Name: Takamaru
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Physical Description: Standing at 4 feet 3 inches and 60.5 pounds, Takamaru is somewhat slender for his height, though not too much so. His pale complexion strikes a stark contrast with his intense orange eyes, granting him a somewhat haunting presence that is only bolstered by his straight, shoulder-length, white hair. As far as garb is concerned, Takamaru prefers utility in simplicity, wearing only a pair of baggy, black jeans and forgoing any shirt or shoes altogether. In this way, he boldly supports his shamanic heritage, as he has various spiritual tattoos covering him from his neck to his waist.
Mental Description: Takamaru is quite superstitious, even among his young Iwagakure brethren. He actively seeks enlightenment by attempting to communicate with the spirits of the natural world and honors each successful meeting with a tattoo. Yet, when he isn't preoccupied with his own spiritual energies, Takamaru taps into this power to enable him to view each scenario with clarity from a variety of perspectives. In this way, Takamaru is a strategical genius, both on and off the battlefield.
History: Born the son of two shamans, Jounin Ren and Jounin Rin, Takamaru was raised to worship the Old Gods from a young age. At the age of eight, while accompanying his parents on a pilgrimage to Maruishi, his parent and him were attacked by a young carnasaur. Ren and Rin had managed to subdue and execute the beast, but not before it had clamped onto their son's right arm with its powerful jaws, shattering the bones, rending the flesh, and ultimately sending the boy into a trauma-induced coma.
While in that state, he communed with a sixth God--another old God whose role as a force of balance amongst the other Gods had been neglected for several millennia. Although he had his doubts about the divinity of this entity, Takamaru listened as it explained that it, as the self-proclaimed Divine Spirit that governed all aspects of the natural and spiritual realms, had lost control as its followers lost faith in it. It offered the boy a way to return to perfect health in exchange for his help in restoring its control over the other Gods.
Takamaru accepted, and he awoke two years later in his own home in Iwagakure, his arm healed as the God said it would be. When they heard their son come to, Ren and Rin rushed to his side, praising the old Gods for his miraculous recovery. Yet when he mentioned the sixth God, his parents cast him out as a heretic.
With nowhere else to go, Takamaru enrolled within Iwagakure's Shinobi Academy.
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Physical Description: Standing at 4 feet 3 inches and 60.5 pounds, Takamaru is somewhat slender for his height, though not too much so. His pale complexion strikes a stark contrast with his intense orange eyes, granting him a somewhat haunting presence that is only bolstered by his straight, shoulder-length, white hair. As far as garb is concerned, Takamaru prefers utility in simplicity, wearing only a pair of baggy, black jeans and forgoing any shirt or shoes altogether. In this way, he boldly supports his shamanic heritage, as he has various spiritual tattoos covering him from his neck to his waist.
Mental Description: Takamaru is quite superstitious, even among his young Iwagakure brethren. He actively seeks enlightenment by attempting to communicate with the spirits of the natural world and honors each successful meeting with a tattoo. Yet, when he isn't preoccupied with his own spiritual energies, Takamaru taps into this power to enable him to view each scenario with clarity from a variety of perspectives. In this way, Takamaru is a strategical genius, both on and off the battlefield.
History: Born the son of two shamans, Jounin Ren and Jounin Rin, Takamaru was raised to worship the Old Gods from a young age. At the age of eight, while accompanying his parents on a pilgrimage to Maruishi, his parent and him were attacked by a young carnasaur. Ren and Rin had managed to subdue and execute the beast, but not before it had clamped onto their son's right arm with its powerful jaws, shattering the bones, rending the flesh, and ultimately sending the boy into a trauma-induced coma.
While in that state, he communed with a sixth God--another old God whose role as a force of balance amongst the other Gods had been neglected for several millennia. Although he had his doubts about the divinity of this entity, Takamaru listened as it explained that it, as the self-proclaimed Divine Spirit that governed all aspects of the natural and spiritual realms, had lost control as its followers lost faith in it. It offered the boy a way to return to perfect health in exchange for his help in restoring its control over the other Gods.
Takamaru accepted, and he awoke two years later in his own home in Iwagakure, his arm healed as the God said it would be. When they heard their son come to, Ren and Rin rushed to his side, praising the old Gods for his miraculous recovery. Yet when he mentioned the sixth God, his parents cast him out as a heretic.
With nowhere else to go, Takamaru enrolled within Iwagakure's Shinobi Academy.
