Hi everyone! I'm Emily and welcome to my blog! Here's some stuff to know: Tony Tony Chopper is my inner beast! Twin Sister of @mirai-no-yume! This blog is a fair balance of Naruto, Dragon Ball Z and One Piece along with other anime and shows and movies. This is also a 100% Bash FREE Zone!! Although it's NOT Spoiler Free! =P Enjoy your stay, everyone! ^_^ I'm also an avid writer so please feel free take a gander at my fanfictions here :3 https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7849170/Mrs-MimiWrites My twitter is also right here: https://twitter.com/mugiwaranolucy
ok this is random but I can't stop thinking about it. cities get straight up erased every couple years, aliens invading, androids blowing stuff up, and then everyone just... goes back to normal? like there's no rebuilding montage, no economic collapse, nothing. Namek got fully destroyed and nobody even brings it up again after that saga
how is Earth's government not in complete shambles at this point. are there just entire industries dedicated to "oh no another saiyan showed up" insurance. do they just wish everything back with the dragon balls and never mention it again lol
genuinely curious if Toriyama ever explained this or if it's just anime logic and we're not supposed to think about it too hard
Honestly I didn't think about it because of the Dragon Balls fixing everything 🤣
everyone jokes about krillin dying a lot but like actually think about his arc for a second. dude starts as the strongest human alive, works his ass off to keep up with literal aliens and gods, and by the end of the series he's just... not relevant anymore. no power up, no moment, he just stops being useful and the show doesn't even really address it
and it's not even sad in a dramatic way, it's sad in a realistic way. like at some point normal effort just isn't enough anymore no matter how hard you train, and krillin is the only character who actually has to live with that
meanwhile he's also the one who's died the most, lost people close to him, and just kind of... keeps going. quietly the most human character in the entire show and I don't think that's talked about enough compared to the death jokes
I'm sorry but FUTURE TRUNKS will always be the most tragic character in Dragon Ball to me.
So, we all know that Super Dragon Ball Heroes isn’t canon, right? But I was watching some FourStarBento commentary over it and Yamcha was portrayed as being below the level of Mecha-Freeza. So I gotta ask…
How MUCH of SDBH isn’t canon? Is there context I’m missing, is this just a gag scene not meant to be taken seriously, or is it just Dragon Ball Heroes being Dragon Ball Heroes?
It's 1000% not Canon.
It's the most "action figures playing with each other" out of all the shows. It's just random transformations and fights that are straight out of fan fiction. Not to say it doesn't have some cool moments, there's one fight in particular that was pretty good (Goku vs Hearts)
But overall it's simply meant to promote the video game and give Dragon Ball fans something to watch. Don't think about it too hard/take it too seriously.
I feel like we’re living in a collective fever dream because why do you MEAN republicans are going after Fauci for “false information” about the vaccine, social distancing, and wearing masks? First of all either none of them did any of it anyway or they did and are just fine because it but just enjoy the witch hunt.
What do you MEAN republicans are upset about vaccines that saved MILLIONS during a time of panic that could have been avoided or at least mitigated if trump stopped international and domestic flights?
What do you MEAN republicans are upset about all of this but have NOTHING to say about the way glp-1s are being dished out like candy to anyone who wants it despite the very obvious negative side effects for those who don’t actually need it. They are SILENT about all these food recalls. SILENT about the way RFK (who is actually so desperately under qualified for his position) has just slashed funding for vaccines for children?
What is happening???
A MAGA Infinite Tsukuyomi Dream tbh.
And this is the result of people wanting a stinky orange pedo to either fuck up their perceived enemies lives or people not caring enough to vote against him because they wanted to and/or "burn it down" or have a moral high ground.
Kabuto’s Team! But since Kabuto is a little busy during the Chunin exam, Kind Orochimaru will help take care of the kids…
This Sound Team Genin Consists of: Kimimaro, Karin and Haku!
Ideas and headcanons for this au!! ⬇️
P.s: did not proofread and wrote this at 2 am instead of sleeping for school 😭
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General Idea
So this idea kinda came to me when I was rewatching the Kimimaro vs Lee’s fight and realized how it was possible for Haku to have been a part of the sound village.
And since Orochi is a man who is obsessed with power, he defeats (murks) Zabuza and takes Haku under his wing. Kimimaro and Haku are a part of Orochi’s arsenal, but how does Karin join the fray?
I firmly believe since Orochi is all about learning, he would 100% look into Uzushiogakure and any remnants of the Uzumaki and their seals. He hears a little rumor about a woman from the land of grass having striking red hair and immediately investigates.. unfortunately said woman died and instead what was left behind was her kid who hardly knew anything about her lineage and thus Orochimaru takes in Karin early on.
(A headcanon of mine is that he also looked for Tayuya thinking she was an Uzumaki, but she was just a normal redhead.. he still decided to take her in)
With that being the case, Orochimaru entrusts all 3 kids under Kabuto and says that someone as young as him would be able to understand them… this is also how the sound village will have an elite team besides the Sound 4.
Kimimaro health deteriorates like how in the anime, but with Karin being here, it becomes much more manageable and he can continue on with his work.
I truly believe that Orochimaru would not want any room for errors for the upcoming war against the leaf and thus he would employ those 3 under him during the Chunin exam. I also think he would make them do the “test” for Sasuke and his curse mark during the forest of death, but with them holding back (Orochi gave them severe handicaps)
Still, there would be an even bigger power gap, and Sasuke would definitely spiral even more.
Also Karin would still fall in love with Sasuke, but instead for how desperate he was to save his team…
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Personality Ideas
So I kept Kimimaro’s outfit the same and all around the same vibe. But I believe he would be more angry, because he sees firsthand how obsessed Orochimaru is with Sasuke. With Kimimaro’s dying body that can only be managed by biting Karin, Orochimaru still goes with the plan of getting an Uchiha body and that makes Kimimaro more agitated.. causing him to go overboard during the forest of death.
Haku would be more cynical and coy. In OG Naruto, he kept his kind self alive thanks to his love for Zabuza, but with his savior dead and being surrounded by high key the worst of the worst + with being experimented with his kekkei genkai, he would be twisted in a way. But he would also easily change into a kinder version of himself if he meets kind people. (Cough Naruto cough)
He would really see himself through Kimimaro, seeing how much the boy respects Orochimaru and how similar it was to how Zabuza felt. So he would either be close to Kimimaro to remind himself of how used to feel, or be distant from him in order to forget the pain.
Since Orochimaru took in Karin much earlier than in Canon, she shouldn’t have as much trauma, but since Karin is the first Uzumaki that Orochimaru got his hands on, he definitely experimented on her for an egregious amount of time. That led her to still developing the same personality but with less loyalty towards Orochimaru. (She also respects Kabuto more than him). She would also develop the adamantine chains MUCH earlier (maybe she uses it accidentally during her Chunin 1v1 👀).
I also believe that Orochimaru would consider her as a vessel, so he makes her push her limits and try to reach her max potential. That would include her also learning and knowing a lot of sealing and sensory like jutsus.
She has less bite marks, but would be more embarrassed about. In canon, she got desensitized to people looking at her bite marks when she was at the grass village, but since that didn’t happen in this au, she would instead be more embarrassed. She would definitely get over it when she grows older though.
I also based her outfit around the similar to Ibiki’s and Kabuto and her OG Genin outfit.
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Dynamic Ideas:
In battles, Kimimaro is the front liner, brawler and tank, soaking up the damage and making space for the other two. He would be the one with the most kill, not just because of the his strength, but that he values life much less than the other two. For him, only Orochimaru matters.
Unfortunately with his health issues, Haku front lines with him much more often.
Haku would be a ranger and be the one to administer non lethal damage/blow. I also believe he has medical knowledge, so if Karin is downed/low on chakra, he’s the one to help patch up the others.
He would be the one carrying out assassinations the most, as compared to Kimimaro killing with no reservations.
He would have some knowledge about handling weapons since he would 100% take Zabuza’s sword as a memento.
Karin would be the support (healing, sensing) , spy and has sealing knowledge. Thanks to her plethora of abilities, she is vital in maintaining the team if things go south. From providing intel about the nature chakra of her enemies with her mind’s eye of Kagura, to her providing chakra and healing to her ally. Kabuto would definitely teach her more about spying and the sorts thanks to the fact that she could easily hide her chakra.
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Can you tell I drew and wrote this all in under an hour 😭
Alas, brain juice gone… some stuff might seem contradictory or confusing.. I’ll try to explain in another post but for now I think this is A-Ok!
Also I was listening to “she did it again” by Tyla n Zara the whole time I was drawing/writing …listen to it if you haven’t.. it’s so good
Karin knew of Naruto’s existence all the way back in Chunin Exam… like this guy is yelling out his name every 2.7 seconds + his large chakra pool (which is native to an Uzumaki).. she would notice immediately
AND I HAVE PROOF!!!
Here in this panel, Karin is explaining what a Jinchuriki and tailed beast is
The English translation is pretty self explanatory
But in the Japanese translation it is
“あれだろ！きゅび なか 九尾の仲間みたいな はもんで尾に生えた かたまりチャクラの塊が”
When you translate, it says
“It’s that thing, right? Like your Nine-Tails’ companion… A mass of chakra that grew from the tail(ed beast) became materialized”
Here she refers to Naruto as Sasuke’s nine tail companion, note it’s not a sarcastic usage of companion or friend.
So you’re asking yourself, “how does this prove your theory?”
Well, Sasuke met Kurama for the first time in part 2, just a mere couple chapters ago. Note that he never knew about the 9 tails, only that Naruto had mysterious powers.
So with this in mind, three questions come up.
1. How does Karin even know about Naruto
2. How does Karin know Sasuke and Naruto are friends
3. How does Karin know Naruto has the nine tails
With question 1, the first on screen moment they met and shared was when Naruto was chasing them
Sasuke doesn’t explain to Team Taka anything regarding the person they just came across except that the person was named Naruto.
So how would she know about the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke? And just by this meeting alone, how did she know he had Kurama?
All the questions could be answered if she had met or seen Naruto in the Chunin exams. Or really if Sasuke had an offscreen moment and just explained everything to team taka… which i highly doubt
