Name: Yamanaka, Shirayuri
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Height: 5'6"
Body Type: Tall
Eyes: Deep Purple
Hair: Black
Rank: Academy Student
Alignment: -Chaotic Neutral-
Physical Description:
Yuri is quite tall for girls her age, standing at five feet and six inches. Her skin tone is a light tan as she spends most of her waking life outside under the desert sun giving her a healthy complexion. Her hair is pitch black, an unusual color for those born into her clan, usually worn in a loose, messy ponytail with her bangs falling over her left eye. She has deep purple eyes that look almost black at a glance and her upper eyelids sit low, giving her a look of haughtiness, boredom, or indifference. She doesn't dress modestly, often complaining about the dry heat, casually wearing crop-tops and short skirts though she takes care to preserve her modesty by wearing shorts beneath. Her ears are pierced with small, golden hoops.
Personality:
Yuri gives off an intimidating aura, between her stature and naturally haughty expression so boys and girls alike tend to avoid her though this suits her well as she is super shy and stand-offish, preferring the company of plants and insects over other people. This isn't to say she is incapable of talking to people and having a conversation but she will never make the first move, so between people being intimidated by her and her being withdrawn, it doesn't lead to many friendships being formed outside of family who are all but aware of her shyness and true personality. She is a studious girl, very serious about her studies in and out of school, and almost guaranteed to be top of the class when it comes to grades. Her dream is to become a kunoichi like her mother whom she has always looked up to, even if in reality her mother isn't all that famous she still managed to hit the rank of Jounin albeit barely. Despite her outer appearance of the smart, quiet girl, she has a hidden dark side to her that no one would expect. She is very much a sadist, finding amusement in the suffering of others and often daydreams about the effects her poisons might have on a persons mind or bodies, those daydreams are one of the few times she might be caught smiling and though it looks sweet and innocent on the outside it is anything but. Thankfully she has zero practical experience in this field, she's smart enough to know not to start experimenting in her own home village but she looks forwards to the day she can show off how deadly she is.
-Likes: Flowers, Spiders, Snacks (Savoury)
-Dislikes: Physical Contact with Strangers, Crowded Places
Backstory:
Shirayuri has had a relatively quiet, normal life for a member of the Yamanaka family. The Yamanaka of sand are not of large renown, calling themselves a family more so than a clan due to their rather low member count, having a medium-sized complex where they all live, housing around a dozen family members. Yuri spent a lot of her childhood playing in the garden at the center of the family home, preferring the company of the plants and insects more so than other children her age.
She was taught at an early age about the flora of the world, eventually leaning into the more nefarious side as she got older. Yuri was quite taken with the creation and application of poisons, even more so than the Genjutsu her clan usually specialized in, though she was still taught of it and could indeed use to a masterful degree. She was near obsessed with playing with different tinctures and plants, seeing which ones work and which don't, she has poisoned herself many times over much to her parents' dismay and it is said this was the reason for her sudden growth spurt, people joking she'd stumbled upon the human version of plant grow. Her experiments in recent years have extended to the living creatures of nature, learning how to "milk" things such as spiders and scorpions and mixing those already deadly and dangerous poisons with her own concoctions creating things no human should ever have to endure.
Her shy nature causes her to be quite stand-offish and very reserved when in public or in class at the academy. She is very used to spending time alone at home, either in the gardens or in her own private little chemistry lab, it's nothing special but it has decreased the number of self-poisoning incidents. She has had a friend or two in her life, oftentimes classmates who weren't immediately put off by her intimidating stature but slowly they drifted apart, due to Yuri herself being unable to maintain a social relationship easily. This became especially true once she joined the shinobi academy and studying the ninja arts as well as her plants, poisons, and insects consumed most of her free time and as she draws ever closer to her eventual graduation her parents are slightly concerned over how little time the girl spends with others having seen her slightly sadistic tendencies creep out every once in a while.
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