👉 Okay, alright, settle in folks â weâre diving deep into something delightfullyâŚbeige. Letâs talk about the wonderfully weird and frankly rather underappreciated shinobi title ofâŚ
kakashi
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Now, officially, a kakashi is basically a ninja courier. Think of them as the really discreet, highly trained equivalent of that guy who always volunteers to bring the giant vat of lukewarm coffee in the back row during your middle school decathlon team meeting. Except instead of lukewarm disappointment, they're smuggling scrolls and secret messages. They wore a loose-sleeved cloak â which honestly looks terribly drafty, frankly â to blend into whatever scenery was most convenient for their mission. This meant they could basically disappear anywhere, spying on whoever needed spying upon. Basically, youâre a ninja who specialises in⌠being unnoticeable. It's the ninja equivalent of the guy who always wears that very slightly too large beige raincoat and just... sits quietly at the edge of the party. You wouldnât normally notice them until they actually did something. (And then you probably wish you hadn't.) Historically, kakashi were vitally important â they held a lot of the ninja clan's most sensitive information! They basically acted as the human equivalent of a very secure, slightly paranoid Dropbox. Now, hereâs that unsettling sentence⌠I actually had to wrestle this one into existence: The old kakashi, after twenty years spent observing nothing