Ran this by Gowi a bit ago, posting it here now. [hider=Aburame Katsu][center][b][h1]A B U R A M E K A T S U[/h1][/b] [img]http://i.imgur.com/MKlx9Yp.jpg[/img] [b]“Live life like an explosion!”[/b][/center] [hr][hr][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/TMbw86q.png?1[/img][/center][hr][hr] [b]NAME[/b] [indent][color=gray]Aburame Katsu[/color][/indent] [b]ALIAS[/b] [indent][color=gray]None yet![/color][/indent] [b]GENDER[/b] [indent][color=gray]Male[/color][/indent] [b]AGE[/b] [indent][color=gray]11[/color][/indent] [b]ORIGIN[/b] [indent][color=gray] Konohagakure, asshole.[/color][/indent] [b]RANK[/b] [indent][color=gray]Genin [/color][/indent] [hr][hr][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/QGxTMQi.png[/img][/center][hr][hr] [b]APPEARANCE[/b] [indent][color=gray] Katsu almost always has his bright red gas mask on, so his face is usually concealed completely. Baggy, hooded clothing usually conceals much of the rest of him as well. However, he's short for his age and pale where his skin is visible.[/color][/indent] [b]PERSONALITY & MOTIVATIONS[/b] [indent][color=gray]Compared to the reputation of most Aburame, Katsu is wild, carefree and hotblooded in daily life, responding to most situations with energetic cheer and enthusiasm despite his mask often muffling his exclamations. In fact, he tries to keep himself constantly in a state of irrepressible love for life as much as possible because it keeps his mind off of the fact that he's essentially a living bomb. After coming to terms with the fact that he could perish in a fiery explosion if any of his insects became defective, he resolved to try and throw off despair and dread and wring as much joy and passion out of life as he could just-in-case. That said, he constantly lives with the possibility that he might violently explode and can't always cope with the weight of such an intense fate in spite of his sunny disposition. He's been told time and again that it's fairly rare for the bakuchu to accept a host as easily as they did and that it's his duty to use the power they'll give him to serve the village as a great ninja and as a result he's constantly torn between trying to live a full and enjoyable life and his duty to the village and his clan. Katsu is actually extremely intelligent and has a highly analytical mind for his age. However, he often downplays his own cleverness and prefers to play the role of a good-natured, excitable fool. [/color][/indent] [b]CLAN HISTORY[/b] [indent][color=gray]A rough or detailed recent history of your dynastic clan. For world-building.[/color][/indent] [b]PERSONAL HISTORY[/b] [indent][color=gray]Katsu's life was only uneventful up until it was time for him to undergo his Clan's ritual of becoming a host for parasitic chakra insects. Katsu was embraced by the unusual bakuhachu, the explosive insects choosing him as a home. This had a wide-reaching impact on Katsu's life that's shaped him throughout. The reaction to having an explosive host among them has been different for each member of the Aburame Clan. Some treat him with nervousness or fear, knowing that if something went wrong, a bakuhachu host could literally explode. Others treat him with pitying kindness, knowing better than he the mix of danger and burden that the insects give him. All of them take pains to impress a strong sense of duty to the village and the clan on him, insisting that his potential for destruction needs to be used with care and purpose. Katsu himself used to be deathly afraid of his own body and sure of his own imminent self-destruction. He wore a white mask and shroud so he'd be ready if he died. But several years ago he was helped to the realization that he wasn't really living even though he was alive. He decided that if his life might be short and have an explosive end, he would live that life to the fullest. He changed his white gas mask to a cheery, bright and hot-blooded red one and dedicated himself to that ideal. This puts him at odds with some of the other clan members who misguidedly think he's no longer taking his situation seriously enough. In terms of his life at the Academy, he was generally easy to pull into shenanigans and eager to goof off and have fun, though his natural intellect meant that he always did well in terms of actual work and tests provided he remembered to apply himself. [/color][/indent] [b]INFLUENCE & RELATIONS[/b] [indent][color=gray]Within your clan and the academy/village.[/color][/indent] [hr][hr][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/cKKkxGL.png[/img][/center][hr][hr] [b]CHAKRA NATURE[/b] [indent][color=gray] He's not sure and hasn't been tested, though Fire or Earth is expected.[/color][/indent] [b]SPECIAL TRAITS[/b] [indent][color=gray][b]Aburame Host:[/b] As children, Aburame are given to chakra insects (kikaichu) as hosts— the relationship is often seen as symbiotic, as the host gives a chakra-induced home to the insects in turn for their allegiance on the battlefield. As such this is the basis of the Aburame Clan’s techniques. Katsu has one of the more unusual variety known as bakuhachu. Bakuhachu are beetles that use a combination of chakra and naturally occurring chemical compounds inside their bodies to produce explosions as a means of self-destructive predator deterrence. Essentially, control over the bakuhachu means he has access to a living arsenal of various remote explosives. He hasn't yet tapped this to anywhere near its' full potential outside of private family training. [/color][/indent] [b]FOCUS & SKILLS[/b] [indent][color=gray]If fighting seriously, Katsu prefers strategy and out thinking opponents, fighting smarter not harder to ensure that victory is won before the first punch is thrown. Part of this is down to the training for his explosive Aburame ninjutsu beating the necessity for precision and timing into him. To cut down on using the bakuhachu he primarily relies on various ninja tools both explosive and non-explosive to fight. He also knows more Taijutsu than he usually lets on, but prefers to deflect and avoid close-in attacks. [/color][/indent] [b]EQUIPMENT & INVENTORY[/b] [indent][color=gray]Wire Strings Flash Bombs Smoke Bombs Explosive Tags Kunai Shuriken Makibishi Hidden Kunai Mechanisms Fūma Shuriken Concealable Mouth Embers Flammable Weapon maintenance oil [/color][/indent] [b]JUTSU[/b] [indent][color=gray]Obvious list is obvious. Link to the Naruto wiki as well. [hider=S Rank]N/A[/hider] [hider=A Rank]N/A[/hider] [hider=B Rank]■[/hider] [hider=C Rank]■ [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Insect_Clone_Technique] Insect Clone Technique[/url] ■ [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Mountain_Leaning] Insect Iron Mountain Leaning[/url][/hider] [hider=D Rank]■ [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Manipulated_Shuriken_Technique] Manipulated Shuriken Technique[/url] ■[url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Shuriken_Technique]Shadow Shuriken Technique[/url] ■[url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dynamic_Entry]Dynamic Entry![/url][/hider] [hider=E Rank][url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/E-rank]Academy Techniques[/url][/hider][/color][/indent] [b]CUSTOM JUTSU[/b] [indent][color=gray]Obvious list is obvious. [hider=Justu Name][b][u]Name[/u][/b] Text. [b][u]Rank[/u][/b] Text. [b][u]Range[/u][/b] Text. [b][u]Description[/u][/b] Text.[/hider][/color][/indent][/hider]