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Tsunade | Naruto | Reserved | II: Personality and Canon Information

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Character
Name: Tsunade
Series: Naruto
Timeline: Upon waking up post-Shinobi World War Arc.
Canon Resource Links: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunade
Personality:
When one thinks of Tsunade, you’re never quite sure what they’re going to think. It could anything from her astounding strength, to her monstrous temper, to her history with gambling and losing everything, to her drinking, to her skills as a medic and one of Konoha’s legendary and greatest Hokages. However, when one first meets Tsunade, one of the most revered and honored kunoichi in the world, the first impression they get may not be their greatest. First, she definitely has some temper issues. Naruto listing her bad qualities resulted in her challenging him to a fight. Keep in mind Naruto was, at the time, twelve years old and indefinitely weaker than her. When Orochimaru and Kabuto bring up her loved ones and insult them in front of Tsunade’s eyes, her response is to go berserk and begin to smash everything in her path. Finally, this trait is apparent after returning to Konoha and before she even left. She ends up calling the Third Hokage, her teacher, a shitty old man for not taking her advice, and even calls Gaara, another Kage of a powerful village, a little shit when he disagreed with her plan to let Naruto and B fight the war. As a final example, she often destroys her desks in small fits of irritation at slight provocations. In fact, it’s been lampshaded that Tsunade buys them in bulk because of the frequency they’re reduced to splinters. When she catches Jiraiya spying on her, she ends up breaking two of his arms, most of his organs ruptured, and six of his ribs. That’s quite a tempered response.

Her outrageous temper is far from her only vice too. Tsunade is quite notably a very social drinker. She drinks with Jiraiya three times in two days, getting drunk on each occasion. She also has been noted to blow off work or very important duties so she can go have a nice little bottle of saké, or, to tend to her other past time, gambling. It’s noted that Tsunade’s drinking was so prevalent, the editor ordered Kishimoto to cut it entirely or save it rare occasions. Regardless, she still makes plenty of appearances with a bottle in the series, and, the databook states her favorite food is saké. However, her all time favorite vice is gambling. Tsunade’s life before becoming the Hokage for twenty years consisted of gambling, gambling, and gambling. Her gambling was so prevalent, Jiraiya was only able to find her by her nickname, “the Legendary Sucker” because of her tendency to blow through extremes amount of money on gambling and lose every drop of it because of a hilariously unlucky streak. In fact, for the past twenty years, Tsunade borrowed massive amounts of money, gambled it all away, and then changed her appearance and skipped town to avoid debt collectors which speaks volumes about her habits. There is also her laziness. Tsunade can most commonly be seen avoiding her massive, mind boggling amounts of paperwork. In fact, her laziness has often lead to her blowing off work all together, or, perhaps even more telling, taking on the job naps at her desk. Another thing to note is that Tsunade is certainly a very vain woman. Despite being fifty, and looking about seventy thanks to Sozo Saisei, she constantly employs a transformation Jutsu to keep herself looking younger for no other purpose than vanity. If one were to point this out and call her old, her nasty temper flares up. The word old from Naruto caused Tsunade to pound a table, and, when Jiraiya called her old, her response was simply to yell at him and criticize him for his own perverseness. Whatever you say about Tsunade, one thing will always remain constant - she does have her flaws.

One thing to note in relation to Tsunade’s temper is her toughness. Tsunade is quite the bold person. She says what she wants to say and is often very, very cocky. Her bluntness doesn’t hold back for her calling Jiraiya a perv and rejecting him (again), or insulting and snarking at the other kages, and blatantly telling other people that she really is going to kick her ass. She even stands up to a terrorist who invaded her village, telling him off for his twisted philosophies and injustice towards her village and its people. Her arrogance is a particularly noticeable point. She repeatedly places her abilities ahead of others, stating that she’ll be able to win against them with ease, or telling Naruto it’ll only take a finger to win against him. Finally, she states she can heal anything and everything and that she can’t lose by sheer virtue of her importance and ability. Her boldness is quite a difficult part of her personality in tandem with her determination. There’ll be absolutely nothing that stops Tsunade. When Pain ends up nuking Konoha, Tsunade, who is close to death from healing everyone in her village, ends up clearing fifty meters in seconds to fight a man who killed her equal despite being close to death. When Tsunade decides that Naruto should be allowed out of the village and to fight, she butts heads with just about everyone else in the series, from the elders, Shizune, the rest of the Kages, and Danzo. She doesn’t once change her opinion despite being toppled, and, the second she’s able to bring it up again and physically fight for it, she indeed does so. When Orochimaru and Kabuto attempt to flee, Tsunade chases them for miles, attacking and smashing everything in her path. When she fights against Madara, she takes sword wound after sword wound only to keep on pressing on to defeat him. She even states that she has an intangible, “Will of Fire” - an inextinguishable determination - and that’s her true treasure, and, that, with it, no matter how difficult things are, she’s going to keep on fighting and not give up. Another example of this was after Mabui asked her to reconsider a request to be teleported through something that would cause certain death. Tsunade insisted that she take this dangerous method of transportation anyways, and, upon being grilled about her decision further, said that she has ways of making it through. She was correct, of course. There’s many things Tsunade is, but a quitter isn’t one of them. With these personality traits, dealing with Tsunade is a bit difficult. Her brash, free-spirited, recklessness is a trait that has made her practically famous in and of its own right.

However, despite this, Tsunade can also often appear carefree. She’ll sometimes give off a loud, great, smile whenever she hears great news or wants to appear particularly reassuring. Whenever she’s in a mood that doesn’t involve anything that can properly irritate her (which, granted is a lot of things) or doesn’t require a serious outlook, she can have an energetic, and very upbeat and cocky demeanor. When she returns to Konoha, she goes through every room and heals the entire hospital population while having a cocky grin and hopping around the entire floor to the point where Shikamaru asks, “Hey? Who’s the lady with the big personality?”. When she gives a gift to Nawaki, she appears bubbly and carefree, grinning and even teasing Nawaki with a great amount of elation. She later reciprocates this attitude towards Naruto in a similar circumstance. She gives him a necklace and then, at a later date, grins at him and tells him he’ll make a fine man someday.

Despite this, Tsunade’s tough exterior has a rather soft and sweet interior. Despite how she readily criticizes and bluntly tells off Naruto, her faith in him is almost unrivaled. She’s stuck up for him constantly behind closed doors no matter what the risk is. After challenging Naruto to a fight, instead of striking him, she kisses him and tells him to grow up to be a fine man someday. Another example of this is when Naruto readily blames Jiraiya’s death on her, she does not yell at him, she just lets him go to deal with the feelings because she cared for him and didn’t want to upset him further. Other examples of her great love for Konoha, and its people who constitute for her soft side are consoling Shikamaru at his mission’s failure stating he still did a great job, healing Rock Lee to help him continue his dream, or readily accepting Sakura as an apprentice to aid her and her ambitions. However, her biggest example of her love came during Konoha’s invasion. Her love for the village caused her to heal everyone in the village she could, and to protect them from anything that came in their path. In fact, her effort and love that went into healing and protecting thousands ended up landing her into a comatose state, which says volumes about her dedication towards Konoha and its people and how willing she is to protect people she loves or innocent people in general. Another example of softness is her surprisingly tender speech towards Madara about her will. She readily accepts and explains her shortcomings, but states that, despite all of these, she’s certainly not weak. Additionally, upon hearing that men were dying en masse in the fourth division, she immediately decides to send herself into the battlefield through a dangerous method of transportation that most people would die from and she does this without a second thought. Finally, on the spoilers side, upon waking up from Madara’s onslaught, her first instinct is to heal the other kages who were merely stabbed. In the mean time, she ignores her own wounds which involved her being chopped in half.

A great example for her contrast between her tough personality and her inner gentleness can be found in Jiraiya. When Tsunade stated that she’d be upset if she lost Jiraiya, Jiraiya replies with laughter stating that it’s rich that she’s actually going to cry for him. Tsunade replies angrily stating that she isn’t ever going to be crying for someone like him. Despite this, his death undoubtably left a deep scar on her. Tsunade attempts to keep control and not let his death get to her for a while. She works for a couple of days, seemingly fine. However, the moment she steps outside and blows off Shikamaru, she ends up collapsing in the hallway, crying over the lost of her friend. Something she directly stated she’d never do, most likely out of her feisty personality.

Finally, it should be noted that Tsunade is a very competent leader in general. She’s able to formulate teams that work well together, create organizations for specific purposes, and create strategies based on the limited information she receives. She was able to rebuild Konoha twice, and improve relations with countries that just previously attacked the village. She even reciprocated these favors towards the village, and, was stated to be the best pick for the Head Commander of the united Shinobi army (that consists of 6 military, economic, and political strong holds) if it wasn’t for her comatose state. In fact, she was considered to be such a great leader, that the Fire Daimyo, her boss, was hesitant to replace a comatose Tsunade and bring in another kage. In other words: even a comatose Tsunade is still the best leader Konoha has to offer.