Much real Arashi, so wow.

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Name: -?-, Arashi
Age: 50
Village: Takigakure
Rank: Tokubetsu Jounin, retired
Appearance:
Long grey hair that commonly has a very bed-ready style which is hardly unique to Arashi is neatly fitted to his scalp. It reaches slightly further than his neck and in the right light streams of a white are visible. The hair itself appears to be somewhat twirled at times, but that might come from the bed-ready style it simply has and that remains completely unattended for by the owner of that hair. The face seems too young for the age the Shinobi has as it is hardly scarred with wrinkles or, well scars as one would easily think. The skin is rather smooth and the eyes are glowing with a deep resolution for convenience, apparently unfazed by the years of hardships the Shinobi was granted. The eyes have a brown color and the skin type of the Shinobi is classically white, though he appears to have a japanese genes mixed into his gen pool as his eyes do have a somewhat slit-like assumption to them. As expected the Shinobi of 68 years is still in good shape, though far from his prime and in turn his muscles – if also because of age – have degenerated somewhat and lost the perfect definition they once had not going extinct, but merely having been smothered and reshaped to fit a more convenient life where walks are the everyday exercise. Unlike his face, that is free of scars, his body has faced quite an ordeal and in turn carries the signs of battles past quite visible. That is, if the retired Shinobi was not wearing clothes. To be specific, he is wearing a white vest of a traditional style which is held together through the use of a white band. Along comes of course a white pair of pants that nicely fit the aged man and additionally he wears a sort of armor-like vest which is just woven slightly thicker than usual clothes would be and has a leather frame to allow others to assume that he was indeed wearing an armor while honestly spoken it was just a matter of trickery. Terrifically fitting is also the long white scarf that neatly fits around his neck and ever so often happens to slap around if the wind wanted it to do so.

Personality:
While in his younger days, the Shinobi was quite the character he has now turned into a mild person. Being young, one easily risks their life, one’s temper is constantly going off like a bomb without a clock and it is impossible to plan with such a person and that was exactly the way Arashi was in his younger days. He was the kind of person that one hated to work with, being incalculable and constantly seeking the next thrill, the next big fight and the next strong enemy. He was the kind of person that would hone their skills in the middle of a battlefield, just because there was a bit of time before the next assault and in turn easily risked his life and the lives of his comrades and minions if it was necessary for him to have a marvellously extended fight against a superior enemy. Honestly, it was a miracle that the man did not simply die the first time he was sent to the front of war.

Having aged and being asked to retired, he eventually changed his personality. The anxiety to throw fists and the necessity which he felt to be THE soldier for his village was simply locked away by him. Nowadays he is a calm person with a soothing personality and quite contrary to his younger days, he seems more likely to talk about the weather and whatever other small talk crap now than grinning so harshly before engaging in a frenzy. Arashi’s personality has changed to the point where he is simply happy that he is allowed to still go for a walk and still able to do so without requiring the help of anybody. He enjoys company even if it is that of young’uns. He feels sympathy if somebody loses a loved one and he feels anger at enemies. He feels saddened if faced by the cruel truth that he is one of the few that actually managed to survive so long in the Shinobi world and he feels saddened, yet also relieved when faced with all the skills he has forgotten and lost due to retiring.

Those are more emotions than Arashi was ever able to in all his younger days and in turn, he is now a quite good fellow to be around.

Naturally, not all is good and games with the retired Shinobi. Due to his state of being retired and even more so because of having dulled a lot in his abilities and capabilities, he is very hesitant towards leaving the safer inside of the village and exposing himself to possible olden dangers, such as previous enemies that could lurk at any point. However, unlike it may be assumed now, it does not mean that he won't leave the village at all or only hide in shadows - quite contrary, he actually exposes himself quite easily, but he is simply very weary about the people he meets. Additionally he sometimes likes to trick people, telling them things along the lines of that he is now a high-ranking secret advisor for the Takikage and in the next moment he would simply try to freak people out by acting the part of a mentally quite insane old hermit. The small things bring joy to his life.

One thing that should be added is that he naturally has a great sense of loyality towards his village despite himself being completely useless in terms of protecting it. The most he could do would be to direct the forces of the village and that's pretty much it. After all, because of his own disability he is nowhere quick enough to evacuate even himself, not even to speak of evacuating others. Such a thing saddens him, of course.

Story:
Having been born fifty years ago in a time when Humanity was possibly even closer to extinction than nowadays, when wars were at least as present as today, if not more present and when retiring was only possible through the medium of a coffin, the young brown haired boy had been aspiring to become a Shinobi from the first time he had consciously set eyes on the most classical shinobi weapon ever – the kunai. His father was an average Chuunin at the time while his mother did not come from a family of Ninja, but rather from a family of tea house owners – in turn she was really good with making tea and really knew her way around that area of expertise. The childhood of the young boy was unspectacular without a doubt, the only thing that ever really happened that he was attacked by a wild boar at the age of five years, shortly before becoming accepted into the Shinobi academy and just by a hair’s breath was able to escape and the spectacular thing there was that he escaped by climbing up a tree, running up a tree by imbuing his shoes’ soles with chakra – the most typical training method for young ninja in terms of chakra control.

Eventually in the Ninja Academy a teacher of Arashi noticed how the young boy was very capable in terms of chakra control, almost as if he had inherited it. The consequence of this gift for the young boy was that he had no trouble whatsoever in the chakra-heavy ninja studies. Genjutsu was almost like a second nature to him, only topped by his prowess in the Ninjutsu area. He appeared to be a natural in those areas of expertise and could even impress a few Chuunin with his chakra molding abilities. In the area of Weaponry he was only mildly talented though, just so managing to be graded as average while in Taijutsu he was definitely average and simply nothing special. Such did not stop him from graduating at the top of his class though and only a year later becoming a Chuunin already. The year as a genin under the guidance of the person who would later become ANBU leader was unspectacular with routine missions and boring tasks, but with a few exceptions. One time the Genin squad was permitted to accompany the Hokage at the time to a ‘diplomatic’ meeting as it was called. Despite having the foresight to know that such a meeting never ends without bloodshed, the Hokage fully knew that he could use the Genin Squad as a deviation for those who should be diplomatically treated. Everything played out quite like the Hokage had anticipated, he knew that the enemy would attempt to use the Genin as hostages to threaten the Hokage into submitting, but contrary to the ideas of the enemy – who happened to be non-shinobi amongst Shinobi that, if they lived in Takigakure, could never exceed the rank of Chuunin – the three Genin were able to overwhelm their kidnappers through teamwork. Perhaps there might be the question as to why the Hokage would even bother himself with such inferior Shinobi? The problem were their numbers as oftentimes Shinobi who could not take the truth of their lack of talent left their original villages and banded together with mercenaries and the like.

The Chuunin exams went by pretty quickly. First test was a written exam that posed no problem to anyone at all, only 5% failed – zero failures from Takigakure. Second test was a survival and tactics ‘simulation’. Of the 238 participants of the second round only 58 died, Takigakure lost three Genin. The last and final round was a strategy test. Banded together into battle royal-styled fights a group of Genin from a single village were faced with an unknown terrain which had been created specifically by the higher-ups and an unknown number of enemies of unknown rank. While there were always multiple teams from different villages, there were also teams of Chuunin and even Jounin that had been thrown amongst the Genin at the start of the Chuunin exams and in this round they were allowed to go on a moderate rampage so that the Wannabe-Chuunin were faced with quite the challenge.
Eventually Arashi’s team was on. They had been stocked up from a genin squad of three people to a squad of eight. Too large and too sudden for any specific strategy, too small to be able to overcome the enemies by numbers – especially since the other teams had a similar number, depending on how many of them managed to get to the third round. Arashi took it upon himself to formulate a strategy on which the team agreed and it played out quite well, until a Chuunin made it’s appearance. The sudden opponent who was not only superior in terms of technique, but also in terms of experience, was … exciting for the young Arashi. He wanted to win and after a long and excitingly tiring battle, the Chuunin was defeated by the single winner of that battle, Arashi. How did he do it? He sacrificed his comrades if need was. Constantly changing the strategy left the comrades of Arashi confused and wavering in their determination to continue, only Arashi was able to keep everything in mind and as such always knew when he was able to strike. The Chuunin-ranked enemy was cold and relentless, a trait which Arashi eventually would copy later on in his life. Finally after an hour in which most of Arashi’s comrades had been wiped out, the Chuunin dropped his guard completely for a moment in that moment, the young boy started his final attack. Secretly and hideous using a combination of Genjutsu and Ninjutsu, along with bomb tags that blew the lights of the Chuunin out quite marvellously. Of course, he was promoted.

His life progressed in much the same fashion. He was sent on hard and tougher missions as he grew older and at age 15 was promoted to Jounin rank right away. Because of his merits, he was allowed this benefit amongst others and was granted much harder missions right away. Eventually he would work for a long time in the ANBU, under his old sensei. One could openly agree that Arashi made quite the career and had quite the battles. Due to the missions he was granted he eventually developed his old character and became this battle hungry wolf that had no need for his comrades. He fought strong enemies on his own, or by sacrificing his comrades. He would always come out on top and declare victory for Takigakure and only once was he faced with an enemy that was more than just a battalion of highly trained soldiers – he was faced with a renegade Uchiha who had been marked as S-ranked criminal. Usually to fight someone of such calibre, which just happened to be Kage-calibre, one requires quite the skill, skill that even Arashi did not possess. It was still too early for him as he was only twenty-five years old and he was still shy of his full potential having been unlocked. The battle was over in a swift way. The Uchiha used the full wrath of the Sharingan and the extreme Ninjutsu skills left the young Takigakure Shinobi at an earth-shattering disadvantage. He was unable to win. No matter what he did, he could not land a single hit. It was the darkest day for Arashi.

The wounds which he took back home decreased his fighting ability a lot, leaving him at not even half his previous capabilities. He was degraded to a special Jounin and was sent on less harsh missions. Of course, he was still in full action, but his right leg had taken extreme damage and as such his taijutsu skills were not even average anymore. He had trouble to keep his balance and as such went from the front row to the second row, becoming more of a support troop due to his capabilities in Nin- and genjutsu and the abilities in Fuinjutsu which he developed later on. Of course, he did not take that quite so well and became rather bitter. He wanted to be at the front again. Fight with full potential and eventually developed a genjutsu which granted him the ability to fight at his full power again. The genjutsu betrayed his senses and affected him psychologically. He had no more fear before anyone, he felt no more pain, in general his senses were dulled. Friend or foe was no longer any trouble for him. He had no more values and his virtue was the absolute domination on the battlefield. He was lucky that he had been put into the ANBU again because this permitted him to be just as described. Solo missions, no comrades to kill, only enemies, only assassinations or enemy suppression assaults. Had he died then there would have been no problem and thanks to being an ANBU his deeds on the battlefield were never uncovered. Otherwise he would have been sentenced to death.

He had developed the Jutsu at age thirty-three by the way and had been using it for well over fifteen years until he was faced with the end. His leg finally became numb. Even the jutsu that so easily affected his senses could not override it because the nerves and chakra tunnels in his right leg were simply destroyed. It was completely numb and the consequence was obvious. He would have to retire and was sent into that state of the old Shinobi that somehow survived with honors – which if we are honest, he did not deserve at all because the reason he even became so old as a Shinobi was because he sacrificed his comrades and lied to himself to become a machinery for war, to become the absolute shinobi that follows orders without a single thought about what could go wrong.

Other Information
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Family/Siblings: None
Morals: Fighting is a no-go for him. He has no more the ability or the will to fight and prefers to leave such things to the younger people. He has no problem at all with battle and war, it was his life after all, but he feels extreme anger when young people are sent on missions that are no more than suicide missions and the young ones are too stupid to even realize.
Values: His village is the most important thing for him and in his retired time he has come to realize that the young’uns of the village are also it’s future, not the Hokage or Jounin, but the next generation will move the village forward.
Boundaries: Physically, his body is his boundary to fighting, but also psychologically he has no more reason to do battle and even under the harshest situation he would be unable to do so.
Motto: A walk in the park, is quite tiring being somewhat disabled.
Likes: Going for walks, good food, good booze, good company
Dislikes: Being called an old, unskilled fart (or anything along the lines of such), being unable to go on a walk, the pain his right leg feels on extremely rainy days, young shinobi who are just like him in his prime.

Specialty/Skills
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Specialty: Ninjutsu – Mastered; Genjutsu Speciality

Skills: + 8 Skill Points, unused until further notice

Bloodline and Jutsu information:
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Bloodline: None
Starting Element: Lightning



Roleplay Sample (Optional for genin):

Spoiler:

I'm not sure if you are aware that Konoha is closed?

Or are you just waiting for it to reopen?

Oh nah I did not know that~

Changing that to Takigakure then.

Le... BUMPBUMPBUMPBAAAAMP

Added a batch of words to appearance, hoping it would sum up to a hundred.

Added a different batch of words to personality, being rather certain that it amounts to a hundred at least.

Changed the beginning of the character history, to state that the dude was indeed born fifty years prior to current times - Not OOC of course, but in game, as in IC - meaning in character -, fifty years ago.

Alright

Approved