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Personality: [Please keep this section under a thousand words.]

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Special Items: [Do your characters have things like PETs, magical suits of armor, mystic staves, or other things coming in? If so, list them here and state their capabilities.]

RP Sample: [Show us how you play! Sample should be a few paragraphs, basically showing how your character thinks and acts. Feel free to use any setting, from our test drives to another game's to a made-up network post. Or even a meme if you think that's representative!]

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Player Info ››
Name: Platinum
Age: 34
Contact Information: I'm on the mod contact page!
Other Characters Played: n/a

Character Info ››
Name: Tenten
Canon: Naruto
Age: 19
Canon Point: Post-Naruto, pre-Boruto.

History: Wiki link.

Personality: Tenten’s worldview is colored by a single, firm belief: she is inadequate. Despite her own respectable abilities, she’s surrounded by people who can shatter boulders with a single blow, summon animals the size of mountains, heal people from the brink of death, or have outright telepathic abilities. When she compares herself to them, Tenten comes up short every time. She uses ninja tools and weapons to try to keep up with them, but is painfully aware that this doesn’t quite close the gap. While she does take pride in these hard-earned skills, every time she’s with someone else, she just tells herself that she’s inadequate. It’s the difference between feeling incompetent (which she doesn’t) and feeling like she just doesn’t measure up (which she does).

(It says something when all it takes for her to stay forever in an illusionary world, a world she knows is an illusion and has been trying to escape for days, is people who resemble her friends but have the opposite personalities treating her with honest respect and admiration.)

Her frustration at this is probably why she despises weak people. Not weaknesses in people, but specifically people who won’t help themselves. She hates them with a passion, to the point where, when faced with a literal child who declared that he couldn’t and wouldn’t live without his friend/caretaker, she was perfectly willing to leave him in the wilderness to die. She did eventually end up carrying him out of there, but for different reasons entirely and not because she’d softened on that stance. She felt that, because he’d stripped people of the choice to live or die by helping his caretaker murder them, he didn’t get to choose to die.

While she’s against people who won’t help themselves, she’s against those who abuse people who can’t help themselves. When confronted with people who are merely at low moments in their lives and are feeling emotionally fragile, Tenten’s a warm shoulder and a comforting touch. It’s not that she doesn’t care about people, or her friends, she just doesn’t see the point in trying to give a hand to people who refuse to even attempt to stand on their own. For anyone else, she tries to be a source of comfort and friendship. She actually enjoys taking care of others when they’re down.

On ninja tools: She loves them. From the simplicity of a kunai to the more complicated ones like the repeating crossbow, she adores all of them. Tenten’s been known to drop an entire paycheck on one, sight unseen, just because the name brings up images in her head (in this specific instance, the flying guillotine). She has a broad collection of them, coating the insides of her home, and easily gets caught up in making excuses to buy more. Basically, give her a weapon and she wants to know everything about it and how to use it. And whether it’s better to hang on a wall or take into a fight with her.

Tenten’s a serious sort. While she enjoys a good joke and a good time, overenthusiastic displays of emotion exasperate her. She’d much rather everyone around her act like normal people. Unfortunately, she’s stuck on a team with two… very enthusiastic guys who enjoy screaming about whatever is making them emotional at the moment. Not that she’d trade Guy and Lee for the world, but she does wish that they’d just. Grow up. She used to have subjects she’d get heated about, such as the ‘cuteness’ of weaponry or the equal skills of male and female shinobi, but since then she’s grown to prefer proving her points through action rather than impassioned speeches.

Part of this stoic, serious personality is her adherence to the Shinobi Rules when on a mission. At Konoha’s ninja Academy, students are taught a code of conduct to kill their emotions when in the field. Lessons like “A shinobi must never show any weakness” and “A shinobi must never show their tears” are in full effect for her. While she might be outraged or offended, when on a job it’s mission first and her personal feelings second. This won’t happen for her just yet, but in a few days, one of her best friends of more than four years will be killed on the battlefield. Tenten won’t shed a tear. She’ll be hurt, yes, but she’s not the one who will end up on her knees, sobbing into his chest.

Not that she’s forever calm. Insulting her abilities can get her to retaliate with physical violence, just enough to make her point. She’s perfectly fine with snatching someone’s hair clean off their heads for being unkind to a loved one, even to the point of getting her hackles up around someone way younger than her. Similarly, being called ‘convenient’ rather than having convenient skills is enough to get her to stomp off in a huff, even in a dangerous situation, until she’s had a chance to calm down.

And while she hates taking training to absurd lengths herself, she’s more than willing to help a friend who needs to push themselves. Even her normal training routine, which she doesn’t feel is out of the ordinary, is pretty intense. She holds a firm belief, inspired by her master, that those who forget the basics will suffer for it, so she constantly hones herself on the skills that even a child could do, taking time every morning she can to work on the basics before working up to the more complex skills in her repertoire. She doesn’t seem to realize that this level of training is above and beyond what others would willingly put herself through.

Powers:

Chakra Manipulation: Ninja powers are a result of manipulating chakra. Chakra’s a special energy gifted to the world by a ninja demi-god that allows them to do a number of absurd things. Chakra manipulation techniques fall into three categories: Genjutsu (Illusion techniques), Taijutsu (Martial arts), and Ninjutsu (Everything else). Chakra is basically life energy, so overusing it or doing it clumsily can and will kill her. Tenten’s got a lot of stamina, but if she uses too many techniques, too fast, she’ll chew through it before you know it. She uses hand signs to help manipulate and control her chakra, though her control is poor enough that she can’t manage anything truly complex.

Enhanced Senses: Tenten’s senses are finer than a normal human’s. She also processes her observations more swiftly. She unconsciously uses chakra to enhance her senses to… not quite superhuman levels, but definitely better than your average Joe’s. For instance, she could probably track someone with a strong perfume by smell, if she tried, but you would do better with a dog.

Enhanced Physicals: Tenten can use chakra to increase her strength, speed, and endurance. I’d say, at most, she’s about as strong as two or three men. She’s also got your typical anime ninja “I can jump multiple stories in a single bound” schtick. As for speed, she moves at the speed of plot and can do so for days at a time. Durability-wise, she's not really tougher than normal people, she can just take more before it starts to wear her down.

As a minor effect, female ninjas (and only female ninjas, apparently) can use their chakra control to control the levels of alcohol in their blood. In short: She can be less drunk or even stone cold sober in the space of two or three seconds. No hangover, either.

Substitution Jutsu: Tenten knows how to replace herself with a nearby object (be it a log, a piece of furniture, another opponent) and disappear into the background. This technique only seems to work if an attack is outright harmful. If someone’s just restraining her, it doesn’t seem like she’ll be able to use it. As for how it works when a ninja’s being held in place… I don’t know. It just does. Short-ranged teleportation might be involved.

Clone Jutsu: Low-level ninja skill that creates the illusion of having split into multiple people. These are just images. While they can talk, they can’t interact with anything physical, don’t cast shadows, don’t generate heat, and any kind of touch will end in them disappearing with a puff of smoke. Despite being an illusion, this isn’t genjutsu.

Transformation Jutsu: A basic technique, the Transformation Jutsu allows the user to shapeshift into anyone or almost anything. However, this won’t improve her any more than she already is. For instance, if she turns into a sword and someone whacks a cement pole with her, she’s gonna feel like she just got slammed into a cement pole (There’s some inconsistencies about this, but I figure that’s because those users are probably more proficient). She’d still cut, though. If she transforms into Superman and someone stabs her in the hand, she’s gonna have a hole in her hand. Also, Tenten needs to have a clear picture of who or what she’s transforming into. If she doesn’t, the details will come out wrong, or even as distorted as if she were a funhouse mirror. It’s possible for her to disguise other people (actually, she did it to a monkey in order to divert someone tracking her) in this manner, as well, but that’s even more of a drain on one’s energy than maintaining a normal transformation.

Object Manipulation: By charging objects with her chakra, Tenten gains a limited level of control over it. Extremely limited. We’re talking minor telekinesis (making her scrolls unfurl just right, smoothing down of a sheet of camouflage, or loosening knots and chains binding her) and minor illusions (making said camouflage blend in with the background better, blending the edges into the actual surroundings…). She can’t do this with very large objects, though, mostly just hand-held items. And she can’t manage any sort of complicated movements, either. It’s just hurling them out or stiffening them up. That said, if she’s running her chakra through, say, wires or rope, she can manage more complicated movements, like yoyo tricks.

Nature Release: I’m including this only for completion’s sake. All ninjas have various elemental affinities. Tenten’s might be for fire or wind, allowing her to manipulate either with chakra for various effects. There’s evidence she can use one or both. But possibly neither. At the most, I’ll have her working on trying to master one or the other, but I likely won’t have her do anything with them beyond training threads.

Adhesion/Repulsion: By concentrating her chakra in her hands, feet, or other body parts, she can walk on walls and ceilings like a spider. More difficult, but still easy for her, she can walk on water as if it were a solid (but moving) surface. Material doesn’t matter. She can also make other things adhere to her, like attaching a knife to the bottom of her foot so she can kick it at someone. Also, if she pours in more chakra, she can repel herself from those same surfaces, sometimes damaging them as well.

Sealing/Unsealing Jutsu: This is her bread and butter. In short: by using her chakra to warp space and time, Tenten can seal objects into other objects. Typically, she uses scrolls, but fabric or any other surface will do. Scrolls are simply the most portable method. Objects she seals do not age; they’re perfectly preserved. As for size, she’s sealed hundreds of gallons of water and, separately, a sailing vessel meant for a dozen people. She can even seal ninjutsu attacks in them. When she unseals an object, she seems to be able to control their momentum, varying from standing still to flying out so swiftly they’re just blurs.
There are a few limitations. First, she can’t just seal unlimited objects into an index card. The more she’s sealing, the more space she needs, which is why she uses a scroll. Second, sealing an object is work and requires time (so, while she can seal things like fireballs and waves of water, she’s got to have everything set up in advance and hit just the right second). An interruption can mean that the seal’s failed (that said, objects already sealed can be resealed in a heartbeat as long as they’re close enough). Third, whatever she seals is in that object. She can’t just pop an axe into one scroll and pull it out of another. Using her preferred scrolls, if the seals are damaged (they do appear as if drawn with ink) then they can be repaired, but it’s no guarantee and whatever was sealed away could be damaged or lost forever. If destroyed, then there’s no recovery.

Abilities/Skills: Tenten’s a shinobi. This comes with a laundry list of skills.

Combat, of course, comes to mind quickly. In terms of pure martial arts knowhow, Tenten’s recognized as one of the four most skilled people in a village chock full of ninjas. When it comes to using ninja tools and weapons, she’s number one. Swords, axes, maces, staves, meteor hammers, daggers, crossbows, if it’s a premodern weapon, she knows it intimately. Tenten’s also capable of swiftly figuring out the best ways to use weapons, even ones she’s never seen before. With kunai or shuriken, she’s considered a better marksman than the guy with x-ray vision. She spends hours practicing throwing the things and has near-perfect accuracy as a result, to the point where she can casually hit a small target from over thirty feet away with multiple moving obstacles set specifically to block the shot.

Kunoichi, female ninjas, must learn additional subjects when compared to the males. They learn everything their peers do, but they must also learn all of the typical female skills so that they can blend in if need be. These are typical skills for a feudal-era society, of course, so we’re talking sewing, cleaning, flower arranging, cooking, learning about other cultures, etc. Also, most kunoichi end up being the healers of their team, meaning Tenten’s well practiced in almost all forms of first aid. She can sew up a wound, set a bone, make a splint, pop on a tourniquet, and bandage people properly, among other things. She’s no true healer, definitely not a doctor, but she can keep someone alive for a while.

Stealth stuff, well. She’s a ninja. Walking unseen is in the job description. Even when she’s wearing a white shirt. She knows how to be quiet, she knows how to make a diversion, and she’s a pretty decent actress. Given some time to study someone’s handwriting and she can also make a pretty good forgery of it.

Tenten knows a lot about herbalism and chemistry. She can make poisons, antidotes, healing herbs (we’re not talking magic potion, think more realistic for once.), smoke bombs, flash bombs, and powerful explosives. Don’t ask for any formulas, though. In addition, she’s got a level of knowledge about blacksmithing and weapons care, able to provide basic repairs and care for her own tools and weapons. She’s also good at research, and actually enjoys poring through old tomes and books.

She’s received training on how to survive in forest environments, deserts, and mountainous regions. She can navigate without a map, forage for food, find or make shelter, and knows how to hunt, trap, and cook various animals.

Weaknesses: n/a

Special Items: Tenten comes with her scrolls, which contain a panapoly of low-tech weapons. They also contain survival and medical supplies, enough for only four people.

RP Sample: TDM Thread

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