If Gin never had kids and Tesshin became the next leader...

[Kuro]

I completely forgot til now how it was said that Tesshin was taught Gin's, Akame's, and John's skills as he grew up so he could be the next leader of the pack. Though I find this strange that Gin didn't have any intentions to have children (still wonder about that...), I almost wish he went through with it because that just sounds really interesting.

How do you guys think things would be if Tesshin was the next one in line to be an Ou leader? 

I can imagine he'd be a good leader and work hard to teach his army skills like he did in GWDO, but possibly during a war, he could end up having some sort of inner fear or conflict of becoming like his father.

[Jazz-chan]

I imagine he would've handled the Kaibutsu situation better. Rather than having the substitutes, Tesshin could've been left to look over the Dog Paradise while Gin, John, and Akame went traveling. When Kaibutsu showed up, Tesshin would've gotten the rest of the Kouga and probably would've come up with a better strategy to at least keep Kaibutsu at bay rather than risk wiping out all of Ohu with pointless attacks.

[Kuro]

You're right... whose idea was the substitute thing anyways?! Worse idea ever. What if one of the substitutes acted noble but was secretly Hougen or old-John like?

With Tesshin possibly fixing the Kaibutsu thing sooner, this would mean that Ou would be better prepared for Hougen's army too. It always striked me as odd that Weed's 'not killing' philosophy was such a big deal, when in GNG, they didn't want to kill for no reason either. It is a war after all, so things could end up more GNG like if Tesshin was in charge.

[Tora]

May 15, 2017 15:52:44 GMT -7 Kuro said:

You're right... whose idea was the substitute thing anyways?! Worse idea ever. What if one of the substitutes acted noble but was secretly Hougen or old-John like?

With Tesshin possibly fixing the Kaibutsu thing sooner, this would mean that Ou would be better prepared for Hougen's army too. It always striked me as odd that Weed's 'not killing' philosophy was such a big deal, when in GNG, they didn't want to kill for no reason either. It is a war after all, so things could end up more GNG like if Tesshin was in charge.

That would be Akame to blame.... Gin didn't even know about them in the manga! Akame, Smith and Tesshin are the ones knowing. And Lucy and Sakura of course. Dunno if John knew

[Kuro]

May 15, 2017 15:57:34 GMT -7 Tora said:

May 15, 2017 15:52:44 GMT -7 Kuro said:

You're right... whose idea was the substitute thing anyways?! Worse idea ever. What if one of the substitutes acted noble but was secretly Hougen or old-John like?

With Tesshin possibly fixing the Kaibutsu thing sooner, this would mean that Ou would be better prepared for Hougen's army too. It always striked me as odd that Weed's 'not killing' philosophy was such a big deal, when in GNG, they didn't want to kill for no reason either. It is a war after all, so things could end up more GNG like if Tesshin was in charge.

That would be Akame to blame.... Gin didn't even know about them in the manga! Akame, Smith and Tesshin are the ones knowing. And Lucy and Sakura of course. Dunno if John knew

Shesh Akame, who put this guy in charge to do something so risky. If only one of them spoke up about this even a little bit.

[alpha]

May 15, 2017 15:57:34 GMT -7 Tora said:

May 15, 2017 15:52:44 GMT -7 Kuro said:

You're right... whose idea was the substitute thing anyways?! Worse idea ever. What if one of the substitutes acted noble but was secretly Hougen or old-John like?

With Tesshin possibly fixing the Kaibutsu thing sooner, this would mean that Ou would be better prepared for Hougen's army too. It always striked me as odd that Weed's 'not killing' philosophy was such a big deal, when in GNG, they didn't want to kill for no reason either. It is a war after all, so things could end up more GNG like if Tesshin was in charge.

That would be Akame to blame.... Gin didn't even know about them in the manga! Akame, Smith and Tesshin are the ones knowing. And Lucy and Sakura of course. Dunno if John knew

Not sure about comic, but in TV series John knew (and so did Gin). all of them were shown on top of the tree duplicates.

[Tora]

May 16, 2017 12:01:36 GMT -7 alpha said:

May 15, 2017 15:57:34 GMT -7 Tora said:

That would be Akame to blame.... Gin didn't even know about them in the manga! Akame, Smith and Tesshin are the ones knowing. And Lucy and Sakura of course. Dunno if John knew

Not sure about comic, but in TV series John knew (and so did Gin). all of them were shown on top of the tree duplicates.

I was talking about the manga. ^^

[18Gingasoldier]

That is an interesting idea. I agree that if Tesshin was the Ohu leader, things would have been bloodier and less merciful. Also, Tesshin is much older than Weed and would have understood that sometimes the best option is to kill the enemy.

[smiff]

I have a feeling that there'd be a lot more drama involving his bloodline - more Koga/Iga conflicts and perhaps conflicts with the other ninja clans mentioned in GDWO.

Basically, it'd be more political. Which seems super fascinating. Cause dog politics.

That'd be a cool AU to write.

As for Gin not wanting kids, maybe Sakura's pregnancy was an accident?

[alpha]

May 25, 2017 13:12:34 GMT -7 smiff said:

I have a feeling that there'd be a lot more drama involving his bloodline - more Koga/Iga conflicts and perhaps conflicts with the other ninja clans mentioned in GDWO.

Basically, it'd be more political. Which seems super fascinating. Cause dog politics.

That'd be a cool AU to write.

As for Gin not wanting kids, maybe Sakura's pregnancy was an accident?

I agree, dog politics are a fascinating topic.

I doubt it was an accident (can dogs even have accidents?), because they both seemed very happy when Sakura said ''there will be healthy children waiting for you to return'' when Gin was leaving.