with yourself is such a glaring weakness, and he is completely aware of doing it. Does he do that because he honestly doesn't know it's weak and confuses it with being strong? Or he does know better but he's already doing the best he can and it would be asking too much of him to do more given what he's been through?
Maybe he's actually in control and not fooling himself at all. He's a smart guy after all, and resilient as well. I like that idea but it doesn't seem likely.
kinda off topic: it's incredibly irritating when people who take the manga (semi)seriously are condescending towards the characters like all the shit going on in Naruto is as simple as a walk in the park, 'how dare he leave the village?!?! if I had all my family murdered I'd totally have the strength to make all the right decisions'. *insert any variant of 'they are doing it wrong' here, especially 'why can't he just open up'... hmm... really? seriously?*
That's not what the second question is about. It's more about Sasuke's mindset and how he sees himself. I know it's not very clear but I've waited long enough to post and I doubt my thoughts on the issue will get any clearer any time soon, if at all hehe
(still off topic: not to mention, I don't necessarily agree leaving the village HAS TO be completely wrong. The way he let himself be pushed into it is more of a problem than actually leaving imho.)
I really appreciated getting a glympse of an unguarded Sasuke in Teamwork 2.
Despite my best efforts, my posts may tend to ramble. Hope you don't mind ^__^