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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2006-03-20 06:31 am

(naruto) about the cyborg fic...

So. I still don't know what should happen, though I like the idea of making a series of one-shots in this universe instead of a huge multipart. But... hmm.

I also know what some of the characters are. But as for some others, not a clue.



1) A.I.s are rather rare, and, in case they are humanoid, tend to be very big humans. More often than not they're not mobile, or they're like mini tanks or stuff; the technology needed to host an AI is still rather voluminous. In that regard, Uchiha models are an exception, on account of being rather recent military technology; civilians don't have access to this level of technology.

2) Cyborgs (IE half machine half human) rarely are cyborg at more than 50%; In polite society, it's seen as rather freakish to be more metal than that. (though people from the underground kind of don't mind that. XD)

3) Same for Furries -- and they can get stuff grafted on, but when they start getting remodeling surgery to actually have paws, or wings, or things like that, people go from considering it cute/frivolous to considering it rather WTF.

The society is heading for a rather explosive collapse; big corporations have as much or more power than lawfully elected mayors, presidents, senators and the like, the politicians are corrupt, the police is either corrupt or overwhelmed. Black market = booming. Insurance = hahaha, good luck.

Part of that is actually Itachi's fault -- the Uchiha units were very effective; maybe too much, seeing as they were used to control the polulation very strictly. People were starting to feel oppressed and mildly paranoid, what with Uchihas being virtually indistinguishable from humans. And then suddenly, bam, hundreds of Uchiha units wiped out. They had a field day. But eventually, people would probably have rebelled anyway...



So.

LIST OF PEOPLE I ALREADY HAVE DECIDED ABOUT. I am not looking for new suggestion on them, unless it's only on the way in which they fit into another character's backstory.

-Itachi and Sasuke : paramilitary androids.
-Naruto: fox-furry and a cyborg repairman. (I know where he's coming from, why, and how he fits in with the others)
-Tsunade: doctor, Sakura: nurse.
-Neji: Hiashi's clone and Hyuuga Corporation property. (Hinata and Hanabi are, presumably, Hiashi's daughters.)
-Kakashi is *BLEEP* SPOILER, and Orochimaru *BLEEEEEP*. (in other words, I already know, but i'm not telling. :D) The Fourth : *BLEEEEEEEEPBLEEPBLEEP*
-Ino: officially accredited AI programmer. Chouji: hardware-type-guy. Shika: hacker in his spare time, when he can be bothered -- still better than Ino.
-Iruka: runs an orphanage and teaches people subversive stuff about ideals, peace, respect, justice and all that.
-Zabuza and Haku: Crime lord and his boytoy.
-Lee and Gai: paramedics and/or physical therapists.
-Kiba: street-tough dog-furry, selling contraband with Shino (come on, Shino's coat looks like it's full of watches, or possibly weed) Also selling electronical stuff that Naruto builds (will have to figure out what)
-Kabuto: orderly at Tsunade's hospital

PEOPLE I'M STILL NOT ENTIRELY SURE ABOUT

-Gaara: raccoon furry, also a druggie. XD (ideas for the sandsibs job? Probably something quite illegal. I like the idea of them being the children/hit squad of a Mafia-type-boss.)
-Hinata: CEO daughter; how the hell does she meet Shino and Kiba. (but I will have to find that out on my own, I think, seeing as if it happens, it will only be as a result of the Itachi/Neji subplot.)
-Jiraiya: apart from writing porn...?

What are the other characters doing? What are they? Any ideas?

[identity profile] windandwater.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
I like the idea of Ino as a hacker. I mean, her specialty in canon is taking over your mind and body, so that would be compatible with the technofuture. Though, now I'm imagining Ino strapped into The Beast from X like Satsuki is, with plugs and all. Ahahaha, then she'd definitely need Chouji and Shikamaru around to protect her while she's vulnerable and "jacked in" to the system.

[identity profile] purple-alicorn.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
And of course (in my mind) Kakashi is a ex-paramedic/physio who now runs the local porn shop...

Ohohoh - the Sand sibs are a competing junk yard or the local crime enforcers.

[identity profile] joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
1. Where's Orochimaru, and why isn't Kabuto working for him?
2. I like Kiba and Shino as part-dog street thug and contraband gangsta dealer. But how would Hinata hook up with them? Allowed to escape a Hyuuga massacre and had the good luck to fall in with them?
3. Hacker Yamanakas. DOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIT.
3a. Internal cyborg programmer Yamanakas, maybe even mostly legal. Information network almost-completely-illegal Naras. Or vice versa, since cyborg = limb movement = Nara, and info = mind = Yamanaka.
4. Jiraiya. Cyberbrothel and porn sites?
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[personal profile] tephra 2006-03-20 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ino as a hacker sounds very yummy to me. I'm at a loss to explain why though since I've only seen up through the written test portion of the chuunin exams on TV. There's just something about Ino's attitude the few times I've seen her that just fits hacker for me. Her whole team fits "hacker" in my head.

Iruka is probably in some scrounged up library teaching people Things They Don't Want You To Know. Like the whole concept of human rights and free thought. Or running an orphanage. Or both.

Kakashi I think you already have some plans for based on other posts/comments.

If you are inclined to have Haku and Zabuza in this universe you probably wouldn't have to change much about them. Zabuza has a gang and is out to secure a bigger turf/control some resource/generally be the big boss. Haku is his runner and catspaw and boytoy.

That's all I really have, not having much canon knowledge to work with. Though Gaara is probably addicted to some really nasty drug....

[identity profile] annwyd.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I confess I haven't been reading the cyborg!fic (I'll probably go through and catch up on it sometime, but I am lazy), but:

Ino-hacker = win. Especially if her specialty is hacking into other people's cyborgstuff and taking over their miiiinds. I'm sure she's a sexy hacker too. I also think that Shikamaru and Chouji have to be involved with her; it's pretty much a given for Team 10. Maybe they're technically supposed to be her bodyguards (perhaps in this future hacking is a Dangerous Business and hackers are simultaneously in high demand and not trusted? I dunno), but they tend to help her out on operations more than anyone knows?

I'm not sure about Gai and Lee as paramedics; I just have this sense of them needing to be doing something very physical and demanding--but since you're already working a hospital into the plot for the sake of characters like Tsunade, Sakura, Kabuto, Shizune, etc, it is easier to tie Gai and Lee in with it somehow. Whether they're paramedics or physical therapists (perhaps Lee was originally a patient Gai treated, and they fell for each other in their wonderful platonic way, and now they work together?), I bet they run down the halls a lot. XD

[identity profile] annwyd.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, don't worry; I'm just glad I didn't scare you off with my comment-buffer-breaking rambling. XD

I'll let you know if I have any more coherent ideas. As it is, I'm pretty busy fending off my own sharp-toothed plotbunnies.
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[personal profile] tephra 2006-03-20 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh. I LIKE that idea for Iruka. I like it a lot. ADOPTED.

YAY! *happydances*

If Haku ends up getting killed "on stage" in the story I will end up crying again. But I suppose that is his fate. *mourns Haku, again*

Gaara the strung out, drug addicted, raccoon furry = awesome.

[identity profile] joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
What about Gai and Lee as fighters in whatever barely-legal, not-quite-deathmatch sport this world may have? The kind that's like wrestling only darker and more underground, with lots of illegal betting going on in the background?
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[personal profile] tephra 2006-03-20 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they fight and use the money they win to help the hospital?

The underground fights might be a good place for the sand siblings....

[identity profile] joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well, of course involved with something big. Who knows how much sensitive info his girls find out? His canon guise of "loud, wandering, friendly drunkard" gets him a lot farther than any sneakabout spy.

[identity profile] annwyd.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm still interested in hearing your thoughts if you do get around to coming up with a reply. :)

And it's more like what are my plotbunnies not for. I still have my million and one Naruto ideas, but my Bleach and SEED muses and even my FFVIII muse are all clamoring for attention. Mostly I need to finish my crazy epic adventure/suspense fic in my Naruto fandom. Without letting it give me too many other insane ideas. Hell, I have a post listing all my current plotbunnies (http://annwyd.livejournal.com/250418.html), for that matter. @_@

[identity profile] animeprincess.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Kankuro = empty robot maker? *tiredly tried to equate the whole puppet thing into it*

or oo! maybe he's robot/AI technician, and Temari is a robot he built, who happens to have AI and is an exotic dancer with a "fuck you and the hor you rode in on" attitude. *doesn't know squat about Temari, ack please don't kill me*

Cyborg future

(Anonymous) 2006-03-20 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ino Hacker, oh yes. Working with Shika and Chouji, double yes. Though Chouji needs to be given something more than a bodyguard position. Man needs to work the hardware, perphaps creates personal weaponary. Shika writes programs, Chouji builds it, and Ino runs it, I'm seeing her as a deleted gouvernment project of a 'ghost in the shell' thing. Maybe she can't access her body anymore, and Chouji is either building her a new one with Shika trying to get it online, or they're looking for the original kept in storage somewhere. Seeing a secret lab with a test group of 'ghosts' trolling the net for lawbreakers, the military breaks in, maybe Uchiha units, pulls the plugs and all the ghosts becoming lost in cyberspace. Without physical flesh they fade, until only Ino is left.
Sakura and Tsunade, maybe they secretly run free clinics, or work as high price specialists for rent doing otherwise illegal operations on cyborgs, furries, AIs and so forth. Sakura needs to be a superprotected only child, a bit of a brat who doesn't believe that the underground could be that bad, and that the gouvernment is doing its job just fine and the rules are good. Needs to be slapped in the face with a harsh reality that not everyone gets happy families with good paychecks and houses in nice neighbourhoods. Tsunade was once a member of gouvernment pegged to be the next mayor and clean up the city, but a slur campaign about her gambling and drinking habits took her out, that and the assasination of her lover. Dissapeared to change her identity and become the head medical specialist. Still drinks and gambles to forget her past. Eventually gets recruited by Naruto and her old friend Jiriya who is helping Kakashi-sensei to organise an underground resistance move against the corupt corporations.
Lee and Gai need to be Ambulance drivers, or first aid specialists, the emergency doctors who get sent in first to the fight scene to patch people up until they get back to the hospital, even if Lee and Gai have to carry back their victims/paitents. And secretly the other hospital staff keep hoping they'll get killed on the job by a stray bullet, but they're just so lucky that it never happens.
Hinata, Test tube baby. Hiashi and wife just couldn't produce a child so the corporation stepped in and Hiashi agreed to let them try new genetic manipulation technology, afterall everything worked so well with the Neji clone. But Hinata was a failure on all counts, the technology just wasn't advanced enough. Born a girl instead of a boy, born weak instead of inheriting her father's strength, indecisive, shy, continually sick as a child. She ended up being left in the labs for the most parts alone and ignored until her presence was leaked to the media and suddenly Hiashi had to publically accept her as his daughter, who'd been 'away' studying, then to add fuel, his wife finally fell pregnant, with another girl, but this time talented. The battle is how to get rid of Hinata without creating a huge public storm as she's become a media darling, the lonely, sad, beautiful, fragile, billionaire's daughter. Who's also the country's number one bacherlorette. Kiba (dogfurry, squee! badboy) and Shino (fence {oooo what if he wore something tight and sexy under the big coat...drrrroooooooool} and info hound) need to meet her. Ah the good girl, bad guy romance. Squeeeee! Oh oh, her family deals illegal substances created by their labs, and Shino is being scouted as a dealer. Kiba would be his 'tough'. Hinata has developed a habit with a painnumbing drug as her body has rejection problems (hence her continual illness as a child) of a painful kind and she's desperated to keep it away from her father incase he liquidates her as a fully failed project. Mental image of Kiba holding her painwracked body trying to convince her to get help rather than trying to take care of everything on her own with a drug that's destroying her. Oooooooo
I'll stop now.
Ecrire

[identity profile] platypusnoises.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
delurk for moment...

black market parts dealers? upgrades that are not necessarily good for public consumption. (i.e. weapons.) or maybe a chop shop for cyborgs?

now that you outlined the cast for me, i have to go read this...

*runs off*

[identity profile] mikkeneko.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
I can totally see Chouji as a codemonkey/hacker. The kind who is pale and overweight because they don't get away from their computer enough. ^_~

[identity profile] windandwater.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
*looks at the edit*

For the Sand sibs, considering that their dad is Kazekage in canon, what if they were all politician's kids? He can be corrupt, of course. But then Gaara would be that illigitimate son he doesn't want anyone to know he has and he's not happy that Gaara rebels by being a furry and an addict, etc.

Then Temari and Kankurou can be like... having to watch Gaara. Sort of a "watch him, make sure he doesn't embarass the family even more, etc."

[identity profile] windandwater.livejournal.com 2006-03-20 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
XD! That's so wrong. True, but wrong. Now I'm imagining Chouji in front of a Playstation playing Halo or something.

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