Name: Mari Watanabe
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Height: 66"
Country: Hi no Kuni
Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
Chakra Nature: Wind
Kekkei Genkai: None
Personality: Mari is the type of girl who drinks jet fuel for breakfast. She's always full of pep, optimism, and most of all, energy. She is constantly bouncing around and has a nasty habit of talking far beyond how long people want to hear her. Everything she does she does so with complete enthusiasm. Given that, she lacks focus and discipline. While not lazy per se, Mari will attempt to get out of actually doing work if she can get away with it and something that doesn't keep her interest is quickly forgotten. Be that as it may, as long as she sees a task as important she will go above and beyond her means to finish it, even to the point of being ridiculous.
Mari is an unconventional tomboy but is incredibly likable for her positive outlook and caring nature. She is overly friendly and more than a bit naive, even kind of an airhead, but that does not mean she isn't intelligent. She can pick up on skills fairly quickly and solve complex problems just as fast, but getting her to retain any knowledge she doesn't care about is a chore and she has a scatterbrained nature. Despite being trained as a Shinobi, she holds a certain innocence about her. At best she is bright, upbeat, and passionate. At worst she is immature, dense, and annoying.
Background: Mari Watanabe is the youngest of the Watanabe Clan and an only child. Her family lineage is filled with Shinobi for generations, most specifically medical-nin. Her father is a very successful and highly regarded medical-nin, one often being sent out to oversee very important missions, and he was once privileged enough to take away the pain from his Hokage as he lay dying from defending their village. Her mother is a Chuunin, a very strict Chuunin at that. She is seen as a war hero that felled many enemy troops when the attack came upon the Hidden Leaf Village. It cost her her left arm, but she sees it as a necessary sacrifice if it meant that her daughter and her people would be safe from harm.
Mari showed plenty of energy as a small little girl, just like her mother, but unfortunately never grew to have her discipline and instead inherited her father's free spirit. A lethal mix, Mari has an inherent allergy to authority, but it's more of a passive laziness than outright defiance and one can eventually get her to listen if one tries hard enough. As she grew she showed aptitude in wind chakra, just as her mother did. While this was a disappointment to her father, her mother encouraged her training and would often train with her. Even with one arm, Mari's mother gave her all into trying to teach Mari what she knew of ninjutsu, which usually ended in her becoming frustrated and yelling at the girl. Her father would also attempt to teach Mari medical ninjutsu, but she didn't show any focus or aptitude for it.
Mari made many friends at the Academy, proving herself as trustworthy even if she had a big mouth. Not only that, she was pretty reliable and fun as well, and would stand up to bullying if any of her friends were involved. Seeing that she considered everyone her friend until proven otherwise, Mari wouldn't tolerate bullies at all. When it came time for her to take her exam, Mari became lucky in the fact that her test was not only her favorite jutsu, but also her most skilled: the Body Replacement Technique. She was surrounded by logs of wood in a ring with her Sensei, and whenever he would strike, a log would appear in her place only to have her not only away from his strike, but behind him. For the final strike and to pass the exam, her Sensei's open palm did not come into contact with a log. It came into contact with the door of the classroom. The fact that she was able to remove the door without anyone noticing, let alone use it with the Body Replacement Technique, ensured her high marks.
Appearance: Mari is slightly taller than most girls her age with a boyish figure. She is as slim as you would expect a young ninja to be and about as well-built. She is often seen with a wide grin and her brown eyes are large and bright, conveying a large amount of emotion. A scar can be seen to cut over her left eyebrow, just big enough to be noticed right away. Her hair is fairly short but messy and sticks up in places, a shade of almost off-black. Her skin is darkened and small nicks and scrapes are a common sight.
From a distance or even closer depending on what she happens to be wearing at the time, Mari is often mistaken for a boy, much to her dismay. That is, until she speaks. She has a very high and girlish voice that isn't exactly unpleasant, but can grate on the ears once you've been listening to it for fifteen minutes without pause. She prefers to wear a white muffler, which is almost ironic, much of the time. Her preferred style of clothing would be of the practical sort, choosing sleeveless shirts tucked into tight fitting pants with many pockets or even shorts of the same style. When she does wear pants they are always bloused above the ankles, a pair of jika-tabi on her feet and long socks. Her arms, wrists, and hands are wrapped quite often. Although her protective headband is not visible at any time, she assures anyone who asks that she wears it. It is normally worn across her body like a sash under her shirt, with the metal plate over her heart.
Abilities (Fighting Style & Applicable Skills): Given the fact that Mari is normally boisterous, she is surprisingly adept at stealth, even being able to nearly completely disappear out in the open and even in a fight. She is also much faster than most other Genin her age, a skill she uses to her advantage. Mari focuses on overwhelming her enemy with speed and probing for a weak point, not giving her opponent any breathing room or time to recover until she can achieve a more powerful blow at said weak spot or an effective grapple. In addition, Mari will use her entire body to attack, throwing in joint strikes, torso attacks (shoulder and hip charges), and even headbutts almost as often as punches and kicks. Her reflexes are extremely honed and she is able to dodge surprise strikes with less difficulty than others, and her ability to break grapples is also superior to most Genin. She will also show an uncanny ability to improvise if what she is doing isn't working. While not as hardy as other ninja, Mari can keep fighting past her limits if called upon to do so. Mari's ideal arena is in cramped close-quarters or an open area with many places to hide. Her fighting style is closest to a cross between basic taijutsu, akido, and krav maga.
Muffins.
Regarding the above, her fighting style has its own drawbacks. Mari has the bad habit of using up all of her energy at the beginning of a fight, both chakra and endurance, which will spell defeat if she doesn't gain the upper hand in the first minute or two. Her defense is mostly dodging, but her ability to dodge is normally twitch instinct and her ability to telegraph an opponent's strike is poor. She also tends to improvise too frequently, which is good when her opponent has a more complex style or a solid defense but extremely bad because it has the knack for throwing her off balance more easily if she isn't in control. She can be tricked or distracted in combat quite easily, but can regain her senses quicker than most. Her worst arenas would be tournament-style rings and large, open expanses like deserts.
Mari is especially skilled in ninjutsu and taijutsu that put an emphasis on quick movement, rapid strikes, or any sort of disappearing act (Cloak of Invisibility, Body Flicker). She has weakness in both performing or withstanding genjutsu, anything that requires long periods of focus, techniques that require some semblance of foresight or predicting the enemies attacks, and long-term endurance.
Armament (Equipment): Mari will wear arm and shin guards which she will use to deflect powerful strikes if she can, the latter being hidden under her pants if she happens to be wearing any. Hidden in each guard are three slim kunai, coming up to 12 total which she will use sparingly. Those kunai come with extremely lengthy fishing line attached to Mari's guards for manipulation and retrieval. Jammed in her pockets and other places on her person are a multitude of smoke bombs which she loves to use. Along with smoke bombs she will also carry gas bombs with her, comprised of a simple irritant purposed to make the skin burn, the eyes water, and breathing to become more difficult. Stuffed into one of her pockets is a forest green blanket she uses to disguise herself as a shrub or tree leaves. On the opposite side the blanket is grey for rocks and buildings as well. Also, as a consequence of how quickly she moves and how fast she expends her energy, she carries a waterskin on her hip for hydration.
Known Jutsu: Grade E:- Body Replacement Technique
- Cloak of Invisibility Technique
- Rope Escape Technique
- Mari knows enough to begin the other three Academy Level Jutsus, but her clones never stay for more than a few moments and she has difficulty focusing long enough to hold a transformation for long, let alone playing a role in one. While she is able to do the bare minimum, one couldn't claim that she has mastered them.
Grade D:
Grade C: None
Grade B: None
Grade A: None
Grade S: None
Developed Jutsu:
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Originally Posted by Team Sarutobi Ryo
I'd like to see who else will be rounding out the teams first.
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