#tldr water country is filled with the strange and the beautiful and the terrible. it is the definition of sublime

[loveoaths]

hi. question. can you PLEASE elaborate how massive skeleton tentacle crab man is #justkirithings ?? please. my crops are dying.

oh, GLADLY! most of my elaborations are already (buried deeply) on my blog, but i’ll try to speed run “justkirithings.”

so, we all know all of the elemental nations have megaflora and megafauna, right? all the nasty critters in the forest of death, the giant animals on the island naruto and killer bee go to, etcetera etcetera. but we ALSO know that kirigakure is home to some of the weirdest motherfuckers, folks who push the envelope on what it means to be human: the hoshigaki clan, a clan who just? seem to be? sharks; the kaguya clan, who use their spines as nifty diy belts; and all kinds of other freaks. so if there can be a clan of kisames walking around, why not other sea-creature based clans? why shouldn’t kiri’s diversity, and its accursedness, not encompass the entirety of the sea’s wild and incredible depths?

and then we have the whole demon thing. outside of referring to the jinchuriki, demons are tied most to kirigakure and water country out of all of the villages and elemental nations. we have zabuza, called “the demon of the mist,” whose killing intent is, inexplicably, actually in the shape of a demonic creature with a face, horns, all of that. mangetsu is also called a demon. i know these mentions weren’t literal, but i think they suggest a comfort with — and, most notably, an admiration and aspiration to be — the demonic. kirigakure is also the only village we hear of that treats its jinchuuriki…. not Perfectly, but certainly better than the others. to me, that signals both a practicality and familiarity with demons and monstrosity that the other villages lack. so in my headcanons (all viewable by searching kiri on my blog, i believe!) kirigakure, and water country as a whole, has a wider conceptualization of humanity, because monstrosity is folded into it. meaning we can have folks from giant crab clans walking around and everyone is like, “oh hey dude, how’s the wife and kids?” and keeps it trucking. this is a rambling mess but i cannot explain my own thoughts once they’re written down so you’ll have better luck deciphering this codex by surfing my headcanons/kiri tag(s)!

edit: here is one tagged example!