#tobirama joining madara in the war is such a good fanfic idea like the tension!!!!

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Madara/Tobirama parallel part 1

Another day, another naruto meta bc im obsessed :

Madara and Hashirama are not true parallels to each other. Madara and Tobirama are. 

Now I’m not cheapening Madara and Hashirama’s friendship (or romance, based on interpretation). They indeed loved each other very much, trusted each other (or at least Madara trusted Hashirama), and did agree that peace was a necessity. However, personality-wise, they differed a lot, even as children. Hashirama is the Naruto to Madara’s Sasuke, but Madara is (in Tobirama’s eyes at least) his Gaara, his Obito, his Nagato. Two sides of the same coin.

Let’s take a look at the 4th great war, when the Hokages are ressuscitated and learn about the IT. 

This is what Hashirama thinks of it :

Then Madara takes the time to explain himself to Tobirama, perhaps attempting to strengthen his own resolve, or perhaps to have someone of a similar mind agree and feel less alone and misunderstood (I could write a whole novel about Madara’s loneliness). And that’s what happens. Tobirama agrees to Madara’s views. He shares them. He, too, is disgusted that sacrifice is needed for peace. He, too, doesn’t think Hashirama’s village will bring peace (i’ll develop that in another post). He thinks the IT IS a good idea.

He’s not agreeing here with Madara just to distract him. He can still distract him by arguing, and the thoughts that follow clearly prove that he isn’t deceiving Madara when he says he is right. He simply refuses to let Madara be the one who brings peace (through IT), bc he doesn’t trust Madara. It’s both pettiness (perhaps bc he blames him for “stealing” his brother) and fear. He is terrified of Madara, and not just because of his power. Why would a man who was Izuna’s equal (Izuna, who was also hailed as being close to Madara in power), and who has the god of shinobi as a brother, be afraid? He showed no fear when he saw Jinchuuriki Obito, who by Hashirama’s own words is more powerful than him.

Tobirama fears Madara because he sees himself in him. He is a ticking bomb, as likely to fall to despair and resort to extreme measures as Madara, and only his insane rules and his repression of his emotions and his over reliance on his brother’s moral compass keep him from becoming him. In that sense, he is hypocritical when he calls the Uchiha unpredictable. 

Furthermore, isn’t the IT, in essence, similar to Edo Tensei? A jutsu that transcends time and death, in the hope of bringing loved ones gone too soon back to Madara/Tobirama? Tobirama, by creating the Edo Tensei, showed that his thought process was the same as Madara. He refused to accept reality. Not only that, but it’s implied in canon that Madara intimately knew Edo Tensei when it was being invented. Those two men sat together, at some point, despite the hate between them, and discussed the jutsu. Agreed on it, perhaps. But it didn’t work, and Tobirama shelved it (*cough* as quickly as Madara shelved Konoha *cough*). 

Their core values are the same, and they are both deeply pessimistic about the world around them. Personality-wise, they’re extremely similar. Loud, ambitious, paranoid, distrustful, goofy, caring, misunderstood geniuses. Both won’t back down from their goals, no matter what. Even physically, they share some similarities, with their spiky hair and red eyes and delicate, pointy faces. I said it before and I’ll say it again : it is tragic that the war made these two enemies, because the potential for them to be great friends was right there.

Anyway, the Tobi = Tobirama theory we had going back in the days is very much possible in fanfic. Akatsuki!Tobirama was one bad day away from being canon and I won’t change my mind.

#madara uchiha #tobirama senju #hashirama senju #naruto meta #madatobi #not rlly but can be interpreted as such #which means mdtb shippers owe me money for making their ship work in canon #tobirama joining madara in the war is such a good fanfic idea like the tension!!!! #i'll make another post abt why izuna and hashirama are parallels of each other #madara haters begone #anti konoha