Post by Ruby on Aug 25, 2008 15:48:48 GMT -5
|Necessities|
Name: Hibiki Tanaka
Gender: female
Birthday: May 5
Age: 19
Age Appearance: she looks her age, only she is fairly small
Blood Type: AB
Village: Otogakure
Previous Villages: none
Current Country: Land of Rice
Occupation: elite ninja
Likes/Dislikes: Likes games of strategy, as well as single missions. Dislikes being a secondary member of a team (would prefer to go on solo missions or be the leader), and also has a low tolerance for alcohol and spicy foods.
Personality: Hibiki is very loyal to her friends and her village, but has few of the prejudices that most of her clan has. Because of this, she can make friends easily, even with those outside of her village. Unfortunately, this creates a tug of war within her, often having to choose between the honor of her village, and the bond of her friend. She has made friends with those from even enemy countries, though they are few and far between, and typically only with shinobi like her. If she is forced to, she will choose her village over the friendship, and when that happens, nothing can stop her. She closes her mind to everything except the mission. Most of the time she tries to find a common ground, being successful in her mission without harming her opponent.
Despite this peacemaker attitude, Hibiki loves to fight, showing off her proficiency with her blades, which is a specialty of her clan. She is fast, relying on her speed to win her battles. On the outside she seems fun-loving, but she has a temper quicker than her katanas, and deadly accuracy.
|Appearance|
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Height: 5'2"
Weight: 112 lbs
Eye Color: green
Hair Color: dark brown
Physical Appearance: Hibiki is small and slight, making her an easy opponent to underestimate. Because of her appearance many of her would-be attackers often fall within a few minutes of beginning a battle. She uses this to her advantage, milking her opponent's shock for all it's worth, and then breaking out her speed. She usually wears her hair in a loose ponytail.
Unlike most jonin she does not wear the usual jacket. Instead she wears a variation of a kimono, the kimono shirt being longer than most, and the sleeves loose and falling below her wrists. She wears a sash around her waist that holds a single katana on her left side. Instead of the traditional kimono pants, however, she wears shorts instead, and her tunic almost covers her shorts.
On her back a second katana is strapped. These twin swords are the basis of her attack style and jutsu.
|Ninja Information|
Official Rank: jonin
Ability Rank: B-rank
Primary Chakra Nature: earth
Secondary Chakra Nature:
Exclusive Nature:
Ninja ID #
History:
Young Life --- Hibiki is the eldest child of Suzuma Tanaka, the clan leader. As such, she is heir the clan's kenjutsu style. When she was 7 she was given her first 'evaluation' by her clan. This special test is given to each member, and mostly determines their ability level and what blade they work best with. In Suzuma's case, it is a greatsword, in Hibiki's, twin katanas.
These blades are then specially forged and given to the ninja when they become a genin. Until then, they are taught the basics of the clan's techniques. Hibiki was trained by her father, as is the custom, and when she was 11 her brother was born, after she had become a chunin.
Academy Life --- Hibiki was always the center of attention in the academy, mostly because of her friendly nature. She was one of the most skilled students at the academy, and ranked 3rd in the school. As she grew, however, she became more distant from her friends. When they became genin, she was the first to become a chunin.
Genin Life --- Genin life did not suit Hibiki. She was rarely allowed to go on more dangerous missions, hardly ever used her blades, and to top it off was not even team leader. As a genin, Hibiki's temper flared easy, and though she was a capable team player, rarely worked with them willingly on menial tasks.
Their first mission together that was a B-ranked mission, however, showed off her talent and willingness to help her comrades when they were in danger. She quickly devised a plan and set it into action, helping her and her fellow genin flee unharmed, knowing that even she was no match for an enemy jonin. After that, she sort of became the team's 'protector,' watching out for them.
Chuunin Life --- Of all the genin in her class, Hibiki was the first to pass the chunin exam, and became a chunin at 11. This only strengthened her protective nature around her teammates, but never got in the way of their friendship.
She continued to train under her father, and began to help her younger brother Kotone with his jutsu. She enjoyed her time as a chunin more than as a genin, because she was finally recognized as a leader, not just part of a team.
Special Jounin/Alternative Path Life --- Once again Hibiki was a step ahead of most of her classmates. When everyone else was a chunin, her and few others had become jonin. She had, by this time, mastered many of the Tanaka clan jutsus. It was during her first mission as a jonin that her squad's sensei was killed. After this, she gave thought to becoming an ANBU shinobi, but her loyalty to her squad won, and she stayed with them.
It would turn out, however, that she was not the leader she had wanted to be, and though her comrades were not killed, more than once they returned home with serious injuries from a mission that should have gone smoothly.
Jounin Life ---
Kage/Village Leader Life ---
|Ninja Skills|
Primary Weapons: Twin katanas, kunai
None-Primary Weapons:
Specialty: kenjutsu (if allowed), or taijutsu
Secondary Specialty: ninjutsu
Clan: Tanaka
Kekkai Genkai:
Jutsus and Techniques:
Basic Jutsu
Hibiki is skilled in six of the basic techniques, but she has never been especially skilled at the Body Flicker Technique, therefore she cannot travel over long distances.
Summoning Jutsu- Hibiki can summon all manner of birds, her favorite being a hawk, who assists her in her battles by flying over head or helping out by sending messages.
Clan Exclusive/Specialty Jutsu
Echolocation Technique (chunin level ninjutsu)
This and Slicing Wave are Hibiki's specialty. By sending out waves of sonic sound from her sword, she can detect any enemy by means of echolocation. Any movement causes the wave to bounce back to her, and she can 'see' the person hiding. Trees and inanimate objects do not create a wave.
Slicing Sound Wave (genin level kenjutsu/ninjutsu)
Hibiki concentrates chakra around her katana, and swings it in a wide arc. A wave of chakra and sound rushes in the direction she swung her katana, slicing anything it comes into contact with. The more chakra she uses, the sharper it becomes. It can only move in a single direction, however, but cannot be blocked by physical items and moves at the speed of sound. It can only be dodged by speed of equal amount, or blocked by chakra.
Hibiki can create this three times consecutively, but is left open after the third.
Broken Blade Jutsu (advanced genin level/low chunin kenjutsu/ninjutsu)
Developed by her great-grandfather when his shortsword was broken, the broken blade basically takes chakra and re-forms the blade with pure energy. It can make a dull blade sharp, a broken blade whole, or a short blade longer (without reducing speed). Hibiki mainly uses this to increase the length of her katanas without reducing her lightning fast speed.
Silencing Dome Jutsu (jonin level ninjutsu)
By controlling the sound waves in the air around her, Hibiki can virtually create a dome around her and her opponent, blocking all sounds of her choosing and toying with the waves that affect the brain. In this way she can cut off her opponent's five senses, giving her the edge in battle. This takes an enormous amount of chakra to create and even more to maintain, so she does not use it very often.
Bell Marionettes/Sound Clones (chunin level ninjutsu)
By manipulating the sound of bells she wears on the hilts of her katanas and on her clothes, she can create clones of herself, confusing her opponent and striking from all angles. She can also lace an area with bells that are connected to her fingers by chakra strings, hence 'Bell Marionettes.' By moving a specific finger, a certain number of bells chime at certain pitches.
Hundred Blades Jutsu (genin level, if fast enough, kenjutsu)
Hibiki's speed is nearly unmatched. By concentrating on her speed, she can use both katanas to literally strike in a hundred places.
Spinning Slicing Kick (genin level kenjutsu/taijutsu)
Similar to Konohagakure's Konoha Rising Wind, it is a fast, spiraling kick that adds the use of a blade to it. Hibiki came up with this on her own as a genin.
Slicing Sound Wave Lv 2 (jonin level ninjutsu)
A better, faster version of her first. The second Slicing Sound Wave is somewhat of a combination of Broken Blade and Slicing Wave. Being one of the few Takana clan members to weild two same-length blades, Hibiki can combine them at the hilts, creating a double-ended sword, using spiraling attacks and holding them at the center. By spinning them, she can create a high pitched sound wave to directly affect the brain of her opponent, causing him to go unconcious.
She can also create waves of sound all around her, not just in one direction. By using the double-ended weapon as the basis for her Slicing Sound Wave, she is able to produce up to seven consecutive waves instead of only three, but once again she is open to attack afterwards. Hibiki has been able to counter this by creating a defensive shield with her spinning blade.
|RP Example|
First Person Point of View:
Third Person Point of View: Hibiki sighed, chewing on a blade of grass while she sat on the front porch of her family's house. How boring it had been lately. Because of her recent mission she had been placed in suspended duty, and it was getting too much for her. Her hand fingered the hilt of her blade, which she had laid beside her.
"Nii-chan!" she heard, along with the footsteps of her younger brother Kotone. "Nii-chan, wanna spar?" A quick smirk made its way to Hibiki's lips as she lifted the sheathed katana a few centimeters off the porch. Just enough to send the speedy little brother flying. As he landed in the dirt below her, she quickly took her hand away from the katana and inspected her nails.
"Careful, Kotone. Father may not want a clutz for a son," she said, but seeing the look on her brother's face made her laugh.
"I wouldn't trip if you wouldn't make me!" Kotone said angrily as he jumped up, dusting himself off. The wooden sword he had been carrying fell a few feet away, and he picked it up. The eight year old boy was red in the face as he pointed it her way. "Come on, I'm way stronger than I was before you left!"
Hibiki chuckled and stood up. "You haven't even gotten your sword yet, Koto-nii," she said, the title a bit of a joke between them.
((umm, I sometimes use the rp sample as my first post unless there's something specific I want to do, so I hope that's ok. Besides, there's more to this if I use this as my first rp post.))
