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I'm glad you're in a better mental space in regards to the fic's postmortem. Hindsight's kicking in hard tbh- I'd like to offer a rather belated apology for any part I had in the negative feelings.
[X] Make a break for it. Catch them off guard, and maybe she'll escape. It's a longshot, but it beats the alternative.
Aight, the argument in favor of running is better than trying anything else. Let's see what happens
Tree farms are conveniently self-perpetuating, a lot of the time. They also provide free apples if they're oak trees, which is especially good for if we ever get into the Nether and get a gold farm going. Free golden apples!
Hiashi shouldn't be in the mood to schmooze until the branch member and everyone else is safely behind the village walls, anyway, so it wouldn't need to be included in any sort of rewrite aside from maybe a request to speak to Daisuke later on.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. A way to fix the lack of impact on the main plot might be having Hiashi try to actually build a working acquaintanceship with him as a result of the mission instead of just going "hey, you can go ahead and woo my daughter," dragging him more into village inter-clan...
That's as good a reason to hate writing Team 9 as any I suppose, but I was being honest when I said it felt like you were speedrunning the arc. Reading back through, it's as if you had two goals in mind: "Get Daisuke's RPG-ness revealed" and "get the harem idea out in the open and a source of...
snerks Uh, to be honest it seems more like you had a very clear picture of where you wanted to be at the end of this arc, but kind of ended up speedrunning it to get there instead of fleshing everything out.
In the vein of that, Team 9 as a whole felt pretty... tertiary to the reveal scene in particular. Like they weren't supposed to be there, except for Gai to accidentally set up Sarutobi completely destroying Hisako's heart in the next scene.
Also, on the topic of Sarutobi, that exact...
Anko considering the potential tea sets and how they'd symbolically represent her relationship with Daisuke was... really interesting, and I liked it a lot. It added a lot of passive depth to her character, and let us deeper into her thought process alongside her consideration of recent events...
It's either that or one person comes up with an interesting AU idea, and then someone reads the fanfic and misses the fact that it's an AU, writes a fanfic with some of the ideas and it kind of permeates from there.
Oh god, I could go all day. That's not even getting into- no, no, gotta stop...
The interesting thing is that the main reason depends on the fandom- though in the case of Naruto it's probably just people not actually reading the source material before fanfics and assuming the fanfics are correct.
Oh, yeah, I'm well aware of the ways pervasive fanon can distort canon characters and concepts. I could probably go all day... probably shouldn't, though. In the meantime I'll buckle in for what promises to be an interesting ride exploring Anko's character and relationship with Daisuke and...