Character InfoCharacter's Name: Tori Hitonomi
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: Tori Hitonomi wears a scarlet cloth around his head that covers the lower part of his face, hiding his face from the cheekbones down to his neck. Underneath this mask are a rather hideous set of ten scars that start at the cheekbones and go down all the way to his jawline, five for each cheek. His skin tone is fairly white, with very little tanning. Other than his scars, Tori's skin is mostly unmarred. His eyes are sky blue, and his hair is short, jet-black, and spiked in every direction. His cheeks are gaunt, and his temples are hollow, making him appear almost phantom-like. His eyebrows are very thin and the same color as his hair.
In addition to the cloth covering the lower half of Tori's face, he also wears a scarlet robe that is normally fastened up to hide Tori's fairly weak body. The scarlet robe also has a large Konohagakure symbol on the back in white, to make the symbol of his allegiance more obvious. The cloth covering Tori's face bears the actual Konohagakure forehead protector over his mouth. Under the scarlet robe, Tori wears a typical black undershirt on his torso and scarlet red leggings that cover his legs entirely. On his feet, Tori wears plain black ninja shoes. At about waist-level at Tori's hips are two vertically placed scrolls, both of them about a foot long and three inches thick, and a third one across his back at waist level, placed horizontally, that is about a foot thick and three feet long. These are meant to hold his puppets.
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Height: 5'8"
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Weight: 100 lbs.
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Eyes: Sky blue.
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Hair: Short, jet black, spiky style.
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Body Type: Lean and thin, little muscle mass or tone.
Personality: Tori Hitonomi is extremely anti-social, especially around women. He is particularly scared of women with long nails, and generally freezes up in complete terror at the first sight of one. He also does not get along well with most men, and he becomes fairly nervous in the presence of medic nin, as he associates pain with their healing palm jutsu.
In battle, Tori generally tries to stay as far away from the opponent as possible and lets his puppets do all the fighting. If cornered without his puppets, however, Tori will almost certainly give up fighting the opponent and will instead surrender in order to keep his life. Despite sticking to this strategy often, he will occasionally deviate from this in order to get the upper hand on his opponent.
On a mission, Tori is by himself, for the most part. He is also cowardly, however, and will often feel the need to quit if he realizes that the mission might be very difficult. The Hokage would likely feel very annoyed at this behavior, but Tori would rather deal with an angry Hokage than a deadly enemy ninja. Tori might even abandon his own teammates and the mission altogether in order to escape safely, making him quite a liability.
Nindo:(Optional)Extra Info:(Optional)The ShinobiOrigin: Konohagakure
Ninja Rank: Genin
Hidden Village: Konohagakure
Clan: N/A
Kekkei Genkai: N/A
Elemental Affinity: Katon
The BackgroundHistory: Birth and Childhood Arc: Tori was born from two retired Kirigakure ninja who were mostly unknown to the world outside of Kirigakure. Within the village, they were normally held in high regard, and they managed to reach the rank of Special Jounin before they had retired. Due to this fair amount of anonymity, the two had managed to retire from service without dying first.
Tori himself was born during a monsoon. While some people have thought this was an omen of some sort, Tori had a normal childhood. He lived with his parents and played ninja with the other children, just like everyone else. Although the other children occasionally poked fun at Tori's older parents, the young boy would laugh with the rest of them.
Academy Arc: After a few years of just playing at being ninja, Tori became curious about what it would be like to be an actual ninja. And so Tori joined the Kirigakure Academy. Although the young boy didn't do well in most of the tests, he did show himself to have a bit of a knack for puppetry, as shown when he managed to take momentary control of one of the training dummies just long enough to make it fall over. Upon this discovery, Tori's academy teacher had pushed the young boy harder to train puppetry and to become better at that particular ninja art. Although it took Tori a little longer than most due to puppetry seeming to be his only known talent, the young boy did manage to graduate, albeit near the bottom of his grade.
Genin Arc: Soon after Tori was given his genin rank, he upgraded his puppet to more closely resemble his mother and to hold more weapons. He was also put into a squad of two genin and a jounin teacher, like most other genin. Though Tori did not grow close to either the jounin teacher nor the other male genin teammate, he did find that he enjoyed the companion of the kunoichi. The two would often train with each other late into the night, and Tori found her to be a very talented ninja. He was also intrigued to learn that she was almost as naturally curious as he was, though she was more cautious, which Tori often teased her about in a playful manner. As the two genin spent more time together, Tori found himself falling for the kunoichi, completely oblivious to the fact that the girl was already in an arranged marriage with the other male genin. This led to a rift in the team that would never be breached. Regardless, the jounin eventually entered all three genin in his team in the Chuunin Exams, hoping that the difficult tests would force the three to work together.
Instead, the rift only worsened, especially when Tori was forced to fight the other male genin in the final test of the Chuunin Exams. Showing no remorse, Tori defeated and killed his own teammate despite the attempt by the jounin teacher to halt the unnecessary killing, but he had not made it in time to save the young boy. It wasn't until after the bout that the kunoichi told him about the arranged marriage and how the girl had loved the now-dead genin. This sudden confession of love the kunoichi held for the other young boy caused Tori to become enraged, and in his grief and anger, Tori attacked the kunoichi without thinking. This was when the genin found out that the kunoichi had secretly been training a forbidden jutsu that could make her long nails that Tori had so often admired become as sharp as knives, and that the wounds made by these nails would become extremely difficult to heal. Although the kunoichi had given Tori a set of scars that would forever mark him a traitor, the genin believed that he had managed to kill her with his puppet, using a blade stabbed through her neck. What Tori did not know was that he had only caused her to pass out by striking a specific set of nerves. Unbeknownst to him, the kunoichi had been healed by the medic team and almost immediately left the village to become a rogue ninja.
Despite the fact that he had supposedly killed both of his teammates, Tori went unpunished. It was ruled that when Tori killed his kunoichi teammate, it had been in self-defense. With no witnesses able to testify against Tori's lies about the kunoichi attacking first, the genin was guiltless in the eyes of the law. Tori, however, feels a great deal of remorse for killing the girl he loved. In addition, the genin was not only physically scarred, but also mentally scarred by the event, and has since had a great fear of women, especially those with long fingernails, and the Chuunin Exams themselves.
Although he had managed to kill his teammate, the other boy had shown more courage and willpower, and Tori Hitonomi had not been chosen among those who became Chuunin. After this final crushing blow, he further changes his puppet to resemble his former kunoichi teammate, as he still believed her to be dead from the stab to her neck, and he would talk to the puppet much like he had once talked to his female teammate.
Skills and AbilitiesAdvanced Skills:*
Ninjutsu: 0
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Genjutsu: 0
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Taijutsu: 0
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Kenjutsu: 0
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Weapons Master: 0
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Puppetry: 5
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Fuuinjutsu: 0
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Ijutsu: 0
Unique Abilities:*
Major: Inventor: Starts with a single custom puppet:
- Spoiler:
Name: Ai
Rank: Materials:Description: At first glance, Ai may appear to be a human woman with a rather large, pregnant stomach. The puppet is, however, almost entirely made of wood. Although her face is emotionless, she appears to be wearing quite a large amount of make-up. Her black hair reaches down down to the middle of her back. Her body is covered by a kimono with a rather plain pattern, along with a shawl. The chest is augmented with inflatable pieces to make her appear to be more "feminine". Her feet are bare and she stands at 5'8".
Strength: 1
Constitution: 1
Dexterity: 3
Speed: 2
Weapons:- Arms: The puppet's arms are outfitted with rotating blades along all three straight sections. Each blade is about three inches long and rotates along each section in a similar motion to that of a chainsaw. Its fingers are each tipped with six-inch long metal fingernails that are capable of piercing flesh. (Gonna take a guess at 2500 ryo for each chainsaw, so 15000 for the chainsaws, plus 1000 ryo for the 10 fingernails (100 for each kunai x 10 fingers), 16,000)
- Legs: The puppet's legs are mostly hollow, and when fully extended, a small pair of air cannons can be activated, propelling the puppet at a high rate of speed momentarily. As a weapon, the air cannons are fairly weak, possibly causing bruises to the opponent if they are hit directly. (4000 ryo)
- Torso: The torso is almost entirely hollow. It has no weapons, but it can open up rather easily, making it improbable as a method of trapping a foe. The interior is lined with heat-resistant metal. At the rear of the torso is a special set of pulleys that control the wires connecting the limbs of the puppet. The puppets limbs can be disconnected from the torso, connected only by a small thread of ninja wire. This can make it quite difficult to fully destroy the puppet. (1250 ryo for wire [10 feet of wire at 250 ryo, multiplied by five for each limb], 1000 ryo [200 for each reel, multiplied by five for each limb], total of 2250.)
- Head: The puppet's hair has small senbon needles hidden among the wig of horse hair, turning the hair into less of a liability by making it impossible to grab onto. (1500 ryo [50 ryo for each senbon, multiplied by the number of senbon in the hair])
Total: 16000, plus 4000, plus 2250, plus 1500 is 23750 ryo.
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Major: One-handed Seals: Allows the ninja with this Ability to perform seals with only one hand instead of both. This does not allow the ninja to perform two different sets of handseals if their hands are free.
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Minor: Photographic Memory: Tori Hitonomi is able to memorize an image or event and review this event as though he were looking at a photograph.
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Minor: Poison Apprentice: Allows the owner of this Ability to create low-grade poisons and anti-venom (the poisons are unable to kill, paralyze, or cause the opponent to fall asleep, and the effects must end within three posts. The type of poison must be approved first.)
Weaknesses:*
Major: Fear of Women, Medic Nin, and long nails: Unable to fight against women, medic nin, or someone with particularly long nails. If he sees any of these kinds of ninja that are ready to fight, Tori will either run away or hide instead of fighting back.
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Minor: Terrible at Taijutsu: unable to learn or use any taijutsu techniques other than a punch or a kick.
Stats:*
Strength: 3
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Constitution: 2
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Stamina: 5
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Dexterity: 11
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Speed: 6
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Intelligence: 2
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Wisdom: 10
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Charisma: 1
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