Post by Arata Namikaze on Mar 27, 2023 4:01:06 GMT 10
BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Arata Namikaze
ALIASES: The Wanderer
CLAN: Namikaze
AGE: 24
GENDER: Male
RANK: D
STARTING NATION: Land of Fire
APPEARANCE
(Art by Dice)
BACKGROUND:
Expectations have always colored Arata's life, even from before his birth.
His mother, Akari, was one of the most talented kunoichi the Namikaze had ever produced. Fighting alongside Arata's father, Makoto, she had shaped her clan from an all-but-unknown family into a small but powerful force in the Land of Fire. Makoto, the clan leader at the time, wove the Namikaze through the dangerous political trials that came with such an increase in fame. The two complemented each other perfectly, so much so that it came as little surprise when they announced their engagement to their friends and family. A year later, when word began to spread that the couple was expecting a child, the small Namikaze village hoped for nothing less than a child as skilled as his mother and as tactful as his father.
Arata's childhood was filled with a constant expectation to grow, and ideally, to grow quickly. To some extent, the young boy did just this. He excelled in both his studies and his practice as a shinobi, quickly passing his peers in these areas. Gifted with natural speed and a quick grasp of tactics, he first set foot on the battlefield at the age of ten. Working as a scout and a spy, his efforts helped the clan stay afloat through the most violent parts of the Great War.
However, Arata's skill was often inhibited by his shyness and lack of ambition. He was more content to listen than to speak, more pleased to follow than to lead. And above all, he was most pleased to simply do nothing. Makoto, concerned that his son should take more initiative, assigned him to a special mission accompanying a merchant caravan. The work was two-fold: simultaneously protecting the caravan while also secretly spying against any clans and political figures the merchants encountered. Over the course of the five years that Arata travelled with the caravan, a dramatic shift occurred within him. The once solitary shinobi had developed a deep love for the stories and people of the various lands he had seen. He became a passionate story-teller and an even more ambitious story-collector, sharing tales from distant lands and keeping a sharp ear out for anyone at an inn who might have an exciting piece of information.
However, after many years on the road, Arata was finally called home. The son of the daimyō, Prince Itsuki, had reached out to the Namikaze requesting a shinobi tutor for his youngest daughter, Midori. The clan had decided that Arata would be well-suited for the prestigious position, a mission which would ideally create close ties between the Namikaze and the daimyō of the Land of Fire for years to come. The young shinobi accepted his new appointment, travelling to a distant Ninshū monastery where the little girl was being educated. For the next year and a half, Arata worked with the child, teaching her the basics of chakra control and entertaining her with stories of his different adventures. While the mission led to little genuine interaction with the daimyō or the prince, Arata came to care deeply for Midori.
One night, though, as the Great War was beginning to slow to a halt, shinobi from a distant land managed to infiltrate the monastery and kidnap the young girl. Alerted to the danger too late, Arata pursued the kidnapers deep into the Forest of Death, but the only sign he found of them was Midori's favorite hairbow laying muddied on the ground. As days went by without any word or call for a ransom, his concern and grief only deepened.
Retaliation came quickly from the daimyō, though not in the way Arata expected. While the young shinobi continued to search tirelessly for leads on Midori's whereabouts, he also expected to be imprisoned or executed at any moment. The daimyō, as well as his son, were not known to be patient men, and the loss of the royal granddaughter was no small slip-up. Yet as the days turned into weeks, no palace guards, assassins, or executioners came for Arata.
Instead, he was sent a messenger. The man came not from the daimyō, but from the Namikaze, and he carried terrible news. The clan, including his own parents, had been all but wiped out. The details were foggy, but a little digging revealed clearly enough what had happened. In one of the final battles of the Great War, a battle which should have been little more than a formality, the daimyō had sent the Namikaze into the thick of combat with little to no reinforcements. Wedged between two larger clans, escape had been next to impossible.
The messenger had been sent to recall Arata to the clan's home, both to mourn the dead and to take up his father's place as clan leader.
Over the following year, Arata grieved and began to rebuild the clan. He brought back the various shinobi who had been away at the time of the massacre, he comforted those who mourned the loss of their families, and he sought out new alliances to protect their village from further harm. As the clan retreated back into the bamboo grove it called home, Arata also began to nurture a new fire which had begun to burn in his heart: a desire for justice, or something akin to it. He continued to search, secretly, for any sign of Midori or her kidnappers, and he began to plot, even more secretly, how he might one day strike back against the daimyō of the Land of Fire.
STARTING STATS
Ninja Points (NP): 15Ninjutsu: 2
Taijutsu: 4
Genjutsu: 1
Technique: 1
Toughness: 2
Speed: 3
Stamina: 2
ABILITIES
Starting Affinities: Wind
Spending Starting XP and Ryo:
Started with: (50)
- Basic 20 XP
- 20 XP for one affinity
- 10 XP to be spent on starter jutsu
- 20,000 Ryo
Spending: (33)
- 10 XP for ranking up to D Rank
- 10 XP to be spent on starter jutsu
- 13 XP for other jutsu [Zephyr (3), Follow Up (2), Hawk's Breath (8)]
Keeping remaining 17XP and 20,000 Ryo
Clan Traits:
[BASE] MAKE IT QUICK: Members of the Namikaze Clan are blessed with incredible speed, and sometimes they are able to manifest that from their chakra in times of need.
- Your Speed cap is 25, not 20.
- Once per thread, you can use a short action to attempt to evade an attack using a free non-elemental evasion jutsu worth 20 x your Ninjutsu or Taijutsu with no effects.
[BASE] ADRENALINE: Another facet of your incredible talent for speed is manifesting it to multitask with great proficiency. Once per thread, you can gain an additional short action for one post that could be used for anything except an attack jutsu.
E RANK
Name: Henge no Jutsu [Transformation Technique]
Rank: E
XP: Starter
Type: Utility Ninjutsu
Description: This technique is most often used to disguise the user as another person, but they can also turn into an animal, plant, or inanimate object. Users will gain the attributes and physical features of whatever they transform into, such as a weapon's sharpness or an animal's fangs. To be able to assume so many different forms makes this technique invaluable not just for combat but for intelligence gathering and diversionary tactics as well.
Name: Nobori no Jutsu [Climbing Technique]
Rank: E
XP: Starter
Type: Utility Ninjutsu
Description: This technique involves focusing a fixed amount of chakra to the bottom of one's feet, and using that to climb solid surfaces without using one's hands or climbing equipment. If the stream of chakra is too weak, the user will lose their footing on the surface and fall off. If it is too strong, the user will be pushed away from the surface, causing the surface to be damaged around the point of contact, and the user will fall.
D RANK
Name: Bōjutsu: Sutoraiku [Staff Technique: Strike]
Rank: D
XP: Starter, 2XP
Type: Offensive Taijutsu
Affinity: -
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5x
Description: The user lashes out with a strike against his or her opponent, swinging or stabbing with a staff.
Name: Fūton: Zefā [Wind Release: Zephyr]
Rank: D
XP: 3XP
Type: Evasive Ninjutsu
Affinity: Wind
Action: Short Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5x
Effects: Counter
Description: Weaving three short signs, the user of this technique builds up chakra in their lungs before exhaling it as a focused gust of wind. This powerful blast launches the user away from the direction they are blowing, and any attacks or attackers caught in it are shoved backward by the wind's force.
[If this technique dodges an attack jutsu, half the difference between its power and the attack's power is sent as an attack at any target of the user's choice (rounding down), with no action required.]
Name: Kawasu [Dodge]
Rank: D
XP: Starter, 2XP
Type: Evasive Taijutsu
Affinity: -
Action: Short Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5XP
Description: In a burst of speed, the user of this technique leaps away from oncoming danger, rolling quickly back to his or her feet in order to counterattack or defend.
Name: Kaisō [Recollection]
Rank: D
XP: Starter, 2XP
Type: Supportive Taijutsu
Affinity: -
Action: Short Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: -
Effects: Speed Stance
Description: The user of this technique briefly leaps away from battle, creating clearance between them and their opponent. Using this space, the user takes a breath before diving back into combat with a renewed ferocity.
[This technique temporarily swaps the user's speed stat with their taijutsu stat on their next taijutsu.]
Name: Tadoru [Follow Up]
Rank: D
XP: 2XP
Type: Supportive Taijutsu
Affinity: -
Action: Short Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 2x
Effects: Martial Arts Combo
Description: Having already attacked their opponent, the user of this technique quickly strikes out for a second time, pounding away at the same opponent or fending off a different attacker.
[If the user has already used a taijutsu this post, this technique acts as a taijutsu attack that deals physical damage.]
C RANK
Name: Fūton: Arashi no Manto [Wind Release: Storm Cloak]
Rank: C
XP: Starter, 4XP
Type: Defensive Ninjutsu
Affinity: Wind
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 10
Power/Damage: 10x
Effects: Persisting
Description: The user of this technique weaves four signs and infuses their chakra into the air around them, creating a vortex of powerful winds around their body. Attacks launched at the user glance off this wall of wind, sent in different directions or blown apart by wind chakra. The momentum of this technique keeps the winds rotating even after the user has stopped infusing chakra into the air.
[Instead of only lasting for this post, this defense jutsu persists into the next two posts as well.]
B RANK
Name: Bōjutsu: Taka no Kokyū [Staff Technique: Hawk's Breath]
Rank: B
XP: 8XP
Type: Offensive Taijutsu
Affinity: Wind
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 15
Power/Damage: 15x
Effects: Nintaijutsu; Quick Attack
Description: Infusing chakra in their lungs, the user of this technique exhales on their staff and coats it with a thin layer of wind. Though this wind quickly dispels, it temporarily turns the staff into a far more lethal weapon. The wind chakra enables the normally-dull item to take on a sharp edge, slicing through the air with greater ease and cutting deeper into the user's foes.
[Instead of using the taijutsu score for its damage or power, the user of this technique can add their taijutsu and ninjutsu scores together (to a maximum of 20) and use that total instead. The user adds their speed to their taijutsu (or nintaijutsu), to a maximum of 25, for this attack. The user cannot use a short action this post.]
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