Post by Kisame on Jun 28, 2007 19:27:16 GMT -5
Character Name: Ikazuchi Kotetsu
Age: 28
Gender Male
Rank: Lord
Village/Country Takigakure
Personality: Kotetsu has many sides to him, at times he is a fighter who enjoys nothing more than fighting. Ever since his first mission he has enjoyed the thrill he gets while fighting, the more challenging the fight the more fun it is for him sometimes even to the point where he enjoys getting hurt. This side of him is not one that he likes to show his fellow villagers and he usually only allows himself to get this into a fight when the opponent is extremely powerful and there are very few of his fellow Shinobi around. Another side of Kotetsu which is the side he shows most often is his loyalty to his village. As the Takigakure lord he feels a great responsibility to fill the shoes of his predecessor and protect his village no matter what the cost even if that cost is his own life, when hes in this mood he is also a very kind and peaceful person who enjoys the silence and sirenity of peace. The last and least common of his mentalities is his personality that has come about due to his not so easy life, when Kotetsu is angered enough he begins to care little for anyone or anything other than himself and the one that is angering him. On the few ocassions that this side of him is shown he shows little regard for even his fellow Takigakure shinobi. Kotetsu doesn't exactly like this side of himself but because it was a side of himself that was developed through things that happened to him and not just an attitude he took up because he wanted to, its not something that he can get rid of. He does everything in his power never to let himself get this angry and a direct result of this effort is his usual calm and care-free personality.
Chakra Type: Suiton :: Raiton
Equipment/Weapons:
Twin Katanas. The blades of which are unlike normal katana because they are black and not silver
Appearance:
Height: 5'9
Weight: 140 lbs.
Hair: Blackish Teal
Skin: White
Eyes: Green
Cloths
Bottom: Kotetsu’s pants are a thing white cloth material they are held up by a black belt.
Top: A simple thin cloth overcoat with black trimming, underneath it is a similar colored tank top. His elbow to his hands are wrapped in a white tape.
Feet: On his feet Kotetesu wears black ninja sandals
Headband: his Takigakure headband is worn on his right arm.
General Appearance:
At first glance Kotetsu seems to be a fairly intimadating person with his evil appearance, although he is actually quite a nice person. The white and black clothing that he is usually seen wearing is similar to the outfit of the now deceased Takigakure Jounin who acted as a father to Kotetsu and enrolled him in the ninja academy as well as acted as his sensei for many years following that.
Jutsus:
Background/History:
[glow=Green,2,300]Birth-Early Childhood[/glow]
Kotetsu was born in kirigakure no sato to an ex-shinobi father and a normal civilian mother. When Renkai was born his father was very sick and he looked down upon him and decided that he would not allow this boy to grow up and follow in his footsteps as a shinobi. His father did this with the idea that his death was near and he did not want to leave his beloved wife alone, this is why he would not allow him to become a ninja. A few years after his birth Kotetsu's father died and him and his mother moved away to a nearby non-shinobi island village where Kotetsu spent most of his time playing with the local children.
[glow=Green,2,300]Late Childhood-Academy[/glow]
A little over five years after moving to his new home, a man going by the name of Kuri came into town saying he was a wanderer who needed a place to stay for a while. Kotetsu's mother offered the man a place to stay at their house and he stayed there for a year. Over the course of this year Kotetsu had grown to think of Kuri as his father since he knew little of his own father, until one day when a band of mercenaries came into town looking for the wanderer. By this time he had become a respected member of the community and the villagers refused to give him up, angered by the villagers the mercenaries began attacking the people. The villagers fought back with what they had and the fight lasted several days until the mercenaries had found Kuri and killed him. The majority of the villagers were dead and the mercenaries were pillagin the town, among their spoils from the village was Kotetsu who they planned to sell to a traveling company for a little extra cash. When they got back to the mainland Kotetsu was sold off and forced to join a traveling merchant on his way to the ninja village of Takigakure. They traveled for several days before reaching the village, the old merchant had some buisness to discuss with their current lord and left Kotetsu to watch his belonings. Despite the fact that it was his job Kotetsu ran and hid himself in the back alleys of the town, he wouldn't stand for being sold off to some old man for slave labor. Kotetsu spent several days living in the back alleys and stealing what he needed from the villagers until one day he was cought by someone his own age and challenged to a fight, Kotetsu accepted his challenge and beat the kid in a fight but not before catching the attention of a man passing by named Renkotsu who thought that Kotetsu had a great deal of potential and asked him if the would like to be enrolled in the villages ninja academy. Kotetsu was excited by this and took the man up on his offer immediately. Before long Kotetsu had passed all of the courses in the academy and graduated surprisingly fast for someone who had no exposure to ninja before-hand.
[glow=Green,2,300]Genin-Chuunin Exams[/glow]
Following his graduation into the ranks of the Taki shinobi, Kotetsu was placed on a three man team consisting of his sensei Renkotsu who was the man who had enrolled him in the academy when he was a younger and one fellow academy graduate named Homaru. With his team Kotetsu was given several mundane tasks to carry out all over Takigakure, even though he hadn't yet learned much of fighting these chores allowed him to learn alot about the lives of people living in a shinobi populated area, something his father had worked so hard to prevent him from learning about as a child. One year after graduation Kotetsu and his team were given their first mission to leave the country and help a small village not far from Takigakure, this would be Kotetsu's first time leaving the village for a mission and it excited him greatly. The mission was to go to the village and act as guards for a meeting between two buisness partners who were being targeted by a group of bandits. On the mission Kotetsu experienced his first real fight and ever since had been looking for fights, it awoke him to the thrill of a fight something that he came to crave. Him and his team carried out missions all over for the next few years until the Chunnin exams. The Chuunin exams were being held in Kumogakure and Kotetsu's team along with four other teams from Takigakure were sent to participate in these exams. In the first stage of the exams (the written stage) all of the Takigakure teams made it through, the second stage was a fight in order to narrow down the numbers during the fights two of the four Takigakure teams were completely knocked out, then came the final stage where the remaining fighters would have to fight in a bracket style tournament. Kotetsu was paired against a ninja from Konoha in the first round, it was a long and tough battle but he managed to move on to the next round. The second fight was Homaru's (his partner) fight, he was matched against another konoha nin of the Hyuuga clan, Homaru stood no chance in this fight and as a result the Hyuuga clansman accidently killed him. Angered by his partner's death Kotetsu went into his next fight with the intention of killing the Hyuuga, but the instructor stopped him before he could. Kotetsu went on to win the tournament and become a Chuunin at age sixteen, he returned to Takigakure and once again began to do missions as a two man cell with Renkotsu.
[glow=green,2,300]Chuunin-Jounin[/glow]
The first several years after the Chuunin exams were relatively normal and uneventful in comparison to the average life of a shinobi. Kotetsu spent much of his off mission time training with the intentions of catching up to his sensei Renkotsu. It took a while but eventually Kotetsu had trained himself to the point that he could defeat Renkotsu in a sparring fight, now that he was strong enough the two man cell he was a part of began to take on more difficult B-ranked missions for the village, some times even some A rank missions. When Kotetsu was twenty there was a ninja by the name of Kensui who rivalled Kotetsu in strength whom Kotetsu had known for a while, Kensui was influenced by some group while out on a mission and decided to make an attempt to seal the villages secret scrolls and run. Kotetsu and Renkotsu were dispatched in persuit of him and eventually cought up to him. The ensuing fight led to the death of Renkotsu and Kensui. As a reward for his services to the village Kotetsu was granted the rank of Jounin by the Takigakure Lord.
[glow=green,2,300]Jounin-Lord[/glow]
As a newly appointed Jounin of Takigakure Kotetsu was assigned a new partner and given much more advanced missions then he was used to taking on. On his very first mission as a Jounin him and his partner crossed paths with a ninja whos name was located in the Takigakure Bingo Book as an A-rank Missing-Nin, taking their chances Kotetsu and his partner engaged the man, the battle resulted in a serious and nearly fatal injury for Kotetsu and the failure of their mission. After returning to the village Kotetsu was handed over to the medical ninja and with much work was brought to a non-life threatening state, a month after his operation Kotetsu was up and ready to go back out on missions but unfortuneatly the medical shinobi wouldn’t allow him to leave the hospital grounds. With this boundry set before him and keeping him from the outside world he had little do to other than train himself in the hospital yard, all day and the majority of the night he trained himself so that the next time he was given such an important mission he would be able to handle it with out a problem. He had failed missions before but this was different, it was his first mission as a Jounin and an important one at that. Keeping that incentive in mind he trained even harder once he was released from the hospital until his partner met up with him and informed Kotetsu that they had another mission. This time the mission went down without a problem and it rebuilt Kotetsu’s self-confidence, for the next year or so Kotetsu and his partner took on atleast a fifty missions without failing any of them. Eventually Kotetsu and his partner were assigned a mission to the same place that they had located the Missing-Nin on their first mission as a team, this was his chance to get revenge. Coincidentally the Missing-Nin who had almost killed Kotetsu a year plus earlier had been hired to assassinate the man they had to protect for the mission, during the assassination attempt Kotetsu managed to kill the Missing-Nin and bring his body back to Takigakure, after this Kotetsu was considered to be the strongest Jounin in Takigakure. For the next several years Kotetsu and his partner continued to carry out missions for the village and when not on missions Kotetsu continued to train. One of the missions he was assigned was an escort mission where he had to protect a high ranking political offical to a meeting that could very well upset a lot of powerful Shinobi groups, the missions itself was easy enough but upon his return Kotetsu learned that the Taki Lord had been killed while out on a diplomatic mission to another country. This came as a shock to Kotetsu, he didn’t think that of all people the Lord would be assassinated, shortly after the funeral the village’s council approached Kotetsu and asked him to fill the role of Taki Lord. Kotetsu although still deeply hurt by the loss of the Lord was abliged to take them up on their offer and become the new protecter of Takigakure.
RP Sample:
Kotetsu stood atop his home in Takigakure looking out over the village, it seemed so peaceful despite the constant war that went on just outside of it’s borders. It was times like these that Kotetsu liked, he could relax and watch over the people of his village who were going about theire daily lives in peace knowning that they were safe, it was that thought that gave him satisfaction in being the Lord of this village. Jumping down from his spot atop the house onto the balcony below, he stepped inside his office and gazed down at the mountain of work sitting on his desk for him to do. “Of course, even the greatest of pleasures have their downsides.” He said to himself
It was just too nice of a day to be sitting inside doing work, and although he knew he’d probably get in trouble for it later he decided to go out for a little walk through the streets of the village. He proceeded down the stairs of his house and out the front door onto the main street of the village that was filled with people going about their daily business. As he walked through the street he saw all kinds of people doing their daily chores, buying their dinner, and little children playing. It was this, the peace that he saw all around him as he walked that made Kotetsu want to do anything it takes to protect his village.
Did you read the rules: Yes
Cannon or Custom: Custom
Age: 28
Gender Male
Rank: Lord
Village/Country Takigakure
Personality: Kotetsu has many sides to him, at times he is a fighter who enjoys nothing more than fighting. Ever since his first mission he has enjoyed the thrill he gets while fighting, the more challenging the fight the more fun it is for him sometimes even to the point where he enjoys getting hurt. This side of him is not one that he likes to show his fellow villagers and he usually only allows himself to get this into a fight when the opponent is extremely powerful and there are very few of his fellow Shinobi around. Another side of Kotetsu which is the side he shows most often is his loyalty to his village. As the Takigakure lord he feels a great responsibility to fill the shoes of his predecessor and protect his village no matter what the cost even if that cost is his own life, when hes in this mood he is also a very kind and peaceful person who enjoys the silence and sirenity of peace. The last and least common of his mentalities is his personality that has come about due to his not so easy life, when Kotetsu is angered enough he begins to care little for anyone or anything other than himself and the one that is angering him. On the few ocassions that this side of him is shown he shows little regard for even his fellow Takigakure shinobi. Kotetsu doesn't exactly like this side of himself but because it was a side of himself that was developed through things that happened to him and not just an attitude he took up because he wanted to, its not something that he can get rid of. He does everything in his power never to let himself get this angry and a direct result of this effort is his usual calm and care-free personality.
Chakra Type: Suiton :: Raiton
Equipment/Weapons:
Twin Katanas. The blades of which are unlike normal katana because they are black and not silver
Appearance:
Height: 5'9
Weight: 140 lbs.
Hair: Blackish Teal
Skin: White
Eyes: Green
Cloths
Bottom: Kotetsu’s pants are a thing white cloth material they are held up by a black belt.
Top: A simple thin cloth overcoat with black trimming, underneath it is a similar colored tank top. His elbow to his hands are wrapped in a white tape.
Feet: On his feet Kotetesu wears black ninja sandals
Headband: his Takigakure headband is worn on his right arm.
General Appearance:
At first glance Kotetsu seems to be a fairly intimadating person with his evil appearance, although he is actually quite a nice person. The white and black clothing that he is usually seen wearing is similar to the outfit of the now deceased Takigakure Jounin who acted as a father to Kotetsu and enrolled him in the ninja academy as well as acted as his sensei for many years following that.
Jutsus:
Background/History:
[glow=Green,2,300]Birth-Early Childhood[/glow]
Kotetsu was born in kirigakure no sato to an ex-shinobi father and a normal civilian mother. When Renkai was born his father was very sick and he looked down upon him and decided that he would not allow this boy to grow up and follow in his footsteps as a shinobi. His father did this with the idea that his death was near and he did not want to leave his beloved wife alone, this is why he would not allow him to become a ninja. A few years after his birth Kotetsu's father died and him and his mother moved away to a nearby non-shinobi island village where Kotetsu spent most of his time playing with the local children.
[glow=Green,2,300]Late Childhood-Academy[/glow]
A little over five years after moving to his new home, a man going by the name of Kuri came into town saying he was a wanderer who needed a place to stay for a while. Kotetsu's mother offered the man a place to stay at their house and he stayed there for a year. Over the course of this year Kotetsu had grown to think of Kuri as his father since he knew little of his own father, until one day when a band of mercenaries came into town looking for the wanderer. By this time he had become a respected member of the community and the villagers refused to give him up, angered by the villagers the mercenaries began attacking the people. The villagers fought back with what they had and the fight lasted several days until the mercenaries had found Kuri and killed him. The majority of the villagers were dead and the mercenaries were pillagin the town, among their spoils from the village was Kotetsu who they planned to sell to a traveling company for a little extra cash. When they got back to the mainland Kotetsu was sold off and forced to join a traveling merchant on his way to the ninja village of Takigakure. They traveled for several days before reaching the village, the old merchant had some buisness to discuss with their current lord and left Kotetsu to watch his belonings. Despite the fact that it was his job Kotetsu ran and hid himself in the back alleys of the town, he wouldn't stand for being sold off to some old man for slave labor. Kotetsu spent several days living in the back alleys and stealing what he needed from the villagers until one day he was cought by someone his own age and challenged to a fight, Kotetsu accepted his challenge and beat the kid in a fight but not before catching the attention of a man passing by named Renkotsu who thought that Kotetsu had a great deal of potential and asked him if the would like to be enrolled in the villages ninja academy. Kotetsu was excited by this and took the man up on his offer immediately. Before long Kotetsu had passed all of the courses in the academy and graduated surprisingly fast for someone who had no exposure to ninja before-hand.
[glow=Green,2,300]Genin-Chuunin Exams[/glow]
Following his graduation into the ranks of the Taki shinobi, Kotetsu was placed on a three man team consisting of his sensei Renkotsu who was the man who had enrolled him in the academy when he was a younger and one fellow academy graduate named Homaru. With his team Kotetsu was given several mundane tasks to carry out all over Takigakure, even though he hadn't yet learned much of fighting these chores allowed him to learn alot about the lives of people living in a shinobi populated area, something his father had worked so hard to prevent him from learning about as a child. One year after graduation Kotetsu and his team were given their first mission to leave the country and help a small village not far from Takigakure, this would be Kotetsu's first time leaving the village for a mission and it excited him greatly. The mission was to go to the village and act as guards for a meeting between two buisness partners who were being targeted by a group of bandits. On the mission Kotetsu experienced his first real fight and ever since had been looking for fights, it awoke him to the thrill of a fight something that he came to crave. Him and his team carried out missions all over for the next few years until the Chunnin exams. The Chuunin exams were being held in Kumogakure and Kotetsu's team along with four other teams from Takigakure were sent to participate in these exams. In the first stage of the exams (the written stage) all of the Takigakure teams made it through, the second stage was a fight in order to narrow down the numbers during the fights two of the four Takigakure teams were completely knocked out, then came the final stage where the remaining fighters would have to fight in a bracket style tournament. Kotetsu was paired against a ninja from Konoha in the first round, it was a long and tough battle but he managed to move on to the next round. The second fight was Homaru's (his partner) fight, he was matched against another konoha nin of the Hyuuga clan, Homaru stood no chance in this fight and as a result the Hyuuga clansman accidently killed him. Angered by his partner's death Kotetsu went into his next fight with the intention of killing the Hyuuga, but the instructor stopped him before he could. Kotetsu went on to win the tournament and become a Chuunin at age sixteen, he returned to Takigakure and once again began to do missions as a two man cell with Renkotsu.
[glow=green,2,300]Chuunin-Jounin[/glow]
The first several years after the Chuunin exams were relatively normal and uneventful in comparison to the average life of a shinobi. Kotetsu spent much of his off mission time training with the intentions of catching up to his sensei Renkotsu. It took a while but eventually Kotetsu had trained himself to the point that he could defeat Renkotsu in a sparring fight, now that he was strong enough the two man cell he was a part of began to take on more difficult B-ranked missions for the village, some times even some A rank missions. When Kotetsu was twenty there was a ninja by the name of Kensui who rivalled Kotetsu in strength whom Kotetsu had known for a while, Kensui was influenced by some group while out on a mission and decided to make an attempt to seal the villages secret scrolls and run. Kotetsu and Renkotsu were dispatched in persuit of him and eventually cought up to him. The ensuing fight led to the death of Renkotsu and Kensui. As a reward for his services to the village Kotetsu was granted the rank of Jounin by the Takigakure Lord.
[glow=green,2,300]Jounin-Lord[/glow]
As a newly appointed Jounin of Takigakure Kotetsu was assigned a new partner and given much more advanced missions then he was used to taking on. On his very first mission as a Jounin him and his partner crossed paths with a ninja whos name was located in the Takigakure Bingo Book as an A-rank Missing-Nin, taking their chances Kotetsu and his partner engaged the man, the battle resulted in a serious and nearly fatal injury for Kotetsu and the failure of their mission. After returning to the village Kotetsu was handed over to the medical ninja and with much work was brought to a non-life threatening state, a month after his operation Kotetsu was up and ready to go back out on missions but unfortuneatly the medical shinobi wouldn’t allow him to leave the hospital grounds. With this boundry set before him and keeping him from the outside world he had little do to other than train himself in the hospital yard, all day and the majority of the night he trained himself so that the next time he was given such an important mission he would be able to handle it with out a problem. He had failed missions before but this was different, it was his first mission as a Jounin and an important one at that. Keeping that incentive in mind he trained even harder once he was released from the hospital until his partner met up with him and informed Kotetsu that they had another mission. This time the mission went down without a problem and it rebuilt Kotetsu’s self-confidence, for the next year or so Kotetsu and his partner took on atleast a fifty missions without failing any of them. Eventually Kotetsu and his partner were assigned a mission to the same place that they had located the Missing-Nin on their first mission as a team, this was his chance to get revenge. Coincidentally the Missing-Nin who had almost killed Kotetsu a year plus earlier had been hired to assassinate the man they had to protect for the mission, during the assassination attempt Kotetsu managed to kill the Missing-Nin and bring his body back to Takigakure, after this Kotetsu was considered to be the strongest Jounin in Takigakure. For the next several years Kotetsu and his partner continued to carry out missions for the village and when not on missions Kotetsu continued to train. One of the missions he was assigned was an escort mission where he had to protect a high ranking political offical to a meeting that could very well upset a lot of powerful Shinobi groups, the missions itself was easy enough but upon his return Kotetsu learned that the Taki Lord had been killed while out on a diplomatic mission to another country. This came as a shock to Kotetsu, he didn’t think that of all people the Lord would be assassinated, shortly after the funeral the village’s council approached Kotetsu and asked him to fill the role of Taki Lord. Kotetsu although still deeply hurt by the loss of the Lord was abliged to take them up on their offer and become the new protecter of Takigakure.
RP Sample:
Kotetsu stood atop his home in Takigakure looking out over the village, it seemed so peaceful despite the constant war that went on just outside of it’s borders. It was times like these that Kotetsu liked, he could relax and watch over the people of his village who were going about theire daily lives in peace knowning that they were safe, it was that thought that gave him satisfaction in being the Lord of this village. Jumping down from his spot atop the house onto the balcony below, he stepped inside his office and gazed down at the mountain of work sitting on his desk for him to do. “Of course, even the greatest of pleasures have their downsides.” He said to himself
It was just too nice of a day to be sitting inside doing work, and although he knew he’d probably get in trouble for it later he decided to go out for a little walk through the streets of the village. He proceeded down the stairs of his house and out the front door onto the main street of the village that was filled with people going about their daily business. As he walked through the street he saw all kinds of people doing their daily chores, buying their dinner, and little children playing. It was this, the peace that he saw all around him as he walked that made Kotetsu want to do anything it takes to protect his village.
Did you read the rules: Yes
Cannon or Custom: Custom