
Originally Posted by
noobody
tobi is madara, end of story. i am not so sure why so many people got sidetracked after years of clues and actual evidence where the author himself pointed to his identity. it would be silly if after all these suddenly kishimoto decided to say: 'scrap everything out, all that you saw was a genjutsu'. honestly, people are putting their own personal hopes into this irrespectively of the actual plot and character development (which is for the most part great, we all do that) but other than personal hopes and likes/dislikes: tobi is madara.
madara split a portion of himself and that is tobi. i don't know if he split his own physical body or just his chakra, the specific jutsu he used remains to be revealed (though i would put my money on the same jutsu naruto uses -the kage bunshin- simply because it rings fine as we know that both of them have amazing chakra resources and it would explain the origins of the earliest kinjutsu in the manga). which also brings me to another point: why so many people got confused with the edo tensei and madara's soul? we know there are plenty of ways a shinobi can split a portion of him/herself without dividing their soul. e.g minato did that: he locked a part of his chakra in naruto's seal and then died, which in his case meant that his soul would be trapped in the death god's belly.
i am more interested about the hashirama-grown flower. i bet it has sth to do with tobi's longevity as well as his regeneration abilities. we have already seen him using it to replace body parts, but i am wondering if that's all it's good for; maybe the actual tobi is within it (madara's chakra and hashirama tree grown from his DNA) and multiple tobis can be produced or body parts. it would explain why itachi's amaterasu failed: it hit a replica and not the source or the original tobi.
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