Haru Yamamoto
Currently planned approach:
Offer cooperation/improvement in living standards.
Haru: Better employment for Dad, resources, and dispensation to beat the shit out of Hazou during sparring.
Initial commentary: I think there's a lot of room for improvement, because I think this pushes the wrong buttons with Haru:
- Offering him better employment for Dad reminds him that his dad is totally at the whims of clans, who can do whatever they want with no fucking consequences. We're accidentally creating an audience dissimilarity.
- Offering him resources further reinforces this. This creates a further gap.
- Dispensation to beat the shit out of Hazou during sparring is, while not as bad as the other two points, still not that beneficial. Moreover, who the fuck are we to give him permission to beat the shit out of us? That's another gap that we just keep on making.
No, we can do better, by appealing to his anger instead of accidentally feeding it. I intend to make this plan shift, but I understand if others don't want to adapt it.
You
get how
fucked up this unjust society is. I need your help to
burn it down and build a better Leaf.
I think this appeal works out better for both of us, actually. That's because even though we're not offering him physically as much, we're both not reminding him that he and his family's wellbeing and prosperity is at the mercy of clans and agreeing with how pissed off he is at society, which he feels has wronged him. By then offering him an outlet to resolve his anger (help me burn down this society and build a better Leaf), we can get his cooperation and his efforts according to our plans.
Put another way, we're creating a similarity between us and the target audience Haru (we think the system is unjust and want to make it better), appealing to negative emotion (anger at injustice), and then giving him our way of removing that emotion: (working with us to burn down the system and build a better Leaf).
The incendiary rhetoric will be called treasonous by the conservatives and the clanned moderates who believe that justice is the absence of disorder when true justice is the proactive confrontation of oppression and injustices. As believers in true justice for Leaf and all the nations, we will argue on Leaf's behalf, fight for Leaf's behalf, and die for Leaf's behalf if we must. We will confront this oppression and injustices where we see them because they are unjust, and we will not stop and we will not hesitate and we will not wait for a more opportune season because there will
never again be quite so an opportune season as this one, not unless we fight to make one so, so that our children's children will one day be able to join hands and cry out "Justice! Justice at long last!"
(man being able to steal inspiration and rhetoric from all the civil rights leaders is pretty great for our purposes)
