Uchiha Obito

[sunshinehistory]

Country/Village: Fire, Konohagakure
Rank: Hokage
Age at Game Start: 29
Birthday: February 10th

Appearance

Obito is 5'8, though he's been growing again recently, has black spiky hair, and has a slender build. The oddities in his appearance have to do with old injuries, and involve scarring on his face, light but obvious, where Tsunade had to partially reconstruct the bone of his cheek and which cuts down over the right side of his lip. This scaring can be found in most areas of his right side, though the damage appears to be only at skin level. He has two eyes, however the left is finicky, prone to activating into a sharingan with little to no warning, and thus half the time Obito keeps it covered to avoid burning chakra when this happens.

Abilities/Powers

Taijutsu		Ninjutsu		Genjutsu		Fuinjutsu		Weapons		Fitness		Speed		Stamina		Intelligence		Hand Seals		TOTAL
8.0		9.0		7.5		7		8.5		9.0		8.5		8.5		8.0		8.5		83.0
Offensive	4.0	Chakra Control	4.0	Detection	3.0	Creation	4.5	Range	4.5	Dexterity	4.5	Body Speed	8.5	Physical	4.5	Tactical Ability	4.0	Hand Speed	4.0
Defensive	4.0	Jutsu Strength	5.0	Usage	4.5	Removal	3.5	Melee	4.0	Strength	4.5			Chakra	4.0	Emotional Control	4.0	Seal Recognition	4.0

Weapons Skills:
Obito is a man with an intense love of weaponry, his favorite of which happens to be throwing weapons. He can be found at any given time with a wide range of various sized kunai and shuriken, and is at least moderately proficient with any other weapons he happens to get his hands on.

Kenjutsu: A favorited weapon of Obito's is swords, and this is a skill that Kushina bullied into him over the years instead of letting him only focus on his wide weapon meagerie.

Seals:
Due to his love of explosions, Obito learned an early foundation in seals, determined to be able to make his own explosive tags, to make him not only cheaper, but bigger and more controlled.

From there he picked up storage seals, and then moved on to security before becoming truly advanced in the art as he picked up a great deal from both his sensei Minato, and Kushina.

Taijutsu:
Proficient in hand to hand, he's admittedly highly frustrating to spar with. Largely favoring deflection and dodging, his attacks are often sharp and fast instead of overly power. Not to say he hits gently, but his battle plan is usually not to get hit and to take down quickly.

Sharingan:
He's mastered it as far as he can without taking it to the next level, but Obito's Sharingan is unique. Even without dipping into the Mangekyo he has the ability to access his pocket dimension, something that he explores in more depth every time he trains on it. Currently he can only move himself into his dimension for a few seconds at a time, though it's not purely reflexive, and he hasn't realized he can travel through it yet. Nor can he take another person yet.

Ninjutsu:
Excellent with Katon, his range of fire techniques is wide and perpetually growing. Second to this is his Earth jutsu repertoire, which he finds interesting to add to often. Trailing behind both is his water jutsu listing, but while he doesn't use it as often, he still tries to improve on this skill just as much as the others.

Personality

Obito is a very driven man, and he was a very driven boy. He has always wanted some sort of peace for the world, a place where no one would feel alone or abandoned as he had as a child. In canon, this manifested into a terrible plan that would brute force everyone into being happy, whether they liked it or not. In Sunshineverse, however, he took the longer road, walking in the footsteps of his sensei and following the will of fire in the truest intended sense. Strength and perseverance into the future.

An important thing to know about Obito is that he has a protective streak that will never falter. In canon, again, this backfired on him horribly, but here, he's used it to dig himself deep into the bedrock of the village, making himself indispensable as a part of the ladder as he defended his comrades, proving his worth to them over the span of years. Where once a perpetually late, clumsy Uchiha child had been all that they would have seen, now, people know him as reliable, unwilling to let his people die for something that simply isn't worth it. He's made hard choices, and people have died under his term as Hokage, but every loss has been grieved, and has only made him more determined to be sure that the right shinobi get the right missions, so that no one has to die without cause, and no one would die because of an easily avoided mistake.

Missions gone wrong are a large bulk of what have reinforced his tendency not to trust first impressions in fact, as far too many clients have caused a team to be badly injured through lying. While good for politics, this outlook has made Obito more solemn than he ever wanted to be. He looks at things from an objective point of view as often as he can, as much as he might not want to, and in some ways, it makes him a rather ruthless Hokage. At least, to those beyond the village.

The reason why it isn't seen that way by everyone is simple. Obito isn't all seriousness. He knows how to laugh, and has an easy sense of humor most of the time. He doesn't want to see the world as a dark terrible place, and will fight tooth and nail to keep his optimism alive. Yes, he has to be practical, but that will never stop him from hoping for better things or wishing that he could count on brighter impressions. It leads to things like allowing his shinobi to make fun of him, so long as they keep it low key, and the good natured ribbing is often even returned.

History

Up until the rock fall, Obito's history remains the same. He was still an orphan who was looked down on by the clan for not being skilled enough, and by the village for being an Uchiha. He still only had help in the form of Rin before being placed on a genin team. After that, he still dealt with Kakashi's scorn as things went on a straight line until he found himself squished under a rock after saving Kakashi's life in the wake of drastically shaking the moors of the other boy's world. He gave him his eye as he did in canon, and then his two teammates left him, heading off to finish their mission, just as canon dictates.

At this point is where things deviate. There is no indication, from canon, that Obito's team ever tried to return and recover his body. Instead, other events played out, leading to canon as we currently know it. In Sunshineverse, Minato decided that since the mission was complete, they could spare a moment to recover their dead. Except, it turns out, Obito wasn't actually dead under the rocks, having used an ability of his awakened sharingan to fall into an air pocket just below where the rocks should have landed and crushed him, leaving him alive, but critically wounded instead of dead. Obito can't remember the next few months of his timeline, having been in such critical condition that all he knows is what people have told him about that time after he awoke. However, he does know these facts: his sensei convinced Tsunade to remain in the village for at least long enough to fix him, his sensei was appointed to the Hokage position while he was out of it.

He also knows that Kakashi tried to return his eye to him, which was something that he was very quick to refuse, pointing out in no uncertain terms that it was a gift, and would remain a gift, whether he was alive or not. This stayed a point of contention until a few months later when one of his female cousins left her eye to him to replace the one he lost after being killed in one of the last skirmishes of the third war. He's forever grateful, but will never understand why the eye fails to always work properly. He doesn't have the issue of it being always on that Kakashi does, but he also can rarely activate it at will outside battle. It's something he is liable to sigh over with little to no provocation when it's acting up.

The eye came later, however, and it's an unfortunate truth that Rin's concern when he was first recovering left him feeling somewhat smothered, causing a passive dispute between the two that took time to mend, though by this point in their history both are proper friends again. In fact, Rin was a strong force in the effort to rally support to get Obito into the Hokage position, so it's understandable that with both his sensei and one of the village's top medics behind him, that his appointment went fairly smoothly.

The time between his recovery and appointment passed rather quietly for Obito, with him adding more frequent babysitting to his collection of duties as Itachi wasn't the only child that he had to keep an eye on once Sasuke and Naruto were born. Being the go to babysitter for the three meant that his protective instincts, already formidable, are perhaps a touch too overactive when it seems like any of the three might be in danger. Itachi, at least, managed to put more distance between him and Obito than the other two with his early Academy graduation however. The other two, on the other hand, ended up being made off with into his personal care when his Sensei insisted he try out a genin team, much to Kakashi's relief. The Hyuuga, seeing the way the political winds were blowing, insisted that he take Hinata on his team as well, thus completing his three.

Obito, to this day, suspects that Kakashi deliberately dodged getting students, but he can't prove it, so it remains a point to poke his teammate over whenever it comes up. Suffice to say that one of Obito's quests for the upcoming year or two is to finally get the man to take on students. Somehow. Even if it means ambushing him with the assignment with no warning.

Because of the changed history, Kyuubi is right where it started, in Kushina, who Obito is sure is a tyrant out to slice him to bits when she has sword practice with him. In spite of that, she's also the closest thing to a mother figure that Obito has, and he still goes to her for advice whenever he finds himself in a bind that he doesn't want to talk to his sensei about. Suffice to say that girl troubles, an eternal problem of Obito's, fall under this umbrella. It could be worse though, and while he lives away from the highest concentration of Uchiha in the village, the clan no longer sees him as a removed part of them. After all, he's an Uchiha and Hokage, and that is how it was intended to be from Konoha's founding. At least, that's how the clan views it, and Obito has no intention of disabusing them of this notion.