#thank yoooouuuuu I love being asked about Taka

[kishimotomasashi]

Karin for that headcanon game?

Send a character’s name to receive four different headcanons

Headcanon A: realistic

Ooooh I think Karin, depending on her circumstances, can be a sort of "jack of all trades", in which she can adapt to any situation you're putting her in, no matter the the skill, task or mission, and come out of it with fairly passable success. From a young age Karin was doing nothing but adapting to changes and making herself useful to survive, and so now she's most of the time a very reliable person and not so easily discarded by whoever she works with.

Her main interest, however, seems to be personal research and science, seeing as that she gets her own lab when she returns to work with Orochimaru. Morbid, silver-lining of her getting kidnapped is that she developped a new passion of hers. Her main deal is making scents, perfumes, to throw off other people, to make herself smell better or even to figure out how she can use them along with genjutsu.

In general she is a very curious person, and whenever presented with the opportunity to gain more knowledge, she'll take it. Shame she never got to listen to Hashirama talk about his backstory, she would've enjoyed it from purely a historical knowledge standpoint.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

There was one post that implied that Karin knew the secrets to the Uzumaki clan's sealing and contact with the dead jutsu but that she just kept it all to herself just to fuck with Orochimaru. I find that so funny.

But imo while it's funny, my idea of Karin is she knows some things about her own heritage but otherwise is in the dark about it because of Uzushio's destruction and her direct family being frequently displaced by war and being targeted for murder.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Again, not sure this really counts, but I see her attachment to Sasuke being on the same line as Juugo's attachment to Sasuke, though hers manifests more in a romantic/sexual attraction way. In the same way Juugo got attached to Kimimaro for showing him kindness the rest of the world barred him from, that's how Karin got attached to Sasuke after he saved her life. It's a case of her having a little crush, of her being so unused to any kindness because she's been treated like shit for so long and because her feelings for Sasuke are good, warm feelings that she feels she can hang onto safely without it being much of a problem to her. She knows he doesn't actually like her back like that, but leaning into the "normal girl with a crush" feelings is just... fun to her.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

I'm so sooooo mad about Taka being reduced to comic relief in the war arc and Karin forgiving Sasuke so quicklu for the stabbing. I think she didn't actually completely forgive him and, while she still cares about him, after the war they're pretty tense with each other.