[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ejKXEBW.png?1[/img][/center] [center][color=slategray]╔══════════════════════╗[/color][/center] [indent][color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] N a m e [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Shoko Iomante[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] A g e / B i r t h d a y [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]20 / April 17[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] G e n d e r [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Female[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] B o d y T y p e [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Thin and more sinewy than you would imagine.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] V i l l a g e [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Sound[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] C l a n [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Iomante Clan: This now defunct clan was once known for their guerrilla warfare. Hailing from the Land of Waterfalls, this clan far predated Takigakure and maintained a distance from the village until its dying days. They venerated the great bear and as a nature-worshipping clan had very little to do with the business and economy of the village. They are still remembered for their bravery in the shinobi world wars, where they deftly defended the nation from the forests, allowing Takigakure proper to focus their fighting power in other areas. They fell into some decline and their clan home was sometime in the past few years subject to some calamity. There may be some Iomante around, but none know what fate befell the small and ancient clan.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] F a m i l y [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Father: Daiki Iomante Mother: Chika Iomante Siblings: Yuuhimaru Iomante (brother) Others:[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] R a n k [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Jounin (Sound 3)[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] S p e c i a l S t a t u s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Anbu[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] T i t l e s / N i c k n a m e s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Shoko the Bear, Shoko the Good Neighbor, Genki Shoko, Persistent Shoko[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] P e r s o n a l i t y [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Almost unceasingly sunny and smiling, Shoko is a determined young optimist who believes in winning people over with kindness even if that means going out of her own way. She's been described as energetic and positive and that's not an inaccurate description of her. It isn't the whole story, however. She's also known to be highly rebellious when dealing with superiors that she doesn't personally know, but it's a problem that rarely lasts for too long as the inquisitive and naturally friendly Shoko will spend a lot of time getting to know her superiors and her teammates as quickly as possible. She simply will not follow who she doesn't trust. For those that she trusts, she is unfailing on the battlefield, always smiling and always moving towards her objectives, despite any obstacles in her way. Of her wide circle of friends, none have visited her home.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] L i k e s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor][color=slategray]✖[/color] - Meat (and animal fat) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Stew (especially with curry in it) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Carrots and potatoes (all root vegetables, really) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Curry (Especially with stewed meat) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - "Otoutochan" (Yuuheimaru, her little brother) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Orochimaru ("I trust him with my life and my death.")[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] D i s l i k e s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor][color=slategray]✖[/color] - People who destroy what they love. [color=slategray]✖[/color] - People who betray their heart. [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Tofu (except sweet tofu) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Being followed (Especially by people close to her) [color=slategray]✖[/color] - Early bedtimes (Having to go to sleep)[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] N i n d o [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]"Even in the world of shadows, without love and trust, you're doomed."[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] B i o g r a p h y [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Born into the Iomante Clan, Shoko's road to becoming a shinobi of the Sound was mostly accidental. Her people were bear worshippers, hunters, and trackers. They were ninja, but unlike other clans, it wasn't what they relied on in order to survive. Theirs was a traditional life of worship and ceremony and set roles. One such ceremony, their most important ceremony centered around the taking in of a bear cub after having killed and eaten its mother. Raised as one of their own, even going so far as to share chakra, Shoko loved her new little brother Yuuheimaru and the two were inseparable. "Bear chakra makes us strong" is what her father told her and it was true. While she grew strong with her brother as much as he grew smarter. For two years, they were as close as could be until it was time for the next part of the ceremony. "The Life Chakra of a bear is in its flesh", said her father as he brought Yuuheimaru to the center of the clan home and tied him down. It was now time to slaughter him as they'd slaughtered, devoured, and venerated his mother. Upon seeing the rest of her clan begin to fire arrows at her little brother, she ran and threw herself on top of him with a knife to cut him free, the pair in a stumbled sprint with arrows in their back. Being from a clan of shinobi trackers and hunters, the fact that she wasn't stopped and then, after escaping, bleeding by the river and trying to treat her brother's wounds, that she wasn't recovered was unthinkable. But after three days, no one came for her. She was sure she and her brother would die there alone with nothing but the sound of running water for comfort until a man approached her. She'd seen him in her clan home, she was sure. He was a foreigner, strange and lithe and pale. "Is this as far as you can run? I can push you into the river", said the man, "If you're already dead, who cares?" Shoko could say nothing. She could barely move, but as the man stepped closer, Yuuheimaru growled and threw an arm around her weakly. "There's a village only four miles that way", continued the man, pointing East, "There is probably no reason to but if you can get there in three days, you might find something interesting after that." After a period of adjusting, Shoko took to life in the Sound very well. Even though it barely consisted of ramshackle huts, Otogakure felt more like home than where she'd been, where she couldn't go back to. She was constantly moving which suited her just fine; she would follow Orochimaru anywhere he wished to take her. Yuuhei and she learned to fight together, with each other, and with other shinobi. Back then, learning wasn't so structured. She learned on missions and from whatever the former Missing-Nin would teach her. It was a hard life, but Shoko was a ray of sunshine in it, happily caring for those around her, even after having to fight them. Her unceasing positive outlook served her well and she rose through the ranks quickly, becoming a jounin and being placed in Orochimaru's small burgeoning Anbu Corp by the time she was 18. As the village started to become more centralized, she was given more duties at home, eventually being given charge over Sound's Team 3.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] N a t u r e s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Fire/Earth[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] T a l e n t s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]-Tracking -Hunting -Gift giving -Gift baskets -Leather and fur working -Doll-making -Field cooking and foraging -Field medicine and herbs -General survivalism[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] J u t s u [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor] Taijutsu: Ninjutsu: [/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] W e a p o n s A n d T o o l s [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Insert any special or common tools that your character carries with them.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] F i g h t i n g S t y l e [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]describe fighting style[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] T h e m e S o n g [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Link to your themesong. (Optional)[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=slategray] ✖ ‖[/color] P l a y e d B y [indent][indent][indent][color=yourcolor]Insert your username.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent] [/indent]