I'm not strongly opposed to Ami having the tank top, it just means she needs a bigger tool pouch than usual, like I said. That Rei picture's jacket looks about the same degree of sleeve looseness as the the sweater top you didn't like, though very nice otherwise - it shows she can look good in purple, at least. Maybe her post-timeskip look? Or were you proposing it as an Ami outfit, with some color shifting? And yes, Aqua Rhapsody comes later, when she breaks her weak combat/poor confidence cycle (and has had some more time to grow her chakra) along with mizu bunshin. (smirk Can you say, Aqua Illusion? I knew you could...)
I kind of want to put Mako up against Sasuke in the prelims, because except for the lack of a demon to draw chakra from (meaning she can run out, and quickly if pushed) she's basically an electric version of Naruto - on the other hand, that would mean having him a lot less restricted than canon, or he'd get pwned. 'Course, it might not be such a bad thing if he did get himself cut down to size BECAUSE of the curse seal and side effects thereof... (Anko: "Why do you think I ain't a normal Jounin, boy? This curse seal... it either makes you weak, or turns you into a pupet for that bastard.") Meh. That's too far away to plan now, and I haven't even really seen where he'll be at that point yet - and until the Sasuke/Orochimaru arc shakes out, who knows how it'll be handled.
Rei's ravens - I was thinking about them, but didn't want to make her too overpowered, when she's already equal parts Green Arrow, Sailor Mars, and Keiya Tenpu'in, and still a genin. Ravens too... actually, as a long range specialist that might work, since they'd be more spotters and communications than combatants per se. Most ninja could hit a bird witha kunai if they want to, so having them fluttering around in a fight would be a bad idea. Okay, they're in. She's got the Mighty Mighty B0wz0r, so her strength is good, but speed probably a little low.
Hotaru - if Anko is 24, roll her back one more year to nine, and say Anko left with Daddy dearest at first because she was a teenager who thoguht she was in love, and returned when she realized she was a tool being used and didn't want to subject a kid to that. The little firefly can already wall and water walk, and while she hasn't had any real instruction in offensive jutsu (just her drain touch and how to turn it on and off) she's figured out how to make a glowing blob of chakra to put in her lamp collection on her own, a varient of her healing hands ability - the control exercises she was put on early because her mom realised with the amount of chakra she was developing so young, she'd never get a handle on it if she WASN'T started early. In other words, she's only an academy student and already her ninjutsu is better than Kabuto's team mate Akado Yoroi. Do you see why I want to drop those losers?
Usagi can be a ninja, if you really like the idea, but I don't have a role for her as such - that's not a problem, per se, there's at least one more genin team from Neji's year we'll never see - but I like the idea of her being all Snow White in Nidaime's arbor/orchard, too. Well, I suppose she could be Neji and Rei's other team mate, but Usagi and Badly Injured go together even worse than Usagi and Ninja Badass. Of course, it could be that she got therough the forest fine but tripped and gave herself a concussion inside the tower...
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I kind of want to put Mako up against Sasuke in the prelims, because except for the lack of a demon to draw chakra from (meaning she can run out, and quickly if pushed) she's basically an electric version of Naruto - on the other hand, that would mean having him a lot less restricted than canon, or he'd get pwned. 'Course, it might not be such a bad thing if he did get himself cut down to size BECAUSE of the curse seal and side effects thereof... (Anko: "Why do you think I ain't a normal Jounin, boy? This curse seal... it either makes you weak, or turns you into a pupet for that bastard.") Meh. That's too far away to plan now, and I haven't even really seen where he'll be at that point yet - and until the Sasuke/Orochimaru arc shakes out, who knows how it'll be handled.
Rei's ravens - I was thinking about them, but didn't want to make her too overpowered, when she's already equal parts Green Arrow, Sailor Mars, and Keiya Tenpu'in, and still a genin. Ravens too... actually, as a long range specialist that might work, since they'd be more spotters and communications than combatants per se. Most ninja could hit a bird witha kunai if they want to, so having them fluttering around in a fight would be a bad idea. Okay, they're in. She's got the Mighty Mighty B0wz0r, so her strength is good, but speed probably a little low.
Hotaru - if Anko is 24, roll her back one more year to nine, and say Anko left with Daddy dearest at first because she was a teenager who thoguht she was in love, and returned when she realized she was a tool being used and didn't want to subject a kid to that. The little firefly can already wall and water walk, and while she hasn't had any real instruction in offensive jutsu (just her drain touch and how to turn it on and off) she's figured out how to make a glowing blob of chakra to put in her lamp collection on her own, a varient of her healing hands ability - the control exercises she was put on early because her mom realised with the amount of chakra she was developing so young, she'd never get a handle on it if she WASN'T started early. In other words, she's only an academy student and already her ninjutsu is better than Kabuto's team mate Akado Yoroi. Do you see why I want to drop those losers?
Usagi can be a ninja, if you really like the idea, but I don't have a role for her as such - that's not a problem, per se, there's at least one more genin team from Neji's year we'll never see - but I like the idea of her being all Snow White in Nidaime's arbor/orchard, too. Well, I suppose she could be Neji and Rei's other team mate, but Usagi and Badly Injured go together even worse than Usagi and Ninja Badass. Of course, it could be that she got therough the forest fine but tripped and gave herself a concussion inside the tower...
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows