carefree-sparrow:

I wish people wouldn’t forget or be so blind to Hanzo’s distress in the Dragons short. It manages to built his entire character and gives us so much about his emotions.

Because no matter how tough and stoic Hanzo acts, every emotion he felt in that short was clear as day.

The man deprived himself of the future he spent his entire life being trained for, and it was maybe his first own choice, to exile himself. By killing Genji he had nothing left. No more family, no more honor, no more Clan and no more future. No more reason to live.

The only thing that kept him from killing himself was probably the mere refusal of an honorables death like the samurai he was taught to be, or maybe to keep on living for the Sake of Genji’s memory. Maybe he kept on living in hope that life itself would be his punishment, since he had nothing left.

In short, Hanzo was/is clearly suicidal but wouldn’t accept a dishonorable death, and must suffer from so many neuroses.

I wish people wouldn’t make a joke of that sometimes.