Board Thread:Rebirth: Important Discussions/@comment-4869113-20141106222850/@comment-2089817-20141107170942

I have to say I agree completely with Void on this one. I don't care what the votes say, the entire idea of having any kind of FC that revolves around conflict between the nations (which is happening), following the end of the manga, is disconcert to the entire flow of things. Going by the canon's end, the five nations would have banded together and crushed Naraku without even a second thought. Boom. Done. No more story there. Hitokui? Done. Boom. Smash. Gone. Even my idea involving Seireitou, there is no darkness, no conflict to exploit. It's boring.

The end to Naruto was beautiful and fitting, given the story of the manga, but completely makes it difficult for us to make any succeeding story from it. Many of you probably don't realize this but Naruto pretty much accomplished what the general theme of the manga was. That the system of ninja in existence was what led to hatred in the world; for example, the Curse of Hatred. Minato put it best. "It was this shinobi system that gave birth to a person like Pain." Naruto, in effect, demolished this system and paved the way toward a permanent unification between the nations. A beautiful ending to HIS story, but pretty much fucks over any story we want to build on top of it. Even if 50 or so years pass, I seriously doubt any large-scale conflict between the nations would arise. Many a smaller village tries to rebel and gain some footing by causing conflict, but the five nations are basically the United Nations now, and won't tolerate anything like that. You can't work with this, no matter how hard you try.

I say, just drop this issue and let things move as we agreed upon before. You can't deny that the FC is an AU, so stop trying to make it fit so perfectly with canon. It just doesn't work, period. As mean of me it will be to say this, and a lot of you might get pissed at me for saying this, but whoever the 20 some of you are that voted to go by Chapter 700, are either massive idiots or aren't capable of even seeing five minutes past your own faces to see why this doesn't work.