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Hi ^^ Thank you for allowing me to send my clan in for a review ^^ It may look strange, because i divided it into 2 parts, one of the kekkei genkai and for the history and politics part, because it was too long ^^“

The first part on the bloodline:

Kekkei Genkai Data Sheet

Name: 血遁 Chiton Blood Release Associated clan: Chino Associated inviduals: Only the members of the Chino clan. Classification: Kekkei genkai, ninjutsu Basic natures: It doesn’t have a basic nature. It is compatible with all of the 5 basic chackra nature, more or less. Some are rarer, some is very common. Here they are inorderof commonity: Water, Earth, Wind, Fire, Lighting. But the user has only one nature affinity. But they can collaborate their chackra nature with each other, making special collaboration jutsus.

Range: Short-mid-range. Description: The user is able to have controll over bloodcells, and their blood producing cells inside their bones. With this they can upgrade their blood producing rate allowing them to use more blood. Also instead of the usual 4 liters per a normal adult, their bodies are able to store 1 more liter of blood to use in instant combat without activating their increased blood production. It cames in handy when ambushed. But to usage, a connection to the body is needed in most time, altought they have limited abilities too when their blood isn’t connected to the body, but these abilities are very hard to achieve and requires great chackra controll, concentration and willpower. They mostly use their blood as weapons like kunais, axes, swords, wips, etc, by crystalising it. Each weapon requires a different level of crystalization. For an example a warhammer needs to be hard and massive and easy to crystalize, but a whip needs to be less hardened, flexible, and harder to maintain, because it needs greet concentration to harden, yet soften at the same time. The weapons can channel the user’s chackra, for example, making an ecnhanted edged weapon with wind chackra, or a sword that can burn oponents with fire chackra. First is usufull when the user wishes to kill its target, the second is usefull, when he wants to keep the enemy alive, when causing damage immediately burning outthe wound, to cause less bloodloss. The only thing what limits this bloodline ability is the potential of the user and his fantasy. It’s strong point is that their cells are much more improved, their healing is enchanted, and even if suffering a damage which comes with mortal bloodloss, they can reduce the loss of blood, surviving the affair. Also because their improved cells, they have great stamina and constitution, they can take a hit better than ordinary ninja. Still, their strongest aspect is ther hidden and special clan ability, which gaves them an almost-immortal state for a limited period of time. Also, because they can manipulate their blood circle, they achieved an almost 100% immunity against poisons and venoms. There is only one known poison that affects them, and it was made by Soyokaze Shizuka, a poison master, and she used a clan members blood to make it, and it took her years to complete it. And it is only used once, against two edo tensei’s of the clan in thegreat ninja war, never again. The abilities weakness it’s it will olden the body little by little when use, so its possible for the user to use up his future lifespan in continueed pushed uses over the years. Not just that, but it causes great, slowly healing damage to the internal organs, which caused a rapid birth decrease in the clan, because often female users decrease their birth giving ability by damaging their reproducting organs like the uterus. It is usually a miracle if a female user has more then one offspring. But if she rarely uses the bloodline, of course she is able to give birth to more children, but since they are pushed to use their ability in the name of theclan it is rare. Also if this ability is overused in a fierce battle, the body not neccessary able to keep up with the damage caused by theopponent or by to jutsu instead, so simply breaks the user’s body or criples them. Maybe on good point is that they dont need to carry too much ninja equipment bythemselves. Also every member has a unique blood type what cant be cathegorized by A, B, AB, or 0. Also, they often give blood at the clan clinic, because of their unique blood type they can recieve blood only for themselves. They often use this given blood in battle too, sealed in scrolls, to lower the side effects. Also because of their poison resistance, they can poison themleves, without worry to hurt themselves, but because they still carry the poisons in their blood, even a scratch can be fatal against an opponent with their blood made weapons, if their timing is correct, and they are able to to realese the hardened effect of the weapon’s part which cuts the opponent’s body. Jutsus of the kekkei genkai: - Blood bird: It’s a special technique that doen’t need connection to the body. It can be used to deliver messages. The user uses the blood as a medium to make a small bird. Then the user determines its destination of the bird and sends it there. When it reaches the given direction, it will form the message in a scroll. - Blood shuriken/kunai: Shurikens or kunais made of blood. Very dangerous since Chino members carry different poisons in their blood. - Inugami no Jutsu: These is the biggest secret technique of the clan. They can summon huge guardian dogs using their blood as a medium. They usually carry scrolls with themselves containing their blood, so they won’t need to use it from their body. A members strenght always determines the strenght of their Inugami too. A clan member who still isnt fully learned this kind of technique can summon a small one, but members with talent and experience can summon one as tall as themselves. Once an Inugami is summoned it protects it’s master, and Inugamis have their own huge chakra reserves. They can lend it to their owner and tey use this stocked up chakra to heal their masters. Also, while an Inugami is summoned it’s really hard to kill it’s owner since the Inugami is continously heals him/her. The easiest way to kill them while their Inugami is besides them, is to behead them, burn alive, or destroying the main blood circulation points like the heart, the chest and abdominal aorta. Until these points aren’t injured or damaged, their scars heals automatically thanks to their dog guardian. Of course cut-off limbs won’t grow back, but until they are connected to the body, by some bone, mucle or skin, it will heal. Side effects: This techniqe doesn’t make them immortal only will give a gifted state of constitution. But it shortens the lifespan of the user, cause similar to Tsunades jutsu, it doesn’t heals damaged cells, it recreates them. Also this technique can break down the users body after suffering too much damage continously. For example Chino Ryuuji overuses this technique in the fourth shinobi war when he rescuesa fellow clan member from a summoned beats of an edo tensei. It almost bites of his right hand and damages his spine with his abdominal aorta. To save his master, his Inugami sacrifices all of it’s chackra reserves to heal his damaged aorta, to ensure he will stay alive, but because of it, the Inugami won’t be able to heal his arm, which makes him losing it. Also he’s body will be under such a psyhical pressure and stress, parts of his black hair will go white. Due to his Inugami’s sacrifice he will stay alive, but won’t ever be able to summon it, and his overall blood controlling ability worsens, cause the damage he suffered. Also, this overally damages their internal organs if overused, it can lead to infertility in the chase of female members. "Body connected” techniques: - Blood edge: This special technique allows them to harden or crystalize their blood, so they can make any kind of weapon out of their blood with adges. If the member has a great controll of their blood these edges can be really flexible too, so its hard to shatter them. If hardened enough it can cut armors, but it needs great knoweldge and needs years of training to master this hardened strenght. But if the user has a wind affinity he can use that to make it sharper that way too, by flowing wind natured chackra into it. - Blood smasher: Similar to the blood edge technique, but in this case they can form maces or hammers out of blood, with a great need to harden their blood. But because its not that flexible, its easier to shatter it. - Blood thread: It’s really flexible, and has several usefulness. They can make whips or ninja wires out of it. Already died out ancinent techniques: - Blood wings: The first ancestors were able to form light wings by their blood to cover smaller distances by using them, or ambush enemy right from the skies. Altought they know the process of makeing them, none of the current members are able to master it, tought to its complexity. - Blood armour: The first ancestors were able to cover their whole body or parts of their body in their hardened and crystalized blood. This too, is an already died out technique, none of the current member are capable of using it anymore. -will add more later- Abilities: -Enchaned constitution and health: Because they can manage their cells to a certain level, they have greater constitution than ordinary ninja, and an overall healthy body and strong immune system. Its rare to see a clan member with the flu. -Poison/venom resistance: They are resistance to allkind of poisons, venoms and toxins. Only one expection is a special poison made by Soyokaze Shizuka, who made a special poison directly agaisnt this bloodline ability. It doesnt kills them, but paralizies the body and make their minds less focused, making them more vulnarable to genjutsu, and she used a blood sample of a clan member to make it. Funny fact, that because of their resistance of poisons they usually never get drunk and have a legendary alcohol resistance. If they want to get drunk, first they need to surpress their own resistance ability. -Good chackra controll: They have an overall good chackra controll, so they have an affinity to became medical nin. Also they have a great affinity to became genjutsu users, but since its frowned upon by the clan, there are no genjutsu users in the clan. They are more of the ninjutsu and taijutsu type of warriors. They find no honor in genjutsu, because it can be used without their dear bloodline ability what they are so proud of. Limitations: Their healing abilities have their own limitations, and the ability usage in long term is harmful for their bodies. So they are not immortal, and their ability cant slow their aging, in fact it fastens it. Because of this they have a shorter lifespan and usually die sooner than ordinary ninja. Tolerance/Intolerance: They don’t have tolerance towards any other existing bloodline limit. The cause of it, that it was developed in secret, not associated with any other talents or abilities and were kept inside the clan. This inbreed a huge genetical issue inside the clan, and without the fresh genes it limited their own kekkei genkai uses more. That’s why they have many fearsome but already died out techniques. The only tolerance they have toward outsiders isn’t associated with their bloodline, but only with their chackra nature, which they can collaborate with eachother andwith ordinary ninja too, to give birth to collaborated tecniques. Evolution: The kekkei genkai is originated from only one invidual, called Rakasha. He, with her twin sister, were otgans of the Land of Sky. Rakasha achieved this ability by his studies on medicine and with his own willpower. First he only tried to control only the blood inside his body, but it wasn’t effective, so he started to use his chackra on his other cells too, like the blood prodicing cells in his bones. It became a succes, and he trained in secret but later told her sister. His motive was to protect her weaker sister from bullies. He is the only clan member in the history, who was able to controll not only his blood but other’s too, if he could inject a little from his blood inside others. The final boost what gave birth to the bloodline was a massacre when nukenin attacked the orphanage they stayed, slaing the nuns, and the kids who went against them. Her sister lost her right eye, and was stabbed in the chest and Rakasha got his throat cut. He played dead, but carefully controlled his and his sister’s blood to lessen their bloodloss and they managed to survive. But since Akasha her sister didnt had the ability this time, she could never recover her lost eye, and Rakasha could never recover his damaged throat fully, which caused him to go mute. After this, they disappear for years and secretly upgrade their abilities. Akasha becames able to unlock her abilties after having their blood mixed, and she made hers his brother’s cells. Akasha had a latent talent for ninjutsu and quickly excelled in the ability, and slowly became corrupted by the power she gained. Rakasha losthis confiedence because of his unabilty to speak and slowly her sister’s more confident and agressive personality ruled over him, even tought he was far stronger then her. Meanwhile they made contact with some wolf summons, and came out to see the world what they once left. Their abilities were kept secret, and they usually disposed of the witnesses, to keep their secrets. Later they found comarades throught their travels, and they settled down in Amegakure. They were in their early twenties this time, and founded the Chino clan. Rakasha made their comarades have mixed their blood with his, to gift them his abilty too, and they all made contracts with the remaining members of the wolf pack. Originally they wanted to make a sanctuary to the orphans of the war, so they took children in, and gifted them their abilities too. Akasha became the first head of their newly founded clan, and Rakasha became the first hunter, who disposed of the runaways of the clan, stopping them in revealing their secrets. As Akasha became mad with power, the clan became more like a military based alliance with strict rules and srtict punishments. In their late twenties, the old summon wolfes made a very special pact with them, in fear of not being able to protect their loved ones anymore. They took in their summoners’ blood, and after that they asked themselves to be beheaded by their owners and then buried by them, so they can protect the clan forever, by becaming Inugami’s, guardan spirit dogs of the clan for eternity. Rakasha was the only one who opposed the bloody ritual, and wasn’t able to execute his old friend. Seeing this, Akasha murdered the the wolf, and forced his brother to bury him. This makes Rakasha truly realize the power hunger of her sister, and it lies down the base of his later betrayal, when he hires assasins from the clan, to dispose of himself and his sister in secret and to bury them in a secret tomb. With this action of his, he passes the clan to the next generation, what lives with their strict rules and traditions for centuries. Trivia: -i was surprised there weren’t any blood manipulating clans in the narutoverse because its the very basics of life -The Inugami jutsu and it’s ritual is based on a very brutal ancient japanese ritual. They behead the familiy dog and bury its head either below the hous or somewhere in the compund to bind its soul to the place and make it a slave sirit of the family forcing its soul to protect the family and bring them good fortune.

I’m still trying to come up with jutsu ideas, thats why there are only a few ^^“

And here is the history one:

— Clan informations —

Clan name: Chino Kanji: 血之 (Chi like blood, and no like ‘of’, meaning: Blood’s or … of blood) Clan head: Chino Hitomi Important/notable members: Chino Ryuuji - son of the head Chino Ryou - special assasin and offically the strongest member of the clan Clan politics: Once had great influence over Amegakure, but nowdays they have little political force. The clan head is a retired kunoichi who took leadership after her husband who died in the 3rd shinobi war. The clan is small but takes reputation before almost everything, and they want to bring back it’s old glory. Over the centuries sadly, more member were killed than how many were born, and overusage of the kekkei genkai decreased the woman’s chances in giving birth. It’s extremely rare to have two children in a family. The most decision is made by the head, but in important matters they held meetings as well. Hitomi, the head has great political skills, which benefits the clan greatly. Also, those members who disrespects the clan, or became missing nins are banished from the clan, and missing nins usually are hunted down by the other members, so they can’t give out any information regarding the hidden jutsus of the clan. If there is a chance of a member who got banished out to leek clan informations are executed too. Clan alliance: Amegakure no Sato/Hidden Rain Village Traits: - usually black, brown or red hair colors - brown or green eyes - well built, very healthy bodies - there isn’t a specified chackra nature in their clan, but the water relase is the most common among them. Fire, and lighting are the least common affinities. - the clan members does not have common blood types like A, B, AB or 0. Every member has a unique type, they can’t recive blood from even an other clan member or evenfrom their closest relative like parents or siblings. That’s why they use special scrolls to seal certain amounts of their own blood, so if a situation calls for it, they can use it. - thanks to their constitution and stamine, they can be excellent taijutsu users and they have good chackra controll which can make them good in medical ninjutsu Current members: -Chino Hitomi -Chino Ryuuji -Chino Megumi -Chino Hisae -Chino Yoru -Chino Ryou -i will add more members of course, as i create them and add them to the clan Clan history: - Warring states period: The original founders of the clan are the twin ophans from the Land of Sky, Rakasha and Akasha. They spent their early childhood in an orphanage. They were bullied a lot because they both was fragile. Rakasha devoted himself of protecting her sister, and secretely studied anatomy and ninja arts. By the age of seven he managed to develop an original ability by controlling his blood. Back then it wasnt advanced at all, he only could manage to do small tricks with his blood and to manipulate his blood and considerably decrease bloodloss. He wanted to use this ability in the future, to scare off the kids whom bullied her sister and himself. He gained great self confiedence this time. Under unfortunate circumstances robbers attacked the orphanage in search of food supplies and other goods. Their plan didnt go as they planned because the resistance of the terrified children living there and it turned out to be a massacre. Akasha lost her right eye and suffered a mortal wound on her chest what would caused her to suffer a long and painful death. Rakasha got his throut cut wide open, not only his blood vessels but other organs damaged as well, like his vocal cords. Thanks to his newfound ability he managed to survive by controlling the flow of his blood and minimalizing his bloodloss. He even managed to save his sister too, by mixing his blood with hers, and being able to controll Akasha’s blood too. They managed to survive, because they both recieved offically fatal wounds and was ignored by the robbers. A few weeks later Akasha noticed she is able to controll her blood too and they reached the conclusion that when Rakasha secretely mixed his blood with hers, it changed her system too. They spent the upcoming years alone traveling and devoting their time to training. This is the time when Rakasha becames very depressed by his inabality to speak caused by his wound on his throat, and Akasha on the other hand gains confiedence she never had because her new powers. They spent their time by searching for masters in ninjutsu and taijutsu and learning from different masters for years. After years of training and sage lifestyle they decide they would join society once more. By this time, they made a pact with their summonings namely Michi(道) and Naomi(直己), two wise male wolf. They are both aged sixteen by this time and developed most of their techniques, including the A rank technique blood wing and the S rank blood armor. Thanks to their earlier life experiences and the tutoring of their wise wolf companions, they both posess unusually high wisdom for their young age. By this time Akasha becames the dominant person in their relationship, but she still often considers Rakasha’s opinions, since the boy not only studied the ninja arts like her, but war tactics and arts too. The twins decide to find a new land, a home, where they can make a clan for themselves and a strong military force to protect their kind. They seek power not only to protect themselves but the orphans of war too. They settle down near Amegakure, purchase a land where they start to build their own compound. They are joined by kids at their own age, and kids from the land from whom seek protection. With the help of Naomi Akasha learns basic diplomacy and trains herself in politics and interaction. She gains connection with the village and agrees to lend their powers to the village in exchange for their independence. Two years later, when they have their names known, Rakasha and Akasha decides to grant their powers to the kids whom joined them. In a ritual Rakasha cuts the new members and himself too, and he mixes his blood with theirs, and forcefully causing changes in the bodies of the new members. Later they are trained as shinobi too. Their powers arent that strong as the twins’ but under strict training they became excellent shinobies too. In the next two years their military force increases rapidly because of the mix of their abilities and the other techniques known by the newcomers. Together they maximalizie the capacities granted by the blood control and obtain various new techniques. They are still independent, but have a great urge to serve their village out of gratitude for granting them a new sanctuary. Thanks to the smooth diplomacy between the village and the clan they gain influence in the village, altought its not neccessary welcomed by the elders of the village. To show their devotion they complete all missions they are able to and donate a notable part of their income to the village. At the same time, they gain more and more lands, where they build their own district. The population of the clan reaches 100 members this time. By the time the twins reach the age of twenty-five the clan no more accepts outsiders. They still support the cause of the orphans and donate lots of their income to orphanages and help poor kids. But Akasha’s power hunger starts to make things harder. Some members who dont accpet her way of leading the clan are assasinated secretly by Rakasha, who grew accustomed to obeying her sister’s orders. Akasha is a very strict leader but she is capable of showing mercy and her judgment is reasoned, but she doesnt allows anyone to question her actions or to go against her. This is the time, when the clan is more and more starts to act as a military section and less than a family. They make top priotity of keeping their abilities hidden. Akasha is aware of the fact that their abilities make them an outstanding and unique force, thus she grows more and more suspicious toward outsiders. She knows that they can be defeated if the data of their abilities reaches the wrong hands, so she is very strict on the matter. When they reach the age of 26 a tragedy draws near. All of the members now has contracts with various wolf summons and Naomi and Michi informs theircompanions that their lifespan is slowly reaching their end. They already wasnt young when they made a contract so they soon will die. Michi and Naomi are afraid that their death will cause great sorrow for their companions so they discuss the matter with the rest of their pack. The wolfs reach the conclusion that they all want to serve their respected companions and friends what is limited by their shorter lifespan. They come up with a solution in an ancient ritual they knew. The pack approach the the two founders with their plan on serving them forever and tells them about the ritual. Rakasha immediately opposes the idea, but Akasha agrees with Naomi and decides on helding the ritual. All of the members are needed to attend it. The members all share their blood with their companions, and the wolfs are beheaded, their body burnt, but their heads are buried under the main compound. Rakasha was the only one, who couldnt kill his old friend, Michi, so the one who killed was Akasha. After the succesfull ritual the spirits of the wolves became one with their owners and can be summoned as an immortal entity using their blood as a medium. Thus the clan’s most powerful technique the Inugami was born. Clan members who achieved this technique shortly discovered that after they first summon their companion, their wounds heal considerably faster and without a scar. Scars what were recieved before the first summon remain tought, so neither Rakasha’s throat, neither Akasha’s eye never heal. In the next year both of the twins marries respective clan members. In the same years Akasha gives birth to her only son, who she names Daichi( 大智). She retires from active duty, and devotes herself to her son and the management of the clan. She further studies diplomacy and manages a benefitical contact with the village for both sides. She becomes more and more addicted to political power and influence. She fears the future and estabilizies the clan laws. No outside marriage. No information leaking. Everyone who gives out information is banished and executed. She buildes a strict order of tradition and loyality. When twenty-eight years old, Rakasha is gifted by a boy from her wife, Chouko(蝶子) too. Unlike her sister, who married by political calculation, Rakasha truly loved the woman he married. He names his son Kouki(幸輝) by hoping that his name will bring him hapiness and good fortune. Unfortunately, by Akasha’s later orders and his own conclusions a hard and twisted fate is forced upon his son. When reaching their early thirties the clan has a well established standing in the village. Akasha’s often strict judgment was colored by mercy and justice, but by this time it became only harsh and cold. This the time when her paranoia of an outside force what crushes her precious clan and sanctuary becames clear to Rakasha. He tries his best to comfort his sister but with no luck. Thisis the time when Akasha givesout orders for the training of a special assasin who will deal with traitors, runaways or outsiders who try to discover their secrets. This task is given to Rakasha who already dirtied his hands in their earlier years. Fortunately, he needs to tend to this task very rarely. This is the time when the main branches of the clan are divided. The descendants of Akasha will lead the clan, the descendants of Rakasha will handle the dirty tasks, and the remaining members will be the 'citizens’. While not totally mad for the power, Akasha is still clever enough to estabilish a system, of meetings what are called together when something important needs to be decided. When the head calls for a meeting anyone who works as an active ninja can voice his opinion on the matter. Altought, the real decision is still in the hand of the head it helps to widen his/her opinion on the matter and keeps up the facade that everyone has a saying in the matter. Also Akasha founds a new institute close to her compund where the kids of the clan can train freely after the academy. In this training facility they try to always have the best training tools, and the kids recieve supplementary classes to raise their knoweldge not only in the ninja arts but everything they are insterested in. This new institute has a huge library too, so they can widen the intelect of the students as well. This facility will have a leading role later too, and it is the main cause why are Chino kids unusually well-trained for their age. Here they can seek scrolls, jutsus, literature and tools to support their studies in the academy. Also, this idea is welcomed by the other members of the clan too, especially those support it, who often go to long missions and dont have the time to lookout for their kids or train with them. Akasha spends lot of her time here too, with his son and with the kids of the clan. This time, she spends with the youngsters of the clan keeps her in check under the pressure from managing the clan and various diplomatic tasks. Also thanks to her iron fist in leading the clan, they have a very high succes rate in completing the mission and they lead a strict lifestyle. Criminalistic tendencies drop almost to zero thanks to the harsh punisments. Most of the members lead a model life according to the clan’s ethic codex. In their forties the first sign’s of Akasha’s mental downfalls are starting to be disturbing. Earlier she enjoyed her time with the kids, but she became very strict with them, usually expecting even the youngest ones to excell in anything, and if they fail they recieve punisment. She becames paranoic of anunknown outside force, what she believes will come for them and crush their existence. Rakasha often recieves unreasonably strict orders. He tries to reason with her, but Akasha thinks he is too soft and fears that he will actually betray her. Chouko often speaks with the clan members and listen to their complaints, as it becomes clearer that Akasha has serious problems. Rakasha listens to her wife carefully and again, tries to reason with his sister. Also he doesnt likes the fact, that his son needs to undergo especially hard training in order to be his father’s successor. Akasha doesnt go easy on her own son too, but she is never unreasonably strict with him unlike with other kids. This makes Daichi hungry for her mother’s praises and makes him arrogant toward others. As soon as the clan head learns from his brother that Chouko keeps comforting the members regarding her, her parania kicks in. She stubbornly states that Chouko wants to overthrown her, and much to Rakasha’s grief he cant convience her sister on the matter. He feels guilty for letting Akasha rush down in madness. He finally realizes that his sister is beyond saving when she orders him to assasinate his own wife, and if he wont, she will order Kouki, his son to kill his own mother as a sign of absolute loyalty to the clan. On the surface Rakasha accepts the order from his sister. Once home, he tells everything to her wife and son and three other members of the clan he has absolute trust in. He decides that things cant go on like this. He makes up a plan to solve the matter and as his first duty, he entrusts it to his son as his first offical clan mission. Later Rakasha conviences her sister to accompany him in one of his minor missions. To have a change Akasha agrees happily, and is overjoyed by the fact that she is able to travel a little with her beloved brother as they used to be. Until she is away, she entrusts her husband with the matters of the clan. After two days of traveling they are ambushed by unknown shinobi. They fight them back easily, but Akasha is shaken to the core when one of their attackers unleashes Inugami no Jutsu, making it clear for her that members she once lead now try to assasinate her. In this moment of her hesitance Rakasha embraces his sister tight catching her off-guard and unable to move. He tells her sister that he loves her more than anything and in that moment two attackers stab them from behind, each of them hitting their hearts. Akasha curses the traitors with her last breath but dies in the embrace of her brother. They are buried far away from their home in a secret tomb, which is unknown to the clan. Akasha’s husband waits for his wife faithfully until his last days. After that Daichi takes the leading of the clan. After talking with his father a lot, and listening to the opinions of the other members, he lowers the punishments’ harsness. Still, he becames a strict leader with an iron fist like his mother’s but much more reasonable and with a strong sense for justice. Kouki too, inherint’s his father’s role. He stays in the shadows, only loyal to the head, but he takes the secret of the twins disappearance with him to the grave. He was the one who gave the final bow to his own father and aunt under the orders he recieved from Rakasha. From this time the clan heads stick to their traditions in the means of trainging the next generations, keeping the clan safe from outsiders and inner conflicts. Those who are deemed a dangerous factor inside or outside of the clan are secretly assasinated by the descendants of Rakasha. The next heads also make great succes in raising the next generations and planting them with a great sense of duty towards their clan. Fortunately this causes an inner piece with few members opposing them and a decrease in those who leave the clan. This makes less jobs for the current assasins, but their system is still kept as a tradition. Over the passing generations, side effects of their ability takes a toll on the clan what concludes in less birth and more death. Also, partakes in the wars claimes many lives of the members while protecting their village. As their numbers decreases, their influence and importance too. In the 3rd shinobi war the current clan head is a strict but mercifull man Hikaru( 輝), the father of Ryuuji. As a leader with great sense of responsibilty he fights alongside his men, what leads to his death. By this time, Ryuuji is still too young to take over the duty of the clan head so its decided that until his training finishes his mother, Hitomi will lead the clan. She becames the second female lead, since the time of Akasha, she is the only female who takes on this role. She too, is a strict leader with great political and diplomatic sense. She manages the clan with greet care, always listening to her people but sticking to her opinion, that she will do everything it takes to protect their now little clan. By this time they have members around 60. She still maintains their own training ground what she too, uses for the kids and where she taughts them the importance of being loyal and devoting themselves to the clan. Hitomi strictly sticks to their traditions, always vary of outsiders. Under her care, Ryuuji who was always a shy and gentle kid with a soft heart becames arrogant and confident. He trusts his mother and believes that she is always right. He becames distant from his old friends and starts to treat them differently, not as friends but more as his future subjects. This will cause a major conflict with one of his genin teammates and fellow clan member, Megumi, who honestly tells him that he started to act as a spoiled little prince with a stick in his ass. 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Hitomi called for Ryou and ordered him to fill his soon with the detailes. Much to his shock, he learned that Megumi’s father was assassinated by him for treason. He then learned that something broke in the man, when he lost his wife. He became obsessed with the fact that the way of the clan had claimed her life. After observation it became clean that he was contacted by an outsider who was very interested in the ability of the clan. And he willed to give out secret information. Thus he was assassinated. It was such a big blow to his trust towards the clan and his mother he seriously started to doubt their ways of leading. But he didnt voiced his option. He knew that even if his mother would never order for his death, if Ryou would see him as a treat he would end his life even without an order and simply give her mother a report regarding the matter. That was the time, when Hisae left the village to search for his father. Hitomi liked the kid, but still called for the current assassin, Ryou. She entrusted a mission to him, of bringing Hisae back. Megumi first panicked and wanted to attack Ryou to ensure her sister’s safety, but Ryuuji held her back. It would be a straight act of treason, and Ryou would have the right to defend himself, even if he could kill her in the process. Instead Ryuuji himself conforted the male later at his house, with Shizuka. He made a gamble. He introdiced the two of them to each other and telled Ryou that Shizuka enjoyes his absolute trust, and then, he left with her. This was a hint that Ryou couldnt ignore. He wanted to observe the woman, so he needed to finish his mission quickly. Ryuuji’s action made him less interested in the hunt, thus killing his predatory intents. Since he became uninterested in his current task he wanst as eager for a fight, so he convinced Hisae to come back, who was freaked out when she saw him. After returning Ryou started to observe Shizuka and Ryuuji and was amused by the fact that he actually needs to observe a hier as a dangerous factor. Altought he knew they are up to something he couldnt prove it. So he didnt knew that this time Ryuuji made a deal with Shizuka. He give her his own blood as a sample and tasked her to make a poison for it. He knew that they had extraordinary poison and venom resistance, but he knew that fact too, that before this no poison master had the chance to study their blood and use it as a sample. Shizuka accepted the tasked and at first she tought that Ryuuji wants to put out Ryou of commission and was a little taken aback when he told her that he wants a safe poison, one that weakens the blood release user without killing him. Then he told her, his newfound intentions of renewing the clan. He refused their ways of dealing with things, their strict traditions and paranoid fear of outsiders. Unknowlingly he started to plan for a future what the founders originally wanted the clan to be. He started to dream of a place where their members were free from fear and to live their lifes how they want. She called him a bloody idealist and naive, then Ryuuji reassured her, that he is not, and he still will deal with those who want to hurt the clan, but simply cant accept these kind of dirty methods. As time passed, Shizuka was done with the new poison, but they decided to keep it a secret until Ryuuji becomes the head and starts to change their ways. They meant the poison for Ryou if he would oppose his plans, but they never dreamed that they will use this on other members in the future. Also this is the time when Ryuuji was appointed as the leader of Hisae’s team and they became close friends too. Years passed in peace, and Ryuuji spent his time with his team and his free time with getting ready for the time when he will become the head. He was still a little arrogant sometimes but he succesfully revived his friendship with his old teammates. Also this was the time too, when Megumi started to give clear signs that she likes him. At first this freaked him out and caused lots of awkward and embrassing moments for him, and he was angered by the fact that Megumi actually enjoyed embrassing him. Their relationship became very funny for an outsider as they always exchanged heated arguements and behaved like immature kids. He felt even embrassed because he liked her when he was a kid and he felt torn apart too, because he knew the truth regarding her father. This caused him such a great inner conflict that he always turned down Megumi in a harsh tone out of frustration. He couldnt bring himself to accept her when she knew nothing, and he couldnt tell her either. Also because Megumi didnt knew the cause of his frustration, she mistook it for embrassment and harassed him jokingly. And much to his his grief it didnt went unnoticed by Ryou, who still wanted to find out his little deal with Shizuka. Ryou too, started to pick on him jokingly and found his outbrusts and struggles amusing. And to make things even worse Shizuka, who knew nothing about Megumi’s father, started to mock him too. She knew that Ryuuji too has a thing for Megumi and simply couldnt understand how can he be so awkward about it. Just like Megumi, she mistook his actions, and blamed it on his shyness. These happenings caused a total laughable situation for Ryuuji and gave him a really hard time. As the 4th war hit in things got even more complicated. They led supporting roles, with only a few members out on real fights. Megumi and Yoru were the only ones who fought on the front lines from the start. Megumi had an especially hard time and exhausted herself a lot and overused her abilties to the point, when she couldnt move for a whole day. Later Ryuuji heard that she took such a ridiculosly high risk and were so reckless that he would have slapped her if he was there. He always knew that Megumi can be careless and playfull but he really wanted to hit her whenhe knew that Megumi secretely summoned her Inugami and then used herself as bait and did a very reckless ambush. While the enemy didnt knew that they heal from most mortal wound while their Inugami is summoned, and she ordered it hide she marched inside the enemy, had her long hair grabbed from behind and got her throat cut. She played dead for a while, while her throat healed and then used her blood she lost as a trap by making various strings out of it and stopping their movements. Later, she even summoned all her blood she stored from the age of ten to strenghten her medium with her Inugami, Hachi. Thanks to this Hachi turned into a huge, several meters tall beast, a massive monster made of blood. But controlling such an unheard amount of blood quickly exhausted her and she passed out. This was his first time when he almost got a heart attack in the war. The second time was, when Hisae and Shizuka appeared with a half-dead Ryou. Hisae reported him, that they encountered the twin founders of the clan and they really messed up Ryou who almost got killed by Rakasha. Rakasha was the only clan member who was capable to control someone else’s blood when he mixed his with the opponent. Unfortunately, to do it he didnt needed to mix his with Ryou who is a straight descendant of him, and carries his blood, literally, in a pure manner. So Rakasha took controll over Ryou’s blood and used it to tear him from inside, and only his own efforts to regain controll saved him. And then Shizuka reported in, that she needed to use her poison on the founders, so now Ryou knows about it, so Ryuuji will really need to watch his back later. Fortunately Ryou didnt planned to hurt him, but as he was sleeping deeply he couldnt voice this, so Ryuuji got totally stressed out again. In the all out war against the Juubi most Chino members joined the fight as well. The only expections were Megumi and Ryou whom both was in bad shape. Megumi wanted to join the fight no-matter-what when she learned that Hisae is going too, so once again, Shizuka used her poison to make her sleep. A now reassured Ryuuji who knew, that the stupid woman wont march into the fight half-dead, joined the battle too. When the Juubi released all the mini clones of himself he noticed Hisae who was forced back and was in serious trouble, even with her Inugami standing. Ryuuji too, already summoned his companion Mamoru( 守) and rushed to help out the girl. As he throws Hisae away, his left side is crushed by an attack and his left hand becames totally useless. In theory it would heal in minutes, but his abdominal arteries are thorn open. Having cut off the head, burning the body, or the damageto the most important blood vessels, cant be regenerated by the enchantment of an Inugami. Ryuuji is doomed to an early death, because of it, and because he already was pushing his abilities over his limits. Some other shinobi rushed to help and they were saved. Mamoru made a huge sacrifice to save his friend’s life. He choose to heal the mortal wound with all spare chackra he had and managed to close the damaged arteries, but didnt had spare power to heal his arm, so he lost it. He stayed in a state of coma even after the war more than two months. When he came to, he learned about Mamoru’s sacrifice, and learned that he wont be able to ever summon him. He fell into a depression and refused the help of every friend of his. Megumi forcefully take on the duty of taking care of him. It frustrated Ryuuji to his core, because he wanted to be left alone and was very harsh with her, even making her cry more than once. Meanwhile Shizuka told everything to Ryou who was laughing hard that the whole little conspiration happened before his nose and decided to support Ryuuji. He even conforted Hitomi, who too, learned about Shizuka knowing their secrets and ordered Ryou to assassinate her. He refused to the shock of the old woman, and told her that from now on he is loyal to Ryuuji, and wont take orders from her. He also gave her insight on Ryuuji’s plans and feelings, because he was curious of her reactions. At first she showed such anger that Ryou feared she will kill everyone with her own hands, but as she calmed down she reached the conclusion she will retire from being the head. This was the only solution for her to save his son. If she stays the head she needs to act like it, but if she gives this role to his son, she can act like a mother. But Ryuuji was in a very deep depression and looked like if he doesnt care about anything in the world. In the end, she was the one who gave an all-night scolding to his son, telling him, that he is a total idiot as a clan leader and as a person too. Ryuuji feared her more than to oppose her so as an obiedent son he reflected on his actions and realized that Mamoru wouldnt sacrificed himself, if he wouldnt believe in him. Gaining strenght from his now gone companion he decided to stand up and lead his clan. He apologized to Megumi too, who gave him an almost as big scolding as Hitomi did. Altought he didnt want more anything than to embrance the furious woman before him, he still held himself back because he couldnt bring himself to it. He remembered that Megumi still didnt knew the truth about his father. After realizing that this is what helds his cousin back Ryou decided to tell the sisters the truth himself. This was the second time when he almost was killed by Megumi, as she lanched herself at him after hearing it. Yoru was the one who held the crying Megumi back. She comforted her friend who doesnt seemed to accept the fact that his father tried to sold out the clan. She denied it with her everything. Hisae was shocked too, but she wasnt as hotheaded as her sister. Ryou just stood there awkwardly because he knew he did something terrible to the sisters even tought he himself didnt understand such feelings, and it was natural to him to carry out his duties. As a few months passed Megumi slowly understood what her father have done after she talked to Hitomi several times. Hitomi shoved all the evidence they had and since she took pity on the young girl, she told her where she can find the grave of his father. All this time Ryuuji felt like he is in hell and buried himself in work. He slowly started to reshape the clan, removing unneccessarily harsh laws and such. When he was finally brave enough to see Megumi she simply helped him with his work. He learned that Megumi was angry at him for keeping the whole thing a secret, but understood that he has no say in the matter, and she knew he first didnt even knew about it. Ryuuji became reassured and for a long time he felt himself free from the curses of the clan. As things settled down and he spent more time with his friends again he started to feel pressured again. Shizuka and Ryou still mocked himabout his feelings for Megumi but he just couldnt bring himself to tell her what he felt. Shizuka went as far as telling Yoru about the whole thing, who brust out lauging. She always knew that Megumi liked Ryuuji, but she didnt knew it was mutual. She did the only thing a good friend would do and mocked Megumi to make things clear before Ryuuji not with signs, because he is too awkward to react to them, but with words. Megumi was at first reluctant, because Yoru was considerate enough not give Ryuuji out, but she convienced her friend. So Megumi gathered all her courage and told her feelings to Ryuuji, who immediately knew that his friends are somehow behind this all after all the mocking. Cornered like this he finally admitted and sorted out his feelings and told Megumi he loved her too. He was startled as Megumi threw herself at him with joy and almost passed out by embrassement but somehow managed to endure the the whole awkward situation. After reshaping the clan, erasing all unneccessary pressure and laws, the clan opened up itself a little more. They werent as strict as before and reclaimed the original ideal it was built on. They started to support orphans once again, and gave a chance for those members who couldnt bear a child anymore, to adopt orphans outside of the clan. The time, when the marriage between members and outsiders was still far aways but Ryuuji knew he cant change things overnight and knew that the members need time to adapt their new freedoom and for the elders need time to accept the new changes. Ryuuji erased the role of Ryou who became an ordinary member like anyone else. For first he founded it very strange but he enjoyed the whole thing in his own twisted way. He still had a very tense relationship with Megumi, but as she accepted that he is important to Ryuuji she didnt pressed the matter too much. They married and Megumi got pregnant. Ryuuji gave Ryou a secret mission to locate the tomb of the founders, so Ryou left in secret. Everyone tought that ironically the shinobi they trained to execute runaways, became a missing-nin himself. Shizuka suffered a lot since, she started to like the strange man, but Hisae conforted her. As years passed Ryou came back and Hisae was there when he gave his report to Ryuuji. He managed to find the tomb, and when he entered he triggered a revival jutsu, what brought back the twins to protect their resting place from intruders. As they werent controlled by edo tensei anymore, they were ways more calm and less offensive toward him, altought Akasha wanted to torture him at first, for what he did with her when they fought in the war(of course he didnt knew how to shut his damned big mouth). Rakasha managed to calm down his sister and concinved her that it isnt proper to torture someone who seeks her audiance. Ryou was taken aback by their back and forth since he heard their legends and after the war he tought they were true, but soon learnt they werent as bad as he tought. He told them the current state of clan and that they are living in piece and they have friends aoutside the clan who are loyal to them. Akasha looked pleased in her strange majestic way, like an empressed who is pleased by her subjects. Rakasha simply sighed because the behavior of his sister, but didnt seemed that bothered at all, instead he seemed reassured and at peace. Then he told Ryou the truth behind their disappearance what first angered Akasha but she regained her composure fast. She simply sighed and then stated thatit doesnt matter since the dead mustnt involve themselves with the troubles of the living. She started to act more and more like her old rightous self and decided that she will be generous enough that she wont kill Ryou and will forgive him for disturbing their sleep. Rakasha went as far that he gave a scroll to Ryou of their old and long forgotten secret techniques to support their cause. While Akasha disappeared to go back to her rest, Ryou told the remaining Rakasha that they plan to move their remains back to the clan. Rakasha smiled playfully and then wrote another scroll to Ryou before disappearing. Ryou read the message he left(because he cant speak) and he laughed as he read it. Rakasha wrote down the dispelling of the revival technique when entering their tomb, because he was sure that Akasha would kill anyone who disturbes their rest again. Ryuuji then ordered for a retrival squad and she placed Hisae, Yoru and Ryou together in it. After slowly reshaping the clan, the first true accomplishement happend after the years of hard work. It was the marriage of Ryou and Shizuka. Since the founding of the clan Shizuka was the first outsider who was allowed to marry into it. At first the elders were opposed to it, but a friendly request from the former assassin of the clan, changed their mind(who would oppose a bloody sociopath..). Actually Ryuuji was as shocked as everyone else when Ryou told him that he wants to marry Shizuka. They wasnt surprised at him choosing Shizuka at all, butat the fact that he decided to marry someone at all. This was the third time, when Megumi wanted to kill him, and threatening him, that if he ever makes anything wrong to her Shizu, they will never find his body. After Hisae and Ryuuji managed to calm her down they had the chance to come over their shock too. They all knew that something was between the two over the years but they never tought it was serious, at least for Ryou. Ryuuji even went as far as stating that this is the marriage of the two people he ever known to be so socially awkward. Later Ryuuji’s and Megumi’s son, Akira, who always adored Ryou was so overjoyed that he started to question Ryou about their relationship. It made him really awkward since he never liked kids, and never knew how to deal with them. By this time the clan had lots of diplomatic connections outside the village since they took part in taking care of orphans. They went as far as building an orphanage in their own district near to their training grounds where the orphans could play with the members’s kids. The leader of the orphanage was Yoru, who was a very kind and considerate woman and because the overusage of her clan abilities she no more had the chance to bear a child on her own. But she proudly said even tought she is the mother of the most kids in the clan. Thanks to Ryuujis efforts the generation born after the war, like his son Akira, were raised in the spirit of acceptance and they never lived like they need to be paranoidly suspicious of outsiders. In the end he was able to forge the clan into something it was originally meant to be. - They were a once highly respected clan, but overusage of their abilities weakened their reproductive abilities and their bodies too. For example the first head of the clan could use his own blood as an armour covering his body, but nowdays nobody in the clan can do that jutsu anymore. They try to crawl back to their old lost position, so they only care about their reputation. Hitomi, the clan’s current head is a retired kunoichi with great political skills. Currently she is the one who do all the lobby to keep their places. In the 3rd shinobi war, they have lost almost the half of their clan members. Whileunder Ryuuji’s guidance after the 4th war, they gained back some of their former glory and supported the cause of orphans world-wide. Clan symbol: a red wolf head Kekkei Genkai: -Chiton/Blood relase - Allows a member to have a limited control over his blood and blood producing cells. Don’t imagine it the way in Deadman Wonderland. Blood always needs a connection to the body, expect for some special clan jutsus, like blood shurikens and blood bird technique. True they can make different kinds of edges and whips with crystalising their blood. Also when it’s in use it maipulates their bloodcells to produce more blood for their techniques. Side effects: this technique oldens the body if used little. It will break down the body consulting death if overused. Those members who actively use their abilities usually die at a relatively young age, likey late forties or early fiftyies. Trivia: -Akasha is of hindish origin, meaning 'root’ or 'origin’. Rakasha is the same, just a modified name, to males. Something similar to western names of the same origin like Eric and Erica. -Michi, the name of Rakasha’s companion means 'road’ or 'path’ -The companion of Akasha named Naomi is a male wolf too. His name is written with the masculine form 直己, what means honest/straight, self, instead of the feminine form 直美, what means honest/straight, beauty. -The key to the ritual they perform is the blood of the original user of the clan, Rakasa’s. He is the ONLY member who is capable of manipulating not only his, but those blood too, whom he mixies his own. He is the only one capable of doing this. This is the later cause of the decreasing number of the clan members, because no one else can do it. -Those who wonder: Rakasha is using sign language to communicate with his sister, wife and son. And he can make strange moans and sounds too, but his vocal cords are too damaged to make more difficult sounds. -Ryuuji’s name means dragon rule, it was given to him by his father. He wanted his son to be a righteous leader. Altought not exactly as his father tought, he became a leader loved by his men.

Again, thank you so much for your help and time ^^

Wow that’s a lot of information. Some of the wording is a little confusing, so sorry if I misunderstood anything.

History:

Well thought out, complex politics, I like it, especially the later histories. The only things you might have to think through are:

a) if Akasha and Rakasha are both orphans, where did Rakasha learn his ninja techniques in an orphanage? How did he get his hands on these ninja texts?

b) ninjas learn their skills after years and years of tutoring under experienced teachers - even Kakashi, a prodigy, was taught his skills. For Rakasha to have so much skills from being self-taught with absolutely no guidance seems overdone. Also, medical jutsu is shown to be one of the most complex and delicate techniques in canon, so it would be double hard for him to learn even to manipulate small amounts of blood as a child.

c) for him to be able to pass on his technique through blood, he must have somehow created a kekkai genkai, which is even harder than the things I said above. Maybe you should think about giving Rakasha a teacher, or have him and his sister just being born with a mysterious blood power that they only later discovered?

Technique:

I really like this technique too; again, you obviously put a lot of thought into it. You also included some weaknesses for it, which is very good, since it’s a strong technique. However, I think to make it more balanced, you could maybe tweak the following:

a) there is so much variation in this technique, maybe you don’t need the weapons to be able to burn?

b) maybe the infertility spreads to males as well - their reproductive mechanisms are also affected by things like diseases and poison

c) about the poison thing; if the clan is immune to poisons, the body would deal with them in one of two ways; either it wouldn’t accept the poison in the first place, meaning they wouldn’t be able to pass on their poison through their weapons, or the ninjas would have to actively remove the poison from their bloodstream before it really affected them - this would mean that if a Chino member got poisoned, they would have to take a moment to step back from the fight and concentrate on removing the poison from their bloodstream. This could balance the technique a bit more too - for every positive, a negative.

d) finally, I don’t think you need the guardian wolf summons. I like the ritual you included and that you based it on a real Japanese custom, but maybe just make it a folk-belief in the clan instead of a real ninjutsu technique? Summons are pretty rare in the Naruto world, so for a couple of Chino members to be able to summon wolves is not too weird, but for them to be magical, ghost-spirits that give chakra to their partners seems a bit over the top. I would suggest you make them just normal wolf-summons.

But I love your clan and all the hard work you put into the history and style of the technique. Keep up the good work :)

-Mod Ida

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Are you still taking prompts? Damian and Jon playing Mario Kart or whatever video game you want to use.

Okay, since you said I could use any video game I want (haven’t played mario kart, sorry. Aside from Pokemon, Nintendo wasn’t part of my childhood), I’m going to use Injustice 2 XD

Also, I’m sorry anon, but I am going to hijack your prompt! I’m going to use this to express my refusal to believe that Damian will ever go back to becoming an evil character! What I noticed was, in about 4, yes FOUR different times, DC has predicted that Damian will revert back to his evil ways in some way when he grows up. Nope, I am not having it! (Btw, the ones I’m talking about are the Injustice timeline, Damian’s battle with his illusion future self in Robin: Son of Batman, Batman Beyond Rebirth, and in Detective Comics 966)

Damian has worked too hard, has literally died and back, to prove that he has changed for the better. There is nothing that will convince me that 13 years of great character development for Damian will be thrown aside because he turns evil again in the future! Nothing!

And you know why I’m so sure of that? Because our Damian in this main timeline right now has someone that all of those evil adult Damian timelines didn’t have…a certain boy named Jonathan Samuel Kent.

“I’m picking Robin,” Damian announced.

He placed the cursor on a portrait of a much older Damian on the screen, and then an electronic monotonous voice intoned ‘Robin’.

“Heh, that’s so like you,” Jon replied dryly. “Well, if we’re picking ourselves it’s not fair for me. I don’t know why but, I haven’t seen a single game with a Superboy on it.”

“Just pick your dad,” Damian teased. “You’re practically the same anyway, except you’re three decades lamer.”

Jon stuck his tongue out at Damian. “Shut up, this Superman isn’t my dad. This one’s like, super evil. I’m never gonna pick…‘not-dad’, he said with finality. He ended up picking Bizarro, earning him a snort from Damian.

“Hey, don’t laugh!” Jon chided Damian. “Jason said he’s actually pretty cool.”

“Todd said the same thing about your costume,” Damian casually replied.

“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?” Jon asked with a raised brow.

“Just that his idea of clothing gets him thrown out of most restaurants,” Damian answered with a smirk. “But never mind that, it’s time to kick your ass!”

The boys had gotten a copy of a new fighting video game that was inexplicably based on the world’s heroes, which included renditions of most of the people that Jon and Damian knew. It had an impressive roster of intricately rendered characters like their fathers, the League, and other heroes—including weirdly out of place characters they didn’t know about like an ice ninja, a Japanese thunder god, and a red horned man with a gun.

As the game advertised, it was set in an alternate universe where Superman became an evil dictator, and the whole world decided that being dark and gritty was an essential part of a balanced diet. With equal parts amusement and curiosity, Damian and Jon had decided to play the game with little more intention than to laugh at how hilariously off the characters were compared to their real-life counterparts.

But Damian being Damian, he also played to win. And Jon being Jon, he was definitely not going to lose to Damian in anything.

The Damian in the game was much older, and as Jon put it—much to real Damian’s chagrin—a lot taller and better-looking. He also used a sword which he used in most of his attacks. The real Damian picked up on the controls quickly, and there wasn’t a single moment where game Damian wasn’t swinging his lethally sharp blade. It whistled with a shrill shwing with every strike, making it sound even more dangerous.

Unfortunately for Damian, Jon’s character, Bizarro, had ice beams that shot out from his eyes.

“Gah! You cheater…” Damian grumbled as game-Damian was interrupted from a flashy sword combo by a single ice beam. “Fighting in a two-dimensional field is idiotic. If it were really me, I’d have sidestepped that!”

“Told you Bizarro is cool.” Jon giggled.

“I hate you and your puns!” Damian groaned. “That’s it, taste defeat, farm boy!” He executed game Damian’s special move—a sword combo with an explosive finish via batarang. It was enough to give Damian the round.

“Hah!” he pumped his fist in triumph.

Instead of looking disappointed with his loss, Jon’s cheeks were almost bursting from stifling his laughter.

“What…what’s so funny?” Damian asked as his smug smile wavered.

“Your special…” Jon began as he breathed in to compose himself, “was to do an awkward ninja run, look really stiff while using your sword…then pose and wait for three whole seconds before your batarangs hit me.”

“That was two seconds, tops,” Damian said, completely missing the point.

Jon snorted and burst out laughing.

“Damian…your video game self was so extra, it’s like the only thing you left out was shades and shiny teeth. You were trying way too hard to look cool.”

“Hey,” Damian protested. “It’s a decently styled—”

“The only thing that makes this even funnier is that it’s totally you,” Jon giggled heartily.

Damian frowned. He didn’t know how to retort without making it obvious that for a few seconds, he’d actually wanted to try posing like his game-self did.

The boys kept playing and trying different characters until Damian went back to playing himself. Jon chose Batman for the first time, and he noticed Damian tense up. As the story of the game went, game-Damian turned against Batman and sided with Superman. Game-Batman had readily abandoned his son in turn. Whenever the two of them would face each other in the game, they’d both spew out scathing and hateful taunts that made Damian squirm.

This time, Jon won handily, winning with Batman’s special move.

Jon blinked. “Did your game-dad just…use a bat-shaped jet to drag you in the air and blow you up with a small army’s worth of bullets and missiles…?”

Damian looked as mind-blown as Jon. “That…was the most impractical use of the Batwing I’ve ever seen.”

“That was overkill,” Jon mused.

“And that’s considering that my dad has intentionally rammed the Batwing into things in real life before,” Damian nodded.

“Hey, Damian?” Jon asked as he eyed his friend anxiously. “Are you okay? You seem kinda antsy ever since I picked your dad…”

Damian avoided looking straight into Jon’s eyes. “What do you think about how the game depicted my future?” he asked with a guarded expression.

Jon raised his eyebrows—the question took him by surprise. “It’s a video game. I don’t really care what they said you were.”

“But you thought that the Damian in the game was evil, right?” Damian continued, glancing expectantly at Jon.

“Well, I mean, everyone was sort of on this gray line—“ Jon stopped after seeing Damian’s annoyed look. “Okay, fine, I thought he was evil. The game makes it a point to make you act as unlikeable as possible anyway.”

Damian shifted uncomfortably on the couch. He sighed as if resigning himself to a cruel fate.

“That game…” Damian began, his words calm but measured. “It’s not the first time that something predicted that I would betray my father and turn to evil in the future.”

Jon listened with rapt attention as Damian continued. He’d never seen Damian this gravely serious before.

“When I was adventuring with Maya, an artifact manifested future versions of ourselves based on the parts of ourselves that we couldn’t come to terms with. I was forced to fight an adult version of myself that was still the bloodthirsty assassin my grandfather trained. I barely survived.”

“Wow…that’s rough,” Jon said gently. He could tell that Damian was upset in a way that could not easily be dismissed.

“That’s not all,” Damian continued. “There’s…something I’ve never told you before. Drake…he created this computer program that could calculate a person’s approximate future based on their experiences and personality. On two separate instances, that program predicted that I’d turn back to my old ways—once as the new ruthless leader of the League of Assassins…

“…and another as a more tyrannical and deadly version of Batman.

“Either way, it seems like everything agrees that my future will see me becoming the evil I’d sworn to reject.”

Damian ended with a solemn silence. He bowed his head and stared at his knees. “Do you understand why I never told you this before?” he asked Jon, who had a mixed look of confusion and concern on his face. “Knowing what I’d just told you…and what I’m destined to become, no one in their right minds would associate with me. And I wouldn’t blame you if you decided to leave and stop talking to me.”

Jon knew that Damian wasn’t the kind of person who cried much—if at all. But the sheer cold silence that Damian was giving him was worse. It was as if Damian was deathly certain that he would leave right then and there and never come back. Damian had already accepted that Jon didn’t want to be friends with him anymore, and that he was just waiting for Jon to say so.

Jon knit his brow. Damian’s willingness to accept his dark future was frightening, to be sure. But one detail, or rather, the lack of a certain detail, tugged at his mind.

“Damian,” Jon asked carefully. “In all those futures…what happened to me?”

Damian wrinkled his nose at Jon. “Those were my futures, not yours. Why would you ever be in them?” he snapped.

“Because, dummy,” Jon retorted with a stubborn look. “Do you think I’d let any of those bad futures happen to you? Now, tell me where I was in your future, or when exactly you got those predictions. Did we even know each other already when you got them?”

“Well I…” Damian trailed off, his eyes widening in apparent realization. “No, I suppose we hadn’t met yet when the program had made the predictions. You weren’t there yet when Maya and I were completing my atonement for the year of blood. And you and I’ve only been public as a team recently, so the game wouldn’t have put you in…”

“Then that settles it!” Jon declared ecstatically. “Damian, there’s one thing that your futures didn’t count on—the fact that we became friends!”

“What do you mean?” Damian asked with genuine curiosity.

“Damian…in the first place, I don’t believe that just because some things predict your future, you can’t decide it for yourself,” Jon explained adamantly. He was wringing his hands as if willing Damian to understand.

“I don’t care how many people say your future will get messed up—you’re a good person. You’ve fought and sacrificed so much to become who you are today. You’ve become someone that your family loves and cares about! You’re not Damian, Ra’s Al Ghul’s grandkid. You’re Robin, son of Batman.”

“And more importantly—“ Jon continued, cutting off Damian’s inevitable retort. “Dude, I’m your friend! I mean, sure, we argue sometimes, and you’re mean, and you tease me a lot…”

“Tt,” Damian clicked his tongue as if to say ‘that’s not helping’.

“But…we’re friends.” Jon waved dismissively.

“Not just because we’re working together as superheroes, either. We’re friends because we want to be. Because I want to be. You…you get what it’s like to be a kid and a hero at the same time, I can talk to you, and we can hang out and stuff. I never tell you this but, I kinda look up to you, you know? You’re always so in control and awesome, and like a ninja and…sometimes it’s cool…”

“Are you saying you think I’m cool?” Damian smirked.

“Shut up Damian! I’m in the middle of something here!” Jon chided him. “What I’m trying to say is, whatever happens…I’ll help you find a future that’s better. I’m not gonna leave you. We’re partners, now and in any future. Your bad futures aren’t gonna happen because I’m here to make sure they don’t.” Jon flashed Damian a toothy grin.

“And if for some reason, I end up having to fight you and fulfill that dark future?” Damian asked coyly. His voice, however, had softened and relaxed.

“Then I’ll beat you, duh!” Jon emphasized. “Laser eyes beats sword, remember?” he finished by sticking his tongue out.

“You sound so sure,” Damian said as he shook his head. Whether it was in disbelief or gratitude, Jon wasn’t sure.

“Don’t worry about your future,” Jon said with a grin. He held Damian’s hands enthusiastically. Before Damian could even protest, he was already hovering a few inches off the floor, carrying Damian with him.

“Superboy’s got your back!” Jon promised.

The corner of Damian’s lips twitched. He wasn’t in a hurry to show any kind of emotion. But what he said next was better than any sort of ‘thank you’ that he could think of.

“I know. I believe you.”

There you go, guys! Consider this fic my rebuttal against DC trying to make Damian evil as an adult! No way Jon would ever let that happen! I’m convinced that Jon would help keep Damian good if anything would ever tempt him to return to his less heroic ways. I hope this fic was okay, I was agitated when I wrote it and it might have typos and stuff :p

Also shoutout to @harljordan who let me use their awesome edit from Supersons #8 above :)

EDIT: I couldn’t resist making this edit based on this awesome post script idea by @desolationofzara :D

BUT THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Edits by me, and I screencapped my game for this XD

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An Ode to Silver Boxes

To those who got into video games only in the last 10 or so years, the appeal of the Konami name might not be readily apparent. Newcomers to the hobby probably associate them with Metal Gear, soccer games, and probably little else. But there was a time when the Konami name was as good as gold; in the days of the NES, Konami built itself up as a gaming powerhouse, and it delivered its trademark brand of 8-bit action with a distinct, eye-catching hook: action-packed artwork framed by a silver border.

To me, that silver box, with its weighted lines on either side that faded away to showcase the dynamic art, was a promise — a promise that something awesome was inside. Whether it was flying through space to save the galaxy in Gradius, running through the jungles with a buddy in Contra, hitting the ice in Blades of Steel, maneuvering an assault jeep across enemy territory in Jackal, or driving a stake into the heart of evil in Castlevania, there was almost always something good behind that silver veneer. It seemed like just about any game could get the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality, but to get into a silver box? That meant it had to be something special. It had to be elite: adrenaline-pumping gameplay, cutting-edge graphics, responsive controls, and some of the most memorable music you'll ever hear from a sound chip.

Not every Konami NES game was great, of course. Top Gun was fun until you tried to land, and few games have disappointed me as much as The Adventures of Bayou Billy. But for the most part, Konami consistently delivered excellent game after excellent game. To me, Konami games were just as much of a reason to own an NES as the first-party Nintendo titles were. It could be considered sacrilege, I know, but as much as I love the Super Mario series, Zelda, Metroid, and Punch-Out!!, if I was forced to choose one library over the other, I might take Konami's NES offerings over Nintendo's.

And Konami's appeal went beyond those silver borders. Konami's second label, Ultra Games (created to circumvent Nintendo's third-party publishing restrictions), didn't feature the silver boxes, but typically delivered quality nonetheless (Metal Gear, anyone?), and Konami's reputation for amazing gaming experiences continued late into the NES's lifecycle and into the 16-bit era when Konami eschewed the silver frames for more conventional designs. But even when the silver was gone, the quality remained, with games such as Super Castlevania IV, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Axelay, Contra III, Rocket Knight Adventures, and one of my all-time personal favorites, Snatcher.

And let's not forget Konami's licensed offerings. In an era when movie- and cartoon-based games were frequently unplayable garbage, Konami made licensed titles that weren't just good but brilliant. As a kid, I wasn't even a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tiny Toon Adventures, or The Simpsons, but I absolutely loved the games. (Well...not the first, awful NES TMNT game.) These games were fantastic whether you enjoyed the property they were based on or not, and the games actually got me interested in the franchises they were based on rather than the other way around. Co-op brawler TMNT IV: Turtles in Time, technique-filled platformer Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!, and skull-crunching beat-'em-up Batman Returns exude as much polish as anything released in the 16-bit era and remain among my favorite SNES games of all time. As for The Simpsons? Konami didn't have home-console rights to the property, so when the opportunity presented itself, I bought the actual arcade machine.

As the gaming industry matured, consoles and gaming fads came and went, but Konami remained a leader, branching out into new genres, reinventing old ones, and pioneering its own with offerings that included Suikoden, Vandal Hearts, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Silent Hill, Zone of the Enders, and the groundbreaking Dance Dance Revolution and Bemani music series. When the Pokémon craze hit, I was excited by the prospect of this new, collectable take on RPGs, but I was even more excited hearing that Konami had its own spin on the formula with Yu-Gi-Oh, which I was sure would outclass Pokémon in every way. I was completely wrong, of course, and in retrospect I'm glad, but at the time, it certainly seemed like a possibility.

When I made my first trip to Japan in 1996, it warmed my heart to see a Konami building in the Tokyo skyline, complete with the classic red-and-yellow wave logo. "Those are my guys," I thought as I looked at the building. I knew they were making magic in there. Maybe someday the Konami Omni Building from Snatcher would even be a reality.

But the magic didn't last. Though Konami continued to pump out appealing games on both consoles and handhelds up through the PS2 and Nintendo DS eras (special shoutout to Contra 4, a game I'm incredibly proud to have had a hand in revealing), the company's output dropped dramatically after that. The rising costs associated with the PS3/Xbox 360 era were not kind to Japanese gaming, and the teams responsible for beloved franchises got dissolved, development on some properties were outsourced to external companies, and resources were shifted to pachinko machines and lackluster mobile titles. Subsidiary Hudson Soft, purchased by Konami in 2011, was shut down, and its brands were all but wiped from existence. Later, reports trickled in of how some of gaming's greatest minds were being mistreated by Konami management, and most of them abandoned ship at the first opportunity.

When I visited the once-proud company's E3 booth on the second day of the show in 2014, it looked like an abandoned wasteland. An irate Konami fan once accused me of taking the photo shown here before they'd finished setting up the booth, but this was right in the middle of gaming's biggest annual event, and they apparently didn't have any products to display. Instead of warming my heart like it had 18 years prior, this Konami just made me sad.

Honestly, I applaud Konami for branching out into alternative revenue sources rather than go belly-up or face continuous losses like some Japanese gaming giants, but to say they threw the baby out with the bathwater is an understatement. By squandering their greatest resource — their creative personnel — and abandoning the brands that made them famous, Konami has eliminated the very things that made them special, and destroyed the good will and respect that they'd forged with a generation of fans.

Will Konami ever try to take back its place of greatness in gaming's pantheon? Will they consider reviving brands like Gradius, Contra, Mystical Ninja, and Suikoden? Or could those series be licensed to talented outside studios who, like me, were inspired by Konami's original works and would love to carry on the legacy? After seeing Konami's revival of Bomberman R on Switch, it may be fair to say that those old brands may not be dead just yet.

Then again, if they are, I'll still always have my old cartridges...and my memories of those captivating silver boxes.

#konami #video games #nes

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spinneryesteryear · 8 years ago

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The KH people are now in naruto. Who does what?

I couldn’t decide whether to treat this as ‘crossover where the KH people end up in the Naruto-verse’ or as an AU along the lines of ‘where the KH people were born in the Naruto-verse’, so I’m gonna go with the second in order to make things simpler. Haha. ‘Simpler’. I must also remind myself not to drag my world-building headcanons into this...

Kairi - Easiest of all. She’s an Uzumaki! The red hair totally fits. Since she’s a Princess of Heart in KH, I’d translate her as an Uzumaki princess, as Mito and Kushina are commonly assumed to have been. She’d have Adamantine Sealing Chains made out of pure light/chakra. Plus, my understanding of the Uzumaki is that they have a great deal of Yang chakra, which is associated with light. *imagines Kairi with chakra chains and seals* Good stuff. Plus, maybe she could be a chakra sensor, like Karin? Chains, seals, sensing - those are some good abilities there.

Riku - Lol, my first thought is that he would be a successful Uchiha, despite the totally wrong coloring. Bear out with me on this. In KH, he’s goaded into opening the door to darkness and destroying his world, and then into capturing the Princesses of Heart in a deluded quest to save Kairi - does this sound like an Uchiha tantrum or what? You could even argue that Kairi’s ‘loss of her heart’ could have qualified him for a Mangekyou if he had blamed himself. However, Riku actually takes responsibility for his actions and does his best to fix things; he at least never became an international terrorist, and his life change is sincere. In the end, he’d be more like... what the Uchiha should be, if they didn’t all go power-crazy. (*waits for an Uchiha stan to jump on me for saying this*) Anyway. I’d definitely associate Riku with some kind of Yin Release (because darkness!) - genjutsu/illusions? Combined with kenjutsu, it reminds me a little of Shisui’s skillset - another point in the ‘Uchiha Riku’ column. Then again, he doesn’t have to be an Uchiha to be great at genjutsu. Hmm... what if he is, like, actually Xehanort’s grandson in this AU? Depending on the timeline, he might be expected by his family to carry on Xehanort’s master plan. Or, if Xehanort’s shenanigans have become common knowledge and he has fled the village like Orochimaru, Riku might be suspected as a flight risk. Like Sasuke running away to Sound, Riku might initially run away to Xehanort/Akatsuki. Unlike Sasuke, Riku comes back.

Sora - A kenjutsu user, like Riku, with ninjutsu of various elements under his belt and no real talent at genjutsu. Perhaps he also works hard on taijutsu for when he doesn’t have his sword? He’s not from any big ninja clan and doesn’t have a fancy bloodline; he’s dragged himself to where he is now by following the Rock Lee school of hard work. I’m imagining Sora, Riku, and Kairi on a genin team together; they’ve been friends since they met in the Academy and showed an aptitude for teamwork that practically guaranteed they’d be placed on the same team. If we want to follow the Team 7 format, Riku would be the Rookie of the Year, Kairi would be the Top Kunoichi, and Sora would be the Dead Last (I’m sorry, Sora). However, they’d work together and actually pull that team formation off. Sora would also have issues, much like Naruto, with the school of thought that ninja need to be emotionless dehumanized tools for their village’s purpose. Would he also have epic powers of converting his enemies to his side? Possibly.

Donald Duck - Okay, if we’re leaving him as a duck, then presumably he’s a summons animal of some sort. A duck summons. With ninjutsu. Water Release, Ice Release? IDK, in KH he has a lot more different types of magic than are common for ninja and animals in the Naruto-verse. As a summons animal, he could be anywhere from the size of a normal duck to person-sized to larger than person-sized. He wouldn’t be a boss summon, though. He’d still get to wear his blue jacket and hat, though, and talk in his squeaky voice. With his aquatic nature and Water Release, it makes me think of Kiri or Uzushio. Perhaps the duck summoning contract was salvaged from Uzushio? Does that mean Kairi is a duck summoner?

Goofy - Okay, he could be a nin-dog - like, an actual dog, and not the anthropomorphized dog he is in KH. Perhaps he could be Sora’s dog partner, like Kiba and Akamaru? We could have ninja!Sora riding a dog into battle! Inuzuka Sora is... actually a pretty cool idea? If we don’t go that route, Goofy could be some sort of dog summons (was it ever explained whether Kakashi’s dogs were normal dogs he just summoned or summons animals???) and could then have an excuse for being anthropomorphized, walking on two field, and wielding shields or other weapons. I like the idea of Inuzuka Sora and his faithful battle dog more, though.

Mickey - Do I want to keep him as an anthropomorphized mouse or do I make a human AU out of this? If I do a human AU, he could be the jounin sensei of Sora, Kairi, and Riku - an elite jounin, a kenjutsu and ninjutsu expert, an S-rank shinobi who’s considered a viable kage candidate if they could keep him in his office long enough to actually do his paperwork. He probably doesn’t even do his paperwork as it is, always running off on missions. He doesn’t really strike me as former ANBU material, although it remains a possibility. Maybe he could have mouse summons for communication (or giant mouse summons for combat?) if we want to keep the rodent theme going on here. Perhaps his wife, Minnie, is high up in their village’s government, actually running things. She could be the head of T&I or something.

Yen Sid - Old ninja. Highly respected in his day, and still commands a reputation throughout the Elemental Nations. Possibly known as ‘the Professor’. Mickey’s jounin sensei. Genin teammate of Eraqus and Xehanort. He could be the kage of his village and complete the parallels with Sarutobi Hiruzen/Sandaime Hokage (Yen Sid may not have done much of anything so far and may have hidden information from the main characters, but his only pupil turned out successfully so he’s still ahead of Hiruzen). He strikes me as a sealing master and very knowledgeable about chakra and jutsu theory in general.

Eraqus - Old ninja, kenjutsu master, possibly with a side of ninjutsu. Genin teammate of Yen Side and Xehanort. Had a bit of a falling out with his genin teammates years ago, Yen Sid for his inaction and Xehanort for his creepiness, but they’ve mended some bridges by now. Aqua and Terra are a little too old to still be genin; possibly they are his chuunin apprentices in kenjutsu or something? Huge angst potential here with the idea that Eraqus was their jounin sensei and their third genin teammate died in a mission gone wrong or something. Aqua and Terra made genin and then chuunin nevertheless, but all three of them were affected by the loss and Eraqus became doubly determined not to lose any of his kids by ensuring as well as he can that they’re prepared for the shinobi lifestyle and that they won’t go down a similar path as Xehanort. Extra heartwrenchingly, Ventus comes along as a boy so similar to the genin student he lost and Xehanort possibly gives him to Eraqus to train/raise knowing that. Guilt trip, any one?

Terra - Okay, so I started off this laughing to myself at the thought of Terra in the Tsuchikage hat, but then I had a better idea. Terra’s darkness/evil power inside him that he struggles to keep at bay - this translates really well to him being a jinchuuriki. Terra being the container for an ‘evil’ tailed beast and shunned by society for it would explain some of his self-esteem issues and his desperate need for validation/approval from his teacher. It might also explain his need to get stronger; he has to, in order to control the tailed beast within him for the sake of his entire village, and so he won’t lose anyone else like his dead genin teammate. Eraqus’s light-is-good/darkness-is-evil mentality would play into things here with him preaching to Terra that he has to keep the tailed beast in check, suppress his emotions, and become a good dehumanized tool for the village. Xehanort, on the other hand, would tell Terra that it’s okay to be human, that the tailed beast’s power can be channeled, that the villagers should view him as a hero for his difficult duty - emotionally manipulating him by giving him the validation he craves in order to gain a jinchuuriki and the awesome power of a tailed beast under his control.

...Yikes. That is genuinely frightening.

No, I do NOT need another fic on my plate no matter how much Xehanort gathering the neglected jinchuuriki and manipulating them into causing the apocalypse so he can revive the Juubi for his own agenda would make an interesting and horrifying fic...

Aqua - The only one out of the ‘kids’ to have it together. She’s probably already made jounin; she holds her own with kenjutsu and ninjutsu. She’s been tasked with watching Terra by Eraqus/the village leaders because they’re afraid that his tailed beast’s seal is weakening/he’s giving into the tailed beast/he’s going to go rogue and leave his village, etc. (When all he actually needs here is some support, dang it.) She’ll have to confront the ‘ninja are tools of their village’ mentality. I’d like to see her on a retrieval mission alongside Sora/Riku/Kairi to bring back Sasuke defecting to Sound Riku leaving for Maleficent/Xehanort or having to deal with a tailed beast rampage and tearfully having to decide whether to try to talk down a possessed Terra or to kill her best friend in order to save the village. Because I enjoy pain.

Ventus - OH MY GOSH Ventus is Tenzou/Yamato. Possibly stolen from his family at a young age? Check. Experimented on by a crazy madman in hopes of reviving a legendary power? Check. Experiment apparently fails and he’s abandoned/the only survivor of said experiments? Check. He ultimately proves able to use/create said legendary power? Check. Ventus, however, lucks out in that he’s taken in by Eraqus and doesn’t fall into the clutches of Danzou and become even more messed up. So, in this Naruto AU, Ventus has the mokuton (magical tree-growing ability). Thus, it would make incredible sense for him to be put with Terra, as the wood-controlling powers of the mokuton suppress tailed beast chakra. Ventus has thus been (unknowingly) trained to be the one to fight and possibly put down his big brother figure if he ever succumbs to the tailed beast within him. Or - what if Ventus knows this might one day be his duty and desperately hopes to avoid it? That might lend an extra flavor of panic to his insistence that Terra isn’t losing himself to the darkness/tailed beast - it can’t be true, because if it’s true Ventus has to fight him and possibly kill him. And Ventus can’t do that, not to one of the few people who’s treated him as a person, as something more than a (failed) science experiment or a fairy tale figure. Thus, in this AU, it wouldn’t be Eraqus threatening to kill Terra. It’d be Eraqus threatening Ventus in order to get Ventus to kill Terra and/or trying to kill Terra himself. D:

Namine - Possibly another one of Orochimaru’s Xehanort’s science experiments who survived? She has the same cartoons-come-to-life jutsu as Sai. Xehanort and his crew may have used her for villainous purposes (to capture the tailed beasts/their containers?) but Sora acknowledged her as a person and she’s decided to join his fight in the ‘ninja are people not emotionless tools to be used to whatever horrible end by their village’ struggle. Possibly, she and Kairi team up (sealing via drawings + magical chains) to put an end to the tailed beast rampage and save Terra from Xehanort and his minions?

Vanitas - IDK can anyone think of any reason why he would NOT be an Uchiha whom Xehanort is manipulating for his own ends in this AU? If his association with Sora is kept, perhaps he was Sora’s adopted older brother whom Danzou Xehanort stole to become his minion like poor Aburame Torune.

Xehanort - Is basically Orochimaru. Without the snakes. He was the genin teammate of Yen Side and Eraqus and got away with a lot of stuff while they weren’t looking/were unwilling to look. He experimented on Ventus in order to revive the legendary mokuton ability. He may have exploited Namine for her unique drawings-come-to-life ability. He would totally have stolen Vanitas for his abilities and/or experimented on him to give him said abilities. He’s been creeping on Terra and emotionally manipulating or just capturing the other jinchuuriki for their tailed beasts. Unlike most Naruto villains, he has no motivations of wanting to change the world for peace, blah, blah, blah. He just wants to combine the tailed beast into the Juubi monstrosity and potentially cause the apocalypse just to see what will happen. Due to Yen Sid’s passivity and his guilt-tripping of Eraqus, he gets away with a lot of it. By the time Terra goes berserk and the village is at risk of destruction by the tailed beast he carries, Xehanort can sit back and watch Eraqus do his work for him in delivering said tailed beast right to him.

Organization XIII - Are the Akatsuki, I guess? Xehanort has assembled a team of S-rank shinobi, either missing nin or ones he just stole (*cough Ienzo, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion cough*) and raised to work for him without questioning his goals. They even have a uniform! His goal of Norting them all can be carried over by Xehanort killing them and using their corpses in his version of the Six Paths of Pain - the Thirteen Paths of Xehanort, or something like that. Yikes. That is also terrifying. Eventually, all the ninja nations unite against him and he starts the zombie apocalypse to keep them busy while he grabs the last few jinchuuriki and begins the real apocalypse.

IDK where I’m going with this anymore. The Sora = Inuzuka, Terra = jinchuuriki, and Ventus = mokuton bits are the real genius elements here.

#KH #Naruto #epic crossover #Spinner talks Naruto #sort of #ask and you shall receive #Sora #Riku #Kairi #Mickey Mouse #Yen Sid #Eraqus #Terra #Aqua #Ventus #Vanitas #Namine #Xehanort #haveievermentioned

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jillmckenzie1 · 5 years ago

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A Man of Focus

Let’s begin with something that’s indisputable. On April 1, 2009, Alfonso Hernandez and Michael Edmonds thought it would be funny to shoot a dog dead. Why? All cruelty has ever needed to flourish is an opportunity. In this case, Hernandez and Edmonds saw a yellow Labrador puppy outside a home. They shot the dog with a .357 Magnum pistol, then stood over her body, laughing.

In addition to being evil, this was a seriously dumb move. The puppy’s name was Dasy. Her guardian was Marcus Luttrell, a SEAL team member awarded the Navy Cross for heroism in combat while serving in Afghanistan. He was the only survivor of a particularly vicious firefight. Dasy was given to Luttrell to help with the healing process. Her name is an acronym for the names of the men Luttrell served alongside.

Armed with a pistol, Luttrell snuck up on Hernandez and Edmonds. He took aim. They saw him, hopped in their car, and fled. Undeterred, Luttrell pursued them in his pickup. Across three counties. For 40 miles at speeds approaching 100 miles per hour. During the chase, Luttrell was on the phone with a 911 operator, and he was quoted as saying, “You need to get someone out here because if I catch them, I’m going to kill them.”*

Does that sound a little familiar? This is how myths are born. A real event happens. A storyteller takes the core event and runs with it. Yet a great deal of our modern mythology is found in movies, and it doesn’t all have to do with the Avengers. One of the latest additions to American film mythology, 2014’s John Wick, told the story of a grieving widower who received a preposterously cute puppy as the last gift from his wife. Assorted scumbags kill the puppy and take the widower’s car. Did I mention that the widower is a legendarily lethal assassin? The film wasn’t just a hit—it cemented itself as a benchmark, a necessary addition to action cinema. Now, the maybe-or-maybe-not conclusion of the trilogy, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, has arrived. Holy hell, has it ever.

All three films are tightly plotted together, and in order to understand what the heck has happened, you need to either have seen the preceding two films or read this handy recap.

In the first film, Wick (Keanu Reeves) was able to get revenge for the death of his puppy Daisy by killing a lot of bad people. When John Wick: Chapter Two gets going, Wick is immediately dealing with the theft of his car. He’s also reluctantly drawn into a plot by Santino (Riccardo Scamarcio), a crook with dreams of ascending to the High Table, the ruling council of a global criminal syndicate. Things went sideways. Wick ended up killing the hell out of Santino. Unfortunately, he did this at The Continental, a hotel for assassins and safe ground. “Conducting business” is a no-no at The Continental, and Wick conducted business extremely enthusiastically.

So, does Wick get a slap on the wrist and a stern lecture from Winston (Ian McShane), the manager of The Continental? He does not. Instead, Wick has been declared excommunicado. There’s a $14 million price on his head, and every killer is crawling out of the woodwork just to take their shot.** This is where Chapter Three begins. Wick is a pretty sharp cookie, and he has both a short-term and long-term plan.

The short-term plan is to brutally kill anyone who comes after him, and he does so hilariously at the New York Public Library. The long-term plan is to head for Casablanca, track down The Elder—the head of the High Table, and make amends. To do that, he’ll need to first ask The Director (Anjelica Huston) for help getting him out of the United States. Next, he’ll need to find Sofia (Halle Berry), a disgruntled former associate, and ask for her help. Sounds like a cakewalk, right?

While all of Wick’s globetrotting and head smashing is going on, the High Table is making its own moves. They have sent out The Adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon) to punish everyone involved with helping Wick in the past. Both Winston and The Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) are informed they have seven days to relinquish control of their empires. The Adjudicator has the muscle to enforce this, as she’s brought along Zero (Mark Dacascos), a sushi chef/ninja who’s also a massive fan and rival of John Wick.

These days, action/adventure movies can be broadly separated into two categories. The first is FX heavy, consisting of your MCU and Star Wars films. By utilizing CGI, filmmakers can bring us everything from Daisy Ridley jumping over a TIE fighter to Josh Brolin throwing a moon at Robert Downey Jr. There’s an artistry to CGI that, when utilized by the right people, the results can be spectacular. Equally spectacular is the second category, films that lean hard into stunt choreography. These films are like a dance, requiring intense precision and training.

John Wick: Chapter 3 is directed by Chad Stahelski, one of the most talented and innovative stunt professionals working today. Watch how he shoots action sequences. Instead of dizzying edits, we can see long takes and appreciate the extensive training his cast and crew went through. His decades of experience brought us well-shot and innovative action scenes involving gunplay, knife fights, horse-fu, motorcycle chases, death by book, and a dog running up a wall to maul a luckless henchman.*** There is an exhausting amount of action here. Stahelski has also made a genuinely gorgeous-looking film. He’s got a knack for arresting imagery, everything from neon reflected in rainy streets to golden sand dunes. It all comes together to feel operatic, bigger than a regular action movie. I loved it, and my only criticism with his direction is that the pacing occasionally feels a little sluggish.

Returning writer Derek Kolstad, along with co-writers Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams, have delivered unto us a good news/bad news scenario. The good news is that Parabellum very nearly hits the sweet spot between the intensity of the first film and the fascinating world-building of the second. We learn more about the Continental, the High Table, and even a little of the origins of Wick himself. The script also feels like a meditation on fame and how it feels. Everywhere Wick goes, people recognize him and want a piece of him, and in the end, he just wants people to leave him the hell alone so he can grieve for his wife and play with his dog.

The bad news is that as much as we learn more about the world of John Wick, we don’t learn as much about how Wick and the other characters feel about it. During the first film, Keanu Reeves digs into a meaty performance—one of the best of his career. Ever had a loved one pass away, and while you’re trying to deal with their loss, the world keeps intruding? That’s what the first film is really about—a genuinely evil man who’s given a possibly unearned chance to redeem himself, and how that redemption falls apart. At this point in the series, so much has been taken away from John Wick. If an action scene had been trimmed and a bit more time had been devoted to emotional combat, we might have had a film that delivered an even bigger impact.

There’s never a moment with the cast where I was disappointed. Laurence Fishburne’s booming hamminess. Ian McShane’s worn-out elegance. Mark Dacascos’ nerdy enthusiasm. It’s all delightful. Anjelica Huston shows up for a minute as the sly head of a school for killers, and improv legend Jason Mantzoukas even appears briefly. I thoroughly enjoyed Halle Berry as Sofia, and she’s able to bring something real to a role that was a little smaller than I would have liked. Despite having won an Academy Award, I think Berry has never quite gotten the respect she deserves as a performer. Here, she’s put in serious tactical training, dog training, and on top of all that, she delivers an emotionally touching moment.

If the John Wick franchise is an ever-expanding wheel of bizarre rituals and crazy characters, Keanu Reeves is the still center. I’d love to get a look at the script, as I suspect he has no more than 200 lines of dialogue. It’s unfortunate that the kind of acting that Reeves is doing here will go largely unappreciated. Other actors would be tempted to go big. Reeves keeps things locked down, and his legendary blankness is actually a mask of professionalism hiding a grieving man in search of a little order. Consider an early scene located at the library. Wick has gone there to retrieve some necessary supplies hidden in a book, along with a photo of his wife. An assassin takes a shot at him. They fight, and Wick uses the book as a viciously effective weapon. Once the combat has finished, Wick takes the time to put the book back exactly where it goes. That moment tells you everything you need to know, and Reeves sells it perfectly.

Is the character of John Wick really based on Marcus Luttrell and the horrific night of April 1, 2009? I don’t know. While I’ve read in some places that he was an inspiration, I suspect it doesn’t really matter. What matters in a myth isn’t necessarily its origins. Strip away the guns, blades, and mayhem, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum feels like an opera, myth, or folk tale. Heightened themes, a story told through violence, and a man forced to confront what he truly is.

*As a fast side note, Hernandez and Edmonds both pled guilty to animal cruelty. Hernandez got two years in state prison with a $1000 fine. They went a little easier on Edmonds, as he testified against his buddy and was sentenced to five years of felony probation.

**One of my favorite things about this franchise is the idea that New York alone is home to something like 600,000 professional killers. Think about that next time you stiff your server on the tip.

***This may look like a CGI pooch, but trust me when I tell you it ain’t. Click here to learn more about the stunt and the Very Good Boy who handled it.

from Blog https://ondenver.com/a-man-of-focus/

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candyciangaming · 6 years ago

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Convention Review: 8-Bit Coference

https://8bitconference.com/

I had the pleasure of attending my first video game convention this weekend, and I'm happy to report it was a fantastic experience from start to finish.

8-Bit Gaming Conference took place on the 28th and 29th of July 2018 at Griffith College, Dublin. This is the second year of the conference and the organizers should give themselves a pat on the back for a job well done. I only managed to get to the Saturday event, but I soaked up enough throughout the day to come back satisfied, but it left me wanting more!

8-Bit is the brainchild of Graeme Moore, and with the help from dedicated volunteers and the staff of Griffith College, the event went extremely smoothly and was great fun for all ages. On site were security personnel, a fire marshal, along with first aid attendants. The event was backed by a multitude of sponsors, such as AllCast Irish Gamers, The National Computer & Video Game Museum, The R.A.G.E, Four Star Pizza, The Guild of Nerds and Republic of Gaming, to name but a few. The entire list can be found on the events Facebook page (link at bottom). Many of these partners set up as vendors or donated to the conference in one way or another. 8-Bit conference 2018 was in aid of Inner City Helping Homeless.

General admission started at 10am, but early entry was granted to people with special needs at 9am, and there was also a quiet room on-site for people who needed it. Beanbag chairs were kindly donated by the crowd at Beanbags.ie.

My first trip in (after a coffee in Arthurs Cafe), was to the room set up by the National Computer and Video Game Museum. The room was filled with arcade machines supplied by Mini Arcade Systems, and the Museum had a choice selection of video game memorabilia and retro video games. I was more than over the moon to see boxed copies of Final Fantasy IV, Super Mario 3, and Sonic The Hedgehog.

Mini Arcade Systems supply a retro bartop console arcade, complete with tonnes of old 8 and 16bit titles. I had a go playing the original Shinobi game, which was an absolute blast. I would have stayed longer, but I knew I'd never get to leave.

The next room was a mixture of retro consoles, featuring a Dreamcast, Playstation1, SNES, and more. It was like a trip through time. Most impressive of all was a Gameboy hooked up to a massive LCD TV. Playing Tetris in HD never felt so good. The Gameboy was also modified to be used with an SNES controller. It definitely made for a great gaming experience. Super Smash Bro's was also on the go on GameCube, along with House of The Dead on Dreamcast.

Unfortunately, the PS1 didn't feel like working which was a let down. I'm a huge Playstation fan and it was a shame this particular Playstation wasn't working. There were other Playstations on-site, but it's a shame how one faulty system managed to make it's way through.

After a quick go of Street Fighter II on the SNES, I went upstairs to the main conference room. As I ascended, I was greeted by some familiar 8-Bit music playing through a PA system, along with a huge Mario Kart flag draped around the stairway.

When I entered the main room, I didn't know where to look first, it was my idea of heaven. Game Vendors as far as the eye could see. People gaming, people dressed up in Cosplay, and it was only 11am at this point.

After doing a lap of the floor, I seen a few familiar faces. The Guild of Nerds were hosting a Cosplay competition later on in the day, and had prints of different Cosplayers for sale. The Irish Chapter of the 501st Star Wars club were out in Force (pun definitely intended), and the RAGE (Record Art Game Emporium) had also set up a stall in the room, along with generously setting up a SNES for people to come along and play some games. The Ghostbusters were also on call for any ghostly problems that might occur throughout the day, just to be on the safe side!

A row of tables had been set up for some casual gaming, Destruction Derby 2 and Rayman 2 were on PS1, an emulation of Streets of Rage was on the Wii, Ninja Gaiden was being played on Xbox. Tekken 5 matches were taking place on PS2, and Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of Time was on Gamecube. People were also on the Dreamcast having a few games of Crazy Taxi. A couple of Laptops were also set up with Wolfenstein 3D for those old school FPS fans, Quake 2, and Worms. It wasn't just games of yore however, Gamevan.ie had set up a few consoles with Fortnite on the go, along with having a vendors booth. I had my fair share of games at the retro table before heading off to do a little bit of shopping.

Rewind Retro Gaming and Retro Ralph sorted me out with some fantastic PS1 titles to ad to my collection. The games were all in fantastic quality along with being extremely cheap in price. I helped myself to a few games (and came back for seconds). Word of advice for people interested in coming to 8-Bit, I couldn't find an ATM machine on campus so come prepared.

I wandered over to Like The Bog Flower Designs and Beanies Art Mart who both had a fantastic selection of homemade figurines, stickers, badges, T-shirts and prints.

As the day went on, I took part in the Tekken 3 tournament, after days and days of training, I got my ass absolutely handed to me by Eddy Gordo, not the most graceful of losses, but it was a great bit of fun for all involved. Other tournaments were Mario Kart, Street Fighter, and Super Smash Bros.

One of the spectacles of the day was a 10-player Bomberman game being played up on the big screen in the main room. This was headed up by the lads at AllCast Irish Gamers, who were also the MC for most of the events throughout the conference. These lads know how to work a crowd and kept everyone entertained until the end.

I was in attendance for a few events on the main stage, the first of which being a panel of gamers discussing all things retro. It was interesting to hear other people's ideas about the way retro games are perceived by a modern audience, and do they still hold up as much today as they did when they were first released. They also held a relatively retro quiz which was a good laugh to see go down.

Ansonix was on the music side of entertainment for the day and kicked things off by performing his cover of the Streets of Rage theme song, before playing some of his own original works. I really dig this kind of 8-Bit style and I think Ansonix is someone we're going to be hearing a lot more of in the future. You can check out his music for free over at https://ansonix.bandcamp.com/.

I grabbed a Slushee from the Candy Pop Man and took a seat in time for the cosplay competition, headed up by the Guild of Nerds. Nate ó Cadhla was the MC for the competition, and there was a panel of cosplaying judges; Jichiie, Shonarrrrrgh, and Twin Tails Cosplay. Some of the Cosplayers really put in a lot of love and effort to both their costumes and their cosplay persona. A particual favourite of mine was Deadpool, who I tried to wind up by calling him Deathstroke (he wasn't too happy about that)…. The Cosplay competition was short and sweet, with the victor being Totoro (from the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbour Totoro).

The day wound down with the tournament winners competing on the big screen.

My only regret about 8-Bit Conference 2018 was not being able to hang around long enough to enjoy the entire weekend. I feel like I missed out on so much even though I was there for most of the Saturday. Next year I'll make sure to be in attendance for the whole weekend so I don't miss out on the fun. Graeme, and all of team 8-Bit should be really proud that they put on such a fantastic event that catered to the retro needs of veteran gamers, but was also a fun and insightful look for the younger generation.

My advice for people who would like to attend the conference in future:

Plan your route, Griffith college is located just outside of Dublin City and isn't a central location

Bring money, as there is no ATM on-campus

Most importantly, take part and have fun, you can sit here and read this review all you like, but trust me when I say, you need to be there to get the best out of it.

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In the meantime, I moved. Even though I provided the agencies with my new address & my email address, I was never properly notified from the insurance company or the DMV office. Now, I discovered my driver's license has been suspended for lack of car insurance. If my car was operable, I would have renewed my insurance. I've always had car insurance, just thought it would be no big deal not renewing it. Also, I have a bill from my auto mechanic stating my car has engine damage and needs a new engine. Is there any way to correct this without paying the reinstatement fee to the DMV? Thanks for any advice!""

Life and income insurance?

If I started income and life insurance when i started property investment for investment purpose only to cover investment,are the monthly premiums tax deductible""

I got pulled over in my parents car and the insurance wasn't in the vehicle?

Ok I moved out of my parents home a couple months ago and they let me borrow their car for a little while just in case of an emergency, well I asked them if I could drive to see my girlfriend and they said yes so I drive and I get pulled over for speeding and I give the officer my license, registration but my dad forgot to leave the insurance in the car! So I get a huge fine for speeding and having no proof of insurance! And I asked my dad if I was under the insurance and he said no because I don't own a car and I don't live with them so what would be the point? So what I'm trying to ask is will I be able to get the no insurance fine waived even though I'm not under the insurance my parents were just letting my borrow the car?""

Do I need to have a car before I can ask for car insurance quotes?

Or can I just use any details of a car online to find out how much my insurance will be?

Question about teenager insurance?

if i put my son on my insurance policy and he gets into an accident with his own car does my insurance go up. or does his when he turns 18. also how much? would it double?

Where can we find cheap life insurance?

Car insurance sellsman salary?

I have a question if anyone is in the car insurance business. My husband has been out of work for quite sometime, hes been really looking for a job anything right now, and got called back from a car insurance place he applied for i really dont know money wise, if it makes ok money they told him its salary and comission, i hate those kind of jobs. So im not so much knowledgable when it comes to the word salary and in that job description, anyone know if it pays alright.""

I need to have all my teeth removed and have dentures in California?

The dentist gave me an approximate estimate of about 11 thousand dollars, I have no insurance, and bad credit, is this estimate fair?""

What kind of car is cheapest to insure?

I'm a 16 year old dude looking for a car. I've been looking for a few weeks now and I've noticed different cars cost different amounts to insure. Also I was looking for a used car that's around 3000$. So I was wondering in general what kind of car ( body style, make, model, color, automatic/standard) would cost me the least to insure because I have to pay my own insurance.""

Liability car insurance?

Im 18, never had a wreck or any tickets, i live in a small town/rural area in alabama, and i want to know about how much liability insurance would be for a... -2008 mustang -2010 mustang -2012 mustang""

Car insurance keeps going up despite excellent driving record?

I have had car insurance through shelter for going on 4 years.ive had no traffic tickets at all no accidents nothing ! But yet my monthly amount keeps changing.It has went from around $92 then I added a my car alarm system got a discount it went to $72 for a few months.then to $82. For the past 4 months now I got a letter saying my next payment due is $107 . That $20 dollar increase.??? I'm getting very fed up with shelter I'm a new mom and it's hard enough to pay my bills as it is I recently got married does that change ur car insurance ? He has no license because of something that happened around 10 years ago . When i report I'm married is it going to help or hurt me? I do not have any intentions of adding him to my policy but just was wondering if I will get a discount from being (married) now? I know most company's give discounts because they seem to think married ppl drive more safely.

About my leased car insurance?

I have a nissan 2009 lease, I have two questions: 1. do I need to purchase PIP insurance? also a $750 deductible in comprehensive and collision is ok? 2. My boyfriend lives with me and he has his own commercial car insurance, I drive my car the most, do I need to add him in my quote? He drives the car perhaps on Sundays when we go out other than that I drive the car most of the time. Thanks for your answers""

Insurance for teenagers?

So i'm gonna get my car/license in a month and i was wondering how much insurance was on average for teens?? Also, how much would it be if i got a sports car? Like a mustang""

Insurance or no insurance?

My husband told me he wants out. We have been married for a long time. He doesn't want to tell anyone and he keeps saying he is leaving but he's not. (I don't want him to go so that part is fine.) My problem is my company has been our families insurance, I pick up the premium through payroll deduction. Now is the time to make any changes and I only have til the first of July to do this until next year. Should I drop his coverage and let him fend for himself or do I just keep paying for the family plan as always.""

What whole life insurance policy is best for a 24 year old?

I have a policy from New York Life, but 2 of my friends who are financial planners, say Mass Mutual would be better... there's a bunch of baloney I'm not understanding i.e. guaranteed benefits, crap about withdrawing money for retirement. Altogether, it doesn't seem like I am getting that much from death benefits with the amount I am putting in ($1K/year until pretty much I'm 65). I don't want to pay forever for this... where in my policy does it say when I can stop paying?""

Anyone know of any affordable dental insurance? ?

i work full time, and want to have some dental work done, i was looking online, not having any luck.""

How much would car insurance be for this person?

for a girl 16 years old, doesnt own a car in the state of NJ. any more info ill be glad to help. im asking because i want to know about how much it will cost will different insurances for me alone.""

1 Day Car Insurance?

Does anyone know of companies that offer one day car insurance for 20yr old they all seem to be 25 and over why is that.....

Should I get Car Insurance before I get my N?

My parents want me to get a car, and insurance for that car. So i can learn on it and get My N. They wont teach me on their car. But you see. I think it would be a waste of money to get insurance for my car considering I would be learning on it maybe once a week. And for three months of insurance, it is $400. Honestly, I think it would be best to take lessons, get my N, then get a car and insurance. But I wanted another opinion. Any advice you can offer would be great. Thank You!""

What health care insurance I can get that is affordable?

I need health insurance. And I can't afford it with my pay checks. I work part time. I have research over and over for health insurance. And nothing that I can afford comes up. So please help.

List of cheap auto insurance in Georgia $40-$50 a month?

cheap auto insurance in Georgia .looking for where I can pay btw $40-$50 a month

Where to Get Free Auto Insurance Quotes online?

I live in California USA. I heard from peoples that its best to have Car insurance Online Quotes free from some trusted online Car Insurance Service. Anyone please help me in getting online cheap motor insurance Quotes for my Car. Regards

""Have SR-22 insurance, can I switch insurance companies?""

Hi, I've had sr-22 insurance through geico for a little over a year now, however due to recently moving to florida my monthly payments have gone through the roof. Do I have the option of switching to a cheaper insurance company without having to restart the 3 year mandatory holding of the sr-22?""

What insurance group is a 1965 FORD MUSTANG FASTBACK?

Is a life insurance that terms at age 95 a good one?

I just reviewed my life insurance and saw that it termed at age 95..I'm not sure if that is good or bad...please help!

Is my car insurance going to be cheaper because i getting a learners permit first?

How much would Insurance for a bike?

I want to get a 2005 YZR-R6 by yamaha. I dont have my motorcycle licence and im 17 years old. I will get my first written (m1) licence soon. the bike is cheap but im woried about insurance. For motorcycle insurance do you pay it for all 12 months? I will only be riding it in the summer time anyways so do companies allow you to only pay for 3-4 months?

How much would the insurance for the 16 year old with a 07 impala?

I am 16 years old and have been working for awhile, i have been working for a new car. i have found this 07 impala that is in GREAT condition. I need a rough estimate of what my insurance might be if I get this car.""

Single input multiple quote car insurance?

looking for multiple quotes on car insurance with single information input

Do I need to have a car before I can ask for car insurance quotes?

Or can I just use any details of a car online to find out how much my insurance will be?

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