The core of the Genesis AU... is me simping over the imaginary and oh-so powerful and amazing bond that Naruto and Sora have as they grow up and experience life and figure out themselves. The second core part is just me shoving all my personal headcanons into one AU and calling it a day.

The premise of the AU is Naruto and Sora met when Sora was accidentally sucked into Ventus's portal to The Other Sky afte Ventus and Vanitas's confrontation in Destiny Islands. He landed in Naruto's world (called the "Reign of Ninja") and from there they struck a quick friendship in spite of Sora being returned to Desting Islands via divine intervention of the worlds going "wait you're not supposed to be here". When KH1 and Part 1 of Naruto start proper, Sora and Naruto meet again after the events of Deep Jungle/The Wave. Things just kind of go off the rails from there, if I'm honest.

1st picture: Naruto has debiliating bills to pay because the entire village hates him so he picks up odd jobs and scrounges up fallen change off the street in the middle of the night. To help with his financial issues, Iruka employs him to help clean up the academy's classrooms after school while he works on grading. When they meet again, Sora joins Naruto in cleaning. On one of the days, Iruka brings out a radio for them to listen to and it plays the song "WIND". Not able to help it, they sing along and have a great time. It's through this experience that both of them learn that the other has a great singing voice.

2nd picture: This takes place in Shippuden. Naruto's financial struggles are a reoccuring plot point in the first parts of Genesis. Sora has expressed multiple times that he doesn't think the village's or his landlord's treatment of Naruto is very fair and resolves to help him by passing off spare munny from his adventures (by this point, KH2 has been completed but not Re:Coded). One of Sora's biggest gripes is that Naruto's situation often forces him to eat the cheapest thing available, including ramen. Naruto actually really enjoys ramen so he doesn't care, but Sora is both a picky eater and also concerned that??? Ramen??? and maybe?? some milk??? seem to be??? all that's?? in Naruto's??? kitchen???? So, Naruto tries to give a presentation on the benefits of ramen. It doesn't work.

3rd picture: Re-designs for Naruto for the Shippuden and post-the mess that happens when the plot veers a hard right off the canon path. I headcanon Naruto to be genderfluid, and it's during Shippuden that they start to think about it and identify as such. Also, there's some important plot stuff that requires him to grow out their hair (it reaches their ankles if not just barely touching the ground). I'm not satisfied with the outfit designs though and will definitely be making more changes and adjustments.

4th picture: Designs for Naruto and Sora while in the MLP world because I had to. Sora was originally a pegasus pony, but one day, he came back to the world and he was suddenly an alicorn. It's also a plot point. Cause of course. He and Twilight are good friends. Meanwhile, Naruto is a full-on pegasus pony. He finds it easier to fly than walk, making him a great racing partner for Rainbow Dash.

We have a "Question of the Day" bot in a server I mod and I created a bunch of fashion drawing prompts because I love fashion lol. While I don't think fashion will ever be a major focus within RoV's actual plot, I do have set fashion aesthetics that the main characters prefer and hate.

First one was country fashion. The first character, Keith, is a city boi who hates it lol. Meanwhile, Janilys (the one bowing) and Rhythmi (the one dancing) both enjoy it to a point. Janilys prefers cottagecore-esque clothes in general while Rhythmi is at home in it with a preference for activewear.

Second is formal wear. Keith is canonically non-binary (he/they) in the story and dresses both masc and femme. They actually like dressing up (especially if it gets a reaction from Janilys), but their main style is actually pastel punk/goth.

Introducing the main group of Return of Vatonage... at least as far as the first part... because I kind of took the school portion in Shadows of Almia... and then just continually pressed "add" to the plot that was in the game. It's now a full-blown arc of itself with _mini arcs_.

BUT ANYWAY-

Introducing... at the very least, the characters who will show up the most!

I love putting Sora in different outfits, what can I say?

Some (really) old dumps to fairly recent (as recent as 2021 lol). This is a comic I've been trying to do since like... 2014, but I really got into making it a reality in 2020 by actually working on character designs and making huge progress on transcribing the notebook with my game notes to PC. I still have so much left to transcribe then I have to properly finish Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, but I've also played the game so much as a kid that the ending is inscribed in my brain.

Either way, enjoy these little buggers. Janilys, Keith, and Rhythmi are somewhat of the "main trio" despite Isaac and Ponte also being a part of the group... but like... it's easier to draw 3 characters than 5 okay.