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Yaksha Dokuja
Gentleman Viper
[You are all made of stars; I am a black hole.]
General Information Age: 41
Gender: Male
Height: 6'9
Weight: 180 lbs
Hair: White, slicked back neatly
Eyes: Pink, elliptical
Physical Features: Yaksha appears to be the sort of man who is simply born to be tall and thin. Beneath his clothing, he has various long scars crisscrossing his chest and back, and a long line of scar tissue down each arm. He has a surprising amount of muscle, though still not enough to make him appear anything but emaciated. He looks surprisingly young despite his age; he can easily pass himself off as being in his mid 20s, when he feels so inclined. There are also no blemishes, pimples, or wrinkles on his face, making it appear completely smooth. Lately his face has begun to show some of the stress going on, but not in the normal way; instead of pimples or wrinkles, his face seems to be peeling off in patches, much like a snake. At any given time roughly half of his face will be a paler white than the rest, with the darker area chipping and peeling; those who touch one of these areas can easily rip off long patches of flesh to reveal the face beneath. In addition, he has the Speak seal written on his forehead. His hair is no longer slicked back, causing the strands to grow outwards wildly, and giving him an almost surprised appearance.
Clothing/Accessories: Lately Yaksha has stopped wearing such expensive clothing, with them almost entirely abandoned. He tends to prefer long traveler's cloaks and heavy tarps, almost like those used for painting. His pants are worn, with large holes all around, and he doesn't actually wear a shirt beneath the cloaks. Usually, he'll wear long, heavy cloth over his upper body, and a thin pair of slacks, worn and baggy, over his legs. The cloth over his upper body changes constantly, as he tends to take whatever he can from what's nearby; even carpets have been converted into makeshift coats at times. He has retired the old tophat, replacing it with a traditional rice-farming hat, made of what looks very much like woven plant material.
Forehead Protector: Yaksha's forehead protector has been sewn into the brim of his top hat, which he now keeps sealed within a scroll that he typically carries on his person. It's been not only slashed out, but almost completely charred, as if he threw it into an inferno.
Personality:
General
As of late, Yaksha's lease on life has grown rather interesting, to put it mildly. Determined to see as much of the world as possible and make his presence felt for the first true time in his life, Yaksha is quite interested in meeting people from all walks of life, in being able to bring together everything he discovers into an essential 'spark' of humanity. He has started to become distanced in a way, as if he's always preoccupied by five or ten different things, but more often than not Yaksha gives off a sense of polite, patient amicability. He seems almost entirely beyond the concept of surprise, typically showing something far closer to amusement any time something unexpected occurs. It seems nearly impossible to get a rise out of him these days, particularly given how easily he seems to see through those around him.
Yaksha rarely speaks of himself or even refers to himself, but when he does the same words seem to crop up over and over; Yaksha seems quite content to play the role of monster now, smiling calmly as he claims for the world to hear that polite society has no place for him. All the same, he seems to hold no true ire towards it, simply acting on whims that seem insane at a glance. At the cornerstone of it all is a desire to make the world 'his', to truly step into the skin of those he meets, to invade their minds and lives and make his presence nigh-impossible to shake. Once Yaksha sets his sights on someone and sets down roots, his presence is remarkably sticky, and he'll go to incredible lengths to maintain contact, as well as understand their own nature.
Hopes/Dreams Yaksha's only true desire at this point is to extend his presence far and wide, to become a veritable boogeyman, something known across the world, feared and renowned. He has no concern as to how he's perceived, but is typically far more comfortable brushing off his own mannerisms as 'inhuman' to avoid inconvenient questions.
Fears Yaksha has no true fear, save the notion of being forgotten entirely. He'll often grow irritated or slightly disappointed if ignored for too long, and may start to perform remarkably desperate actions to draw attention back to himself.
Combat Mentality Yaksha's goal in most fights is crystal-clear: See through his enemy's style completely, absorb their own combat mentality and ingrain it into his mind. To this end, he typically begins nearly every fight either by proxy from a safe distance, or playing defensively. Most attacks are feints or illusions, designed to push his opponent into revealing their ultimate techniques. Only once he's suitably confident he's managed to determine the deepest recesses of an opponent's ability to fight will he truly retaliate. Overwhelming force, absolute power, and incredible savagery becomes the entire purpose of his fighting style, destroying his opponent utterly before moving on to the next.
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Battle Information Rank: S-Ranked Missing-nin
Village:
Chakra Affinity: Fuuton
Second Chakra Affinity: Suiton
Stats
- Ninjutsu: 45
- Genjutsu: 32
- Taijutsu: 35
- Strength: 20
- Speed: 32
- Stamina: 27(30-3)
- Control: 40
- Instinct: 50
- Synch: 20
Equipment: Yaksha rarely implements weapons in combat, since he prefers not to engage in fights himself. What few weapons he does have are a pair of kunai, used more for slashing than throwing, and a wooden cane, roughly four feet long that can serve as a hasty club due to its metallic head. Upon a single sharp turn on the metallic head, it can detach to reveal a blade hidden inside of the cane. It's roughly three and a half feet long, and made of iron. He carries the kunai in his pockets.
D-ranked Poison
This venom is much more effective than his other one, but its primary usefulness crops up against more physical opponents. When this venom enters the bloodstream, it goes to work after 2 posts; for the next 6 post, the target finds themselves suffering palpitations at random periods; their heartbeat seems to become erratically slow or fast, or even just to become so apparent as to be distracting. Those effected by this lose 1 taijutsu for the duration.
†Death Cap
C-ranked Poison
This is the simplest and quickest venom Yaksha makes. It starts one post after entering the bloodstream, and causes symptoms very similar to excessive alcohol consumption. The target feels dizzy, and has trouble standing, for 5 posts, before it finally subsides, with the target no worse for the wear, save a slight headache.
†Nervous Jitters
B-Ranked Poison
A particularly sinister venom, especially against those who rely heavily on senses. Once it enters the bloodstream, it takes only a single post before its effects start. While the venom courses through the target's veins, their body's action potentials are significantly dampened. Their movements are sporadic, and often not at their own beckoning. Their taijutsu is reduced by 3 for 5 posts.
†Moirae
A-ranked Poison
This venom is one of Yaksha's pride and joy. It takes a very long time to get to work; the durations only begin 5 posts after it enters the bloodstream, once it has properly saturated the body. For 10 posts afterwards, the user's body refuses to heal properly; any time they would normally heal with flesh or muscle, the body replaces it with bone instead. This can greatly hinder mobility in the target, giving them a 1 taijutsu penalty for each wound they receive and summarily heal, up to a maximum of -4. Those with a strength above 7 can break the bone and thus get rid of the penalty, with relative ease, though if healed again during that time it, and the taijutsu penalty, will return. What's especially noteworthy is that the effects don't cease when the duration ends; the penalty remains until such a time as the target can find a person to properly remove the bone, and heal the area normally.
†Walking Dead
S-ranked Poison
Extracted from dozens of the worst plants, this venom is so difficult to create that Yaksha can only carry one vial out of every three threads; this vial contains ten drops. A single dose, put into the target's bloodstream, can take 30 posts before it reaches maturation, but for each additional dose he gives this time is cut down by 3 posts. If the poison isn't cured before the incubation period ends, the target's natural healing capabilities vanish completely, and only Ijutsu of A-rank and above can heal damage done until the poison is removed. Due to this, the target will usually die within 5 threads after this poison is administered, unless the poison is extracted. An A-ranked medical jutsu can pause the poison's effect, making a thread not count for the total, and an S-ranked medical jutsu can even give the user an additional thread if used. However, the poison will not disappear on its own, and until removed by a proper medical-nin, other jutsu are just ways to buy time.
When backed into a corner, he can and will draw blades and clash, prepared to shock and confuse with his sporadic movements and his myriad venom. In the few times where Yaksha truly does fight, it's like watching a stop-motion movie, with constant jerky movements that often seem to defy traditional logic. Once again, it's all about the perception, and Yaksha wins by fighting as little as he can.
Jutsu Information Abilities: 1/3
Serpentine:Yaksha's heritage is dubious at best, and his family tree meanders and wanders around in a manner that defies following. All that's known is that those in Yaksha's family have always had an odd affinity towards snakes, and had various summons available to them with little issue. Yaksha was a genetic abnormality even within his family, being partly snake-like even from birth. His eyes are a bright red and elliptical, making it nearly impossible for him to hide in a crowd.
By tapping into and better understanding his unique physiology, Yaksha has learned how to literally emulate snakes on and off, giving himself the forked tongues, fangs, and even scales. It's often a frightening sight to behold, and most people would describe it as disgusting above all else, but it's undeniably effective.
Ninjutsu Specialist -Instinct, Ninjutsu, Speed, Control
Concentrations:
Ninjutsu: - 8 Concentrations.
Suiton:This user has learned to use the Suiton affinity, allowing them access to Suiton jutsu. Suiton jutsu are known for their ability to submerge, drench and carry everything they touch.
Fuuton:This user has learned to use the Fuuton affinity, allowing them access to Fuuton jutsu. Fuuton jutsu are known for their ability to cut, disperse and enhance.
Quote:Acid Affinity
A character with this concentration is able to utilize Acid, and can make and use any custom or archived jutsu that require the acid affinity. Acid jutsu have an eroding effect.
Requires Suiton concentration.
Rank | Post 1 | Post 2 | Post 3 |
D | No Effect | Mild itching and discomfort for living beings, no effect on inanimate objects | First degree burns on living beings, can leave small grooves in soft materials such as stone. |
C | Mild itching and discomfort on living beings, no effect on inanimate objects | First degree burns on living beings, can leave small grooves in soft materials such as stone. | Second Degree burns on living beings, can cause standard weaponry to dull its edge or grow slightly weaker. |
B | First degree burns on living beings, can leave small grooves in soft materials such as stone. | Second Degree burns on living beings, can cause standard weaponry to dull its edge or grow slightly weaker. | Third degree burns on the target's skin, can even burn holes through to the muscle itself. Iron is now brittle enough to break with bare hands. |
A | Second Degree burns on living beings, can cause standard weaponry to dull its edge or grow slightly weaker. | Third degree burns on the target's skin, can even burn holes through to the muscle itself. Iron is now brittle enough to break with bare hands. | Burns entirely through flesh and muscle, leaving bone exposed even on particularly large creatures. Metal becomes brittle enough to shatter with bare hands, and wood or stone is evaporated entirely. |
S | Third degree burns on the target's skin, can even burn holes through to the muscle itself. Iron is now brittle enough to break with bare hands. | Burns entirely through flesh and muscle, leaving bone exposed even on particularly large creatures. Metal becomes brittle enough to shatter with bare hands, and wood or stone is evaporated entirely. | Any substance not reinforced by chakra is entirely dissolved, and living creatures will lose the limb almost without question. Only extremely trained medic-nin can stave off death or dismemberment at this point. |
Iijutsu:This concentration allows for the user to user chakra to affect the biological processes of a living creature. This includes modifying, speeding up, or slowing down the biological processes. Iijutsu is known for it's advanced nature and requires precise chakra control to work effectively. It can be differentiate from normal techniques by the faint light green colour of the chakra used in Iijutsu techniques.
Quote:Charge Fuuinjutsu
This user is able to utilize Charge Fuuinjutsu, making it possible for them to utilize any jutsu with the Charge Classification. Charge Fuuinjutsu are used to create jutsu like effects out of seals.
Quote:Storage & Force Fuuinjutsu
This user is able to utilize Storage Fuuinjutsu and Force Fuuinjutsu, making it possible for them to utilize any jutsu with the Storage or Force Classification. Storage Fuuinjutsu can be used to store supplies, weapons, armor, or anything in between. Force Fuuinjutsu are used to release, counteract, and capture energy.
Quote:Augment Fuuinjutsu
This user is able to utilize Augment Fuuinjutsu, making it possible for them to utilize any jutsu with the Augment Classification. Augment Fuuinjutsu are used to enhance or limit the power of whatever it's placed on.
Cursed Seal:Genjutsu: - 3 Concentrations.By donating the use of the user's chakra through the contract of a cursed seal, the user can grant willing participants the ability to drastically improve their physical and staminal prowess at the cost of their own free will. The seal works by allowing the affected participant to draw from a pool of chakra that is separate and distinct from the user's own chakra, effectively altering their chakra signature. The chakra that is used is drawn from the creator of the cursed seal, causing the user to suffer (-3) in stamina while the affected individual's stamina increases by (3).
Prolonged usage of the cursed seal can corrode both the body and mind of the affected individual due to user's chakra being constantly present and altering the individual's own chakra, making them more susceptible to the user's influence.
Sight Initiation:This user has learned to use visual cues to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to perform actions, or draw the eyes to something to capture their targets in a genjutsu.
Touch Initiation:This user has learn to use physical sensations to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to physical touch the target, or touch them with objects to capture their targets in genjutsu.
Sound Initiation:Taijutsu - 5 Concentrations.This user has learn to use sound cues to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to create sounds and sustain sounds to capture their targets in a genjutsu.
Quote:Upper Body
The fundamental skill of the [Upper Body] indicates the user’s proficiency with using their arms, chest and head in various ways to facilitate their use of related Taijutsu.
Quote:Perception
The fundamental skill of [Perception] describes the user’s practiced methods of more keenly focussing their senses for a short time. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu.
Quote:Sword Weapons
The fundamental skill of [Sword Weapons] indicates the user’s proficiency with swords and sword-like weapons such as knives, daggers, sword-breakers and the like. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu.
Quote:Stealth
The fundamental skill of [Stealth] describes the user’s proficiency in remaining silent, unseen and unnoticed as they go about tasks. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu.
Deft Hands:HistoryThe fundamental skill of [Deft Hands] indicates the user’s proficiency with using their hands in very specific and complex movements, like sleight of hand and targeting very small and specific points on an opponent’s body. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu in various ways.
Around the age of seven, his father began to teach him all about various animals, and the powers they possessed. Again, Yaksha rarely spoke and instead absorbed most of what he was told. When he was being trained by his father, he spent much of his time simply going through proper pronunciation and hand motions, while he perfected the chakra control himself. Since he was rarely trained by his parents on how to use the proper amount of chakra, he's still primarily self-trained and lacking in this area, even today. He still lived a normal life, and he had no concern for the fact that his parents were rarely around.
It was when he finally reached the age of ten, and he began to train to become a Genin that problems arose. He received frequent taunts from his peers for his anti-social tendencies; he much preferred to spend his time conversing with snakes instead of his classmates, and so he ended up being unwelcome in their frequent childish escapades. Still, most of his teachers agreed that he showed great potential for the future, and an insatiable desire to learn, if nothing else. But this wasn't enough for Yaksha; surrounded by people he felt were inferior, forced to watch as the rest of the students failed at what he had mastered long ago, Yaksha was already well on his way to losing faith in his village.
He was twenty, and a Chuunin, before the real problems began. Another Jounin of Kirigakure, a Kaguya, had returned from a mission tracking a missing-nin, only to run into Yaksha outside the Mizukage's office. His dumbfounded reaction confused the boy, until he returned home from his talk with their village's leader; he found his father and the Jounin, arguing fervently about something. As he stepped through the door, the stranger pointed an accusatory finger, almost screaming.
"Look at the boy! What's he got in common with you? He's clearly my kid!"
"My wife never had any children before she met me, and I know that for a fact!"
"So you're gonna deny logic with blind faith?"
The argument quickly devolved, until the two were quite literally at each other's throats. The boy could only watch helplessly as two Jounin level ninjas fought over his sake. The battle was over within a few minutes; though both Jounin, his father was clearly the superior, as he had hardly been wounded in the battle. But the Mizukage had caught word of the battle, and was nearly prepared to have his father executed for his deeds. Still, Yaksha couldn't stand to see his father die like this, so he pled that his father had simply defended himself; the other ninja had begun the fight. The Mizukage accepted the explanation, and in light of his father's normally stellar performance, it wasn't even an hour later that his father was sentenced to house arrest, never to leave the village again; sadly, no one ever heard from him again, as he escaped in the night.
His torment grew only worse after this began; cries of 'Bastard child!' and 'Unwanted trash!' began to follow him everywhere. He began to spend even more of his time with his snakes, often even trying to condense his entire story into the duration of his jutsu, so he could feel someone would be willing to comfort him. He continued to grow further and further from the village, and his thoughts began to become more and more scrambled as he spent time with no one but the snakes. Hatred and scorn took over, convincing him that this village wasn't meant for people like him. The fellow shinobi were not at all like him, and it seemed that HE was the one being scorned for not adhering to their methods, as effective as they were. During this time, his record for completing missions was still quite high, but they were all reconnaissance or other forms of non-combat work; work that could be done alone. This served only to strengthen the feeling that Yaksha was too soft for 'real' ninja work.
His mother finally left when Yaksha reached the age of 26, claiming that she couldn't stand being away from his father any longer; she was quickly listed as an A-class Missing-nin once word of her departure reached the Mizukage, and now the boy was truly harassed; he began to be accosted and hated by nearly everyone he met, claiming "It's in the blood! The parents are no good, he's gonna go wrong too!" He endured the taunts and the hatred for some time, before finally escaping at the age of 30.
He snuck out during the night, unseen by most; in the dead of night, with only the animals for company, he found some hapless victim and ripped their face off; the first true kill he'd ever made, and the first time he'd ever tried such a dangerous jutsu. Armed with his new identity, he made his way past the guards, managing a considerable head-start before the shinobi began to track him. It was only a few day's work to escape into neutral territory, and lay low.
For 8 years, Yaksha has spent his time wandering the lands alone, rarely taking company from anyone but the snake's he's met and the few ninja that the village has sent after him. Since he's left, Yaksha has slowly gone mad, becoming convinced that a god has begun to toy with him, and that all of the events in his life have been convoluted by this god. Though he's mad, he still fears diving into true insanity too much, and so he has retained just enough sanity to remain capable of surviving as a missing-nin.
It wasn't too long ago that Yaksha found refuge with a group of other missing-nin, run by Yaku Fushinkou; a group called Henkou. He entered as a mere footsoldier, but managed to rise through the ranks in only a few months. During this time, even the outside world began to realize his danger, as his rank skyrocketed from C-rank to A-rank almost overnight. His relation with the group was always difficult, even to the end; much like before, Yaksha felt surrounded by closed-minded fools and hot-blooded warriors, rather than true shinobi. And so it was that at the very end, Yaksha's actions tore apart the organization; in a moment of clouded judgment, he provoked the ire of a Daimyo from a lesser country, revealing their location to Kirigakure. Since then, and the breakup of the organization, Yaksha has gone into hiding once more, rarely to be seen.