Tuujaimaa

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... What.

There is not some fabled mythical "equality rule" that states all characters must b of an equal power level. o_o

RPs are not limited to one rank of Shinobi. o_o

You are seriously out of whack if you think that having a powerful character is "violating every rule of RP". You make a lot of wildly extreme points without actual evidence to back them up. You don't give any reasoning for what you say, but rather you make anecdotal points on the basis that your claim is true rather than seek to prove that what you say is true. I'm not sure how we can have a constructive discussion about anything if you're essentially screaming "I'M RIGHT AND THESE ARE POINTS THAT MAKE SENSE SUPPOSING I'M RIGHT."

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o_o

It's... Not a natural ability? It was given to her through surgery? o_o

If you think that any character is undefeatable, you are sorely mistaken. Every character can be killed. Ra is no exception - even if she was fighting, it is not difficult to kill her. I don't see how I'm "bending logic" at all. She is /not that powerful/. She is also certainly not a Mary Sue. o_o

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That makes no sense. It isn't impossible to be immune to genjutsu, and your follow up to that statement does nothing to back up your claim. o_o

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-shrug- It isn't particularly hard to RP it out in my experience. The majority of the issues enter in when combat is involved, which Ra won't be involved in, so it's not too bad. :)

EDIT: Mei Terumī has two Kekkei Genkai. Ra got her Chigoku Inkan through extensive surgery that left her incapacitated for the best part of a year and a half or so. That section of the history was omitted because it references things that can't happen in this universe. c:

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I do feel that a lot of Naruto RPs neglect the political intrigue of certain actions and non-actions. A lot of individuals' backstories and actions would have ripple effects on the villages that they're associated with, but a lot of people don't particularly like that side of things and would rather engage directly in the combat.

In that vein, Jinchuuriki especially have their political intrigue underplayed - and depending on the aptitude of the characters that have positions of power in their village, their lives can be made significantly easier or significantly harder. I personally think that the political intrigue is by far the most interesting part of a Naruto roleplay as combat just doesn't tend to do it for me, and I do wish that people would understand its influence and importance and embrace it more openly. :c

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I'm not sure why you directed that at Savato when it was me who had the misapprehension. o_o

It's a fairly good idea for terms of balance IMO, but to be honest I've never had /that/ much of a fear of Jinchuuriki because historically the people who use Jinchuuriki have been unable to use them to their maximum capacity. They seem to be desirable mostly for the status of saying "I'm the Jinchuuriki of ..." rather than the actual power they hold.

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Yeah, the Uchiha just bullshit their way through everything, haha. :P

Idk. I'm not sure where I got that idea from. o_o

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@Savato: I believe you are referring to GAGK. I can't remember what he changed his name to, though.

I also believe that it's difficult for people with a Kekkei Genkai to become a Jinchuuriki? I'm not sure if that's canon or something I've just picked up somewhere, but I vaguely remember them being less compatible.

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Yeah, she's an ex-Kage. She was deposed and didn't keep the title. She's just... Sort of there in Konohagakure without rank.

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Windspeaker Touho's history and jutsu have been edited accordingly.

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Windspeaker Touho

【Full Name】
Yodai Touho

【Alias】
Windspeaker Touho

【Sex】
Female

【Age】
37

【Sexuality】
Bisexual; Prefers Women



【Birth Country】
Shimogakure

【Current Village[】
Konohagakure

【Organization】
Leader of the Windspeakers

【Shinobi Rank】
Ex-Kage of Shimogakure



【Personality】

Yodai Touho, before her coronation as Windspeaker, was a troubled woman. Nights of dreamless sleeps and sleepless dreams wore at her confidence, at her faith in herself, until her soul was exposed to the elements that govern the realms of body and mind. For most, an exposed soul leads to trepidation, and to doubt, and eventually to the great sleep - but not for Touho. Touho persisted, despite her exposed soul, and faith brought her back from the darkest place she had ever been in. It has been said, all too often, that once you reach rock bottom there is only one way to go - up. From the depths of despair did Touho rise, opening herself fully and truly to Fuujin, and she prospered.

Windspeaker Touho was never particularly determined or passionate in her youth - days would sail by, and she would sail by with them, idly waiting for something exciting or interesting to happen to her. She had daydreams of fantastical adventures, of a higher purpose, and occasionally of what life could have been like if she had taken a different path. For one who dwells in the dark recesses of the idle mind, the light can become hard to bear, and so did Touho retreat further into the depths of imagination. For the longest time she was stuck there, waiting for something to bring her unrealistic dreams to fruition, until before she realised it she was living her life inside a dream, only waking when she retreated deep into slumber and imagination.

Truth is a light that reveals everything - for better or for worse - and for one so used to the darkness the truth can be unwelcome. The truth offers no comfort, only the harsh gaze of reality, and Touho was used to nothing but comfort for most of her younger life. When shown the path, confronted with the great light, it seems like the best thing to do is retreat, and retreat Touho did until she was back in the comfort of the dark. Change rarely comes easily, but despite her initial apprehension Touho soon begun to see sense, to see the illusions that she had wrapped herself in for what they were, and turned to the light with her exposed soul. The light changed her, not because she saw some grand truth and was stricken by epiphany, but because her very soul was exposed to the universal truth - and at that moment she truly began to believe.

After that, Touho had a life of purpose. She was a Windspeaker, one committed thoroughly to Fuujin, and she used her newfound faith to give herself purpose. She is dedicated to her path, and she knows full well that she cannot retreat into the dark like she did as a child. This inner strength has shown itself multiple times, allowing her to make decisions that weaker beings would falter at, and allowing her to live full well with the consequences of her actions. Perhaps in these times it could be said that she has little appreciation for life or anything she does not deem holy; that may well be true, but it gives her the strength to do what she feels she must, and her convictions are true enough to justify her actions - at least, they are to her and to Fuujin.

Touho is polite, well-spoken, and above all else kind. She may not have suffered the awful fates of some, but she knows that only chance spared her from such things and she shows the compassion and mercy towards the broken and less fortunate people that she feels they deserve. She looks after the lesser most people under her care, and through everything cares for them as much as she cares for herself. Certain values are expected of those who claim to be closest to any deity, and Touho delivers fully on these expectations. She is not kind for fear of damnation, or for any corrupt reason - she is kind because she sees herself and what she could have been a hundred thousand times over whenever she looks at anybody less fortunate than herself, and she would never wish the fate of the less fortunate on anybody because she knows how close she was to becoming one of those people.

There are few truly good souls in the world. Most are marred by imperfection and sin, and even those that claim to be truly pure hold impurity at their core. Perhaps Windspeaker Touho is one of these truly good souls - or perhaps she is not. She does not know, and for the most part, she does not care. Windspeaker Touho burdens herself only with her god and with her people - and for her people, there is no decision so hard that she cannot make it. Brutality and lack of emotion may enter into her heart, for a time, if a situation demands it - but above all else she cares for her people. Everything she does is for their wellbeing, and for the prosperity of her god. If this does not make her a truly good soul, then she is not a truly good soul - at the end of the day, she cares little for virtue, for virtue does not protect what she holds dear.



【History】

"Until Fuujin found me, all I knew was hunger. I hungered not only for food, but for purpose, for a reason to go on. Now I have found that reason - or, more accurately - that reason has found me." - Windspeaker Touho

The woman known as Windspeaker Touho started out life as an orphan, her father dead before her birth and her mother dead giving birth to her. In Shimogakure, this was not necessarily an uncommon fate. There were two major paths for an orphan in Shimogakure - to go to an orphanage, where you would be beated, mistreated, and probably dead within five years... Or to go to the Temple of Fuujin, to be raised as an acolyte, and to be given purpose. Few were given the luxury of the Temple's life, but Windspeaker Touho was chosen - it was said that there was a presence about her that made the priestesses think of Fuujin, and in that respect she was worthy to join the temple.

Touho's early life - or what she remembers of it - was a mixture of chores, scriptures, and more chores. Life was not easy, but every day she ate well and she was kept warm, which was not a feat that all of the inhabitants of Shimogakure could boast. She felt content with her simple life. Days rolled by and as soon as Touho reached the correct age, she was trained in the arts of the Ninja, that she might serve her new god better. At this point, Touho was an arrogant teenager, and she thought she knew everything. She began to doubt that Fuujin even existed, lost faith in the scriptures she had been taught, and rebelled against the system that had spared her from death.

One night, after a particularly intense day of training, Touho found herself at the altar to Fuujin, questioning why she had been put on this path. She must have made some noise, for the revered priestess heard her, and she came over to comfort the young Touho. She explained that Fuujin's winds crossed many paths, and that while the current state of affairs may have seemed bleak, it was just a point on the journey leading Touho to her absolute destination. All she could think was that the revered priestess was full of herself.

Over the years, Touho's training increased and she became increasingly adept at Fuujin's arts, and she began to see more and more how right the revered priestess was. She dedicated herself to Fuujin's cause entirely, opting to join the military ranks of the priesthood, and continued down the path that she was set on. It was the least she could do for the people that saved her from an otherwise horrible life. Around when Touho was nineteen, her town was attacked by forces of an unknown affiliation. The temple of Fuujin was left intact, and none inside were harmed, but Touho could not stand idly by while the rest of her townspeople suffered.

With what seemed like practiced ease, Touho repelled the invaders through the use of her increasingly powerful wind techniques and killed their leader without a second thought. She saved her townspeople and was made Kage of Shimogakure for her selfless efforts to keep her people safe. She found that, in time, the position of a Kage was one she was good at, and under her reign the village prospered the most it had ever prospered. However, evil in this world does not rest for too long, and after what seemed like mere hours oppression reigned over the Windspeaker's life, as the Empire swept across the world like a plague of locusts. Seeing no alternative, the Windspeaker peacefully surrendered in order to avoid as much death as she could, though her cooperation with the Empire was strained at best.

Seeing her lack of commitment, the Empire replaced her with a figure that would comply more readily with their requests. After being expelled, the Windspeaker took it upon herself to join with the resistance centered in Konohagakure - she could not stand idly by while her people suffered under the yoke of oppressors. She joined the fight, as she had once before, to keep her people safe.



【Chakra Nature(s)】

Fuuton; Hyouton

【Weapons/Tools】

Generic Tools in Surplus

【Other Specialties】

Windspeaker Touho is incredibly adept at both Taijutsu and Ninjutsu.



【Kekkei Genkai】

Name: Hyōton
Type: Ninjutsu
Clan (If Applicable): N/A

Description: Ice release.



【Canon Jutsu】

Basic Academy Techniques

【Custom Jutsu】

Name of Technique: Megumi no Fuujin [Grace of the Wind God]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 1

Description: By channelling a constant sphere of wind chakra around herself, Windspeaker Touho is able to levitate as if held aloft by currents of wind. She gains a sphere of influence around herself with which she can manipulate wind in myriad ways. The sphere extends six feet from Windspeaker Touho in any given direction. While within the Megumi no Fuujin, Windspeaker Touho is immune to all friendly Fuuton techniques. Windspeaker Touho’s control over the wind is so proficient that she is able to essentially fly.

In addition, instead of performing handsigns, Windspeaker Touho is able to invoke symbols of Fuujin with simple movements that are not necessarily restricted to movement of the hands/arms. These movements can be changes in stance, but are often invoked with movements reminiscent of handsigns.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Megumi no Fuujin: Kin'yoku no Michi [Grace of the Wind God: Path of the Ascetic]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Within the Megumi no Fuujin
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 2

Description: Windspeaker Touho causes the boundaries of the Megumi no Fuujin to intensify greatly, causing it to deflect all physical objects or projectiles that come near it, but doing so requires intense focus that prevents the use of other techniques and movement.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Megumi no Fuujin: Hyōgi-kai no Ishi [Grace of the Wind God: Will of the Council]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Megumi no Fuujin
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 2

Description: Windspeaker Touho creates innumerable blades of wind invisible to the naked eye within the confines of the Megumi no Fuujin. The blades cannot leave the sphere, but are so sharp and numerous that almost anything that comes into sustained contact with them will suffer immense damage. The blades can be condensed into single, visible blades that can be launched outwards from the Megumi no Fuujin at a significant reduction in power. The blades are shaped like crescent arcs, and despite their relatively reduced firepower they move very quickly and are difficult to avoid.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Megumi no Fuujin: Reitekina Yoroi [Grace of the Wind God: Spiritual Armour]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 5

Description: Windspeaker Touho condenses the Megumi no Fuujin, removing all access to its abilities except its levitation and flight, and coats herself in a thick veneer of wind. All physical projectiles that would come into contact with the armour are deflected, and Windspeaker Touho’s speed is vastly increased. In addition, Windspeaker Touho’s taijutsu attacks become significantly more deadly, using the force of the wind surrounding her to lacerate the areas she hits subcutaneously. If she would hit an open wound, she is instead able to cause major damage to internal organs in the surrounding area.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Kaiko no Fuujin [Wind God’s Dismissal]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Mid
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 1

Description: Windspeaker Touho creates an incredible gust of wind in a single direction, buffeting anything it hits and sending them flying backwards. The gust persists for ten seconds, gradually decreasing in potency as it does so. If an object moves with the gust, its speed is dramatically increased. While Windspeaker Touho is within the Megumi no Fuujin, she is unaffected by the technique unless she chooses to be.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Seidō no Fuujin [Wind God’s Sanctuary]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Mid
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: N/A

Description: Windspeaker Touho creates a ring on the ground, up to fifty feet in diameter. The ring creates a stream of wind that physical objects and chakra cannot pass through in either direction, allowing her to provide sanctuary to allies or isolate enemies. The wind only lasts for a maximum of sixty seconds. This technique can only be used once per battle.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: An’un [Gathering Clouds]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 4

Description: Windspeaker Touho gathers Fuuton chakra, disabling the use of non-Megumi no Fuujin techniques. For every five seconds that she gathers chakra with Gathering Clouds, she is able to use any non-Megumi no Fuujin technique (with the exception of Rite of Frostfall) with no additional chakra cost and no preparation.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Kamikaze no Fuujin: Ran’un [Wind God’s Divine Whirlwind: Storm Clouds]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Long
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 3

Description: Windspeaker Touho gathers immense amounts of Fuuton chakra and unleashes the chakra in a constantly expanding sphere. The sphere will travel for fifty feet before dissipating, carrying any physical objects with insufficient mass or not rooted to the ground with it. As soon as the sphere dissipates, strong winds begin to gather in the area that disrupt movement and leave small lacerations in exposed skin.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Kamikaze no Fuujin: Arashi [Wind God’s Divine Whirlwind: Tempest]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Long
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 6

Description: Kamikaze no Fuujin: Arashi cannot be used until Kamikaze no Fuujin: Ran’un has been used.

Windspeaker Touho increases the intensity of the winds created by Ran’un, causing them to become strong enough to cause light cuts through leather armour and cut deeply into exposed flesh. The winds become strong enough that moving against their currents is nigh impossible without a significant amount of physical force, and the winds are so intense at the edges of the technique that physical objects and people can only breach the barrier with moderately high levels of force.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Kamikaze no Fuujin: Hayate [Wind God’s Divine Whirlwind: Hurricane]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Long
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 12

Description: Kamikaze no Fuujin: Hayate cannot be used until Kamikaze no Fuujin: Arashi has been used.

Windspeaker Touho brings the winds to their most intense level, strong enough to uproot old trees with ease and severely damage plate armour. The area of the technique doubles, and Windspeaker Touho has complete control over the direction of the winds at all times. By focusing on specific areas, Windspeaker Touho is able to manipulate the air pressure in order to achieve various effects, and is able to sharpen the winds to create gusts with the same cutting power as the Wind Release Slash.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Namida no Fuujin [Tears of the Wind God]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Medium-Long
Nature Type: Fuuton
Symbols of Fuujin: 2

Description: Windspeaker Touho condenses Fuuton chakra into orbs, roughly a foot in diameter, and hurls them. At any point along the path, or when the orbs reach a hundred feet away, they explode in a sphere of wind identical to Fūton: Atsugai at maximum power. Windspeaker Touho can only make one orb every five minutes.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Keibetsu no Fuujin [Wind God’s Contempt]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Short - Mid
Nature Type: Fuuton/Hyouton
Symbols of Fuujin: 3

Description: Windspeaker Touho creates a gust of wind imbued with Hyouton chakra, resulting in a freezing cold gale that can freeze any water it comes into contact with within a few seconds. The gale is persistent and extremely easy to control, but it cannot leave a fifty foot radius of Windspeaker Touho. The wind is strong enough to knock projectiles off course. For the duration of the period Windspeaker Touho chooses to control the wind she is unable to use other non-passive techniques, but she is able to move.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Shidō tame Tangan [Plea for Guidance]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Short - Mid
Nature Type: Fuuton/Hyouton
Symbols of Fuujin: 3

Description: Windspeaker Touho sends a freezing blast of extremely harsh wind in a direction and maintains her pose as she does so, prolonging the freezing wind for as long as she maintains the pose. The wind is so cold that ice begins to crystallise on all physical objects caught within it for more than a few seconds, and after four seconds caught in the wind the target is encased in a block of solid ice.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Tenno Shimo no Hairetsu [Heavenly Array of Frost]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Short - Mid
Nature Type: Fuuton/Hyouton
Symbols of Fuujin: 1

Description: Windspeaker Touho unleashes a fast, expanding sphere of wind from herself, knocking back all enemies without sufficient mass. Additionally, the sphere leaves behind a thin veneer of frost chakra, causing any physical objects (but not people) that pass through it to be coated in the chakra and frozen solid. Katon techniques that would pass through the chakra are immediately snuffed out if they are B-Ranked or lower.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Akishimo no Gishiki [Rite of Frostfall]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: S
Range: Mid - Long
Nature Type: Fuuton/Hyouton
Symbols of Fuujin: 10

Description: Windspeaker Touho prepares a vast amount of Hyouton and Fuuton chakra, and unleashes an immense hailstorm in a three hundred foot radius around herself. The storm is so vicious and so cold that enemies with insufficient insulation will succumb to frostbite and hypothermia rapidly. The winds are not particularly strong, but if this technique and Kamikaze no Fuujin: Hayate are active in the same location, the result is a storm so powerful that it threatens destruction on the scale of the Bijuu.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.

Name of Technique: Totsuzen no Akishimo [Sudden Frostfall]
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal - Short
Nature Type: Hyouton
Symbols of Fuujin: 6

Description: Windspeaker Touho emits a two dimensional ring of freezing chakra from her body, extending up to thirty feet away from her. Two seconds after the ring has passed through a physical object, it is completely coated in ice and begins to sink into a deep freeze. Fuuton techniques that pass through the ring become extremely frigid, gaining the freezing quality that the ring has.

Weakness: Interpret it yourself.