[hider=Tai Yang][center]Name: Tai Yang --- Alias: Has not earned one, feel free to create one if you’re impressed. --- Age: 13 + 8 years --- Gender: Male --- Rank: Chuunin (Jounin in combat ability, but he hasn’t been around long enough to be promoted again.) --- Appearance: [img=http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs12/f/2006/333/7/5/EXALTED___Ki_Punch_by_Inkthinker.jpg][/center] --- Personality: Tai Yang is a boy of strength, vigor, and discipline. He values his own definition of honor and courage, but does not begrudge others their deceptions and tools. He is still a boy despite his physique. He has come to appreciate the kindness of the Iwagakure leadership, feeling that putting the people first is a noble and honorable gesture. He realizes some may intend to prey on the weakness of Iwagakure's military, and wants to take a stand for them so that such generous, high minded practices would not go punished. Anyone who thinks Iwagakure is easy prey will have at least one who stands against them. Of course, that's presuming Tai Yang isn't wandering around trying to challenge everyone who he thinks looks like Ezo to a friendly duel, when the time of invasion happens. Or if Tai Yang isn't wandering around trying to find some prize so great that he do his dream of holding a tournament to draw the strongest ninja to fight a tournament over it. --- [center]Village: Iwagakure[/center] --- History/Background: Back home, he was the strongest on his island by the age of eight, and so he traveled from island to island, swimming his way to each village. Defeating each village’s strongest, he was pointed ever eastwards towards Iwagakure and the mainland. Arriving in the Land of Earth and Wind at the age of 12 and partaking in a Chuunin exam, he was victorious through the first stage, but just barely, finally meeting opponents who were his match in battle. Dismayed at his weakness, he left to train during the gap between the stages in the exam. When he came back, he was barely recognizable, having seemingly aged years both in body and techniques. However, chakra sensing techniques were able to confirm that it was indeed the same Tai Yang who had left to train a week ago, though he had been infused with a Kekkei Genkai. His techniques and physical ability crushed the opposition despite his naively or stupidly straightforward fighting style. Likely, some strange mysterious force or person trained Tai Yang. Who he, she, or it, is remains a mystery. ((Feel free to PM me and work up a character responsible.)) --- Combat Style: Dangerous primarily in melee Tools: The basics and a katana. --- Chakra Nature: Primarily Pure Chakra, and his bloodline. He has not yet learned any element manipulations. --- Kekkei Genkai: Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki is a bloodline that permits the synthesis and use of some rather unusual metals with odd properties. It also protects the user from most forms of metal poisoning. So, yay! He can drink blood without getting iron poisoning. Not that he would ever do that. --- Special Traits: Fairly high chakra reserves Very up front, physical taijutsu and Kenjutsu skills His skin is interwoven with a weave of extremely flexible and light metal that is highly effective at absorbing lightning and fire elemental attacks, siphoning them off synthetic metal organ located in his abdomen to be slowly formed into chakra or stored for future use. There is a limit to how much it can store safely, so if you successively throw high rank fire and lightning techniques at Tai Yang, he’ll eventually have to vent the attacks back into the atmosphere. The metal also slightly increases his resilience to physical attacks, but the emphasis is in flexibility and so it doesn’t actually help much. The metal is linked to his chakra system through Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki and grows and heals alongside his body. It should noted that this counts as part of his chakra system meaning that it interferes with any chakra accompanying said lightning and fire elemental attacks, It also doesn’t interfere with his body’s natural functions. So, skin based poisons still work on him. His muscles are supplemented with metal muscles, ala mechwarrior myomer style. It’s very tiring to use them, so it basically works like the gate opening techniques… Unless you’ve been so kind as to present him with electrical or heat energy via his skin, in which case, yay free gate opening technique! Skeletal structure also reinforced, so that when he uses gate opening techniques and his metal muscles at the same time, his bones don’t shatter under the force of his own movement. He weighs about an extra 40 pounds now, and it’s very dense weight, so he’s not as good at swimming anymore. [/hider] [hider=Jutsu] Able to unlock the first two Gates of the Eight Gates technique. Name: Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki: Full Plate Resurrection Rank: A Range: Personal/Touch Nature: Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki Type: Ninjutsu Effect: Tai Yang reforges the target’s body’s missing parts with the metals alchemized by Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki. Without a supply of earth or metal to transmute, this technique is very costly. This technique can reforge any part of the body but the brain. If used on someone without the Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki bloodline, they will shortly die of metal poisoning. If killing the target is what’s desired, Tai Yang can simply lace a new metallic organ than pumps out poison into their body. Requires about 10 seconds of handsigns to use with both hands, or about 20 seconds of one handed hand signs, often used when the other hand is tied up touching the target so that the ability can be used on them. If being used on another person, the physical contact must be maintained for the entire time handsigns are being performed. Weakness: Figure it out on your own. Name: Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki: Knife Coating Rank: B Range: Touch/Close Nature: Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki Type: Ninjutsu Effect: This technique creates a coating for the users weapon made of a strange, poisonous metal that is liquid at room temperature and has superfluidity and highly corrosive properties towards metal, similar to gallium on the corrosive properties, only hyped up with chakra to destroy all those “chakra forged invulnerable to physical trauma” weapons and armor. A Togateiru Fohku Kohgeki user is, of course, immune to the poisonous effects. Tai Yang has a coating of this on his katana at all times, but Weakness: Figure it out on your own. Name: Limitless Foot Rank: C Range: Personal Nature: Pure Chakra Type: Nintaijutsu Effect: Most ninjas reach a point where their bodies are capable of producing more speed than their friction with the ground is capable of handling, necessitating awkward leaps towards your opponent. Tai Yang has developed a technique where he bonds his foot with chakra to the ground so that he can push himself forward as fast as his physique can permit, and then send himself forward even faster by detonating that under his foot if necessary. This technique allows Tai Yang startling maneuverability and speed on the ground. Also of note, is that footwork is of incredible importance to the strength of one’s punches, and Tai Yang is not one to ignore anything that makes his punches stronger. Weakness: Figure it out on your own. Name: Path of Truth Rank: A Range: Personal Nature: Pure Chakra Type: ??? Effect: Tai Yang’s chakra has a trait of sheer violence when it interacts with other chakra, Tai Yang’s chakra system is even stronger at disrupting chakra that works directly on his body or chakra system than normal. Directly absorbing chakra from Tai Yang is impossible, as it will result in equal loss of chakra from both parties. A side effect of the violence of Tai Yang’s Chakra is that Tai Yang entirely immune to any Genjutsu cancelled by pain, and is extraordinarily resistant to Genjutsu not affected by Pain. Weakness: Tai Yang’s natural chakra regeneration happens at 25% of the normal rate, and chakra based medicine is actually a useful offensive tool against Tai Yang, as his body will reject it violently. Figure anything else out on your own. Name: Halo of the Golden Monkey Rank: B Range: Personal Nature: Pure Chakra Type: Nintaijutsu Effect: Tai Yang’s natural chakra system spreads out about another foot or so, and starts interacting with the physical world, generally rebuffing unfocused attacks. This costs 10% of Tai Yang’s Chakra to begin with, and more if he wants to maintain it after a particularly strong attack. If the Halo of the Golden Monkey comes into contact with an opponent’s chakra system, it will begin draining 10% of Tai Yang’s Chakra per second, assuming an A-Ranked level of opponent for chakra, but the violence of the interaction will send violent waves through the opponent’s chakra system, which, while doing no damage, prevents the use of almost any techniques or any ongoing effects requiring fine chakra control. Anything more complicated than “Throw my chakra in a direction” will generally fail. This feedback will also affect Tai Yang, preventing him from using any techniques more complicated than “Throw my chakra in a direction” or the Halo of the Golden Monkey. Note that this technique does not deplete the enemy’s chakra, it just temporarily renders it very difficult to use. Weakness: Generally prevents him from absorbing fire or lightning elemental attacks with his skin though. Figure anything else out on your own. Name: Path of Body Rank: C Range: Touch Nature: Pure Chakra Type: Nintaijutsu Effect: Basically throws his chakra in a direction. If not under the effect of Halo of the Golden Monkey’s contacting an opponent, some finesse can be applied, to create cutting blades of chakra and the like, but otherwise, hey, ram your opponent with physically manifested chakra, projected with extra speed by the taijutsu techniques used to launch it! Weakness: Figure it out on your own. Name: Path of Spirit Rank: B Range: Touch/Close Nature: Pure Chakra Type: Nintaijutsu Effect: Similar to Path of Body, but it requires finesse, so it cannot be used if Halo of the Golden Monkey is contacting an opponent’s chakra system. Throws out chakra tuned to disrupt and attack enemy chakra. Can be used in tandem with Path of Body to create an attack that breaks through both chakra and material barriers, or chakra/material barriers. Weakness: Figure it out on your own. [/hider] For your consideration, Jay. I decided to borrow your format so Iwagakure would remain consistent. :P