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Application Poison Ivy
Name: Pamela Lillian Isley/Poison Ivy (in game, she'll have the name ItoTsutaki, with tsuta being the word for ivy, to give her a more game appropriate name that's still true to the original)
Canon: DC animated universe/The Batman (with drawing from DC comics for background that the animated canon doesn't provide)
Journal:poisonperfume
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Canon History: Poison Ivy: The Batman and the comics version, too
Canon Abilities/Powers:
In canon, Pamela has the ability to control plants. In The Batman, it was due to having a mutagenic chemical designed to accelerate plant growth fall all over her. She's capable of making plants grow at an incredibly fast rate, to the point that she was able to make a giant tree erupt from a downtown street, tear open asphalt and grow to the height of a skyscraper in less than ten seconds. She's also able to manipulate plants as if they're an extension of herself, sending branches and vines to attack her enemies. She's able to mutate plants herself, such as making man-eating venus fly traps with natural acid in them, little trees to act as foot soldiers for her, and even plant-based copies of people when she decides to impersonate major figures in Gotham city in an attempt to take it over and make the city go green. In some incarnations of canon, Pamela possesses pheromones that enable her to manipulate people to her will. In The Batman, it's plant spores that grant her temporary mind control over someone. She also possesses a poisonous kiss in most incarnations and immunity to all toxins except for powerful herbicides. Because she's a teenager, she's shown blowing a kiss that releases the plant spores rather than kissing anyone directly on the mouth in The Batman, so it's unknown if her kiss is poisonous there. Her body is green, though, so odds are that it's not healthy to kiss her.
In most incarnations of the character, she's a brilliant biochemist. In The Batman, she is a high school student who becomes a criminal, but she *does* demonstrate an excellent understanding of plants and likely wouldn't think of doing some of the things that she pulls off in canon if she wasn't strong in the sciences. In The Batman, she shows that she's pretty good at picking locks, and resourceful about searching for things on the internet (as she managed to find a mercenary who'd destroy buildings for her there - albeit he expected to get paid and was very unhappy to discover that he'd been tricked by a teenage girl).
Sunshineverse History:
Tsutaki was the result of a brief fling between a civilian woman named Koharu from the northern most part of the land of Rivers and a shinobi from Tanigakure who'd originally come from Uzushiogakure. The pregnancy was accidental, and Uzumaki Chitose had no idea that it had happened. Koharu had grown up in a traditional background where it was shameful to be pregnant and unwed, and quickly latched onto a homely but moderately wealthy man named Ito Takeshi. She slept with him and led him to believe that the child she was carrying was his. They married, and named their newborn daughter Tsutaki. As parents, Takeshi and Koharu provided well for their child, but were emotionally distant. That only became worse when she was five years old and began exhibiting an ability to manipulate plants. Being civilians, they didn't understand the significance of it. Koharu was aware that the ability likely had something to do with Tsutaki's real father, but kept quiet about it. To Takeshi, the ability was strange and an embarrassment that Tsutaki was to keep a secret.
As it turned out, Chitose's mother had been from the Senju clan, and the rare bloodline limit had been passed on to his daughter along with the potent life force of the Uzumaki clan. Neither of Tsutaki's parents understood that she had a wood release bloodline limit, but Orochimaru recognized it for what it was immediately. Tsutaki met the Otogakure leader in a forest on the outskirts of her family's property when she was seven. She loved plants and liked to sneak off into the forest and practice in secret. Orochimaru had just been passing through the area and was sticking to areas off the beaten path when he encountered her playing with her abilities. He watched her make several flowers grow and a small branch sprout from a tree before he revealed himself. At first, Tsutaki denied that she'd been doing anything, saying that he must have imagined it because people couldn't do things like that in real life. All it took to get her to change her tune was a promise from Orochimaru that he didn't think she was weird or bad for being able to do it. Then she was quick to show him everything she'd learned how to do, delighted that she was being praised for something that her parents had always treated as a shameful little secret.
When Orochimaru discovered that her family was wealthy, he realized he wouldn't simply be able to buy her off of her family like he'd done with some peasant children that exhibited ninja talents. Instead, he told her parents a number of half-truths to persuade them that everyone was better off if Tsutaki went with him. He told them that her ability was called wood release, that it was prized in the shinobi world, and that with training, she could perfect her control. Her parents showed some reluctance, but after they were assured that Tsutaki would be taken care of and well trained, they agreed to let their daughter go with him.
Orochimaru's tutelage was much harsher than Tsutaki had expected, but she flourished - even in spite of the experiments that started just a couple of months after she'd gotten there. Within two years, her grasp of wood release jutsu went from clumsy and barely controlled to reasonably impressive. She became a genin when she was nine, and a chuunin when she was eleven. By the time she was twelve, Tsutaki took her interest in sciences to coming up with experiments to perform upon herself. She was careful to write up research proposals for Orochimaru to review. Many of them were denied, but a few of them got approved. When Tsutaki was fifteen, she was gripped by the idea to enhance her pheromones well beyond a normal human's. It was the first experiment she ever performed without Orochimaru's approval.
Although her career as a kunoichi had initially really taken off and she'd been promoted to chuunin at a relatively young age (in part due to having Orochimaru's favor), it took Tsutaki several years to be promoted to jounin. Some of the experiments performed on her made her mentally unstable, which in turn impacted her judgment, leaving her best utilized as a powerhouse under someone else's command. As her body's chemistry finally started adjusting, she was finally promoted to jounin just a few months ago.
Sunshineverse Abilities/Powers:
Wood release ninjutsu - Tsutaki's first and foremost ability. She's the most naturally proficient with it, and even without any training had achieved some very crude control over it. Under Orochimaru's tutelage, she's become quite a force to be reckoned with it. She's even able to make plant based clones that become piles of leaves when struck hard enough to force the jutsu to release.
Curse seal - When level two of the seal is activated, her skin turns green and her body becomes poisonous to anyone who touches her skin directly. It's particularly toxic if she kisses the person right on the lips. The pheromones that she's capable of emitting become far more potent in this level two state - bordering on short term mind-control until the person she's controlling is broken free by an outside source. (Usually either by immersing them in cold water or using something to cut them off from their sense of smell).
Taijutsu - While it’s not her strongest skill, Tsutaki is still formidable at hand to hand combat. Her kicks are far more powerful than her punches and she’s quite nimble. She’s very agile and in her element when fighting in a forest environment.
Summon - Tsutaki has a single summon contract with a golden poison dart frog named Hari. Hari is about the size of a chihuahua, extremely nimble, and has a very perky and upbeat personality. Hari frequently calls Tsutaki "Red".
Years of experimentation on her have rendered Tsutaki immune to most toxins and poisons, with the exception of those that work like high octane weedkiller. The experimentation also has given her the ability to emit pheromones that allow her to subtly manipulate others. It makes them more likely to agree with her and less likely to be suspicious of her. It won't stop them if it's glaringly obvious that she's up to something, but it helps things along.
Tsutaki is a brilliant young researcher in her own right and has an excellent grasp of biochemistry. Through her own experiments, she's managed to create a few new species of plant that would be right at home in Konoha's forest of death. She’s also adept at mixing plant-based toxins and drugs.
Appearance:
One of the things a person will notice right away upon seeing Tsutaki is that she's got the vibrantly red hair that the Uzumaki clan is known for. Her eyes are green, her skin is fair, and she wears glasses. Her body is lean but somewhat curvacious - combined with that and very feminine facial features, it would be very difficult for her to pass herself off as a boy without using henge no jutsu. When her curse seal is activated to level two, rather than looking monstrous, she appears exotic. Her skin turns green, her eyes become a much lighter green with pale green sclera.
Personality:
(Player's notes: Changes to her history and transplanting her into the Naruto-verse will definitely have an impact, so I'll outline some of the biggest factors in changes from her canon self to Sunshine-verse self here. First of all, since businesses haven't done anywhere near the same degree of damage to the environment in the Naruto world as they have in the DC universe, she won't be an eco-terrorist. She will, however, be unusually devoted to the well being of plants nonetheless. She does not hate men like some incarnations of Poison Ivy do, though she's still not above using her looks and abilities for manipulation. Her summon Hari is a nod to Harley Quinn.)
Tsutaki's personality is, in many ways, contradictory. There are times that she is ruthless and callous, and others that she is nurturing. Her devotion to the environment and to the well-being of her village shows a strong understanding of the bigger picture and planning for future generations, but her devotion also gives her tunnel vision that makes her obsessive and short-sighted. For all her intelligence, Tsutaki can't seem to think of a viable way to fully achieve her goals without resorting to violence.
Tsutaki loves nature, far more than an average person. In fact, with the exception of people who become important to her, Tsutaki often values the lives of plants more than she values the lives of people. She's much more at peace outdoors amongst trees and flowers than she is inside of buildings. She won't spend time indoors unless she has to for some reason - a direct order, or the weather is bad enough that it's actually dangerous to remain outside. Some of this is rooted in her childhood. As a girl, she preferred to play freely outside rather than stay inside where she was frequently being ignored anyway. Her father (albeit not her biological one) Ito Takeshi owned a business that was starting to industrialize their community, so she's latched onto nature in part out of spite. The rest is due to feeling more powerful there. As a user of wood release jutsu, she's quite literally in her element when she's outside.
However ruthless Tsutaki may be at times, she can be almost equally as nurturing. She enjoys seeing plants, animals and people grow and thrive. She won't shy away from caring for a sick friend, even if it's gross. She enjoys the company of children and appreciates their innocence. Children can be taught and molded and have plenty of room to grow. The energy they have is also something Tsutaki admires. She adores nature's beauty, and the simplicity of animals. When she's surrounded by nature, Tsutaki is at her most tranquil. She's not bothered by insects or wild animals that aren't big and dangerous, and she's only appropriately cautious rather than fearful around the ones that are big and dangerous. In her opinion, food that's so processed that it's more chemical and natural is far more disgusting than anything she might encounter in the great outdoors.
Tsutaki is an intelligent and passionate person who thoroughly dedicates herself to causes that matter to her. She is loyal to Orochimaru because he treated her with more value than her own parents did, and helped her to become powerful. She's not so blindly loyal that she missed that anything he's ever done for her has been self-serving as well, but he has her loyalty and respect nonetheless. Her moral compass is rather broken, and it's largely due to his influence. While it's all well and good to be passionate about a cause, Tsutaki goes to dangerous extremes. She's very Machiavellian, believing that the ends justify the means.
Academically talented, Tsutaki has a keen interest in scientific research. Though some of the interest ties into her loyalty and respect for her mentor, some of it is simply curiosity and a desire to discover and learn as much as she can for her own sake.
When she wants to be, Tsutaki can flirtatious and desirable. She recognizes that she's been blessed with good looks, which she can use to her benefit in combination with her pheromones. She rarely has any genuine interest in attracting someone, and it's fairly low on her priority list overall. Still, she's mindful that it can be used for manipulating, and if she can bat her eyelashes and smile at someone to convince them to disclose some useful secret to her, so much the better for her. When it comes to romantic relationships where Tsutaki sincerely cares about the person in question, she's actually fairly inexperienced and unsure of herself. Not that she'll tell anyone that. She'd much rather cultivate the impression that she's a brilliant femme fatale who's too good for most people.
Strengths:
Mental - Tsutaki has a highly scientific mind and she's able to not only grasp abstract concepts but think of how to apply them in real life.
Emotional - Although she cares more for plants than most people, Tsutaki has managed to still be capable of caring for some people. She cares quite deeply for those select few people, even exhibiting maternal tendencies on occasion.
Physical - Tsutaki's greatest physical strength is her high level of chakra that's come from inheriting Uzumaki life force. In fact, that life force is what's allowed her to survive all of the experiments she's been put through and come out stronger for it.
Weaknesses:
Mental - Growing up in Oto from late childhood onward and especially having Orochimaru as a mentor has given Tsutaki a harsh and ruthless worldview, and the willingness to experiment on herself to gain more power.
Emotional - Tsutaki is loyal to a man who's experimented repeatedly on her, and cares more for plants and her summon than she does for most people.
Physical - All of the experiments Tsutaki has been subjected to her have made her take on a few plant-like traits. She requires more sunlight and water than the average person to be healthy. Her resistance to nearly all toxins has a downside, in that painkillers don't work on her. If she's injured but not badly enough to require a mednin's healing, she has to endure it with nothing to dull the pain.
Village Affiliation: Otogakure
Rank: Jounin
Prose sample:
Officially, there were shinobi in charge of making sure that no one found the entrance to Otogakure and lived to tell the tale. Unlike some villages, where “hidden” was a misnomer, the village actually was well hidden. Of course, that didn’t stop shinobi from neighbouring countries from trying to investigate now and then. Otogakure didn’t have much of a reputation yet, in part because it was so new, and in part because of the careful secrecy the village maintained. Weakness wasn’t tolerated, and those with loose tongues were taken down with extreme prejudice. The dead told no tales.
It wasn’t Tsutaki’s official responsibility to watch out for prospective intruders, but she spent enough time outside amongst the trees that she sometimes had the best vantage point for spotting them. Like today, for example. The three shinobi walking along were definitely searching, and they were dangerously close to the entrance. Enough that they’d spotted signs of some structure amidst the mountains and forest. To their credit, they were also very quiet and moved well. Small wonder they hadn’t been noticed yet. She’d only noticed the very human shaped figures moving out of the corner of her eye, and glanced over to see if it was anyone she knew. They wore uniforms, although those weren’t the Oto-standard.
Tsutaki was quite literally in her element out in a forest, and she spent so much time up in the trees that she was more familiar than most with how to avoid giving away her presence in this terrain. Unless they had an adept sensor-type, they probably wouldn’t detect her until it was too late.
Green eyes narrowed when she saw them slicing through branches with sharp kunai rather than moving them out of the way. She was more fond of plants than she was of most people, and the casual destruction of wildlife infuriated her. In more recent years, she’d learned to control that anger – to be calmer and calculating rather than impulsive about it.
Forming a handseal, she let the roots gather underneath the three shinobi several feet underground slowly until she finally let them lash out, ensnaring all three. It was only then that she lowered herself down gracefully on a tree branch.
“What a shocking disregard for plant life,” she remarked, looking disdainfully at them. “I will congratulate you on making it this far.”
“Who are you?!” one of them exclaimed.
“The kunoichi turning you into mulch to feed my babies.” Those were the last words the three heard before they were pulled underground.
Bracket sample:
[When Tsutaki comes across the three genin tormenting a younger boy, she doesn’t immediately stop them. She watches him try to fight back. There’s some raw talent there, she can see. Orochimaru often recruits young, but the young recruits are never talentless. Were it a one on one fight, the boy might even have a chance at winning. He seems to have an almost intuitive comprehension of body mechanics and how to move. But he’s still only one, against three trained genin. One other thing she notices is that even when he’s struck, no sound comes out of his mouth. He seems to be mute.
At last, she decides to intervene. With a handseal, branches sprout up from the ground to swat the genin away from the boy.]
You three! Get out of my sight, now!
[They don’t have to be told twice. The genin scatter. Tsutaki won’t bother telling on them. It would do the boy no favours. While the genin would get in trouble if Orochimaru happened to see them in action, weakness still isn’t tolerated in Otogakure. The boy can’t be any older than nine, and he’s looking at her warily, as if she might do worse than the genin did.]
It’s okay. I’m not going to hurt you. Come here and I’ll take a look at your injuries.
[When the boy follows her instructions, she gives him a little approving nod and examines him. Nothing worth bringing him to Kabuto over, but there will be bruises.]
Hmm. Ice and some aloe should help. We’ll go to my garden and I’ll teach you how to prepare an aloe paste for injuries.
[She might not be a mednin, but she knows her herbal remedies. The boy looks relieved that he’s being treated with kindness rather than cruelty, and by someone of rank at that.]
Then I want you to help me plant more. It’s important to give to nature rather than take, you know.
[It’s actually rather cute the way he listens attentively. She motions for him to follow her.]
This way.
Missive Sample:
Orochimaru-sama,
Here are the research results that you requested. There were several losses, but enough results to indicate a moderately successful experiment.
Subjects 7, 12, 16 and 19 showed a greatly increased resistance to all plant toxins after modification and gradually raised dosages. Subjects 2, 5, 6, 9, 13 and 18 showed a greatly increased resistance to anisatin based toxins, and a moderately increased resistance to all others. Subjects 1, 4, 8, 10, 14 and 20 showed a mildly increased resistance to all plant based toxins. Subject 11 is presently fighting for survival. Subjects 3, 15 and 17 died over the course of the experiment.
Attached is a more in depth analysis. Please let me know if I’m allowed to proceed with further research. I would also like to request permission to expand my garden.
Regards,
Tsutaki
Canon: DC animated universe/The Batman (with drawing from DC comics for background that the animated canon doesn't provide)
Journal:
poisonperfumeGender: Female
Age: 17
Canon History: Poison Ivy: The Batman and the comics version, too
Canon Abilities/Powers:
In canon, Pamela has the ability to control plants. In The Batman, it was due to having a mutagenic chemical designed to accelerate plant growth fall all over her. She's capable of making plants grow at an incredibly fast rate, to the point that she was able to make a giant tree erupt from a downtown street, tear open asphalt and grow to the height of a skyscraper in less than ten seconds. She's also able to manipulate plants as if they're an extension of herself, sending branches and vines to attack her enemies. She's able to mutate plants herself, such as making man-eating venus fly traps with natural acid in them, little trees to act as foot soldiers for her, and even plant-based copies of people when she decides to impersonate major figures in Gotham city in an attempt to take it over and make the city go green. In some incarnations of canon, Pamela possesses pheromones that enable her to manipulate people to her will. In The Batman, it's plant spores that grant her temporary mind control over someone. She also possesses a poisonous kiss in most incarnations and immunity to all toxins except for powerful herbicides. Because she's a teenager, she's shown blowing a kiss that releases the plant spores rather than kissing anyone directly on the mouth in The Batman, so it's unknown if her kiss is poisonous there. Her body is green, though, so odds are that it's not healthy to kiss her.
In most incarnations of the character, she's a brilliant biochemist. In The Batman, she is a high school student who becomes a criminal, but she *does* demonstrate an excellent understanding of plants and likely wouldn't think of doing some of the things that she pulls off in canon if she wasn't strong in the sciences. In The Batman, she shows that she's pretty good at picking locks, and resourceful about searching for things on the internet (as she managed to find a mercenary who'd destroy buildings for her there - albeit he expected to get paid and was very unhappy to discover that he'd been tricked by a teenage girl).
Sunshineverse History:
Tsutaki was the result of a brief fling between a civilian woman named Koharu from the northern most part of the land of Rivers and a shinobi from Tanigakure who'd originally come from Uzushiogakure. The pregnancy was accidental, and Uzumaki Chitose had no idea that it had happened. Koharu had grown up in a traditional background where it was shameful to be pregnant and unwed, and quickly latched onto a homely but moderately wealthy man named Ito Takeshi. She slept with him and led him to believe that the child she was carrying was his. They married, and named their newborn daughter Tsutaki. As parents, Takeshi and Koharu provided well for their child, but were emotionally distant. That only became worse when she was five years old and began exhibiting an ability to manipulate plants. Being civilians, they didn't understand the significance of it. Koharu was aware that the ability likely had something to do with Tsutaki's real father, but kept quiet about it. To Takeshi, the ability was strange and an embarrassment that Tsutaki was to keep a secret.
As it turned out, Chitose's mother had been from the Senju clan, and the rare bloodline limit had been passed on to his daughter along with the potent life force of the Uzumaki clan. Neither of Tsutaki's parents understood that she had a wood release bloodline limit, but Orochimaru recognized it for what it was immediately. Tsutaki met the Otogakure leader in a forest on the outskirts of her family's property when she was seven. She loved plants and liked to sneak off into the forest and practice in secret. Orochimaru had just been passing through the area and was sticking to areas off the beaten path when he encountered her playing with her abilities. He watched her make several flowers grow and a small branch sprout from a tree before he revealed himself. At first, Tsutaki denied that she'd been doing anything, saying that he must have imagined it because people couldn't do things like that in real life. All it took to get her to change her tune was a promise from Orochimaru that he didn't think she was weird or bad for being able to do it. Then she was quick to show him everything she'd learned how to do, delighted that she was being praised for something that her parents had always treated as a shameful little secret.
When Orochimaru discovered that her family was wealthy, he realized he wouldn't simply be able to buy her off of her family like he'd done with some peasant children that exhibited ninja talents. Instead, he told her parents a number of half-truths to persuade them that everyone was better off if Tsutaki went with him. He told them that her ability was called wood release, that it was prized in the shinobi world, and that with training, she could perfect her control. Her parents showed some reluctance, but after they were assured that Tsutaki would be taken care of and well trained, they agreed to let their daughter go with him.
Orochimaru's tutelage was much harsher than Tsutaki had expected, but she flourished - even in spite of the experiments that started just a couple of months after she'd gotten there. Within two years, her grasp of wood release jutsu went from clumsy and barely controlled to reasonably impressive. She became a genin when she was nine, and a chuunin when she was eleven. By the time she was twelve, Tsutaki took her interest in sciences to coming up with experiments to perform upon herself. She was careful to write up research proposals for Orochimaru to review. Many of them were denied, but a few of them got approved. When Tsutaki was fifteen, she was gripped by the idea to enhance her pheromones well beyond a normal human's. It was the first experiment she ever performed without Orochimaru's approval.
Although her career as a kunoichi had initially really taken off and she'd been promoted to chuunin at a relatively young age (in part due to having Orochimaru's favor), it took Tsutaki several years to be promoted to jounin. Some of the experiments performed on her made her mentally unstable, which in turn impacted her judgment, leaving her best utilized as a powerhouse under someone else's command. As her body's chemistry finally started adjusting, she was finally promoted to jounin just a few months ago.
Sunshineverse Abilities/Powers:
Wood release ninjutsu - Tsutaki's first and foremost ability. She's the most naturally proficient with it, and even without any training had achieved some very crude control over it. Under Orochimaru's tutelage, she's become quite a force to be reckoned with it. She's even able to make plant based clones that become piles of leaves when struck hard enough to force the jutsu to release.
Curse seal - When level two of the seal is activated, her skin turns green and her body becomes poisonous to anyone who touches her skin directly. It's particularly toxic if she kisses the person right on the lips. The pheromones that she's capable of emitting become far more potent in this level two state - bordering on short term mind-control until the person she's controlling is broken free by an outside source. (Usually either by immersing them in cold water or using something to cut them off from their sense of smell).
Taijutsu - While it’s not her strongest skill, Tsutaki is still formidable at hand to hand combat. Her kicks are far more powerful than her punches and she’s quite nimble. She’s very agile and in her element when fighting in a forest environment.
Summon - Tsutaki has a single summon contract with a golden poison dart frog named Hari. Hari is about the size of a chihuahua, extremely nimble, and has a very perky and upbeat personality. Hari frequently calls Tsutaki "Red".
Years of experimentation on her have rendered Tsutaki immune to most toxins and poisons, with the exception of those that work like high octane weedkiller. The experimentation also has given her the ability to emit pheromones that allow her to subtly manipulate others. It makes them more likely to agree with her and less likely to be suspicious of her. It won't stop them if it's glaringly obvious that she's up to something, but it helps things along.
Tsutaki is a brilliant young researcher in her own right and has an excellent grasp of biochemistry. Through her own experiments, she's managed to create a few new species of plant that would be right at home in Konoha's forest of death. She’s also adept at mixing plant-based toxins and drugs.
Appearance:
One of the things a person will notice right away upon seeing Tsutaki is that she's got the vibrantly red hair that the Uzumaki clan is known for. Her eyes are green, her skin is fair, and she wears glasses. Her body is lean but somewhat curvacious - combined with that and very feminine facial features, it would be very difficult for her to pass herself off as a boy without using henge no jutsu. When her curse seal is activated to level two, rather than looking monstrous, she appears exotic. Her skin turns green, her eyes become a much lighter green with pale green sclera.
Personality:
(Player's notes: Changes to her history and transplanting her into the Naruto-verse will definitely have an impact, so I'll outline some of the biggest factors in changes from her canon self to Sunshine-verse self here. First of all, since businesses haven't done anywhere near the same degree of damage to the environment in the Naruto world as they have in the DC universe, she won't be an eco-terrorist. She will, however, be unusually devoted to the well being of plants nonetheless. She does not hate men like some incarnations of Poison Ivy do, though she's still not above using her looks and abilities for manipulation. Her summon Hari is a nod to Harley Quinn.)
Tsutaki's personality is, in many ways, contradictory. There are times that she is ruthless and callous, and others that she is nurturing. Her devotion to the environment and to the well-being of her village shows a strong understanding of the bigger picture and planning for future generations, but her devotion also gives her tunnel vision that makes her obsessive and short-sighted. For all her intelligence, Tsutaki can't seem to think of a viable way to fully achieve her goals without resorting to violence.
Tsutaki loves nature, far more than an average person. In fact, with the exception of people who become important to her, Tsutaki often values the lives of plants more than she values the lives of people. She's much more at peace outdoors amongst trees and flowers than she is inside of buildings. She won't spend time indoors unless she has to for some reason - a direct order, or the weather is bad enough that it's actually dangerous to remain outside. Some of this is rooted in her childhood. As a girl, she preferred to play freely outside rather than stay inside where she was frequently being ignored anyway. Her father (albeit not her biological one) Ito Takeshi owned a business that was starting to industrialize their community, so she's latched onto nature in part out of spite. The rest is due to feeling more powerful there. As a user of wood release jutsu, she's quite literally in her element when she's outside.
However ruthless Tsutaki may be at times, she can be almost equally as nurturing. She enjoys seeing plants, animals and people grow and thrive. She won't shy away from caring for a sick friend, even if it's gross. She enjoys the company of children and appreciates their innocence. Children can be taught and molded and have plenty of room to grow. The energy they have is also something Tsutaki admires. She adores nature's beauty, and the simplicity of animals. When she's surrounded by nature, Tsutaki is at her most tranquil. She's not bothered by insects or wild animals that aren't big and dangerous, and she's only appropriately cautious rather than fearful around the ones that are big and dangerous. In her opinion, food that's so processed that it's more chemical and natural is far more disgusting than anything she might encounter in the great outdoors.
Tsutaki is an intelligent and passionate person who thoroughly dedicates herself to causes that matter to her. She is loyal to Orochimaru because he treated her with more value than her own parents did, and helped her to become powerful. She's not so blindly loyal that she missed that anything he's ever done for her has been self-serving as well, but he has her loyalty and respect nonetheless. Her moral compass is rather broken, and it's largely due to his influence. While it's all well and good to be passionate about a cause, Tsutaki goes to dangerous extremes. She's very Machiavellian, believing that the ends justify the means.
Academically talented, Tsutaki has a keen interest in scientific research. Though some of the interest ties into her loyalty and respect for her mentor, some of it is simply curiosity and a desire to discover and learn as much as she can for her own sake.
When she wants to be, Tsutaki can flirtatious and desirable. She recognizes that she's been blessed with good looks, which she can use to her benefit in combination with her pheromones. She rarely has any genuine interest in attracting someone, and it's fairly low on her priority list overall. Still, she's mindful that it can be used for manipulating, and if she can bat her eyelashes and smile at someone to convince them to disclose some useful secret to her, so much the better for her. When it comes to romantic relationships where Tsutaki sincerely cares about the person in question, she's actually fairly inexperienced and unsure of herself. Not that she'll tell anyone that. She'd much rather cultivate the impression that she's a brilliant femme fatale who's too good for most people.
Strengths:
Mental - Tsutaki has a highly scientific mind and she's able to not only grasp abstract concepts but think of how to apply them in real life.
Emotional - Although she cares more for plants than most people, Tsutaki has managed to still be capable of caring for some people. She cares quite deeply for those select few people, even exhibiting maternal tendencies on occasion.
Physical - Tsutaki's greatest physical strength is her high level of chakra that's come from inheriting Uzumaki life force. In fact, that life force is what's allowed her to survive all of the experiments she's been put through and come out stronger for it.
Weaknesses:
Mental - Growing up in Oto from late childhood onward and especially having Orochimaru as a mentor has given Tsutaki a harsh and ruthless worldview, and the willingness to experiment on herself to gain more power.
Emotional - Tsutaki is loyal to a man who's experimented repeatedly on her, and cares more for plants and her summon than she does for most people.
Physical - All of the experiments Tsutaki has been subjected to her have made her take on a few plant-like traits. She requires more sunlight and water than the average person to be healthy. Her resistance to nearly all toxins has a downside, in that painkillers don't work on her. If she's injured but not badly enough to require a mednin's healing, she has to endure it with nothing to dull the pain.
Village Affiliation: Otogakure
Rank: Jounin
Prose sample:
Officially, there were shinobi in charge of making sure that no one found the entrance to Otogakure and lived to tell the tale. Unlike some villages, where “hidden” was a misnomer, the village actually was well hidden. Of course, that didn’t stop shinobi from neighbouring countries from trying to investigate now and then. Otogakure didn’t have much of a reputation yet, in part because it was so new, and in part because of the careful secrecy the village maintained. Weakness wasn’t tolerated, and those with loose tongues were taken down with extreme prejudice. The dead told no tales.
It wasn’t Tsutaki’s official responsibility to watch out for prospective intruders, but she spent enough time outside amongst the trees that she sometimes had the best vantage point for spotting them. Like today, for example. The three shinobi walking along were definitely searching, and they were dangerously close to the entrance. Enough that they’d spotted signs of some structure amidst the mountains and forest. To their credit, they were also very quiet and moved well. Small wonder they hadn’t been noticed yet. She’d only noticed the very human shaped figures moving out of the corner of her eye, and glanced over to see if it was anyone she knew. They wore uniforms, although those weren’t the Oto-standard.
Tsutaki was quite literally in her element out in a forest, and she spent so much time up in the trees that she was more familiar than most with how to avoid giving away her presence in this terrain. Unless they had an adept sensor-type, they probably wouldn’t detect her until it was too late.
Green eyes narrowed when she saw them slicing through branches with sharp kunai rather than moving them out of the way. She was more fond of plants than she was of most people, and the casual destruction of wildlife infuriated her. In more recent years, she’d learned to control that anger – to be calmer and calculating rather than impulsive about it.
Forming a handseal, she let the roots gather underneath the three shinobi several feet underground slowly until she finally let them lash out, ensnaring all three. It was only then that she lowered herself down gracefully on a tree branch.
“What a shocking disregard for plant life,” she remarked, looking disdainfully at them. “I will congratulate you on making it this far.”
“Who are you?!” one of them exclaimed.
“The kunoichi turning you into mulch to feed my babies.” Those were the last words the three heard before they were pulled underground.
Bracket sample:
[When Tsutaki comes across the three genin tormenting a younger boy, she doesn’t immediately stop them. She watches him try to fight back. There’s some raw talent there, she can see. Orochimaru often recruits young, but the young recruits are never talentless. Were it a one on one fight, the boy might even have a chance at winning. He seems to have an almost intuitive comprehension of body mechanics and how to move. But he’s still only one, against three trained genin. One other thing she notices is that even when he’s struck, no sound comes out of his mouth. He seems to be mute.
At last, she decides to intervene. With a handseal, branches sprout up from the ground to swat the genin away from the boy.]
You three! Get out of my sight, now!
[They don’t have to be told twice. The genin scatter. Tsutaki won’t bother telling on them. It would do the boy no favours. While the genin would get in trouble if Orochimaru happened to see them in action, weakness still isn’t tolerated in Otogakure. The boy can’t be any older than nine, and he’s looking at her warily, as if she might do worse than the genin did.]
It’s okay. I’m not going to hurt you. Come here and I’ll take a look at your injuries.
[When the boy follows her instructions, she gives him a little approving nod and examines him. Nothing worth bringing him to Kabuto over, but there will be bruises.]
Hmm. Ice and some aloe should help. We’ll go to my garden and I’ll teach you how to prepare an aloe paste for injuries.
[She might not be a mednin, but she knows her herbal remedies. The boy looks relieved that he’s being treated with kindness rather than cruelty, and by someone of rank at that.]
Then I want you to help me plant more. It’s important to give to nature rather than take, you know.
[It’s actually rather cute the way he listens attentively. She motions for him to follow her.]
This way.
Missive Sample:
Orochimaru-sama,
Here are the research results that you requested. There were several losses, but enough results to indicate a moderately successful experiment.
Subjects 7, 12, 16 and 19 showed a greatly increased resistance to all plant toxins after modification and gradually raised dosages. Subjects 2, 5, 6, 9, 13 and 18 showed a greatly increased resistance to anisatin based toxins, and a moderately increased resistance to all others. Subjects 1, 4, 8, 10, 14 and 20 showed a mildly increased resistance to all plant based toxins. Subject 11 is presently fighting for survival. Subjects 3, 15 and 17 died over the course of the experiment.
Attached is a more in depth analysis. Please let me know if I’m allowed to proceed with further research. I would also like to request permission to expand my garden.
Regards,
Tsutaki