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[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 9:47 pm
by Niro

Yamato


General Information
Type: Henchman
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance:
  • Face/head: White, shorter on the sides and longer on the top. Scar going across his neck from a surgery where his vocal cords were removed.
  • Body: Lithe, 5'8", 170 lbs, toned from training. Yamato wears black trousers and wears a dark purple, almost black, collared shirt.
  • Notable Features: Yamato has black tattoos covering his chest and arms and cannot talk due to having his vocal cords removed by an enemy shinobi. He sports a nasty scar across his throat and communicates instead through sign language.
Personality:
  • General: Yamato used to be a brash, hot headed shinobi before having his vocal cords removed during torture. After the event, he is a much more subdued person and is difficult to get to open up to.
  • Hopes/Dreams: Yamato doesn't have a current dream in life; he's hoping to eventually become 'normal' again.
  • Fears: After being tortured at the hands of an enemy shinobi, Yamato doesn't have much more to fear in life. He's undergone things which would've broken others and lived to see another day.
  • Combat Mentality: Yamato shines when paired with a partner who can show off his abilities. Otherwise, he'll put space between himself and any aggressors and retreat somewhere safe.
Battle Information Rank: A | Sp. Jounin
Stats 130
  • Endurance: 17
  • Chakra Pool: 17
  • Control: 12
  • Strength: 17
  • Speed: 12
  • Willpower: 10
  • Human Weapon: 45
Equipment:
  • 5 Kunai
  • 10 Shuriken
  • 10m of Wire
  • 5 Exploding Tags
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Flash Bang
Affinity: [Jikiton]
Abilities and Concentrations
Abilities
Multiform Weapon Master
Yamato's Multiform Body allows him to produce and transform into different types of equipment.
[Human Weapon]Effect Unlocked
0Yamato gains access to the [Kouton] concentration.
10Yamato is able to morph his body into a variety of different equipment: gauntlets, swords, shields, spears, etc. Each form requires its own transformation jutsu and he must change back to his human form before transforming into a new piece of equipment.
20Yamato gains the ability to morph between his equipment forms without having to transform back into his human form first.
30Yamato can copy and morph into special equipment he comes into physical contact with. While copying special equipment at this level, he can copy their unique effects at half their strength.
40Yamato can copy the unique effects of special equipment at their full strength.
50While transformed into equipment, Yamato's stats are replaced by his [Human Weapon] stat.
Concentrations
Ninjutsu[Raiton][Jikiton]
Taijutsu[Rigid Structure][Sword Weapons][Hafted Weapons][Polearm Weapons][Perception][Mounting]
Genjutsu[-]

Jutsu
Human WeaponShow
Human Weapon:
Yamato is a Human Weapon and his true strength shines when wielded by someone who can utilize him to his fullest. Yamato is able to change his form to match the best piece of equipment the situation may require and adapt to whatever comes his way.
Requirements: [Rigid Structure] [Sword Weapons] [Polearm Weapons] [Hafted Weapons] [Kouton] [Jikiton] [Perception] [Mounting]
Transformation: Sword
D-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a katana with the following dimensions: Length - x, Height -x. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Shield
D-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a small buckler shield with the following dimensions: Width - x, Height -x. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Gauntlets
D-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a pair of gauntlets that form fit to his wearer's hands. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Kunai
D-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a standard kunai knife. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Buster Sword
C-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a large blade with the following dimensions: Length - x, Height -x. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Kanabo
C-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a spiked kanabo with the following dimensions: Width - x, Length -x. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Transformation: Spear
C-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a glaive with the following dimensions: Length - x, Height -x. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Special Transformation: Sword
B-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a special katana, replicating its dimensions, effects, and appearance for the duration of his transformation. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

Special Transformation: Spear
B-Ranked Stance
Yamato changes his form to that of a special spear, replicating its dimensions, effects, and appearance for the duration of his transformation. While transformed, Yamato loses his sense of sight, smell, taste, and hearing but keeps his sense of touch.

[Tremorsense]
A-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Yamato is sensitive to vibrations in the ground and can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is in contact with the ground within a 60-meter radius. While underwater, Yamato can still use his tremorsense by backtracking the vibrations that carry in water.

History Yamato was born with a unique body thanks to the genes of his parents reacting uniquely to one another. His father was a shinobi of Kumogakure with a noted proficiency in Jikiton and his mother was rumored to be connected to the families which had left Earth Country decades ago to form Lightning Country. The unique combination of their lineage produced the ability for Yamato to transform his physical shape into a piece of equipment, even at a young age. It was common for the young man to transform into a kunai and hide while his parents were frantic and searched for him as child.

Yamato relied on his ability even after entering the academy and was able to struggle his way through to becoming a professional shinobi. Once on a team, Yamato shined. His team mates were quick to his ability to adapt to whatever they needed on the fly and soon became confident and cocky. One mission led to the death of his team mates and his own capture and torture at the hands of a missing ninja. His absence lead to his higher ups believing he had sided with the ninja and killed them. The man was skilled at iijutsu and kept Yamato alive while also driving him to the brink of death. One of these procedures was the removal of his vocal cords after they had been screamed raw, leading to a jagged scar across his neck. Soon after, he was found after the locals had cooperated with Iwa shinobi. He was rescued by the foreign shinobi and placed into their hospital where he underwent physical and mental rehabilitation. The perceived abandonment he had undergone turned into rage when he found a minor bounty for himself in the bingo book. Wanted for team killing and allying with a missing ninja. The young man threw away any loyalties he had to them then and swore himself to his rescuers instead.

His story and abilities found their way to the top, the Tsuchikage himself. Yamato hadn't expected to meet Akari, Tatsuo on his doorstep one day and was even more surprised when the man began to speak to him in sign language with a simple question. 'Will you be my weapon?' Yamato was quick to jump on the chance and soon began to not only train with the man but also take up work as his second secretary alongside his wife, Natsumi.

Username: Niro
Owner: Tatsuo
Stat Trainings: (0/25)

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 9:53 pm
by Niro
Starter Pack
4(4)+3(6)+2(8)+1(10) = 60 ryo on jutsu
4(10) = 40 ryo on stats

Specialist Breakdown:

1 Conc
1 Ability
Swarm-like stats after requirements met
1 Jutsu
No Stat Boost

1 Conc, 1 Ability, 1 Jutsu and no stat boost, instead replace with swarm-like stats after Max Mastery unlock (basically no stat benefits until 50, which requires owner purchasing a perk, vs others which get it immediately and with boosts)

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:18 pm
by Ace Trainer
Is he limited to the swarm like stat set up at for 5 posts?

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 6:48 pm
by Niro
No. He gets no access to stat boosts and doesn't receive the swarm like set up unless he has 50 and loses it if someone debuffs his HW stat to below 50, he'd have his normal stats when transformed if someone did so.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 6:51 pm
by Ace Trainer
I think it should be. There aren't a lot of examples of nth stats without the boosting, Shio is one and his swarm is limited to 5 posts. I'm not sure why this one wouldn't be. This is a little bit harder to conceptualize because its not a *swarm* but the main advantage of the swarm is this bit bout the stats, which you're using. So I'd expect it needs to be limited to 5 posts in the same way Shio's is, since yo're getting stuff in addition to the 300 stat total.

But I'll defer to someone else I reckon.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:20 pm
by Niro
Shio's Nth stat Swarm-like attributes:
Generates an entire independent companion for 5 posts +
Companion has swarm-like stats based on Nth while spawned +
Has unique effect (propagating another ability's trait) +
Access to at 0 Nth stat +
Able to be registered independently of its owner as an X-rank jutsu for HQ/Village Defense

Yamato's Nth stat Swarm-like attributes:
No independent companion generation -
Swarm-like stats based on Nth while transformed +
Can be debuffed out of -
No unique effect -
Immobile without assistance or jutsu while utilizing -
Stripped of 4 out of 5 senses while utilizing -
Access to only at 50 in Nth stat, which is unavailable at start up and requires the taking of Evolve Perk by owner after registration. -

Shio's swarm has a handful of other benefits while this does not. There are also more designed restrictions on it than Shio's swarm. I feel like it should not based on such.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:32 pm
by Kanade
Cool idea. 1/2

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:25 pm
by Hayate
Why do you have Jikiton? I get in the history it alludes to being a descendant of a Kumo ninja, but that kind of breaks the rules we have on village locked abilities... Well not kinda, it does.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2022 2:00 pm
by Niro
Taiga:
Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:25 pm
Why do you have Jikiton? I get in the history it alludes to being a descendant of a Kumo ninja, but that kind of breaks the rules we have on village locked abilities... Well not kinda, it does.
I was going to do a Magneto theme but have him be the metal that he controls. It's right now being considered as one of the unique concs granted by the Nth stat and afaik you can't not have Nth stats grant such things. I can always drop it from the Nth stat and change his history to be a former Kumo MN since companions can have access to village locked abilities by being a former MN of a village. Lmk which you'd prefer

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:35 am
by Kanade
Valk and I agree it should be able to be a MN with a bounty in rease for said chatacter: will 1/2 when changed to MN for magneto powers. However that would mean missing out on kouton unless there's a good reason for it

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:35 pm
by Niro
Edited history to be a former MN. As the bearer of guardianship for Kouton, I'm ok with it being granted by the nth stat since it makes sense for it to grant. If not, again, as bearer of guardianship for Kouton I'm ok with the character being able to pick it up as a concentration considering they're now basically an Iwa VN. Lmk which but as of this edit it'll be the part of the ability.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:57 am
by Kabu
Multiform Weapon Master - For transforming into special weapons you should specify what "being introduced to" really entails and as well, the transformation also needs a duration of some sort.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:04 am
by Niro
Kabu:
Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:57 am
Multiform Weapon Master - For transforming into special weapons you should specify what "being introduced to" really entails and as well, the transformation also needs a duration of some sort.
Specified "being introduced to" as contact with. As he doesn't have the jutsu to transform into special weapons, he can't atm even though he possesses the potential to.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:24 pm
by Valkier
Unsure if your transformation jutsu are missing dimensions or if they're intentionally written blank, to be filled in on a case-by-case basis when cast? If the latter, you could probably throw in the maximum size in the jutsu still.

Is Yamato intended to be able to cast jutsu while transformed? Obviously right now he doesn't have any channeling concs, but I think it's an important balance question to iron out now rather than later (assuming he isn't transforming into something with hands that could perform seals, haha)

My main concern is the "While transformed into equipment, Yamato's stats are replaced by his [Human Weapon] stat". Although I agree that this ability is less restrictive than the comparison to Shio's, unrestricted access to "all stats at 50" is still far too much in my mind. I'd rather a post count limit on that, or a limit on the transformation length, or something to that effect. In my mind it's a boost and should have a corresponding limitation. Otherwise you can essentially ignore all other stats and have him permanently transformed, gaining a max-stat companion at a fraction of the cost investment.
- This would also presumably allow Yamato to break the stat cap for a companion - all stats equal to [Human Weapon] means he could potentially be a 250-stat character, not whatever the usual cap is for a companion. Unless i'm misunderstanding?
- It would also open up a potentially abusable loophole in the hunting system, since nth stats don't count towards power rank. You'd have an 85-stat character who can hunt targets at a fairly low level, and then transform into something far beyond that level (albeit with the assistance of a wielder). Even limited to a wielder's stats, it's a big power gap we should keep in mind.
- Although it's very susceptible in theory to debuffs, someone would need a very specialised debuffing tech designed to target an nth stat for it to work at all, right? I'm thinking that's pretty niche as a drawback.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:53 pm
by Niro
Deny this. Not worth the time or headache of fighting to get it approved at this point.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:31 pm
by Octopus Garden
If that's what you wish then fine but I think merely changing it so that all stats become 50 can only last for 5 posts is doable enough that we can push it through.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:29 pm
by Niro
I'd rather just make a swarm that has 50 across the board all the time with an ability that disables casting without the headache or time wasting of trying to do a unique Nth stat. Deny this.

[Companion] Yamato

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 4:03 pm
by Valkier
Denied on request