Name: Akatora Shin [will request name change shortly]
Age: 8 yrs. old
Gender: Male
Age: 8 yrs. old
Gender: Male
Appearance said:Standing at about 3'4" and 30 lbs, Shin is quite short and thin for an eight year old. His bones protrude from his frail frame, and his pale complexion lacks a luster often found in youth. His white hair is a long, tangled mess from never being washed or cut since he was a toddler. But perhaps the most notable attribute of his appearance are his eyes: their crimson iris, translucent sclera, and constant bloodshot condition have condemned him from society's acceptance since birth.
His garb consists mostly of tattered, bloodied bandages that were stolen then wrapped around wounds from fighting stray dogs for scraps. In fact, the only real article of clothing he owns is a pair of dingy briefs.
Personality said:Being shunned by everyone but his parents at such an susceptible age has made Shin bitter, cynical, and delusional; murdering his parents only amplified his sociopathic tendencies. Although he is quite capable of speaking and walking normally, he prefers to communicate via gestures and grunts and moving on all fours like a monkey.
Most disturbing of all his tendencies, however, is the passive-aggressive relationship he has with his teddy bear. Whenever his rage has reached its limit, he takes the kunai he killed his parents with and shreds his teddy bear into pieces; whenever his sorrow overcomes his rage, he patches his teddy bear back up and whispers, "Sumimasen, Okami-sama".
Backstory said:Born to modest working-class citizens and with a recessive hereditary disease, Shin lived an ignorant and blissful life with his parents up until the age of three. That was when his family decided to take him back out into society on a trip to one of Okami's many shrines; when society first rejected him as the spawn of evil itself. His parents, although persistent in their efforts to educate their son and his adversaries about his natural condition, neither party believed them.
At the age of five, Shin came to a conclusion that if he was the spawn of evil itself, that maybe society would forgive him if he destroyed the evil from whence he came. Thus he took a kunai from his father's weaponry closet, slit his mother's throat, then stabbed father twenty times. He ran out of the house screaming, "I'm a good boy! See! I killed evil!"
But instead of being accepted like he had hoped, society further rejected him calling him a monster, a bastard, and various other names. Although he was taken to a psychiatric ward, he managed to escape and live on the outskirts of the civilization.
For three years, he struggled to survive. Then the day came where he discovered the gates of Kumogakure-no-Sato. There, the ANBU guarding the gates treated him with an indifference that astonished Shin. Intrigued, he ventured into the village under the watchful eye of an ANBU escort and learned more about the ninja way of life.
And thus, the road to redemption began ...