Rei: I like the way you think - purple for white, and a red insignis sash with buttpack like Gai & Co. Not terribly stealthy in normal lighting, but once it gets darker red and purple turn into brown and grey, which fade in well with shadows. A serious person, who gets irritated about the third member of her and Neji's team (Yuuichiro? He'd probably be a taijutsu/weapon specialist with katana and bokken, which would make them a relatively close analog for original Team Gai, except for...) being such a slacker, and has arguments with Neji about the nature of destiny and whether it can be changed.
Average taijutsu and genjutsu, good theory, good ninjutsu due to good control, but the low sde of average chakra reserves, so she has to be care ful to use more effecient jutsu, or her family spiritualist techniques. Prefers to remain at long range and use a bow, which her main jutsu either enhance or simulate in case she's disarmed or the range is too close - she has a number of specialty arrows for delivering smoke bombs, explosive notes, etc. and can use yet-unnamed jutsus to control the flight path after firing, increase the distance and force, or sheath an arrow in flames. She can of course also form one completely from flames as normal ninjutsu, and has an ability complementary to the Hyuuga jyuuken style to restrict enemies temporarily using specially prepared seal tags. Her obstacle to becoming chuunin is her temper, and a tendency to linear thinking even when it is not roused.
Ami: Well, I should note that I was planning on changing the orange and yellow stripes on the baggier shirt to two shades of blue, but I was actualy thinking the other way around - there's not a lot of fabric there at the crotch of those ultrashorts to be putting faith in during strenuous activity. The big sleeves would give her someplace to hide all the needles and medicines where they're readily available but not visually prominent, like Mako's leg warmers. IF not, maybe she could have a small backpack, around two inches thick and a foot square or so? She's Preparedness Girl, a support specialist with above average genjutsu and rudimentary (meaning middling chuunin-grade) medical jutsu, combined with a large supply of various medicines and the more use-specific ninja tools than most bother carrying, like tags beyond the basic explosive type and trap devices. She's a good marksman with senbon, and can use them to deliver poisons to ememies or even medicines to allies.
Her obstacle as a chuunin is individual combat ability and a slight confidence problem that exsacerbates it, and a very limited chakra reserve, more in line with the usual genin kunoichi than any of the other senshi counterparts. The only ninjutsu she uses beyond the basic three is an ice-type aura that can either turn the kirigakure no jutsu into freezing fog to create poor footing and deaden enemies' senses with chill, or be confined into a tighter area and trap them in a thin shell of ice frozen from moisture in the air. The latter efffect is very draining on her limited reserves, however.
Mina: The knee pads are good, but... the rest is plain, and Mako already has the sea green thing going on. Maybe change the cut of 4's top to be more like 3, and add the pads? Serious in battle but otherwise kind of a ditz, Mina is the taijutsu specialist of her all-kunoichi team. She likes using chains to fight with, occasionally augmented with a very narrow, super-high-pressure suiton jutsu that can cut through many materials like a drill or blade. Probably the best-rounded of her team, and their usual field commander (albiet with Katsu as advisor, backstop, and executive) - if any of them make it to the finals, it'll be Mina. She has no particular obstacle to chuunin status, only bad luck by being paired up against someone from the overpowered main cast will stop her.
Hotaru: How old is Anko, exactly? I figured she was mid to late twentysomething and Hotaru could actually have been her daughter with Snakepants, if either the timeline was fiddled a bit so he was driven off after Sandaime resumed office, the insult of being passed over as hokage not once but twice causing his final break, or if she stayed with him for a year or two befre returning to Konoha, possibly because she didn't want to have a kid around him... Your version of her for TGNH is probably not compatible with that, or she'd probably be more comfartable with the whole Iruka/relationship thing (But maybe not - I eman, can you honestly consider getting taken for a ride by her sensei and used as a brooder for one of his attempts at creating a perfect body to inhabit a successful relationship? Too bad for him it was a female infant, just because he likes little boys doesn't mean he wants to stop being one himself) and being a year or two younger than Naruto would be a decent explanation for why two similarly outcast children didn't run across each other. Her chakra reserve is already phenominal at ten, and due to something the snake-freak did she can absorb or give energy to others with a touch. She could have been a genin already, maybe even chuunin, but the negative attitudes turned her shy and introspective - with the strange exception of a lack of bodily modesty second only to Anko.
(Her background here is the most flexible of these still very flexible stories - she's the one I'm most tempted to include in a more major role later, and would like some degree of compatability between TXY and TGNH if so, though as very loosely related as they are there's certainly room for differences even as major as that.)
Usagi... I just can't see her as a ninja, not one who'd live through her first battle anyway. More likely she's a civilian of some sort, in one of the villiages... a cousin to Tsunade, perhaps, putting her UNGODLY chakra reserves to use with specialty, long term ninjutsu used to foster the rare plants that the family grows, supplying ingredients for many medicines and rare woods for cabinetry and construction. Very nature-goddess, tends to be followed around by cute fuzzy critters and birds attracted by the good vibes she puts out; greenery visibly perks up within the field of her aura and flowers turn to face her. Ino probably knows her, or at least knows of her.
- 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
Average taijutsu and genjutsu, good theory, good ninjutsu due to good control, but the low sde of average chakra reserves, so she has to be care ful to use more effecient jutsu, or her family spiritualist techniques. Prefers to remain at long range and use a bow, which her main jutsu either enhance or simulate in case she's disarmed or the range is too close - she has a number of specialty arrows for delivering smoke bombs, explosive notes, etc. and can use yet-unnamed jutsus to control the flight path after firing, increase the distance and force, or sheath an arrow in flames. She can of course also form one completely from flames as normal ninjutsu, and has an ability complementary to the Hyuuga jyuuken style to restrict enemies temporarily using specially prepared seal tags. Her obstacle to becoming chuunin is her temper, and a tendency to linear thinking even when it is not roused.
Ami: Well, I should note that I was planning on changing the orange and yellow stripes on the baggier shirt to two shades of blue, but I was actualy thinking the other way around - there's not a lot of fabric there at the crotch of those ultrashorts to be putting faith in during strenuous activity. The big sleeves would give her someplace to hide all the needles and medicines where they're readily available but not visually prominent, like Mako's leg warmers. IF not, maybe she could have a small backpack, around two inches thick and a foot square or so? She's Preparedness Girl, a support specialist with above average genjutsu and rudimentary (meaning middling chuunin-grade) medical jutsu, combined with a large supply of various medicines and the more use-specific ninja tools than most bother carrying, like tags beyond the basic explosive type and trap devices. She's a good marksman with senbon, and can use them to deliver poisons to ememies or even medicines to allies.
Her obstacle as a chuunin is individual combat ability and a slight confidence problem that exsacerbates it, and a very limited chakra reserve, more in line with the usual genin kunoichi than any of the other senshi counterparts. The only ninjutsu she uses beyond the basic three is an ice-type aura that can either turn the kirigakure no jutsu into freezing fog to create poor footing and deaden enemies' senses with chill, or be confined into a tighter area and trap them in a thin shell of ice frozen from moisture in the air. The latter efffect is very draining on her limited reserves, however.
Mina: The knee pads are good, but... the rest is plain, and Mako already has the sea green thing going on. Maybe change the cut of 4's top to be more like 3, and add the pads? Serious in battle but otherwise kind of a ditz, Mina is the taijutsu specialist of her all-kunoichi team. She likes using chains to fight with, occasionally augmented with a very narrow, super-high-pressure suiton jutsu that can cut through many materials like a drill or blade. Probably the best-rounded of her team, and their usual field commander (albiet with Katsu as advisor, backstop, and executive) - if any of them make it to the finals, it'll be Mina. She has no particular obstacle to chuunin status, only bad luck by being paired up against someone from the overpowered main cast will stop her.
Hotaru: How old is Anko, exactly? I figured she was mid to late twentysomething and Hotaru could actually have been her daughter with Snakepants, if either the timeline was fiddled a bit so he was driven off after Sandaime resumed office, the insult of being passed over as hokage not once but twice causing his final break, or if she stayed with him for a year or two befre returning to Konoha, possibly because she didn't want to have a kid around him... Your version of her for TGNH is probably not compatible with that, or she'd probably be more comfartable with the whole Iruka/relationship thing (But maybe not - I eman, can you honestly consider getting taken for a ride by her sensei and used as a brooder for one of his attempts at creating a perfect body to inhabit a successful relationship? Too bad for him it was a female infant, just because he likes little boys doesn't mean he wants to stop being one himself) and being a year or two younger than Naruto would be a decent explanation for why two similarly outcast children didn't run across each other. Her chakra reserve is already phenominal at ten, and due to something the snake-freak did she can absorb or give energy to others with a touch. She could have been a genin already, maybe even chuunin, but the negative attitudes turned her shy and introspective - with the strange exception of a lack of bodily modesty second only to Anko.
(Her background here is the most flexible of these still very flexible stories - she's the one I'm most tempted to include in a more major role later, and would like some degree of compatability between TXY and TGNH if so, though as very loosely related as they are there's certainly room for differences even as major as that.)
Usagi... I just can't see her as a ninja, not one who'd live through her first battle anyway. More likely she's a civilian of some sort, in one of the villiages... a cousin to Tsunade, perhaps, putting her UNGODLY chakra reserves to use with specialty, long term ninjutsu used to foster the rare plants that the family grows, supplying ingredients for many medicines and rare woods for cabinetry and construction. Very nature-goddess, tends to be followed around by cute fuzzy critters and birds attracted by the good vibes she puts out; greenery visibly perks up within the field of her aura and flowers turn to face her. Ino probably knows her, or at least knows of her.
- 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