Rather than prepare for tomorrow's tutorial, I am, instead, searching for Orochimaru fics that does more than just provide him a personality of a gay-pedophile. I want depth, I want motives, and I want characterization! Hmm, I suspect I'll be severely disappointed.
I find Orochimaru to be the most fascinating character in Naruto. From the way that he present himself; cold, creepy, and so hungry (ok, we can argue for authorial intent here; snakes=creep/bad/etc., but I’m going to ignore K-sensei’s input for this study), to his mad ambition to know all, to learn all, to understand all. On a complete objective POV I can understand his drive, and his obsession to live. Knowledge is endless, and to have to die before learning everything must just kill the genius that is Orochimaru (say what you will of his actions but Orochimaru is a genius.)
You know, I keep on going back to the few flashback scenes of Orochimaru as a child, and I just can’t picture that little boy becoming what he is now. Orochimaru must have had innocence at one point, must have had compassion, and there must have been a point in his life when Orochimaru came to a decision. Compassion is nothing, protecting those precious to me is not enough. All there is is knowledge. I would love to read something like that.
And I’m so not awake enough to have this rant. Ok, going to attempt to go back to sleep again.
Actually, Orochimaru remind me of Marc Remillard of the Intervention series. Hunger for knowledge, genius, ruthless, and yet… yeah. Before I forget, read Julian May’s Intervention series. Marc is a damn fascinating character.
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My take on it is that Kishimoto did intend for us to have Orochimaru just be bad to the bone, which I find a bit boring, but can find no more info in the opposite direction. He's more of a mad-scientist type in a way, looking for knowledge, immortality, hubris, etc.
I meant that Orochimaru is not the main villain because he lacks complexity of motivation and he seems inherently evil, not because he resembles an aging J-rocker.
Inherently evil does get old after awhile. I was wondering whether he would do it with Itachi (and I think he is doing it, he had the perfect opportunity to grey it up a bit, didn't take it), so I hope he does something less about the inborn psychopathy with the other Akatsuki members.
I'm still hoping that he'll do something more with Itachi mainly because of the whole flashback bit between Itachi and Sasuke. I jsut refuse to accept the fact that the kid Itachi was could suffenly turn around and massacre him clan for no reason. Really hoping it is some sort of conspiracy on the Uchiha's part that finally pushed Itachi over the edge. Hoping.
I found the flashback was mostly wasted from an Itachi perspective. What seems to have been revealed was entirely predictable. Perhaps when Sasuke finally gets back more will be developed.
I'm sure it goes without saying that if you find anything good, please share!
Will share when I do find it. Don't get your hopes to high.
I'm a bit of a sucker for parent-child (whether literal or symbolic) interaction in fics, too. And the betrayal on both sides...! Now I sort of want to write Sarutobi-Orochimaru fic (but only if I feel I can do it justice).
Yes, you can do do JUSTICE for it! WRITE! WRITE! PARENT-CHILD!!
(I don't remember Sarutobi passing him over, but that might be due to my faulty memory than anything else.)