Tobirama related headcanons and stuff that I find neat, in no particular order:
- time travel shenanigans with Tobirama
- his testing stage jutsu, sealing and experiments resulting in funny accidents like de-aging, shrinking, animal shifting, genderbending, etc
- his red face tattoos being sage marks or seals that he uses to store nature energy for sage mode
- Tobirama having snow leopard summons
- Half Hatake Tobirama
- leading from that, Tobirama having wolf or otherwise canine summons
- Tobirama somehow collecting Tailed Beasts as friends/tentative allies/mutually respected figures
- Tobirama being kind of autistic
- cats loving Tobirama and Tobirama loving cats
- healer Tobirama with all the theoretical expertise and learned chakra control but not the natural chakra reserves and healing nature like his brother
- tall but kind of lean Tobirama in his 20s (yes, this is partially a result of his terrible self care habits during the war and at the beginning of the village founding)
- this leading to Tobirama being an absolute unit later in his 30s and 40s, I'm talking tall, thicc and SUCH DAMN BIG MUSCLES (result of mandatory self-care during peacetime and adopting having so many troublesome students that need carrying away from their self-created disasters including and not limited to fights with each other and random people or enemy shinobi, explosions, collapses, more explosions, backfiring jutsu, sealing accidents, etc)
- Best Sensei: Senju Tobirama, able to teach anyone, anything; it doesn't even have to be his students, it could be any child or even teenagers, very rarely young adults
- everyone either snickering at or being stunned speechless by Mama Duck Tobirama and his little duckling students aka Team Tobirama (the six membered escort unit)
- Tobirama being good with kids because he was the closest with his little brothers when they were alive since he got to spend most of his spare time with them
- bonus points if this is post their mother's death and so he becomes the closest thing to a proper caretaker that Kawarama and Itama get
- bonus bonus points if Hashirama felt kind of jealous and left out since he was constantly occupied with his duties as the Senju heir and barely got to spend time or connect with them the way that Tobirama did; make no mistake, he loved them, but they were his baby brothers, not his babies like they were for Tobirama
- SENJU BROTHER ANGST RAHHH
- Tobirama having the shittiest eyesight this side of the Naka River due to his albinism (the only thing he and the Uchiha can both relate to)
- leading from that, Blind Tobirama fics are *chef's kiss*
- Tobirama and Mito shaking their heads in disappointment at Hashirama in unison
- ELDER COUSIN SENJU TOUKA AND HER FAVOURITE BABY COUSIN TOBIRAMA; I love these two as a BROTP and I especially love when Touka is one of the only people that Tobirama feels he has in his corner and when Touka is willing to beat the ass of anyone who messes with her baby cousin, including Hashirama, and ESPECIALLY either of the Uchiha brothers
- Sassy Tobirama but he says everything so dryly that some people don't actually catch it until later on, if ever
- HIS JUTSU KEEP GETTING PLAGIARISED HELP; this was literally so funny in the 4th Great Shinobi War arc, where it turned out that Minato and Naruto's most used Jutsu (excluding the Rasengan ofc) were just his, and don't even get me started on the damn Edo Tensei-
- speaking of, I love the headcanon that the Edo Tensei was created in an attempt to bring back his brothers or the loved ones of others, ESPECIALLY if we are talking about him bringing back Izuna in an effort to reach Hashirama's dream of peace by giving back what he took from Madara (even though it was war and so Izuna would've killed him if he hadn't killed him first, but ANYWAYS)
- Tobirama being haunted by the ghost of Izuna; this can be funny, angsty or both, I eat it up any which way
- Tobirama Emotional Whumps that feature Hashirama in particular
- The Argument post the Naka River incident aka when Tobirama snitched on Hashirama and Madara; my hc is that this was the first time that something actually tore at their relationship even though they were kind of leading up to it from the time Kawarama first passed away
- The Argument 2 post Izuna's wounding on the battlefield and subsequent death; Hashirama worries for the state of his dream and the loss of a sibling that his friend is facing, which he knows all too well by now; he does not consider that Tobirama and Izuna did not fight like he and Madara did, and that if Tobirama hadn't struck when he did, he might have been the one struck down (this is a favourite of mine actually, since I'm apparently an emotional masochist)
- Tobirama loves his older brother but values seeing things logically more than simply believing in his brother's dream; Hashirama loves his last little brother but he would sacrifice anything for his and Madara's childhood dream for peace
- that moment when Hashirama was about to off himself for Madara to forgive and make peace with the Senju, and Tobirama wasn't fast enough to stop him; the fastest shinobi of his age, and he was so stunned in that moment that his dulled reaction had almost taken his last brother from him, if not for Madara's quicker hands and softened heart when it came to Hashirama
- OH YES. Tobirama and Madara having mutual resentment for each other but at different points, and for different reasons; Tobirama has resented Madara since he and Hashirama became friends because after the loss of their younger brothers, Tobirama and Hashirama's brotherly relationship became strained and he felt almost replaced by Madara; meanwhile, Madara only really came to resent Tobirama after he caused Izuna's death and thereafter continued to dare living and breathing and being part of his and Hashirama's dream while Izuna was gone-
- underappreciated peacetime architect Tobirama - bro builds up most of the administrative and educational systems, shinobi rankings and laws for Kohoha; but oh, Hashirama and Madara planned it first PLEASE LET'S BE REAL they were not allowed to lay hands on the electrical and sewage systems, roads or building placement plans (I personally feel that they would've had a hand in overall planning and finalising and maybe physical labour via Mokuton but not so much in the actual logistics)
Ahem. Enough near canon Founders angst.
MOVING ON.
- Tobirama accidentally bringing people back to the past because they keep messing with his seals in the future
- Tobirama somehow someway adopting various characters who deserved better (Kagami, Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Tenzo, Itachi, Shisui, never seen it before but either of the Hyuuga cousins)
- Tobirama getting reincarnated as Sakura since Hashirama and Madara got reincarnated as Naruto and Sasuke, and this making her an absolute badass with a water chakra affinity (rare but golden hc)
More to added.
Please feel free to share your own or any fics recs you have. ✨️














