Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25100062-20140718213149/@comment-4271790-20140719164358

Elveonora wrote: People believe that friends aren't important to Sasuke at all. That much is certainly false. Even back then during his fight against Killer B when Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo got into danger, he was reminded of Team 7 and saved them. He was even willing to sacrifice himself at least on once occasion. But there is a thing such as priorities, the fate of the world is more important than Sakura. But frankly, most things are more important than her :P Sasuke isn't a merciless person. The only ones he didn't have a second thought of killing were Orochimaru and Karin (and yet they are buddies now, good one Kishi).

I admit though that his behavior changes more often than not and his actions and words contradict those which both precede and follow them. It isn't strange for him to exploit others for his own gain. Like I'm completely clueless about his Kage Summit rampage. That in my opinion wasn't well written and is the worst moment of his characterization. It didn't make sense to turn from relatively sane and "I care about friends" Sasuke into "Ima gonna kill everyone even throw my own life at line just to get revenge... no one means anything to me" Sasuke just in a span of few chapters. From that point on, Kishi made sure to portray Sasuke as insane, UNTIL he met Itachi from which point on, his sanity has seemingly returned back, completely unrealistic.

He may have multiple personality disorder. Part II. alone has like 3-4 different "Sasukes" no wonder people are so confused about his motives. But one thing that I can say with enough certainty is that he isn't evil... just moderately crazed. Or in fact it may be pointless to analyze a fictional character and the one with mental disorder is Kishi instead for not following consistent character development, even going so far as to proclaim in an interview that Sasuke is "pure" despite having written him say to Hashirama that he (Sasuke) isn't innocent.

Some poor writing there.

Once again, ^^^^This. And no, it is not poor writing on your part. You're absolutely correct.