血で血を洗う

independent and selective multi-muse roleplay blog for the snake family — Orochimaru, Log, Mitsuki, and original characters — from Naruto and Boruto • authored by Maz

[leucistics]

【 蛇の家族 】 ⁛ 家族は私の強みでもあり、私の弱みでもある。

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about

This is an independent, selective (as in: mutuals-only), and non-exclusive (as in: I'm okay with more than one version of a character interacting with this muse, this blog is duplicates-friendly), crossover and OC-friendly multi-muse roleplay blog for Log and Mitsuki from the Boruto series, Orochimaru (for information about verses, please refer here), and an OC named Shibi, who is another cloned child of Orochimaru's.

My muses for Orochimaru, Mitsuki, and Log are mostly canon-adherent as well as incorporative of headcanon material but are based almost entirely on canonical elements from Naruto and Boruto series.

DMs are open to all, if anyone would like to plot something more serious for a thread. Asks are always welcome, even if we aren't mutuals, but I may be selective in what I respond to.

My name is Maz, I'm the snake family's mun, and I'm an adult who has been roleplaying online since 2008 and on Tumblr since 2010, departing from the roleplaying community in 2019 and returning in 2022—making over a decade of experience with collaborative roleplay-based writing!

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roleplay etiquette

No god-modding. I control my characters, you control yours. I am, however, completely alright with things like your character(s) making assumptions about what my muses are doing or how they're feeling but, if you're really not sure where I'm headed with something, feel free to message me and ask. Clarification helps sometimes.

Yes, you can like and reblog the things that I post and share. You do not need to go to an image's or musing post's source to like it or reblog it. You can leave likes on threads you aren't a participant in—it's fun! It lets me know that you like what you're reading (just as long as you're not reblogging those threads)! Please don't worry about 'notification spamming' me. It's not a big deal and I don't mind it at all.

I observe 'Reblog Karma' with ask memes or inbox games but, importantly, I do not hold others to that standard; if I reblog an ask meme or inbox game from you, I will probably try my best to send you a prompt! I do not expect you to do the same. Sometimes, there just isn't a good one that works for a certain muse and that's perfectly alright.

Please don't start or add roleplay commentary on other Tumblr users' posts (I see this happening most often on images). Please be courteous to people who aren't roleplayers by keeping your threads off of their posts and making new posts of your own to start them instead.

Even as someone who has many original characters who is also an OC-friendly roleplayer of canon muses, I don't mind if you don't personally roleplay with OCs.

I don't mind it if you don't have a 'tagging system', that will never be a requirement for writing with me.

I match other roleplayers' text sizes in my replies (and I also usually omit emotive or reaction icons if my partner doesn't use them) but whether or not you format your posts is not a deal-breaker for me at all.

I don't mind if you don't trim our posts. I'm an X-Kit Rewritten user, I can be the one who trims our posts if you don't.

Typos and mechanical errors aren't a problem as long as I know what you're trying to say. If I'm confused by something, I'll send you a message about it.

Lastly, please do not follow me if you are someone who frequently recycles their blog into an entirely different muse. I completely understand falling out-of-touch with your muse but I don't have any interest in roleplaying with you if you only intend to write them for a few months before scrapping them and covering them up with a different character. It gives me the impression that you don’t really care about roleplaying with others.

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rules

Please abide by basic roleplpay ettiquette (no God-modding, communicate openly, have patience with replies, etc.)

Log and Orochimaru may be portrayed as adults on this blog but I do not write romantic or sexual ships with any muses on this blog.

For accessibility reasons, I do not roleplay using over-formatted and edited text (including on Discord) and respectfully ask that other writers avoid using excessively-formatted* or edited text when roleplaying with me when possible, as most formatted text (particularly unicode text or, for some reason, Tumblr's colored text) is not compatible with the screen reader that works best for me.

I don't tolerate fascist reactionaryism or bigotry (racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia and transmisogyny, queerphobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, pro-Zionism, or anti-communist sentiment) and I'm not shy about blocking people if I'm not interested in seeing their blogs anymore.

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other

Hōzuki Suigetsu⠀⠀ sideblog to leucistics

Fū of Takigakure

Uchiha Obito

Uchiha Imari⠀⠀ sideblog to ni-ju-ni

Team 22

Sai

Yamanaka Inojin⠀⠀ sideblog to sumikeshi ⠀

mun's personal blog ⠀⠀ sideblog to godshaped

mun's fanfiction

mun's art

[leucistics]

Contrary to what we're shown in Boruto, I very highly doubt that Orochimaru was actually cool, calm, and collected on the inside during the Mitsuki's Will arc. Obviously, she values Mitsuki taking his life into his own hands and making his own decisions but he's still her child. It's not easy at all to learn all of a sudden that your child left his village—his home, where he's stated over and over he loves and feels safe—and now there are Jōnin letting themselves into her own home because they think Mitsuki might have come back to Otogakure, and then his friends come to you because they're scared for him and you want to help them but you also want to trust that your child knows what he's doing and what he's getting into... by the end of it, I think she would've been quite scared for what the consequences would be for him, especially with it then being common knowledge that he's Oro's child. Would they lock him up? Would they be merciful and send him back to Otogakure (where he would feel utterly miserable being separated from his friends)? The idea of Mitsuki having his autonomy limited like that is something that would scare Orochimaru, even if she didn't/doesn't show it.

[leucistics]

Another reason why I like the idea of putting Orochimaru in therapy is because I'm feeling burnt out lately and I want to make it Oro's problem.

[leucistics]

I've flirted with the idea of putting Oro in therapy (because that's always fun to imagine, for any of my traumatized characters, especially since my idea of fun derives from making OCs who soothe trauma for canon characters... been doing it all my life) but, being realistic, it would sincerely require something more akin to ketamine therapy for her to actually talk about anything useful with a professional. She'd need to be semi-sedated to open up about 95% of her issues. The other 5% would require someone entering her mind Yamanaka style and digging into her subconscious from the inside. It would still require multiple sessions and she'd still have to feel safe enough with a specific practitioner to even agree to doing it in the first place. Orochimaru is a very strong person but she's also incredibly scared. That thing people say about snakes in the wild? "They're more scared of you than you are of them" applies to Orochimaru, too. That thing people say about "the body keep[ing] the score" in the context of lasting trauma, too... she may have an entirely new body but those flashbacks are still going to be a bitch. When she's triggered, her flashbacks aren't just forced memories, they're forced sensations (somatic flashbacks as opposed to the typical variety).

[leucistics]

Unfortunately, getting badly injured and having a rough few conversations with the wrong person took a toll on my ability to be present on my roleplay blogs lately. However, I have still been thinking deeply about Orochimaru... and my Discord is always available to anyone who wants to chat about character, plotting, or fandom things.

[leucistics]

While this would normally belong on Oro's spicy sideblog (hanahebi), I think it's important to share here because it impacts her character a great deal:

With the way I portray Orochimaru (a snake with the limbic and nervous systems of a traumatized prey animal... /j), I think it's entirely possible that she's only ever had sex with Jiraiya. It was once, maybe a few times at the most. Those are the only times she's ever experienced an orgasm.

When she's living in exile, she's only in survival mode. There is literally no time for her to think about sex, let alone get aroused enough to relax into something like that. She relegates that to being a thing of the past that she can do again someday, when she's got a more deserving body that can last longer. She's barely even eating or sleeping. She's certainly not fucking. Besides, in that condition, any stray thoughts about 'sex' are triggering. She only thinks about leaving Jiraiya or being assaulted by Danzō as a Root operative. She gets the kinds of flashbacks that make her physically ill. She hates herself for it. She can't even really get release from crying. There's never enough privacy for that.

[leucistics]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Now, when Mitsuki was a baby, he was even more cantankerous and sensitive than I had expected from the average infant. From the start, he has always been quite particular and independently-minded... There was never an easy way to calm him down when he cried. His hypersensitivity was quite the hurdle. Smells, lights, sounds... too warm, too cold, wouldn't tolerate being held for too long, and his stomach was easily upset. To this day, he's remained averse to most foods. Self-regulation is a skill I think he's still learning to master."

[leucistics]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"When Log was a little one, he surprised me. As a first-time parent, then, I had prepared myself to expect fussy behavior, tantrums, just like any other baby," Lady Orochimaru begins, apparently reminiscing. She seems to be in a wistful mood. "He was remarkably calm, however. I'd never known a baby to be so easygoing as he was. I often worried that something was wrong, in fact. Other than when he was teething, he was rarely upset."

[lady-nounoum]

You two are my children after all…

[leucistics]

Sitting two chairs away, Log is still enjoying his book from the darker corner of the sitting room, blinds drawn over the windows to keep the sunshine from heating the air against his back.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"This is exactly why I'm grateful for air conditioning."

[leucistics]

Orochimaru has just come in from the garden on the hideout's top floor observation deck, lying down—or, rather, collapsing—on the sitting room chaise with a huff. She wasn't expecting it to be so warm, even while wearing the wide-brimmed hat.

It got so hot in the sun today that she hardly realized, in the middle of pruning and flower-cultivating, how dehydrated she'd become. No matter. With summer upon them in the north, their habitable levels were now kept just as cool and dry as the research and medical wings on the floors below.

She'll have to catch her breath here for a moment before getting up for a supply of water, however.

[leucistics]

Not only is it my favorite, most ideal weather outside today (overcast, lightly rainy, and warm) but I also finally received these in the mail.

[orlorman]

[kier-t]

@ino-buta thank you

[xostargirlox]

[laize233]

[musedbyalli]

Tsunade stood up and began grabbing the painkiller to add. It was a process that was rather routine to her, but she still made sure to check the label to make sure it was exactly as Orochimaru had told her, especially since this was her first time here.

"I was." She quickly worked with the lines, providing the next painkiller dose. "It had never been my goal, but I don't regret it." She still would have much rather seen Dan and/or Nawaki in that role instead, but that wasn't what was in store for them. Hell, at one time she had even thought that Orochimaru would eventually be the one to replace Hiruzen as Hokage.

"It felt strange to me to say it when I first became Hokage. I initially rejected the offer when Jiraiya came to me about it." Considering that she had said she had been Hokage though, clearly she had changed her mind. Tsunade returned to her seat and leaned towards the side of a bit.

"No, I wasn't asked to come here to tell you that you made a dumb decision." Tsunade did seem a bit amused that he thought that was a possible reason for her coming. It did make sense to assume that her presence wasn't for a good reason considering the reasons that others contacted Orochimaru.

"I wouldn't mind telling you if you made a dumb choice though~ I told both my teammates that they were idiots many times over the years." Spoken teasingly before she continued with a bit more of a serious tone, "I'm not really sure why I chose to visit." Curiosity perhaps about if Orochimaru had truly changed. Maybe a tinge of concern regarding what she had heard about Log and his condition.

[leucistics]

He focuses on the faint drip of fluid in his intraveneous line, tracking the rhythm as a way to ground himself. Admittedly, he has to make it up in his head when the sligntest noises overpower it. Still, he has to stay focused on something while the dizzy-headed feeling of nausea and the dreaded side-effect of perspiration make themselves known. It still beats feeling the full, sharp pain of his incisions.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀“You don’t know why you came,” Log murmurs, the words barely forming as his lips move. “You came all this way without knowing why,” he says again. 

He isn’t sure if he’s repeating himself or if the thought simply never left. The idea lingers, turning over slowly in his mind. The fabric bunches under his palms as he grips the bedding, though he isn't aware he's doing it. His tongue feels heavy in his mouth, and he swallows again, slower this time. The dryness lingers, stubborn and uncomfortable, but he lets it be. There are too many other sensations competing for his attention. The faint sheen of sweat at his temples cools too quickly in the dim air, leaving him with a slight chill that makes him want to pull the blankets tighter without actually moving.

Lady Tsunade amuses him, even if it doesn't show on his expression. It's not that he ever expected that his parent was infallible but it does feel strange to him, thinking about someone like her correcting his parent. Probably when they were his age, at that. People like her really got along with them back in their day? Maybe they didn't get along, actually, now that he thinks about it.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Ugh, that stuff really throws me off," he groans, unable to suppress the admission. "Not gentle at all, is it?"