Name|Aliases
Gekko Mayumi | Mayu

Age|Gender
12 | Female

Clan|Rank
Gekko | Academy Student

Affiliations
Konohagakure

Characterization & Prestige
Mayumi is well known to be the kind of girl that lets curiosity get the better of her. Due to a shut-in lifestyle, she feels she has a lot of catching up to do in the world and will jump at the chance to experience something new. She has a heart that believes everyone has some shred of goodness in them, and is forgiving to a fault in that she is willing to give those who've wronged her more than their fair share of second, third, or fourth chances. Despite trying to become a ninja, a life that is very likely to involve violence, she believes in trying to find a nonlethal solution. Criminals can't exactly repent or understand what they've done wrong if they're dead, after all. Due to a phobia of blood, this also extends to her simply fearing mortality.

Whenever she feels particularly scared due to her phobia or due to an otherwise tense situation, she'll mentally retreat in the form of hiding her face with the white-red cat mask she carries on her. A memento of her grandfather, she feels stronger while wearing it and will calm down even the slightest bit needed to do what needs to be done.

A strange and more uncommon quirk she'd prefer to keep secret is her fascination with samurai. Considering the history between ninja and samurai, it's much more like an admiration out of respect than supporting their cause against the ninja.

She's very self conscious and reserved, as well, when not preoccupied by the desire to learn. Preferring to dress conservatively most days, she gets by wearing elegant yet practical family kimonos. She dreams of one day dressing as a noble ronin, robed and wandering as a woman of mystery with fiery confidence. "Fastest blade in the Land of Fire," she'd like to call herself. In regards to this, the aesthetic aspect of being a ninja is a massive part of it for her. In addition to doing her part for society she wants to feel like the heroes she looked up to and read about when she was younger, and still does to this day.

She's known for being below average in most skills required to succeed as a ninja, and doesn't yet know how to even bring forth her element, with the exception of her skill and accuracy with weapons which far exceeds her years.

Origin Story
Mayumi was born to the Gekko clan one among many climbing atop each other for the privilege of being taught the special moonlight swordsmanship that clan heads have been known to cultivate and pass on to the brightest among the next generation. She spent her time mostly as a spectator, watching in-house tournaments and taking notes of the winner's tactics. From a young age she was passionate about learning swordsmanship but would never be permitted to pick one up. "It's not your time yet," the adults would say. And so she spent day in and day out stuck indoors, reading and studying rather than practicing.

Her only prolonged interactions with the outside world were during classes at the academy, but even then she was always picked up and brought home by her parents virtually from the moment her daily studies were concluded. She never understood, and there was more than a few screaming matches the older she got. It was around this time she truly began to feel that something was strange about the way she was being treated by her family. More like an object than a person, in her extremely dramatic preteen mind.

When the students were finally trusted with weapon training at the academy, her reputation as being a below average meek student flipped. Her hands steady, she could quickly adapt to hitting targets with her kunai and shuriken from various angles, and far exceeded expectations as it concerned swordsmanship. A bokken in hand was like dancing with an old friend, her mind appearing focused as if her sparring partner was a candlelight in a dark room. She quickly gained a reputation among her class as a weapon prodigy, which sparked both admiration in some students and jealousy in others. It's primarily through her ability with weapons that she might earn a scholarship to continue her studies at the academy.

Character Development & Conceptualization
OOC Goals: I want to flesh out the Gekko clan, their place in the world and most importantly, the moonlight sword/afterimage kenjutsu style that got disgustingly little play in the actual series with only one real move ever shown from it. On top of that, I want to see what the dangers of ninja life can do to change Mayumi as well as all the other genin on a journey not reliant on Sharingan eye hax. For that purpose I've tried to tone her down from typical Naruto "prodigy" characters by giving her a slew of negatives as well.

IC Goals: Mayumi wants to become the "Fastest blade in the Land of Fire" like something out of an old school samurai movie. With the twist of her having moonlight powers and ninjutsu, of course. She'd either like to become a Special Jonin specializing in bukijutsu, or improve on her faults enough to become a regular Jonin or ANBU. More ambitious than that she's always looked up to the Hokage and would revel at the chance to gain that position some day; at the same time however, she dreads the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with the position, as well as the implication that she'd have to spend even more time tied to the village rather than exploring. In addition to wanting to serve her people however, she also wants to become a ninja for superficial reasons such as the aesthetic of being a mysterious guardian. In that regard her ideals would come into conflict quite well with the traditionalists of the Haibara, I think..



Talents

Weapon Prodigy: Mayumi is well beyond her years as it relates to weapons and ninja tools. Quick and accurate with kunai and shuriken, elegant and reactive with swords, tactical and mindful with polearms, destructive and powerful with hammers and axes, and so on. All conventional weaponry comes naturally to her, and though ineligible to train with more complex weapons yet, it's likely the same for those as well.

Observant: Spending a lot of her life as an observer, she is quick to pick up and learn things visually. This could be something basic, or something more complex like how posture correlates to how hostile a suspicious individual is, how confident they are, any physical weaknesses to be taken advantage of, and so forth. She also does her best to use this talent to mimic the forms and styles of those more powerful than her, taking it all in as inspiration for her own fighting style.

Instinctual: Though most of the time she exhibits more symptoms of the typical bookworm type, she's terrible at formulating complex plans. Rather, once somebody else has laid out the groundwork for her, with weapons in hand her movements are practically on autopilot. Her every move is not calculated, but rather something she feels out from second to second. In this way there is a negative to be taken out of it, in that she's relying on her natural talent to get by, but it hasn't failed her yet.

Fast: A trait that goes hand in hand with accuracy, Mayumi has trained herself to focus more on agility than endurance or raw power. To this end her goal is to end battles quickly, or retreat and recover for a second wave if she begins to feel tired. This also allows her the advantage of more acrobatics, adapting to verticality in the environment quite well and taking advantage of her surroundings.

Flute Player: While not the biggest music connoisseur, Mayumi loves the flute as a convenient and compact instrument to be played for her own enjoyment whenever. It's a huge factor as well in the "aesthetic" of a noble shinobi that she holds so dearly. Music also has the powerful ability to lift spirits in dark times, so she treasures how something so simple can bring joy. Above all, she simply enjoys the sounds a flute makes.

Tools
x1 Bokken
x1 Kunai
x1 Flute
20m of Wire Strings

Techniques










I suppose if it qualifies, Mayumi would count as one of the three "prodigies" as per the quota? Also, if we're each going to have a unique dialogue color, I call dibs on the light blue used in my character quote.

Also, character theme song!

Name|Aliases
Lee Soul

Age|Gender
13/Female

Clan|Rank
Lee/Student

Affiliations
Konohagakure
Physical Description
Standing at 140 centimeters tall and weighing 42 kilograms, Soul is easily on the smaller side of the spectrum in terms of size - however, this is not indicative of her personality in the slightest. Whether because she was born as a girl into the Lee clan, or she was simply lucky, she lacks the thick eyebrows and dark hair that are characteristic of her clan. Her hair is cider brown, and kept short due to how longer hair is easier to grab in close quarters. Fitting for her small stature, Soul's voice is high-pitched, yet she can easily talk over most people in a room and grab attention quickly.

She wore the signature green jumpsuit of the Guy and Lee clans when she was beginning her training, but once her favorite training spot was taken by Kaminarimon Corporation's rapid expansion and construction, she adopted an orange mechanic's jumpsuit to protect against the large amount of soot and grime. Ever since then, she rarely wears anything other than the jumpsuit, only wearing formal clothes in the most necessary of cases. She wears very thick steel-toed boots, due to a time when she stepped on a nail in the Freight yard, forcing her to rest for weeks without training. When performing her "Hero Work," Soul wears a black Fukumen and Zukin on her head in order to "Hide her secret identity." In reality, it is to pay homage to the ninja that saved her life as a child.

Characterization & Prestige
Soul is hot-headed, extremely stubborn, thickheaded, and is overall a very dramatic person. She rarely uses an inside voice, and seems to do her best to appear larger than life, despite her very small size. One of her most obvious traits is that she gives herself grandiose titles, typically lying blatantly about her achievements, or embellishing and exaggerating them to ridiculous proportions. She is addicted to the idea of being a "Hero," doing her best to help as many people in the village as possible, even at the expense of her own free time and her grades - to the point where she would commit incredible sacrifices for the most petty and insignificant of reasons if it meant someone else was less inconvenienced. Soul sticks extremely close to a set of morals and rules, which she follows with ironclad focus and usually murmurs to herself when a situation related to them comes up - the very first of which being that she does not use genjutsu or ninjutsu, as Taijutsu is, in her eyes, the most "Pure and Heroic" of the standard Ninja arts (As well as the fact that it costs a large amount of money to learn techniques in the modern day...). Due to her intense following of the rules, her absolute devotion to her training and volunteerism, and the eagerness she reports violations to the Konoha police force, Soul has made very few friends of her age, leaving her almost a social pariah among her peer group.

Most of the children her age view Soul as a goody-two shoes and a snitch, but most adults, especially the ones that work in the freight yard where she trains and the police force, see her as an incredibly hard worker and someone who does her best to help others.

Origin Story
Soul was born as a member of the Lee clan, and the single child to her mother and father. Soul spent the earliest parts of her childhood with very little struggle or want for anything, even though her clan wasn't known for their fabulous wealth. She had little plans for her adult life, mostly enjoying the here and the now. She occasionally got into trouble because of her short temper and hotheadedness, but she never seriously tried to hurt anyone and usually was the one to end up worse off after starting a fight. She was a far cry from her current self, which didn't begin to arise until she was eight.

At the age of eight, Soul became lost while playing in the woods - she never discovered how far she had gotten away from Konoha, but she didn't return to the village until nearly two days had passed. After collapsing from exhaustion and nearly blacking out, a ninja from Otogakure discovered her - after feeding and giving her water, he had explained that he was a chuunin on a (D-ranked) mission to gather supplies from Konoha and to return back to his village. He had quickly returned Soul to Konoha, despite the fact that he had already gathered the supplies needed to complete his mission. The ninja left without asking for any reward, before Soul could even ask his name. His kindness had left a massive impact on Soul's life and development, sparking her burning passion for becoming a hero and ninja.

From then on, she trained nearly every day, doing her best to replicate the ninja that had saved her life. Due to the Lee clan having a lack of funds compared to many other clans in Konoha (a large chunk of which were being spent simply to send Soul to the academy), Soul was forced to rely on the taijutsu her family was known for in order to accoplish her goals. She entered the academty as soon as possible, and even with intense practice in taijutsu and her physical training, she refused to learn any form of ninjutsu or genjutsu - combined with her poor academics, this quickly gave her some of the lowest grades in her class. She is still seen as one of the worse in her class, both due to her self-imposed restrictions and her unwillingness to use techniques outside of her limited specialization (AKA, literally anything besides Taijutsu and Shurikenjutsu)

Character Development & Conceptualization
OOC: I'd love to see the massive differences between the Taijutsu of old and the rapid development of technology in the modern age. Even more than this, I'd like to see how an extremly stubborn and rigid character like Soul would interact with other ninja her own age - especially if they went against her moral compass. Or if She was ever put in a position where she was forced to go against her own self-imposed rules in order to save people.

IC: Soul wants to help as many people as humanly possible, viewing her life as a gift from the ninja that saved her life - she could care less about ninja ranks, and only pursues higher ranks in order to take higher ranking missions, that could help more people. She wishes to eventually help all the people of Konoha accomplish their dreams, but even more than this, she wishes to find and thank the ninja that had saved her life and led her down the path to being a true hero.

Conceptualization: While initially starting off very similar to both Rock Lee and Might Guy, I tried to differentiate her heavily by making her motivations far more different. Rather than trying to be a "ninja that only uses taijutsu," I attempted to use the lack of prevalence that the Lee clan holds to excuse the lack of focus on other jutsu - in the modern day, learning many jutsu is very expensive due to commercialization, and some people simply can't afford that. This is exemplified in the fact that Soul's skill in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu is never mentioned - she simply does not care if she is skilled in their use, as she cannot afford to learn any even if she was. While both her and Rock Lee have strong moral compasses, they differentiate heavily in personality - Rock Lee is polite, refuses to give up, and is not above using dangerous taijutsu on his opponents (seriously, the front and reverse lotus are ridiculously deadly). Soul, meanwhile, is brash, quick to anger and steadfast in her morals, her strict training caused more by her extremely potent discipline and adherence to her self-imposed rules, rather than Rock Lee's motivation and perseverance to be a ninja.

Talents

Mechanics
Perhaps "Repairs" would be a better descriptor, but Soul's skill in fixing and operating machinery far exceeds her skill in fixing most other things. Due to her devoting all time not used for training to help out the people of Konoha, Soul has a large degree of experience with repairing things that most villagers were too lazy or confused to fix themselves - usually things such as doors or creaky doorsteps. Her real experience comes from the Freight Yard she trains in - the employees there have used her as cheap labor as she would work for a simple "Thanks" - as a result, she has become very intimate with complex machinery, which is jarring considering she is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Taijutsu
It is no surprise that a member of the Lee clan is skilled in Taijutsu - compared to most members of her clan, Soul is not especially unique in her taijutsu skill or physical traits. Despite this, compared to the average ninja, she is a taijutsu specialist of extreme prowess, if only due to the fact that most ninja don't focus on taijutsu as heavily as their ninjutsu. She refuses to learn fatal techniques, as killing is against her moral code.

Physical Fitness
Soul is incredibly devoted to her physical training, and is supported entirely in this effort by her Clan members. She had been training ever since she was saved by a ninja from Otogakure at the age of 8, and has trained 5-6 days a week ever since, usually for 6 hours or more. At her current level of physique, she puts the vast majority of ninja to shame physically - her large degree of strength and moderate skill in shurikenjutsu has allowed her access to a very unique fighting style. She is incredibly fast, to the point where few can match her speed - and her large amount of stamina makes those that can keep up with her unlikely to do so for long.

Pain tolerance/Durability
Even with her Physical Fitness being ridiculous for someone her age, Soul is exemplary when it comes to the amount of pain and damage she can take without falling unconscious. She had been especially focused this trait during her training, upon realizing the danger being a shinobi presented. While she rarely uses the Eight Gates outside of her training, this Pain Tolerance has allowed her to fight far longer than most people should, and minor injuries are sometimes completely ignored - The fact that she cannot feel paper cuts anymore was a source of great amusement to younger children in the village. This freakish resilience to pain has made her a natural Eight Gates user.

Shurikenjutsu
The only form of Ranged combat that Soul is willing to use, she is fairly average when it comes to normal shurikenjutsu - her real talent comes when she uses heavier ranged weapons. Due to her intense training, she is physically strong enough to throw far heavier objects than others would be able to, with similar speed and accuracy to those using lighter weapons. This has resulted in her using ridiculously sized objects that she finds mid battle as ranged weapons.

Tools
Weights
Weights, one of the cornerstones in tools for the Lee clan. They are worn around the ankles, and weigh enough where Soul only moves slightly faster than other students her age. When doing upper body exercises and practicing her punching, she wears the weights on her arms instead. In serious situations, Soul will use her Shurikenjutsu skills to throw the weights at opponents, usually when they are too far away to hit with taijutsu. Her weights are only removed in the event of a serious fight that has very high stakes or results in the suffering of other people.

Senbon
Senbon are metal needles, pointed at both ends. While mostly seeing use in medical ninjutsu and assassination, Soul uses them as a ranged weapon when no improvised weapons are found. She carries dozens, if not hundreds on her person at all times.

Techniques







Soul's strict adherence to her self-imposed restrictions and her refusal to use ninjutsu or genjutsu has caused her to be one of the weaker members of her class, despite her incredibly powerful taijutsu and physical form.

Soul refuses to use the Eight Gates unless people's lives are at stake.

Character Theme

Name|Aliases
Shimura Mako

Age|Gender
13 | Female

Clan|Rank
Shimura | Academy Student

Affiliations
Konohagakure

Characterization & Prestige
Mako, while not necessarily a rebel, rarely pays attention during class. The extensive research she does at her family's behest renders her as having the personality and mannerisms of a no-good slacker to her peers, and unfocused to her instructors, due to how fatigued she always is. Being quite socially awkward and afraid of backlash, she has never quite managed to voice these problems properly to anyone, choosing to take the fall for it herself rather than speak out about being overworked. That's not to say she doesn't have friends, but is still trying to work out how to come out of her shell to become more comfortable being in the spotlight. For now though, she's known to be very matter of fact and to the point, stating things plainly and only using the required words to get information across. There's been such a lack of words spoken from her mouth, in fact, that when combined with her choice of attire some are still confused as to whether she's male or female. As an aside, she is also notorious for being dreadful at Genjutsu, as she feels it makes her tired and sluggish even if she's not the one being targeted by it.

Origin Story
From an early age, Mako has had expectations placed upon her for greatness. Born into the Shimura clan as the firstborn of the next generation, she is to one day inherit the secrets the clan has to offer and undergo full training in their specialties, including their ties to elephant summoning contracts such as the Baku. Her parents still very much traditionalists, they have taken their rivalry with the Sarutobi clan very seriously throughout the years. Obsessively so, in fact; such that when they heard of the next generation of Sarutobi children coming about, they ensured that they would train their own Shimura heir to become as perfect as possible from a young age.

Unfortunately, as it turns out, placing pressure and burdens on a child from a young age can cause them to shut down or develop odd behavior. Such was the case for Mako, who was forced to excel at a rapid pace in Fuinjutsu and research of the elephant summoning animals and their culture to one day form her own contract with them. Every night from an early age, she was pushed physically and mentally to prove that the superior clan between the Shimura and the Sarutobi was the former, and to make her a worthy heir of clan secrets faster than their Sarutobi rivals. Whether Mako knew of whether the Sarutobi clan took this rivalry as seriously as the Shimura, she never found out - her parents would find ways to separate her from Sarutobi clansmen whenever they could. Not every Shimura shared the same animosity as Mako's parents; in fact, more treated it as healthy competition than anger, but whatever happened in their past with the Sarutobi, Mako dared not question her parents. Much in the same way that soldiers don't question their superiors, the young Shimura heir saw herself as having no choice but to grit her teeth and do her best.

And do her best she did - to the knowledge of practically no one. Fuinjutsu is not a subject that plays a great role in the early stages of shinobi training as compared to Ninjutsu or Taijutsu. Those facts combined with a habit for lethargy due to never achieving sufficient sleep, and one would receive what Mako is - a tired underachiever with no obvious faults or talents. It's only in the background, in the quiet of her home, in her dimly lit room built for research, that she is considered a prodigy. For the moment, she's only a sleepy girl with dreams plagued by anxiety, but wishes to one day unleash her gifts on the world.

Character Development & Conceptualization
OOC Goals: Similarly to before, I want to experience character development alongside the other characters, seeing how Mako interacts with the rest and how it shapes and matures her. Not a fan of those static characters, so I'm eager to see what quirky or dark bumps along the way will change everyone's characters permanently, for better or worse. I'd also like to see what a Shimura who's not a genocidal psychopath like Danzo, can do; with their tendency for wind element, fuinjutsu and elephant contracts, there's surely an interesting moveset to be found there.

IC Goals: Mako wants to make her clan proud, but also find a way to stand out on her own in a way that isn't simply showing herself as the next Shimura head. Unsure of how to do that, the early parts of her story will center around how her experiences as a genin will shape her views of how she wishes to "stand out". Late-game in that regard is too difficult to predict with the amount of variables.

Other than that, she also wants to interact with members of the Sarutobi clan to both confirm any hostility in their clan rivalry, and confirm if they're as pretentious and arrogant as her parents have tried to drill into her head. In particular, any Sarutobi around her age, including whichever is to inherit the Sarutobi's clan techniques next.

She also wishes to learn more about the outside world as she undoubtedly goes on adventures as a genin. She's read about many places, but has no physical context or experience with them, and curiosity is killing her.



Talents

Fuinjutsu: Fuinjutsu, otherwise known as the art of sealing, is the first thing Mako was forced to learn when her parents' private tutoring began. Some might see this as learning incorrectly, skipping the basics, but they entrusted the academy to pick up the scraps. While she hasn't learned anything too advanced yet, what her parents have allowed her to read on sealing, she has excelled at an extraordinary rate. This is in part due to some kind of natural knack for it, but the concept of fuinjutsu itself entranced Mako such that she treated the studying of it much like reading an intense thriller novel; her genuine interest in it was the biggest push for her to gain skill in the knowledge of it so quickly.

Medical Ninjutsu: One of the first things Mako thought of when reading about elephant summoning as a younger child was, "what if the elephants get hurt?". To that end, she ensured that after studying her regular Shimura research every night, she would take some additional time to read about and practice Medical Ninjutsu. The younger her didn't want any elephants to get hurt, so she also read up on elephant anatomy. As she grew older she realized it wasn't just elephants she would need to worry about, and also studied human anatomy and basic medicine making. It's not so much that she ever had a natural talent for healing, as much as her passionate concern for survival (especially of elephants) forced her to better learn how to heal herself and others.

Taijutsu: While not on the level of any of the Taijutsu-focused clans such as the Inuzuka, Akimichi or Lee clans, Mako was told by her parents that since the average Sarutobi was passable at Taijutsu, she would have to be better at Taijutsu in turn. She can't rely purely on the less aggressive combat tactics of Fuinjutsu or Medical Ninjutsu when it came time for fighting an opponent, so she learned the basics of close quarters combat. In her practice one night, she fell into a trance and woke up to broken training dummies and angry parents. Apparently she was a natural at some kind of trance-based Taijutsu, similar to Drunken Fist but brought on by late-night tiredness rather than alcohol.

Studying: Being forced to learn how to study efficiently from a young age, Mako has many ingrained studying habits and tactics to allow her to be more proficient at learning the book smarts aspect of being a ninja. She treats books as her own personal foe, only vanquished by perceptive behavior and lack of sleep. Her skill at gaining information did not come easily however, as noted by the frequent dark circles around her eyes that she firmly believes will never go away.

Resting: Her reputation as a tired slacker wasn't for nothing, after all. Over the years she's mastered the art of finding comfort resting anywhere. Whether that mean sleeping fifty feet in a tree, resting arched over a pointed boulder, or even neck-deep in swamp water, she has become supernaturally talented at finding ways to recuperate in any situation, whether this means sleeping, meditating or simply closing her eyes. Comedic gimmicks aside, she believes mental relaxation and rest are the most important facet of ninja life. Even in the rare occasion where she's not tired, she tries to rest whenever there's a free moment - who knows when you'll have your next sleep once you're out in the field, after all?

Tools
x20 senbon
x20 sheets of paper
x5 empty scrolls
x1 medkit
20m ninja wire

Techniques









Still calling the shade of blue in my character quote as my color. Also, with this app I'll be applying for a prodigy slot. Disregard my previous character.