#the roots that grow in the dark

[narutoheretic]

you should tell us all about your root ocs 🤠 i have so many as well, yet i still think i need to make more bc of how big and international the org’s supposed to be :O

resurrecting another ask so old I don't remember a ton of concepts, BUT luckily i have the old scraps of danzo-trains-naruto fic (which still lives in my head despite me never being able to write it yet) to go off and find at least a few Root OCs. it was really fun to remember all these guys, so thanks for that!

harumi - an older Root member, was a young woman when Danzo was middle-aged (she pops up in here, beneath my lungs to talk with Kagami). she's weird and socially anxious but in a way that makes her really good at translating people yelling at each other into polite-speak, so she her career for a while was mainly just carrying messages. She began working with Kagami on his diplomatic/ambassador missions shortly before Kagami's death; she was the only survivor of the Iwa attack that killed Kagami and everyone else on that mission, and it cost her a leg and some severe scarring. After a few months of bluescreening, she became essentially an etiquette teacher, training the members of Root that would have to interface with the public; and, notably, teaching Kushina proper behavior and diplomacy when Kushina was first brought to Konoha.

rokuro - another older root member, one who worked closely with Danzo during the Shinobi no Yami years. he's half-Akimichi, and due to the lenient rules on blood relation would have been happily raised as part of the clan, except he uh. was a little weirdo who poisoned a kid for upsetting his cousin when he was like, seven. the Akimichi usually are incredibly harsh on poisoners but are equally soft for kids, so they were stuck not knowing what to do until someone noticed Danzo lurking around doing the beginning of his 'if anyone wants to discard a child just know i am always hiring. children' thing. Danzo was, at least then, viewed pretty favorably by the Akimichi due to his connection thru Torifu, so little Rokuro got packed off to utilize his nascent poisoning genius for the good of the nation. he grew up into a still-weird, still-poison-happy adult, summons carp (which baffles everyone, carp seem extremely boring for How He Is) and has a homoerotic rivalry with an Anbu member.

i cannot remember her goddamn name WHY we used to say it daily. Masako maybe?? - Danzo's second-in-command for a good chunk of Root's early to middle years. from a small wandering Jashin cult, ran into Danzo when they were both teenagers and thought the whole tree cult thing he had going on was sexier than her pain cult, split from her family to join Konoha and manage the mess of orphans Danzo was already accumulating. she's hot and a little unhinged, participated in a lot of his not-war-crimes-yet-but-they're-gonna-be-codified-into-that-postwar stuff during the Shinobi no Yami rep forming years. She also had a girlfriend whose name I cannot remember, just that she worked with gear and clothing. someone had to design those little jackets

eiri - a deaf explosions expert, friendly with Harumi but younger than her by about a decade. she's not as fleshed out, but I vaguely recall that she was supposed to be one of the first kids literally born into Root, with her parents both being Root members.

seji - one of the two heads of what I loosely termed the Manipulation department, members that specified in undercover missions, forming false friendships, honeypot missions, etc. started out as a random orphan with no bloodline, but has grown up to be extremely confident and charismatic to the point people often assume he's a clan discard. unfortunately i never named or characterized the other head lol, I think they were teammates (of the Root buddy system variety) tho

small shoutout to masaki, from the particular canon version of the training fic, who is literally just Uchiha Shisui with different eyes wearing Groucho Marx glasses and a fake beard. no like, literally in this AU shisui worked with danzo to help orchestrate the massacre, because he Was pretty much suicidal and wanted to escape his fate/position in the clan at all costs, and made some very bad decisions thereof. one of them possibly being giving his eyes away because he was sick of their abilities and didn't want his mental and physical health to deteriorate any further, but despite the huge adjustment there and the lingering guilt, he's actually pretty happy with his new life and identity. second-in-command of Root from shortly after Masako's death until canon.

[amygdalae]

At this growth stage my hair likes to do some interesting Bullshit

[amarithecat]

[entering--hyperspace]

Leo is heavily mexican coded, so his take and beliefs on necromancy are very different to what we’re given in game. Anyway, I had an Idea for his reaper shroud to resemble the way we paint and decorate for diá de los muertos

[kokokokuro]

🌞 Melo's notes about Monster Crops 🌞:

※Part 1: Slime Berry ※Part 2: Void Root ※Part 3: Monster Fruit ※Part 4: Monster Mushroom

[grimini]

[streetfarterturdstrike]

Nakayama confirmed on twitter that Ken still bleaches his hair and that hasn’t been retconned despite the fact he has light colored facial hair on his SF6 models

This means not only is he still bleaching his hair while hiding in the slums he’s bleaching his fucking beard too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ineed-to-sleep]

I almost never post picchures of myself here but I wanted to show y'all my green hair 🕺 im so in love w itt

[wave-man]

WAAAIIIIITTT what if roll originally had darker hair but she decided to dye it

[toxicrevolver]

Halloween tag game! Thanks for the tag!!! @serendipminie

Do this quiz find out what horror movie stereotype you are

And make this picrew/dolldivine to design your look

I’m also somehow a tragic hero. Idk. Maybe it’s bcs I’m always trying to fight. In all actuality I’d probably be one of the first people to die in a horror movie bcs I can’t keep my mouth shut (which is filed under reasons I’d do terrible in prison). This was super fun tho. I love doing pic crew things (even tho I hate my face).

And as per usual I’m not tagging anyone bcs I am lazy (and socially awkward) plus I have the big sad. But if anyone wants to participate they can blame me as the reason.

[httpiastri]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OMG SENDING YOU LOVE 🫶🫶🫶🫶

thank you so so much sweetheart!!!! 🥺🩷

[ashandaffection]

the ships i like

red and blue characters, enemies to lovers, opposites attract, friends to lovers, even better is friends to enemies to friends to lovers, basically, i need that slow burn 400k pining yearning loving someone so much someone so opposite to you that you feel like tearing through your skin AND their skin and hoping that you can burn off the physical barriers that separate your fucking conscious soul from their own like you want to crawl into their skin and organs and beating heart and lay your ephemeral self up to it and just lay there until you are no longer two separate beings but I want it so even though you want to be the same you love someone so much you want to be there forever with them i want it to also hurt because how can you really love someone exactly like yourself i want it to be reflective like a broken mirror is like a shattered window like you can see yourself in their eyes and what fear what you see but how can you run when it's yourself how can you run when you know that they want the same things that you do when you know they want to be held and they want to be loved all the same i want them to be opposites on different sides of the board and even so they move the chess pieces between them to get to one another whether that be through playing the game or sweeping the whole board aside i want them to be broken and imperfect and "let me fill the cracks in you with my own imperfect pieces" i want it to be "you are jagged and you make me bleed endlessly, oh how perfect that both you and i love the taste of iron and tears" i want them to hurt each other i want them to mend each other i want it to be snapping, biting, starving lone wolves meeting in the dead of winter knowing they could choose to fight and kill one another for the potential of sustinence, for the glimmer of hope that might come regardless of looming death, that to be unselfish means to perish but despite all rational thought or instinct instead choose to keep one another company through the promise of the unknown to provide comfort and "don't worry i'll be here beside you" through the void because despite the helpessness of it despite the option for selflishness all they choose each other all they choose is a fleeting moment of partnership though the cold, through the unforgiving, through the pain, through the loss, despite it all there's still an "i'm here. i'm still here. i will stay right here. your hands and knees and mouth are covered with blood but what choice did you have what choice did i have i am the same i understand i am right here."

yeah i like those ships

[sirpeppersto]

speaking of hair, one of the barbers at my school got his hair dyed exactly like mine tonight

^ this is what my hair has been since i started going to school back in march

but no one asked me for help while they were bleaching his hair(we're allowed to practice on other students during class) and everyone knows i do mine myself so idk why they didnt, but his came out really orange. so now this kid is walking around with the temu version of my hair. he was wearing his hoodie up when we walked out of class tonight

[muteddaydreams]

getting harder to resist the urge to dye my hair everyday

[milo-is-rambling]

Blond Milo update. It’s weird