Gaia Name: astrenose
RPC Name: Quen Izachi
Rank: Genin
Village: Takigakure
Would you like to Donate your Style: Yes, but only within Kusagakure
Style Name:
Stricken
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History: This style has been passed down through generations of Samurai bearing the name Izachi.
Style Requirements: Must weild a Wooden blade made by the Izachi Samurai
Movement Description: This style is based on using what your opponent doesn't see or pay attention to to make an opening. The sudden switch in method disturbs the rhythm of battle making it more likely that your opponent will be thrown off guard and leave an opening.
Stage 1
Stage Description: This stage is aquired at Accademy level soon after you are presented with a Wooden blade.
Stage Powers: At this point, they can succesfully weild the blade at either position and can use their chakra to make the surface solid and give the blade an edge.
Stage Training: The shinobi must first learn to weild the blade and adhere to the style. They must copy the master's movements and practice them often. (5 to begin using, 10 to completely master) Second, they practice throwing a steel katana at a target that gets further every time. When they can hit its bullseye from a distance, this stage is complete. (5 posts to use, 10 posts to master) Next, the shinobi must practice running chakra through scrap pieces of wood and strike them to see if it leaves a mark in the wood. If it does not, the third stage of training is complete. (4 posts) Next, they must run their chakra through their wooden blade and practice giving the chakra an edge by striking a dummy. When they can cut clean through it, the final stage is complete. (4 posts)
Stage Jutsu:
Switch:The shinobi can quickly switch the blade from a foward facing position to a reverse position to transition styles from sweeping to lunging and slicing.
Toss: Quen's family is notorious for the ability to throw a katana long distances with incredible accuracy.
Wooden Steel: By running chakra through their wooden blade, the shinobi can both give it a solid surface that is almost like steel and protects the wood from dammage, and give it a sharp edge in battle.
Stage 2
Stage Description: Aquired at Genin Level. (each level after stage 1 is self trained with instructions written by the previous master.) The blade grows a wooden shuriken attatched to the sword by a chain of wood and vines. The shuriken and blade are empowered with chakra. The chain is not.
Stage Training:The shinobi must run chakra through the blade and through the handle. The handle contains several seals that are unlocked at certain chakra levels. At genin level, the seal activated directs the chakra down the handle and grows a shuriken. The blade does most of the work. (3 posts) Next, they must learn to extend the extent of their chakra around both the blade and the shuriken. This will both increase the cutting power and give the blades greater range. (3 posts) Finally, they must learn to use both the shuriken and the katana in unison. This comes back to the switching between methods. It's often difficult to defend against. (5 to use, 10 to master)
Stage Powers:Both the blade and the shuriken are surrounded by an extended chakra blade. The chain, however, is unprotected. If severed, the shuriken will become nothing but wood. It can be easily regrown. The shinobi is also trained to use both weapons in both seperate techniques and as a single weapon.
Stage Jutsu:
Daburuburēdo: The shinobi uses a style that uses both the katana and the shuriken in unison by swinging the chain, throwing the shuriken, hooking the chain with their foot or katana or neck or waist or leg or arm, and using the katana as they would in stage 1. They combine the two styles to create one that is unique and difficult to defend against.
Edge: The ability to extend the cutting edge of a blade using chakra. This slightly increases range and greatly increases power.
Sprout: This is the ability to sprout several shurikens with or without chains from the sword.
Stage 3
Stage Description: Aquired at Chunin Level. This increases the range, power, multitude, and stealth of the weapon. The weakness is severe lack of mobility.
Stage Powers: The blade, when embeded in the soil, sprouts thick roots that are running with chakra. They can be directed through the soil anywhere the weilder wishes. They can be brought up as spikes or used to entrap someone. The sword can break from the roots when the weilder wishes it to, but then the roots will loose their chakra source and simply become solid wood.
Stage Training: The shinobi runs chakra through the handle at Chunin level. This activates the seal which reacts to the chakra and the soil combined. They start out with eyes closed to feel out where the unseen roots are headed. (3 posts) They then begin short and midrange target practice using dummies. (4 posts) Next, they begin using it in a long range standpoint. (5 posts) Next, they target certain points in the roots and infuse chakra to make mines. They then test the mine by maintaining it for 5 minutes and then testing it with a kunai. (3 posts for 1 bomb, 5 posts for 10 bombs, 10 posts for 30 bombs.) They then begin to work on puppets. They form basic shapes using the roots and control them with chakra. The puppets are protected by chakra, but the vines connecting them to the weilder are not. (10 posts) Finally, they begin to bring roots to the surface and have them grow leaves that convert sunlight into chakra. (4 posts)
Stage Jutsu
Cacoon: The vines create a cacoon either to trap an opponent or protect the weilder.
Cage: Larger than the cacoon, this is souly used for entrapment.
Ropes: Thick roots that can be used to bind, connect, or hold things.
Spikes: The roots come up from the ground with sharp points.
Circle: The roots use spikes to defend the weilder.
Mines: Targeted areas in the roots are infused with chakra and made sensitive to pressure. If pressure from the soil presses on that point, it will explode violently.
Puppet: The roots form creatures or warriors connected by vines through the ground to the weilder. The weilder can control them.
Photosynthesis: The roots come up from the soil and sprout leaves. The leaves convert solar energy into chakra and is fed back to the user.
Stage 4
Stage Description: This stage is aquired at Jonin level. It unleashes a much greater power that enhances nearly all walks of battle. It's not invincible, but it doesn't have a hindering weakness either.
Stage Powers: This stage gives the user armor, increases the size of the blade, and greatly increases the manipulation capabilities of the weilder in regards to the sword and what grows from it.
Stage Training: It is for this reason that the wooden blade which is stolen cannot unlock its full potential. By now, the sword has become accustomed to the user's chakra. It is in every sense a part of the weilder. The user must, while weilding the sword, throw themselves from the top of a cliff without putting any chakra into the sword. The sword, being connected, will sense the oncoming danger, and, if the weilder has a jonin chakra level, the penultimate seal within the handle of the blade will draw from the user's chakra of its own acord and activate. The armor will encase the user, the sword will obtain a new and larger form, and the sword will use the wood manipulation it now posseses to stop or cushion the fall. If the user tries this before they are ready, the fall will surely kill them. (1 post)
Stage Jutsu:
Wooden Warrior: The sword is encased in wood grown from the handle guard, giving it a larger form. Wood will also grow from the handle and encase the user in armor similar to that of a samurai. Both are protected and enhanced by chakra.
Manipulation: The weilder can grow forms from the armor and the sword. Once again, if detatched, these lose their chakra protection. The exception is with projectiles that maintain the chakra while airborne. They lose it shortly after impact. They can also manipulate the sword and armor themselves. (example: greatly extend the gauntlet portion of armor and expand its size to grab an opponent or a boulder, ect.) The only limit to the wood manipulation is that they cannot manipulate wood not grown from the sword and they cannot ungrow something. If they extend their blade and then see that they need a short range weapon, they may break off the extension using chakra. This doesn't require physical movement, just chakra manipulation.
Stage 5
Stage description: Aquired at the Kage, Sanin, or S ranked level. (pretty sure they're all the same.) This is the sword's most powerful form. It has now transitioned completely from physical movements to chakra technique.
Stage powers: The weilder can now harness the complete power of their own chakra as apposed to portions of it.
Stage training: The user must meditate for a long period of time, flowing their chakra through seeds. This increases their knowlege on the transfering of chakra from one vessel to another. When 100 seeds have sprouted, they have the capability to unlock the final seal within the blade (not the handle, the blade). (35 posts)
Stage Jutsu
Relenquish: When the final seal is activated, the blade shatters. Only the handle remains. The handle acts as a vessel to direct all of the user's chakra. It allows the user to branch their chakra as a whole. The chakra has no color or visible form. It can be used to crush, hit, slice, ect. It is pure energy and has nearly limitless capabilities. At kage level, the chakra branches out far. If it had a physical form, it could be described as a large tree with many moving branches. The suprise factor is taken away if the opponent can sense chakra by kekai genkai or other means.