Basics! Kedōin, Shin
Age: 28
Birthdate: February 14th
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Rank: Jounin (S Rank) || ANBU
Village: Iwagakure
Clan: KedōinElement(s): Raiton || Fuuton
Specialties: Ninjutsu || Medical Ninjutsu
Special Characteristics: Name: Enhanced Smelling
Type: Supplementary
Description: Shin has an enhanced his sense of smell that within a range of fifteen (15) meters, he can track a person by smell alone if need be, allowing him to locate them within the range by their smell. Once a target is chosen, only that target can be tracked for remainder of the duration.
Name: Hidden Stomach
Type: Supplementary
Description: Shin can swallow any item or scroll for safekeeping. The item or scroll can be retrieved at any time by reaching into the mouth and pulling it out by the user. Anyone else trying to get the item or scroll once swallowed by the user can only get it by opening up the user’s stomach. The user can hold up to 3 items maximum in one thread. Items can only be one rank higher (in reference to the rank of the shinobi) than their own rank.
Appearance!
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 187 lbs.
Hair Color: Dark auburn hair with a reddish hue that is seen more when the hit by intense light. The hair goes just past his neck and is usually tied up in a ponytail to keep it out of his way.
Eye Color: Dull brown, pupil-less eyes that seem to grow darker in tint when his mood darkens while getting lighter and brighter when his mood also brightens.
General Description: Motoichi is of average height. His traditional Japanese wardrobe consists of a modified white kataginu with red trimming, a red bandage-like obi, red hand guards, and a gray hakama. While Motoichi is more commonly seen in a long black-and-white sleeveless jacket lined with the same red of his wafuku, red hand guards of a Western style to match, a white belt to hold his sword, and black trousers and boots.
His physical appearance is average, having only a fit body to peak his attractiveness, though he does not look too handsome nor too unappealing and has a rather forgetful face. This feature is advantageous for disguising, allowing Motoichi to not have to make such an effort to hide any identifying features from others.
He has a significant scar across his stomach from a failed attempt at seppuku from a quarrel which Motoichi never addresses to anyone why he made the attempt.
About You!
Personality: Shin Kedōin is one of the strictest, easy-going shinobi you will ever come across. Meaning he is very easy-going, but on that scale, can be rather strict when it comes down to it. He has a rough, playful disposition with his friends and can be stubborn in his ways. He is always observant, being very knowledgeable and studious, always wanting to know everything there is about any subject. Nothing and no one is free from his studious, ever-watching eyes.
Shin isn't one to randomly start fights, only wishing to fight after thorough research on his opponent has been made. Fighting an unknown enemy is the very worst position in his opinion. So when he is sent on missions, he makes sure to have all the information needed to carry it out. He likes things to be calculated. Never taking a risk that isn't worth his while.
He also will show in battle that he has a bloodthirsty (in a literal sense) side, as he often licks his weapons clean of blood after a fight. Beyond this, he can be slightly sadistic and is not the most sympathetic of people. However, he does truly care about his friends and allies. Shin is a very strict and blunt person, always spitting out bad news feeling it best to acknowledge the bad immediately. He also is highly self-confident of his own abilities, frequently opting to face a powerful opponent single-handedly or to continue a dangerous mission alone. Yet he will never boast about his skill, outwardly, finding that it is better for people to underestimate him.
Likes: Shin Kedōin likes getting to know people very well, so well in fact that it borders on creepy. This is a flaw and a strong point as he uses this information to always know the people around him. He also enjoys running around on rooftops, trees, or to be somewhere in an elevated position. The more he can see and the closer he is to the heavens, the happier he feels. Shin also takes great pride in his seppuku scar, claiming that it’s a symbol of bravery and loyalty (though he won't acknowledge that it is from seppuku).
Shin likes to study his opponents while in the process of battle. Along with the studying process, he likes to think a lot about situations and keep majority of them at hand. His intellect is such that even most high-rank ninja above him, in experience and age, harbor respect for. His calm and collected nature allows him to easily deduce the basic idea of his opponent's skill in battle to figure out their strength and weaknesses, something that Shin likes the most about himself.
Another trait that Shin likes about himself is the ability and the power of the mind. He has shown himself to be a crafty and cunning man in his brief life. The most noticeable trait that he gets from his mother is his ability to deceive and manipulate others around them in multiple manners. He has a great talent for analyzing and observing everything in his presence, allowing him to quickly understand a person's pattern of thinking and better manipulate them. Thinking of the right words to say to get into someone's head and have them thinking otherwise is the one thing that Shin likes to often do.
Shin's favorite foods are sweet bean soup and dango.
Dislikes: Shin doesn't like facing anything that he doesn't know. In his mind, a situation in which he has to fight an unknown enemy or be lost in an area is the worst possible situation. He dislikes the rotten-minded, the pigs of the world and also finds women that try to seduce, using their beauty to manipulate and trick. He values his life, and sees our time here as a precious gift, to him, the submissive, lazy personality is pathetic, pitiful, and unforgivable. Shin also strongly dislikes ignorant fools who rush in to battle on a whim. Overconfidence in one’s abilities is a very poor trait in his opinion and one that Shin makes sure he never has, always teaching others not to be overconfident and resenting any that are.
His least favorite type of food is any and all spicy-tasting food.
Motivations: Loyalty. Shin has an undying loyalty to his village that, of course, won't stop until he indeed dies. This loyalty is not exactly centered to the village as a whole, but those within it. He is loyal to the village as long as it means he can be loyal to his friends, and as most of his friends are from his village, the two coincide. Yet this may not always be the case, and for that it must be said that he would be more loyal to his friends and family than to the village as its own being.
Training. Through blood and sweat, Shin dedicates his life to training, to become better and stronger so that his discipline might reflect his hope for the world. Training keeps him sane, always clearing his mind and making difficult thoughts easier for him. Training allows him to study his own movements so that he can become faster and stronger. Pain motivates himself to do more and train harder; feeling the physical pain strives him to go on so that he can resist more, fight a little bit more, and be that much harder for others who may try to break him.
Fears: Shin Kedōin is a man of petty fears, at least that’s what he tells himself. He fears closed and crowded spaces, since he finds them hard to escape from. Shin also hates silence, and rather likes to hear something in the background, always fearing in times of complete silence that he will be attacked or ambushed. This correlates into his other fear of not knowing all there is about something. Running into traps and ambushes show only that there was a detail missed, or that his information was wrong. He also has an odd fear of insects. The odd thing about this fear is that it is coupled with a strong admiration of them too. He is fascinated by them, but if they come near him he will do his best to not let one touch him.
History: - Youth:
Shin was born to a family of chuunin who served the Tsuchikage and Iwagakure no Sato. His family was lax and carefree, much like he once was. Shin trained seldomly for most of his life, which is the main reason behind his short time of being a genin. While in the Academy, he was highly recommended and often talked of when the most promising students were discussed by the academy instructors. However, after his graduation from the academy at eight years old his promising attitude and skill took a dive.
Many of the village’s leaders who had heard of the boy were greatly disappointed and displeased by the sudden change. None of them ever discovered what caused it, not even Shin's parents.
Only known to himself, the reason for Shin's dropping motivation after graduating from the academy was his finding of a young, dead genin outside of the village. He had found the boy, not that much older than he was at the time, slain by kunai and burnt to a rotten pulp near a flowing side vent of a volcano. The real about the encounter was that the horribly maimed genin was still alive, and that the boy repeatedly cried out in pain.
Having watched the boy die before him, Shin returned to the village saddened, having seen death for the first time. This sparked something inside of him and Sin searched for the identity of the boy he met. After learning the boy’s identity, he grew depressed as the boy had graduated in the top of his class, just as he had, and because of his talents was placed on a high rank mission, just like Shin was to be placed by the village leaders, one that ultimately failed and caused his death. Finding this information, Shin decided to train less and less until his elders no longer favored him and his skills.
Two years later, a quarrel with his father erupted that changed Shin's perspective of the world and himself. They argued about death and whether it should be feared or not. Shin believed that only a death without a purpose should be feared, knowing in his heart that the genin he saw die years ago died for a fruitless cause, pushed to an early grave simply because the village leaders thought the boy could handle it. His father argued that death, no matter the reason behind it, was to be feared. The argument escalated so far that Shin took his father’s tanto and attempted seppuku right there. The attempt failed as his father and mother quickly took him to the hospital.
The seppuku attempt changed Shin's view only somewhat, having come so close to dying that he realized the worth of living to the fullest. He saw the error of wasting his days away instead of training and forever vowed to fight for his life. This applies to how Shin still distrusts authority and doesn’t wish to boast about his skills, still fearing a pointless death put on by his superiors. Even though the failed seppuku attempt nearly killed him and his view of death had changed, Shin still remains proud of his scar, knowing that it was the force that created the change within him (and also that he had proved to his father that he was right).
- Genin to Spec. Jounin:
Getting back into the fray of things at ten years old, Shin set off on a string of missions that he was able to request himself. He made it a point that he would be the one in charge of most of the missions he took. There would always be times when missions would be thrown at him, but he learned that this was the way things were. Secretly, he always made a promise to himself that if he felt the mission too much or something that he could not bring himself to carry out, that he could say no.
Having deliberately slowed his training, he put his efforts back into his discipline as he had gotten rather lazy in the two years he basically took off. He had a lot to prove to the village elders as well as the Tsuchikage at the time so that they knew he was back and ready to take on missions again. And prove he did, for he made Chunin by 16, followed by Spec. Jounin at 18.
During his years as a Spec. Jounin, he had proven himself a capable shinobi and made his application for the Hidden Rock's ANBU black ops. Coming into the culmination of his prime as an ANBU operative for the next five years at that rank. Seeking to please his peers and family and the village leaders, Shin set himself to find the best niche for him; espionage.
- The Self-Made Promotion:
As an ANBU operative, Shin carried out several covert missions. Yet one, elevated his rank to Jounin. He took a simple surveillance mission of watching a well-known politician in the Land of Earth that worked closely under the Daimyo as one of his personal advisor. While keeping watch under a disguise, Shin learned that the man he was to watch over was planning an assassination and coup attempt on the Daimyo.
Seeing the danger, Shin took the next opportunity he could to flee from his post and reported back to his ANBU captain. He told the captain what he had heard, that the Daimyo was in danger and that the personal advisor had said to have hired an assassin. It was then that he was told that he was to be the hired assassin and that it was in the interest of the village to replace the Daimyo with the personal advisor he had been watching over.
He returned, but grew reluctant about his new orders. The Daimyo-to-be wasn't as good a man as the current Daimyo was. Even though he had orders to follow through, there had been a lot of things Shin had learned of the man. Things he didn't think were good for a new Daimyo to have in his past. It was then that Shin formulated his own plan.
Switching targets, set up a group of bandits by pretending to be their leader, and having them raid the Advisor's home. During the night raid of the bandits, Shin played his role as the ANBU operative guarding the advisor and his family. Having orchaestrated the raid with the bandits, he was able to effectively stop the attack but at a grave cost. Explosive tags had crippled the building and the advisor had gotten killed in the crashing rubble of the home. Shin managed to keep the rest of the family alive and soon had the group of bandits all taken care of.
Shin once again returned to his ANBU captain to report the news of the advisor's unfortunate death at the hands of the bandit's night raid. The Daimyo was then allowed to remain as the new prospect had failed to come to fruition. Shin's 'reported' actions, however, were enough to have him promoted to Jounin. To this day, it is seen that Shin was a hero for having saved the advisor's wife and two children and that the Advisor's death was not his fault but poor luck.
Upon promotion, Jounin took it bitterly knowing it was based on a lie but found comfort in that the current Daimyo was still ruling. His actions have only seemed to help the country, and it has been five years since the incident in which Shin didn't follow orders.
RP Sample: Shin stood silently in the cemetery. Head down, eyes closed. The wind blew softly over the grassy knoll, birds chirped from their trees, a wind chime jingled its tune as the man stood in mourning. Fresh daisies rested softly on top of the rough, granite gravestone. The imperfections of the rock glimmering in the high noon sun.
Somehow, he could feel the world moving on. The earth below him growing around the tombstone, the birds feeding their chirping babies, the pollen and cotton seeds gliding through the air to plant more plants anew. Life continues on, death remains stagnant. Saying prayers now for those left behind, buried beneath his feet, seemed petty and futile. Wherever the dead rested, shallow words from the living would do them no good. Yet still, Shin began whispering a prayer over the grave.
Behind the man, two shinobi appeared dressed in dark clothes and suited up with gray armor. For a minute they just stood there, a few paces back as they let him finish his prayer. They respectfully approached Motoichi, not bothering him for a few moments before softly calling out to him over his shoulder. "Shin, it's time to go."
He nodded once and they all flickered out, their bodies fading in the sunlight until just the daisies remained. The soft, white petals rested upon the gravestone while the wind took hold of the pollen, spreading and filling the engraved lettering, spelling out in yellow color one young genin's name, 'Eichi Oshiro.'
Faceclaim: Harada, Sanosuke from Hakuoki Shinsengumi Kitan
Subject: Kedōin, Shin 
Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:47 pm
