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Sunshineverse

Okay everyone, it's time to test some people out! The rules of the game are simple. You have a character you would like to try out as a native to the setting of this game. You want to see if this is the right setting to play said character in, right?

Well, then all you have to do is drop them into this post as a top level comment with this as the header:
Character name | Series (OC's just put Original here) | Planned Village Affiliation

Then you comment around and play with everyone else!

If you need some ideas on how to get started, you can drop your character in during the middle of a mission, have them at an eatery around their village, or maybe even just doing weapons practice. It's up to you how you want to set out, so feel free to put your characters in this version of the Naruto universe however it most seems appropriate. Just be sure to say where you put them somewhere in your post though, otherwise two people might not even be threading in the same country.

One last thing! Remember that your character was born in this universe, so whatever else you decide, your character is a world native, even if they might be a tourist in the village you decided to test them out on.

And that's it. Just be good to each other and have fun! Threads you do here can count toward future activity checks, so long as the person you're threading with gets in too. These threads can also be used for samples on your application.

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The words drew Kazue's eyes from her target for a split second, but just that for her recognition of the voice. It was more than ample preparation for that supportive movement and, rather than inspire a degree of caution for a lack of familiarity, bolstered her focus on the task at hand. Sealing scorpions wasn't a task she was unfamiliar and unpracticed in, but it was one of many tasks treated with respect to the target.

Still, she could afford to speak and the fact of the matter was that she wanted to if the smile that graced her was any indication. Enacting a close range tactic unnecessarily wasn't in her immediate plans, though, and a simple shift of her hand saw Takkun swiftly take his leave from her shoulder to skitter across the sand at breakneck speed. He was equally swift in skidding to a stop, sand made to intentionally fly at the agitated female scorpion. The taunting he would begin would increase that agitation and he was ridiculously speedy in jumping back not once, but twice when she moved in to strike.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

"I may have gotten a little enthusiastic while training," Kazue admitted, glad to see the scorpions had shifted their focus to the tanuki.

With the female scorpion far enough removed from her partner, Kazue used Takkun's last taunt as an opportunity to move in, flip, and seal her whilst directing Takkun to bar the male access with what amounted to a run-by redraw of focus. Of course, it was then that a certain realization dawned on her.

"Did you come because of that?"

Because of her lateness, that is, the possibility earning a measure of surprise. Gaara may very well have eyes shifting between him and the rather humorous display playing out between Takkun and the male scorpion, the latter's attempts to flee consistently thwarted by the tanuki's antics.

"I think so." He looked away for a moment before nodding in an uncharacteristically light motion. No point in prevaricating when that was precisely the reason he was there, instead of writing delayed missives or looking for one or the other of his siblings. The novelty of having a choice in his free time was only second to the novelty of worrying about other people.

Even if those people were handling themselves just fine with the help of their impertinent puppets and ever-improving fuuinjutsu. Speaking of which, he raised a hand and drew sand up and over the male scorpion, not to destroy but to form a solid pyramid of chakra-laced sand over its carapace to await her next seal. His own fuuin could do with work, but there was no point in his doing so here. She was the one who would need to contain and transport them.

"Is it the venom you need?"

There was something of an odd swell at Gaara's initial words and it seemed to gain some volume with that nod. Not pride, but something else, something kind of... warm? Enough to bring something of a smile to her face that Kazue herself didn't wholly realize at that moment, which honestly seemed to be happening increasingly often where Gaara was concerned. Takkun, on the other hand, became much more energetic for it and was rather quick to abandon the male scorpion once the pyramid had settled over it. He was quicker to move to skid to a stop in front of Gaara, his tail giving the sand beneath it a good thwack as he raised his arms up.

Up, up. Pick him up. Come on, you know he want to. Look at him. He's fierce and adorable and just look at how happy he is to see you!

"It is," Kazue replied, moving to apply the seal to the male scorpion. Once it was fixed, she offered him a nod, the ghost of that smile lingering. "I was hoping to put some work in toward a new agent I've been working on."

Something stronger, but more subtle, deadly. With the male scorpion sealed, she straightened and reached for a particular scroll at her back. Big as he was and with a design in support, Socchan'd be better suited for containment and transportation in this case.

The stare-down between Gaara and the eagerly hopping puppet didn't last nearly as long as he felt it did, because before long, he was arranging his arms beneath Takumi to avoid tangling any of its strings. The venomous spikes and traps were less of an issue; he'd seen the puppet in action enough that he knew he'd been shown at least half of its capabilities, and that was more than enough that he could hold onto it without triggering anything too violent or expensive. Its limbs were another matter, but it wasn't too much trouble to have wooden claws scraping over sand with the sounds of a chalkboard.

When Kazue began reading a scroll large enough that it could only contain Socchan, he moved to hold Takkun more securely. Just in case she wanted to reattach his threads to the larger tanuki to conserve chakra.

Also because Takkun was doing its level best to hit him in the ear with its tail. Two sets of eyes watched Kazue work, one attached to a wriggling puppet and the other set calm and evaluating. The third set's owner was sleeping.

"What's wrong with your current compounds..?"

"They're efficient, but there's always room for improvement," Kazue replied as the larger puppet was produced from the scroll and came to stand -- no, sway -- as though groggy once her strings found their appropriate place. Had she realized how much she sounded like her mother in that moment, she may very well have snickered. "My goal is to make jounin within the year. I don't want to leave room for error. There are a couple of different compounds I've been meaning to finish that require these materials, too."

She didn't have any plans to allow herself to grow lax in terms of her compounds or performance, after all. Some puppeteers might have relaxed their control on the first puppet, but Kazue held both, Takkun himself relaxing slightly in movement as Socchan went through the motions of stretching and, frankly, nagging his puppeteer for 'waking' him. The sealed scorpions were regarded for mere seconds before he moved to gobble them up all too happily, a retest of certain recent tune-ups. A paw found his stomach after the fact, Kazue assessing his movements carefully.

Takkun, on the other hand, turned his eyes up at Gaara and slowly moved a paw up as though to pat his face or wave his paw beneath it one. Eyes on him, please! Please!

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