Zakuro Kuroyanagi

• Strength: B
  
• Constitution: C
  
• Stamina: D
  
• Speed: D
  
• Coordination: C
  
• Intelligence: D
  
• Perception: D
  

Zakuro Kuroyanagi wrote:Name: Kuroyanagi, Zakuro (畔柳 石榴)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
Title: N/A

Clan: N/A
Bloodline: N/A
Element(s): Suiton
Skill(s): Taijutsu, Bukijutsu, Iryōjutsu

Stats

• Strength: B
  
• Constitution: C
  
• Stamina: D
  
• Speed: D
  
• Coordination: C
  
• Intelligence: D
  
• Perception: D
  

Unique Abilities:
Big Boost: Zakuro has been unusually strong since her youth, forcing her body's constitution to develop along with her strength. Zakuro receives a free 1-tier boost to her Constitution that can't raise it above A.

Chemistry Expertise: Stemming from a family of brewers gives Zakuro a natural knack at chemistry. Zakuro may create chemistry creations one rank higher than what her current experience or skill set allows. This can result in an increased countdown (for poisons and drugs) or cooldown (for medicines and provisions.) The increase is the next rank's timer increased by .5 (rounding up.)

One-Handed Seals: Arguably a necessity for any dedicated bukijutsu user. Zakuro may weave hand seals with only one hand. This results in a one tier loss of Coordination for that hand regarding hand seals.

Experience Debt: Zakuro's freakish natural strength has an added value of 500 experience. Since she has a tendency to break training equipment, her early development will be slow until she adjusts. 50% of her generated experience must go towards paying off this experience debt before it can be applied anywhere else.

Appearance:

Zakuro is a young adult woman standing at around six feet in height. She has fair skin marred with light scarring, including on her face. She has an athletic physique, maintaining a slender silhouette while still having clearly defined muscles. Her hair is a dark red color and hangs down to her knees, though its unruly cut can make it fan outwards at times. Zakuro's eyes are light blue in color, set underneath a pair of thick eyebrows. She tends to dress rather ostentatiously for a clanless and bloodline-less shinobi, generally preferring rich blue colors and white cloud patterns. Zakuro tends to wear clothes that give her plenty of freedom of movement, as well as wooden sandals that can be easily kicked off mid-fight. Her lower arms and lower legs are generally wrapped up in cloth. She often wears medallions, knee guards and other metal decorations displaying the sunburst symbol of her family.

History:
The Kuroyanagi have long lived in the Land of Fire, but did not enter prominence until the period of famine following 734 A.S. They were among the first farmers to manage to provide fresh crops for the Land of Fire. In the seller's market, they quickly rose to a position of wealth. As other major farms and villages got their production underway again, the market for raw produce began to get more competitive. In response, the Kuroyanagi expanded to luxury products and foods, using their own produce as cheap ingredients. Due to intermarrying with other mercantile families, the Kuroyanagi swelled in size. While calling them a mercantile empire is going too far, they rose far above their old stations as farmers.

While the ravages of war did not leave the family untouched, they maintained a stubborn grip on their wealth. In the last years of the Age of Warring Clans the Kuroyanagi finally experienced a period of relief. The sake produced by their breweries became popular among several high-ranking Senju, granting them a measure of protection from common bandits and even shinobi clans.

When Konohagakure was formed, the Kuroyanagi found a business opportunity. A village of soldiers cannot survive without food and drink. The Kuroyanagi were more than happy to become one of Konohagakure's suppliers, primarily providing rice, fruit and alcoholic beverages. Their current-day reputation is no better than it once was. The peasantry of the Land of Fire sees them as bourgeoisie parasites. The nobility of Konohagakure meanwhile see them as plebeians who think too much of themselves. To the Kuroyanagi, they can hurl whatever insults they want, as long as the cash keeps flowing.

Kuroyanagi shinobi are rare but not unheard of. One such shinobi is Kuroyanagi Zakuro. She was born with an unusual level of physical strength, which the family initially played off as nothing worth noting. It wasn't until Zakuro's early teenage years that she started displaying feats of strength sufficient for her parents to ship her off to Konohagakure. There, the girl's chakra affinity was discovered, and she was enrolled into the shinobi academy.

Her unusual height, thick eyebrows and wealthy-but-lowborn family made Zakuro a prime target for bullies early on. Eventually her approach of just ignoring it gave way to offering resistance. This caused the most opportunistic bullies to eventually back off, but didn't leave her safe from the more insistent ones. Resistance turned into outright brawls, which in turn made it a regular sight to see her going through some kind of punishment around the academy grounds. Her life in Konohagakure was normal other than that, or as normal as it could possibly be in the ongoing chaos of the world around her. Given her youth and student status, most of the events outside of Konohagakure's walls were nothing more than radio broadcasts and newspaper articles.

Now a genin, Zakuro is itching to get to work and leave a mark of her own.

Personality:
Zakuro is a loud, boisterous and outgoing young woman. Her emotions can be set alight without much effort. She laughs easily, cries easily, shouts easily. It’s made her something of a problem child and a target for bullying, which occasionally ended in Zakuro getting into brawls with another student. She’s a familiar face to the Konohagakure academy’s disciplinary facilities. The main reason she hasn’t been expelled is that her fights are never unprovoked - and her natural affinity for violence makes her a valuable future shinobi.

Zakuro is also incredibly headstrong, an unfortunate combination with how passionate she can be. Even in the face of empirical evidence, she stamps her feet and denies being wrong until she has time to cool down. Zakuro always thinks she knows what’s best for herself, much to the chagrin of her instructors.

Zakuro has a strong sense of competition, and is always eager to test herself against others, for better or worse. While she can express frustration, she's generally not a sore loser. Trying to rub a loss into her face is a good way to get put into a headlock, though.

It’s not a very prevalent aspect of her personality, but Zakuro is shamelessly vain. She believes she’s the prettiest genin in town, and always dresses her best despite inevitably ruining her expensive clothes through her untamed activities. Her bright red hair is her pride and joy, and she maintains it carefully. It’s a process that takes most of her mornings, and only a few people are allowed to help her with it.

Of course, it’s not all bad. Zakuro is a very social and friendly person, easily inserting herself into social situations with strangers and quickly making friends. She enjoys being around others, possessing a very extroverted personality. She can handle friendly teasing, leading some people to think her hairtrigger temper is more random than it actually is. People who can deal with her flaws find her a fast friend and a loyal comrade.

Zakuro has two major drives as an individual. The first is the infinite depth of curiosity towards the strange and bizarre things that can be found in the world. She craves the life of a shinobi from a (somewhat naive) viewpoint of desiring adventure and excitement more than anything else. She’s somewhat nosy as a result, pushing herself into other people’s business if it catches her attention. The other is her belief that she needs to be the best person she can be. Zakuro tries to go to bed knowing she's a better person than when she woke up in the morning. It makes her a workaholic and a bit of a gym freak. Even her free time is often spent working out or trying to learn a new skill.

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Your stats add up to 2450. Starting EXP is 1650 plus the 500 you have for debt. You'll need to increase your debt to 800 to break even.
• Chemistry Expertise may only be taken if you have Chemistry Skill
• Experience Debt must be increased to 800 to match your current stats.
• Suiton needs to be a Skill if you want access to it -- Just keep in mind you cannot create any custom suiton techniques unless you have the Ninjutsu Skill

Zakuro Kuroyanagi wrote:Name: Kuroyanagi, Zakuro (畔柳 石榴)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
Title: N/A

Clan: N/A
Bloodline: N/A
Element(s): Suiton
Skill(s): Taijutsu, Bukijutsu, Iryōjutsu, Suiton

Stats

• Strength: B
  
• Constitution: C
  
• Stamina: D
  
• Speed: D
  
• Coordination: C
  
• Intelligence: D
  
• Perception: D
  

Unique Abilities:
Big Boost: Zakuro has been unusually strong since her youth, forcing her body's constitution to develop along with her strength. Zakuro receives a free 1-tier boost to her Constitution that can't raise it above A.

One-Handed Seals: Arguably a necessity for any dedicated bukijutsu user. Zakuro may weave hand seals with only one hand. This results in a one tier loss of Coordination for that hand regarding hand seals.

Experience Debt: Zakuro's unusually robust physique has an added value of 800 experience. Since she has a tendency to break training equipment, her early development will be slow until she adjusts. All of her generated experience must go towards paying off this experience debt before it can be applied anywhere else.

Appearance:

Zakuro is a young adult woman standing at around six feet in height. She has fair skin marred with light scarring, including on her face. She has an athletic physique, maintaining a slender silhouette while still having clearly defined muscles. Her hair is a dark red color and hangs down to her knees, though its unruly cut can make it fan outwards at times. Zakuro's eyes are light blue in color, set underneath a pair of thick eyebrows. She tends to dress rather ostentatiously for a clanless and bloodline-less shinobi, generally preferring rich blue colors and white cloud patterns. Zakuro tends to wear clothes that give her plenty of freedom of movement, as well as wooden sandals that can be easily kicked off mid-fight. Her lower arms and lower legs are generally wrapped up in cloth. She often wears medallions, knee guards and other metal decorations displaying the sunburst symbol of her family.

History:
The Kuroyanagi have long lived in the Land of Fire, but did not enter prominence until the period of famine following 734 A.S. They were among the first farmers to manage to provide fresh crops for the Land of Fire. In the seller's market, they quickly rose to a position of wealth. As other major farms and villages got their production underway again, the market for raw produce began to get more competitive. In response, the Kuroyanagi expanded to luxury products and foods, using their own produce as cheap ingredients. Due to intermarrying with other mercantile families, the Kuroyanagi swelled in size. While calling them a mercantile empire is going too far, they rose far above their old stations as farmers.

While the ravages of war did not leave the family untouched, they maintained a stubborn grip on their wealth. In the last years of the Age of Warring Clans the Kuroyanagi finally experienced a period of relief. The sake produced by their breweries became popular among several high-ranking Senju, granting them a measure of protection from common bandits and even shinobi clans.

When Konohagakure was formed, the Kuroyanagi found a business opportunity. A village of soldiers cannot survive without food and drink. The Kuroyanagi were more than happy to become one of Konohagakure's suppliers, primarily providing rice, fruit and alcoholic beverages. Their current-day reputation is no better than it once was. The peasantry of the Land of Fire sees them as bourgeoisie parasites. The nobility of Konohagakure meanwhile see them as plebeians who think too much of themselves. To the Kuroyanagi, they can hurl whatever insults they want, as long as the cash keeps flowing.

Kuroyanagi shinobi are rare but not unheard of. One such shinobi is Kuroyanagi Zakuro. She was born with an unusual level of physical strength, which the family initially played off as nothing worth noting. It wasn't until Zakuro's early teenage years that she started displaying feats of strength sufficient for her parents to ship her off to Konohagakure. There, the girl's chakra affinity was discovered, and she was enrolled into the shinobi academy.

Her unusual height, thick eyebrows and wealthy-but-lowborn family made Zakuro a prime target for bullies early on. Eventually her approach of just ignoring it gave way to offering resistance. This caused the most opportunistic bullies to eventually back off, but didn't leave her safe from the more insistent ones. Resistance turned into outright brawls, which in turn made it a regular sight to see her going through some kind of punishment around the academy grounds. Her life in Konohagakure was normal other than that, or as normal as it could possibly be in the ongoing chaos of the world around her. Given her youth and student status, most of the events outside of Konohagakure's walls were nothing more than radio broadcasts and newspaper articles.

Now a genin, Zakuro is itching to get to work and leave a mark of her own.

Personality:
Zakuro is a loud, boisterous and outgoing young woman. Her emotions can be set alight without much effort. She laughs easily, cries easily, shouts easily. It’s made her something of a problem child and a target for bullying, which occasionally ended in Zakuro getting into brawls with another student. She’s a familiar face to the Konohagakure academy’s disciplinary facilities. The main reason she hasn’t been expelled is that her fights are never unprovoked - and her natural affinity for violence makes her a valuable future shinobi.

Zakuro is also incredibly headstrong, an unfortunate combination with how passionate she can be. Even in the face of empirical evidence, she stamps her feet and denies being wrong until she has time to cool down. Zakuro always thinks she knows what’s best for herself, much to the chagrin of her instructors.

Zakuro has a strong sense of competition, and is always eager to test herself against others, for better or worse. While she can express frustration, she's generally not a sore loser. Trying to rub a loss into her face is a good way to get put into a headlock, though.

It’s not a very prevalent aspect of her personality, but Zakuro is shamelessly vain. She believes she’s the prettiest genin in town, and always dresses her best despite inevitably ruining her expensive clothes through her untamed activities. Her bright red hair is her pride and joy, and she maintains it carefully. It’s a process that takes most of her mornings, and only a few people are allowed to help her with it.

Of course, it’s not all bad. Zakuro is a very social and friendly person, easily inserting herself into social situations with strangers and quickly making friends. She enjoys being around others, possessing a very extroverted personality. She can handle friendly teasing, leading some people to think her hairtrigger temper is more random than it actually is. People who can deal with her flaws find her a fast friend and a loyal comrade.

Zakuro has two major drives as an individual. The first is the infinite depth of curiosity towards the strange and bizarre things that can be found in the world. She craves the life of a shinobi from a (somewhat naive) viewpoint of desiring adventure and excitement more than anything else. She’s somewhat nosy as a result, pushing herself into other people’s business if it catches her attention. The other is her belief that she needs to be the best person she can be. Zakuro tries to go to bed knowing she's a better person than when she woke up in the morning. It makes her a workaholic and a bit of a gym freak. Even her free time is often spent working out or trying to learn a new skill.

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