Hatake Tagayasu
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はたけ 耕す; Hatake Tagayasu | |
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Hardcore Skittlez |
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December 12, 2016 |
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Real World |
December 04, 2016 |
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Age |
19 |
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Height |
179.07 cm |
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Weight |
65.32 kg |
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O- |
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Chūnin |
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Ninja Registration |
129734 |
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Academy Graduation Age |
13 |
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Jutsu Body Substitution technique Transformation Technique Clone Technique Body Flicker Technique | |
Hatake Tagayasu (はたけ 耕す, Tagayasu Hatake)
Background
Prologue | The Springtime of False Fates
The story of Hatake Tagayasu begins not at his birth- or even at the beginning of his parents’ admittedly rocky relationship, but instead with the forging of two ‘married’ swords. Some thirty years ago, a blacksmith by the name of Aragane Tsutomu set out to create a weapon manufacturing empire the likes of which the world had never before experienced. Before endeavoring to remove himself forever from the forge, he decided to make one final masterpiece- a blade, or pair of blades, that would forever encapsulate his passion and skill as a smith. These blades took nearly a year in their entirety to forge and went through many prototypes, each of which being packaged and sold at criminally discounted prices; when they were completed, Tsutomu stepped away from his forge, satisfied that he had ‘peaked’ as a smith. The blades were modeled for the primordial forces of Yin and Yang and were named. “Kōkai (後悔)” was given to the black, Yin, blade- a symbol that he might never regret the path he was now choosing, and “Manzoku (満足)” was given to the white, Yang, blade- a reflection that he now cast off the ideal of “satisfaction” and that he would never stop reaching for more in this life. These blades had taken such a toll on his mind and body that Tsutomu spent a year recovering in the company of a woman who, to their mutual disappointment, would never become his wife. As for Kōkai and Manzoku- the married blades were given away as the final symbol on Tsutomu’s moving above and beyond his station as a blacksmith; though they were treasured by their new owner, it did not take long for their quality to grant their wielder confidence that exceeded his skill. The original recipient was slain and the blades separated to pass through the hands of many warriors.
And many warriors did wield the blades, until each had fallen into the hands of Hatake Kōsaku and Fuyukuma Towakō, of Konohagakure and Yukigakure, respectively. For the first time since the blades’ inception, they were brought together. The two shinobi from differing nations clashed several times upon the battlefield, though they proved to be quite equal- enough that they gained great respect for one another. With each clash, they understood that their blades were not meant to work against one another, but were rather part of a unit- a pair of blades that together would be unstoppable. In this, they saw fate- and believed their destiny was to be joined. Hatake Kōsaku and Fuyukuma Towakō married after a small handful of years skirting around the rules of their villages. At the time of their marriage, Towakō realized that Yukigakure was quite poor compared to Konohagakure and she wished to liberate herself from working for scraps; she took the first opportunity to forsake Yuki no Kuni and travel to Hi no Kuni. Here, she lived alongside Kōsaku and the pair were… a curious couple.
No longer driven together by the passion of battle and the supposed call of “destiny” to unite their blades, the relationship between Kōsaku and Towakō cooled quite quickly. For a time, they tolerated each other, but they eventually grew to loathe each other. Towakō believed that Kōsaku had lured her away from her home and family with false promises, and Kōsaku believed that Towakō had used him as a means of escaping the poverty of Yuki no Kuni. And so they fought- and in their aggression, their attraction for one another sparked again. This was the married life of these two strange individuals- as their fights would eventually cease, tempered by their incessant lovemaking, they would quickly again realize that they did not actually care for one another and begin fighting anew. Each time that this happened, they would believe that destiny again pitted them together and that it was not their place to separate, and so the cycle continued- even after the conception and birth of our protagonist: Hatake Tagayasu.
Chapter 1 | The Summer of Abundant Melodies
Hatake Tagayasu was a mild-mannered child. As one might have expected of most Hatake children, he was quiet and contemplative- seeming to focus more on learning how to properly interact with the world that he lived in rather than wailing against the inevitability of boundaries. He did not fuss when it came time to enroll in school, and for the most part, seemed to enjoy the early ninja academy. Tagayasu placed around or slightly above average in most fields and only seemed to excel when it came to forward thinking and strategy implementation, though his hypothetical stratagems would occasionally fail due to his own personal lack of skill. By the projections of his teachers, he was perhaps even less skilled than each of his parents individually, and was only able to be considered their superior in the field of cleverness. And, indeed, the boy was clever- clever enough that he schemed constantly to get out of doing any work. It was believed by some of his teachers that he might have some hidden reservoir of talent that was obscured entirely by his willingness to half-perform on most tests in order to deliberately lower expectations of him. His parents did notice this about him, but were often more concerned with each other than they were with raising him… in truth, he was more or less communally raised by the other members of the Hatake clan. It was because of this that Tagayasu took to solitude and quiet observation. He decided early on that he wanted to capture the same energy that his parents had when dealing with one another and, in his worldly inexperience, decided that passion and love was more important that strength or skill.
Tagayasu was nearing graduation from Konohagakure’s shinobi academy when the tragedy that was Kumogakure’s blitzkrieg occurred. Though he was well protected by both of his parents, the boy’s mother had finally decided that this was the final straw in her relationship with his father-- this was the hand of fate showing her that she had made a mistake in moving to Konoha after all. Not wanting to remain and participate in the resistance movement of a nation that she honestly did not care about, she took Tagayasu and returned to the cold shelter of her homeland, believing that they would be safe from Kumogakure’s influence in such a remote region.
Chapter 2 | The Fall of The World
In Yukigakure, Tagayasu was re-enrolled in the shinobi academy and acclimated quickly to his new classmates, though they were decidedly less kind than their Konohagakure counterparts. His behaviors continued much as they had before, though adjusted for the chilly demeanor of his new “friends”. Within the year, however, Kumogakure had stretched far enough to assume control over Yukigakure, and Tagayasu’s training was adjusted to accommodate the needs of Kumogakure’s Empire. Fortunately, his tendency to underperform left him free to pursue his other interests as he needed, as his new teachers believed that he would never amount to anything more than a common foot-soldier.
Tagayasu focused the majority of his efforts on learning the crafts of romance, as determined by such “reliable” sources as romcom movies and penny romance novels. He learned the art of needlessly flowery poetry, music performed by a rare instrument, and ‘spontaneous’ gestures of romance. The boy quickly became obsessed with these things and was a nuanced success with the girls in his academy classes. Tagayasu rarely failed to attract the object of his affections, but often found the targets of his romantic games to be boring or uninspired and cast them aside as soon as their childish version of a honey-moon stage ended. Indeed, he felt that for all the preaching girls did about romantic gestures, they were woefully inadequate at performing the gestures themselves. Even beyond his graduation, he was more focused on the pursuit of women and romance than proving himself an exceptional shinobi. Indeed, his progress stalled for several years and he did not advance beyond the status of Genin, even despite the urgings from his increasingly frustrated mother.
With time, Kumogakure’s influence was retracted from Yukigakure, and they were free to wallow in their poverty once again. This all made little difference to Tagayasu- until he realized that without Kumogakure’s superior infrastructure, he would not longer be able to enact such large gestures of romanticism, and most of the families in his village quickly moved away to “greener pastures”. It was this that finally snapped his priorities into place and, for a time, encouraged the lad to focus on his shinobi studies. He believed that if he became skilled enough, he could travel the world and seek the perfect girl at all of the world’s corners.
Chapter 3 | The Warmest Winter
Even despite his best efforts, the quality of training available in Yukigakure after the fall of the N.C.I.A was lackluster at best. Tagayasu had barely managed to be nominated for the position of Chunin at the time that relations between Iwagakure and Yukigakure broke down again in full. Though he had been loosely aware of their conflicts in the past, his abundant absence of skill had left him fairly untapped as a resource at Yukigakure’s disposal. He had no strong opinions about Iwagakure and would often attempt to shift the attention away from his prowess as a shinobi… girls left in the nation of Snow did not seem to prefer weak ninja.
As the war with Iwagakure had delayed his proper training, Tagayasu was made to serve as a pack mule for Yukigakure’s limited supplies; while he could not be trusted to fight, his body was strong enough to run resources and messages as was necessary to coordinate the defense against Iwagakure. For all of his best efforts, he received little recognition by his superiors and was never elevated to the position of Chunin proper.
When the war ended, he was far less upset by the final result than his contemporaries. To him, a relationship with Iwagakure meant that there were more women to be seen and that his ability to earn money would increase dramatically. Though he had missed the Chunin Exams in Kumogakure, Tagayasu was given a private ceremony in his own village and was finally elevated to a rank that he likely could have received some considerable time ago. Without much further complaint, he accepted a reassignment to Iwagakure to serve alongside their military, and moved quickly away from the ever disappointed scowl of his harsh mother.
Towakō could not stand to serve Iwagakure and retired as a shinobi; though she did not approve of Tagayasu’s antics or priorities, she conceded to him the blade that had originally lead to his conception… and the same wielded by his father. It was revealed to him that upon their flight from Kumo and Konohagakure, she had stolen his father’s blade and intended to never again depend upon “Destiny” to determine her fate, romantically or otherwise. Naturally, this resolve had eroded slowly over time by the poverty of her home nation, her son’s own apparent incompetence, and her village’s loss to Iwagakure. She hoped that with each blade in hand, Tagayasu might one day reach the levels of strength that she hoped he was capable of- to exceed both herself and her separated husband.
Personality
Often described as a single-minded individual, Tagayasu is the sort of man who dedicates his entirety to the mastery of a craft when he sets out to do it; this penchant for perfectionism ranges from his curious choice in musical instrument to his romantic endeavors. Though he continually strives to achieve the pinnacle of his performance in a given field(assuming, of course, that he has deigned such a thing to be worthy of his efforts), this Hatake is not the sort of perfectionist that takes his failures personally. It is quite the opposite, in fact- he considered every stumble a worthwhile learning opportunity and only takes failure critically if there was not a lesson to be learned in it. He does not often like to compare himself to others in anything more than a teasing fashion, as he considers each person to learn and perform according to their own qualities, and he finds it nonsensical to be upset that a large man can lift more weight than a small one. Despite this, he takes a great deal of pride in the effort that he does put forth and often considers the result of his work to be well above average, even if that average is not directly associated with the performance of another.
When working with others, Tagayasu is met with mixed results. He’s not a generally disliked individual, but that is primarily due to the calmer nature of his personality when not actively working to make an impression on someone. That being said, the man’s priorities are often met with great scrutiny and can get in the way of more important missions- he would rather flirt that fight and will almost always opt for a nonviolent approach, even going so far as to attempt to convince opponents not to fight in the midst of their battle. He does enjoy combat only as far as treating it as a mental exercise-- a game like chess or go; if he does not feel challenged by an opponent, he may work to quickly bring the battle to a close… or even surrender and accept the “shame of defeat” if it allowed him to stop doing something he did not enjoy.
A pursuit of enjoyment or entertainment is a strong underlying characteristic of Tagayasu. He does not like to do things that are not fun or enriching, and similarly will blow off duties if they are not immediately fun or do not obviously lead to a more entertaining encounter. The pinnacle of his failures in this regard is his habit of placing women and romance above all other things-- to such an extent that he is exactly the type of individual that might be lured away from a post with some “innocuous” flirtation.
As a shinobi, Tagayasu only pushes himself hard enough to ensure missions that might fuel his hobbies. He accepts only as many missions are necessary to sustain his hobbies, and only rarely will accept ones outside of his normal scope of an “acceptable workload”- and those are primarily used to build up a bank account that might facilitate traveling the world.
Appearance
Be it his wintry grey hair or his mellifluous eyes- Hatake Tagayasu is a man that stands out in a crowd. For anyone with any experience with other members of his clan, he appears much as one might expect; the man's hair makes up for its nearly colorless hue with unkempt character in spades, always spilling over the line of his headband with little concern for looking particularly respectable. Occasionally framed by his monochromatic strands is Tagayasu's countenance- a composite of Yuki no Kuni's high-but-slender cheekbones and the Hatake's narrow jaw line, punctuated with sharply shaped eyes and a relatively small nose.
His physique is toned as any shinobi's could be expected to be, though he shows no outward signs of deliberate bulking. Instead, his body aptly reflects the less severe nature of his preferred fighting style- focusing on agility over strength. Tagayasu's skin leans toward the pale spectrum, reflecting his homeland's northern location; though he has his share of knicks and scars from shinobi combat, most of these are covered by his shinobi garb. As many ninja are known to do, he tends to prefer the very same shinobi attire even when not immediately on a mission, though he can be seen without his flak jacket frequently enough.
Abilities
Chakra and Physical Prowess
Ninjutsu
Nature Transformation
Intelligence
Stats
| Databook | Ninjutsu | Taijutsu | Genjutsu | Intelligence | Strength | Speed | Stamina | Hand seals | Total |
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| Current | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 |