Yamato Nadeshiko

[Shion Kurama]

NAME: Yamato Nadeshiko
ALIASES: -
CLAN: Shirogane
AGE: Was finalized a little less than four years ago.
GENDER: Referred to as female.
RANK: D

APPEARANCE

She takes on the appearance of a tall, slender woman almost reaching six feet when standing upright. There is something oddly fascinating about her sculpted face, her fine features holding an eerie beauty seemingly hiding something much more terrible. The wooden head has been outfitted with porcelain plates, mimicking the pale faces of noble women from a distant past, and her teeth made out of nacre blackened with charcoal ; high on the forehead eyebrows, dark red painted lips and floor-length silky black hair. Her elegant figure has been draped in a junihitoe, a formal kimono made out of twelve layers of bright colored silks and intricate patterns, giving to the puppet a dignified air and probably adding to the strange fascination she seems to create around her.

For a puppet so tall and clad in this many layers of fabric, her movements are surprisingly fluid and graceful, a testimony to the care put into her making, from the hinges of her jaw to the joints of her porcelain fingers. Yet, behind that pretty veneer hides some peculiar mechanisms, her neck being the most prominent one. Extensible by three feet or so, it shifts her appearance from refined woman to grotesque creature only found in stories, a feeling only accentuated by her imposing figure suddenly contorting into unnatural shapes.

BACKGROUND:

Far from the first of her kind, only a perfected version of the original. At first she was nothing more than a few lines on paper, an idea still waiting to fully take form. An ethereal ladylike figure, like in so many stories told by her father, mysterious entity as graceful as she could be scary.

As of now, she bears a name of beauty and purity, of idealized perfection – a fantasy. One that blurs reality and fiction, slowly shifting between the mundane and the bizarre, just enough to keep you on your toe but too little to lose its charm.

She was made to be a tool of expression, a concept more than a character ; carefully crafted down to the smallest detail, the culmination of years of hard work and a vivid imagination. A work of art as much as a means to an end. An escape.

A purpose she's been fulfilling gracefully for almost four years already. Everlasting and ever watching.

STARTING STATS

Ninja Points (NP): 15 (D Rank)

Ninjutsu: 1
Taijutsu: 3
Genjutsu: 3
Technique: 1
Toughness: 3
Speed: 1
Stamina: 3

ABILITIES

Starting Affinities: Fire & Water

Minion Traits:

Shirogane Puppetry: Due to their master's skill in puppet construction, it costs the character half the amount of Ryo to revive in the event of its death. When this minion enters a thread, you can declare that they have an item integrated into their body. It is still consumed on use, if appropriate, but will not count towards its ‘once per thread’ limit once when used.

Illusionist: Once per thread, the minion may reduce the cost of one B-Rank or lower Genjutsu by 5 chakra.

Fighting Dreamer: Twice per thread, this minion can perform a D-Rank support jutsu they know for no chakra cost.

E RANK

Name: Henge no Jutsu [Transformation Technique]
Rank: E
XP Cost: Starter, 1XP
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 for not just combat, but intelligence gathering and diversionary tactics as well.
[This technique uses no chakra points.]

D RANK

Name: Rokurokubi
Rank: D
XP Cost: Starter, 3XP (+1XP Bukijutsu)
Type: Offensive Taijutsu
Affinity: Non-Elemental
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5x
Description: The puppet performs a quick slashing attack, extending its neck and using the sharp blade hidden inside its mouth.
[This technique uses 5 Chakra Points, and has the Bukijutsu effect.]

Name: Magen: Ōmagatoki [Demonic Illusion: The Hour of Meeting Evil Spirits]
Rank: D
XP Cost: Starter, 3XP (+1XP Deep Nightmare)
Type: Support Genjutsu
Affinity: Non-Elemental
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5x
Description: Initiated by chiming of the small bell tied to one of the puppet's wrists, this illusion traps the target in the brief moment between day and night, a sense of impending doom gripping them. Sinister laughter echoes in the dark, accompanied by the smell of blood on the wind, as if the yōkai and other dark spirits were trying to cross over into our world.
[This technique uses 5 Chakra Points. It has the Deep Nightmare effect, and targets the Speed statistic.]

Name: Katon Genjutsu: Kitsunebi [Flame Genjutsu Release: Fox Fire]
Rank: D
XP Cost: Starter, 2XP
Type: Offensive Genjutsu
Affinity: Fire
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 5
Power/Damage: 5x
Description: Following a couple of quick hand-seals, bright and colorful balls of fire will appear and slowly float towards the target, trying to hit them. Any contact with them will cause a sharp, burning sensation as if they'd been touched by smoldering embers.
[This technique uses 5 Chakra Points. Targets the Ninjutsu statistic.]

C RANK

Name: Shugosha [Protector]
Rank: C
XP Cost: Starter, 3XP
Type: Defensive Taijutsu
Affinity: Non-Elemental
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 10
Power/Damage: 10x
Description: The puppet uses its body to block an attack launched against itself or someone else on the battlefield.
[This technique uses 10 Chakra Points.]

Name: Suiton Genjutsu: Shachihoko [Water Release Genjutsu: Tiger Carp]
Rank: C
XP Cost: Starter, 4XP (+1XP Draining)
Type: Offensive Genjutsu
Affinity: Suiton|Water
Action: Long Action
Chakra Cost: 10
Power/Damage: 10x
Description: Triggered through water-infused chakra, this illusion has the victim face a gigantic fish with tiger-like features, the monster then proceeding to swallow them and the illusory water they've been submerged in. This genjutsu gives the impression of drowning to its target.
[This technique uses 10 Chakra Points. It has the Draining effect and targets the Ninjustu statistic.]

[TimeCraked]

Puppet!!!
I have no funny words to say. This is good. Approved!