Dion

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@Buddha Is your character a cousin to the leader of the Gully clan or is he a cousin to their children?
I'm a little confused on how to put him on the family tree here.

@MissCapnCrunch

He's a cousin of the lord. So the lord's brother had a child and that child was Tybalt.

Adversity and Pride

<Snipped quote by Buddha>

As vilageidiot said those are pretty common gag gifts and honestly if it's in the dead middle of what's essentially a party I really doubt people would care.

@Rica

I'm sure you realize as well as me that this is a specific example and that, with a simple google search, you can pull up stuff that's much less a gag and more or less straight up sexual, my friend.

No I'm not. I actually don't think you understand exactly what it's like to live in this world as a queer person because you, by your own words, aren't. That simple.

@Rica

I'm sorry, since I'm not queer I'm not allowed to speak?

That'd be easier if we weren't killed for exposing ourselves and assumed straight unless we tell every human being we meet otherwise.

@Rica

I'm sorry that people assume you're part of the majority.

LGBT people do not have physical traits that set them apart from the majority. What do you want them to do, smell that you're queer? Please don't go there. I can't smell what you are and so I'm gonna address you as what I think you are.

I don't think people that expose themselves as LGBT or so get killed. They may get shunned. Maybe deal with violence. Maybe maybe deal with murder. They're an easy target I'm sure that is true. But to assume that all LGBT people might get killed just for saying 'hey I'm gay' is ridiculous.

No you're right it is technically a mental illness. And honestly I think the only way to resolve the unfortunate issue of the sex change sometimes making things worse is if we were more accepting of the concept of gender presentation not needing to match gender identity. Because fuck if it's not more complicated than people like to think. The sooner we stop running with the assumption you must adhere to this, this and that traits to be a man/woman, the sooner people will be free to express themselves however they wish without having to change things they might not want to change.

@Rica

So.. if they don't want to change from a female into a male or male into a female, are they transgender? Because you lost me now. The concept of gender seems to be lost on you. What you're describing is not gender. Gender is not a coloring book where you can draw what you want. It's something that we created socially in order to organize ourselves and create labels for people.

The labels happen to be male, female, and transgender.

this and that traits to be a man/woman

This is gender. The stereotypical traits that are commonly associated with a certain sex based on culture, heritage and social norms, combine to form a gender. You can be of the male sex and still identify as a female in your gender based on the concept that if you behave and act like a woman, you have the female gender.

This is just facts. I'm sorry if you disagree, you should become a sociologist and challenge this concept, or otherwise begin writing papers, because this is just how it's been agreed on.

It's not about fixing anything. Like I said it's a celebration.

Rica

I get that. I think you are celebrating the wrong things. I don't want to deny you your party. I just think you'd be better off celebrating other things. And even then I don't care that much. My real sticking point is that it happens in a public space and you're forcing people to look at things that they do not want to see.

Don't get me wrong. I think men should be capable of kissing in public (and they are here in the Netherlands, nobody will say a thing.) but the point where I draw the line is indecency and a single 'gay pride' term in the search bar can show you exactly why. It's the same way I don't really like how we advertise underwear using scantily clad models of either sex. I just don't like it in the public space. And really, do search for gay pride. I'm sure you can understand why I wouldn't like it.

My disdain has less to do with heterosexual people but rather obtuse people who refuse to be empathetic to the point of view of someone who lives a life from a very different perspective than they do because they aren't heterosexual.

Unfortunately most people who can't look past the fact tend to be heterosexual.

Rica

.. I'm confused. How do you expect everyone to see stuff from your perspective? This has nothing to do with being gay or not, this has to do with your inability to deal with the fact that people have differing views.

I'm also not very empahetic, mostly because I really don't care.

Those numbers are also missing one key note If you look at the bottom at suicide attempts, while men are more likely to succeed. Women are more likely to attempt. But men tend to go for methods that are quick and efficient, like guns and hangings. So they're much less likely to be saved and taken to a hospital. The chart above the section on suicide attempts shows that firearms make up of almost half of suicides.

Rica

This doesn't disqualify my theory that the fact that being gay or not has very little to do with sexuality and more with gender, mostly because 5% of women suicides is gay, where as 20% is heterosexual. There's a gap. The roles should be reversed in this case if what you're saying holds true. I'd like you to explain why 5% is gay where as the 20% is straight where as you are saying this is not true.

So you're not wrong, men are more likely to kill themselves. That alone is correct. But gay youth from ages 10 to 24 Are overall more likely to make an attempt on their lives or think of committing suicide which is also directly linked to events of bullying and abuse.

Rica

LGB youth are 4 times more likely, and questioning youth are 3 times more likely, to attempt suicide as their straight peers.

says nothing about being bullied.

Each episode of LGBT victimization, such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average.

I'd like to know if this holds true for 'victimization' in general. I happen to think that bullying in general raises the chances of self harming by 2.5 times on average, RATHER than just for LGBT people.

Gang related murder and crime is it's own can of worms because it's not hate crime related.

Rica

This doesn't mean that being LGBT is just an aggravating cause that raises the chances of getting killed. If we're gonna label every murder on a LGBT person as a hatecrime then the list would be very big. But we don't do that, because sometimes people get killed over something OTHER than their sexuality.

LGBT's are not the biggest group of people currently being murdered. There are certain other lifestyles and jobs and such that carry risk of death with them. Such as being a cop.

A cop has a higher risk of dying than normal people. You can be a gay cop, making your risk of dying even higher, despite the fact that these two things (being gay and a cop) are not related at all.

The truth of the matter is the worst 'category' to be in right now is Transwomen. They are far more likely to experience hate crimes and death and sexual violence than any other group. Especially if you add race into the mix. Since black transwomen are even more at risk.

Rica

Yeah, nice try. Read your own folder. This folder categorizes 'hatecrime' as crime against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
queer (LGBTQ), and HIV-affected communities. And therefore that automatically means that this statistic, WHILE TRAGIC, has nothing really to do with what was being said. You're miscontruing these folders to fit your agenda.

What is actually being said in this folder is that out of all the LGBT people + HIV community, trans women are most likely to experience violence. Which is sad. But that doesn't really mean anything for the discussion we are having.

And unfortunately hate crimes get worse immediately after laws are placed to protect or give these groups rights to match everyone else. Such as the sudden rise in murders against transwomen (particularly people of color) after a law was enacted to included gender identity in hate crimes
This is unfortunately common seeing as it also happened when same sex marriage was legalized in the US

Rica

It's sad that America is lightyears behind Europe when it comes to this. I'm sorry for the people that suffer because of that.

People don't want the government treating us like people. That's just a fact. They get mad when they afford us the same rights and hate crime status because that means we're being accepted. Not much else I can say about this except for the fact that the acts of the few should not account for the thoughts of many. I'm sure there was public outrage at these murders. Either way, this is an American situation, and does not happen where I live. .. thus making gay prides even more unnecessary, because there is accordingly nothing to celebrate about surviving.

Here's a article addressing the findings about bisexual women and rape/domestic violence

This is something both heterosexual and queer people have an issue with outright. We (generally) are absolutely horrible to bisexual partners. It's most likely due to some very unfortunate and false beliefs about bisexual people causing resentment. A lot of gross beliefs that they're just greedy, they need to 'pick a side', don't even get me started on the 'gold star lesbian' crap (basically you're a gold star lesbian if you've never been with a man).

Rica

Can't say I relate. Seems like an issue that's particular to the US because I've never heard of this before.

Very interesting stuff. I'll read on it some more.

How does one get 'greedy' when it comes to sex :/

I can in fact be proud of both my achievements personally and the fact that I've made it this far as a queer person. Pride isn't really a one or the other. A lot of us have considered suicide, myself included. Is there really anything wrong with celebrating life?

Rica

And I can support being proud of that.

I don't support being proud of being gay in and of itself. Being proud of surviving, yes, being proud of 1 thing that doesn't define you (like being gay) is not so much a prideful thing for me.

Have you considered many straight people also have considered suicide, myself included, for issues that were not related to sexuality, but were still issues?

I do see them. And while I'm just as guilty of being mildly frustrated with straight people (Again this is mostly due to ignorance of the fact we are different and that's ok. We don't have to be just like you to be ok.) The idea that they need to die doesn't sit right with me.

Rica

And I'm mildly frustrated with LGBT people for not accepting some things are just the way they are (talking about the fact that people will call you a man if you look like one, even if you don't 'identify' as one, because we can't smell that shit). Doesn't mean I dislike LGBT people. They're just people, so I don't really hold them accountable for their group.

@Vilageidiotx covered this one for me.

Rica

Must be an American thing. We don't have any parades at all, basically gay pride is the only thing here. Well, maybe the two other times you'll see a blocked off route is for a marathon or for Kings/queensday.

I also wonder why Americans are so obsessed with heritage and culture. Most Slavs living in America are barely Slavic at all. Most Irish living in America are barely Irish at all. It seems like some vague attempt at getting glory and/or something to be proud of because you are lacking in personal achievements.

Polish people moving to the Netherlands often celebrate culture behind closed doors. Outside of the doors, they're Dutch. That goes for many minorities, LGBT included.

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@ColorMeEvil Hell yes bro.

Nᴀʀᴜᴛᴏ: Uɴɪᴛʏ Oʀ Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ

You know I told myself Hex, you are going to keep this one short and sweet. I failed dramatically to keep it short but hopefully it is still a little sweet. It's not that long don't stroke that ego, boy

Review in red.

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Rin Takahashi

Rin Takahashi

_{“Nana korobi ya oki”}
no idea what this means

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Personnel Files

_{Accessible by personnel with a C3 security clearance or upwards.}

❖ Name--

Rin Takahashi

❖ Aliases--

N/A

❖ Age--

17

not legal in europe but legal in japan (^:

❖ Rank--

Chūnin

❖ Sex--

Female

❖ Birthplace--

Suna, Sunagakure

the most useless of useless villages, nice

❖ Affiliation--

Jiyuna no Guntai

rebels gonna rebel

❖ Bloodline--

Takahashi

i'm not reading this shit

jk i am

Takahashi Clan

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【Clan Name】
Takahashi

【Customs】
The Takahashi as Rin puts it being as old as the sand that they stand atop of have a very real sense of temporality and change having seen much of the world be shape and reshape since the Sengoku Jidai i thought you were referring to the 'real history' sengoku jidai and may have accidentally bad mouthed you. Their own customs and beliefs represent this change; over the years they have changed meaning and purpose so many times that while their original purpose has long since been lost, the rituals are performed never the less to an almost religious degree.

【Special Traits】
The only real noticeable trait of the Takahashi are within their eyes, all born of the bloodline possess iris of the same shade of blue as the sky above, unchained and ever expanding her eyes are unchained and ever expanding? that's a weird way to put it?. In terms of hiden or kekkei genkai they do not possess a kekkei genkai of their own, a hiden they do possess, a yang release that can make an object incredibly dense for a very short amount of time. Called very simple Takahashi: Katameru ok

【Influences】
The influence of the Takahashi clan is subtle and that is exactly how they like it. SNEAKY LIKE SHADOW To them all news is bad news and the more that people became aware of them, the more that their own goals and interests are harder to achieve. you'd think with public appearance and influence comes power Though if you dig in the right places you can find that they come up surprisingly often, mostly in Sunagakure where about one in every five or so business having taken a loan from the moneylenders that make up the priamry business wing of the clan. are these shinobi or just regular people

This sphere of influence extends more proper into the Hamajō Confederation in the form of something that many people take for granted.. infrastructure. Takahashi moneylenders gave the Confederation a considerable some of money primarily to be used in the creation of bridges and roads that connect the provinces and act as the vital lifelines of the Confederation. The Confederation got the money needed to fund such projects and the Takahashi got the government to give them more or less a blind eye, allowing them to continue business as usual without having to worry about silly things such as government intervention.

My question is; where did they get all this money that they can somehow fund the entirety of the infrastructure process of the Confederation?

Despite a strong economic influence and a retaliative good relationship to the ruling government, the Takahashi are not what one would considered a dominate clan. Small in number and preferring very much to be left out of more turbulent affairs. They lack any real motive or means to make sure things go there way. All they wish is to continue to do business and survive as they have for countless years. And to do that they wish to grow comfortably in the garden not be the prized bush that gets plucked for its flowers.

nice analogy, but weeds get picked out while the bush gets watered, so consider that

【Relations】

• None really of importance to speak of

【History】
As a clan that has been around since Reto first founded Sunagakure many years prior, the history of the Takahashi is a long and winding one. They trace their ancestry backwards through the male line, to one Katsu Takahashi an intelligent young man that was inspired by Reto's strength and passion to join his cause. Katsu for his intelligence and planning skill was given a place on the planning council that would eventually build Sunagakure. From that point forward he served as one of the many lesser advisors up until the point that the Kazekage was assassinated. Disagreeing with Reto's successor Shamon on many things mostly on the extent at which Sunagakure's military should be expended, Katsu was dismissed from his previous position. bitch got fired

Katsu found himself in a peculiar position with enough still standing influence to make some money and a free slate to do what he wanted. arguably becoming a criminal would be a bad idea And so Katsu called in some favors, performed some deals and in a span of some time he found himself with a decent sum of wealth to his name. The young shinobi then began to loan his money out into those in the village that needed it, with the subtext that they of course would pay him back down the line. And so the seed which would sprout the Takahashi Clan had been planted and grow slowly over the years. basically he's the jews of naruto

The clan as time slowly progressed would accumulate more money muh shekels which they would use to give out more loans to in return gain more money and more favors. pyramid scheme, buddy It was a cycle of profit that they seemed to be able to feed endlessly as long as they had money to keep the machine running. The people of Sunagakure considering them an odd bunch as they tended to be rather reserved individuals remaining within the walls of their familial compound when not attending to business. But there was no significant bad blood to be spoken of as the Takahashi were always fair in their dealings and never stopped to any thuggish tactics, doing their best to keep an image of purity and respectability about themselves. They help fund the creation of many business and even chipped into the war effort when the time came for them to. In short everything went exactly as it was intended. They did their business and nothing else. shekels everywhere

By the time of the formation of the Hamajō Confederation, the Takahashi had been around long enough to see the change on the horizon from a mile away. So they did their best to ensure that they could maintain their status and way of life within the new system of rule. Doing this partly through lending support mostly finical towards the Confederation's cause and giving the government substantial lump sums of wealth to do as they may with without asking as much as a penny back in return besides keeping their own peculiar form of independence to do as they wanted. The Confederation was all too happy to take the money and to leave the Takahashi alone to their business.

These days the money lending operation and other interests fall under the business arm of the clan in the form of the Takahashi Trust and continues to prosper especially in the more financially developed provinces where economic demand was high. The family continues to do its best to remain out of the spotlight, persisting as they had for what seemed like an eternity at this point. And yet trouble brews even in the most silent houses and the trouble comes in the form of one rebellious daughter that could threaten everything.

❖ Sexuality--

Bisexual

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Appearance Descriptions

_{As compiled on basis of the 11th corps intelligence gathering, including pictures}

❖ Appearance--

Rin can most easily be describe as rather plain in appearance. This is a fact that she rather much relishes despite the fact that with her family's money she could look as beautiful or on trend as she wanted. Instead though the girl dresses in simple clothes befitting of a standard street kid mostly in the form of loose fitting tshirts and sweatshirts with some sort of long pants. Shoes are simple sneakers made for long distance running. The clothing generally stays in shades of black and grey with some hints of yellows and whites thrown in when she is really feeling festive.

fair

In terms of facial structure elfin would be the easiest way to describe her general features with a slender jawline, small nose that leans a little too far to the left and high cheekbones that work together in an odd sort of way. Her hair is black as pitch in color taken from her mother's genetics and falls at about the shoulders. The girl makes no noticeable attempts at trying to keep it tamed as strands seem to go about at their own volition. Framed by these dark locks are her eyes, the tell tale sky blue color as all of the Takahashi Clan bright with a fierce sort of determination.

determination won't save her

In terms of height she has leveled out at 1.75 meters in height and hovering just around 57 kilograms of weight and about 10% body fat she possess a highly athletic frame befitting of a shinobi expected to push her body to the physical limits in terms of both muscular strength and endurance. She prides herself on her strength and her physical ability spending many countless hours and sleepless nights honing and fine tuning it trying to push herself towards her own ideas of perfection.

❖ Height--

5'9"/1.75

❖ Weight--

125/57

❖ Build--

Rin is built to go the distance both metaphorically and physically. A streamlined body of muscle that works primarily on endurance more than anything else. She is certainly not the strongest shinobi or even Chūnin for that matter nor will she blind others with her speed. But what she does have is tremendous staying power able to take more hits and generally able to just keep on pushing forward where others may have already given in. female yamato got it

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Psych. reports

_{Medical secrecy applies.}

❖ Resilient ❖ Irascible ❖ Dissonant ❖ Passionate ❖

❖ Personality--

Rin can most easily be described as being somewhat lost in the current point of her life. She knows what she doesn't want to be, she doesn't want to be like her family willing to roll onto their backs to please whoever happens to be in charge just so that they have a chance of easy living. She doesn't want to be a perfect little Takahashi child rebels gon rebel i called it, not doing anything exciting or even remotely fun just because it would damage the family name, she doesn't want to conform her own beliefs and ideas to follow that which the government wants her to. you basically just repeated the same thing three times; she doesn't wanna conform we get it bro She wants to be something, anything. She just wants to escape really, find a place to be happy, to be able to live her life and do the things she wants do without having to worry about the government or her own family breathing down her back. Freedom is such an odd concept when you are born into a little world surrounded by high walls.

The world of course does not look kindly upon her ideas of nonconformity and freedom, and tried to repress such thoughts from seemingly every angle. This resulted in much pent up frustration, frustration... and anger that while usually ends up being directed inwards towards the self for being too weak, too foolish and too afraid. This anger sometimes bubbles over and burst forth in aggressive outward tirades of hate filled speech that could even make the most seasoned of gangsters blush out of modesty. The anger is omnipresent, a constant burning only matched by her own wayward thoughts and dreams that runs through her blood and fuels her every action. how charming

The anger found its way into fueling her foolhardy determination. Considering most her actions are the equivalent of running headlong into a brick wall, she gets knocked down over and over again. Yet she stands back up and throws herself at the wall again and again and again. Her family and those around her called her stupid sounds like she is, a foolish child trying to chase dreams of adventure when she should be content with the rather easy life that was given to her at birth. She seeks to prove them wrong, to keep on chasing after those dreams no matter what happens. To prove all of the wrong and maybe to show that the last few years of her life haven't been a complete waste of time.

Yet this unbridled passion and determination leads to something of an abrasive personality on Rin's part. Tackless and not knowing when she should hold her tongue, she speaks her mind not matter how confrontational or dare say heretical those thoughts may be. She's argumentative and stands up for herself even when the best course of action is to just turn the other cheek. Fights come naturally to her while the diplomatic skill that her family is known for escapes her entirely. What she lacks in tack and forethought though she tries to make up for with sheer pragmatism and tenacity.

Though in the end Rin is just a kid. She's a teenager dealing with hormones, social tensions, repression at a family and state level, and unbridled anger issues. She's still learning about the world and how it works, she's learning whats make up the parts of her that nobody can take away, she's reconfirming her own values and beliefs and in the end she's just trying to figure out her identity, her being. She's tired of feeling lost no matter where she goes, desiring something that just escapes the tip of her tongue and dances out of reach.

yeah she's a rebel ok we got it

❖ History--

_Childhood-
Rin's earliest memories are of hot sand beneath her tiny feet and her mother calling out to her. Or maybe it was a dream she had one day, a dream that over time became almost a permanent as a memory, but no matter. amnesia Rin's earliest years were spent in retaliative isolation from the outside world stuck within the confines of her clan's estate within the retaliative heart of Sunagakure. Not of course that she minded all that much being a small child she couldn't really understand that there was a whole entire world beyond the high walls of her family's compound. yes, this concept of 'other children making noise outside the walls' is foreign to me, too

During these formative years of life, her family did their best in a what would turn out to be failed attempt into shaping Rin into a perfect Takahashi child trained to serve the demands and needs of the clan and nothing more than that. Informal education began almost as soon as Rin was old enough to walk, with her growth and progress following upon a highly developed series of landmarks that should be met by a certain age, like the ability to speak, among others. Of course the young child did not know this, all she knew was that sometimes punished for seemingly no reason at all. Unbeknownst to her it was because she did not hit such landmark it the required period of time. she stoopit

Despite this though Rin's early childhood wasn't the worst thing in the world. Her parents both loved their young daughter very much and her older siblings tried their very best to keep her entertained and generally allowing her to have some amounts of fun in between the heavy exceptions placed upon her. She enjoyed the games and the playing much more than the teaching of course and would often even at a young age try and avoid her instructors to instead go play in the garden, only to of course be caught punished and forced to do even more instruction. cool

During this period when Rin was about six years of age, The Confederation came to power and without much of a fanfare came to take control of Sunagakure. Though not much changed in the desert as the desert was left more or less autonomous to do what was needed of it which was more or less don't get in the way of things.

_Academy-
Like many within the Takahashi clan, Rin was sent to the academy to begin her first steps to becoming a shinobi. This opened up the young girl to a plethora of new experiences some good and some bad. Rin did well enough academically with the prior training before and during her schooling by her family giving her a simple understanding of many of the concepts and ideas that she was thought. The girl floundered though socially. As it was she never really interacted with kids her age, nor kids of any kind that weren't within her own clan. It was something that her family's guarded lifestyle didn't do much in the way of preparation for. She was often intimidated by the idea of speaking to others and often withdraw herself and tried desperately to remain by herself even when group work was assigned.
gaara 2.0

Due partly to her withdrawn nature kids began to get the idea of to pick on her upgrade that to gaara 3.0, a fact which Rin responded in a very undignified manner by getting into fights with the kids sometimes those much bigger and stronger than her with predictable results. Her parents were of course horrified and reprimanded the child, but the kids continued to pick on her in and out of schooling and so Rin kept on fighting back. At first they beat her easily but as time slowly progressed, she got better and better eventually being able to take down the school yard bullies, making a name for herself and earning the respect of her once aggressors in the processes. Through this Rin had made her first real friends though they happened to be a rather troublesome bunch with surly reputations, they stuck up for one another and they had fun. Soon Rin found herself trying to avoid going home right away after the academy because she dreaded dealing with her parents and wanted to stay with her friends for as long as possible. But pipe dreams of running away and staying away from home were just that, dreams and she evidently found herself returning home, to count down the hours until she got to leave again.

_Genin-
Like most others at the age of twelve she became a genin and her studies moved from the villages small academy to a larger provincial school run directly by the Confederation to begin shaping the young children into warriors for the cause. The change was jarring and the start was rocky as most of her friends were split up and placed within different classes. During all of this, Rin never stop getting in fights with other students sometimes for stupid reasons and others because Rin had the idea in her mind that she was going to be a hero. It was during one of these times that the she met Nobu.

It was her second month and while walking through the halls she saw a bunch of older kids picking on a young boy about her age. Being the person that Rin is, Rin ran to the boys aid. Needless to say Rin was beaten pretty heavily but because they were so busy trying to attack the stupid young girl that broke the nose of one of their friends, they forgot all about the boy they were tormenting. That boy's name was Nobu and as Rin would find out as there friendship bloomed that he was one of the many war orphans that survived the massacre of Kirigakure. These children most of the time displaced and often forgotten about were placed into government institutions all across the provinces. Nobu was one of the lucky one's showing the aptitude and skill required to become a shinobi. The pair quickly became the closest of friends. i assume this is one other of the player characters

Nobu was a much diffrent breed of person compared to his compatriot. Reserved, quiet, and always thinking about his next action before he made it. He was the ice to Rin's fire and together they seemed to balance each other out. Rin forced the young boy out of his shell a little bit more and pushed him to do things he would never dream of doing. And Nobu for his part in the manner did his best to make sure that Rin made it through her crazy schemes and plans alright and in one piece. He was the voice of reason that she evidently lacked.

Though Nobou himself kept something inside that he shared with very few trusted people. Nobou hated the Confederation and all that it stood for, despite reports saying otherwise he knew in his heart it was there shinobi that came and killed all those people in Kirigakure. He voiced his concerns and complaints to Rin who at first thought that the boy was just a little off. All she knew of the government was the one that seemed to leave most of Sunagakure alone to their own business. The government that gave them schooling and provided food and shelter to those that needed it.

_Chūnin-
Eventually at the age of 15, Rin and Nobou ended up becoming Chūnin. To escape from the grasp of her family, the young Takahashi signed onto assignments as far away from Sunagakure as possible. Eventually she found herself working in Amegakure rooting out the criminals that polluted the streets of the primary province. Nobou found himself working in the outer more docile provinces as his more storied history made him more of a risk. Though Rin would sometimes go sneak off from her post to go visit Nobou as in the months prior to becoming Chūnin, their relationship had become more romantic in nature. she doesn't have to sneak off, shinobi's get free days ya know

During one of these night time rendezvous, Nobou told Rin something that would change her life. He said that he had found a contact working with the Jiyuna no Guntai and that he was going to go rogue and join up with the rebel cause to fight those that killed his family. Rin tried to talk him out of it, as even associating with the Jiyuna no Guntai was punishable by life imprisonment at the least. Despite her persistence though Nobou insisted that he would join up with the rebels.

Life had other plans of course.
oh i just now caught on that Nobu isn't a player character lmao, my bad
Rin would find out about a week later that Nobou had died fighting bandits. Killed in the service of the Confederation, a hero to be mourned by one and all. Rin never believed it for a second, she knew what really happened. They had killed him because they found that he was going to desert. Then like all the things they did they made his death seem like a good thing that served the cause of their own agenda and story. They killed her the person closet to her because he didn't want to live under the rule of those which killed his family. Rin cried for a long long time, but eventually the grief subsided and was replaced with something worse hatred. Hatred towards the government and towards all it stood for. sasuke voice: I AM AN AVERNGER

❖ Familial ties--

Rin's relationship with her family is something of a sour note. While she maintains an okay relationship with her siblings, she refuses to talk to her parents and generally tries her best to distance herself as much as she possibly can from the Takahashi name. Of course now after joining up with the Jiyuna no Guntai, she has broken ties with them all together as the Takahashi Clan supports the Confederation in all things.

Susumu Takahashi | Biological Father | 53, Takahashi Compound - Sunagakure, Head of the Takahashi Trust and Takahasi Clan, Rin's father a rather stern man with a good reputation as a Confederation supporter
Minori Takahashi | Biological Mother | 51, Takahashi Compound - Sunagakure, herbalist, a kinder individual compared to her husband, she was beautiful once.
Ken Takahashi | Brother | 27, Sunagakure, Shinobi, A permanent jokester with a kind heart and a booming voice, certiantly not heir matieral but the one they got.
Nana Takahashi | Sister | 25, Sunagakure, Shinobi, Daddy's favorite.
Kohaku Takahashi | Brother | 20, Sunagakure, Medical Shinobi, The prodigal son who is everything that Ken is not. Too bad he has no intention of taking over.

❖ Dreams, short term goals, and fears.--

These days Rin's dreams are a rather simple sort of thing. A new world, a world that she could believe in again. For now though she's thinking smaller picture of course getting revenge and freeing the provinces from the grasp of the confederation. The fears of course come right along as going up against the confederation is damn near suicidal, she fears she is in over head, she fears that she won't be strong enough, she fears that she she is going fail. protip: these fears are normal

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Combat reports

_{Gathered based on exercises, training routines, and combat experience reports}

❖ Combat style--

Rin relies heavily upon an odd mixture of Bōjutsu and Taijutsu supplemented by Ninjustsu. Rin comes from the school of attrition in that she leans heavily upon her own endurance and stamina to with last the fury of blows until the other guy tires himself out, much like a boxer would do. In her mind she does not need to punch harder than her opponent or be faster than them, she just needs to outlast them because the longer they push, the higher the chance is of them making some sort of mistake which than Rin can use to exploit them. Its an awkward dance but a dance that works none the less. fair enough

The main weakness that comes from her particular style comes in the fact of what she possess in endurance and being able to take the hits that come her way, she lacks in both raw strength and the ability to just throw damage down the field and the speed to outmaneuver her opponents in those fields she's average or even slightly below average in terms of strength.

❖ Ninja techniques

■ A rank techniques
Kaze no Yaiba
this is ok, but keep in mind you can't use it at the same level as we've seen it in the anime since that was a much stronger guy.
■ B rank techniques
Hien k
Doton: Doryūheki
■ C rank techniques
Fūton: Reppūshō
■ D rank techniques
Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu
Kami Shuriken

❖ Custom techniques

■ Name
Takahashi: Katameru (Takahashi: Strengthen, though don't quote me on this my knowledge of Japaneses is very much lacking.)

■ Rank
B

■ Range
Short to be more specific requires contact to be used.

■ Description
The Takahashi clan's hiden. A yang release that for a very short period of time (think about 20 or so seconds) increase the density of an object by about ten fold. This is used primarily upon weapons to give them an attack a little bit extra kick, or even upon a wall or something to make it be able to withstand a heavy blow. While it can hypothetically be used upon a human body, the results are rather gruesome as the body can't deal with the force once the jutsu wears off, usually rustling in broken bones and other not fun things.

So I'm gonna go and say that if you say these are the effects of the jutsu on human bodies, then you can't use it on human bodies because that's just an instakill.

■ Name
The Monkey Tail

■ Weapon/tool type
Bo Staff

■ Range
Medium-long

■ Description
It's a big stick made out of reinforced wood that Rin uses to hit people really hard with while maintaining some sort of distance, can also be used as a pivot point to unleash some devastating kicks. It hurts even more when she uses her clan's hiden on it.

■ Name
A bunch of kunai

■ Weapon/tool type
Kunai.

■ Range
All

■ Description
About twenty in total, they are useful for attacking guys at range and once again pack even a meaner punch once made dense if only for a handful of seconds you realize making them more dense also makes them heavier, therefore making them harder to throw

There's some things I need to see addressed in the jutsu section but asides from that it's a pretty good character. Address the issues in the jutsu's and feel free to make any other changes before putting it in the bin. @Savato will also do a review as far as I know.

@Hexaflexagon

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@Krot Genjutsu is used through the senses, so it doesn't really have anything to do with 'touch' so much (okay, that one is one that you can dodge because smoke is intangible) but more like sound, smell, taste, ummm, anything like that, and also chakra.

Genjutsu comes forth from either senses or foreign chakra inside your own chakra paths. So if I inject chakra into you, you will still have my chakra inside of you despite being in a smoke form (because your chakrapaths still remain otherwise you'd die.. lol)

Similarly unless your character literally has 0 senses while he's in his smoke form (can't see, can't hear, can't smell, can't breathe) he will always be susceptible to sensory based genjutsu. For example even in his smoke form he can see, therefore any genjutsu that begins with a motion (say, me snapping my fingers is the 'key') your character will see that and thus be affected by the genjutsu.

Because sensory genjutsu are 'easier' they are also less powerful (so for instance, switching left and right is something that can be done with a finger snap, but you can't cast a infinite tsukuyomi with a finger snap, logically.). Therefore what he is saying is that unless your character has 0 senses, and kills his chakra paths (and thus commits suicide) he will still be susceptible to genjutsu...

Genjutsu is fucking stupid and nobody really knows how it works, but this is the gist of it.

One Piece: Revolution(Closed)

@BCTheEntity Golden Fleece is waiting on Hillan.

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The clan sheet is optional, guiz.

Adversity and Pride

@Rica Why do you celebrate in the way that you do? A simple google search for 'gay pride' already shows images of dudes licking phallic shaped lollipops, dudes dancing around with nothing but some shorts on and just generally things I don't want to see in public.

NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE GAY. Because it's shit that I don't want to see.

If I go around licking lollipops shaped like a vagina that'd be a little fucking odd don't you think? I've told you before specifically the reasons why I think celebrations in public in the way that they occur are fucking stupid (mostly because they're not enforcing acceptance or encouraging unity, but rather enforce non-unity and segregation and separation.)

But I am actually interested in what you have got to say because I don't agree. Let's go.

@BuddhaThat's not what it is. You can keep ignoring the point of sometimes being openly gay in and of itself is a accomplishment because you don't live in a area where it's even mildly acceptable all you like but it still happens.

@Rica

I'm not sure what your point is because your words are jumbled but from what I understand you're saying that because I am European I shouldn't get to speak on what I think of gay prides? I'm sorry. We have gay prides and I have attended them. Violence against homosexuals still happens (I highlighted specifically how/why in the last post but I can do it again; people are generally acceptive of people that are not straight or whatever, but Muslims in particular have a hard time accepting it. A close second are skinheads who also don't really like 'different' people but at the same time skinheads are also often the people who don't care so that's a double edged sword.)

This report is in Dutch and it states that violence against homosexuals nearly doubled in the past years.

Sounds bad right. No, it raised from 600 odd to 1100 odd. (Source in Dutch).

Over a populace of 17 million people that's really not that much. But it's there and we face it. (Also I think the definition of violence against homosexuals is weird in the Netherlands; it includes cussing at for example. Sorry, if you can't handle being cussed at and need to file a police report for that, maybe you should stay inside.)

Also please stop putting words in my mouth. I never said I don't see the point. I said I don't see the point in taking pride in your sexuality. I don't mean you can't be proud of being gay (though frankly I find that weird, I'm not proud of being heterosexual because that's just who I am) I mean you shouldn't be proud of the fact that you are sexual.

It's the difference of being proud of surviving hate against homo's, and being proud of being a guy and sucking dick, or being a girl and eating pussy. That's nothing to be proud of.

I got lucky. Very lucky. I know this. I know I'm privileged to have a family that doesn't care and loves me and was essentially just waiting for me to work it out on my own.

But that's just it. I'm lucky and I still deal with a lot of issues from others and society due to being queer.

@Rica

More power to you. I'm happy for you.

That's not even touching on my best friend who's mother denies he's transgendered. Or his partner who's mom is fine with anyone else being queer but them.

@Rica

Anecdotal evidence at best but I'll bite. Yes, a lot of people (specifically in USA, if we're gonna ignore countries like Arab countries and African countries) are not accepting. This is a fact of life. The way to acceptance is in my opinion NOT having a gay pride, it's fitting in and showing you are just as human as the next person.

At the same time transgenderism is a mental disease (that makes it sound bad, but really, it is.) Your brain feels like a woman/man when your sex is the opposite. There is a cure namely a sex change. I think that transgender people deserve all the help they can get in this process, however I want to remind you that the amount of people that commit suicide after a sex change is very high (because often the sex change isn't what they 'wanted' so to speak) so this is kinda a weird issue.

Regardless I hope you can understand what I mean with this. Not saying that transgenders are 'ingrates' or anything. They are just mentally not well and need help to fix that.

So can you kindly stop ignoring the idea that we're celebrating a life we're leading that has been full of suffering but we're still here.

@Rica

Oh lord, you have a life full of suffering. Self-pity is a wonderful thing isn't it. Everyone has issues. Again, get over it. I don't see a 'depression pride' anywhere. It's fucking baffling how people think having a parade can fix anything at all. It doesn't fix anything.

And before you say it: yes straight people have issues too. It just so happens that their issues don't have anything to do with sexuality. But I've seen you speak on hetero's before and your tone is generally filled with disdain (non intended, I'm sure, as you seem like a relatively nice person otherwise.) so I'd like to ask you to reconsider your stance ever so slightly to compensate for the fact that everyone has issues, not just you.

Because not all of us makes it that far. Especially seeing as the amount of abuse and bullying we can suffer (not always but can) makes us far more likely to commit suicide in our youth.

@Rica

There are lots of things that can make people commit suicide. You should see the suicide statistics.



For example being male already gives you statistically triple amount of chance to commit suicide.



Correlating slightly to the previous image. I'd seriously like to see a study that shows the differences between LGBT suicides and 'cishet' suicides. Because there is none according to me an what I see here.

The fact of the matter seems to be that men commit suicide more often, with gay men and straight men making up 3 quarters of the suicide demographic which seems to infer that the main driving factor for suicide is in fact GENDER and not SEXUALITY as you'd like me to believe no?

Interesting sidenote: whites are noticeably more represented in suicide demographics.

Not to mention we're more likely to be killed. Or how bisexual people are more likely to suffer from domestic abuse.

@Rica

Your first suggestion seems to infer that you're the most likely group to be killed which is actually not true. It's certainly an aggravating factor though. I like to think people that are in gangs are still more likely to be killed but what do I know.

I'm not sure on the bisexual thing. If it's true I'd like to know why the factor that they are bisexual specifically makes it more likely. Could be true.

I could keep going. Hell I can even provide the numbers if you'd like.

@Rica

No need, I did it for you, but you can counter me with your sources if you want.

We have everything to be proud of.

@Rica

Arguably, I never said you have nothing to be proud of. But if you are choosing your sexuality (AKA YOUR SEXUAL ACTIVITY) as a thing to be proud of then I would like to ask you why your life is so bad that you have nothing else to be proud of. Ever won a medal? Be proud of that.

We as a community suffered so much and we fought and we came out stronger.

@Rica

I'm sure you did.

That's worth celebrating.

@Rica

I agree. Behind closed doors. In a venue that is rented off. You know, like all other minority groups do?

Let's forget the whole straight-pride aids fest because I agree that's just stupid, as I am against 'pride' in general. Straight-pride is just how people deal with the fact that they're being vilified (which is true, you should see the tumblr posts that some of these gay-pride/LGBTQ+++ drama queens make stating all hetero's should die, right?).

Think for a moment about another minority. What other minority gets local parades? I can think of 1. Black people have 'black history month' which arguably is just as stupid as a gay pride. That's all I can think of.

If you want to be equal, then be equal, and do as we do. As everyone else does. Celebrate your gayness or whatever the hell you wanna celebrate in private with the people who also want to celebrate.

Don't shove it into my face. I am happy for you that you've succeeded in life but fuck, I don't wanna see grown men walking around with bondage equipment around their chest licking phallic shaped lollipops. I'm sorry. I just don't want to see that, please fucking respect that and have some decency.

The king is dead, long live the king! [Reboot] [5/7]

@Kho I think this little argument has already put literally every character against every other character, which is what I wanted. I'd hate if we all became 'council of friends' and did our best to promote stability and friendship.

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@Krot Seems fine to me. Move it to the char bin.