Name: Byakko Yukiin
Age: 18
Height: 5' 3"
Weight: 107lb
Gender / Sex : Male
Rank: Genin
Physical
A being made from ice and snow with porcelain skin, thick white hair which wisps and flows, and delicate features that draw one away from the concerning absence of color in his eyes...taken as a whole, Yukiin barely looks human and far more like a corpse rigged to move with the alarming absence of color in his entire body. Offsetting this the shinobi seems to take great pleasure in eccentric clothing, bold colors allowing him to stand out as if he wished to be seen despite his personality seeming the opposite. Whether or not he is aware of the conflict, it manifests itself in his physical appearance as his body clashes with his garments.
Despite being older than many of his peers he does not appear to be as old as he is, although his stunted height growth is also a great contributor to this. This early in his shinobi career it is not unusual to have a lack of scars or damage to the skin but it also contributes to this youthful appearance.
Mental
A consistent and conscience stranger, Yukiin regards the outside world as a dangerous entity and one that has little to offer and plenty to take from him. Humans are consciously drawn towards things that better themselves and often care little for who else it might disadvantage, a fact that the shinobi world places on a pillar well above many of life's other truths, so it would only make sense to avoid being in anyone else's sphere of influence. When everyone else is a competitor trying to weave their own reality into the world as shared it is critical to be certain that your reality and your world are divorced from theirs, without a connection influence becomes impossible.
To this end the young shinobi refers to himself only in the third person and almost always through a medium, typically his puppet but in a pinch anything will do, through ventriloquism. Yukiin is loathe to offer up his true name or any name if it can be helped, preferring to refer to himself as "He", "They", etc. although he has little problem using personal pronouns as if he were the speaker when speaking through something. In cases where it can't be helped or would be advantageous it is still much like pulling teeth for Yukiin to offer his own name.
The boy has conflicting views of authorities appointed over him, admiring their ability to enforce their desires but despising them for forcing themselves into his own sphere of influence. As he is not strong enough to do the same this envy can lead to outbursts and although they are short-lived Yukiin is a known "problem child."
Yukiin regards all information as useful but ultimately biased, taking what he's given but always tossing and turning it in his head to find the most valuable pieces that can be taken from it. Simple things such as one's favorite color or food and heard, acknowledged, and picked apart to reveal something about the speaker. This also tends to make him slow to respond to things, preferring both in life and combat to assess things completely and make decisions after that has been done.
Despite his interest in the real and unreal Yukiin regards Genjutsu as a lazy way to achieve what one wants, fabricating a world that is more suitable for one's lies instead of doing the work to make the real one accept your desires. This also leads him to harbor a great deal of contempt for users of this particular style of combat.
History
“A heart of ice can’t be broken.”
“A heart of ice can’t be broken.”
Those were the last words he thought he remembered being told by a mother whose image was as fuzzy as the rest of Yukiin’s past beyond the veils of pain, reaching back to touch them always coated the fingers of his mind with the bitter bite of frost and thus he did not probe far into this place. It could’ve been fabricated, like the rest of the world around him filled with people never made to be weapons who were twisted and turned with what he hoped were expert hands, but it didn’t really matter. Truth never mattered, the only important thing was whether or not the facade being named ‘Truth’ was well crafted and Yukiin had been given a very interesting thing called ‘Truth’.
His mother was a shinobi long descended from the Toraono clan and Byakko family and who had distanced herself from her homeland and clan along with her lover in order to avoid the plagues in Sungakure, becoming pregnant afterward. Her refusal to relinquish, and violent response to the seizure of, her child who demonstrated the unique abilities of her heritage was duly noted and responded to with swift, irrevocable, punishment. Objections were much harder to make without a head and with an unaccounted for father unable to intervene the offspring was quickly inducted into the village's academy and way of life.
Whoever his father was that tale had never been woven in front of him, always being waved off as unworthy of attention though whether this meant his caretakers had no answers or didn’t wish to divulge them was never known. It didn’t bother the boy too much, he was too occupied with the pain of augmentations, both physical and chemical, being ‘gifted’ to him almost daily to worry about things like his lineage. Access to someone of his stock was apparently rare but he overheard that he was not alone. This stood out to him as an idea worth grasping ahold of tight in between the sea of drug diffused memory and pain riddled thought so he never forgot it. Someone else was undergoing similar treatment...someone else had to be like him.
Usage of chakra came with no abnormal amount of struggle, in fact the medications offered seemed only to cause more troubles as his chakra nature became difficult to control. Yukiin’s body temperature would plummet during exercises, his breath would become ragged, and under extreme duress, the training area became difficult to work in due to the spreading chill. In light of this he was removed from many of the standard procedures for drawing out chakra and allowed to develop in a more natural fashion after the first few years of his life.
Yukiin began to exhibit stranger tendencies as he entered into the academic setting, surrounded with other students who were unfamiliar with him he quickly shut down and began almost catatonic in response to his classmates advances for any type of companionship. Further along in his education he was introduced to several varieties of weaponry to determine which was best suited for himself and his classmates and while many leaned towards common options the young Yukiin clung fast to something exotic - puppetry.
With access to a puppet his social abilities drastically improved, although he was never seen speaking himself and had quickly learned to use ventriloquism to speak through his issued puppet. It was easy for the boy to talk about himself when he was someone else was doing the talking and as it tends to be with childhood inclinations, Yukiin began to cultivate a spark of interest into a fully fledged talent. Following his academy graduation, he was given more training to work his innate elemental affinities, seen as a high value for the village to learn more about this bloodline ability through his development, and to cultivate this talent of Kugutsu into a deadly weapon.
Chakra strings were quite difficult at first both due to the advanced nature of the technique and due to this natural chakra elements, access to a mixture did not mean either element was in balance after all. Initial attempts would result in excessive Wind nature or excessive Water nature, both of which would damage the joints and metallic components of the puppet during use which made control both difficult and limited. To make proper use of Kugutsu the chakra was to be as unnatured as possible as a normal puppet couldn’t handle the strain put on it by his unusual strings.
Rather than accept this the young shinobi spent his nights after his Kugutsu lessons slowly crafting something for himself, smoothing, carving, and birthing his own unique weapon by replacing the joints, mechanisms, and other metal components of a previously destroyed puppet with layered ice, as thick and strong as the metals being replaced. Funneling his chakra into his strings once more the puppet crawled to life for the first time the next day, his unique adaptation harmonizing with his abilities. Training after this point was greatly accelerated, grasping the skillset almost as if it were second nature, allowing him to move out into the world and begin employment as a shinobi proper.
Freshly introduced into the shinobi world, Yukiin has adopted three driving goals - to become strong enough to weave his own truths about the world, to develop more of his own abilities and discover their limitations, and to find the other member of the Byakko lost to the Hidden Cloud.
His mother was a shinobi long descended from the Toraono clan and Byakko family and who had distanced herself from her homeland and clan along with her lover in order to avoid the plagues in Sungakure, becoming pregnant afterward. Her refusal to relinquish, and violent response to the seizure of, her child who demonstrated the unique abilities of her heritage was duly noted and responded to with swift, irrevocable, punishment. Objections were much harder to make without a head and with an unaccounted for father unable to intervene the offspring was quickly inducted into the village's academy and way of life.
Whoever his father was that tale had never been woven in front of him, always being waved off as unworthy of attention though whether this meant his caretakers had no answers or didn’t wish to divulge them was never known. It didn’t bother the boy too much, he was too occupied with the pain of augmentations, both physical and chemical, being ‘gifted’ to him almost daily to worry about things like his lineage. Access to someone of his stock was apparently rare but he overheard that he was not alone. This stood out to him as an idea worth grasping ahold of tight in between the sea of drug diffused memory and pain riddled thought so he never forgot it. Someone else was undergoing similar treatment...someone else had to be like him.
Usage of chakra came with no abnormal amount of struggle, in fact the medications offered seemed only to cause more troubles as his chakra nature became difficult to control. Yukiin’s body temperature would plummet during exercises, his breath would become ragged, and under extreme duress, the training area became difficult to work in due to the spreading chill. In light of this he was removed from many of the standard procedures for drawing out chakra and allowed to develop in a more natural fashion after the first few years of his life.
Yukiin began to exhibit stranger tendencies as he entered into the academic setting, surrounded with other students who were unfamiliar with him he quickly shut down and began almost catatonic in response to his classmates advances for any type of companionship. Further along in his education he was introduced to several varieties of weaponry to determine which was best suited for himself and his classmates and while many leaned towards common options the young Yukiin clung fast to something exotic - puppetry.
With access to a puppet his social abilities drastically improved, although he was never seen speaking himself and had quickly learned to use ventriloquism to speak through his issued puppet. It was easy for the boy to talk about himself when he was someone else was doing the talking and as it tends to be with childhood inclinations, Yukiin began to cultivate a spark of interest into a fully fledged talent. Following his academy graduation, he was given more training to work his innate elemental affinities, seen as a high value for the village to learn more about this bloodline ability through his development, and to cultivate this talent of Kugutsu into a deadly weapon.
Chakra strings were quite difficult at first both due to the advanced nature of the technique and due to this natural chakra elements, access to a mixture did not mean either element was in balance after all. Initial attempts would result in excessive Wind nature or excessive Water nature, both of which would damage the joints and metallic components of the puppet during use which made control both difficult and limited. To make proper use of Kugutsu the chakra was to be as unnatured as possible as a normal puppet couldn’t handle the strain put on it by his unusual strings.
Rather than accept this the young shinobi spent his nights after his Kugutsu lessons slowly crafting something for himself, smoothing, carving, and birthing his own unique weapon by replacing the joints, mechanisms, and other metal components of a previously destroyed puppet with layered ice, as thick and strong as the metals being replaced. Funneling his chakra into his strings once more the puppet crawled to life for the first time the next day, his unique adaptation harmonizing with his abilities. Training after this point was greatly accelerated, grasping the skillset almost as if it were second nature, allowing him to move out into the world and begin employment as a shinobi proper.
Freshly introduced into the shinobi world, Yukiin has adopted three driving goals - to become strong enough to weave his own truths about the world, to develop more of his own abilities and discover their limitations, and to find the other member of the Byakko lost to the Hidden Cloud.
