No problem here what so ever, in fact it only creates rp.
I understand your issue Kay, but nothing to really do about it.
Way I see it, not different than similar politics from medieval era.
Kage is the legit ruler, Ichi has a problem with him and wants the crown. Ichi makes his own clan and is attempting to usurp him. Ichi only gains authority if enough people support his cause, but at the end of the day is still illegitimate. Basically at this point he's a rebel group. How does Ichi gain legitimacy?
A. Negotiate's with Kage. Perhaps if he has enough supporters, Kage will step down.
B. Civil War eventually breaks out to decide winner.
C. Attempts diplomacy with foreign nations so they see him as the lead power.
In Real life terms, it's like any war of succession, in Naruto terms is just like Nagato and Hanzo. Two forces, one country.
I suggest they treat it like an rp scenario. Ichi please do roleplay like the Godaime Amekage, but please don't assume you control Amegakure just yet. You are a rebel, the Akatsuki like in the Naruto. Strive to convert your home nation, win a civil war, or plead with other nations to recognize you.
I see nothing here, but great rp scenarios. Perhaps the people of Ame will turn on Kage, perhaps loyal Ame forces will stomp out Ichi and the pretenders, perhaps world wide conflict happens because say Suna sides with Kage, but Oto sides with Ichi. Truly wonderful.
I actually like the idea of the coup and rebel forces, it is a good way to tie everything together and maintain the goal.
Kayenta. It seems to me that you still visualize me as a power hungry rp'er like I used to be. And I wont lie I was power hungry when I first came around and for awhile. But my hiatus from the site did me a lot of good, and all i'm doing here is trying to create RP in my favorite location in the verse.
Argue all you want that I could have done more in the village, but if your three alts were living there why was it dead in the first place? Lol.
Oh yeah, the arrival of the goon squad to teach Ame a lesson and Ichi's jumping ship and claiming to be Amekage.
You've got your order of events wrong, I was gone before the attack on the village happened. And I literally just made this new clan. So don't act like the new clan was a response to the attack. It wasn't.
And from what i've seen, I haven't really divided the community. Once again you're treating the current Amegakure as some form of massive powerhouse in the rp world, which it hasn't been for quite some time. In fact i've gotten more support about this than I even expected to get, so there's that too.
Now I have a better way to go about all this, i'm not claiming to entirely replace the village, but we're rebelling and building a new Amegakure, a title is just a word until it is recognized. Show me where I forced anyone to acknowledge me as an Amekage? Wait.. I didn't... Oh my.
The point is, quell your anger and stop treating me like a heathen for wanting to fix something broken.