User blog comment:DazzlingEmerald/Adding Techniques to Your Characters/@comment-4869113-20150712011002/@comment-24384232-20150712190528

I have to agree with Dazz here, even I've fallen victim to this mindset. But the most important aspect that Dazz is trying to get at is being respectful of the culture of Naruto. In that, if a technique is obviously affiliated with a clan, it makes little sense that your own character should have it, if they have no feasible reason for acquiring it.

Now, we both know "applying" for the technique was more a stop gap measure. It didnt really solve the crisis so much as slow it down. People still desire the techniques themselves. Hell my own application for the Flying Thunder God Technique for my Yamanaka was a satire on the ridiculous methods people use to acquire said technique.

For those of you who dont know. He found an original seal in the bathhouse and realized that the Yondaime was fond of spying on woman much like his esteemed teacher. From there Akihiko went on a world-wide tour and found that the Yondaime was perhaps not as naive as we all thought him to be. Yes, I shit you not, I had my character reverse engineer the greatest space-time technique with that, but I digress.

Showing respect and restraint is difficult, largely because we want our characters to be badasses and powerhouses, with all the elements, a doujutsu or two, and more. But if we want to be realistic, they wouldn't know many of them. Its just a power fantasy. I think we all know this in our hearts, but whether we do something about that, is another thing entirely.