Post by Spyke on Aug 27, 2007 15:05:21 GMT -5
IRC Name: Marluxia
Name: Sabaku No Gaara
Game of Origin/Race: Naruto/Human
Age: 15
Mentally he has the brain of a 23 year old which makes him wise beyond his years.
Weight: 165 LBS
Height: 5'8"
General Description:
General History: Before Gaara’s birth, a policy change by the feudal lord of the Wind country forced the village to reduce the number of ninja. Gaara’s father the Kazekage decided that quality should exceed quantity. He chose to use an old weapon of war, a bijuu, which had been imbued into two former Sand ninja in the past.
At his demand, one of Hidden Sand’s elder kunoichi's, a profoundly skilled woman by the name Chiyo sealed this weapon known as Shukaku into the unborn son of the Kazekage’s wife, Karura. Transferring it from the tea kettle it was held in, Gaara was imbued with the Shukaku, making him what many call a "Jinchuuriki", or "power of human sacrifice”. The term originates from the immense abilities that the subject wields, but at the loss of another human’s life. In this case, it was Karura who lost her life as her son was born. Furious about how she was to lose her life for the sake of a weapon, she named her baby in an accursed way. The name "Gaara" itself could be broken down to "A demon that loves only itself", a reflection of his inhuman nature and his status in the village as a weapon and nothing more.
Gaara grew up isolated, as the Shukaku came with more than just the loss of Karura as a price. Having been bonded so closely to Gaara, his will was ever-present in Gaara’s mind. His murderous nature instilled a violent mean streak in Gaara, further isolating him and shutting him off from the world socially. In addition, the Shukaku’s abilities generated an almost sentient and instinctive shield of sand that automatically protected Gaara from physical harm, even when he was the instigator, something Gaara himself realized when he never got cut and bled. Emotionally and physically shut away from everyone and everything, Gaara had no real friends, even with his immediate family looking down at him scornfully. The only person Gaara had come to be able to trust eventually was his uncle, Yashamaru, who educated him on some of the most basic human emotions that he would otherwise never learn.
One fateful night, Gaara was attacked from behind by an avalanche of kunai. Even though he was blind to the danger, his shield of sand protected him and wounded the attacker. Upon investigation, he saw the masked assassin was Yashamaru, who said the one who ordered the strike was none other than his father the Kazekage, who had deemed Gaara a failure as a weapon due to his instability. Yashamaru also confided that while he could have refused to carry out the assassination, he chose to take it willingly for Gaara's part in his sister's death. In his last moments, he activated a mass of exploding tags beneath his flak jacket in an attempt to take Gaara with him. Due to the sand shield, Gaara survived. His mind snapped due to the emotional torrent his immature mind was being burdened with. He wailed in agony and directed his sand to his forehead, carving the kanji "ai" or "love" into it, forever marking his body to remind himself of his new approach to life, to love only himself and fight only for himself.
Not deterred, the Kazekage ordered further assassinations towards Gaara, but every one met in failure. Gaara had learned to finally be the weapon he was intended, but he still retained his mental instabilities. He could never sleep for fear of the Shukaku’s influence on his unconscious mind. Some labeled it as the Shukaku "eating away at his personality". In truth, Shukaku’s personality replaced his, possessing Gaara’s body. Gaara never knew the full truth of the demon inside him. Believing that the blood of his victims that mixed with his sand strengthened him, or how he was possessed by the corrupted spirit of a priest of sand. For all the bravado, Gaara never rebelled against his father, welcoming the challenge of each life-or-death situation he was placed in as a confirmation of his existence.
Gaara was eventually entered into the Chuunin Exams held by Hidden Leaf village, although with an ulterior motive. He and his siblings passed the first stage, followed by the second without so much as a scratch. It was in this second test where he murdered a trio of rival Hidden Rain Genin for his own amusement and demonstrating his signature Desert Funeral attack, surrounding the victims in sand and crushing their bodies to powder before pain could even register in their brains. The incident was witnessed by Team 8, where Gaara’s mere presence made Akamaru quiver in fear.
During the third test prelims, Temari and Kankurou both noticed that each violent fight, Gaara began to grow more excited. Finally, Gaara himself stepped into the arena in the penultimate fight, facing Rock Lee. The first half of the fight saw Gaara mostly disappointed as Lee failed to strike him once, until Lee removed the weights on his legs and began to move at superhuman speed, eventually not only kicking Gaara on top of his head but also landing a punch on his face that appeared to crack it, something rarely seen. It turned out to be a layer of sand Gaara used as an outer shell, revealing Gaara’s real face beneath it, now grinning in a psychotically gleeful manner. Gaara began to assault Lee and throw him all over the arena and rip at him with torrents of sand, Lee was forced into using his Omote Renge, requiring several kicks to lift Gaara up to the required height while under immense pain himself. Spinning and crashing back to the ground, Gaara was driven into the floor.
To Lee’s shock, Gaara cracked apart like a hollow shell. The moment he closed his eyes from the pain, Gaara was able to substitute a sand clone and avoid the impact, which allowed him to go back on the offensive. Enraged, Gaara once again began to violently tear at Lee. With all hope seemingly lost, Lee used his trump card, the Ura Renge. Pummeling Gaara with a series of strikes that were too fast for the eye to see, Lee managed to completely strip every last grain of protective sand from Gaara’s body and drag him around at speeds too high for the sand shield to block. With a final blow, Lee sent Gaara’s unprotected body plummeting down for a final strike. At the last second, Gaara’s gourd itself turned into sand, cushioning the impact. Enraged at being made to feel pain again and not being able to kill Lee, Gaara crushed Lee’s arm and leg, intending to kill him. Luckily for Lee, the fight was stopped when his sensei Gai stepped in to knock away the oncoming sand.
The concept of Gai stopping the assassination sent Gaara’s mind reeling with confusion, forcing him to recall his past. He took his leave and was later placed against Sasuke in the third round test. Foolishly, Dosu Kinuta decided to challenge Gaara the next night as he sat alone in the moonlight, intending to kill him and take his place as Sasuke’s opponent with the intention of ruining Orochimaru’s plans. For his recklessness, he was killed as Gaara allowed the Shukaku a brief moment of freedom, reducing Dosu to little more than a bloody stain on the rooftop. Later, he would track down the unconscious Lee in his hospital bed with the intention of killing him. He was confronted by Shikamaru and Naruto, where he once again suffered a mental lapse and restated his desires, explaining his name. Naruto soon realized he and Gaara were very much alike. Gai soon arrived and sent Gaara away once again. After that, Gaara sought out Sasuke, not to kill, but to acknowledge him as prey formally and go so far as to state a certain level of similarity between them, all under Kakashi’s protective eye.
When the match finally came to take place, Gaara was stopped on the way into the stadium by two Grass ninja who asked him to stage a loss in order to help a bet. Gaara crushed them in a bloody shower, and then proceeded onwards, luckily for Shikamaru and Naruto who were also in his way. Telling them he had been sated for the moment, he allowed them to live, seeing as how his next match was also part of a secret mission. Facing off against a "fashionably late" Sasuke, he was struck several times during the match. Enraged, he formed a sand cocoon around himself made of sand that extended out into spines when approached. Inside, Gaara was beginning to transform his body into the Shukaku’s. However, before it was completed, Sasuke pierced the shell and drove a Chidori into Gaara. For the first time ever, Gaara bled, sending his mind reeling and his half-transformed body slashing out at Sasuke from within.
With the plan forced to begin early, Gaara’s mission began as a joint invasion of Hidden Sound with Sand’s backup started. Still unstable, Kankurou and Temari threw themselves in to help him get to safety until he recovered. Sasuke, under orders, followed him, though Kakashi also managed to throw Sakura, Naruto and Shikamaru into a mission along with Pakkun to follow Sasuke. Shino also decided to follow, seeking the match Kankurou denied him to keep in order with the plan. With his siblings taken out of the picture by Shino and Sasuke, Gaara finally tapped into the Shukaku’s true power and began to transform again, with the right side of his face and his arm grotesquely deforming into a shape reminiscent of the sandy talons that swiped from his shell, drooling and screaming. Screaming out at Sasuke to show himself, Gaara took a second Chidori, tearing his transformed arm off, but he did not give up.
Sasuke was driven to the point where he had to deny Kakashi’s warning and released the power of the cursed seal for a third Chidori, but Gaara’s rage and determination barred him from stopping. Naruto then entered the fray, picking up from where Sasuke left off, with the incentive of Sakura’s life on the line as Gaara bound her to a tree and threatened to crush her. The two battled, with Gaara falling deeper into the Shukaku’s hold as his body sprouted a tail and the only human parts left of him were his lower legs. Naruto managed to hold Gaara off, calling thousands of clones to aid him and knock the sand off his body. Utterly livid, Gaara finally decided to sacrifice his free will. Creating a gigantic body in the shape of a monstrous tanuki, Gaara emerged from the forehead and put himself to sleep, allowing the Shukaku’s personality to emerge in a suitable body.
Naruto summoned Gamabunta, who fought Shukaku with some persuasion from his son. Even Gamabunta was outmatched by Shukaku’s drilling blasts of wind that it literally punched out from the gut. Seeking to end things quickly, Naruto and Gamabunta used a combined transformation technique, changing into a replica of the nine-tailed demon fox to try and get close. Naruto was able to wake Gaara up with a punch, dispelling Shukaku’s hold, but then found himself trapped by Gaara and about to share Sakura’s fate. With one last burst of strength, he crudely head butted Gaara, nearly knocking him out and sending both of them plummeting to the ground as Gamabunta’s summoning was also dispelled. They both gasped for air and they lay immobile. Gaara began to feel legitimately threatened for his life when he noticed a determined Naruto beginning to crawl towards him.
Screaming at how his existence would not end, Naruto told him that it was his friends who gave him the strength and motivation to keep going. Gaara thought back to Yashamaru's words on love and began to see a new path in life. Defeated, Kankurou and Temari retrieved him once more and fled back home, but not without Gaara apologizing first in a shocking display of humanity. However, a worse situation yet had arisen as a few days after the invasion, the Fourth Kazekage’s corpse was discovered, decomposed to lengths that suggested he had been dead months before the Chuunin exam invasion had been planned. It indicated all correspondence with Sound had actually been Orochimaru himself posing as the Kazekage. Hidden Sand was forced into an unconditional surrender with Leaf and became their ally once again.
What your character hates most: His friends hurt
EX: Lima Beans
What your character loves most: His friends
EX: Hugs
What your character hopes for: To rule the Sand village in peace
Class: Ninja
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Level: 15
Life: 95
Magic: 95
Act Points: 4
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Power: 10
Special Power: 35
Special Power 2: 35
Defense: 50
Special Defense: 20
Speed: 10
Accuracy: 50
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ABILITIES
Hero Ability: Desert Insomniac - Gaara has trained himself to never sleep through necessity and long years of baring his curse. This ability CAN be repressed, but... Gaara is immune to Sleep status. This also, sadly, gives him a .9 multipliar for resting rate outside of missions, since he can't truly 'sleep'. This can be waived, however, if he is properly restrained, which is difficult but not impossible.
If he does choose to suppress this ability and fall asleep, the demon takes over.
The demon "form" is 6 Units tall, and Gaara rests quietly atop it's head in blissful repose. It has unlimited MP, and it's HP and Act are twice Gaara's. It's Power and SPower are set to 200, and all other stats are equal to Gaara. He's simply too large, though, to attempt a dodge on anything smaller than he is, and instantly fails any Speed checks, and AoE attacks strike him once for every level of size they have. Shukaka cannot use any equipment or items, even if they are specially made for him, as he just doesn't have the attention span to bother with it, and retains none of Gaara's skills or traits, only being capable of normal attacks and a +0 SOUL element beam attack that pierces through those it hits and continues along, both of these actions considered AoE1 (though the beam is infinitely long).
Every Turn, Shukaka rolls 1d4. 1 = Attack an ally, 2 = Waste an Act showing off pointlessly, 3 = Spend the turn goofing off, 4 = Act normally.
If Gaara wakes up, Shukaka fades, and he himself is left with 1 HP and 0 MP. If the Shukaka is -somehow- killed, Gaara is left in Superdead, and even when revived, will require a third Ressurection effect to bring the Shukaka back to life. On the plus side, he can sleep all he likes until that happens =D
Racial Ability: Sander - Can control any sand mentally. The amount of sand moved and in what way determines MP usage, but it will always cost at least 3 MP and 1 Act. Gaara can 'generate' sand from rocks by pulverizing it, but this sand will cost at least 9 MP per action to control.
Sabaku Kyuu - Desert Coffin- Sabaku Kyuu is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Gaara will cause sand to rise from the ground and wrap around the legs of his target, making them restrained in place. The sand will then rise up to full encase the target. This technique alone can crush the bones of his opponent but the technique is usually used to prepare the victim for the Sabaku Sousou technique.(Spower 1) (Sand) (Requires to be on a dirt surface) (Costs 10 MP) Move can be 'charged' by adding 10 more MP per charge level to raise more sand, as long as there's enough around.
EARTH type move. Regardless of MP used, it takes a full Turn to raise the sand.
Sabaku Sousou - Desert Funeral -Sabaku Sousou is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Gaara will cause sand to rise from the ground and encase his target using his Sabaku Kyuu technique, making them captured in place. Gaara will then do this jutsu to constrict and crush his target killing them. The blood of the victim will then mix with the sand which returns to Gaara's gourd. The blood then gives more power to the Shukaku demon imbued in Gaara.(Insta Death) (Sand) (Requires Sand Coffin) (Costs 10 mp per level of charge done with Sand Coffin)
EARTH type attack, goes against Defense but uses SPower. AoE attack, with area occupied equal to the level of charge from Sand Coffin. If struck, 20% Instant Death chance for every level of charge, though this can be lowered by moving away from the center of impact (each level of the move skill used lowers the charge level by 1)
Suna no Yoroi - Armor of Sand Suna no Yoroi is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. If Gaara's Suna no Tate fails, Gaara uses an almost invisible thin layer of sand to cover his body. For the sand to cover Gaara's body, he has to use his body's chakra. When covered by the sand Gaara becomes heavier and it is more difficult for his body to maneuver. Though the sand does provide some protection, sufficient strikes will break the armor to expose Gaara's natural body.
Once it is gone the sand shield breaks and can't be used again for that mission. (Sand) (5 MP per turn)
EARTH type protection. Grants SPwrII worth of bonus HP which is lost first. The shield is considered to have Defense and SDefense equal to Gaara's SPwrII. This bonus HP is further protected by +SPwrII Bonus/+SPwrII Bonus armor, and has Barrier and Veil status at all times. Attacks that ignore armor pass through this protection and hit his base HP. Attacks that damage armor specifically deal double damage to this protection. Piercing type weapons, if their AP kicks in, deal damage to both the base HP and the armor's.
Sabaku Fuyuu - Desert Sand Floating - Sabaku Fuyuu is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Using his ability to levitate sand, Gaara will bring together sand into cloud shape clumps. These clumps are dense enough for Gaara or another ninja to rest on. This can allow Gaara to rise above any threat from below.
Costs 1 Act to form the cloud and another to hop on and ride it. If Gaara happens to be standing on sand already, he can forgo hopping on. Others riding the cloud must still climb on, however, unless they too are standing on sand, near Gaara. Every three Units of sand will carry one person, and only one is needed for Gaara.
The sand can move 4 Units in any direction for every 1 MP spent per unit of sand in the cloud. It costs 2 MP per unit to form it in the first place.
Suna Bunshin no Jutsu - Sand Clone Technique - Suna Bunshin is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. The clone functions like a normal Bunshin, except it is made out of sand. The clone itself can be formed out of the Suna no Tate that protects Gaara. When a ninja goes to attack the Bunshin, the malleability of the sand allows the blow to sink into the sand, which can then wrap itself around the limb to constrain the attacker.
For every Unit of sand used to form the clone (minimum of 5), it costs 1 MP to form, and it's stats are equal to Gaara's own, multiplied by 10% for every unit of sand. If the clone is attacked physically, the attacker must pass a Power check versus it or have the weapon it used wrenched away by the sand. If the 'weapon' used is natural, well...They're pretty much stuck. If that is the case, or the target grabs hold of the trapped weapon again, they can repeat their Power check once per round for 1 Act. Success, whether on the first attempt or later ones, wrenches the weapon free and destroys the clone. Magic attacks destroy it outright, and ranged weapons are useless unless they're huge.
The clone shares Gaara's Act and has no MP, so it can't use any move Gaara knows that uses MP. Every action it takes costs 1 MP per Unit of sand used to form it. It does not gain any of Gaara's items or equipment. The clone disintigrates as soon as Gaara stops paying at least some attention to it for any reason.
IC SKILLS
See further information in the Item Creation section in game info.
For point of reference, every point in an IC skill is roughly a 1% chance at succeeding at any given simple task.
10 Points to distribute among the following:
Blacksmithing 1
Writing 5
Crafting 1
Spellcraft 1
Machinery 1
Alchemy 1
Compounding 0
Cooking 0
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STUFF:
50 coins
Heroism: A blue crystal that contains the spirit of the hero, so great that the world bends to make way for their splendor. It can be activated without Act at any time, and a list of effects will be provided. This list changes depending on the current situation, so don't just use it willy nilly! Once used, the Heroism loses it's glow and must be recharged.
Fusionist Handbook: A book detailing the process of the lost Item Creation art, Fusion.
Pandora's Box: A mysterious black cube used in the art of Fusion.
G Token: A black token engraved with a faint image of a foxes face. Mysterious power can be evoked during frustrating Item Creation attempts.
Sand Gourd - The gord on his back holds the sand he uses to fight with. Gaara's personal sand. Takes up one of Gaara's Accessory slots and his Body Armor slot. Any action made with this versatile sand costs 1 MP. It can function as any kind of weapon, or as a shield. Acting as a weapon, it deals +14 Bashing, +14 Piercing, OR +16 Cutting damage. As a shield, it acts as a +10, 1 HP shield. It does not truly 'break' when used to Full Defend, but it breaks the defense. It costs 1 Act to change the 'mode' of the sand, and Priority for actions taken in the same Turn as a mode change goes down by 10. To anyone but Gaara, this is simply a gourd full of useless sand.
Name: Sabaku No Gaara
Game of Origin/Race: Naruto/Human
Age: 15
Mentally he has the brain of a 23 year old which makes him wise beyond his years.
Weight: 165 LBS
Height: 5'8"
General Description:
General History: Before Gaara’s birth, a policy change by the feudal lord of the Wind country forced the village to reduce the number of ninja. Gaara’s father the Kazekage decided that quality should exceed quantity. He chose to use an old weapon of war, a bijuu, which had been imbued into two former Sand ninja in the past.
At his demand, one of Hidden Sand’s elder kunoichi's, a profoundly skilled woman by the name Chiyo sealed this weapon known as Shukaku into the unborn son of the Kazekage’s wife, Karura. Transferring it from the tea kettle it was held in, Gaara was imbued with the Shukaku, making him what many call a "Jinchuuriki", or "power of human sacrifice”. The term originates from the immense abilities that the subject wields, but at the loss of another human’s life. In this case, it was Karura who lost her life as her son was born. Furious about how she was to lose her life for the sake of a weapon, she named her baby in an accursed way. The name "Gaara" itself could be broken down to "A demon that loves only itself", a reflection of his inhuman nature and his status in the village as a weapon and nothing more.
Gaara grew up isolated, as the Shukaku came with more than just the loss of Karura as a price. Having been bonded so closely to Gaara, his will was ever-present in Gaara’s mind. His murderous nature instilled a violent mean streak in Gaara, further isolating him and shutting him off from the world socially. In addition, the Shukaku’s abilities generated an almost sentient and instinctive shield of sand that automatically protected Gaara from physical harm, even when he was the instigator, something Gaara himself realized when he never got cut and bled. Emotionally and physically shut away from everyone and everything, Gaara had no real friends, even with his immediate family looking down at him scornfully. The only person Gaara had come to be able to trust eventually was his uncle, Yashamaru, who educated him on some of the most basic human emotions that he would otherwise never learn.
One fateful night, Gaara was attacked from behind by an avalanche of kunai. Even though he was blind to the danger, his shield of sand protected him and wounded the attacker. Upon investigation, he saw the masked assassin was Yashamaru, who said the one who ordered the strike was none other than his father the Kazekage, who had deemed Gaara a failure as a weapon due to his instability. Yashamaru also confided that while he could have refused to carry out the assassination, he chose to take it willingly for Gaara's part in his sister's death. In his last moments, he activated a mass of exploding tags beneath his flak jacket in an attempt to take Gaara with him. Due to the sand shield, Gaara survived. His mind snapped due to the emotional torrent his immature mind was being burdened with. He wailed in agony and directed his sand to his forehead, carving the kanji "ai" or "love" into it, forever marking his body to remind himself of his new approach to life, to love only himself and fight only for himself.
Not deterred, the Kazekage ordered further assassinations towards Gaara, but every one met in failure. Gaara had learned to finally be the weapon he was intended, but he still retained his mental instabilities. He could never sleep for fear of the Shukaku’s influence on his unconscious mind. Some labeled it as the Shukaku "eating away at his personality". In truth, Shukaku’s personality replaced his, possessing Gaara’s body. Gaara never knew the full truth of the demon inside him. Believing that the blood of his victims that mixed with his sand strengthened him, or how he was possessed by the corrupted spirit of a priest of sand. For all the bravado, Gaara never rebelled against his father, welcoming the challenge of each life-or-death situation he was placed in as a confirmation of his existence.
Gaara was eventually entered into the Chuunin Exams held by Hidden Leaf village, although with an ulterior motive. He and his siblings passed the first stage, followed by the second without so much as a scratch. It was in this second test where he murdered a trio of rival Hidden Rain Genin for his own amusement and demonstrating his signature Desert Funeral attack, surrounding the victims in sand and crushing their bodies to powder before pain could even register in their brains. The incident was witnessed by Team 8, where Gaara’s mere presence made Akamaru quiver in fear.
During the third test prelims, Temari and Kankurou both noticed that each violent fight, Gaara began to grow more excited. Finally, Gaara himself stepped into the arena in the penultimate fight, facing Rock Lee. The first half of the fight saw Gaara mostly disappointed as Lee failed to strike him once, until Lee removed the weights on his legs and began to move at superhuman speed, eventually not only kicking Gaara on top of his head but also landing a punch on his face that appeared to crack it, something rarely seen. It turned out to be a layer of sand Gaara used as an outer shell, revealing Gaara’s real face beneath it, now grinning in a psychotically gleeful manner. Gaara began to assault Lee and throw him all over the arena and rip at him with torrents of sand, Lee was forced into using his Omote Renge, requiring several kicks to lift Gaara up to the required height while under immense pain himself. Spinning and crashing back to the ground, Gaara was driven into the floor.
To Lee’s shock, Gaara cracked apart like a hollow shell. The moment he closed his eyes from the pain, Gaara was able to substitute a sand clone and avoid the impact, which allowed him to go back on the offensive. Enraged, Gaara once again began to violently tear at Lee. With all hope seemingly lost, Lee used his trump card, the Ura Renge. Pummeling Gaara with a series of strikes that were too fast for the eye to see, Lee managed to completely strip every last grain of protective sand from Gaara’s body and drag him around at speeds too high for the sand shield to block. With a final blow, Lee sent Gaara’s unprotected body plummeting down for a final strike. At the last second, Gaara’s gourd itself turned into sand, cushioning the impact. Enraged at being made to feel pain again and not being able to kill Lee, Gaara crushed Lee’s arm and leg, intending to kill him. Luckily for Lee, the fight was stopped when his sensei Gai stepped in to knock away the oncoming sand.
The concept of Gai stopping the assassination sent Gaara’s mind reeling with confusion, forcing him to recall his past. He took his leave and was later placed against Sasuke in the third round test. Foolishly, Dosu Kinuta decided to challenge Gaara the next night as he sat alone in the moonlight, intending to kill him and take his place as Sasuke’s opponent with the intention of ruining Orochimaru’s plans. For his recklessness, he was killed as Gaara allowed the Shukaku a brief moment of freedom, reducing Dosu to little more than a bloody stain on the rooftop. Later, he would track down the unconscious Lee in his hospital bed with the intention of killing him. He was confronted by Shikamaru and Naruto, where he once again suffered a mental lapse and restated his desires, explaining his name. Naruto soon realized he and Gaara were very much alike. Gai soon arrived and sent Gaara away once again. After that, Gaara sought out Sasuke, not to kill, but to acknowledge him as prey formally and go so far as to state a certain level of similarity between them, all under Kakashi’s protective eye.
When the match finally came to take place, Gaara was stopped on the way into the stadium by two Grass ninja who asked him to stage a loss in order to help a bet. Gaara crushed them in a bloody shower, and then proceeded onwards, luckily for Shikamaru and Naruto who were also in his way. Telling them he had been sated for the moment, he allowed them to live, seeing as how his next match was also part of a secret mission. Facing off against a "fashionably late" Sasuke, he was struck several times during the match. Enraged, he formed a sand cocoon around himself made of sand that extended out into spines when approached. Inside, Gaara was beginning to transform his body into the Shukaku’s. However, before it was completed, Sasuke pierced the shell and drove a Chidori into Gaara. For the first time ever, Gaara bled, sending his mind reeling and his half-transformed body slashing out at Sasuke from within.
With the plan forced to begin early, Gaara’s mission began as a joint invasion of Hidden Sound with Sand’s backup started. Still unstable, Kankurou and Temari threw themselves in to help him get to safety until he recovered. Sasuke, under orders, followed him, though Kakashi also managed to throw Sakura, Naruto and Shikamaru into a mission along with Pakkun to follow Sasuke. Shino also decided to follow, seeking the match Kankurou denied him to keep in order with the plan. With his siblings taken out of the picture by Shino and Sasuke, Gaara finally tapped into the Shukaku’s true power and began to transform again, with the right side of his face and his arm grotesquely deforming into a shape reminiscent of the sandy talons that swiped from his shell, drooling and screaming. Screaming out at Sasuke to show himself, Gaara took a second Chidori, tearing his transformed arm off, but he did not give up.
Sasuke was driven to the point where he had to deny Kakashi’s warning and released the power of the cursed seal for a third Chidori, but Gaara’s rage and determination barred him from stopping. Naruto then entered the fray, picking up from where Sasuke left off, with the incentive of Sakura’s life on the line as Gaara bound her to a tree and threatened to crush her. The two battled, with Gaara falling deeper into the Shukaku’s hold as his body sprouted a tail and the only human parts left of him were his lower legs. Naruto managed to hold Gaara off, calling thousands of clones to aid him and knock the sand off his body. Utterly livid, Gaara finally decided to sacrifice his free will. Creating a gigantic body in the shape of a monstrous tanuki, Gaara emerged from the forehead and put himself to sleep, allowing the Shukaku’s personality to emerge in a suitable body.
Naruto summoned Gamabunta, who fought Shukaku with some persuasion from his son. Even Gamabunta was outmatched by Shukaku’s drilling blasts of wind that it literally punched out from the gut. Seeking to end things quickly, Naruto and Gamabunta used a combined transformation technique, changing into a replica of the nine-tailed demon fox to try and get close. Naruto was able to wake Gaara up with a punch, dispelling Shukaku’s hold, but then found himself trapped by Gaara and about to share Sakura’s fate. With one last burst of strength, he crudely head butted Gaara, nearly knocking him out and sending both of them plummeting to the ground as Gamabunta’s summoning was also dispelled. They both gasped for air and they lay immobile. Gaara began to feel legitimately threatened for his life when he noticed a determined Naruto beginning to crawl towards him.
Screaming at how his existence would not end, Naruto told him that it was his friends who gave him the strength and motivation to keep going. Gaara thought back to Yashamaru's words on love and began to see a new path in life. Defeated, Kankurou and Temari retrieved him once more and fled back home, but not without Gaara apologizing first in a shocking display of humanity. However, a worse situation yet had arisen as a few days after the invasion, the Fourth Kazekage’s corpse was discovered, decomposed to lengths that suggested he had been dead months before the Chuunin exam invasion had been planned. It indicated all correspondence with Sound had actually been Orochimaru himself posing as the Kazekage. Hidden Sand was forced into an unconditional surrender with Leaf and became their ally once again.
What your character hates most: His friends hurt
EX: Lima Beans
What your character loves most: His friends
EX: Hugs
What your character hopes for: To rule the Sand village in peace
Class: Ninja
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Level: 15
Life: 95
Magic: 95
Act Points: 4
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Power: 10
Special Power: 35
Special Power 2: 35
Defense: 50
Special Defense: 20
Speed: 10
Accuracy: 50
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ABILITIES
Hero Ability: Desert Insomniac - Gaara has trained himself to never sleep through necessity and long years of baring his curse. This ability CAN be repressed, but... Gaara is immune to Sleep status. This also, sadly, gives him a .9 multipliar for resting rate outside of missions, since he can't truly 'sleep'. This can be waived, however, if he is properly restrained, which is difficult but not impossible.
If he does choose to suppress this ability and fall asleep, the demon takes over.
The demon "form" is 6 Units tall, and Gaara rests quietly atop it's head in blissful repose. It has unlimited MP, and it's HP and Act are twice Gaara's. It's Power and SPower are set to 200, and all other stats are equal to Gaara. He's simply too large, though, to attempt a dodge on anything smaller than he is, and instantly fails any Speed checks, and AoE attacks strike him once for every level of size they have. Shukaka cannot use any equipment or items, even if they are specially made for him, as he just doesn't have the attention span to bother with it, and retains none of Gaara's skills or traits, only being capable of normal attacks and a +0 SOUL element beam attack that pierces through those it hits and continues along, both of these actions considered AoE1 (though the beam is infinitely long).
Every Turn, Shukaka rolls 1d4. 1 = Attack an ally, 2 = Waste an Act showing off pointlessly, 3 = Spend the turn goofing off, 4 = Act normally.
If Gaara wakes up, Shukaka fades, and he himself is left with 1 HP and 0 MP. If the Shukaka is -somehow- killed, Gaara is left in Superdead, and even when revived, will require a third Ressurection effect to bring the Shukaka back to life. On the plus side, he can sleep all he likes until that happens =D
Racial Ability: Sander - Can control any sand mentally. The amount of sand moved and in what way determines MP usage, but it will always cost at least 3 MP and 1 Act. Gaara can 'generate' sand from rocks by pulverizing it, but this sand will cost at least 9 MP per action to control.
Sabaku Kyuu - Desert Coffin- Sabaku Kyuu is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Gaara will cause sand to rise from the ground and wrap around the legs of his target, making them restrained in place. The sand will then rise up to full encase the target. This technique alone can crush the bones of his opponent but the technique is usually used to prepare the victim for the Sabaku Sousou technique.(Spower 1) (Sand) (Requires to be on a dirt surface) (Costs 10 MP) Move can be 'charged' by adding 10 more MP per charge level to raise more sand, as long as there's enough around.
EARTH type move. Regardless of MP used, it takes a full Turn to raise the sand.
Sabaku Sousou - Desert Funeral -Sabaku Sousou is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Gaara will cause sand to rise from the ground and encase his target using his Sabaku Kyuu technique, making them captured in place. Gaara will then do this jutsu to constrict and crush his target killing them. The blood of the victim will then mix with the sand which returns to Gaara's gourd. The blood then gives more power to the Shukaku demon imbued in Gaara.(Insta Death) (Sand) (Requires Sand Coffin) (Costs 10 mp per level of charge done with Sand Coffin)
EARTH type attack, goes against Defense but uses SPower. AoE attack, with area occupied equal to the level of charge from Sand Coffin. If struck, 20% Instant Death chance for every level of charge, though this can be lowered by moving away from the center of impact (each level of the move skill used lowers the charge level by 1)
Suna no Yoroi - Armor of Sand Suna no Yoroi is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. If Gaara's Suna no Tate fails, Gaara uses an almost invisible thin layer of sand to cover his body. For the sand to cover Gaara's body, he has to use his body's chakra. When covered by the sand Gaara becomes heavier and it is more difficult for his body to maneuver. Though the sand does provide some protection, sufficient strikes will break the armor to expose Gaara's natural body.
Once it is gone the sand shield breaks and can't be used again for that mission. (Sand) (5 MP per turn)
EARTH type protection. Grants SPwrII worth of bonus HP which is lost first. The shield is considered to have Defense and SDefense equal to Gaara's SPwrII. This bonus HP is further protected by +SPwrII Bonus/+SPwrII Bonus armor, and has Barrier and Veil status at all times. Attacks that ignore armor pass through this protection and hit his base HP. Attacks that damage armor specifically deal double damage to this protection. Piercing type weapons, if their AP kicks in, deal damage to both the base HP and the armor's.
Sabaku Fuyuu - Desert Sand Floating - Sabaku Fuyuu is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Using his ability to levitate sand, Gaara will bring together sand into cloud shape clumps. These clumps are dense enough for Gaara or another ninja to rest on. This can allow Gaara to rise above any threat from below.
Costs 1 Act to form the cloud and another to hop on and ride it. If Gaara happens to be standing on sand already, he can forgo hopping on. Others riding the cloud must still climb on, however, unless they too are standing on sand, near Gaara. Every three Units of sand will carry one person, and only one is needed for Gaara.
The sand can move 4 Units in any direction for every 1 MP spent per unit of sand in the cloud. It costs 2 MP per unit to form it in the first place.
Suna Bunshin no Jutsu - Sand Clone Technique - Suna Bunshin is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. The clone functions like a normal Bunshin, except it is made out of sand. The clone itself can be formed out of the Suna no Tate that protects Gaara. When a ninja goes to attack the Bunshin, the malleability of the sand allows the blow to sink into the sand, which can then wrap itself around the limb to constrain the attacker.
For every Unit of sand used to form the clone (minimum of 5), it costs 1 MP to form, and it's stats are equal to Gaara's own, multiplied by 10% for every unit of sand. If the clone is attacked physically, the attacker must pass a Power check versus it or have the weapon it used wrenched away by the sand. If the 'weapon' used is natural, well...They're pretty much stuck. If that is the case, or the target grabs hold of the trapped weapon again, they can repeat their Power check once per round for 1 Act. Success, whether on the first attempt or later ones, wrenches the weapon free and destroys the clone. Magic attacks destroy it outright, and ranged weapons are useless unless they're huge.
The clone shares Gaara's Act and has no MP, so it can't use any move Gaara knows that uses MP. Every action it takes costs 1 MP per Unit of sand used to form it. It does not gain any of Gaara's items or equipment. The clone disintigrates as soon as Gaara stops paying at least some attention to it for any reason.
IC SKILLS
See further information in the Item Creation section in game info.
For point of reference, every point in an IC skill is roughly a 1% chance at succeeding at any given simple task.
10 Points to distribute among the following:
Blacksmithing 1
Writing 5
Crafting 1
Spellcraft 1
Machinery 1
Alchemy 1
Compounding 0
Cooking 0
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STUFF:
50 coins
Heroism: A blue crystal that contains the spirit of the hero, so great that the world bends to make way for their splendor. It can be activated without Act at any time, and a list of effects will be provided. This list changes depending on the current situation, so don't just use it willy nilly! Once used, the Heroism loses it's glow and must be recharged.
Fusionist Handbook: A book detailing the process of the lost Item Creation art, Fusion.
Pandora's Box: A mysterious black cube used in the art of Fusion.
G Token: A black token engraved with a faint image of a foxes face. Mysterious power can be evoked during frustrating Item Creation attempts.
Sand Gourd - The gord on his back holds the sand he uses to fight with. Gaara's personal sand. Takes up one of Gaara's Accessory slots and his Body Armor slot. Any action made with this versatile sand costs 1 MP. It can function as any kind of weapon, or as a shield. Acting as a weapon, it deals +14 Bashing, +14 Piercing, OR +16 Cutting damage. As a shield, it acts as a +10, 1 HP shield. It does not truly 'break' when used to Full Defend, but it breaks the defense. It costs 1 Act to change the 'mode' of the sand, and Priority for actions taken in the same Turn as a mode change goes down by 10. To anyone but Gaara, this is simply a gourd full of useless sand.