kamidemond
It held back his consciousness for 12 years? In other words, it forced canon to remain the same until the start of canon? Ugh. Annoying and nonsensical. His brain was a genius. I guarantee his mind would be fine to house his past life’s memories starting even at the age of 3 or 4. So much wasted time. He lost a decade of potential training and studying.
kamidemond:Yeah agree but I did it only for one reason, I didn't wanted to make this fic that long, and secondly he would have been too strong if I had given him time. That why I did it.
Yo author. This doesn't work. If the MC reincarnated as Shikamaru as a baby then even if he doesn't have past life memories, shikamaru will act like the mc since he has mc's personality and og shikamaru never existed in this universe. So there is no possibility of the mc acting like og shikamaru even when he has no past life memories since they are 2 different people and mc's soul did not merge with og shikamaru's soul. Cause you haven't written anything about soul-merging and that would make this transmigration and not reincarnation.