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....I like the idea of a blood manipulating clan, however, there are a few noticeable problems with this clan.

1. it can use the opponents blood as well as their own.

2. It gains a very easy bonus of 2 ranks to any water jutsu performed with blood.

3. Most of the techniques listed are highly generic. Meaning they can do pretty much whatever you wish.

4. They gain bonuses from 2 different elements and really have only one weakness.

I will expand on these 4 points when I return later this evening but I must get to class.

1. it can use the opponents blood as well as their own.
I have no problem with this, but you cannot drain someone of their blood. any blood shed is available for use, I just figured it would be cooler to make them more Masochistic as a necessity. Thus they perform bloodletting themselves because they produce an excessive amount of blood. in addition the rank of the ninja will not effect the rank of the jutsu. Meaning just because your Sanin instructor dies a horribly painful death, does not mean you can thus use the obviously large pool of blood surrounding him to fire off S-rank jutsu at Genin-Chunin level.

2. It gains a very easy bonus of 2 ranks to any water jutsu performed with blood.

I believe if anything the jutsu will only gain +1 rank and will be composed entirely of blood but act in the fashion of the water jutsu. The +1 rank is even stretching it. I mean all it really has become is a cosmetic change. if you want a rank increase you can take ability control or elemental control as a Shinobi type.

3. Most of the techniques listed are highly generic. Meaning they can do pretty much whatever you wish.

This makes it harder for actual customization or greater range of techniques. It opens a variety of choices but most jutsu have one specific task to perform.

4. They gain bonuses from 2 different elements and really have only one weakness.

I don't mind the Raiton part. If you want to enlarge the blood jutsu via suiton it's fine as well but it will receive -X ranks in power. X of course being determined by how large you intend to make the technique spread.

1. Generally speaking a double edged sword, is one that simultaneously gives bonus while providing penalties. Not that you are incorrect about it being one or anything. You can use another's blood, you just don't gain anything other than, well more blood.

2. Why yes, Blood is in fact thicker than water. Although if you're using suiton to expand it, then you are diluting the blood making it rather useless as an increase in power. That is why I would at most give it +1 rank in power, in reality it is more of a cosmetic change as stated.

3. I can see your point here and I will concede it. I will state however that I would like it to be more specific, but it is not a requirement.

4. See point two.

@Kumo: Raiton [Lightning] is extremely concentrated heat so much that it becomes plasma, and that means that if fire can dry out blood then logically raiton would have the same effect if not more so.

@Duck: 1. Well they would get blood without using their own thus weakening themselves but at the same time it would be of the same rank of the one whom they had gotten the blood from because it holds their chakra within it.

2. True enough [Was working on naruto logic not real logic] >>

3. I'll keep it how it is.

4. I'll still make it a weakness. It is logical really now that I think about it.

1. Chakra isn't in the blood, Chakra is the combination of both physical and mental energies. The reason people can harm themselves via chakra loss is because it burns the natural energy of the body thus lowering the amount usable by the organs. You would have to mold their chakra and that would be rather OP. In addition it is neither their rank nor How powerful their chakra is that increases the power (unless it's a bijuu's Chakra, which is far more dense than normal human chakra) but the amount of chakra fed into the technique.

My very point. You can not suck the blood out merely use that which is already out. You can't control someone else's blood unless you prepare it prior. That's why I offered the Idea that they produce excessive amounts of blood and thus must perform bloodletting on themselves. In that case, every round of combat instead of subtracting -1 endurance, you might subtract -3 to -5 but gain a +1 rank in power to all your blood jutsu.


In essence you designed this clan to use blood in a very similar way in which the Ichibi's container manipulates sand. In that very aspect if you had no other bonuses it would've been fine. unfortunately, the reason I have so many problems with this is that you have stacked bonuses upon bonuses without providing sufficient Penalties to match.

EDIT: I'll take a look at it after you finish editing, just re-post it.
EDIT2: If you re-post it tonight I will look at it tomorrow or rather later today. It's 12:30 where I am and I need to get some rest.