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[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Tenten (No canon last name)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Fandom: Naruto. She's taken from the latest manga chapter of her appearance, with the anime implemented in her background. This request to implement the anime canon for her background and evidence of her personality has been granted. So that would make it both, I guess.
Timeline: 541. After defeating 2 of Kakuzu's masks, and having her charka drained from the Basshonen (a fan that can control all 5 elements but costs an absurd amount of chakra), Tenten is seen plotting with Team 10
History: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tenten
Character Personality: Tenten is described in the official databooks - penned by Kishimoto himself - as a die-hard researcher, a busybody, and a woman with the tact of a sledgehammer, and rightfully so. In the brief appearances we get, she's shown to be totally invasive and investigative. This is seen in the anime where Naruto fakes his death, to the knowledge of himself and Neji. Tenten is kept oblivious to the whole situation, and when she sees Naruto alive, she rapidly chews him out furiously saying she doesn't like to kept out of the loop. This is demonstrated again in the anime, when she is the only one in the Konoha 11 to not go on a mission, Tenten berates Lee who insists she cannot go, and she attacks him forcefully. She also curiously asks where is Lee when he fails to show up at the Forest of Death. She's shown to be really good at investigating when she discovers the true purpose of the first Written Chunin Exam test is to gather information without being caught, and Tenten accomplishes this beautifully. Tenten's curious and investigative nature is shown when she comes into contact with a new weapon - her personal passion in life - she focuses on what the weapon can do, who is it from, and generally asks a flood of questions about it. In the databooks, it even says investigation is one of her hobbies. She's shown to be able to quickly research her opponents - like a true investigator. This is shown in several of her brief battles, like when she was able to deduce that Temari was deflecting her weapons with her fan. She was able to research and discover the true purpose of the Chuunin test, as mentioned earlier. This also demonstrates how Tenten prides herself on being able to quickly gather and share data and knowledge with her team mates, and the level of communication Team Guy has with each other. Tenten is also able to quickly deduce with her curiosity and research skills how to properly use a fan she just received and to fight on par with an akatsuki - an organization that has killed Jonin, who are a rank higher than Tenten. She was also able to research and gather information about her clone when she took her clone on. This is also seen in the Chunin Exam where she quickly reflects data off of another person's test to get the information, then sends it to Lee using some mirrors and wire.
The next part of Tenten we need to look at is her nearly rude bluntness. She says what she wants, to who she wants, regardless of the consequences. She repeatedly snarks at Guy and Lee for their...sheer embarrassing antics. She keeps a cool head and simply states, “You're not okay at all!” when Guy-sensei himself flies into a tree and knocks himself out. She repeatedly states that both of them are a pain or a bother. She apologizes for their behavior, as seen during their time in Tsunade's office. She angrily shakes and berates Lee, in a less than sensitive way, when he loses a fight and ends up unconscious. She even one time flat out states, “The team (her, Neji, Guy and Lee) sure is good for laughs”. Whenever one of her three boys act up, you can guarantee she'll be snarking her damn best. She's a very critical person to not only her team, but others. This is explored when she asserts herself to Neji's sexist opinion, which shows that, you may be really close with Tenten, but she'll call you out on your bullshit. She also, when not berating Guy and Lee for … their...eccentricity, she's calling out Naruto, the main protagonist, for coming up with the wonderfully stupid idea of fighting Sasuke alone. She also says flat out states that she dislikes someone, and then states why, as seen when she explains why she dislikes Ranmaru. This is bluntly stated as she says she hates weak and indecisive people who rely on others. If she doesn't like you, she'll tell you. Through-out Tenten's time on Naruto one trait has always remained - her brutal honesty and snarkiness. She says what she means, and she means what she says.
Her balance that she rightfully provides to Team Guy is something very important to her character. She constantly puts up with Neji, Lee and Guy. Lee and Guy are often wild, crazy, unfocused, hot-blooded and easily excitable making them embarrassing pains in the ass to Tenten. Neji doesn't fare much better. He's a bit arrogant, rather cold and stoic, frequently used to fight with Lee, and is adamant about himself and his views (even more so when it comes to Guy and Lee). This is where Tenten comes in. She's able to put up with all three of them, and acts as a bridge between Neji and Lee. While she may be rough on Rock Lee and Guy, it's obvious she cares for them immensely. This is show cased twice. First, when Lee isn't punctual during the Forest of Death and she begins to worry about him. Sure, the response was a bit rough but then again Tenten generally is towards him. When she sees the extent for his injuries when Lee fights Gaara, there is only a panel but it's clear her face is agonized, horrified and despaired at seeing just how damaged he is. Tenten is stated repeatedly, both in the databooks and in canon, to have a neutralizing effect on the team. She keeps Guy and Lee focused, who are enthusiastic about everything to the point where it hinders them at times. This is really seen in how far Lee strays off in Part 1 in the Forest of Death, and how she quickly arrives, shakes and berates him for not keeping focus. She's constantly the straight person to all of their antics, and with that, she keeps them from totally straying off the mission or anything else. Without her, as the databooks state, “The team would not be able to focus or use their abilities to the fullest extent. Tenten is the vital element that keeps them together”. Tenten's calm demeanor in battle (more on that later) allows herself to sift through the team and their bizarre, and wild demeanor. It's stated that every member of Team Guy trusts each other with their life. She consistently dedicates herself to her team, be it putting up with Guy and Lee's crazy antics with passive/snarky resistance long after any person would, or training with Neji and aiding in him the best she can. She gives her team all she has, and that's why she cements them. She complains about the logic behind their crazy antics (yes even Neji she sometimes complains about), but that's part of her character. Neji was absolutely cruel to Lee in every way, he'd demean him verbally, assault him cruelly during battle and generally was a dick. Without Tenten, who while still talking down to Lee, keeping a bridge for them and acting as superglue and a method of contact for Neji, the team would have never been as close as they are now.
Tenten is also shown to be the most sane person in Konoha, really. Compare her to everyone else in Konoha, and Tenten consistently holds herself to be the most logical one. Her decisions are out of logic rather than emotional -which is rare in the series. She deduces and chooses her decision carefully (as exemplified with her battle with a filler person, rather than react to his taunts she decided to use wooden weapons to not be effected by his lightning (which was his goal, by making her lose focus with taunting). Her abilities require focus and stability - she's a weapon's master after all, so it'd make sense if she was like that outside of battle. In the official personality chart, she was the most grounded which means she's tolerant and focused, with a slight lean towards passion, unlike Guy and Lee who were literally off the charts. This shows that she's a very, very, grounded girl. Other times where she's grounded are mentioned earlier with her brief snarking and then putting up with the team, where someone who wasn't so grounded would fly off the handle at every little thing a person in Team Guy did. Tenten is thankful for Team Guy anyways, she'll sometimes smile at them or snark at them with a more of a pleased look on her face. When she smiles at their antics, she's not totally rolling over and saying, “Let's be like them!!” she's admiring how far they've come and realizing how little credit she's given them. Regardless of her bluntness, she knows when it's best to resign, showing common sense. This is demonstrated when Guy repeatedly grunts to have their hands to be put together. Tenten resists at first, but, obviously annoyed and shamed, puts her hand in. She's the most grounded and focused person in the Konoha 11, so it makes sense that she keeps them grounded and focused too - even if it means pointing out the crazy and then submitting to it because you know there's no way you're going to win an argument with Rock Lee or Guy. Tenten's main role is being the cement that keeps the Team together no matter what. In fact, Tenten wishes she could dedicate even more to the team, as seen with this quote, “The members of Team Guy specialise in close-contact battles so I often render aid from the distance. I don't mind providing back up, but I was hoping to find new ninja tools that would enable me to fight on the front lines.". Tenten is not only fine with providing back-up, but she wishes to fight on the front lines alongside her comrades. Unlike most of the other people in Naruto that let their emotions get to them, Tenten refuses to let her emotions get to her. She keeps a calm and steady face in battle. This is stated in the databooks that her calmness and her focus allows Team Guy to preform to their optimal efficiency. This makes sense too, considering her abilities. Tenten has to focus to toss her weapons accurately at her opponents, rather than just randomly throw them everywhere. She needs to retain inner stability to focus herself so she can instantaneously deduce the correct distance to attack and defend with her weaponry, and toss them with exceptional accuracy. With this, we can conclude that Tenten is mostly in control of her emotions. Regardless, Tenten does have a bit of a temper. This is seen when she angrily shakes Lee for losing, slaps Naruto for faking his own death, and angrily bashes her first against a wall when Naruto insists that he fights Sasuke himself (which Tenten was very opposed to allowing) or when a person demonstrates over dependence or weakness (as seen with her interactions with Ranmaru). Her common sense is shown whenever she points out stupid moments of logic, the most recent one being her telling off Naruto for insisting he'll take care of Sasuke on himself. She, along with the Konoha 11, state and decide that Sasuke could lead them into a war. Her acceptance of this decision shows her dedication to realism.
With that sort of support and dedication to the team, one would expect Tenten to be prideful in her teammates and herself! Those expectations are correct. Tenten is prideful in her teammates to the point of stubbornness. She steadily holds Neji to exceptionally high standards, to the point where she thought he was neigh invulnerable. She invariably told Lee and Naruto that they couldn't beat Neji no matter how hard they try. She was later proven wrong by Naruto and began to modify her stance. She does have high confidence in Neji, as seen when she aids him in training after his battle with Naruto, but she now holds him to more grounded and human standards. This is shown once again in the filler arcs whenever Neji does something that Tenten doesn't agree with, she vituperates Neji for his actions or thoughts that she doesn't exactly agree with. She even did this earlier when she upbraided Neji for his sexist opinions. She also has a huge amount of assent in Lee, even before she accepted how far he progressed. Though she didn't outright show it, she censured him for not being able to defeat the Sound Genin saying he shouldn't lose, and her shocked and horrified reaction to the manga to him losing to Gaara really affirms this. Now, she respects him and his skill and has the utmost assurance in him like Neji.. This is seen consistently in the Curry Filler Arc - where Tenten is abashed when she sees Lee in exceptional danger. She has confidence in Guy too, as seen when she doesn't bat an eyelash that he unlocked the 6th Chakra gate, which has a detrimental consequence on the user. She doesn't freak out with concern over him, or anything. She knows what he's capable of and his impressive skill level. Despite her confidence and support to her team, as covered earlier, she's not above sarcastically jabbing at them or coldly rolling her eyes whenever they screw up. In fact, it's a necessity, while she has confidence in their skills, she doesn't have confidence that they can act properly and not be over the top and not disturbing. Despite her great faith in them, snarking them and keeping them focused and grounded is necessary because who knows what hot-blooded hijinks they'll get into while she's not watching.
Tenten is also fairly confident in herself! Her favorite quote is “100 marks, 100 bullseyes.” She always enforces that she can't miss, or that she won't lose easily. Her strong-will self-love goes as far as to be totally shocked when Temari totally tosses her weapons away as if they're nothing. She's confident in herself enough to take on a Seven Swordsman of the Mist, while she was just a lone genin. Her confidence is implied with her sheer bluntness, you can't call out your teacher, your teammates, or the main protagonist if you're spineless. You can't declare you want to face a girl that was trained by a powerful ninja, and a girl that has beaten you senseless earlier without confidence. Tenten has a backbone and she has the inner strength to use it. If something doesn't sit well with her, she's confident enough to reprove you. She's also confident enough to charge at Akatsuki members to fight them. That's right. Skilled killers that just took down a leader of a village, and here is a plucky young Chuunin (mid-rank who serve a leader of a village) ready to charge and attack them in close range combat. This is explored in Filler where she adamantly tells others to go on ahead and she'll hold off opponents (3 demon wolves, or 2 bandits) on her own. Do you really think someone insecure about their abilities would take on multiple opponents by themselves? Nope. Tenten will take on someone no matter how out classed she is, and she'll give it her all too. After all, she engaged two akatsuki members in combat, engaged multiple opponents at once, and never gave up during the Chuunin Exam when she faced Temari, who could blow away her attacks with ease. This doesn't show just confidence but determination too. She never once willingly surrendered or gave up in the entire series, no matter how outclassed she is. She even states that she won't run away or give up. When her attacks fail, as seen with her battles with Temari and Kisame, she attacks again and again and again until she's forcefully brought down.
Tenten's dream is to be a great kunoichi like Tsunade. Her desire is to be great and powerful and she never once deters from that dream, but rather she paves the road and fights hard to be a great female ninja. Tenten carries out each order carefully, such as defeating Naruto for the sake of the village (even though that later turned out to be a clone) and, when given an order, she preforms it as swiftly and quickly as possible. This is shown when she's given a command to defend against attackers twice in the Three Tails Filler Arc. She immediately prepares herself and puts up a great fight! She gave it her all, twice on order. Her determination, stubbornness and confidence are such a core to her personality, she states she can't stand weak and indecisive people. She also states that, when Ranmaru tries to kill himself, that she won't let him end his life that easily and she won't allow it. She then bluntly and stubbornly asserts that he will take some responsibility for his actions. Tenten is not a girl of weakness or doubt. She's strong, she's very, very, unwavering and she's exceptionally confident.
Despite Tenten's overall rough exterior, she's capable of sympathy, and niceness. This is seen when she defends a crying Ino, recognizing the pain one must feel to be ordered to kill someone important to someone. She's also able to recognize that Sakura and Ino were fighting with kid gloves in the Chuunin Exam, and rather than making a degrading comment towards the both of them, she was able to determine why and ignore it. While she didn't provide sympathy for Ranmaru's situation (traveling and aiding a guy who killed a variety of people), she showed understanding and a will to save him, showing a rather gruff, tough, love. She also grows worried for their teammates when they're injured, unconscious, or do something out of character for them. Tenten does have hidden depths enough that shows she's a relatively caring person deep down, but often demonstrates it as a tough love. In one particular instance, She, after slapping Naruto, said she was worried about him and was happy to see him alive. During the battle against clones of themselves, Tenten keeps in contact with her team and makes sure to ask of their status. She also finds a really, really bloodied and beaten Hinata (after Hinata's battle with Pain) and made sure to take her to Sakura to be healed. She was really concerned over her condition, but that doesn't mean Tenten completely lost focus and just flipped out. Instead, using her concern for motivation, she logically brought her to be healed. Finally, Tenten isn't all strict and tongue-lashy. Most of her mood is genial. She's more of a supportive member and easily gives in if if it satisfies Team Guy (or because she knows there's no point in getting a debate with someone as hot-blooded and determined). She retains a calm uplifting sense, unlike other people that are more calm for depressive reasons. She's not totally neurotic with her happiness, or easily excitable, but she still retains a mature and positive attitude to her, rather than a classic doom and gloomy wangst. She only becomes snarky and tongue-lashy when it's required (which is most of the time), but even then she'll have a generally calm yet upbeat (like a subdued smile, or a subtle positive light in her eyes) expression as she makes her quips - or she'll lineface and shake her head, but she's never ever totally manic depressive as she snarks or as she goes about her day to day business.
Finally (yes, the tl;dr train is about to end!), Tenten LOVES weapons. And I mean, LOVES. She only becomes upbeat and extremely excited when it comes to weapons. In the midst of battle where people are getting injured left and right, she gleefully discovers a fan and eagerly flails it about to test its abilities when she's attacked. After, she looks absolutely dazzled as she ponders who dropped the “cool fan”. This is also shown in filler where she briefly uses an extremely unorthodox weapon with ease and really, really, joyfully asks for it only to be denied saying it needs adjustments. Previous to that, she showed an excited type of impatience, saying she couldn't wait to try all of the ninja tools. All of them. Finally, her love for weapons is shown in one hilarious quote "Amazing... The brilliance of the blade... the design. They're all beautiful! I want to take them all home!". Truth be told, she acts like Winry from FullMetal Alchemist in the presence of an intriguing, interesting, or brilliant weapon. Let's hope she doesn't equate Death City with Heaven.
Character Abilities: Tenten, first and foremost, is a weaponry master. Her normal methods of attacking are tossing projectiles. It's stated by Team Guy that Tenten has astounding accuracy and never misses (unless, of course, something causes her to miss or her attack is forcibly countered). Tenten can toss multiple projectiles with awesome speed. She can toss them (and other items) so fast, they appear as bright white streaks in the sky. Tenten can summon projectiles and other types of weapons from her scrolls. Tenten doesn't just use long range weaponry, she is also decent in close range too. This is implied when she uses two curved swords and she charges at Kisame, and a variety of close-quarters weapons (tonfas, staffs, chain-sickles, nunchucks, etc.) she uses is seen in the anime. Tenten's knowledge of weaponry is so vast, she's able to use an exceptionally unwieldy instrument after receiving it (a giant spike ball rigged with explosives connected to a long chord that attaches to a handle that could be used as a weapon) with relative ease. This is also shown in the manga where she (off-screen) uses the Basshonen (the fan that can use all five of the elements at the cost of huge amounts of chakra, however it does not count as true elemental mastery because the person only needs to think of the element and it is preformed.) well enough to destroy two of Kakuzu's masks, just minutes after receiving it. Kakuzu's masks even give Jonin's trouble. So in short: Tenten specializes in all weapons. All of them.
Tenten is amazingly skilled at taijutsu which is physical combat with either weapons or hand-to-hand. Tenten, according to Guy, is skilled at unarmed melee combat as well though to what extent remains to be seen. Considering how she was given a 3.5/5 for Taijutsu in the latest databooks, it can be assumed she's rather proficient in hand-to-hand combat, but not to the extremes like other ninjas. Tenten's other skills are her speed. The databooks state that she is the fastest kunoichi, and maintains exceptional speed. Tenten has astounding accuracy, and will never miss her target (unless something forces her to miss). She's very detailed, and can pick up on slight details that others overlook (even Shikamaru, who's one of the most observant people in the series). She's great at analyzing, in fact it's a requirement for her weaponry skills, and often uses this skill to measure the perfect distance between her opponent.
She's able to maintain a calm demeanor in battle and, as stated earlier in the application, seems to aim for the more logistical side of things. She's a focused girl, and she keeps the team focused. She's shown to have an above-average statistic in intelligence, and it shows with her vast knowledge of weaponry and how she measures the distance to carry out her attacks. She also has a great and strong bond with her teammates, she trusts them completely and has the utmost confidence in them.
Finally, Tenten's weaponry usually has explosives attached to them as of Part Two, and the databooks state that she polishes her weapons every day to keep them sharp and deadly. With her frequent handling of her weapons, it can be inferred that she at least knows the basics of explosives and can most likely make them herself.
Character Weaknesses:
Tenten has a variety of weaknesses, the first that should be looked at is her confidence which is a double edged sword. She's not only confident in them, she's rather arrogant about them. She constantly gloats around about Neji and at some points considered him undefeated, so when he was defeated, she was really shocked. While she accepted that her teammates (specifically Neji) are subjected to fallacies, it's nowhere near enough to make it tolerable or less cocky. She still has high expectations of them, which causes them to get into dangerous situations. Tenten overestimates her teammates, and everyone knows that overestimation is never, ever a good thing.
Tenten, while being above average in some of her skills, is exceptionally vulnerable to Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Tenten is only average in ninjutsu, and is rather subpar in genjutsu. With the exception of her weapons and her fists, she has no actual skills. She does not belong to a clan due to the lack of clan-specific jutsu or techniques and this ends up harming her. Tenten's weaponry could be defended against or overcome by more advance ninjutsu techniques. Tenten also has no natural defenses against ninjutsu so it could end up seriously causing her problems. Tenten's genjutsu is pitiful, and a simple genjutsu could cause her to be completely nullified. Because of the vast array of supernatural (in this case) techniques (from lightning blades, to giant fireballs, to water cyclones, to giant wind tornadoes, to earth domes that slowly drain the life out of you), Tenten may have a difficult time countering them all or attacking against people equipped with such extreme jutsu. She is still the slowest member of Team Guy, and is nowhere near as endurable as any of her teammates. Neji is a jonin-level Ninja, meaning he possesses some level of above average endurance (in fact, he nearly died from a what should have been fatal attack). Lee and Guy work to endure the 8 chakra gates which could end up killing the user (yet they remain perfectly fine in comparison to what could happen). Tenten loses breath easily compared to her teammates, or, even worse, is the first of her teammates to succumb to a water prison. While she could prove an even match to anyone with elemental techniques, there's also a high chance that those with elemental techniques could trump her. Compared to other ninja, Tenten isn't physically strong either. She's stronger than the average human but not by much. Finally, Tenten lacks the vast storage of chakra compared to many of her comrades. She can not supplement large jutsu or things that cost a huge amount of chakra for a long time. In fact, this nearly ends up killing her when she uses the Basshonen. She has a decent amount of chakra, but decent is nowhere good enough or large enough. In fact, it's rather small compared to the rest of the konoha ninja. And decent definitely isn't good enough with a taxing monster of a weapon like the Basshonen.
Finally, there's Tenten's reliance on weapons. While she's extremely skilled with weapons, once she tosses a projectile, it's usually gone (she has found ways to counter this, such as attaching them to strings). If her weaponry skills are countered, she has no options left besides hand to hand combat, which may not be the best idea if your opponent can summon giant balls of flaming lava with the flick of their wrist. While Tenten is extremely skilled in her weapons, to the point where others speculate she may not need elemental ninjutsu, if, by chance, all of her weapons are countered, then that leaves her defenseless, open, and just a punching bag because she no weaponry left and therefore lacks an offensive way to attack.
Tenten's rough, forceful and blunt demeanor could be off-putting to some and will not mesh well with everyone. In fact, it can and will probably end up in her getting into multiple fights. Her confidence in herself (to the point where she charges men whom have killed village leaders) could end up getting her in over her head. This is actually showcased in the anime when she takes on a skilled swordsman by herself, and she takes on three wolves by herself. While she puts up a good fight, she ends up losing and being overpowered. Finally, despite her accomplishments in speed, taijutsu and other types of combat, there still are people that outclass her by far. She is only chuunin, or a midranked ninja after all! There are people much stronger, faster, and more skilled than her. Picture if like a food chain: at the top of the food chain there are octopus, or leaders of the village. Then there are sharks, or jonin/special jonin. Then there are dolphins, the chuunin, or Tenten's rank. There are a lot of sharks, octopus and more adept dolphins out there.
[ SOUL CAMPAIGN SECTION ]
What are the abilities that your character will retain in Soul Campaign?
Tenten's skill in weaponry. While it may be harder for her to maintain weapons due to resonance and things like that, she should be able to use the basics of any actual weapon (not counting magical ribbons and stuff like that, she should be able to use those but it will take her a very long time to get used to). Since her skills vary from swords to small throwing knives to staffs to explosive grenades, she'll be able to use the basic form of a weapon correctly, properly, and exceptionally skilled. She may or may not be able to use the weapon's special effects as quickly, since she's mostly used to just bare, basic weapons without any additional skills. (Unless you want to nerf this ability for her, in that case, I guess I can handwave it as the lands effects or something)
Tenten's above average speed (though it's nothing special. A trained person can accomplish the speed Tenten has.)
Her analyzing skills and accuracy
Her calm demeanor in battle
What are the weaknesses that your character will lose or gain in Soul Campaign?
Lose:
Her weakness to other's ninjutsu and genjutsu. Since these two cannot be preformed in Death City, these weaknesses will be negated
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Her physical strength may be stronger than others so she can partially lose that weakness (in other words, many people will still be stronger than her, but since she's in a new environment and many people may be physically weaker than her, she could end up stronger in comparison, if this fails to make sense, please contact me so I can clarify)
Tenten herself could become a more powerful and much stronger person in a place where combat is based on weaponry and nothing else.
Her chakra reserves are now irrelevant, so her exhausting herself or unable to upkeep taxing techniques or weapons is no longer as much of a threat as it could be back home.
Gain:
Tenten loves to use a variety of weapons, so limiting her to just one may throw her off a bit. Since she dedicates herself to using as much weapons as possible, settling down with a weapon may be a very slow and uncertain process. Tenten canonly prides herself on maintaining many fighting styles with multiple weapons, so limiting her will be jarring and, while she'll certainly try to adjust, it'll feel a bit out of place or odd for Tenten. In other words: limiting Tenten to just ONE weapon may severely limit her potential.
Tenten may not be one of the fastest people anymore because of different people from different worlds coming in. With that, sometimes she may completely outclass a person in speed or she may suck at speed to a certain person (counts as partial weakness gained. If you need further clarification, please contact me so I can elaborate!)
Tenten's skill in tossing multiple projectiles, her main skill and fighting style, is now restricted and possibly outright unable to preform. While she is able to fight with other weapons, not being able to use her main fighting style will cause a huge dent in her abilities and what she can do in Death City.
Tenten isn't used to using elemental attacks in battles, so she may struggle to master those aspects, like in Konoha. She will also struggle against them defensively.
She may forget that the weapon is actually a person and damage them. She gets a little carried away with weapons, okay? Or she may mistreat them entirely, but unintentionally, with her pestering them since weapons are so cool!
[ MEISTER ONLY SECTION ]
Why your character should be a Meister:
Tenten is a weapon master! She lives for weapons, breathes for weapons, and becomes absolutely overjoyed and excitable when she is around weapons. She polishes her weapons every day and is rather focused about them. Her entire techniques revolve around weapons and she's abandoned ninjutsu and genjutsu just to use all of the weapons. All of them. With this, Tenten's sheer mastery and dedication to weaponry definitely qualify her for the position.
Tenten is dedicated to her weapons and, with how she keeps them in top shape and optimal conditions for attacking, she'd be overjoyed at the prospect of being one to wield weaponry in a world where you're either a weapon or a wielder. She truly understands the time, love, care, and faithfulness one must have to devote themselves entirely to their weapons. Not to mention, if Tenten learned that she had a choice to either use a unique weapon with some wicked cool ability, or be a weapon and ended up as the latter, therefore missing out on the opportunity to hone her skills with weapons that have extra effects or special attacks, she definitely would not be a happy camper. She was made to be a meister with her sheer dedication and skills with a variety of weaponry.
Meister Ability:
Soul Transform - I choose this for Tenten's preferred ability because of her passion for a variety of weapons. She wouldn't want to choose just one weapon after dedicating her life to all of them, so this would help ease her up to the idea of having a partner. Her sheer skill with a majority of weapons will minimize any negative effect that may come out of the transformation. This represents her variety of attack style and her attack style as a whole.
Calming Wavelength - Tenten has a neutralizing and calming effect on her teammates. This would be an effect that's very noted and dominant in her personality. This would be representative of her ability to balance out the team and act as a cement for them. Tenten keeps her team grounded and focused, so it'd make sense if she has a calming wavelength towards her partner - to keep it grounded and focused.
Soul Focus - Tenten's attacks canonly relied on focus and accuracy. This would represent not only how she keeps herself focused for attacking, defending, analyzing, and accuracy, but it would also represent how she keeps Guy, and Lee focused.
[ SOUL INFORMATION ]
Soul Description: Confident, Determined, Sarcastic, Focused, Nosy, Calm.
Soul Appearance: Tenten's soul is a healthy red, because she is inspired aesthetically by Chinese stereotypes and red is a color for good luck in the Chinese Culture. Its eyes are narrow, and shaped like a ¾ opened fan. Her eyes are also shaded in completely white. It's mouth is a simple, straight line and whenever it speaks or reacts, instead of an inside of a mouth showing (I.e, lips, tongue, teeth, etc.), whatever would be the inside of the mouth is shaded in black. On the top of her head, at opposite ends, are two giant circular buns.
[ SAMPLES ]
First Person: [ The feed abruptly turns on to Tenten, who has a very slightly embarrassed glare in her eyes. She takes a heavy sigh and looks directly into the feed ]
All right. First thing is first, I'd like to apologize for these two boys over here. [ She moves the feed over to Guy and Lee who are engaging in intense, loud, obnoxious, and generally hot-blooded training. Her voice can be heard off screen ] I swear to God, they're so embarrassing. [ The feed turns back to her, as she rapidly shakes her head ]
If they ever unsettled you, disturbed you, annoyed you, or caused you to shake your head, I'm really sorry. They're not the sharpest tool in the scroll, in case you haven't noticed. [ Her voice from the last sentence drips in sarcasm. It's clear that she's means the statement quite heavily, and that the observation is one that a person should make instantly. ] And don't worry about the reaction, it's their usual greeting at home. [ Another sigh before she sees Lee turn into a bo staff. Oh, right! Tenten forgot to ask this earlier but now's a better time than never, right? Her eyes brighten up and she looks generally cheerful and overeager. To those that may know Guy or Lee from home, you can tell by her facial expressions she's very excited similar to their excitement for training ]
Hey! I know some of you can turn into weapons, so let me ask. What can you guys do? What do you guys turn into? I have so many questions. Some of you can probably turn into swords, some of you can probably turn into staffs, are there any of you that can turn into projectiles?! I'm really curious, and it'd help me a lot if you guys told me.
Third Person:
“How humiliating.” Tenten, with her face planted in the dirt, was out of commission. She got carried away engaging Kakuzu with the Basshonen, an extremely powerful fan with an extremely powerful cost, draining your chakra. Since Tenten gave it her all, as usual, she totally exerted her chakra. As such, she couldn't even move. Close to death, a Konoha Medic was healing her.
“Don't touch that fan again. It could kill you.” Tenten gave a reluctant muffle of affirmation as she continued to be total dead weight on the ground. She wasn't going to listen to his advice though, as soon as that fan became available for her to use she will use it. And now that she knows the harmful effects, she'll use it as efficiently as possible. Something as severe as being put to the brink of death wouldn't stop her! After all, as much as she'd hate to admit it, she has Guy-sensei's determination and …. youthful spirit installed in her. After confirming that she could move her legs, she slowly pulled herself up and quickly moved to Team 10 where she met up and plotted with them. They were all on the same page, which made scheming against the enemy easy, and the plan was detailed, simple, and easy to accomplish.
“Got it?” Shikamaru's voice asked for confirmation that they understood his plan.
“Yes.” Tenten exclaimed with enthusiasm. She was ready to help turn the tide of the war back into their favor.
And then she ended up unconscious. How convenient, right?
The first thing Tenten did upon waking up was hurling herself straight up, instead of getting up slowly. After all, with two enthusiastic, hard-paced teammates, you'll take whatever moments of leisure you'll get. She notices the chunks of the building just missing, but she knows whatever damage that could have happened to it doesn't concern her. There's no way the battle would take place anywhere near this place.
“This isn't the battlefield.” Tenten said looking around. She couldn't feel her chakra reserves either. After staring at the location, she decided it must be a genjutsu affecting her. After all, why would she believe she's gone away from the battlefield suddenly and appear randomly in the darkest place she's ever seen “Hm, must be a genjutsu.” Her hands formed the seal required to release the genjutsu.
“Release!” Tenten commanded. Nothing happened. Still in the dark room, Tenten sighed. “Genjutsu never was one of my strong points.” After looking around some more, she discovered and saw the two chained statues but decided they weren't worth any sort of hint.
“There's one way to get out of this.” Tenten tried to grasp for her holsters to summon a short blade. Any genjutsu could be dispelled with the sensation of pain. Luckily for her, she knew that Guy-sensei optimized her speed, so a little tiny cut or stab on her leg wouldn't hinder her abilities in the slightest. It would get her out of the genjutsu's grasp, and from there she'd quickly move to avoid it being cast on her again.
Except, she didn't find her scrolls concealing her vast array of weapons there. What she found, was nothing. Her eyes quickly open wide as she strokes the holster again to make sure that her scrolls weren't there. When she finally realized that, in fact, they were not with her anymore she went with the next best option: coping with sarcasm.
“This just perfect. A great way to start my day! Are there any more surprises for me?” The screen began to flicker after conjuring itself from nothingness. Tenten, already agitated glared at the screen the hardest she could. She reserved this glare for special occasions, like when someone tries to kill a teammate, or when someone mocks weaponry, or when she needs to express, No, Lee, you can't do that to my carpet.
She meant business with this glare. She wanted answers.
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[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Tenten (No canon last name)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Fandom: Naruto. She's taken from the latest manga chapter of her appearance, with the anime implemented in her background. This request to implement the anime canon for her background and evidence of her personality has been granted. So that would make it both, I guess.
Timeline: 541. After defeating 2 of Kakuzu's masks, and having her charka drained from the Basshonen (a fan that can control all 5 elements but costs an absurd amount of chakra), Tenten is seen plotting with Team 10
History: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tenten
Character Personality: Tenten is described in the official databooks - penned by Kishimoto himself - as a die-hard researcher, a busybody, and a woman with the tact of a sledgehammer, and rightfully so. In the brief appearances we get, she's shown to be totally invasive and investigative. This is seen in the anime where Naruto fakes his death, to the knowledge of himself and Neji. Tenten is kept oblivious to the whole situation, and when she sees Naruto alive, she rapidly chews him out furiously saying she doesn't like to kept out of the loop. This is demonstrated again in the anime, when she is the only one in the Konoha 11 to not go on a mission, Tenten berates Lee who insists she cannot go, and she attacks him forcefully. She also curiously asks where is Lee when he fails to show up at the Forest of Death. She's shown to be really good at investigating when she discovers the true purpose of the first Written Chunin Exam test is to gather information without being caught, and Tenten accomplishes this beautifully. Tenten's curious and investigative nature is shown when she comes into contact with a new weapon - her personal passion in life - she focuses on what the weapon can do, who is it from, and generally asks a flood of questions about it. In the databooks, it even says investigation is one of her hobbies. She's shown to be able to quickly research her opponents - like a true investigator. This is shown in several of her brief battles, like when she was able to deduce that Temari was deflecting her weapons with her fan. She was able to research and discover the true purpose of the Chuunin test, as mentioned earlier. This also demonstrates how Tenten prides herself on being able to quickly gather and share data and knowledge with her team mates, and the level of communication Team Guy has with each other. Tenten is also able to quickly deduce with her curiosity and research skills how to properly use a fan she just received and to fight on par with an akatsuki - an organization that has killed Jonin, who are a rank higher than Tenten. She was also able to research and gather information about her clone when she took her clone on. This is also seen in the Chunin Exam where she quickly reflects data off of another person's test to get the information, then sends it to Lee using some mirrors and wire.
The next part of Tenten we need to look at is her nearly rude bluntness. She says what she wants, to who she wants, regardless of the consequences. She repeatedly snarks at Guy and Lee for their...sheer embarrassing antics. She keeps a cool head and simply states, “You're not okay at all!” when Guy-sensei himself flies into a tree and knocks himself out. She repeatedly states that both of them are a pain or a bother. She apologizes for their behavior, as seen during their time in Tsunade's office. She angrily shakes and berates Lee, in a less than sensitive way, when he loses a fight and ends up unconscious. She even one time flat out states, “The team (her, Neji, Guy and Lee) sure is good for laughs”. Whenever one of her three boys act up, you can guarantee she'll be snarking her damn best. She's a very critical person to not only her team, but others. This is explored when she asserts herself to Neji's sexist opinion, which shows that, you may be really close with Tenten, but she'll call you out on your bullshit. She also, when not berating Guy and Lee for … their...eccentricity, she's calling out Naruto, the main protagonist, for coming up with the wonderfully stupid idea of fighting Sasuke alone. She also says flat out states that she dislikes someone, and then states why, as seen when she explains why she dislikes Ranmaru. This is bluntly stated as she says she hates weak and indecisive people who rely on others. If she doesn't like you, she'll tell you. Through-out Tenten's time on Naruto one trait has always remained - her brutal honesty and snarkiness. She says what she means, and she means what she says.
Her balance that she rightfully provides to Team Guy is something very important to her character. She constantly puts up with Neji, Lee and Guy. Lee and Guy are often wild, crazy, unfocused, hot-blooded and easily excitable making them embarrassing pains in the ass to Tenten. Neji doesn't fare much better. He's a bit arrogant, rather cold and stoic, frequently used to fight with Lee, and is adamant about himself and his views (even more so when it comes to Guy and Lee). This is where Tenten comes in. She's able to put up with all three of them, and acts as a bridge between Neji and Lee. While she may be rough on Rock Lee and Guy, it's obvious she cares for them immensely. This is show cased twice. First, when Lee isn't punctual during the Forest of Death and she begins to worry about him. Sure, the response was a bit rough but then again Tenten generally is towards him. When she sees the extent for his injuries when Lee fights Gaara, there is only a panel but it's clear her face is agonized, horrified and despaired at seeing just how damaged he is. Tenten is stated repeatedly, both in the databooks and in canon, to have a neutralizing effect on the team. She keeps Guy and Lee focused, who are enthusiastic about everything to the point where it hinders them at times. This is really seen in how far Lee strays off in Part 1 in the Forest of Death, and how she quickly arrives, shakes and berates him for not keeping focus. She's constantly the straight person to all of their antics, and with that, she keeps them from totally straying off the mission or anything else. Without her, as the databooks state, “The team would not be able to focus or use their abilities to the fullest extent. Tenten is the vital element that keeps them together”. Tenten's calm demeanor in battle (more on that later) allows herself to sift through the team and their bizarre, and wild demeanor. It's stated that every member of Team Guy trusts each other with their life. She consistently dedicates herself to her team, be it putting up with Guy and Lee's crazy antics with passive/snarky resistance long after any person would, or training with Neji and aiding in him the best she can. She gives her team all she has, and that's why she cements them. She complains about the logic behind their crazy antics (yes even Neji she sometimes complains about), but that's part of her character. Neji was absolutely cruel to Lee in every way, he'd demean him verbally, assault him cruelly during battle and generally was a dick. Without Tenten, who while still talking down to Lee, keeping a bridge for them and acting as superglue and a method of contact for Neji, the team would have never been as close as they are now.
Tenten is also shown to be the most sane person in Konoha, really. Compare her to everyone else in Konoha, and Tenten consistently holds herself to be the most logical one. Her decisions are out of logic rather than emotional -which is rare in the series. She deduces and chooses her decision carefully (as exemplified with her battle with a filler person, rather than react to his taunts she decided to use wooden weapons to not be effected by his lightning (which was his goal, by making her lose focus with taunting). Her abilities require focus and stability - she's a weapon's master after all, so it'd make sense if she was like that outside of battle. In the official personality chart, she was the most grounded which means she's tolerant and focused, with a slight lean towards passion, unlike Guy and Lee who were literally off the charts. This shows that she's a very, very, grounded girl. Other times where she's grounded are mentioned earlier with her brief snarking and then putting up with the team, where someone who wasn't so grounded would fly off the handle at every little thing a person in Team Guy did. Tenten is thankful for Team Guy anyways, she'll sometimes smile at them or snark at them with a more of a pleased look on her face. When she smiles at their antics, she's not totally rolling over and saying, “Let's be like them!!” she's admiring how far they've come and realizing how little credit she's given them. Regardless of her bluntness, she knows when it's best to resign, showing common sense. This is demonstrated when Guy repeatedly grunts to have their hands to be put together. Tenten resists at first, but, obviously annoyed and shamed, puts her hand in. She's the most grounded and focused person in the Konoha 11, so it makes sense that she keeps them grounded and focused too - even if it means pointing out the crazy and then submitting to it because you know there's no way you're going to win an argument with Rock Lee or Guy. Tenten's main role is being the cement that keeps the Team together no matter what. In fact, Tenten wishes she could dedicate even more to the team, as seen with this quote, “The members of Team Guy specialise in close-contact battles so I often render aid from the distance. I don't mind providing back up, but I was hoping to find new ninja tools that would enable me to fight on the front lines.". Tenten is not only fine with providing back-up, but she wishes to fight on the front lines alongside her comrades. Unlike most of the other people in Naruto that let their emotions get to them, Tenten refuses to let her emotions get to her. She keeps a calm and steady face in battle. This is stated in the databooks that her calmness and her focus allows Team Guy to preform to their optimal efficiency. This makes sense too, considering her abilities. Tenten has to focus to toss her weapons accurately at her opponents, rather than just randomly throw them everywhere. She needs to retain inner stability to focus herself so she can instantaneously deduce the correct distance to attack and defend with her weaponry, and toss them with exceptional accuracy. With this, we can conclude that Tenten is mostly in control of her emotions. Regardless, Tenten does have a bit of a temper. This is seen when she angrily shakes Lee for losing, slaps Naruto for faking his own death, and angrily bashes her first against a wall when Naruto insists that he fights Sasuke himself (which Tenten was very opposed to allowing) or when a person demonstrates over dependence or weakness (as seen with her interactions with Ranmaru). Her common sense is shown whenever she points out stupid moments of logic, the most recent one being her telling off Naruto for insisting he'll take care of Sasuke on himself. She, along with the Konoha 11, state and decide that Sasuke could lead them into a war. Her acceptance of this decision shows her dedication to realism.
With that sort of support and dedication to the team, one would expect Tenten to be prideful in her teammates and herself! Those expectations are correct. Tenten is prideful in her teammates to the point of stubbornness. She steadily holds Neji to exceptionally high standards, to the point where she thought he was neigh invulnerable. She invariably told Lee and Naruto that they couldn't beat Neji no matter how hard they try. She was later proven wrong by Naruto and began to modify her stance. She does have high confidence in Neji, as seen when she aids him in training after his battle with Naruto, but she now holds him to more grounded and human standards. This is shown once again in the filler arcs whenever Neji does something that Tenten doesn't agree with, she vituperates Neji for his actions or thoughts that she doesn't exactly agree with. She even did this earlier when she upbraided Neji for his sexist opinions. She also has a huge amount of assent in Lee, even before she accepted how far he progressed. Though she didn't outright show it, she censured him for not being able to defeat the Sound Genin saying he shouldn't lose, and her shocked and horrified reaction to the manga to him losing to Gaara really affirms this. Now, she respects him and his skill and has the utmost assurance in him like Neji.. This is seen consistently in the Curry Filler Arc - where Tenten is abashed when she sees Lee in exceptional danger. She has confidence in Guy too, as seen when she doesn't bat an eyelash that he unlocked the 6th Chakra gate, which has a detrimental consequence on the user. She doesn't freak out with concern over him, or anything. She knows what he's capable of and his impressive skill level. Despite her confidence and support to her team, as covered earlier, she's not above sarcastically jabbing at them or coldly rolling her eyes whenever they screw up. In fact, it's a necessity, while she has confidence in their skills, she doesn't have confidence that they can act properly and not be over the top and not disturbing. Despite her great faith in them, snarking them and keeping them focused and grounded is necessary because who knows what hot-blooded hijinks they'll get into while she's not watching.
Tenten is also fairly confident in herself! Her favorite quote is “100 marks, 100 bullseyes.” She always enforces that she can't miss, or that she won't lose easily. Her strong-will self-love goes as far as to be totally shocked when Temari totally tosses her weapons away as if they're nothing. She's confident in herself enough to take on a Seven Swordsman of the Mist, while she was just a lone genin. Her confidence is implied with her sheer bluntness, you can't call out your teacher, your teammates, or the main protagonist if you're spineless. You can't declare you want to face a girl that was trained by a powerful ninja, and a girl that has beaten you senseless earlier without confidence. Tenten has a backbone and she has the inner strength to use it. If something doesn't sit well with her, she's confident enough to reprove you. She's also confident enough to charge at Akatsuki members to fight them. That's right. Skilled killers that just took down a leader of a village, and here is a plucky young Chuunin (mid-rank who serve a leader of a village) ready to charge and attack them in close range combat. This is explored in Filler where she adamantly tells others to go on ahead and she'll hold off opponents (3 demon wolves, or 2 bandits) on her own. Do you really think someone insecure about their abilities would take on multiple opponents by themselves? Nope. Tenten will take on someone no matter how out classed she is, and she'll give it her all too. After all, she engaged two akatsuki members in combat, engaged multiple opponents at once, and never gave up during the Chuunin Exam when she faced Temari, who could blow away her attacks with ease. This doesn't show just confidence but determination too. She never once willingly surrendered or gave up in the entire series, no matter how outclassed she is. She even states that she won't run away or give up. When her attacks fail, as seen with her battles with Temari and Kisame, she attacks again and again and again until she's forcefully brought down.
Tenten's dream is to be a great kunoichi like Tsunade. Her desire is to be great and powerful and she never once deters from that dream, but rather she paves the road and fights hard to be a great female ninja. Tenten carries out each order carefully, such as defeating Naruto for the sake of the village (even though that later turned out to be a clone) and, when given an order, she preforms it as swiftly and quickly as possible. This is shown when she's given a command to defend against attackers twice in the Three Tails Filler Arc. She immediately prepares herself and puts up a great fight! She gave it her all, twice on order. Her determination, stubbornness and confidence are such a core to her personality, she states she can't stand weak and indecisive people. She also states that, when Ranmaru tries to kill himself, that she won't let him end his life that easily and she won't allow it. She then bluntly and stubbornly asserts that he will take some responsibility for his actions. Tenten is not a girl of weakness or doubt. She's strong, she's very, very, unwavering and she's exceptionally confident.
Despite Tenten's overall rough exterior, she's capable of sympathy, and niceness. This is seen when she defends a crying Ino, recognizing the pain one must feel to be ordered to kill someone important to someone. She's also able to recognize that Sakura and Ino were fighting with kid gloves in the Chuunin Exam, and rather than making a degrading comment towards the both of them, she was able to determine why and ignore it. While she didn't provide sympathy for Ranmaru's situation (traveling and aiding a guy who killed a variety of people), she showed understanding and a will to save him, showing a rather gruff, tough, love. She also grows worried for their teammates when they're injured, unconscious, or do something out of character for them. Tenten does have hidden depths enough that shows she's a relatively caring person deep down, but often demonstrates it as a tough love. In one particular instance, She, after slapping Naruto, said she was worried about him and was happy to see him alive. During the battle against clones of themselves, Tenten keeps in contact with her team and makes sure to ask of their status. She also finds a really, really bloodied and beaten Hinata (after Hinata's battle with Pain) and made sure to take her to Sakura to be healed. She was really concerned over her condition, but that doesn't mean Tenten completely lost focus and just flipped out. Instead, using her concern for motivation, she logically brought her to be healed. Finally, Tenten isn't all strict and tongue-lashy. Most of her mood is genial. She's more of a supportive member and easily gives in if if it satisfies Team Guy (or because she knows there's no point in getting a debate with someone as hot-blooded and determined). She retains a calm uplifting sense, unlike other people that are more calm for depressive reasons. She's not totally neurotic with her happiness, or easily excitable, but she still retains a mature and positive attitude to her, rather than a classic doom and gloomy wangst. She only becomes snarky and tongue-lashy when it's required (which is most of the time), but even then she'll have a generally calm yet upbeat (like a subdued smile, or a subtle positive light in her eyes) expression as she makes her quips - or she'll lineface and shake her head, but she's never ever totally manic depressive as she snarks or as she goes about her day to day business.
Finally (yes, the tl;dr train is about to end!), Tenten LOVES weapons. And I mean, LOVES. She only becomes upbeat and extremely excited when it comes to weapons. In the midst of battle where people are getting injured left and right, she gleefully discovers a fan and eagerly flails it about to test its abilities when she's attacked. After, she looks absolutely dazzled as she ponders who dropped the “cool fan”. This is also shown in filler where she briefly uses an extremely unorthodox weapon with ease and really, really, joyfully asks for it only to be denied saying it needs adjustments. Previous to that, she showed an excited type of impatience, saying she couldn't wait to try all of the ninja tools. All of them. Finally, her love for weapons is shown in one hilarious quote "Amazing... The brilliance of the blade... the design. They're all beautiful! I want to take them all home!". Truth be told, she acts like Winry from FullMetal Alchemist in the presence of an intriguing, interesting, or brilliant weapon. Let's hope she doesn't equate Death City with Heaven.
Character Abilities: Tenten, first and foremost, is a weaponry master. Her normal methods of attacking are tossing projectiles. It's stated by Team Guy that Tenten has astounding accuracy and never misses (unless, of course, something causes her to miss or her attack is forcibly countered). Tenten can toss multiple projectiles with awesome speed. She can toss them (and other items) so fast, they appear as bright white streaks in the sky. Tenten can summon projectiles and other types of weapons from her scrolls. Tenten doesn't just use long range weaponry, she is also decent in close range too. This is implied when she uses two curved swords and she charges at Kisame, and a variety of close-quarters weapons (tonfas, staffs, chain-sickles, nunchucks, etc.) she uses is seen in the anime. Tenten's knowledge of weaponry is so vast, she's able to use an exceptionally unwieldy instrument after receiving it (a giant spike ball rigged with explosives connected to a long chord that attaches to a handle that could be used as a weapon) with relative ease. This is also shown in the manga where she (off-screen) uses the Basshonen (the fan that can use all five of the elements at the cost of huge amounts of chakra, however it does not count as true elemental mastery because the person only needs to think of the element and it is preformed.) well enough to destroy two of Kakuzu's masks, just minutes after receiving it. Kakuzu's masks even give Jonin's trouble. So in short: Tenten specializes in all weapons. All of them.
Tenten is amazingly skilled at taijutsu which is physical combat with either weapons or hand-to-hand. Tenten, according to Guy, is skilled at unarmed melee combat as well though to what extent remains to be seen. Considering how she was given a 3.5/5 for Taijutsu in the latest databooks, it can be assumed she's rather proficient in hand-to-hand combat, but not to the extremes like other ninjas. Tenten's other skills are her speed. The databooks state that she is the fastest kunoichi, and maintains exceptional speed. Tenten has astounding accuracy, and will never miss her target (unless something forces her to miss). She's very detailed, and can pick up on slight details that others overlook (even Shikamaru, who's one of the most observant people in the series). She's great at analyzing, in fact it's a requirement for her weaponry skills, and often uses this skill to measure the perfect distance between her opponent.
She's able to maintain a calm demeanor in battle and, as stated earlier in the application, seems to aim for the more logistical side of things. She's a focused girl, and she keeps the team focused. She's shown to have an above-average statistic in intelligence, and it shows with her vast knowledge of weaponry and how she measures the distance to carry out her attacks. She also has a great and strong bond with her teammates, she trusts them completely and has the utmost confidence in them.
Finally, Tenten's weaponry usually has explosives attached to them as of Part Two, and the databooks state that she polishes her weapons every day to keep them sharp and deadly. With her frequent handling of her weapons, it can be inferred that she at least knows the basics of explosives and can most likely make them herself.
Character Weaknesses:
Tenten has a variety of weaknesses, the first that should be looked at is her confidence which is a double edged sword. She's not only confident in them, she's rather arrogant about them. She constantly gloats around about Neji and at some points considered him undefeated, so when he was defeated, she was really shocked. While she accepted that her teammates (specifically Neji) are subjected to fallacies, it's nowhere near enough to make it tolerable or less cocky. She still has high expectations of them, which causes them to get into dangerous situations. Tenten overestimates her teammates, and everyone knows that overestimation is never, ever a good thing.
Tenten, while being above average in some of her skills, is exceptionally vulnerable to Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Tenten is only average in ninjutsu, and is rather subpar in genjutsu. With the exception of her weapons and her fists, she has no actual skills. She does not belong to a clan due to the lack of clan-specific jutsu or techniques and this ends up harming her. Tenten's weaponry could be defended against or overcome by more advance ninjutsu techniques. Tenten also has no natural defenses against ninjutsu so it could end up seriously causing her problems. Tenten's genjutsu is pitiful, and a simple genjutsu could cause her to be completely nullified. Because of the vast array of supernatural (in this case) techniques (from lightning blades, to giant fireballs, to water cyclones, to giant wind tornadoes, to earth domes that slowly drain the life out of you), Tenten may have a difficult time countering them all or attacking against people equipped with such extreme jutsu. She is still the slowest member of Team Guy, and is nowhere near as endurable as any of her teammates. Neji is a jonin-level Ninja, meaning he possesses some level of above average endurance (in fact, he nearly died from a what should have been fatal attack). Lee and Guy work to endure the 8 chakra gates which could end up killing the user (yet they remain perfectly fine in comparison to what could happen). Tenten loses breath easily compared to her teammates, or, even worse, is the first of her teammates to succumb to a water prison. While she could prove an even match to anyone with elemental techniques, there's also a high chance that those with elemental techniques could trump her. Compared to other ninja, Tenten isn't physically strong either. She's stronger than the average human but not by much. Finally, Tenten lacks the vast storage of chakra compared to many of her comrades. She can not supplement large jutsu or things that cost a huge amount of chakra for a long time. In fact, this nearly ends up killing her when she uses the Basshonen. She has a decent amount of chakra, but decent is nowhere good enough or large enough. In fact, it's rather small compared to the rest of the konoha ninja. And decent definitely isn't good enough with a taxing monster of a weapon like the Basshonen.
Finally, there's Tenten's reliance on weapons. While she's extremely skilled with weapons, once she tosses a projectile, it's usually gone (she has found ways to counter this, such as attaching them to strings). If her weaponry skills are countered, she has no options left besides hand to hand combat, which may not be the best idea if your opponent can summon giant balls of flaming lava with the flick of their wrist. While Tenten is extremely skilled in her weapons, to the point where others speculate she may not need elemental ninjutsu, if, by chance, all of her weapons are countered, then that leaves her defenseless, open, and just a punching bag because she no weaponry left and therefore lacks an offensive way to attack.
Tenten's rough, forceful and blunt demeanor could be off-putting to some and will not mesh well with everyone. In fact, it can and will probably end up in her getting into multiple fights. Her confidence in herself (to the point where she charges men whom have killed village leaders) could end up getting her in over her head. This is actually showcased in the anime when she takes on a skilled swordsman by herself, and she takes on three wolves by herself. While she puts up a good fight, she ends up losing and being overpowered. Finally, despite her accomplishments in speed, taijutsu and other types of combat, there still are people that outclass her by far. She is only chuunin, or a midranked ninja after all! There are people much stronger, faster, and more skilled than her. Picture if like a food chain: at the top of the food chain there are octopus, or leaders of the village. Then there are sharks, or jonin/special jonin. Then there are dolphins, the chuunin, or Tenten's rank. There are a lot of sharks, octopus and more adept dolphins out there.
[ SOUL CAMPAIGN SECTION ]
What are the abilities that your character will retain in Soul Campaign?
Tenten's skill in weaponry. While it may be harder for her to maintain weapons due to resonance and things like that, she should be able to use the basics of any actual weapon (not counting magical ribbons and stuff like that, she should be able to use those but it will take her a very long time to get used to). Since her skills vary from swords to small throwing knives to staffs to explosive grenades, she'll be able to use the basic form of a weapon correctly, properly, and exceptionally skilled. She may or may not be able to use the weapon's special effects as quickly, since she's mostly used to just bare, basic weapons without any additional skills. (Unless you want to nerf this ability for her, in that case, I guess I can handwave it as the lands effects or something)
Tenten's above average speed (though it's nothing special. A trained person can accomplish the speed Tenten has.)
Her analyzing skills and accuracy
Her calm demeanor in battle
What are the weaknesses that your character will lose or gain in Soul Campaign?
Lose:
Her weakness to other's ninjutsu and genjutsu. Since these two cannot be preformed in Death City, these weaknesses will be negated
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Her physical strength may be stronger than others so she can partially lose that weakness (in other words, many people will still be stronger than her, but since she's in a new environment and many people may be physically weaker than her, she could end up stronger in comparison, if this fails to make sense, please contact me so I can clarify)
Tenten herself could become a more powerful and much stronger person in a place where combat is based on weaponry and nothing else.
Her chakra reserves are now irrelevant, so her exhausting herself or unable to upkeep taxing techniques or weapons is no longer as much of a threat as it could be back home.
Gain:
Tenten loves to use a variety of weapons, so limiting her to just one may throw her off a bit. Since she dedicates herself to using as much weapons as possible, settling down with a weapon may be a very slow and uncertain process. Tenten canonly prides herself on maintaining many fighting styles with multiple weapons, so limiting her will be jarring and, while she'll certainly try to adjust, it'll feel a bit out of place or odd for Tenten. In other words: limiting Tenten to just ONE weapon may severely limit her potential.
Tenten may not be one of the fastest people anymore because of different people from different worlds coming in. With that, sometimes she may completely outclass a person in speed or she may suck at speed to a certain person (counts as partial weakness gained. If you need further clarification, please contact me so I can elaborate!)
Tenten's skill in tossing multiple projectiles, her main skill and fighting style, is now restricted and possibly outright unable to preform. While she is able to fight with other weapons, not being able to use her main fighting style will cause a huge dent in her abilities and what she can do in Death City.
Tenten isn't used to using elemental attacks in battles, so she may struggle to master those aspects, like in Konoha. She will also struggle against them defensively.
She may forget that the weapon is actually a person and damage them. She gets a little carried away with weapons, okay? Or she may mistreat them entirely, but unintentionally, with her pestering them since weapons are so cool!
[ MEISTER ONLY SECTION ]
Why your character should be a Meister:
Tenten is a weapon master! She lives for weapons, breathes for weapons, and becomes absolutely overjoyed and excitable when she is around weapons. She polishes her weapons every day and is rather focused about them. Her entire techniques revolve around weapons and she's abandoned ninjutsu and genjutsu just to use all of the weapons. All of them. With this, Tenten's sheer mastery and dedication to weaponry definitely qualify her for the position.
Tenten is dedicated to her weapons and, with how she keeps them in top shape and optimal conditions for attacking, she'd be overjoyed at the prospect of being one to wield weaponry in a world where you're either a weapon or a wielder. She truly understands the time, love, care, and faithfulness one must have to devote themselves entirely to their weapons. Not to mention, if Tenten learned that she had a choice to either use a unique weapon with some wicked cool ability, or be a weapon and ended up as the latter, therefore missing out on the opportunity to hone her skills with weapons that have extra effects or special attacks, she definitely would not be a happy camper. She was made to be a meister with her sheer dedication and skills with a variety of weaponry.
Meister Ability:
Soul Transform - I choose this for Tenten's preferred ability because of her passion for a variety of weapons. She wouldn't want to choose just one weapon after dedicating her life to all of them, so this would help ease her up to the idea of having a partner. Her sheer skill with a majority of weapons will minimize any negative effect that may come out of the transformation. This represents her variety of attack style and her attack style as a whole.
Calming Wavelength - Tenten has a neutralizing and calming effect on her teammates. This would be an effect that's very noted and dominant in her personality. This would be representative of her ability to balance out the team and act as a cement for them. Tenten keeps her team grounded and focused, so it'd make sense if she has a calming wavelength towards her partner - to keep it grounded and focused.
Soul Focus - Tenten's attacks canonly relied on focus and accuracy. This would represent not only how she keeps herself focused for attacking, defending, analyzing, and accuracy, but it would also represent how she keeps Guy, and Lee focused.
[ SOUL INFORMATION ]
Soul Description: Confident, Determined, Sarcastic, Focused, Nosy, Calm.
Soul Appearance: Tenten's soul is a healthy red, because she is inspired aesthetically by Chinese stereotypes and red is a color for good luck in the Chinese Culture. Its eyes are narrow, and shaped like a ¾ opened fan. Her eyes are also shaded in completely white. It's mouth is a simple, straight line and whenever it speaks or reacts, instead of an inside of a mouth showing (I.e, lips, tongue, teeth, etc.), whatever would be the inside of the mouth is shaded in black. On the top of her head, at opposite ends, are two giant circular buns.
[ SAMPLES ]
First Person: [ The feed abruptly turns on to Tenten, who has a very slightly embarrassed glare in her eyes. She takes a heavy sigh and looks directly into the feed ]
All right. First thing is first, I'd like to apologize for these two boys over here. [ She moves the feed over to Guy and Lee who are engaging in intense, loud, obnoxious, and generally hot-blooded training. Her voice can be heard off screen ] I swear to God, they're so embarrassing. [ The feed turns back to her, as she rapidly shakes her head ]
If they ever unsettled you, disturbed you, annoyed you, or caused you to shake your head, I'm really sorry. They're not the sharpest tool in the scroll, in case you haven't noticed. [ Her voice from the last sentence drips in sarcasm. It's clear that she's means the statement quite heavily, and that the observation is one that a person should make instantly. ] And don't worry about the reaction, it's their usual greeting at home. [ Another sigh before she sees Lee turn into a bo staff. Oh, right! Tenten forgot to ask this earlier but now's a better time than never, right? Her eyes brighten up and she looks generally cheerful and overeager. To those that may know Guy or Lee from home, you can tell by her facial expressions she's very excited similar to their excitement for training ]
Hey! I know some of you can turn into weapons, so let me ask. What can you guys do? What do you guys turn into? I have so many questions. Some of you can probably turn into swords, some of you can probably turn into staffs, are there any of you that can turn into projectiles?! I'm really curious, and it'd help me a lot if you guys told me.
Third Person:
“How humiliating.” Tenten, with her face planted in the dirt, was out of commission. She got carried away engaging Kakuzu with the Basshonen, an extremely powerful fan with an extremely powerful cost, draining your chakra. Since Tenten gave it her all, as usual, she totally exerted her chakra. As such, she couldn't even move. Close to death, a Konoha Medic was healing her.
“Don't touch that fan again. It could kill you.” Tenten gave a reluctant muffle of affirmation as she continued to be total dead weight on the ground. She wasn't going to listen to his advice though, as soon as that fan became available for her to use she will use it. And now that she knows the harmful effects, she'll use it as efficiently as possible. Something as severe as being put to the brink of death wouldn't stop her! After all, as much as she'd hate to admit it, she has Guy-sensei's determination and …. youthful spirit installed in her. After confirming that she could move her legs, she slowly pulled herself up and quickly moved to Team 10 where she met up and plotted with them. They were all on the same page, which made scheming against the enemy easy, and the plan was detailed, simple, and easy to accomplish.
“Got it?” Shikamaru's voice asked for confirmation that they understood his plan.
“Yes.” Tenten exclaimed with enthusiasm. She was ready to help turn the tide of the war back into their favor.
And then she ended up unconscious. How convenient, right?
The first thing Tenten did upon waking up was hurling herself straight up, instead of getting up slowly. After all, with two enthusiastic, hard-paced teammates, you'll take whatever moments of leisure you'll get. She notices the chunks of the building just missing, but she knows whatever damage that could have happened to it doesn't concern her. There's no way the battle would take place anywhere near this place.
“This isn't the battlefield.” Tenten said looking around. She couldn't feel her chakra reserves either. After staring at the location, she decided it must be a genjutsu affecting her. After all, why would she believe she's gone away from the battlefield suddenly and appear randomly in the darkest place she's ever seen “Hm, must be a genjutsu.” Her hands formed the seal required to release the genjutsu.
“Release!” Tenten commanded. Nothing happened. Still in the dark room, Tenten sighed. “Genjutsu never was one of my strong points.” After looking around some more, she discovered and saw the two chained statues but decided they weren't worth any sort of hint.
“There's one way to get out of this.” Tenten tried to grasp for her holsters to summon a short blade. Any genjutsu could be dispelled with the sensation of pain. Luckily for her, she knew that Guy-sensei optimized her speed, so a little tiny cut or stab on her leg wouldn't hinder her abilities in the slightest. It would get her out of the genjutsu's grasp, and from there she'd quickly move to avoid it being cast on her again.
Except, she didn't find her scrolls concealing her vast array of weapons there. What she found, was nothing. Her eyes quickly open wide as she strokes the holster again to make sure that her scrolls weren't there. When she finally realized that, in fact, they were not with her anymore she went with the next best option: coping with sarcasm.
“This just perfect. A great way to start my day! Are there any more surprises for me?” The screen began to flicker after conjuring itself from nothingness. Tenten, already agitated glared at the screen the hardest she could. She reserved this glare for special occasions, like when someone tries to kill a teammate, or when someone mocks weaponry, or when she needs to express, No, Lee, you can't do that to my carpet.
She meant business with this glare. She wanted answers.
[ NOTES ]
Sorry for the herd of tl;dr's. D: I know it's a long app and I really appreciate you reading through it.