You know what, and another thing about the show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!
I love love love that Lunella handles her multiversal level threats the same way she handles her block level votws. With an empathetic and compassionate assumption they have valid reasons and frustrations for taking the actions that led them to facing her.
And even with instances where that has not necessarily been the case (the gentrifiers, the trolls) She doesn't let those experiences change that rule about her. The next antagonist is offered the same empathy, and it genuinely helps. Fights that would normally be no win scenarios, she herself has almost died in them, but sometimes when you're lost in the dark an open hand offering understanding is worth taking a chance on if you're only other options are all bad.
At the heart of it, Lunella sees people who have only ever been given bad choices and she gives them another option.
i've got finally a free day today and i am doing with it very useful things - like making a spreadsheet of all the naruto characters ages throughout the timeline because let me tell, that shit's a MESS. Anyways, after making several characters several years older so it all fits back together in a coherent timeline, i now have a colour coded spreadsheet that i spent most of my afternoon on instead of writing.
sounds like an incredibly useful spreadsheet 👀 an extremely valuable resource 👀 would you be willing to share your findings?
I've actually tried to do something similar before and was quickly drowned by the incoherence. naruto timeline wrangling is an almost impossible task I'm very impressed you accomplished this!
I'll believe that that you got drowned by the incoherence. It's a mess. The title of the document is literally 'naruto times and ages that drive me insane' lol
(Okay this got so long putting it under a keep reading)
Alright so I tried to get it in screen shots, but i gotta say, i worked with a few assumptions:
1. Kakashi is the main point. He's the one i figured out bc he's the one who is part of the most history and that we know the most about, so i made his timeline make (somewhat) sense, and then tried and matched everyone else to it.
2. chunin is an international category and therefore some of them needed to become chunin twice. Once as a field promotion, and a second time to get the official rank in the exams.
3. I mostly tried to work with the ages provided about when they made genin/chunin/jounin. Rarely made some of it up if not provided with. But bc some of this made NO SENSE AT ALL, i adjusted some of the ages. I am still not 100% happy with it, but it's the closest thing i have to making sense, so i am working with it.
4. I made this timeline for my AU so some are specifics for the AU i wrote to make sense tbh
5. Kakashi spent three years without a team after he became a genin. He was field promoted as chunin with six, got a team with eight, and then went through the chunin exams and got officially promoted with nine.
This one here is just Kakashi's timeline and how old other ppl were at the various stages. Kakashi has made genin with 5 and then spent three years on his own without a team. Otherwise Obito couldn't be 1-2 years older than him but also have become a genin with nine.
My personal hc is that Kakashi was a year a genin on his lonesome, became a field prompted chunin a year later, worked for two more years and then someone noticed his atrocious social skills and thought the genius could be fixed if put with some folks sorta his own age. So he was kinda forced back to being a genin. And then he had to go back to the chunin exams and got his official promotion.
This first one is just to establish the timeline i used aka 'what did Kakashi do when'.
This one is all the ages according to that model without adjustments made:
the big problem here are all the inconsistencies. Like, Hayate couldn't have been in the chunin exams with Ibiki on a team, if he wasn't even a genin at that point, and similar things like that.
To combat that, i did two things: One iI adjusted the ages bc making them older interferes less with the story than changing when they made genin/chunin/jounin
this is the main timeline i am working with. Orange are the important, fixed dates. Yellow are the added ages. Colours are who were shown to be on a team together during chunin exams or otherwise.
The second thing i did was add another hc: Some of these people had teams before. It's way ppl with so inconsistent ages were on a team with each other. This could've happened due to two things: a) one of them got promoted and was no longer on a genin team. b) they died. A lot of that stuff happens during the third shinobi war, so it's not unreasonable.
and the final thing: The ANBU timeline of Team Ro. Genma's part in this is a hc, I tried to reverse-engineer the others by looking for how old they were during certain events.
on the right is how many years they've been on team ro, pale orange is when they are on the team. Above are just some notes i made about it.
And yeah, that's my attempt at a timeline! Hope it helps, but tbh it is made specifically for my own story, so i tweaked things so they made sense for me. Genma plays a major part bc he's one of the focuses of my story lol Also i know those are not all characters, but just the ones i needed to know about while i write. Also this timeline is only until the main story starts, bc from there on it's (somewhat) consistent. I have a rough estimation for the wars but tbh i kinda just glossed over them so far bc they're no really relvant to my story.
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