Dirty Dan

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

@Dirty Dan, While you'd be more accurate than average, you wouldn't be at inhuman levels. As that would require training with bow/ranged weapon you choose to use.

@Jasonhero

Yup, I agree.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

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Shounen-problem of the day right there. Sadly the clans are really specific in what they do.
Maybe for a Hyuuga you could skip the taijutsu style and instead focus on some long-range stuff that puts your eyes to good use?
Maybe focus on opening tenketsu (chakra holes) instead of closing them like we see everyone else do? (This is possible, I think Neji says it).
Maybe not have a tragic backstory about how you/your father/Some guy you just met was treated like trash by the main family?

I don't know, just trying to help.
Same problem with Aburame, really. Although they opened up for the use of many different kinds of bugs toward the end, Shino's Kikaichuu are just too cool to pass up. I do have a fun idea with mosquitoes though...

@Halvtand

Haha, yeah, I can't really be bothered with the whole tragic backstory thing.

As for combat itself, I was thinking of having him utilize something long-ranged, making use of the inhuman accuracy and precision of the Byakugan from impossible distances/positions, with the Gentle Fist being used as a follow-up. A bow comes to mind, with my character developing different Chakra techniques and Jutsu to augment it's efficiency. I feel like there's a lot of things you can do with a bow and chakra.

Then again, my decision will depend on the character roster.

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I believe that allowing others to choose their own Hero rank would probably be better, as long as you limit the amount of S-Ranks. This way, no one feels the need to have a dick-measuring contest. Those are never fun, haha. I do, however, think that you should eventually assign the appropriate rank to the heroes that are Unranked.

Hopefully, for the sake of character development, everyone doesn't try to start off at the top of the ladder.

I, personally, am going Unranked because Izuma hasn't really made himself known in the city yet. He hasn't even taken the Hero Association Exams.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

Sounds like a good plan. If Dirty Dan is going with a Hyuuga, and Kal-El with an Inuzuka I feel a strong urge to go Aburame. Sensor team FTW!

@Halvtand

That sounds pretty cool, actually.

The only problem I'm experiencing right now is creating a Hyūga that isn't the same as every other member of his clan. That'd be a tad boring. I'll think on it, though.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

@Dirty Dan
No go on the Kiri. Konoha and Kiri were on opposing sides of the war. Your character would likely be arrested, or just killed outright upon sight.

@Jasonhero

Sounds reasonable.

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I have a character from a OPM role-play that went nowhere. I can provide edits/changes, but I believe that it holds everything necessary. It was built with the over the top theme of the One Punch Man universe in mind. Therefore, most of his power comes from his weaponry/technology, and not some supernatural strength.

Kurosuke

Name: Izuma Kurosuke
Hero Name: The Gunslinger.
Age: 19
Gender: Male

Appearance: Izuma is a young man of Japanese descent, standing at the relatively tall height of 6 feet exactly. His build is rather lean and fit, with broad shoulders and nimble, calloused hands whose fingers are usually wrapped up individually in light bandages, as if to hide away scars. His eyes are an intense but cool dark gray, which can seem to turn into a lighter silver whenever his adrenaline spikes up. Izuma is a University student, and generally wears his uniform casually untucked and tie loosened, with a warm, collared gray jacket over that. His hands are usually in his coat's pockets, as well, for more reasons than his hands being cold.

Personality: Hm...well, there are quite a few ways to describe Izuma. Cool-headed, a bit emotionally cold and distant, yet undeniably selfless. A relatively unmotivated young man, but also intelligent and open-minded. Tends to be blunt and straightforward. He can come off as rude with his honesty, but over-all, Izuma is a young man that generally keeps to himself and his small social circle, and does what he needs to do to advance in life. He doesn't have any ambitions, despite being a 4.0 student and the Ace of the marksmanship team.

He feels like he is drifting through life, and that pisses him off. He does have a bit of an over-protective streak, and this has made him try out for being a Hero, if only on the side, to try and help innocent people. Although it's relatively easily for him to get annoyed with, well, annoying people, Izuma does have a very collected mindset, and doesn't crack under pressure. He has an undeniable dry, sarcastic wit, and due to his ability to speak his mind, his sharp wit does come out on occasions, usually accompanied by a smirk. For those who truly anger him, Izuma becomes as cold as ice, and as fierce as an eagle. In this state, he will stop at nothing to take out the trash. Not literally, of course.

Equipment: One thing you should know about Izuma, is that he is an incredibly obsessive gun-nut, despite the strict laws of Japan, and he has connections to an incredibly efficient engineer/weapon's designer. Because of this, he has a wide variety of futuristic firearm weaponry on deck, and by on deck, I mean hidden on his person due to his incredible concealed-carry license, something he received when he was a little boy, by his now dead father. Pretty sure it's has some pocket-dimension technology. The weapons he has is based on where he pulls them out from. This makes him able to change weapons on the fly, and even as he slings the weapon away from himself to use the other weapon, it reappears within the spot he originally concealed it in. His 'signature' weapons:

Plasma Casters MK1 ;; Two light-weight, compact pistols made of a deep black steel alloy, with leather grips and ridges that glows a deep blue, keeping the guns from over heating. They are located within the pockets of his coat. They are semi-automatic, and each shot sends out baseball-size bolts of pure blue energy plasma, with the ability to burn through incredibly tough shells and metals, and especially monster flesh. By holding the triggers down before releasing, the Plasma Casters has the ability to charge up their bolts to give them extraordinarily more powerful damage. So far, the largest Izuma has charged the pistols, has been to the point where he sent out boulder-sized bolts, causing massive explosions that, when the dust settled, revealed two deep, very wide craters that showed signs of both melting and exploding, at the same time.

Enforcer Assault Rifle MK2 ;; An assault rifle, built from the same dark metal as the Casters, yet with a more recoil-reliant stock and grip. It is an automatic weapon, and sends out barrages of your run-of-the-mill bullets, yet the bullets are surrounded in a blue-ish glow, which both increases it's piercing power to damage monsters, and send sharp shocks with each bullet, allowing him to stunlock enemies that aren't as durable as a tank. Mostly used in tandem with other guns, in Izuma's literal gunslinging manner. It's concealed within his left pants pocket.

Akuma Boomstick MK3 ;; A shotgun, modeled after both the Remington and Spas. With enough stopping power to blow the skull off of a centaur, yet with relatively low range, it has to be used up-close and personal. The shells it fires is not of the normal variety, like all of his guns. The shell has built in combustible powder, which gives it a little explosion with each impact. Great for monsters, and located in his right pants pocket.

Viper Lazer Railgun MK2 ;; A more accurate, yet incredibly deadly weapon. A semi-automatic rifle with pin-point laser technology that can pierce even the most fortified defenses, and look damn good while doing so. The weapon is built with inspiration from a rather obscure anime cartoon Izuma watched when he was little. By pulling the trigger, the weapon will send out a long, powerful, painstakingly precise beam of crimson red energy, the energy even heating up the air around the beam. The trick is, once the laser energy 'tastes' blood, it implodes much like a souped-up molotov, consuming the enemy in flames. Flames that are very much normal, so it may not do much damage to stronger monsters, other than causing them immense pain and distracting them. The loud 'ZWIP' is a bit of a negative, but it's usually used as an opening for the battle against larger, city-wide monsters. It's one of the few weapons not constantly concealed on his person. It's in his apartment room, underneath his bed.

Abilities/Skills: Well, let it be known that Izuma is a hard-worker. He, like most potential heroes, gained his powers from training day and night. In his case, he began training a little bit earlier than most. His father was a gun-nut, a professional marksman that wanted his son to be even better than he was. Because of this, he pushed Izuma a little bit too much, having him training with many types of incredibly dangerous, military-grade equipment day and night. It's a wonder the cops weren't called. This is how Izuma gained his inhuman abilities.

Incredibly accurate and precise, Izuma possesses the gaze of a hawk, or an eagle. He can 'zoom' in on a target, and even scan over their forms for critical areas or chinks in armor - and target that area with extreme prejudice. His reflexes, instincts, and hand-to-eye coordination is similarly inhuman, with Izuma being able to easily dodge high-speed attacks and react when his amazing eyes finds an opening to exploit. Firearms training wasn't the only training he did. Having kept up a similar regime among his university studying, Izuma possesses immense speed, agility, and strength. His speed and agility is higher than his strength, and this goes in accordance with his acrobatic and jumping power, which he uses in conjunction with his equipment. He has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, even though gunmanship is his speciality, and can hold his own against similarly-skilled opponents.

Brief Backstory: This will be very brief. Trained by a master marksman, he was always a prodigy in the art of accuracy and precision, and has been trained to the peak of exhaustion ever since he was only a child. This, obviously, has made him into what he is today - a bit of a freak of nature amongst the more normal human beings around him. Despite this, he has attempted to carry on a regular life, despite the fact that he was anything but normal. After hitting a funk in his young career as a university student, not knowing what to do anymore in such a boring and dreadful existence, Izuma has turned to being a hero on the side of studying. It should help get out the kinks and depression.

Hero Rank: Unranked.
Motivation: He's tired of feeling useless, and wants to help others.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

Two teams is fine. But ever wonder why Durarara, One Piece etc is awesome?

They just don't focus on the main characters like the trio in this RP for instance. They have vast majority of roles that is outside of faction thus having multiple stories intertwining. We can have Konoha trio sure, what if we have somene from the police force etc?

Just a suggestion and giving ideas~

@Masaki Haruna

I think the main problem with that is because the GM isn't attempting to create an over-all open-world story. Judging by the title, the entire point of the RP is to focus on a specific team.

Even then, if someone were to create a police force character, realistically they would be role-playing by themselves the majority of the time.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

That would certainly make it more plausible, although the explanation would need a little work. Perhaps for every student of the new class, two teams were chosen to be a joint group, under two sensei of course, because of the international threat and whispers of war.

That way the two teams aren't bunched together and forced to be in one squad, which would make the Exams and similar things more complicated.

Edit: Just me throwing out ideas. The end result is all up to the Boss, of course.

Naruto AU: Team 4's Story (Better title inbound for actual rp!)

While I'm normally all about 'The More, the Merrier', isn't an eight-person squad a bit too much? No offense to anyone else, of course. That's just my thought.

Also, I'm currently debating between an orphan swordsman from Kiri, and the Hyuuga heir. I guess it'll depend on if the genin age is increased or not. I can't really see an orphan nine year old making it from Kiri to Konoha, but it's a bit more plausible for a 13 year old, I'd say.

What is this fresh Hell?

And thus, from such passionate words, I am enlightened.