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numbuh-7-knd · 2 months

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Random Naruto AU musings/fanfic ideas incoming:

OK so, I was listening to Naruto theme songs in my room via speaker to drown out the sounds of my mother/housemate having a private appointment downstairs via zoom. (As you do)

And I started to think of how Asuma's death kind of represented a turning point where the konaha 12 are not kids anymore, things are getting serious, main ensemble members are drying, ect.

And I thought, the other thing like that in the original series was the death of the third homage. Exept even that didn't hit as hard because he was old and stuff. Then I realized one big opportunity lost with his death: the person was likely to maybe someday tell Naruto the truth of his parents, especially since he's the one who made it classified in the first place.

Here's where the AU comes in: I was trying to think of scenarios in which the third would have allowed Naruto to know about his parents during the time before the thirds death, and had a thought: there's a bunch of fics out there of Wave having some connection to hidden Whirlpool village, Uzushio, either neighbors or even that they were protected by/allied with Uzushio before the village destruction.

So what if, during the wave arc, Tazuna and the other villagers reacted when they heard Naruto's last name, being overjoyed to hear that at least one Uzumaki survived. Being hush hush about it because they don't want Gato to know because having an Uzumaki present threatens his standing.

Eventually they get Naruto alone with some of the older villagers who express their relief and exitment that there are still surviving Uzumaki after the destruction of Uzushio.

Naruto is so confused, poor kid. These old people are almost acting like he's some long lost relative or something, something about his last name, the destruction of some place called Uzushio? And what's this about asking about his family? Are all these old people senile and mistaking him for someone else?

The villagers confirm his last name is Uzumaki, and that they are talking about his clans home village of Uzushio, which was destroyed during the last war. What do you mean you've never heard of it? Is your ancestral homeland surely your parents would have mentioned it.

And then they learn that he's an orphan left all alone in the world, nothing of his family save his name and the symbol on his back. He tries so suggest that maybe he's not related to those Uzumaki, only to be rebuffed by a team of geriatrics, each pointing out some innocuous feature they swear is an Uzumaki trait, from his speech pattern and large amount of Chakra, to his ears and his chin.

By the end a group of Wave villagers old enough to remember Uzushio in its prime have mentally adopted Naruto and started telling him stories of Uzushio and the Uzumaki Clan, even trying to determine who he might be related to.

Eventually an old woman remembers a friend of hers, who's daughter was sent away to Konoha years before the attack, to be a Konoha ninja. they figure that must have been his mother, and naruto puts together that he was born around the same time as the nine tails attack of the village and they come to the conclusion that his mother probably died in the attack, weakened from childbirth, maybe even dying to protect her baby, and that he must not have had a dad in the picture for him not to be claimed afterwards.

Maybe they even introduce him to a village elder who's actually an Uzumaki and married into Wave decades ago, even long before the attack, and as she took her husband's name and wasn't a ninja, no one caught on. Maybe it Turns out to be his great aunt or something.

I'm imaging the bridge being named something representing the return of the Uzumaki clan.

Also, when the missions over and is time to return to Konoha, the entire village of Wave tries to fight for custody, especially his Great Aunt, who insists on accompanying them back to Konoha to interrogate the Hokage as to her grand nephew's treatment.

Maybe his newly found great aunt or distant cousin decides to move to Konoha, maybe with a bunch of her kids and grandkids giving Naruto a bunch of cousins. Or maybe he just gains a single elderly Uzumaki refugee from Wave.

I feel like Sasuke would be pretty mad/offended on narutos behalf over having the knowledge of his family hidden from him, since at least Sasuke has his memories and his clans belongings.

It'd be pretty funny if however many Uzumakis end up in the village, they all more or less adopt Sasuke as well as Naruto.

#naruto #Uzushio #Whirlpool village #naruto uzumaki #uzumaki lore #wave arc #fun fact i actually wrote this months ago and just found it in my drafts and realized i never published it #i might add to it at some point #i kinda want to write a fic #either with the great aunt oc adopting naruto #or with team 7 returning from wave knowing about naruto's heritage as an uzumaki and all 3 kids swarming hokage tower #demanding to know why naruto was never told about the Uzumaki Clan and why Kakashi said he wasn't allowed to say anything on the subject #i think that could be fun

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hiddenromania · 2 years

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The whirlpool (old school washing machine) - how things used to be done and are still done in rural Romania

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nardo-headcanons · 2 months

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that music headcanon question and post was genius! can you do that for the rest of the villages pretty pleaseee 🩵

oh my god, that was quick lmao i just had to do it. two minutes after posting, goddamn. here's a music headcanon i have for you, anon.

tagging @danceofthexdragons because she was the one who made the initial request c:

Music In The Narutoverse

I think in Kirigakure, most music that can be heard originates from either the union of fishermen or monks, as many cultures have been. wiped out due to their ongoing political unrest. As for the fishermen, some popular instruments are steel drums, which can sound like this or like this. Gamelans are often played near the temples up high in the mountains, the wind carries their sound across the village. Radios aren't really used.

Iwagakure's traditional music is very percussion heavy, using various kinds of drums and gongs. They have fallen in love with the guzheng, aka the moon guitar. Another instrument originating from there is the erhu, which Kirigakure citizens also really enjoy listening to and consider a high class/fancy instrument. These are the kind of songs Iwagakure ninja can hear in their radio, Onoki's favorite is this one. High up in the mountains, sounds like these can be heard. These horns are used to communicate between different valleys.

As a stronghold of trade, Kumogakure's music has been shaped by many cultural influences. One of the more traditional instruments in Kumogakure is the cowbell/agogo bell. Kumo citizens enjoy music from all across the shinobi world, including songs in foreign languages. As a rather technologically advanced village, it is not uncommon to hear electric guitars and synthesizers be used in their music. Here are some songs I think could be heard on the Kumo radio. As for Killer Bee, here are some of his faves.

In Uzushiogakure, an instrument that could often be heard in traditional music is the anklung, as well as the t'rung. Music was often performed for the whole village, and everyone was invited.

As for many western instruments, those have originated in the Country Of Knights. This country was only mentioned in the movies, but for the sake of it, I will consider it canon as well. While their traditional music sounded somewhat like this, sounds like these here weren't uncommon as well. It was popularized by immigrants from the country of knights.

As stated before, Madara Uchiha was a skilled pianist, his sharingan allowed him to read sheet music while playing, here are some of the pieces he played. Madara often played this piece for his siblings to make them laugh.

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bluebobatea · 2 years

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Been reading fics centred on uzushiogakure and absolutely LOVING the idea of naruto living there, leaving konoha of his own free will and choosing uzushio as his home.

Konoha was a shithole to babie naruto anyway and him getting to know his clan's history, going to uzushio, rebuilding the whole damn place, learning about fuuinjutsu, MASTERING it, living there with other jinchuuriki, giving a place to people who don't belong anywhere else, giving them a place to call it their own. This. Whole. Concept. has me in a chokehold

I wish kishimoto delved deeper into uzushiogakure. Really sad that it was barely touched upon when it had so much potential.

#another reason to bash canon ughh #im SO glad fanfics exist #fic writers y'all are doing gods work #uzushiogakure #uzushio #hidden eddy village #whirlpool country #naruto #uzumaki clan

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evolutionsvoid · 24 days

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Name: Great Serratodus

Title: Razor Jaw Wyvern

Species: Piscine Wyvern

Element: Water

Status: Bleed

The Serratodus are small monsters that dwell in tropical environments where water is plenty, swimming through flooded zones and marshy areas. In most cases, they don't draw too much attention to themselves, just another piscine lurking in the waters. They seem to mind their own business, only nipping at those who get too close. However, this calm facade of their melts away the second a drop of blood hits the surface. At the faintest whiff of blood, the Serratodus are thrown into a frenzy. They leap, thrash and gnash their razor jaws in excitement, eager to taste prey. The waters will boil with their frenzy, as they rush to the source of the smell in hopes of a meaty meal. Serratodus are seen as ravenous scavengers, feeding on the dead and bringing down those that are close enough to dead. Any sign of weakness or injury shown in their waters is seen as an opportunity for food, and they will assault the wounded beast with a whirlpool of sharp teeth to finish the job and strip the corpse clean. Though they have a powerful bite, Serratodus do not target healthy prey, only the dead and dying interest them. However, situations are quick to change if the Great Serratodus is around. Though their younger brethren hesitate to feed until blood is spilled, the Great Serratodus chooses to draw first blood for themselves.

The Great Serratodus are full grown adults of the species that have proven themselves in size, strength and ferocity. While the younger ones are confined to the waters, they have developed a strong pair of legs that allows them to stalk onto the shore. Big, bulky and with a nasty jaw full of blades, the Great Serratodus is on the hunt for prey. They tend to stick close to the waters, with the aim to wound another large monster and drive them into the waiting jaws of their lessers. While the Great Serratodus is not the most powerful beast in the ecosystem, they can quickly gain the upper hand with sheer numbers if foes are foolish enough to remain in the water. The scent of blood drives the Serratodus wild, and they will converge upon the wounded beast and pull them into a maelstrom of gnashing jaws. Other beasts hardly stand a chance against the relentless assault, all while the Great Serratodus knocks them about with their bulky body and tears into them with tooth and spine. When enraged, the Great Serratodus will unveil rows of razor sharp teeth on its bulbous head, as well as spines that will protrude from open slits. These teeth are anchored to strong muscles, that will use small rapid movements to vibrate them at high speeds. With this, the Great Serratodus is able to cleave through flesh and bone, using powerful blasts of water from its gills to launch itself forward and disorient foes. These same gill blasts also help knock off other Serratodus who may bite into their Great's hide when lost in the bloody frenzy.

While the lessers typically cause no issues for villages as long as folk are careful, the presence of a Great Serratodus usually calls for hunters to come in and dispatch it. These larger specimens will target beasts of burden and livestock who get close to the water, and any evidence of injury will lure one in. Woe be to any trade caravan carrying fresh meat with them, as the scent will certainly grab their attention. Hunters often put out bounties on these monsters as well, due to their tendency to take advantage of other hunts. There are few things more frustrating than putting in the time, energy and effort to wear down a target monster, only to have a Great Serratodus barge into the battle and tear it to pieces. Many hunters share frustrated stories of their kills being stolen, or never having the chance to carve their reward after a target perishes near the water. All it takes is for one quest to be spoiled by one of these monsters, and then the bounty is immediately slapped onto the quest board.

Though many hunters would relish in the idea of taking down the beast that devoured their bounty, the Great Serratodus is no easy prey. On their own, their bulk makes them quite powerful and their razor sharp teeth and spines can easily slice through armor and flesh. To make it worse, their gills releasing blasts of water allows them to zoom across the zone, evading attacks and blindsiding hunters with charges and rocketing bites. And once the Great Serratodus draws blood, the hunt gets much more chaotic. If a hunter is inflicted with bleed, the lesser Serratodus in the area will go absolutely berserk. They will whip themselves into a frenzy and descend upon the wounded hunter in a ravenous horde. Though a single Serratodus is an easy foe to fend off, having a dozen of them launching themselves at you is an utter nightmare. Wounded hunters are forced to fight or flee when faced with these hungry fish, and it isn't easy when the Great is nearby dishing out even more pain. When it is enraged, its head full of teeth will cause an even higher chance of bleeding and allows them to rip through the environment like a saw. Their protruding spines also cause simple attacks like hip checks and tail whips to have a chance to inflict bleed as well. And if it has fed recently, its watery gill blasts will take on a crimson hue...

While the Great Serratodus and its horde can be daunting, there are ways to mitigate the frustrations. Though the Serratodus are hungry for blood and meat, they will not pass up food that doesn't resist. Dropping raw meat or slaying small monsters will create a new target for the fish, who will turn their attention upon this meal instead. Flash bombs can also be used to blind the swarm, making it harder for them to coordinate an attack. For the Great Serratodus, it is advised that hunters drive them to dry land, where they are more awkward and slow. Meat can also be used to entice them, and a wise hunter would leave those tainted with the likes of poison and paralysis to weaken the target. Using the presence of other large monsters can help with the fight as well, as the piscine will spend more of its energy trying to bring down the bigger meal. With bleed being an issue, stocking up on items to cure it is a must. Lifepowders are also highly recommended to aid those being pursued by the swarm, as they do not have time to stop and heal. Like the Great Serratodus itself, the use of teamwork and numbers can help win the day. Thankfully, your fellow hunters aren't liable to start chewing into you the second you fall over...

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"Great Serratodus"

You know what month it is, and thus what time it is! Indeed! Mer-may! The time of the year where I post anything aquatic related to make up for the fact I haven't drawn anything mermaid-like! So get ready for fish, whales and sea beasts, because I always fail to prepare for these things, so enjoy what I hastily pull from my posting folder!

And you know it ain't a Monster Hunter fan monster if it isn't a Piscine Wyvern! That and crabs, it's all I make! For now....

#piscine wyvern #monster #fish #piranha #monster hunter #fan monster #art #drawing

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mixelation · 3 months

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some reborn au chunin exams rambling

kushina and minato are like "okay, the PR move is that we want you to show off fuinjutsu to potential clients during the tournament" and tori goes and assesses which of her fuinjutsu can be used in combat and she comes back and is like "okay, either i can make a barrier, OR i can use this medical fuinjutsu that turns you inside out" and they're like ".....don't do that second one" because they want to appear cool and fun. konoha will NOT massacre your village. they are nice and friendly :) look at this cute and nice teenaged girl you can hire!!

tori: i can trap someone in the barrier but then i don't have a good game plan for how to actually knock them out to win

tori: i HAVE always wanted to see if i could use temperature differences to make a vacuum though

kushina: hey uuuuh after thinking it over

kushina: maybe instead of you being... creative... with your jutsu

kushina: i just teach you one of mine :)

because it occurred to me that uzushio probably had a lot of jutsu which would be super fucking useful in a coastal village like kiri?

i'm still rotating what tori actually learns (maybe.... make a whirlpool?!), but i decided because the mood is "everyone is approaching this super casually but tori" that instead of an intense training session, kushina and minato are like FAMILY BEACH TRIP!!! so they go to a beach for the day and Minato and Naruto are just. there. hanging out. kushina works with tori for like two hours and then gets distracted by her family mini vacation and abandons tori to practice on her own

entire Uzumaki-Namikaze family: (organizing a hermit crab race)

tori: (drowning in the background)

MEANWHILE, IN KIRI,

i think mangetsu thought tori was interesting for like six weeks and then there was no news about her for a while and he forgot. but then kisame makes the fundamental error of being like "oh, she's on the entrants list" and mangetsu is like "oh yeah, her," and tori spends her first few days in kiri being like "i can't believe? the boy i led on relentless for a month? did not meet me at the gate???" but he DOES come bitch at her at some point

but i think tori's move in the survival portion is that she's like "oh god, i have NO foreknowledge on any of these kids, i have no idea who to look out for" and then she goes "what would orochimaru do?" and then she does something Insane and On A Large Scale to see how people react in order to make her tier list of entrants to watch out for

and now mangetsu is interested again and kisame is like. w h y

#reborn au

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steakosaur · 2 months

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As an expanding of previous post about how fucking confusing Luffy is, if only because of the languages he speaks, which are fucking random for a seventeen-year-old pirate from a lost corner of the East Blue :

On the Strawhat crew, you don't ask questions about the others' pasts, that's the most important unsaid rule. You can ask about the crew though, so Robin, between the events of Thriller Bark and Sabaody, decides to get to know the others better, as well as the mechanics of the crew, especially those of the Romance Down trio and East Blue group.

Her investigation begins backwards, from Sanji, to Usopp, to Nami, to Zoro, to Luffy.

From Sanji, she gets the story of how their captain destroyed part of the Baratie, worked there for a single day, encouraged a fight between Hawkeye and Zoro, as he himself fought against one of the big shots in the East Blue, some armoured guy with an enormous fleet who couldn't survive Paradise.

Usopp tells an unusually under-romanced story about this ex-pirate turned butler who was planning on killing his lover Kaya for her money, and how Luffy and Zoro saved them all from the tall butler with poops drawn onto his tailcoat.

Nami tells her about meeting Luffy and Zoro in Orange Town, planning on robbing them dry for a map to the Grand Line, escaping Buggy the Clown, fleeing by herself to go back to Arlong and hopefully buy back her village, Luffy freeing her (she got to wear his hat, Robin notes with attention).

Zoro grunts about a planned execution in a Marine base, something about killing wolves and eating sugared rice balls, and, the most surprising of all, how Luffy, accompanied by the small pink-haired Marine they saw on Water Seven, seemed to know about him beforehand and deliberately wanting to recruit him (he's the only one of them Luffy got out of his way to specifically recruit before even meeting them).

Luffy's story makes less sense. Robin can't get him to tell where exactly he'd been sailing from, and tales of getting sucked into a whirlpool and meeting a big pirate lady are overlapped with descriptions of foods he got to eat and bugs he got to see on his way from wherever his native island is to the Marine base he found Zoro in. With how thick his accent is, she hoped to pin down his island, but the only other time she's heard it was in Vice-Admiral Garp's mouth, and she also doesn't know where he's from further than the East Blue.

Before she can get any more specific, toeing the line of prying, they get to Sabaody and Robin can't ask anymore questions.

What she gets to see and hear on the archipelago doesn't help : with this place being a gathering point for travelers and merchants from all seas, every languages known to her and some she doesn't know are spoken. Her Eastern crewmates struggle a bit, only knowing their native tongue and the most basic version of Grand (even if Zoro's accent hints to him speaking something else entirely, and by having been born in the North Blue Sanji understands one specific Northern dialect, even though he managed to erase all traces of it from his accent), but Luffy gets the strange Grand variation that points to a pirate having lived in the New World, and the vague noble they cross paths with, he can decipher their stuck-up tongue and posh accent, which surprises her a lot.

The New World Grand she can pin down to Luffy having spent, from her understanding, quite a bit of his formative years alongside a New World crew, Shanks' one.

The noble tongue, she can't link to anything. There's nothing that associates Luffy and the nobility, especially with who his father is. She tried asking the others about Ace, who could have given some type of hint, but all the feedback she gets on him is about how polite he was towards them, how affectionate towards Luffy, and how strong towards the Marines.

When Luffy punches the Celestial Dragon at the auction house, she can see that even if the fact that he wanted to buy their friend Camie infuriated him, that punch seemed a bit too personal, only adding to the mystery : why does Luffy speak a noble tongue if the Celestial Dragons are the only people Robin's seen him hate on principle ?

#op #one piece #languages in one piece #linguistics in one piece #luffy is a fucking mystery #monkey d. luffy #nico robin #strawhat crew #romance dawn trio

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drconstellation · 11 days

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I Know Where I'm Going

Aziraphale's Edinburgh Journey: Part 5

Episode 3 of S2 is named after a black-and-white 1945 Powell and Pressburger film, which is in turn named after an old Scottish folk song. It's a delightful film, which I'll discuss further below the cut, that strides headlong into the theme of fate vs free will, among other things.

This is the last major piece we need to tie things together, after starting this journey with The Clue in Episode 2, which lead Aziraphale to make the journey to Edinburgh in the first place.

Fate vs Free Will

I Know Where I'm Going, both the film and S2E3, is about not ending up where you expected to be, so this how Aziraphale went expecting to find the answer to one question, but found the answer to an unexpected question instead. So part of the problem we have is that while we end up getting the answers to two questions, one expected and one unexpected, I feel people really aren't recognizing the questions that raise them in the first place.

Not making sense? Let me describe the film.

Joan is a confident young (25yo) lady on her way to the (fictitious) Ilse of Kiloran to marry a rich older industrialist. This involves a journey by train then several ferries to the ultimate destination. However she gets stuck on the Isle of Mull, the penultimate stop, as the weather turns, and has to stay the night, then several days, as a bad gale blows.

She meets a fellow traveller, Torquill McNeil, a naval officer home on leave, who invites her up to one of the local mansions. Joan meets some of the delightful and slightly eccentric locals (the pack of goofy, soft wolf hounds of the Lady of the house, Catriona Potts, are a highlight of the film, imo) including a retired colonel who's into falconry who keeps going on about a lost golden eagle that he's training. (The eagle is a metaphor for Torquill, it turns out.)

We find out Torquill is actually the Laird of Kiloran, and he is renting out Kiloran to Joan's husband-to-be for money while he's off in the navy seeing the world. Torquill knows all the locals, and the locals know him, and they are all kind of bound together as one big happy family, in a way.

The next morning Torquill takes Joan to the hotel in another village to talk to her fiance via radio, as they still can't get to the other island. The fiance (who we never see) recommends visiting another house nearby. She does, and we find out they are also rich from new money, and care nothing about the locals and the local environment. And this is where we start learning there is a bit of divide between the old and the new, the rural out door life that is connected to the land, and the new wealth that cuts itself off from its surroundings and other people. And Joan is going to be a part of that - in her dream on the train, the same dream that gives us the tartan clad hills, she marries a corporation, not a person - so impersonal!

Joan is desperate to get across to Kiloran (she knows where she's going! She thinks...) After repeatedly bumping into Torquill over the next couple of days and it becoming evident there are feelings growing between them, she bribes a young local boatman to take her across to her fiance and expected marriage on Kiloran to escape this, even though the gale is still blowing strong. Torquill finds out at the last minute, and jumps into the boat with them. They get caught in a squall, and the motor cuts out. The tide drags them towards the infamous local whirlpool, and they only just escape due to Torquill's expertise.

Joan is chastened when they return to safety. That was the point of not risking the crossing in the gale in the first place, explains Torquill. They could have sent a rescue boat out if they got into trouble, but it puts more than just the rescuers at risk, it puts their families at risk, and then that extends to the whole island. Doesn't she see how the whole island is interconnected? She finally realizes how selfish she has been.

The next day dawns brightly, and the gale has finally blown out - the sea is a calm and a ferry crossing will be no trouble today. The colonel finally catches up with his golden eagle, and brings it home to roost.

Joan and Torquill say their farewells on the road, and there's a Great Big Kiss before they part and go their separate ways.

Torquill walks past the ruined castle that he is fated to be cursed if he enters as Laird of Kiloran. But he decides to risk it, and he goes in and explores the ruins, and we hear the whole story of the curse and finds that it isn't such a bad curse after all - in a metaphorical way! The next thing he hears is bagpipes - it's Joan returning up the road with the pipers that were supposed to be at her wedding. She has decided she wasn't going where she thought she was going after all and has come back to be with Torquill, her new love.

That's the basics of the story, but if you would like to watch it, I would recommend you do, as there is a lot more in it than that.

(I did watch "A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven" before finishing this post, seeing as the book that features in it also appears in S2xE3, which is the main episode around the trip to Edinburgh, but more in relation to Gabriel's situation I think. It also deals with a character trying to escape their intended fate, but they do so by attending a formal trial and pleading their case. Other ops have reviewed the film here and here if you want to find out a bit more. I wasn't as impressed with that film, sorry to say, but I will probably watch it again to reflect on certain features and points in it relevant to GO, there is a lot. And to work out which minor character a very young Sir Richard Attenborough was playing!)

Lunatic Behaviour and Lethal Traps

Some ops have pointed out that Elspeth and Wee Morag act as parallel characters to Crowley and Aziraphale. While some would argue there are various ways to interpret this, the music indicates that Elspeth aligns with Crowley and Wee Morag with Aziraphale.

Elspeth is the one trying hard to engineer the pair's escape from the poverty trap they are in, even if it is by nefarious means. Wee Morag is the one scandalised by Elspeth's illicit actions, and concerned about doing right by Heaven. Crowley takes up Elspeth's side of the argument against Aziraphale, that its not as easy to escape poverty as one thinks (i.e. just working hard will fix things) but he also tries to warn Wee Morag that things don't work the way she thinks they do in the afterlife either.

So what's the price one pays for going down the path of body snatching as an escape from poverty? You have to get past the lethal traps of the grave guns that have been set, by not tripping the wires. And again, its the wealthy privileged ones that have the advantage.

Acting in haste was a disaster. They got split up, never to see one another again. One more body may have got them out of short term trouble, but what about the long term?

Escape is a nice dream, but a harsh reality.

Elspeth was going to use the laudanum as another form of easy escape, until Crowley prevented it, then acted as a daemonium ex machina to assist her in escaping properly good, using Aziraphale's money, as that was really the only way she was going to escape for good.*

Joan tried to escape Torquill in I Know Where I'm Going, but only cast herself and her companions into danger. If she had been more patient and less selfish, she might have had everything she wanted without suffering on the way. But that wouldn't have made as good a story then, would it? And she wouldn't have gotten to know Torquill and fallen for him, either.

If Aziraphale ran away to Alpha Centauri with Crowley, like Crowley had been urging in the present, would they be free? The inference is its unlikely, that they wouldn't be able to escape their own "poverty trap," the alarms would be raised, and the trouble they caused would be too deep to pull themselves out of. Luck hasn't been on their side so far.

The View from Above

By now we should be alert to characters trying to avoid their fate, or perhaps ending up in places they weren't intending to. Fate has a weird way of biting you on the backside, as the trope goes.

Giant Crowley did end up somewhere he wasn't intending to be, and perhaps accidentally ended up playing God and deciding Elspeth's fate. There are mentions of angels as tall as mountains, or tall as the sky in the Bible, so him ordering Aziraphale to give all his money to Elspeth while looking down at them shouldn't really be out of place for those familiar with the book. Crowley also took Elspeth's fate into his own hands when he snatched the laudanum away from her and drank it down, an action akin to absolving her of her sins.

Aziraphale also tried to change Elspeth's and Wee Morag's fate, by changing his mind about the morality of the body snatching. That didn't end up the way he hoped or expected, either.

Mr Dalrymple was of aware of two fates he could meet, he just didn't know which one it would be at the time he was s talking to Aziraphale and Crowley.

DALRYMPLE: I either end up with a knighthood or condemned as a resurrectionist and hanging from a rope.

Sadly, we find out through Aziraphale reading the pamphlet he picked up outside the pub that it was along the lines of the second one - he might not have been actually condemned for a crime, but he condemned his own conscience and then his soul.

If you would like a contrast to this, come back to S1xE2, where we approach a young Newton Pulsifer in his bedroom, about to short out the electrical works for his whole neighbourhood yet again. God is narrating at this point, and the camera view pans down from the sky...and bumps with a visible jolt and audible noise into the window frame of his bedroom. (I wasn't able to find a GIF for this.)

Newt is a Crowley-parallel, they are both on the side of free will and choosing one's destiny. This is not a place for God, the decider of Fate, to trespass. There will be no crossing of this threshold, Frances!

I would just like to take a step back here to Part 4: Judgement Day, if I may, and reconsider this view of the missing cross in the statue of Gabriel's arms:

This is the only point of view that we don't see the cross from. It's still seen from between Gabriel's and Beelzebub's shoulders, and Crowley stills see it in 1826, so it's not invisible to demons.

So I would like to ask, could the missing cross view be God's point of view?

The viewpoint is similar to the one in the Job minisode, as seen from where Aziraphale and Crowley are witnessing Job listen to the Almighty speak to him.

So, perhaps if God isn't seeing the cross, they aren't the one who has so-called Ineffable Plans for the Second Coming in mind.

Yeah, so there's the Great Plan, and the Ineffable Plan, but are they the same plan...and who is pushing so hard for the Great Plan to come to completion, then? Not Gabriel or Beelzebub, that's for sure.

66 Goat Gate

Just before we attempt to wrap things up, we should have a look at the address on the Clue, but it doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know.

We know the address of the pub in Edinburgh appears in two places, once on the record single Maggie gives to Aziraphale and once on the matchbox that held the fly. There is a difference in the way they are written, with an comma on the record, and also Goat Gate written as two words, whereas it is one word on the matchbox.

Gate was old name for a road, so one interpretation could be that it was hinting at a demon road, or an underground road (demons live in Hell, which is underground, and demons are also associated with goats) and that ties in with the resurrection and Judgement Day theme we have going on, and perhaps should alert us to the presence of at least one demon being involved with Gabriel. On the other side, a goatgate is a relatively modern term for someone who talks a load of shite, so to speak. If we use Strong's Concordance to add the 66 to it, it becomes a wild or fierce mouth. Which kind of suits the Leviathan referenced in the verse from the Book of Job. The first version then looks like a wild underground road to Hell on the way to the Second Coming (the Harrowing of Hell in the Passion, anyone?) Don't forget the number 6 is associated with Hell as well.

Piecing the Elephant Together

There is a famous parable about a group of blind men meeting an elephant for the first time. They each go up and touch a different part of the huge beast, and subsequently give a different description for each part of it, but collectively they can't describe it properly as a whole.

That's kind of how we tend to look at Good Omens - its such a huge, complicated beast of a story, with each of us picking out one strand to analyze that might be our specialty, but we don't necessarily have all the other pieces nearby to aid our understanding as to why it was placed there or what it is doing and how that aids the purpose of the story.

To sum things up:

Aziraphale's trip to Edinburgh in the Bentley is a parallel to Crowley and Muriel going to Heaven together to find out about Gabriel, but Aziraphale is actually going to Edinburgh to find out about Beelzebub (he just doesn't realize it.)

Gabriel was there in the pub, and met with a "Mason" in a regular black-coloured suit that the barman was used to seeing Masons dressed in, because he noted that Gabriel's light grey suit was different.

We are shown many clues to the looming Second Coming

We see parallel scenes to S1, which at the same time sets upparallels for S3, which are about starting Armageddon. Again.

We also gain a lot of interlinked information for other parts of S2, and parts that link up with S1 and maybe S3, such as:

Aziraphale's main parallel in S2 is Beelzebub, with Maggie a parallel blend of the two of them.

Mr Dalrymple shows us that something needs to be cut out to save the innocent, but we also need to learn what it is before we can do that.

Elspeth and Wee Morag show us that running away is not as simple an option as it seems, its more a fatal trap than anything.

The Masonic symbols appearing in S2 remind us that life and death is a cycle, but also sometimes thoughts need to be turned around.

Aziraphale thought he knew where he was going, but he didn't really; fate gave him answers that he wasn't expecting. Did he ask the right questions?

There is not just a single purpose for Aziraphale to go to Edinburgh, there were several.

I also think Aziraphale didn't have enough time to stop and think about it, or talk it through with Crowley. They both had to leap from one thing to another until it was too late.

I was going to finish this off with that quote about history repeating itself until you learn from your mistakes or something, but then I found this one:

*Slaps this beast on the backside to move it along so it can go roam free in the wilderness.*

*This is actually something that is well researched but not well known, and is called the Success Paradox. You can watch a good explanation of it by one of my favourite science vloggers Veratisium here. Women are probably most aware of it intuitively, because of inherit sexism in our patriarchal society, but it also exists in the attitude "if you work hard you can make anything happen." What most people don't realize is how much luck factors into their success. Lucky they were born into a wealthy family. Lucky they met the right person on the right day. Lucky they were chosen over another etc. Before you argue otherwise, do stop and think about it.

The other posts in this series can be found here:

Part 1: Detective Aziraphale Part 2: Aziraphale-Beelzebub Parallels Part 3: Stocktaking in the Basement Part 4: Judgement Day

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #i know where i'm going #fate vs free will #powell and pressburger

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Hey I just had a thought, the whole Whirlpool-Konoha relationship seems super sketchy to me ngl. Like, we're told they were super great allies and like sure! Their princess married the founder and there's an uzumaki containing the fox at all times but uhhhhh there's legit only 2 uzumaki in Konoha when whirlpool was attacked.

There's Mito and Kushina and that's it. No civilians, no nin, not even merchants. That's not really great evidence of being super allies. In fact, having the junchuriki be an uzumaki kind of seems like collateral for that to not be used against whirlpool.

Like, konoha is super secure and the only thing that kind of defeated that internal security was when kushina died and kurama was unleashed and there's no way that attack happened to kill every single civilian uzumaki that would have been there if the two allies were, ya know, actual allies. So I'm hella hella sus and kinda want to explore that more

Oh oh I do like that and it could fit in so well. Because you're right. If Konoha and Uzushio were sister villages and tied together as allies, there should have been more crossover. Merchants, civilians, more Uzumaki and other Clans from Uzushio in Konoha and just out and about in the world on the regular.

For all but a small handful of Uzumaki to be wiped out, for there to not really be any word of any other Clans managing to flee? That implies a certain level of purposeful isolation.

Even if the attack that destroyed Uzushio was quick and brutal, a true blitz just decimating them before Konoha could send aid, there should have been people just not on the island.

So yeah you could dig into that in a number of ways that would be fun to explore

#RayRambles #Naruto #Tsunami AU #I'm putting it into the tag because it could be fun to play with that here

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hellcifrogs · 6 months

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what do you think about fanfics that have Naruto revive the Whirlpool Village? I quite like them and I think Cannon really dropped the ball by not expanding at all about Whirlpool or the Uzumaki Clan.

Do you have anything that you wish we'd gotten more of in cannon

I love Uzumaki content period. I do understand why there wasn't more of them, but still feel sad :(

How about.... I wish there had been a surprise Uzushio attack in the middle of the war. Survivor Uzumakis had gathered back and brought the land back in secret and hideouts, and when the war broke they came out of hiding to help... And absolutely kicked those Uchiha butts <3

Then Naruto is taken in, with Karin too. And if I were to CHANGE something by adding that-> Kushina was NOT dead! And she came leading the clan and she fought alongside Naruto while Minato watched armless in the back ✨️

#LISTEN #if sakumo jiraya hizashi asuma get to just leave their children behind and still be respected SO CAN KUSHINA #let her have this alright????#ask ffrogs

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nardo-headcanons · 7 months

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Hey, I loved your Naruto headcanon posts, which makes me crave for more. Any thoughts on Uzushio in future?

Hi darling, I'm so glad you enjoy my headcanons! It's kind words like these that motivate me to do more! So, Uzushiogakure. A tricky one, since there's basically nothing we know in canon, but I've tried to make it work. Also I'm in bed with the flu and a fever rn so please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes.

Uzushiogakure Worldbuilding Headcanon

People and Culture

Since most if not all Uzushio citizens are Uzumakis, its residents are typically known for their temperament and fiery personalities. Their enthusiasm is almost infectious and they're very loyal and will stick by your side no matter what. Although its last leader was a man, its typically run by women. Women are treated with the same respect as men are, and tought the same sealing techniques. Twin birth rates are high and there have been cases of even triplets or quadruplets. The Uzumaki are sharers, they love to share their food, their ninja equipment, and also their knowledge. Seriously, they're great teachers. Their standards for teaching are high, but they 100% stand behind their students. The longevity of the Uzumaki comes with a downside, though. Due to the faster mitosis of their cells, the overall cancer rate is the highest in the shinobi world. Most of the Uzushio citizens weren't actually full fledged shinobi, and they were a peaceful nation. The Uzumaki also used their sealing techniques on food to enhance its shelf life.

Clothing and Cosmetics

The traditional attire of an Uzumaki consists of various kinds of hanfu and other gowns. However, compared to their real world counterpart, the Uzushio garments aren't gendered. When it comes to hair- and skincare, Uzushio citizens gladly use cosmetic products imported from the water realm, but when it comes to acne prevention, they use a special blend of clay to apply topically, although peroral application is also possible. According to Uzumaki aunties, it is a miracle cure for almost anything.

Nature

Flora The climate of Uzushiogakure is mild, characerized by hot, humid summers and cold, snowy winters and colorful falls. Most of the interior countryside is covered in bamboo forests. Bamboo was a sacred plant to the Uzumaki, as they saw it as a symbol of growth and regeneration. Another plant often seen in Uzushiogakure is the ginko tree. During the fall, its leaves are often ejoyed as a tea by the citizens. The coastlines are characterized by rocky beaches. Swimming in the sea however, is not a good idea, as there are whirlpools lurking close to the shore. Since the country is sprinkled by rivers, many citizens commute by boat.

Fauna

In the whirlpool realm, there are a lot of different animals. An animal unique to Uzushiogakure is the big and the red panda. Big pandas are seen as a symbol of good luck by the Uzumaki, while red pandas are seen a symbol of laughter and mischief. In the forests of the whirpool realm you can find foxes, wolves and wild tigers. Another mischievious friend of the Uzumaki is the red squirrel, and they're so beloved by them, it's not a rarity to see squirrels chilling on rooftops or even take the boat together with the Uzumaki.

Food

The national dish of Uzushiogakure is mapo tofu. Enjoyed with rice imported from Kirigakure, it is enjoyed by adults, elders and children. Generally, the Uzumaki have the second highest spice tolerance, coming after Sunagakure. Uzushiogakure is also a paradise when it comes to all things sauces and condiments. The most popular ones are keptjap manis, peri peri, hoisin and miso glaze. Street- and fast food was a big part of Uzumaki culture, as there many food stalls sprinkled throughout the village. Before it was destroyed, Kirigakure Kimchi was a very sought after imported food product.

#naruto headcanons #naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto imagines #naruto scenarios #naruto fanfiction #headcanons #fanfiction #naruto uzumaki #karin uzumaki #kushina headcanons #uzumaki clan #uzushiogakure #naruto meta #naruto worldbuilding

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