Nyna

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Done. I've also edited the Special section of the jutsu from "All Suzumi clan members automatically learn this jutsu when they gain the Advanced Symbiosis skill, and lose it when they do not possess it." to "All Suzumi clan members must take this jutsu upon creation, but may only use it when they possess the Advanced Symbiosis skill." Hope that works.

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Alright. Taiki's first comment is quoting something which is meant to be taken in together with the following two paragraphs, so I'll take it with his second comment as well. These aren't "free skills". Simply because you pay no SP, doesn't make something free. The base bloodline skill is essentially a hindering skill that gives no SP. Symbiotic Bond mitigates it, and to mitigate more than 100m, you have to pay SP. Simple. It's not "free". You're actually taking a hindering skill and essentially getting nothing for it, if you discount the fact that you can learn the other bloodline skills as well. In fact, the bearer still isn't getting anything for it, the partner does. Garth hit the nail on the head as well. 100 meters is not a very large distance. And if you aren't currently in combat, get separated, and then enter combat before the partner returns, the bearer starts at 25% health. That's always fun. This is the one that I have issues with, as the other two don't really matter; if I have to, I can just change things and make it all complicated and whatnot to get the costs I want. Look, it's not "balancing" to make the bloodline useless. I already explained this. This isn't overpowered in the least, the bearer gets nothing out of the deal. And there is a difference between being "inseparable", as in, you never leave each other's sides because you don't want to for whatever reason, and being inseparable, as in, one of you dies if you're separated for too long. Just thought I'd point that out. And just because the other person doesn't have the bloodline, doesn't mean it makes no sense for that person to not have a symbiotic bond. Humans already have tons of bacteria that work together with our bodies to help us digest food, or help kill germs in your mouth, for example. We could live without those nifty little guys killing all that nasty stuff that's rotting your teeth, but we'd have a lot fewer teeth. Especially before we invented toothpaste, ugh. Point is, just because you don't need a symbiotic relationship with something, doesn't mean you can't have it. And it's not the partner that forms the bond, it's the bearer of the bloodline, via a jutsu. Hence why I made the jutsu, this bond doesn't just randomly appear, it actually requires chakra, and implants a small portion of the disease into the partner. This portion changes to send small portions of the partner's life force to the bearer of the bloodline, and in return, can also instantly recover injuries in the like in the partner's body, at the cost of the bearer taking the wound instead. And no, the partner doesn't suffer the effects, because the amount of the disease they have is small by comparison, just enough to do its job. It also uses a lot less life force in general, as it does a lot less than the main portion in the bloodline bearer's body. Then ask about what you want to ask, and I'll answer what I can. Not trying to hide anything or some such nonsense, glad to answer questions and comments.

Rank 1 was intentionally left at -0. Reasoning? Well, it's simple, really. Symbiotic Bond is really the effect of Active Symbiosis. It simply lessens the effect of a hindering skill. That's why rank 1 costs nothing; it's simply the base distance of Active Symbiosis. It then costs SP to increase the distance and whatnot. That's also why Latent/Advanced/Active Symbiosis give nothing. Latent does nothing on its own, so that would just be a free skill point, something that I doubt will go over well. Advanced is pretty deadly, and could give SP. But instead, I feel that granting access to the bloodline is more than benefit enough, so it gives no SP. And Active for the same reason. It would effectively give +1 SP, as its hindering, but has a way around it. And Rank 1 of Symbiotic Bond would probably cost -1, but since you would automatically take the skill when you gain Active Symbiosis, and you would gain 1 SP from Active Symbiosis, I just canceled all of the bonus SP out from Symbiosis and made Rank 1 free. I can simply change things to be as I just said if the mods want me to stay consistent to the rules, I don't really mind. I was just trying to make things a bit simpler. Addressing the forming bonds outside of the bloodline bit... I don't see any reason to put that sort of limitation on this. In fact, doing so would make the bloodline fairly useless. The only way bloodline bearers can really be useful with the bloodline is if they have either have high health or high defensive stats. If you force the bonds to be within the bloodline, that means that you force someone to pick up useless skills (the bond skills, which do nothing but help mitigate the effects of Active Symbiosis), or both characters are pretty much focused purely on defense, which isn't useful. Sure, you'd be near impossible to kill. But you couldn't kill anything, so fights would just take a long time, and the outcome would be pretty much set in stone. Anyways, that's my reasoning for everything you mentioned. Feel free to comment or what have you. EDIT: Added an additional restriction, simply making it clear that characters with Latent Symbiosis pay no upkeep.

It doesn't actually do anything though. It's just a marker. I could just as easily change Active Symbiosis to denote a target, and have all of the bloodline skills only work for that target. Though I could do that, I'd rather do this for simplicity; no need to make things unneccessarily complicated, I have enough clauses and whatnot in the bloodline already.

That would be the purpose, yes. It's not really the ultimate tag though, the opponent(s) can always kill the one with the bloodline instead of the other, but it diverts attention, which is the point. And like I said, don't know anything about Spiderman, never really got into that sort of thing.

True enough. I'll just put it at 20 chakra for now, if it needs to be higher, just say so. Also, should I put a rank on it? I didn't think it needed it, but it doesn't really matter either way.

Um, say what now? This doesn't have anything to do with Spiderman. I don't claim to know anything about the series, as I don't read it, but if I recall, doesn't he gain his powers when a spider bites him? The spider doesn't really seem to benefit out of the deal except perhaps on an immediate basis. Symbiotic relationships require both partners to benefit in some way over the long-term, last I checked. Or at least, that's the foundation I'm using for this bloodline; I didn't pull it from anything. And if I'm going to rip something from a series, especially something popular like that, I'll give credit where credit is due.