Gargan (Need Approval)

((Hey, do you mind if we can grade him right now, and I'll just app the rest of his lower-level jutsu through the jutsu app forum? I'm having trouble coming up with low-level jutsu.))

Basic Character Information:
Name: Gargan
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Clan: -none-

Looks: He is tall and muscular, and his skin is dark. His arms and legs are longer usual, his fingers look like a pianist's. Gargan's eyes are two different colors. His left eye is violet and his right eye is silver. His face is elongated and pinched, high cheekbones frame a sharp-looking face. Gargan's hair is long and colored the same shade as lavender, taking the sharp corners off the edges of his face. He dresses in buckles and chains. The straps cross his chest and long neck, which hold up the enormously large sword he carries about. His black pants are loose and cover his boots. He'd be considered slender if it weren't for his broad shoulders and freakish height. He stands a good seven and a half feet tall, which compensates for his long limbs.

His sword is the most important aspect of his arsenal. At a blade length of five feet and a width at the hilt of eighteen inches, it is an impressive display to see him fight so dextrously with it. The blade is made of folded steel, which enhances its ability to have sound channeled through it, as it acts as a magnifier. The bracer extends down the center of the broad side of the sword, adding needed strength to keep the blade from shattering from everyday use. The hilt and pommel add a foot to the blade's length, making the sword's length six feet total. It is crafted as a two-handed sword, but Gargan can use it single-handedly.

Personality: Gargan is lazy, sarcastic, and perverted. He lacks motivation to do anything outside of his own self-interest and swears loyalty to no one. He enjoys irritating others and spying on people, as well as sleeping when he should be doing work. It isn't that he's not capable, he'd just rather do his own thing on his own time.It is easy to irritate him but difficult to actually anger him. When on his bad side you might as well have signed a death warrant. If on his good side, you may end up in some very private company. He is simple in the fact he acts on his impulses and is generally an impulsive person.

Skill and Rank Information
Village: Oto
Rank: Missing Nin (Rank A)

Special Characteristic: Memories of Reincarnation
Special Effects: Due to a curse, he can remember his past reincarnations. Because of this, sometimes he can remember things other people don't know about. This extends to an ability to speak most languages he comes across.

Special Characteristic: Song Master
Special Effects: Much of his time in his village has taught him the ways of sound. He is a virtuoso when it comes to singing, and has mastered the difficult art of singing in harmonics (a feat based on "throat singing"). Along with the required training, he can also amplify his voice due to his large size, and project it like a vantriloquist if need be.

Elements: Earth, Fire
Skills Specialties: Sound-based Jutsu, Sword technique


Jutsus

Name: Hum
Rank: E
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 10
Element: none
Description: By flexing his muscles and humming, Gargan can easily slip through bonds like rope, chain, and wire.

Name: Object Mending
Rank: E
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 10
Element: Earth
Description: A simple technique used to mend mineral-based objects such as steel, iron, marble, and even quartz back together.

Name: Pianissimo
Rank: E
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 10
Element: none
Description: The delicate touch of pianissimo cannot be underestimated. By hand-contact, Gargan can send reverberations through an object to communicate to someone on the other end of the object, much like how two cups and a string can make a primitive telephone.

Name: Body Flicker Technique
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 20
Element: none
Description: Shunshin no Jutsu is a basic Ninjutsu technique. The ninja will appear and disappear in an instant, allowing them to retreat or attack suddenly. To facilitate the movement the ninja will often use nearby elements such as mist, sand or leaves to mask their appearance or disappearance.

Name: Focusing
Rank: D
Type: Recovery
Chakra Cost: 25, +50 recovery for every post of used jutsu
Element: -none-
Description: Focusing is a simple method used by shinobi to clear thier minds. It allows them to recover thier chakra at an accelerated rate so they can continue on with thier journeys. It is very simple to break this jutsu, as it is considered a meditative technique and once a mind is distracted they must start all over again.

Name: Fugue
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 25
Element: none
Description: By projecting his voice, he can cause mineral-based objects to reverberate accordingly to pitch so that they may bend and warp as if they were heated to a high temperature.

Name: Mezzoforte
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 30
Element: none
Description: A longer-range version of Pianissimo, also extending further into the realms of physical use. It can also be used to cause those under the pressure of Mezzoforte intense discomfort, and can be used as a useful interrogation method.

Name: Reverb
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 25
Element: Earth
Description: By using the lower tones in the sound spectrum, Gargan can cause any minteral-based objects to shatter upon contact with his body.

Name: Rolling Stone
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 20
Element: Earth
Description: By extending his chakra through the ground, Gargan can move stones and other minerals toward himself. By using voice and pitch, he can filter out certain objects and materials over others.

Name: Unshatterable Sword
Rank: D
Type: Ninjutsu
Chakra Cost: 25
Element: Earth
Description: Using earth-style jutsu, Gargan can make his sword unbreakable through ordinary means.

Name: Vantriloquism
Rank: D
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 30
Element: none
Description: By projecting his voice, Gargan can make it appear that someone/thing is actually speaking or making noise. As he has a mastery of song and sound, it is easy for him to mimic the voices of others.

Name: Doton Bunshin no Jutsu - Earth Clone Technique
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 50
Element: Earth
Description: Bunshin no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique which every ninja learns at the Ninja Academy. The Bunshin technique creates a copy of the ninja without substance. The copy resembles the ninja in every way. This clone can function as a distraction or as means to confuse one's opponent. As soon the Bunshin gets attacked or comes into contact with an opponent, it will disperse.

In this case, the clones are made of earth and stone, lending to a higher durability of the clone in general. However, it still desperses after a strong enough strike.

Name: Fortissimo
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 50
Element: none
Description: The full-force version of Pianissimo. Expanding on the distance, which can be carried for miles through any object (if it is long enough), it is also somewhat useful in combat. A blow with the force of Fortissimo behind it can cause an opponent severe physical injury, like being hit by a car going fifty miles an hour.

Name: Grand Cleaving
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 50
Element: none
Description: By using techniques based on the fire-element school, Gargan can use sound to cause his sword to reverberate, giving the blade's edge the ability to slice through any densely-packed strata in his way as if it were no thicker than air.

Name: Kuchiyose no Jutsu - Sword Summoning
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 55
Element: -none-
Description: A powerful jutsu, Ninpo Kuchiyose allows a ninja to summon animals, objects and the dead to fight on their behalf. The ninja normally signs a blood contract with the animal species, which allows him to summon different size and skill levels of creature.

In this case, Gargan summons his sword. On the bracer is a seal branded into the metal, which serves as the beacon for Gargan to call the blade.

Name: Mole Technique
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 55
Element: Earth
Description: By using his voice and forming the Ox, Rat, Snake and symbols, Gargan can cause an object to sink into the ground so long as the earth beneath it is loose enough (i.e. He can't do this in a mountain range)

Name: Seven Sword Scaling
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 55
Element: Earth
Description: Gargan can force the blade of his sword to extend by three extra feet, which also narrows the blade by half its usual size. He uses this attack rapidly in seven rapid strikes, making it difficult to dodge.

Name: Staccato
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 45
Element: Fire
Description: By projecting his voice and focusing his pitch, he can make objects such as kunai, stones, and other minerals explode in the manner an exploding tag would.

Name: Toccata
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 45
Element: none
Description: By projecting his voice, he can cause mineral-based objects to shatter.

Name: White Noise
Rank: C
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 50
Element: -none-
Description: Using fequencies inaudible to the human ear, Gargan can create a blanket of white noise, deafening his opponents painlessly so he can easily sneak by them without being heard.

Name: Crescendo Breaker
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 80
Element: none
Description: By oscillating his voice, Gargan can create waves of pressure that can knock over opponents with walls of sound.There is a slight chance it can damage the ear drums and canals, causing nausea and vertigo in opponents.

Name: Feedback Loop
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 80
Element: none
Description: By concentrating the focus of a sound through means of an object or by cupping his hands around his mouth, Gargan can focus the sound into a tunnel which magnifies itself by the shape of the contour of the harmonics, self-perpetuating a sound wave that can tear asunder any object it crashes into. The downturn to this is that once it hits something, the jutsu is over.

Name: Memory of Exploda
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 100
Element: Fire
Description: By chanelling sound through the blade of the sword and focusing it in the blade's edge, it causes a concussive explosion to erupt outwards from the focused area.

Name: The Pipers at the Silver Gate
Rank: B
Type: Genjutsu
Chakra Cost: 75, 15 to maintain per post.
Element: none
Description: Used in conjunction with Devil's Lyric. After the brass forest has sprouted, Gargan can project his voice into the brass pipings, causing them to resonate at pitches painful to human hearing. It causes disorentation and nausea, and after two more rounds of the insessant harmonics, can cause dellusions and hallucinations.

Name: Resonance Cascade
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 100
Element: Fire
Description: A jutsu used in conjunction with Devil's Lyric. After summoning the brass forest, Gargan can project his voice into the piping. At a certain pitch and force of chakra, he can cause any nearby pipe to spontaneously explode and combust, turning the entire brass forest into a death trap of shrapnel and fire one pipe after another in an ever-expanding wave until the last pipe explodes.

Name: Resonant Soul
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 75
Element: -none-
Description: Based on fire-style jutsu, and the theory of oscillation, Gargan can phaze his body through semi-dense material like walls and fences, or wrought-iron gates with large gaps of air in it. He cannot phaze himself through a slab of solid stone, for instance. But doors, windows, and other thin materials are no problem for this jutsu. Problems can arise if Gargan has not completely phased through an object, and can lead to serious injuries.

Name: Silent Rest
Rank: B
Type: Recovery
Chakra Cost: 70, +100 chakra per post
Element: none
Description: When Gargan must make a quick recovery, he can put himself into a near-death trance so he can regenerate his body, mind, and chakra in a matter of minutes. It also attunes him to the world around him so that he may sense every slight movement by sound alone. The trance is easy to break due to this hightened sound sensitivity, and even the calm voice of someone can shatter his concentration. Upon completing his regeneration, he has an intense hunger that can cause more damage than good.

Name: Soul Sword Arpegio
Rank: B
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 70
Element: Fire
Description: By forcing his sword to resonate in proper spectrums of sound, Gargan can cause flash-fires in the wake of every slice he makes. It causes third-degree burns on contact. This jutsu lasts for three posts.

Name: The Beast of Sound
Rank: A
Type: Henge
Chakra Cost: 150
Element: none
Description: As a henge Jutsu, this transformation taxes a body's physical reserves due to the extreme nature of it. Gargan's physical form grows to fifteen feet, further elongating his neck and body. His feet shorten and become thicker where his arms lengthen and gain an extreme amount of muscle mass.His eyes merge together to form one, and his lips and hair and nose vanish in one move. His hands and feet become cloven, and he takes on a very gorilla-ish demeanor. This improves his ability to mould his sound jutsu, and his physical strength becomes comperable to the ratio in which an ant can lift a thousand times its own body weight. The tradeoff is that he loses his sense of smell and depth perception, and the transformation leaves him ravenously hungry.

Spoiler:

Name: Devil's Lyric
Rank: A
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 175
Element: Earth
Description: By using a great amount of force, Gargan can pull long pipes of brass created from the earth itself out of the ground. The area of effect is huge, spanning several acres, thus the large taxation on chakra reserves. The brass pipe forest reaches hundreds of feet into the air, making the idea of climbing them ungainly. None of the pipes extend horizantally, reminding the person of a great bamboo forest fashioned from brass.

Name: Music of the Spheres
Rank: A
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 150, 50 to maintain per post
Element: none
Description: By using intricately-layered harmonic effects, Gargan can use reverberation to slide objects through different stratas where otherwise they would never have moved. This jutsu is highly taxing on his chakra reserves.

Name: Harmonic Infernal
Rank: A
Type: Genjutsu
Chakra Cost: 150
Element: -none-
Description: Harmonic Infernal is a complicated two-pronged jutsu that involves highly specific sound pitches and resonances that excite neruons in the brain. In the first stage of the attack, a wave of pressure explodes from Gargan in the center, created by a wall of sound. the second stage is the genjutsu portion, where on contact with the force of the blow, the mind is temporarily overloaded with confusing signals from excited neurons. This causes visual hallucinations, obscuring the person's ability to see, as well as causing a good amount of pain due to increased neural sensitivity. The Genjutsu lasts only one round, but is so powerful that it can give Gargan an advantage in battle, or the time he needs to flee.

Name: Song of the End
Rank: S
Type: Jutsu
Chakra Cost: 200 + 50 + 50 + 100 = 400 total (1st post + 3 more posts)
Element: -none-
Description: This jutsu begins as a simple tune, but as time wears on it gets louder and more forceful. In the first round, the simple tune can topple trees and cause buildings to fall from the force of the noise alone. It peirces the ground beneath his feet and forces him to be the explosive epicenter of a cacophanic orchestra. The next stage is when bark starts getting stripped from trees from the sheer amounts of generated bass and treble coursing through the air. This can strip skin from muscles and muscles from bones. The next stage in causes solid granite to crumble and steel to crack under the force of the sonorous wailings, and many people who have not been subject to prior damage will find thier brains turning to gelatin and organs turning to mush. Many living creatures die from the interference the sound causes with thier neurological systems. The final stage culminates in a crescendo with a sudden silence. Then when the silence is at its most deafening, Gargan lets out the final, most powerful note in the entire Jutsu, which causes flash-fires in the sky, and what was left of the ground below him to turn to glass. These flash fires can stretch for a good quarter of a mile, if not further if there is anything around to burn.

History and RP Sample
History:
As a young boy in Otogakure, he didn't have much of a childhood to speak of. The moment he was born he was thrust into the world of ninjutsu training, where he learned at an early age to wield a sword larger than himself. As hard as he tried to befriend anybody in his village, many of the adults were cold and the children had trouble coping with the experiments conducted on them. Even he was not exempt to the experiments. The strange things done to him bestowed many strange things to him including: his freakish height and long limbs, his off-colored eyes and hair, and his elongated neck and strange vocal patterns. Much of the experiments changed his physical body.

In his youth it made him more and more frustrated to find everyone in his village with a downtrodden, bleak outlook on things. Even with the strange, foreign memories that began to interfere with his training and what little social life he had. His swordsmanship grew more precocious with the more he remembered of his past lives, and though he couldn't do everything (with each new body comes different things you can and cannot do), he learned quickly how he could escape out into the world at large.

So at fifteen he staged a plot to make everything appear as if he had died, and escape into the night free from the confines of the Village Hidden in Sound. With such unique features and talents, it quicky became apparent that he wasn't dead at all, and quickly was listed as a missing nin of Otogakure. From then on, he spent much of his time lazing about and taking odd jobs when he needed the money. Often times his singing voice has brought much in terms of cash so he can spend it all haphazardly, but it is the life he loves, and would never give it up.

This is not where it ends, however. He is hunted by the Oto as he, being one of the many gifted ninja, holds secrets to the sound training and experimental laboratories that sprawl many miles underground. However, outside the country, few other ninja villages have been informed of his status. He refuses to wear any hitai-ate to show which village he is from, let alone that he is missing and that if he were captured, Otogakure would pay a steep price for his return. Gargan values his freedom above all else, leading to the reputation that he is a coward and turncoat.


Rp Sample:
It was that time again. That unbearable, unforgiving, and unrelenting time again. He had to wake up. He had to wake up but he didn't want to. Gargan much more preferred the sunny coast over anything else. Well, okay, maybe a bed. He wasn't sure what he liked better: the beach or a bed that wasn't his. Daylight had come and guessing from where the sun was it was probably some time after noon. Not that it mattered. He rolled forward and shook the sand from his pants. The chains jingled and clinked as he jumped up and down to get the rest of the sand out. He liked the beach, its warmth and care. People always seemed to be happier here. Of course usually they stayed out of his way as he walked by. Having a six-foot sword strapped to your back didn't help you any.

Not that it mattered to him. It was there for show, there to keep most people from annoying him and the rest of them to show he wasn't just a pushover. They'd taught him that well, and he'd learned it over and over in every age he'd lived. Anybody else would think remembering everything else you'd lived would make you hate life. It was quite the opposite. It only motivated him to squeeze what happiness existed for him in this world. That was all that mattered. Any fool could say otherwise, and he'd just call them stupid.

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