Hmm. It's been a while since I've really gotten into Kakashi, so it's hard to say.
What drew me to him at first was, like with so many characters, the contrast. There's his air of eccentric laziness, his porn-reading, his walking right into the dumb trap Naruto set for him (which, in retrospect, he obviously did on purpose to get Team 7 to underestimate him)--and then he turns out to be totally badass. And then he turns around and says that everyone he ever loved is dead. And he smiles when he says it.
Just the number of levels he has takes my breath away. The way he's constantly seeking to distance himself from the rest of the world (always seeking out ways to make people underestimate him, to keep them away from him, to make them dismiss him), but Team 7 draws him back to it and more and more it is revealed that he does care. I also find his identity issues utterly fascinating--the way he's willingly sacrificed what little self he had to take in the memories of his loved ones.
He's everything I ask for in an anime character--badass, funny, angsty, complex, multifaceted and many-layered, scarred (plus he's got a freaky anime eye! win!), broken. The only things he's missing are anger and intensity, and I can forgive him that (besides the fact that every so often he does have them) because he has such a good reason for having lost them.
What drew me to him at first was, like with so many characters, the contrast. There's his air of eccentric laziness, his porn-reading, his walking right into the dumb trap Naruto set for him (which, in retrospect, he obviously did on purpose to get Team 7 to underestimate him)--and then he turns out to be totally badass. And then he turns around and says that everyone he ever loved is dead. And he smiles when he says it.
Just the number of levels he has takes my breath away. The way he's constantly seeking to distance himself from the rest of the world (always seeking out ways to make people underestimate him, to keep them away from him, to make them dismiss him), but Team 7 draws him back to it and more and more it is revealed that he does care. I also find his identity issues utterly fascinating--the way he's willingly sacrificed what little self he had to take in the memories of his loved ones.
He's everything I ask for in an anime character--badass, funny, angsty, complex, multifaceted and many-layered, scarred (plus he's got a freaky anime eye! win!), broken. The only things he's missing are anger and intensity, and I can forgive him that (besides the fact that every so often he does have them) because he has such a good reason for having lost them.
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