Harly Mononoke-Ryou [[Accepted]]

Name: Harly Mononoke-Ryou

First name: Harly

Age: 20 (will age depending on rp)

Village:Darkness

Rank: Genin, Battle Referee

Weapon: YUMI

Weapon History: A yumi is a Steel longbow used in the practice of kyūdō. Over five hundred years ago, they were the weapon of choice for the founders of the Steel village. The were adapted from Daikyu bows as the villages flourshed, becoming their own style.

Style: The yumi is exceptionally tall (standing over two meters), surpassing the height of the archer. They are traditionally made by laminating bamboo, wood and leather, using techniques which have not changed for centuries. It's tips are sharp, and can be used as weapons on their own.

Effects: Arrow = - 10 damage, Tips = -3 damage; Can be broken if the enemy has taken 50 or more status damage and hits with a jutsu

Includes 20 arrows.

Physical Appearance: Harly has long, wavy brown hair that falls off her shoulders. Her eyes are a royal blue that darken as her mood changes and her headband is around her upper left arm. She generally wears a plain pair of black shonobi pants with a matching three quarter length sleeved top. The top had a circular neck line. Her shinobi sandals are also black, and her holster, full og summon scrolls, and pocket knives, his strapped to her left leg.

On Missions, she wears her headband around her forehead, and a green shinobi vest. When on special assignments, or at special events, she'll wear a red kimono with a black obi. During winter, she has a brown cloak, fingerless gloves, a knee high brown boots she wears. In The summer, her black outfit is replaced with a completely white short set, complete with matching scrungie and sandals. Her bed attire is a pair of blue babydoll pjs that match her eyes.

Personality: Harly has a spilt personality. Her lighter side is a very timid, kind and sweetly innocent girl. She's very formal, and stutters when she talks. She values her friends, and is easy to trust, she also blushes a lot. Her darker side is a complete 180. Quick tempered, sarcastic, blunt and just plain rude, her dark side is a complete bitch. She doesn't trust anyone hardly, and will kill first, ask questions later. She doesn't care for many people in this state of mind, just the follow: Tenji, Legacy, Ryo, Bourny, and Ashiko.

Weapons: Harly uses blades, mostly daggers and halberds, and an assortment of bows in conjunction with the blades.

Summons: She summons her halberds. She currently has two, Hikari, a six foot iron sword, that once belonged to her sister, and a new one she has yet to name. She remade it on vacation, it's seven feet long, and made of astroid and adament. It was use my an assissin before had and holds many souls inside it's blade. Being from the Mononoke clan, Harly can hear these souls from time to time.

Story: Harly lived the first ten years of her life in the Star Village with her mother, and elder half sister. She was told her father died before she was born. As a member of Star's elite Mononoke clan, she started weight training at the age of four, and was taught how to handle a bow and arrow. She started the accademy at six, and graduated as a genin on her tenth birthday.

A month later, the Mononke Clan was attacked by a team of Cloud Jounin. She was kidnapped by the team's captain, and forced to watch her mother and sister be murdered.

Harly was then taken to the Cloud village, where she learned the Cloud Captain was actually her father. For her first two weeks in Cloud, she was experimented on and abused by her father and his shinobi team., leading to the birth of her darker side. During this time, Her father tested a variation of the Hyuga curse sceal technique on her. This sceal allows her father to draw out her darker side, and make her fight until she eventually is stopped or dies from exhaustion.

After that, she given a Cloud headband and sent into an intensive training program to train her to be an ultimate fighting tool. She remains here for five years , larning multiple blade techniques, before she finally meets another shinobi, three years her seinor.

The two escape from Cloud while on a mission, and make their way west until they're captured by Steel ninja. They strike a deal to help the current Yoshikage takes down Cloud and in return are allowed to become Steel ninja. There, Harly works her way up through the ranks for the next four years, becoming an interrogation specialist. She takes on dangerous missions all over the five nations, in an attempt to kill all the members of the Cloud Jounin team that killed her mother and sister.

So far, she's taken out five of the ten and won't rest until the rest of their heads roll. She makes a slash on her arm with a small dagger for every one she kills. Her father is one of the men she has yet to kill.

Harly left Steel to have her daughter, returning for a short time after the baby was born. She later transferred to Darkness, where she fell in love with and married a missing-nin named Ken'ichi Ryou. The newlyweds are now expecting a set of twins.

Haha, don't sweat about your status so much, you'll advance soon as we accumulat in members and posts and crap.

:P Yeah yeah... I really don't care as long as my character stays a jounin.