Sasuke Uchiha application [3/oh god here goes background ;;]otiluMarch 6 2009, 22:30:32 UTC
Background: Sasuke had a mostly happy early childhood, as the second son of Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto. Despite living in the shadow of his prodigious elder brother Itachi and struggling to gain recognition from their father, Sasuke grew up idolising his brother and was a happy, vivacious little boy. Tragedy struck when he was eight years old. Returning home late, he found the Uchiha compound dark and utterly silent. Exploring, he found first his slaughtered clan strewn about the streets, and then the dead bodies of his parents, freshly killed, with his older brother standing over them. He was forced to watch their deaths firsthand through his brother’s genjutsu technique, which caused significant mental trauma and ensured that he would remember it for a very, very long time. Itachi explained that the ultimate sharingan power, the ‘mangekyou sharingan’, would only manifest in those who had killed their closest friend. He commanded Sasuke to live a ‘long and unsightly life’ and gain that power, in order to then come to him and battle. With the knowledge that he must now hate Itachi and live to kill him, and with his whole world in pieces around him, Sasuke passed out.
Betrayed, in pain and now completely alone, he woke up in the hospital as the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan still in Konoha. He then continued to live in the empty district through his academy life. He was always seen as the ‘cool’, attractive boy by the girls in the class, and many boys resented him for his looks, skill and popularity. Sasuke himself only concentrated on one thing - becoming stronger; an avenger - and ignored his classmates. This nearly caused him to fail the final genin test set by Kakashi, when he didn’t consider working with Naruto or Sakura to retrieve the bells, leaving them to fend for themselves in case they got in his way. He eventually failed and was reprimanded about his methods despite his obvious skill, and so helped Naruto when later commanded not to, causing them to win the actual test. Thus he was assigned to Team Seven. This was the first time Sasuke actually realised or was even shown that working as a team is sometimes better than trying to go it alone.
On their first major mission, Sasuke both awakened his sharingan and put himself in the way of several fatal attack meant for his teammates, one of which left him in a near-death state. By this point it had become reflex to do so - he claimed his body moved on its own. He and his team steadily grew closer, though the air of tension only increased and he began to treat them as rivals rather than baggage. The training that took place during their travels had the unforeseen advantage of Sasuke learning to rely on his teammates, both for advice and help in and out of battle.
It was in the Chuunin exams that Sasuke realised a fundamental flaw of the sharingan - if the body cannot keep up with the eyes, the sharingan is useless. Too arrogant, Sasuke lost totally to the taijutsu-user Rock Lee. In the Forest of Death, they were hunted down and attacked by Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, who desired Sasuke’s body and bloodline limit as a base for his possession technique. He injected Sasuke with cursed blood, giving him the Cursed Seal of Heaven. This seal amplified negative feelings until he would go into killing rages - he nearly maimed another genin before being stopped by Sakura. Sasuke fell into fevered hallucinations, wherein he was confronted with a version of himself who accused him of being weak and unable to protect those close to him, revealing one of Sasuke’s motivations to gain power other than revenge. This was also Orochimaru’s way of cutting Sasuke off from the positive influence of his teammates, especially considering the strong friendship developing between him and Naruto. The seal returned in the preliminary matches, although Sasuke managed to defeat his opponent whilst suppressing the seal by using no chakra and pure willpower. He also copied and altered one of Rock Lee’s lotus forms, at significant cost to his health. Kakashi banned him from watching the rest of the matches, and instead sealed the Curse and placed him in hospital with an Anbu guard, lest Orochimaru return for him.
Sasuke Uchiha application [4/4]otiluMarch 6 2009, 22:33:12 UTC
[background continued:] The final exam showed his first major improvement, after a month’s training. After pursuing the Sand-nin from the stadium following their attack, he soon reached his limit and - enraged by Gaara’s taunts - overcame Kakashi’s seal and used the curse seal to gain more power. This action caused him to collapse, and only the timely arrival of the other two members of Team Seven saved him. Sakura was taken out when she put herself between Sasuke and Gaara, and when Sasuke tried to step back into the fight to, as he put it, stop any more of his precious people being hurt or killed, Naruto managed to neatly pull the battle away from Sasuke, who was forced to watch in awe - and anger - at Naruto’s sudden increase in power. Life, however, returned to relative normality once the invasion force had been defeated. He is ‘taken’ from his timeline shortly after attending the funeral for the village leader, the Sandaime, and returning to active duty as a genin.
Third-person RP sample: The lift came to an abrupt stop just as the haze cleared from Sasuke’s vision and finally let wild thoughts about illusions and traps clamour for attention in his waking mind. To his humiliation, he only managed two steps towards the door before his legs gave out, a mixture of tension and- drugs, he decided. It had to be drugs. There had been several chapters in his old textbooks on the various compounds normally used on weapons, in darts and in food, and the Uchiha records had been darkly informative on the subject besides. He waited for a moment, in case it was a joke or a test, and someone in a headband and jacket was standing around the corner with a clipboard making notes on reaction times and perceptive ability. He strained his ears for the telltale sounds of company, tried to detect anything off about the air other than its stale quality. Nothing. The only thing he gained was the knowledge that he wasn’t outdoors and the shock of realising he wasn’t in his own clothes, and missing all of his equipment. Later, he promised himself, When you’re not out in the open and can think straight.
His legs were steady again, he noticed, and so he got to his feet just as the doors began to close again, enough time and space left to slip through onto the street beyond. Now what? He kept his back to the metal pillar as he examined the area with narrowed eyes. Nothing for it but to look for the others. Sakura might have noticed something he hadn’t, and for some reason it felt distinctly odd for them not to have been there when he woke up.
Your first assignments: - reply to this comment with your character journal. - Your character's ID number is: 3SE42 - Read the orientation posts if you haven't already here. - Post your contact details here. - Your character will receive an apartment assignation here within the next few days. - Join the IC, OOC and crack communities, and create your friendslist from the list. - Make a post in the OOC community to introduce yourself on your character journal. - Make an 'INBOX' post in your character's journal so they can receive messages from other characters throughout the game, and tag it with 'inbox' for easy location. The content of the post should be your character's 'email address' which is their ID number and '@city.net'. - Have fun!
Tragedy struck when he was eight years old. Returning home late, he found the Uchiha compound dark and utterly silent. Exploring, he found first his slaughtered clan strewn about the streets, and then the dead bodies of his parents, freshly killed, with his older brother standing over them. He was forced to watch their deaths firsthand through his brother’s genjutsu technique, which caused significant mental trauma and ensured that he would remember it for a very, very long time. Itachi explained that the ultimate sharingan power, the ‘mangekyou sharingan’, would only manifest in those who had killed their closest friend. He commanded Sasuke to live a ‘long and unsightly life’ and gain that power, in order to then come to him and battle. With the knowledge that he must now hate Itachi and live to kill him, and with his whole world in pieces around him, Sasuke passed out.
Betrayed, in pain and now completely alone, he woke up in the hospital as the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan still in Konoha. He then continued to live in the empty district through his academy life. He was always seen as the ‘cool’, attractive boy by the girls in the class, and many boys resented him for his looks, skill and popularity. Sasuke himself only concentrated on one thing - becoming stronger; an avenger - and ignored his classmates. This nearly caused him to fail the final genin test set by Kakashi, when he didn’t consider working with Naruto or Sakura to retrieve the bells, leaving them to fend for themselves in case they got in his way. He eventually failed and was reprimanded about his methods despite his obvious skill, and so helped Naruto when later commanded not to, causing them to win the actual test. Thus he was assigned to Team Seven. This was the first time Sasuke actually realised or was even shown that working as a team is sometimes better than trying to go it alone.
On their first major mission, Sasuke both awakened his sharingan and put himself in the way of several fatal attack meant for his teammates, one of which left him in a near-death state. By this point it had become reflex to do so - he claimed his body moved on its own. He and his team steadily grew closer, though the air of tension only increased and he began to treat them as rivals rather than baggage. The training that took place during their travels had the unforeseen advantage of Sasuke learning to rely on his teammates, both for advice and help in and out of battle.
It was in the Chuunin exams that Sasuke realised a fundamental flaw of the sharingan - if the body cannot keep up with the eyes, the sharingan is useless. Too arrogant, Sasuke lost totally to the taijutsu-user Rock Lee. In the Forest of Death, they were hunted down and attacked by Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, who desired Sasuke’s body and bloodline limit as a base for his possession technique. He injected Sasuke with cursed blood, giving him the Cursed Seal of Heaven. This seal amplified negative feelings until he would go into killing rages - he nearly maimed another genin before being stopped by Sakura. Sasuke fell into fevered hallucinations, wherein he was confronted with a version of himself who accused him of being weak and unable to protect those close to him, revealing one of Sasuke’s motivations to gain power other than revenge. This was also Orochimaru’s way of cutting Sasuke off from the positive influence of his teammates, especially considering the strong friendship developing between him and Naruto. The seal returned in the preliminary matches, although Sasuke managed to defeat his opponent whilst suppressing the seal by using no chakra and pure willpower. He also copied and altered one of Rock Lee’s lotus forms, at significant cost to his health. Kakashi banned him from watching the rest of the matches, and instead sealed the Curse and placed him in hospital with an Anbu guard, lest Orochimaru return for him.
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Third-person RP sample: The lift came to an abrupt stop just as the haze cleared from Sasuke’s vision and finally let wild thoughts about illusions and traps clamour for attention in his waking mind. To his humiliation, he only managed two steps towards the door before his legs gave out, a mixture of tension and- drugs, he decided. It had to be drugs. There had been several chapters in his old textbooks on the various compounds normally used on weapons, in darts and in food, and the Uchiha records had been darkly informative on the subject besides. He waited for a moment, in case it was a joke or a test, and someone in a headband and jacket was standing around the corner with a clipboard making notes on reaction times and perceptive ability. He strained his ears for the telltale sounds of company, tried to detect anything off about the air other than its stale quality. Nothing. The only thing he gained was the knowledge that he wasn’t outdoors and the shock of realising he wasn’t in his own clothes, and missing all of his equipment. Later, he promised himself, When you’re not out in the open and can think straight.
His legs were steady again, he noticed, and so he got to his feet just as the doors began to close again, enough time and space left to slip through onto the street beyond. Now what? He kept his back to the metal pillar as he examined the area with narrowed eyes. Nothing for it but to look for the others. Sakura might have noticed something he hadn’t, and for some reason it felt distinctly odd for them not to have been there when he woke up.
Anything else? Nnnope.
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Your first assignments:
- reply to this comment with your character journal.
- Your character's ID number is: 3SE42
- Read the orientation posts if you haven't already here.
- Post your contact details here.
- Your character will receive an apartment assignation here within the next few days.
- Join the IC, OOC and crack communities, and create your friendslist from the list.
- Make a post in the OOC community to introduce yourself on your character journal.
- Make an 'INBOX' post in your character's journal so they can receive messages from other characters throughout the game, and tag it with 'inbox' for easy location. The content of the post should be your character's 'email address' which is their ID number and '@city.net'.
- Have fun!
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