Name: Takano Uzumaki
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Village: Kirigakure no Sato
Rank: D-Class
Title: N/A
Clan: Uzumaki
Bloodline: Kanzen Tentai
Element(s): Suiton
Skill(s): Fūinjutsu | Ninjutsu (Affinity: Suiton)
Stats [9/20 stat raises used, 1850 XP spent]
Unique Abilities:
Tired Soldier: Through the crucible of war, Takano is a decent bit stronger than the majority of his peers, but it will take time to overcome the associated battle exhaustion that comes with it. [Begins with a loan of 200 XP that must be paid back before any further advancement is made]
Fūinjutsu Bloodline: As an Uzumaki, it is no wonder that Takano is extremely skilled in the art of Fūinjutsu, utilizing the practice as one of his main offensive and defensive options. However, whenever one uses seals on the battlefield, you always run the risk of them being deciphered, rendered useless, and then used against you. Therefore, exploiting his trademark Uzumaki stamina, Takano can pour chakra into seals during their creation, allowing him more resources to vastly increase the complexity of said seal. [By treating a Fūinjutsu's chakra cost as one rank higher during the placement of the seal, the check to decrypt the seal is raised by one rank in difficulty]
One-Handed Seals: Through repeated practice, Takano has developed the ability to weave handseals with only one of his hands, compensating for times when one hand is busy wielding a weapon or otherwise impaired. However, given that his ability to form seals is thereby cut in half, it takes much longer to weave said handseals when only using one hand. [When using one hand to weave handseals, Takano's Coordination is treated as one tier lower when determining how fast he can make handseals]
Appearance:
Face Claim: Mikoto Suoh: K Project
Standing at a towering six feet tall and weighing in at 170 lbs, Takano is definitely a large man, not at all what one would expecting of a Shinobi primarily specializing in Fūinjutsu. Although he is not a physical fighter by any stretch of the imagination, a lifetime of training and hard physical labor has left its' impact on the Genin's body, granting him defined musculature and calloused hands. The Uzumaki's face is sharp and angular, with a high brow and thin eyebrows set over a pair of calm amber eyes, gazing out at the often insane world around him with a neutral expression. His trademark Uzumaki red hair is kept messy, if well-cared for, and often droops down across his brow.
Given the cool and misty climate of his country, Takano often favors a heavy leather jacket with a fur collar and dark pants, clothes sturdy enough to withstand the flow of combat while also providing a good degree of insulation. His sole concession to ornamentation is a simple silver necklace, a memento from his sister that he often keeps tucked beneath his collar.
History:
Born the third child to a pair of Kirigakure chunnin, Takano's childhood was a fairly unremarkable one as far as rearing went. Although his parents were part of the famed Uzumaki bloodline, they were also both part of fairly minor branches of the sprawling family, and, although good at what they did, neither of them were capable of getting in a casual tussle with a Bijuu whenever they felt like it. The boy's father, Tengan, was a simple taijustu specialist, while his mother, Namba, was a medic-nin working in the same squad as her husband. While the work was dangerous and the pay scant, both shinobi loved their job and family, and did their best to pass down what they had learned to their five children whenever they returned from a mission.
From the moment he learned how to read, it was clear that Takano would not be quick to follow either of the paths his parents gently tried to coax him toward. The boy became fascinated with the stories he read in ancient clan tales, of ninja who deceived stronger opponents through tricks and traps, summoning fantastic beasts to overwhelm their foes and, greatest of all, utilizing their signiature Adamantine Chains to bind even the strongest of monsters known to the Shinobi world. Enraptured, the eight-year-old spent hours pouring over old clan tales while his brothers and sisters learned the ways of the fist and anatomy in equal measure from their experienced parents. Takano participated in the family training of course, and gave it his due diligence, but it was clear that it was not where his heart and destiny lay.
However, this simple life of shinobi training and his introduction to the art of seals was changed forever in his eleventh year, when the Uzumaki clan formally allied themselves with the village of Kirigakure. As a gesture of "companionship", the two village's academies swapped children between the schools, sending many older Uzumaki youngsters to Kirigakure's Academy, and likewise Uzushiogakure. It was a good proposal when discussed between diplomats and village leaders, as it seemed to be the perfect way to ensure that the next generation of Shinobi thought of each other as comrades rather than reluctant allies.
What said officials had forgotten, however, was that most children were assholes.
Takano hated his first months in Kirigakure, as he and his distant cousins were shunned and humiliated by dozens of little societal cliques that they had no chance of fighting back against. The Uzuamaki were forced onto the societal fringe, and instead of bonding with their new "allies", resentment grew between them. Nonetheless, Takano persevered, determined to bring honor to his loving parents and family that he had left behind in Uzushiogakure. The Uzumaki trained like he had never had before, and the results showed in his strength far surpassing that of any of his peers. Indeed, despite all of his limitations, Takano and his fellows placed quite high in their classes year after year. Eventually, with mind-numbing slowness, the Uzumaki kids were slowly assimilated into the shifting tides of adolescents society, although there was always tension between the two groups
When the First Shinobi World War broke out in late 936 A.S, Takano was, at first, overjoyed. The exchange students were allowed to return home in preparation for their deployment to the war zones, and the sixteen year old was once again with his family, permanently if he had anything to say about it. Sure, he had been allowed back on visits and the like, but that was nothing compared to spending week upon week with them as the war drew closer and closer to their lives. Equipment was stockpiled, arrangements were found for those two young to lift a kunai, and the Uzumaki marched to war.
War was nothing like the way the ancient whispering scrolls had described it. Combat was not a series of clever plot twists where the hero always won: it was the desperate struggle to fend off overwhelming exhaustion while explosive notes fell like rain around you and your fellow next to you took a chakra-enhanced arrow through the eye from half a mile out. The very landscape itself was altered as overwhelming powerhouses clashed above the battlefield, often killing hundreds with the mere aftershock of their godly jutsu.
The only reason Takano survived past the first five minutes of his deployment was that his parents were taking zero chances with their children's safety. They, alongside their teammates that Takano and his older siblings thought of as aunts and uncles, fought as a well-oiled machine, covering each other's weaknesses and protecting each other when they got hurt. It didnt hurt either that Tengan's wolf summons were included in their little "pack", and Takano was saved more than once by a wolf tearing out his foe's throat.
Eventually, however, their good luck ran out. Two Kumogakure squads pincered the unit, and Takano's squad were forced to watch as his mother, father, and two other shinboi held the line while the younger and weaker shinboi retreated. At the last moment, when a massive lighting jutsu threatened to slay them all, the group was obscured by a massive puff of smoke signaling a reverse summoning, and they were gone.
In the aftermath of the battle, Takano found his elder brother slain in a ditch, and gave himwhat rites he could in the blood-churned muck. His sister had lost an arm and an eye to a chakra-enhanced slash from a Kumo shinboi, and was intensive care for several hours while medics labored to save her life. His parents and their comrades however, never returned, and in the chaotic days as the two massive forces reeled from the clash, Takano gradually pieced together what had happened. The crocodiles had saved their favored summoner's life with a reverse summoning to their home, but had forgot one essential fact: unlike them, there was nobody to summon the humans back to their home. They would need someone to physically go to the crocodiles' mountain and, given that Tengan was the only ninja powerful enough to do so, a rescue was not very likely.
Falling into depression, Takano rode out the war until the ceasefire was announced, and traveled back home in a daze. He had suddenly become the main provider for a whole troop of brothers and sisters, and it was on him to provide for their health and safety. A genin's salary would not suffice, so he was forced to allow the young ones to work odd jobs to help pay for their ramshackle house on Kirigakure, where they had been forced to move in order to allow Takano to work most efficiently. However, despite everything, Takano persevered.
After all, if there was one thing the war had given him, it was clarity of purpose. He would become strong enough to provide for and protect his family, and he would reunite them once more. He would accept no other outcome.
Personality:
At his core, Takano is a man of simple contrasts, easy to understand but hard to truly like.
One’s first impression of Takano Uzumaki will likely be of a man of logic and pragmatism. The shinobi sees the world as a series of cost-benefit decisions that one must try their utmost to bend more to the latter than the former, through whatever means necessary. Whatever naivety or idealism was formerly present in the Uzumaki was crushed to atoms by the First Shinobi World War, and the subsequent death, disappearance, and crippling of most of his family. He is fiercely loyal to the family he has left, as well as his clan, and will endure whatever hardship or humiliation is necessary to secure their position and advancement. No underhanded tactic or low blow is beyond his list of options, upsetting many who are obsessed with the fragile ideal of honor in combat.
In conversation, Takano is often politely aloof, if a bit blunt at times to those who he sees as trying to be overly egotistical or mysterious. If one is not intimately familiar with how he acts, it is often quite difficult to determine his true feelings about a situation, as he often tries his hardest to cloak his decisions in cold logic. To those he has strong bonds with however, a passionate, caring man emerges from underneath his shell, deeply scarred and hurt by a war he wanted nothing to do with in the first place. Takano has a general disdain for those in power who have not earned his personal respect, seeing them as nothing more than privileged brats who sent men and women like his family to die for little more than ego stroking and moving lines on a map.
As far as personal pursuits go, Takano is an avid reader of everything from Fūinjutsu to moral philosophy and everything in-between. He can often be seen with a tome in his hand in his free time, seeking to expand his mind for both pleasure and to enrich his life. Although he is comically inept at anything resembling the arts, the shinobi nonetheless possesses an avid appreciation for art and culture, and always enjoys venturing to new locations and learning about them through their method of self-expression.
When engaged in battle, Takano’s pragmatism shines through as his primary trait. To put it bluntly, the Uzumaki does not fight fair, leading enemies into traps, pitfalls, seals and other such tricks in order to win through attrition and slowly whittling away at his opponent’s avenues of retaliation. When forced into a corner against an enemy he cannot engage in such a manner, he will often simply try to outlast them through his trademark Uzumaki stamina, taking blow after blow while returning in kind. For the sake of those that depend on him, Takano’s will is like iron, and it will be a cold day in hell before his body breaks before his will.
There are many facets of the Uzumaki, however, that are less than sunny. Takano is deeply obsessive and set in his ways, especially about things that matter most to him, and will not quickly change his mind unless presented with overwhelming evidence. This can lead to the Uzumaki being rather judgmental and prone to judging people based upon their first impression rather than how they actually are. The man does not suffer fools, and his temper when unable to achieve things in exactly the way he wants can be explosive to say the least.
Roleplay Sample: N/A
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Village: Kirigakure no Sato
Rank: D-Class
Title: N/A
Clan: Uzumaki
Bloodline: Kanzen Tentai
Element(s): Suiton
Skill(s): Fūinjutsu | Ninjutsu (Affinity: Suiton)
Stats [9/20 stat raises used, 1850 XP spent]
- Strength: D
- Constitution: D
- Stamina: D > D++ (Strong Lifeforce Level 1)
- Speed: D
- Coordination: D
- Intelligence: B
- Perception: D
Unique Abilities:
Tired Soldier: Through the crucible of war, Takano is a decent bit stronger than the majority of his peers, but it will take time to overcome the associated battle exhaustion that comes with it. [Begins with a loan of 200 XP that must be paid back before any further advancement is made]
Fūinjutsu Bloodline: As an Uzumaki, it is no wonder that Takano is extremely skilled in the art of Fūinjutsu, utilizing the practice as one of his main offensive and defensive options. However, whenever one uses seals on the battlefield, you always run the risk of them being deciphered, rendered useless, and then used against you. Therefore, exploiting his trademark Uzumaki stamina, Takano can pour chakra into seals during their creation, allowing him more resources to vastly increase the complexity of said seal. [By treating a Fūinjutsu's chakra cost as one rank higher during the placement of the seal, the check to decrypt the seal is raised by one rank in difficulty]
One-Handed Seals: Through repeated practice, Takano has developed the ability to weave handseals with only one of his hands, compensating for times when one hand is busy wielding a weapon or otherwise impaired. However, given that his ability to form seals is thereby cut in half, it takes much longer to weave said handseals when only using one hand. [When using one hand to weave handseals, Takano's Coordination is treated as one tier lower when determining how fast he can make handseals]
Appearance:
Face Claim: Mikoto Suoh: K Project
Standing at a towering six feet tall and weighing in at 170 lbs, Takano is definitely a large man, not at all what one would expecting of a Shinobi primarily specializing in Fūinjutsu. Although he is not a physical fighter by any stretch of the imagination, a lifetime of training and hard physical labor has left its' impact on the Genin's body, granting him defined musculature and calloused hands. The Uzumaki's face is sharp and angular, with a high brow and thin eyebrows set over a pair of calm amber eyes, gazing out at the often insane world around him with a neutral expression. His trademark Uzumaki red hair is kept messy, if well-cared for, and often droops down across his brow.
Given the cool and misty climate of his country, Takano often favors a heavy leather jacket with a fur collar and dark pants, clothes sturdy enough to withstand the flow of combat while also providing a good degree of insulation. His sole concession to ornamentation is a simple silver necklace, a memento from his sister that he often keeps tucked beneath his collar.
History:
Born the third child to a pair of Kirigakure chunnin, Takano's childhood was a fairly unremarkable one as far as rearing went. Although his parents were part of the famed Uzumaki bloodline, they were also both part of fairly minor branches of the sprawling family, and, although good at what they did, neither of them were capable of getting in a casual tussle with a Bijuu whenever they felt like it. The boy's father, Tengan, was a simple taijustu specialist, while his mother, Namba, was a medic-nin working in the same squad as her husband. While the work was dangerous and the pay scant, both shinobi loved their job and family, and did their best to pass down what they had learned to their five children whenever they returned from a mission.
From the moment he learned how to read, it was clear that Takano would not be quick to follow either of the paths his parents gently tried to coax him toward. The boy became fascinated with the stories he read in ancient clan tales, of ninja who deceived stronger opponents through tricks and traps, summoning fantastic beasts to overwhelm their foes and, greatest of all, utilizing their signiature Adamantine Chains to bind even the strongest of monsters known to the Shinobi world. Enraptured, the eight-year-old spent hours pouring over old clan tales while his brothers and sisters learned the ways of the fist and anatomy in equal measure from their experienced parents. Takano participated in the family training of course, and gave it his due diligence, but it was clear that it was not where his heart and destiny lay.
However, this simple life of shinobi training and his introduction to the art of seals was changed forever in his eleventh year, when the Uzumaki clan formally allied themselves with the village of Kirigakure. As a gesture of "companionship", the two village's academies swapped children between the schools, sending many older Uzumaki youngsters to Kirigakure's Academy, and likewise Uzushiogakure. It was a good proposal when discussed between diplomats and village leaders, as it seemed to be the perfect way to ensure that the next generation of Shinobi thought of each other as comrades rather than reluctant allies.
What said officials had forgotten, however, was that most children were assholes.
Takano hated his first months in Kirigakure, as he and his distant cousins were shunned and humiliated by dozens of little societal cliques that they had no chance of fighting back against. The Uzuamaki were forced onto the societal fringe, and instead of bonding with their new "allies", resentment grew between them. Nonetheless, Takano persevered, determined to bring honor to his loving parents and family that he had left behind in Uzushiogakure. The Uzumaki trained like he had never had before, and the results showed in his strength far surpassing that of any of his peers. Indeed, despite all of his limitations, Takano and his fellows placed quite high in their classes year after year. Eventually, with mind-numbing slowness, the Uzumaki kids were slowly assimilated into the shifting tides of adolescents society, although there was always tension between the two groups
When the First Shinobi World War broke out in late 936 A.S, Takano was, at first, overjoyed. The exchange students were allowed to return home in preparation for their deployment to the war zones, and the sixteen year old was once again with his family, permanently if he had anything to say about it. Sure, he had been allowed back on visits and the like, but that was nothing compared to spending week upon week with them as the war drew closer and closer to their lives. Equipment was stockpiled, arrangements were found for those two young to lift a kunai, and the Uzumaki marched to war.
War was nothing like the way the ancient whispering scrolls had described it. Combat was not a series of clever plot twists where the hero always won: it was the desperate struggle to fend off overwhelming exhaustion while explosive notes fell like rain around you and your fellow next to you took a chakra-enhanced arrow through the eye from half a mile out. The very landscape itself was altered as overwhelming powerhouses clashed above the battlefield, often killing hundreds with the mere aftershock of their godly jutsu.
The only reason Takano survived past the first five minutes of his deployment was that his parents were taking zero chances with their children's safety. They, alongside their teammates that Takano and his older siblings thought of as aunts and uncles, fought as a well-oiled machine, covering each other's weaknesses and protecting each other when they got hurt. It didnt hurt either that Tengan's wolf summons were included in their little "pack", and Takano was saved more than once by a wolf tearing out his foe's throat.
Eventually, however, their good luck ran out. Two Kumogakure squads pincered the unit, and Takano's squad were forced to watch as his mother, father, and two other shinboi held the line while the younger and weaker shinboi retreated. At the last moment, when a massive lighting jutsu threatened to slay them all, the group was obscured by a massive puff of smoke signaling a reverse summoning, and they were gone.
In the aftermath of the battle, Takano found his elder brother slain in a ditch, and gave himwhat rites he could in the blood-churned muck. His sister had lost an arm and an eye to a chakra-enhanced slash from a Kumo shinboi, and was intensive care for several hours while medics labored to save her life. His parents and their comrades however, never returned, and in the chaotic days as the two massive forces reeled from the clash, Takano gradually pieced together what had happened. The crocodiles had saved their favored summoner's life with a reverse summoning to their home, but had forgot one essential fact: unlike them, there was nobody to summon the humans back to their home. They would need someone to physically go to the crocodiles' mountain and, given that Tengan was the only ninja powerful enough to do so, a rescue was not very likely.
Falling into depression, Takano rode out the war until the ceasefire was announced, and traveled back home in a daze. He had suddenly become the main provider for a whole troop of brothers and sisters, and it was on him to provide for their health and safety. A genin's salary would not suffice, so he was forced to allow the young ones to work odd jobs to help pay for their ramshackle house on Kirigakure, where they had been forced to move in order to allow Takano to work most efficiently. However, despite everything, Takano persevered.
After all, if there was one thing the war had given him, it was clarity of purpose. He would become strong enough to provide for and protect his family, and he would reunite them once more. He would accept no other outcome.
Personality:
At his core, Takano is a man of simple contrasts, easy to understand but hard to truly like.
One’s first impression of Takano Uzumaki will likely be of a man of logic and pragmatism. The shinobi sees the world as a series of cost-benefit decisions that one must try their utmost to bend more to the latter than the former, through whatever means necessary. Whatever naivety or idealism was formerly present in the Uzumaki was crushed to atoms by the First Shinobi World War, and the subsequent death, disappearance, and crippling of most of his family. He is fiercely loyal to the family he has left, as well as his clan, and will endure whatever hardship or humiliation is necessary to secure their position and advancement. No underhanded tactic or low blow is beyond his list of options, upsetting many who are obsessed with the fragile ideal of honor in combat.
In conversation, Takano is often politely aloof, if a bit blunt at times to those who he sees as trying to be overly egotistical or mysterious. If one is not intimately familiar with how he acts, it is often quite difficult to determine his true feelings about a situation, as he often tries his hardest to cloak his decisions in cold logic. To those he has strong bonds with however, a passionate, caring man emerges from underneath his shell, deeply scarred and hurt by a war he wanted nothing to do with in the first place. Takano has a general disdain for those in power who have not earned his personal respect, seeing them as nothing more than privileged brats who sent men and women like his family to die for little more than ego stroking and moving lines on a map.
As far as personal pursuits go, Takano is an avid reader of everything from Fūinjutsu to moral philosophy and everything in-between. He can often be seen with a tome in his hand in his free time, seeking to expand his mind for both pleasure and to enrich his life. Although he is comically inept at anything resembling the arts, the shinobi nonetheless possesses an avid appreciation for art and culture, and always enjoys venturing to new locations and learning about them through their method of self-expression.
When engaged in battle, Takano’s pragmatism shines through as his primary trait. To put it bluntly, the Uzumaki does not fight fair, leading enemies into traps, pitfalls, seals and other such tricks in order to win through attrition and slowly whittling away at his opponent’s avenues of retaliation. When forced into a corner against an enemy he cannot engage in such a manner, he will often simply try to outlast them through his trademark Uzumaki stamina, taking blow after blow while returning in kind. For the sake of those that depend on him, Takano’s will is like iron, and it will be a cold day in hell before his body breaks before his will.
There are many facets of the Uzumaki, however, that are less than sunny. Takano is deeply obsessive and set in his ways, especially about things that matter most to him, and will not quickly change his mind unless presented with overwhelming evidence. This can lead to the Uzumaki being rather judgmental and prone to judging people based upon their first impression rather than how they actually are. The man does not suffer fools, and his temper when unable to achieve things in exactly the way he wants can be explosive to say the least.
Roleplay Sample: N/A
