Asgard Application

[kage_senbon]

IC Information;
Character Name; Kin Tsuchi
Canon; Naruto (manga)
Canon Point; Ch 117 – After being sealed in the coffin and dying.
Age; 14

House; Loki – Kin is a manipulative, secretive and cruel woman with a viperish sense of humor. She relishes tricking people and specializes in what is known as 'Genjutsu,' or illusions, producing hallucinations through sound waves that attack the inner ear and a person's audio-aural perceptions. She has a nasty habit of 'revealing' the trick while she's doing it (but almost all of the ninja of Naruto tend to have that habit, so it's not really that odd, and serves more as a framing device for the audience to understand the techniques.), but she adores tricking people, confusing them and abusing their emotional weaknesses in any fashion that she can. Being underestimated is natural for her, and she is one who will happily use a perception that she is somehow weak to her advantage.
Power; Telepathy

Personality; Cruel, cold, professional and aggressive, Kin is not a nice girl by any stretch of the imagination. What little softness or submissive traits she might have had in her life, they have been long stamped out and replaced with the cold-hearted efficiency of a woman bred and trained to kill or be killed. The world is a savage and brutal place, and she is determined to be more savage and brutal than the rest of that world.

Unlike her teammates, however, Kin has perhaps taken this savagery one step too far. Where Dosu Kinata is a cruel and malicious man, he is rarely the sort to waste his effort on outright, ongoing sadism. When he faces an opponent who has the slightest possibility of emerging victorious, he crushes them. Zaku, likewise, may be cocky, but is not one who wastes his time with idle sadism. Kin, on the other hand, likes to toy with her victims. She takes added time with both Sakura and Shikimaru to torment them, taunting them and trying to wound rather than kill. She spends additional time that could be used to bring Sakura down swiftly to torment her about her choices in caring for her bodily beauty, giving the ninja time to come to her senses and rebound. When in a fight, she wounds, rather than kills, relishing the pain and slow defeat of someone she considers unworthy of her time (which is generally everyone that is not a sound ninja.). In short, she is a bully, and a fairly openly sadistic person.

Kin is extremely arrogant. There are, within the canon, only two people that she generally defers to and one other that she respects. She defers to Team Dosu's leader, Dosu Kinata, with only moderate grumblings on occasion, and accepts his rule with reasonable grace, while showing moderate respect to Zaku (even if peppered by arrogant commentary when he is defeated by Kino in the Chuunin trials.). However, the only man she can truly be said to show outright, unquestioned respect for is Orochimaru himself, and this is generally seen only in her abject terror of the overwhelmingly powerful sage's abilities, and what he is capable of doing to her. Everyone else is basically pond-scum in her opinion, and worth her time only as playthings and a means by which she can prove the power of the Sound Ninja clan. Her arrogance overrides whatever skill she has in combat quite frequently. If she believes that she is getting the upper-hand (which she frequently is early in a match, due to her rather impressive skills at disorienting people.), she will often stop paying close attention to the other's behavior and miss out on subtle clues. It is a self-centered focus that gets in the way of her ability to perceive the world around her because she is more concerned about herself and what she is capable of. This over-focus is seen most prominently in the fight with Shikimaru Nara, where she becomes so confident that she doesn't even think to notice that the strings she uses to connect to her senbon should not be casting shadows, shadows that Shikimaru can control and uses to defeat her.

There is, to go with her arrogance, just a subtle bit of vanity. It is difficult to say if she is truly jealous of Sakura's beauty when she nastily sneers at her and comments about the time for training lost in caring for the girl's hair. However, it is fairly clear that she is very aware that her looks are more 'average' than others, and that she has intentionally put aside all things related to romance and attracting others' interest in an effort to make herself a better warrior. Her vanity is there, but it is seen more in her pride in her accomplishments than it is in outright care for her beauty. However, considering how focused she is on it as a 'sacrifice,' she seems quite intensely aware of her own looks and prone to bribery and flattery (something she gets very rarely in the series).

In her death, and in the raw shock she experiences when she is betrayed by Kabuto and Orochimaru, turning her into a sacrifice along with Zaku to summon the dead spirits of two powerful ninja for a fight, we see her naivete. Her confidence is great enough that she seems unable to really recognize the danger of her associations as her teammate Dosu does. She believes that 'success' or at least a decent showing will be enough to appease Lord Orochimaru, and that as long as Sasuke Uchiha's powers are demonstrated in their attempt to take him down, they will be rewarded and allowed to continue their careers. It never dawns on her that they are little more than pawns, meant to be killed at the end, until the last possible second, and she appears shocked, terrified and betrayed. In general, her self-centered nature makes it difficult for to show any real empathy for others, making the detection of lies troublesome at best.

We see only a little about her socialization in the series. For the most part, she and the other members of Team Dosu 'get along,' but more in the way that three surviving wild dogs in a pack run by a much more powerful lead wolf over them get along. They don't really like each other, and all three snap at the others at times, resorting even to physical retaliation at points (particularly in Dosu's case). She doesn't seem to have any true friends, nor does she seem aware of how to actually gain them. She is used to people taking what they want, completing a mission and being rewarded for it, not the notion of loyalty for the sake of friendship, something which confuses both she and Zaku in the case of the Leaf Village ninja teams, leading to mockery and underestimation on their part (Though Dosu shows a far greater awareness of the value of these relationships, and the reality of them in other teams, and sneers at them because of his own sense of superiority). She has a particularly nasty attitude towards Ino, Sakura and Shikimaru, as all three manage to get the better of her, and displays all the petty tendencies of someone who is perfectly willing to hold a grudge. A great deal of her other social behavior seems centered on getting the job done out of outright terror of the man who sent them out. Team Dosu is unified in one thing above all others: Fear of failing Orochimaru. They are well aware of what will happen if they fail, and unaware of the fact that they are basically pawns in his plans to awaken one of the last Uchiha through them, plans that entail their deaths in one form or another as expendable assets. This fear, however, overrides any sense of self-preservation, largely because they honestly believe that they will die either way if they don't succeed in their aims. Both she and Zaku share this trait very closely, though Dosu seems more willing to strike out on his own when it appears clear they're being used. By then, however, it was too late for Kin.

Samples;
Network Sample;
Pathetic.

[The sound came from an arrogant little brat of a teenager, though she wasn't showing her face just yet. Oh no, she didn't dare risk it. Her voice was enough of a risk, since she'd seen a few people she recognized from home, though they were older than they should have been. Apparently, those worthless bastards had the temerity to survive that day, when she had not.

It pissed her off to no end, but that could wait.]

Look at the lot of you. There's supposed to be a war going on, and you're wasting your time on puppies, boy chasing and talking about your feelings. What are you losers expecting? To win their precious little war with a wreath of posies?

You're all going to die horrible, screaming deaths, and I'm going to love watching every worthless minute of it.

Log Sample;
Kin crouched in the shadows of the growing day. She'd been here for all of a week and picked up on a few necessary tidbits, several of those by watching the network or picking up on surface thoughts from those who she'd met and shaken hands with. She'd picked up a backpack and a couple sets of normal clothes from the closet in the room she'd been assigned and then found an abandoned house to squat in. She could make her way back to that place when necessary for food, but she didn't want to live in a dorm situation with people she barely knew and certainly didn't trust.

What she'd picked up on didn't please her. These gods struck her as incompetent, if they needed the likes of these half-witted schlubs doing their dirty work for them. The people here were too busy 'living their lives' in most cases to bother with serious preparations for a war, and most of them had bought into the lies they'd been fed way too easily.

She'd bought those lies once. Now she was dead. She wasn't about to trust a group of incompetent would-be godlings to be any safer to work with than Orochimaru, though she didn't have any illusions that she really had a choice. Yet.

Watching them from the roof of the building she was hiding on, she saw them scurry about their business. “Losers,” she muttered. Once upon a time, maybe she would have been lonely for companionship, but these people? They were so hopelessly normal and mundane that they didn't even seem worth her time. Still, she knew two things. One, she was alive only because these wretched, incompetent fools had brought her back from the dead, and she was in no hurry to die again. Two, she hated losing more than anything else. For now? She could watch, and wait, see if anyone promising showed up.