Have you ever drawn Tetsuo as a woman? Or Sora as a guy? Possibly other gender bends? 👀
Tsuki if Tetsuo came out as a woman:
“Wtf fish girl you’re stealing my schtick. I’ve already got my spiral and my spiral of gender crisis turned gender identity, get your own.”
“You had no factor in any of this.”
“Grow out your hair. I want to pull on it.”
“Too bad, I’m doing it anyways.” *Tsuki’s claws reach out*
Lmao clan heir now making sure women stay in power /j
Haruka: Good for you, women are better. I knew I was an inspiration.
Tetsuo: … You don’t inspire me
Haruka: I can sure inspire some real leadership from you in the next year if you want to stop being heir and start being clan head. :)
Another win for the trans Tetsuo agenda,, but this time in reverse! Trans girl Tetsuo would be cool,, I started drawing a proper gender swap AU for u, but I might revisit the idea of specifically trans girl Tetsuo later, if the brain worms permit it. Or hey, maybe this is just the AU where everyone's trans, who fucking knows man. YOU get to be trans and YOU get to be trans and YOU get to be--
I have actually draw woman Tetsuo like one singular time, I posted it too but I can't find it anymore. It's definitely out there tho! In one of my rare posts of assorted unrelated doodles and drawings, I think.
I think Sora has my favorite gender swapped design tbh, he looks very cool. Mister sparky boom boom,,, Tetsuo is a very close second though, and I think it's fun how much him as a woman resembles his what-if daughter, Kiara.
Thinking about actual character things now:
I think that, in a gender swap AU, Tetsuo would possibly be among those changed most by being the opposite gender.
She suffers from the difficult trial that is being a very well endowed, mean faced, attractive woman in power-- who got that power by being chosen for it, instead of born into it. Combined with Haruka's own reputation of being a womanizer, Tetsuo's enemies definitely like to whisper about how she was only chosen as Hatake heir because she's probably sleeping with Haruka. It's probably a pretty wide spread rumor and something that makes her look like she's licked a lemon when she hears it. Disgusting. Get away from her.
(The fact that Haruka often manhandles her does nothing but add to the fire, but neither are the sort to change their own, now decades long friendly behavior for something as stupid as rumor.)
I think, growing up as a girl, she might deal with some of that good old demiromantic compulsory heterosexuality. It's not that her clan is against unorthodox relationships, it's just that she doesn't think to apply that knowledge to herself.
She is a girl, and her mother raised her on stories of great romances, the romance between her mother and father included. And so she grew up understanding that romance was a thing she should want as a woman, and it'll probably be with a man, and she'll probably just "know" when it's right
She doesn't mind the idea. She thinks she'd like a family one day. And that will require a man too, of course. She'd want a home like the one she was raised in, and a partner with a love as strong as her own parents.
Unfortunately for her, actual real romance when directed her way tends to make her break out in hives </3 She's very frustrated by it
I think Tetsuo ages 30+ would be the kind of woman who gets crazy baby fever. M!Tetsuo also experiences his own version of this but not exactly applied to himself, if that makes sense? And he's also pretty satisfied in his own 'I wanna be a dad and take care of/guide someone' instincts just with his students and Sakumo.
F!Tetsuo is handed a baby for the first time since she turned 30 and goes home to stare at a wall blankly while screaming "I need to get pregnant!!!!!" In the privacy of her own mind. She wants,, to make one of those things,,, Wouldn't Sakumo like a cousin? [ insert the same daydream about being a mother/father that he has in normal wolves canon here ]
Now all she has to do is fulfilling the impossible trial of finding a man for the job :/
Thinking about it, Haruka would also be a bit changed; Not in major ways, but I have to imagine that someone like That(tm) being born a man would impact something. Honestly, he might be more relaxed of a person? Haruka being a woman, especially in a setting like feudal waring states Naruto, has dealt with a lot of very specific shit in both in her youth and of course, in her elder years being known as a promiscuous wild-woman clan head.
I'm not saying that he'd have an easier life as a man per say, but he'd definitely have avoided a whole bunch of events little and small that, in the long term, definitely helped shape Haruka into who she is now.
So like, male Haruka maybe being a bit more relaxed/reckless. And I know ur asking "what the hell could Haruka get more relaxed?" but I'd say she's a pretty cautious woman on the inside. So like, less of that.
He was probably a bit of a jackass in his 20's. 1000% got kicked out of bars across several countries, often along with Daisuke and Maru. A few different times while fighting for Daisuke's "honor" while a mortified Daisuke threatens to hurt him if he even tries it-- but oops, too late sorry! Haruka's too drunk to hear you, he's going to go try and fists fight some random, stupid shinobi in the middle of this underground bar. Then end up blowing a giant hole in the roof, making it cave in and expose the very secret bar to city officials.)
(They are not welcome back.)
(Haruka wakes up the next morning with two black eyes: One from his fight and one from Daisuke. In the background, Maru continues laughing at both of them, like he had been all night)
Compared to the others, I think Sora would be pretty much exactly the same. She's never had to deal with the sort of charged sexism / outside forces Haruka or Tetsuo deal with, and she's the sort of person who's very much authentically herself no matter what life she's living.
Sora is here for fire, explosions, cool fūinjutsu and her friends, and that will never change 💥
Also, the sheer force of her personality and rough appearance tends to blind the type of sexist people who'd give her shit for being a woman. So does the fire. And her fist in their face.
Although she does have "small, one armed woman" points in the getting dangerously underestimated department. But also anyone who knows what's up should be able to do the basic 1 + 1 math that is her tapestry of scars and the "I'd burn down your house for fun" intensity in her eyes, and understand that she's a heavily scarred shinobi in her 20's - 30's. Which means they better buckle the fuck up and assume she's the worst kind of veteran: The kind that survives
Tsuki is Tsuki in every life. Also she's genderfluid so this is probably just her on a Wednesday. Although, I guess since it's gender swap au it would mean she was born as a girl. So even though she's genderfluid, she only really explores that after the spiral, which means she was raised as a girl and in the future went by primarily she/her in the village
I want to say that maybe being raised as a girl affected her in some ways, and it might have, but thinking about it, Tsuki was a very feminine boy who actively played with dresses and makeup.
One of his biggest role models was Tetsuo's mom, Mioki (who was his own late mother's very close friend), and a very big chunk of their the time they spent together was Mioki using him as her little dress up doll since Tetsuo didn't quite like it, and Tsuki loved it. They'd host tea ceremonies and probably played princess at least once, with Mioki's own lingering childhood princess complex (coping mechanism say what?)
I'm getting off topic: Point is, yeah actually I don't think anything would change tooo much?
Wait no nvm Tsuki has a period. Biologically female Tsuki with female hormones n shit would be evil. She is Heather Chandler meets Regina George meets some other mythical mean girl, idk. But she is an evil, evil little girl growing up. And she's smiling the whole way through and it's terrifying.
The spiral either somehow calms her down or makes her infinitely worse. Can't decided which is funnier, but I'm gonna go with worse because that's narratively more impactful.
8 year old Tsuki is going to have Sora pin Tetsuo down and forcibly cut her (very long) hair short, and run crying to the adults to spin her own story before Tetsuo could. Then regret it a few days later when she realizes she can no longer tug on her ponytail.
16 year old Tsuki would be the kind of girl who'd steal Tetsuo's boyfriend and make out with him in front of her (if Tetsuo had one, which she doesn't, which Tsuki considers very sad specifically because she wants the experience of stealing her boyfriend. Very normal of you Tsuki.)
Tsuki wants to see this girl emotionally destroyed for her own amusement, Tetsuo u better run girl.
Sora is also there going "woah, girls are pretty scary..." as he helps Tsuki bully Tetsuo. He's completely blind to the real cruelty of their bullying because, growing up in a blood hunter camp, this is pretty normal hazing...? Right...? He doesn't see what's wrong with it, it's not his fault Tetsuo is on the bottom of their generations social pyramid and Sora's new best friend Tsuki is at the top. That's just how the world works! They're being pretty friendly, if anything. They aren't even stealing her food or beating her or anything!
You thought tetsuki toxic yaoi was bad? You are NOT prepared for tetsuki toxic yuri. Tsuki is the kind of girl twitter wants to see dead and buried
Konoha era spiraled Tsuki is going to break out the "I want to crawl into your rib cage and sleep forever pressed against the beating of your heart" lines when she has Tetsuo cornered in a dark alley. We are NOT normal in this one.
Anyways uhhhh afab Tsuki has a bigger cup size then amab Tsuki (who henges himself into what he assumes fits his body best), pass it on. She saw a painting of her mom once growing up and was abruptly relieved she didn't inherit more of her mother's body type because hooollly backpain, mamacita. That's gotta hurt.
Anyways I didn't draw her, but on the topic of back pain: I need everyone to share with me my visions of fem Daisuke. Which is to say a very, very tall, scarred, heavy smoker of a doctor. She's very well endowed, which combined with the fact she's constantly hunched over a desk or patient, means her back is legitimately fucked. She's pretty much permanently stuck slouching, and she's sometimes has nightmares of being permanently stuck hunched over while trapped on the battlefield
She uses a back brace and sometimes even chakra to strengthen her bones, and when she stands up straight her spine makes a horrific cracking noise, all the way up her back.
She's constantly bitching to Tsuki about how she's lucky she didn't take after her mom more. Tsuki wishes she'd stop, she's doesn't want to hear about her dead mom's tits.
Although I guess Kono would be a guy in this, right? But also eh it's funnier, so she gets to defy the gender swap.
BUT YEAH GENDER SWAP AUS!! Love to see them, love to think about them even more. Gender impacts a lot of things, yk? So I think it's very fun to think of what that'd really mean, big picture. And honestly the character changes here are pretty fun to me, I think Tetsuo's changes are the one that interests me most, both in design and narratively
I kind of wanted to draw more, so maybe I'll come back to it later. It could be cool to do fem Daisuke and Maru,, Haruka constantly jokingly refers to them as his concubines. It does nothing but feed rumors, and she thinks it's hilarious. I am suddenly picturing him rigging the various bets around Konoha about which of the Hatake women he's sleeping with (none) by being extra touchy feely with them in public.
He gives Daisuke a big old kiss on the forehead and hair ruffle in the middle of the Hokage tower, and saunters off happily thinking about the money he's about to make as Daisuke behind him goes ???????
He Tetsuo brings to the market and goes grocery shopping with her while talking loudly about their shared dinner plans, and spends some of the coins he's already made off betting to get her a new hair pin he then puts in her hair himself.
He goes with Maru to one of the public parks for a little picnic by the river. (Maru is definitely on to her but also thinks its hilarious to influence the betting pools like this)
I'm getting distracted again: Anyways, thanks for your ask !! This was very fun to think about and I could probably keep rambling if I let myself, but it's 2am now and this is getting pretty long so I'll make the executive decision to call it there <3
