Tachibana, Shinji

-- CHARACTERISTICS

• His parents thought that his name, true ruler, would be fitting of him as the son of a candidate for the Kage. Not just any Kage either, the Hoshikage. There was no doubt that his father would obtain the rank and honor and eventually pass it down to his son who would be just as skilled as he was. After all prestige, honor, and triumph would always run in their family.

• It was a name not so popular or one all that impressive, which is why his parents held onto it so dearly and passed it to him. It meant wild orange, and if anything, it at least matches his hair color as well as his father’s own mop. However other than that, nothing special comes from their family name. Perhaps it was more endearing that way to simply be normal, yet powerful all the same.

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• Shinji comes off as a very laid back individual in most social situations. He can crack a joke, flirt with the best of them, and seemingly do it without really a care in the world. However he also takes himself very seriously and is completely and utterly devoted to building Sunagakure up to be something great since he couldn't do what his father had wished of him back in Hoshigakure. Because of that you can say he has some nationalistic pride for Suna as well as Hoshi if for whatever reason the country is brought up. However he tends to keep that part of his history well hidden unless he fully trusts someone, which to this date is just his mother.
  
  He is called a ladies man around the village and at the bar he frequents but no by his own actions. They chase after him constantly and make passes which her declines all too much like a gentlemen, which in the long run doesn't specifically help his situation. Talk is had of his disinterest in the village women but nobody dare say more. After all, as polite as he is he can still throw a mean punch. Overall though, he comes across as your typical young man save for a few quirks and oddities.
  
  QUIRKS & TENDENCIES
  
  
  • Plays with his sunglasses
    
  • Comes across as a foreigner despite his time in Sunagakure since a young age
    
  • Never keeps his dress shirt buttoned
    
  • Seems to get along with men better
  
  
  LIKES & DISLIKES
  
  • +Alcohol
    
  • +Missions
    
  • +Hand to hand training
    
  • +Fiddling with his crossbow
    
    
  • -Trouser Chasers (Female form of skirt chasers)
    
  • -Ignorant/Uninformed people
    
  • -Those who look down on lesser villages
    
  • -Empty bottles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Shinji is a tall individual who has trained his body over the years to supply him with enough stamina and energy to become finely fit shinobi. Though he isn't overly muscular, his body is riddled with smooth, yet lean, hardened muscle. Tightly pulled pectoral muscles are stretched across his chest while a chiseled abdomen follows suit below. His arms are also built lean but with enough definition to at least to show off to those he may want to. Legs too are long, but with toned thighs and hardened calves. He's trained to the point where his body is built specifically for his talents and give him the utmost edge as such.
  
  His face is sharp with handsome angles. His jawline is almost triangular with a almost pointed, yet rounded off, chin. High cheek bones also give him that signature 'look' most find on the list of an 'attractive specimen'. His nose isn't too stubby nor is it too long or pointed, seemingly just normal enough to fit his face. Eyes are set at a decent amount apart and colored a a deep mahogany color which are brought out only further by the color of his hair. Shinji's hair itself is an orange, shaggy mess that comes down kind of scraggly at his neck with some bangs that hang along the side of his face.
  
  Bodily he could almost be considered a pretty boy but with his gruff demeanor and laid back attire it counteracts this entirely making him almost seem like just another guy. His tattoos also add to this roughness which consist of something like a barbed wire or thorns even that stretch out in a circular tattoo around his neck close to his collarbone while the other is around his right ankle.
  

• Shinji's style is very laid back and mostly simplistic. A simple pair of gray shorts are worn that have light yellow swirl, sun like designs along the bottoms of the shorts legs. The shorts themselves are seemingly held up by an off brown sash that had numerous pouches tucked and tied into it for any and all supplies. For a shirt, all he wore was a simple plaid button up, black in color with red stripes, and usually wore it open entirely showing his chest and abdomen. For shoes, it's the typical shinobi sandal with black straps. However on his straps along the side there is a yellow-orange flower like sun there as well.
  
  Around his neck he wears a brass band with a chain link adornment at the front that seems to a brass nut and bolt. The brass band itself had small dips and ridges along the top edge while the bottom is smoothed. For his hands, Shinji wears light tan fingerless leather gloves with holes along the top of the hand. The knuckles and hold on top are outlined by black star like motif. The gloves themselves also have brass like bands that look almost gear like, or perhaps star like once more that are actually screwed into another ring of metal within the gloves. A gourd is also carried on his side which usually carries some sort of water to drink, however its been known to have some sort of alcoholic beverage in there from time to time.
  
  Atop his head is a black hat that fit snug but had enough droop to just slightly obscure his looks. On top of that he usually wears a pair of sunglasses with gold/amber tinted circular lenses to obscure his face even more. Lastly, in his left ear only is an earring made of brass that is also shaped like some kind of nut and bolt with a star or sun motif.
  

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