Six Paths Puppet Technique

## Users

* Hayashiki Ōtsutsuki
* Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki

The **Six Paths Puppet Technique** is a Rinnegan cloning technique that produces a flesh and blood replica of the user. Clones created with this technique are known as "puppets" (傀儡, *kugutsu*).

## Overview

An evolution of the Shadow Clone Technique that Ryun Uchiha created after observing the Six Paths of Pain in his original reality, this technique uses the principles of the Creation of All Things to produce a single flesh-and-blood clone of the user. The clone represents a replica of the user at the moment of its creation and does not age from that moment forward. The user can then conceal their soul within the puppet, effectively granting them biological immortality and eternal youth.

As the user's soul is concealed within the puppet, the copy possesses their chakra. Likewise, since the puppet is a genetic replica of the original, it possesses any kekkei genkai the user has unlocked. The user can then use genjutsu to imprint a personality upon the puppet, allowing it to either perfectly mimic its creator or act entirely different. Once set, however, it is difficult to change the clone's "programming."

At any time, the user's soul can surface to possess the puppet, allowing them to pilot its body as if it were their own. Unlike other clones, puppets created with this technique won't disappear when damaged or out of chakra. Instead, these puppet must be killed like a normal human being.

## Improvement

After his transformation into an Ōtsutsuki, Ryun learned that he could leave a Kāma on his various puppets. This would allow him to reincarnate if he died. It also allows his puppets to use his newfound Ōtsutsuki power in battle if necessary. Ryun can also remotely take control of the puppet whenever he needs to speak through them. Otherwise, he allows them to run based upon their genjutsu programming.

It was this application of his technique that allowed him to recede from publicly ruling the Land of Storms and focus his meditation on sensing potential threats to his reality. Instead, he leaves a puppet in charge of his nation, which functions as a clone of himself as he was before he became an Ōtsutsuki, and only takes control of the puppet through Kāma when necessary. Thus far, he has not had to use the Kāma to reincarnate in his clone in over a millennia.

After meeting and marrying Hayashiki Ōtsutsuki, Tenshiki learned that he could mix and mingle his and his partner's genetic material, as well as their chakra, when creating a puppet. The result was similar to sexual reproduction: a child bearing genetic similarities to both parents and a unique chakra that was a combination of theirs. This allowed the two to have biological children, which allowed the spawning of their reality's Hyūga clan over time. Puppets created in this way possessed the ability to age unlike other puppets generated through this technique.

## Trivia

* This technique is both a nerfed version of the Six Paths Shadow Clone Technique Ryun used in his original universe, as well as a technique based upon the Raiden Shogun's puppetry technique from *Genshin Impact*.

## See also

* Divine Puppet Technique
* Puppet Technique
* Six Paths of Pain