Lol you're missing my point. He sympathizes with friendzoned characters. Sakura was not even friendzoned by Sasuek, she was merely a teammate. Naruto was friendzoned by Sakura but bc Sakura was not friendzoned he could not sympathize with her. But both Hinata and Naruto were friendzoned AND Hinata was being friendzoned by Naruto. Sawyer doesn't want to be a girl, but he can relate to Hinata being friendzoned.
Sawyer has never been the Naruto/ the pursued, he has always been the Hinata/The friendzoned.
Hinata is the real selfinsert and why they rabidly defend her. Naruto is just the faiytail hero who finally let's them past the friendzone wall
....Let me get this out of the way first. Shadow, you are right that Naruto is the pursuer (of Sakura) and is not pursued (by hinata) in both the anime and manga . The thing is we are not talking about either the manga or the anime. We are talking about nH fans' fantasy world. In which Naruto represents both. This is because in their minds hinata was a major character and her romantic love arc was the major plot line of the story.
You also got to understand which one represent who for each gender. For guys they insert into Naruto because they want to get revenge on the "friendzoning whores" ie Sakura by getting the perfect woman Hinata. While girls imagine themselves as the shy under-confidant but actually the most beautiful girl in the land. Who is in love with a boy that would truly love her with all his heart if he could just look at her for a second. But he is currently which this horrid kitten who doesn't deserve him nor understand him like inset girl does.
So nH ending represent to nH fans a victory for guys over the "friendzoning kittenes" by getting that hot piece of ass, while for girls it represent them getting the man that is rightfully theirs from that "horrid whore." They don't care about the story of Naruto. All they cared about the victory for them. They didn't care if nH has no build up as long as NS also doesn't get it either before the ending as long as they won in the end.
Of course now with the ending in-theory supposedly proving them right about something for once in their lives. They want to get the reward they fell they so rightfully deserve. When they spent so little on the series. Which is kishi having to write another manga going on about how get and beautiful and perfect nH is and how it existence has made the world a better place, and SP making an anime full of nH romance scenes. The problem is that kishi was indifferent at best to nH before the ending he now absolutely despises the pairing now and would now never do a story about their romance. And SP even though they were one of the major supporters of nH after the damage that pairing has cause to the company. They have grown to hate it as well. Which is causing the nH fans to lash out since this is flying in the face of what they wanted with their ending.
Sawyer is inserting into Naruto because he wants to get back at all the girls that have friendzone him (who he inserts into Sakura) by his insert character getting his perfect woman (Hinata). So in his mind he can eventually get his perfect girl in real live, so he can someday personally stick it to all the woman that have friendzoned him.
This is also why they hate/furious/terrified of the idea of a reboot where instead NS happens because it would be proving them wrong as well as so few people agreed with them a company actually change the ending to a done story just because how unpopular their actual dream is.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 15 August 2016 - 10:04 PM.