

If it's good for Naruto not to want to throw a punch or a rasengan, the same should be true of Hinata. SCP-096 has no hair anywhere on its body. Its arms are greatly out of proportion to the rest of its body, measuring 1.5 meters in length. It stands 2.38 meters tall, and it has little to no muscle mass.

So why is Hinata's desire not to hurt people a detriment to her character? Naruto, after all, is the leading master of "talk no-jutsu" in which he talks his opponent into changing their mind about destruction. SCP-096 appears as a nude, pale-skinned, anorexic humanoid.

On the one hand, an argument can be made that Hinata shouldn't be a shinobi. Yet, there are other characters who frequently try to end confrontations without actually fighting the opponent. Her anxiety tends to make it harder for her to master techniques, just as her desire not to hurt the people she cares about makes her hold back while training with them. In addition, consider whether its the kind of interaction you can describe with reasonable brevity as to why it comes off as homoerotic, even to someone who doesnt already ship them, and/or is already recognized by a decent number of non-invested. She is seen as less than her shinobi counterparts because of how gentle and shy she is. Ho Yay is an audience reaction and thus subjective, whereas deliberate examples are objective. Throughout the series, Hinata Hyuga is labeled many things: gentle, soft, shy, weird, and worthless to name a few. The Gods Hands Are Tied trope as used in popular culture. This particular trope tends to be seen most often in anime series featuring a quiet female character.
