WE HAVE TO WAIT THAT LONG?! BUT AT LEAST WE HAVE A DATE!

WE HAVE TO WAIT THAT LONG?! BUT AT LEAST WE HAVE A DATE!

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Ray’s Super Foxy Naruto AU List

 Team Uzumaki: Naruto discovers and embraces his legacy as an Uzumaki and undergoes massive changes.  He eventually goes on to take a genin team of his own. - Now Live On AO3

Shadows & Strength:  Yandere Shikamaru meets and fixates on a Naruto who stumbled upon the secret to Tsunade’s strength. Includes changed up Genin Teams and either Kakashi or Genma as sensei. - Now Live On AO3

Shadows & Strength: Snake Style:   Yandere Shikamaru meets and fixates on a Naruto who stumbled upon the secret to Tsunade’s strength. Includes changed up Genin Teams and Anko as their sensei with a still loyal Orochimaru as their grand-sensei.

Fox In A Snake’s Nest:  Loyal Orochimaru comes across a young Naruto on the run from angry villagers and takes him in as a student.

HoH Naruto:  Naruto isn’t dumb no matter what anyone says.  Turns out he’s just HoH because the normal every day sounds around him are drowned out by something more.

Loophole:  Comedy.  Sarutobi decrees that none of Minato and Kushina’s friends can have direct contact/interaction with Naruto.  Kakashi finds a loophole.

Trauma Bonded:  A series of unfortunate circumstances end with a bickering Team 7 trapped in a brutal genjutsu.  As it turns out trauma has a way of bonding people.  Sometimes to an unsettling degree.  

Naruto Don’t Gender Good: Comedy. Genderfluid Naruto who is under the impression that gender is decided by hair length. - Now Live On AO3

Team Shisui: Non-Massacre AU where Shisui ends up as sensei to Team 7. Slated as KakashiNaruto fic

Flower Power: Inoichi decides to take Naruto under his wing to a degree.  With a job at the Yamanaka Flower Shop Naruto develops a friendship with Ino, gathers a lot of knowledge and blackmail material, and develops a deadly affinity for plant life.

The Fox and The Weasel: Despite being her godmother Uchiha Mikoto isn’t allowed to raise Uzumaki Naruto, the daughter of her best friend Kushina.  She’s in for a surprise when she finds out that her son Itachi has taken a liking to the girl and is determined to marry her when they’re old enough.  And he’s more than willing to go through anyone who stands in his way.

Chef Naruto:  After going hungry one too many times as a kid Naruto decides to take matters into his own hands.  He discovers that seals aren’t the only thing that come naturally to the Uzumaki.  Food, Naruto decides, is the ultimate expression of love and can, in fact, change the world.

Golden Prince of Uzushio: Naruto and Kurama are thrown back in time.  Faced with Uzumaki Mito realizing Naruto holds the Kyubi and is obviously from the future Naruto and Kurama decide to take a chance and attempt to change everything. Now known as the Golden Prince of Uzushio and splitting his time between both villages, Naruto soon discovers that despite the new peace that’s been established Uchiha Clan Head Madara seems to be around every corner he turns.

A Fox and His Earth: A young Naruto is turned over to Danzo and Root and spends years being forged into the ultimate weapon.  Then when faced with Danzo’s attempt to massacre the Uchiha Clan, Naruto turns on him and Root both.  In the aftermath Naruto, now a young but legitimate shinobi of Konoha, takes in an abandoned baby.  The first of many.  Years later Itachi comes face to face with the shinobi who, unbeknownst to him, saved his entire world

Whirlpool Calls Him Home: A young Naruto is no longer able to cope with the sharp cruelty of Konoha.  In the distance something calls for him, a voice in the back of his head begging for him to come home. To Uzushio. And so he does. - Now Live On AO3

Altered Beginnings: Things shift and the future members of a young Team 7 ends up emulating different Sannin this time around.  Featuring Medic!Sasuke, Taijutsu!Sakura, and Ninjutsu!Naruto.

Unbroken Legacy: Being the jinchuriki of the strongest biju comes with consequences that go far beyond common knowledge on the subject.  Because when you cradle a biju beside your soul for years on end things have a tendency to … mesh. And there are some connections that not even death can sever.

Shelter: The Forest of Death is much more than most people believe it to be.  Naruto finds shelter in the deep, dark woods that were once nurtured by Hashirama, beloved by Mito, and protected by Tobirama.

Fishcake’s Psychic Hotline:  Crackish. Naruto can talk to ghosts and has no qualms about sharing what he learns. Shenanigans ensue.

The Fox Bride: KakaNaru Youkai AU.  Lone wolf youkai Kakashi takes in and befriends a wounded and starving one tailed kitsune months before he’s called off to war.  The last thing he’s expecting when he returns home a year later is to find a nine-tailed kitsune boy living in his house and calling him husband.

Uzumaki Househusband: Somewhere along the line Sasuke realizes that he, like many a Uchiha before him, really only wants one thing out of life. To be an Uzumaki Househusband.  Sage help Konoha.  Or not.

Bride Between: Tired of Tobirama and Madara’s squabbling, a drunk Mito decides that the only thing to do is summon someone to be the ideal bridge between these two idiots.  Naruto happens to end up being that someone. 

Rebel Rebel: Kakashi is a loyal shinobi of Konoha. Naruto is a member of the rebel faction.  When Kakashi unexpectedly finds himself with a member of the opposition firmly in his hands he knows exactly what he has to do.  But Naruto’s no regular rebellion member and sparks are sure to fly.

2 Shinobi And A Baby: 14 year old Kakashi takes an infant Naruto home, determined to give his sensei’s son the best childhood he can. Gai, never one to let his eternal rival go it alone, follows directly behind. The Idiots to Co-Parents to Lovers fic that should have been canon. 

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“La Prima, as you call her, commanded her daughter to give up her throne, and return to her coven, but she refused. The First Witch used the darkest kind of magic to remove her daughter’s power and banished her from the coven.” —Kingdom of the Wicked, chapter 30, page 242

So I was right, La Prima did rip away her daughter’s magic. Now the question becomes: did she do it solely because she was pissed at her daughter, or did La Prima do it in preparation of murdering her daughters (so they wouldn’t be able to fight back with their magic)?

(Also, my theory about why Nonna is the First Witch will be coming out tomorrow, if anyone is interested)

“But yes, I was cursed by the First Witch….My penalty for not aiding her was steeper…” —Kingdom of the Cursed, chapter 33, page 404.

The craziest theory popped into my head as I read this line, and I just have to put it out there: what if La Prima helped kill her own daughters?

Again, I know this sounds wacky, but hear me out. Both in the prologue and in the line I quoted above, it’s clear the First Witch wanted Wrath’s help with something, yet it is never specified what she needed his assistance with. I think the prologue occurs either before Pride and his wife married, or shortly afterwards. Mainly because La Prima never mentions her daughters or their deaths, or even desiring revenge against any of the demon princes. She’s just angry that Wrath has continuously refused to assist her. So what if she wanted his help breaking up Pride and his wife? I mean, who better to ask than the devil himself, King of the Wicked?

Wrath does mention in KotW that La Prima kicked her daughter out of the coven after marrying Pride (I believe he says she actually ripped away her magic, but I’m going to have to double-check that quote). Anyway, if the First Witch was so displeased by one of her daughters marrying a demon to (possibly) rip away her magic, then what would stop her from either orchestrating her daughters death, or outright killing them herself? Especially since part of La Prima’s curse on Wrath promised to take away any sort of happiness he finds, and he does indeed seem to have been happy with Emilia’s previous reincarnation. I don’t think he would have taken Emilia to the Crescent Shallows in the hope that she might remember something if they were unhappy together.

TL;DR There is a good chance that La Prima killed her own daughters because they had both fallen in love with two of the Wicked, based on context clues and my mind going crazy trying to figure every part of this series out. (Also I’m super sorry if this seems messy, I just had this thought and wanted to get this written out before I forgot.)

Next up on my list of crazy theories: why Nonna is actually La Prima.

Why Nonna is actually La Prima

Just a heads up, this post is going to be a bit lengthy, so I’m putting the rest under a “keep reading.”

Okay, let’s start with some surface level stuff before we dig deeper.

During the prologue of KotW, Emilia asks Nonna, ”’Where is the First Witch now?…Why hasn’t she been seen?’” This is the response: “Nonna thought carefully. ‘She has her reasons. We must respect them.’” —KotW, prologue, page 6

That is the most non-answer that I have ever read. And the perfect evasion so you don’t have to tell your twin 8-year-old granddaughters that you are the First Witch. Also notice how Nonna hesitates before answering. Likely trying to decide if she should give some sort of an answer, or just deflect the question.

What really sparked this theory in my mind is that Nonna and La Prima not only survive having their throats slit, but both also perform impressive feats of magic afterwards (La Prima taking away the devil’s wings and cursing him, Nonna sending Envy back to Hell)

Yet something struck me as odd, especially when I read this line Emilia has when she thinks back on the encounter as she goes to dine with Envy in his House: “I still couldn’t believe Nonna had banished him back to the underworld using magic I was unaware she possessed.” —KotC, chapter 15, pages 201-202. At first I thought it was the spell that was strange to her, yet going through KotW again, the spell is not only in the family grimoire, but Emilia helps Nonna recite the spell.

“Notes from the di Carlos grimoire.” —KotW, chapter 19, page 138

“A key and a full moon formed at the end of two branches. I suddenly knew exactly what Nonna was doing….feeding Nonna’s spell with my own power. ‘A dagger to kill, a snake to die.’” —KotW, chapter 41, page 317

So it’s not the spell that was strange to Emilia, it was just Nonna’s magic. And when you look back at the book, this is the only time we ever see Nonna use magic. The closest we’ve gotten is seeing Nonna make different colored candles for various purposes. So why was Nonna’s magic strange to her? Because Nonna is the First Witch, the daughter of the sun goddess and a demon. Of course her magic feels different.

As for how Nonna has managed to survive for so long: “We were told [La Prima] was immortal…” —KotW, chapter 30, page 241.

That immortality would also explain why the stories about the Wicked are so wrong. She doesn’t want people to feel sympathy for them. Yes, they are demons and have been known to torture and kill people. But they are also much more complex than that; they are more human than that. And who was the one who told Emilia and Vittoria stories about the scary demon princes? You guessed it: Nonna.

“Nonna feared [Emilia and Vittoria] romanticized demons too much. It was best, she decided, to remind them why they should be wary of beautiful creatures without souls.” —KotW, prologue, page 4.

Of course Nonna would believe that the Wicked were without souls. In her eyes, two of them stole and corrupted her daughters, leading to their deaths. In reality, both her daughters saw the humanity in Pride and Wrath, and fell in love with them, even going so far as to marry one and be banished from her coven for it. And if Vittoria and Emilia really are reincarnations of Pride’s wife and Wrath’s lover respectfully, then these stories are more than your average cautionary tale a grandmother would tell her grandchildren. She is actively trying to scare the twins away from the loves of their former lives. Make the twins hateful towards them, which does work on Emilia (to an extent). Either because she doesn’t want to take any risks in regards to the curse fully breaking, or she simply does not want to lose them again. Perhaps both. Either way, it’s not up to her what the twins do in regards to their sealed memories.

Now, I believe we all know this rather infamous quote: “‘There are seven demon princes, but only four di Carlos should fear: Wrath, Greed, Envy, and Pride. One will crave your blood. One will capture your heart. One will steal your soul. And one will take your life.” —KotW, prologue, page 5.

I know that there are quite a few theories about which prince means what, yet I don’t believe that anyone has really stated why di Carlos should only fear those specific four princes. Well, because it’s not that everyone in the di Carlos family should fear them. Only the twins have to fear them because they are reincarnations.

In Wrath’s first bonus chapter, as he remembers the murder of his sister-in-law and her sister, he specifically mentions two Houses that he believes were involved with their death: the House of Envy, and the House of Greed.

“When word had reached him, the devil almost razed both houses, searching for signs of their treachery….A message to the princes of House Greed and House Envy…” —Wrath bonus chapter

So Envy and Greed are the most likely candidates for “crave your blood and take your life.” I know most people would likely assume Envy is the one who took the twins lives, but I don’t think so. He seems to actually somewhat like Emilia, and I think he might want to be friends with her (I mean, he does joke around with her a little in KotC, when he tells her she could sleep in his bed and look at his nude portrait on the ceiling. That was pretty funny). Meanwhile, Greed is a prince that we’ve met in the first book, yet there’s only one interaction with him throughout both books. Even Gluttony and Pride got more page time, and we only just met Gluttony in KotC, and got one scene with Pride in KotW. I wouldn’t disqualify Greed from having been the one to kill Emilia and Vittoria in their previous life. We simply don’t know enough about him. (Which sort of ties in to my theory that La Prima had a hand in killing her daughters because how else would she know which demon houses killed them? I highly doubt she was on speaking terms with her son in-law).

Next we have “steal your soul and capture your heart.” Quite honestly, I think Pride and Wrath fit both. When Emilia is asking Wrath about the curse on Pride, she assumes that Pride must have stolen La Prima’s daughter’s soul. Wrath immediately corrects her, saying, “‘Pride didn’t steal anything. He didn’t have to. Her daughter willingly chose to wed him. They fell in love, despite who they were.’” —KotW, chapter 30, page 242.

But if we’re going off of La Prima’s POV—someone who clearly hates demons, especially the Wicked—then it would seem to her like Pride had tricked her daughter into marrying him, stealing her soul in the process. Yet “capture your heart” sort of sounds like falling in love to me. And both of La Prima’s daughters fell in love with Pride and Wrath, which is why I’m leaning towards Pride being the one to steal the twins souls, yet could honestly see him as the one to capture their hearts.

There you have it! My complete theory on why Nonna is the First Witch. If you have any thoughts or theories of your own, I would love to read them!