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birdmanart · 2 years

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So, since one of today’s prompts for @narutoocshipweek was Role Swap... (More chatter beneath the cut)

Did I spend most of today working on this? Yes. Was it worth it? HELL YEAH. I knew immediately that I wanted to do something with Yasumi for this prompt, since... look, even though his longstanding and ill-advised crush on Sasori only actually pans out in maybe 2 of 20 AUs, it still made for such fun art!

Some background on Yasumi, since I haven’t talked about him as much - he’s Kiki’s cousin on their mother’s side, a member of the Puppet Brigade in Suna and also a relative of the deceased Third Kazekage. He mostly uses puppets that he makes with his father, a ceramics artisan, but he also did inherit the Third’s magnet release - because of his flare for the aesthetic, Yasumi specifically uses cobalt sand for his jutsu.

Since he’s younger than Sasori, I imagine that in this role swap scenario, he wouldn’t have defected from Suna until much later than Sasori did in canon - likely shortly after Gaara’s birth. I also decided to give Sasori Yasumi’s favored puppet in this art - it’s called Kujaku!

Fun fact: the main AU where this ship actually pans out is one where Kiki accidentally averts the Fourth Shinobi War by converting the Akatsuki to a theater troupe one member at a time. It’s a very dumbsilly idea but also I’m very fond of it.

Also I had a lot of fun with the color on this one.

#birdman art #Fanart #naruto oc #narutoocshipweek2022 #akasuna no sasori #original character: yasumi haijima #curious counselor of konoha au #clip studio paint

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birdmanart · 3 years

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Y’know what, I am 23, I am old enough to stop caring too much about what strangers on the internet will think of me. (I mean, unless they’re hiring me for work, but I’m not sure why they’d end up here if they were.)

So have a bunch of Naruto OCs!!!! These guys are the main thing that got me through last summer (and also my friends ^^ shoutout to @makarias-mom for being awesome), and I really love them! (Do mind that the names probably aren’t exactly structured right, bc my Japanese is fairly rudimentary and kanji are fascinating and complex, and my Western mind unfortunately has biases towards some sounds).

In order:

Kitagawa Kiki (北川希々) — Konoha, Alive in AU (they/them in english)

Kitagawa Momiji (北川紅神) — Unaffiliated, Alive in AU (he/him)

Kitagawa Mizutaka (北川水敬) — Konoha, Deceased (he/him)

Kitagawa Senka & Uzumaki Katsumi (北川茜夏 & うずまき勝海) — Uzushio, Deceased (both she/her)

Haijima Yasumi (拝島安未) — Suna, Alive (he/him)

Tsukimine Sei — Konoha, Alive (月峰星) (she/her)

Takami Kimihiro (鷹躬君尋) — Konoha, Alive (he/him)

Nawamo Yūichirō (縄文優一郎) — Tani, Alive (he/him)

Ayano (彩乃) — Ame, Alive (she/her)

Yamanaka Misora (山中美空) — Konoha, Alive in AU (she/her)

(Yes, Sei and Kimihiro are lightly based on Mizuki Kaho from CCS and Watanuki Kimihiro from xxxHolic. What can I say, I love the CLAMP multiverse and also needed to design some teachers quickly).

Many characters are marked as Alive in AU, because all of my story concepts for them exist in universes where Kiki (my main OC) survived the night of Naruto’s birth. In canon, they and their parents (not shown here) were killed that night.

Other OCs not pictured here: Kiki’s parents (Kazuto & Hitomi), Kazuto’s parents & grandmother (Asahi, Fūma, and Yōko), some of Kiki’s notable ancestors (Osamu, Amato, Seira, & Kazuhiko), Yasumi’s parents (Reito & Risa), Ayano’s parents (Tohru & Yōsuke), Ayano’s friend Kimi, Senju Yūma (OC for Tsunade’s dad/Hashirama & Mito’s kid), & Senju Kasumi (Yūma’s younger sister, AKA I got fed up with the timeline and said they have two kids), Misora’s parents (Sanae & Ayumu), Misora’s aunt & cousin (Manami & Yuzuki), Misora’s girlfriend Kiyoko, Yuzuki’s genin teammates (Hinata — different Hinata — and Akihiko), Sei’s friend Tomoko... yes I doubled the number of OCs since making this post (edited April 18). I will probably make even more.

If anyone is curious about them, feel free to ask!

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