professorsparklepants:

lyratalus:

phoenixyfriend:

[Raises hand] what if she experimented on herself instead of someone else doing the work? Like she just found Orochimaru’s notes and went “bet I can do better, and WITHOUT the ethics violations, which means that obviously I should experiment on myself”

professorsparklepants:

Narrative reasons for giving Sakura the mokuton, ranked

• Experimented on: LAME. Overused even in canon. 1/10
• descended from the Senju: this still baffles me because there’s absolutely no indication whatsoever in canon that it’s a Senju clan ability. I’ll allow it if it only because it means team 7 finishes up the village founder trifecta. 3/10
• Idk just go with it: I can respect this. 5/10
• Strong innate connection with nature: I love that this just boils down to “she’s named after a tree??? Why not.” 8/10
• She’s just that good babie: chakra control through the ROOF. What, like it’s hard? If the god of shinobi can do it so can this bitch. 10/10
• Ate a god: METAL AS FUCK 15/10

I think that combines “experiments” with “she’s just that good babie” for a combined score of 11/10. Thoughts?

Making Sakura into the mad scientist I always wanted her to be lands a solid 10/10, especially if she flexes her ability to control it without turning into a tree in front of Danzo and then calls him a bitch.