Hillan

High-Casual | The Rivalry of Guns, Drugs & Love

Oh man have you not met Mr.Davidson. The Big J, it's gonna be a mess and a half.

Non-Standard Operators

Interested.

A "The Losers" Direction could be interesting. If you haven't seen that movie - you should.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

So...

Has anyone started thinking about their character's Special Place, yet? You all saw it in the OP and now it's time to start talking about it!

I've made Sawaru's Special Place. What's yours?

@The Mad Hatter

Would it be in poor taste for Aro's to be a freezer?

Jokes aside, some sort of hotsprings would probably be Aro's favorite. I'll focus on finishing his backstory before that, though.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

@Hillan
Great post, you've given me a lot to think about and quite frankly I have to say that I agree on multiple accounts after my first reading.

Why he didn't stay in Konoha.
I buy this reasoning. This is exactly the kind of reasoning I was after when I started to poke you about it. It's great to see what the plan behind this was.

The Hat has made me aware of one thing though, and I think that the best way to deal with it is to simply be honest.

Whenever I get an Uchiha/Sharingan-user in my games I get suspicious.

That's the long and the short of it. It's not personal on any level, I've just seen the Sharingan being misused/powergamed too much, and as a GM who wants to be serious and tell a story it's quite frankly depressing to have a player go for ultimate power and not giving a crap about the story. It has happened too many times. This is why I've been poking you about stuff, I want to see if you're really serious with your choice of character(and the stuff that comes with it).

@Halvtand

Don't worry! I've experienced plenty of other people who have had the same mindset, I'm one of them, a lot of people think that every sharingan is a new Madara / Sasuke, while the truth is that most Uchiha didn't even get it, and only the ones in the show got the Mangekyo.

The thing that made Hat's radar go off is two lines in your reply to this.
"However, I am a fan of liking to at least imagine we, as fans can create more 3dimensional characters than the Shounin source" and "I'm looking to produce a very shounen character in Aro."
They do seem to contradict each other, which sucks because I believe that the level of insight you've provided means that you are a serious player and want to make this work. This might all be a wording-thing. I get it, I'm a second language English-user and words are hard sometimes even for natives.

@Halvtand

Definately a wording error, or rather I mispoke. I think we can make characters that aren't limited by the fact that they are shounen characters - but still make them fit into the world of the source material. If that makes any sense to you. Me writing my response at 5 AM probably didn't help make my message clear, either.

Telling a different story.
I get the different perspective. It's original and a great concept. I think it's very creative and all that.
I'm just afraid that since the character is not on the same page as the others he might get alienated for it. I think I've stated all the arguments I can and if you still think it's a good idea then I can only wish you good luck with it.

@Halvtand

I don't think it will be too much of a problem, I'll find reasons for him to relate with plenty of leverage.

Though, if I do go with making him Thaw earlier, he would have a lot less weaknesses from his time being frozen. That doesn't mean he'd have none of them, just fewer. I really do like the idea of him having shivers and scars, as well as still somewhat deformed muscles. If only just because he hasn't exerted himself fully since he got thawed, there's been no need to.

Anyway, in conclusion, I should alter the backstory and fit in more reasons for him to have roots, make him get frozen a little earlier in life, and thereby thawed earlier. And to more firmly anchor him in Gobi, really put focus on the parts that makes him feel at safe and at home in the village. Anything else I forget amidst the walls of text?

Also, I assume you're Swedish, just like me, due to your name.

Happy Easter to everyone, by the way.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

It's great to get more insight into the inner workings of the character, small details like that makes a big difference. Still, I can't really see it. No, it's not that I don't see it, I just think that this needs more weight.
I mean, the character was born in a time of chaos, only the other clansmen could be trusted. Then he witnessed the biggest change in recent history (forming the villages) and went to war with his new allies to defend their new home.
Frozen, waiting... Thawed, comes back, sees that everyone he once knew is dead... And leaves?
I mean, he fought for this, he saw the negotiations with the Senju for it, he helped build it, he went to an organized war with an old enemy as an ally to defend it.
It is the one place that he would be connected to the strongest, despite the change of time, and yet he decides to go live in a dump up north where he was nursed for a while? I mean, why? Why would Gobi feel more alike a home than the village he risked his life for? This should be a huge thing!

@Halvtand

For one, I think you're looking a little too much into the inner workings of characters, their motivations were never that well explained in the source material, and to me, losing everyone you ever loved seems like a pretty reasonable explanation for why you would choose to leave it all behind. However, I am a fan of liking to at least imagine we, as fans can create more 3dimensional characters than the Shounin source, and as such, I've thought about what reasons he could have.

For one, he was born and raised in a feudal age, where savagery and cruelty were the norm - he was barely met with kindness from his fellow Uchiha, since the Senju were so strict on each other, and I doubt the Uchiha were any nicer, given their curse of Hatred and what not. Hashirama had an easy going spirit, unlike his peers, and I'm looking to produce a very shounen character in Aro. Someone who, while he won't goof of is still prone to not being too edgy.

So, to bring it back. Why would he leave the village he found after being thawed out, in favor of Gobi? They took him in, nursed him back to health and showed him the kind of unconditioned care that he had never felt. His parents and fellow Uchiha respected him, but they treated him, themselves and everyone else like weapons, because they had to. They would have pushed Aro further with everyday, and Aro was a mediocre shinobi, on his best days, so he didn't get any praise for anything he would have done. If he was 16 when he was frozen, he hadn't done anything more remarkable than being your average foot soldier. I in fact doubt he's ever even killed up to this point - so, it stands to reason that the kind of care he would've met in the modern age, especially in a village like Gobi would warm his heart, the kind of warmth he had never felt.

Leaving stuff behind.
Yes, this character did that, and that is actually part of the problem. He has already cut all the ties with his old world. Everyone is dead, new people live in his house, he's gone up north. He's not tied to Gobi, he wasn't born there, he has no fond childhood memories of the place. The house he stays in might be a hotel, not the house his parents built.
When he leaves he might think "Yeah, that was that village, time to go." He won't be scared, he was/is a proven warrior.
What I'm trying to say is that this isn't you average Naruto-game where it's all about kicking ass in the most spectacular way possible. We want some real drama here, and having characters that are connected in the trauma of leaving everything behind means that they will have things to talk, cry and laugh about that everyone knows about. This character is on a whole other level. When the others are talking about life back in the village he'll have very little to add because he didn't live there. When he talks about his trauma the others won't be able to comprehend it because they've never been close to anything like it. Even after leaving the village they are still connected to each other. It's apples and oranges.

@Halvtand

Like I brought up previously - the kindness and sense of caring he would have receieved in Gobi would have changed his world. Though, to anchor himself further in the village, I could make give him a girlfriend or something of the sort. Young people in love do crazy things.

The idea behind him is to tell a different perspective, to be able to broaden the horizons of the others who have been sheltered all of their lives, and yet broaden his own, make him realize that he himself too, have been sheltered. He never did experience real love, human contact or a real childhood as a kid. He was busy training and worrying about his loved ones getting killed.

He has to unlearn everything he ever learned.
I'm not sure what you meant to say with this, but I'll try to sort it out.
Just to be clear, after the villages were formed the world hasn't changed a whole lot.
Sure, specifics have changed. Specific people, alliances, techniques, events, buildings, training practices, rituals... Yeah, it was a while ago, things change. But the core principles does not.
He has seen real ninja v ninja battle. He knows what it is like to have an enemy for a neighbour that you need to befriend and keep secrets from. He knows what kind of a place a real hidden village is. Just the fact that he has spent that kind of time out in the world has given him a kind of confidence and resolve that the rest of the cast lacks.

@Halvtand

Well, you just did mention that everything has changed. This is almost the modern age - Kakashi is an ANBU and Minato is on the fast track to becoming Hokage with Kushina happily married, Naruto is about to be born and the world is already a much softer, warmer and more loving place. Naruto couldn't convince Madara to change his ways, where as he could convince Zabuza and Negato. Madara wasn't more evil than either of them, he was just born under harsher circumstances. I'm getting sidetracked, anyway.

Aro would have spent the first few years in Gobi getting used to not constantly being in danger, not having to sleep with a kunai under his pillow, he wouldn't have to worry about getting invaded or assaulted. To learn to be a civilian, or well - almost a civilian, anyway would be tough and would take time. Like I said, he too have been sheltered, just in barbed wire and not in a blanket like the others.

Now, let's say he's spent three years adjusting to life in Gobi, constantly rehabilitating and getting used to not worrying about his mailman stabbing him. And then he's told that he should leave the life he's come to known, that he's gonna put behind the safety of the world he's built - that once again he should leave his life behind and venture into a dangerous world.

It would either break him, or give him completely new motivations. A greater sense of purpose than to survive, to not just fight for himself and the shinobi beside him but something to truly fight for.

Chakra control.
Yes the world was a different place back then with other priorities. I just thought it was strange that he'd learned B-rank techniques (let's face it, B-rank is starting to get pretty advanced) before he'd learned to utilize proper chakra control. It seemed like he was doing it the wrong way around. Me and hat talked about this one for a while and eventually agreed to disagree because we both had valid points from different perspectives. Mine would be that this is "backwards", but hey, if it works...

@Halvtand

I agree it's a bit backwards, but, I don't think they were taught the replacement technique or the Bunshin technique, either. They were mass-trained in the bare minimum to go into combat. Aro's B ranks were probably taught to him by his seniors, and honed with experience. He was young, not a war hero. He would've delivered messages back and forth outposts and avoided combat as often as possible - sans his fight with the Yuki after the formation of the ninja village. But that was truly his first real fight, and that's why his Sharingan activated so late in a very combat-oriented life.

Thawed out more recently.
Yeah, that would actually make it worse. That would mean that you're even less connected to Gobi.

@Halvtand

Fair enough.

Being frozen earlier (in life).
That would actually be at least a step in the right direction as it would remove some of his experience fighting and interacting with the world. But I would actually like to see him thawed earlier as well to give him the chance to really connect to and feel at home in Gobi so that he can feel the same thing that the others will when they leave.

@Halvtand

I agree that he should have been frozen a little earlier. Probably at 15 instead of 17. Making him have spent four or five years in Gobi, that's plenty of time to put down roots.

Sharingan.
Yeah, it's the elephant in the room. Might as well go through with it.
I see that you realise what kind of hassle the Sharingan can be in RPs. It's simply a bag of great stuff that you can get for free, and with a little work and a lot of talent you can basically become the Highlander. I mean, just look at the wiki page.

But in order to asses the situation properly I have to ask... What is your intention with the sharingan? I mean, you have a pretty great character concept even without it.

@Halvtand

The wiki isn't particularly accurate with what the Sharingan can truly do, though. As I previously mentioned, casting genjutsu on the opponent to foresee their moves is godmodding and would not be done in any capacity in the RP. Used to see chakra, enhance his reaction time and the ability to learn from his opponents.

And I'm not talking copying techniques - his sharingan is not mature enough for that, anyway. I mean like learning body language and picking up on small details. However, it's key use is a plot devise. To drive his character arc forward, either by revealing his bloodline to the other players, to engage with other Uchiha, or people who knew of the Uchiha, and to simply really push on his lack of stamina in a fight.

And, of course, his sharingan is not fully mature, his left eye is still in it's worst level, and I don't plan on changing that anytime soon, but keeping it in my back pocket as a power-up down the line, whenever everyone else gets theirs. It's a shounen after all, power levels will rise, just not at a as ridiculous rate as the Manga, I assume.

Also, while writing this, I do agree that I should alter the time he spent frozen and alter a few of his background elements to better fit into Gobi, something along the lines of what I was talking about above.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

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Renegeedo is the Japanese way of saying the English word Renegade.
They basically just ad "o" to the end of a word when speaking an English word in the middle of a Japanese sentence.
The Japanese word for renegade is Haikyou. Even Ronin is more appropriate for the setting.

Renendo is a Spanish last name. And a town, I believe.

Halvtand is refining the rest of our discussion about your character, so he'll post that when he's ready.

@The Mad Hatter

Fair enough, I used a Romaji site to translate the name. I don't particularly care about the name, he just couldn't go with Uchiha anymore, haha.

Edit: I misinterpreted what Halvtand said regarding the Today part. I took it as a "Leaving everything behind for Gobi" Not "Leaving everything behind in Gobi before heading out into the world" So I should probably give a response to that, too.
I imagine if Aro had been thawed for, say, one year, most of which was spent rehabilitating and taking a quick travel to Konoha, before returning to continue his rehabilitation, he hasn't really seen anything of the new world. The village is all he's come to know, and really all he's safe in. Again, to bring it back to Captain America references - There was a reason that Shield kept him in a simulated 1940's. Aro never got that luxury of a soft welcoming back into the world, he has no safety net and the only place he feels like he can be safe in, the only place he knows is Gobi, as Konoha, not to mention any of the other villages are all too foreign to him, too changed.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

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Not late at all. Jump as much as you want.

Also, feedback:

dude

Renedo, sounds more Spanish than Japanese, is this by intention?

Background:
Being frozen - Obvious Aang/cpn America-reference aside. It works, it gives a plausible excuse to your character not knowing anything about the world and you've provided us with drawbacks from this event, so I have to say that this is good.

Thawed and brought to Gobi.
I don't know if this is some kind of error done by typing to fast or the made up geography being too confusing (Wouldn't be the first time), but Kumo is actually quite far from Gobi, Konoha is actually closer I believe, as is Iwa I think. It's a small nitpick, and it can be easily fixed, but it kind of stuck in my head. Also, if he was close to any of these villages, or any other village for that matter, wouldn't they bring him there? Sure, ninja doctor > muggle doctor, but muggle doctor > no doctor.

There and back again:
I'm having a hard time with this. Sure everyone is gone and stuff, but why wouldn't he stay with what little family he had? Why would he leave them? You wrote earlier "When the world was savage, hard. When all you had to count on was your brothers - his fellow Uchiha." And now suddenly he's like "meh" and leaves?
Not only that, it is quite a trip, the tunnel to get into/out of Gobi takes a day, and that's the only "safe" place between Gobi and Konoha.

Today.
This is where things starts to get iffy.
From what you've written I don't get the feeling that your character is connected to or concerned for the village or its people. Leaving the village, which is supposed to be a big, scary step into the unknown, feels like a it's more of a weekend trip for this character. He's not really leaving anything, while the others are leaving (literally) everything.
In the personality you even say that "He is dreaming back to the life he left". I mean, he doesn't even want to be here.

Traits:
A decade of xp - This is pretty much exactly what we did not want the characters to have. It is the whole sheltered life/no exp/into the unknown-thing that is the base for the theme of this game. I'm sorry, but this is one that I really have to put my foot down on. Allowing this would change the setting too much.

A wider understanding of the world - albeit an aged one. Same thing again. Imagine the kind of advantage this give the character over the others. He knows about real battle, he can think on his feet, he can analyse jutsus, he has fought other ninjas in life or death scenarios. Only one of the other characters have been close to that and he was a child at the moment, and he's now chased by hunter-nins for it. The others? We don't really know if they've ever fought another ninja outside the sparring-ring. I'm sorry, it's just upsetting the balance of power too much.

PTSD - Yeah, this is a result of the experience.

The rest is fine, and I like how you turn his time as an ice cube into a real thing for the character.

Jutsus:
"He is able to use the tree climbing and water running techniques - techniques he learned after being thawed out."
Why wouldn't he learn this before? I mean, from the background we can infer that he was thawed out fairly recently (or at least not too long ago) and that pretty much all his knowledge (including jutsus) are from before the ice age. That would mean that he's managed to learn four regular jutsus (up to B-rank) before he learned to control his chakra well enough to stick his feet to a wall? Um...

Great fireball technique - Yeah, Uchiha, it's like your ID-card.

Great fire things - I'm not sure about these. I mean, these were used in the canon by a fairly heavy dude that did not screw around. Reading the description I cannot fathom how one of these are supposed to be B-rank. Not when the description states "requiring the combined efforts of several Water Release users in order to extinguish the flames." That doesn't sound like a technique that Chuunin are supposed to know. That sounds like an S-rank or at least A to me. Anyway, I am not sure about these.

Genjutsu:
Genjutsu; Sharingan. - Ok?

Smokescreen is good, but isn't Asuma's smoke-technique awfully similar?

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Very true, it would make sense. This character should be a lot stronger and capable than our current crew with this kind of backstory.
Sadly, I think that is just the problem. This character was originally made for another game, right?
I just feel that this character is supposed to be something that this setting can't quite handle, this character left the level that our characters are on very early in his life, and even considering the fact that he has some drawbacks from his time in the ice, he's going to leave those behind quite quickly once he can really let loose.

Please note that all of this is just based on the character as a basic ninja. I haven't even talked about what the Sharingan can do for the balance of power.

@Halvtand

Renendo (Renegeedo) is based on the Japanese word for Renegade.

Regarding his Backstory; You're right. I should clarify that the reason he didn't return to Konoha is because the village is just too different, it's too painful for him. He and the Yuki he fought fought in the mountains surrounding what would become Gobi, but, you are correct that I might've gotten my geography wrong. He would feel responsible for the village as they not only thawed him out, but also nursed him back to health, and all of his old roots are either dead or have forgotten about him.

You mention people leaving everything behind. Aro did that, except unlike everyone else, it wasn't just distance, but time that took his life away from him. He's looking for a second chance, from a unique perspective.

I'd argue that his experience and understanding of the world puts him at an equal disadvantage. He was frozen at the start of the first world war, and he was thawed out after the second world war, essentially in modern times. He has to unlearn everything he ever learned - he's not near the same caliber of strength as the other shinobi of his age we've seen, such as Hashirama and Madara. He knows nothing about ninja politics and the concept of shinobi being warriors for hire, instead of warriors of principle is completely foreign to him.

I mentioned the chakra control techniques being taught later due to not being necessary for him to learn. They are difficult to learn, especially for someone with poor chakra control, and while he might've known about them before he was frozen, it was a bigger issue for him to learn how to spew fire and use a sword. Because that was what would keep him alive. But now, in a relaxed village like Gobi, where danger isn't imminent all the time, he has the time to hone the modern common jutsu.

However, I might alter the timeline and make him recently thawed out to give him an even smaller understanding of the current world, as well as miss-remembering how powerful he is, being frozen for so long weakened his entire body.

His Jutsu-List is comprised of B-rank jutsu. Great Fire Annihilation is a B-rank technique, and I assume so is the other one, as it's just the opposite of GFA. It's strength came from being used by Madara. Aro offers small chakra reserves and poor chakra control, toppled onto his weakened physical strength, trauma and overall discord with the world and I personally sincerly doubt he's stronger than anyone else of Chunnin-quality. He could probably beat Sasuke during the Sasuke Vs. Haku fight, but our favorite ( Or least favorite) Emo would beat Aro's ass without breaking a sweat by the time he fought Gaara.

Aro was not made for another game, though, the concept of a shinobi frozen in time is something I've used previously. Though, from a completely different time to another, and through different means.

Though, if none of the solutions I mentioned previously would work out, I'm not against shortening his experience before being frozen to only a few years, so it's still reasonable for the age he was born in.

Also, Sharingan would be far from powerful. I'd have no ambitions what so ever got give him a MS, and since predicting your opponents moves never works out in an RP, I wouldn't use that ability, either. In short, it would be used for seeing chakra and casting genjutsu. But overall as a plot element for him. In fact, only his right eye could even see chakra, his left only carries faster reaction time, due to it's immature state. In short, Sharingan is in every way worse than the Byakugan, as far as Roleplays go. I'd even argue that in the show the Byakugan was more powerful than the average Sharingan.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

Oh yeah, Halftooth and crazy cap guy; I think Aro has quite a lot of techniques compared to his peers, but it makes sense for someone trained in such a different age to have a little more skill and jutsu under their belt, while talking plenty of time to getting readjusting to the world.
On that subject, I am considering changing how long since he Captain America'd; so he might've been thawed only, say, a year or six months.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

This guy

Aroshima

General Info

Name:
Renedo Aroshima

Nickname/Alias:
Aro

Gender:
Male

Age:
Born 40 or 50 or so years ago, records are not too clear.

Age Appearance:
21.

Sexuality:
Heterosexual.

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Loyalty

Village:
Village By The End - Hidden Village Of Endings.

Birthplace:
Land Of Fire, The Uchiha owned Areas.

Organization:
The Hidden Village Of End.
He's also a fan of the local library.

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Ninja Information

Clan/Bloodline:
Uchiha, he is the proud owner of imperfect non matching Sharingans with one Tomo in the left eye, and two in the right eye.

Rank:
Chunnin.

Chakra Nature:
Fire.

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Appearance

Body Type and Shape:
A slender frame, like most other young men of his profession. However, unlike his peers in the village, he sports a lot more scars. He's athletic, but not really bulky.

Height:
5'9, 177 CM.

Weight:
132 LB, 60 Kilograms.

Hair Color:
Black, just like his peers.

Hair Style:
Short, dark, spikey.

Eye Color:
Golden hue of brown - obviously red while using his Sharingan.

Clothing:
Aro's seen wearing pretty style-less clothes. Coats and long pants over fishnetted shirt and a T-shirt. He wears ordinary ninja tabi on his feet, pouched for his gear on his legs. He usually wears beanies as the cold bothers him, usually seen somewhat overdressed in most ocassions.

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Biography

Background:

The Boy Frozen In Time

Aroshima was born to the powerful clan of Uchiha - today known for their firebreathing skills and their hand in founding the Hidden Village Of Fire. However, this young man is not born in modern times, but in a time before anyone had ever heard about a Hidden Village. When the world was savage, hard. When all you had to count on was your brothers - his fellow Uchiha. When everyday was a fight for survival, 360 degrees combat at every turn, something that would wear out a young heart at every turn.

But, one Uchiha, Aro's second cousin, almost a decade older than himself - Madara, would lead the wave in changing this. He would, with the help of his brother, and other very powerful members of their clan carve out a path in the Land Of Fire, putting them on the top, right next to their rivals, the Senju. Aro, ever since he was old enough to hold a kunai has been pitted into battle.

Soon, the hidden villages would be formed, Aro was present at the original founding of the Hidden Leaf, a day of of happiness, a happiness shortly lived as soon they would be sent into war, once again. When Aro was 17, the first Shinobi World War started, and Aro was deployed to protect his village, along with his fellow brethren, Uchiha, Senju fighting side by side.

His story met it's apparent tragic end during a battle with a group of chunnin from the Hidden Mist Village. They had the unique advantage of the Ice-Release on their side, as their leader was a member of the Yuki Clan. During this fight, Aro lost many teammates, an anger found it's way into his heart, and he activated his sharingan, putting him on a Bloodline versus Bloodline battle - the kind that would go down in history.

Their battle would take place in the mountains near the Cloud Village, near a civilian settlement. Their final blows were clashed inside of a dark cave.
When he had the Yuki on the ropes, the Mist Shinobi unleashed his ace in the whole - a freezing technique like nothing else. Freezing the Uchiha solid, he was declared dead by the Yuki, and left in the cave, encased in ice.

And that is where Uchiha Aroshima's story would end. At least as far as anyone would know. Truth was that Aro was not dead - merely unconcious and in cryostasis. Where he remained for a quarter of a century, before being thawed out by explorers - whom were much too surprised when they found a boy falling out of the ice they were digging in, even more so when they found out his heart was, albeit barely, still beating.

Assuming ninjutsu was at work, they took him to the Ninja Village, the Village of The End. Where he would be nursed back to health, using what medical jutsu they had. As well as several months of rehabilitation, his body coming back from the brink of death. During his rehabilitation, he met a young woman, Mitsuko, one year younger than him - she was a doctor and she had lead the medical work that had saved Aroshimas life. Aro fell in live with her, and after a couple of months of him trying to get her attention, Mitsuko finally gave him his shot - which he completely wasted, their first date was notoriously terrible.

Yet, she gave him a second chance, and this time, they would get it right. The two fell deeply in love, Mitsuko had a sense of wonder, a sheltered way of living that Aro could not even fathom, they bonded over Aro's trauma, his terrible past and the things he had been through. Yet, they spent equal amounts of time talking about Mitsuko's childhood, one of safety and love, true love. Things the Uchiha had never felt, and in that way, he too, was sheltered.

He would thank the doctors for saving him, traumatized by the fact that he had been frozen for so long. Bidding Mitsuko farewell with a heavy heart. He would head to Konoha, lurking from the shadows, all of his friends, family and loved ones had either moved on, or passed away. In the end, Uchiha Aroshima had died in that cave.

He would return to the village of the end and reunite with Mitsuko, taking on a civilian life as a carpenter for a time, building signs and everyday things on the outskirts of the village. He was a carpenter for over a year, but his career changed when he heard someone shouting for help out in the woods - a civilian man and his wife getting attacked by bandits. Aro sprung into action, but two years of civilian life had taken it's toll - not to mention the backlash from his cryostasis. It took everything the once powerful ninja had to defeat the three bandits. A realization that reignited a flame in the young man's soul.

In the following weeks, he would approach the Jounin of the village and he would become a shinobi of The End, which compared to his old ways was essentially still a civilian lifestyle. But it did involve more training and honing his reflexes and abilities again.

Today:
Thanks to his skills and experience - one of the few battle hardened shinobi in the village, it did not take him long to become a Chunnin of prime quality in this very small village. He and Mitsuko are still in love, and Aro is comfortable, happy and safe in Gobigakure. Yet, he still wishes to explore this new world - to catch up on the things he missed, to try and make a better life for himself. He wants to get out there and build a better world. A better world than the one he left.

Personality:
While somewhat easy going, he's a lot more serious than his peers, he thinks one should always work as hard as possible, that goofing of is for losers and that hardships builds character. He is dreaming back to the life he left, the one that was stolen from him, yet, he is still hopeful for the future.

He's got a strong will, yet not one to quickly rush into combat, he is a fan of picking his fights and is not above using dirty tricks to win a fight. He's a ninja at heart, all that matters is winning, not how or why. He is fiercely loyal and is not one to question orders, and will disapprove of anyone who does not respect the hierarchy of the shinobi world.

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Special Traits

• Over a Decade of combat Experience
• Skilled in the trinity of Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and Kenjutsu.
• Sharingan and a wider understanding of the world - albeit an aged one.
• Frostbite scars on 80% of his body, that he's getting regular treatment for.
• Prone to shivers due to his body still, after two years not being used to being out of cryostasis.
• He could eat his own weight in food, coming from an age where a piece of bread a day was a miracle, two meals a day is paradise to him.
• He freaking loves beds.
• Severe Post Traumatic stress, he has regular panic attacks as a result.
• His body has yet to fully return to it's regular muscular strength it had before he was frozen, making him a bit physically weaker than his peers.
• He has low chakra reserves and below average chakra control. He burns out quickly in a fight because of it.

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Equipment

• Kunai, Shuriken, Smoke bombs.
• His old, broken Samurai-esque armor that he was found frozen in.
• Tanto he keeps on his back.

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Jutsu:
He is able to use the tree climbing and water running techniques - techniques he learned after being thawed out.

Ninjutsu:
C-Rank
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
B-Rank:
Fire Release: Great Fire Destruction
Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation

Genjutsu:
C-Rank:
Genjutsu; Sharingan - By Aro's skill and maturity of his Sharingan it can only dispel genjutsu of D or weaker rank, and he has been known to use it to calm an angry bandit with deep eye contact, even so far as to use hypnosis on him to make him fall asleep.

Name: Fire Release: Smokescreen
Classification Ninjutsu
Rank: D
Effect: Kneeding the chakra in your stomach to super-heating, like other fire release techniques, the user expels smoke - thickness depends on strength of the user, and purpose - from his mouth. A stream of Smoke is released in a similar fashion to that of the Great Fireball's continuous stream.
Drawback: Most people can't breath in too much smoke. This includes the user, and his allies.

I might be off with a few dates and years - the Wiki wasn't much help. Wookiepedia has spoiled me with exact years.

Also, I am terrible at remembering Japanese names for things, as such I rarely - if ever use them.

Naruto: Ninjas of the end.

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