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Nohara Rin
Name: Rin Nohara
Canon: Naruto
Character Journal:sheisthesunshine
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Birthday: November 15
Canon History: Rin Nohara
Canon Abilities/Powers: She keeps her body at what would ordinarily be considered peak physical performance due to both her position as a ninja and her role in a war. This means she's significantly quicker and more agile than an average human, and most probably stronger and a better aim as well. While she's not shown to be an impressive ninja in any way, rather she's the support (that always gets kidnapped...) she still needed to be quick enough, agile enough, to and possess sufficient endurance to keep up with the rest of her team without trouble if she were to be assigned to the team in war.
Further, it's clear that she can be quite fast when she wants to be: on one mission she runs on foot to get reinforcements and then back to her team in time to rescue them before they could be overtaken and killed by their enemies. On another, she's able to both time precisely and move quickly enough to leap into the way of Kakashi's chidori--an attack known for incredible speed, while he was using the Sharingan to give him heightened observational and reaction time--and ensure he kill her without giving him the chance to stop her. It's possible, however, that the latter speed has actually been augmented by the tailed beast present in her at the time, and was not her usual level. This might further explain why he wasn't prepared to avoid her--her tactic was beyond her usual abilities. Or...she's just really fast when she wants to be.
Being a trained shinobi and spending most of her life in the war means that she's also quite capable of survival. While it may not look it, it's probable that she can survive in situations more difficult than most could manage without much difficulty, scrounging for food, dealing with wild animals, and finding shelter without excessive help. Although not a special ability in of itself, it--like her shinobi training--is remarkable beyond that of a usual human.
Medical Ninjutsu- While she's not shown to have any talent for usual ninjutsu or taijutsu, she is a highly capable medic. She's able to heal wounds with both her medical chakra and with medical supplies and salves that she's capable of creating herself. She's also capable of performing highly delicate and advanced eye surgery without preparation, special equipments, and under stressful and dangerous circumstances.
Sunshine History: Up until the loss of Obito Uchiha, Rin's history remains the same as in canon. When Minato arrived on the battlefield and couldn't bear to leave him buried in the cave, that's when things diverge for her. As when she was in the cave, Rin's medical abilities weren't even near to the amount that would be necessary to save Obito's life, let alone return him to full health, and so (to her chagrin) she was uninvolved in the medical side of Obito's hospitalization and recovery.
She wasn't in any position to help, and so she spent most of the time he was kept sedated staying in the hospital room with him. On shifts with the others who wanted to do that, anyway. She knew at the time that it didn't really do anything, but it made her feel more useful and a little less guilty to be there to change flowers and to read him things (sometimes scrolls on medical jutsu to make him feel like he was learning while she was studying to improve her own skills, sometimes adventure books and other fiction she wasn't that interested in but what might color his dreams to things that would be interesting, instead of memories of the mission or the blandness the hospital around him might inspire).
To make up for being unable to help him on the mission (and for being partly to blame for his situation), she spent as much time as she could spare--and that there was spare for her--around when he was unconscious and helping where she could once he'd finally been allowed to wake up. In hindsight, she would realize her eagerness and determination to make a difference with his recovery and prevent him getting injured again was...perhaps a bit too much, alongside all the other attention directed at him, and it was in fact her concern over his release only a month after his regain of consciousness that sparked their first (and ultimately one of their few) fights. Offended and somewhat hurt by his unwelcome response to her attempt to look after him (something she felt highly entitled to do, as a teammate), she proceeded to give him space by avoiding him for just about two weeks.
During that time, Rin caught up some on things she'd been missing out on in her own life, and also determined that just being able to heal her teammates wasn't enough to protect them. She should also be able to help prevent them getting hurt at all. Ideally, she'd have liked to learn enough to fight at the front lines and protect them as well...but that simply wasn't meant to be. Her inherent skill and talent wasn't sufficient to learn that quickly, and her old teacher had become the Hokage of the village. In the end, she settled on making herself less of a liability, and less likely to be used against her teammates by enemies they encountered.
In time, things went back to a semblance of what Team Minato was before the mission to the bridge, or close to it, anyway. One notable difference was the way that Kakashi's attitude had changed since Obito's near-death, something that Rin hadn't immediately realized--or rather, she'd taken it somewhat for granted while she was distracted and guilty over Obito's injuries--and so even though Obito spent more time being groomed by Minato or with Gai (or Kakashi!) than before, she still felt like she interacted with the team as much, spending her time getting to know her mysterious and broody teammate more than she'd ever been able to before.
He turned out to be somewhat different than she'd built him up to be in her mind, once he stopped keeping everyone at a distant arm's length. Over the years of getting to know her teammate better, as the war became a memory instead of a constant fact of life, and Rin was able to focus more on medicine for the shinobi in the village than on keeping her immediate teammates alive, the fixation she used to nurse for Kakashi bloomed into a crush and then faded away into friendship, much like what she had with Obito. Obito, who's second-hand confession had also long faded from her mind, dismissed at some point after their argument, when they made up as friends and she determined to attempt not to smother him out of guilt for things beyond her control. It helped ease her guilt somewhat to think that, at least, he hadn't risked his life and almost lost it (or his shinobi life) harboring feelings she'd never realized he had.
Rin made Jounin a little bit after Obito, making her the last of Team Obito to gain the promotion...but it was notable at least that she made it simply due to her cleverness and her medical jutsu skills, rather than her fairly mediocre taijutsu and ninjutsu abilities. When Kushina founded Uzu, before most of the Uzumaki actually flocked to it, Rin volunteered to help set up Uzu's medical facilities, and from then worked as a medic for the village of Uzu ('on loan' from Konoha, rather than changing her affiliation entirely, given she was no Uzumaki herself) from its founding onward.
Although she lived in another village, she still made time to go back to Konoha and visit when she could, insisting on celebrating with Obito over his appointment as Hokage, dropping by for birthdays on the team whenever she could, and visiting to ensure that Obito followed the dream they both had when they were younger...which, in her opinion, meant making sure he continued to cause trouble (like painting on his own monument) rather than give up his youthful spirit and succumb to the politics of old men that always led to wars.
Given that Uzu has become stable and growing enough that it successfully went to its first Chuunin exams this year, Rin's skills are no longer quite so necessary to lend at their hospital, and it's about time for her to return to Konoha again. She looks forward to seeing how much Obito's genin (now chuunin!) have developed.
Sunshine Abilities/Powers: Her abilities aren't any different in Sunshine. The only difference is that her skills have advanced to jounin level, and her taijutsu and ninjutsu abilities are more than rudimentary. She's still chiefly a medic, though.
Appearance: Rin is about 5'5''. Sadly, she didn't grow all that much over the years. She did fill out well though, giving her a sturdier figure that's not about to blow away in a strong wind like before. She has a slight tan from her years working outside as a shinobi, but it's not very noticeable. She wears two purple stripes of paint on her cheeks that aren't actually tattoos. She wears them so constantly, though, that only those who catch her by surprise in the morning or who are close enough to be allowed inside her room while she's waking up or going to bed, would have ever seen her cheeks without them. When clean, her face has distinct tanlines where the marks usually are. Over the years, she's allowed her hair to grow out some, falling to about her mid-back, and usually she keeps her bangs pinned to the side with a barrette, much like her sensei's wife. She tends to wear the usual jounin uniform of Konoha, with an added medic's skirt (usuallly pale pink or pale purple) at her waist. Her headband goes on her forehead, thank you very much.
Personality: Growing up during the Third Ninja War with the dream of being a shinobi demanded certain types of personalities just to survive. Rin's teammates were of the louder and more memorable sorts, but Rin herself became the cool-headed, calm sort of personality that being a medic demanded. Although she appears to be quiet on a team between Kakashi and Obito, given that it's rare she's shown to speak at all except to mediate or prevent arguments compared to their constant bickering and lecturing...this isn't because she's a shy or silent type.
In fact, when left to her own devices, Rin is quite outgoing and cheerful. She appears to make friends with fellow Academy students easily, and even get along with Kakashi during his antisocial stage. Rin is capable of taking her own initiative, as shown when she organizes the Jounin promotion celebration for Kakashi and gets most of the Academy's participation in it...and is further shown when she takes it upon herself to retrieve backup for her team when they're ambushed by Iwagakure nin,. Though it's never been shown, she is fully capable of taking that stubbornness to the logical extreme: if she decided sacrificing herself would be the best choice for the safety of her loved ones or her village, there would be very little that could stop her from doing it.
Excluding that obvious exception, however, Rin is actually quite a polite girl, and thus rarely chooses to attempt to interrupt others such as Obito or Kakashi when they speak, except to attempt to prevent a fight or soothe feelings when she can. Furthermore, she has a level head and thus is more difficult to provoke into exaggerated actions. She can become quite emotional when it comes to situations such as the injury or loss of her friends, or when the subject of love itself comes up...but she doesn't allow this emotional attachment or reaction to get in the way of what is necessary for a given situation: she conceals her feelings for Kakashi until he informs her of Obito's feelings for her, although strongly reluctant she abandons the cave and Obito rather than be swallowed up in it, she's fully capable of composing herself properly enough to perform a delicate surgery on two of her teammates while Obito is dying and Kakashi himself is panicking, and when it comes time to decide between her own life and that of the village she lets none of her nor Kakashi's personal feelings interfere in her determination to sacrifice her life for the village. This level-headedness also probably contributes to her ability to deal with stressful and terrible situations and then appear to get over them quickly once they are passed--apparently moving on or suppressing the emotions and reactions involved in both her kidnapping-interrogation and in the death of a friend almost immediately after they transpire. This is, of course, a skill that's very important to a shinobi growing up in wartime...but surprisingly not a common one despite this.
Surprisingly for her generally gentle and cheerful disposition she can be quite stubborn. Once she's made a decision, she won't hear of an alternative: hearing of Obito's feelings for her only re-enforce her belief that she should hold to and express her feelings for Kakashi, for instance, and determining she should go to Uzu meant she WOULD go whether anyone else agreed or not. Furthermore, it can be argued that her stubbornness contributed to her mental fortitude when faced with telepathic interrogation, as she showed no signs of being able to resist genjutsu, the technique used on her, but instead simply resisted giving up the information despite the taxing telepathic effects.
This stubbornness, of course, isn't always a good thing: one could say that her single-mindedness involving Kakashi is what made her so oblivious to Obito's (fairly obvious) feelings for her, and...even after she found out about it, her presumptuousness makes her believe that, just like her feelings for Kakashi faded over time (and actually getting to know the ninja under the mystery brooding man) Obito's has as well.
Even so, despite this stubbornness and level-headedness, she remains a medic, and as a medic she is a deeply compassionate person. When her comrades and friends are injured or hurt, she makes it her first priority to fix them, and distresses deeply when she's unable to. As a medic, she's able to recognize the signs of an injury often even when a person is attempting to disguise them. She's seen to further admonish Obito and Kakashi for being rash and getting injured or for attempting to hide their injuries and push themselves too far with those injures. In a time of war where she would constantly be on the battlefield, that she chose to specialize in a field of jutsu which would leave her so vulnerable to attack goes to show that her compassion for others far outranks her concern for her own life. Choosing to specialize solely in medical jutsu as she did meant that she could take care of her comrades' medical needs with far more efficiency than someone who also concentrated on offensive and defensive jutsus...but that it would make her a target for all of the enemies on the battlefield in the process. Thus, choosing medical ninjutsu means that her compassion for others so outranks her concern for her own well-being that she's fully willing to risk her life on a daily basis just to increase her chances of helping others should they happen to need her. When Obito was gravely injured and almost killed by what she perceived to be her own shortcoming as a ninja, she altered her focus somewhat. Although she also focused extra hard on perfecting her medical jutsu, she knew that it would never reach the level of the legendary sannin's healing jutsu, and so she also attempted to build her taijutsu and ninjutsu skill, so that it would be more difficult for her to be a burden on her companions in the future.
Even so, she's not particularly strong, but it's evident that Rin is a highly intelligent girl, able to master highly complicated and difficult medical ninjutsu and reach Chuunin status at and before an age many have only just graduated the Academy. She's also among the proud few Chuunin to survive long enough, and to exceed at what she does well enough to make Jounin, despite being a primarily medical ninja. She's clever enough and talented enough at what she does to be put on a team with a genius and an Uchiha, and to be assigned as a sensei the legendary Yellow Flash--later Hokage and leader of their village--and manages without any previous prep or practice the tricky process of implanting a Sharingan in a non-Uchiha host with an efficiency that usually requires the presence of special DNA to accomplish successfully. She's also talented and skilled enough to be one of the ones chosen to help establish Uzu's medical foundations, and worked as one of the primary medics in the village for quite some time after the re-establishment of the village under Kushina's reign.
Since Obito became Hokage, she's picked up the habit of encouraging his childish and silly side, refusing to allow him to properly grow up and mature, because, in her eyes, becoming too mature would make him lose sight of the dream and sort of Hokage he wanted to be. This does mean encouraging, or even sometimes coming up with, pranks for the Hokage to perform either on teammates or the village itself. It also means drawing mustaches on his rock face while he takes care of the very serious need for a red sharingan. She also, usually, is one of the first people to volunteer to help him with his innovative or different ideas for the village...if she's around to do it.
Thus, despite her quiet and often unassuming nature next to that of her teammates Kakashi and Obito, there lies intelligence, determination, cunning, talent, and skill which one might miss at a casual glance. And indeed, despite her gentle exterior, and the way she occasionally seems absent minded or silly to the unwary...she's actually quite shrewd, and fully capable managing a herd of cats. Literal or shinobi-shaped.
She also, without fail, puts up with no nonsense at all when it comes to medical matters. She absolutely refuses to allow people to hide their injuries and push onward when they shouldn't, and she won't stand for poor health practices, or sloppy medical jutsu. It's times like those that Rin's truly fierce side comes out. And...really only those times.
As mentioned, over the years her crush on Kakashi faded into a deep fondness. Since then, she's never really found time to date, given she's been training or working in hospitals most of the time then. She doesn't avoid or dismiss the possibility at all, it's simply a lesser immediate priority to her than her current work. Considering her behavior in general, however, even if she did one day strike up a relationship with someone, it would have little impact on her work ethic. She's much too good at shelving away unimportant things, or inconvenient things, when her mission (or job) calls for it.
...There is one last thing to bear in mind: Rin is a very friendly and kind girl. She makes friends easily and cares deeply for her friends. She also has a tendency to expect her friends feel and work similarly to how she does, due to the fact that they generally understand each other in other ways (thus friendship). An unexpected side-effect of this is that...unless she's also in love with someone, it won't occur to her that a person might have stronger feelings for her than romance. For the most part, she would require anvil sized hints or outright confessions for her to actually realize that a person had romantic feelings for her.
It's not that she's against romance, or that it's unthinkable, however, it's simply that she fails to read romantic intent from others. How she would react to a confession depends entirely on the person and the situation it's given to her in, much like...really anyone.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Mental, emotional, and physical. This can be a bullet point explanation.
+ Caring and compassionate, like any natural born medic
+ Selfless, selfishness is not even a thing she does most of the time. It makes her a good shinobi, because she puts her team and her village before herself
+ Shrewd, she may seem clueless, but that is a misconception.
+ Stubborn, once she decides something, she won't change her mind. Also, strong willed: she can resist an interrogation genjutsu even though she can't break out of it herself.
+ Determined, once again, if she decides something, she will stick to it, and if she has a goal, she will pursue it, regardless of difficulties involved.
+ Optimiastic
+ Talented at medical ninjusu. Sharingan eye surgery.
+ Intelligent and level headed. She can make decisions even under pressure, and usually they're the right ones.
+ Friendly, which means being able to make bonds easily
+ Despite being mild-mannered, she can also be firm, and that means she can lead a herd of cats (literal or metaphorical) when necessary. Defying Rin is harder than it would seem at first glance.
+ Able to set aside her emotions when necessary
+ Picks up medical jutsu easily
+ Has good chakra control
+ Usually cheerful and good at cheering up others
= She's a fairly decent diplomat, given her determination, levelheadedness and approachability, but it rarely comes in handy in her work.
= She absolutely refuses to put up with dismissals and procrastination, or 'playing tough' when it comes to the medical health of people in her charge, especially friends.
= Gentle. As a medic, this is a bonus, and it makes her very approachable as an ally. As a shinobi, it makes her a target, and a very appealing one at that.
= She can bake, but she can't make very good meat based foods.
= She is an Obito cheerleader. It isn't that she'll blindly go along with every single choice he makes if she disagrees (she will fight him if she feels the need) but she is always encouraging. even when there's really no need to be, or when other people not her don't necessarily agree with his choices.
- Makes decisions in a snap. Although this can be good in high pressure situations, because she doesn't usually bend on these decisions, she can rush to a conclusion which is the wrong one...and potentially cause more harm than she prevents.
- Totally unable to read romantic intent. She just can't.
- Has a weak spot for mysterious, tall dark and handsome ninja. Not really significant, but it's possible it could one day be used against her if she's not careful.
- Has strong emotions, when she doesn't get a rein on them or doesn't realize she's being influenced by them, she can make unreasonable choices, or go to unnecessary extremes.
- Would absolutely refuse to choose herself over her friends or her village. Although a 'good' trait, it isn't a great trait for survival instinct, and doesn't bear in mind the harm her death or hurt could cause people close to her.
- Has a poor body for taijutsu
- Isn't very good at ninjutsu or taijutsu.
- Her willfulness can be harmful to her if she makes a poor choice.
Village Affiliation: Konoha, though she's been on loan to Uzu for a bit.
Rank: Tokubetsu Jounin.
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Konoha. She knew that it hadn't actually been forever since she'd been here, but...it felt different, arriving in Konoha and actually thinking of it as home not because it was home, but because this was her 'going back'. She wouldn't be returning to her station in Uzu in a day or a week or anything like that, because she could live in her own house again and keep tabs on her old friends. It wasn't like Uzu wasn't nice, or she didn't enjoy her job there, or feel fulfilled in helping to watch out for the Uzumaki people in the village (and helping Sensei's wife with her dream).
It was just...she had her own dream, and that dream had to do with someone who wasn't her sensei's wife. And, really, she'd never fully been able to appreciate or celebrate the fact that Obito had made it and become an awesome Hokage. He had such a party on his hands and he didn't even know it yet. Probably. She wasn't sure what she was going to do, but she'd get the jounin of the village together and they'd plan something.
They could get presents! And cake! And potentially surprise him with it in his office, if they could convince a few ANBU to agree to it.
...That one might be difficult. Okay, so maybe they could organize it at his house with his students. She hadn't seen those in awhile, not for any significant amount of time, anyway. They could be a part of it though. And Kakashi....last she'd heard he still didn't have a team. Knowing him, he probably still didn't.
More than that, though...she'd missed...home. Konoha was home, she'd grown up here, fought for this village, dreamed about it when she was out on the field, promised to get her teammates back home, and sometimes thought she'd never see it again. Everything about it, from the people in it to the smell in the air from the certain sorts of trees around, it was all home.
And she was happy to be home.
She smiled up at the sky, turned in place, and...oh. She waved at the gate guards who had apparently been staring at her the entire time she'd been standing and gawking at her old home. "...Hello?"
Missive Sample:
~Obito~,
Let's do something! I'm coming for a visit in a week, because the hospital is under renovation, so I want to celebrate visiting Konoha by doing something fun. If Kakashi is free, we should get together and do something as a team. Maybe we can run out through the forest north of the village and pretend we're on a mission again. (We can't go to the hot springs again, because the other girls there thought I was a pervert for shouting across the wall at you two). If you don't pick anything, I'll turn your students against you and drag you on a surprise adventure with them!
Send back ideas immediately.
~Rin
Canon: Naruto
Character Journal:
sheisthesunshineGender: Female
Age: 30
Birthday: November 15
Canon History: Rin Nohara
Canon Abilities/Powers: She keeps her body at what would ordinarily be considered peak physical performance due to both her position as a ninja and her role in a war. This means she's significantly quicker and more agile than an average human, and most probably stronger and a better aim as well. While she's not shown to be an impressive ninja in any way, rather she's the support (that always gets kidnapped...) she still needed to be quick enough, agile enough, to and possess sufficient endurance to keep up with the rest of her team without trouble if she were to be assigned to the team in war.
Further, it's clear that she can be quite fast when she wants to be: on one mission she runs on foot to get reinforcements and then back to her team in time to rescue them before they could be overtaken and killed by their enemies. On another, she's able to both time precisely and move quickly enough to leap into the way of Kakashi's chidori--an attack known for incredible speed, while he was using the Sharingan to give him heightened observational and reaction time--and ensure he kill her without giving him the chance to stop her. It's possible, however, that the latter speed has actually been augmented by the tailed beast present in her at the time, and was not her usual level. This might further explain why he wasn't prepared to avoid her--her tactic was beyond her usual abilities. Or...she's just really fast when she wants to be.
Being a trained shinobi and spending most of her life in the war means that she's also quite capable of survival. While it may not look it, it's probable that she can survive in situations more difficult than most could manage without much difficulty, scrounging for food, dealing with wild animals, and finding shelter without excessive help. Although not a special ability in of itself, it--like her shinobi training--is remarkable beyond that of a usual human.
Medical Ninjutsu- While she's not shown to have any talent for usual ninjutsu or taijutsu, she is a highly capable medic. She's able to heal wounds with both her medical chakra and with medical supplies and salves that she's capable of creating herself. She's also capable of performing highly delicate and advanced eye surgery without preparation, special equipments, and under stressful and dangerous circumstances.
Sunshine History: Up until the loss of Obito Uchiha, Rin's history remains the same as in canon. When Minato arrived on the battlefield and couldn't bear to leave him buried in the cave, that's when things diverge for her. As when she was in the cave, Rin's medical abilities weren't even near to the amount that would be necessary to save Obito's life, let alone return him to full health, and so (to her chagrin) she was uninvolved in the medical side of Obito's hospitalization and recovery.
She wasn't in any position to help, and so she spent most of the time he was kept sedated staying in the hospital room with him. On shifts with the others who wanted to do that, anyway. She knew at the time that it didn't really do anything, but it made her feel more useful and a little less guilty to be there to change flowers and to read him things (sometimes scrolls on medical jutsu to make him feel like he was learning while she was studying to improve her own skills, sometimes adventure books and other fiction she wasn't that interested in but what might color his dreams to things that would be interesting, instead of memories of the mission or the blandness the hospital around him might inspire).
To make up for being unable to help him on the mission (and for being partly to blame for his situation), she spent as much time as she could spare--and that there was spare for her--around when he was unconscious and helping where she could once he'd finally been allowed to wake up. In hindsight, she would realize her eagerness and determination to make a difference with his recovery and prevent him getting injured again was...perhaps a bit too much, alongside all the other attention directed at him, and it was in fact her concern over his release only a month after his regain of consciousness that sparked their first (and ultimately one of their few) fights. Offended and somewhat hurt by his unwelcome response to her attempt to look after him (something she felt highly entitled to do, as a teammate), she proceeded to give him space by avoiding him for just about two weeks.
During that time, Rin caught up some on things she'd been missing out on in her own life, and also determined that just being able to heal her teammates wasn't enough to protect them. She should also be able to help prevent them getting hurt at all. Ideally, she'd have liked to learn enough to fight at the front lines and protect them as well...but that simply wasn't meant to be. Her inherent skill and talent wasn't sufficient to learn that quickly, and her old teacher had become the Hokage of the village. In the end, she settled on making herself less of a liability, and less likely to be used against her teammates by enemies they encountered.
In time, things went back to a semblance of what Team Minato was before the mission to the bridge, or close to it, anyway. One notable difference was the way that Kakashi's attitude had changed since Obito's near-death, something that Rin hadn't immediately realized--or rather, she'd taken it somewhat for granted while she was distracted and guilty over Obito's injuries--and so even though Obito spent more time being groomed by Minato or with Gai (or Kakashi!) than before, she still felt like she interacted with the team as much, spending her time getting to know her mysterious and broody teammate more than she'd ever been able to before.
He turned out to be somewhat different than she'd built him up to be in her mind, once he stopped keeping everyone at a distant arm's length. Over the years of getting to know her teammate better, as the war became a memory instead of a constant fact of life, and Rin was able to focus more on medicine for the shinobi in the village than on keeping her immediate teammates alive, the fixation she used to nurse for Kakashi bloomed into a crush and then faded away into friendship, much like what she had with Obito. Obito, who's second-hand confession had also long faded from her mind, dismissed at some point after their argument, when they made up as friends and she determined to attempt not to smother him out of guilt for things beyond her control. It helped ease her guilt somewhat to think that, at least, he hadn't risked his life and almost lost it (or his shinobi life) harboring feelings she'd never realized he had.
Rin made Jounin a little bit after Obito, making her the last of Team Obito to gain the promotion...but it was notable at least that she made it simply due to her cleverness and her medical jutsu skills, rather than her fairly mediocre taijutsu and ninjutsu abilities. When Kushina founded Uzu, before most of the Uzumaki actually flocked to it, Rin volunteered to help set up Uzu's medical facilities, and from then worked as a medic for the village of Uzu ('on loan' from Konoha, rather than changing her affiliation entirely, given she was no Uzumaki herself) from its founding onward.
Although she lived in another village, she still made time to go back to Konoha and visit when she could, insisting on celebrating with Obito over his appointment as Hokage, dropping by for birthdays on the team whenever she could, and visiting to ensure that Obito followed the dream they both had when they were younger...which, in her opinion, meant making sure he continued to cause trouble (like painting on his own monument) rather than give up his youthful spirit and succumb to the politics of old men that always led to wars.
Given that Uzu has become stable and growing enough that it successfully went to its first Chuunin exams this year, Rin's skills are no longer quite so necessary to lend at their hospital, and it's about time for her to return to Konoha again. She looks forward to seeing how much Obito's genin (now chuunin!) have developed.
Sunshine Abilities/Powers: Her abilities aren't any different in Sunshine. The only difference is that her skills have advanced to jounin level, and her taijutsu and ninjutsu abilities are more than rudimentary. She's still chiefly a medic, though.
Appearance: Rin is about 5'5''. Sadly, she didn't grow all that much over the years. She did fill out well though, giving her a sturdier figure that's not about to blow away in a strong wind like before. She has a slight tan from her years working outside as a shinobi, but it's not very noticeable. She wears two purple stripes of paint on her cheeks that aren't actually tattoos. She wears them so constantly, though, that only those who catch her by surprise in the morning or who are close enough to be allowed inside her room while she's waking up or going to bed, would have ever seen her cheeks without them. When clean, her face has distinct tanlines where the marks usually are. Over the years, she's allowed her hair to grow out some, falling to about her mid-back, and usually she keeps her bangs pinned to the side with a barrette, much like her sensei's wife. She tends to wear the usual jounin uniform of Konoha, with an added medic's skirt (usuallly pale pink or pale purple) at her waist. Her headband goes on her forehead, thank you very much.
Personality: Growing up during the Third Ninja War with the dream of being a shinobi demanded certain types of personalities just to survive. Rin's teammates were of the louder and more memorable sorts, but Rin herself became the cool-headed, calm sort of personality that being a medic demanded. Although she appears to be quiet on a team between Kakashi and Obito, given that it's rare she's shown to speak at all except to mediate or prevent arguments compared to their constant bickering and lecturing...this isn't because she's a shy or silent type.
In fact, when left to her own devices, Rin is quite outgoing and cheerful. She appears to make friends with fellow Academy students easily, and even get along with Kakashi during his antisocial stage. Rin is capable of taking her own initiative, as shown when she organizes the Jounin promotion celebration for Kakashi and gets most of the Academy's participation in it...and is further shown when she takes it upon herself to retrieve backup for her team when they're ambushed by Iwagakure nin,. Though it's never been shown, she is fully capable of taking that stubbornness to the logical extreme: if she decided sacrificing herself would be the best choice for the safety of her loved ones or her village, there would be very little that could stop her from doing it.
Excluding that obvious exception, however, Rin is actually quite a polite girl, and thus rarely chooses to attempt to interrupt others such as Obito or Kakashi when they speak, except to attempt to prevent a fight or soothe feelings when she can. Furthermore, she has a level head and thus is more difficult to provoke into exaggerated actions. She can become quite emotional when it comes to situations such as the injury or loss of her friends, or when the subject of love itself comes up...but she doesn't allow this emotional attachment or reaction to get in the way of what is necessary for a given situation: she conceals her feelings for Kakashi until he informs her of Obito's feelings for her, although strongly reluctant she abandons the cave and Obito rather than be swallowed up in it, she's fully capable of composing herself properly enough to perform a delicate surgery on two of her teammates while Obito is dying and Kakashi himself is panicking, and when it comes time to decide between her own life and that of the village she lets none of her nor Kakashi's personal feelings interfere in her determination to sacrifice her life for the village. This level-headedness also probably contributes to her ability to deal with stressful and terrible situations and then appear to get over them quickly once they are passed--apparently moving on or suppressing the emotions and reactions involved in both her kidnapping-interrogation and in the death of a friend almost immediately after they transpire. This is, of course, a skill that's very important to a shinobi growing up in wartime...but surprisingly not a common one despite this.
Surprisingly for her generally gentle and cheerful disposition she can be quite stubborn. Once she's made a decision, she won't hear of an alternative: hearing of Obito's feelings for her only re-enforce her belief that she should hold to and express her feelings for Kakashi, for instance, and determining she should go to Uzu meant she WOULD go whether anyone else agreed or not. Furthermore, it can be argued that her stubbornness contributed to her mental fortitude when faced with telepathic interrogation, as she showed no signs of being able to resist genjutsu, the technique used on her, but instead simply resisted giving up the information despite the taxing telepathic effects.
This stubbornness, of course, isn't always a good thing: one could say that her single-mindedness involving Kakashi is what made her so oblivious to Obito's (fairly obvious) feelings for her, and...even after she found out about it, her presumptuousness makes her believe that, just like her feelings for Kakashi faded over time (and actually getting to know the ninja under the mystery brooding man) Obito's has as well.
Even so, despite this stubbornness and level-headedness, she remains a medic, and as a medic she is a deeply compassionate person. When her comrades and friends are injured or hurt, she makes it her first priority to fix them, and distresses deeply when she's unable to. As a medic, she's able to recognize the signs of an injury often even when a person is attempting to disguise them. She's seen to further admonish Obito and Kakashi for being rash and getting injured or for attempting to hide their injuries and push themselves too far with those injures. In a time of war where she would constantly be on the battlefield, that she chose to specialize in a field of jutsu which would leave her so vulnerable to attack goes to show that her compassion for others far outranks her concern for her own life. Choosing to specialize solely in medical jutsu as she did meant that she could take care of her comrades' medical needs with far more efficiency than someone who also concentrated on offensive and defensive jutsus...but that it would make her a target for all of the enemies on the battlefield in the process. Thus, choosing medical ninjutsu means that her compassion for others so outranks her concern for her own well-being that she's fully willing to risk her life on a daily basis just to increase her chances of helping others should they happen to need her. When Obito was gravely injured and almost killed by what she perceived to be her own shortcoming as a ninja, she altered her focus somewhat. Although she also focused extra hard on perfecting her medical jutsu, she knew that it would never reach the level of the legendary sannin's healing jutsu, and so she also attempted to build her taijutsu and ninjutsu skill, so that it would be more difficult for her to be a burden on her companions in the future.
Even so, she's not particularly strong, but it's evident that Rin is a highly intelligent girl, able to master highly complicated and difficult medical ninjutsu and reach Chuunin status at and before an age many have only just graduated the Academy. She's also among the proud few Chuunin to survive long enough, and to exceed at what she does well enough to make Jounin, despite being a primarily medical ninja. She's clever enough and talented enough at what she does to be put on a team with a genius and an Uchiha, and to be assigned as a sensei the legendary Yellow Flash--later Hokage and leader of their village--and manages without any previous prep or practice the tricky process of implanting a Sharingan in a non-Uchiha host with an efficiency that usually requires the presence of special DNA to accomplish successfully. She's also talented and skilled enough to be one of the ones chosen to help establish Uzu's medical foundations, and worked as one of the primary medics in the village for quite some time after the re-establishment of the village under Kushina's reign.
Since Obito became Hokage, she's picked up the habit of encouraging his childish and silly side, refusing to allow him to properly grow up and mature, because, in her eyes, becoming too mature would make him lose sight of the dream and sort of Hokage he wanted to be. This does mean encouraging, or even sometimes coming up with, pranks for the Hokage to perform either on teammates or the village itself. It also means drawing mustaches on his rock face while he takes care of the very serious need for a red sharingan. She also, usually, is one of the first people to volunteer to help him with his innovative or different ideas for the village...if she's around to do it.
Thus, despite her quiet and often unassuming nature next to that of her teammates Kakashi and Obito, there lies intelligence, determination, cunning, talent, and skill which one might miss at a casual glance. And indeed, despite her gentle exterior, and the way she occasionally seems absent minded or silly to the unwary...she's actually quite shrewd, and fully capable managing a herd of cats. Literal or shinobi-shaped.
She also, without fail, puts up with no nonsense at all when it comes to medical matters. She absolutely refuses to allow people to hide their injuries and push onward when they shouldn't, and she won't stand for poor health practices, or sloppy medical jutsu. It's times like those that Rin's truly fierce side comes out. And...really only those times.
As mentioned, over the years her crush on Kakashi faded into a deep fondness. Since then, she's never really found time to date, given she's been training or working in hospitals most of the time then. She doesn't avoid or dismiss the possibility at all, it's simply a lesser immediate priority to her than her current work. Considering her behavior in general, however, even if she did one day strike up a relationship with someone, it would have little impact on her work ethic. She's much too good at shelving away unimportant things, or inconvenient things, when her mission (or job) calls for it.
...There is one last thing to bear in mind: Rin is a very friendly and kind girl. She makes friends easily and cares deeply for her friends. She also has a tendency to expect her friends feel and work similarly to how she does, due to the fact that they generally understand each other in other ways (thus friendship). An unexpected side-effect of this is that...unless she's also in love with someone, it won't occur to her that a person might have stronger feelings for her than romance. For the most part, she would require anvil sized hints or outright confessions for her to actually realize that a person had romantic feelings for her.
It's not that she's against romance, or that it's unthinkable, however, it's simply that she fails to read romantic intent from others. How she would react to a confession depends entirely on the person and the situation it's given to her in, much like...really anyone.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Mental, emotional, and physical. This can be a bullet point explanation.
+ Caring and compassionate, like any natural born medic
+ Selfless, selfishness is not even a thing she does most of the time. It makes her a good shinobi, because she puts her team and her village before herself
+ Shrewd, she may seem clueless, but that is a misconception.
+ Stubborn, once she decides something, she won't change her mind. Also, strong willed: she can resist an interrogation genjutsu even though she can't break out of it herself.
+ Determined, once again, if she decides something, she will stick to it, and if she has a goal, she will pursue it, regardless of difficulties involved.
+ Optimiastic
+ Talented at medical ninjusu. Sharingan eye surgery.
+ Intelligent and level headed. She can make decisions even under pressure, and usually they're the right ones.
+ Friendly, which means being able to make bonds easily
+ Despite being mild-mannered, she can also be firm, and that means she can lead a herd of cats (literal or metaphorical) when necessary. Defying Rin is harder than it would seem at first glance.
+ Able to set aside her emotions when necessary
+ Picks up medical jutsu easily
+ Has good chakra control
+ Usually cheerful and good at cheering up others
= She's a fairly decent diplomat, given her determination, levelheadedness and approachability, but it rarely comes in handy in her work.
= She absolutely refuses to put up with dismissals and procrastination, or 'playing tough' when it comes to the medical health of people in her charge, especially friends.
= Gentle. As a medic, this is a bonus, and it makes her very approachable as an ally. As a shinobi, it makes her a target, and a very appealing one at that.
= She can bake, but she can't make very good meat based foods.
= She is an Obito cheerleader. It isn't that she'll blindly go along with every single choice he makes if she disagrees (she will fight him if she feels the need) but she is always encouraging. even when there's really no need to be, or when other people not her don't necessarily agree with his choices.
- Makes decisions in a snap. Although this can be good in high pressure situations, because she doesn't usually bend on these decisions, she can rush to a conclusion which is the wrong one...and potentially cause more harm than she prevents.
- Totally unable to read romantic intent. She just can't.
- Has a weak spot for mysterious, tall dark and handsome ninja. Not really significant, but it's possible it could one day be used against her if she's not careful.
- Has strong emotions, when she doesn't get a rein on them or doesn't realize she's being influenced by them, she can make unreasonable choices, or go to unnecessary extremes.
- Would absolutely refuse to choose herself over her friends or her village. Although a 'good' trait, it isn't a great trait for survival instinct, and doesn't bear in mind the harm her death or hurt could cause people close to her.
- Has a poor body for taijutsu
- Isn't very good at ninjutsu or taijutsu.
- Her willfulness can be harmful to her if she makes a poor choice.
Village Affiliation: Konoha, though she's been on loan to Uzu for a bit.
Rank: Tokubetsu Jounin.
Prose sample: You can use a test drive thread from the OOC community here. Written out samples must be at least 300 words.
Konoha. She knew that it hadn't actually been forever since she'd been here, but...it felt different, arriving in Konoha and actually thinking of it as home not because it was home, but because this was her 'going back'. She wouldn't be returning to her station in Uzu in a day or a week or anything like that, because she could live in her own house again and keep tabs on her old friends. It wasn't like Uzu wasn't nice, or she didn't enjoy her job there, or feel fulfilled in helping to watch out for the Uzumaki people in the village (and helping Sensei's wife with her dream).
It was just...she had her own dream, and that dream had to do with someone who wasn't her sensei's wife. And, really, she'd never fully been able to appreciate or celebrate the fact that Obito had made it and become an awesome Hokage. He had such a party on his hands and he didn't even know it yet. Probably. She wasn't sure what she was going to do, but she'd get the jounin of the village together and they'd plan something.
They could get presents! And cake! And potentially surprise him with it in his office, if they could convince a few ANBU to agree to it.
...That one might be difficult. Okay, so maybe they could organize it at his house with his students. She hadn't seen those in awhile, not for any significant amount of time, anyway. They could be a part of it though. And Kakashi....last she'd heard he still didn't have a team. Knowing him, he probably still didn't.
More than that, though...she'd missed...home. Konoha was home, she'd grown up here, fought for this village, dreamed about it when she was out on the field, promised to get her teammates back home, and sometimes thought she'd never see it again. Everything about it, from the people in it to the smell in the air from the certain sorts of trees around, it was all home.
And she was happy to be home.
She smiled up at the sky, turned in place, and...oh. She waved at the gate guards who had apparently been staring at her the entire time she'd been standing and gawking at her old home. "...Hello?"
Missive Sample:
~Obito~,
Let's do something! I'm coming for a visit in a week, because the hospital is under renovation, so I want to celebrate visiting Konoha by doing something fun. If Kakashi is free, we should get together and do something as a team. Maybe we can run out through the forest north of the village and pretend we're on a mission again. (We can't go to the hot springs again, because the other girls there thought I was a pervert for shouting across the wall at you two). If you don't pick anything, I'll turn your students against you and drag you on a surprise adventure with them!
Send back ideas immediately.
~Rin