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PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: elisa
✖ Contact: plurk @ strangequark or pm this journal
✖ Are You Over 16: yep!
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: n/a

CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Hatake Kakashi
✖ Canon: Naruto manga chapter 649
✖ Character Appearance: Dork squad.
✖ Character Age: 31
✖ Pick A Number: 7, 42.

✖ Canon Setting:

Once, a long time ago, a woman named Otsutsuki Kaguya ate the fruit of Shinju, the Ten-tailed beast-tree, and was granted its power, what’s known as chakra. Her son, Hagoromo, who’s also known as the Sage of the Six Paths, inherited her power, and invented ninshu, a way of distributing chakra. He also split the Ten-tailed beast into nine separate beasts, the One- through Nine-tails, each of whom are immensely powerful and destructive in their own right, which in order to control came to be sealed in shinobi known as Jinchuuriki. In later generations, ninshu became ninjutsu, and this is the power that the ninjas in Naruto wield.

This is the background of the world of the manga. It’s set in an alternate world with obvious Japanese influence, but isn’t actually Japan. Generations after the Sage lived, the world existed in a turmoil of warring ninja clans, but the the two most powerful -- Senju and Uchiha -- allied with each other to create the first of the Hidden Villages: Konoha, in Fire country. Soon other Hidden Villages followed. The five major ones are: Iwa in Earth country, Kumo in Lightning country, Kiri in Water country, and Suna in Wind country. There are other minor ones -- Ame and Oto play an important role -- but these are the five who are headed by Kage (Konoha by the Hokage, Iwa by the Tsuchikage, Kumo by the Raikage, Kiri by the Mizukage, Suna by the Kazekage), the five most powerful, and the five with a long history of going to war against each other. Each country is ruled by a Daimyo, but generally they have very little involvement in the politics and governing of the Hidden Villages except when appointing a Kage. The military forces in these countries are all ninja (barring Iron country, whose military force are samurai). Because of this, ninja/shinobi are obviously very common.

Prior to the start of the manga, there were three Shinobi Wars -- wars between multiple villages, with truces and alliances often fragile and readily broken. Among the five villages, there was deep currents of animosity and distrust, and many casualties. The current Fourth Shinobi, however, is drastically different: this time, all five villages have banded together into a single army to fight a mutual threat: Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito.

Chakra is a mixture of natural and the spiritual energy Kaguya took, and a shinobi can manipulate it and channel it for various uses, such as sticking to walls and walking on water. There are four major types of techniques that ninja use: taijutsu, genjutsu, ninjutsu, and fuinjutsu. Taijutsu is hand-to-hand combat. Genjutsu uses chakra to cast illusions, making people imagine things are happening that actually aren’t. Ninjutsu is a broad term applying to a wide range of techniques: it means “ninja technique,” and the abilities are as diverse as elemental (wind, water, earth, fire, lightning) techniques, or methods of “cloning” the user, or switching their body out for another object, or healing. Fuinjutsu are sealing techniques: a major example of this is the sealing of a Tailed Beast inside a jinchuuriki, but also applies to sealing objects and chakra into anything from scrolls to people. Some techniques are special, passed down through bloodlines and families or, in rare cases, inherited from someone born with the abilities. These are known as bloodline limits.

In Konoha, children who aspire to become ninja attend Academy. Those who graduate become Genin, the lowest rank of shinobi. They are then put onto three-man cells based on their strengths and weaknesses under the instruction of a Jonin (highest rank of shinobi). Being promoted to the next-highest rank of Chunnin involves taking a rigorous, multi-part, inter-village exam. There is also a black ops squad in each village called ANBU: they are appointed by the Kage, and thus rank doesn’t matter, but only highly skilled shinobi with the ability to handle the sorts of missions ANBU undertake are appointed. Ninja take missions, either given by the Hokage for the sake of the village or commissioned by a third party. Based on the difficulty of the mission, they are given ranks: from D to A, with D being the easiest and getting progressively harder, and the most difficult missions are given an S-rank. (Shinobi are occasionally referred to in this way: rather than their official rank, which might be a product of circumstance or politics, it refers to their skill.)

✖ Character History: Wiki.

✖ Character Personality:

"I'm Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you my likes and dislikes… My dreams for the future… Hmm… As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies…"

Hatake Kakashi, AKA the Copy Ninja, AKA Kakashi of the Sharingan, is introduced as Team 7’s enigmatic Jonin instructor. He wears a mask that covers the lower half of his face, he’s strange and aloof, he’s avoidant of any sort of personal question, and he seems to ignore the world around him (including his students) in favor of reading pornographic novels.

However, it’s soon clear that he’s not as dull as he appears. He has a knack for appearing that way, when in reality he is far more intelligent and astute than that. He seems to enjoy riling his students up and messing with them during their first test, and on some level he was doing it for his own amusement. But he was also imparting a lesson about the importance of teamwork, from day 1; and as would become clear, to Kakashi, failure to learn this lesson was dire enough to send a Genin straight back through Academy all over again.

“I won’t allow my comrades to die. I’ll protect you with my life. Trust me.”

Kakashi is himself the son of a legendary shinobi, the White Fang Hatake Sakumo, who was powerful and well-respected until failing an important mission. When his teammates’ lives were at risk, he chose to abandon the mission to save them. The impact of his failure caused him to fall into disgrace, and he committed suicide when Kakashi was still young. Kakashi, who had idolized his father, was greatly impacted by Sakumo’s death; thereafter he became aloof and rigid, a stickler for deadlines and following the rules to the letter, as his father had not.

Considered a prodigy and a genius from a young age, Kakashi became a Jonin -- the highest rank for a ninja -- at the age of 13. Shortly thereafter, he was put in charge of a mission to destroy a bridge that an enemy village was sending troops across. One of his teammates, Rin, was kidnapped by enemy nin; when his other teammate, Obito, wanted to go back and save her, Kakashi refused, saying that completing the mission was more important. His father, after all, had chosen to save his teammates instead of completing his mission, and look what happened to him. Shinobi are supposed to be emotionless. Obito, on the other hand, thought Sakumo was a true hero, and set out to rescue Rin, telling Kakashi: “Ninja who break the rules are trash, but those who don’t look after their friends are worse than trash:” a line that Kakashi would repeat to Team 7. Eventually he has a change of heart, turning back to help Obito. Rin was rescued, but it ended up costing Kakashi an eye and Obito his life (or so everyone thought for many years). Believing himself beyond saving, he gave his Sharingan to Kakashi to replace his eye.

“This place makes me think about all the mistakes I’ve made in the past... and I’ve made so many.”

Obito’s legacy -- his Sharingan and his philosophy -- would leave an indelible mark on Kakashi’s mentality and career. His friends were prioritized above all other things, including missions and rules. When Rin is kidnapped by Kiri and made the Three-tails jinchuuriki, Kiri hoping that she would lose control when back in Konoha and destroy the village, she begs Kakashi to kill her and he staunchly refuses. In the end she steps in front of him attacking an enemy, forcing him to end her life. This event devastated and traumatized Kakashi. For some time, whenever he used Chidori, he would have flashbacks of killing Rin, and had nightmares in which he relived it into adulthood.

Around the age of 14, he entered the ANBU. ANBU is the elite black ops unit; a tactical and assassination squad. In his 10-year career there, he earned quite a reputation for his effectiveness and occasional ruthlessness. He was made the captain of a squad at some point. It was a dark career path: he was called Friend-Killer Kakashi, not only because of Rin but because he was often tasked with assassinating rogue Konoha ninja. He was also sometimes called Cold-Blooded Kakashi: when given a mission, no matter how dirty or bloody, he would carry it out in full to the best of his ability. This was true before he lost all his teammates, and it remains true his whole life, but after losing Obito there was a difference. Despite his nickname, he would refuse to harm a true friend, and as much effort as he would put into completing a mission, he would put more into protecting his teammates. He would, and has, given up a mission for a friend’s sake. As he told Uchiha Itachi, that was the reason he was entrusted with Obito’s Sharingan: to protect his friends. Though many thought he was losing track of his humanity, he always held fiercely to that ideal.

As an adult, Kakashi often still has an apathetic and aloof personality. Gai calls it his “cool and hip attitude,” but mostly it’s because there’s very little in day-to-day life that can get to him enough to ruffle his feathers. He can be given to melancholy about his past, although he rarely speaks of it. He keeps his feelings and his thoughts close to his chest. Despite his fame, despite being lauded as one of Konoha’s strongest shinobi, he is modest about his abilities, easily able to admit without bitterness when someone is better than him at something, be they an enemy or a superior or even one of his students. He tends to have a matter-of-fact and objective outlook on other people, his environment, and the world itself. He's extremely intelligent and has an analytical mind that makes him a master tactician. He always encourages his students to look “underneath the underneath.”

When it comes to himself, however, it’s clear that Kakashi has a low opinion of himself as a person. He has an objective measure of his powers and capabilities, but he feels the weight of every one his personal failures acutely. Though many people admire him, he doesn’t consider himself admirable. Unlike his teacher, his teammate, and several of his students, he has never had ambitions of becoming an authority figure, although he will take the roles on if people deem it for the best: he was made commander of the Third Division of the Shinobi Alliance. When he was being considered as a candidate for Hokage, he said that he would accept the position, but that he didn’t feel worthy of it. He spends long periods of times at his friends’ graves, often losing track of time: because of this, he has a reputation for being constantly late and lazy. He’s loathe to allow anyone to make the same mistakes he did in the past. All the genin teams he’d been assigned before Team 7, he failed on the first day, sending them back through Academy. The reason? None of them understood the importance of teamwork, just as Kakashi had neglected it at that age, and that cost him and his team dearly. He recognizes some of himself in Sasuke: someone else who lost everything, someone else with little to live for, and he tries to avert that crisis. In the meantime, however, he neglects Naruto and Sakura. Another failure. And Sasuke turned out to be a ticking time bomb that no one could contain, that no one could prevent from leaving.

That doesn’t prevent Kakashi from feeling like he failed him, too. Guilt is almost as old a companion to him as any. Though he rarely shows it, much less talks to anyone about it, when Obito -- alive, it turned out, but deeply disillusioned and nihilistic after Rin’s death, determined to end the reality he thinks is “hell” -- accuses him of being trash, he agrees.

“I’m just a piece of trash, but there are things I’ve learned. The hole in your heart is something other people can fill.”

Despite these things, Kakashi manages to have an affable air and a sense of humor, albeit a sarcastic one. He’s odd and enigmatic to many, and occasionally infuriating, which he seems to find amusing. He has a strange obsession with Icha Icha, a series of smutty novels written by Jiraiya. There are things that he views as deathly grave matters; other than that, there isn’t much he seems to take seriously at all. For a long time he was deeply entrenched in guilt and depression over his mistakes; now, though he doesn’t forget them -- can’t forget them -- he is no longer mired in them. He maintains deep ties to the small circle of people who matter the most to him. He filled the hole left by the loss of his team with those people. His long-time friend/rival, Gai, challenges him to contests constantly: contests that range from the purely physical to the purely ridiculous, and though Kakashi acts anywhere from indifferent to begrudging about it, he always plays along. His friend from his ANBU days, Tenzo (or Yamato) works with him on the reformed Team Kakashi, and they maintain a close camaraderie. And of course there are his former students: Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke. The first two become his teammates, and he’s both proud and protective of them. Though he’s remarked that both of them either could or have surpassed him in power, and though he trusts Naruto with the fate of the village, he still leaps in to save them from danger. Even Sasuke, who became a traitor to the village; he once remarks that “No matter how far Orochimaru fell, the Third Hokage still loved him... now I know how he felt.”

Far from cold-blooded, he has learned to not only forgive his father, but call him a real hero, and he has learned how to let people into his heart despite the horrors of his life. Though often strange, stand-offish and flawed, he is a man of duty: duty to the memory of those he’s lost, duty to his village, and most of all, duty to those that are still alive whom he loves.

✖ Character Powers:

There are basic powers that virtually every ninja in the manga is able to do: things like shadow clones, which are copies of the caster that, when dispelled, transfer their memories to the caster; substitution, or switching an inanimate object into his place; teleportation, though usually not great distances; as well as the ability to channel chakra to the hands or feet to “stick” to things like walls and trees. Kakashi can, obviously, do all of these things, in addition to more advanced ninjutsu.

Sharingan: He was given Obito’s Sharingan when he lost his left eye during the Third Shinobi war, and it went on to make him famous. One of his monikers is the Copy Ninja because the Sharingan has the ability to read an opponent’s moves as they are being made and copy them. In this way, Kakashi can learn many techniques so long as they aren’t bloodline limits: he is said to have mastered a thousand jutsu. The Sharingan also allows him to see chakra flow, track fast-moving objects and people, read subtle motions, and generally heighten his visual perception. It also has the ability to hypnotize and cast genjutsu on others through eye contact. After Rin’s death, Kakashi’s Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan, an enhanced form. With it he can use Kamui: he can transport objects, himself, or other people into an alternate dimension. (Due to the hammerspace nature of the Kamui dimension, he will not be able to use this.) He can switch between the basic and Mangekyo form at will, but because his Sharingan is transplanted, he cannot turn it off completely.

Ninjutsu: As stated before, other people and even Kakashi himself have claimed that he’s mastered a thousand jutsu. It’s unclear whether or not this is exaggeration because most are not shown, mentioned, or listed, but one thing is clear: Kakashi’s skill set is varied and diverse. He has a natural affinity for lightning elemental techniques, and one of his signature jutsu is the only one he created himself: Chidori, and its enhanced form Raikiri. However, he’s not limited to these; he’s proficient enough in water element jutsu to rival a specialist. He uses several earth techniques regularly, including creating walls and moving underground to attack from below. He is also capable of using fire element.

Genjutsu: Though not a specialist, Kakashi is proficient at genjutsu. He can both dispel and cast them, with or without the Sharingan.

Summoning: Kakashi has the ability to summon a pack of eight dogs that can either help him in battle or be used for tracking.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV:

Here!

✖ Third Person POV:

“Should you be doing that yourself?”

In retrospect, it’s probably a good thing the man had appeared just as Kakashi was stitching the gaping hole in his stomach. He might have had a kunai thrown at his head otherwise (sneaking up on a ninja is a bad idea) but as it was Kakashi was a little too preoccupied to react that quickly. Blood loss, and all that.

“Only, it looks pretty bad. Shouldn’t a doctor be doing that?”

“Should you be here?” Kakashi asked mildly. It was a fair question, he thought, considering that he was currently in that other space, that alternate dimension that he never could place, but he could always find with the Mangekyo. It was one of those inexplicable phenomena. Here’s the thing though: it’s a place only he and Obito can find, and this man is neither of them, nor is he a shinobi.

He looked like one at first glance. Hewas dressed up just like one. It would probably fool someone not quite as sharp as Kakashi, but he made a mistake: a ninja wouldn’t go to a doctor in this situation. They’d go to a medic-nin. He saw right through it. He sees everything with this eye of Obito’s: opening the Sharingan revealed that the man wasn’t an illusion, either, so --

“Who are you?”

“Seriously, you’re bleeding all over the place --”

“I’ll rephrase that. Tell me who you are, or you’re going to wind up in the middle of a massive battle.” Make no mistake; though his tone was perfectly pleasant, it was, in fact, a threat. How would this stranger feel, being plopped right at the front lines of a fight between men with nearly god-like powers?

Apparently not that good, because the man hastened to say: “Now, now. I’m just here to ask you a question.”

Here, of all places. Here, in this in-between, not-there space, in the middle of a fight for the fate of the world as Kakashi sewed his guts back in, a man he’d never seen before and who shouldn’t have been there just wants to ask him a question.

He wa beginning to wonder if the blood loss had actually made him delusional.

Kakashi stared, non-plussed, but the man didn't wait for permission before he continued. “What would you give to keep your friends safe, now and forever?”

He might as well have punched Kakashi in the stomach. There wasn’t a lot that gets to him, really. He was pretty easy-going, lackadaisical to the point of laziness, and about as inert as rock most of the time. Not much got him riled up, but he’s had too many shocks in the last hour. A friend thought long dead, who wasn’t dead and isn’t a friend any longer. The trauma of killing Rin, dredged up from the muck of Kakashi’s bloody memories. Fighting Obito for the sake of preserving the child that Obito was, but isn’t anymore (and that’s his fault, he let that happen, he should have gone back for him, he shouldn’t have been such a blind idiot in the first place) -- he was too raw for this question right now. It went straight to the jugular. What would he give to finally be able to keep his promise?

He’s too raw not to answer honestly. “Everything.”

A foot in the door. The man smiled, stepping closer, and Kakashi didn't trust him or this, not one bit. “Would you be willing to give a few years of your life to ensure that?”

Kakashi closed his eyes, feeling woozy, and vaguely as though he was willingly walking into a trap. But what could he do, other than reply, “Yes”? It’s a small thing to give for something of monumental importance to a man who’s lost so much.

“Excellent! Now let’s get you to a doctor. They’re going to ream me if I let a recruit bleed out.”

He almost asked “recruited for what?” but he didn't see the point. He was exhausted, and he suspected he’d find that out soon enough.

He wound up bleeding on the contract, but Kakashi figured they deserved that. He thought his timing was poor.

CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team: Red Team. He has a long history of being a covert operative.
✖ Mission Freebie: His Icha Icha collection.
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: Kunai.

✖ Character Inventory:

- Green flak vest
- Black long-sleeve shirt
- Black undershirt, with mask
- Shinobi Alliance forehead protector
- Black fingerless gloves
- Black pants
- Black sandals
- Scads of bladed weapons (kunai, shuriken, senbon) everywhere that are nearly all going to be confiscated from him.