Basics
Name: Satsuma Badou, the Devil of Iwagakure
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Unknown
Known History and Secrets
Personality: Satsuma is a man of zero tolerance. Things that earn his ire, such as weakness and defeat, are the things he has no tolerance for. Although he may seem to be the cruel and ruthless devil his reputation makes him out to be, that persona is, in his own words, "Reserved only for the enemy, and no one else." In truth, his frightening presence is meant to be a scare tactic to any who think they can threaten the village, for any who dare to do so would have to face the Devil himself in battle. For his fellow Iwagakure members, Satsuma is merely silent and indifferent, but still willing to fight and kill to protect them, and in fact has done so on several occasions. Satsuma values strength above all else, whether that be strength on the battlefield or simply strength of mind and heart, it matters not. For Satsuma, strength is the foundation for which all beliefs and philosophies stem, and without it, they will simply crumble and fall by the wayside.
History: While Satsuma's actual birthplace remains unknown, it is a known fact that his clan immigrated to the Land of Earth thirty years ago from parts unknown, making them one of the founding clans of Iwagakure. These people brought with them a style of Martial Arts that, back then, was called the Devil Fist. Interestingly, though, these wandering Devil Fist fighters were just that; fighters, as in not ninjas. It wasn't until they had helped found Iwagakure that their fighting style was integrated into certain parts of the village's ninja training, thus being reformed into what is now known as the Nine-Points Discipline. It was said that this reformation was mandated by the Tsuchikage because the original Devil Fist Technique was deemed too cruel for the ninja to be allowed to learn, hence certain techniques and stances were forbidden and the Nine-Points Discipline as it is now known was born.
As for Satsuma himself, he was only a small child when the village was first created and has very vague memories of those times. He does, however, remember full well the stories of his father, Akuma Badou, helping to forge the village into its current form with nothing but his strength alone. Naturally, Satsuma grew up idolizing his father and wanting nothing more than to emulate him in every way. Then he actually began his training, and things starting changing. His father, training anyway, seemed to transform into a cruel man who would beat his son at the slightest sign of failure. After all, Akuma himself was considered a hero of the village, so why shouldn't he expect any less of his son? The older Satsuma got, the more he started hating his father's treatment of him. One day, finally fed up with the abuse, Satsuma turned on his father and killed him in single combat. Akuma, dying in his son's arms, smiled and finally said, "Well done, my son. You're now ready..." and died.
After that, Satsuma himself was the one meant to take his father's place as the clan patriarch, but he refused the position, instead letting one of his cousins become the head of the clan in his place. Satsuma lived and trained alone for several years, until one day he happened to be passing by the academy and noticed a particular boy. The newly graduated Genin looked proud of himself, and Satsuma wondered if he himself had ever looked like that in his boyhood. But then one of the other students began mocking the Genin for reasons that, at the time, Satsuma wasn't aware of. Instead of cry or run away, the boy turned against his classmate in a rage and began beating him. Deciding not to let the altercation go any further, Satsuma intervened and stopped the fight, sending the injured boy to the village medic to be looked at. But that other boy, whose name Satsuma soon learned was Hiroto, there was something in him that Satsuma could clearly see. An inner rage of some kind, whose source Satsuma did not know, but something he knew could be dangerous if left unchecked. And so, with the hope of teaching the young Genin to control his rage and focus it into Taijutsu mastery, Satsuma took the boy as his pupil and began his training, hopefully without nearly as much cruelty as Satsuma himself suffered at the hands of his father.
Clan: Badou
Dreams and aspirations: None to speak of, really.
General strengths: Satsuma is strong, damn strong. A common story about him is that he once defeated an entire squad of ninja by himself with a single punch. The "single punch" part may be debatable, but absolutely no one questions Satsuma's ability to kick multiple asses all at once by himself.
General weaknesses: Satsuma's main weakness stems from the very fighting style he grew up practicing. Nine-Points techniques are criticized for their "lack of honor" but also because many of the advanced techniques tend to be very, very reckless, often causing just as much harm to the user as to the victim. It's also a known fact that the original Devil Fist techniques were also just as dangerous, if not more so. One technique (a Fire Release technique called Hell's Embrace) was said to guarantee the victim's death at the cost of the user's own life alongside them, in other words a suicide technique. Little wonder, then, why it was called the Devil Fist, and why the Tsuchikage forbade their use in the first place.
