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Shizun is merely expressing scientific curiosity: If these pants really are only held together by waist ties, how do they not flap open immodestly if Binghe moves quickly, are they glued to Binghe's hips or something? (The answer is: they do flap open and Binghe will be happy to demonstrate!) Close-ups and sketches:

I’ve been drinking that hualian juice again, this time with the assistance of the amazing @curiosity-killed for the @mxtxbb! This is art no.1 I did for their gorgeous fic heart + bone!

I am just soft for them… art no.2 for the @mxtxbb of @curiosity-killed ’s stunning fic heart + bone! 

Utilitarian: Madara & Sasuke

Ninjutsu experts who use it as support for their other more destructive techniques

Sensory genjutsu that makes you miscalculate distances, or how many weapons you have left, or the state of your opponents, or how tired you actually are

Quick Paralysis is a staple, this one's easy to break if one is a half decent shinobi but the split second freeze is what's actually lethal against these two

Sasuke doesn't enjoy genjutsu too much bc of how deeply he associates it with Itachi

Madara uses it sparingly bc it's just not tactile enough. no satisfying feedback

Nightmare Fuel: Itachi & Shisui

The goal is to avoid direct engagement

The more harmless variety is for non-combat. it makes the target dazed and confused and docile so they just Go Away

In battle the goal is to convince the brain of the pain it's feeling so thoroughly that it causes actual physical symptoms

Itachi has the more 'lethal' genjutsu, Shisui’s is harder to break

While Itachi can maintain it over long-ish distances, he needs close contact to cast it first

Shisui doesn't, he can cast over long distances without eye-contact. Genjutsu sniper.

Most Annoying Bastard in the World: Obito

It's not particularly powerful, like maybe a 5/10? 6.5 on a good day

It is incredibly incredibly difficult to break however

A winding twisting spiralling layered tangle with no way out

That is how he kept a bijuu under it

Obito is usually too preoccupied to focus on the narrative specifics of what's going on so it can quickly devolve to a confusing acid trip if he's not focusing (which has its perks)

Satan is taking notes: Izuna

"that lamp looks weird..."

Aftermath...

and then! suddenly kishimoto goes pro-state, dude's on the LDP party line, we jump to the arrival of itachi + jiraiya at the chuunin exams and the reveal of the uchiha massacre and how suddenly naruto's correct path is Not being anti-konoha, in fact, because going against konoha is Evil and the Dark Path, and jiraiya's the big noble hero for being a spy and soldier for konoha, yippee, will of fire! then you get shit like the waterfall of truth (naruto is aware that the system has been unjustly cruel to him but winning konoha's approval is depicted as logical and taking moral and narrative precedence), the creation of the akatsuki as an anti-imperialist movement initially just looking to protect and feed civilians in a wartorn region and eventually escalating to dismantle the system itself but when push comes to shove kishimoto makes it so talk no jutsu works on pein, the entire framing of sasuke being a bad person for deserting and itachi being a hero for massacring a marginalized and resistant ethnic group, kishimoto's interview where he says the narrative is based on his grandparents saying ww2 was based on "lingering grudges", the fact that kishimoto put the rising sun flag behind the sage of six paths when we get dojutsu origin backstory.... then after all the setup about obito and madara creating the crux of the struggle in shippuden as a concerted effort to destroy the shinobi system then suddenly kishimoto introduces kaguya as the ultimate seed of narrative conflict because haha hey it turns out that the massacred ethnic group is inherently genetically eeeevil haha isn't that a normal thing to write with no real world parallels

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