Chikamatsu Clan

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Clan Details:

Clan Name: Chikamatsu [chi-kah-matt-soo]
Clan Location: Any
Clan Traits: Unique hand and eye tattoos (just one of each).
Kekkei Genkai: Amatsukinu [Divine Silk]. Clan members are born with an innate ability to form chakra strings that are superior to all other forms. These strings are naturally more resilient at any thickness or length and when used without a puppet, strike with much greater force. They have other inherent strengths too, but these require knowledge and understanding from the user before they can be exploited. Through special training (limited to clansmen who have followed the shinobi path), clan members are able to learn to utilize the Amatsukinu strings' responsivity. In that, each individual 'fibre' of chakra in the string responds individually to the user's commands. Though this might sound complicated, it means that the strings, when wielded by a Chikamatsu shinobi, are capable of superior movement (in both speed and direction). Furthermore, this allows them to 'chain' puppets, allowing the user to control a number of puppets which in turn, each control a number of additional puppets themselves. Lastly, and again with training, a clan member can learn to extend the strings far beyond what a normal Puppeteer could – up to two miles in any direction, depending on the user's mastery of the art. Despite the training and jutsu that are necessary, it is important to note that these would not be able to be performed unless possessing the Chikamatsu bloodline.

Other than this unusual Bloodline ability, the Chikamatsu clan have been known for extraordinary and unique puppet designs, mechanisms and techniques. All of which are limited to clan members only, such knowledge treated as any other clan would their secret techniques.

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Secret Clan Jutsu:

Name: Amatsukuni [Divine Silk]
Rank: N/A
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: The bloodline ability of the Chikamatsu clan. An innate ability to form chakra strings that are superior to all other forms. These strings are naturally more resilient at any thickness or length and when used without a puppet, strike with much greater force. Each individual 'fibre' of chakra in the string responds individually to the user's commands. Though this might sound complicated, it means that the strings are capable of superior movement too (in both speed and direction).

Name: Sorazouashi Sōen [False Performance]
Rank: C
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: A secret technique belonging to the Chikamatsu clan, the Sorazouashi Sōen involves 'chaining' control of puppets. Attaching strings to a puppet, the user can then cast these strings from the puppet and attach them onto a subsequent one. Though this has little to no practical use when the puppeteer has already been revealed, if they are as yet undetected and can use supplementary methods to disguise the primary puppet, they can fool opponents into believing the first puppet to actually be the puppeteer. This can be taken further with other supplementary jutsu, such as Kawarimi no Jutsu. Though this is a C-rank skill, this is only in its complexity to master. It has no additional chakra cost to controlling the number of puppets being used. Note that this does not increase the maximum number of puppets an individual can control at once.

Name: Bokome no Jutsu [Hollow Eye Technique]
Rank: C
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: Unique to members of the Chikamatsu clan, this technique allows the Puppeteer to temporarily sacrifice the sight in one or both eyes to gain the respective sight from the viewpoint of a controlled puppet. The user forms a single seal and either covers their eye or closes their eyelid. At which point, the respective sight will be transferred to a target puppet (must have strings attached) and the vision in that eye will relay back to the user as rapidly as it would for their own eye. If the strings become detached, the technique will cease. Though C-rank in skill, this is only in its complexity to master. It has an E-ranked cost of chakra.

Name: Enkaku Sōen [Remote Performance]
Rank: C-A
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: A secret technique belonging to the Chikamatsu clan, the Enkaku Sōen is a method of greatly increasing the range at which puppet strings can be used, by lengthening the strings themselves. Depending on the clan member's ability, this technique can increase the distance of a puppet from its wielder by up to two miles. At C-rank, the strings can maintain control up to eight hundred metres away. At B-rank, up to a mile away. At A-rank, two miles. Quality of control is not hampered by this when performed by those with the Amatsukinu bloodline, as the superior strings allow perfect motion around obstacles between the user and their puppet. This is commonly used alongside the Bokome no Jutsu, for obvious reasons. Enkaku Sōen's rank refers only to its complexity to master, and there is no additional chakra cost to the puppets already being controlled. This, again, is thanks to the remarkable abilities of the Amatsukinu strings.

Name: Utsuro Shunshin no Jutsu [Empty Body Flicker Technique]
Rank: E
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: Unique to members of the Chikamatsu clan, this technique allows the puppets to perform a restricted version of the body flicker technique, at the will of the puppeteer. While a regular Shunshin no Jutsu allows the shinobi to travel to any location they could normally access, the Utsuro deviation has additional limitations. The puppets can perform a Shunshin at the same level as their owner can, but they must only move along the chakra strings that they are either directly attached to, or others that their controller is directly attached to (provided the puppet in question is also attached to the puppeteer).

Name: Amatsukinu Kaihō [Divine Silk World Order]
Rank: B
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: A secret technique belonging to the Chikamatsu clan, the Amatsukinu Kaihō is a powerful jutsu that fires out hardened, sharpened chakra strings in every direction, emanating from a single source – either a puppet under stringed control, any point on a chakra string attached to the user, or the puppeteer themselves. When activated, a myriad of needle-thin strings burst from the source and shoot outwards, burying themselves in anything caught within the attack radius. Once the first wave is over, the puppeteer can unleash a second barrage. This is even more difficult to avoid than the first, as each string bursts from a different point on the 'web' that was created with the first explosion. Both barrages consist of about a hundred strings. These strings are as hard as steel and their edges and points razor sharp.

Name: Shokkou no Jutsu [Weaver Technique]
Rank: C
Type: Puppetry
Element: N/A
Description: This technique is not actually unique to the Chikamatsu clan, but is commonly used by their shinobi nonetheless. Without a puppet, the user can create chakra strings and sharpen their edges and points, so that they become ten extremely powerful whips. Capable of felling trees and cutting through rock, these are particularly dangerous and the reason no puppeteer is treated as beaten even when their puppets have been destroyed. Maintaining them costs the same amount of chakra it would to use them in conjunction with a puppet. Aside from simply lashing out with these weapons, users can interlace them to form a chakra shield, capable of blocking Ninjutsu and Taijutsu attacks of an equal or lower level. Alternatively, by removing the sharpness of the strings, they can be used to latch onto nearby objects.

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Clan Mechanisms & Crafts:
[NB: These are not clan exclusive, but the design is originally of this clan. They are both unique and few in number.]

Name: Seiha no Tokei Waza [Clockwork Mastery].
Quantity: -
Rank: -
Appearance:
Special Abilities/Characteristics: While most puppets rely on clockwork-esque systems to power moving parts, the intricacies of the Chikamatsu mechanisms allow even finer movements – a 'heightened function', so to speak. This allows puppeteers to control their vessels so finely that their physical abilities seem totally human.
Origin: Pioneers of the puppetry art, a small handful of Chikamatsu clansmen have mastered many forms of mechanical systems through in-depth study. Of these, clockwork mechanisms are most commonly seen in puppets. However, in their diligence, these craftsmen have refined this complex art and taken it a step further.

Name: Jishaku Hagane [Magnetic Steel]
Quantity: -
Rank: -
Appearance:
Special Abilities/Characteristics: An ingenious mechanism, designed by the Chikamatsu masters and based upon the basic understanding of electromagnetism. Their method allowed powerful electromagnets to be made from items no bigger than a shuriken or kunai. If one such item was thrown into a cluster of its non-magnetised counterparts, all of them would divert course until stuck to the magnetic one. The field is powerful and no metal capable of being magnetized can escape it (large weights excepting). This magnetic field stretches for fifteen metres in radius of the object, though only items within about half this distance will be stuck to the electromagnet, the others will simply change course slightly as a result of the pull.
Origin: It was not until word of magnetic-based Ninjutsu reached the Chikamatsu clan that this idea dawned upon them. When it did however, every master in the clan became focused on the project. Eventually, a young prodigy managed to utilize Raiton chakra to charge a coil around a kunai, then employ a Fuuinjutsu specialist to seal the effect within the item, finishing it with asmall removable seal, so that when fired from a puppet the effect would instantly activate. Tricky to create, these have to be ordered in small batches of up to ten at once, as very few shinobi are capable of the fine sealing methods needed to create the They are also quite expensive.

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History:

The Chikamatsu were amongst the oldest and most revered clans of Sunagakure no Sato. They took their name from the very creator of the puppetry art – Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Those born into the clan can trace their ancestry back to him, although the lineage has, over time, become faint. Monzaemon originally used the puppets he designed for entertainment purposes, performing with them at theatres around the world. After some time, he worked together with a number of shinobi to develop the puppetry technique, allowing his creations to be used in combat. He became the very first puppeteer shinobi. It is true that the current members of the Chikamatsu clan possess a bloodline ability that their ancestor did not. Or more accurately, that he did not exhibit. Certainly amongst clansmen, and substantiated by others too, it is generally accepted that Monzaemon possessed this ability but never came to realise it. It is only centuries and generations of experience that have brought about the abilities the Chikamatsu are now known for.

It was many years before those descended from Monzaemon grew to the size of a clan. Their forefather had long since passed, though the gravity his name carried lingered. About four centuries later, a great tragedy befell the Chikamatsu clan, throwing their name into disgrace. Two young and headstrong shinobi – twins, in fact – became regarded as the promising future of the clan. However, their brilliance never satiated their desire. A hunger for more techniques, stronger techniques led them down a path their fellow clansmen could not follow. After a number of confrontations, one of the young ninja finally took heed of her peers' advice. Her brother did not. She pleaded with him, trying to help him understand where his quest would take him and what it would do to him. Plagued by his sister's words, the brother turned on her and took her life. His regret was short-lived, as a terrible notion took hold as her stared at the woman's lifeless body. For a month, he stayed away from the village. The clansmen had appealed to the Kazekage, and a search party was soon to be sent out. But mere hours before they were to depart, the brother returned. And he had brought his sister alongside. His visit was brief, but his demonstration of power rocked the Chikamatsu clan to the core. For the brother had returned to avenge his twin, blaming the elders for turning her against him. Not one of the elders survived the attack. The other clansmen were unharmed. Many claim this to have been the birth of the human puppet technique, a macabre forbidden technique that very few these days have even heard of.

The Chikamatsu clan was thrown into disrepair and chaos. Rumour swept the village and soon, it was common knowledge that the clan had brought evil to Sunagakure. The wisest members of the clan suggested relocation, an idea that most other clansmen took to without hesitation. Two weeks later and the entire clan was ready to leave. Two months later, and they had just begun a new life far from Sunagakure. However, their exact whereabouts is completely unknown. All contact that the modern day shinobi world has with the Chikamatsu is with those who have deserted the village. That, or the few descendants of the Chikamatsu who remained in Sunagakure when their fellow clansmen left.

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Age : 31 Posts : 92

Alright, So this is the Chikamatsu Clan previously created by ~Fox~
I got her permision to use it and am now looking for someone to look it over and give me a starting point for what should be changed, limited, scratched or expanded

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This is still a wip and no one will look at it till you remove that from the title. Also do not bump your topics.

Age : 31 Posts : 92

sorry, didnt knowthat was a nono. alrighty, so i took of the wip

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Sooo. I'mma deny that whole KKG because it is silly and not fair. You have strings far superior to other puppeteers for no reason. Plus it gives you these bonuses that don't seem to be needed or make no sense. Sooo.

Kekkei Genkai Denied.

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First the strings of the puppeteers are only stronger because of the long line of constant puppet users throughout the clans history has developed them to be stronger and better then other users, in the history it says that Monzaemon may have possessed this but there was none to compare to so it was not known, it could have been dormant within his predeccesors for generations. It is no different then the clans like nara, yamanaka, aburame, or even the senju clan. All have an inherent talent and bonus that is unneeded if veiwed from those who are not using it. All of their skills/jutsus/elements can potentially be accessed by anyone anywhere, but those in their respective clans find it easier and find better results when using them.

Second I wasn't asking for approval for it yet, If you had read my first comment you would have seen that I was asking what should be "changed, limited, scratched or expanded" I did not expect it to be passed though like this, I see that it is quite unbalanced but I intend to work on that if someone were to give me a list of what should be "changed, limited, scratched or expanded"

Thank you for your time reading this over though, but I'd like a better review on what should be changed Thanks.