#Izuna breakdown

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

What was Izuna's character?

Izuna is most likely one of the most mysterious character in the Narutoverse. He's truly a ghost. Barely seen but so important to Madara's storyline and his eyes the most powerful sight of the entire series. Regardless, all we know about his personality in the canon can be resumed in few sentences : He admired his brother as a child, he was also a fierce warrior from early age, he warned his brother against the Senju, and before his death willingly offered his eyes to Madara in order to protect the Uchihas. It's quite thin for a character development...

In the fandom, fanart, and the many fanfictions included, the general consensus is to represent Izuna as a soft and gentle character always devoted to his brother. Sometimes he's the victim of a hungry-power Madara (but that's really old stories back when no one knew that Obito was cosplaying Madara), often sassy and effeminate. A bit like Haku who was entirely in service of Zabuza. I suppose this idea comes from the adjectives that describes Izuna in the databook :

Considering the lack of information in canon, that headcanon starts to become the more popular. My ambitious is to try to discover what was Kishimoto's intentions for Izuna if he had more time to articulate that character. It's just an hypothesis that I present you, it's in no way a definite answer.

I) Intuition

That's nothing I can prove but it always seems to me strange that Izuna was the quiet one in this sibling's dynamic. If you put yourself in his shoes opened-toes sandals, he is Madara Uchiha's little brother. From birth, his brother was seen with special attention. Madara was the oldest, the heir and on top of that the genius one. Butsuma said that as a child he was able to kill adults. Being the second is virtually being invisible in front of other adults, it would have naturally created jealousy and a need to exist outside of the big brother's shadow. We've seen this same dynamic before between Sasuke and Itachi. The little one feels always left out. The difference there, is that Itachi was mostly absent in Sasuke's life, he was always busy with school and missions. And after the Uchiha's downfall, when Sasuke was just 7 years old, the distance between them wider dreadfully. For the majority of Sasuke's life, Itachi was a distant childhood memory. In contrary, Izuna seems to have stayed close to his brother until his death at 24 years old. They enjoy a childhood together and were so close than even adults they were able to take over the Uchiha clan. Because they spend more than 20 years together, sharing happiness and losses, there is for me an implicit idea that Izuna was balancing Madara and vice versa. In the same way, Hashirama's visionnary ideas are counter-balanced by a down-to-earth Tobirama. The Senju carves his unique personality by constantly creating new jutsus that surprised his opponents while Hashirama was known for being that rare and powerful Mokuton user. Madara being this taciturn person in public, Izuna must have been a bit more outgoing. So if Madara was in private described as kind by Hashirama, maybe Izuna was more rational when dealing with people.

II) Canon + extra materials

in extra materials I mean : databook, official card, official illustrations, video games ect...

Even if I'm team canon-only, sometimes other fillers or goodies can give us a hint of what would have been Izuna. And two things catch my attention :

first, he's always represented as someone very confident, holding a sword ready to slay someone, focused. Actually...he NEVER SMILES. He smirks once in a filler when he thought he was about to overpower Tobirama. It shows more his merciless attitude towards his enemy than any trace of softness. We are very far from the flower boy from fanarts.

secondly his voice...Have you heard his adult voice? It's surprisingly deep comparing to his slender appearance. Again it doesn't sound like a fragile baby doll but more like a commander in chief.

III) Izuna vs Obito

It took me a long time to realise how much Izuna is in the canon constantly in parallel with Obito. It goes back to my old post on "why Madara chose Obito". Months later, I think the answer is more obvious that what I thought back then.

Izuna simply might have had a very similar personality than Obito. Or should I say, Madara saw in Obito, not only his potential strength but also a clear resemblance in character to his dear brother. At the Kannabi's bridge, He observed and found Obito dying after he saved Kakashi, Rin and gave his right eye to Kakashi. There is a strong parallel to Izuna's life who also gave his eyes willingly to Madara when he was dying. In both case, there is a deep devotion for the well being of their friends/clansmen.

Even if Madara consciously chose to cut bonds with the world, unconsciously he still yearned for companionship. It's obvious by the fact he couldn't stop talking about his friend Hashirama, and in the similar way he looked for his "right hand" in Obito. Yes, in a deranged and manipulative way but even during the war, he never doubted Obito's intentions until it was obvious that he betrayed him.

So not only Obito was a replacement for Izuna as a brother in arm, but the databook gives them the same birthday the 10th of february, obviously the same zodiac sign Aquarius and most importantly the same blood type.

IV) Blood type

Izuna and Obito are said to be the same blood type O. Madara also is type O. As a westerner I've never paid attention to this information (I don't even know my own blood type to be honest!😅) until I've learned recently that Japaneses have got a whole culture associating blood type with certain personality traits. They take this more seriously that astrology to the point there is even campaigns to prevent discrimination towards rare types. Since I don't know much about this theory, let me quote some other sources.

So what is type O?

source : https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-blood-type/

This source goes deeper into type O in Naruto.

source : https://aminoapps.com/c/naruto/page/blog/blood-types-personality-theory-in-naruto/lrqm_VpiQuDpPEDjoMXgoMVnn0E3eeXmpw

I don't really know how to interpret the type O because the adjectives seems very larges and vagues to me. but it seems that leadership trait, hard working, outgoing, protective, direct, confident are the trait that comes the most from the various sources I've read. In Naruto, the others type O are : Kakashi, Asuma, Sakura, Temari, Raikage, Neji.

An other interesting aspect, is relationship between each types. Look closely at OxO relationship.

Let's go back now to compare now Izuna and Obito's databook pages with this new information in mind.

Notice again how Izuna is systematically showed in action, fighting someone or ready to attack. That's not really a moment where he looks relaxed with an easy-going attitude.

Izuna's favourite hobby was training with his brother Madara. Because of their closeness as brothers they developed an healthy competition. A good OxO relationship.

In the opposite, considering the circumstance of their meeting, Obito never truly trusted Madara and even when he agreed on the Tsukuyomi plan, he decided early on that he'll do it his own way and almost overtook Madara's role as the "saviour". It shows a negative OxO relationship.

In this perceptive, it seems to me that Izuna and Obito share in common of being extremely strong-willed and competitive. They have an inflexible determination that never sways. After being deadly wounded, Izuna still found the strength to warn Madara about the Senjus and again in his deadbed he made Madara promise to watch over the Uchiha clan. His vision (even in the literal way) was strong enough to motivate Madara long after his death. This devoted, balanced personality must be read as a confident desire to protect his people, the Uchiha clan, to the point of self-sacrifice.

Obito demonstrated two times an incredible will. Once as a child when he defended Kakashi's father and swore to destroy an unfair shinobi system, and a second time when he battled against the juubi. He knew he wasn't physically strong enough neither to hold the rinnegan nor contain juubi inside him but by cheer willpower he forced his destiny.

To conclude my guess is that Kishimoto intended Izuna as a warlord, a man of action, just like Madara, with a strong sense of duty and sacrifice for his clan. And the Senju represented to him the epitome of threat for the Uchiha's peace. Izuna pictured peace and harmony related to his clan not the whole world like his brother did (and maybe that's why he had to make him promise to protect the Uchihas first!?). He was probably more extravert, agreeable and also more distant emotionally than Madara. His interaction with his big brother must have been a funniest version to what we've seen with Obito. Just imagining those two uchiha big egos together, they were probably insufferable for their opponents 😂. If you read the manga again it's as if Madara is expecting a back-and-forth banter with Obito...just like Izuna would have done with him in the middle of a battles.😢

That's all I wanted to share on my hypothesis, maybe in future Kishimoto will give us something about Izuna's past and this post will age badly but let me know what you think of this theory?

[doveywovy]

:( its sad nobody does aus where izuna comes around on the concept of the village and then madara still eventually leaves it and izuna stays behind. like izuna is famously stubborn so i think if you've written him as actually being convinced that Konoha is worth it, he'll stick it out to an insane degree. that includes staying even if madara leaves.

i could imagine him becoming the second hokage, partially out of people respecting his commitment to the cause after his brother abandoned it. honestly you could even get interesting with tobirama in this version of it because you have a lot of canon paths to go down with this. Izuna picking Konoha over Madara would firmly place him in the same mental space as Itachi or Kagami to Tobirama ("he chose the village over X and thus is a wonderful shinobi who i respect") leading to an overly respectful tobirama, which would completely alter his legacy. like you as the reader might know hes kind of insane about the uchiha but the village would just see him dutifully supporting an uchiha hokage.

Alternatively Tobirama's deep seated issues with Izuna specifically could make it difficult for him to see Izuna in that way and he could have a total crash out, ruining his legacy (lol) and slotting him in the same historical space as madara, ironically.

OR third option, he's weird about Izuna but also cautiously supportive, so he's just like a really helpful assistant to him who happens to constantly be checking Izuna for signs of what he considers mental degradation. Izuna is either slowly poisoning him or slowly sowing political rumors about him, either way he's putting in the effort to keep tobirama weak enough (mentally/politically) that he can't do anything against him but is also still around to assist because he is a useful second. I think in this version Izuna would pick Kagami as his heir, both because Kagami is the best trained for it and because Izuna would ensure power remains with the Uchiha, but also somewhat because Tobirama cannot argue against it (Thats HIS student) but wouldn't have picked him first out of all his students (As we know canonically).

this would mean during canon when all the hokage are brought back tobirama isn't and Izuna is, which would do a lot to the plot but this post is long enough so im leaving it there. immovable force vs unstoppable object izuna vs madara essentially

[uh-oh-its-bird]

Fic idea;

"Tobirama and Izuna's super spectacular BFF road trip through time and space"

In which a vuagley 14/15ish Tobirama and Izuna bump into eachother on unrelated missions and get hurled through time and space, visiting multiple (sometimes connected sometimes not) events in time, alternate universes and more ✨️

And just ruining so many peoples days along the way, like, so many.

For Reasons(tm) they agree to stick together and instill a temporary truce as they stumble along this (road trip from hell) super spectacular amazing besties field trip.

Like I need you to imagine the Uchiha / Senju feud but also they're like 14, Izuna is yelling about them being ultimate rivals, Tobirama is done with everyone's shit, and they're very quickly moving past genuine attempts on eachothers lives into slap fighting territory. Also like 8 times out of 10 when they bump into any version of an older Madara he makes eye contact with Izuna and almost immediatley has different flavors of the same mental breakdown and Izuna is kind of concerned and kind of terrified and ahahah wow this is awkward but I kind of need to go now

At first they're trying to take it seriously but after the 3rd or 4th time of running into the same fucking scene in a slightly different universe they're kind of just speed running their way to the next time and or universe (in the hopes that it will be their original one) and throwing subtlety out the window

Like they COULD be careful not to disturb things and potentially upset the balance of time but they sort of already fucked that up. Uhh. Like 3 times now actually. And there weren't really any consequences and look they're really tired so how about they just kick in the door and take this round by storm yk

[oh-no-its-bird]

Tora gets hit w the time travel beam *gestures vaguely towards the "team ro time travel to warring states era but make it Tora AU team ro" post*

And gets mistaken for a bastard senju kid and missing brother of Tobirama bc of the resemblance. But also using the same logic I used w Itachi of the "the only people allowed to draw the connection are people who personally knew Tobirama when he was Tora's age (which, if sticking to the original team ro prompt, would be like 12) so only like. The founders + Touka get to make that conclusion

Him 🤝 Tenzo -> getting mistaken for a Senju and getting lots of hugs from Hashirama that make them Feel Things (TM)

People are telling Tora he's probably a bastard kid and he's making deliberate eye contact w that one time he tried to break into the senju compound and was kicked out bc the gates keyed into senju blood specifically. He's pretty sure he's not a senju guys. Trust him. Really.

Mmmm ok but actually taking it seriously, how would Tora affect the team ro dynamics in that specific adventure? In my original post I went really in depth on what each character thinks of their situation + the founders, so would that change at all?

On top of that, since it's a few month before the Uchiha coup, it's also peak Itachi-Tora-Shisui chaos hours as they plot to stop it

I think it's mostly the same, tho maybe Tora's general affect on Itachi means he isn't quite so much in the "Hey what if we just kill Madara. What then." boat

But also I can see the opposite, with maybe Itachi instead getting Tora on the "Hey what if we kill Madara in his sleep" boat

Shisui can sense the "Tora and Itachi are doing something alarming" button being slammed in the room over and investigates

Oh my god worst possible outcome: they get Shisui on board too. I can see it tbh, they were looking for ways to avoid the coup and the possible village retaliation and like hey !!! Opportunity they sure as fuck won't be getting anywhere else!!!

Plus like, play into the "Itachi rarley offers his own opinion bc he trusts Tora and Shisui to be in charge, but when he does offer it he's listened to"

Well he sure did offer his opinion!! And he sure is being listened to!!!

They actually all just feed into eachothers stress and decide that yes. To avoid the Uchiha coup and or possible village retaliation (they dont know the massacre is on the board yet but suspect smthn similarly bad), this is the best choice to make.

It turns into Kakashi having to talk them all down (whether he does so in time or not is debatable)

They get stopped, obviously, (tho actually commiting to killing off Madara like that would be very funny) and Madara assumes it was Tora's idea bc hes a clear leading figure in the trio and the other two are Uchiha. Tora is willing to take the fall for his friend, but Itachi is not

Itachi has a whole breakdown and bursts into awful messy tears for the first time since his father took him out to a battlefield as a child.

It's a whole thing and everyone is horrified (Tora and Shisui especially but even Madara + whoever else was there are cringing awkwardly at the sight of a previously blank faced little kid just. Loosing it.)

Itachi confesses to it being his idea and, at this point we're past the time travel reveal, explains he just needs to make sure Madara doesn't freak the fuck out and inevitable fuck over the entire Uchiha clan w a shitty reputation that haunts him for years to come

Madara is horrified what the fuck

Also INCREDIBLY demoralized ab the village now, what do you MEAN he fucking left it what do you MEAN originally Izuna died (they were keeping them in the dark ab everything future-wise other than just the fact that the village existed but this kind of forced the lid off that pot)

Also note: Kakashi !! Was !! Not !! Aware of this !!! Holy shit kids !!!!!!

They end up having a whole Thing(tm) about how look even if Madara one of the causes of their shit reputation,,, it can't all be traced back to and blamed on one man. That's not how politics work you guys.

(Queue shocked Pikachu faces and disbelief of three teenagers)

Kakashi, having his own special front row seats to the Konoha politics and rumor mill + yondaime's student + experience with facing the worst of it bc of his dad, giving them some sort of speech about scapegoats and politics and the soul crushing realities of systematic oppression and blame

It's a learning experience.

[madara-fate]

This is ridiculous it's 2024

And there still trying to claim the curse of hatred is gaslighting propaganda or a theory somehow tobirama wasn't the only person who mentioned the curse of hatred not only did obito mention the curse of hatred so did hagoromo

And not one person not even hashirama denied the curse of existence infact hashirama added on to the conversation and mentioned madara love for izuna

How the hell do these people not see the absurdity of accusing the concept of the Curse of Hatred, of minimising the experiences of those who have been abused or racially discriminated against?

How? Where is the link between the two? Kishi gave a very clear reason as to why Uchihas specifically fell victim to the COH. What has women suffering mental breakdowns due to social neglect or abuse got to do with anything? They're stupidly trying to insinuate that giving the COH as a reason for the Uchihas hatred is minimising their trauma in the same manner as diagnosing women who have suffered abuse with hysteria, but there is no correlation. Again, because a very clear reason was given as to why it affects specifically the Uchihas. It began with Indra who hated his father and brother for the former's decision to entrust the future to Ashura. And as Indra is the progenitor of the Uchiha's, his hatred was passed down. That's all there is to it. What the fuck is all this nonsense about minimising people's traumatic experiences in reality?

No one tried to "confuse" anyone, Tobirama literally described the Uchiha to be a clan possessed by evil. That, and he didn't even say that they were inherently filled with hatred (or "hysterical" as this person likes to claim), he explained that very specific criteria have to be met in order for the Uchiha to fall victim to the Curse. It's not as if every single time an Uchiha feels hatred or gets "hysterical", it's automatically because of the COH. So this just further debunks this persons already feeble point. Because they're acting as if the story indicated that whenever an Uchiha gets hysterical, it must be because of the COH, showing how little they paid attention.

Because in this situation, it is their particular group's problem.

Scientific proof? It's a fucking supernatural phenomenon. There's nothing scientific about it. That's like asking for scientific proof for the existence of chakra. Do they not see how stupid that sounds? It's fictional. These people are ridiculous. The only scientific part about it is the part where chakra gets released inside the brain and reacts with the optic nerves which leads to the emergence of their Sharingan. But again, chakra is fictional.

Then they bring up Shikamaru's revenge mission against Hidan and Kakuzu in attempt to support their point, when not only does that again ignore both why the curse only affects the Uchiha as well as the specific criteria that must be met for the Uchiha to fall victim to it in the first place, but it also indicates that they think that the manner in which they sought revenge was in any way comparable.

Let's test that out.

Shikamaru wanted revenge on Hidan and Kakuzu and only Hidan and Kakuzu, as they were the ones who were directly responsible for Asuma's death, that's understandable.

Sasuke - He didn't only want revenge on those who did him wrong, his hatred extended to the entire village, the vest majority of which did him no wrong whatsoever.

That would be like Shikamaru's revenge extending to everyone in Hidan and Kakuzu's villages too, there's no comparison.

Madara - Much like Sasuke, his revenge extended to the entire village too, the vast majority of which again, did him no wrong.

Again, no comparison with Shikamaru.

Does Obito even need any explanation? He's the one who caused by far the most shit in the entire series, but let's just stick with the theme from Sasuke and Madara. Much like those two, Obito's carnage extended to the entire village, who did him no wrong.

The series made it exceedingly easy to distinguish between a regular person wanting some measure of revenge, and when an Uchiha who has fallen victim to the Curse of Hatred, wanted some revenge.

[belit0]

Can you do a request about senju bro's + uchicha's where reader has really nice thick and long hair and one day she shaves her head completely bald out of some mental breakdown or boredom

Hair situation today in the blog, I see

Indra

- Literally what the fuck? At first he gets angry, (Y/N)'s hair was beautiful, he was already dreaming of how his children would inherit it, and out of nowhere... this? Anyway, it looks beautiful on her, and the anger soon disappears because it suits her facial features. A mini heart attack.

Madara

- Sike. He's surprised by his wife's courage to break with the stereotypical models of the perfect woman with beautiful long hair, and thinks it looks extremely good on her. He loves having someone by his side who dares to do anything, taking risky and fun decisions.

Izuna

- Come on girl! He finds it very funny because he would easily do the same (in fact, he already did it, and Madara scolded him so much for cutting his wonderful hair that he gave up the idea of doing it again). Wonderful, he supports mental breakdowns 100% and extreme impulsive decesions.

Obito

- He cries, at first, because (Y/N)'s hair was unparalleled, beautiful, unique, and out of nowhere it's gone. He will have his grieving process, and it will take some getting used to her new image, but eventually he will forget about it and enjoy his wife's beauty like normal.

Shisui

- Literally who cares. To reiterate, there is nothing he cares less about than physique or looks, the only thing he cares about is (Y/N) having a crisis or feeling bad. Once he realizes it's not that severe, he'll make fun of her for being bald.

Itachi

- He's indifferent to it. Again, as long as she is happy, he loves whatever she chooses. If (Y/N) wants to remove all her hair, just like Shisui, he's only concerned that it's under dark pressure from her own mind, and not because she genuinely wants it. More about that in a moment.

Tobirama

- finds it refined, in fact. There's something about women breaking standards and taking no notice of other people's opinions that gets to him, and unlike Madara, he doesn't think its bravery, but personality. He loves every second of it.

Hashirama

- He laughs first, and then cries, and then laughs again. A rollercoaster of emotions because he doesn't know how to react, but eventually decides that if (Y/N) likes it, then he loves it.

[maphel-n-doodles]

Got some Izuna stretches, Hashirama bothering Madara, and Tobirama having a mental breakdown for warmups today

[rayshippouuchiha]

Hey, just wanted to ask your fic finders for help, Ray. Really, I'm looking for recs.

I'm super into fics where Thorin & Co have to make a detour to Mordor. I'm looking for stuff like this. I just love seeing Thorin giving up on this, possibly Only Chance, to get Erebor back. Because they have to destroy the One Ring. Shipping is optional, bonus points for Bagginshield.

I just finished reading one a bit funny, where Thorin is so stressed out by his 14th member's Everything (not Bilbo here, Uchiha Izuna - the Maiar Darrow who's a traumatized pebble to him (omg, he has 4 pebbles in his Co to keep safe)) that he's comes off as Zen to everyone else about this. It's almost all his PoV so you can read him having minor breakdowns in real time as he tries to King. It goes pretty well. Still a WiP, sadly.

But llamallamamadduck is amazing. I've just binged almost all their work. Also lots of Societal Revolution is a Theme.

I'll put it out there for you darling

[tsukuyomii45]

OK we know how Madara would deal with Obito’s grief after Rin died. But what about his female counterpart?

Madara is a lot more nicer to Fem!Obito than their male counterpart, and Fem!Obito took Male!Rin’s a lot harder than Obito did when he came back into the village.

So I got to ask… How would Madara deal with Fem!Obito’s after Male!Rin’s death?

The only person fem!Obito ever opens up to and shows her true emotions is to Madara. Their bond is a parental bond rather than mentor-student, so naturally Madara would have a soft spot for her.

Her male counterpart in this previous post was rather closed off and didn't even speak to anyone, but fem!Obito would only breakdown to him.

He knows that she really loved him, and would die for him, but the day that she returned to the village looking like she saw a ghost was the day that Madara had to prepare himself to face a whole other person, someone who is not the bubbly and energetic girl that he raised.

He'd notice the way she acts around everyone - cold, apathetic, and downright mean towards Kakashi. He gets reports about her ruthlessness with enemies on her missions, and he just knows that she is taking out her rage on anyone that's on her path because she lost the person she loved the most.

She eerily reminds him of his past self with Izuna because that was exactly how he was.

Fem!Obito didn't talk to him for days after she returned and all Madara did was keep a watchful eye on her until one rainy day, he found her standing catatonically, all drenched with her head lowered as she stared into space.

Madara rushed over to her and tried to call out her name, but when she was unresponsive, he grabbed her shoulders and shook her, snapping out of it. Fem!Obito would then turn to face Madara fully and softly whisper, "I...I couldn't stop him..."

Madara would fall silent in shock when he noticed the crimson glow of her Sharingan, and how it had a pinwheel pattern, and that's when he knew...that there was a point of no return.

"I couldn't stop him from running into her Raikiri... He forced himself to die and I couldn't do anything about it..."

Her face would start crumbling as warm tears flow, and she would continue to repeatedly sob out, covering her face with her hands, "I couldn't stop him from doing it! I couldn't stop him! I couldn't stop him!" She'd then throw herself at Madara and cling onto him tightly as she wails, and begs for him to never leave her alone because nothing is the same anymore. She'd scream and pour her feelings out all while Madara holds her and run his hand through her drenched hair, silently comforting her because he was literally in her place long, long ago.

[phlebaswrites]

Phlebas Fandom Year in Review (2023)

Continuing on from the Fandom Year in Review that I did last year, this was me in 2023.

The Basics

New stories: 91 Word Count: 189,395 Events: 12 Event stories: 73

Fandom Event Breakdown

2023 Year of the OTP: 12 stories Izuna Week 2023: 7 stories Three Sentence Ficathon 2023 : 3 stories Tobirama Week 2023: 7 stories Kisame Birthday Bash 2023: 3 stories MerMay 2023: 3 stories Prompts for Pride 2023: 13 stories Naruto RarePair Week 2023: 7 stories Otsutsuki Week: 1 story Tales Under the Lamplight: 2 stories Hashirama Week 2023: 8 stories MadaTobi Week 2023: 7 stories

Fandom & Top 5 Ship Breakdown

Naruto: 90 stories Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara: 16 Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Izuna: 12 Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna: 10 Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara: 7 Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara/Uzumaki Mito: 5

Inception (2010): 1 story Gen

(All of the statistics here are taken from AO3 - I don’t keep a personal count.)

The snippets in the images above were taken from the following stories:

January: Staking a Claim (On Your Heart) February: Riding the Waves March: Playing With Pups April: Suigetsu Sees Sai (Really Sees Him) May: Summer and Sunshine June: Fabulous Females July: The Only Living Boy in Konoha August: The Past (Is Always With You) September: Dango and the Divine October: A Heart (Full of You) November: Seeing Yourself in My Eyes December: Wielding a Weapon

[domoz]

For the ask game. 🌤

From Trust in Reverse (as yet unposted Tobiizu arranged marriage fic):

"We may as well find out early if we are even capable of not killing each other." Came Tobirama's baritone. He did look back, presumably to shoot his older brother a withering glare, "And don't pretend as if the both of you wont be spying on us regardless." They didn't even try to argue that point. And it was -- it was weird to have Tobirama agree with him on something, in a way that made Izuna kind of want to shrivel up and die. Oh, but what a subject to have unity over -- as a married couple should. Thinking about it too hard still made him feel sick down to his bones. He'd had one breakdown about it, in private, because if Madara knew how badly the idea of even peaceably sharing space with the White Demon -- much less sharing the rest of his life -- had made him react, his brother probably would have done something stupid like try and kill the daimyo. For his brother, and for his clan, he would find a way to stomach this, but Izuna was under no illusions that it would be easy.

[x-authorship-x]

I'm curious to ask, have you ever thought of reverse Time Travel? As in, instead of someone going back in time someone getting thrown in the future?

I was just thinking of your amazing Shisui time travel fics and thought "Imagine if one of the founders found themselves suddenly thrown forward in time instead"

I have to admit I have mainly imagined Tobirama in such situation (iirc the Hiraishin uses both space and time to work so Ig in my mind he's the most suited to kinda fucking it up and traveling too much with time instead of space) but also any other founder finding themselves around the time Shisui was still alive (meaning: when the most problems occur. Between Shisui's death, the massacre, all the shit baby Naruto goes through, all that is Danzō and all that) would be hilarious imo

Hey, Anon!

This is a great idea 😤✨ I've read a handful of time travelling forwards Narutoverse fics, there are a few Minato ones and Tobirama ones too, and it's always such a fun ride between the competency, the outrage, the fix-its and the emotional angst...

Tbh, if I was to do it, I'd make my life hard for myself and make Izuna travel forwards. He's suddenly in a village (!) That has glorified the Senju (! They're all gone??) And villainised the Uchiha(!!) And Madara is painted in such a shit light?!(!!!!)

Add in that he saves the life of Shisui from an Elder Bloodline thief BUT this Uchiha kid doesn't want to raze the village to the ground? Izuna would have a conniption lmao

(bonus points if Izuna has a breakdown at how similar Sasuke looks to him, and if he remembered Kagami as a little kid...)

You 🤝 Me, Anon ✨👏

[kalira]

Fandom Year in Review (2022)

It’s the very last day of 2022, and that means it’s time for a little look back at my fandom year in writing (and podficcing, events, etc.) once again! Then I’ll get back to writing before midnight, along with setting some goals and plans for 2023, of course. ;)

I posted 163 new stories to AO3 this year!

(Startlingly, as I had entirely forgotten, I also posted exactly 163 new stories to AO3 in 2021! o.o)

Those 163 stories were for 17 fandoms, 3 of them new for me to be posting for, and 50 ships! (18 of those ships were new.)

I posted a total of 377,979 words to AO3 this year!

I participated in 8 fandom events, with a total of 73 stories! Those events include:

Iruka Winter Bingo 2021-2022 (server event, @the-umino-hours) the Three Sentence Ficathon, over on Dreamwidth (moving to its own community for next year!) @harunosakuraweek @domaystic @badthingshappenbingo, which I will continue working on my board for @kakashiweek @whumptober, for which I wrote only minifics this year NejiHina Week (run by @nejihinata)

(And I don’t count my personal project the Valentine’s Spectacular in this list.)

I also ran 3 events - @harunosakuraweek in its second year and @kakashiweek in its third, as well as the second year of Iruka Winter Bingo!

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In those new stories I added 5 new minific collections:

Labyrinth - gen Labyrinth - Jareth/Sarah Labyrinth - Jareth/Toby Naruto - KakaShisui Tiger & Bunny - Keith/Agnes

247 minifics posted this year, to my now 22 collections of sme, account for 67,807 words of my total.

Minific breakdown:

Avatar: the Last Airbender~ ❧Zuko/Sokka ~ 2 minifics

Castlevania~ ❧9 minifics

Kamisama Kiss~ ❧33 minifics

Labyrinth~ ❧gen ~ 18 minifics ❧Jareth/Sarah ~ 7 minifics ❧Jareth/Toby ~ 2 minifics

Naruto~ ❧HashiIzu ~ 9 minifics ❧HashiMito ~ 1 minific ❧HashiMitoIzu ~ 3 minifics ❧KakaIru ~ 1 minific ❧KakaSaku ~ 17 minifics ❧KakaShisui ~ 26 minifics ❧MadaTobi ~ 60 minifics ❧SakuOro ~ 36 minifics

SK8~ ❧MatchaBlossom ~ 6 minifics

Tiger & Bunny~ ❧Keith/Agnes ~ 17 minifics

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I posted 3 new podfics this year, totalling 26.5 minutes!

(I was unable to podfic - recording or editing - for most of the year, and still am; hopefully that will be resolved soon. . .)

All 3 were my own work.

Podfic fandom & ship breakdown:

Kagen no Tsuki ❧Adam/Mizuki ~ 1

Naruto ❧gen ~ 1 ❧NejiHina ~ 1

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Fandom & Ship Breakdown:

Castlevania ~ 1 story ❧Alucard/Trevor ~ 1 story

CATS ~ 1 story ❧Tugger/Misto ~ 1 story

Hikaru no Go ~ 1 story ❧gen ~ 1 story

Inu-Yasha ~ 1 story ❧Sesshoumaru/Kagome ~ 1 story

Labyrinth ~ 3 stories ❧gen ~ 1 story ❧Jareth/Sarah ~ 1 story ❧Jareth/Toby ~ 1 story

Marginal Prince ~ 2 stories ❧Angel/Mikhail ~ 1 story ❧Joshua/Yuuta ~ 1 story

MCU ~ 1 story ❧Thor/Loki ~ 1 story

Moon Child ~ 8 stories ❧gen ~ 7 stories ❧Kei/Sho ~ 1 story

Naruto ~ 75 stories ❧gen ~ 15 stories ❧Gai/Iruka ~ 5 stories ❧Haruya (OC)/Iruka ~ 1 story ❧Hashirama/Mito ~ 1 story ❧Hashirama/Izuna ~ 1 story ❧Ino/Sakura ~ 1 story ❧Jiraiya/Orochimaru/Tsunade (Sannin OT3) ~ 1 story ❧Kakashi/Gai ~ 2 stories ❧Kakashi/Iruka ~ 5 stories ❧Kakashi/Naruto ~ 1 story ❧Kakashi/Naruto/Sakura ~ 11 stories ❧Kakashi/Sakura ~ 1 story ❧Kakashi/Shikamaru ~ 1 story ❧Kakashi/Shisui ~ 7 stories ❧Kakashi/Tenzou ~ 2 stories ❧Kisame/Sakura ~ 1 story ❧Madara/Tobirama ~ 3 stories ❧Neji/Hinata ~ 6 stories ❧Rock Lee/Sakura ~ 3 stories ❧Sakumo/Orochimaru ~ 2 stories ❧Sasuke/Naruto/Sakura (Team 7 OT3) ~ 2 stories ❧Tobirama/Iruka ~ 3 stories

Promare ~ 1 story ❧Galo/Lio ~ 1 story

Sex Pistols ~ 32 stories ❧gen ~ 1 story ❧David/Maximillian ~ 1 story ❧Hidekuni/Noririn ~ 3 stories ❧Kunimasa/Manami ~ 1 story ❧Kunimasa/Manami/Noririn ~ 3 stories ❧Kunimasa/Noririn ~ 3 stories ❧Shinobu/Hidekuni ~ 4 stories ❧Yonekuni/Shiro ~ 19 stories

SK8 ~ 3 stories ❧Adam/Langa ~ 1 story ❧Joe/Cherry ~ 2 stories

Sky High ~ 2 stories ❧Warren/Will ~ 2 stories

Tiger & Bunny ~ 29 stories ❧gen ~ 4 stories ❧Keith/Agnes ~ 15 stories ❧Keith/Agnes/Ryan ~ 4 stories ❧Keith/Ryan ~ 3 stories ❧Kotetsu/Barnaby ~ 3 stories ❧Nathan/Antonio ~ 1 story ❧Ryan/Karina ~ 1 story

Tight-Rope ~ 1 story ❧Ryu/Nao ~ 1 story

Torchwood ~ 1 story ❧Owen/Ianto ~ 1 story

Underworld ~ 1 story ❧Lucian/Sonja ~ 1 story

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. . .and that’s my look back at my year in fandom (on AO3, at least)! I tried out some new things, fell into some very unexpected new things, rediscovered fondness for some old ones, and had a lot of fun!

Of course I’ve many more things in the works, as always, so keep an eye out - I’ll be back on AO3 next year, and I’m sure as heck not going anywhere!

Happy New Year!

~Kalira

[strawberry-milkbunny]

Naruto should’ve had more ghosts lol Kishi gave Madara “The Ghost of the Uchiha” and he did nothing but sit in a cave and gaslight Obito with that title.

Like I loveeeee Izuna narratively. I love how he’s inadvertently the centre of the Uchiha clan/Madara’s life and his death is where the Uchiha clan truly falls. I love how him and Tobirama are direct foils of their brothers’ relationship. I LOVE how SASUKE looks like him and how the clan revolves around him I mean the story begins with Izuna and ends with Sasuke!! The best part is how Izuna and Madara constantly haunt the narrative. Just Madara’s NAME means power and is enough for all villages to start an alliance, and Izuna haunts Madara with his eyes UGHHHH. Canonically Obito and Izuna also share the same birthday so ik for a fact that Madara was having a mental breakdown when he learned that (another layer to Obito-Madara relationship). Lowkey my fav part is how we don’t even KNOW Izuna, we just see parts of his personality from Hashirama’s POV (which is unreliable) similarly to how we don’t actually KNOW madara’s thoughts (since Kishi lowkey sucks lmao).

Kishi truly fumbled not having Sasuke interact more with Tobirama or Madara bc literally what was the point of having Sasuke and Izuna look alike if not for that info to impact the story??? I want Tobirama and Madara to just stare….at 17 year old Sasuke entering a war. Tobirama fighting alongside Sasuke and being filled with guilt bc this COULD HAVE been Izuna. Madara HESITATING to stab Sasuke bc of how much he looks like Izuna. This could’ve been an angsty thematic moment as well: Madara and Tobirama on opposite sides of the battlefield, staring at 17 year old Sasuke entering a war and realizing that NOTHING has changed, even after 60+ years since they’ve created Konoha.

— izuna week day 1 —

『 ghost 』

[belit0]

Does Madara love his s/o? Because i recently saw a post of yours where someone said that Madara would treat his wife badly, or not giving her attention. Madara is a very complicate men, so i am not sure if he would love his wife. But at some point, i can imagine him to love her, but would he?

As you say, he is, in fact, a very complicated man, but let me explain. My opinion may be controversial, but here's my breakdown of Madara's love🫱🏼‍🫲🏼❤️‍🩹

Madara would only be able to truly love someone if Izuna doesn't die. With the story as we know it and as events unfold, this Uchiha falls into a deep and gradual madness that eventually consumes him completely, giving us the Madara we already know all about. Canon Madara is a man without an ounce of mental stability and totally driven by his dark ambitions to create a reality where things have been different for him.

The Madara that I always write (belonging to a world where Izuna never died in battle) is a man who did not face the emotional trauma of losing his last brother, and was able to avoid that terrible event that would destroy him completely. This Madara, who does not give himself to madness, is capable of love, in his own way, but capable.

Let's not forget that as a reincarnation of Indra, he still has with him one of the heaviest forms of the curse, always internally battling against it. Izuna is his light, who will not allow his older brother to go mad, and it is thanks to his help that Madara learns to live with it, without being completely consumed by what he harbors within himself.

The stability he learns to have thanks to Izuna's efforts is what allows him to have room in his heart to appreciate people, not devalue anyone's presence, and eventually fall in love with (Y/N).

In a reality where Madara doesn't lose the last ray of affection in his life under Tobirama's sword, he is able to love.

The Madara we know is a man consumed by darkness with no place in his body for feeling affection, for he lost his heart in that last battle against the Senju.

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

🔥Madarapedia🔥

Latest updates of all my ramblings, so you can easily binge-read and drown yourself in this blog.

AO3 : Alhekima (fic/analysis archive) Twitter : @Alhekima (mostly backup)

Madara & Uchiha clan :

Fanfiction : Madara Golden Age (Table content)

Canon-compliant expansion on Madara co-leading the Uchiha clan with Izuna during the Warring states era. Adventure, Action, Uchiha-centric, Power struggle, Violence.

Headcanon : Madara, the complete astrological birth chart

analysing his canon personality, guessing what could have been his whole astrological chart.

Analysis : Madara's rumours

How Madara's story in canon is retold by different characters except him.

Thoughts : Madara's life is tragedy upon tragedies

Why did he change drastically to become this corrupt?

Thoughts : Madara's core

His value system in opposition with Hashirama's

Thoughts : Madara, the Ghost of the Uchiha

metaphor and definition of a ghost. Why it fits Madara's position

Thoughts : Izuna, the true ghost of the Shinobi World

Present nowhere, but watching you everywhere

Analysis : Madara final Speech (anime)

how it resumes perfectly his actions

Thoughts : Canon Madara VS Fandom Madara

one of the rare (unique?) naruto character who is almost systematically OOC by his own fans (at least in tumblr)

Analysis : Speculations from the cavern part I, part II, part III, part IV

Let's try to guess what Madara did in secret for 50+ years

More after the cut🔽

Analysis : "Hashirama when did I go wrong?" 1/2 Dominate your inner demon

Breakdown of Madara's personal mistakes Part 1

Analysis : "Hashirama, when did I go wrong ?" 2/2 Breath out your spirit into the mud

Breakdown of Madara's personal mistakes Part 2

Meta-analysis : Uchiha & importance of bloodline

Hints toward a strong voluntary endogamy amongst Uchiha and Hyuga clans

Speculations : Sarada Uchiha's lineage : Speculation (02/03/22)

What if Sarada was really the child of Sakura, Sasuke and Karin altogether?

Thoughts : Indra (+ avatars) VS Ashura (+avatars)

It's a power struggle not a Good vs Evil

Headcanon : Madara : realistic headcanons

headcanons but with a seinen flavour

Headcanons: Madara as a parent

What if he had children?

Ask : Madara & romance?

headcanons on his love life

Humour : Why Madara is innocent

playing devil advocate to save your fav

Headcanon : Madara & Izuna, the Devil twins

Astrological perceptive on the Uchiha Brothers, why are Capricorn and Aquarius, winter signs, both so similar and different?

Meta-analysis : Is Madara our Lord and Saviour ?

Symbolism behind 24th of December and his role in the storyline.

Thoughts : Indra an other upset Capricorn

Before Madara, there was Indra.

Ask : Naruto & Hashirama, two Libras

Exploring degrees in astrology and it's impact on the character

Honest reaction : Madara exclusive interview

the POV, post-mortem, we all have been waiting for !

Thoughts : Kishimoto has a twin brother

About the unique bound of twins, how it impacts Naruto's characters

Analysis : Inconsistency in Narutoverse

I admire Kishimoto a lot for his work, but this is his main flaw

Thoughts : You wanna see Akatsuki for real?

Red full moon is a real phenomenon you can observe two times a year

Thoughts : Who would you cast to play Madara live action?

My top 5

Speculation : Madara is (still) Kaguya vessel

Is Madara coming back in Boruto? All hints (01/03/22)

Speculation : Madara & Jigen

Warring states' era flashback in Boruto? (16/03/22)

Analysis : Why and Who killed Itama Senju?

Hypothesis why the Uchiha killed Itama

Thoughts : Madara, Resentment & Betrayals

on the importance of diplomatic skills for a leader. And why fictions are based on real life event.

Analysis : Madara & Obito : awakening the Master of Chaos An attempt to understand this decode the disturbing relationship betweeen Madara and Obito.

Thoughts : Why Izanami is the most powerful Genjutsu

Reflection on Sharingan power in male and female users

Honest reaction : Itachi& Sasuke Edition

fun, no filter

Honest reaction : Madara Edition

fun, no filter

Honest reaction : Naruto Fandom Edition

fun, no filter

Thoughts : The Madara's voices holy war.

SUB versus DUB? Let's debate !

Analysis : How did Madara (really) awaken his sharingan?

an alternative investigation.

Thoughts : What is Madara dominant hand?

An existential investigation for fun

Thoughts : What if Marada's past was a seinen story?

A short parallel between Madara and with Guts from Berserk

Thoughts : Madara's distant uncle : Samurai deeper Kyo

They really look alike !

Thoughts : Uchihas are the plot in Naruto

Without this clan there is no story in Shippuden

Humour : Why Uchiha are undercover muslims

After Christmas, Ramadan deserve also to culturally appropriate the Uchihas

Ask: More Uchiha muslim content part 2

Others :

Databook : Morino Ibiki

Databook : Izuna

Databook : A founder of Kumo, is actually Jimi Hendrix

Onoki : the dysfunctional scale

Kawaki : A character that I appreciate