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bennydwight · 1 year

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TGAMM Observations, Theories, Headcanons Pre Season 2

Long post!

1. Scratch never tells Molly his name in episode one (there’s a theory on this that his name was divulged to her as part of the curse, since it also gave her the ability to summon him with his name)

2. In ‘The (Un)natural’, Bartholomew can be seen writing in a cutaway scene, a diary entry saying “Dear diary, I had the strangest dream last night”

3. In the same cutaway scene, we can see the McGees moved into the house June 2

4. Other entries in Scratch’s scare report read:

· 06/01 Pizza Steve (I get him every time!)

· 06/08 Kid with Umbrella (Transformed into umbrella. Classic Rainy Day scare)

· 06/15 Wilderscouts (Used Howlin’ Harriet story to scare campers)

5. In the beginning of Howlin’ Harriet, there’s a brief moment where Scratch puts his hand to his chin, deep in thought. Geoff notices and, a beat later, copies the position

6. Weird amount of Canada references. Cousin Carl from Canada, Cousin Milly from Canada, in The Lucky Penny there’s a crashed car with a Canadian sticker on the window. When Molly is looking up a Bat Mitzvah there’s a recommended video about ghost hauntings in Toronto (it has four views and was posted eight years ago). The very last moving box in Out of House And Home has a shipping sticker that says Toronto. I’d be tempted to say that’s the last place the McGees moved from if not for Molly knowing nothing of Canada. The syrup bottle in Citizen McGee has a maple leaf on it. I’d be offended at the stereotypes if I weren’t so jazzed for the representation

7. Despite claiming to be touch adverse, Scratch can be seen instigating physical contact even as soon as First Day Frights, where he puts his arm around Molly and pokes her nose. The touching gets more affectionate as the season goes on, but even at the end of Friend-Off (where he’s arguably ‘known’ Libby less than two days and has been fighting with her for most of that time) he initiates and seems comfortable with friendly contact

8. Scratch first admits he may be ‘McGee adjacent’ in The Greatest Concert Ever, but (as far as I know) there isn’t a solid moment where he embraces the McGee name fully. It just kinda pops up later on

9. Scratch is already calling Nin ‘Grandma Nin’ by the end of The Curse (which isn’t groundbreaking, I just think it’s a cute detail that he already calls her grandma)

10. In The Best Of Nin-tentions he also calls Sharon ‘mom’, but I’m not sure whether that’s because he just does now, or because he was using Molly’s words

11. The gravestones in Andrea’s film set in Hooray for Mollywood read ‘Howlin’ Harriet’, ‘Howlin’ Harriet’s Toes’, and ‘SK’. I wonder if the last one might be Scratch’s, but that’s just a theory seeing as how we don’t know his surname

12. Scratch was alive sometime before the invention of the internet (a safe assumption) and after the invention of colour tv. Possibly died in the 70s-80s era?

13. If the Ghost World doesn’t get anything until after it’s dead, how come they have mochas? Or clubs? Also Scratch is shown with a smartphone at least once in Scarin’ is Carin’

14. Scratch may also have some variation of size-manipulation power, seeing as there’s a functional pizza box with a to-scale pizza laying around his dollhouse. Maybe it’s just a way he creatively uses curses idk

15. The. The medical bill in Out Of House And Home guys. It’s just. Look at it. Friggin. Z Ray (x2). Minus $0.49 for insurance. The epitome of America’s medical system. Would be funny if it weren’t so true

16. Also, hard to see the date on there, but I think it’s 05/14/21 if you’re looking for a timeline. Seeing as we’ve had a Christmas episode, this would probably mean the McGees moved in June 2, 2020

17. Historically, the larger Scratch gets, the less stable his form is. Might just be for scary effect, but might also be a mass-displacement or concentration thing

18. But he has no trouble maintaining consistency when he shrinks, so maybe all ghosts just have a maximum comfortable size

19. Some aspects of transformation appear to be instinctive and subconscious, linked to a ghost’s moods, instead of all shape changes being intentional (most clearly seen in The (Un)natural)

20. The repossession notice in Out Of House And Home is in Sharon’s name, and I admittedly don’t know a lot about mortgages, but does that mean the house is in her name? Isn’t Pete the primary breadwinner in the beginning of the show?

21. The McGees have a ricecooker in their kitchen! I thought that was a cool detail

22. The home purchase agreement is a little hard to read in Home is Where the Haunt Is, but it says “I, [blank], agree to buy the property at [address, I can’t read it] even if it is [a tiny bit haunted]. This contract is legally binding and Candace Green cannot be liable for anything”. Candace absolutely knew about Scratch before he revealed himself

23. Molly has type A blood, but whether it’s negative or positive isn’t specified (hello, blood poisoning). Also, flyers in the background promote Debate club, which implies she’d donating at school. As USA blood donation requires most donors to be a minimum of 16 years old (with parental consent) or 110 lbs, we can conclude that the school is illegally harvesting blood from the student body

24. Why do they… why do they draw Scratch’s butt like that

25. Libby’s left handed!

26. The cart stunt at the beginning of No Good Deed is referenced in Darryl’s file as ‘Incident 314’

27. Scratch doesn’t cast a shadow

28. I don’t know why, but there’s a red sticker that shows up in the school a lot, especially around the lockers, and it just says ‘Souffle’

29. Apparently Scratch has shared custody of Molly’s phone

30. Who did the subtitles on DisneyPlus I just wanna talk

Feel free to add on/expand/debate if you feel the desire! I’m mostly just putting these here so they’ll stop swimming around in my head

#the ghost and molly mcgee #tgamm #just ranting #i might add onto these later #i really like reading the background stuff because the artists put a lot of little jokes into it

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iamnotawomanimagod · 1 year

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idk why but i needed to discuss and send this to you.

i also don't think this is something new to say but following your previous reblog (that tik tok) makes me think of the shit halsey does sometimes and how the majority of their fan base immediately goes 'yikes' and i think it's also how certain artists have portrayed themselves and how certain artists have created their personas/stage character. i'm taking halsey as an example cause they're the other artist i know very well but like, ever since the beginning ashley showed themselves as this open minded and very very opinionated person who has always used their persona (halsey) as an excuse to be even more vocal about things that mattered to them (i'm exclusively talking about this character that's created bc halsey's background is light years away from being the same as taylor's) and on the contrary taylor has (insert every reason here i know why she did but i also don't care) created this america's sweetheart image, the perfect white girl, the girl who does no harm and even if she fucks up "her intentions were good!!" (giving no space to actually question that aka the entire lover era with the yntc mv and the me! comment in miss americana?) and that's why people cannot even think about calling taylor out (i think this matty case is the exception since a LOT of fans did) and it's just like... taylor you're one smart motherfucker bro, it's genius but also quite fucked up but so genius. bc even tho she tried to miley cyrus her way out of the "naive/nice girl" thing she will always be that. anyway, i hope i don't get cancelled and maybe i'm wrong? but i needed to talk about this with someone, bye ily <3

Nins one of my favorite things about you is your willingness to just say shit how it is <3

100% agreed with everything you said. I know the biggest backlash Halsey got (in my memory) was when she used to go around kissing fans (I'm sure you remember, lol.) I remember Tumblr especially went after them hard because one of the fans they kissed was a minor at the time - which was deserved! (There were Halsey fans making excuses for her, but I recall them being in the minority.) But like, once Halsey started gaining more fame and realizing the connection she had with her fans and her power in that connection, she stopped doing things like that. She apologized, said she didn't know the fan was a minor, and hasn't kissed any fans since. The other kinds of backlash Halsey gets aren't really the same, but when she does something wrong, she tends to own up to it. And it's always Halsey, not Halsey's team.

Whereas with Taylor... anytime there's even the smallest bit of backlash against her, her team (be it online Swifties or her actual PR team) rush to defend her, talk about her intentions, and really make it seem like she's perfect and innocent and incapable of making mistakes. I'll honestly never get over how many Swifties were foaming at the mouth trying to defend her when the Private Jet Usage thing was going around. The backlash from that died down pretty quickly and most Swifties I saw weren't willing to even say that she was doing something wrong.

She's really done something smart - horrifying, but smart - in terms of walking this line of America's Sweetheart Girl-Next-Door and Very Savvy Rich White Woman. I do think we might finally be hitting a point where people won't be able to forgive her, though.

Matty Healy is not interested in cultivating a positive public image of himself. He frankly seems to thrive off and enjoy controversy. It's a lot harder for people to maintain that Perfect Image of Taylor when she's so intimately associating with someone who handles his own fame and image the opposite way.

Maybe she truly believes she's untouchable at this point and just doesn't care. Maybe she thinks the power of her own image will be enough to override his. Maybe she doesn't think any backlash against her is ever deserved, after all the (undeserved) hate she got pre-Reputation, so she's ignoring this and writing it off as just more mindless hating. I have no idea where her head is at, and I don't think anyone else really does, either.

If nothing else, it'll be interesting moving forward, seeing where this goes. I don't think I've ever seen a celebrity match with such opposite perspectives and methods of maintaining their public images. I'm curious to see if (1) they even stay together that long (this kind of reeks of a rebound to me) and (2) if the disgust/outrage will persist if they do stay together.

I really feel for the BIPOC fans who have been hurt by all of this, though. One thing Megha (hi @tolerateit <3) mentioned a day or two ago really hit me - for so many Swifties, it's not even really just about Taylor, but about the community they've built and the friends they've made by being fans of hers. Knowing Taylor is dating someone like Matty is bad enough - seeing white Swifties make excuses for her and ostracize BIPOC fans for speaking up is a level of gross and sad that I don't really have words for. That's the part of this that really sucks the most.

#if someone needs me to tag this for blacklist lmk and we can come up with a tag #I wanna keep it out of the main tags lol #asks #nins tag #fave mutuals #aaarondessner

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yeonchi · 5 months

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Kisekae Insights #36: Adapting the Rangers and Riders

This is Part 2 of the introduction to Gokaiger and Decade covering what Super Sentai teams and Kamen Riders have been adapted for both series. Keep in mind that this doesn't cover every new Kamen Rider or Rider forms that made their debut in Japan post-2015 – these will come in later instalments covering later series.

As a short rule of thumb, I only adapted all Sentai teams between Dekaranger and Zyuohger along with some teams post-Zyuranger, while all Heisei Kamen Riders up to Drive were adapted before expanding to Ghost and later Ex-Aid, Build and Zi-O. Showa elements making a reappearance in the Heisei era have been cut.

Anyway, we'll get right into it after the break.

The Superhero Project

My version of Gokaiger is probably the closest you will get to an adaptation of ToQger and Zyuohger for various reasons, such as trains not being as profound in the West or dinosaurs and ninjas being more marketable as gimmicks. Go-Busters was almost in that category until Power Rangers Beast Morphers was announced to be adapting that series. I am aware that ToQger and Zyuohger generals have appeared in Power Rangers series, but it’s not exactly a full adaptation per se.

The Power Rangers of this series are all grouped under UNIT’s Superhero Project. The scope of Super Sentai teams adapted range from the Dekarangers to Zyuohgers, along with the Zyurangers, Kakurangers, Ohrangers and Hurricanegers. The TV movie special also introduces three Ancient Ranger teams, namely the Gorengers, JAKQ and Dairangers (because the Showa era is practically ancient history for me lmao).

The only teams who have Megazords are the Gokaigers and teams whose Zord summoning/combining commands are explicitly integrated into their equipment, that is, their morphers have buttons to summon/combine their Zords. Those teams are the Boukengers, ToQgers, Ninningers and Zyuohgers.

The names, morphing calls and equipment voices follow those of the Super Sentai, with the addition of the “It’s morphin time!” pre-call. There is an exception here for the ToQgers’ equipment voices due to their nature and the Megazords for the Gokaigers, ToQgers and Ninningers. In the case of the ToQgers, I made (and remade) a post speculating what a ToQger adaptation would be like with names and all; their equipment would be voiced by Cheri Chan Yu-yan (陳如茵), the voice of Hong Kong’s MTR. As for the Ninningers’ Megazord names, they are named in the vein of “Shuriken Megazord” to differentiate them from the names in Power Rangers Ninja Steel, which was airing at the time.

The first wave of the Superhero Project, namely the Gekirangers, Go-Ongers, Shinkengers, Goseigers and Zyuohgers, are made up of members from Girl Power, who were antagonists prior to Series 10. The Go-Ongers don’t have Engine Souls, but they have generic Cell Chips to morph and power up their weapons.

The Magirangers are Takumi Kamijō’s team at Torchwood Pleiades, also known as the magical girls of Mitakihara. The Boukengers are the girls of the Light Music Club and the Kyoryugers are the Lucky Stars of Saitama. The Go-Busters are a separate team based at UNIT NZ in Auckland as an allusion to Power Rangers being produced in New Zealand, at least until this year. That team is listed in the Lucky Star instalment where I also covered the Kyoryugers, while two of the Rangers (and their commander) are detailed in #25.

The Zyurangers (with Kibaranger), Kakurangers, Gouraigers and Ninningers are made up of characters from Arthur as follows:

Arthur Read (AkaNinger)

Brain (AoNinger)

Buster Baxter (KiNinger)

D.W. Read (ShiroNinger)

Muffy Crosswire (MomoNinger)

Kinji Takigawa (StarNinger)

Binky Barnes (TyrannoRanger)

Rattles (MammothRanger)

Slink (TriceraRanger)

Molly MacDonald (TigerRanger)

Prunella Deegan (PteraRanger)

Nigel Ratburn (DragonRanger)

Bud Compson (KibaRanger)

George Lundgren (NinjaRed)

Francine Frensky (NinjaWhite)

Ladonna Compson (NinjaBlue)

Sue Ellen Armstrong (NinjaYellow)

Fern Walters (NinjaBlack)

Timmy Tibble (KuwagaRaiger)

Tommy Tibble (KabutoRaiger)

Cameron Watanabe (Shurikenger)

The Hurricanegers are a bit of a special case here as they appeared on Decade as Kamen Riders, but they are considered a Ranger team as well, particularly post-series, and their Gokai Changes are also used. It’s just that they never appear alongside the Gouraigers.

The Ohrangers, Dekarangers and ToQgers are teams made up of original characters, though they barely serve any purpose or have any development. Like Kinji Takigawa was with the Ninningers in this series, Sir Topham Hatt is KingRanger while Akira Nijino is ToQ 6gou. This was done as part of a special guest feature for the series, with Kinji and Akira’s actors reprising their roles in this adaptation. The Ohrangers and ToQgers are based on the Island of Sodor as a tribute to Thomas the Tank Engine.

The Gorengers, JAKQ and Dairangers were a spur-of-the-moment addition made for the TV movie. Aside from Sammy J and Randy Feltface for RyuuRanger and ShishiRanger, the rest of those teams were played by the casts of Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell and The Checkout, both being satirical comedy programmes broadcast on the ABC.

Kamen Rider Project

Originally known as Project Decade, the Kamen Rider Project is something I put a lot of heart into as it became something I preferred over Super Sentai or Power Rangers. Unlike the Superhero Project Power Rangers which were entirely developed by UNIT, various Kamen Riders were made by different organisations including UNIT, with Decade as their unifying mascot Rider.

The scope of my Kamen Rider adaptation covers the entire Heisei Kamen Rider era with some changes. For fear of scope creep I had no intention to include Showa elements, with the exception of Dai-Shocker and the Shocker Combatmen for the series only.

The Nine Riders of my Decade adaptation are different to the Nine Riders of the original series:

Original: Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva

Adaptation: Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, W, Blade, Ninja, Magica, Shugo, Drive

Originally, the plan was to create original Riders or adapt the Riders and give them new names for the adaptation. In the end, I decided to adapt the Riders with their original names because of footage reasons, plus I didn’t think it was respectful to the original Riders to just change their names like that. A number of original Riders did make it through to the series for reasons that I'll explain now.

At first I didn’t want to adapt Hibiki, then I changed my mind after seeing how interesting it was and how I could stuff a lot of Riders into the series thanks to the many Oni featured. My first impression of Faiz and Kabuto was that they were villainous Riders, probably because of their nature (Faiz being an Orphnoch or Smart Brain/ZECT being villainous organisations), so I classed them and Hibiki as Narutaki’s minions in the series. The idea of Hibiki being a Rider but not exactly a Rider in the way they transform and fight was used to create Kamen Rider Magica, a Rider influenced by Madoka Magica and GARO.

My decision not to adapt Den-O was basically “Why do we need the Den-Liner when we already have the TARDIS”, plus the Taros are pretty overrated characters, especially Momotaros, who has reappeared practically every year in the 14 years since the series ended (plus it’d cost us money to hire voice actors lol). As for Kiva, I wasn’t entirely with the idea of a vampire Kamen Rider, so elements from it and Den-O were mixed to create Kamen Rider Shugo - a Rider resembling Den-O but using unique weapons in each form like Kiva instead of a weapon in different modes (DenGasher).

Kamen Rider Ninja, another original Rider, is HurricaneRed, Hikaru Azuma, an autistic boy from the manga With the Light. His sister, Kanon, and their friend, Moe Nakajima, are HurricaneBlue and Yellow respectively; while they are summonable by Diend, they were not considered Riders or given Rider names until their reappearance in Kamen Rider Zi-O, at which point they were called Kamen Rider Mizuna (ミズナ/水波) and Kamen Rider Okachi (オカチ/陸地). Kamen Rider Shinobi ain’t got nothing on Ninja lmao.

In summary, Faiz, Hibiki and Kabuto's places as part of the Nine Riders were replaced by Ninja, W and Drive, while Den-O and Kiva were replaced by Magica and Shugo for the entire adaptation. To put my original Riders in context with the rest of the lineup, here is a sneak peek of Decade’s original Extra Final Form, Ultimate Complete Form, with its activation sequence:

Ultimate: Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Ninja, Hibiki, Magica, Kabuto, Shugo, W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive

OOO, Fourze and Wizard made cameo appearances in the TV movie special before appearing in the New Worlds Arc. Ghost wouldn’t appear until the Age of Riders movie trilogy, but he made cameo appearances in the TV movie special and the final episode.

I've covered a number of Rider groups in previous instalments of this series, so I won't go into full details about them. Here’s a quick list of them:

Kuuga: #7

Salacian Riders (Agito/Ryuki/Hibiki/Amazons et al.): #11

Blade: #17

Magica: #19

Shugo: #25

Fourze/Wizard: #32

Instead, I'll just cover the Rider groups we haven't covered before now.

Faiz: Kamen Rider Faiz is a pig named Old Major (named after the character in Animal Farm) who became a bipedal humanoid thanks to the power of the Faiz Gear granted to him from an animal activist group called Food Chain Breakers (FCB) when they saved him from the slaughter. Kaixa and Delta’s users are from a mercenary group who is an enemy to the FCB.

The Orphnochs in this series are actually evolved Sandmen from those seen in the Doctor Who episode Sleep No More, being able to take on monster forms and disguise themselves as humans.

Kabuto: The users of the Kabuto and Gatack Zecters, Tommy Cooper and Kyle Bonlin, are members of the New Tongmenghui, a successor to the original group that fought for children’s rights and the overthrowing of oppressive parents. The Hopper Riders, aka the Hells Brothers, Daniel and Nathan Trindall, are of unknown affiliation. As for TheBee, Drake and Sasword, they were given to Salacians Lorah, Hugo and Tata when they joined Narutaki.

The Worms are a splinter species of the Zygons; when their home world was destroyed in the Time War, half of the Zygons managed to escape while the other half were mutated into Worms. They retained their ability to mimic humans while also gaining the ability to moult into monstrous forms and Clock Up into super speeds.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking, B1?” “I think I am, B2…” “It’s morphin’ time!”

For the series, I had planned to make some Rider showcase posters (from existing art), however I only ended up making two. W is one of them and the other one is for Gaim.

Double’s users are B1 and B2, respectively comprising the mind and body portions of the two-in-one Kamen Rider. Double (along with Skull) was the only Rider from W to be adapted into Decade, with said Rider replacing Faiz as part of the Nine Riders. Accel was not adapted because I didn't like the idea of him turning into a bike; due to footage reasons in Zi-O, Accel was introduced in Soulbound Series 4, with its user being a member of the former Girl Power who is also in a relationship with Narutaki.

OOO: The user of the OOO Driver is another member of the former Girl Power, whose counterpart in the TV Movie Special was Gaim, reflecting previous plans for said movie. Additionally, he has a dream world counterpart dark Rider whose form uses Putotyra Combo. Soulbound Series 4 would feature the debut of the new Combos of the CSM OOO Driver, along with Super Tatoba Combo and the original Yadopangaru Combo (Yadokari/Hermit Crab, Panda, Kangaroo).

Birth's user is another member of the former Girl Power whose dream world counterpart dark Rider transformed into Kamen Rider Skull. His upgrade form, Birth X, would make its debut in the post-Zi-O specials.

Aqua and Poseidon were also introduced due to footage reasons for Zi-O, but Aqua was replaced with another Rider in the end. See #20 for more details.

Gaim: The main Riders of Gaim are Morgan, Amy, Lulu and Rat in a Hat, taking on the armours for Gaim, Baron, Ryugen and Zangetsu respectively. The Genesis Driver users, Duke, Sigurd, Marika and Zangetsu Shin, are Narutaki, Topsy the Kangaroo, Melanie Yang and Rat in a Hat.

Duke's armour was originally used by Tsukasa Amakawa of Torchwood North before it was stolen by Narutaki for her own use. The armour would then be passed onto Akari Ichigo after she decided to become Gold Drive following a period of interchanged use.

All the equipment for the Gaim Riders came from another universe where more Lockseeds were in use. But how did they get to our universe in the first place? The question will be answered eventually…

Drive: Drive's user is Shinnosuke Tomari thanks to a guest appearance from Ryōma Takeuchi. However, due to Takeuchi's popularity in Japan, Shinnosuke was replaced by Akari's cousin and former Girl Power/Kurayami Alliance leader Daniel from Soulbound Series 4.

Mach's user is Akari's little brother Michael. He is the only Drive Rider who isn't replaced following his debut.

Mr Carburettor was Mashin Chaser before Flash would later take on his mantle as Kamen Rider Chaser. You will find out how it happened when I get to it.

This has been the introduction to my version of Gokaiger and Decade. From the next instalment, we’ll begin diving into Gokaiger and seeing how I would do it better than Super Megaforce.

#kisekae insights #super sentai #kamen rider #kaizoku sentai gokaiger #kamen rider decade

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sixtymillionoverdueideas · 2 years

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Non-UT! chars - there’s a /bunch/, no kidding - uhh part 1? just the N! AUs we got take up a lot of space...

DEMON SLAYER: mostly SLSTF/LSTF combined ‘whoops a large group of strange people fell into this world‘, with three main variations: ‘replace-Pillars’, ‘join-pillars’, ‘demons/Upper Moons’. Includes the likes of the “Centipede Pillar”/”Insect Breathing” (an alternate version), “Trap Pillar”/Mist Breathing, “Lotus/Hate Pillar”/”Lotus/Hate Breathing”, “?? Pillar”/“Waterfall Breathing”... Characters: Yasude Denji (LSTF!Alphys “Nori” - Centipede Pillar), Oda Adachi (LSTF!Undyne “Oda” - creator and only user of the WATERFALL Breathing Style), Aoi Akane (LSTF!Sans “Slugger” - HATE/Lotus Hashira), Daisuke Agawa (LSTF!Papyrus “Spike” - Trap Pillar), Shinogu Kikori/"Shōri" (SLSTF!Sans “Knout” - Solitude Pillar/Breathing?)

Naruto: huu boy. P13!Naruto-verse: (name still needed for the story, P13! is a reference to a completely different something else): A story with these major change-ups: Naruto is a year above the Rookie 9/aka Lee’s generation (and consequently doesn’t know/hasn’t really interacted with the rest of Konoha 13). Naruto is not the jinchuurinki-container for the Kyuubi/Kurama - his parents are still restricted information though, but at least he’s seen more of Kakashi and Jiraiya than canon!naruto, even if it’s distant and strained (kakashi is in no way able to step into being more than the emotionally-clearly-not-okay occasional visitor into P13!Naruto’s life). Naruto leaves Konoha (but doesn’t join another village - in actuality, he straight-up leaves through another dimension, but as literally no one knows Naruto is labelled as a missing-nin). Sasuke is the jinchuurinki of the Nine-Tails/Kurama - this changes some things but the Uchiha massacre still happens. Sai is an Uchiha (who lives with his adoptive civilian parents - Sai is not part of the Clan compound and the traditions, but he is of Uchiha blood) and never joined Root. Sakura is much less/not even a fangirl for Sasuke. Team 7 is Kiba, Sakura, and Sasuke - Team 8 is Hinata, Shino, and Sai. Sasuke is friendlier and more open and has actual friends - Shikamaru, Sai, Shino, and eventually the rest of Team 7 as well. Story is focused on Sasuke instead of Naruto. Characters: Naruto (pre-Departure), Sasuke (currently pre-Chunnin Exams), Sai Sumitobu (same age as Sasuke)

Papillion Arbor: story focused on Shinrai Aburame, who is an older Aburame cousin who gradually recovered meta-knowledge memories but fully considers himself to be Shinrai, Aburame in clan and spirit. Probably set a few years earlier than Naruto-era; we’ll have to see because this one’s plot is completely unformed right now. Characters: Shinrai (chunnin-times? 26-going-on-14 years old) (title needed): Asaha Fukushima, an orphaned civilian-born boy who takes care of/adopts another younger civilian boy while trying to keep everything he cares about safe - “titled” the “second coming of the Copy-ninja” because of how quickly he picks up skills - unreally fast learner. Nearly-sensor -like extrasensory touch - a little like Inosuke’s? - plus having some Nara blood from his grandfather - water element. Naruto still in Academy era. Characters: Asaha Fukushima (chunnin-time, currently Kakashi’s apprentice and not immediately tied to a plot arc - 27-going-on-14 years old), Hachi Asahi (Asaha’s ward/adoptive younger brother, Academy-age 11 years old)

(title needed, probably a name that somehow references “spring”): A story focusing on Monshō Kandō, the adopted-but-also-blood child of Rock Lee - set in the “blank period”/after The Last. Slice-of-life theoretical-fic, mostly about friends and friendship. Monshō Kandō, in addition to the other half of their name (Monshō Kandō has a very long name on legal documents), they also are known by Kawasemi, King Catcher, and Utsukushī (literally: beautiful), the name that Lee gave them before he discovered the actual name they were born with. Characters: Kawasemi, who is currently in Suna (Kawasemi is a Title like Shikabane-hime is a Title for Silver Queen’s Shikako Nara - used frequently but not actually their name) - technically should be called Utsukushī Lee. Chunnin-time - 18-going-on-16 years old.

TEAM APOTHEOSIS: Asaha, Kawasemi, and Myōjōsen (the main character Aburame from another story - the main thing to know about her is that she’s pretty feral and has centipedes integrated in her body in ways the Aburame have never seen before and speaks like an Inuzuka) find themselves in the Dead Wastes (yes this is really where Silver Queen’s DoS!Stones of Gelel arc culminates - keeping the location but not actually involving the Stones of Gelel), and decide to ‘might as well’ do whatever while they’re here - Gaara suddenly gets three baffling but affectionate missing-nin-guardian-friends? Characters: Baki (what am I thinking, how can I write him?? Maybe later), Gaara (not refined enough for this yet, but maybe in the future), Kawasemi (jonin-rank) 20 years old, Asaha (jonin-rank) 20 years old, Myōjōsen (jonin-rank) 21 years old.

(title?): Asaha is reborn (again) this time as Shikimizu Nara, older cousin to Shikamaru, and this time his story revolves around being the bestest friend to/for Shino, original plot outside of the Rookies, and becoming Kakashi’s apprentice - Shikamizu gains the battle name of the “Shallow Balance” - they use ninja-wire to string their environment to run on the taut threads. Characters: Shikamizu Nara (currently Academy-days - 24-going-on-11 years old)

The Amber Firefly - Shino suddenly finds himself in the Senju-Uchiha War and is taken in as an obvious Aburame by the Aburame Clan of the era as a Prophet - that’s all the premise i’ve got for the moment but this un’s a real idea. Shino’s slightly different from canon, but we’ll get to that later. Characters: Shino (神託/Shintaku-sama/Prophet) - The Last when he was actually back where he was supposed to be - 18-going-on-14 years old.

Sunea to Kensei no Sanshō̄o (Snares and Feints of the Salamander): story follows Gekkeiju Hikōkai (English: Hikōkai Gekkeiju) once they meet Naruto while on ANBU jinchuurinki-watching duty - haven’t written a plot yet but it probably focuses on being ANBU/jounin and interactions like that. Characters: Hikōkai (currently ANBU Sanshō̄o - what this means is after they have been taken off Naruto-watching duty in which they were ANBU Kōjaku) - 25-going-on-23 years old

Yorumungando Kōtei no Gekkō Sunea (Snares of the Great Jormungandr's Moonbeam): Remixed Snares and Feints! - Hikōkai is now Itachi, but with a twist - Fugaku and Mikoto are moved generations up so they’re in the Minato-Jounin Era. Hikōkai renames himself/themself as just Kōkai, or Tsukiakari. Kōkai now adapts and considers himself male, and also is struggling to act as Itachi-like as possible while being scrutinized from all sides. Kōkai‘s best friends are Shisui and Ensui Nara. Luckily tensions haven’t risen so high that Kōkai needs to immediately worry about the Massacre, but that’s still probably in the cards with how the tensions were slowly rising. Characters: Tsukiakari/Kōkai Uchiha (genin-times, ??-sensei need to develop later) - 25-going-on-24-going-on-11 years old (yeah...)

Adiantum Raddianum (the scientific name for the maidenhair fern): First take on the is-Sasuke/Uchiha-after-the-massacre trend: Makano “Mako” Uchiha is a non-native-speaking former recreational wilderness survivor who upon waking up in class as Makano, starts living life like in a dazed dream - Makano doesn’t understand the native language and doesn’t care enough to devote themselves to learning more than a little; Mako ends up learning four phrases/words by the time they meet their genin team. “See" (ウォッチ/U~otchi, used for many things in half negative, sarcastic, and faintly approving manner), "tonbo" (dragonfly, for virtually anything Maka approves of. People haven't quite figured out what this means yet, because Dragonfly is patently unhelpful when describing food or generally anything in particular), Kekkōdesu (no thanks. a pretty helpful thing to learn even when it also gets mistaken for things and causes misunderstandings), and hai, which is one of the earliest and easiest things that Mako learned while listening to people talk. Makano is placed onto Team 3, under Gekkō Hayate. Story mostly focuses on Team 3′s missions and some betweens - Makano is older than Sasuke and also doesn’t bother trying to mingle with the Rookies beyond being around Shino and Shikamaru. Characters: Makano (genin-days) - 22-going-on-9 years old

(title needed): second attempt at is-Sasuke/other Uchiha massacre survivor: Mitorori Uchiha. Mitorori... doesn’t believe that this is real. As in, directly inspired by Julyflame’s Come From the Holy Fire, Mitorori believes this is a dream - in turn, he uses this “dreamspace” to release stress from his work/life - Mitorori is even more aggressive and irreverent than in his real life. Cue aggressive Uchiha punkish boy shoving himself into matters that don’t concern him. Characters: Mitorori (Academy days - 10 years old)

Hanabira Sasuke: Third attempt at is-Sasuke/other Uchiha massacre survivor: “Shikichi” (Threshhold) Sasuke Uchiha started off waking up in Iruka’s classroom as Sasuke. Story currently only has plot for Academy days - Shikamaru and eventually the rest of the Rookies start to pick up that Sasuke’s... acting off, they nonverbally start accommodating and bonding around him - Sasuke Protection Squad! Shikichi calls himself that internally because it’s one of the first words he learned to read in Japanese - of course he’s sort of aware that he can’t actually start calling himself that because he has a “real” name - but eventually this’ll probably get discovered by Shikamaru and he’ll go by both. Characters: Shikamaru (Academy - 7 years old), “Sasuke” (Academy - 20-going-on-7 years old)

#non-people-item #Misc.#aburame-appreciation-louder-for-the-back #my very own takes on aus and things #shikamaru is concerned #a spectrum of meta-knowledge and acknowledgement of being within the kishimoto-verse -#from knowing/thinking that you're in a dream to active subtle desire to change the plot and make things better #self-inserts-but-not-really and original characters #ages are rough estimates for general reference - may be different depending on which line we're running

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