Tag: naruto meta

wafflelate:

#okay look #L O O K #this scene#is so important #because before this #this poor little boy #was harassed and bullied by a group of peers for not being good at a game #and this is all from a western perspective on my part but #little boys rejected by their peers can be nasty ragemonsters #and Chouji had no reason #none #to free that butterfly #he did because he knew it was scared and he knew he could do something #he cared 

#and moreover we know that Chouji is a very strong person physically possibly was as a child #he didn’t want to fight Asuma #he asserted he could REALLY HURT Asuma #who is an adult jounin #so imagine the skill it took this sad child #who probably could have broken the faces of all of those kids who hurt him without breaking a sweat #had to use to free something so delicate as a butterfly #I will fight EVERYONE for Chouji 

(tags from @greenekangaroo)

I love your world-building posts! I especially love all the lore about the Hatake Clan in your stories. Do you have any headcanons about the Hatake white chakra and Kakashi’s average chakra levels?

sanjuno:

I mostly model the Hatake Clan kekkai genkai mentions after the White Dog lore from InuYasha, which in turn was modelled after the Japanese Yama-Inu legends. Because magic swords and dogs and white hair. So anything about the White Chakra stems from that general concept base, and then I expand as best suits the story. 

As for Kakashi’s average chakra levels, I always saw the white chakra explanation as to why Kakashi survived having the sharingan implanted in battlefield conditions and then never needed additional genetic modifications to support the eye’s continued use. For examples from canon: Nagato’s body is basically being eaten by his use of the Rinnegan. Danzo needed to use Hashirama cells and halfway turn himself into a plant zombie before he could use the stolen eyes he had. But Kakashi? Thirty seconds after Rin pulls her hands off his face he’s throwing down with Iwa Nin and mostly winning.

Sure, Kakashi risked chakra exhaustion every time he overused the eye Obito gave him, but that’s why he switched career tracks. At the beginning of Kakashi Gaiden, Kakashi is being trained to be a frontline heavy hitter. A nuclear deterrent in the same way as the White Fang and the Yellow Flash. After Kannabi Bridge? He’s shunted into ANBU, where stealth and secrecy are more important than making a flee-on-sight impression.

So it’s not that Kakashi has below average chakra levels, it’s that for most of the series he’s operating at half capacity. So I can only imagine how terrifying he became after he recovered from the Fourth War. Anyone ready for a second, more dangerous coming of the White Fang? No? Well I am! XD