Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34436338-20180123200352/@comment-1986883-20180207024402

Thekillman wrote:

But why on earth would Orochimaru agree to this?

Orochimaru loves doing experiments for science, and his greatest goal is to learn all the secrets of the universe through research and experiments. Also he wants to make up for the bad things he did in the past and win back the trust of the Leaf Village.

And he of course knows these techniques since he knows about his former test subject Shin Uchiha creating clones of himself and Orochimaru also created a clone of himself, Mitsuki, one of Konohamaru’s students. And as for transferring a soul between bodies he has done that with himself several times.

Orochimaru wants to have good relations with the Seventh Hokage and have the Leaf Village trust him more and not spy on him as much. I think it would make perfect sense for him to make Might Guy a new body through cloning. We do know that transferring your soul to a new body can be pretty painful and require a lot of medications and effort, as it did for Orochimaru, and can only be done once every 3 years at most, but this would perfectly fit with Might Guy’s personality of trying very hard at everything, and there are plenty of medical ninjas who could give Might Guy his medicine after he got switched to a new body.

Anyway Orochimaru has reformed himself by the time of the Boruto series and he wants to get along with the Leaf and have good relations with them but is still doing experiments that might be a bit questionable, so it makes perfect sense to me. He kills 2 birds with one stone, he wins over more trust from the Leaf and gets them to consider his science a valuable asset, plus he also gets to enjoy conducting the experiment and seeing how well it works out. Plus if he gave Might Guy the new body of a young new clone, Might Guy really would have the power of youth again, and Orochimaru would find this rather amusing. Plus Orochimaru could slightly alter the way things are done in order to turn Might Guy into someone who was secretly a loyal servant of his and spy loyal to him.

The only real problem I see with this scenario is I doubt Might Guy would be willing to accept Orochimaru’s help, I think Orochimaru would be more than willing to help him (for his own reasons), but I think Might Guy would refuse his help out of stubborn pride.