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For the Clans and Bloodlines page, we encourage you to provide information on the bloodlines and clans that your character belongs to. These include both canon clans/bloodlines (canon information and Sunshine accepted headcanon welcome!) and character created ones (for Original Characters and modified imports).

Providing information does the following:
- helps fill out the pages
- keeps them consistent with what players are using in Sunshine gameplay/interactions, not just what is written into canon
- allows for reference for incoming characters/players who might need this information for their applications/character creation and development
- provides supplemental information for people unfamiliar with the canon of Naruto, specifically as it is applied in Sunshine


If you are interested in helping, please comment below with the name of the clan or bloodline you're providing information on and the information that you can. You can use bullets, prose, whatever works best for you. We'll modify it to fit into the clan information page.

Thank you!

To help, we've created a list of starter questions. You do not have to provide answers to any or all of these, nor are you limited to just what is listed.

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Possible (but not all) topics for discussion/addition

Where does the clan live?
How wealthy are they?
Do they own land? What is on this land? Is it considered part of their home village or is it separate?
Do they live together in a compound/collective? In a district?
Is it common for individuals to live outside the clan's domain?

Do they have any special markings or clothing designating themselves from others?
Do they have a banner or heraldic symbol/coat of arms?
What makes them visually or genetically notable?
Or is there a personality trait associated with them?

How protective is the clan?
Do they do anything special to protect the bloodline?
What kind of internal politics exist?
Are there ranks within the clan?

How are marriages handled?
Are they selective in their marriages/breeding?
Are there restrictions?
Do they observe any special customs or traditions? Do they celebrate anything that others of the same region do not?

How old is the bloodline or clan? From who do they trace their lineage?
Historically how were they viewed? How are they viewed now?
What position to they hold in their home village? Are they respected or feared or scorned?

What is the bloodline's visual attributes?
How does its power manifest?
What skills or specialties does someone with this bloodline likely excell in?
What is the bloodline's weakness?
Is it transferable in any way (scientific or medical--example: Kakashi's Sharingan)? Has that been done before and how?
Is the bloodline well-known? Is its weakness well-known? Who knows about it?
Does it exist outside of the village of its origin?

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Uchiha Clan Revised Part 3/3

[not_thedragon]

How old is the bloodline or clan? From whom do they trace their lineage?
Old as balls. Their complete lineage -- the complicated history of early chakra war and what most now consider to be origin myth -- is known mostly to the clan head and permanent council seats, passed down within those families. The rest of the clan is taught lineage from the warring states period through their role in the founding of Konoha and are accordingly proud, sometimes accused of being prideful.

Historically how were they viewed? How are they viewed now?
What position to they hold in their home village? Are they respected or feared or scorned?
Historically, the Uchiha were the wildcard of the alliance that built Konoha. A long history of killing and being killed by the village's other founding clan was not viewed favourably by the Senju, and although they ultimately did settle in the village, they were viewed with suspicion by many. The clan suspiciously viewed the village right back, and through the time of the Second Hokage still presented a sufficient flight (or worse) risk to give him many a headache over whether he could trust the group or not.

On the clan's side, they felt slighted in precedence upon the establishment of the Hokageship as -- if not a bloodline -- a clear lineage of ideology. Although they had been promised equal standing by the First, they found quickly that this was no guarantee under another less friendly Hokage, and saw no reason to expect that the next kage would be any more inclined to support the clan. The Uchiha tendency to close ranks under pressure did not help endear them to the village, and they provided an unpopular military police and widely feared field shinobi right up until the third shinobi world war, when the Fourth made the first efforts to bring them more closely into the village fold.

Given the lack of physical wall between the Uchiha and the village, the division between clan and village was at once less obvious and more insidious, running on a deep force of habit and culture. It was not until the closer wartime relationship between Uchiha forces and the rest of the village's shinobi that the majority of the clan spent significant time with non-Uchiha, and to this day there is an unavoidable (no pun intended) clannishness. However, the Fourth's friendly overtures and recognition of the clan's contributions to the war effort and village security did some work to thaw relations between Uchiha and village. The current Hokage, albeit an unrepresentative Uchiha himself, being from the clan has helped accord some status as well, though this is sometimes viewed askance given his blatantly un-Uchiha behaviour.

These days, the clan is viewed with somewhat less fear. This is not necessarily a plus for a clan that prides itself on its combat capabilities, but has made it easier for them to function within the village. They still function as the military police, handling both "domestic" crimes and village security against outside threat. They are also required to serve as police for Konoha's civilians (a tedious job that many of the Uchiha MP disilke), as well as fire and other disaster relief forces. Intra-Konoha-nin crimes are their field, and they are diligent in law enforcement.

Their work as the MP occasionally intersects with ANBU's work within and without the village; the Uchiha are generally obliged to hand over cases that begin to touch on higher clearance-level intel, as well as any cases that turn out to involve intervillage conflicts. This has chafed in the past, as they have been sometimes seen as ninja who handle petty conflicts instead of the real work of shinobi life. A few generations have helped accustom them to this role, at least in the sense of smoother transitions and established paperwork. Still, given their pride in their battlefield abilities, handing cases over to ANBU can still rankle. Conversely, ANBU will sometimes turn cases over to the MP if they appear to be intra-Konoha-nin only; this annoys both parties involved, as ANBU is not used to handing over cases, and the Uchiha find it sometimes rankling to be given the dregs of ANBU investigations.

Through their role as police for civilians, the clan has an unusually close finger on the pulse of life on non-shinobi side of things both in the village and in the country as a whole. When civilians (or non-civilians unaffiliated with Konoha) fetch up at or against the village walls, it falls to the MP to locate them, vet them for any potential threats, and send them on their way. As such, they tend to notice unease more quickly than the average mission-based ninja; in the past year, the MP has taken steps to increase village security within their domain, with or without prompting from the Hokage's office. Patrol frequency has been upped, and shinobi have been more and more commonly required to carry ID or prove their identities even within the village; where possible, stricter standards for civilian goods and groups travelling in and out of the village have also been imposed. These steps have not endeared the MP to the population, civilian or ninja, but they fully intend to continue to tighten security in response to various breaches throughout the year.

What kind of internal politics exist?
The Uchiha exist in varying levels of unease with regards to their home village. After expelling Madara way back in the day, they made efforts to integrate into the running of the village; the Second's possibly-well-intentioned use of them as the village's police force and thereby marking them as distinct from (and to some, set up in opposition to) the rest of the village drove a wedge between them and the rest of the population that remains in place, albeit to a lessened degree, today. After several generations of clashing with the village in their duty as the MP -- and Uchiha take duty seriously -- there was finally some movement toward further integration under the Fourth, following closeness between clan and village necessitated by war of attrition. Improved relations have come at a slow and unsteady pace, with plenty of opposition from clan members who hold mistreatment and ostracization in living memory and pass the resentment on to younger generations. Even young Uchiha in the Academy are somewhat notoriously defensive of their clan reputation and name and have been known to occasionally misdirect a Katon when provoked.

The Fourth made what might have been a good PR move in selecting an Uchiha for his team, but the clan wondered extremely about his choice of Obito -- a heretofore non-standout, and someone who had moved out of clan quarters very young and was therefore subject to suspicion. When a non-Uchiha on the team got a free Sharingan, their worst fears seemed to have been realised; the clan being integrated into mainstream village life only to serve as a Sharingan factory. As the years went by and that did not happen -- and Kakashi appeared to be an excellent ninja, contrite about the whole eyeball business -- ruffled feathers smoothed down, but only slightly. Obito was widely regarded as something of a black sheep in the clan.

When he returned as an adult prior making his bid for Hokage, his overtures toward restoring his clan connections were viewed with a mixture of skepticism and amusement; an Uchiha Hokage seemed highly unlikely, and in any case this one was surely brainwashed by Konoha through Minato's sensei-lineage. Given that Uchiha are rarely if ever disowned, he was accepted more as an inevitability than a welcome breath of fresh air, though his successful selection as Hokage raised eyebrows in a way that was perhaps not all bad. Still, his close ties to the Senju and obvious preference for the previous Hokage's family to his own clan meant that although the clan was happy to acknowledge the first Uchiha Hokage, there were still plenty who argued that he only succeeded by downplaying his Uchiha heritage except when stumping for the clan's vote.

The current situation has therefore led to a very nominally two-pronged set of opinions in the clan. There are those who are cautiously optimistic about the move into the village that the Fourth initiated, and equally cautiously optimistic about potentially having the ear of a Hokage. These people are hoping that working more closely with Konoha will help dissolve some of the unavoidable walls that build up between a policed population and the policing population. There are others, the majority, who remain insistent on clan traditions and point to history with jaundiced eyes.

Most recently, the clan head received the upsetting -- and upsettingly unsurprising -- news that his eldest son and heir is abdicating from his role. The closeness observed between Itachi and Obito and Itachi's general disinterest in the clan has led some of the biggest grumblers to suggest that the heir was targeted for pro-Konoha brainwashing. Most are more realistic and assume that his early departure from clan life was a mistake and prevented him from forming an adequate relationship with his clan. Once the news gets out that he has not only stepped down but will be moving away from the clan, however, there will be one voice of displeasure. This is a clan where kinship bonds are not just important but critical -- whatever internal politics may disrupt Fugaku's life and give him ulcers, they are largely used to presenting a unified whole to the outside world.

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