Ryukyu Tokage

**Reptilian Ninja Arts**

* 再生 (Saisei)(Regenerative)
* 爬虫類の皮膚(Hachūrui no hifu) (Enhanced Reptilian Skin)
* 弾性舌 (Dansei shita)( Elastic Tongue)
* カメレオン (Kamereon) (Chameleon)

**Earth-Style Techniques**

* Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage
* Earth Release: Rock Section Cane
* Earth Release: Mud Gator (same as mud wolves but gater like reptiles )
* Earth Release:Double Suicide Jutsu

**Ryukyu Tokage** (*Ryu*)

## **Personality**

Ryukyu is a seemingly anti-social girl who is actually very shy around others. In addition, she also likes to observe nature, to the point of her becoming unaware of her surroundings despite the place. When she was questioned if reptiles were her friends, she said yes her best friend, which implies that she doesn't actually have real friends. She also states she'd rather be alone than interacting with others who don't really want to be friends with her or judge her for her looks. Most of this behavior stems from a deep seeded fear of being diffrent. Born to a clan on a remote island considered to be monsters by the people of the main land. She feels like she could never be able to properly fit in or be good enough. Despite this, deep in her hearts of heart she wants nothing more then to become powerful enough to care the weight of her people and cares a lot for her the few that extend the hand for friendship to her accepting her for how she is.

## **Background**

Since birth the young members of the clan are able to have a seal mark placed on them in order to retract there features. This seal was placed on Ryukyu from the age of 5. The seal would not disappear as long as a certain threshold is maintained within their chakra supply. This allows them to hide it from the rest of the world and get a chance to explore outside the island before their coming of age. At the age of 14 (The 14th year) each clan member is allowed to participate in a ritual to completely remove any physical traces of the reptilian bodies they were born in. The Tokage value free will and freedom of expression over all else. They see the beauty in themselves yet respect the wishes of other in there clan to express themselves as they see fit.

Young Ryu was courage and sure of herself at a young age, showing her potential and love for her culture she embarrassed her true self. Her father clan leader was proud of his offspring. Seeing the future of the clan ahead he decided it was time the younger generation join the Nina academy of the land of sea. The land of sea being smaller then most didn’t have a large number of shinobi at the time. Most of the ninja from the Tokage clan where self taught and learked in the shadow for many years during the work asked of them. Ryukyu being so sure of herself would be the perfect candidate to become part of the academy. They where sure she would flourish due to her abilities and nature. Sadly, they where wrong.

Ryukyu would be exposed to the others of the world. Many children in the academy would shun her for being different. In her culture eating bugs isn't so werid but when the mainland saw this, they would make crude remakes and play abusive pranks on the girl. Treating her as nothing more then a circus freak show and savage animal. At one point they event went as far as to attempt to remove her scales and tail. Her personality quickly flipped and she started so show less and less of herself. The few friends that stood by her side at first where true, but all those who grew to close would get burned by the pressure and crumble at her feet. Growing tired of all the thought she held true shattering around her she decided to shut her true self out in order to not cause conflict around her. Ryukyu avoided attention being brought to her at all cause even if it cost her to be hurt in the end.

## **Appearance**

Ryukyu is a average size and build but her meekness now seemed to shrink her around others. She naturally had very dark green but mostly black scales along her face, neck and patches of them on both arms and legs. Her hands and feet would have sharp nails like claws and a reptilian tail much like a gator. She was seen as extremely beautiful by her cultures standards. Revered for her scales that would shimmer holographic rainbows across them in the sunlight. She often has a hooded cloak with 3 spikes over the top in order to cover blackish green scales on her limbs and face when unable to suppress them herself. Removable large sleeves long enough to cover her hands would be used over her mouth as she speaks to cover sharp teeth. With a short sleeve shirt and shorts as her base she tended to wear lightly as the island she was from was rather hot year around. Her yellow eyes would nearly never make eye contact and tend to gaze at the ground. Her forest green hair was some what neat near the but turned a moss green in color as it would become twisted and unruly near the ends. She would wear a thin string with a reptile tooth on her left ear as a symbol of being the first born of the Tokage clan head family.

## **Chakra and Attributes**

### Chakra Reserves

With a slightly above average reserve this would be natural for most of the tokage clan. However this reserve is locked away and capped until the ritual is done at the 14th year. Should she remove her seal her ability to each deeper into this pool would be quite powerful.

### Chakra Control

Due to her ability to control the constant state of her appearance she naturally grow customs to controlling her chakra so that she could keep herself hidden at all times. Any fluctuations of this would reveal her true for. Due to her past she is able to maintain this state even when asleep. She holds a promising future ahead.

## **Abilities**

### Sensory

A dojutsu unique to this clan the 爬虫類(Hachūrui).The eye are able to detect different spectrums. This enables them to see into the higher scope of vision: into the UV/thermo range. She can focus near and far by squeezing or stretching the lenses, disturbing the details or deep dimensions. The eyes provide 360 degree vision due to unique eye anatomy and an ability to transition between monocular and binocular visionusing the ciliary muscles. LIke other lizards she has a lower eyelid which in collaboration with the upper lid, securely sandwiches a third eyelid which has a very different duty. One of these duties is the transparent film allows her to see underwater without getting any unwanted matter into its eyes.However this limits her vision when being used. At night her pupils one allows her to see in the dark like extreme night vision goggles, aswell as 3. If a light were to be shines at her you would only see the extreme glowing of the pupils reflection coming back at you.

## **Trivia**

* -Likes: Nature, Reptiles, Basking in the sun, Naps
* -Dislikes: Being embarrassed, Being judged, People making fun of reptiles.
* -Notable Features: Has reptile skin in a dark green nearly black, it gleams reflective in the sun resembling rainbow shimmer .
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