Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20160409062530/@comment-734582-20160412113142

Earth 2 Superman wrote: Dude, you're taking the fun out of the thread. The purpose of it is pure speculation, or better yet the use of imagination. Not necessarily pure speculation. Naruto is very open for interpretation. Kishimoto made it clear with Itachi that there's no such thing as absolute truth.

That being said, i've always found it weird that we perfectly know of every villain how their past is tied to their ideals, except Orochimaru.

E.g. how Obito lost all connection to this world and just wants to erase his pain. Madara who read the History and learned that not even god-like beings could bring peace.

But Orochimaru? We know he lost his parents, but it's never made clear why that made him so adamant to learn all jutsu, or why he was so busy trying to recreate the Rinnegan. it makes sense that ultimately he wanted to revive his parents. Sasuke however made him realize what it was like to be a parent, and he liked it, which is why we now have Mitsuki.