N: I... hadn't really considered it a pun, more of a reference... but whatever. Rei is likely to be Neji's team mate that is able to fight in the prelims, no sign of the others.
ETA: I didn't know about the name being related to lighting, though.
G: No, no bigass sword - the whole Mist's Seven Swords thing seems to have backfired on them, since we've seen three and they all went missing-nin, and besides, she's trying to make people FORGET her brother, not be like him. (Kind of a more balanced Sasuke - the rest of her family is dead, some at Kisame's hands when they went after him as a missing-nin - and on top of that, clans with bloodline limits are nowhere near as favorably regarded in the Mist as they are in Konoha, if she can't prove to be a useful and loyal shinobi they're perfectly happy to let the freaks die out.)
Anyway, yeah, standard gear and taijutsu, and a couple of raitons - probably a contact-discharge to enhance her own hits and discourage opponents from grappling, and a weaker learning-stage varient of the lightning counterpart of the various dragon attacks (water, electric, ice, earth) that enemy jounin have used. I figure she's got a pretty good chakra reserve, especsially for a kunoichi, but only one or two shots of that one without recourse to soldier pills or a natural electrical storm, since it's as chakra intensive as all the raitons, even for its lower level.
For the others - I'm guessing that Katsu would have been willing to teach Ami at least his Mizutsuku no Jutsu? Mina could get along with a mask carried loosely around her neck and pulled up for use (Not a big change for her to use a mask sometimes) but ideally he'd have allowed both of them to accquire it so they all can operate with that improved ability in water - and not so coincidentally not need the damn ugly things. The Makoto picture I was lucky enough to find had a mostly workable outfit already, as far as can be seen, though I imagine the sea-green miniskirt dress was not so short and durable, nor worn over a black body glove/wetsuit in the original, and she keeps her ninja tools hidden in grey leg-mufflers like the orange ones used by Team Explosive Youth for their weights. I'm kind of reluctant to just use a pallette swap on this for the other two, though it could work in the lack of better ideas - any suggestions for outfitting them?
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
ETA: I didn't know about the name being related to lighting, though.
G: No, no bigass sword - the whole Mist's Seven Swords thing seems to have backfired on them, since we've seen three and they all went missing-nin, and besides, she's trying to make people FORGET her brother, not be like him. (Kind of a more balanced Sasuke - the rest of her family is dead, some at Kisame's hands when they went after him as a missing-nin - and on top of that, clans with bloodline limits are nowhere near as favorably regarded in the Mist as they are in Konoha, if she can't prove to be a useful and loyal shinobi they're perfectly happy to let the freaks die out.)
Anyway, yeah, standard gear and taijutsu, and a couple of raitons - probably a contact-discharge to enhance her own hits and discourage opponents from grappling, and a weaker learning-stage varient of the lightning counterpart of the various dragon attacks (water, electric, ice, earth) that enemy jounin have used. I figure she's got a pretty good chakra reserve, especsially for a kunoichi, but only one or two shots of that one without recourse to soldier pills or a natural electrical storm, since it's as chakra intensive as all the raitons, even for its lower level.
For the others - I'm guessing that Katsu would have been willing to teach Ami at least his Mizutsuku no Jutsu? Mina could get along with a mask carried loosely around her neck and pulled up for use (Not a big change for her to use a mask sometimes) but ideally he'd have allowed both of them to accquire it so they all can operate with that improved ability in water - and not so coincidentally not need the damn ugly things. The Makoto picture I was lucky enough to find had a mostly workable outfit already, as far as can be seen, though I imagine the sea-green miniskirt dress was not so short and durable, nor worn over a black body glove/wetsuit in the original, and she keeps her ninja tools hidden in grey leg-mufflers like the orange ones used by Team Explosive Youth for their weights. I'm kind of reluctant to just use a pallette swap on this for the other two, though it could work in the lack of better ideas - any suggestions for outfitting them?
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows