Board Thread:Rebirth: Important Discussions/@comment-4869113-20141106222850/@comment-24384232-20141107163949

Fact of the matter is the FC is an alternate universe, there is no way around that. So we can either accept that and create some semblance of organization or we can continue to wonder how the hell the FC will work considering what we've seen from the end of canon.

The fact that any of our characters exist, including yours Dazz flies in the face of canon, so much so that trying to merge the differing timelines is a futile effort. The actions of even one of our characters might have had an impact on where the direction the story might have gone. So I vote on rather than using a chapter as a starting point, we establish a consensus of what happened after the Fourth War. Whether the FC starts 10 years after the war or 35 makes no difference if we cant even agree on how the war ended.

Canon has it that they all entered into peace. I'm of the opinion that the devastation caused by the last war isn't so easily undone, and a lot of dark shit happened. Ultimately Naruto failed to bring about peace and instead an even worse era of war and conflict pervaded in the wake of the war. Its why so many of the old leaders either died off or were cast aside. Disappointment, anger and dissent were rampant, with no hope in sight. That's the backstory I've been using for my characters.