[ooc] Copy of Application
PLAYER INFO
Name: Elle
Age: 19
LJ username: otilu
Email address/AIM: Got Materia
How did you find us? asdfjkl;
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Sasuke Uchiha
Series/Source: Naruto (not Shippuuden)
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Species in canon: Human (+bloodline limit)
Appearance: As a child, Sasuke is naturally fairly short. He has all the appearance of a distinguished clan member: dark eyes, pale skin and fine features that can sometimes tip over into ‘feminine’ when he isn’t scowling or being generally sullen. His hair is a mess of bluish black spikes that generally manage to stay swept back into some semblance of order at the back of his head, and he pays little enough attention to his appearance that his bangs are choppy and vary in length from week to week depending on when he last went at them with a pair of scissors or a knife. He has a tattoo on his neck: three comma-shaped marks surrounded by tiny symbols. This used to be a curse and its limiting seal, but is purely cosmetic in the City. Apart from that, he just looks like your average athletic twelve-year-old.
Personality: Sasuke is above all a loner by choice. Being kept above his peers by his circumstances and his ‘elite’ status suited his single-minded ambition: bonds slow you down, relationships distract you from what must be done. He rejects any claim of familiarity or friendship, the only exception to this rule being Team Seven and his eventual and hard-won acknowledgement of Naruto as his best friend and rival. Despite this, he works well in a team if given a goal to aim towards. That aim generally does have to tie in to his personal ambition to really receive his attention, though. Starting from the massacre, his main goal has been getting revenge for his clan, combined with becoming strong enough to protect those close to him. Failure or weakness will trigger an aggressive response, either manifesting as a sullen rivalry with the victor or self-destructive introspection.
He is distant and cold to the point of rudeness, and answers curtly and concisely if he must. Tending to avoid honorifics altogether, there are very few people who have earned his respect. He can occasionally be sarcastic or amused, usually at the expense of others, and will criticise or taunt peers when the opportunity presents itself, though he limits himself to Naruto and Sakura in the series, this being the extent of his social network. He has shown outstanding acts of self-sacrifice through the series in protecting his teammates, but always dismisses them by saying they weren’t conscious actions but reflex. Despite this dismissal of relationships, he has formed strong bonds with his team.
Strengths: With the highest scores across the board in his academy class, Sasuke is one of the most advanced and talented ninja of his year. Although ninjutsu and genjutsu are both useless within the City, as is his sharingan, he retains his memory of combat styles and his athletic build, thus making him a fast, dangerous fighter for a twelve-year-old. His memory remains impressive despite now having no bloodline, and his perceptions are sharp. Considering the concentration of talented adult fighters, his main advantage is that of being underestimated as one of the youngest residents in the City.
Weaknesses: He has, frankly, all the social ability of a rock. Intent on self-improvement and vengeance, he spent little time encouraging friendships or alliances, and so has little experience of actually being a child. His aloof and sarcastic personality, coming from a kid, can be seen as obnoxious or precocious by those unfamiliar with him. It must also be said that he is only twelve years old, and thus both short and weak in comparison to the majority of those he’ll be meeting. His actions can be impulsive if humiliated, scared or angry: all of which occur with increased frequency in comparison to his older personality. Combined with the discipline chip, this could lead to some painful incidents.
Background: Sasuke had a mostly happy early childhood, as the second son of Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto. Despite living in the shadow of his prodigious elder brother Itachi and struggling to gain recognition from their father, Sasuke grew up idolising his brother and was a happy, vivacious little boy.
Tragedy struck when he was eight years old. Returning home late, he found the Uchiha compound dark and utterly silent. Exploring, he found first his slaughtered clan strewn about the streets, and then the dead bodies of his parents, freshly killed, with his older brother standing over them. He was forced to watch their deaths firsthand through his brother’s genjutsu technique, which caused significant mental trauma and ensured that he would remember it for a very, very long time. Itachi explained that the ultimate sharingan power, the ‘mangekyou sharingan’, would only manifest in those who had killed their closest friend. He commanded Sasuke to live a ‘long and unsightly life’ and gain that power, in order to then come to him and battle. With the knowledge that he must now hate Itachi and live to kill him, and with his whole world in pieces around him, Sasuke passed out.
Betrayed, in pain and now completely alone, he woke up in the hospital as the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan still in Konoha. He then continued to live in the empty district through his academy life. He was always seen as the ‘cool’, attractive boy by the girls in the class, and many boys resented him for his looks, skill and popularity. Sasuke himself only concentrated on one thing - becoming stronger; an avenger - and ignored his classmates. This nearly caused him to fail the final genin test set by Kakashi, when he didn’t consider working with Naruto or Sakura to retrieve the bells, leaving them to fend for themselves in case they got in his way. He eventually failed and was reprimanded about his methods despite his obvious skill, and so helped Naruto when later commanded not to, causing them to win the actual test. Thus he was assigned to Team Seven. This was the first time Sasuke actually realised or was even shown that working as a team is sometimes better than trying to go it alone.
On their first major mission, Sasuke both awakened his sharingan and put himself in the way of several fatal attack meant for his teammates, one of which left him in a near-death state. By this point it had become reflex to do so - he claimed his body moved on its own. He and his team steadily grew closer, though the air of tension only increased and he began to treat them as rivals rather than baggage. The training that took place during their travels had the unforeseen advantage of Sasuke learning to rely on his teammates, both for advice and help in and out of battle.
It was in the Chuunin exams that Sasuke realised a fundamental flaw of the sharingan - if the body cannot keep up with the eyes, the sharingan is useless. Too arrogant, Sasuke lost totally to the taijutsu-user Rock Lee. In the Forest of Death, they were hunted down and attacked by Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, who desired Sasuke’s body and bloodline limit as a base for his possession technique. He injected Sasuke with cursed blood, giving him the Cursed Seal of Heaven. This seal amplified negative feelings until he would go into killing rages - he nearly maimed another genin before being stopped by Sakura. Sasuke fell into fevered hallucinations, wherein he was confronted with a version of himself who accused him of being weak and unable to protect those close to him, revealing one of Sasuke’s motivations to gain power other than revenge. This was also Orochimaru’s way of cutting Sasuke off from the positive influence of his teammates, especially considering the strong friendship developing between him and Naruto. The seal returned in the preliminary matches, although Sasuke managed to defeat his opponent whilst suppressing the seal by using no chakra and pure willpower. He also copied and altered one of Rock Lee’s lotus forms, at significant cost to his health. Kakashi banned him from watching the rest of the matches, and instead sealed the Curse and placed him in hospital with an Anbu guard, lest Orochimaru return for him.
The final exam showed his first major improvement, after a month’s training. After pursuing the Sand-nin from the stadium following their attack, he soon reached his limit and - enraged by Gaara’s taunts - overcame Kakashi’s seal and used the curse seal to gain more power. This action caused him to collapse, and only the timely arrival of the other two members of Team Seven saved him. Sakura was taken out when she put herself between Sasuke and Gaara, and when Sasuke tried to step back into the fight to, as he put it, stop any more of his precious people being hurt or killed, Naruto managed to neatly pull the battle away from Sasuke, who was forced to watch in awe - and anger - at Naruto’s sudden increase in power. Life, however, returned to relative normality once the invasion force had been defeated. He is ‘taken’ from his timeline shortly after attending the funeral for the village leader, the Sandaime, and returning to active duty as a genin.
Third-person RP sample: The lift came to an abrupt stop just as the haze cleared from Sasuke’s vision and finally let wild thoughts about illusions and traps clamour for attention in his waking mind. To his humiliation, he only managed two steps towards the door before his legs gave out, a mixture of tension and- drugs, he decided. It had to be drugs. There had been several chapters in his old textbooks on the various compounds normally used on weapons, in darts and in food, and the Uchiha records had been darkly informative on the subject besides. He waited for a moment, in case it was a joke or a test, and someone in a headband and jacket was standing around the corner with a clipboard making notes on reaction times and perceptive ability. He strained his ears for the telltale sounds of company, tried to detect anything off about the air other than its stale quality. Nothing. The only thing he gained was the knowledge that he wasn’t outdoors and the shock of realising he wasn’t in his own clothes, and missing all of his equipment. Later, he promised himself, When you’re not out in the open and can think straight.
His legs were steady again, he noticed, and so he got to his feet just as the doors began to close again, enough time and space left to slip through onto the street beyond. Now what? He kept his back to the metal pillar as he examined the area with narrowed eyes. Nothing for it but to look for the others. Sakura might have noticed something he hadn’t, and for some reason it felt distinctly odd for them not to have been there when he woke up.
Anything else? Nnnope.
Name: Elle
Age: 19
LJ username: otilu
Email address/AIM: Got Materia
How did you find us? asdfjkl;
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Sasuke Uchiha
Series/Source: Naruto (not Shippuuden)
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Species in canon: Human (+bloodline limit)
Appearance: As a child, Sasuke is naturally fairly short. He has all the appearance of a distinguished clan member: dark eyes, pale skin and fine features that can sometimes tip over into ‘feminine’ when he isn’t scowling or being generally sullen. His hair is a mess of bluish black spikes that generally manage to stay swept back into some semblance of order at the back of his head, and he pays little enough attention to his appearance that his bangs are choppy and vary in length from week to week depending on when he last went at them with a pair of scissors or a knife. He has a tattoo on his neck: three comma-shaped marks surrounded by tiny symbols. This used to be a curse and its limiting seal, but is purely cosmetic in the City. Apart from that, he just looks like your average athletic twelve-year-old.
Personality: Sasuke is above all a loner by choice. Being kept above his peers by his circumstances and his ‘elite’ status suited his single-minded ambition: bonds slow you down, relationships distract you from what must be done. He rejects any claim of familiarity or friendship, the only exception to this rule being Team Seven and his eventual and hard-won acknowledgement of Naruto as his best friend and rival. Despite this, he works well in a team if given a goal to aim towards. That aim generally does have to tie in to his personal ambition to really receive his attention, though. Starting from the massacre, his main goal has been getting revenge for his clan, combined with becoming strong enough to protect those close to him. Failure or weakness will trigger an aggressive response, either manifesting as a sullen rivalry with the victor or self-destructive introspection.
He is distant and cold to the point of rudeness, and answers curtly and concisely if he must. Tending to avoid honorifics altogether, there are very few people who have earned his respect. He can occasionally be sarcastic or amused, usually at the expense of others, and will criticise or taunt peers when the opportunity presents itself, though he limits himself to Naruto and Sakura in the series, this being the extent of his social network. He has shown outstanding acts of self-sacrifice through the series in protecting his teammates, but always dismisses them by saying they weren’t conscious actions but reflex. Despite this dismissal of relationships, he has formed strong bonds with his team.
Strengths: With the highest scores across the board in his academy class, Sasuke is one of the most advanced and talented ninja of his year. Although ninjutsu and genjutsu are both useless within the City, as is his sharingan, he retains his memory of combat styles and his athletic build, thus making him a fast, dangerous fighter for a twelve-year-old. His memory remains impressive despite now having no bloodline, and his perceptions are sharp. Considering the concentration of talented adult fighters, his main advantage is that of being underestimated as one of the youngest residents in the City.
Weaknesses: He has, frankly, all the social ability of a rock. Intent on self-improvement and vengeance, he spent little time encouraging friendships or alliances, and so has little experience of actually being a child. His aloof and sarcastic personality, coming from a kid, can be seen as obnoxious or precocious by those unfamiliar with him. It must also be said that he is only twelve years old, and thus both short and weak in comparison to the majority of those he’ll be meeting. His actions can be impulsive if humiliated, scared or angry: all of which occur with increased frequency in comparison to his older personality. Combined with the discipline chip, this could lead to some painful incidents.
Background: Sasuke had a mostly happy early childhood, as the second son of Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto. Despite living in the shadow of his prodigious elder brother Itachi and struggling to gain recognition from their father, Sasuke grew up idolising his brother and was a happy, vivacious little boy.
Tragedy struck when he was eight years old. Returning home late, he found the Uchiha compound dark and utterly silent. Exploring, he found first his slaughtered clan strewn about the streets, and then the dead bodies of his parents, freshly killed, with his older brother standing over them. He was forced to watch their deaths firsthand through his brother’s genjutsu technique, which caused significant mental trauma and ensured that he would remember it for a very, very long time. Itachi explained that the ultimate sharingan power, the ‘mangekyou sharingan’, would only manifest in those who had killed their closest friend. He commanded Sasuke to live a ‘long and unsightly life’ and gain that power, in order to then come to him and battle. With the knowledge that he must now hate Itachi and live to kill him, and with his whole world in pieces around him, Sasuke passed out.
Betrayed, in pain and now completely alone, he woke up in the hospital as the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan still in Konoha. He then continued to live in the empty district through his academy life. He was always seen as the ‘cool’, attractive boy by the girls in the class, and many boys resented him for his looks, skill and popularity. Sasuke himself only concentrated on one thing - becoming stronger; an avenger - and ignored his classmates. This nearly caused him to fail the final genin test set by Kakashi, when he didn’t consider working with Naruto or Sakura to retrieve the bells, leaving them to fend for themselves in case they got in his way. He eventually failed and was reprimanded about his methods despite his obvious skill, and so helped Naruto when later commanded not to, causing them to win the actual test. Thus he was assigned to Team Seven. This was the first time Sasuke actually realised or was even shown that working as a team is sometimes better than trying to go it alone.
On their first major mission, Sasuke both awakened his sharingan and put himself in the way of several fatal attack meant for his teammates, one of which left him in a near-death state. By this point it had become reflex to do so - he claimed his body moved on its own. He and his team steadily grew closer, though the air of tension only increased and he began to treat them as rivals rather than baggage. The training that took place during their travels had the unforeseen advantage of Sasuke learning to rely on his teammates, both for advice and help in and out of battle.
It was in the Chuunin exams that Sasuke realised a fundamental flaw of the sharingan - if the body cannot keep up with the eyes, the sharingan is useless. Too arrogant, Sasuke lost totally to the taijutsu-user Rock Lee. In the Forest of Death, they were hunted down and attacked by Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, who desired Sasuke’s body and bloodline limit as a base for his possession technique. He injected Sasuke with cursed blood, giving him the Cursed Seal of Heaven. This seal amplified negative feelings until he would go into killing rages - he nearly maimed another genin before being stopped by Sakura. Sasuke fell into fevered hallucinations, wherein he was confronted with a version of himself who accused him of being weak and unable to protect those close to him, revealing one of Sasuke’s motivations to gain power other than revenge. This was also Orochimaru’s way of cutting Sasuke off from the positive influence of his teammates, especially considering the strong friendship developing between him and Naruto. The seal returned in the preliminary matches, although Sasuke managed to defeat his opponent whilst suppressing the seal by using no chakra and pure willpower. He also copied and altered one of Rock Lee’s lotus forms, at significant cost to his health. Kakashi banned him from watching the rest of the matches, and instead sealed the Curse and placed him in hospital with an Anbu guard, lest Orochimaru return for him.
The final exam showed his first major improvement, after a month’s training. After pursuing the Sand-nin from the stadium following their attack, he soon reached his limit and - enraged by Gaara’s taunts - overcame Kakashi’s seal and used the curse seal to gain more power. This action caused him to collapse, and only the timely arrival of the other two members of Team Seven saved him. Sakura was taken out when she put herself between Sasuke and Gaara, and when Sasuke tried to step back into the fight to, as he put it, stop any more of his precious people being hurt or killed, Naruto managed to neatly pull the battle away from Sasuke, who was forced to watch in awe - and anger - at Naruto’s sudden increase in power. Life, however, returned to relative normality once the invasion force had been defeated. He is ‘taken’ from his timeline shortly after attending the funeral for the village leader, the Sandaime, and returning to active duty as a genin.
Third-person RP sample: The lift came to an abrupt stop just as the haze cleared from Sasuke’s vision and finally let wild thoughts about illusions and traps clamour for attention in his waking mind. To his humiliation, he only managed two steps towards the door before his legs gave out, a mixture of tension and- drugs, he decided. It had to be drugs. There had been several chapters in his old textbooks on the various compounds normally used on weapons, in darts and in food, and the Uchiha records had been darkly informative on the subject besides. He waited for a moment, in case it was a joke or a test, and someone in a headband and jacket was standing around the corner with a clipboard making notes on reaction times and perceptive ability. He strained his ears for the telltale sounds of company, tried to detect anything off about the air other than its stale quality. Nothing. The only thing he gained was the knowledge that he wasn’t outdoors and the shock of realising he wasn’t in his own clothes, and missing all of his equipment. Later, he promised himself, When you’re not out in the open and can think straight.
His legs were steady again, he noticed, and so he got to his feet just as the doors began to close again, enough time and space left to slip through onto the street beyond. Now what? He kept his back to the metal pillar as he examined the area with narrowed eyes. Nothing for it but to look for the others. Sakura might have noticed something he hadn’t, and for some reason it felt distinctly odd for them not to have been there when he woke up.
Anything else? Nnnope.