Karin

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Country/Village: Grass/Fire/Whirlpool, Uzushiogakure
Rank: Chunin
Age at Game Start: 15
Birthday: June 20th

Appearance

Karin is primarily what one would expect when seeing an Uzumaki, she’s fair skinned with red hair. She wears her hair in a unique style by keeping half short and the other long and spiky. It gives her something of a strange look caught between unkempt and having just stuck her finger in an electric socket. To top off her rather wild look, Karin has bright red eyes and wears a pair of brown glasses.

Standing at only 5’3” she’s easily overlooked in a fight, but she’s not a pushover by any means. More it is an illusion fed by her choice of dress, as her clothes show off a good amount of skin and unguarded areas. Her purple top cut to stop at the end of her ribcage with a high collar and full sleeves. She pairs it with a pair of black short shorts and black thigh high tights and black boots. In canon she wears the high collar and full sleeves to hide her bite marks, but in game the bite marks don’t exist and her wardrobe choices are personal preference.

Abilities/Powers

Chakra:
Karin showed potential early on that she could use the chakra chains and once Kushina figured that out well that began the process of teaching Karin how to use them properly. It still takes her some effort to manifest the chakra chains and they can still be triggered by intense emotions such as desperation. Ironically, because of her changed environment when growing up Karin doesn’t know that she can heal herself or another person simply by letting them bite her. She does however have medical ninjutsu training and uses the Mystical Palm Technique much like any other medic nin. Her skill is constantly improving as she wasn’t the most effective when she first started her training, but her effectiveness has grown to being something of a near scalpel like quality when healing. Much like any other medic nin, Karin has developed quite the control over her chakra.

Jutsu:
Having been raised for nearly half her life among other Uzumaki, Karin has been taught a good deal of sealing jutsu. Her seals are actually quite good given her age, but she’s put in a lot of hours practicing and with Kushina as the interim village leader it was expected she’d put in the effort to have near mastery over making various seals.

Physical:
She’s more than just a competent close-combat fighter. She’s actually pretty good at it and she takes great pride in her ability to be as much an active participant in a fight as she is able to take on a supporting role. She isn’t the powerhouse that Tsunade is but she’s still a force to be reckoned with and who would expect any less given who her aunt is.


Personality

By and large, Karin demonstrates more than a handful of typical Uzumaki traits. The most immediately obvious is her unstable temper. It doesn’t take much for Karin to go from generally even keel (which for Karin typically translates into somewhat brusque and pushy) to a rage monster worthy of her Uzumaki roots. Something as simple as a perceived slight can send her into a rage so strong that she causes damage to property or picks a fight with the person inciting her wrath to begin with.

Beneath this Karin hides a sweet side that she only brings out when she’s alone with someone she’s interested in. If someone is actually paying attention it becomes painfully obvious that she’s interested as she goes to extra lengths to be cute and will pitch her voice up into a range she feels is more pleasing to the listeners’ ear. On top of the manipulation of her voice she’ll feign an innocent appearance under the belief that they might find her more attractive. Ironically, this doesn’t mean she is above going after exactly what she wants. She knows how to be forward and has no compunctions about actively pursuing her crush. She’ll proposition them or ask them out on dates. It should be mentioned that her concept of attraction is based a great deal on her perception of the individuals’ chakra. If the chakra signature of the person isn’t pleasing to her she’ll put her walls up real fast and shut the person out. Likewise when she does find someone she’s attracted to, she loves blindly overlooking many of their faults or if she does notice them is quick to forgive if they make even the most cursory effort at apologizing for a wrong or fixing them.

By and large Karin is very focused. She is task oriented and once she is given an assignment she follows through until the end. There is not stopping in the middle and it will take a good deal of convincing her to even entertain the idea of ditching her task in favor of new one. There are only a handful of arguments that will have the slightest chance of being successful in persuading her and most of them have to do with death of her superior, and even then she’ll put up a fight first. Though there are certain situations where her opposition will be a front and she’ll give up at the drop of time after having seemingly decided that she isn’t going abandon her task.

You could just as much attribute her putting up a fight to her simply being stubborn or her being difficult depending on the personality of the other person. She is both those things and one would be so surprised at how often they overlap for Karin. Generally speaking Karin holds onto her beliefs with the tightest of grips possible. She believes those who raised her and depend on her care about her even if only in a tiny way and that she can depend on them. Sometimes she’ll be difficult just for the hell of it. This is doubly so when she doesn’t like someone or they’re getting on her nerves. She actually finds it sort of fun to watch them flip out because she isn’t doing what they want.

Karin is impatient; she wants so much to have everything immediately. She puts the work in but she does tend to get annoyed when she doesn’t immediately get her desired outcome. She understands that some things will take time and others will come more quickly but when a progression stalls or seems to move at a snail’s pace she has a habit of falling into short bouts of melancholy. It doesn’t often last long as she shares a rather boundless amount of optimism with Naruto, but she will sink and over analyze everything that she did or didn’t do before bouncing back.

History

After Uzushiogakure was destroyed, Karin’s mother left like so many of her kin. Eventually she settled in Grass Country where she met her husband and gave birth to her baby girl. For a while Karin lived happily with her parents until the village her family lived in burnt to the ground. The only reason she survived was because she could sense the group was coming and ran. Something that she wishes her parents had listened to her about to this day. This is about where things diverge for Karin, instead of Orochimaru finding her and taking her in and raising her to be complicit in his experiments on others, Karin became of a ward of Kusagakure and enrolled in the villages’ ninja academy. Things seem fine for the most part Karin makes friends, studies, does everything one would expect a child to do in a Hidden village.

And then Kushina went on her quest to find her scattered clan to rebuild Uzushiogakure. Her travels eventually lead her to Kusagakure where Karin is now 9 years old and beginning another year at the academy. At first neither was very sure of the other, but when Karin showed she had the potential use chakra chains there wasn’t any doubt of Karin’s heritage as an Uzumaki and Kushina promptly took her in, having realized that she was the daughter of her sister.

For the next seven years Karin lived in Uzushiogakure as her aunts’ aid. Taking advantage of having a parental figure in her life again, Karin has learned as much as she possibly could from her aunt and the other adult ninja in the village when Kushina returned to Konoha to see her husband and son. It wasn’t until she was about fourteen that she started taking more of an active role in village management although, she knows that most of the adults are primarily humoring her when she bosses them around and hands out assignments.

Over the years she would visit Konoha periodically, more frequently when she was a child with her visits becoming less frequent as she’s gotten older. Not that she doesn’t want to see her cousin and uncle, but does believe that one of them needs to keep an eye on the village not that she expects the elders to run the fledgling village into the ground but it is her aunts dream for Uzushio to rise again and she’s going to make sure it happens.

At thirteen she was promoted to genin by Kushina under a field promotion clause in the village’s laws. She was the first Uzushio genin and has been impatiently waiting for the first academy graduation to occur in order to be assigned a team and enter the Chunin exams. She’s pretty sure she’s well enough prepared at this point and hopes that by or just after her sixteenth birthday she’ll have that promotion, she’s getting a little tired of Naruto teasing her about her continued genin status when he’s been chunin for a couple years now.