At long last...

[sunshinenpcs]

The NPC Meme



I'm sure someone knows their names...

Welcome to the NPC meme! This meme has certain special rules and functions unlike many other memes! In this meme, the NPC journal isn't just encouraged, it's how you play. Or, at least...how someone involved in the thread does.

The premise is simple: You post your character to lure in some characters who aren't currently being played, and someone else brings in the NPC journal with their interpretation of that character. You play a thread! CR gaps filled!

Alternatively, if you have a character you might be interested in playing in the capacity of an NPC (such as a character you don't want to app, and thus put in a test drive, for one reason or another) then post a top level for that NPC.

Currently played characters may tag out only to NPC top level comments, not to each other. NPC characters could tag to anyone. However, since threads in this meme are eligible for AC (and therefore game canon), it's best for NPCs to tag current characters, rather than other NPCs.

Steps/Rules

1: Post a top level with either your character or an NPC you'd like to play for the meme (Using the NPC account!) - If you're looking for someone specific to tag you, be sure to include it in the top level somewhere so people know to bring them.

2: With your characters, tag out to NPC top-levels or wait for an NPC to tag you. With NPCs, tag out to top level 'current' character threads, or respond to characters that tag your NPC of choice.

3: Thread things that can't yet be played out, or might never be able to be played out!

4: When playing an NPC, since you'll be using the NPC account to do it, don't forget to track the thread with one of your own accounts! (If you have a paid, at least. For free accounts, it's still recommended that you track at least the entire post so you don't miss anything!)

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Uchiha Mikoto | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(Notes: She has an in game history already so I'll be working from that.) Sometimes the morning market was exactly what she needed to get her thoughts in order. Yes, she could ask someone else to do it for her, if not one of the boys, then one of the other clan children, but there was something refreshing in going out and getting these things on her own. Maybe it was the crisp air at this time of day, or the way people seemed to be softer before the frenzy of proper daytime sank in, but as she moved through the village, it made her smile all the same.

[abileunaspada]

"Mikoto-Sensei," Her voice was quiet -- moreso than usual as she regarded her former tutor, a smile on her face while she approached. It was nice to talk to someone older than her when it didn't regard academy business, so it'd be a good break before she headed off to the classrooms for the day's work. It looked like she was shopping, so maybe she could help her out...

"It's been a while. How've you been?"

Re: Uchiha Mikoto | Konohagakure

[uchihasavior]

It was good to see Mother, with all the traveling and missions that he did. He did miss having cooked meals, even if he did rotate sources now and then. He offers her a respectful nod and a small smile; won't bother her if she is busy.

MOOOUMMM

[not_thedragon]

Sasuke had spent enough time away from home in the past few months that he probably fully deserved the raised eyebrow Fugaku had levelled him with when he was caught on his way out the door. He'd only been headed out for a run, information from his investigation team still trickling in from the field in confusing patterns, but Fugaku's pointed Your mother has gone to the market was clear enough.

There were plenty of shinobi already at the morning market by the time Sasuke spotted his mother's slight figure in the crowd, sidling past a pair of Inuzuka intensely debating the quality of soup bones to flag her down.

Fugaku truly had his number, Sasuke thought dryly; there were very few people he would have suffered a crowd for on purpose.

Yamanaka Ino | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(Not much changed for her team in Sunshine really, though Sakura getting so serious made her buckle down earlier herself.)



She didn't know what was going on here, but this was the most chaotic of a mess she'd ever seen in the flower shop, and with the way this place went nuts for spring courtships that was really saying something. She immediately waded into the chaos, even if this was not what she expected on her first day off from missions in what felt like forever.

"Hey! Hey!! What's going on? And you! You stop that right now!"

Re: Yamanaka Ino | Konohagakure

[notveryspecial]

That was pretty different from usual, yeah. Sakura was aware from personal experience that, large or small, Konoha's many and varied clans could be pretty eccentric. Knowing that, and some of the eccentricities of certain clans she was familiar with...she still had no idea what the six customers in the middle of the shop were actually doing when she walked in, nor why they looked so riled up.

Ino looked annoyed enough that she probably understood, though. Maybe it made sense to someone who'd seen it from the start. She frowned, lingering in the doorway for the moment. "Do you need a hand...?" She was there, after all. If people needed to be thrown out, there was no reason she couldn't be part of throwing them out.

[abileunaspada]

Oh jeez... Seemed like the Yamanaka Flower Shop was incredibly busy.

Adela just blinked hard at the commotion, unable to help her embarrassed flushed as she saw how the customers were arguing over who would get what flowers and how much they were willing to pay. It wasn't until things quieted down that Adela dared enter, feeling unusually timid as she simply looked around. She'd seen Yamanaka Ino around before, but... Well, this was different than just seeing each other in passing as colleagues.

[not_thedragon]

This was not what Sasuke had been hoping to encounter when he'd stepped out to buy flowers for his mother's birthday. It looked like almost all-out war in one corner, where he could make out three squabbling people in chuunin vests and a frazzled-looking Yamanaka Ino, and while he'd normally have just gone elsewhere, he was going to be out of town on a mission for the next two weeks, and her favourite flowers were among the ones in the display at risk of flailing arms.

If he was going to miss his mother's birthday, he wasn't going to leave her empty-handed. With a sigh, Sasuke headed over to the scene, plucking the loudest chuunin up by the back of the neck, much as if he were a misbehaving kitten.

"Is there a problem?" He asked, though the question was mostly directed at Ino.

Killer Bee | Kumogakure

[sunshinenpcs]

There's his team, and there's A, but sometimes a man just needs to take off on his own. To think, to jive, to get away from all those things tying a man's creativity down. Yeah!

Bee hasn't gone far, this time, but he's contemplating going further than his favorite training grounds. There's just not enough music here. Good for training, though! And he stretches his arms above his head and whistles a cheery tune as he wanders back out into the sunlight. Maybe he'll go to the lake.

Shimura Danzo | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(His dramatic changes to his history mean that he's a much more open individual, though he's not exactly nice. After all, he's still invested in the clarity and safety of his village, even if he happens to only have a few loyal nin to his name instead of an army these days.) Danzo rather enjoyed being able to sit and study the way the village had changed and grown in the last decade. It was a novel thing to him even now, and though from time to time the itch to step in and fiddle with something was strong, he refrained, focusing on his small handful of lingering people and instead simply spending his time among the villagers, or doing council work when they didn't shoulder him out. Then again, this was the first time the village had had three Hokage alive at once, so it only made sense that sometimes, it seemed like there were too many people around as contingencies. No matter, at the moment, he happened to be enjoying a cup of tea at his favorite tea house as he watched people go by.

Re: Shimura Danzo | Konohagakure

[notveryspecial]

If she were aware of the identity of the man sitting in the tea house, she would have undoubtedly fussed and fought more with the owner who shooed and ushered her to sit at the table next to him. She'd intended simply to stop for something before she went out for a training session...but evidently she'd arrived just as the tea shop was at its rush. She could see a couple of other open seats in the house that were not so close to other patrons, but presumably those were already reserved for other people. Or the owner had reason to believe she was somehow associated with the older man sitting near to her, but as she didn't recognize him at all, that was vanishingly unlikely.

His injuries and the way he sat indicated he was most likely an old, retired ninja, rather than one of the tea house's civilian clientele, but there were enough other nin in the building that she wouldn't have been stuck near to him simply by virtue of them both having had the same profession in life.

It probably didn't bear thinking about. She was displeased that she was encroaching on the old shinobi's space...but there seemed no overt intentions behind it other than space conservation...so the best thing to do would be to give the man a respectful and quiet nod, and turn her attention to waiting on the server. The sooner that she finished, the sooner she could leave the quiet man in whatever peace he may have wanted.

[abileunaspada]

Aah... Even though working at academy was fun, it was also exhausting! So the quiet atmosphere of the tea house was a welcome change for the frazzled red head, seating herself nearby Danzo without being right next to him. Even the smell was wonderful, and she couldn't help feeling the aches of the day soothing away with the warmth around her. She ended up ordering an herbal rose-based tea, her eyes closing as she relaxed on the table and waited. If she wasn't careful she'd end up falling asleep...

... Huh. There was an older guy over there with an interesting scar. Curiously she glanced over to him, but with a shrug she decided to leave it be. There were scars she wouldn't want to explain to a complete stranger, even if most of them were honorably attained. The same could probably be said of that man over there. No, it was just time for a quiet afternoon with a hot drink and a few crackers in order to settle down.

[not_thedragon]

By and large Sasuke's life revolved around training and missions, as he assumed the lives of most shinobi his age did, but there were a few hobbies he'd picked up without quite meaning to over the years. Most of them were things that made Naruto call him an old man given the opportunity, but as far as Sasuke was concerned, Naruto could accuse him of being a million years old without reducing his fondness for a good cup of tea.

He did not, however, anticipate the number of people at the tea house. Was there some kind of special deal going on? Sasuke hesitated at the threshold, unsure if it was worth it, until he spotted a reasonably clear area. There was only one man seated there, an older shinobi who looked likely to be a quiet unexpected table-mate.

"Excuse me," he said, drawing level with the table and resting a hand on the back of the empty chair. "Is this seat taken?"

Great Grandmother Hoshigaki | Kirigakure

[sunshinenpcs]

It's been a long time since she's left the compound! For good reasons. She knows. She knows. And she can just imagine the great grandchildren gasping and fretting, and thinking about killing people just to protect her! She can take care of herself; she's been around too long to just keel over and die, haha!

But all her great grandchildren care, and that's good enough for this old woman, and besides, with the exams in Kiri again, she wants to see if the other children are worth looking at. If the leaders of her clan won't extend feelers of unity, then by damn, she will!

There's a likely one now, and the old woman heads forward, cane clicking, but steps silent, and her weathered, silver-blue face pulled into a still sharp-toothed, if with a gap or two, grin. "Hey now! Help an old woman out."

[pursuitoftruth]

"Certainly," Nanako agreed, smoothly turning to the source of the shout, as if tending to the whims of the elderly was her sole purpose in life and the village hierarchy, instead of breaking people and prying out secrets. Her expression shifted from kindly and concerned to warmly delighted and very much less concerned. "Hoshigaki-sama! What an unexpected pleasure."

She had met the woman exactly twice before, both times when she had tagged along to watch her grandmother hit up the older clan head for a spar. It had been inspiring to watch, that level of destruction, and left her with no small amount of hope for her own abilities as she got older.

Orochimaru | Otogakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(Why yes, he sure does have a history page all his own) He'd been very caught up in one of his recent projects, and he thought that an absolute shame. Why, he'd missed all kinds of new developments in the world while he'd been distracted, and while, admittedly, it was interesting to hear about them from other people... it just wasn't the same as taking it in with his own eyes. Then again, when he ventured out his underlings... were worried that he might take exception to their activities while he was gone. With good reason, true, but he had better things to do than to breathe down their necks. After all, there was only so much could learn from the same subjects before a man had to venture out and get new ones.

[pursuitoftruth]

Nanako was similarly taking the chance to nose around after being buried in her own projects, though as a consequence she was decidedly more in the know when it came to current events. And her vacation days had piled up, but that was a minor detail, really.

She had a few guards loosely scattered around the town, but they knew to give her space. It was a foolish man indeed who intruded on her rare picnics. especially when she had a new mystery novel to sink her teeth into.

[not_thedragon]

It had been a long time since Sasuke had had the dubious luxury of downtime during a mission, but there it was: their hands were tied until their undercover agent returned with further information. He and the remaining the specialist on the team had ended up splitting up for the week, each taking a different section of town to scope out in case they ended up needing to do any infiltration and quick escapes.

He wasn't undercover, not technically, but Sasuke saw no particular reason to invite comment either -- he'd left his Konoha forehead protector tucked into an inner pocket of his vest, striding through a village that seemed well-accustomed to shinobi uniforms.

If he stopped now and again to look at interesting weapons stalls and tea stands, well -- it counted as scoping out the area, probably.

Rock Lee | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(Lee is Lee) He had been working extra hard on his training lately. Part of this was that Neji was seemingly busy at all hours all the time, and it served as a most excellent distraction, but part of it was simply his desire to improve. However, even he needed to rest at times, and this is why he was only leisurely running instead of marathon sprinting as he made his way over the rooftops toward his favorite curry place.

[tenten_san]

Self improvement was the cornerstone of what made Team Gai so successful in their dynamics. Because being strong individually could only help them when they worked as an actual team. It was one of the main reasons why they had such a high success rate on missions. Of course, it had been some odd months since the members of Team Gai had actually gone on an assignment together.

It was a sad realization that Tenten faced almost once every week. And much like Lee, she drowned such thoughts in more training and more missions to fill in her days in the meantime. So it was quite a fortunate surprise to find Lee jumping from rooftop to rooftop as she was strolling through the market area of the village towards one of her favorite weapons shop.

"Lee!"

Tae-san | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

(Notes: Proprietor of the Oolong Dragon tea house, retired kunoichi and Yamato's landlady) Her little cat had gone away behind his mask again, but not before dropping off his rent and for that she was grateful, because it meant a chance to get her shipment orders in early for the month. The floors were swept, the china and silver polished and the first kettle of water on for the morning customers. The hour was early, before dawn, but Tae-san was fed and ready for the day; choosing to settle in her favorite corner of the shop and fuss over her balance and stock book until she was needed to serve. The fresh scent of tea and sweet tang of dumplings was surely enough to beckon her fellow early risers for a rest stop.

tae-sannnn my home gurlll

[scarecrowboy]

Kakashi had been on his typical rounds that morning, visiting those places he visited once every few weeks, and had found himself on tea alley without really thinking about it. His feet often had the habit of pushing him toward comfort before he realised he was in need of it, and apparently Yamato was the comfort he didn't know he needed today.

Yamato, however, was out. Kakashi loitered by his door for a few minutes, scaled the roof to peek in his skylight, and only when he'd managed to wedge his window open and take a look around for himself did he decide Yamato was definitely absent at that current time. With a dejected grunt, he shifted the bottle of sake he'd brought with him better into his arms, and trundled downstairs to leave through an actual door this time.

That's when he almost bumped into the small figure that darted out in front of him to mop at a table, and he took a few steps backward to steady himself.

"Ah," he said when he noticed that he recognised her face as the woman who had knocked on Yamato's door early one morning - his landlady. "Sorry about that.."

Hayama Shirakumo | Konohagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

He was beginning to get the distinct impression that he was too old for this. He ignored this impression, but it was still present. Perhaps it was nothing more than a reaction to the necessity of keeping up with loud and active students for years, as many of his fellows have suggested. Perhaps it was simply the toll of his duties beginning to get to him.

Or perhaps he had been prevented from stopping by the tea shop earlier this morning, and the commotion in the street ahead of him was not the thing giving him a headache as much as the lack of caffeine in his system at an early morning. He'd examine this question in more detail later, when there were less than seven genin or near-genin attempting to burn down the market with katon challenges too close to wooden structures.

At the very least, on days like these, he regretted not becoming a renowned water user instead.

[puppypile]

Hana was in the marketplace when she smelled smoke. It wasn't coming from the direction of prepared food shops or stalls, so she leaped immediately to the nearest rooftop, following her nose as she avoided the morning crowds. She didn't see anyone else paying attention to the imminent conflagration. Shirakumo's presence went entirely unnoticed. Hana, in fact, didn't look around for other shinobi support at all before leaping in to intervene. She had the Haimaru brothers with her. Who needed strategy here? A glance between them was enough to come to an unspoken agreement; stop the kids without hurting them. One Inuzuka human and her three ninken meant four of the seven could be tackled at once. Over 50%, not bad.

They jumped.

"What do you think you're doing!?" Hana snapped a second after hitting her ground, her target pinned beneath her. He was squirming and looked rather alarmed by the sudden attack.

Omoi | Kumogakure

[sunshinenpcs]

He had slept in today. In his haste to wake up and make it to his duties in time, he had knocked a vase out of his window and it had fallen to the ground far below. When he had gone to find it, it had been missing, not a shattered piece of it anywhere.

He was on edge today. Anything could have happened to that vase while he wasn't looking. After all, if it wasn't smashed on the ground, where was it? Perhaps in the time he had been getting dressed, someone had tripped over the debris and fallen into it, and the shards had gotten so deeply lodged in that person (all of the shards, even the tiny misshapen ones) that they'd required hospitalization? What if that person were Lord Ay, and this was seen as an assassination attempt by an enemy ninja, throwing the entire peace into question?

More importantly, what if the shards worked their way somewhere critical, and the nurses were so distracted looking for an enemy that wasn't there they missed one crucial piece of the vase, and Lord Ay were killed by the vase? Then the Land of Clouds would be forced to withdraw from the treaties and declare war on the other ninja villages until they could determine which ninja village had sent assassins. And what if while they investigated the vase pieces, they were able to track it back to himself, and he became a suspect of collaboration? He might be dragged into interrogation and tortured for information about which ninja village he had betrayed Kumogakure for, and why and when.

Then again, it was possible he was secretly an agent, and the interrogation could trigger a sleeper command and cause him to go berserk and attack his own people, and this might happen just as one of their new enemies struck the city, forcing Kumo to fight a battle inside and out at the same time...

He shook his head, frowning in worry as he crouched on an outcropping of rock above the rest of his team.

The longer the mission took, the more likely it would be that they would return home and find Kumo in chaos. Maybe he could head it off simply by admitting immediately that he had been the one to break the vase...?

Suigetsu Hozuki | Kirigakure

[sunshinenpcs]

He sheathed his sword with a delicious shhhnk of blade on leather, and smirked at the decimation he'd left behind. The match had been a fast one, and his only regret was that it hadn't lasted long enough for him to truly bask in the feeling, to let the weight and might of the blade settle and strain his muscles, to give it the respect that was due and the exposure it deserved. He found this predicament increasingly common as the months edged by. Mangetsu was busy fulfilling his goal, and though Suigetsu was at least a little happy for him, he couldn't help but wonder why his opportunity wasn't rearing it's head despite his obvious capability. He was also quietly bummed that their agreement had been to join together, a fact which his older brother seemed to have conveniently forgotten.. but that was another story. He knew it didn't work like that, knew that patience and power were the keys to achieving his ambition, but that didn't make the pill any easier to swallow. With a sigh he unhooked a water flask from his belt and stuck the straw into his mouth, his eyebrows tense and his gaze directed somewhere off into the distance, leaving him thoroughly distracted.

[noboatbigenough]

Well, if it wasn't the younger Hozuki brother. Both of them were cheeky brats, but Kisame respected their ambitions well enough. He didn't respect the elder's claim of mastering all seven blades--for one thing, did that kid even have lightning nature to properly wield Kiba?--even Samehada. Certainly, he had enough skill to wield Samehada on a temporary basis, but if he'd mastered the blade, Kisame wouldn't be the wielder anymore. Ah well, Kisame wasn't about to openly challenge the kid about it. It just made him silently grind his teeth to hear the claims.

The younger, though, seemed to be trying to get out of his brother's shadow, and Kisame was interested. Good swordwork, there, but now the kid looked to be distracted, and that was a bad sign. So Kisame came closer, as silent as the mists that descended from the mountains every evening, and unsheathed his day-wear blade--because carrying Samehada everywhere tended to get in the way, unfortunately, and the sword liked to complain about being around so much delicious chakra and not getting to taste it--and moved to poke the kid in the back with it.

[sunshinenpcs]

(Notes: In Sunshine, Yukimi spends most of her time exploring the various lands and villages that make up the five great nations. On her travels she writes regular letters to her 'brother' Tenzou (Yamato to you Konoha people!) and attends almost every village festival and special occasion in the surrounding villages in order to see him.) Yukimi set down her heavy bag with a small oof of effort, but sported a determined grin that would deter even the most helpful of patrons from assuming she needed any help with it. Hands on hips she inhaled a hearty breath, refreshing her lungs with the sweet scents of the early afternoon air as she scanned the crowd around her as if looking for something... Draped in yellow trails of swirly fabric that seemed like it was made to be tickled by the wind, she studied the little village just outside of Konoha with bright violet eyes and considered how different her life was now compared to how it had been the last time she'd been amongst the people of fire country. The Land of Fire would always be her home despite how little she visited (her absence wasn't due to reluctance in the slightest... it was just that it had been the first place she'd explored, and there was way too much of this world to see to stay stuck in one place!) but somehow Konoha felt like her home too, despite the fact she'd... never actually been there. It was probably something to do with Tenzou's loyalty... and that was what had inspired her recent scheme. Being of the Iburi clan with all the power of her family inside her combined with the faint power of Tenzou's mokuton, Yukimi was much more powerful than the little wisp she had once been; and more importantly she was still very much capable of harmlessly possessing a target in order to gain access to areas she might not be granted entrance to otherwise... Tenzou was going to kill her, she thought as she walked her hosts feet through the gate after handing over their papers. She giggled at the thought - a curious sight to see someone giggling so suddenly and in a voice that probably didn't suit their usual register - and progressed a little further into Konoha's walls before shedding her pack by a wall and finally letting her vessel go, forming solidly and secretly once she was free.

[mokutonno]

Of all the things Yamato expected to see on his return trip from the market, the vision of yellow silks and red curls that twirled past him, was not one of them.
He stopped dead, blinking owlishly as his mind processed exactly what it had seen and prompted a complete about turn, his sturdy form lunging forward to grasp a pale wrist and halt it's owners progress. Oh he was going to kill her.

He drew level with his wayward sibling, voice low and expression alarmed as he attempted not to draw more attention to them than he already had.

"Yukimi!? What in the hells are you doing here?"

Subaku No Gaara | Sunagakure

[sunshinenpcs]

He wasn't one for crowds, so it was usually a surprise to see him out and about even on a slow evening. There'd been an itch to go outside, perhaps the house had gotten a little stifling for the teen. Whatever whim brought him outside made villagers wary and they wisely kept their distance. He was used to that and frankly he didn't feel up for any interaction right then.

[abluntwind]

Gaara wasn't the only of the siblings to find the house stifling. Temari had been up on the roof watching the people walk the streets below. She wouldn't have even thought to drop down to the street if she hadn't noticed her brother cutting a wide swath amongst the crowd.

"Gaara?" She asks falling into step with her youngest brother.