#which to be perfectly honest is not really a tam lin retelling anymore

[trans-girl-uchiha-itachi]

bestie im cyberbullying you into talking abt the tam lin au >:3

OH WOW... WHAT A MYSTERIOUS ANON... I DEFINITELY DONT KNOW WHO THIS IS. i definitely did not watch over your shoulder as you sent me this ask

anyway. yeah. the tam lin au. it's a non-massacre au where hinata never leaves otogakure, instead teaming up with karin + kabuto to kill orochimaru and take over oto, and at some point konoha starts getting REALLY worried that none of the people they send to investigate wtf is going on in oto ever. come back?

(i forbid ye, maidens all // that wear gold in your hair // to go down to carterhaugh // for young tam lin is there...)

and so eventually they send itachi to take An Peep (sadly i dont think he would be caught dead in a kirtle green OR tie it above the knee), and he discovers that the reason none of the other konoha-nin came back is that hinata paralyzes them with senbon and hauls them back to the lab ("hey, free spare parts!")

(none that go by carterhaugh // but they leave him a pledge --)

hinata, out of boredom/idle curiosity, hangs out chatting with itachi a lot (oto is not long on people who can, realistically, keep him contained), but i haven't gotten too far into writing this part ("what makes you come to carterhaugh // without the leave of me?")

from here it starts to diverge somewhat further from the plot of tam lin; hinata does (mostly against her will) get Attached to itachi and lets him go eventually, but i don't think there's an obvious analogue to the faerie queen here since orochimaru is already dead?

wait, oh my god, i can combine this with the eyeball marriage worldbuilding!! spiritual equivalent to janet coming back visibly gregnant is itachi coming back with one of his eyes swapped out for a byakugan and Not answering any questions about this. thats perfect i love it