#Tailed beasts

[crueltupperware]

pov you've attended the first kage meeting ever had, hoping to gain some arable land for your desert village to use, only for the hokage to instead offer you one of these bobbleheaded doodads ( you already own one )

[ifeelalot]

one to nine

[emeraldlupin]

This is from Shippuden episode 464, and shows the original home of Matatabi the Two Tails. Because the Sage and his followers built temples or shrines for each of the Tailed Beasts to live in in various parts of the world.

[drixxzle]

Naruto's Tailed Beasts redesigns. I need to finish the rest, but that's it for now.

Kokuo was based on a kirin

Son Goku was more drawn to Sun Wukong's original design

And Shukaku was more simplified

[kyriolex]

Out of all the Bijuus,

Do you have a favorite Design?

Mine is Matatabi. She's an absolutely beautiful cat made out of flames! It doesn't really get much cooler than that!

Honorable mention goes to Chomei

A Blue Rhinoceros Beetle with Battle Armor?

He has a very Digimon esque feel to his design and I love it

ANOTHER honorable mention goes to Saiken. I just think she's (?) adorable and squishy and almost huggable if it weren't for the slime

Saiken is almost what I feel like Goodra (from Pokemon) should've looked like

I think Kurama and Shukaku are awesome designs too but I think they also kinda go without saying lol

Chomei is definitely my favorite due to the battle armor. Matatabi and Shukaku's designs are runner-ups due to the level of detail. I like Kurama, but design-wise the tails just take up EVERYTHING, so I wouldn't put him at the top aesthetically.

[jenemm]

DAY 06: Botanical Beasts

[karakulialiny]

Another day, another crossover with anime...

I'm not going to explain you anything. Just know that since here in Breath of the Wild saga are equals of the Tailed Beasts (Divine Beasts) and Jinchuurikis (Champions/Sages), there is also an equivalent of the Ten-Tails and its Jinchuuriki.

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[paragonrobits]

naruto but all the tailed beasts hosts ARE tailed beasts in humanish forms

Naruto AU where everything is the same except the sealed beast hosts are, drawing on the pilot manga where Naruto WAS a nine-tailed fox and was specifically the son of the character who would eventually be reworked into Kurama, new incarnations of the specific tailed beasts they are hosts to in canon; one idea that comes to mind is that usually when the Beasts die they just materialize after a while, but if they die a hard way and their energy exhausts themselves, sometimes they’re reborn with new minds and personalities, with the memories of their older lifetimes influencing them especially as their power expands

so a few vague ideas on how this might go

sealed beast hosts are possibly still a thing, potentially expanded on from canon; potentially all the really plot relevant hosts WERE containers for them, but a whole bunch of events around the time they were reborn ‘reformatted’ the Beasts and their previous hosts had some influences on them, either by raising them as children or they imprinting onto their former hosts.

Naruto is not biologically related to Minato or Kushina, nor is he the son of Kurama, he IS Kurama (in a new form and identity, with some commentary on rebirth and if that makes you accountable for the actions of a past life); his current form was based off of Minato and Kushina possibly because Kushina still had enough influence on him to affect his human form, and neither were expecting him to effectively be their kid, or as a young boy Naruto voluntarily set his base form to match them out of a desire to belong. (Notably this does not rule out their extremely antagonistic relationship to Kurama in canon; he was so desperate for affection he sought it from people who openly viewed him as a monster better left impaled in Kushina’s mind, which gradually made them realize that this was kind of fucked up once they were forced to view him as his own person and not a rampaging monster to be exploited)

Gaara’s character is largely unchanged, apart from being a new iteration of Shukaku. Here, Shukaku’s relatively low position on the Tailed Beast ladder may translate to him being particularly prone to constantly reinventing his personality and nature every time he ‘resets’.

The other tailed beast hosts, particularly those who didn’t get much attention in canon like Yugito Nii, are still around and have a greater presence, with much less awareness of their previous incarnations, Rin is definitively the Third Tails here, though actively suppressing her powers (whether she is alive or not in the present is flexible but i figure it would be cool for her to be alive and do more with her, with Kakashi growing more frustrated with the ninja world as he has observed how the desire to be loyal while being hated for her inhuman origin has motivated him to be more of a cultural rebel). Most of the others are as per canon, with the twist that they were mostly adopted into their families or voluntarily took on forms to suit their feeling of belonging, which Killer B likely did with his brother.

The canonical way the Tailed Beasts interact with their hosts as unpredictable spirits that must be placated or bargained with may still be present; the most recent and powerful tailed beasts (that is, the ones who have the most presence in canon) act as literal incarnations of the past, potentially the bulk of their power sealed away into what is considered the wildest parts that must be chained, which correspond to the aspects of themselves that are pretty much their canonical depictions. These are also false distinctions, and are still rightfully angry at their abuse by greedy humans; whether or not the canon dynamics are present or if, say, Naruto struggles to awaken his inhuman powers while restraining the overwhelming hatred and rage from countless lifetimes of human evil done to him.

(All transformations are exactly as body horror-tinged and gruesome as they used to be in earlier parts of the story. Their powers are monstrous, inhuman and resist the urge to make them pretty. If Naruto, say, channnels his full power by going super saiyan and glowy, that is a deliberate affection that costs more energy that is needed, so part of the character development is going ‘fuck it, Me At Full Power is a mass of bloody spirit energy surrounded by a kaiju skeleton’.) Some other ideas I’ve been thinking about (such as Hinata being a much bigger presence in Naruto’s personal friend group from the get go, if not actively part of his team) will definitely be contemplated, as well as working in later retcons to be present throughout, making the story more internally consistent.

[anbu-legacy]

I’m curious, how are the Tailed Beasts “actually like” in this universe? Are they intended to have sad stories with human-like conscience as in canon, or are they purely devilish and diabolical in their attitudes with no remorse? In-between like Chainsaw Man? Or is asking this a spoiler? 🤔

That is a good question that I hope we'll be able to spend some time developing at length in future (...very very far future) chapters!

I will say that the Tailed Beasts in Legacyverse are very, very non-human, except insofar as they have been influenced by their years or decades of human partnership/prison. Sometimes this influence has been beneficial; sometimes very much the opposite. We had great fun in exploring what this means for the Ichibi in Reason to be Strong and subsequent chapters, and we look forward to doing even more.

- Ki

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Naruto Misc Tailed Beasts RP Icons

Free to use. Likes or reblogs are cool.  Icons are from Chibi Sasuke’s Sharingan Legend.  There are 5 of them.  

[nameless-sdk]

[puppppppppy]

learned something about myself lately

[emeraldlupin]

This is from Shippuden episode 464, and shows the original home of Isobu the Three Tails. Because the Sage and his followers built temples or shrines for each of the Tailed Beasts to live in in various parts of the world.

[bananaman-mp3]

okay first of, this has intrigued me a lot ever since itachi first showed up- how old is he? he certainly looks much older than sasuke, and chiyo is an old woman, so her calling him a brat…. doesn’t really tell me much. she could be talking about someone in their 20s like that, right?

also, the akatsukis actions were a tad confusing here. grandma chiyo first claimed that controlling the tailed beast was supposedly impossible, and then… i think she corrected herself, that it actually was, but didnt elaborate much on that.

and the cave they were performing this seal on got fucking wrecked afterwards, so i do wonder were the tailed beasts actually end up. are they contained in a physical place? i originally thought they were “storing” them in the cave, but it crumbled completely during the chiyo and sakura vs sasori fight, didnt it? so, was the cave acting as a medium to seal the tailed beast in some sort of spiritual plane or dimension? cuz it may sound like a bit of a stretch, but if the fourth and third hokage could summon a god of death to aid them in a fight, id say anything goes, no?

[mellosdrawings]

I'm a simple person. You show me a snake beastman and I immediately fall in love.

Nyoka is @cozymochi's OC and he's perfect y'all! Go check her guys coz they're all awesome and her artstyle is super yummy!

Bonus, my own 1/4th snake beastman OC's reaction to Nyoka below the cut:

[gummygoatgalaxy]

Just some of my fav boyos

Characters here are: humanized Louie Duck, Beast Boy, Phineas Flynn, Dipper Pines, humanized Tails/Miles Prower, and Max from Camp Camp!!