Basic Knowledge:
Birth/Real Name: Tsukinowa Shinjo
Alias: N/A
Physical Age: 17
Height: 5'10''
Weight: 145lbs
Gender: Male
Day of Birth: 9/14
Village:
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Rank: Missing
Religion: Agnostic
Languages: Common
Skin tone: Pale
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black
Physical Description:
(To Be Rewritten)
Character's Mental Description:
(To Be Rewritten)
History:
The Tsukinowa are an old fallen clan of lumberjacks. Once a very rich clan that held more land rights than a family of tree cutters should rightfully have, an early Kumogakure war tore apart everything. The current leader of the clan was easily swayed, and backed the wrong side. In a single week the Tsukinowa went from one of the richest clans in the Lightning Country to one of the poorest. Due to the original large population and the amount of land that was suddenly rescinded, a civil war broke out and splintered the main clan into six different smaller ones. After the small war finished and a new head was installed, the clan once again saw a minor return to their glory days for about twenty years. Then, the war between Bear and Marsh broke out, and once again the Tsukinowa pushed money into a hopeless war; this time hoping to be on the right side. Reaping the rewards of a war could have easily pushed them back up to a stronger clan and fold the broken six back into the one. Of course, it didn’t end with one side over the other, but with a treaty, and the Tsukinowa found themselves once again ostracized for helping to inciting it. The clan was officially broken down into a single family unit, their bonds and savings removed and given to war orphans, and then banished far away from Kumogakure to live in the Southern Trading Port.
Shinjo was born shortly after this. Or, so his father, the last head of his clan, who quickly became a raging alcoholic, claimed. His mother was a passive aggressive woman that had been beaten into submission by drunken abuse, and took out her anger on the son she seemingly never wanted. As the clan’s old trade was the removal and processing of trees, his father went into the actual labor force for the first time in his life and was constantly ridiculed for it. The man had no real world experience, and only knew what a lumberjack was supposed to do, not how. His ability to manage the woodcutters would of been useful at the time, but due to his dishonor, all he was allowed to earn wages for was manual labor. This turned into heavy drinking to drown away sorrows, which only dragged up deep rooted anger he continued to take out on his small family night after night.
After twelve years of physical, mental, and emotional abuse, Shinjo was an apathetic child who reacted to very little. Fights were common in his house, and he no longer winced at the sound of fists pounding against flesh, or the pleads for help. His world had always been like this, and he saw little reason to stand up against his father after the drunk broke his arm from the last attempt; some six years before. It wasn’t until the man’s anger was finally turned from mother to child did the event that shook his day-to-day finally occurred. Shinjo’s father had one thing to his name worth anything. It was an heirloom katana made from foreign metals. The blade itself had mysterious runes in an old language acid etched into the sword’s guard, and when drawn, it appeared to glow a soft yellow, as if reflecting moonlight. The gemstone embedded in the pommel’s cap was worth their entire house supposedly, but for some reason, Shinjo’s father refused to sell it no matter how destitute they got. One night, an argument about said sword was brought up, and the words “you care more about that rusty blade than your own son,” were thrown around; unfortunately Shinjo’s father was willing to prove how much more. He drew the blade and moved to drive its point towards the child who was just standing there watching with horror. His mother, who had not shown any outward kindness to him even once, dove before the blade and impaled herself to save the child from certain death; she died instantly in his stead.
Everything about that night after watching his mother die was blank. Even now, some three years later. No one knew how, but the then ten-year old boy managed to wrestle the katana away from his father, and beheaded him with what appeared to be a single clean stroke. The child was immediately sent back to Kumogakure to be placed into the Academy due to a clear underlying strength that could be drawn out, but his godparents managed to intervene. They were an old shinobi couple, members of the Main Branch, and managed to get their government to at least put a hold on entering him into the Academy until he could shake off the tragedy of losing both his parents so violently. In a rare instance, Kumo agreed, and allowed young Shinjo to move in with them instead, under the clause that they keep a watchful eye on him, and immediately submit him into the Academy if he continued showing any signs of powerful chakra; to ensure this, a doctor would check him once every six months. A single year later and the boy had changed little except that he now lived in the Village Hidden in the Clouds instead of a fish-reeking port. Even his low levels of chakra continued to stay just out of range to be drafted and he had developed an asthma problem in the meantime.
Kagami Miro changed the path of which Shin walked. An Uchiha descendant, the very leader of ANBU found the boy experiencing night terrors while he was out on the streets at night. In a mirth of sadism, she approached the child and placed him under a powerful Genjutsu born of her Kekkei Genkai that forced him to confront his father’s death for the first time, fully, since it happened. Through an explosive show of hidden chakra potential, the fellow teen was able to brake away from the powerful illusionary trap and swing a weapon at the Sennin’s throat that had been given to him and dared to do so; if he could break out of her mental games.
The very fact that he, untrained, had managed to do that at all spoke levels of hidden potential that his godparents were somehow hiding. Miro knocked the child out and carried him to the Academy herself to be entered and enrolled. He woke up the next day in a bunk bed all alone within the walls of the Aurora Eruditio. All of his actual belongings, and his father’s sword, were in a trunk at the foot of his bunk-bed that he eventually ended up sharing. From there he was given his very first lesson by the ANBU Sennin herself, a study in the very power of illusions she had used against him. In a marvel the boy was able to pick up the scroll tossed at him, read, and replicate what was written on it right there on his first try. Miro knew then what she had found and how he could be used, and from there on out kept an ever hovering hand over what studies were fed to him.
However, Shinjo proved to be something above the rest. Due to a yet undiscovered tragic past, the boy actually had the latent chakra potential and talent of two other people literally layered on top of his own. Every last thing sent his way was mastered within the week. Genjutsu, basic Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, Taijutsu, Marksmanship, Elemental Nature Change…the list goes on. It seemed that nothing could stop the potential powerhouse that was his genius as he blew past his peers within months, all up until he encountered his one true weakness - stamina. A weakness in his lungs that could only be related to asthma inflicted his ability to keep up with the rest. Despite his overwhelming natural talent, his stamina was even now less than that of a child. Which came as a mystery since, for as long as he could remember, he had no problems running around in the lower lands near the ports. Even his first year within Kumo he had only experienced very small problems breathing that his godparents assured was just adjusting to the altitude. This single weakness had every chance to ruin his shinobi career before it ever began, but the ANBU Sennin who earmarked him from the start wasn’t about to allow such a frailty to pass. Enlisting the help of the Medical Sennin herself, they conspired to diagnose and find a working treatment to help his weak lungs. The result came in the form of a special rebreather fixed with two small canisters on the side that would create an aerosol spray of medication that counteracted against his asthma when activated. With this new device, and a personal inhaler for casual days, Shinjo once again rocketed to the top of the Academy.
On the week before the eve of his Genin exam he went to visit his godparents after discovering that his family history did not line up with what he grew up being told. However, Shin had truly forgot even that, and had simply come to visit his only remaining family to celebrate his accomplishments. He was greeted with not the godparents he had known in and out of his life, but with a drunk and a suspiciously passive godmother who looked on with indifference. Triggers from his abusive childhood rode his back the entire conversation where the pair revealed themselves traitors of Kumogakure and begged Shinjo to break ties and flee with them. The revelations revealed floored him for a number of reasons, but at the top of it he saw a link into the reason his father was such a prick; he had been destined for something far greater, and it had been robbed. The teen decided to turn them in to the authorities instead, but before he could draw his sword his godfather attacked and pinned him to the floor with the aims to choke the life out of the boy. It was there that it was casually revealed that they had been poisoning him the whole time, and it was that reason his stamina was so weakened. The trauma of the betrayal combined with the clarity of his allegiances unlocked a special Kekkei Genkei that is unique in its power to Shinjo. With it, he was able to kill his godfather in an impossible situation, and then his other parent followed immediately after in order to secure Kumogakure’s safety.
Shortly after he was given a Genin Exam by the ANBU Sennin in the form of a stamina test and then combat trial. The stamina portion was to climb to Raiden's Shrine, and old place of worship that was affixed near the top of one of Kumo's famous mountains. The combat part was facing against the very Sennin herself. While he was clearly outmatched in every category, the boy managed to hold his own and even break free of the Uchiha's powerful strength over genjutsu. Immediately he was given a position in ANBU as a trainee, his first payment as a member of the Kumogakure military, and his own apartment. At 15, Shinjo had a lot of free space that most teenagers his age would literally kill for; something that was quickly tasked for him to do. The very first mission as a member of the special ops went off flawlessly and brought back with him a list of informants to a growing threat; Tenouza. During the train ride to this first mission, the ANBU member ran across something he had not experienced before - affection. True, honest affection and loving attention from a girl born of high status. His second mission was to assassinate her father and any member of her family that he suspected had ties with Tenouza, based on the information he had found from his first mission.
Terrified of losing the first love he had ever known, Shin instead donned the disguise he had made for himself on the first mission and visited family as a boy determined to become a man. He posed as a lesser noble in love with the girl he had met on the train, and found himself in deeper than he intended as her father pushed for them to marry. For the first time in his life, the shinobi saw a path of life that gave him a choice; a life of love and peace, or a life of violence as a member of ANBU. Foolishly, he chose the former, and decided to betray his village in favor of love. That choice came back to bite him that very night when he went to go research into the family's background and their contacts to make sure they weren't actually Tenouzan spies; which, of course they were. Shinjo brutally murdered his fiancee's father in a burst of anger that was reflective of his father's rage, and in the moment his fiancee had snuck up on him. Shinjo whirled around and attacked, as trained, accidentally killing his first love. The rest of the night is blacked out from his memory, even now, but the act clearly broke something inside of him as he killed every single last person on the plantation; his target's wife, their children, and even the servants. ANBU found him sitting on the steps of the noble's home, the entire house and fields on fire, with the dead family lined up before him.
His return to Kumo from that point on was a problem. He quickly turned to poisoning himself with both alcohol and literal poisons to dull his mental anguish. He became sloppy with further missions, his actions began to reflect badly on the Sennin, and the constant use of poisons broke his mind down so hard he began to hallucinate his fiancee tormenting him with a single question; "Why?" Eventually his actions came to a full head when he started to kill ner'do'wells in his own village that should have been arrested and brought in for processing and proper justice; instead of being bludgeoned to death with a hammer. He was caught and broght into the hospital, something he had been in an out of for his mental instability, to finally be 'fixed' by his master the ANBU Sennin herself. Through unspeakable torture he was finally freed from his self torment as the guilt was literally ripped out of his mind. The process had been so harrowing though, his hair, once a mess of long ruby splendor, had turned white and fell out. His dojutsu that appeared to be a mutation of the Sharingan did as the Uchiha bloodline did though, and evolved through the stress into something grandiose. What was originally an ability to tear off bits of his own chakra to create spiritual weapons, he now could use to spread out his chakra in a fine film and mess with the very fabric of time itself.
The power of his new dojutsu, however, was something he kept to himself. After his rehabilitation Shinjo dropped his splendid technique with the sword and instead began to heavily train with a modern weapon that had been created originally for the powerless chakra latent people of Kumogakure to fend off bandits; guns. Through a long request of bribes and favors, Shin managed to get his favorite guns and have them submitted to the Kumogakure Weapon's Development to have them tinkered and transformed into something more useful for a shinobi. These weapons were then taken and sold back to the gun companies who created them to further upgrade their guns to keep up with the times, under the condition that he always had access to the first fully functioning prototypes for a full year before mass production. To wit, he's the only person in Kumogakure that has a short-barreled shotgun, and a handgun with quick reload capabilities.
Shinjo was born shortly after this. Or, so his father, the last head of his clan, who quickly became a raging alcoholic, claimed. His mother was a passive aggressive woman that had been beaten into submission by drunken abuse, and took out her anger on the son she seemingly never wanted. As the clan’s old trade was the removal and processing of trees, his father went into the actual labor force for the first time in his life and was constantly ridiculed for it. The man had no real world experience, and only knew what a lumberjack was supposed to do, not how. His ability to manage the woodcutters would of been useful at the time, but due to his dishonor, all he was allowed to earn wages for was manual labor. This turned into heavy drinking to drown away sorrows, which only dragged up deep rooted anger he continued to take out on his small family night after night.
After twelve years of physical, mental, and emotional abuse, Shinjo was an apathetic child who reacted to very little. Fights were common in his house, and he no longer winced at the sound of fists pounding against flesh, or the pleads for help. His world had always been like this, and he saw little reason to stand up against his father after the drunk broke his arm from the last attempt; some six years before. It wasn’t until the man’s anger was finally turned from mother to child did the event that shook his day-to-day finally occurred. Shinjo’s father had one thing to his name worth anything. It was an heirloom katana made from foreign metals. The blade itself had mysterious runes in an old language acid etched into the sword’s guard, and when drawn, it appeared to glow a soft yellow, as if reflecting moonlight. The gemstone embedded in the pommel’s cap was worth their entire house supposedly, but for some reason, Shinjo’s father refused to sell it no matter how destitute they got. One night, an argument about said sword was brought up, and the words “you care more about that rusty blade than your own son,” were thrown around; unfortunately Shinjo’s father was willing to prove how much more. He drew the blade and moved to drive its point towards the child who was just standing there watching with horror. His mother, who had not shown any outward kindness to him even once, dove before the blade and impaled herself to save the child from certain death; she died instantly in his stead.
Everything about that night after watching his mother die was blank. Even now, some three years later. No one knew how, but the then ten-year old boy managed to wrestle the katana away from his father, and beheaded him with what appeared to be a single clean stroke. The child was immediately sent back to Kumogakure to be placed into the Academy due to a clear underlying strength that could be drawn out, but his godparents managed to intervene. They were an old shinobi couple, members of the Main Branch, and managed to get their government to at least put a hold on entering him into the Academy until he could shake off the tragedy of losing both his parents so violently. In a rare instance, Kumo agreed, and allowed young Shinjo to move in with them instead, under the clause that they keep a watchful eye on him, and immediately submit him into the Academy if he continued showing any signs of powerful chakra; to ensure this, a doctor would check him once every six months. A single year later and the boy had changed little except that he now lived in the Village Hidden in the Clouds instead of a fish-reeking port. Even his low levels of chakra continued to stay just out of range to be drafted and he had developed an asthma problem in the meantime.
Kagami Miro changed the path of which Shin walked. An Uchiha descendant, the very leader of ANBU found the boy experiencing night terrors while he was out on the streets at night. In a mirth of sadism, she approached the child and placed him under a powerful Genjutsu born of her Kekkei Genkai that forced him to confront his father’s death for the first time, fully, since it happened. Through an explosive show of hidden chakra potential, the fellow teen was able to brake away from the powerful illusionary trap and swing a weapon at the Sennin’s throat that had been given to him and dared to do so; if he could break out of her mental games.
The very fact that he, untrained, had managed to do that at all spoke levels of hidden potential that his godparents were somehow hiding. Miro knocked the child out and carried him to the Academy herself to be entered and enrolled. He woke up the next day in a bunk bed all alone within the walls of the Aurora Eruditio. All of his actual belongings, and his father’s sword, were in a trunk at the foot of his bunk-bed that he eventually ended up sharing. From there he was given his very first lesson by the ANBU Sennin herself, a study in the very power of illusions she had used against him. In a marvel the boy was able to pick up the scroll tossed at him, read, and replicate what was written on it right there on his first try. Miro knew then what she had found and how he could be used, and from there on out kept an ever hovering hand over what studies were fed to him.
However, Shinjo proved to be something above the rest. Due to a yet undiscovered tragic past, the boy actually had the latent chakra potential and talent of two other people literally layered on top of his own. Every last thing sent his way was mastered within the week. Genjutsu, basic Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, Taijutsu, Marksmanship, Elemental Nature Change…the list goes on. It seemed that nothing could stop the potential powerhouse that was his genius as he blew past his peers within months, all up until he encountered his one true weakness - stamina. A weakness in his lungs that could only be related to asthma inflicted his ability to keep up with the rest. Despite his overwhelming natural talent, his stamina was even now less than that of a child. Which came as a mystery since, for as long as he could remember, he had no problems running around in the lower lands near the ports. Even his first year within Kumo he had only experienced very small problems breathing that his godparents assured was just adjusting to the altitude. This single weakness had every chance to ruin his shinobi career before it ever began, but the ANBU Sennin who earmarked him from the start wasn’t about to allow such a frailty to pass. Enlisting the help of the Medical Sennin herself, they conspired to diagnose and find a working treatment to help his weak lungs. The result came in the form of a special rebreather fixed with two small canisters on the side that would create an aerosol spray of medication that counteracted against his asthma when activated. With this new device, and a personal inhaler for casual days, Shinjo once again rocketed to the top of the Academy.
On the week before the eve of his Genin exam he went to visit his godparents after discovering that his family history did not line up with what he grew up being told. However, Shin had truly forgot even that, and had simply come to visit his only remaining family to celebrate his accomplishments. He was greeted with not the godparents he had known in and out of his life, but with a drunk and a suspiciously passive godmother who looked on with indifference. Triggers from his abusive childhood rode his back the entire conversation where the pair revealed themselves traitors of Kumogakure and begged Shinjo to break ties and flee with them. The revelations revealed floored him for a number of reasons, but at the top of it he saw a link into the reason his father was such a prick; he had been destined for something far greater, and it had been robbed. The teen decided to turn them in to the authorities instead, but before he could draw his sword his godfather attacked and pinned him to the floor with the aims to choke the life out of the boy. It was there that it was casually revealed that they had been poisoning him the whole time, and it was that reason his stamina was so weakened. The trauma of the betrayal combined with the clarity of his allegiances unlocked a special Kekkei Genkei that is unique in its power to Shinjo. With it, he was able to kill his godfather in an impossible situation, and then his other parent followed immediately after in order to secure Kumogakure’s safety.
Shortly after he was given a Genin Exam by the ANBU Sennin in the form of a stamina test and then combat trial. The stamina portion was to climb to Raiden's Shrine, and old place of worship that was affixed near the top of one of Kumo's famous mountains. The combat part was facing against the very Sennin herself. While he was clearly outmatched in every category, the boy managed to hold his own and even break free of the Uchiha's powerful strength over genjutsu. Immediately he was given a position in ANBU as a trainee, his first payment as a member of the Kumogakure military, and his own apartment. At 15, Shinjo had a lot of free space that most teenagers his age would literally kill for; something that was quickly tasked for him to do. The very first mission as a member of the special ops went off flawlessly and brought back with him a list of informants to a growing threat; Tenouza. During the train ride to this first mission, the ANBU member ran across something he had not experienced before - affection. True, honest affection and loving attention from a girl born of high status. His second mission was to assassinate her father and any member of her family that he suspected had ties with Tenouza, based on the information he had found from his first mission.
Terrified of losing the first love he had ever known, Shin instead donned the disguise he had made for himself on the first mission and visited family as a boy determined to become a man. He posed as a lesser noble in love with the girl he had met on the train, and found himself in deeper than he intended as her father pushed for them to marry. For the first time in his life, the shinobi saw a path of life that gave him a choice; a life of love and peace, or a life of violence as a member of ANBU. Foolishly, he chose the former, and decided to betray his village in favor of love. That choice came back to bite him that very night when he went to go research into the family's background and their contacts to make sure they weren't actually Tenouzan spies; which, of course they were. Shinjo brutally murdered his fiancee's father in a burst of anger that was reflective of his father's rage, and in the moment his fiancee had snuck up on him. Shinjo whirled around and attacked, as trained, accidentally killing his first love. The rest of the night is blacked out from his memory, even now, but the act clearly broke something inside of him as he killed every single last person on the plantation; his target's wife, their children, and even the servants. ANBU found him sitting on the steps of the noble's home, the entire house and fields on fire, with the dead family lined up before him.
His return to Kumo from that point on was a problem. He quickly turned to poisoning himself with both alcohol and literal poisons to dull his mental anguish. He became sloppy with further missions, his actions began to reflect badly on the Sennin, and the constant use of poisons broke his mind down so hard he began to hallucinate his fiancee tormenting him with a single question; "Why?" Eventually his actions came to a full head when he started to kill ner'do'wells in his own village that should have been arrested and brought in for processing and proper justice; instead of being bludgeoned to death with a hammer. He was caught and broght into the hospital, something he had been in an out of for his mental instability, to finally be 'fixed' by his master the ANBU Sennin herself. Through unspeakable torture he was finally freed from his self torment as the guilt was literally ripped out of his mind. The process had been so harrowing though, his hair, once a mess of long ruby splendor, had turned white and fell out. His dojutsu that appeared to be a mutation of the Sharingan did as the Uchiha bloodline did though, and evolved through the stress into something grandiose. What was originally an ability to tear off bits of his own chakra to create spiritual weapons, he now could use to spread out his chakra in a fine film and mess with the very fabric of time itself.
The power of his new dojutsu, however, was something he kept to himself. After his rehabilitation Shinjo dropped his splendid technique with the sword and instead began to heavily train with a modern weapon that had been created originally for the powerless chakra latent people of Kumogakure to fend off bandits; guns. Through a long request of bribes and favors, Shin managed to get his favorite guns and have them submitted to the Kumogakure Weapon's Development to have them tinkered and transformed into something more useful for a shinobi. These weapons were then taken and sold back to the gun companies who created them to further upgrade their guns to keep up with the times, under the condition that he always had access to the first fully functioning prototypes for a full year before mass production. To wit, he's the only person in Kumogakure that has a short-barreled shotgun, and a handgun with quick reload capabilities.
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