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[anonauthorsworkshop]

Can we have a scenario with all the lords of alagadda just reacting to mc suddenly teleporting to their territory again and randomly arguing with 035 while running away?

this is a borderline crackpost but i don’t care because i wanted to have fun with it. kindaaa ooc oknoitdefinitelyis

enjoy!

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035 was seething. You could easily tell; black goop was pouring out of the mask's every orifice in waves, dripping down his host's neck and spilling onto his attire. You take a glance at his ensemble, which was no longer a simple researcher's uniform, but a grandiose tailcoat with ruffled cuffs. (...The outfit change may or may not have been your doing).

He looks at you with pure, unadulterated rage. Intermittent beads of sweat roll down the side of your cheek. His glaring causes a sudden urge to explain yourself, and so you decide to speak. You open your mouth very, very slowly.

A voice in the distance murmurs a skeptical inquiry.

“Shouldn’t we just-“

“Hush, Yellow." The Red Lord practically slaps a hand onto the face, or rather, mask, of his confidant. It effectively shuts him up, albeit only for a moment. "We are spying on them!”

Yellow grumbles, recoiling from the unwanted contact. “…You know well that if White were here, they would report this," he makes a grand gesture toward the unseemly duo, "to the Ambassador right away.”

“Oh," Red scoffs, waving Yellow's doubtful words away with a hand. He turns to the side, resumes his observation of your antics, and kicks his legs back and forth, not unlike a giggly schoolgirl would. "Just hush and focus on them!”

Yellow follows Red's gaze and looks on with cynical eyes.

035's words come out sharp. "Why did you come here again?" His fists are shaking, and you wince at how deep he digs his fingernails into his palm. "Moreover, bring me with you?"

You rub your hands together nervously, averting eye contact. "Well, I haven't seen Amingvolvin in quite a while. I wanted to give them a gift." Wobbily, your gaze moves upward to meet his. "And, I kind of- may have, accidentally ran into you? As I was about to teleport?"

You are unable to accurately gauge his reaction. 035 is still.

...

“That’s it." He finally says in disbelief. "That’s the reason.”

"Well, I guess-"

Abruptly, 035 moves toward you with overpowering intent. You flinch and stumble backward. At this point, you fully expected him to just punch you, but your body relaxes as you inspect him closer. His fists clench and unclench with what is undoubtedly anger, however, something tells you that he cannot bring, could never bring himself to project that emotion onto you.

You watch as his hands fully unclench, and he slumps his shoulders in what seems to be acceptance.

"Let us focus on leaving this place."

"O-of course!" You perk up with a stammer, surprised by his switch in attitude. "We've done this before, we can do it again."

035 sighs, and steps closer to grab you by the hand. "You really ought to be more careful. Every time that I find you, you are always involved in some dreadful sort of mess..."

It is at the moment when his fingers touch yours that something inside Red crackles, and it bursts into flaming jealousy. He stands up suddenly, and the ends of his robes intimidatingly flare out to the sides like a predator threatening its prey. There is a low, deep bellow which he emits that makes his presence known.

Yellow turns to Red, exasperated. He had to admit, he did not find it exactly pleasant to watch the former Anguished Lord's hand make contact with yours, but...

"I thought you wanted to keep a LOW profile?!"

At this, you dart your head toward the two Lords with wide, panicked eyes. Your mouth slams shut, and you grab 035's right arm to drag him along with you, but it slips out of your grip, detaches from his shoulder, and promptly falls to the floor.

...

You reach over frantically at 035's remaining left arm, hauling him beside you and sprinting away into the depths of Alagadda’s Euclidean landscape.

#anonymous #author #answered #ask #writing request #scp 035 #alagadda #red lord #yellow lord #i am sorry white lord enjoyers i couldn't think of a way to put them into this #pansophical pretender #i am back to writing regularly!! (i think......) #but i get my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow and will be very high on anesthesia so maybe not #scp x reader #tags tags tags i dont know anymore #this takes place in like the future where the relationships are more developed lol #mentions of: #white lord #ambassador #ambassador of alagadda #the sole intertrode of amingvolvin

[mosaickiwi]

Everything and Anything

I got too goofy about this kink ask with aftercare. [REDACTED] is ~so~ poggers for basic human decency (I am completely serious). An eventful evening leads into soft and silly aftercare. 1k-ish words, GN reader.

cw// sexual content in nature (nothing explicit), non-specific kinks implied and mentioned, degradation and impact play/spanking specifically mentioned, allusions to neglectful aftercare

14 Days With You is an 18+ Yandere Visual Novel. MINORS DNI

~

You had some vague idea of how things would go. By now, you knew your dark-haired boyfriend never held back in his dedication to your comfort—but you hadn’t expected this. Who knew your casual comments about a few kinks would lead to treatment better than royalty?

Endless conversations of boundaries and what was to come had slotted into the previous week during your nightly pillow talks. Each more thorough than the last, as [REDACTED] always came prepared with research and more questions. They'd even brought a strangely long list of potential degrading pet names for you to decide on—some in languages you didn't speak. Eventually, he was satisfied to put an end to what you were sure being interrogated felt like. That is, if the interrogator saw fit to cuddle and kiss the criminal into a confession.

So the fateful night came, and all had gone well. You had the sore muscles and countless bite marks to prove it. It was what came after that made you feel akin to something worthy of heavenly worship. 

Once you were both dried off from a much needed—and breathtakingly intimate—bath, [REDACTED] began taking inventory of you. Gentle fingers glided over your naked form as he stood behind you, lingering at every mole, mark, and reddened imprint of teeth. He noticed all the small reactions of your body at certain placements of his careful touch, gaze focused on your visage in the mirror while you brushed your teeth. They couldn’t help but bestow a feather light kiss to each spot you barely tensed at to serve as silent apologies.

"Ren," you said once you'd spit your mouthful of toothpaste into the sink. "I told you I'm fine."

Blue eyes pointedly met yours in his reflection. "Really? Y'so sure after that punishment you wanted?" Their hand moved from your hip to lightly pat your bare ass, taking note of the whining gasp you let out. "'Wonder how you're gonna do that little front desk job tomorrow."

"It probably won't hurt by then," you insisted with a rather unsure shrug. As you set your toothbrush next to his untouched one, you looked back at him. "Not gonna brush your teeth?"

"Not quite yet. 'M relishing in the taste of you, Angel." They sensually licked their lips for dramatic effect.

Your nose wrinkled. "I love you, but that's so gross." Still, you raised up on your toes to kiss him, nasty as he was.

~

Dressed in your favorites among their clothes, you were splayed out on your stomach over the bed sheets—in hopes to save your admittedly sore ass come morning. You stared up at your overly doting hacker, who'd resigned himself to playing with your hair in silence. Your mind only wandered at his caress.

You couldn't imagine how you'd gotten so lucky to be their first and only. 

Hours had passed since that intense encounter, and he hadn't left your side except to get things you meekly asked for—it was impossible to ask too much, he'd reminded you. A blanket to warm up, a hot drink to soothe your tired throat, a gentle massage to relax you, and even gentler words of reassuring praise as you'd bathed together in steamy water and afterglow. Their soft, loving touch to bring you to quiet bliss once again in their embrace as you soaked in the bath stayed settled in your mind. It almost completely overshadowed the rough treatment they had you pleading on the verge of tears about earlier.

His actions were above and beyond the bare minimum that others were elated to get. There were myriads of horror stories about terrible partners that completely withdrew after sex, and even more so when performing certain emotionally and physically vulnerable activities on their supposed loved one. You knew he’d never treat you in such a hurtful way. Despite that security, just the thought of it burdened you in the days leading up. To be left to your own devices after the things he whispered in your ear and did to your body—no matter how desperately you welcomed it all—would devastate you. 

"You know you mean the world t'me," he suddenly said, an uneasy frown on his face that brought you back to his focus.

Those words again. Words you'd heard plenty in your relationship, usually accompanied by an embarrassed shrug to explain away some bizarre habit of theirs you'd discovered, or a passionate kiss to soothe both you and themselves. You'd lost count of how much your lover repeated the sentiment tonight. He still must've been worried that you needed soothing in spite of his endless affections. 

You hadn't realized you were holding onto a frown of your own. "I know," you spoke his name with resounding devotion and a soft smile, "You mean the universe to me."

Familiar pink blossomed in surprise on his cheeks, but he quickly caught on to your game. "Y'mean everything to me, Angel. ‘Love you more than anything."

"You mean—" His thumb pressed over your lips to silence you. It was completely stunning. They'd hardly ever stopped you from speaking before, even if it was to scold them.

"Whatever you're trying t'one up me with is already included in everything. So you’re not beating me here," he explained, smug as could be while he loomed ever closer. Ticklish kisses came littered along your cheeks and anywhere else he managed to reach, further encouraged by your laughs of protest.

You successfully wriggled out from their grasp after a few torturous moments. You felt flushed, clothes in disarray from their calculated attack. As you tugged up the sheets to hide under, you teasingly tossed a pillow at him. "Go get me some water, asshole."

He was happy to let the pillow hit him square in the face for your satisfaction. "Anything for you, my love."

#14 days with you #14dwy #14dwy redacted #mentions of: #cw kink #cw degradation #cw impact play #momo writing #pls lmk other cw tags you feel necessary #fucked up my sleep to write this cause this rat won't leave my brain #and i keep writing them so SILLY #it gives me the goo to make them a lil clown i'm so sorry #haha what if i wrote the smut that goes with it /hj #unless? 😳

[outofangband]

I keep thinking of Fingon (to the surprise of absolutely no one) and this description of him: "wise he was and skilled in voice and hand; truth and justice he loved and bore good will to all"

What kind of skill do you think this would refer to? "Skilled in voice" is an obvious reference to his talent for Song but could also be a reference to his skill as an orator. "Skilled in hand" opens so many possibilities as a warrior, craftsman, builder, etc.

Any thoughts on this that you think fit his character?

You are one of the Fingon people to me! So honestly I’d defer to you for this but here are my thoughts!

Skilled in voice and hand could refer to a number of things as you said! For voice specifically, song/songs of powder, prayer, oration/persuasion!

I think Fingon’s persuasiveness is rather underrated! Here is one example.

Of course I bring Húrin into this but I imagine a lot of Húrin’s optimism pre Nírnaeth is because Fingon is very persuasive! He knows how the Bragollach went! He fought in the smaller battles of the aftermath as a teenager and, I think more pertinently, Morwen and Rían survived it firsthand! (I don’t think Morwen talks about it often but that she’s there in Hithlum at all says something and I headcanon she has scars from the Bragollach, ok this going off topic)

Húrin is aware of Morgoth’s terrible power (obviously not as much as he will be but…) and he still believes in the Union of Maedhros. It was likely Fingon who convinced him to bring his people not just to battle but to the forefront of the Nírnaeth!

Especially because, as I’ve talked about before, Húrin was not suicidal right before the Nírnaeth, noble death in battle or glorious desperate defeat were not what he wanted. He puts his family and his people on the line and does so knowingly, believing in Fingon’s cause.

(To be clear I’m not blaming Fingon, it’s just something I think about)

I think Fingon like most of the Finwëans (spouses included) tended to be an over talented overachiever with the wealth and resources to experiment and explore in his youth. He probably dabbled in a variety of crafts like I headcanon Maedhros did!

He might have done figure or landscape drawing, building models with a variety of materials, clay work, or even instrument creation! I imagine he also hunted with his sister or cousins often and might have developed prowess with both weapons and precision (and thus mercy) there.

Another possibility for skill in voice , and in hand is healing. Although there is absolutely an element of having to extend what one finds possible in the rescue of Maedhros, Fingon having skills as a healer would make sense whether these are practical skills or the more religious aspects of healing, that we often see with elves, prayer, song and other ritual. I don’t think he has any formal training as a healer, but I think it would make sense if by necessity he picked up on a lot of the skills especially over the ice and his skills developed there

Anyway I hope this is an ok response!

#the silmarillion #fingon #musing and meta #the children of húrin #Húrin #mentions of: #morwen #Rían

[unhelpfulfemme]

I'm rereading the Lymond Chronicles right now and, as a lover of twisty, strategic bastards, I have to say that Dunnett understands things about how to write them properly that few others do. Everything that happens in these books lands in a very heavy, physical way - like, you can almost feel the physical thunk as events land, whereas most other twisty bastards books feel like floaty CGI whose physicality you're never really fully buying, fun as the special effects are.

So I tried to do a little analysis as to why, because I live for a twisty strategic bastard narrative :)

Lymond has a personality and is driven by his emotions, despite his cleverness and chessmaster tendencies - he doesn't do everything out of strategic consideration, and you can clearly see his fault lines from the start - glimpses of suppressed emotion, flaws that may be his undoing, irrational choices that clearly fulfill a psychological purpose but not a strategic one. Everyone is allowed to be pathetic and annoying and unlikeable. And all this is allowed to shape the plot - sometimes the character will be allowed emotions and a personality but not where it impacts the plot, so you will get a sort of a parallel lines thing where there's an "emotion" plot where the character is perhaps allowed to be flawed and show off their personality, and which perhaps impacts their interpersonal relationships, and a "competence" plot where the character always performs near-flawlessly and their emotions never enter into the game, and never the twain shall meet. No matter how controlled and self-possessed someone is, it strains my credulity when a person is portrayed as someone in possession of major personal flaws or psychological anguish, and yet this is never allowed to spill over into the way they interact with the "competence" plot or derail them in any way. Especially if they are portrayed as someone suppressing everything for efficiency's sake - they are going to crack at some point, and the stitches are going to burst open like a shaken bottle of soda with innards flying everywhere and hitting everyone around them, and if they're not, you're clearly not putting your character under enough pressure. Which makes for a boring story. The fact that Lymond is 100% human 100% of the time actually makes him look more competent and impressive, not less.

He is allowed to fail, because flaws are human and failure is human. The more convoluted a plan the more possible points of failure it has, and this is especially the case if large chunks of it rely on understanding and manipulating human beings: humans are messy complex dynamic systems, like the weather, and are therefore difficult if not impossible to predict to that degree of granularity. Lymond is allowed to misjudge Scott, for example, he is allowed to have his convoluted plans go wrong, and this is allowed to derail him: sometimes he bounces back, yes, but he is not constantly failing upwards, and his failures do have unfixable consequences sometimes. If they never did, the narrative would become boring and void of tension and emotion. The fact that the difficulty of pulling off these plans is realistically portrayed through the inclusion of stochasticity makes me admire his capacity to pull them off as often as he does more and not less.

He is allowed to fail in a way that's his own fault - combining my previous two points, it's not always that circumstances have conspired in such a way that he couldn't possibly predict or influence it; his failures are often a consequence of his own flaws and his own psychological hangups and blind spots, and are therefore all the more pleasing to read about because they tie into the emotional and personal narrative of the books. (Though I do also love the narratives where the brilliant hero does everything right and yet is trapped in a set of shifting wider historical circumstances where whatever he does is doomed to fail eventually, like Bel Riose from the Foundation books or even Thrawn.)

Another important point is when he's allowed to fail - I read somewhere that a deux ex machina or a similar contrivance that kick starts the plot is more tolerable and less suspension of disbelief-breaking than one which resolves it at the climax, and I think that it's kind of the opposite with failures of twisty bastards? So many people writing them seem to adore the competence porn too much to let them fail at crucial moments - if they do fail, even if it checks all my previous points, it's at the beginning, so that they are then allowed to use their cleverness twist out of the situation - see Eugenides in Return of the Thief, whose stubbornness and jealousy loses him the support of his foreign allies, but who then manages to pull through despite it (and is then vindicated by them never having had the intention to help in the first place due to realpolitik considerations). Or Miles Vorkosigan in Memory - he has a lapse of judgement at the start, but he makes no further lapses of judgement, and even his emotional journey of depression and reexamining of his life (the series' high point of characterization complexity tbh) has absolutely no bearing on his efficient functioning within the plot itself.

Which brings me to, consider also the role that this failure has in the narrative - because unless you're writing something that's just hardcore sociological storytelling (again, like the Foundation), this is a story about individuals, and a climax with personal stakes is almost always more satisfying than a more impersonal one where the hero gets to show off his cleverness. When Lymond fails in The Game of Kings, it swerves the plot from a very mechanistic, spy-novel-esque intrigue of finding the right man and clearing his name, to a psychodrama that forces him to confront his brother and face his past emotionally, and that also airs all of Lymond's flaws and misconceptions and pent-up emotions, but also all of Richard's, because this is the driving force of the narrative and it's so much more satisfying to watch it unfold than it would have been to watch Lymond bounce back and execute everything with flawless mechanical accuracy. Compare this to the climaxes of most new canon Thrawn books, or most Vorkosigan books (the one big exception is Brother in Arms - actually the more Mark the book has, the likelier it is to have an emotion-driven denouement), or all of the Inda books, or all of the Gentleman Bastards books - at best they will put a loved one in danger or kill them off to generate personal stakes, but what does Thrawn's personality, for example, have to do with the resolution of the plot in his books? I love those books, but they don't land nearly as hard. Compare and contrast Tyrion's trial in ASOIAF - Tyrion is also a twisty bastard but the process of him defending himself and running away doesn't involve his wits - it involves confronting his father and brother, about whom he has massive emotional baggage.

Anyway the TL;DR is you should all read the Lymond Chronicles.

#lymond chronicles #dorothy dunnett #mentions of: #vorkosigan saga #queen's thief #gentleman bastards #thrawn trilogy #foundation #asoiaf #writing #writing advice #I guess?

[asksomnifromundermtebbot]

hey, do you know anything about the lady behind the door?

"we're almost to Quinn's, kid, c'mon"

#ask somni #ask blog #mentions of: #buttonblossom #← <not technically buttonblossom yet tho-?> #atrd ut au

[primnroses]

— Explaining Konohagakure’s Medical Department from Naruto to Boruto:

The information presented in this post has been checked and revised. My aim is not to hate or to discredit any of the characters mentioned. Please read about me for further information.

This post will contain evidence in picture format directly from the manga Naruto (1999 - 2014) created by Masashi Kishimoto and published by Shueisha in 1999. I will also use information from the official databooks.

This informative post will explain the role and utility of the Medical Department from its debut in Naruto to its development and role in Boruto. I will use information present in the novels and the Boruto manga because it includes character development within canon compliance.

This meta will be crossposted in AO3.

I give my permission to use or share this thread with informative purposes as long as you credit me.

I do not support the anime or the work of Studio Pierrot in regards to Naruto because I consider it over exaggerated and beyond biased. Furthermore, these fillers include some actions that these characters are unable to do in the canon according to official sources and they also generate unnecessary debate.

This meta does contain anime scenes from Boruto because it is a monthly manga draft that depends heavily on anime for context. 

Please, take this into consideration.

This meta will include a small discussion from my own point of view about the Medical Department and its members. There will be strong criticism and complaints, comparisons with other characters, previous leaders, etc. 

HISTORY:

The Medical Department ( 医療部門, Iryō-Bumon), also known or previously known as Medic Corps (医療部隊, Iryō-Butai) is one of the three main departmental divisions of Konohagakure. They are organized in the medical-ninja from Konoha Hospital (木ノ葉病院, Konoha Byōin) and they are in charge of providing medical care within the village and in the battlefield by the training of field medical-ninja.

Their members also work in developing medical items such as medicines, ninjutsu, etc. Some time after the global conflict, the Medical Department has seen the development of new medical branches and facilities; it is also supervised by Sakura Uchiha as department head, hailed as the world’s best medical-ninja.

Konohagakure's official department organization according to the first fanbook.

It is unknown when the organization itself started or when Konoha Hospital came to exist, but the concept of medical-ninjas has existed since the era of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. Around the second conflict, Tsunade advocated for the inclusion of one medical-ninja per team to palliate the effects of the conflict.

Tsunade advocates for medical-ninjas to be included in every team to increase the survival rate of each member and the mission.

This department and all of their divisions wear their own unique crest with the kanji for "medicine" or "healing" (医, ishi). This crest is the symbol of Konoha Hospital and the uniforms of the Medic Corps; these uniforms consist of white overalls for the doctors with hats and ear protectors, and skirts for the nurses, both with the crest in red on their backs.

After Naruto, the crest changes places, now adorning the left side of the uniform.

The uniform of the Medic Corps during Naruto.

Naruto:

During the era of the Third and Fifth Hokage, the Medical Department was simply known as Medic Corps, and with the first fanbook, we learn that the Medic Corps are medical-ninja from Konoha Hospital; as well as being the only healthcare organization known at the time. In turn, Konoha Hospital is a building located not too far from the Hokage Residence in the center of the village. It was never specified who was running the hospital during this era. 

The Medic Corps debuted in chapter 64 mentioned by Hiruzen when referring to Kabuto Yakushi. It was said that a jōnin of the Medic Corps had saved him (his adoptive mother Nonō Yakushi). However, they were seen for the first time two chapters later, when the hospital staff, the Medic Corps, took Sasuke Uchiha to heal his wounds. 

(I want to add that the term medical-ninja did not exist around this time, so Hiruzen saying Nonō was a Medic Corps is a mistake in the continuity of the story; he would likely say medical-ninja if the term existed. The Medic Corps were later rewritten as those medical-ninja from Konoha Hospital.)

Konoha Hospital before Pain's invasion.

As soon as Tsunade was introduced into the story and after her fight against Kabuto Yakushi, we learn about medical ninjutsu and that medical-ninjas are also those shinobi that learn healing techniques and are sent to teams to aid their comrades in battle. They use medical ninjutsu (医療忍術, Iryō-Ninjutsu), like the generic Mystical Palm Technique, to heal wounds.

Therefore, medical-ninjas are divided into two types: 

Konoha Hospital’s Medic Corps medical ninja 

Field medical ninja. 

According to the first fanbook, the Medic Corps are those professional medical-ninjas that are fully dedicated to healing, developing medicine, researching diseases and performing ninjutsu focused on healing. In order to do that, they require very advanced chakra control, as well as extensive knowledge of herbs, medicines, the human body and even poisons to develop said medicines and antidotes. 

They are also divided by ranks and skills, with the story revealing that not all Medic Corps are able to use healing techniques due to the high precision of chakra control they must possess. They also include nurses among the staff.

The Medic Corps according to the first fanbook.

Meanwhile, field medical-ninjas vary in skill and knowledge. They range from just identifying the condition of a patient and using medical ninjutsu as a Chakra Transfer Technique, such as Ino Yamanaka; using healing techniques to aid in battle, like Rin Nohara; or being on par or superior in knowledge and skill as the Medic Corps like Sakura Haruno, Shizune, Tsunade and Kabuto Yakushi. 

Sakura Haruno is an example of a field medical-ninja that also actively works in Konoha Hospital as a member of the Medic Corps. Shizune too.

Medical ninja must be the last member of their teams to perish, therefore, they must never join the battle, making them support-types. This however, does not apply to Sakura Haruno, Tsunade and Kabuto Yakushi, who use medical ninjutsu variants as fighting techniques. Medical-ninja are the most valuable members of their squad and it is a priority to protect them in battle.

Yamato guarding Sakura Haruno, the only medical.ninja of the team.

I explain all about medical ninjutsu and medical ninjas here.

We can consider the Medic Corps and Konoha Hospital as the same organization, since the Medic Corps are exclusive to Konoha Hospital. 

Based on some parts of the story, the Medic Corps send relief teams to special events such as the Chūnin Exams and treat patients in separate rooms outside Konoha Hospital. They also send other smaller groups of Medic Corps on smaller teams to retrieve patients. These teams are called Medical Teams (医療班, Iryō-Han). 

Medical Teams from the Medic Corps sent to participate in events or rescue patients. We also see the change of the uniform's design.

Specialized medical-ninja are needed in Konoha Hospital in case of emergency. Examples include Shizune, Sakura Haruno and Tsunade; the two latter kunoichis being fighters as well as a medical-ninja and boasting a jutsu that grant them regenerative abilities.

Medical-ninjas are pivotal in a shinobi village or when winning big battles, as they are the only people able to maintain a full village healthy and ready to keep fighting. The Medic Corps and Sakura Haruno had their hands full during Pain’s invasion, as well as Tsunade through Katsuyu, who was able to save everyone from Pain’s Shinra Tensei explosion. 

The Logistical Support & Medical Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces was also the main target of the enemy, especially their most skilled medics, the jōnin rank medics. It was thanks to Sakura Haruno leaving the Third Division and joining the Medical Division that she could stop the White Zetsu. She also healed countless shinobi in the division; as well as healing hundreds of members of the Allied Shinobi Forces with Katsuyu in the midst of battle.

Sakura Haruno in the hospital and Tsunade with Katsuyu healing countless civilians; Sakura Haruno and Shizune in the Medical Division. Sakura Haruno healing the entire Allied Shinobi Forces.

Blank Period:

The next time the Medic Corps and Konoha Hospital appear is mainly Sakura Hiden, this novel including one of Konoha Hospital’s major medical developments; although there are mentions in other novels too:

Six months after Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was defeated, Sakura Haruno started preparations to create a Therapy Center, a mental health branch for children who are indirect victims of the shinobi world.

Two years later, Sakura Haruno successfully founded the first ever mental healthcare institution inside Konoha Hospital; and other villages like Sunagakure also followed her example. Indirectly, it is also revealed that Shizune is representing the Medic Corps and Konoha Hospital during this time.

According to the novel, she is the “Executive/Manager of the Medical Team” (医療班の幹部 Iryō-Han no kanbu) and sits with the other three top officials of the Konoha Council and the daimyō to discuss matters pertaining the village.

Sakura Haruno opens the first mental Therapy Center in the world.

Boruto: 

By the era of the Seventh Hokage, the Medic Corps rebranded, now called the Medical Department; their supervisor, Sakura Uchiha, now called “Head of the Medical Department” (医療部門の責任者, Iryō bumon no sekininsha), in contrast to Naruto’s non-existent hierarchical title. Overall, it has continued to function the same was as before, with the exception that it is now divided in two branches:

KONOHA HOSPITAL:

One of the most notable changes is the reconstruction of Konoha Hospital into a more modern building. The inside of the hospital looks much more modern and solid, in comparison to the building before Pain’s invasion, which had cracks everywhere (more noticeable in the manga).

The hospital in Boruto: Naruto the Movie and manga are more similar to the design in Naruto, while the anime changed the design to a more modern building.

Konoha Hospital in the anime and manga.

The hospital is directed by Sakura Uchiha, who also does some bureaucratic work from her own office. The building is also significantly more prepared than before, with various surgery rooms, intensive care, the off-screened therapy center, modernized patient rooms, labs and a classroom to train genin in medical ninjutsu. 

So far, Konoha Hospital remains as the center of all healthcare in Konoha and the source of all medical knowledge of the village. 

The director's office. One of the surgery rooms, the classroom, patient rooms and lab.

The Medic Corps still wear their white uniform with the crest in the back, although they changed the helmet for a bandana with Konoha’s symbol in it. Other uniforms include a blue robe with matching pants for Sakura and Shizune.

Another notable change is the presence of more discernible medical staff among their ranks. The Medical Teams sent on specific missions now wear the standard chūnin vest with the medical crest on their backs; while medical relief can be seen wearing a red armband with the medical crest.

The different types of medical-ninja in emergencies.

In addition to the new staff, Konoha Hospital has also started to give individual classes to genin that wish to become future field medical-ninja.

According to Boruto Uzumaki and Mitsuki, the Ninja Academy imparts classes about medical ninjutsu, but not real training enough to become a battlefield healer. For genin, it is compulsory that at least one member of the team trains in medical ninjutsu.

These classes are imparted by the head of department herself. Sakura Uchiha trains Sarada Uchiha for Team 7 and Inojin Yamanaka for Team 10, among others. Although according to Mitsuki’s own character profile, he is the actual medical-ninja of Team 7, which means he must have also trained with Sakura.

The new medical training explained by Boruto Uzumaki and Mitsuki. Sakura Uchiha begins the special class for genin.

MEDICAL OFFICE:

Other than Konoha Hospital with its new branches, there is also a healthcare facility inside the Hokage Residence called Medical Office or Medical Department (医務室, Imu-shitsu), controlled by the Medical Department.

Inside it, some of the Medic Corps work in important cases that need the direct supervision of the Hokage. The room is also used to attend to other healthcare cases, like the Scientific Ninja Weapons fixing Kawaki’s artificial arm. Sakura Uchiha and other staff also wear a different uniform more similar to the coat the staff of the Logistical Support & Medical Division used to wear.

Inside the room there is a single bed and several medical and technological instruments, as well as cabinets and a sink. In the manga, the room resembles a normal hospital room.

The Medical Office in the anime and manga.

Contrary to other teams that have been completely automated and made self sufficient, the Medical Department does not make use of the technology Konoha currently boasts of. Instead, they keep using shinobi for healthcare and medical ninjutsu, rather than adding machines.

Sakura Uchiha’s presence in Konoha Hospital to perform her medical duties is not unusual, and we always see her take care of patients in the village. Although it is not the same for Shizune, Sakura’s former mentor now assistant, Sakura Uchiha is always at the scene when anybody is in need of medical treatment.

Compared to the amount of times the Medic Corps appear and medical ninjutsu is used in Naruto, Ukyō Kodachi has drastically diminished the role of medical-ninja to the point of disappearance. In addition to that, the anime has demolished what it meant to train in medical ninjutsu; while it now takes a few hours to learn, it took the best medical ninja in the world 3 months to make advancements.

How does the Medical Department work and what is their role?

Gather professional medics in Konoha Hospital to heal people, study diseases, create medicines and develop healing ninjutsu.

Dispatch Medical Teams to special missions and include one field medical-ninja on teams for support.

Train future Medic Corps and medical-ninja.

DISCUSSION:

How important is the Medical Department?

The Medical Department has experienced a decrease of utility in Boruto compared to Naruto. However, being written out of the story does not equal being less important.

Unlike other teams, the Medical Department debuted fairly early into the story and it is considered as one of the major Konoha branches with ANBU and Shinobi Forces; it is the main and major support system of the village too. Some of the best examples include the Chūnin Exams when the Medic Corps heal the participants after a fight to continue training, or Pain’s invasion when Konoha citizens and shinobi were attacked by summons or in the midst of fighting the Paths. 

The equivalent of the Medic Corps at the time of the battle against Madara and Obito Uchiha, the Logistical Support & Medical Division, was also the most important support system during the conflict. It is natural that the enemy would want to take down the source of energy of a platoon, but they were also pivotal in battle by pumping the Allied Shinobi Forces full of chakra to boost their own ninjutsu, as well as Sakura and Shizune performing the autopsy on White Zetsu to discover the uses of Hashirama Senju’s cells.

Sakura Haruno of the Medical Division uses medical ninjutsu to power up ninjutsu. A medical-ninja from the Medical Division explains why they are essential.

The Medical Department is essential to secure a successful mission, be it by healing the members of the team, creating items such as poison and medical ointments to use in battle by non medics, healing shinobi after missions and also providing healthcare to the rest of citizens. 

So far, almost every Konoha shinobi, and non-Konoha shinobi, has required medical care in the hospital and member of the Medic Corps: Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Chōji Akimichi, Neji Hyūga, Kiba Inuzuka, Rock Lee and Konoha civilians in Naruto, Ino Yamanaka, Kumogakure and Kirigakure shinobi and children in the Blank Period, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Boruto Uzumaki, Kawaki and Hinata Hyūga in Boruto; as well as Karin, Hinata Hyūga, Kankurō, Naruto Uzumaki, Temari, Jiji and Granny Chiyo by Sakura Haruno as a Medic Corps on the battlefield.

Some examples of treatment at Konoha Hospital.

The current problem of the Medical Department:

In Boruto, the Medical Department suffered a downgrade compared to previous appearances, although not in abilities or competency. Konoha Hospital has remained one of the most successful in terms of workforce, so far never needing anyone to step in for Sakura to perform healing or save a life, and not being relegated to an automated system either. The Medical Department still relies on humans rather than machines, very unlike the sensing system for example. 

The downgrade is in relevance.

We used to see the Medic Corps, or, rather, Sakura Haruno, since more than half of the story happened outside Konoha; Sakura represented medicine and took on roles that went beyond simple healing. From elaborating antidotes for poison, creating medicines based on clan’s medical encyclopedias, using poison against enemies or using elaborate techniques other than the repetitive Mystical Palm Technique.

Sakura Haruno creates an antidote. Tsunade creates prosthetic arms.

The role of a medic has been simplified, just using the basic healing technique by default, the Mystical Palm Technique, to heal anything they get their hands into, rather than identifying different pathologies and applying different methods for each; like Kankurō needing specific healing to remove poison, for example. Now, we see Sakura using the same jutsu on every patient. 

There is no space for elaborate medicine crafting either, or, at least, do not let Sakura and her medical team do it. The concept of creating antidotes, poisons, artificial arms, studying body pathologies and using different ninjutsu has been given to Amado Sanzu and Katasuke Tōnō, rather than have Sakura, a poison expert, botanist, scientist and medic, do the job. It is a big aspect that has been taken away from the Medical Department.

Sakura Haruno using the same jutsu in every patient.

The Medical Department in itself is not a failure, nor do their ranks fail at doing their job or need other people to step in for them. The failure comes with the writing quality in the sequel compared to Naruto, rather than the organization itself. 

Could they be redeemed?

The Medical Department does not need to be redeemed or rewritten, the problem lies in how they are projected in the sequel.

Their functionality is perfect. They have the world's best medical-ninja as their leader, several members of the staff, a great emergency response and a board of teachers.

Some of the things they could do are:

Use more elaborated techniques rather than basic healing ninjutsu.

Make use of their botanists and poison experts, elaborate pills and other substances that are currently needed in plot.

There is no need to erase the Scientific Ninja Tools to make prosthetic arms, just allow them to collaborate with the Medical Department for better results and more possibilities.

Allow them to investigate seals and ninjutsu that are capable of regenerating, such as Kawaki's and Boruto's.

Considering Konoha is the most powerful shinobi village and Konoha Hospital has two of the top medical-ninja in the world, the usage of their staff leaves much to be desired in the script.

Note: The Fourth Shinobi World W4r has been replaced by global conflict to avoid mature content flags.

#medical department #medic corps #medical corps #medical team #konohagakure #konoha #sakura haruno #haruno sakura #naruto #boruto #naruto shippuden #meta #naruto meta #my naruto post #my publication #mentions of: #shizune #tsunade #tsunade senju

[bitcrush]

Speaking of In Sound Mind i figured id post this (half Finished) Timeline i started of canonical dates that I forgot about almost immediately. Lots of spoilers below

I should honestly collect the notes again and place them in order but that’s HARRRRRD ok

#in sound mind #ism #mentions of: #desmond wales #lucas cole #max nygaard #allen shore #Virginia Ruhl #ism spoilers #SPOILERS #!!!!!! #been normal about this game since March 2022 it’s done so much to my brain #rambling

[keischreiber]

A Sweet Hope

So, for my birthday, a friend of mine (Aevi) told me that they talked to a writer to commission a story for me. And what a way to cap March, by receiving it today.

This story was penned by Andrew Anderson and his website is: https://ibelieveinahappilyeverafter.com

I love this. It's absolutely brilliant. This is canon to me now.

Title: A Sweet Hope

Author: ibelieveinahappilyeverafter | Andrew Anderson 

Fandom: Attack On Titan 

Relationship: Reiner Braun/Kristina Qual (OC) 

Word Count: 2,104 

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It was official. Years of work within the military working for the Warrior program had left Kristina Qual with many concerns on how the program was currently run and how it could be improved, but she had finally discovered the worst part of the program. 

The paperwork. 

“Training went well today, then?” Slightly startling at the voice, Kristina looked up from where there were far too many files and notes spread across her desk. She was only mildly surprised to see that it was Zeke Yeager at the door to her office, fist raised up as if he had just knocked. 

“Training was fine,” Kristina finally responded, sitting up in her chair more as she shuffled a few papers into the proper folder. “They followed the instructions that were given to them to a satisfactory degree.” Kristina followed up promptly, the perfect expected response even as she wanted to gush just a little about how Gabi had finally managed to complete the obstacle course they ran all Warrior candidates through. 

“Prompt and succinct as always,” Zeke chuckled, making a show of looking around as if checking to make sure no one was listening. Once he was ‘certain,’ and while Kristina was debating whether to laugh or roll her eyes, he leaned in to ‘whisper,’ “Gabi completed the course, then?”

Well. She could be a little honest, right? “Yes, she did,” Kristina sighed, giving in just enough to let a little of her pride color her words. “And Falco beat his previous record.” 

“Looks like our future warriors are shaping up to be something worthwhile.” Mm. She could tell there was more that he wasn’t saying, but she was willing to let it lay for the moment. With Zeke, it always seemed like there was something he wasn’t quite saying. “Well, I suppose I’ll leave you to your paperwork, then.” 

Instead of leaving, Zeke closed the distance to her desk, setting down a clipboard with a small ribbon tied across the clip of it. She was a little surprised Zeke had even remembered that her clipboard had broken last week. “What’s this for?” 

“Something to make your birthday slightly less miserable today.” Her… Snapping her gaze to Zeke, she saw that smug, self-satisfied smile he always had when he was fully aware he knew something that others had thought was secret. “Just because you don’t tell anyone doesn’t mean it’s a secret.” 

“You just don’t know when to leave something well enough alone,” Kristina said sternly, even as she picked up the clipboard and gently untied the ribbon. “Thank you, though. It’s appreciated.” It was nice, and Kristina was delighted that she wouldn’t need to prop up a file against a wall in the middle of the hallway in order to make a note anymore. Still. She couldn’t be seen playing favorites, especially with Zeke Yeager, or, more accurately, especially with an Eldian. 

Zeke, against all odds, was still her best friend, though, and she knew he could hear what she hadn’t said by the way his smile grew a little more real. “Well, I have my own work to accomplish today, so until I see you next, Officer Qual.” Zeke gave her one last smile and a quick wave before heading out, Kristina calling out a parting goodbye. 

While it was true spending her birthday updating files and doing paperwork for the Warrior program wasn’t her first choice, there could have been worse ways to spend her day. There also could have been better ways, of course, but she didn’t see a possible surprise party in her future, thankfully enough. 

She only managed to pick up her pen and open a file when she heard a knock against her office door again. She expected to hear Zeke’s voice cheerfully saying he had forgotten something, but instead there was a silence that finally made her look up to see that it wasn’t Zeke standing at her door, but instead it was Reiner Braun. 

“Hi,” he said after Kristina, like an idiot, continued to do nothing but stare at him. “I-Well. I was tasked by Commander Magath to go into town and pick up a couple of items needed for the program, linens and such, and I wanted to ask, if you weren’t too busy, if you’d like to accompany me? You know the current trainees better than I do, after all, and would be able to make better decisions.” 

Kristina very carefully did not jump to her feet and blurt out that she would love to go with Reiner Braun on a shopping trip around town and that hey, while she was at it, she actually had a stupidly huge crush on him ever since he had helped her when they were little kids and she had been lost inside the Internment Zone. 

Instead, she capped her pen, set it down, and then calmly got out of her chair. “Alright. I don’t see any problem with that.” Definitely, absolutely not a problem seeing as she got to spend her birthday with the man she had had feelings for since she was a child. (Feelings she could never share. She knew the dangers of a Marleyan and an Eldian being together.) “Commander Magath provided you with the needed funds, I take it?” 

“Yes, he did.” Reiner stepped out of the doorway as they both left her office, Kristina closing the door behind her and making sure it was locked as per protocol. When she looked back to see Reiner smiling at her, she had to work to remain as detached as she could. Blushing and beaming back wouldn’t do either of them any favors. 

Still. She could pretend, just to herself, that this was more than a casual offer to pick up supplies. Likely she was the only one available at the time, and Kristina had made it clear that she was always ready and able to help those within the program. Still. She could pretend that maybe this was something like a date? 

Neither of them spoke until they were outside of the Warrior Headquarters and onto the streets. While it wasn’t the end of day, it was certainly later in the evening, so many of the streets were slow or empty with people beginning to head home or having already arrived there. It was a lot more relaxing than the usual hustle and bustle of the town, although they should probably hurry if they wanted to reach any stores before they closed- 

“So.” Reiner’s voice interrupted her thoughts and completely scattered them, which at least was a familiar feeling. “How has your day been?” 

It was not a date, Kristina told herself firmly before burying her delight and surprise at being asked something so mundane. “Nothing too terribly exciting.” 

The silence returned to sit between them and Kristina hated that even with how she wanted to be kind to him so desperately, she still always treated him so coldly in fear for both of them. But… the streets were calm, and no one was looking their way, so… She was allowed to be a little selfish on her birthday, right? 

“Gabi finally finished the course today.” The words were rushed out more than anything, almost tripping over each other, but Kristina saw Reiner look over at her, his expression showing something like surprise before it broke for a genuine smile of delight. It was an expression she could easily get addicted to. “And Falco beat his time. New record and everything.” 

“Really? His last record was already among the highest in the entire program!” From there, with those excited words, it was so easy for Kristina to talk and praise her students and the work they had been putting in to become Warriors. It wasn’t the most riveting of conversations, but it was genuine, and it was the most she had talked with him since… 

Well. Since she could remember, if she were being honest. It made her greedy, trying to memorize each smile he gave her or each laugh that slipped out of him. She wanted to remember him as this, happy and relaxed after that failed mission to Paradis. She wanted to remember his teasing jokes and his insistent urge to carry all of the bags once they bought what was needed. 

Before she knew it — before she was ready for it — the two were once again standing out in front of the Warrior Headquarters. The sky had grown even darker, now awash with pinks and oranges, and Kristina knew that the Headquarters would be even emptier and quieter. 

“Thank you for coming with me today,” Reiner said softly, all thoughts of quiet offices and lonely spaces disappearing. “I appreciated it.” 

“As I said earlier. Anything to help the program,” Kristina said promptly, face back into its neutral mask even as she wanted, with everything in her, to say No, thank you for asking me, Reiner, I had a really great time today. Maybe we can do something like this again? 

“Of course. I hope you know that I’m always available as well, if you need someone to help with the other kids. There’s been no talk of new missions, so…” Reiner ended his words with a small shrug. It wasn’t hard to see that the dismal outcome of the Paradis mission weighed heavily on his mind. 

“I’m certain you’ll be given one soon,” Kristina rushed to say, letting the words out before she could overthink them and then edit them until they were as cold and cruel as the world expected her to act. “You were — are — one of the best in the program. The kids always talk about you. About how they want to be as great as you became.” 

“Oh.” The word was little more than a breath of air, but Kristina felt something like hope build up within her anyways. “Thank you, Officer Qual-” 

“Kristina.” Too far. That was far too far. Far too friendly. She shouldn’t be seen being that friendly to an Eldian, but the streets were still quiet, no one was listening to them, and it was her birthday. Just a little more selfishness wouldn’t change things. “When we’re outside of the office, you may call me Kristina.” 

“Kristina,” Reiner repeated softly, quietly, in a tone that Kristina immediately wanted to memorize and never forget for as long as she lived. “Ah. That’s right. I had something that I wanted to- Well. That I wanted to give you, actually.” 

Reiner shifted the bags from hand-to-hand as he dug in his pockets, obviously searching for something and appearing almost flustered. She almost hoped that it was her that made him feel that way. 

Before she could offer to hold some of the bags for him until he found whatever he was looking for, he was holding out an arm with a clenched fist. 

She moved automatically, catching the item that Reiner dropped into her hands and curious as she felt a plastic-like texture that took her by surprise. Before she could ask what it was, she brought it closer and rotated it around to see that it was… a piece of candy. 

It was the piece of candy. 

Oh, it certainly wasn’t the piece that he had offered her when he had found her as a crying nine-year-old in a place she shouldn’t have been, doing his best to help her find her way to her father, but it was the same brand. The same flavor, shape, and color and he had given it to her.

Slowly, not sure what she wanted to see, she looked back up to meet his eyes. He was- It wasn’t that he was flustered, it was that he was flushed. He was smiling at her and something there about him made him look… hopeful. Was he hopeful? 

Why would he be hopeful? Had he remembered that first meeting of theirs when they were children? Or was this some attempt at a birthday gift, maybe? He didn’t say anything, but something about his smile and his look made her think that he remembered at least one of those. 

“Thank you for asking me to go with you today,” Kristina blurted, honest words pouring forth before she could think better to press them down. Somehow, speaking her mind didn’t terrify her as much as she thought it should. “I had a really great time today and maybe- Maybe we can do something like this again.” 

“I would really enjoy that,” Reiner said softly, gently, and Kristina somehow felt like she had received the best birthday present she could have asked for.

#◆ commissions. #ibelieveinahappilyeverafter #reiner braun #reiner #kristina qual #kristina #mentions of: #zeke yeager #zeke #gabi braun #gabi #falco grice #falco #aot #attack on titan #snk #shingeki no kyojin #reiner x kristina #reistina #reiner x oc #canon x oc #fluff #aot oc #This is so good. So amazing. #I have so many words it will not fit in this entire tag section. #Y'all. Andrew is great.

[grace-nakimura]

Unbeta'd. Written when I actually have stuff to do, but I'm impulsive and a Gemini. Inspired by this. Also, a nugget taken from @impossibleprincess35's fic about the drunken antics of Obi-Wan. As well as a companion to my Mara fic, sure. Brief mentions of Obitine, Obiquin (Obi/Quinlan), and LukeMara.

This is the story of the first, and last, time Luke Skywalker deep dives into old articles circulating around the Clone Wars.

Leia isn't with him. She has little Ben and now baby Jaina to take care of, but she does request if he finds any holophotos of their mother make copies. She also asks if she sees any holo photos of Bail and Breha to make copies, too, but he notes how she leaves out any mention of Anakin Skywalker.

He doesn't blame her; Leia is entitled to feel how she wants, just like he is, and while they are growing in their sibling dynamic where they can argue about anything to being the best of friends with a flip of a dime, the respect they have for each other is solid. It's built upon a foundation of beskar, shared trauma, and the fact they've known each other for years before ever meeting one another.

(He wishes there could be holophotos, or recordings, of Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen. When he dreams of them he's always ten years old; Uncle Owen is sipping his caf and ruffles his hair, while Aunt Beru smiles and asks him if he wants blue milk or regular milk with his breakfast.)

That doesn't stop his own curiosity about who Anakin Skywalker was.

Cunning warrior. Good pilot. Good friend. Old Ben had told him, but he left out the part where he also spent twenty years committing crimes against sentient life.

He said I was like him when I was a kid, Leia had told him. Fearless and passionate, forthright. Which, sure, Leia is all those things and more, but it doesn't tell him who Anakin used to be.

Intense, the droid Huyang had said and left it at that.

Intense. Cunning warrior. Good pilot. Good friend(?) - you don't leave a good friend to waste away in a sea of lava, and a good friend also doesn't kill you, but Luke knows not to poke the proverbial krayt dragon - and ... oh, yes. Fearless. Passionate. Forthright. Which could sum up a number of people in the galaxy.

So there Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master who hasn't really been knighted, sits in front of a computer in a library on Coruscant scrolling through article after article. He makes copies of their mother - for Leia - and he makes some copies of the sparse mentions of Kor Kryze for Mara - even if she says she doesn't need it, but he's caught her staring at the little information she has with a hunger that matches his own - and finally, he finds some things about the Hero with No Fear. Swapping left, Luke enlarges the blue projection and sees his father.

His father, newly knighted, doing his best to avoid eye contact with the photographers. Everyone says Luke looks like his father, but he sees more Leia (he knows better than to say that to her face!) in him. Beside him is Obi-Wan, his hair longer, and layered, looking just as uncomfortable but much more - professional? He makes a copy. Artoo beeps in boredom, whistling in a way that asks, are we done yet? but Luke ignores him.

(Ever since he learned that the astromech had the ability of flight and never needed him to carry him through muck and sand and over hills all along, well ... Luke calls this payback.)

Several other pictures. It's mostly propaganda, which tells Luke absolutely nothing, about the young man known as Anakin Skywalker. This is the myth, he realizes, not the man. It's with a sinking realization that that is all Anakin Skywalker is ever going to be - a myth. A story. Mon Momtha had agreed to keep what became of Anakin Skywalker a secret only between he and Leia, out of respect of the friendship she had with their mother, but Luke thinks it's mostly out of the care she so clearly possesses for Leia. Even Mon, who was there, only had a vague impression that Anakin was competent and he was loath to leave Padme's side.

Sort of like he is loathed to leave Mara's, if he's being honest, but he likes to think he's handling it in a much more mature fashion than a nineteen or twenty-year-old.

He heeds warnings about attachment, but Mara isn't a possession. Wedge or Biggs weren't possessions. They were partners. Mara is his partner, even if they haven't really spoken about being one, and maybe he is being presumptuous, but -

and this is when a link appears.

I have a bad feeling about this, he thinks to himself. It's a holotabloid, so he knows it's going to be absolutely poodoo.

Maybe it's because he's naturally curious. Maybe he's masochistic. Maybe he's tired of Artoo's, can we go yet? whistle that he's been sprouting over and over again every two minutes - enough for a librarian to hush the two - but he clicks on it. It isn't his own personal datapad, and the computers in the Coruscanti Library are probably the most protected from viruses or malware than any piece of technology in the Core.

He looks to his right - no one. Just Artoo spinning around like a child. He looks to his left - no one. Well, if he discounts a nimodian mother and child browsing the children's section a few meters away. The child spots him and squeals. While, normally, Luke hates being recognized in public, children are always the exception. The child, no older than little Ben, shyly hides behind their mother's leg, peeking at him now and then.

The display of innocence - and the reminder to pay a visit to Chandrilla to see Ben and Jaina because, by the stars, there is no way in all Corellian hells is Lando going to win the title of their favorite uncle! - he turns back to the blue projections and presses the link with his finger.

The photo - and article - makes his stomach drop signifcantly.

OBI-WAN KENOBI IS TOO POLITE TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS HUGE PENIS!

Oh, this isn't - oh, no.

If Quinlan Vos had Obi-Wan Kenobi's penis, he'd be whipping it out constantly. Vos told Holonews of Kenobi (who is on the magazine's cover.)

This isn't happening. This is worse than losing a hand and being told your father, who you dreamt about your whole life, is a genocidal tyrant all in one go. That was pretty bad. He would be lying if he said he didn't have echoes of nightmares about that night even nearly a decade after.

This is worse. This is how he felt when Mara told him she is also a Kenobi as well as a Kryze. That the man who he and Biggs caught arguing with the air now and then as kids had sex. Someone looked at that man who so badly needed a mind healer and went, yes, that is the one for me.

(It's not my fault Master Jinn came around at the worst of times! The force ghost of his old mentor defended himself, even translucent Luke remembers noticing how his ears would redden. Spend ten years trying to contact him, only to spend nine years hearing his unsolicited advice!)

Against his better judgment - and maybe because it's a rather short article - he scrolls down.

"I don't think Obi is proud of his penis as most men who are as well hung would - or should - or could be."

"This is nothing like what Master Yoda had told me," but then again, in the brief time he's met with Quinlan Vos he's noted that the words "conservative" and "Quinlan" were not synonymous whatsoever.

And the fact Kenobi won't tell you about his huge dick himself is a sign of his fine moral character. "I think that's the greatest demonstration of his inane humility," Vos added, "that he doesn't wear it like a badge of honor."

"I can explain!" The force ghost, a force ghost who Luke still can't look in the eyes properly. Not just for the fact that more and more someone who seemed almost grandfatherly was a human, but for all the images he has of his only grandchild he finds himself thinking about when he's alone. The sort that could make him a great-grandfather.

Luke holds his face in his hands, hunching over, as the force ghost regales him a tale of a misadventure in a Dantooine Cantina, and how his oldest friend thought himself quite the comedian. That, apparently, there was a soft scolding by the council about the Jedi Knight, but - much to his own and Luke's mortification - the fact it had Kit Fisto in stitches meant the punishment was simply a scolding and nothing more.

Luke groans.

And just when he thinks that this is the end, when he powers off the computer and uses the USB port to transfer the things he's saved for himself, Leia, and Mara onto Artoo - who whistles in excitement at the prospect of leaving - the force ghost of Ben, old Ben, who seems to take unnatural glee at tormenting Luke because the afterlife must be terribly boring, speaks up: "While I cannot say for certain that the article is factual, I can assure you that Satine never once complained. Or Quinlan, for that matter, although he was before I met-"

"Right." He stands from the chair and puts a hand on Artoo's dome once the transfer is finished, putting the USB port in his pocket. Not the best place, but he just wants to get out. "Always a pleasure, Ben." Luke says, dryly, not bothering to even glance at the ghost who he can hear is chuckling under his breath.

This is the story of the first, and last, time Luke Skywalker deep dives into old articles circulating around the Clone Wars

#myfic #skybaby one #sw #* mara jade is a kryze. #mentions of: #skybaby two

[shadowxamyweek]

To Amy and Shadow: do you babysit Cream together?

Amy: Yeah, sometimes! The first time that happened though, that was an accident. Vector and Vanilla were going out and they both asked us to babysit Cream and Charmy separately. It worked out though! Tails came over to hang out too and we had a great time. Shadow: Since then, Cream has asked for us both. Amy: She likes spending time with both of us, but I have a hunch it's so she and I can hang out while you go play with Charmy. Shadow: Probably.

#amy rose #shadow the hedgehog #AskAmy #AskShadow #mentions of: #vectilla #charmy the bee #miles tails prower #cream the rabbit #ask #SonicCharacterAsk

[dutyworn]

                    @perditos    /    garrus    /    as plotted ↷

❝ What’s done is done, there’s nothing to talk about. ❞

Wren’s pacing, having just let Garrus in her quarters. She’s been pacing. Wants to go down to the lower deck where the ship’s gym equipment is and have a good run on a treadmill, doesn’t want to bump into anyone. (She let Garrus in because not doing so would look worse, and the last thing she needs is her crew, her friends, walking on eggshells around her.)

She’s watched the recording enough times for it to have burned into her mind, and now she keeps replaying it, somehow from third and first person all at once... how she’d taken the beating, impassive enough, but how when they strangled her... The camera had done a good job capturing her sheer panic. And now the entire Normandy crew’s aware. No doubt the vid will leak to the extranet sooner or later, unless the Illusive Man somehow manages to stop it (she hates that she’s had to report it, but it’s really the only chance there is to do anything about it). They’re toying with her, trying to get under her skin. Trying to undermine her, humiliate her.

The physical damage she could take; it’s been a week, and she’s mostly back to normal (ever since Cerberus brought her back, she finds her body healing just a hint faster). But that they had to fucking locate  a weak spot in her.

❝ It doesn’t make me look good, if it leaks to the public. People think I’m crazy about the Reapers to begin with, the political fallout... ❞    She keeps pacing, even as she’s gesturing for Garrus to sit down. Her tone is very matter of fact.    ❝ That’s probably the agenda.  Who’s gonna trust Commander Shepard if Commander Shepard can’t keep it together? ❞    She rubs her neck hard, huffing. Continues pacing in a circle.    ❝ So, did it work? I mean, broadcasting it on the Normandy wasn’t just a power move to show they could hack our systems. If they want the public to trust me even less, I’m sure they want my own crew to feel the same way. You’re worried about me. Must’ve worked some, at least. ❞

#perditos #; only mostly dead ❪ verse / second game. ❫ #; perditos / garrus / 002 #mentions of: #injury cw #violence cw #choking cw

[outofangband]

(Just thinking about Aerin after Túrin leaves.)

There had been two dozen in the halls that evening when she had followed Brodda there, silent and numb. All of them lie dead or have fled into the cold hills. The night is quiet but she knows it will not be for long. Not all who fled the halls left with Túrin.

She steps inside again. The fire in the hearth is dying. Broken glass and wooden splinters shatter the ground.

She looks at Brodda’s body for just a moment. For a man of so much violence it had taken so little to end him.

She walks to the table where she had been forced to sit beside him and play her cruel role. It had been splintered off in the chaos. She picks up one of the broken legs. It is heavy in her hand as she drags it across the floor. In her other hand she takes a torch from the wall, one of the few left. It is too warm to hold but she does anyways until she has walked the length of the hall to the other one left.

Aerin drops the torch.

She knows Túrin will never reach Morwen. She knows no help will come.

She walks back towards the night that will soon dawn a frigid grey. The flames leap over the table and the tapestry. She feels no warmth from them.

The house burns for a very long time.

Notes:, I think SO much about Aerin and Túrin’s brief exchange over Morwen. It actually dates back to the book of lost tales version too! Am revising my post on this. Two, am leaving this purposefully ambiguous to whether or not Aerin survives. That being said I am certain that Húrin watching saw her burn. I was talking to theworldisquietheretooquiet about this! We have so many agonizing ideas :)

#the silmarillion #the children of húrin #Aerin #mentions of: #Morwen #Túrin #very tired tonight but #musing and meta #short writings #occupation of hithlum #they have fired the hall

[callme-adam-iguess]

Mutation Files: Mutated Sniper (Subject 2705)

Mercenary Name: Sniper

First name and Surname: N/A aka not decided by Mutant.

Age: around his late 20s, early 30s.

Observations + Personal notes

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Personality traits: Similarities and differences

Subject 2705 seems to be pretty patient like his original counterpart.

He starts to get very Anxious if left alone for too long however. To fix a part of this issue, we have given him a shared room with Scout, who volunteered to do so.

Interactions with the rest of the mutants in his team

He even if he can't talk (but his vocal cords are fine, so he can make sounds) he seems to get Along with the others just fine, and has learned Sign language fairly quickly along with Spy

He seems to bicker a bit with Soldier, gets along with Demoman and Spy the most and has a friend enemy/ 'frenemy' like friendship with Scout

Personal notes: we believe he's a safe mutant if not provoked. He can walk around the facility and interact with others that know his existence. Though we probably have to keep him and his fellow teammates from the world for obvious reasons. -Dr. B-L

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#TF2 Mutation Files #tf2 sniper #mentions of: #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 demoman #Au oc #DR. B-L

[asksomnifromundermtebbot]

HEY SOMNI DO YOU KNOW WHO THE WOMAN IS BEYOND THE RUIN DOOR IS?

-snakeeyyy:3

"she sounds...nice"

#ask somni #ask blog #atrd ut au #mentions of: #buttonblossom #← <also kinda>

[wordsbymae]

The Mad King Alphabet 18+

This guy sucks. It's me again! I'm actually quite excited about this one, mainly cause I hate him compared to Eli (my love!). Still haven't figured out a name for him yet but kinda don't wanna give him one. Hopefully, you guys enjoy this one as well! Also, I introduce his beginning in this post. So have a read of that one if you're getting a bit confused about what's happening. Once again 18+ and there will be NSFW themes :) Lots of love mae!

Unfortunately, this one came out as primarily for female readers, so from now on this series will be primarily for female readers. However, I am trying to keep Eli's series Gn and also any future series as gn as possible. As I am female I do struggle writing for male readers, but I do believe that anyone should be able to see themselves in my writing. I have a few more prompts lined up that are Gn readers as well. I just thought I would let you guys know.

Let's get into it!

This man may have been the lesser son of the king, but he's still a prince and he's still a spoiled brat. I kinda hate this man because of how entitled he acts. I mean if you read my first post, you understand that he believes he deserves anything he wants, his father's love, the throne, you.

And sure you can blame that on the massive weird shadow creature constantly reminding him that he is entitled to whatever and whoever he desires but I like to think he would still act like a spoiled shit without the shadowy figure.

He has spent so long trying to act like the perfect son, spent so long forcing his hatred and bitterness deep inside, so yeah, now that he has removed his brother from the equation and no longer has to pretend, he goes a little wild. I haven't written the next part yet, but as soon as he returns to the castle (with a convincing lie of an ambush and outlaws and how he desperately tried to save his brother) as soon as he announced King (no coronation required, he was in line for the throne so he is instantly king when his brother died, coronation comes later ), he is shoving open the door to your bed chambers and throwing you over his shoulder. Completely ignoring your questions, your pleas, the cry you give when he squeezes just a bit too tightly. He does not have time to play politics, he doesn't have time to renegotiate a new deal with your father, he wants, no, needs you and as King, he gets what he wants.

He doesn't care that you are screaming and crying, begging someone to help. You don't understand what's happening, you don't even know that your fiance, the true, rightful king is dead. His body is being carted back to the castle as his brother drags you kicking and screaming to his room. You catch the eye of some of the Queen's guard, your future protectors, and you beg them to save you, beg them to do their job. But they have already sworn their loyalty to your aggressor, your pleas fall on dead ears.

I'll skip what happens in the bedroom as it's what I'm planning on writing next, so let's move on to the following days and weeks. Luckily for him your father could care less you weren't going to marry the rightful king, he was just grateful someone wanted you. You were married the day after his brother's funeral. Some of the advisors thought it much, much too soon. The kingdom needed time to mourn, to grieve. He argued the sooner you were married, the quicker you could give him a child, a cause for celebration. The advisors tried to argue, but when one succumbed to a terrible sickness (his veins turned black and rotted under his flesh), the others didn't have the fight to disagree. (You can bet the shadow had something to do with that). You on the other hand raged and fretted over this new turn of events. You had hoped you would have had some months to prepare for being married to him (the weird brother that you always caught staring and who you had found in your room one day going through your things).

Come now, surely you were aware that this was your purpose? Did your mother never tell you what occurs in a marital bed? Fear not my heart, if you require a lesson in the act of fucking I will be your most dedicated teacher

He isn't kind, there is no warmth to his actions, and he almost sees you as nothing more than a pretty pet. A pet he would brutally murder for yes, but he isn't against putting you back in your place, whether that be on your knees or with a collar of silver and diamonds around your neck.

He buys you everything, he sources the freshest ingredients, the rarest jewels, prized mares and hand-crafted gowns of silk and pearls. Most days you feel as though he is trying to buy your affection. And you would be correct, he wants you to see him as a rich, benevolent ruler (he's a bit insecure). He also thinks that by providing these things to you, he has gained the right to do whatever the hell he wants with you. anything

You refuse your King? The King who dresses you in these fine silks? The King who fills your belly with fresh fruit and tender meat when others starve? On your knees. You seem to have forgotten who is your King

All in all, he kinda sucks. But as time goes on and you fight him less, show more affection and reject him less often, his attitude towards you changes. I view it like you were a prized animal in the sense he saw that he had to break you in, but now he can show you off and spoil you.

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A = Affection (How do they show their love and affection? How intense would it get?)

If by affection you mean him treating you like a prized pet? Then yes. He gives you the prettiest thing, a gorgeous necklace of silver and jewels that is tight enough around your neck to be a collar (it is a collar), the most delicate and softest garments, he makes you try them all on as he watches, giving praises on how beautiful you look, how you rival the sun in your brilliance, he hand feeds you from his own plate. You really are just a pet with a human voice.

B = Blood (How messy are they willing to get when it comes to you?)

The destruction of entire kingdoms, bloody. He brutally drowned his own brother for you. Do you really think he cares for some nobodies?

C = Cruelty (How would they treat you once abducted? Would they mock you?)

He can be pretty cruel but he doesn't think he is. He thinks he's being fair. He justifies everything he does as his right, or what he needs to do to train you to become the Queen he knows you can be. He doesn't tease like Eli does, but he does mock.

Oh my poor darling, look at you. Crying for a family who never wanted you. We both know that they sent you to my brother to be used like a bitch in heat. And yet! and yet you cry for them. Your heart aches for them. If I wasn't in love with you I would call it pathetic.

D = Darling (Aside from abduction, would they do anything against your will?)

oh yeah, I won't into it too much but he's not exactly a gentleman. He's a king. He could order you to strip naked and walk up the street in front of all of his guards if he so chooses (although he would never do that, he wouldn't want those peasants to feast upon your skin).

E = Exposed (How much of their heart do they bare to you? How vulnerable are they when it comes to you?)

I think that because he is so desperate for affection, he would one night just break into tears and tell you everything. From the love he never received from his father, about the shadow, about how he desperately wanted to be equal to his brother. To the love he began to feel for his brother and how he might even regret killing him, even for you. You never bring any of that up ever again.

F = Fight (How would they feel if you fought back?)

Like when a kitten or a puppy tries to play fight. You know you can fight them off easy you just don't to hurt them. But if you bite too hard he will teach you a lesson

G = Game (Is this a game to them? How much would they enjoy watching you try to escape?)

Oh no no no, no games with this one. He's kinda boring :( He has a terrible sense of humour and takes everything to heart. Also, he hates it when you try and push his limits so if you try and run, there is no chance of mercy.

H = Hell (What would be your worst experience with them?)

I think the first night with him would have been the worst. He's just grabbed you from your room with no explanation and dragged you to his room. He suddenly explains the king is dead and you are to be his queen, from like right now. You would be absolutely terrified and crying with your head in your hands, especially when he starts ripping your clothes off and telling you to get on his bed. You try to beg him to wait till the wedding, but he doesn't seem to care about formalities right now. At least after that first night, you kinda knew what to expect.

My heart, there is no reason to fear. I swear I will be gentle

(he wasn't)

I = Ideals (What kind of future do they have in mind for/with you?)

You with a pretty silver collar around your neck and a babe on your hip. He may act like a royal dick head (which he is) but he is simple in his ambitions, he didn't want the throne, just you, the throne was just a stepping stone. He would be happy without the crown as long as he has you looking up at him so sweetly from your place by his feet (also as long as he still has his three butlers, 5 stallions, constant supply of food and prettiest clothes for you to wear)

J = Jealousy (Do they get jealous? Do they lash out or find a way to cope?)

He is actually quite insecure, on the account of never having any true affection or love sent his way as a child. I can definitely see him getting jealous, even to the point of never letting any man see you. Since you are the queen this is a bit tricky and impractical (how are you meant to rule your subjects), so he compromises and makes it a law (punishable by death) to gaze upon your face, you just cannot trust people these days.

K = Kisses (How do they act around you?)

I think I have kinda explained how he acts throughout this drabble, but I will go into it a bit more in-depth. Constantly has his eyes on you or even his hand on the back of your neck. Always watching and waiting for you to do something wrong. But I also think that as time goes on and you start to accept you are never leaving him, he calms down and trusts you a bit, even to the point where you might even say he is kind. He begins to kiss your knuckles and palms. Begins to braid, plait and tie ribbons into your hair. He begins to help you dress, gently tieing the knots at the back of your dress, helping you put on your shoes. He gives you more sentimental gifts, like flowers and drawings rather than jewels and silks, his gaze softens and his voice is warm instead of callous. But this may take some time and only if you stop trying to reject your place by his side.

L = Love letters (How would they go about courting or approaching you?)

Courting? The man skipped like 7 steps straight to marriage. I have mentioned he buys you things constantly and he will think he is being kind by letting you walk in the courtyard or the gardens without him (wow such a gentleman).

M = Mask (Are their true colours drastically different from the way they act around everyone else?)

Not really, the only difference is he won't kill you, unlike others. Although as I mentioned above, over time this does change and you begin to be treated with a bit more kindness and love.

N = Naughty (How would they punish you?)

Like an owner does a dog. He might push your face in a mess you made during a tantrum, smack or spank you, leave you tied to his bed, remove all your books and entertainment, and his personal favourite, tying the hand of a common criminal or of someone you tried to get to help you around your neck.

Now I do not wish to punish you, pet, but you continue to act unruly and unbecoming of a Queen. I want you to think about what you have down and once I believe you have learnt your lesson I will remove the hand. Agreed?

(do other people do this with their dogs when they kill their chickens? Putting the dead chicken around the dog's neck? we did it once and it worked but all my city friends have sworn they have never heard of doing that)

O = Oppression (How many rights would they take away from you?)

HAHAHA. everything. You are practically a glorified cow (your casual collar - yes you have multiple for different occasions- even has a little bell!). You have no rights. You may be queen, which grants you power over your subordinates, but he will always outrank you with everything. The only power you have relates to any future children. He allows you to decide on their education and raise them as you see fit.

P = Patience (How patient are they with you?)

Patience?????? Never heard of her. He is more willing to humour you with things but don't go pushing too many of his buttons.

Ah, what is this my heart? A book? Please continue to read , but out loud this time. I have to ensure my queen is not getting any ridiculous ideas. Do not fret, my love! It was only a jest

(it wasn't - remember when I said he doesn't joke? If he says he's joking he's lying)

Q = Quit (If you die, leave, or successfully escape, would they ever be able to move on?)

I really don't think he would even let you die. I mean he has this shadowy figure of questionable descent on his side. Who's to say that even if you try to die by your own hand he won't just bring you right back? Also some sort of thing with leaving. I don't even think you would be able to leave. When the shadow isn't with him, it's constantly watching what you're doing and reporting back to him.

You must think I am a fool. Did you really think that I would not be able to figure out your little plan? Trying to leave in the middle of the night, leaving your subjects, leaving your King? What an ungrateful whore. I'll remind you of your place. Strip.

R = Regret (Would they ever feel guilty about abducting you? Would they ever let you go?)

No regret at all. It was his right to claim you and it's your purpose to sit there and look pretty. And no fucking way would they let you go. What king would let his queen leave?

You may think that look of pain in your eyes would inflict pity in mine. But you would be mistaken pet. You are my birthright. I was destined to conquer you. To corrupt you, to break you down and build you up as my perfect queen.

S = Stigma (What brought about this side of them [childhood, curiosity, etc]?)

A crazy mixture of childhood and a shadowy monster driving him to murder his brother and claim you as his.

T = Tears (How do they feel about seeing you scream, cry, and/or isolate yourself?)

Finds it all very annoying, you are his Queen, so act like it. A queen does not sook, sob or have tantrums because her King was a little rough with them. Your only purpose is to take what he gives you with a smile and a thank you. Is it really that hard? Once again he views you as a pet so, he would find it all very inconvient, and would probably buy you a puppy/kitten to try and change your mood (it works, at least for me it would).

U = Unique (Would they do anything different from the classic yandere?)

Besides the 7ft shadow figure who drove him to murder? Not really. He's a basic bitch

V = Vice (What weakness can you exploit in order to escape?)

his need for validation and affection, all stemming from his childhood insecurities. That's what this is all about. The love he didn't receive as a child from the man who he worshipped. I think if you gave him all the validation and affection he wanted he would give you much more freedom than compared if you didn't. Maybe even enough to slip through some metaphorical crack to make a run for it. Make sure he never catches up through, it won't be pretty if he did.

W = Wit’s end (Would they ever physically hurt you?)

Yes, not because he wants to or enjoys it. He sees it as a necessary evil to punish you or train you (that's right he's got a pet play kink, my sources? me). But just because he doesn't enjoy it doesn't mean he'll shy away from some painful things. I'm talking about broken fingers or things that can heal but not really leave a mark.

X = Xoanon (How much would they revere or worship you? To what length would they go to win you over?)

He doesn't worship you like Eli would (on his knees begging to just have a taste), but he does revere you. You are his chosen queen. He could have killed his brother years ago and chosen some random woman as his queen, but no the shadow choose you, he chose you. But because of that, he holds you up to a high standard.

Y = Yearn (How long do they pine after you before they snap?)

It was actually quite a short pinning period. You arrived and then 3 weeks later your fiance, his brother was dead. He had decided, with the help of his good friend the shadow, that he wanted his brother dead when you showed his brother just too much attention at the welcome feast, so I suppose you could argue then? The period between then and him throwing you over his shoulder was filled with him staring, following you around the castle, listening to the conversations between you and his brother (may he rest in peace), sniffing your clothes when you were out of your room for the day and writing you little love letters (how sweet!) he would leave under your pillow as you slept (not so sweet). You had actually believed the letters came from his brother because of how they spoke of your future married life and future children, it actually lead you to fall somewhat in love with the rightful king.

Z = Zenith (Would they ever break you?)

Oh yeah. That's the end goal baby. He wants you pliant and willing. Willing to let him do whatever he wants with you as he so pleases. He is the King, after all, he can't have anyone questioning his authority. I think though if you fight him constantly he will push and push and push until you are broken entirely but if you are more willing early on he will allow you some freedoms (like not mentally scarring you) and treat you more like a beloved pet than an unruly mare.

How is my darling pet this evening? Have you been well behaved? I suppose I must encourage good behaviour with a reward. Suppose I allow you a small trip to the city? With your dotting King by your side of course

#yandere fantasy #yandere drabble #yandere imagines #yandere x reader #yandere #the mad king #oc #yandere alphabet #female reader #please tell me if you guys want more gn stuff! I will try if you want #mentions of: #misogyny #patriarchy #suicide #dub con #yandere king #king!yandere #king!yandere x reader

[primnroses]

— Explaining Konohagakure’s Barrier Team from Naruto to Boruto:

The information presented in this post has been checked and revised. My aim is not to hate or to discredit any of the characters mentioned. Please read about me for further information.

This post will contain evidence in picture format directly from the manga Naruto (1999 - 2014) created by Masashi Kishimoto and published by Shueisha in 1999. I will also use information from the official databooks.

This informative post will explain the role and utility of the Barrier Team from its debut in Naruto to its role in Boruto. I will use information present in the novels and the Boruto manga because it includes character development within canon compliance.

This meta will be crossposted in AO3.

I give my permission to use or share this thread with informative purposes as long as you credit me.

I do not support the anime or the work of Studio Pierrot in regards to Naruto because I consider it over exaggerated and beyond biased. Furthermore, these fillers include some actions that these characters are unable to do in the canon according to official sources and they also generate unnecessary debate.

This meta does contain anime scenes from Boruto because it is a monthly manga draft that depends heavily on anime for context.

Please, take this into consideration.

This meta will include a small discussion from my own point of view about the Barrier Team and its members. There will be criticism and complaints, comparisons with other characters, previous leaders, etc.

HISTORY

The Barrier Team (結界班, Kekkai-Han) is an organization formed by sensor-type shinobi and regular shinobi in charge of maintaining the Sensing Barrier, a giant sphere surrounding Konohagakure and its outskirts, which detects any foreign chakra that crosses the border of the village. Many years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, it has been mechanized and transformed into an automated sensing system composed of a few sensor-type shinobi and led by members of the Yamanaka clan.

It is unknown for how long this team has existed, but the Barrier Team debuted in chapter 415 of Naruto. Based on its development, Konoha has kept a Konoha-wide exclusive sensing technique through the ages and, among their ranks, they count with sensor-type shinobi like Hyūga clan members.

This team also has their own unique crest in the shape of an inverted triangle with three circles inside, worn by their members in their clothes in armbands or hats.

Sensing Barrier and Sensing Water Sphere according to the fourth databook.

Naruto:

During the era of the Fifth Hokage, the Barrier Team was a rather small team located inside a room (most likely inside the Hokage Residence) where the large Sensing Water Sphere was guarded and monitored by three sensor-type wearing Shinto robes. According to the fourth databook, Kakoi, one of the sensor-type Shinto priests, was the leader at the time of debut. 

The Sensing Water Sphere represents the invisible Sensing Barrier around Konoha, and the role of the Shinto priests was to inform of any unfamiliar chakra signature that crossed this barrier. When someone or something charged with chakra bypassed the barrier, the Sensing Water Sphere rippled around the area where the aura had been detected; a team of stationary chūnin were automatically sent to the location of the disturbance to investigate the threat.

Unofficially, the Barrier Team used to be divided in two groups:

The Detection was the division formed by the sensor-type Shinto priests.

The Interception was the division formed by chūnin, with Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane among these shinobi, in charge of investigating the threat and fighting the intruders. 

The Barrier Team headquarters and both divisions.

The Sensing Barrier extends from the small portion of forest before the very entrance and walls of the A-Un gate, to the portion of land behind the Hokage Rock, according to the view the manga offers, from the right side. This means that anyone entering the barrier will be detected before they reach the proper gates of Konoha, but not if they halt before the start of the barrier itself. Only Pain could come undetected to the very limit of the barrier due to the visibility his Rinnegan granted him; however, it is to assume the exact spot of the barrier is unknown to non-Konoha shinobi.

According to Pain, it is revealed that the Barrier Team has a special jutsu to get through the barrier without being noticed applicable to ANBU and probably Konoha shinobi, which allowed Kisame Hoshigaki to enter with Itachi Uchiha without alarm.

The view of the full sensing dome from the right angle (Hokage Monument to the right, A-Un Gate to the left).

The Sensing Water Sphere, the Sensing Barrier and the sensor-type Shinto priests, or more specifically Kakoi, and all the staff members in the Detection group in the current era, are symbiotically connected with each other. This means that Kakoi’s sensory range and the rest of the staff, only correspond to the range of the Sensing Barrier and not farther, just confirmed by the presence of Pain and his summons by the limit, undetected. This detail also applies to future leaders who are currently replacing Kakoi.

Kakoi's symbiosis with the Sensing Barrier when he only detects Chikushodo (Animal Path) upon bypassing.

The role of the Barrier Team has remained the same through the eras, meaning that their job is to sense disturbances detected by the Water Sensing Sphere and inform shinobi teams to attack the possible threats. The Sensing Barrier has always remained Konoha–wide too. 

Although the Barrier Team does not appear again until the Blank Period and Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, we could see a similar version of it during the global conflict but on a greater scale. 

Ao, a former ANBU and outstanding sensor-type from Kirigakure, was appointed the captain of the Sensor Division during the conflict. Alone, he could detect the presence of the reincarnated shinobi among the hundreds of White Zetsu clones in every division of the Allied Shinobi Forces through his Sensing Water Sphere, including natural energy which only a few selected sensors can perceive.

Ao maintaining the Sensing Water Sphere and sensing the White Zetsu army.

Blank Period

The next time the Barrier Team appears is in the Sasuke Shinden and Sakura Hiden novels:

According to Sasuke Shinden, after Pain’s attack, Konoha set up a more powerful barrier. However, the exploding humans could bypass the Sensing Sphere because they were Konoha shinobi, and thus, they are not considered intruders. The novel also confirms that the Interception group still exists and they also send messenger shinobi to alert the Hokage.

In Sakura Hiden, we notice a few modernizations. After Sakura Haruno defeated Kido Tsumiki, Kakashi arrived at the scene but was shortly cut by an instant Mind Body Transmission message from the Barrier Team alerting him of ANBU leaving the village.

Sasuke Shinden (above) and Sakura Hiden (below).

This detail is key to the development of the Barrier Team in Boruto, as telepathy via Chakra Transmission Communication Device becomes one of the most used tools by the team.

Boruto

By the era of the Seventh Hokage, the Barrier Team has continued to function the same was as before, with the exception of a few changes:

Although there are not any significant changes in headquarters, the Hokage Residence was reconstructed after Pain's invasion and so was the Barrier Team chamber. The location of the team has been confirmed in the anime inside the Hokage Residence.

The room has decreased in size and the area for the Interception Team has been replaced, in favor of a new Detection Team about the same size as the previous one and with the same amount of people monitoring the Sensing Barrier, although instead of Shinto priests, the staff is composed of regular chūnin.

In the manga, the room only takes a corner of an unknown location in the Hokage Residence. The automated sensing sphere has been replaced by monitors instead.

The Barrier Team headquarters in the anime and the manga.

According to Kashin Koji, Konoha used to have a Sensory Team led by members of the Yamanaka clan. However, this information is false. 

Kashin Koji explaining the "role" of the Yamanaka clan.

The Yamanaka clan, or at least the only member of the clan in Konoha (apart from Ino) was Inoichi Yamanaka, who was in charge of the Analysis Team by performing Psycho Mind Transmission on targets that could not be interrogated by Ibiki Morino. There are no Yamanaka clan members aside from those two in Konoha, as Inoichi’s subordinates in the Analysis Team are all shinobi of other origins such as Mawashi Dokuraku, Tonbo Tobitake and Aoba Yamashiro. The latter being the only person other than Inoichi capable of performing Psycho Mind Transmission as seen in chapter 507 and Sasuke Shinden.

(I personally want to remind you that the Yamanaka are not known to be sensors of that calibre. They use Yin Release to control other people or even animals to take advantage of their senses. Masashi Kishimoto described this as a form of sensing in the third databook. By using Mind Body Switch, Ino controlled a bird to find the Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu even though they were nearby, meaning she does not have sensing skills past her surroundings. Mind Body Transmission does not use sensory skills to connect people either as it is a telepathy area like Bluetooth. Telepathy works by sharing their chakra with others as stated by Inoichi.)

Ino's sensing through controlling other species and the Mind Body Transmission range.

Moreover, the people in charge of the Barrier Team were Kakoi and his team of Shinto priests. This information was fixed in the anime, acknowledging the presence of the Shinto priests and Kakoi after Ukyō Kodachi rewrote the history of Konoha. 

Kakoi described as a predecessor of the Barrier Team.

Ukyō Kodachi has renamed this team as Sensory Team or Sensory Unit, although it is still called by its original name, Barrier Team, in manga and anime.

To shed more context into the new era, according to Ino Yamanaka, the Barrier Team has been mechanized and modernized to replace sensor-types with an automated sensing. The Sensing Water Sphere has been replaced by a Scientific Ninja Tools sphere that detects intruders automatically and sends an alarm to the headquarters of the team.

In the manga, the Sensing Water Sphere has been replaced by screens and the area only takes about a room corner.

The new automated system also includes a database with the imprint of Konoha shinobi memorized in it, so anyone not registered within the system will be spotted.

Ino Yamanaka explains the new sensing system made by Katasuke Tōnō.

The range of the Sensing Barrier has decreased drastically, to the point of only covering from the gates to the Hokage Monument, instead of adding the portion of forest like previously established.

This is confirmed by Delta and Kashin Koji speaking on a tree branch by the A-Un Gate and passing undetected by anyone, even though they were within the previous range established by Kakoi in the Pain Arc. As soon as Delta crossed the walls, she was detected, but not before.

The new Barrier Team did not think about erasing the chakra signature of the deceased Jiraiya either, therefore, Kashin Koji, a Jiraiya clone, is able to come and go in and out of the village undetected.

Delta and Kashin Koji (to the left) right by Konoha's main gate, A-Un, undetected.

Led by Ino Yamanaka herself, the Barrier Team only counts with the Detection group, formed by three chūnin in charge of sensing, or rather, looking at the screens for any intruder and informing anyone they must. According to Shikadai Nara, the Interception group has been disbanded, now only informing Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha of danger so they can take care of it themselves. 

The new Detection group informs via telepathy using the Chakra Communication Device, a tool used by the Allied Shinobi Forces to connect each division scattered across the map with each other. This device can cover greater distances than Inoichi or any Yamanaka, therefore we see him, as well as his assistants from the Intelligence Division and other members of each division, wear it. We also see Ino wear it during The Last: Naruto the Movie to receive messages from other villages, clearly outside her range.

The new Chakra Communication Device from the Barrier Team is a much more modern version of the previous one used by the Alliance. Moreover, all communications performed by the Barrier Team, the content of all mind transmissions, are stored in their own database in order to be analyzed or monitored. The Chakra Communication Device is connected the the rest of the automated sensing system to save all images, chakra prints and telepathy relays.

The telepathy device has a stationary version and two portable versions. Ino using it in the Blank Period and the modern version used by Barrier Team.

As aforementioned, the role of the Barrier Team continues to be that of detecting unfamiliar chakra signatures and informing teams to go and investigate. This time, as soon as someone is detected, Ino contacts headquarters to ask them if the presence is registered by the database, and, if not, she will contact Naruto and Sasuke to investigate.

Moreover, they can only detect things charged up with chakra, but not objects like Delta’s drones or shinobi erasing their chakra. This is pointed out by Kawaki, who can fool the Barrier Team by erasing his chakra signature and complains that they are “incompetent” and “only rely on sensing chakra”. This hinders Konoha's protection. 

Delta sneaking a drone in Konoha to search for Kawaki. Kawaki complaining about Konoha's sensing system.

It seems that the new modernized version has not only decreased the sensory range of the Sensing Barrier of Kakoi’s time, but it also appears to be unable to deploy a boosting sensing system. In fact, Boruto was flaring his chakra on purpose while he was still inside the village. However, nobody in the Barrier Team was able to pick this up.

Not only does this inaptitude make it impossible to predict upcoming danger before bypassing the A-Un Gate, but it also makes it an impossible task to follow enemies when they have fled away from the borders.

Ino explains they are unable to trace anything beyond the gates or erased chakra.

For this same reason, Naruto Uzumaki had to step in and track Kawaki and Boruto by himself with Sage Mode.

When Kawaki and Boruto Uzumaki left the village, the Barrier Team could not detect them 40 kilometers outside Konoha because they were too far away from their limits. However, Naruto could finish what Ino or headquarters could not, even despite not having Kurama’s power for the extra boost.

Boruto flares his chakra to no response. Naruto detects Boruto in the battlefield against Code around 40 kilometers away with his sensing skills.

One of the most interesting details about the new Barrier Team is that they are self sufficient and automated because they possess technology to detect chakra imprints without the use of sensor-types, as well as being able to perform telepathy via Mind Body Transmission thanks to their Chakra Transmission Communication Device without the need of any member of the Yamanaka clan. 

This clearly makes the role of their leader very questionable.

We have already witnessed the Barrier Team function perfectly without Ino Yamanaka. Not only during Kakoi’s time, whose job and abilities are the same and above the current Barrier Team, but also during this era.

During the cohabitation mission with Team 7 and the cyborgs Eida and Deimon, as well as during Code’s invasion, the automated sensing and the staff detected (or undetected Kawaki) chakra signatures using their alarms and their screens, and also contacted Shikamaru Nara through telepathy using their Chakra Transmission Communication Devices.

As of chapters 77 and 81 of Boruto, Ino Yamanaka is deemed not necessary for the Barrier Team, her role taken over by the staff wearing telepathy devices and monitoring the sensing screens at all times.

One worker of the Barrier Team detecting the Grimes and Boruto and alerting Shikamaru Nara. Other worker also contacts Shikamaru about Kawaki erasing his chakra.

How does the Barrier Team work and what is their role?

Detect chakra signatures that bypass the Sensing Barrier.

Inform the Interception group and send them to investigate. In the new era, inform Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha telepathically.

DISCUSSION

How important is the Barrier Team?

The Barrier Team has experienced a surge of utility in Boruto compared to Naruto. However, being written into the story does not equal being more important.

Originally, they were introduced quite late in the story. Konoha has experienced invasions since Orochimaru infiltrated during the Chūnin Exams disguised as the Kazekage, although their role during Pain’s invasion was decisive to demonstrate that Konoha has countermeasures against enemies looking to enter the village. 

Masashi Kishimoto created a group of shinobi exclusively to lead the Barrier Team. This was neglected by Ukyō Kodachi, and he also made it that any sensor-type could replace Kakoi and company.

The equivalent of Konoha's Barrier Team was the Sensor Division. They worked in tandem with Mukta Aburame to discover that the enemy possessed an army of White Zetsu ready, and their captain, Ao, was also responsible of discerning the reincarnated Edo Tensei from the White Zetsu and informing Darui that Ginkaku and Kinkaku were among the ranks.

Ao senses the White Zetsu among the Edo Tensei and the presence of the twins.

So, the Barrier Team is essential to safeguard Konoha from the inside. Detecting anyone on the spot that has entered is one of the first steps to keep its villagers safe.

In Boruto, the Barrier Team suffered a downgrade compared to the previous appearance. Also counting 15 years of technological advancements that could have been implemented within their ranks, but have not happened. Because of Kara’s interests in Kawaki, who is currently protected by Konoha, they must maintain their Sensing Barrier in top condition to detect enemies.

A mistake made by Ukyō Kodachi, who made the Yamanaka clan, or rather, Ino, the leader or responsible of this team, is that he made someone without sensing feats in Naruto, a representative of sensor-types in Boruto. Choosing someone that cannot at least equal, maybe not surpass because it is impossible, Naruto’s sensing techniques granted by Sage Mode even after “nerfing” him, leaves much to be desired about Konoha’s resources and their range of sensor-types.

The failures of the Barrier Team

One of the reasons behind the surge of importance of the Barrier Team is due to Kara’s interests in Kawaki and Code’s desire to destroy Konoha. However, they also shine for their lack of resources and skills; and their lack of applying experience to reforming the new system learning by previous mistakes.

After fighting a large scale global conflict with reincarnated bodies and White Zetsu able to imitate shinobi chakra signatures (i.e White Zetsu impersonating Neji Hyūga to assassinate Sakura Haruno), Konoha’s new automated database and sensing system has not flagged chakra imprints from deceased shinobi like Jiraiya, prompting Kashin Koji to walk into the village as he pleases. 

Sakura Haruno discovers White Zetsu's way of copying unique chakra imprints to fool sensor-types.

Moreover, they rely solely on detecting chakra, making shinobi like Kawaki and Boruto, who can erase their chakra flare thanks to their Karma, and Karin, who can erase her chakra at discretion, to be able to enter or escape the village without being detected by the system or lookouts who are extremely apathetic. Not to mention none of the gates have lookouts like the ones in the War or use other sensing methods like Inuzuka clan, Hyūga clan (who used to be members) or Aburame clan alternative sensing skills that do not require sensing chakra. 

Hyūga with their eyes, Inuzuka with their noses and Aburame with their beetles being pivotal in tracking and sensing.

The sensors working for the Barrier Team are very limited to sensing only what is inside the Barrier, making their sensory feats only Konoha-wide or Sensing Barrier-wide. This sensing symbiosis with the Sensing Barrier is a problem, which means that sensors' skills scale to a machine rather than having abilities of their own. This problem results in them only sensing people when they have already entered Konoha, but not their approach, thus not preventing anything. If the enemy masks their chakra, these efforts are useless because they will not be detected.

This is more apparent for Ino Yamanaka, who was made into the leader of a sensing team and given prominence as someone that can potentially have above average sensing skills, but has failed to compel.

After having no sensing feats in Naruto, she is given a Konoha-wide sensing range equal to the Sensing Barrier’s Konoha-wide sensory to increase her importance. This way, her sensing power scales to a machine. However, after she debuts being able to sense Delta enter Konoha like a competent Konoha sensor, she gets gradually worse when it is discovered that she could not sense Delta plotting her entrance with Kashin Koji a few meters from the A-Un Gate to trying to sense Kawaki and Boruto knowing she cannot detect anything beyond the gates of Konoha or even being unable to sense Code’s ear on Shikamaru despite being a body part charged with chakra. 

The writing made the Yamanaka clan into a sensory clan instead of sticking to their original role (or Inoichi’s role because he was the only member in Konoha like aforementioned) as mind interrogators to gather intel, which was scrapped and the whole family rewritten. This inclusion makes it all the more forced and nonsensical. 

Inoichi Yamanaka and the Analysis Team using Psycho Mind Transmission.

Her lack of skills and Naruto’s necessity to use Sage Mode to do the job of the Barrier Team, has led the writers to dispose of Ino and keep writing their failures without her, as she really makes no difference in or out of the team. This means that any sensor, even Moegi Kazamatsuri who according to Ukyō Kodachi in her character trivia, got perfect sensing skills to replace her; just like Kakoi was serving the same purpose and was replaced.

Ino’s skills as a sensor and telepathist are easily replaceable by the Barrier Team’s automated sensing and Chakra Transmission Communication Devices. So her accomplishments could be replaced or she could be removed from the story (like she already has been) because she is fulfilling a role that should not be hers while also failing to do it decently. Connecting Eida, Shikamaru and Amado could be performed by headquarters with their telepathy devices and sensing is performed by a machine. 

Could they be redeemed?

The greatest disadvantage of the Barrier Team is their small sensing range and their inability to rely on other sensing methods than chakra perception. 

After exposing the main problems related to not erasing deceased people’s chakra imprints from their database and failing to boost their system in case of emergency, there are a few points to make in order to make the Barrier Team a competent and compelled facility:

Keep Ino away from their ranks as she makes no difference, while maintaining the automated system which includes alarms, visual screens and instant telepathy.

Reuse Kakoi’s greater Sensing Barrier to track Konoha’s forest area before the A-Un Gate.

Use other sensory and perception techniques from other clans like Aburame’s beetles, Hyūga’s Byakugan and Inuzuka’s ninken/sense of smell to counter shinobi’s ability to erase their chakra signature.

Put the Akimichi clan in the lookout by every gate like they used to guard the Logistical Support & Medical Division during the Fourth Shinobi World War, this way being able to see approaching danger and fighting them before their entrance to give Konoha time to elaborate a plan.

Considered the most powerful shinobi village, using past experiences and the full power of Konoha's shinobi forces, their clans and their technology, could prevent infiltrations; as well as giving each member of a clan their deserved time to show their abilities.

Note: The Fourth Shinobi World W4r has been replaced by global conflict to avoid mature content flags.

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