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PLAYER INFO
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CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Maito Gai
Canon: Naruto
Point taken from canon: Current, assigned to Division Three, fighting in the war. Zabuza has just been taken down.
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Appearance: http://www.freewebs.com/anbusasukeuchiha/Gai.jpg and http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxZgbZv8PQeWG8u8A126lBo084CIstYEyzUghBhPZnEleJ2KDttQ&t=1
Background: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Might_Guy
Personality: Maito Gai is exuberant and eager, always looking for a way to challenge himself more. He approaches most things in life as if they’re challenges made to be overcome. Gai then happily takes on these challenges and tends to deal with them with great enthusiasm. This is just a part of his passion for life, living, and nearly everything he comes across. It leads to him also being rather overdramatic, posing dramatically, making loud exclamations, and giving a silly thumbs-up post with a tooth sparkle to indicate when he really means a promise.
The way he trains his team shows his compassion and determination. One student, Lee, is incapable of using two-thirds of the normal ninja tactics, and yet Gai proudly takes him in, encourages him, and shows Lee how to find his own way and become a ninja anyway. Another, Neji, is estranged from his family due to clan politics, and is bitter and angry because of this. Gai works with him, training and encouraging, and attempting to show Neji that everyone should be given a chance. Tenten, his third student, while not facing any specific weaknesses, is determined to make a name for herself as a great female ninja, and Gai encourages her and gets her on the path to becoming a weapons master. For Gai, no one is useless, no one is supposed to be ignored. He’s focused on seeing his students do their very best, and has complete faith that they’ll accomplish all they set out to do.
Stubborn is another good word for Gai. Gai declared himself the Eternal Rival of Hatake Kakashi and has continued insisting on this for many years, even though Kakashi tries to ignore him often. He’s developed taijutsu (physical) techniques that can take out powerful ninja, which speaks of a lot of work and patience.
He has a serious side, though he doesn’t bother showing it often. It’s far easier and more fun to be corny when encouraging Lee or overdramatic when talking to Kakashi than it is to step in and become completely serious when an opponent, Gaara, tries to kill his precious student. That is, however, where Gai draws the line. You do not hurt his precious people. Nor do you look down on them.
Abilities/Strengths: Gai is an older ninja in a village that deals with a lot of attacks and conflict, which speaks a lot to his capabilities. He is the only ninja that Uchiha Itachi, one of the series’ antagonists, warns about.
Genjutsu, ninja attacks using illusions, are Gai’s weakest area, but he’s still very skilled. He knows how to avoid one of the more dangerous genjutsu attacks, that of the Sharingan (an eye that, when trained, can capture an opponent in illusion), since he spars regularly with someone who has that eye, Kakashi. While we’ve never seen Gai use a Genjutsu attack, he’s a teacher and therefore has to know the various skills to teach them to his students. Also, Lee is notable as being the only one who cannot use genjutsu or ninjutsu, which means Gai has to be able to use them.
Ninjutsu, ninja attacks using energy (called chakra in Naruto-verse), are something Gai can use, and does use, but it’s not his specialty. These are techniques that cover everything from walking on water and up trees to cloning oneself or sending a lightning bolt at an opponent.
Taijutsu attacks are physical attacks, enhanced by chakra. As a Taijutsu master, this is what Gai uses the most. He knows and uses a secret, forbidden* technique known as the Eight Gates. This technique essentially overclocks his body, one stage at a time, with the eighth gate being known as the Gate of Death. His strength, agility, and energy go up at the cost of damage to his muscles. While he can open the sixth gate with the only side-effect being exhaustion for a short time, opening the seventh causes severe damage to every muscle in his body.
*In Naruto, virtually every technique is taboo, secret, or forbidden, but everyone uses them anyway. He’s even taught at least the first couple of gates to his student, Lee.
At the sixth and seventh gates Gai has special additional techniques he can use, the Morning Peacock and Afternoon Tiger, respectively. These are physical attacks that use extreme speed and cause great damage - he calls the Afternoon Tiger a one-hit kill. The former sets parts of him on fire with the friction from his speed, while the latter even sets the air around him ablaze.
Gai has a great deal of stamina. This is shown in his speedy recovery from the first six gates, but also in his training methods. If he loses a challenge to Kakashi, he will set self-imposed punishments of hundreds of pushups, sit-ups, laps, or other physical tasks.
He’s determined, intelligent, and very capable, all things that he doesn’t appear to be at first glance.
Weaknesses: Gai’s greatest weakness is his overabundance of passion. When his student Lee was facing a surgery that could kill him, Gai pledged that if Lee died, Gai would as well. He has a habit of making dramatic promises, and holds to them, no matter what comes. This could easily put him in overly dangerous situations, especially combined with the fact that he’s overconfident. Everything in life to Gai is a challenge that he can take on. This is an equation for him to wind up in way over his head.
He’s devoted to his village, his students, and his rival. If something required a sacrifice to accomplish, Gai would give his life for any and all of them. In a recent chapter of the manga Gai is on the ground in too much pain to move from how much his latest attack took out of him. Gai knew how important it was to take down Hoshigake Kisame, and sacrificed his well-being for it.
Gai also gets seasick. Very, very seasick, to the point where he has to be helped off of boats.
Other: It fits that Gai, as a taijutsu master, would be wanted by ANBU. I headcanon that he worked for them for a time before taking on the position of teacher, a job he much preferred. He wore a tiger mask, and, as someone who tends to be a little on the obvious side, (as well as one who has a move called Afternoon Tiger), I’ve decided he went by the handle of Tiger.
I also figure that he was orphaned at an early age, which explains the lack of any family sightings or mentions in the canon.
I tend to spell his name Maito Gai.
Action Writing Sample: [The Hitomi turns on to show a muscular man with a bowl-cut and bushy eyebrows looking down at two prone forms lying in sand. He’s frowning as he picks up a pair of shackles from the ground next to one of the two unconscious men and tosses them to the side with a look of disgust. Now he’s picking up the Hitomi and looking at it with a very stern expression.]
If the affiliates of these two are watching this… item, you should be aware that I am Maito Gai, and I will not be “fetching a good price” anywhere. Any who attempt to attack me again will be taken down in the exact same fashion, for the Green Beast of Konoha is no easy mark!
[His expression transforms into a friendly one, now that business is taken care of.]
And if anyone is watching this who is friendly, I would appreciate information on where I am! This does not look familiar to me.
[Turning to the side, he shows houses made from stone and clay. The immediate area looks a bit deserted; people likely didn’t want to be caught in the fight.]
It is… almost like Sunagakure, except I know it is not.
Third Person Writing Sample:
Zabuza was down and now Gai was bracing for what was to come. Taking on the Swordsmen would be difficult, but he knew they were up for it. (They had, in his opinion, some of the best his village had to offer in this Division, as well as a strong assortment from other villages. This position would hold.) There was a moment’s break in the action, and Gai flashed a smile at Lee, only to have Lee and the forest vanish to be replaced by sand everywhere.
Genjutsu. Somehow he’d been sloppy and he didn’t know how. (The glance at Lee? Except nothing had happened there out of the ordinary. He glanced at Lee often, and Lee’s smile back had been genuine. That couldn’t be it.)
Quickly his hands went into the proper form and he dispelled, only to have nothing change. He tried to dispel it again. When the sand didn’t vanish, Gai started to get concerned. (How much time was passing while he was trapped? Was the battle already engaged? They needed him; were his two most precious people even now being injured?) His hands tightened into fists as he looked around, trying to figure out some clue to escaping this illusion. (What even was the point? To keep him out of combat? That in itself would be useful to their enemies, but genjutsu tended to include some form of attack. There was no pain, no injury. It fit nothing he knew, and he knew a great deal.)
His eyes scanned the area, taking in the housing and residents. It might be designed to seem like Suna, but there were details that were off, to Gai’s eyes. (Even the feel was off; this was something old and run down, decaying, far unlike the country the Kazekage had begun transforming. Dying, fading, draining. Not like the hope that had started to build under Gaara.)
There was a shifting in the sand behind him, and that was all that Gai needed to know he wasn’t alone. Another noise - there were at least two. He whirled around, not giving them a chance to come at them from behind. Now he stood face-to-face with three men, all watching him. This didn’t feel like any sort of genjutsu Gai had ever heard of.
The three were braced, faces covered against the sand and sun, and they gave off an air of wariness. As he didn’t know what was going on here, Gai decided to use something that worked a great deal of the time, manners.
He bowed his head. “Greetings! I seem to have gotten lost. I would be thankful if you could tell me where I am.”
The one in the center snorted. “Get his hitomi. No need for him to make any calls.”
So they were hostile. Gai sank into an easy crouch, ready to deal with all three. He couldn’t sense any sort of chakra off of them, but even those without could still carry explosives.
A second sidestepped, grabbing an item from the sand, while the third pulled out a pair of shackles. Gai frowned. He knew what those meant. (Was this symbolic? Bind him in the genjutsu and thus make him unable to fight when he broke through it?) It wasn’t like he was going to let it happen no matter what it meant.
“You should know that this is a poor decision on your parts,” Gai warned. (It was only fair to warn. When not on a mission, one should be fair and polite. And when on a mission, anything went.)
With a grunt that might have been laughter the center one charged, followed closely by the second. The third attempted to circle. He’d seen this approach numerous times and wasn’t about to fall for it, launching into a spinning kick aimed at the one that seemed to lead and connecting with his head. The second person stopped for a moment, staring in shock, which was a stupid mistake. Gai punched them, sending them staggering back and dropping the hitomi.
Turning, he caught the club aimed for his head and swept the other man’s legs out from under them. Gai yanked the club out of his attacker’s hands and clubbed them. A sound of scrabbling told him the second man was bolting; Gai let him go. If this was more than illusion, then it would do good for his reputation to spread.
He looked at the two unconscious men and frowned. (It was time to figure out what was going on, time to revert whatever this was so he could go back to helping his Rival and his most adorable student. Did he want to know what was going on while he wasn’t assisting? Every moment could be a fatal one, and he doesn’t want to imagine life without either, especially if his sudden absence was the reason they died. His failure causing his precious people to fall is one of his greatest fears.)
Determined to take action and get back, Gai scoops up the Hitomi.