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edenfallingToday I got a review for chapter 8 of "The Way of the Apartment Manager," which is the one where they fight the 'bandits' and meet Uchiha Akaro, Hyuuga Shiro, and Aburame Kuroko.
(Those three, by the way, should have a team name, since at least one of them will cameo in "Guardian," hopefully within the next few chapters. Somehow 'Team Bleeding Penguin' or 'Team Newspaper' aren't quite cutting it in my head, and 'Team Asuma' just sounds wrong... though Asuma is, indeed, their jounin-sensei.)
Anyway, the reviewer raised a question about my interpretation of the Byakugan:
I would point out that the Byakugan has great insight into Genjutsu, even greater than that of the Sharingan, according to Kakashi.
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This is what I said:
A good point.
However, because I didn't want any bloodline limit to become too powerful, I decided that it takes a lot of time and hard work to make sense out of the ambient chakra the Byakugan perceives. You have to learn to interpret the input before you can see through the illusions.
The Sharingan, on the other hand, is something of a shortcut -- instead of seeing everything, it perceives select aspects the surroundings (movement, illusions, and the active chakra flow composing them), and therefore the Uchiha need much less effort to interpret what they see than the Hyuuga do.
So while the Hyuuga can, theoretically, see through genjutsu, in practice most of them find that technique unreliable, because they haven't learned to filter their sight in that particular way.
This may well not be what Kishimoto originally meant to show, but it makes sense to me and was much easier to work with in a story. :-)
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Does that make sense, or am I just being unforgivably lazy for not looking up the exact mechanics of the Byakugan and then working them into the story? I mean, it is canon that not all Hyuuga are as good at using jyuken and their bloodline limit as, say, Neji, but... I dunno. Maybe I just like differentiating the Byakugan and the Sharingan, for my own narrative convenience.
(Those three, by the way, should have a team name, since at least one of them will cameo in "Guardian," hopefully within the next few chapters. Somehow 'Team Bleeding Penguin' or 'Team Newspaper' aren't quite cutting it in my head, and 'Team Asuma' just sounds wrong... though Asuma is, indeed, their jounin-sensei.)
Anyway, the reviewer raised a question about my interpretation of the Byakugan:
I would point out that the Byakugan has great insight into Genjutsu, even greater than that of the Sharingan, according to Kakashi.
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This is what I said:
A good point.
However, because I didn't want any bloodline limit to become too powerful, I decided that it takes a lot of time and hard work to make sense out of the ambient chakra the Byakugan perceives. You have to learn to interpret the input before you can see through the illusions.
The Sharingan, on the other hand, is something of a shortcut -- instead of seeing everything, it perceives select aspects the surroundings (movement, illusions, and the active chakra flow composing them), and therefore the Uchiha need much less effort to interpret what they see than the Hyuuga do.
So while the Hyuuga can, theoretically, see through genjutsu, in practice most of them find that technique unreliable, because they haven't learned to filter their sight in that particular way.
This may well not be what Kishimoto originally meant to show, but it makes sense to me and was much easier to work with in a story. :-)
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Does that make sense, or am I just being unforgivably lazy for not looking up the exact mechanics of the Byakugan and then working them into the story? I mean, it is canon that not all Hyuuga are as good at using jyuken and their bloodline limit as, say, Neji, but... I dunno. Maybe I just like differentiating the Byakugan and the Sharingan, for my own narrative convenience.
