Originally Posted by Konohagakure
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A'right, let's try this AGAIN.
As a note, since the forum changeover a while ago, previous table formatting is broken and I have not yet figured out how to fix the issue, so until then I've reformatted the equipment and regular Jutsu sections of this profile.
Name: Alethea Shīru
Age 12 | Gender: Female
Height: 154.45 cm
Weight: 35.1 kilograms
Blood Type: AB+
Country: Land of Whirlpools
Village: KonohagakureRank: Genin
Chakra Nature(s): Lightning
Kekkei Genkai(s): None
Alethea is very focused and direct in nature, seeing little point in idle conversation or subtlety - she is honest to a fault, and has trouble not taking everything others say literally, even if their remarks are allegorical or facetious in nature. She has a bad habit of tagging buildings and landscapes with graffiti via her hand seals, with the results being particularly hard to remove except through unsealing techniques. She has issues with personal contact, since in her family one is only touched if they are about to have a seal applied.
Her family was reserved in her upbringing, and as a consequence she is somewhat emotionally fragile and often confused or flustered in social contexts. She has a very sensible and realistic outlook for her age due to the education and training she received from her family, but she is still a vulnerable and impressionable child.
Alethea has little respect for the material possessions of others, and has carelessly marked various objects such as vases, tables, lights, and clothing with seals due to idle scribbling in the past. She is overly enthusiastic when it comes to utilizing her techniques, and is quick to resort to dangerous and unconventional methods that could potentially harm her own teammates. If her plans do not work, she grows increasingly frustrated and angry (usually at herself).The Shīru Clan originally hails from Uzushiogakure, the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides. As expected, they specialize in fuinjutsu to a ludicrous degree, and are some of the finest sealing experts in the land. They mostly keep to themselves, staying uninvolved when it comes to village politics, but regularly contract their skills out to the Konoha Council. They are a particularly small family, with only one clan head. They withhold academy education in favor of training their progeny at an undisclosed local, in the interest of keeping their family technique a secret.
Alethea was born in the Land of Whirlpools, at the insistence of her mother despite the Shīru family already living in Konoha at the time - an insistence that would set the trend for the rest of Alethea's childhood. She was secluded and kept sheltered by her parents until the day she turned six, when Alethea's father created the Butterfly Seals on her palms, and for days afterward she couldn't move her hands at all. Her parents gave her little sympathy, and took her from their home to a place away from Konoha to train her in the ways of the Butterfly Seal. She spent time learning how to hone her chakra control and using her palm seals correctly - more often than not, in the early days at least, she was liable to burn the flesh of her hands and arms every time she attempted to use a technique when they inevitably backfired due to the risk of using the Butterfly hand seal.
Even after training hard enough to reliable use the hand seal for the common techniques she had been taught, Alethea's family pushed her harder, teaching her common fuinjutsu techniques and methods and strategies inherent to efficient sealing methods. She learned the intricacies of containing, disrupting, breaking and imbalancing fuinjutsu seals, how to alter or modify preexisting seals, how to best exploit the advantages garnered through the use of the family secret technique, and so forth. Once every three weeks, Alethea was brought to Konoha where she was given four or so days to herself, wherein her parents mostly left her alone. The alien environment did little to comfort her, lost in a colorful world without anybody to help her. At least her parents had guided her, even if they were strict.
The day Alethea became capable of performing the Butterfly Seal: Imperfect Reserved Strike, was the day she became a genin, both in the eyes of her parents and in the eys of the village - the moment after she successfully completed the technique, her parents called for three academy jounin to test her so that she could be registered as a genin. She received graduation status after performing the last exam before them. Her parents surprisingly threw a celebration, declaring her to be an adult in their eyes now that she had completed the training necessary for using the family's secret technique, and told her that the rest of what she was to learn, she would be responsible for learning herself, using the knowledge she had been taught. Alethea though, was too confused by the years of sternness and harsh standards - she didn't know how to react to her parents actually displaying affection for her. Since then, they and their daughter grew increasingly distant, and Alethea always feels lost to an extent, not knowing who she can rely on. She knows that the techniques she was taught were just the tip of the iceberg, and the weight of learning everything her parents knew was entirely on her shoulders.She wears a dark green, knee-length happi coat with her family emblem (a figure-eight symbol with two whorls within the spaces) emblazoned on the back, with a grey Uwagi uniform and tan-colored samue pants. Her eyes are teal, and her black hair is a modified hime cut (the fringe drawn back, and just past the shoulder it is tied in a braid). She has a slender frame, and the less we say about the numerous tattoos the better.Alethea's Taijutsu style focuses on successfully applying seals to the opponent - strength is not a direct requirement in this way. Strikes focus on simply making contact with the body, and often aimed in such a way as to hit the arms or legs should they be used to block. For defense, the style favors the deflection or redirection of incoming attacks via slaps with the palm, catching, or shoving - all of which allow for maximum body contact and additional opportunities to apply seals to the opponent, while at the same time maneuvering in the opposite direction. The style is very fluid, and users tend to orbit around their opponents in response to attacks, stepping around, ducking, and leaning over in a continuous chain, like the shifting of a snake, while shoving or slapping away blows while taking as many chances as possible to apply seals to the target's body.
Alethea carries hollow senbon - their nature allows for the application of seals within their interior, allowing Alethea to seal opponents from long range by throwing senbon at them. Currently, her fuinjutsu is not advanced enough to allow her to use the Weapon Sealed Technique, but through the use of mundane sealing she can still conjure as many senbon as she can hold (up to twelve) and then throw them with a single practiced motion.E-Rank Jutsu
D-Rank Jutsu
- Mundane Sealing Technique
C-Rank Jutsu
E-Rank
Users of the Butterfly Hand Seal still must memorize regular hand seals, as to use their own hand seal correctly they must fully understand the sequence through which other techniques are typically used. It is also more error-prone than the regular hand sealing method, as a single disturbance occurring at the same moment the hand seal is formed could disrupt the forming jutsu and result in a massive waste of chakra, or potentially even blow up in the user's face. However the window of time to interrupt the hand seal forming is very small - once the user has brought their hands together, they are essentially done. As ninja outside of the Shīru clan can learn to more efficiently use hand seals (potentially only requiring one hand seal to perform specific jutsu, using one hand to perform a series of hand seals, not needing hand seals whatsoever, etcetera), so too can users of the Butterfly hand seal - it is considered ordinary for members of the clan to have mastered a handful of techniques to such an extent that they no longer need to use hand seals at all by the time they have reached the level of jounin.
In addition to being able to perform any jutsu using a single hand seal, the special seals engraved upon the palms allows users to engrave seals of virtually any shape onto any surface they make contact with, and as such the Shīru family has a unique style of Taijutsu which focuses on strikes that apply debilitating seals to the target.
Techniques that copy the movements of others (such as the Sharingan) cannot replicate the results of a Butterfly seal since the user would not have the necessary palm seals, or know the necessary information kept secret by the family. A Byakugan user would be able to see the flow of chakra within a Butterfly hand seal, but the condensed manner in which the technique forms chakra would make the result impossible to make sense of until the technique had already completed. The seals engraved upon the palms of members of the Shīru family, by themselves, are useless - they are required in conjunction with additional information only known to members of the family. When a member of the family dies, they take the secret with them.
D-Rank
- Butterfly Seal: One Hundred Forty-four Futures - The actual seal technique by which a Butterfly Seal user applies fuinjutsu through hand strikes.
- Butterfly Sealed Smoke Clones - Several pre-sealed smoke clones are released from the palms of the user when needed.
- Solitary Symbol Seal - A simple seal that causes small, distracting bursts of pain over time - similar to but much weaker than the more advanced Solitary Element Seal technique. It can be used to create the design for a more complex seal - once the Solitary Symbol has been added to a seal, it immediately activates, behaving in a manner consistent with the number of symbols present and the design of the seal itself. This is particularly useful for modifying preexisting fuinjutsu seals and fixing imbalances. This technique is part of a series of five generic sealing techniques.
C-Rank
- Lightning Release: Butterfly Seal, Imperfect Reserved Strike - Unleashes a massed discharge of chakra using lightning as a medium from the palms of the user - this chakra is typically sealed far ahead of use, essentially serving as an alpha-strike or last ditch technique that operates indepedently of the user's current chakra level. The user is limited by the amount of chakra they can harness for the initial sealing.
B-Rank
A-Rank
S-Rank
- An infinite number of sealing scrolls, sealed within an infinite number of sealing scrolls, sealed within an infinite number of sealing scrolls, sealed...
- Several hundred senbon.
- 3 military ration pills.
- 3 Blood Thickening Pills
