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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Satsuko said:
What are the themes of MfD as a story?

Please tag serious answers as such because while the humorous potential of this is kagomic in size (of the explosion) I also want to know what you think
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The world can be a horrible place at times. You can look around and see how it hurts you, how it hurts the people around you, how it wants to see you die crushed under its weight. There's a tragedy around every corner, every flavour of repulsive horror imaginable.

And it's also worth saving. And it's also possible to save. Even as the world hunts you down, seeks to add you to the tally sheets of the gruesomely slaughtered, you can make it a better place. The world's hatred cannot smother your kindness. The world's incentives cannot break your ideology. The world's oppression cannot blot out your spark of creativity, of ingenuity, of sheer unbridled potential.

Despair yields where hope treads. All the world may be blanketed in despair, but that's no reason to call it quits. Even when things seem bleakest you can always make a difference and work towards a brighter future.
 
The world can be made better, even if one must drag it stabbing and screaming into improvement. It isn't just a moral imperative, it is the only choice for the truly sane. It will take blood and sanity, by no means will it be a constant rise or a smooth journey, and there will be times where you wonder why you even bother caring.

But inch by inch, in a sea of opportunities, as long as the world still exists? Better still remains possible.
 
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It's not just possible, but necessary, to make the world a better place. And you must find a balance between helping people and accumulating power in order to help people more efficiently. Because without power, you can accomplish nothing, but if you spend all your time accumulating power you will end up too busy to help anyone.
 
Everyone in the world is traumatized by the violence the system inflicts on them and causes them to inflict on others. The cycle has to be broken
 
We can and do reprogram reality by writing squiggles on paper. We do not know what the programs do until execution. All code executes in production. There is no documentation. Legacy code bases are a memetic hazard, but also hold at bay hostile beings empowered by memetic hazards. The only documentation left is oral legends from hundreds of generations ago.

So basically fullstack developer quest, humanity sold separately.
 
Brilliance is not just a matter of intelligence, but also opportunity. Hazou's natural Sealing genius means nothing if he was never taught to Seal, civilian engineers couldn't have built the first aerial craft without money, resources, and someone thinking their ideas were worth a damn even if they can't conjure fireballs, etc. Smart people are everywhere even if they don't always get the chance to show it.
 
So I feel like we need to start brainstorming the correct terminology for dying and coming back, before it's an issue yunno. I propose "unaliven't"
 
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