[CHAR] Kakumei

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⚫ Hatake Mikan ♀
⚫ Senju Hatsumomo ♀
⚫ Inuzuka Yari ♀
⚫ Sarutobi Asami ♀
⚫ Hyuga Ryusuke ♂
⚫ Nara Shikkaru ♂
⚫ Uchiha Arata ♂
⚫ Kohaku Sora ♂
⚫ Namikaze Shio ♀

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_{The prodigy for each team is marked in blue.}

Team Juko
⚫ Inuzuka Yari
⚫ Sarutobi Asami
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Team Shonetsu
⚫ Senju Hatsumomo
⚫ Uchiha Arata
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Team Umeiko
⚫ Hatake Mikan
⚫ Hyuga Ryusuke
⚫ Nara Shikkaru

[Floch]

"A Shinobi can be any type of tool but as for me, I am a tool of peace!"

N A M E

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Hatake Mikan

A G E

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13

G E N D E R

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Female

C L A N

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Hatake

R A N K

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Academy Student

A F F I L I A T I O N S

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Konohagakure

A P P E A R A N C E

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Mikan standing at 5'2 with her wavy white hair and fair complexion is also buxom. As a product of bloodline marriage between the Hatake and Inuzuka clans, Mikan has a pointy nose and droopy eye shape, her eye is also colored grey portraying the overlapping genes of the Hatake and Inuzuka; her pure white hair is what stands out the most which seemingly makes her Hatake genome dominant. The clothes that Mikan wear are gray-scale, she is mostly seen sporting a variety clothes that are black or white and sometimes a mixture, in particular she wears fishnets in certain parts of her body. Although it looked like Mikan's Hatake genes are dominant, it isn't because both are balanced, she also have the elongated canine and the Hatake's beauty spot, a mole found in her cheek.

C H A R A C T E R I S A T I O N & P R E S T I G E

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Mikan is a kindhearted girl with unmeasured energies and despite having such, she remains level headed. She is open minded and slow to anger, and keeps herself down to earth no matter what despite others inflating their ego; as a peacemaker, Mikan prefers words over violence and hates conflict, especially the modernism vs traditionalism topics which is a subject she refrains from, believing that it would lead to more conflict. Ever since the Hyuga Hideki incident, Mikan had been more cautious of her actions, causing her to mature at a young age all the while keeping her jolly personality which is now moderated considering she had been adopted to the main branch of the clan, Mikan grew in humility and shares the burdens of her clan so that she will never tarnish the name of the Hatake and the 10th Hokage, Hatake Futaba ever again. The scarred past she had with the Hyuga Clan still haunts Mikan today even though she had been forgiven, the pain is not forgotten- Mikan tries her best to move on. As a Shinobi, Mikan is a hardworking individual who is held with high regard by the Hatake Clan, having a peculiar skill set and being ranked as the #2 rookie of the year.

O R I G I N S T O R Y

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The only child of Hatake Ichigo and Inuzuka Kyoko(Yari's aunt), Mikan is scarred forever for losing her parents during the Konoha Civil War, growing up without knowing them and leaving her under the 10th Hokage- Hatake Futaba's custody which turned out to be the better for her. Fortunately, Mikan has lived her life blessed and counts herself lucky since everything that a kid could want is provided by her clan; wealth, education, techniques, and shelter etc. Considering that Mikan is under the tutelage of Futaba who influenced her dearly, she grew up to be a disciplined and kind individual clad in humility whose drive is to inspire people.

Mikan's childhood was extremely bad because of her lack of discipline and inflated ego, she is attracted to trouble despite of Futaba's warnings, this causes her to be too overconfident of herself, but this all changed when she met a young Hyuga whose relationship continuously scars her to the present. During those times Mikan would spring into trouble by beating bullies and cause mayhem with the young Hyuga, Hideki who was once the apple of the Hyuga's eye; everyday they would motivate each other to exceed their skills as they were friendly sparring partners. When Hideki got a strict training regime, the amount of time that Mikan spent with him decreased drastically but still they find time for each other. One unexpected bad day, about two months after Hideki had started his Juken training, they ventured far out from the village, into the woods, on their way home, the young Hyuga noticed an old abandoned shack and pointed it out to Mikan and headed inside. All the two saw nothing but decayed furniture and anything that rots. Suddenly the ceiling fell, and had caused the unspeakable, Hideki was injured badly and Mikan wasted no time to get help but she was too late, that day made Mikan realize that life is precious and decided to never again act out on her selfish desires.

As years past in the academy Mikan made sure to abide by Futaba's disciplines and help others in need, she grew to be that of a class rep. yet rejected the position many times because it reminds her of the day that she lead Hideki to nearly lose his life. With the graduation growing closer, Mikan makes the effort to train as hard as Hideki now known as Ryusuke, the two continuously train together.

C H A R A C T E R D E V E L O P M E N T & C O N C E P T U A L I S A T I O N

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Mikan is easily characterized as a 'hyperactive' (not too hyper) person whose energy never seems to decrease, she is full of enthusiasm and her kindness is contagious enough to melt the people's hearts! The Hatake Clan stands as one of the most fearsome and ruthless clans alongside the Uchiha and Shimura Clans in the village, many overlook the young lady's character. She is raised well by her clansmen to ensure that she grows to become not just a fine ninja but a person as a whole. Her kindness stems from her clan's discipline during her childhood and the pain of not having parents. Due to this, Mikan values life and the rules, she makes sure that her judgement are fair at all times.

If you think about it, there is always this one person in real life who shows kindness and high amounts of determination because they have experienced enough hardships that broke them in many ways and rarely angst about it, we often thought that they are hard to understand but that's because we are not looking in the bigger picture. Characters like Mikan are good at hiding their emotions, she is one of the antithesis characters that the typical Naruto I created since my mentor Inkarnate just made one and I thought why not make one as well? Another inspiration I had while creating Mikan is Yaoyorozu Momo from My Hero Academia, an intelligent and humble character.

Her views regarding traditionalism vs modernism are neutral. Mikan is the type who doesn't care about any of it, and doesn't want to meddle with. I want her to be a character who chooses and sticks with the good path, and while open minded and kind, shows backbone! She is after all a peacemaker and the #2 of his class. Apart from the ninja shenanigans that everybody does Mikan's goal is clear; to teach the people the right way of living with farming and livelihood, to a degree 'How to be a true Shinobi' which in this sense, Mikan has her own definition of ninja.

Do #1s and #2s really need to be rivals? I don't think so. After reading a few stories here and there, I am certain that Arata and Mikan won't bicker despite being respectively trained by a Hokage.

T A L E N T S

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• Hatake Intuition/Jack of All Trades: The Hatake aren't one trick ponies but considering they are on par with the likes of the Uchiha and Senju clans in terms of having the knack for possessing a vast array of specialties. Although they don't entirely master the arts they pick, the Hatake innovate their own style and create their own techniques; making the clan one of the most dangerous in the village. Mikan is very much this, he relies on his intuition and learn on a situational basis and deliver splendid results by adapting- be it ninja or non ninja activities, Mikan like her clansmen never cease to prove their fast cognitive abilities which further emphasizes why she is the #2. Still Mikan has a long way to go despite being trained by the 10th Hokage, she still hones her skills on a daily basis.

• Hatake Style Techniques: Famed for their unusual white chakra, the Hatake in the ancient times utilize their blade for agriculture. The one blade style of the Hatake is fabled for cutting air and foreign content that invades their farms. Since then the Hatake has been known for being among Konoha's top 10 clans that utilizes swords, and despite their infamous status of Jack of All Trades, Kenjutsu is where the Hatake's skill lies at. Mikan has yet to master most of her clan's techniques. Here are Mikan's sword forms in order:

Basic Set of Hatake Kenjutsu (3 forms in total)
• Form I: Kōkyūgiri An offensive art that revolves around the speedy footwork and the quick hits of the wielder. Mikan knows how to use the fighting form and its concept but due to her lack of practice and preference of Form II and Form III, her offense is poor.

• Form II: Kekkaiwaza: The particular sword art that Mikan excels at. Kekkaiwaza is a defensive fighting form that protects practitioners from disarmament of their swords and guarding against the Kōkyūgiri(offensive arts). The form can be combined with Fuinjutsu which increases its defensive abilities.

• Form III:: Gyakuryū : Only second to Mikan's Form II, this sword technique revolves around countering attacks of Form I and any offense based technique. The usage of shape manipulation is evident in this form considering the similarities of the Samurai's style of Kenjutsu.

• Ninjutsu Expertise
Mikan excels in Ninjutsu and exhibits an advanced level control over her chakra than most academy students of her age which allows her to fuse her wind affinity into her blade. Of all the Hatake arsenal Mikan's a natural in this aspect, her training with Futaba allowed her to strengthen her talent and its effectiveness being most suitable to combat. As a result this pushed her even further and landed on the two principles which are none other than shape and nature.

Shape Manipulation and Nature Transformation: Considering that Mikan possess the superb chakra control of her clan, at a young age of 7 she has already infused wind chakra into her clan's signature saber. On the other hand, Mikan can only infuse her wind chakra into her blade and nothing else, as stated by herself that it's extremely difficult to amass and maintain the form.

• Cosplayer Outside of farming, the Hatake are masters of disguise due to their masculine(girls) and feminine(boys) features. Mikan's hobby is making her own clothes and poking fun of people with the numerous disguise she have since childhood even fooling her best friend who happens to be a Hyuga, ironic given the eye power. Her preference would be cosplaying famous celebrities, this talent of hers comes in handy, both for leisure and combat.

T O O L S

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• Tanto

• Wire Strings

• First Aid Kit

T E C H N I Q U E S

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C Rank
• Wind Breakthrough Techniques
• Dancing Shadow Taijutsu
• Ittou Kodai (One Sword Style, High Ground)
Mikan moves fast enough to create speed mirages to confuse her opponents, since the mirage appears thick, it can be deceiving. Once her opponents are open, Mikan strikes with Form I.

D Rank
• Dynamic Entry Taijutsu
• Manipulated Shuriken Techniques
• Futon: Kekkaiwaza Wall Run
Mikan runs back and forth so fast that she creates a wall of wind. This requires the discipline of Form I which is pure footwork. Once the wall of wind is created, a wind barrier is formed and protects Mikan and those near her for a short amount of time from projectile weapons.

E Rank
• Academy Techniques

[mickilennial]

“Stop slacking off! I know you better than anyone else and this crap isn’t you, got it? Nobody works harder than you so how about showing it once in a while, you big dummy.”

Personal Dossier

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_Name

Senju Hatsumomo

_Age

13

_Rank

Academy Student

_Origin

Konohagakure

_{Chakra Nature}

Water

Characterization

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_{Physical Description}

Momo stands at 152 centimeters tall, standing on the taller end of her peers, though not absurdly so. She has dark peanut brown hair and chartreuse irises. The thirteen year old girl’s presence can be described as inviting, though sometimes it comes off overbearing due to her energetic personality. Her hair is most commonly drawn into a pair of twin tails strewn together with white bindings. As a member of the iconic Senju Clan, Momo tends to hold more traditional (and conservative) values of clothing, though she prefers not to be the “history exhibit” in the room. One can find Momo wearing the traditional styles mixed with modern sensibilities, though when she’s carrying out her clan’s duties and involved in ceremonies you can bet she’ll be ready to don the traditional garb without hesitation or discomfort.

_Personality

Momo can be characterized as a confident and headstrong young woman who is always ready to give a helping hand. She’s open, honest, and holds an optimistic view of the world despite her growing disdain that many clans are starting to move past tradition and adopt modernist perspectives; a concept that she struggles to accept as she is very proud of the legacy of her ancestors and what they sacrificed. It is due to this that Momo resists adopting “modern” trends wholeheartedly and pushes back at those who take things for granted. That said, Momo does have burdens to bear despite her parents never pressuring her. She’s a member of the main branch of the clan and at thirteen is struggling with controlling her chakra so much that she can barely expel an elemental nature technique. An irony given that only a century prior that such a thing would be seen as an accomplishment. Despite not having any great aspirations or hopes and dreams, Momo does want to be better and she will fight tooth and nail to prove herself to herself.

_{Personal History}

The youngest daughter of Senju Ohtarama and Kazamatsuri Yoshimi, Momo is one of the few members of her family who have no real experience with the civil war that occurred between the former hokage and his opponents – a situation that only her elder siblings remember in any capacity. Essentially, like the other children of her generation, Momo has lived a life of relative peace and serenity where the idea of war is an idea best left to the history books.

Momo's immediate childhood was a simple existence alongside her siblings, trying to understand her place in the world. As a member of the main branch of the Senju Clan, knowing such things would normally be pretty cut-and-dry, but Momo's parents were not the rigid traditionalists of the past nor were they the ambitious modernists of the future; Ohtarama and Yoshimi stood somewhere in the middle, deciding not to burden any of their children with harsh expectations or brutal training. In fact, if any of their daughters decided they didn't even want to be ninja, they would accept that decision with little argument. However, none of Ohtarama's children decided ninjutsu wasn't for them. Momo, took to it rather quickly, though her reasoning was more out of wanting to be valuable. Between seeing the talents of her closest childhood friend and the passion of her elder siblings in the artform, Momo looked forward with the Konohagakure Academy for Ninshu in mind as her singular motivation. As far as she could figure, it was her responsibility as a Senju to be the best kunoichi she could be.

In her earliest days of being trained by her elder sisters and extended family, Momo once found a lone boy in the forest, to which she responded with in flabbergasted confusion. This boy, a member of the Uchiha Clan, would end up being Momo's first friend and in a lot of ways a friendly rival of sorts. The sister that took her into the woods to practice archery, Tamashini, to this day mocks Momo about her little “friend” in an allusion that the relationship between Momo and the Uchiha boy was anything but platonic. Of course, she denies such sentiments even if it embarrasses her every single time she hears it. Teasing aside, Momo would take her friendship with the Uchiha boy very seriously; sometimes to the point of dragging him along into friendly ninja contests in a way to not only learn from her failings but show him that the brutal training he endured from his family was not the only way ninshu could be observed. As they grew older, the contests evolved and their friendship grew. Currently, they are fellow students at the Konohagakure Academy.

As a student at the academy, Momo is confident and hard-working. She never half-asses her work and takes everything seriously. She's made more friends since her childhood meeting with her best friend and she values every single person in her life. Though, sometimes she feels she isn't as good enough to be in the same classroom as her peers – her struggles with chakra control is pretty well-documented and observed, and as the oldest ninja-in-training she wonders if she's even going to be considered as being good enough for promotion to genin. This, of course, is all derived from her own personal angst. Momo has become a solid student and shinobi despite not being a “young genius” of any sort. Her shurikenjutsu is above average, she knows how to utilize the water clone technique, and her taijutsu is well beyond being merely competent. But she's not happy with herself. Perhaps she needs to learn to be happy.

Only time will tell.

Family Synopsis

The current head of the Senju Clan is Senju Ohtarama, a man of fifty-one years of age. He has two sons and three daughters – Natsurama (23), Tamashini (20), Norirama (20), Sajonara (16), and Hatsumomo (13). He is married to Kazamatsuri Yoshimi.

_{Character Development & Conceptualization}

Senju Hatsumomo is a girl who has never had a single tragedy occur in her life. Her parents are of good health, nobody has died at the edge of a katana or kunai, and she’s treated rather well by her family with no strenuous pressures or expectations placed on her. She’s pretty much a normal girl from Konohagakure after you take away the fact she’s from the oldest and most prestigious clan in the entire village.

When you think about the growth there it is pretty easy to tell why Momo is an interesting character for me to play with after playing dozens of variations of overworked overserious kuudere characters. Really, Momo is a blank slate and kind of the antithesis to the stereotypical Naruto character in these types of roleplays. Momo struggles with being a good kunoichi due to her genetics and nobody is telling her she should be great but herself. She’s very self-motivated and will push her friends and comrades in a similar way. I think it’s a fun concept. Her growth beyond that is hard to say. It really depends on the bonds she makes and what specific jonin is guiding her and what challenges await her around the corner. Beyond that, I suppose another facet is that she respects the role of the Hokage and someday hopes to support them or perhaps be them. Momo is very serious so her interest in doing so makes a good deal of sense. This might make her critical of those who want the same achievement but have the “wrong” temperament.

We've gotta wait and see.

Attributes

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_{Character Focus & Skillset}

Senju Bloodline: Momo is the direct descendant of Senju Seigirama and by all appearances has won out on the genetic lottery that Senju descendants can inherit. Momo has known this since the very first time she utilized ninjutsu, though she has always had issues controlling the enormous depths of her potent chakra reserves that flows inside her body. At thirteen years old she is beginning to finally have a better grasp at controlling and managing her chakra, though she has a very long way to go. She cannot walk on water and has trouble “centering” herself when scaling trees and other vertical directions. The complexities of chakra natures are known to her and she can utilize at least one elemental release, but it is done so with great difficulty and strain on her body thus making her one of the least competent students in terms of her spiritual and physical constitution.

Wood Release: The complexities of Wood Release, even to a Senju is quite challenging to comprehend. As a kekkai genkai it is more versatile than the Byakugan and Sharingan, but ultimately a bit trickier to utilize and develop. Not only does it require a genetic nature of water it also requires comprehension of earth-based chakra as well. For Momo this means she has to further her chakra control, knowledge, and creativity before she can even make something as simple as a bokken.

Kyūjutsu Expertise: The Senju have been avid marksman for over four centuries and possibly even further back – predating the enlightenment brought upon by the discovery of chakra and development of ninshu as an art. Since Momo could walk she has been physically conditioned to handle a bow and arrow and turned herself into an expert marksman with the weapon. The young kunoichi takes massive pride in that she is a more natural and skillful archer [at her age] than any of her elder siblings; this is not limited to the heir of the clan and her eldest brother, Kazuhama.

Physical Conditioning: Due to the difficult at controlling her chakra Momo has trained her body physically to be ready for anything. She’s no “living weapon” like the taijutsu masters of old, but she isn’t a girl who will go down from one punch to the stomach either. This in conjunction of what control she does have and her ability with ninja tools and a bow makes her an asset to any team.

Tea Artistry: The Kazamatsuri Clan has been growing, brewing, and perfecting the art of tea for over six hundred years. Momo's has always enjoyed tea and the making of such and she has been privately tutored by her maternal grandmother in this art since she could comprehend it. In the present it takes a backseat to archery and ninshu, though she still takes the time to cultivate the hobby.

Jutsu List

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_{S Rank}

N/A

_{A Rank}

N/A

_{B Rank}

N/A

_{C Rank}

Senbon Shower Arrow
Water Clone Technique

_{D Rank}

Leaf Whirlwind Taijutsu
Manipulated Shuriken Technique
Paper Shuriken Technique

_{E Rank}

Academy Techniques

[Matsuri]

犬塚槍
INUZUKA YARI

“There's no better teacher than the wilderness itself.”

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_{N A M E}

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Inuzuka Yari

_{A G E}

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13

_{G E N D E R}

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Female

_{C L A N}

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Inuzuka

_{R A N K}

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Academy Student

_{A F F I L I A T I O N S}

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Konohagakure

_{A P P E A R A N C E}

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Yari is a short, athletically built young girl of 4'10 with a healthy, lightly tan complexion. Her grey-ish brown hair - though thick and smooth in texture - often appears unruly and wild, having been hastily cut into many uneven layers. Her round eyebrows are of a similar bushy thickness and her keen eyes are of a similar colour. She leaves very little skin visible, wearing simple kimono-style shirts and matching shorts with leggings underneath, and donning her iconic bear pelt jacket almost every day. Yari has red fang markings painted on both of her cheeks, a tradition that seems to have fallen out of her clan's use in recent decades, as well as elongated canine teeth and nails like most Inuzuka. A few light scars line her legs and arms from the fights her and her ninken used to have during her early childhood. When she's not engaging in any form of combat, Yari will wear a pair of small fang shaped earrings.

_{C H A R A C T E R I S A T I O N & P R E S T I G E}

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As a girl who has chosen to maintain the outdated traditions and values of her clan, it's not a surprise that Yari has inherited the notoriously hot tempered and intense personality that ran wild within Inuzuka clansmen of bygone eras. However, it is more her strictly disciplined and fiercely prideful nature that defines Yari as a person. From a young age she has undergone rigorous physical and mental conditioning in order to succeed as one of the last shinobi of her clan, which has brought about a scarily stern persona that obsesses over achieving only the absolute best and rejecting anything gained beneath that. The values Yari has drilled into her head over the years has made her deeply respectful and appreciative towards hardworking individuals and those who call themselves shinobi, especially towards the elderly Inuzuka ninja who pridefully fought in the wars before as an expression of their clan values. Though she is not one to criticise the rapid industrialisation of the village she has been lovingly raised in, Yari has become very protective of the ways of forgotten Inuzuka ninja, despite finding that concerning herself with the affairs of other clans in similar situations to be irrelevant.

But her infamy as a student is more prominent than her respectable drive to be the best Inuzuka kunoichi she can, and so Yari was isn't really seen an easy person to approach. She is harsh and critical towards both herself and her peers, unafraid of the backlash she experiences and using opposition to accentuate her pride and confidence. Although her otherwise polite and rather mature personality has its worth in the eyes of Yari's instructors, her classmates find that her frequent scolding tendencies and intense ambition to reach the top of her class makes her more irritating than likeable. Having become too focused on graduating with the best grades possible, Yari's friend list has fallen worryingly short. She has very few people who she actually gets along with, and so Yari often relies on her ninken partner, Kagemaru, for emotional support. Though extremely self reliant in nature, her refusal to open up about her insecurities has built up nothing but doubt in her capabilities as a ninja, as well as a demeanour that only grows ever the more harsh after each attempt from people trying to break past her tough exterior.

Nevertheless, Yari is still only a young girl not even past the Academy student stage, understandably lacking the experience and maturity of her village's higher ranking shinobi. Thankfully she is not without her warmer, more jovial side when she begins to open up to others; always keen towards learning new things, enthusiastic when practising clan traditions and going out in the forests to hunt, and showing a surprising burst of energy when telling tales about her clan or stories from the history books she reads. Like many Inuzuka, shinobi or not, Yari is extremely loyal to her village and compassionate to her ninken partner, and is willing to protect the things she values against those who choose to threaten them. Her competitive fighting spirit burns with a passionate youthful flame, and it only seems to be growing from here.

_{O R I G I N S T O R Y}

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Being one of many born into an era of peace and prosperity had given the young Yari an early life without much worry or strife, being raised into a wealthy household that suffered little financial struggle. Her parents were happily married yet couldn't be anymore different people, her father being a leading fashion designer in his industry and her mother being one of the very few Inuzuka ninja that chose not to retire to a more peaceful lifestyle. Few shinobi veterans like Yari's mother from times of war and tragedy remained, as many modern clansmen saw benefits from turning away from their shinobi paths to pursue other careers; the Inuzuka became more known for their veterinarian and dog breeding expertise, their strong capabilities as ninja quickly being forgotten in recent decades. During her early childhood, it was uncertain as to what path Yari's parents would steer her towards.

It was one of the few things that caused the rare major conflicts between her parents, though it was her mother that would gain more influence over Yari during her early childhood. The woman was a traditionalist to a fault, introducing her daughter to old hunting weapons, animal pelts and faded paintings of a completely different era from a young age, the crowded basement in which all of these objects had been hauled into unlike anything she had ever seen before. Yari was completely engrossed by the stories and legends her mother would tell her, and expressed an honest eagerness to practice the same traditions as her mother had done when she was young. Her mother, not wanting to die along with and to preserve the endangered Inuzuka traditions, wholeheartedly agreed. Her father was obviously against this at first, as he felt doing those ancient practises would do little to benefit Yari in this modern age. What kept him from totally rejecting his wife's and daughter's requests however was his unspoken idea that the shinobi career was now a dying lifestyle, and so he accepted in hopes that Yari would eventually diverge from that prospect once she got older.

But her mother's personality and influence was strong enough to keep her walking down the shinobi path. By five years old Yari experienced the custom of painting red fangs on her cheeks for the first time, and from then she would continue to learn about old practises and delve into the history of her clan. By six she would have her new ninken partner Kagemaru by her side, and was already learning how to hunt in the Konohagakure forests under the guidance of her mother. The woman was an encouraging yet strict teacher, and soon Yari would come to learn of both the beauty and danger of the wilderness, her mindset vastly but gradually maturing with each camping trip. She would enroll into the Academy in the same year, and for the next seven years would be balancing her academic studies with her rigorous physical training in the forest. Over those years Yari has been hardened into the pseudo-hunter/ninja in training her classmates know her to be, having been disciplined by the harshness of nature's forests. She intends to continue her pursuit of the Inuzuka shinobi lifestyle, preserving all that she can of her clan's endangered traditions. But now, at only age thirteen, deep down inside Yari continues to struggle with balancing her modern and traditional lifestyles and values, and is still uncertain about the path she wants to take in life.

_{C H A R A C T E R D E V E L O P M E N T & C O N C E P T U A L I S A T I O N}

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Since the overall theme of the RP is largely 'traditionalism vs modernism', I thought it would be interesting to make a character whose main internal conflict stems from them trying to follow the modern and traditional influences they were raised into, and how they cope with trying to balance two vastly different lifestyles together. I'd love to explore the confusion Yari will face when the time comes for her to truly have to decide what path she wants to take in life, as well as how she goes about trying to preserve her clan traditions when she's currently one of the only practising shinobi in her clan. Despite her personality Yari's still at an age where she has a lot of room to grow and change, so I'd like to see how her personality and outlook on the world develops as she matures into a fully fledged ninja and meets new people of differing ideologies along the way. Also, the concept of a ninja that uses hunting based skills is something I've always wanted to try out, and I'd like to develop and perhaps put my own twists on the Inuzuka clan as I think they have a lot of potential to have a deep history and rich cultural traditions that the canon never had. I also wrote Yari to have a more 'difficult' personality than what I'm used to writing, so developing her character along the way as she forms more positive relationships will definitely be satisfying to see!

TL;DR I think the Inuzuka clan deserves more attention and I want to write about a ninja/hunter girl doing cool ninja/hunter things.

_{T A L E N T S}

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• Sensor - As an Inuzuka, Yari is able to make use of her extremely accurate senses, especially her sense of smell and sound. Her tracking and monitoring abilities are unparalleled by the rest of her classmates, making her a unique asset to a team.

• Hunter - Her capabilities as a ninja are not limited to the standard use of shuriken and chakra. Yari is able to hunt animals, make traps and survive pragmatically and resourcefully in the wilderness like it's second nature. She is easily able to apply these skills to situations more suited to shinobi, such as using her traps to capture escaped criminals and such. Her aptitude for hunting has also made Yari notably skilled at concealing her tracks and current whereabouts, which she has adapted to suit the 'hit and run' fighting style of her clan.

• 'Beast Human Taijutsu' - As a result of her daily exercises and practise of her clan techniques, Yari has become adept at utilising the basics of the original Inuzuka fighting style. Her skills in both taijutsu and ninjutsu are thus on a respectable level, although it is only her taijutsu that is able to maintain a just above average ranking in her class, while her ninjutsu ranks at simply average.

• Marksmanship - Yari's accuracy using projectile weapons is a notable skill of hers, and is considered slightly above average amongst her peers. Although she can wield kunai, shuriken and even a bow and arrow with reasonable confidence, her current skill level still limits her from being able to use such a weapon outside of hunting for game.

• Well read - Yari loves a good history book, and may spend her free time relaxing in libraries or going through her mother's old books. As a result she holds a great deal of knowledge about her village history and clan history, and can often answer questions concerning such subjects with ease.

• Cooking - The girl sure knows how to cook up a mean pot of venison stew. One of her top three hobbies that rival reading and game hunting.

_{T O O L S}

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• Spear - Although not necessarily and expert, Yari is able to use her spear efficiently. She can use it for a variety of purposes, usually for direct attacks or throwing at short distances. One of her most often used tools.

• Wire - Probably Yari's favourite. She finds the possible uses of this underrated tool to be almost limitless, and she thus carries many rolls with her.

• Go, Kagemaru! - Yari's ninken partner. Although they got off to an incredibly rough start when she first got him - she even has the scars to prove it - the two have managed to form a strong and inseparable bond over the years. Kagemaru is an extremely valuable asset to Yari as both a ninja and a hunter, and is seen as not only a lovable companion, but a loyal friend. A very good boi.

_{T E C H N I Q U E S}

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_{C R A N K}

• Fang Passing Fang
• Fang Rotating Fang

_{D R A N K}

• Four Legs Technique
• Beast Human Clone
• Passing Fang

[The 42nd Gecko]

Sarutobi Asami

“Ninja serve as spies, soldiers, and police, and those are all honored professions that should be treated with dignity and respect. But if your entire society is based around spies, soldiers, and police, you must ask yourself if everything is as it should be.”

Personal Dossier

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_Name

Sarutobi Asami

_Age

12

_Rank

Academy Student

_Origin

Konohagakure

_{Chakra Nature}

Fire

Characterization

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_Style

Asami considers herself a practical dresser. If she's going to battle, she's going to wear an armored jacket with lots of pockets, pants, and keep her hair up. Ironically, wearing cutting edge battle gear of Konoha ninja is basically the traditional battle gear of the Sarutobi clan at this point. That said, when she does have an opportunity to dress up, she does so to the nines and with a traditional sensibility. Just because she thinks the old ways are obsolete, does not mean she cannot find them beautiful. Quite the contrary.

_Personality

The first impression of Asami is often that she is quiet and shy. She would prefer the term "reserved". She doesn't simply doesn't feel the need to go out of her way to make herself heard. She knows how to have fun when it is called for, but doesn't particularly desire to be the loudest voice. She celebrates, but is quite happy to let someone else be the center of attention. She's also considered somewhat of a studious bookworm. And, well, while certainly true that she studies hard and gets good grades and maybe doesn't have the most practical experience, she would say that she gets enough for her goals, which she considers modest.

One of the things that can easily break that perception of her being shy, is seeing Asumi around a new animal she hasn't met before. She is always enthusiastically overjoyed to meet even what most might consider the creepiest of crawlies. When she awakes to find a spider on her arm, she does not spasm and shake to throw off the poor hapless thing that was probably just looking for somewhere dark, but she shepherds it outside and peacefully release it with a smile on her lips. Sometimes the death of these creatures is inevitable, whether because every step in tall grass might crush a bug, or the bug may be caught in said spider's web. That is the natural way of things and she will not intervene, but Asumi will never kill an animal for fear or disgust. And if the animal is big enough to hug, like say, a big fluffy Inuzuka ninja dog? She will definitely seek out a hug. Immediately. Even if she probably shouldn't get hair all over her nice clothes.

Probably her most outspoken trait, given the lack of controversy in "fluffy dogs are adorable and I want to hug them", is her opinion of the modernization of ninja. She views it as inevitable and beneficial. In her own words,

“Ninja should be as ready for peace as they are for war, lest they find it beneficial to seek war for their own sake.”
“Traditions are beautiful things, and they are even more beautiful when turned to the artistic and constructive arts.”

Which might make one think 'who has been letting this 12 year old listen to political talk radio'. She hasn't. It's her perhaps slightly excessive reading habit that makes her talk like that about this subject. She believes that a real and present danger is a clan that refuses to modernize to adapt to peace, and so seeks to return the world to war. To be prepared for peace as important as being prepared for war.

_{Personal History}

Asami's mother is Sarutobi Akane, the older sister of Sarutobi Sho. Her father, however, is Inuzaka Juko. Rather few people know this and Inuzaka Juko is not one of them. Asami was conceived in the waning months of the civil war 12 years ago. Since then, Akane has chosen to keep the parentage of her child a secret, stating that she does not know who the father was, having been drunk at the time. While true, she wasn't THAT drunk. Whether she has kept the secret because she doesn't want to cause conflict, or simply doesn't want Juko being a parent to her child, is as much her secret as who the father is in the first place.

Asami would like to say that having no father in her life hasn't really impacted her development as a person. She has the entire Sarutobi and Monkey clans as family, after all. But even though her uncle Sho visits frequently, Asami can't help but feel that's more out of duty that Akane is a single mother, than genuine care. Still, she is certain that things are fine, she is a fine, if unambitious ninja, and that she knows her purpose and will seek it out. Even if that dream is half inspired by the simple memory of contentedly watching fireworks with her mother.

_{Character Development & Conceptualization}

Asami has a lot of room to grow in terms of Ninja prowess. She could be heir to the innate strengths and hidden techniques of both the Sarutobi and the Inuzaka. Her monkey partner could someday learn the great techniques of the Monkey to become a weapon that rivals legends. She could learn to meld her Fire nature with the very close second affinity for Wind she does not yet know she has, and tap into their synergy. She could continue to master the basic, but effective, academy style jutsu until she herself fights like the Monkey King. But these are all "could". Without an inciting incident or inspiration, Asami's goal is to perform well enough not to embarrass the Sarutobi, learn and master Fire Style, and meld it with fireworks, to create wondrous and accessible fireworks.

On the other hand, Asami's political views and personality are already quite strong. That does not mean they are immutable, but she definitely already has things she believes in and aims for. She's not just aimlessly getting stronger. That said, there's a disconnect between her beliefs, and her ability to enforce them. She believes following her passion of fireworks will set an example, but if some clan actually did start a war, she is unprepared to react to that. Should someone who believes in peace be ready to kill to protect that peace, that is a question she has not yet answered for herself.

And, of course, there is the fact that the circumstances of her birth have quite a bit of unresolved drama about them.

Attributes

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_{Character Focus & Skillset}

Bookworm: Asami wouldn't consider herself a bookworm... Buuuuut she does spend a lot of time studying, and is generally good at book learning. This doesn't necessarily mean she learns jutsu faster or anything. But she can definitely tuck her way into a history book and come out ready for an exam in just a few hours. She definitely doesn't find it difficult or odious to study, and sometimes, that can be all the edge one needs. She keeps very good grades on written exams.

Juko Is Definitely Not Her Father: Asami has remarkably good sense of smell in particular, as well as other senses, and can understand dogs... HMMMMM.... Fortunately, because she doesn't know how to increase her senses further with chakra, it's not super immediately obvious. She also has an affinity for Wind style chakra that is so close to her affinity for Fire chakra that sometimes the chakra sensitive paper gets confused. She would have a fairly easy time learning either of them as her first Elemental Transformation.

Momoko: What's better than a Monkey? A NINJA Monkey! And Momoko is the best ninja monkey! Even if she's kinda small, can only transform into small items that are definitely not on par with legendary treasures like Kusanagi, can only clone herself four times, and isn't very strong or anything. But Momoko is still a dexterous tricky monkey, and anyone who underestimates her for her smol cuteness may be in for an explosive surprise! Much the same could be said of Asami, really, but she's a fair bit bigger.

Monkey Techniques: Asami has trained relentlessly in the basic academy techniques, Clone, Transform, Body Replacement, and Cloak of Invisibility, with Momoko, to both teach Momoko the ninja style of the techniques, and eventually, learn the Monkey style version of the techniques. Asami can, for example, momentarily Transform into a hard pole (definitely not Adamantine Staff level yet though), to withstand kunai attacks before transforming back to human form to continue fighting. The Cloak of Invisibility technique is quite handy but requires you to have pre-existing camouflage to enhance, so Momoko will transform into the cloak that Asami then enhances. Asami and Momoko have also trained together so that they can use Body Replacement on each other, rather than some random log. There are some E Rank techniques, however, that Asami has not trained extra with, such as Rope Escape, Sexy Technique, or One Thousand Years of Death.

Elaborate: Asami has a tendency to overcomplicate things. Sometimes, this is a good thing, as an unexpected method of chaining attacks together takes a foe off guard. It's what enables her rather baffling speech patterns for a 12 year old, combined with her propensity to read tomes few others of her age would read. Of course, elaborate does not always mean "best", and there are many statements to the effect of "keep it simple stupid" that Asami blithely ignores, unless fluffy doggos are in the equation. Then the answer is, of course, hugs.

Jutsu and Equipment

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_{S Rank}

N/A

_{A Rank}

N/A

_{B Rank}

N/A

_{C Rank}

N/A

_{D Rank}

N/A

_{E Rank}

Academy Techniques

_Equipment

Bo Staff
2 Kunai
4 Explosive Seals
4 Flashbangs
4 5m lengths of wire.
First Aid Kit

[Rhodus]

“Please just leave me alone, okay?”

Basic Information

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Name

Given Name:
Hyuga Hideki
Assumed Name:
Hyuga Ryuske

Age

12

Gender

Male

Rank

Academy Student

Affiliations

Konohagakure
Hyuga Clan

Nature Releases

Fire (Affinity)

Personal Details

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Characterization & Prestige

Ryusuke is the epitome of quiet and soft spoken, to the point where many of his classmates have wondered whether he even can speak. Before his accident, he was usually brimming with excitement, always excited to hear about the goings on of the clan. However, after his accident, he became silent and withdrawn, interacting with others less and less until he hardly spoke at all. The only person he will interact with to any meaningful degree any more is Katsuo, and even then very rarely when there are other people around.

Origin Story

This ended up way too fucking long

Twelve years ago, during the civil war, the main branch family of the Hyuga had begun to show clear sympathy towards Inotora’s regime. After all, the choice to support the incumbent Hogake was a virtual certainty from the beginning. Inotora shared their extremely traditionalist ideals, and if the rebellion lead by Uchiha Satoru was to succeed, it would surely mean the loss of at least some of their political power within the village. However, as the main branch members were preparing to publicly announce their support of Inotora, a faction within the Hyuga that had slowly grown since the start of the war made its move. The faction was comprised of side branch members who felt that the main branch family had grown complacent and their ultra traditionalist ideals were outdated. Secretly, with the assistance of the Hatake Clan, they planned and successfully carried out an internal coup, assassinating the head of the clan and his wife who made up the main branch family. There was one complication that the faction had not foreseen in their haste to carry out their coup: the newborn son of the main branch family, Hyuga Hideki. The members of the assassination team argued amongst themselves before finally conceding that none of them had the necessary resolve to murder an infant in cold blood.

Luckily, the child’s birth was so recent that it had not yet been officially announced or recorded within the clan or village. The leaders of the coup came to the decision that, since the newly orphaned child would be allowed to live, he would need to be cared for by members of the clan. Immediately a husband and wife volunteered to adopt the child. The pair was Hyuga Hiroshi and Hyuga Hitomi, the two members chosen to become the new main branch family, for their progressive views and caring nature. The two already had a young son of six, and were expecting a daughter soon. Hyuga Hideki was then officially adopted, and his first name changed to Ryusuke, in an attempt to fully distance him from his former family.

And so, Ryusuke grew up under the care of his adoptive parents, the middle child with an older brother and younger sister. All three were doted on and spoiled by their parents. They lived carefree, playing in the village and all around the surrounding forest. Eventually, Ryusuke’s older brother began training in Juken, and Ryusuke would occasionally peek through the doorway and watch, enamored by the graceful moves of the taijutsu style.

One of the only friends Ryusuke had outside of his clan was Hatake Mikan. The members of his clan saw Mikan as a bad influence on Ryusuke, as Mikan exacerbated Ryusuke’s already high energy and rambunctious nature. The clan members tried desperately to keep the two apart, but no matter how many times they separated the two, they couldn’t keep them from sneaking off and getting into trouble.

From an early age, he displayed an aptitude with the Byakugan, much to the approval of his clansmen. Finally, he began to listen to the older clansmen at least somewhat, although really only when what they said had to do with the Byakugan, and he would always take great delight in showing everyone whatever new trick he had just learned with it. Because of this aptitude, he started his training alongside his regular schooling a bit earlier than a member of the clan would normally, although it was mostly basic chakra pathway recognition, rather than any actual Juken yet. Again, he proved to be a fast learner, picking up knowledge as fast as it could be taught to him. By his eighth birthday, he had finished all the basic teachings on chakra flow and tenketsu, and he began his training proper, earning him no small amount of praise from his clan members.

Once his actual Juken training began, the amount of free time that Ryusuke had available to him decreased considerably, but he always made sure to make time to see his best friend Mikan. On one such occasion, about two months after Ryusuke had started his Juken training, they had ventured particularly far out from the village, into the dense woods surrounding it. Just as they were about to head back, Ryusuke noticed an old abandoned shack and pointed it out to Mikan. As the two approached the shack, they saw just how much disrepair it was in. The walls were largely rotted out, and the ceiling had fallen through in a few places. Ryusuke was initially hesitant to enter the shack, but Mikan managed to convince him that it would be find.

The inside of the house was in just as bad disrepair as the outside, if not worse. Hardly any of the boards that made up the second story floor were still in place, and the ones that remained were warped and gnarled by age and the elements. Seeing just how ravaged the inside of the shack was brought back Ryusuke’s earlier hesitation, and he voiced his misgivings to Mikan about the two of them staying in the shack any longer. Mikan assured Ryusuke once again that there was nothing to worry about, and that the shack was too cool to not stay just a little longer. Begrudgingly accepting, Ryusuke watched as Mikan climbed up to what remained of the second floor and made his way across the beams. When Mikan finally reached the other side of the rafters he was climbing on, Ryusuke let out the breath that he’d been holding in. Ryusuke asked one final time if they could just leave the house now before either of them got hurt and it was Mikan’s turn to begrudgingly accept. However, as Mikan retraced her path along the old rotted beams, one of them suddenly gave way. The collapse of the one beam proved enough to destabilize the entire rest of the rafters, causing the entire roof to cave in on itself. Luckily, Mikan was fortunate enough to come away from the fall with only a few cuts and scrapes. Ryusuke, however, was not as lucky, as an entire beam of the rafters had fallen on him, completely crushing his right arm and leg, keeping him pinned.

Mikan of course immediately ran to find help for her friend, but it took her a long time to find his way back due to how far they had ventured into the forest. By the time that Mikan actually managed to return with help, Ryusuke’s injuries had worsened to a point where the medical nin were only barely able to even keep him alive, as he had lost a significant amount of blood. At first, an effort was made to save his limbs, but when the beam was finally lifted off, it was clear that they had been completely destroyed by the enormous beam and were beyond repair. He was rushed back to the village hospital where both his right arm and leg were fully amputated.

After his recovery, he was fitted with a pair of prosthetic limbs to replace the ones he had lost. At first, his parents were hopeful that the artificial chakra network within the prostheses would prove sufficient for Ryusuke to continue his Juken training, but the artificial network was simply to primitive and crude. When he was finally told the news that he would no longer be able to continue his training, Ryusuke went a full month without speaking a single word. When he returned to his shinobi classes he simply sat in silence, passively taking in the lessons with no active engagement. Even after his self imposed muteness was over, he continued to become more and more isolated from his classmates, and eventually even his family. He began actively avoiding doing or saying things that would draw him attention, even going so far as to throw class competitions and intentionally lose first, second, or even third place.

Just as it seemed Ryusuke might never be happy again, a small bit of hope shone through. Ryusuke had started taking kenjutsu lessons at the academy, and it reawakened within him a passion within him that he hadn’t known existed. Although he still harbored his fear of any special attention, he couldn’t help himself from completely devoting his soul to the new art he had begun to learn. Together, along with his closest, and now only, friend Mikan, he began training daily, pouring everything he had into it, while still determinedly keeping his talent a secret from others. He kept up this training until now, while he still attends the academy, his graduation growing ever closer.

Character Development & Conceptualization

Although he went through a somewhat extensive reworking, the most basic main concept I had for Ryusuke throughout was a Hyuga who not only didn't know Juken, but who was definitively unable to learn it as well. In addition, I ended up shaping him into an unknowing deposed Heir, which makes for a lot of interesting character opportunities in the future, with his clans members, his parents, and even Katsuo since the Hatake were involved in the coup that killed Ryusuke's true parents.

Triple T's

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Talents

Unassuming Nature:
After such a long time of avoiding attention, Ryusuke has developed a special talent for avoiding any and all notoriety. He has painstakingly made sure never to stand out, never get first place, and always hide in the shadow of others more accomplished than him. He can easily blend into a crowd seamlessly and he is very difficult to spot in a densely populated area.

Kenjutsu:
Ryusuke has a natural affinity for kenjutsu, and the art has fascinated him from a young age. His clanmates dismissed his interest as silly and childish, as no self respecting Hyuga, let alone the heir to the clan, would ever be caught using anything other than the clan’s signature Juken. However, after being told he would no longer be able to train in Juken, he began studying Kenjutsu at the academy. Although he immediately began showing a notable inborn skill for the art, he made painstakingly sure that his classmates and instructor never thought of his skill as more than “passable”. He trains every day with Katsuo in secret during the early morning hours, and it is the only thing which he has any amount of passion for.
In particular, he has studied the Hatake style of Ittoryu, having been shown formally the aspects of the style, as well as having used his Byakugan to snoop on the experienced members of the clan, and observe their training to further expedite his own skill. While his partner Katsuo favors the defensive Form II, Ryusuke prefers the more offensive Form I.

High Chakra Control:
Ryusuke has also inherited the innate high level of chakra control exhibited by members of his clan. Although still rather undeveloped from lack of proper specialized training, he still has a notably higher level of control when compared to his peers. He often has trouble hiding and suppressing this inborn talent, and there have been a few close calls with his classmates and his teacher.

Juken:
Although Ryusuke has very very rudimentary knowledge of Juken, his training in it had only just begun when he had his accident and was unable to further develop. As such, he struggles to perform even basic Juken techniques, and is even further handicapped by the lack of natural chakra flow through his artificial limbs.

Byakugan:
While Ryusuke’s skill with Juken might be absolutely pitiful, he still has a notable amount of skill with his clan’s signature dojutsu. Currently the maximum range that he can muster with his Byakugan is sixty meters.

Techniques

C-Rank:

• Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique
• Shadow of the Dancing Leaf
  (currently, Ryusuke is able to perform this jutsu only because of the added kicking strength of his prosthetic leg)

D-Rank:

• Cross Split - A basic kenjutsu technique involving two diagonal slashes in quick succession, one downwards followed by one upwards.
• Prelude - a rudementary iaido technique which utilizes the momentum created by drawing the sword at high speed to deliver a swift upward slash.

Miscs

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Equipment

Zantetsu:
One of the less than half a dozen full length swords ever owned by the Hyuga clan. It was given to Ryusuke by his parents as consolation, after he had been told he would never be able to learn Juken.

Ryusuke became ambidextrous due to not having use of a right arm for an extended period during his recovery after his amputations

[FourthKing]

“This'll be interesting...”

Personal Dossier

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_Name

Nara Shikkaru

_Age

13

_Clan|Rank

Nara; Academy Student

_Origin

Konohagakure

_{Chakra Nature}

Yin | Earth (not discovered)

Characterization

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_{Physical Description}

Standing at 165cm and weighing around 56kg, Shikkaru's physique has the potential to turn into a solid figure as he grows. At the moment, he boasts more lean muscle and gangly limbs than anything else. With his runner's frame, Shikkaru is built for speed and stamina more than brute strength. Shikkaru's appearance fails to conform to the Nara stereotype, something he's quite content with. Instead of the classic spiky black hair pulled into a tail, Shikkaru keeps his hair short and untamed, as well as dyed blond in splotches. The hairstyle led to his siblings jokingly calling him Sukanku (Skunk) Instead of only piercing his earlobes, he pierced the cartillage in his left ear as well. Shikkaru's softer facial features contrast his sharp jaw and flat chin. His long eyelashes frame large, expressive amber eyes, and his petite nose creates a youthful look. Shikkaru's sense of fashion is nothing exquisite, and tends to be geared towards simplicity and comfortability. Depending on the weather, Shikkaru will wear anything from long sleeved shirts, to tank tops, to hoodies; and his preferred pant styles are joggers. His tool pouches are all positioned in an unorthodox manner, allowing him to use his Shadow Imitation Technique to its fullest potential.

_{Characterization and Prestige}

Shikkaru is the anomaly of the Nara clan. Being the antithesis of the Nara stereotype, Shikkaru deviates from the stoic, analytical persona that people expect him to embody. Shikkaru is a social, passionate, and ambitious youth who's sharp intellect is developed beyond most kids his age. People are normally caught off guard by Shikka's keenness because at first glance he comes off as a normal, energetic teenager. Shikkaru's smarts are more dynamic, flowing, and creative than average. He's a quick thinker who follows his gut, preferring to adhere to his instincts more than any rigid plan. While this led to academic success, it sometimes causes conflict when working in teams. He isn't arrogant or over confident (at least that's what he thinks, you never know), he just has a hard time taking things slow when they could be done quicker.

In social situations, Shikkaru tends to thrive. He can be quite the conversationalist due to his budding wit and odd sense of humor. Being the amicable guy that he is, Shikkaru does his best to be kind to everyone he meets. He's quite open-minded when it comes to meeting new people or encountering new situations. Being a part of a young, increasingly modern generation has raised him to be slightly naïve regarding the older ideals of what a shinobi is. This doesn't hamper his excitement of becoming a ninja, if anything, it just sparks his curiosity to learn the old ways and combine them with his modern approach. Curiosity is one of Shikkaru's defining traits. It's like an itch he can't scratch, he's always getting into things or asking questions. This makes him a great listener but can lead to trouble, especially in a group that's built upon discipline. Shikkaru has a love for academia as well, in fact, after he does his time as a shinobi, Shikka has plans to teach at the academy, or maybe even teach genin. But that's far, far into the future. For now, Shikkaru just wants to do his best at becoming a shinobi and learn as many new things as possible.

_{Personal History}

Nara Shikkaru was born and raised in Kohonagakure under two loving parents. Being the youngest of three siblings, Shikkaru has plenty of role-models to look up to. His father, Shusako, works with Kohona's Intelligence Division, and his mother, Ichika, works at a restaurant in town. His older brother, Kishi, works as the hokage's secretary, while his older sister, Akira, is a teacher. Shikka loves his family, but if he were to pick favorites it would be his sister. She's the one who turned him into the energetic little book worm that he is. Shikkaru still vividly remembers Akira introducing him to Shogi, and recommending books for him to read. He still thinks of her almost like a second mother, though his mom is pretty cool too.

Shusako was the one to introduce him to the world of shinobi. Immediately, Shikka's curiosity grabbed hold and he was hooked right from the start. And so, his life became a mixture of studying and sparring. Training to fight with his father was an amazing bonding experience, and the occasional impromptu "take your son to work day" showed Shikkaru a whole separate world that he ached to be a part of. His ambition was stoked like a hot fire and he began to study in earnest.

Ichika showcased to him the civilian lifestyle of Kohonagakure, in all its glory. His mother is the owner of Saito No Kareraisu, a popular restaurant in the village. One that boasts the best curry rice and shabu-shabu in all the Land of Fire. Now whether or not that's true is up to those who eat there, but Shikkaru has yet to find a better cook than his mother (biased much?). Ichika likes to remind Shikka that not everything has to revolve around being a ninja, and that there are other options for his future if he so chooses. Nothing is more refreshing after a hard day of training or studying than getting to cook with his mother at the restaurant, he absolutely loves the atmosphere of the place.

During his days at the academy, Shikkaru began to realize he was actually quite intelligent, it showed in his shinobi tactics and academic records. He did his best to be kind to everyone and make as many friends as possible. He figured that he'd be working with most of them in the future, might as well get acquainted as soon as possible. Even if he didn't particularly like someone, he was mature about it, and chose to not let his irritation or frustration get the best of him. Obviously, he wasn't perfect at that, but it's the thought that counts right? Shikkaru is still curious about the future though, he notices how the older people seem to scorn this new, more modern generation. He's curious about why they dislike this shift in culture so much. It's one thing to read a book on history or hear an oral retelling of it, and it's a whole other thing to have actually lived through that history. Shikka just figures that the times are changing and there is nothing he can do about it, might as well roll with the punches and forge his own path. At the end of the day, he only has one life to live. He plans on living it to the fullest.

_{Character Development & Conceptualization}

I was interested in seeing what a motivated Nara would look like. I also didn't want to create some crazy analyst who has to think 200 steps ahead of everyone else before doing anything. I think I hit a good mix that should be fun to play out. I think it'll be funny to see an energetic, witty Nara instead of the lazy genius stereotype we've seen before. I like that Shikkaru wants to be a teach in the future. It'll be intriguing to see if he continues to want to teach shinobi after becoming one and seeing how they live. I want to see how he interacts with the changing of the times, will his future dream job become more academia than ninja training? Will ninjas become purely ornamental? I can't wait to find out. As a side note, if no one makes an Akimichi I think I'd be interesting to see how the older generation reacts to not having an Ino-Shika-Cho combination if that's even a thing in this AU.

Talents

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Keen Intellect: Shikkaru is wildly bright for his age, despite how he may appear to those who don't pay attention. He's quick thinking and fast acting. Though his methods of displaying his intelligence outside of scholarly pursuits may be unorthodox, Shikkaru will surprise those who underestimate him.

Tanto User: Shikkaru's tanto is sheathed horizontally on his lower back, and it's his preferred blade of choice. He'll normally use this and forgo kunai in close quarters situations. It's placed the way it is so that he can draw it after successfully completing his Shadow Paralysis Jutsu. He's become quite the tanto combatant, preferring to strike with a blade than engage in taijutsu fights. He excels at this fighting style because he's quicker than he is strong.

Chakra Control: Shikka has above average chakra control, meaning he wastes less chakra while performing jutsu, though his chakra pool is only average, meaning he can't continuously pump out jutsu like a machine. He'll continue practicing his control in an attempt to increase the duration of his paralysis jutsu, which get weaker after continuous use.

Academics: Shikkaru finds most things he studies to be easy to follow and simple to memorize. He has outstanding test scores and he gets even more enthralled if he's studying something he's interested in.

Jutsu List & Tools

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_Tools
Tanto
Shuriken
Kunai
Wire String
Flash Bombs
Smoke Bombs
Explosive Tags

_{B Rank [not unlocked yet]}

Shadow Imitation Field Technique

_{C Rank}

Shadow Imitation Technique

_{D Rank}

Shadow Barrier Technique

Shadow Barrier Technique
After performing the necessary hand seals, Shikkaru's shadow becomes solid and rises up from the ground, resembling a wall around Shikkaru's height. This barrier is an opaque black color, and can deflect projectiles or one D rank or lower ninjutsu technique before shattering. Once the barrier is erected, it becomes stationary, if Shikkaru wishes to reposition the barrier, he would have to disperse the technique and perform the hand seals again.

_{E Rank}

Academy Techniques

[One True Doge]

Character Fields

Name|Aliases
Kohaku Sora
Age|Gender
12 | Male
Clan|Rank
Kohaku | Student
Affiliations
Konohagakure
Characterization & Prestige
Sora is the youngest member of the small and largely uninfluential Kohaku clan. Gentle hearted is the best way to describe him. He isn’t quite timid around others but tends to be soft spoken anyway. He is kind to a fault and quick to forgive, meaning he is also quite naive when it comes to people. He prefers to be close to friends and is a strong believer in the power of teamwork. Unfortunately, his skills aren’t quite up to par with many of his peers due to his lenient upbringing. However, he is eager to better himself for the sake of his dream, his friends, and his family
Origin Story
From the moment he was born, Sora had no real expectations placed on him. No passing of traditional techniques, no pressure to really think about what lay ahead of him, not even any push to go outside and make friends. The Kohaku clan had always been one of the weakest in the Leaf. As such, they’ve long given up trying to make a name of themselves. The path before Sora was simple. Attend the academy, graduate with at least average grades, and settle into a stable job. There was one issue, though. The path laid out before him and the path he wanted to take were two completely different things.

Naturally, Sora quickly became bored with doing the same daily routine of chores and nothing else every day. He had often seen other children his age passing by the house and was always curious about what they were like. So eventually, he decided to use some of his excessive free time to go out to the local playground and meet them. To his joy, they quickly became friends and began playing regularly. Mixed into these moments of relief from his full life were rather interesting conversations. Talks of becoming legendary ninja. Others making fun of such notions. After all, ninja were becoming outdated. Sora never actively participated in these conversations with his friends but he always had the same question running through his head as he listened.

What exactly IS, a ninja?

It wasn’t long before he began seeking out the answer. Strangely, and rather frustratingly, everyone he asked seemed to give him a different response. His clan members told him that they were an ancient relic. No longer needed. His friends told him they were awesome heroes who protected the leaf and went out on cool secret missions. Anyone else he asked usually fell under one of those two categories. The curious boy was getting no closer to the answer he desired. And so he decided. He would try his hardest to become one and find out for himself. Not just to sate his curiosity but also to learn more about himself. Perhaps there was more for him in life than the simple path. Maybe doing something completely unusual for him would lead to learning more about not just ninja, but himself and his potential. He’s nowhere near as prepared as some of his elite peers but he is determined to do his best.
Character Development & Conceptualization
My concept for Sora as a character isn’t anything too extraordinary. A boy who lived in a very small world for a long time has only just recently began taking his first steps outside his bubble of comfort. He has no grand destiny or even a significant background. Every step he walks on the unknown road ahead of him is an arbitrary choice on his part. I’m very much intending to tell a story of “Zero” to “Hero” as he develops alongside his peers. He has a lot to learn about ninja, how the world works as a whole, and most importantly his place amongst it all. I’m very interested to see how the story will end up. In a way, he and I will be sharing the same experience as we both dive into a world both familiar and new alongside soon-to-be friends. My intention isn’t for him to become a “main character” but rather a small part of something bigger. He won’t be walking the path alone, after all. That’s all, really. There isn’t a tremendous amount of depth to what I envision for Sora but I hope I can show you that even a simple concept can be a big part of a deep story.

Triple T's

Talents
Kekkai Ninjutsu - In his short time practicing the use of ninjutsu, Sora has found he has a knack for techniques that involve creating barriers. His skills are still at a very rudimentary stage, however.

Shurikenjutsu - Due to his below average strength, Sora has taken a shine to long range fighting via shurikenjutsu. His aim at the moment is average at best but he’s found that he has a good eye for tracking enemy movement to lead his shots.

Medical Skill - Thanks to some of his clan members who have occupations as doctors, Sora has picked up basic medical skills for use in a pinch. He hopes to learn medical ninjutsu in the future to build upon this

Cooking - As a side effect of spending much of his time at home, Sora has had plenty of time to pick up cooking and it is one of the few skills he can say he is proud of. He loves trying out different recipes for desserts on a regular basis.

Empathetic - Although Sora isn’t the most socially active person, he’s always had an inherent ability to pick up on the emotions of others. It comes in the form of a feeling in his gut that varies depending on the emotion being observed.
Tools
Lots of shuriken
2 kunai
A portable medkit
Techniques
E
Academy Basics

D
Sealed Binding Formation
Manipulated Shuriken Technique

B (NOT YET LEARNED)
Prismatic Pane - The user focuses their chakra to condense physical energy near the palms of their hands. The energy takes the form of a small, square, glass-like barrier that can block incoming attacks. The barrier stays just in front of the user’s hands so it can be repositioned via arm movement. The barrier is solid due to the condensed chakra but the protected area is small so effectiveness is heavily dependent on the user’s ability to react quickly and precisely. Sora cannot reposition the barrier very quickly due to being a novice at chakra control. As such, keeping it up for an extended period of time is impractical and inefficient for him at the moment.

Miscs

[Grey]

“You need to chill out.”

Personal Dossier

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_Name

Uchiha Arata

_Age

13

_Rank

Academy Student

_Origin

Konohagakure

_{Chakra Nature}

Fire

Characterization

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_{Physical Description}

As one might expect of a pure-blooded Uchiha, Arata is possessed of the traits typically associated with his kin. He has short black hair with centre-parted bangs; he is lean, fair-skinned and dark-eyed; and he has a somewhat boyish, somewhat feminine facial structure. Indeed, from afar he is little more than an unremarkable example of the Uchiha Clan. Upon closer inspection however, there are a few key features that serve to distinguish him from the rest.

The most significant of these is assuredly his presence. Arata is a stereotype associated with the basic demeanor of an Uchiha. He is not imposing, he is not pompous, and he is certainly far from intense. His height is only an unremarkable 148cm tall, he carries himself like a low-born slacker, and his eyes lack the same glint of ambition that shows in his family's. Further differences tend to be more subtle, like waviness of his hair and the shape of his eyebrows.

Coming from a traditional clan, it might be natural to suppose he dresses traditionally, but Arata prefers modern styles to the wide-collared garments his clan members keep buying for him. He especially likes jackets, sweaters and related outerwear for their combination of functionality and style.

_Personality

The identity of Uchiha Arata has largely been shaped by a lifelong struggle against the external forces trying to control him. With little opportunity to define himself independently growing up, he has instead chosen to define himself in relation to how others define him. As a result, his personality is fundamentally more emotionally and socially reactive than it is proactive. He is determined, capable of picking up on social cues others might miss and always willing to call out others on their shit; at the same time, he is passive-aggressive, incapable of carrying a conversation well, and generally lacking in a sense of ambition. He is very much type of person who can tell you everything he doesn't want, but will greatly struggle when trying to express what it is that he desires beyond that. Naturally he tends to internalize rather than externalize.

Though he is no longer afraid of his father and the clan elders, Arata's upbringing has lead to a disillusionment with the idea of the benevolence of tradition and deference to authority that old-blood shinobi clans often cite. That said, he is still a product of that system regardless of the fact that he chooses to defy it. Even if he often disdains those who uphold tradition as gospel, it's clear he doesn't really know how to fix it in a cohesive and comprehensive manner. He tends towards modernity not because it is the best way, but because it's the only clear other way as far as he's knows.

Much of Arata's reputation is built on the existing stereotypes regarding the Uchiha and the various misconceptions that arise from his status. He's regarded as very much an "Uchiha genius"-type of Uchiha. That is to say, he's skilled without working for it and generally unapproachable by nature. While it's not quite an accurate assessment, it isn't without its foundation in truth. His social life is practically nonexistent and he isn't a very outgoing person in the first place; it takes a certain persistence that many lack to maintain a friendship with him, and even then there's not really a sweet side to unearth. He spends most of his time in class slacking off despite being extremely good at the whole shinobi thing, and the way he talks can rub people the wrong way.

In that respect, it's easy to see how he fits the stereotype. However, Arata doesn't shun socialization and he certainly puts in the work behind the scenes to earn his power. The latter is something that's a source of endless frustration for Arata, and one he knows he can't push for correcting or subverting. But the thing that frustrates him the most is when people see him as a title more than a person. All his life his success has been treated as something to further someone else's ambitions, even many of his peers are not exempt from this in the way they see him as something to surpass. It's essentially killed his reverence for reputation and accolades, as well as his drive to achieve for the sake of achieving.

But even with all the reasons in the world not to, Arata still continues on the path of the shinobi. Whether he finds what he's looking for remains to be seen.

_{Personal History}

Uchiha Arata is the fourth child to result from the political marriage between Uchiha Satoru, the Junidaime Hokage, and Uchiha Mio, the heiress apparent to the Uchiha Clan. Of his siblings, he is the only one to be considered a viable heir to the clan, the only one to receive personal training from their father, and the only one to be born with the necessary aptitude to unlock the marque dojutsu of the clan. These facts are not unrelated; Arata is not simply the fourth child, but also the fourth and final iteration of Uchiha Satoru's plan to groom a worthy successor.

From that statement alone, one can surmise that the type of family dynamic Arata grew up with was not a particularly idyllic one. Indeed, many of his traumas may have been mitigated or even eliminated if the family had developed a stronger sense of solidarity to challenge their patriarch’s malignant influence. Instead, Arata was surrounded by siblings that pitied him at best and resented him at worst, a battered mother consumed by self-loathing, and a father who saw his family only as a means to increase his own prestige. The clan elders were of no help either; like Satoru, they saw themselves as hard men making a hard decision for the sake of their clan’s prosperity, and so the family would be resigned to suffering in silence.

Much like his siblings, Arata would be prepared for the life of a shinobi at an inordinately young age. Unlike them, his regimen would be far more intensive because he was his father's last shot at a "useful" child. And considering the regimen his siblings grew up with was quite intensive in the first place, Arata did not have much in the way of respite. Receiving personal training from the Hokage is many a shinobi's dream, but it was more traumatic than it was enlightening for the young Uchiha--even if one cannot deny that it successfully achieved its intent. He would be pushed past his physical, mental, and spiritual limits on a daily basis; refusal to continue would be corrected by means of force, as tended to be the case with most things in the household.

Unused to being pushed so hard, it's no surprise that a younger Arata would quickly begin to crack under the pressure. Afraid of his father and unacknowledged by his siblings, he would turn to his mother for the emotional support he needed to carry him through. However she was as much a victim as he was, and eventually Arata was forced to face the reality that if she kept "making him soft-hearted" she would get hurt. Without anyone to go to, Arata would eventually be pushed to run from home in an attempt to escape his family. Many of these attempts ended up with him quickly being located by his ex-ANBU father, but during his seventeenth attempt, the routine changed slightly.

At some point, he had crossed into the hunting grounds of the Senju Clan, and midway into a well-deserved nap, he was woken up by the two daughters of the Senju Clan head. After a highly sanitized explanation of what exactly he was doing in their territory, Arata was brought to the main household and subjected to an awkward few hours of interaction with the family of Senju Ohtarama. Despite being clearly out of his element in such a classically domestic household, he wasn't treated as an unwelcome presence, and his clan's historic rivals were quite accommodating. Of course, he was found by his father and forced to return home, but it was during this brief time that Arata would lay the foundations of a friendship with the youngest of Ohtarama's daughters that would prove to last.

At the age of eight, Arata unlocked the Sharingan. Though he was praised as a genius for the feat, it was no (un)fortunate turn of fate or feat of personal genius that forced the awakening of his eyes. Rather, it the product of a designed emotional response years in the making. From the beginning, Uchiha Satoru had deemed the extended influence of his wife on his successor to be a danger to his plan, but even he was shrewd enough to see the potential benefit of it. Opting to kill two birds with one stone, Satoru would allow Arata to emotionally fetter himself to his mother before enacting his plot to irreparably damage her credibility. In theory, the resulting emotional trauma would activate his son's kekkei genkai, and as we know, it worked perfectly. Arata's training would ramp up from this point in an effort to acquire rapid mastery of his Sharingan.

But as dark as his home life is, Arata's student life is about as relaxed as can be. Whether out of sympathy or indifference, the academy instructor for their class, his older brother, would allow him to slack off during lectures. Of course this hasn't helped his public image in the least, but snide remarks from his peers are nothing compared to the opportunity for a solid period of rest. With a poor reputation and even poorer charm, Arata is definitely lacking socially. Fortunately, he's mostly content to follow around his best friend. Although depending on who you ask, it's the other way around. Academically, his poor in class behavior has been far more than compensated for by the stringent training regimen he endures daily. While intentionally sabotaging his performance would be a good way to spite his father, Arata hasn't done so simply because certain people would get mad at him for it and that would be very inconvenient.

_{Character Development & Conceptualization}

Concept

The original concept for Uchiha Arata was inspired by Uzumaki Boruto of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. This is not to be confused with Boruto of Boruto: Naruto the Movie, who is actually a good character. In the anime, they threw away the marvelous set-up in his backstory in favor of Naruto 2: Electric Boogaloo, so I decided to build a character around that framework. However, it quickly became apparent during initial writing that many key circumstances of Boruto's background couldn't seamlessly translate to Arata's as a consequence of how the relevant lore and NPCs of Kakumei were designed. So I just built a character around the details I was given about how Uchiha Satoru thinks and how he raises his kids, and the Uchiha Clan plot points Indra thought up. You can note a few legacy traits that draw similarities between the two, however.

The version of Arata I ended up was another "Classic Uchiha" archetype and I'm pretty sure most of you know what I mean by that. It's not a very exciting or innovative framework, but it's certainly one that I decided I could work with. For the most part I decided to play the stereotype straight, but with a singular modification that I feel adds depth and developmental potential that makes it less boring for me to play and hopefully for others to read. And that modification was the idea that an Uchiha genius of hard work can't get any credit because of the existing stereotype about Uchiha geniuses.

In terms of personality, Arata's didn't change excessively from the original draft. I never intended to play him as a loner that pretends to be superior as many Uchiha geniuses end up being; he was always going to be pretty lazy, pretty irreverent, and pretty sad-bitter which would let me have fun with the way he acts. Thankfully I was able to justify all that within the new background. So he's still lax and brusque and has daddy issues, but with different daddy issues from before plus a helping of domestic drama and social ineptitude.

Personal Development

While the lore bomb that got dropped on me changed quite a lot about the character, the ideas I had in my head for Arata's character arc fortunately didn't significantly change from original concept to final product. The main design philosophy behind his arc was less to plot out a path and more to determine a set of issues that are of approximately equal significance and synergize with each other without one overly influencing any of the others. The three I settled on are as follows:

The first issue is the question the roleplay seems to be about: "modernism vs traditionalism". At that start of the roleplay, he's definitely on the side of modernism with very little tolerance for the primacy of tradition; he's always denying where he comes from and defiant of the circumstances that made him who he is today. However the point of his character is to show that you can't really have one without the other, and even at the start, his hypocrisy is pretty evident: he rejects the Uchiha Clan and its main symbols, but he still practices their shinobi arts, reaps the benefits of their resources, and plays by their rules because it's the path of least resistance. That said, it's not really a matter of which side he takes, because he already has that figured out and there's really no way I see that changing. Rather, it's one of learning to reconcile the friction between what he is and what he thinks he is, and from that, learning the world isn't as rigid as it seems.

The second issue is his ideals, or rather his lack thereof. There's really no question that Arata is lacking in motivation and long term goals. As it stands, he's just a rebel without a cause or worse, and that's definitely a big flaw in a universe that revolves around protecting and realizing one's ninja way. Much of his arc is intended to be about figuring out for himself what exactly is worth being a shinobi for, or even if it's worth being a shinobi at all, which informs and is informed by how his point of view changes in regards to the world around him. Just as well, because much of his identity is other-centered, he'll have to learn to become independent before this realization can occur--another complication on the road to maturity.

The third issue concerns his relationships. This includes not only his family bonds, but also the bonds between himself and his teammates. Kakumei is, after all, a Naruto roleplay, so I would be remiss for not including something significant about that in his potential development path. His domestic situation needs resolution, he needs to learn to form bonds with people his age on his own, and he needs to learn to trust authority again. Of course, he's pretty unequipped to do that at the start of the roleplay, but to interact with others well, one must first interact with others poorly. The four man squad system does a very good job at facilitating this elegantly; his troublesome nature will challenge his peers and his mentor, and he'll have to live with the consequences instead of just dismissing them. Resolving his troubled home life is a more difficult issue, but certainly one that will come up considering his father's prominence and the various ends left loose as far as his relationship with his other family members go. Whether that resolution is good or bad will depend on where Arata is when it happens.

Combat Development

Uchiha Arata is a shinobi whose skillset is primarily oriented towards a short-mid range battlefield control role. His relative lack of defensive and support options serves his character by way of emphasizing his isolation, and his area of effect attacks combined with his genjutsu stun make him a dominating force on the battlefield as far as genin-grade combat goes. Altogether, he is definitely someone you orient a strategy around and not someone you use to have all the component parts synergize together nicely, a fact which very much befits his "lonely at the top" character concept.

The main shinobi disciplines he practices are bukijutsu and genjutsu. I don't really intend for him to go super far into pure ninjutsu aside from techniques that are "mandatory" as far as plot progression and lore go, like Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique. The meta objective of this choice is to differentiate his playstyle from the stealthy ninjutsu artillery build I'm currently developing in another Naruto roleplay, but in-character it's probably more like trying to get away from his dad who is a ninjutsu specialist.

Most people that know me know that I like to tie ability to character development and the keystone for this in Arata's sheet is the Uchiha Style, and not actually the Sharingan (though the Sharingan gets its own paragraph because it's significant). Namely the question of whether or not he'll continue down it and the method by which that happens. The big theme of the roleplay is "progression vs tradition" and its very much the traditional Uchiha fighting style both in what I based it off and what it is in the lore of Kakumei.

As someone who opposes the traditions of his clan, Arata's uses Uchiha Style mostly because its the only tool he can use. But as we know, he's still kind of a hypocrite for using it in the first place. However that's kind of the point; he's at a place where he can't divorce himself from his clan, but can't find himself appreciating it either. In other words, he's built foundation in all aspects of his potential growth before specializing, and there's three ways I see that that going that also tie into the ways his own relationship with tradition grow: the first is delving deeper into the Uchiha Style, the second is taking old techniques and innovating upon them, and the third is rejecting it entirely.

As an aside, the Uchiha Style Ninja Arts is not a completely original concept. And by that I mean that it "exists" in canon in the form of various techniques, but Kishimoto doesn't do anything with it other than mention it exists once or twice across a thousand chapters and a dozen spin off works. I just decided to put them all together in a semi-cohesive manner.

Originally, Arata was going to be slated as an Uchiha weaponmaster. However, Genjutsu ended up becoming a late addition to the concept because people were talking shit about it in the Discord early on and Rhodus challenged me to make genjutsu great again when I tried to defend it. So here we are. While a largely unintended addition, it isn't an unwelcome one. Thematically, it fits very well. Genjutsu is the antipode to ninjutsu, which services the idea that Arata is trying to distance himself from his father; the Uchiha are known for their genjutsu prowess, which ties it into the same kind of conflict surrounding his bukijutsu capability without necessarily being beholden to it as a directly Uchiha practice; and genjutsu itself is about seizing control, a thing Arata lacks in his life. Developmentally, it's lacking the same kind of "oomph" as Uchiha Style Ninja Arts, but I suppose one could say that the form of illusions he uses are informed by his development.

As for his Sharingan, a lot of its base concept is expressed below in the Character Focus and Skillset section so I won't restate it here, and it should be clear I'm aiming to emphasize the hypnosis eye over the copy eye that everyone has beef with. Concerning Mangekyo Sharingan I've decided beforehand that he's not gonna pick up Susanoo or Amaterasu on account of how it doesn't fit his character thematically to develop the same ability as his predecessors. In my head, it's probably gonna end up between Tsukuyomi and Kamui, but I haven't really thought about it overmuch.

("What about Kotoamatsukami?" you might ask. To which I would answer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Attributes

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_{Character Focus & Skillset}

Sharingan
While it is no secret that Arata possesses the fully-matured manifestation of his clan's dojutsu, the number of people who have seen him use it can be counted on a single hand. Some consider his refusal a matter of egoism or secrecy, but it is not an honor reserved for worthy opponents or a trump card to fight for one's ninja way. Instead it's fundamentally about what he believes his eyes represent, namely everything wrong with the Uchiha Clan. Until he finally comes to terms with his family, his past and his place in this world, he might as well not have a Sharingan in the first place.

Uchiha Eugenics
Refined to a razor edge by centuries of strictly-enforced intrafamilial breeding, the Uchiha have accrued infamy throughout the shinobi world for the genetic advantages of their bloodline. The Sharingan is by far the most iconic of these, but there are other, far more universal boons that their pedigree bestows. The blood grants them chakra of the utmost quality and bodies that boast power and coordination in equal parts. With such a compatibility with combat, there is no question that the members of the Uchiha Clan are born and bred for the life of a shinobi. Arata does not stray from this universal truth--in fact, his training has almost definitely enhanced these natural talents--but the prodigiousness he demonstrates is no product of bloodline alone. Not many care to make the distinction, however.

Uchiha Style Ninja Arts
The Uchiha's infamy as the premier warrior clan of Konohagakure tends to center around their ability to coopt the techniques of others, but an oft forgotten fact is that they have developed and passed down techniques of their own. The vast majority of these techniques are founded in bukijutsu, but there exists a number of techniques that fall under purely chakra-based disciplines, such as Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique. As is the case with standard ninja arts, common practice is to develop a wide baseline and specialize from there; so it should come as very little surprise that Arata has developed a strong foundation in the many subsets of the style. Worth noting is that his tool specialties are swords and shuriken, and that he tends to use shuriken as the primary weapon rather than the sword, which serves as a sidearm.

Genjutsu Expertise
Of the major shinobi disciplines, Arata exhibits the greatest compatibility with genjutsu. Despite it being the field he's been trained in the least as a result of his father’s skillset, the chakra control and intellectual capabilities Arata has cultivated through his training more than satisfy the necessary entry requirements, and more than any other skill, it is his proficiency in genjutsu that makes him a useful addition to any team. He prefers more immediately useful illusions that can be fired off the cuff over subtle, long-term ones meant to slowly drive others to insanity or subjugation, but this speaks more to his personality than his skill.

Combat Experience
Uchiha Arata has about eight years' experience training under a man with very few scruples and quite frankly obscene firepower. Although undoubtedly traumatized by the experience, one can hardly deny that it's been beneficial in cultivating good habits for a shinobi to have--even if peacetime is slowly eroding the necessity for some of them. His base observational capacity and composure under all sorts of stress are considered top-notch by his teachers, and while some of his strategies could be better thought out, it's no question that he's good at thinking of them quickly. However as an unfortunate byproduct of solo training, he has very little experience working with a team. When taken into account with his social failings, Arata is rightfully considered to be a poor leadership candidate, even if he is an excellent shinobi otherwise.

Jutsu List

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_{S Rank}

N/A

_{A Rank}

N/A

_{B Rank}

N/A

_{C Rank}

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
Uchiha Style: Dance of the Sun Halo
Uchiha Style: I'll Think of Something Chuuni Later

_{D Rank}

Genjutsu Binding
Manipulated Shuriken Techniques
Uchiha One Sword Style Kenjutsu Techniques

_{E Rank}

Academy Techniques

_{Custom Techniques}

Uchiha Style: ITOSCL

Classification
Bukijutsu, Chakra Flow, Genjutsu

Nature
Yin Release

Rank
C

Class
Supplementary

Range
All Ranges

Hand Seals
N/A

Description
A genjutsu technique that is prepared by imbuing shinobi tools with Yin Release chakra and triggered when the opponent perceives the incoming weapon attack.

The resulting illusion is one that alters the properties and parameters of the attack to reduce the enemy's ability to evade. This includes things like the trajectory of shuriken attacks, the target of a sword strike, the approach of a charge, and so on. Being struck by the illusion inflicts pain that is part of the illusion. The illusion automatically ends when the imbued chakra is exerted, or when the real attack inflicts pain.

At advanced levels, the illusion can fabricate the effect of secondary attributes, such as lightning or fire chakra flow.

Uchiha One Sword Style Kenjutsu Techniques

Classification
Fighting Style, Kenjutsu

Nature
N/A

Rank
D

Class
Offensive, Defensive

Range
Close-Mid Range

Hand Seals
N/A

Description
A sword style characterized by the use of defensive movements and unorthodox bladework to create openings for a decisive attack.

Common among techniques of this style are grip alternation, quick draws and rapid footwork, as well as the use of the sword as a tool to transition into other fighting styles and other maneuvers normal swordsmen would balk at. As such, it shouldn't be called a swordsman's style so much as an assassin's.

At advanced levels, the use of the Sharingan is required to execute techniques with complete efficacy.

[Here is where I would put techniques but I'd need to think of chuuni names for all of them]

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Shio Namikaze

Moar

“...”

Name|Aliases

Namikaze Shio

Age

12

Gender

female

Clan

Namikaze

Rank

Academy student

Affiliations

Konohagakure

Chakra Nature

Wind

Personal Details

Physical description

Shio stands 4.7 feet tall the shortest and oldest of her siblings. Her build is very thin and meager but her chest is quite big for her age. She has beautiful thin silky blonde hair that she finds one of her outstanding points. She wears the top part of her hair in a ponytail that is tied with a ribbon so it won’t get in the way during fighting. Her eyes are a deep greenish color. Her clothing style is usually body tight clothes together with short kimonos on top finished with a thin scarf around her neck.

Characterization & Prestige

Shio is a self reserved and shy girl. She tends to hide away from others and would rather stay to herself. Despite her shyness she is however very curious and likes to see what others do and talk about. This is however not always from a normal point of view. She can be spotted in the shadows or behind any cover, she prefers to hide over other ways of conversation. She does get embarrassed if others do find out she is peeping on others their conversations. When she is not into cover she can come over as arrogant or grump but honestly she is just a shy girl who is hard to deal with. Shio is still very sweet and kind in the way she handles, helping others with troubles and trying to comfort them when they feel down, despite being somewhat of a pervert.

Origin Story

Shio grew up grew up quite normally, her father was part of the Mitarashi clan and her mom was part of the Namikaze clan. Shio grew up with blonde hair originated from her mother when she was born making her more chosen for the Namikaze clan. It did not make much difference though since it already had been decided that Shio would be going to the Namikaze clan because of her mother her rank. Her two twin brothers and smaller sister were born a two years apart from each other making her the oldest of the siblings, yet the smallest. The hair color of her siblings were all color purple giving more after their father. She didn't grow any longer in length from the age of ten unlike her siblings who did. Shio stood out the most from the siblings since she did not look like anyone else apart from her mother. It had bothered her quite a bit in the early parts of her life yet she grew over it over the years.

From young age Shio was forced to take the path of the ninja just like her parents. Together with her siblings they had to train every day to keep their condition and stamina. It was not like they hated it but it did feel like a task sometimes. Shio being the oldest of the four always had to take the lead and take the most punishment when their father or mother showed them new moves. After practice she would always cool off by the lake or somewhere quiet in nature, she enjoyed watching the animals and watch the water softly tremble. It was more in her street to be quiet and watch her prey untill they don't pay attention. She loved to play her flute or meditate by the lake.

It was relatively easy to train with her younger siblings at the start though since she was the strongest but she felt that strength deteriorate when her two brothers turned older. It felt more of a drag to always be hurted or defeated by her older brothers. She was jealous of her strength yet after the same amount of training she did not manage to keep up. The only strength that she did have was her small and swift body. She did still manage to defeat her brothers when she was quiet and hit them in the back. It felt good to defeat them. It had taken somewhat hold of her, and obsession to defeat her brothers this way. Shio did not feel the need to use her voice any longer, her training involved hiding and sneaking so she had to stay quiet. It had become an obsession to keep her voice hidden as well. She would use paper to talk or play the instrument at the lake to let her emotions free with music.

She had been continuously harassing her brothers for her own amusement untill she was set free from this thought by her father. He had told her many times before to stop but she did not. Only after she had received a bruised up face from her father she could think clearly to what she had been doing. She quietly stared out in front of her without a single emotion on her face. After this she did stop with bullying her brothers and turned to a quiet husk of introverts. She would more often hang around the nearby nature untill late in the evening. She did still love her family but she had just become more rebellious.

Character Development & Conceptualization

Shio is made to be an introvert that finds it hard to deal with other people, her personality gives off into her maners and fighting styles seeing how she mostly dodges and attacks from the shadows without letting herself be seen. Shio is obsessed with quietness and having no presence at all, that is a goal in life she wishes to succeed by becoming a ninja. Shio wishes to better even the best hiding and invisible techniques on earth.

I intend to play Shio as a stalker, quiet kuudere girl that pays attention to everything and everyone. Her monotone and boring personality blooms into a friendly and insecure girl that tries her hardest not to show everyone her true and weird passions.

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Talents

Fuinjutsu - a type of Jutsu that involves the idea of sealing objects or people away with talisman written in kanji. Shio only grasps the basics of this Jutsu style.

Shurikenjutsu - Shio has been using throwing weapoms from the day she was born. It is one of her main weapons she uses in battle and is ideal for mid to long range fighting or hitting targets from the shadows.

Flexible - Her body can move somewhat out of its natural shape after years of bending herself to many different positions and keeping it oiled and maintained. She does meditate on poles in the water as well where she takes on different positions while keeping balanced.

Stealth - Shio is one to hide on every moment of the day. She tends to be found on support beams or shelves. Over the years she has adapted herself to sneak around on every occasion she has. She can walk without noise and sit still in the shadow for a whole day. She can swiftly go from one point to the other without making and noise or showing any sign of herself. It is her expertise.

Flute playing - Piccolo, the instrument she likes to play the most when she is on her own. Shio has learned from her grandfather how to play the flute and does so in her free time outside. She almost only play calm and slow songs fitting by the environment she is in.

Trapping - Shio sets up easy traps that get the attention of her opponent so that she can get behind them and strike. She generally uses wire and bait for this or rotten eggs if she has a good day.

Tools

Kunai
Wakizashi
Wire

Techniques
Rank C

Manipulating Attack Blades - A technique that involves the user using their chakra to make several kunai hover around them, and with a simple hand movement, fires all of the kunai at once.

Gale palm - A Wind Release technique where the user either increases their velocity, or by the user clasping their hands together, wind is compressed and transformed into a powerful gale, which has enough force to knock over a person. When used in conjunction with shuriken or kunai, the tools become more lethal as their speed is increased.

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