A Hyuga question.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

How old do you think Hinata and Neji were when they had their first Byakugan experience?

What do you think it was like for them?

I'd imagine it'd be a frightening experience when your perception is suddenly exploding beyond anything normal humans are capable of experiencing.

We know how old Itachi and Sasuke were when they first awakened their Sharingan, but was it ever specified in the Hyuga clan?

Comments

[sapphireluna.livejournal.com]

I'd say around 4 since we see Hinata training a that age, though she didn't have Byakugan activated in that scene but I'm guessing you can't train in Jyuuken without Byakugan?

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

Well, not necessarily. You'd at least need to have a sharp knowledge of the internal chakra system and chakra flows. Which is why Hinata knows where to hit even without the need to activate her Byakugan.

[sapphireluna.livejournal.com]

If you can do it with just knowledge of Chakra networks and no Byakugan, why doesn't everyone do it? I'm sure the points to hit are not at the exact same spot for every person.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's strictly confined to just members of the Hyuga clan. Since they're clearly the experts on chakra networks.

[mcelligots-pool.livejournal.com]

Lol, I'd probably think I was tripping pretty bad if that ever happened to me. But then again, they'd have been brought up with the knowledge of what the Bakyugan is like and how it works. They'd both probably feel very honoured, full of pride and mature when it happened to them.

[waiting4morning.livejournal.com]

Actually, I kind of wonder if it isn't different for the Hyuuga. Perhaps for them the Byakugan requires only a maturity of their chakra networks, or the age where they can consciously control of them.

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Gosh, it would be pretty rotten to grow up in the Hyuuga compound now that I think about it. No privacy whatsoever, especially if a bunch of kids are running around trying out their byakuyan on every wall they see.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

No doubt a lot of pressure was put on Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi. I can't believe I forgot about Hanabi.

[demondreams.livejournal.com]

where as the Sharingan seems to be triggered by emotional response (Obito's activated in battle, Sasuke's did the second time plus the massacre and the whole, you want an eye upgrade kill your best friend thing) where as the Byakugan seems something that's more trained and activated through practice. I can see a bunch of kids sat in a room staring at a wall being told to "unfocus your eyes, look THROUGH the wall, you'll see a picture of a sail boat"

[demondreams.livejournal.com]

LOL I'm so sorry, I know how frustrating that can be, just like how once you see it can't STOP seeing it

[paperninja.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, it was never specified. Appearing in or around puberty would make sense for a number of reasons.

One's first encounter with the weird x-ray vision and bulging veins and all would be.... very strange. I think it would definitely feel weird. But given that it happens to most (all? almost all?) of their relatives, they'd know what it was. Depending on how much support they got from their parents about it, they might not even be that freaked out.

We didn't see mothers for either of them. Neji's dad seemed to be fairly attentive as a parent. Hinata's dad is kind of a bastard. But there still may have been other relatives around to compensate for Hiashi's presumed lack of interest in parenting his daughter. And for Neji too- given that his dad was killed when he was four.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

Hinata's father was more focused on Hanabi since she had a lot more potential than Hinata, being five years her junior. He expected too much out of his eldest daughter who carried a huge burden on her shoulders, given her role as the future successor to the entire clan.

Neji was already a prodigy, which is why his father was very attentive.

I've always assumed at their mothers are still alive, just off-screen.

When young!Neji is running to his father, we see someone (who vaguely looks like a female clan member) crying over the corpse. I guessed that was Neji's mother.

In order to rectify relationships within the clan, Hiashi broke an iron-clad rule by training a member from the branch house. That being his nephew, Neji.

[paperninja.livejournal.com]

Nothing I said contradicted any of that directly, so I'm not certain why it's being assumed that I don't know these various well-established canonical facts and need to be lectured on them.

My point was that parental guidance might help a young Hyuga handle the weirdness of their dojutsu. If parents are not available, a relative would suffice. IIRC, coping with the onset of the dojutsu was the point of the original post.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! I went totally off track there.

And I totally agree with it.

[paperninja.livejournal.com]

Okay, no big deal then.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

^^

[demondreams.livejournal.com]

Given the whole House structure I just always assumed that children would have a lot of relatives around, one of those whole "extended family" deals where you are sort of raised by the whole family? Which would also be a good move given that being ninja there's a high probability of loosing one or both parents.
And since the whole family is built around this trait I would think that they know about it from a very young age. So when it finally activated it's not so much "oh my god what's happening to meeeee" as "omg I can see forever...hey wait...Kick ass FINALLY!" at which point they run off and tease a cousin or such that they can't use it yet

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I pictured Hinata being scared of her first Byakugan experience, a lot more than either Neji or Hanabi ever were.

Neji could have used it to tease her a lot when they were children.

[demondreams.livejournal.com]

*nodnod I would guess it would determine just how much they WANTED the Byakugan, it's less scary when it's something you're striving for you know?

oh totally LOL