Kozachi Soga [finished]

Name: Kozachi Soga
Nickname: Warrior of Justice
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Height: 5’4”
Weight: 110 lbs
Appearance: Kozachi is a girl from Kirigakure, so normally wears the standard uniform and headband thereof. She has a slight but subtly powerful build, as years of martial training have allowed her to tone her body. She has short pink hair, since she considers shorter hair to be much easier to maintain. It also gives opponents in combat one less thing to grab onto. Her eye color varies from day to day (depending on the level of sage chakra within her body), ranging from light blue, to dark blue, to pink, to red. Her emotions tend to have a slight effect on this as well.
Kozachi tries to get as much rest as she can. In spite of this, on her worst days, she shows up with bags under her eyes, though this doesn’t happen often. She’s disciplined enough to keep good hygiene and body posture (so she’s unlikely to develop back problems in the future, if that means anything at all). However, much of this extends to combat only. In her normal life, she’s quite clumsy and absentminded, especially in the early mornings, kinda like… well, normal people. Her joints and bone structure are well-formed, and her skeleton, shaped by stress on hydroxyapatite, is fully functional.

Village: Kirigakure
Character Rank: Jonin
Character Tier: B-3
Clan: Juugo
Element: Wind
Bijuu Roll: -

Personality: Kozachi’s intelligence parameter’s aren’t too awfully high, maybe just above average. She finds it incredibly hard to be cruel and manipulative, for different reasons respectively. Even though the people around her aren’t always that kind, she always tries her best to be a good, just person.  Really, she’s not that bad of a person, with one important caveat. Kozachi is a coward who is unable to face up to her faults most of the time. She tries to avoid her faults, but when faced with harsh reality, she crumbles inwardly. Although not the kind of person who requires the praise of others to function properly, without the camaraderie and kindness of others, her psyche begins to decline significantly.

Because of her nature, it's thus easy for the depression to turn into cycles of destructive mania. To this effect, she views the abilities of her clan (specifically, the effect nature chakra has on her) to be a curse of depravity, or some such thing. In her heart, she believes that this is a direct obstacle to her pursuit of a "happy ending for everyone", which brings us to the more important part of her personality, that being her motivation for being a fighter.

She believes that by standing up for the weak and by spreading the power of joy and love to people, she can cause even a few of them to work harder for a happy resolution to their lives. She does care for herself, of course, but is altruistic without even realizing it. Kozachi hasn't even thought about her own happy ending at all in the slightest.

In combat, she's the flashy, eager to impress sort of frontline fighter, regardless of whether or not it would endanger her own safety. She prefers large scale, high power attacks as opposed to methods that employ complex strategy or a good deal of precision.

Character History: Kozachi was born to two happy parents in Kirigakure. They were poor, but they made do well enough... until they had a daughter. Naturally, being who they were, they kept as much of an upbeat attitude as they could. Kozachi began to understand her family's situation from an early age, but unlike some of the other youth of her time, she didn't become disillusioned with the society around her. It was somehow easy for her to understand that this was just how the world was, and that the only thing she could hope to do at her age was to do little things within the system to try to make the lives of the people around her just a shade more happy.

She must have been about eight or so when she witnessed her father's death. Disease had been running around that part of town for a good time now, so it was just a matter of bad luck that her father had managed to contract something nasty. He slowly bled out while handing over the remainder of the business to his wife and young daughter, who entered the ninja academy soon thereafter. With her kind, quiet, naive attitude, nobody would have expected that she was a single child.

Although she had a penchant for the charming yet annoying clumsiness that defined her off-duty life from that point forward. In spite of this, she still advanced at a steady pace, making it out of the academy and becoming an official shinobi within the normal time allotted. Through her various missions, she supported herself as well as her mother. It wasn't a bad job, being a shinobi, especially for someone with her lineage. The jutsu that she learned were a surefire means of controlling the nameless depravity eating away at her soul.

She met plenty of people, but tried (in spite of her cheerful personality) not to get too attached to anyone. At this point, she had become rather self-conscious of her rather singular physiology, and didn't want the common shinobi to find out about it. Only the higher-ups needed to know at all, and that was only because she might need someone to bail her out if she ever went berserk. Nowadays, though, her temper was improving quite a bit. Regular chakra usage turned out to have been the way to go for her, or so it seemed for some time.

In recent months, however, it seemed that the depravity was slowly returning. Simply casting jutsu no longer had the same effectiveness it once did. Naturally, because the resurgence was only slightly, Kozachi thought that maybe she could deal with it on her own. After all, she hadn't had an incident in year. Thus far, her efforts have been successful, though that could change soon with the right impetus. It'd take quite a bit, with her discipline, to push her over the edge, but she hadn't yet learned the perfect control mechanism to hold back the insanity. As such, thus far, every safeguard she's tried is bound to fail eventually.

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