D00d, you are such an angst-monkey lover :p But I still adore you, c’os I might just be one too. Hell yeah, you can almost seem them having an epiphany (weighing about 10 tonnes.) And what’s really sad is that they can never get that lost time back. Ever. All of this arriving at another point for me. I might like father-issue plots (angst), I might even understand why they did it but there’s this deep, personal reaction of, ‘WTF where you thinking?! Can’t you see what you are doing?! You can never get back the time you lost with your children.” Argh. At which point my dad pats me on the back and tell me maybe I should either cut back on caffeine or maybe get some sleep (I love my dad), and my mum begins to feed me (I love mum).

I think what is interesting is that more often than not the absent father figure seem to expect to be forgiven for their absence, or at the very least they are stuck in a mind frame where they assume everything they had left behind would stay exactly the same. It is as if they think the four-yr-olds they left behind would stay four, and the wife they left behind will still be alive (hardly ever), and still unmarried (always true.) But it is always a shock for them to see that everything they had left behind had changed, and that in a way is sad. So very sad. As for the son… well, the amount of, ‘How could you?!’ and the ‘Mum died because of you,” etc., would contribute a lot to their hate and their anger.

Itachi-Sasuke. Exactly what I have been saying (and ranting, and screaming about) for the past year. It makes me want to throw something at people when they start to say, ‘Get over it,’ or ‘Sasuke is such a whiner,’ etc. I mean WTF? Hello, boy’s family got murdered by his OWN brother here. The person who was closest to him, the person he admired, trusted, and probably more of a father figure than his own damn father. Not exactly a great start for functional, stable character. Yet, Sasuke still grew up, still managed to have a sense of humour (earlier chapters), and was developing attachments. And really, you can’t blame him for losing completely when Itachi came back and broke him. And… uhm, I’ll stop now. Sorry about the rant *koffs*.

See, that’s what pisses me off. My mother loves me I have never doubted that in my entire life. I know I’m the most important thing in her life. She has done a hell of a lot of things for me, but that does not mean she’s perfect. She has gotten angry at me, she has screamed at me, and at times she’ll take out her anger at me (and everyone in the house -_-;;) But she never let me doubt she loved me. The ideal mother-figure is complete bullshit. My mother is no saint, but that does not mean she loves me any less. And to tell the truth I rather have a mother that I can perceive as human, that I can get angry with (screaming matches), but we’ll mend everything up in half an hour with no hard feelings than have a card-board cut-out. Your family is the closest thing you’ll ever have, and that means knowing their faults and loving them despite it.

Completely boring. Probably why I can’t identify with most mother figures in anime, though I admit I liked Trisha (from FMA) but I suspect that was because there was so little of her, and I can assume that might have thrown a few temper tantrums here and there. It is alright, you can dislike Joyce, I still love you despite your deficiency :p