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hot damn when you made an si oc tumblr so you can stop reading si & oc & insert fics and then you stopped reading fanfics cause you returned to reading light novels and bl and danmei whoops

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The Sea Never Dies Series - FiresFromOurHearts

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/715674 Series Summary: Uzushiogakure is more than a ruin. Her people wander and they hide themselves away, refusing to be who they once were. Uzushio sees this and she refuses to let the world stay that way. Uzushiogakure may have fallen, but Uzushio is far from dead.

Meanwhile, Konoha kills off almost all of the Uchiha Clan, leaving two - Sasuke Uchiha and Toru Uchiha. Sasuke's survival was meant to happen. Toru's survival was due to luck, (and something more, something much, much bigger than luck).

The world is not safe or nice or good. It hasn't been such for a while. That's alright though. Toru can make things happen with his own two hands and his words. He can change his world, even if it isn't the entire world. Toru doesn't like the whole world that much anyway. Series Status: Completed; Five main stories, entitled Sea Dreams, Current Strength, Ocean's Own Stories, Tideswept, and then Wayfinders in respective order, and a collection of AUs.   Series Word Count: 651k overall 

Ry Reviews:  What happens when Yondaime Uzukage of Uzushio and Uzushio ANBU, Mizushima Toru, is born anew in the body of young Uchiha Toru? It gives Sasuke an older sibling figure who helps him learn how to grieve his loss and gives Sasuke advice into how to move past the tragedy that threatens to consume him. It gives Konoha an Uchiha Clan Head who is proactive in rectifying the education of young ninjas and dedicated in his efforts to make sure that the Uchiha legacy is not a brutal massacre by the Clan Heir.  Sea dreams and Current Strength follows Toru as he struggles to be of Konoha ( a ninja to the village, an older brother,a teammate & a Clan Head) while he still hears Uzushio singing in the back of his head. Toru decides to focus on improving Konoha for Sasuke, promising to come back to the Uzushio at a later time. The last three, Ocean's Own Stories, Tideswept, and then Wayfinders, follows Toru making preparations to come back to Uzushio and Sasuke and Naruto as they grow up to a better konoha. The OC, Toru, is pretty level-headed and emotionally mature. He is the type to plan and put the plan into action. He is also pretty op with fuinjutsu skills surpassing the current generation of shinobis and being quite adept with jutsu. I attributed this to Toru being the Uzukage in his previous life. I don’t dislike OCs who are overpowered; but I want there to have an understanding of their powers and their abilities having consquences/limitations. In The Sea Never Dies, Toru needs to re-learn all the jutsu he knows and he has to build his chakra reserves. The most important limitation of the Oc is that his goals isn’t something he can accomplish on his own. He wants to make an active change in Konoha; he has to have a voice in the Clan Council and his own networks of information. He wants to rebuild Uzushio, he needs to meet remnants of clans from the island. 

It has a superb worldbuilding in regards to Uzushio and ANBU, as it is an integral part of our main character. It goes into details why Uzushio was attacked and why no one of its allies lend to help. The pacing is great as it goes into detail of growing up, settling into a ninja, planning to make Konoha a better place and making the decision to come back to Uzushio.  OC has cockroach as summon. Beware if you are uncomfortable with it. Standout Moments *spoiler alert* Toru creating an information network by gaining the trust and organizing street urchins. The information network is so wide that it reaches in all the shinobi villages and daimyou. Toru spearheading the change of the Acadenmy’s curriculum.  Toru managing to fake their own death because a teammate (from ROOT) tried to kill him. Gaining the information of Root by having his cockroach summons follow said teammate. Collecting information from ROOT headquarters. Managing to sneak back into Konoha and give the information to the Sandaime. Be a part of the team that will ambush ROOT HQ.

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One of the reasons why I like reading fanfiction is how different actions, decisions and mindset could change the direction of the story. Thinking about the boundless possibilities.  For the past few years, I have anchored myself with reading about original characters and self-inserts in different fandoms. I learned the type of SI/OC fics that I prefer and I’m creating this tumblr blog because I need self-restraint that reviewing a si/oc fanfiction might bring. I am also very forgetful and tend to forget the fic title of fics I’ve read after a month lol. 

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