#mod ln

I think the basic idea has a good backbone! But you have to take note of the hierarchical job system they have going — if your OC is a clan member, which simply means if they are of a notable family name, or just not an orphan, then they have to be connected to that family in some form. Which means then, that whatever operation and/or specialty your OC develops would be known to the elders of the clan — and given family expectations, might even be a deviation from the usual Hyuuga m.o.. As for a cut of what she makes, I think this economic model would be entirely up to your design, since iirc, we don’t even know how individual shinobi with no clan gets paid. 

Do we? Eh. More space for us.

As for the plausibility of her job, I think it might be interesting to consider if she’s working as a shinobi bureaucrat with that exact skillset. After all, it’s not much use to map out safe routes if the bandits/danger isn’t static, no? But she can be doing it for ANBU surveillance — sorta in the ground-sweeping, preparatory stage of any big ANBU operation. You know those blueprints of buildings, maps of the area, with indications of here’s a trapdoor, there’s a good exit point, etc.? That could be your OC’s job, working inside the shinobi system instead of on the receiving end of the job system.

Good luck and have fun!!

Hmm. I think it’s really up to you to decide. 

Depending on how you decide to go with the whole body-sharing thing, it could be either way: bugs die; bugs go free and wild.

I don’t think the bugs have a ‘home’ outside their host bodies. The impression I got from the Aburame was that they made their bodies the home to their bugs, instead of getting it from some kikaichu nest out in the forest. But, that’s not confirmed, I don’t think, so you can definitely have a kikaichu home-nest somewhere in the Konoha’s woods. 

Really, when it comes to stuff like this, your own logical explanation works just fine! And even if there’s a canon explanation...well, this is fandom.

Enjoy!

well of course! I think the ‘meh’ general attitude towards having an OC in a pre-established clan has a history in the whole Mary-Sue thingie in the early days of the Naruto fandom.

So long as your character is well-characterized, well thought-out and not illogically powerful or smart or anything like that, of course it’s fine!

Aside from the wikipedia page and maybe scouring on tumblr for headcanon blogs, we can’t help you. There just isn’t a lot of lore on the things that appeared earlier in the series. 

I think you should start a headcanon, taking cues from the Bloody Mist, Kisame’s flashbacks, and maybe dig something on Terumi Mei’s backstory…?

Yeah there’s just not much on Kiri that’s canonical.

Maybe there’s something in the additional short stories written by Kishimoto…?

Sorry we couldn’t help. :/

oh nO I accidentally deleted your first ask argh stupid 

but at least I have this!!!! and also I wrote it like, 5 mins ago, so I remember.

HAHAHA

well you don’t really have to worry about having their insignia on their outfits! Akatsuki’s fashion sense is just one among many of villain groups — you don’t really need to have this big declaration on their clothes of ‘tHIS iS WHAT grOUP I beLONg tO’, you could have it as a ring, as a hairpin, as a armband/necklace/anklet, any of those sorts, or even a tattoo, ANBU-style.

it’d certainly be less obvious.

As for the design, well, look for an ideology and an imagery to go with it! Akatsuki  — ‘dawn’ — wants to bring a new future to the world, and there’re some echoes of that in their insignia: white-lined red clouds. If you want to stretch it, it can become this: the new akatsuki has abandoned their peaceful ways and now will bring a new future to the world, bloody or otherwise (but probably bloody).

That’s one way of designing an insignia.

OR you could just take the first letter of their group name and enlarge it. Get a type-caster to make it, ala Avengers.

Or, take a well-recognized power/aspect and use that imagery. Think Konan, and the paper angels.

Hope this helps, feel free to send a follow up if you still have questions!

I think all of those are valid, because there’s so little material on Mito.

However, I suggest you to also examine that idea from the opposite side:

what if Tsunade was inspired by Mito, her grandmother? The diamond doesn’t have to be anything for Mito — it can simply be a symbol of her station, an accessory, a seal for some other thing (Mito was implied to be a very strong seal master) or anything you want it to be.

For Katsuyu, you’re really free to speculate whatever you want.

Good luck and have fun!

Around art? Sai’s a good example.

Around music? Tayuya’s a good example.

But you probably came for more than that, so I’ll throw some ideas out.

Firstly though, let me caution you. Weaponizing art and music may sound like an original idea with lots of potential  — and that’s true — but they’re kind of the go-to thing for originality, y’know? And they are intangible things, so making techniques for them has the pitfall of making it deviate too much from Naruto.

So. Art first — I assume you mean visual arts. Sai’s techniques are the simplest way one can use art. The drawings come to life, because they are imbued with chakra. Given that, you should think more on the different aspects of the art process — the paper, the paint, the brushes, and technique and control and focus required on the artist. Furthermore, the techniques don’t have to be fast and furious real-time-combat oriented.

It’s more likely for an artist — who plans and drafts and sketches — to be a strategist. To lay traps, to place seals, to weave life-like genjutsus, then to be like a martial artist and meet the enemy head on. Art is mysterious, right, art is subjective, go in that direction.

Or, you can weaponize the processes of art-making: maybe these clan members have special paint and uses their paintings to poison; maybe these clan members have special paper of some kind; maybe these clan members can throw a brush with the deadliness of a kunai when pressed into a corner.

If a clan values art, it’s also likely that they will think it above weaponizing, that it’s sacred and valuable and thus reject turning their artistic skills to violence. —not really what you asked us, but the idea came to me.

As for music, it’s a lot more interesting, but also less versatile. in a straightforward manner, music is sound, and music can be used to entice — two aspects that have already been covered by Otogakure and Tayuya.

So, I suggest you look outside the sound and to the instruments. Weaponized strings? Bursts of sound to stun? But I can’t really help you here, I’m drawing a blank too.

Creating genjutsus and remote puppetry does sound like the only ideas so far, so I suggest you look at different instruments, because their uses can give you inspiration — look at the traditional Japanese instruments first!

Good luck~

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sorry, I’m afraid I don’t understand what you’re trying to say...

I do have some questions for you to think about, though.

-which bijuu? is it an original one, or one of the nine? this is a deciding factor in the unevenness of the battle

-what is the OC’s skill level pre-bijuu? can she match up to sasuke’s skill level pre-bijuu? speed, grasp of technique, etc etc

-what is sasuke’s skill level? shippuden!sasuke? pre-shippuden!sasuke? training-under-orochimaru!sasuke? even which stage of his Itachi-quest can determine the outcome of your battle — if it’s pre-Itachi, he might see this as either a nuisance or a chance to test his skill, which then would change his attitude towards the fight; if its post-Itachi he might be suicidal in his choice of techniques because what is the meaning of life if nii-san is dead 

and now for some considerations

-a desert is not a good place to stage a fight if no one has power over the sand. it has no interesting corners to explore, no ricocheting tricks or dangers to be aware of, it’s no different to setting your characters to fight in a big blank room. it’s a boring arena to stage fights in. think about how you can use this space — the heated and shifting sand, the glare of the sun — and if you can’t come up with something interesting, change a location

-I hope this is not a boruto!sasuke, because 1) i dislike boruto and 2) boruto!sasuke is so OP he can fight a bijuu and win. No one should be able to fight a bijuu and win, that’s the whole point of a bijuu. so that’s my advice: sasuke shouldn’t win this encounter without paying a price, because no one goes up against a bijuu and come out intact unless you’re Kisame

On the other hand, you really didn’t give a lot of details in your ask. Feel free to send in follow up asks!