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Huh, if Naruto's clones could take even one punch, their combat effectiveness of greatly increased.
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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If she wants the Hat (and more specifically, if she wants to keep the Hat and do a good job with it) she's going to have to unretire then. General politicking is one thing but the Hat requires more than just being good at talking. Ren fought at the BotG and she's barely a Chunin-level combatant; Mari's a full Jonin (elite, as she claims) so she'd be expected to be at least be at the fight. At the very least she'd be expected to do a lot of psychologically damning manipulations.
You mean with the Pangolin's Scales jutsu? Yes, indeed they would. We should definitely teach it to him asap.
Problem is that non-ablative armor is a pretty big deal, so he would only be able to use it in situations where there will be no survivors, or which are important enough to violate OPSEC. Although maybe we could sell it as part of the general "Naruto is bullshit" story.
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@eaglejarl , liked the post. That means he wants to write round two between Mari vs Hana, Bathtub edition!
You perv.
You perv.
Noumero
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- Combat: It's what being a Kage used to mean. There's no reason why we must continue this silly tradition of combining an S-rank military asset with a politician. It didn't turn out very well for the EN, did it?
- Manipulations: It depends. Engaging in social combat with fellow social specialists and using manipulations to tear down innocents are two different things. If I recall correctly, Mari didn't have any issues with enjoying the former.
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While true, it will make things more difficult for Mari to get the Hat and keep Leaf safe.
IIRC Mari treated Tsunade the same as all the other non-social spec people while she was depressed.
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Player Questions 15 May '19
Asuma, Chōza, Hiashi, and (apparently) Mari.
Tsunade isn't remotely interested (Chapter 262), Naruto isn't in good enough shape for it and won't be for a while (Chapter 263), and according to Tsunade Mari has been campaigning for Hokage (Chapter 262).
Your siblings report that Tsunade thinks Mari's social training might make her Hat-candidate material the same way Ren was.
- Aburame
- Akimichi
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- Hagoromo
- Hyūga
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The Clan Head for each clan is the one who executes the vote for his/her clan. Proxy votes per se are not allowed, meaning that you cannot delegate to an arbitrary person for a temporary period, but it's possible to authorize one additional person from the clan to be eligible to exercise the vote when the Clan Head is not available.
e.g. Jiraiya would not have been able to say "I'm going out of town until Tuesday, so I give my vote to Shikaku until I get home", but he could (and did) say "Mari is allowed to exercise my vote any time that I'm not in the room." This permission can be revoked or transferred to a new person, but that basically never happens.
Technically speaking, that wasn't a council vote - that was Hiashi gathering a bunch of clan heads in a back room and trying to get support for him as Hokage in advance. Additionally, as mentioned above, Clan Heads can designate a specific right-hand clan member to cast a vote in their absence.
Yes. Naruto told you.
Hell no, holy hell no, and not really, respectively. In theory the Hokage is an absolute dictator and the Council is purely advisory. In practice, the clans control a large fraction of Leaf's economy and ⅔ of Leaf's ninja are from clans, so the clans have a lot of ways to make the Hokage's life difficult. The Hokage is typically the most physically powerful ninja in Leaf, so he can theoretically get away with the "do it or I kill you" approach, but actually following through on the threat will eventually cause a revolt and clans will start leaving Leaf.
The Pangolin scroll has a long list of summoners' names on it, including that of Ui Isas.
Nope. Adoption must be consensual, and the dead cannot consent.
No.
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Yes, I mean testing storage seals for logistics hacks. Instant transportation of an arbitrarily large amount of goods in 100kg chunks is so good that I'm suspicious why no one has tried it. Maybe because s rank ninja can't commit to a schedule.
And yes, I want to see what happens to chakra water on the 7th path. Pouring a village's worth of chakra into a strike team is such bullshit, we have to see if it works.
These do seem like things that fit better in the mid term research cache. Thanks!
Noumero
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Hmm? We don't need to advertise that Mari will continue to be retired even after she gets the hat. And once she does get the hat, Leaf will turn into an unstoppable military/technological/economic monster over the course of a year, assuming at least some of our ideas work out. Also, Naruto.
Sure; the keyword is "depressed". For this to work, we will need to un-depress her to some extent.
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occupying Haudenosaunee & Osage land she/her/hers
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So what you're saying is that the Pangolin scroll makes its summoners immortal?
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I wonder if Keiko knows what happens if someone else signs it while she is alive. What happens to her contracts? What happens if a name is erased?
If swapping names is easy, that is a way around the s rank schedule problem. Get someone less busy to own the contract most of the time, then swap once the S ranker heads out, and quickly reforms contracts.
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How did this happen? My understanding from Canon was that the village formed from clans banding together for mutual protection not to serve a dictator.
Yeah, I have to say it seems like it should have gone in the other direction. That is, "In theory" the Kage has all sorts of constraints on him from the Village founding because the clans insisted, and then in practice he accumulated more and more actual authority over the years because that's what a strong executive office does.
I assume nobody can sign the contract if the previous Summoner is still alive.
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Well then. We can say with certainty if snake uncle is dead or alive.
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I thought it was for mutual protection to not be destroyed?
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Pretty sure that Hashirama and Madara where big enough badass to force everyone to obey the Hokage
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Wat? The Leaf is weaker than it has ever been. The Third is dead. Jiraiya is dead. We have had 2 jonin slaughters in rapid succession.
We aren't going to be any kind of powerhouse until another generation has had time to become jonins.
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I would expect that this is more propaganda than anything else. The Uchiha had actual political power with the police corps; everybody else would have just been advisory. The Uchiha and Senju probably just conquered everyone else and then told everyone that they were banding together for the Will of Fire™.
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I come back nearly an hour after this post and no one has proposed a single fix for this problem. Who are you and what have you done with our hivemind?
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We're working on making our candidate Hokage so they can change the rule; afterwards, we can adopt Orochimaru without his consent.
I mean, we still got Naruto. If we teach him all the Pangolin jutsu we have, then trade seals for more jutsu (both from Pangolins and Pangolin vassals, as well as from the Toads and maybe Snakes), he could get a pretty nice boost to his already ridiculous power. Just for the obvious: Pangolin's Scales could make the shadow clones survive significantly longer.
This probably wouldn't make us a true powerhouse, but it will do a lot to mitigate the problem.
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I believe what @Noumero is suggesting is that we will be able to bootstrap Leaf to super power status once we control the hat. With increased economic out putt and sealtech weapons. Add on top of it that all of clan Gōketsu will probably be hitting S-rank very soon
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Soon? I mean, with three empires pouring secrets in our ears we are going to get there faster than most, but I think we are years away even allowing a very generous shadow clone feedback loop.