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Character Name: Mitarashi Anko
Fandom: Naruto (from right before time-skip start)
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Sexuality (if applicable): bisexual
Original or Anomaly?: Original
Appearance:
here The curse seal,
left neck/shoulder. There's a very good reason it looks like Sasuke's.
Personality: Loud is the first word that comes to mind when speaking of Anko. Boisterous, brash, bordering on rude, and beautiful but deadly are some others that quickly follow on this. She's very easygoing, most of the time, and loves to both eat and drink. Lots. Of both. She likes to get drunk often, living like a reckless teenager even in her twenties. She annoys a lot of people, and takes a certain pleasure in it too, showing up early or being too loud. It's hard not to notice Anko.
She can be serious, deadly so. When she's focused on something, she notices details, and things other people might not. Whether she points these things out is a different matter. Anko is, first and foremost, a gatherer of information, after all. She's also slightly sadistic, amused whenever people have brought something painful upon themselves through either stupidity or choice. She's good at scaring people, mostly because of this.
All of her antics hide a darker center. After being cursed and then abandoned by her master, she tends not to let people in, or show what she is really feeling, cautious of trusting anyone again. Relationships of any sort with her can be strained sometimes because of this. She’s used to pain, due to her occupation, and used to death, both because of what she does and the fact that she grew up during a war.
As for more intimate relationships, she tends to keep those people at a certain distance as well. She uses her sexuality as just another weapon in the arsenal. When she needs to get close to someone, either for information or in order to kill them there is no length she won’t go to in order to accomplish her mission. There is almost no loyalty higher than the completion of the mission.
History:
Anko, in school, was an okay student. Nothing really made her stand out from the rest of the students in her class, save her loud, boisterous attitude, even then. She was a tomboy, preferring shorts to skirts and dango over flowers. Upon graduation, when most of her classmates were sorted into groups of three to train under jonin, Anko was hand-picked by none other than one of the three legendary ninja of the village: Orochimaru.
It was under his tutelage that she would learn to be a good ninja, though never with the capacity for greatness. He taught her techniques that were forbidden, had her help with his research on occasion (though it horrified her) and assured her that all was well, and that the leader of the village knew everything.
And then he used her in one of his experiments. Ten subjects were subjected to what he called a Cursed Seal of Heaven. The seal cause so much stress and pain on their bodies that nine of them died. The only one to survive was Anko. But Orochimaru was finished with her. He had decided she was lacking the will to seek power, like he was, and thus was of no further use to her. He offered her the chance to tag along anyways, but she, heart-broken and rejected, declined this mockery of an offer. He took her memories of this time.
She was found outside the cave by three ANBU, and taken back to the village, where the curse was sealed over so that she could not access its power unwittingly. From there, she trained and studied to become a Special Jonin in the village, a loyal member.
She proctored the second part of the chuunin exam that Naruto’s generation of students participated in. It was during this test, in the Forest of Death, that she encountered her old master once more, in the disguise of a student from the Sound Village-whose face he had ripped off and put over his own.
Going after him, she failed to kill him using a forbidden suicide technique, and he brought her seal to the surface again, incapacitating her. She couldn’t stop him carrying out his plans.
Anko is still a trusted member of the village, though the new hokage isn’t entirely sure what to think of her, due to her association with Orochimaru and her memory loss.
Strengths:
Anko is a shinobi, and further more a kunoichi. Shinobi train to be spies and fierce fighters. The philosophy instilled in them from a young age is that the completion of the mission is the most important thing, giving a sort of determination. Shinobi can blend in, disappear, or make themselves obvious whenever they so choose. Anko is sexy, and she knows it, and nothing stops her from using her body as just another weapon.
She is has extremely fast reflexes, due to this training and favors knife-like kunai as weapons--when she uses weapons. More often she uses chakra, bodily energy harnessed as power, to preform certain techniques that, to the untrained eye, look a little like magic.
Her elemental techniques are fire ones, and she has a fairly good knowledge of genjutsu (illusions). Back home, she can summon up to four snakes (also magical), but here can produce what look and act like snakes or ropes as a strong, solid-feeling illsuion.
There's one last technique she can use, but only once. Twin Snakes Mutual Death. It is a suicide technique that kills both the user and target with deadly poison--but only if the user is able to capture and manipulate one of the intended victim's hands.
Weaknesses:
Anko can sometimes miss subtle details or problems that others of her level of training would pick up on. She drinks too much, eats too much food that isn't particularly healthy (she has a weakness for dango, sweet dumplings, and anything sweet red bean flavored). She has a bit of a complex about not being good enough, or being trash (when it's extreme), stemming from Orochimaru's abandonment of her. Orochimaru (and possibly others that can manipulate chakra at such a level) can activate her curse seal and incapacitate her with that pain.