Not the last anon, but I’m curious: as someone who knows Minato so well, what do you think of that popular theory of how some of Minato’s actions had a darker, more calculating undertone to them? Like, how he married Kushina to emulate Hashirama, wanted access to Uzumaki nin-/fuinjutsu, and how he had a more Machiavellian side? I don’t buy into it on a canon basis, but it as as some dark AU seems interesting, in its own way.

Not the last anon, but I’m curious: as someone who knows Minato so well, what do you think of that popular theory of how some of Minato’s actions had a darker, more calculating undertone to them? Like, how he married Kushina to emulate Hashirama, wanted access to Uzumaki nin-/fuinjutsu, and how he had a more Machiavellian side? I don’t buy into it on a canon basis, but it as as some dark AU seems interesting, in its own way. — brisk.news