Have you ever thought about who would be the funniest or most compelling naruto characters for either Shen Yuan or Shang Qinghua to transmigrate into?
Ha ha ha, no, that's never crossed my mind until now. Shen Yuan and Shang Qinghua are most interesting to me because of their specific relationships to "Proud Immortal Demon Way" and its characters, but transferring their story-bending abilities as transmigrators to something else...
Being flippant about it, I guess I could say that Shen Yuan's most notable skill is his "reverse harem creation" ability, seducing the people around him by being nice to them and happy & chill about life. So, any character for whom a harem is particularly funny. It would be funny to put him in Naruto, because Naruto is also not too shabby at building a harem and Shen Yuan is also a rather unambitious person who would probably hate being the protagonist. It would be funny if Shen Yuan could make Sasuke obsessed with HIM instead.
Generally, however, it's always fun to put Shen Yuan into scum villain roles. He'd probably make a good Orochimaru. It would be very funny if he accidentally seduced Kabuto or someone like that.
Airplane Bro in the "Naruto" universe is funny to think about because he's no longer the author and maybe he didn't even LIKE "Naruto" all that much. Maybe he never even finished it. He was using the one manga volume of "Naruto" that he owned as the coaster for his noodle bowl just before he transmigrated. He's SO bitter about it. He wrote a 20 million word story and didn't even get to transmigrate THERE???
Airplane Bro's main skills involve paperwork, being a traitor, and seducing cold-faced henchmen, so... I don't know. He should be someone relatively plain and it should be really funny to have a terrifying villain head over heels in love with him, and I cannot name a set of characters off the top of my head. When I try to think of "Naruto" characters who don't make facial expressions, I keep getting stuck on Itachi, and I have no idea who would be the funniest character to have accidentally earned Itachi's loyalty by being nice to him over the course of his childhood. I guess I'd say to pick an Akatsuki member and invent some random nobody ninja so Airplane Bro can be their new pathetic sidekick.
Rule of thumb for SVSSS fic ideas for me is "Is it funny?" Or "Does it break my heart?" but mostly "Is it funny?" Preferably in the way that breaks a genre trope.
appledust 2 is the direct sequel to appledust 1, haha, which is ofc How to Bag an Angel: Take That, Depression! I actually made a series for it a short while ago in case people wanted to subscribe to it because I'm several thousand words into this fic so it'll definitely be posted eventually. I got distracted away from it by writing 666, but it's going to be nice to bounce back to a fic where the POV character is actually attracted to the person he's having sex with, pfft. Also much softer sex in terms of emotional squishiness.
It's another friends-with-benefits moment between Lucifer and Angel Dust, this time with slightly more familiarity, joking around, and then a segue into my good old beloved: safeword fails! I feel like Lucifer, post-divorce and in the midst of some unfortunate mental health experiences, runs the risk of being the kind of person who ends up not using a safeword in a moment when he should specifically because he does not want to disappoint the person he's with.
In this case, they're playing a D/s punishment game at Angel's request that's meant to be purely for funsies, but gets into Lucifer's head in exactly the wrong way - and unfortunately, the transition from "I'm being chastised because it's a game" into "wait, am I actually doing something bad and wrong that my partner doesn't like?" is the perfect one to make him not want to risk doing more things that his partner doesn't like, such as putting a stop to the scene.
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Baikinman from Soreike! Anpanman is an enbian diamoric bacteriagender narkissigender daegender mischiefgender clowngender egogender pyrogender caelgender astralgender boggender being who uses he/him, vi/lai, vi/vir, and ha/no pronouns, and ha made up the last set haself!
Dokin-chan is a flamfemme enbian diamoric borderfluid histrigender princessgender lunadarian helidarian overfemme altexoy altexirl loverboy femache who uses she/her, luv/luvs, let's/go/girlself, and love/struck pronouns, and let's made up the last two sets lovestruckself!
Horrorman is an enbian diamoric apangender gendermeh fatugender egogender cassgender genderwhatever genderblank gendermaybe maybinary skeleton who uses he/him pronouns only out of apathy!
The three are in a queerplatonic diamoric polycule!
Could I ask why Clarence is so small? What does he do, if anything?
Clarence is a 9 1/2” gauge miniature steam engine on a backyard railway, the passion project of a railfan couple. The boytoy is a regular volunteer.
He does your standard miniature railway fare, giving rides during public openings and serving as an educational tool, but with the added perk of being able to explain his components himself.
During his free time he talks to volunteers, visitors, and the vehicles they came in if within conversation distance.
He follows the Olympics and aerospace tech, FTL development in particular.
Your troll redesigns are super cool!!! Could I ask you to elaborate on your headcanons/reasoning?
Yes gladly!! And thank you so much for the compliment ♡
If I'm completely honest a lot of the design inspirations were because I dislike aspects of how Hussie designed them, but what else is new? I also ONLY started thinking about this because I think Danganronpa would be a genuine underground game show but that's not the point of this post.
To answer some common questions about my choices, orange horns in particular never made sense to me, and often clashed with the color palette of any drawing or panel, so I started coloring horns according to blood color. This poses a problem for hemo-anon people like Karkat, so my solution to it was to allow for horn painting! We've already seen characters with painted horns before (Karako) so I thought, "what if this is more normalized?"
I also thought it was super tacky that everyone had their blood color plastered on them at all times. I understand that was the whole appeal of trolls at the start, but it really does make designs get repetitive after a while. Besides, I'm sure there are other ways to tell someone's blood color without a t-shirt (especially with yellow bloods, which is why I made Sollux's sign red and blue).
ALTHOUGH, in hindsight, a lot of my designs have their blood colors more heavily inserted so take that point with a grain of salt ahdjhsjd.
It's not like I visualize Alternia drastically different, however one of my many opinions about HS now is how uncomfortable I am with how... young everyone is experiencing these things? So I sort of instinctually drew the main cast older (like. 16-18 give or take) to feel ok about it. So the designs ig can be treated as a "no game" AU of sorts. Where I can just enjoy troll shenanigans when they happen without canon getting in the way.
Hope I make sense and if you have any more questions that dive into more detail, I'd be more than happy to answer!
CORINTHIAN BOYFRIEND. Sometimes tumblr suggests good stuff.
(No obligation to answer all of these)
… what is the Corinthian’s boyfriend’s NAME? Where did they meet? What is the state of the Corinthian’s eyeball eating and associated murder? (As in, is he still doing it while he has a boyfriend? If he is still eating the eyes, does the boyfriend know?) Is the boyfriend, like, a normal human guy, or? Any additional information about the boyfriend or their relationship you would like to disclose?
I’m just excited!! This is a very fun concept, and good art!!
ID LOVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT CORINTHIAN BOYFRIEND!!
-His name is Zack!
-They met due to Corinth using Zack as a door way into the human realm (Zack has insomnia so its pretty easy)
-He definitely tried to keep the eyeball eating a secret (but wont lie the first time he saw Zack’s eyes he did get hungry) but after a while and once Zack knew of his true nature I think its the sort if thing where “just don’t do it around me and if you do, don’t tell me where you got it” sort of thing
-Corinth definitely cares for him but does worry their relationship might get him reset.
(Ps if you wanna read more about them here’s an in progress fic im working on)
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Im always happy to answer questions about the boys!
May I ask you to elaborate on your Hiruzen and Danzo thoughts? 👀
thank you for indulging me 🥺❤️
obviously my first points are:
1) hiruzen: bitch. glad he's dead
2) danzo: bitch. glad he's dead
my actual thoughts: kishimoto seems to like the sun/moon dynamic, and he is competent enough to write distinct takes on it. hashirama and madara as well as naruto and sasuke are the obvious combos. imo hiruzen and danzo also fit; the only reason they're overlooked is that he didn't develop it properly
danzo kind of bridges madara, who was scared and angry, with sasuke, who’s directionless and angry. that’s interesting to me because he’s the only non-uchiha moon and severely distrusts them. unlike uchihas, who are messy, he’s logical. so he's a foil for hiruzen, his sun, and the other moons, which is a lot for one character to manage
one of the most frustrating things for me is that like almost everything in naruto, we don't have any backstory for danzo and hiruzen. where did danzo’s intense hatred of uchihas come from? what made them such lifelong rivals? when did it start? was he ready to form root from the beginning or was it a process? did he decide that grooming and experimentation was the way to go from the very beginning? all we know is that by the time tobirama made hiruzen hokage, danzo and hiruzen had a habit of butting heads
like with hashirama and madara, if danzo and hiruzen had worked together, they could have been an effective team. danzo didn't trust hiruzen to get the job done, just like madara didn't trust hashirama to protect the uchihas. madara’s fears were premature, but he and danzo both saw a failing in their other half that was going uncorrected and reacted to it
early naruto set up a brutal world where children dying was a matter of course. like kakashi said, ninjas are soldiers. their villages are militaries. hiruzen was keeping the status quo. danzo wanted to win
i feel like a problem that comes out of not having any backstory is that danzo didn't fit in shippuden’s heavily sanitized ninja world. the very first arc asked what it means to be a tool for an unfeeling system. because the story doesn't engage with that ever again or give us any reason to question why danzo was so scared of uchihas and ready to do horrible things to his own village’s children, it's easy to hate him. we have no reason not to
the story tells us that hiruzen was the beloved professor. we have a story because he advised iruka to be more understanding of naruto. he inherited hashirama’s will of fire and looked after konoha’s children. he also inherited hashirama’s belief that everyone can just get along. just like hashirama, he took a hands off, idealistic approach to his village. meanwhile danzo was a little too hands on
all of my criticisms aside, i will give kishimoto credit for using such good plant imagery. the english version translating danzo’s ninja sleepover organization to the foundation (i'm interested in how other languages translated it) instead of root was understandable, but it loses the imagery that makes it so impactful
danzo must have chosen the name, right? if he were properly developed, it would have been a tragic act of self-awareness. since hiruzen wasn’t strong enough to get his hands dirty, who would? utatane and mitokado? it had to be danzo. root functions in the dark, but the richest soil is often the darkest. taproots, the first and deepest roots that anchor plants in place, grow in darkness. without a strong taproot, a plant won't flourish
because we can't see a plant’s roots, we only know if there's a problem when the leaves become sick. because konoha seemed to be functioning, there was no way for the majority of konoha to know what root was doin
hiruzen alone could see the rot in the roots, but he couldn't make himself do anything about it. he’s the only sun who never never fully confronts his moon. other factors aside, naruto and sasuke argued openly and fought multiple times. hashirama pleaded with madara and killed him. hiruzen never put his foot down
something that madara and danzo share that sasuke doesn't is an explicit desire to live beside their sun. they want to be “good.” it’s lonely in the dark. danzo bore the weight of the decisions he made because hiruzen refused to make them. he wasn't experimenting on kids for funsies. he didn't get anything out of it like orochimaru
the ninjutsu we see from him in battle are all wind release. konoha is the land of fire- what grows a fire better than wind? his wind chakra nature is literally the complement to fire
ironic that the origin of his summon, baku, is a protective being that eats bad dreams, especially those of children
unlike hashirama and naruto, who can't stop making noise about their wayward friends, we never see hiruzen reach for danzo. hashirama and naruto both know intimately how bloody reality is. setting aside my misgivings about how it’s framed, naruto does understand what it's like to be isolated. he wants sasuke to live in the village and be happy. hashirama wanted the dream he shared with madara to be reality. he wanted it for madara. and hiruzen… made use of danzo
imo that quote (“you are the leaves bathing in the sun. i… am the roots growing in the dark. what do you think of me? [...] what am i to you…?”) is great, but it wouldn't work with the grandpas or 2.0. madara and sasuke didn't think that way. they have the sun/moon symbolism, but the plant symbolism was only developed between hiruzen and danzo. there's also the problem that madara and sasuke are fully aware of what their screaming friends think. only danzo didn't know
tl;dr kishimoto didn't lay the foundation for a lot of his characters, plant symbolism is great, hiruzen was a complacent old bastard, and danzo was a shitty old man with too many bad plans
