B I O Name: Shinya Aburame Age: 13 Rank: Genin Title:
P E R S O N A L I T Y Born as a member of the Aburame clan, Shinya's constant companions aside from his family while growing up are insects. Like many Aburames, Shinya sees the world through a lens of ordered rationality. Everything has its place, and every action requires a clear logical reason that justifies its necessity. In one sense, this makes Shinya an ideal file and rank shinobi, it does however, hamper Shinya's ability to connect with his teammates and prevents him from making snap decisions under fire. Shinya realizes this and tries to rectify it, unfortunately, more often than not, he comes across as awkward. Alas, such is the common problem faced by many Aburames growing up.
B A C K S T O R Y Shinya was born as a member of the Aburame clan, and like all Aburames, Shinya was implanted with parasitic insects at birth, making insects Shinya's constant companion throughout his life. To Shinya, the world of insects seems much more logical to live in. Compared to humans, insects are logical, utilitarian, and ordered. Every member of the colony has their purpose and all serve the colony. To an insect the reason you are born, and the reason you fight are clear. This is what Shinya believed as a member of as shinobi clan in the colony that is Konoha, his role is to defend Konoha. To fight in Konoha's defence, grow strong, and pass on his ability and techniques to his children. Such is the logical lot for an Aburame. The older clan members, however, often mention that though Shinya is right as a human—not an insect—life is so much more than that. And the more Shinya grew up, the more he started to agree with the sentiment. Ordered logic alone is not the world humans live in, and neither should anyone live that way. Still, Shinya has not found for himself what else is there except a distinct sense that something is missing, if there is a dream Shinya has, it is probably finding that 'something'.
C H A K R A Earth
A B I L I T I E S
The basic skills every shinobi has. As an academy graduate with relatively above-average grades, Shinya has decent proficiency with all basic shinobi skills. However, he is particularly good in chakra control due to the Aburame's clan practice of insect rearing. The various special breeds of insects utilized by the clan require different chakra sustenance, and so an Aburame member typically has good chakra control.
The signature ability of an Aburame. As a member of the Aburame clan, Shinya uses his body as a nest for the insects used by the Aburame for their various techniques. At this stage, Shinya still only has access to the basic parasitic insects that feed on chakra.
E Q U I P M E N T
Standard Shinobi Kit The standard kit shinobis carry for fieldwork. Contains pouches with kunai and shuriken, basic first aid, some rations, and soldier pills.
Insect Jar While Aburame typically stores their insects inside their body, some still carry gourds or jars, typically containing special insects that they are not ready to have inside their body. Shinya's jar contains the Kochu, a breed of insects with potentially fatal poison.
B I O Name: Shinya Aburame Age: 13 Rank: Genin Title:
P E R S O N A L I T Y Born as a member of the Aburame clan, Shinya's constant companions aside from his family while growing up are insects. Like many Aburames, Shinya sees the world through a lens of ordered rationality. Everything has its place, and every action requires a clear logical reason that justifies its necessity. In one sense, this makes Shinya an ideal file and rank shinobi, it does however, hamper Shinya's ability to connect with his teammates and prevents him from making snap decisions under fire. Shinya realizes this and tries to rectify it, unfortunately, more often than not, he comes across as awkward. Alas, such is the common problem faced by many Aburames growing up.
B A C K S T O R Y Shinya was born as a member of the Aburame clan, and like all Aburames, Shinya was implanted with parasitic insects at birth, making insects Shinya's constant companion throughout his life. To Shinya, the world of insects seems much more logical to live in. Compared to humans, insects are logical, utilitarian, and ordered. Every member of the colony has their purpose and all serve the colony. To an insect the reason you are born, and the reason you fight are clear. This is what Shinya believed as a member of as shinobi clan in the colony that is Konoha, his role is to defend Konoha. To fight in Konoha's defence, grow strong, and pass on his ability and techniques to his children. Such is the logical lot for an Aburame. The older clan members, however, often mention that though Shinya is right as a human—not an insect—life is so much more than that. And the more Shinya grew up, the more he started to agree with the sentiment. Ordered logic alone is not the world humans live in, and neither should anyone live that way. Still, Shinya has not found for himself what else is there except a distinct sense that something is missing, if there is a dream Shinya has, it is probably finding that 'something'.
C H A K R A Earth
A B I L I T I E S
The basic skills every shinobi has. As an academy graduate with relatively above-average grades, Shinya has decent proficiency with all basic shinobi skills. However, he is particularly good in chakra control due to the Aburame's clan practice of insect rearing. The various special breeds of insects utilized by the clan require different chakra sustenance, and so an Aburame member typically has good chakra control.
The signature ability of an Aburame. As a member of the Aburame clan, Shinya uses his body as a nest for the insects used by the Aburame for their various techniques. At this stage, Shinya still only has access to the basic parasitic insects that feed on chakra.
E Q U I P M E N T
Standard Shinobi Kit The standard kit shinobis carry for fieldwork. Contains pouches with kunai and shuriken, basic first aid, some rations, and soldier pills.
Insect Jar While Aburame typically stores their insects inside their body, some still carry gourds or jars, typically containing special insects that they are not ready to have inside their body. Shinya's jar contains the Kochu, a breed of insects with potentially fatal poison.
The teams will be separated in the order they were submitted: Team 1 - Lin Way, Ren Uzumaki, Shana Uchiha Team 2 - Kasumi Haruno, Hikari Hyuga, My Second Genin
Roles up for grabs now are: Jounin leader of Team 1 - must be played by someone with a Genin in Team 2 Jounin leader of Team 2 - must be played by someone with a Genin in Team 1
Can Hikari just be the Jonin leader then? Either team works
@anothered I posted my character. It's an academy teacher since you mentioned you need one. Do tell me if you want me to change anything. Also @Letter Bee since you mentioned about the Hyuga Curse Seal in the sealing, I hope you don't mind me having my character to be the one that secretly passed the design to Ren so he can study it
B I O Name: Hikari Hyuga Age: 17 Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin Title: Konoha's Heavenly Enforcer
P E R S O N A L I T Y As one would have expected from the heiress to Konoha's (in their own words) strongest clan, Hikari is a dignified young woman who speaks politely and gently with all the propriety that would not be out of place in the Imperial Court...at least on the surface. In private, she is known to be more of a firebrand, quick with witty and cutting remarks. Her way of talking and prideful nature might rub some people the wrong way, but one can always count on Hikari Hyuga to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth once she's in her 'firebrand' mode. Hikari takes great pride in her ability as a shinobi and continuously looks for a way to improve and prove herself. One might wonder why she is so driven when her future as the next head of the Hyuga clan is all but assured and shinobi career-wise, she is considered a prodigy who graduated early, became a Chunin when her peers were just graduating from the academy, becoming Tokubetsu Jonin two years later, and entering the Bingo Book a year after. But that is simply the perfectionist young woman that is Hikari Hyuga.
B A C K S T O R Y Born as the third child to the Hyuga Clan head, Hikari's first thought, when she started to learn about the Hyuga clan in full, was... what a waste of potential her clan is. The Hyuga Clan, steeped in their long-honoured tradition has become too rigid and inflexible. It's not as if the clan has not improved since the age of the warring clans, but rather than pursuing new avenues that have opened up since then, the clan is content simply with polishing what they already have.
Compare this, for example, to their (self-proclaimed) rival, the Uchiha Clan. The Uchiha Clan has retained their shurikenjutsu, genjutsu, and fire ninjutsu they have been known for since the clan wars day, but as Konoha is founded they have branched out, taking advantage of the very essence of a Hidden Village, a place where clans and shinobis enter into an alliance to collaborate and live in a shared space. Now, it's not rare to see Uchiha as taijutsu and kenjutsu specialists, using their sharingan to learn the stances and forms with great speed. Or an Uchiha that specializes in wind ninjutsu in addition to their fire ninjutsu, or general ninjutsu specialists using their Sharingan to master various ninjutsu for various situations. Meanwhile, the Hyuga was a brilliant scout and fearsome close combat specialist...and remained a brilliant scout and fearsome close combat specialist and little else.
And there is the matter of the Branch Clan's cursed seal. Hikari understood the necessity of protecting the Byakugan, but even on a purely pragmatic level, branding an entire group of people as 'disposable' and treating them as second-class citizens are simply unsustainable in the long run. The Hyuga is too proud, far too proud to even consider someone might break the curse seal. If they do, the Branch members are sure to rebel and since they are 'disposable', they are the ones that pursue full shinobi careers, doing dangerous missions. They might not have the secret techniques kept from the Main clan members, but their experience is sure to allow them to triumph over the main branch. Indeed, without the curse seal to keep them at bay, there is no way for the Main branch to defeat the Branch member.
Unfortunately, in such a traditional clan as the Hyuga, the most effective and bloodless way to change the clan is only from within. And to do that Hikari needed to be the heiress over her older sister and brother. To that end, Hikari threw herself into learning the Hyuga clan techniques and becoming an excellent shinobi. She had gone from a would-be Branch Member to a promising Main Member in the eyes of the elders. Once she graduated from the academy at 10 and became Chunin at 12, Hikari's father along with the elders named Hikari as the heiress instead. A decision they felt was the right one once Hikari made Tokubetsu Jonin at age 14 as a long-range bow specialist. Of course, once she is the heiress she needs to fulfil the expectation of the elders to continue being the heiress, meaning to play the perfect Hyuga princess. It burned some bridges with some of the Branch members, but in the end, is unavoidable to successfully navigate the clan's politics.
As for her siblings, while her older sister is more neutral, her older brother still covets the position, and thus uses his connection to stifle Hikari's shinobi career once her name appeared on the Bingo Book under the guise of 'ensuring the Hyuga heiress is safe within the village' so he may 'catch up in accomplishment'. A fact that infuriated Hikari to no end, as she was confident that she has the skills to be Jonin, but is now stuck as a Tokubetsu Jonin—an academy instructor, at that—due to lack of higher rank missions experience.
Hikari realizes that an academy instructor is an important position, but surely it's a waste of resources to have her be one? It's also infuriating to deal with cocky kids who disrespect her because she's only a couple of years older than them. Well, at least if nothing else, it allows her to interact with future fellow shinobis and potentially important people. A chance to network, if nothing else. Like that one Uzumaki kid who is very gifted in sealing. She even secretly passed him the design for the Hyuga curse seal in a way that wouldn't implicate her to see what he could make of it. She doesn't know if he has made any progress on it, but it would be interesting if he did.
Still, now that enough time has passed since she became an academy instructor that resigning wouldn't be seen as her rejecting her elder brother's kindness, something frowned upon in the clan because they're supposed to present a united front to the village, she'll apply to lead a genin team. This way, she's still 'respecting her brother's wishes' since she's only doing D to C ranks but at the same time returning to active duty. Many genin teams often run missions together even when they've become Chuunin, after all. And at that time, if she tags along on higher-ranking missions, she's just being a good Jonin instructor. And so that's the plan, become a Jonin Instructor, get the genin to be Chuunin in the first try, and then start doing higher-ranking missions again.
C H A K R A Fire and Wind
A B I L I T I E S
The basic skills every shinobi has. As a prodigy, Hikari has a good grasp on a shinobi basic skills. Though most notable is her chakra control, as one would expect of a Hyuga, as well as her stealth skill, something that Hikari has developed to take advantage of the Byakugan's ability to perceive opponents from far away, and thus, defeat them before the opponents had a chance to react. Hikari has learned the Hiding with the Camouflage Technique, a ninjutsu that controls the reflection of light around her body to make herself invisible.
The signature dojutsu of the Hyuga clan. The all-seeing white eyes of her clan allow Hikari to perceive her surrounding area in a 360-degree vision, seeing through solid objects. Hikari has a range of 800 meters radius around her, and when used as a telescopic-like vision, she is able to see up to 15 Km away. Byakugan is also able to perceive chakra with a greater degree than all known dojutsu, seeing the chakra pathway system and the 361 tenketsu that run through it, allowing for the use of the Hyuga's clan signature gentle fist.
The Hyuuga clan's signature fighting style. The Gentle Fist is a taijutsu technique that allows one to inflict internal damage through the chakra pathway system and even closes the tenketsu of the opponent to hamper their ability to use chakra. At a sufficiently advanced level, the Gentle Fist is able to destroy any chakra-based substance. The Gentle Fist also possesses various derivative techniques such as Eight Trigrams Palm Revolving Heaven, that create a spinning dome-like defense. Among them, Hikari's favourite is Gentle Fist Art One Blow Body, a technique that allows a Gentle Fist user to expel chakra from all their tenketsu. Hikari has added her own variation to the technique, not only expelling chakra but deploying a change of chakra nature, expelling blades of wind or streams of fire from her tenketsu. In close combat, this means opponents risk getting cut or burned every time they land a hit or even get too close to Hikari.
The typical Hyuga is a close combat specialist, engaging their opponents in close-range taijutsu fights via the Gentle Fist. To Hikari, however, their inability to take advantage of the Byakugan's long-range sight is an oversight. A traditional clan proud of their legacy, naturally many among the clans disapprove of Hikari's assessment—only her proficiency in the Gentle Fist prevents them from confronting her directly—in the end however, it is hard to disapprove as Hikari starts to snipe her opponents from hundreds of meters away. Hikari utilizes her wind nature to enhance her arrows so they would fly farther, penetrate obstacles in their way, and have better manoeuvrability to reach their target up to 600 meters away.
Hikari is able to proficiently use nature transformation and shape transformation to perform various wind and fire ninjutsu. Despite her proficiency, however, Hikari rarely uses them in battle due to not really fitting her fighting style. She has, however, used the knowledge to develop her personal ninjutsu that fits her fighting style, the Divine Wind Arrow technique.
The Divine Wind Arrow technique is a ninjutsu developed by Hikari, utilizing nature transformation and shape transformation. Hikari creates pressurized air in the shape of arrows that can be fired without a bow. Because they are not physical arrows they are invisible to the naked eye as well as weightless, allowing them to reach even further targets as far as 2.5 kilometres, with more chakra used the farther the target is. Hikari has also developed a variation called the Divine Phoenix Arrow technique, where in addition to wind transformation, fire transformation is utilized to wreathe the arrows in flame. This sacrifices its invisibility, but allows it to engulf their targets in intense flames should they survive the shot, taking advantage of how wind techniques amplify fire techniques. By expending a large amount of chakra, Hikari is able to make the fiery wind arrow explode in a huge fiery explosion.
This technique is the source of Hikari's title in the Bingo Book. When Hikari started using this technique, enemies being sniped from kilometres away by fiery arrows liken it to a 'judgment from heaven'.
E Q U I P M E N T
Standard Shinobi Kit The standard kit shinobis carry for fieldwork. Contains pouches with kunai and shuriken, basic first aid, some rations, and soldier pills.
Storage Scroll A standard issue scroll for storing Hikari's bow and arrows. The bows and arrows are made of chakra-conducting metal that allows Hikari to channel her chakra nature into it with great efficacy.
Ian watched as the television showed the boxer in the red corner scoring a victory against his opponent with a knockout, just as he predicted. There were lots of factors that went into boxing, of course, that a 'prediction' would never be 100% accurate, but as someone who was involved in boxing when it was still in its infancy, Ian had developed a good sense for these things. Of course, he never competed officially, and his 'fights' weren't exactly the highlight of his life, but he enjoyed the sport enough to keep practising it long after his underground fighting ring day, and even to the present day.
He had just put the finishing touches on a speech for some CEO regarding sustainability in business. The client would be holding a gala soon and wanted to tap into the rising climate change awareness to attract some investors by presenting an 'SDG-compliant sustainable Business Model'. It was simple enough, and Ian finished it earlier than he estimated, which was why he ended up watching the tail-end of a boxing match to kill some time until his next appointment.
His next appointment being, an invitation to the Strauss Manor from one of his 'adoptive sire', Edwina Adamson. The pragmatic issue of snubbing his benefactor aside, Ian did feel he was indebted to the two. Having their protection did afford him the freedom to act outside of either the Anarch or the Camarilla...not to mention the utterly ridiculous Sabbat. A freedom that Ian quite appreciated, especially as to how in the modern nights, when many elders had departed for the beckoning, having 10th-generation kindreds as patrons was quite the boon. And so Ian had little complaints about doing the occasional work for the two.
A call from the lobby via the intercom a few minutes later informed Ian that one Alex Boering was here to pick him up. Ales was Ian's ghoul, as the CEO of Ian's startup company, Speechcraft Oratoria, one would think he did not drive his own car, but unlike Ian—whose interest in cars was merely in the realm of pragmatic utility—Alex was a total car enthusiast. Something that was apparent from the customized black Toyota GR Corolla.
The car was something Alex was proud of, though Ian could only nod when he started talking about it. At least, Ian thought, being a car enthusiast came with being a skilled driver, which was why Ian would always have Alex drive for him if he was available. Ian could drive well enough, but nowhere near anyone with actual skill. And one could never be too cautious. If his ghoul's customized car and driving skills gave extra insurance for a kindred, then he would take it.
The drive from Manhattan to the mansion went relatively smoothly. A bit of traffic but nothing too bad. Once he arrived, Alex parked the car, remaining inside on standby while Ian entered the manor.
Quentin, the butler of the manor greeted him.
"Apologies, I'd like to arrive earlier but a bit of traffic from Manhattan," Ian said.
Quentin nodded, as he led him inside.
'Well then,' Ian thought, 'Let's see what this urgent matter Edwina wanted to speak about.'
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