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She doesn't say what the seals are valuable for. Under the circumstances, she's unlikely to sell them on the open market.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
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Ninja trusting you with their life. That's how you know they respect her.
And she integrated the TTRPG tradition of Team Uplift! One of us! One of us!
Hmmm... belief in kami? Genuine concern by way of personification? "Inside-Out" style willing projection? Regular projection? John Ruskin's pathetic fallacy? All five?
I must not cry. Crying is the mind-killer. Crying is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face the feels from the sad writing. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Also, how dare. Tenten come here sweetie I'll give you all the hugs forever
In all seriousness, going with the suffering-for-the-salvation-of-all points... although we, controlling Hazō, may have that saviour complex (both mundane and the sealmaster kind in-universe), Noburi will always be more of a Christ figure than we are (though that hardly has to be the tally for a saviour, but I'll try to keep the rambling to a minimum... PSYCHE!!! English-language literature will always have the shadow of Christianity looming over it, for as long as we say "goodbye" and "bless you" and "damn" and "hell"). He's our hope, he instils power in those who believe in him, he has more of the mystical chutzpah than anyone else around does, and yet he might be better at healing than anything else, that is his calling and that is perhaps where his talents could help the most.
We really really really really really really really really need to invent psychiatry. Work on that with the Yamanaka, Mari, Tsunade...
WE REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY (cont.)
As an aside, I hope you're okay, though that's none of my business.
Hey! She has feelings! Well, I think. Pretty sure she has opinions. According to Yuno, at least.
Despite what Mari says, I'm pretty sure that just because she can doesn't mean she does. Sometimes, she just is what she seems.
Hazō: Oh, so, how much do you know about our history? Because yeah, she did, and then [as Hazō explains more and more, Tenten's face turns whiter and whiter]
Yyyyeah. Jōnin are really something else.
We really really really really-
ImustnotcrycryingisthemindkillercryingisthelittledeaththatbringstotalobliterationIwillfacethefeelsfromthesadwritingIwillpermitittopassovermeandthroughmealsohowdare
Building that rapport with Kagome was a very good thing, but we uh. Should protect that thing at some point, right?
You're making it very hard not to cry.
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Yuno gives personhood to Satsuko a lot but she's aware that she is an evil-looking black axe with special grooves for the blood. Including Satsuko in general is perhaps not unhealthy, but pretending we feel differently/humour Satsuko herself/view her as sapient/care to make her pleased with a gift... I'm not so sure. Yuno understands her world and sees ours, we understand ours and see hers, but ultimately do we want to enter hers or to allow her to step in ours so that, as Tenten thinks, Yuno can eventually "kill" Satsuko to become the person she once could have been?
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Hazō-the-character is quite simple, really. He is, and he will [allow himself to] become, whatever his family needs him to be.
Neruo-spicy brain is glitchy due to exhaustion, so I cannot meaningfully expand on this at the moment, but I believe it fits.
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That depends entirely on your definition of OK, but at the very least, I don't share Tenten or Yuno's specific mental health issues.
Perhaps you, too, have been a hostage of this quest too long.
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Idle thoughts.
Heck, debatably, even our "Uplift" dream began because Akane, whose heart bled for the world, couldn't stand to let things be, and sought support from Hazō when Mari and Kagome were too inured to the status quo to dare to hope for something better.
- Hana needed help with bills, so Hazō became a gambler as a prepubescent child (one of the few paying options available to him).
- Team Uplift needed a leader, and a rock, so Hazō became one.
- Team Uplift needed a WMD to bribe their way back into Leaf. So Hazō became a weaponsmith.
- Team Uplift needed a Clan Head (because Mari was incapacitated). So Hazō became one.
- The world (and, thereby, Team Uplift) needed Hazō to become a runesmith to help patch the Great Seal. So he became one.
- Akane (a member of Team Uplift) needed Hazō to turn traitor to Leaf (so he could continue dimensionalism research). So he became one.
Heck, debatably, even our "Uplift" dream began because Akane, whose heart bled for the world, couldn't stand to let things be, and sought support from Hazō when Mari and Kagome were too inured to the status quo to dare to hope for something better.
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Not so.
See: respecting Noburi's agency with medicals
See: respecting Kei's agency with build changes
See: respecting Mari's refusal to share character sheet
What is his ambition? Save his family, and the world they live in. Slay death, disease, and poverty. For strangers, yes, but for family, too.
That is the point I'm making, yes.
It is, perhaps, the sole selfishness Hazō allows himself. He also left Ino behind to save Akane and defeat the Akatsuki (which would also count as saving Ino from a life lived under Pain's godking boot).
I feel this is not mutually exclusive with my statement.
Eisenhelm
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Kinda, like ten ten said about shedding parts of yourself in order to survive. Hazou doesn't really do that, he is willing to mold them and himself in order to fulfill his objectives whatever they may be, but it's just as likely that he will mold his objective to the people he loves.
For example he made Kei into someone that would throw her life away for uplift but at the same time he expanded uplift to include the open acceptance of gay people because it's important to who she is.
It's really hard to explain, the way the votes go means that Hazou treat his family and himself like agents of his dream for the world, but at the same time their well being is part of that dream. Like if team uplift and ideology Uplift were one and the same in both directions. Don't know if I explain myself properly
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Wow! I love this chapter, @Velorien.
Awww, man.
Hmm, interesting. This is a purely in-the-mind thing right? It's not like Yuno actually gave Satsuko a piece of her "soul" (whatever that may mean), right?
Because pretending yourself happy doesn't actually make you happy any more than pretending yourself smarter actually makes you smarter. If you have personal issues that make you unhappy, you can't just pretend them away (most of the time).
Heh. I like this description. It fits the Hivemind perfectly.
Yes, yes I have. And it's all the QMs fault.
Aodyssey
The glass will not protecc you
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Poor Mari.
This seems particularly respectful.
We should figure out a way to avoid getting ganked by this.
I think Tenten thinks like this because she's the (was the) premier Leaf ninja at non-lethal incapacitation based on Gai's teachings. Gai must have been one hell of a teacher to change her from a feral child - no reason not to kill - to a Ninja - non-lethal as much as possible.
I feel bad for Tenten realizing, and she must have realized immediately as soon as she thought about it, that she wasn't her No.1's No.1
I hope we'll get Tenten's sheet but I strongly believe we will not, unless something special happens.
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If you attempt to surprise Kagome, you will be immediately reduced to a fine mist because the man is hypervigilant and armed to the gills with explosives. If you attempt to disarm Kagome, you will fail and be immediately reduced to a fine mist because the man is armed to the gills with explosives and hypervigilant.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
I do not respect it. She's probably making bad build choices. She should give it to us so we can buy her 5-7 doublecost research stats.
You know I'd never really thought about it, but it's fairly likely that Alertness is Kagome's capstone stat given his characterization.
Level Athletics 😭
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Sorry, I guess it's just the flip side of writers ending up on watchlists for doing searches that are slightly too specific - describe the feelings of characters who have Been Through Some Shit with specific enough vocabulary and enough verisimilitude, and those aware of some Been Through Some Shit Syndrome or other will worry and fight the urge to armchair diagnose someone through the medium of a Naruto quest for the crime of writing too well, which is naturally as precise and fruitful an endeavour as you might imagine
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Where's a :sadface: reaction when you need it?!
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I think one of the practices of a speculative fiction writer is to take real, lived experiences and extend them into the fantastical--and sometimes, if you extend them faithfully enough, your fantastical loops back around to being somebody else's real.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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That's a really good way to put that.
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One of the longest/largest arguments I've had in my relationship was over the organization of the bookshelf. Specifically, my partners wanted books broken into district y science fiction and fantasy sections (and 'apocalyptic fiction' as we have enough books about the apocalypse to merit it) whereas I wanted to put everything under speculative fiction.
I had unfortunately already spent a lot of political capital arguing about the classics section so I got shrieked at (lovingly! but exasperatedly) for the notion of speculative fiction, and was outvoted (even though this leads to the ridiculous categorisation of the Dirk Gently books, one of which is clearly fantasy and one of which is clearly science fiction, but they were shelved together). To this day I get angry looks if I say the words speculative fiction.
The story does have a happy ending, in that we now shelve more or less all of the fiction alphabetically and use roughly the Dewey Decimal system for nonfiction.
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Eh. There a plenty of Saviour figures around and so far Noburi hasn't died for our sins.
I think Hazou should be compared to a character like Paul Atreides. A character who fights against the status quo by uniting and creating a number of followers. But I doubt that the GM's were thinking about a lot of islamic mythologic, but Japanese history also is a lot about unifying their country.
Probably an interesting point why most western fantasy have the typical "ancient empire" (like Rome) while something like canon Naruto has a bunch of fighting clans/countries.
Let's unite the Elemental Nations and the East under our glorious benevolent empire! Crusade? More like Uplift Jihad!
But Satusko could be alive. If Samehada can be, then our little murder-axe can be. (Shinto acutally allowes objects to become sentient...)
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Samehada is a statistical outlier adn should not be counted IMO
And I somehow doubt that Yuno is practising Shintoism here
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I was trying to say that the setting can easily allowes weapons to become actually sentient.
Our favourite psycho repsect Satsuko. Maybe we should be careful.
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Although it is true the setting is pretty heavily influenced by Buddhist and Shinto motifs and ideas...