#headcannon hell

I also love the family trees and stuff, so somehow I always focus on characters' names. From what I've been able to find, Damian doesn't have a middle name, but most bats do.

So here I offer you an idea: Jason gives Damian a middle name. And it's Alan. Damian Alan Wayne al Ghul.

Why? Because at some point Damian found out that he doesn't have a middle name, but people on his father's side do, so he asked his brother to give him one. (Talia agreed on the condition that Jason agreed to have al Ghul on his birth certificate drawn up by LoA).

Jason, for once, wanted to get the name right, so he started looking on the internet for information on how people get middle names. It turned out that many of them were named after relatives - people important to their parents. Since he refused to use the name of any living person, he started looking at Bruce's family tree. (Thomas was not considered, as it is Bruce's middle name).

And because Talia definitely liked names with a good meaning, he focused on checking it.

In the end, he chose the name Alan, Damian's greatx3-grandfather, which means “little rock”.

SO Jason Todd canonically thinks he's bad at naming things, aka one scene where he says ‘hence redhood’. And well, he doesn't have the best record with it, if I'm honest. From the limited knowledge I have, his choices are mostly somewhat bland and too direct, thus the ‘dog’ situation.

BUT what if his random name suggestions are genuinely liked among his family and friends. And by random I mean he talks about the books he's currently reading and the person in question links it to their own naming problem - thinking Jay's favourite character's name sounds pretty good. Not that he's aware of it.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar promt used in fan fiction in the form of Jay using names from books, but not in a humorous way. It has more potential than just that though.

The disappearance of the Senju clan after the foundation of Konoha.

So, this issue is not addressed canonically, but it is occasionally brought up and used by fanfiction authors. I want to point out that I agree with the idea outlined by most of them, but I would like to expand it even more! (Give more details or diverge slightly.)

As an audience, we know that by the time Naruto is 12 years old, the only sufficiently famous person in the village using the Senju name is Tsunade. Tsunade, who is portrayed as a depressed woman after losing basically everyone important to her (with the exception of Shizune and, in part, her teammates).

So the narrative tells us that the clan is as good as dead.

Fandom has created a narration that its members were specifically targeted in the 1st and 2nd ninja wars because of their affinity with Hashirama and Tobirama, and that by the time Tsunade was a teenager there were only remnants left (like her brother Nawaki).

Such a rapid reduction of the clan in about 30 years seems rather unlikely to me. A great, big, clan with ‘a thousand’ different abilities - specialising in medicine - certainly wasn't sending all its members to the frontline.

So I think the disappearance of the Senju is due to how they used their surname. A lot of people replicate the headcanon that all Uchiha use Uchiha as their surname, but among themselves they use the names of different bloodlines, whose names are linked to their sharingana techniques, e.g. Uchiha Madara of Amaterasu bloodline.

In my opinion, the Senju do (did) the opposite. Their ‘thousand’ skills did not, after all, come from nowhere. I like to assume that it was due to both the absorption of smaller clans into itself and the marriage with talented individuals.

Based on how diverse they were and the fact that before Konoha was founded it was not customary to state which clan one came from, I assume that they introduced themselves in the form of a first name and surname matched to a particular bloodline, and only during missions or moments requiring proof of identity did they add of the Senju Clan. The only exception would be the main lineage. Let's make an example on the assumption that Tobirama was half Hatake and the clan recognised him as such and not just the main line: Hatake Tobirama of Senju Clan. Or based on the headcanon that Minato was related to Senju: Namikaze Minato of Senju Clan.

After Konoha was established due to cultural differences, no one paid special attention to this - after all, politics shaped the village as a Senju creation. One could say that Tobirama noticed this, only he took it as a sign that the Senju were properly integrating into the newly formed structures. Instead, he pointed out that this was not the case with the Uchiha, which is why he created the unfortunate police force.

Along with the integration process, Senju on a daily basis, in the privacy of the village's secure walls, just as in clan territory, introduced themselves using their bloodline surnames. And over time outside the village, they changed of Senju Clan to of Konoha.

The Senju name began to be linked exclusively to the main line, and here, as we know, there was actually a shortage of people. Tobirama, as far as we know, had no children. Hashirama had only 1? which produced children who remained in the clan aka Tsunade and Nawaki. (If he and Mito had more they most likely either married into other clans - maybe Akimichi and Hyuga or into Uzu or died rather early.) The only person of Senju clan portrayed as closely related to the brothers was Toka, and even here we don't know if she wasn't considered another lineage as she was a genjutsu specialist. (Perhaps she was connected to Yuhi.)

Uzumaki clan hair colour.

When I, once again watched a YT short about Uzumaki clan - showing all its members, I once again noticed that Ashina stands out with his white hair.

As we know, Naruto is blonde thanks to Minato's strong genes. But we also know that the Uzumaki's are known for their red hair and vitality. Using Mito as an example, we can see that even as they age, their hair color fade away, but it doesn't turn white (I've seen this phenomenon in some people with dark hair, so I'm assuming it can work that way).

Therefore, I like to imagine that there was a lineage in the clan whose members had biologically white hair throughout their lives. About 80% or 85% of the clan had red hair. 10-15% had white. The rest came from mixed marriages (so about 5-10%).

This headcanon popped into my head thanks to a movie character - Ryuzetsu. Her abilities (and being from the same village as Karin, aka Kusagakure) led many to attribute her to the Uzumaki clan. And I agree.

From what I remember, quite a few people in the fandom thought Jiraya was part Uzumaki (part Hatake - mainly hair and summoning) because he was also good at sealing jutsu (and learned from Mito?).

Uzumaki, having several members with naturally white hair, would fit in quite well with these two.

So I firmly believe it would be funny if WWX was actually older than all the main characters think he is.

We know he is JC's twin pride and has birthdays later than LWJ, but what if Jiangs just assumed his age after finding him. Jiangs did not know his exact date of birth. WWX was not sure how long he had been on the street and at the same time what his actual age is. So they assumed based on a few letters that WCZ had sent to JFM, or maybe some random visit that included a conversation about pregnancy.

Ash and Gary's love language should be based on giving each other pokemon and/or partnering up with the other's pokemon.

Then I think about the Forest of Death. And how I like the idea that it existed long before Konoha was founded.

And then I wish that wood release would appeare more often. Just be super hard for the user to master. Deadly level hard. If the user couldn't figure out how to balance their own chakra and the nature chakra quickly enough, if they didn't discover they had Wood Release as very young children - around preschool age - to have time to master it - they would probably lose control and become a tree. Because the time limit would be reaching maturity - the development of all chakra paths.