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Questionable Questing

Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
can have any un-sealed children of theirs spared the seal, and raised as main family. Children of particular genius which can be detected before sealing are also spared the seal when it's favored by the internal politics of the clan.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Hiashi puts in to have Neji spared the seal because Hizashi made the choice to die for him on his own part.

This is how the main family expands, when they have a 'one child of your sex is spared the seal' policy for main family paternity.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
In the continuity I'm imagining, that is. If Hanabi had a twin brother, he would be safe from branch family demotion, but there'd still be a choice between his sisters, because their mother's role in their birth only exempted one daughter from being placed into the branch family.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Kinda like how a commoner soldier among the Aztecs could win nobility for his kids by capturing and sacrificing enough enemies.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
...And now I think of another Hyuuga AU entirely... Not every Hyuuga has the Byakugan. Those who don't, lack even the appearance of the Byakugan. All they have is the sculpted and carefully bred form of all Hyuugas. They are the branch family, those trained in different styles and raised as the wall that protects the privileged main family's white eyes.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Anyone with the Byakugan is part of the main family, whether they be born from lucky atavism in the Branch Family, or from the clan head themself. Anyone without the byakugan is a tool of the main family, given the seal they bear as much to prevent denial of their Hyuuga blood as to ensure their loyalty.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Though as well, it exists to prevent subtle bloodline theft by collecting members of the branch to restore the byakugan from the fragments in their genes.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Chakra sensing abilities /are/ relatively common among them, in various forms, but none as impressive as the byakugan.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Boruto and Himawari, in this continuity, would be branch family members if they were legally Hyuugas. Himawari wouldn't have her 'only white when on' byakugan.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Their assertion of the Sharingan being a mutant offshoot of the byakugan is, in this setting, that it emerged from an intermarriage of a particularly gifted branch family member (which, of course, doesn't mean they measured up to even the least of the main family members, in terms of what politics allowed to be recognized) and an outside ninja.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
The truth of this cannot be ascertained.
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