Name: Saito Watanabe
Nickname: Stone foot
Gender: Male
Age and season of birth: 27, born in summer
Age Appearance: Looks more like he's in his 30s than mid 20s
Sexuality: Hetero
Clan: Renegades
Rank: Intermediate
Chi Nature: Earth

Height and build: 190 cm, bulky build.
Weight: 80 kg

Appearance:Brown hair and eyes and a 5 o'clock shadow. Square and heavyset. While his face is rather average, his frame is much more memorable. Typically wears normal earth ninja uniform.

Personal motto: Strike only at the right moment.
Moral code: As long as you get the desired result in the end, what you do doesn't matter so much.
Quote: "If slitting a guy's throat is stealthy then tearing a hole through his lungs ought to do."
Favorite weather and season: Cloudy, Autumn
Family: Estranged parents and brother
History: Born to a family of earth ninjas, Saito wanted nothing more than to become a ninja himself. Despite having a physique more suited to being a farmer, he completed the rigorous training to finally achieve his dreams. There soon came a stumbling block, however. His family had traditionally been stealth operatives and Saito opted to do the same, but the general consensus was that he was more suited for general combat. Nevertheless, Saito trained for stealth and managed to adopt the odd strategy of using excessive force to take down opponents as quickly and quietly as possible. His parents didn't exactly approve of this deviation from tradition but they let it slide for a time, until Saito's methods alerted the enemy on a crucial mission, which led to the mission's failure. This, in turn, led to Saito's banishment. He then joined the renegades to sharpen his stealth prowess and to prove that excessive force is an effective strategy for stealthy situations.

Name: Nari
Nickname: "Jade Nymph"
Gender: Female
Age and season of birth: Around 25 years old. Born on spring.
Age Appearance: 19~22
Sexuality: Heterossexual
Clan: Renegade
Rank: No rank
Chi Nature: Earth

Length and build: 1,78m Slender and athletic build.
Weight: 65kg

Appearance: Long black hair, usually tied. with a small and delicate face. Her curvaceous and somewhat slender body hides powerful and flexible muscles. A single small jade earring adorns her left ear, thin chains adorn her hair and forehead. Her teeth are sharper than normal, due to her meat-based diet.

Personal motto: "Repressing your impulses and desires is the most blatant and outrageous lie one can live."
Moral code: "True neutral", She is moved by her desires, impulses and instincts. She wont hesitate to kill, but she is not inherently evil.
Quote: "Clothes? We are in a forest, dummy... Clothes or armor wont help you here."
Favorite weather and season: Sunny, Spring/Summer
Family: Doesn't remember of it.
History: There was once a trained earth kunoichi who was given the mission of infiltrating and spying other clans, more specifically, the water and metal clan, due to the information that they were making an alliance. This kunoichi found something interesting on the metal village. A very special weapon, one of its kind, a set of claws and talons. According to the informations she received, it was a masterpiece of the metal village, but it had a problem: the weapon had a personality of its own, and it refused to be used. No one was able to use it without severe mental backlash and even the weapon trying to kill its wearer. Even if it was a dangerous artifact, it would be of tremendous importance to understand better the abilities and skills of the metal clan.

One night, this same kunoichi went to the metal village. Apparently, the metal masters were having a meeting with a water master, on an attempt to tame the personality of the problematic weapon. Sneaking her way to the room, she hid herself in the shadows, listening closely to the conversation. The room was always tightly guarded, but not that night, as it would be seen as "rude" too invite another ninja master to a room full of guards. She had only one chance. Using her tessen, the kunoichi would put out the candles that illuminated the room. The window was open an it was a cloudy and windy night, so it wouldn't be that strange to something like that to occur.
She waited patiently for the perfect chance, observing the water ninja starting some type of jutsu. She knew that the best moment to strike would be exactly in the mid of the jutsu. She knew that the sudden darkness would break the water ninja's concentration and that was when she would strike.

Just as the candles went out, the kunoichi moved in a flash of speed, quickly grabbing the weapon and heading to the window. It would be perfect if it wasn't for a single, unfortunate happening: the second she lunged for the weapon, the clouds moved away, making the light of the moon shine brightly on the room, illuminating her in the process. The water ninja got surprised, but unfortunately not enough to interrupt his technique. Realizing her mistake, the kunoichi jumped out of the window as fast as she could, but the water technique that was initially aimed to the weapon hit her as she tried to jump out of it. She saw the chi enveloping her mind, felt her body rolling down the mountain and then... only darkness.

On the base of the mountain, in the middle of a forest, a girl woke up. Her hands and legs were fused with a strange set of claws and talons. Strangely enough, she didn't felt any kind of discomfort, moving as if they were always part of her body. She didn't knew where she was, or who was she. Using the name of Nari (Indigenous Korean word for Lily, as it was the first thing she saw when she woke up: a single lily on the forest floor.) the girl started living on the forest, using her fast and flexible body, together with techniques and movements that felt strangely natural to her, just like if her body was already trained to do them, to hunt and occasionally have fun with the hunters and other people who passed by, making noises, stealing their things only to give it back later, etc.

On the nearest villages and cities, a rumor began to be told, a rumor about a beautiful nymph that lived in the forest. Fast, deadly and beautiful, this rumor caused fear to those who believed it. Some said that only the chance of seeing her was already a prize good enough to them to spend hours looking for her at the forest. Others said that she was a mischievous forest spirit, throwing pranks at hunters and woodsmen, but the story that caused more fear, and spread faster was that it was an evil creature, that would kill animals and humans alike with her long claws and talons...

Weapons/Items


Skills/Abilities
- Knowledgeable about herbs and poisons (many of them she learned the worst possible way, trying to ingest or treat her wounds)
- Human / animal anatomy: she knows exactly where to strike to sever nerves, blood vessels, tendons and muscles.
- Quick hands / feet: Nari enjoys playing tricks at huntsmen and woodsmen, often stealing hunters' arrows, woodsmen's axes and anything that catches her attention.

Special Traits
- Heightened eyesight / sense of smell: She can sense nearby animals/humans by hearing / sniffing
- Flexible body, capable of unusual acrobatics, movements and improved balance.
- Enhanced speed / strength due to the earth chi running through her body.
- Natural stealthiness thanks to the bodily modifications due to the weapon's fusion with her.

Signature moves:

Name: Mamoru Kinzoku
Nickname: “Steel Guardian”
Gender: Male
Age and season of birth: 25, Autumn
Age Appearance: 25
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Clan: Renegade
Rank: Intermediate
Chi Nature: Metal

Length and build: 182 cm, muscular
Weight: 165 lbs

Appearance:

Personal motto: Strike while the iron is hot.
Moral code: Kill only those in your way. No collateral damage.
Quote: “I need no Kami or spirits. I have Hogosha on my journeys."
Favorite weather and season: Sunny Summers.
Family: Mother and Father, Brother.
History: Born to a lineage of Metal-Clan blacksmiths, Mamoru was taught how to craft metal as soon as he was able to lift a hammer. Alongside his father, Mamoru trained in two paths. His father’s anvil and the way of the sword, taught by his village dojo sensei. Mamoru excelled in martial arts and combat, and self-taught his talent for stealth. It wasn’t long before he became a ninja. His parents were proud, but Mamoru never forgot his roots, and any breaks he had he spent at the forge. When he was eighteen, his father decided it was time to teach him a special technique, handed down from generation to generation of the Kinzoku family. It was how to command the family golem, “Hogosha.”

Hogosha was a large, intimidating suit of Samurai armour that seemed empty, it’s only face being the mask accompanied with the armour. It took Mamoru two months to learn how to properly command the golem. Hogosha responded well to Mamoru, far more than his father expected. Hogosha had his own conscious but follows its master’s command. Mamoru even taught the suit how to fight, teaching it the martial arts he had learnt from his training in the dojo. However, Mamoru took it a step too far…

One night, he decided to sneak into a metal-clan monastery, holding some parchments that may hold information. He got in with ease, slipping by the inattentive monks and guards and found the unguarded scriptures. Pouring over them, he came across a scroll dubbed “Golem strengthening.” It was a ritual, that apparently strengthened the bond between master and golem. Stuffing the parchment into his sack, the young ninja took off into the night.

The next night, Mamoru took Hogosha out to the fields, unseen by anyone. The suit clanked behind him as they made it to a clear area. Mamoru performed the technique, step by step by the parchment. However, it was never mentioned the cost. In a brilliant flash of blinding light, Mamoru covered his eyes as the light cleared. Hogosha looked new, improved. Way better than his old armour. However, Mamoru tried to perform a simple fire move, creating a small light in his hand. However, nothing was conjured. The boy tried and tried, and yet… nothing. Mamoru could no longer use chi techniques. They couldn’t see anything. However, a light was procured. Hogosha created a tiny flame. It was in fact a power transfer technique. Mamoru had transferred his ability to use Chi techniques into Hogosha.

He had to get back to the village undetected. Mamoru scaled the wall with ease, however, Hogosha used to no longer be able to follow. The golem practically mimicked it’s master’s movements. They got back in, however his father awaited at the door of their house. His dad spied the parchment and swiped it away, reading it. Furious that his son used a forbidden technique, he disgraced his son there and then and exiled Mamoru from the clan, taking Hogosha with him. That was how he became a Renegade.

Weapons/Items


Skills/Abilities
- Blacksmith= With the right tools, environment and time, Mamoru can forge a number of different items. Some will take more time than others. Swords will take longer than shurikens.

- Martial Artist= After training from a young age at his village dojo, he quickly ascended through the belts, and after being exiled, he had a permanent sparring partner to even further hone his skills, and Hogosha's too. He's just as effective without Ronin Yaiba as he is with it.

- Accuracy= After being on the road for so long, he had plenty of time to perfect the technique of throwing blades.

Special Traits

- True Metal Bond= The bond Mamoru now shares with Hogosha is unbreakable and is now at a new peak. Hogosha can completely mimic Mamoru's movements and can react quicker. He can also learn much more efficiently. If trained by the right mentor, Hogosha can learn new chi techniques. However, it currently only knows very basic chi techniques.

Signature moves:


Companion

Name: Izumi Taka
Nickname: Sea Hawk
Gender: Female
Age and season of birth: 17, autumn
Age Appearance: 17
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Clan: Renegade
Rank: Student
Chi Nature: Water

Length and build: 163cm, slim build
Weight: 56kg

Appearance:

Personal motto: The tide always returns to the shore.
Moral code: a neutral good, she tries her best to help her comrades. Always trying to get better and ensure that no one has to die if they don't deserve it!
Quote: "Just give me some time to figure this out!"
Favorite weather and season: Cloudy, windy, early autumn
Family: Parents deceased
History:
Born and raised in the city of Nishiko, Izumi's youth was often spent with sea-faring folk, living along the west coast of the Kingdom of Falling Cherry Blossoms. Izumi felt at harmony with the waves, the gentle tides pulling in the sand beneath her feet, a salty ocean breeze always on the air. She only knew a life of ease and harmony, despite the world that kept churning outside of her sea-side home.

Her father, an avid traditionalist, trained Izumi the old ways of the Water clan, and her education was primarily spent studying the old scrolls and papers that her family had preserved for so long. She had very little free-time, and often stayed awake throughout the night until the next sun rose. Though it was a taxing and exhausting training regime, Izumi pushed through, and aspired to be as great as legendary Water ninjas of old. By the time she had reached her teenage years, she had finally been able to thoroughly understand the way chi moved rhythmically through the body, as well as in nature, and could apply that to the world around her.

Yet only a short time after her sixteenth birthday, Izumi's life changed. For over 20 years, her father had kept their ninja roots a secret to the people they lived along-side, Izumi not knowing that he had been on the run from several notable samurai. But somehow, someone had found them out, and in the middle of the night, they were attacked.

Izumi didn't remember how the fighting started. She had been up studying late, as usual, when she heard a commotion from downstairs. She looked down the staircase towards the front door, and saw her own father, a peaceful man, fighting for his life against neighbors Izumi had known since childhood. Incredibly enough, this very man would make only a few quick motions with his hands as his opposer was charging, and in a blur, the attacker would be writhing on the ground, and her father would be standing upright against a growing crowd of enemies.

Eventually, the fighting had begun to move outside, and Izumi continued to watch from the shadows in awe as her father bested every man that approached him. But this incredible feat wouldn't last long - eventually a blow struck the man, and blood from his mouth spread across the pavement. Izumi gasped loudly, and called out to him, only to his dismay - this distraction turned her father's gaze from the fight towards her, and he was struck again. Quickly recognizing her mistake, Izumi jumped from the shadows, striking the same man who had struck her father.

"Izumi, leave this place!" her father called out to her, taking the opportunity to reset his footing. The growing crowd hurled insults at the two defenders, calling them monsters for their inherited talents. Izumi refused to leave her father's side, and the battle continued onward, until neither of them could take much more.

Her father thrust something into her arms - a pack, it seemed like, and he told her to take the contents and run away. She didn't understand what was going on, until the light of torches poured out from a main street corner. On horseback, several great men in samurai armor rode forward into the crowd, trampling any who didn't get out of the way. Izumi's father shouted go, but she couldn't budge. The sight was terrifying, like the stories used to scare a child come to life. She felt a cold hand placed on her back, and an utterance, and a great chill go down her spine. In that moment, Izumi's vision faded to black.

When she awoke, she was high up in the trees of a dense forest, her body bruised and aching. The sensation of what had happened hit her sharply, and the realization of her father mind-controlling her to get her to safety stunned her. Without thinking, she wipped the pack off of her back and looked inside - black cloth, several scrolls and a sheathed blade were all of the contents her father had given her. Izumi grasped at the scrolls, wanting to find some kind of message - and she got one. A scroll, freshly written by her father, told of how he knew the samurai were coming to kill them. It told her of her heritage with the blade, the cloth - which was actually a Water Clan ninja outfit - and the scrolls, each one detailing incredible combat arts. She knew she had no home to go back to. It took her over a year of wandering before, at last, she had discovered a renegade group of ninjas to group with.

Weapons/Items


Skills/Abilities

• Strategist: Izumi is capable of observing enemy information and location, quickly analyze her team's situation, and apply tactical decisions in an efficient amount of time
• Dagger proficiency: Having spent the last year wandering, along with prior training with her father, Izumi has practiced and honed her ability to use Talon effectively, and can make detailed, precise cuts with the blade, and knows where the blade will work best

Special Traits

Black-Fountain connection - Kuro and Izumi have a great bond, easily being able to sync their chi with each other. This could even strengthen in the future to allow Izumi to see what Kuro sees while in the sky.

Signature moves:



Companion

Name: Yasahiro
Nickname: Monster of Metal
Gender: Cyborg / was male
Age and season of birth: 71 / Before the 4th N.C.W.
Age Appearance: 27
Sexuality: Asexual
Clan: Earth Clan
Rank: Top 10 on the international Bingo Book.
Chi Nature: Earth

Length and build: 183 cm / 324 cm
Weight: 250 kg

Personal motto: "The ultimate victory is outliving everyone"
Moral code: "The Reckoning has come, no one will be left alive after I enact it."
Quote: "When you start something, see it to the end"
Favorite weather and season: Winter
Family: Deceased
History: Even at a young age Yasahiro was naturally attracted to chemistry, how things worked on the microscopic scale. Later that attraction developed into passion and he became an official researcher funded directly by the government. His research consisted of studying the process when a ninja used Earth jutsu, what reactions took place during the jutsu and how it changed the DNA. He loved his research and always wanted to be 10 steps ahead of everyone on it so he withheld a part of it. He did all the work no? Actually he literally did all the work meaning that he didn't even accept assistants. His funders tried to pair him up multiple times but in the end they left him be as his research was satisfactory enough even though it wasn't all of it. It was all “by the rules” until he requested additional funds on a new project idea, to create...Life. The idea and it's end goal were called a perversion and Grover was scolded. They also forced an assistant to observe him as they didn't trust him anymore to be left working unsupervised. To hide the research that he was keeping hidden, Yasahiro used an underground hideout which would later turn into a fully equipped lab allowing him to create the “perversion” as called by the ignorant fools, to create an homunculi.

11 years he had served and for all it's worth they didn't even flinch when putting down his idea. But they didn't put out his will of fire. In secret he studied and researched, for 5 years he tried and failed over and over again, all for naught. He had pushed away everyone in hopes to achieve something outside his power. He had ruined his image, his position and reliability while focusing on his own selfish desire to have the power of God. Everything seemed dark until a ray of light shone upon him as he remembered! He remembered about a metal with biological properties found encased in an underground lake located in the Land of Metal. As it was near the border between the Land of Metal and Earth it wasn't that surprising that a group of scouts got a hold of it while looking for underground passageways. How did they even thing to pick up a rock in the bottom of the lake? Simple, the thing resonated a silver aura and was deemed an object of interest. Maybe with that substance he could achieve his goal.

2 months later, he had finally done it! Although not a miniature human or even animal for that matter, but it was alive nonetheless. The liquid was alive, it moved and raised as Grover approached his finger near it. The thing walked across the glass seemingly looking for an exit. The most exciting moment of his life, his dream was finally a real thing. Right before his eyes, the silver slime stood as proof of that, his accomplishment. Damn those fools for not believing him and he didn't care anymore, the thing was his and he didn't plan on sharing it anytime soon. Lost in thought while baiting the slime with his finger he accidentally touched it. A burning sensation spread over his finger as the acid-like liquid digged through his gloves and into his skin, a tingling sensation could be felt moving through his arm. He was too careless but he was so overjoyed that he payed this “little” incident no heed. Returning home he took the best sleep he had ever had since before being born. Or so he felt at first but it was all replaced with surprise, panic and agonizing pain soon to follow.

As soon as he closed his eyes he found himself awake and in front of the acidic slime with the glass in his hand. With no control of his body he opened his mouth abnormally wide in a horrific manner, enough to pop his jaw off, and turned the glass upside-down shoving it in his mouth. The initial pain of the content scorching his mouth, making it's way to his stomach, dispelled the body control. He was only able to cough a few drops on the ground as the rest had already made its way inside him. The hellish pain spread through all of his body, forcing it into a metamorphosis. The process lasted the whole night only momentarily stopping a few times to let him adjust to the change and keep him alive and conscious. In the end he was discovered by the security which got reports of a man walking in an erratic manner naked through the night. Since then it has been the descent from one level of hell to the next, only going faster the deeper he fell.

Firstly they thought of executing “it” at which point Grover went on a rampage. Seeing his strength, rather than put it down they decided to send him in suicide missions deep in enemy territory. This went on for 30 years until evidence of the Monster's affiliation with the Earth Clan was found. Returning from another successful mission, mainly consisting of him massacring everything, he was told to enter the village gates by daylight. What was the reason they would have him expose himself in broad daylight was his initial thought but nonetheless he followed through. As he entered the gate from outside, he saw an inspector from the Land Of Cherry Blossom, the village Leader along with 4 douzen of their strongest warriors waiting for him.
Village Leader:”See? It planned to attack us. It means to slaughter us like everyone else. We have no affiliation with this abomination, this... perversion of human dementia.”
It was a set up? For 30 years he did their bidding and at the slightest inconvenience he caused them they decided to put him down? As he heard the last words an anger rose up within him, he couldn't handle it anymore. For 30 years he was used as a sacrificial rock. He wasn't even a pawn, he was a pebble that they threw on the board to knock other pieces off. He went into rage losing all reason and however much sanity that he had managed to preserve through decades of slaughter.

After regaining his consciousness he found himself awake in the middle of the woods. Since then he used and perfected his body transformation technique that allowed him to look like a human. He only goes and visits human settlements to stay up to speed with the latest info, the same way he learned that he killed the head of the village with hundreds of casualties, but otherwise he stays in the woods.

Weapons/Items


Skills/Abilities
Being an Ex-scientist he has extended knowledge on science, especially on biology and chemistry.

He also has very steady hands and very good hand eye coordination obtained through his life as a researcher.

Special Traits

• Can move and rotate his limbs freely at his joints as long as it isn't obstructed by the rest of his body.
• Can easily reattach a severed limb but it takes a lot longer to heal one from scratch.
• As he is made from a biologic metal, his body is a lot sturdier than flesh same as a strong armor, but it also makes him heavy. The weight doesn't slow him down as his power is also increased when in Grover mode but it slows him when in human form.
• Has an advanced digestion system which can process almost everything and get the maximum energy out of it. Eating harmful substances is ineffective except when consuming strong acids.
• His breathing apparatus is also modified so that it filters all the harmful substances that could pose a threat to his body. It can also filter the water to obtain oxygen.
• After the metamorphosis his body went through, he is now forced to constantly spend chi in order to keep his true form hidden.
• As his body wastes a lot of energy he needs to consume a large amount of energy to stay functional.
• Imune to environmental effects except strong heat and overall improved in every physical aspect.

Signature moves:








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