Sunaoka [Legacy]

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NAME: Pakura Sunaoka
ALIASES: -
CLAN: Pakura
AGE: 29
GENDER: Male
RANK: D
STARTING NATION: Mizu no Kuni

APPEARANCE
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BACKGROUND: The Demon Desert swallows the weak, spits out dry husks, sifts in its sands the treasure that Pakura trade for water and medicine. Outsiders hate the Scorchers for this cycle, seeing it as little better than foreigner banditry. All the same, Pakura barely cling to life: traders take the long, safer route around the Desert now that the War has drawn to a close; travellers that brave the dunes are rare, often too poor to buy safety and too desperate to be worth robbing; the Land of Wind elite is uncharacteriscally at peace with itself, so not even bloody court intrigue may sustain the Pakura. The Scorchers grow restless. Historic nomads, they seek land outside the Desert as pay for the generation lost in service of the Damyo.

Sunaoka came of fighting age at 14. Life before that day is a blur of lullabies, vigils, throwing rocks at scorpions, vanishing shapes by the fire, quieter nights, less lullabies, more vigils. There must have been training, years of it, but his memory is hazy. On his last night home, Sunaoka remembers that his gifts were advice, encouragement, kisses that he now regrets dodging. He cried, almost, when he was told that the Clan had no good luck charms to give. Older siblings and cousins had needed them first. And yet, his old aunt cooed as she put him to bed, Sunaoka didn't need any. He was, himself, a charm. Rain had heralded his birth. Rain would herald his return.

In the years since, Sunaoka has never come home. The Pakura send him near monthly missives that he cannot bear to read, much less answer. He knows that peace came too smoothly for the clan to leverage their waning numbers against the Damyo, that little could have changed from the glimpses of childhood that taunt him. Escaping the drudgery, the slow dying under scalding winds, is how he explains to himself this silence. His relation to the clan is so kept detached, bordering on the heretical: whatever jobs he takes, he does so without consulting the Clan Leader, and whatever pay he gets, he only sends to his Clan a quarter.

The jobs that Sunaoka takes on are not unlike the missions he undertook during the war, perhaps explaining why he remembers so little of either. Often there is violence, inflicted on the weak or unwary, swift, deadly, hardly overthought.

STARTING STATS

Ninja Points (NP):

Ninjutsu: 3
Taijutsu: 2
Genjutsu: 1
Technique: 3
Toughness: 3
Speed: 3
Stamina: 2

ABILITIES

Starting Affinities: Wind, Fire, Scorch

Spending Starting XP and Ryo: Starting with 20XP, a Legacy Point, and 20,000 Ryo. Spent 10XP on D Rank, assigned the Legacy Point to Speed. XP assigned on Jutsu TBA.  This leaves X XP and 20,000 Ryo.

Clan Traits:

[BASE] SHAKUTON | SCORCH RELEASE: Scorch Release is a combined nature transformation Kekkei Genkai which is made up of jutsu that mix Wind and Fire chakra to create scorching flames that easily dedicate bodies. You must start with the Wind and Fire affinities, and you gain the special affinity ‘Scorch’.

• You can spend 1 XP to apply Scorch to a ninjutsu or genjutsu, or 2 XP for taijutsu
• Scorch counts as Wind when attacking, and Fire when defending or evading, for damage type interactions.
• Scorched flesh lacks almost entirely any water, and is difficult to heal. Whenever a Scorch Release jutsu deals real damage to a target, half of the damage is also deducted from their maximum health.
  
  

[BASE] KNACK FOR PERCEPTION: Pakura Clan shinobi have developed the useful skill of seeing through deceptions, tricks, and traps, letting them avoid entirely that which might have killed them.

• Once per thread, you can either use a D-Rank evasion jutsu you know for free, or increase the power of an evasion or defence jutsu by +3x.
  
• Once per thread, you can either use a D-Rank genjutsu dispel you know for free, or increase the power of a genjutsu kai you use by one rank.

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