Pain Kamiya

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TW: Glossed over but mentions of illness, death, murder, and abuse of children.

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CW: **SPOILERS FOR NARUTO**

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Canon

### Fashion

Depending on where and what he is doing his fashion sense can vary wildly. While at Vitium he is fond of cowl-necked clothing that is loose and flowing. He often pushes up the sleeves while at work showing some of the dermal piercings on his arms. Though he does also, when needed to for SRI work also has a suit or two for those more formal occasions. A common emblem that makes an appearance is a red cloud with a white outline on some of his clothing.

### Other

Short bright orange hair often styled in spikes away from the face. Three piercings through the upper nose, two piercings akin to a snakebite piercings, industrial piercings in both ears, several dermal piercings at the collarbone, wrist, and perhaps elsewhere though they remain unseen. All piercings are thick and black and hard to tell what exactly the material is. Often has painted nails of varying colours, though usually either black or dark red, though he does occasionally branch out into different colours.

## Personality

### Traits

Rational, Independent, Decisive, Determined, Patient, Open to new ideas (if rational and realistic), Courteous, Respectful, Has a Deep and Cold Fury, Though few and far between he does care deeply for his own companions.

### Likes

Rain storms, thunderstorms, piercings, reading, quiet time, gathering information to be as informed as possible. Nothing else he cares to admit to.

### Dislikes

Chaos, fighting between friends, most supernaturals. Wastefulness. Unwarranted violence.

### Strengths

Utterly confident in his own abilities, quick thinking, not one to get riled, determined to achieve a goal no matter what the cost may be,

### Weaknesses

Dismissive of Emotions, occasionally combative, overly critical of those around him, can be arrogant at times. Will not back down from an ideal unless given a very good reason to do so. Self-sacrificial.

### MBTI

INTJ

> *"We act according to our own sense of justice." -- Pain*
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## Canon Status

### Trivia

* From Naruto/Naruto Shippuden series.
* Pain remembers very little of his previous life and what he does remember comes back in his nightmares most of the time. He dreams of war, of fear, of a loss so deep that it wakes him from sleep with an unknowable pain. Despite the nightmares, the visceral dreams leave an imprint on him in the waking world though what he would do with the pain is something that he has not quite figured out quite yet.
* These abilities are currently dormant:
	+ The abilities of the other Paths of Pain.
	+ The Asura Path: The ability to augment their own body with mechanical parts and increase physical prowess.
	+ The Animal Path: The ability to summon a wide variety of animals to aid them both in battle and outside of battle.
	+ The Naraka Path: The ability to restore the health and body of someone who otherwise would have been injured beyond repair. This path also unlocks the ability to interrogate a person and weigh their answers as true or untrue through the King of Hell.
* It is hoped that he'll come across a purplish-grey Akatsuki ring that has the kanji for "zero" (零, rei).

### How is Pain different than canon?

In this world Pain has not spent the early years of his life caught up in a war between two nations that were not his own. He was, however, the victim of a random attack by a supernatural that killed his parents and left him an orphan and groundless. If it hadn't been for the SRI it was very possible that he would have died starving and alone. Given what happened it was not that hard to convince him that the best course of action would be to protect the Secret at all costs.

He views this as a necessary evil and while he takes no joy in the act of killing to protect the Secret it is something that he must do to protect others from the pain that he went through as a young child. Working in Root and being meant to be a blank slate that can be put anywhere means that he keeps most of his thoughts to himself. As such he often keeps people at a distance, as he did in the canon, but without even a close friend to help keep him grounded.

As of right now he is not the leader of anything, much less a group of people who may or may not be like minded, instead just another piece within the machine of the SRI. His current objective is monitoring the Vitium Studio given the activities that the business has taken part in.

### Player Desired Canons

Konan: Perhaps a friend from before entering into the fold of the Root Organization. Either way it might be interesting to see.

## Subplot Status: Root

* Pain does in fact have a birthname. It is Nagato Uzumaki.
* After the unwarranted attack on their childhood home by a supernatural he was picked up by the SRI. After a period of extended experimentation Pain was shuffled to Root.
* The Rinnegan was of special interest to the SRI though they failed to unlock all of its abilities during his time in the labs. He is also a sensor type and capable of keeping track of multiple targets at a time. Not to mention his physical abilities.
* Root tattoo on his left bicep.
* Pain has complicated feelings about his potential escape from Root.
* Current mission: watching over Vitium.

## Supernatural Status

* Pain is an Enhanced Human capable of jutsu.
* Born as an Enhanced Human in this life rather than turned.
* Pain lives in Downtown Cedargrove as it is close to Vitium the place that he has been sent to monitor. It is a place, like any other, and he does not have an opinion on it one way or another.
* He is not known to be connected to any Legends.

### Abilities

(Note: While I am trying to keep this as close to canon as possible I am twisting things to make it easier for myself and everyone else.)

**The Rinnegan**: Grants the user access to incredibly powerful chakra and ocular prowess. The Rinnegan can see the flow of chakra through the body as well as otherwise invisible barriers but cannot see through obstructions. This allows the user to easily learn and master jutsu as well as the basic nature transformations.

**The Outer Path**: This ability allows him to form black receivers from his own body, mostly the hands, these receivers can be implanted into a body to allow the original user to take control of another body. These receivers have a consistency of metal that can both cut through metal as well as pierce through a body. While the receivers can be broken with enough force, the user can break them without exerting much effort. These receivers can be used to scramble another persons body and cause them to lose control, however this can be combated if the one stabbed is powerful enough. Pain is capable of changing the frequency of this to prevent others from locating the main body.

**Sensory Abilities:** Able to sense supernaturals from a relatively large distance, even through barriers erected to prevent being sensed by others. One thing that helps this ability and extend the sensory net even further is rain, though he cannot know specifically where someone is just that they exist.

**Physical Prowess:** While not specifically a master at hand to hand combat Pain is capable of keeping up and holding his own against skilled enemies. Using the black receivers as weapons Pain can be quite formidable.

**The Deva Path:** The ability to attract and repulse both things and people. The bigger the usage of the ability the longer it will take before it can be used again. Pain can use this ability to hover over the ground or even gather a number of things into a ball before using that as a weapon.

**The Petra Path:** The ability to absorb anothers powers and more or less negate the effects. However this ability does have its limitations. Too strong of an ability can cause adverse effects on the body such as the absorption working but the element still having an effect on the body. This also has no effect on physical abilities.

### Weakness

Not all of his abilities are unlocked at this time which prevents him from being as powerful as he could be.

Cannot be too (physically) far away from the controlled body or the connection will be lost.

Of poor health in his original body.

Can be found by another sensory type if they get their hands on the black receivers.

### Weapons

He mostly just uses the black receivers as weaponry. Can use them as swords, knives, or even projectiles.

## Background

### History

Originally a normal child, with a normal life, if with rather unusual eyes. The first thing that he can remember is his childhood home being attacked by a ravenous supernatural. His parents sacrificed themselves to ensure his safety and despite the tears he had fled out of the house with the sounds of his parents screams behind him. Though truth be told Pain cannot say for certain if this is a true memory or a side effect of the nightmares that he has suffered for his entire life. Either way the memory has been fundimental in who he has become through his life. After the attack he was eventually picked up by a good samaritan and taken to the hospital where his eyes caught the attention of an SRI agent and eventually when he was released it was into the care of the SRI.

The experiments spanned years and tested all the abilities that he had even as a child. Given the power of the Rinnegan he proved to be quite adept at picking up and mastering things that he had been taught. And being a child in that type of environment he did eventually make a friend or two though considering the things done in those sterile halls ensured that those friendships often did not last long. What, exactly, the end goal for the experimentation was is something that he does not know. Just that it ended abruptly when an experiment put him in contact with the rotten Black Water. It nearly killed him. Robbed of most of his physical strength Pain found himself discarded like a broken toy.

Shortly thereafter the dearest friend he had ever managed to make died because of a different experiment. Something akin to desperation took over. How and why he knew to do what he did is another thing that Pain cannot verbalize. The heady mixture of sorrow and desperation drove him to more or less take over his friends body. A move that ultimately saved him and drew the attention of Root. It was strange to revive a friend, to look into that face but see his own eyes and see through those eyes. The ease of control came with time but soon enough the offer to protect others from what he suffered was a heady one. The pain, sorrow, and all of that could be avoided if they could only hunt down and prevent those miscreants from risking the Secrets sanctity at all.

He would never say the training was easy, it wasn't but as with most things he took it in stride even though it was somewhat unusual given that he was operating in a stolen body. If one that was very similar in height to his own body. And in its own way it made things easier with the distance between his true body and the one that he was using.

Pain did not take any joy from what Root required him to do nor did he much care one way or another. Perhaps he should have, the child inside of him still mourned all that had been lost. But that just strengthened his resolve to try and ensure that no other children had to go through something even akin to what he had.

His latest assignment was to monitor the goings on of a Tattoo shop playing loose with the rules of the Secret. Something that required he get close and stay close for the time being. Not an artist, much less a tattoo artist, Pain opted for the one skill he did have that would at the very least get him in the door. A few months studying piercings and the art of doing them and Pain figured it was as good of a time as any to submit an application.

His time at Vitium was the first touch of normalcy he had had in such a long time. At first it had bothered him. Just sliding into a life he had never had with a crew of people that were just an accident waiting to happen. But as his assignment got longer and longer Pain found himself with a grudging almost respect for the way that Higan ran things. It was careful, kept out of sight, and overall not nearly as much of a problem as it had originally seemed it might be. Even so Pain kept a watchful eye out, waiting for either a slip up or the next assignment to come.

### Motivations and Goals

Protect the Secret. Ensure that no one has to lose their family the way that he did. Fly under the radar so no one pegs him for what he is.

## Living Situation

### Home

A rather spartan and plain one bedroom apartment on a high floor. It is devoid of any personal or sentimental items though the place is obviously cared for and meticulously cleaned. The door to the bedroom is always closed but if one were able to get a peek inside the room is kept dark and with a little more of a lived in feeling though still kept fairly clean. Pain is very protective of his apartment all the same. And as such will not let anyone else into it unless he has absolutely no choice.

### Never Leaves Home Without

Wallet, keys, cellphone, his own pen that he does not lend anyone.

### Travel

By foot if close or by motorcycle if further away. The motorcycle is a black Suzuki Katana kept as meticulously clean as everything else in his life. Further than that? Well there would be special considerations.

### Roommates

He lives alone, or at least that is what he claims.

## Plotting

### Desired Ships/Plots

Friendships, enemies, and everything and anything. I want to see the ideals that Pain lives his life by challenged and see what would happen.

### Where to Encounter Pain

As Pain works at Vitium he is most likely to be encountered there. He is somewhat of a homebody though and as such tends to linger in the downtown area of Cedargrove.