They finally added comment editing, so they can bloody well add long comment lengths too:
In Neji's flashback, his father tells him that 'he is the most loved boy [or child? I think boy] in the Branch House', which I always found an ambiguous sentence;
Is this from the anime? Because I just looked through the manga chapter that has Neji's flashback, and the only thing that Hizashi tells him is that he is "to live to protect her (Hinata)". Nothing about him being the most loved child: in fact, that sentence kinda contradicts Hizashi's later sentence to Hiashi, just before he leaves to die: "I've only shown my ugly side to Neji". That sentence kind of makes me wonder if Hizashi wasn't all that kind to Neji himself, though's most likely referring to his open hatred of the Main House.
I'm not sure I follow. I agree with Hinata having always been shy, but I don't see what you mean with the end of the sentence.
"Normal" Hyuuga=cold, pragmatic, unfeeling. The sort of personality that does what needs to be done and doesn't care about the suffering that might come with decisions (hi, curse seal). Neji's databook 2 entry says that he has a "Spartan" personality--he's extremely practical and completely ignores anything that he sees as unimportant.
Of course, this doesn't take timeskip Neji into account, but Neji's personality is much more in line with a "normal" Hyuuga than Hinata's is. One of the ways that Neji taunts Hinata during their fight is to say that she's a horrible shinobi because she's too gentle and avoids conflict. There are many ways you could describe the Hyuuga, but "gentle" is not one of them, and Hinata is definitely atypical in that respect.
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Date: 2007-11-12 10:27 pm (UTC)In Neji's flashback, his father tells him that 'he is the most loved boy [or child? I think boy] in the Branch House', which I always found an ambiguous sentence;
Is this from the anime? Because I just looked through the manga chapter that has Neji's flashback, and the only thing that Hizashi tells him is that he is "to live to protect her (Hinata)". Nothing about him being the most loved child: in fact, that sentence kinda contradicts Hizashi's later sentence to Hiashi, just before he leaves to die: "I've only shown my ugly side to Neji". That sentence kind of makes me wonder if Hizashi wasn't all that kind to Neji himself, though's most likely referring to his open hatred of the Main House.
I'm not sure I follow. I agree with Hinata having always been shy, but I don't see what you mean with the end of the sentence.
"Normal" Hyuuga=cold, pragmatic, unfeeling. The sort of personality that does what needs to be done and doesn't care about the suffering that might come with decisions (hi, curse seal). Neji's databook 2 entry says that he has a "Spartan" personality--he's extremely practical and completely ignores anything that he sees as unimportant.
Of course, this doesn't take timeskip Neji into account, but Neji's personality is much more in line with a "normal" Hyuuga than Hinata's is. One of the ways that Neji taunts Hinata during their fight is to say that she's a horrible shinobi because she's too gentle and avoids conflict. There are many ways you could describe the Hyuuga, but "gentle" is not one of them, and Hinata is definitely atypical in that respect.
wow, tl;dr. Sorry about this...
I like long posts. :D