PJO Headcannon

Naruto AU

So, I have this idea for an epic Naruto sequel that I absolutely don't have the ability to actually write. But I was thinking of the politics of the Naruto world and what the actual fallout of the Fourth Shinobi War would be like.

So, the thing is, the politics are an absolute mess, apparently the countries are ruled by the Daimyo, but I don't understand how that could possibly work when all of the military power is centered on the Hidden Villages with the Kage as their overall dictators. The Shinobi Wars were conducted between the villages, there's no mention of the countries themselves actually being involved. Having your entire military act on a mercenary basis from a virtually independent city-state within your country just...cannot possibly work. The Daimyo has to have their own forces, but they're clearly not enough to be fully relied on considering how much power the Hidden Villages seem to have.

The way I see it, during the Warring Clans era, the Daimyo were properly in charge with their own Samurai soldiers and everything while the respective shinobi clans ruled over their own territory and acted as basically feudal lords with mercenary services being offered so long as they didn't go against the Daimyo. The time period was pretty awful for the clans, but the government was solid. Then the Hidden Villages started popping up, which complicated things.

We really didn't get all that much information on how the villages in the other countries ended up happening, but the story of Konoha is pretty clear. The formation of Konoha was probably permitted by the Daimyo because with the clans moving to the village, their respective territories were left basically to be returned to the ruling power, since they weren't there to govern it, the Daimyo could do what they wanted, and start handing it out to new nobles for connections and power. Plus, they no longer had to be careful in picking out which clans they went to for missions and keeping in mind their respective relations, not becoming overly reliant on one and snubbing another, they were all together.

The other villages were almost certainly formed as a reaction to Konoha, maybe for some the villages were the clans themselves coming together like in Fire while with others, maybe the Daimyo themselves formed them out of fear that the Fire Daimyo was consolidating military power with the clans forming a truly fearful army without them fighting each other anymore. Whatever you want to say happened, it led to the Great Hidden Villages forming and the rise to power of the Kage.

This is when things started backfiring on the Daimyo, because suddenly you had these giant, super powerful armies of all their shinobi clans giving their loyalty to a single leader...who isn't them. This led to a century of a very precarious balance of power between the nominal ruler in the Daimyo and the military power of the Kage. Things were largely kept in line due to the Shinobi Wars and the continued reliance on mercenary work on the part of the shinobi. I know that Zetsu is considered to blame for all the blood and violence, or whatever, but I would say that it worked in the Daimyo's favor to have the Shinobi fighting each other, it used to be the squabbling of the clans, but now it was the larger scale wars between the Hidden Villages. Which brings me to my story idea.

The Fourth Shinobi War led to a definite peace between the villages and the creation of a Shinobi Alliance as well as a movement towards ending the shinobi era as it was, especially the child solider aspect. There is no way the Daimyo would have been happy about that; things would have either had to fall apart or the governance of the countries would have to change.

So, the story idea is that the Daimyo start strengthening their samurai armies, who they've allowed to weaken through their reliance on the shinobi, with the intention of making the hidden villages fall in line beneath their command. Maybe the Daimyo of the Great Nations even joined together against their own shinobi. However, you want to play it out, there is a war brewing between the hidden villages and their Daimyo for the power of the country. Now, the Kage are not particularly interested in ruling their entire nations, well, most of them aren’t, Kakashi certainly isn’t, but they are not about the let their way of life be destroyed by selfish, paranoid Daimyo either.

Suna is especially in favor of ousting their Daimyo, relations in Wind have been particularly bad for a while now. The entire Suna invasion is a result of them losing missions from their Daimyo to outside sources, making them desperate. Kiri is probably in favor of making Terumi Mei in charge of everything too after all she did to end the era of the Bloody Mist, no thanks to their own Daimyo. In any case, the main story is a big epic about the shinobi trying to change things in a huge way and the Daimyo trying to stop it, leading to the confrontation that at the end of it means the Kage are going to have to take charge of their actual countries.

The story would follow the conflict, the end of the power of the Daimyo, the rise of the Kage to actual monarchs and the massive societal changes where they end the mercenary work of the shinobi and turn them into genuine military and the like. It would really be a huge undertaking of a story to bounce around the varied politics of the Five Great Nations and the fallout from the other, smaller countries.

There is something kind of hilarious about Kakashi, who doesn’t even want to be the Hokage, having to become the ruler of the entire Land of Fire. I don’t have the understanding of politics, Japanese history, or the world of Naruto to even begin to write something like this, I also don’t have the patience to write actual stories and make sure the characterization of everybody actually works. I just think it’d be a fascinating idea.

I have a few various headcanons that if I could write something like this I would want to include. For one, the Hatake clan isn't actually gone, they're a nomadic clan that acts in packs, every now and again a group will break off and settle down somewhere, which is what happened in Konoha, leading to Kakashi being the last of that group. The greater Hatake come around every few years to try and convince Kakashi to leave a village that has done very little for him, to no avail, then this conflict starts and a new pack breaking off happens, with them deciding to throw their weight behind Kakashi, acting as personal guards since they don't actually trust Konoha.

Of course, the ANBU and jounin corps are all completely loyal to Kakashi, but the Hatake don't know that. I think that would lead to some fun conflict since both parties want what's best for Kakashi, as a fellow Hatake or as their Hokage, but they have different ideas on what that means.

I have another idea where Kakashi and Shizune get married, solely in this context because I think she would make a fantastic Wife and Lady for the Land of Fire. I don't know, I just think she and Kakashi would work really well as a power couple when it comes to the role of Hokage and the politics involved. I normally think Kakashi works best with Yamato/Tenzo, but he would probably hate that kind of role. This kind of story would also really let Hinata shine, I think, with her training as the Hyuuga princess, she and Naruto make their own kind of power couple with international politics.

My thoughts are kind of scattered. Kishimoto created this really interesting world with all sorts of potential that really didn’t get fully explored. That’s why fanfic is so much fun.

Fairy Tail Question

Is Lucy’s luck ever really explored? They hint at there being something special, especially around the Tenrou Arc but nothing ever really comes of it. I think it would have been neat to take that plot device and actually go somewhere with it, Celestial Spirit Magic as a whole really could have gotten more development, I think. The idea of it has so much potential and the Heartfilia family history too, a matrilineal line of celestial spirits who may or may not come from nobility in a country where the Princess/Queen is also a celestial spirit mage? (was that ever confirmed in the manga or it is it anime only?) I guess the worldbuilding in general is a lot of wasted potential. Mashima gave us such a wonderful world and then never really explores it, kind of reminds me of the lost potential in Naruto and its political landscape which could have been so interesting and then was ignored in favor of cliche shounen power boosts and big energy/monster fights.

DC Comics - a thought

There’s a tendency in fanfiction that I’ve noticed to kind of de power Superman and Wonder Woman in favor of making Batman and the Batfamily look better. Part of this is probably because of the overwhelming amount of stories centered on Batfamily dynamics and that when writing shock and awe fics people want familiar characters to be their outsider pov, but it just doesn’t work right with Superman and Wonder Woman.

Another part of this is probably because of how the characters get presented in the comics, unfortunately both Superman and Wonder Woman have had to deal with a lot of flip flopping with their powers because the characters were made too powerful and the turn back to try and make them less overpowered has backlashed into making them too weak at times depending on the story. Not to mention how since Batman is part of the trinity that is the face of DC they want to make him equal to the other two within the canon, and it just doesn’t work. I don’t care how smart he is, Batman just cannot handle the problems Superman and Wonder Woman face, he’s only human.

I don’t know, it’s just a common occurrence for a popular character to try and have their real world popularity reflected in the comics, even when it doesn’t work, Batman and Spider-Man have that problem, the latter significantly more so than the former since Batman actually does play a pretty important role to the Justice League, just not quite to the point as he is represented, I think.

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Headcannon

I was feeling nostalgic thinking of the show and had this thought, where did Yusei, Jack and Crow learn to ride their duel runners? The show says that the duel runner Jack stole from Yusei was the first one he built, but they already knew how to drive and do so well enough that Jack became the King of turbo duels shortly thereafter. All three do some pretty spectacular stunts while riding, and that’s not the kind of thing you learn in a day. So I was thinking, Satellite’s a dumping ground for junk and trash, and something that probably became a lot less popular after duel runners were invented are regular old motorcycles. What if the guys found some, or parts of some that Yusei and Crow then built into bikes, and taught each other how to ride. Martha’s great but there’s no way she had the time to keep constant supervision over all the kids she was raising all the time. It’s canon that Yusei, Jack, and Crow had the time and lack of supervision to get caught up in gang fights, so clearly they had pretty free reign to get up to who knows what. So we’ve got three pre-teen boys with little supervision who find and reconstruct some old motorcycles where they then teach themselves how to drive. They would have had plenty of space to run around and I imagine they probably dared each other into doing stupid stunts. They also probably taught themselves turbo duels with regular duel disks. I’m just picturing them being the adrenaline junkies that they are and doing all sorts of stupid stuff that probably eventually ended in the three beat up motorcycles being destroyed and then after they met Kyousuke and made their gang. We never got a full idea how long that stuff went in for, but I’m guessing only like a year or so. So, pre-teen trio teach themselves to drive and run their bikes into the ground over the course of a few years. Then the three, probably age 14-ish meet Kyousuke and all that stuff happens. The three split after the gang fell apart, at some point Yusei falls in with the three friends we see at the start of the show and he builds his first duel runner. This was something he probably started after their motorcycles broke and worked on off and on over the next three-ish years until Jack steals it at age 16-ish. Two years later and we’ve got the beginning of the show with Yusei at 18.

Spider-Man AU idea

Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson and Johnny Storm should all be in one relationship together because that would be amazing and they’d all make each other really happy.

Also I can’t decide between PeterMJ and SpideyTorch so they should just all just be together, that way no one gets left out.

Story Idea

So the Lucifer in Supernatural is just the worst, and so is their Michael, what with the whole trying to possess Sam and Dean and start the apocalypse and what not. But I’ve recently been inspired by this great crossover between Supernatural, Good Omens and Lucifer (TV) where that’s not always the case. Lucifer isn’t actually the epitome of all evil in every interpretation of the Bible anyway, I mean Satan and Lucifer weren’t even always the same person, and besides that, Satan as a term was originally, like, a title for Heaven’s prosecutor or something, back before the Christian concept of Hell was a thing. I’m getting off tract.

Anyway, I was thinking of a world (specifically like an AU of Good Omens because I love those characters) where Lucifer isn’t evil, he’s a prosecutor, and judge and jury of hell, which has more in common with the Underworld than it does with fire and brimstone worst place on Earth just because I don’t want him miserable. Anyway, he’s happily married to his Queen, Lilith, totally devoted and monogamous and has been for millennia. Meanwhile Michael is just kind of living it up on Earth, going around drinking, picking fights, flirting with people and eating pie. Sometimes he drags other angels with him because he thinks they need to chill out more, his favorite victim is a little guy named Castiel. Lucifer and Michael get along with their siblings no problem, they especially like each other a good deal, though they can get on each other’s nerves sometimes. Lucifer often considers Michael a jerk while Michael will say Lucifer can be a bitch.

Get where I’m going with this? I just keep picturing Sam and Dean in their bunker staring at these two alternate versions of beings who’ve given them so much trouble, and it’s just them. I think it’s a fun idea, especially if you threw in Crowley and Aziraphale, like they’re just there being themselves.

Yugioh! 5Ds Headcannon

Yusei, Crow and Jack learned to turbo duel on regular motorcycles using old duel disks. Duel runners actually have quite a few modifications to them in order to use them in dueling, autopilot and connected duel disks are part of that. Yusei has to jerry rig a separate device that lets them add speed counters and had to hack their disks to allow for speed spells so the boys could learn to play.

Naruto Fic Idea

I have this idea for a time travel fic where Obito manages to do something that ends with Team Minato all returning to their bodies at some point before Kannabi bridge at the moment of their death. Of course, for Rin it would be the Sanbi incident, and I’m thinking for Minato it should be the Kyuubi attack, then Obito from the fourth shinobi war. So these three are coming from pretty bad moments in time and they find waking up in the past a second chance to fix things. Minato and Rin don’t know what’s going on, but they think Obito dies at the bridge and saving him is one of their major goals. Obito has a plan, he wants to change everything and go after things like a real fix-it, he gets Rin and Minato on his side easily, and then there’s Kakashi.

Kakashi died in his sleep, probably sitting in a chair on his deck watching the sunset, surrounded by his ninken and maybe with Tenzo or Gai sitting next to him. (I’m a kakayama and a kakagai shipper but it can be whoever you want or no one if you don’t want to have shipping involved.) Anyway, when Kakashi wakes up in the past he’s horrified. He has spent his entire life fighting for Konoha, first as a solider, then as Hokage and finally as an advisor, working towards real peace. And they succeeded. (I choose to ignore all Boruto related stuff, I kind of like combining this idea with my Daimyo Kakashi fic idea.) Whatever you imagine future Konoha being like, I like to think they brought the shinobi age to an end. They were moving past the time of mercenaries, fighting and war in favor of real progress. Details aside, Kakashi died feeling genuinely accomplished, having lived a long and full life, he was ready to pass on and he is not thrilled to find himself in the past.

When he finds out Obito is behind it, he is absolutely furious. He had mostly come to peace with what Obito had done, but he is now confronted once again with just how selfish and shortsighted he is. I imagine this fic mostly from the POV of Minato and Rin, maybe Kushina too. They are completely confused, they remember Obito as a happy and brave young man, and Kakashi as a cold and detached kid with stunted emotional growth. They have no idea what’s going on, they’re in favor of changing things and trying to fix it, Obito is trying to convince Kakashi that this is a good idea. All Kakashi really cares about is whether or not his future still exists somewhere and completely done with things otherwise. He doesn’t think it’s a future worth giving up just to appease his regrets. He’s also tired, Kakashi died from old age so he was, like >90, and he has no interest in repeating it all again.

I’m not really sure what to do from there, I just think it’d be an interesting set of dynamics.

OUAT Fic Premise

So I’ve never really liked how OUAT integrated most of the Peter Pan mythos. Killian Jones is my favorite character but he doesn’t really match the Hook from the novel. Stuff like their version of the Pan, Frankenstein and Oz characters bother me because unlike the other fairy tale characters, they come from a single definite source. The Frankenstein stuff is hopeless and there’s already one fanfic author who made Whale actually work for me as Victor and whose characterization I use for my headcannons. So here’s my thought for Killian (which completely ignores all of the stuff about Wendy and her brothers that they added, it doesn’t add much to the plot anyway).

Killian is not the Hook from the Peter Pan book and neither is the Pan that the gang fights in Neverland. The book all happened mostly as written but at some point Wendy returns to Neverland after that adventure and something g happens. Maybe during one of spring cleaning trips? I don’t know, whatever the case Wendy ends up in the world of the Enchanted Forest along with the crew of James Hook. James himself is, of course, dead, in the stomach of the crocodile. Wendy, as Red-Handed Jill, takes over as captain and she leads the crew for a while in their new world. Everyone in the crew is unfamiliar with this world as they all come from the same world as Wendy. Neverland was supposed to be connected to an alternate version of Earth, a slightly more magical one than the Land Without Magic where folk lore and the like are real and stories like Peter Pan and Alice and Wonderland and Mary Poppins can take place. Maybe King Arthur’s Avalon was real in this world and stuff like the Trojan War and the Odyssey actually happened (I’m also ignoring season 5 here). The details of Wendy’s home world are not important, I just think those additions are neat.

Anyway, Wendy sails as captain for some time before disbanding the crew. During this time, she falls in love with one of her crew members, an Irishman named David Jones, Davvy for short. The two end up having two boys together, Killian and Liam. At some point Davvy, who took up as captain with some of the crew members who wanted to keep sailing, ends up cursed with the Flying Dutchman because the name is just too convenient for that to have never come up. Wendy goes ashore and raises her boys, helped by Mr. Smee who managed to have his own son at some point. Killian and Liam are raised on stories of England, and on Peter Pan and Neverland. Which is why when Killian ends up losing his hand to his own crocodiles he takes up the moniker of his childhood stories.

Meanwhile, whatever happened that led to Wendy and the pirates being sent to the Enchanted Forest also led to Neverland being opened up to it and being infected by its foreign magic, weakening Peter. Some timey-wimey stuff happens and children from this new world star dreaming of Neverland. One of these kids is a boy named Malcom who would one day manage to find his way there in person. Malcom takes out Peter and takes over as Pan. He’s who the gang fight in Neverland and Rumpelstiltskin sacrifices himself to kill, permanently because he doesn’t need to come back and cause problems.

OUAT mostly stays the same through to the end of season 3A, after that so what you will. I just like picturing Killian surprising Emma with knowledge of the Land Without Magic that doesn’t make sense based off of what he learned from his mom.

Anyway, that’s mostly my idea for a premise for a canon-divergent fic that I think would be neat.