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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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Juugo is on a mission doing border patrol, and he's doing it in the air this time, because he's not about risking being in another body again. That and the rain on his wings, and his friends flying along with him is nice. He doesn't need to be on the ground to feel people and animals nearby, and focuses on that as he goes in carefully meandering circles along the border of Rain, occasionally just outside, and occasionally just inside.

Then he feels something that nearly makes him drop out of the sky. When he recovers he lands quickly, and edges closer and closer to the feeling until he sees an older looking man just sitting serenely on a small rise. Juugo stops behind some jagged rocks and peeks out shyly, watching with a lost expression.

Why do you feel like me, he wants to ask, but this is a stranger, and very close to Rain. What if it's an enemy? But what if his instinct is correct and it's someone like him, maybe even with his curse?

To all appearances, the man meditating has no awareness of his watcher at all. His breathing has not changed. nor his posture, and his eyes are still closed wholly to his environment. He does not move, does not shift, does not make any indication of the presence near him at all. None, that is, save that he speaks, and Kenobi's voice is warm, and welcoming.

"Come here, young one. Do not be afraid."

Meanwhile, Kenobi will bask in the feeling of this unknown presence. It has been so long since he has been around other people, much less those he might call kin, and the distinctive way they are bright in the chakra landscape around him is comforting. Even if this one still seems to have much to learn, all his excess energy seemingly without bounds.

"Sit with me."

Juugo jumps when he is addressed, then touches his earrings in reassurance. He can feel Nagoto's chakra, and the constant tug that syphons off his own so it can remain contained. It relaxes him enough that he can consider this stranger more, and he comes closer with slow movements, poised to flee if things get bad, not unlike a little songbird.

When he's closer, he's sure of it, but he doesn't know why. He remains standing but tips his head. It's not polite to ask questions right on meeting someone, but he can't hold in the need to know. "Hello. Why do you feel like me?"

"What is to say that it is not you who feels like me, instead of I who feel like you?" He huffs out a quiet chuckle at that, though, and with his eyes still closed, he lifts his hand in a gesture to encourage Juugo to sit. "More truthfully, I suspect I'm something of a distant relative of yours, if you can consider it that." The Je'daii 'bloodline' is so far-spread, and so sporadic. The biological ties between the loose sort of clans that they make are often very small, but it helps that they all mostly work to adhere to the same principles as one another, and the techniques are mostly universal.

Techniques, it feels like, this young one might never have learned, given just how strong and uncentered he feels.

"Sit, and breathe with me." And that's Old Ben, strange old man meditating in your forest who immediately tells you to sit your butt down and learn some instruction.

"To start, we ought to work on your control. Even basic exercises should be able to help you with some of that internal unrest of yours." Something about the way he says them make it evident that he is counting on some sort of compliance, but it isn't forceful, just... expectant. A teacher, waiting with an endless patience to see if a student is ready to learn.

"No one else has ever felt like me before."

That was all the answer Juugo could think to give and he's not sure how to respond to the part about being relatives. He remembered that he'd shared it with his mother, though it was distant, faint, and only really appearing in his dreams when he was small again, and the woman before him covered in blood--

He shook his head at the image that tried to intruded and focused on calming himself and the sudden racing of his heart at the bad memory. When he got upset it got closer to waking up, and he pushed more of his chakra at Nagato through his earrings. It wasn't really pushing it out so much as flaring it to get Nagato's attention to take a little more than usual.

Meditation helps him calm his emotions though, so he eagerly sits and starts breathing in the slow careful way he's learned to for calming his emotions. He's not sure if it will improve his control of it at all, but he likes meditating.

"Will it really help control the curse?" Because he has to ask. If there's a way to really control it, so he'll be safe Juugo would do almost anything. He won't leave Nagato, or betray Ame, or kill, but anything else.

"Curse?" It takes a moment for Kenobi to understand what he's talking about. Call it old age, or perhaps surprise. It makes sense that a child with no choice would find it hateful, but most those he ahs seen with so littler control do so deliberately, and to them the power is no curse, but a terrible gift. Though, bloodline or not, greatful or not, Obi-Wan will not deny that it is a heavy burden to carry. His voice softens. "It is not intended as a curse, young one, though I imagine it must seem so, to you. But yes, it is meant to help you."

Kenobi watches him meditate, and settles back into his own, very slowly starting to separate apart the different energies inside himself in time with his breathing. "Can you see what I am doing, or would you like me to guide you through it more slowly?"

Juugo sits quietly for a moment. He's not sure how it wouldn't be a curse, but... Well, if he was safe all the time, Juugo thinks he would find the power useful. If this will make him safe, he'll try it. This man feels so close, but at the same time, there's something a little different. Juugo can feel it inside himself, but he doesn't feel an it inside the man. And maybe another person's it can't be felt, but Nagato has described it as built up chakra before, so Juugo thinks he would be able to feel it.

He'll try. He doesn't know what this will do, or even if he should--he wants to ask Nagato about it--but he can't leave, in case the man decides not to show him. Juugo pays attention, and when it's pointed out, yes he feels it. Energy? that's coming apart and changing. But he doesn't know how the man is doing it, exactly, or why.

"I feel it..." Juugo doesn't try to voice the 'but' there.

Kenobi gives Juugo a look of gentle understanding and shifts half a scoot closer. This is a technique they start on with young ones, after all, and those know they are going to become shinobi, and are taught many basic concepts early, for their own safety and the simple fact that they are to learn them eventually. That Juugo may not have even that more Academy-focused background doesn't quite surprise him.

"Don't worry, let us start at the very basics." It has been a very long time since he has taught true younglings but... Kenobi finds he misses it, and is glad to have the change to do so again. "How much do you understand about how a person's chakra works?" For one to understand how the Je'daii are different, after all, they will have to understand what it is they are deviating from.

There is a moment where Juugo tenses on an instinct that will never be completely buried. People so close is bad--they'll be hurt; they'll hurt him--but Juugo knows better, and after a moment of concentration he makes the fear dissipate. He's safe, here, and Nagato will know instantly if anything goes wrong.

He feels it in his own energy, like a snarl, or a snarling beast, compared to the calm of the other man's chakra. Even a moment of fear put him more off balance; Nagato may have to take extra tonight, but it's not enough right now to really worry him.

"Nagato showed me a lot of things." Juugo can only answer it that way. There had been explanations from time to time, but like reading, it was harder for Juugo to grasp them, and he doesn't feel confident in trying to answer yes.

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