[FFML] [C&C] [Fanfic][Naruto] Suiren, Chapter 14: Blood...

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Question: Whyfore the automatic assumption that Neji will become Clan
Head if he marries Hanabi? Because he's male? Because he's older than her?

He's /Branch House/. No way are the conservatives in the clan going to
let him become Clan Head, not even if Hiashi himself says he should be it.

As Hanabi's consort, they'd accept him. As Clan Head in her place, no.

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"This is the price of freedom: Your last pint of blood, ounce of pain,
drop of courage. Paid in advance."

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From: The Eternal Lost Lurker <lurkerdrome at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: [FFML] [C&C] [Fanfic][Naruto] Suiren, Chapter 14: Blood...
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> > > "Screwed up" HOW, pray tell? The Uzu no Kuni thing isn't THAT
> far-fetched...
> >
> > Well, perhaps not screwed up so much as...
> >
> > Hmm, i dunno. I guess i just get a little annoyed when genre
> > conventions become so ingrained that it's almost like something 
> _must_> happen in a particular fashion because that's how it 
> happened in many
> > other examples of the genre. I probably shouldn't read shounen manga
> > at all...
> 
> Well, yeah, certain staples tend to come with the territory when it 
> comes to
> shounen manga. :)
> 
> > And, as a character, it kind of... cheapens Naruto to have _both_ of
> > his parents be historically significant figures; i dunno...
> 
> Kushina isn't exactly "historically significant" aside from having 
> gottenknocked up by the Fourth. :P There's no indication that she 
> was anything
> other than a skilled kunoichi of a country which no longer exists 
> who just
> happens to be Naruto's mother.
> 
> > > Clan politics. If Neji were to marry Hanabi, Hanabi would not 
> be the
> clan
> > > head--*he* would. In order to install him as the head of the main
> family, he
> > > would HAVE to have the seal removed so he would be able to 
> display his
> bare
> > > forehead.
> >
> > Do we have a canon example, perhaps Hiashi's wife? Of course, if the
> > marriage was arranged before she was sealed, then i suppose she 
> might> not have ever had one...
> 
> Assuming she was Hyuuga. Which is a rather large assumption. Given the
> stability of the bloodline in its present state, I rather doubt 
> there is
> THAT much inbreeding going on.
> 
> Now, if she'd been Uchiha, THAT would've made sense. But that's 
> best left
> for later speculation.
> 
> > And would the elders really sit well with having a clan head that is
> > so openly hostile to clan tradition? Hiashi can't make this decision
> > in a vaccum...
> 
> Regardless of his personal views, Neji is still Hyuuga. VERY BLATANTLY
> Hyuuga. He's EXACTLY LIKE every other member of the clan except 
> Hinata. If
> they put him at the head of the clan, he'd do exactly what they 
> expect of
> him.
> 
> (Besides, as clan head, he'd have considerably more leverage to 
> infuencetradition and try to do away with the whole branch/seal 
> issue. He wouldn't
> be able to do it in one generation, but his heirs...you never know.)
> 
> > > No, I'm pretty sure if Neji got forced into a marriage with 
> Hanabi, his
> seal
> > > would come OFF, and Hinata would be branded in his stead.
> >
> > Assuming the Hyuuga main house has a secret method of doing such a
> > thing; if he feels such a deep debt toward Hizashi, why didn't 
> Hiashi> adopt Neji and have him unsealed in the past, before Neji's 
> resentment> had years to fester?
> 
> Because Hiashi's a dumbshit :P It took watching Neji go off on his 
> emo rant
> while fighting Naruto to shake loose some of the shit clogging up 
> his brain.
> 
> > > Allowing her to live her life the way she wants, for the most 
> part, free
> of
> > > the burdens of shame and failure and clan politics. Like I 
> said, it'd be
> the
> > > kindest thing the clan could do to her at this point.
> >
> > Wasn't disagreeing with you; there are just a lot of people who seem
> > to see only portents of doom and despair in what has happened to
> > Hinata here...
> 
> Heh. That's just because nobody likes the thought of cute little 
> Hinata-chan
> getting a big ugly brand on her pretty little face. :)
> 
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