Willpower

**Willpower** (気力 , *Kiryoku* ) is a person's ability to break out from an situation; whether it's to endure an mental attack or to keep going even after a great damage. It also played in whether you can resist a killing intent from another.

## **Durability Tiers**

### **Weak** 0

You have a lack of confidence in yourself. You have no resistance at all to anyone that had a strong personality. The killing intent exerted by others even normal humans are too much for you, to a point, you would faint or even die.

### **Normal** 1

You have a willpower of an average human. Most characters are at this tier, as it is the most common tier. You can succumb to a killing intent by those above you with stronger willpower. You might have the ability to endure an mental attack or two before collapsing.

### **Strong** 2

You have an exceptional willpower, either by upbringing or something else, that enables you to continue fighting even if your body is exhausted for a period of time. If there is something that motivates you you could bypass the killing intent of those a tier above you. Those with this willpower can endure some of the well-developed mental attacks brought forth from a Sharingan illusion or after durability exceeded.

* Rock Lee had displayed this in the Chunin Exams when he fought Gaara. He picked himself up to continue the fight; he himself went completely unconscious.
* Characters from Hidden Leaf Village can inherit the Will of Fire which enables them to keep going despite all odds when there is something to protect.
* Members of the Uchiha clan is intertwined with the Curse of Hatred in which it augmented one's willpower by the depth of one's grief and despair.

### **Extraordinary** 3

You have attained an incredible willpower, either by upbringing or something else, that enables you to endure even the worst of things. Nothing could truly convince you of things otherwise. You might have manifested an ability or trained yourself to exert a killing intent. You can endure majority of the mental attack for a long period of time.

* Orochimaru had exerted a killing intent to affect those weaker than him.
* Characters, powerful like the Sannin, usually is at this level.

### **Platinum** 4

You have attained a excellent willpower that enables you to not completely waver at the presence of a god. You still experience fear from those above you. Still. you couldn't find a reason to give up completely, even if it means to die this is usually because you are empowered by the thought of your bonds. You also could manifest an ability to affect others like the tailed beasts.

* Naruto Uzumaki uses this ability to convince others that had been on a misguided path to join him on the 'right path'. This also enables him to convince the likes of Sasuke Uchiha to put his inner darkness aside.

### **Celestial** 5

You have attained a celestial form of willpower that you could subdue someone with just a mere glance. Your presence is so divine and evokes fear and praise from a large group of people at once, taking away their willpower simply by existing. Mental attacks like illusions do not work on you at all; unpredictable things still can affect you.

* Kaguya Otsutsuki is shown to be capable of subduing her son, Hamura Otsutsuki, with just the Byakugan at a single glance.
* Ten-Tails evokes similar fear in people by being around its presence.