Started this last summer and then got caught up in a move. Remembered it existed after having a conversation with a Naruto fan on twitter. Posted as it appeared in my notes app, I mean seriously copy, paste, send post. So good luck deciphering these run on sentences. God I love Uchiha headcanons.
Fugamiko arranged marriage bby
As cannon compliant as I wanna be so it’s not like super canon
Mikoto is married off at like 20 22 Fugaku is like 30 36
She’s from the mountains. It’s a cold and snowy range sort of adjacent to the land of fire. There’s this insane lake up there, like as big as Lake Superior. So big if you stand on one end you can’t see the bank of the other side or the mountain surrounding. Just a seemingly endless expanse of water like a calm ocean. Many rivers extend from the lake into waterfalls down the mountain and into regions all over the continent. One in particular winds down the mountain and runs warmer and warmer heated by naturally occurring hot springs through the land of fire tapering off into a stream in Konoha. This is the holy nakano river. The mountain range with the grand oceanic lake is this is the native land of the uchiha.
-Wow I can’t believe I’m finally writing this lore down oh my god and for a fugamiko fic too wow wow wow-
ANYWAYS! The uchiha were a semi nomadic people before the warring states period migrating for yak or ibex herding purposes but also for religious purposes. They believed that the water in the nakano river was inhabited by a benevolent god because of the way it heated up as you followed it into the land of fire. Not writing down my sharingan origin story here but basically after the trait evolved in this people group it was primarily used in spiritual settings as those who awakened it were understood to have gods living in their eyes. They were understood to be sort of possessed and thus had a keen sense for divination. Temples were erected for these oracles(?) to live in as again, they’re seen as fully man, but with the eyes of gods and so they are kind of separate from the rest of the clan who are just milking yaks or shearing ibexes or whatever. bored as hell in these temples the monks(?) start beating each other down and develop a fighting style and in the process learn how to use the eyes better. This is where the second use of the eye comes in. ppl use it for fighting and they’re really good at it cause duh the eye is hella op soooo they gain a reputation and people start wanting to hire them for ruffian bodyguard purposes and they’re like "oh fuck this pays so much better than selling yak fur hats and I’m sick of eating ibex kabobs for breakfast lunch and dinner so we’re mauraders now actually". Thus the tradition of trainings kids in the martial art they invented and then sending them on pilgrimages to bathe in the nakano so that they maybe hopefully unlock god eyes begins. These pilgrimages are a catalyst for uchiha migration to the land of fire leading up to the warring states era but some clansman are like "actually I love ibex kabobs and these yaks aren’t gonna herd themselves so I’m stayin in the mountains". Those of them that do choose to stay awaken god eyes infrequently and by local law may only use them for divination spiritual oracle monk purposes. If they want to use it to fight they’re eyes are confiscated and they are excommunicated. The mountain herders, ethnic group, and the village ninjas, ninja clan, are two separate peoples by the time konoha is founded. They have a strained relationship that is made more stained by the fact that konoha sucks ass. The only thing holding them together is is the tradition of political marriages symbolizing the fact that "we get along great actually and don’t resent each other at all nuh-uh not one bit, see we fuck and make babies sometimes! our diametrically opposed perspectives on how our divine blessings should be used is nakano river water under the non existent bridge between the village and the mountain range "
Mikoto is the last in a long line of brides shipped off to peril under ninja politics and oh boy she has no clue just how perilous the peril is.
She was a fun loving uncivilized country girl terrorizing yaks by day and getting drunk on alpine plant liquor and fucking YOUR girlfriend in the back of ye olden dive bar by night. unlucky enough to to be born of higher social status in this people group, as soon as she hit her prime partying years she was politically married to a politically doomed 30 year old man and shipped off to shithole Hiruzen administration konoha. Poor poor thing.
She hates the dude. And also holy fuck these city uchiha are UP-FUCKING-TIGHT she’s wayyyy less empowered here and her only role in the clan hierarchy is barefoot pregnant makin lunch for kids that creep her the fuck out! Naturally she becomes a 50s quaalude housewife and her deadbeat husband treats her like just another one of the kids that stole her golden years, The scary little war machines. If she had her way they’d be in the fields tipping ibexes and wading in the lake with the spiritual elders to pray. Alas, they’re on a fast track to body bags and she has absolutely no say in it. Oh and on the great good god in the depths of the nakano river the girl is HOMESICK , and tired, and too young for all this. She's not sure what she’s supposed to be doing even if she had a choice in any of it she’s got all this crushing responsibility and no clue how how to handle it. How to do right by them any of them. People think she’s just some country bumpkin without a complex thought in her brain and even if she had big village sensibilities, she’s a woman and women are too stupid and sensitive for politics in this hellscape sect of the clan. she’s comprehending just how fucked her people, in particular her children are, and there’s shit all she can do. Meanwhile her fuckass husband is acting like he has it all together like he’s got this state sanctioned slaughterhouse ship shape. Like everything will be just fine. At least thats what she believes at first
He’s actually just trying to soften the blow. Find the most painless way to go while keeping the growing doomed revolutionary movement contained. He doesn’t know just how bad it is until the very end. Sometime he thinks they are just gonna take him out and replace him him with the next in line. Other times he hopes and prays itachi is high up enough to be kept away from the compound when they surely come for us all. That he can hold his baby boy Sasuke in his arms when he goes, and that his pride and joy first born son, good head on his shoulders, will make it out alive. other times he hears Inabi’s words like the answers to his prayers and allows the revolutionaries to go a little crazy like he has any power over them anyway.
How do they come together, make peace with their inevitable deaths how do the reconcile they’re cultural tradition with they’re nations hostile disregard? how do they make sense of the fact that they created a family only for it to be destroyed?
How does mikoto come to terms with life in the village with the fact that, yak herder from butt fuck nowhere or political princess of an esteemed clan of warriors, she will be rejected within these walls either?
How does fugaku communicate to her that she was not a peace offering like her predecessor, but a sacrificial lamb to a village that needs the sharigan for its power, but views the people who possess it as disposable as they are dipicable?
Does this reinforce mikoto childhood conditioning that the sharingan is gods gift of spiritual enlightenment to the people? does it harden her heart to the clan who chose to use the eye to establish power or is she able to see past their non traditional use of the eye?
Bonus screenshot of a sequel that was never developed even slightly I know I was goin somewhere with this I just don't remember where lol
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