i just read one of your asks about your future fics. have you considered writing about sasukes interactions with karin?? not sasukarin (but sasukarin is still a good ship!!) but i really like your karin meta and would love to see her in your fics, even if she isnt part of a ship!!
wow Anon I just realized in the last nice askĀ I received about my writingĀ I forgot to mention a suisasu oneshot I started writing as a drabble hereā¦I havenāt thought about writing something centered on Sasuke and Karin, usually I wrote about Team Taka as a team, as in my Team Taka headcanons here, here and in bits of In Power (ff.net/ ao3) and What He Wanted (ff.net/ ao3).
I know what you mean when you love a character like Karin and you want to see her more, even in a not shippy context. And I totally agree that SasuKarin really IS a good ship, the only worthy Sasuke ship with a girl, tbh. (I think Sasuino would be ok too but Iām not interested in it all all as I find it boring, and I prefer Saiino anyway).
(needless to say: SS shippers, donāt read, this is not for you. And since itās properly tagged as anti, donāt bitch)
Itās only a matter of personal taste, Iām usually more interested in rarer pairings, and because when I think of Team Taka ships Iām more intrigued by suisasu and juusasu that in my opinion have room for both āhealthyā dynamics and darker ones. But if I werenāt so slow and full of future writing projects as you read, Iād totally like to write them. In fact, Iām gonna leave some random headcanons here cause Iām sorry Iām not able to write all the things I have in mind and you guys mention, AND because Iām so late replying to this ask that I feel guilty xD
My favourite things to read and write isnāt romance but dark stuff and hurt/comfort, so I would love some hurt/comfort between them, and there is a lot of possibility for this, just thinking about canon. I actually see SK hurt/comfort as canon behind the screen so you may have an idea already, both for shippy and non-shippy stuff.
For example, thereās nothing about Sasukeās years at Otogakure but we know he was always with Orochimaru, not only training or taking poisons/drugs to get stronger, but also visiting other hideouts and assisting to his horrible experiments as well as seeing/meeting Suigetsu and Karin, mostly, as she was not a prisoner but a subordinate, kinda like Kabuto. She saw more about Sasuke than the others in Team Taka, and this may mean a lot of things. For example like in this fanart, inspired by that Karin-centric filler episode (I think 331) where she witnesses Orochimaru taking Sasuke in a dark room which seems quite creepy and may be interpreted asā¦eh, you get it. And thereās also Kabuto telling her that Sasuke sought Orochimaru, that he came her by his own choiceā¦that, in this dark context, that he is ok with things being done to him (itās the price for power).Ā
So itās interesting to imagine Karin being more and more intrigued by this person, who saved her in the past, when they were genin, and who now came to her creepy leader that she knows very well, andĀ āletsā him do all sorts of things to him. Some random headcanons coming, more or less connected
-(tw: pain)Ā Otogakure: sheās doing some work and she overhears someone moaning in pain, and she sees Sasuke shirtless, strapped to a table/bed and kind of squirming, as heās been injected poison for his training and heās clearly suffering.
(She takes his hand and tries to comfort him. She thinks he was in too much pain to remember but some time later he tells herĀ āthank you. For being beside me that dayā)
-(tw: r*pe) Orochimaru leaves the creepy room and tells her to heal Sasuke. When she enters she sees him battered bruised and bloodied everywhere, looking in pain and lost, defeated, and itās easy to understand what happened, and that itās neither a first nor a last time, but when he sees her he puts up a tough face, cause he doesnāt know her and he doesnāt know if he can trust her as maybe sheās like Kabuto. He canāt imagine that she (like in my Team Taka headcanons part 2) was r*ped too by Orochimaru, that most of his āmost interesting subjectsā have been at least once. Heās the most special which means Oro always comes to himĀ āto toughen him upā andĀ ātrainā him or ājustā to be repayed for making him stronger, and heās constantly manipulated by him (that heās not as strong as Itachi, that he needs him to be stronger and defeat his brother, and so on) and she knows this. She, too, is wary of him cause he might be so manipulated that he supports him and if she says something wrong he might tell Oro who might punish her and she is ok with him now, he leaves her be without molesting her, so she wants to keep the peace. So sheās discreet and heals him, not in the impersonal way Kabuto does though. Sasuke appreciates silently.
-(tw: random violence and blood) Inspired by this amazing fanart by @lisimba-art. Sasuke is trained to use his curse mark, but itās hard to completely control his powers in that form, with those weird wings and everything. So itās exhausting for his body but also for his mind, he canāt even think straight at some point, and he canāt control his emotions either, even though he tries hard cause he canāt be weak. Orochimaru makes him fight against otherĀ ātest subjectsā with the curse mark or with other powers he developed on them, and Sasuke kills themā¦he hates killing, as there is only one person he wants to kill. He feels his body move and he canāt avoid it, he feels his nails slashing another human and canāt avoid it, itās horrible, itās like being trapped in a nightmare.Ā
Karin stumbles on the fighting ground and sees him. They know each other by then, she is worried about him, many in Oto bet on how long he will last, if he will last, when Orochimaru willĀ ādevourā him, if the curse mark willĀ ādevourā him first. When she sees him Orochimaru, who was observing him with Kabuto, left already. Sasuke is standing alone, a few corpses around him. She approaches him, talking slowly and calmly, to check his wounds. Nothing too serious, the most worrying thing is his mental/emotional state, cause he looks around without actually seeing things, he seems lost, troubled.Ā
It takes a few minutes for him to see the one whoās speaking to him, and when he does heās not in his usual state anyway, Karin can tell not just from his chakra but from his body language. Heās standing so, so close to her, his shoulders are hunched and his eyes are empty, or somewhere else still. Or maybe they want to be somewhere else, she canāt tell. She should feel the heat radiating from his toned body -she dreamt of a moment like this- but the tanned version of what is normally pale is so cold..maybe he got so close because sheās warm instead.Ā Ā Ā
āSasukeā¦bite me, youāll get some chakra back and you wonāt feel cold anymore,ā she tells him, but he just hovers over her, silent as a hawk watching its prey, but unlike it, just staring at her.Ā
āI killed all of themā Sasukeās voice is low and raspy, but heās back, sheās glad but also sad because heās clearly upset by what happened and she knows why. Everyone does.Ā
- (tw: mentions of blood/violence/r*pe) This works both for Otogakure and for Hebi/Taka travelling. Night time, Karin hears some low pained sounds and she realizes itās Sasuke having a nightmare, about either the above mentioned moment where he was forced to kill random people, or about some abuse Orochimaru inflicted on him, either directly or through someone else like Kabuto. He suddenly wakes up and realizes Karin was there. She tries comforting him by saying that she knows what he felt back then cause she was done similar things, and also Suigetsu and Kabuto and others, even though she doesnāt minimize his experience (as Oroās favourite he took more than others of whom he soon got tired). Itās a hurt/comfort moment where they share intimate traumatic experiences and bond.
Bonus dark points if the experience Sasuke had a nightmare of, involved the aforementioned indirect abuse inflicted by Orochimaru but indirectly, through his current comrades Suigetsu and Juugo, ofc hypnotized/drugged/in some trance. Karin connects with the way he sometimes looks at them when heās more tired and vulnerable, almost imperceptibly but she can see chakra shifts. They talk, he doesnāt say anything but the things he said in his sleep were obvious so she tries to make him admit and he does, as heās honest. He doesnāt blame them, he knows they were under Orochimaruās power just like he was during his curse mark mode when he wasnāt able to control it.
He thinks that Suigetsu and Juugo donāt even remember that experience but they do, exactly like he does with his killing random people in curse mode form.Ā
More bonus dark points if Karin assisted to the traumatic thing cause she was Oroās assistant too, sort of.
Related to my Akatsuki AU that is mostly in my mind for now (how unexpected lol) and itās Itachi/Sasuke centric but thereās also a lot of Sasuke interactions (like, with Deidara a lot, I just like the idea) and lots of Team TakaĀ that exists in this context first as Orochimaruās subordinates along with Kabuto, then as Sasukeās comrades, cause while Itachi is a full fledged Akatsuki, like Orochimaru (he never left Akatsuki in my AU), Sasuke is not, and like Orochimaru has subordinates affiliates to the Akatsuki, Itachi has Sasuke. Unlike Akatsuki wearing cloaks with red clouds, AkatsukiĀ ālesserā members wear black cloaks like Sasuke and Team Taka wore in canon. They are given missions too, theyāre younger and less experienced that the others and their interactions and dynamics are similar to canon ones.
Uh Anon why did you make me think of more interesting scenarios tho, I had too many already lol
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