Name: Orochimaru (Orochi=Giant snake. Maru=Male's name)
Age: 54
Sex: Male
+Shinobi Information+
Country: Oto no Kuni (Sound Country)
Village: Otogakure (Hidden Sound Village)
Rank: Jounin / Missing-nin
Division: Sannin
+Physical Information+
Height: 5'11''ft
Weight: 145lbs
Appearance: Similar to his personality, Orochimaru is a daunting creature. Whilst his black hair is smooth, undefiled and veils the sides of his facade, the skin is a deathly sallow tint, without a hint of color. Lining the eyes and spiking to the bridge of his nose are natural violet markings, indubitably bringing his uncanny, narrow eyes to notice--- yellow with slit irises, akin to a serpent. Adding to his peculiar image, his cheekbones are very defined while his surprisingly extensive tongue imitates an unnatural air.
Attire: Although he possesses kimonos when he is not expected to meet any skirmishes, his usual attire is a unique one. A thin, pale robe, sleeved to the elbows, slit on the sides and stops at the mid of the upper leg sections, is worn over a black fully-sleeved top. Around his waist is a thick, mauve rope, tied royally in the back. A black article is applied at the shoulder area and hugs his neck; the only skin shown above his torso is his face. His pants are simple enough, purely black and slightly loose below the knees, tucked into white leg wraps and standard ninja sandals. A shuriken holster is worn on his right leg.
+Character Information+
Demeanor: Very antagonistic indeed. Orochimaru is a twisted, manipulative and ruthless man, whose prime ambition is to become "the ultimate being" by achieving immortality and knowledge of all jutsu in the world.
Orochimaru has a knack for winning otherwise desperate people to his cause, filling the void in their life with loyalty to him. His manipulation skills are almost irresistible, especially to weak individuals who require power. After ensnaring a mind, Orochimaru can bend the being to his bidding, as he also grants the individual satisfying power. His influence usually appeals to the youth, believing that he may require their ripe powers. Although he grants strength, it doesn't mean he particularly cares for his underlings. In fact, Orochimaru is only out for himself, and merely uses his men as a part of his self-interrelated plans.
The snake is a cruel and frightening creature, but this does not cancel the reality that he is sensual and more or rather polite. His exceeding intellect is also evident, as well as authority. When he's around, the world indefinitely revolves around him (and he is a hazard to everyone's life-spans). Although a smooth one, he has been proven to be spontaneous, from his habit of smiting the people nearest to him when he's not in a positive mood.
In battle he is especially confident in his strategies and his dominance over the opponent. If a skirmish is to ever get too hot however, Orochimaru usually ends the fight, considering his future plans. It seems he is trying to avoid death as effectively as possible. Could it be... that he's a afraid of mortality?
Nindo 'Way of the Ninja': Knowledge of the Shinobi (jutsus) leads to supreme power and the ultimate essence.
Inventory:
-5 kunai
-10 shuriken
-Kusanagi (Grass-cutter), which is a legendary katana he keeps in the belly of a snake, which resides in him.
Pets: If anything, snakes.
Biography: Orochimaru was originally a student of Sarutobi (who was also the Sandaime Hokage) as a part of a three-man team containing himself, Jiraiya and Tsunade. He was considered the most talented out of the three and Sarutobi had high hopes for him, often berating the clumsy Jiraiya and telling him he should be more like Orochimaru; he hoped that one day, Orochimaru would succeed him.
While Orochimaru's ambitions did include becoming Hokage, his eyes were set upon goals quite alien to the ideals traditionally associated with the title and emphatically embraced by his teacher. Sarutobi knew that "A Shinobi's true strength will manifest when protecting something important," and the Hokage's role is to love and protect the people of the village as if they were family; For Orochimaru, however, Hokage was nothing more than a potential conquest on the way to what truly interested him: power.
Sarutobi hoped to make his student see the error of his ways, but the more time that passed, the more it became clear that Orochimaru was a lost cause. This culminated in Orochimaru kidnapping his fellow Konoha shinobi as human guinea pigs. He experimented on them to develop techniques that would grant him immortality, as he had already decided that he would settle for no less than to learn all Jutsu in the world, a task that would take much more than one human lifetime. When the many disappearances were finally traced back to Orochimaru, Sarutobi knew that it was his duty to kill him, but even then he couldn't bring himself to kill his prized student for whom he had had such high hopes. But at the same time he realized that Orochimaru was a twisted man that was not fit to fill the role of Hokage, and when he finally retired years later he chose a student of Jiraiya's over Orochimaru as his successor, making the student Yondaime The Fourth Hokage. Though it is not known just how much of a capable ninja The Fourth was compared to Orochimaru, it is implied in the series that The Yondaime could at least equal Orochimaru in battle.
Realizing that he has hit a dead end in his quest to become the ultimate being and has nothing to gain from staying in Konoha, Orochimaru defected from the village and joined the elite criminal organization Akatsuki. His old teammate, Jiraiya, tried to convince him to reconsider, but to no avail - he betrayed the village and the "Densetsu no Sannin" the name Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade came to be known by, was no more. The role Orochimaru played in Akatsuki was unclear, as are the reasons he some time later opted to leave the organization to found his own Hidden Sound Village (although he did mention in a later episode that it had to do with the fact that he was jealous of Uchiha Itachi's strength; he also mentioned he wanted the power of the Sharingan and Itachi was too powerful to kill so he went after Sasuke instead.); but his ambitions were as clear as ever. He intended to wage war on Konoha, destroying it completely and triggering a world war. He also sought a worthy body to use with his immortality technique Fushi Tensei which he had finished developing. His first choice for a body was the talented Kaguya Kimimaro, blessed with a Kekkei Genkai which gave him an almost indestructible body. Although Orochimaru did give Kimimaro the Chi no Juin (Cursed Seal of Earth), considered the sister seal to Sasuke's Ten no Juin (Cursed Seal of Heaven), Kimimaro was abandoned as a vessel when he contracted a disease which weakened and eventually killed him. In this regard he developed a great interest in Uchiha Sasuke, particularly due to the Sharingan, which would allow him to copy and learn all the jutsu in the world more easily than if he did not take over Sasuke's body.
Orochimaru finally finds an opportune time-frame to further both these ambitions in the up-and-coming Chuunin examinations taking place in Konoha. He orchestrates a joint assault on Konoha using both Sand and Sound ninja in a crucial moment during the exams, when many of Konoha's Jounin would be gathered in one stadium, creating an opening to neutralize them all and leave the village very vulnerable. He also infiltrates the examination in various disguises throughout, appearing before Team 7 - which includes Sasuke - and branding Sasuke with his cursed seal. Knowing Sasuke's history, Orochimaru figures that with the aid of the cursed seal corroding Sasuke's will, his offers of power will eventually outweigh whatever other forces could be pulling his psyche in other directions than his quest as avenger, specifically his bond with Naruto which Orochimaru sees as crucial to subvert.
At some point during the brewing of the conspiracy to bring about the downfall of Konoha, Orochimaru killed the leader of the Hidden Sand Village - the Fourth Kazekage - and stole his identity, from then on playing both sides of the alliance he formed. Eventually, when the attack finally commenced, he shed this disguise and forced his old teacher, Sarutobi, into a one-on-one match, sacrificing his own henchmen and reviving the former Hokages of the village to fight on his side using the forbidden technique Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei, another of his developments which can bring the dead back to eternal life.
Initially, Orochimaru clearly had the upper hand, and he continually mocked and belittled the way his teacher was growing weak with age. Even while overpowered, Sarutobi refused to acknowledge that what Orochimaru has become is anything reflecting true strength, lecturing him one last time about how even if you learn all jutsu in existence you will not achieve true strength in this world, and only when fighting to protect the people important to them would a Shinobi's true strength manifest. Finally, in the fight's climax, he proclaimed that he will hand down Orochimaru's punishment for drowning himself in jutsu, and sacrificed his own life to seal Orochimaru's arms (lacking the power to seal his whole soul), using the same technique the Yondaime used to seal the Kyuubi inside Uzumaki Naruto. Without the use of his hands, Orochimaru was then incapable of forming hand seals and executing jutsu, and more importantly, was forced to call off the invasion in Konoha.
Initially, Orochimaru planned to have his condition healed by appealing to his old team-mate, Tsunade, who had since become a legendary medical ninja. He offered to revive her brother and boyfriend, both of which had died in battle in front of her eyes, in hopes this would persuade her to cooperate. At the same time, Jiraiya also contacted Tsunade, asking her to replace the late Sarutobi as Konoha's Fifth Hokage. Though inclined to give in to her weaknesses and accept Orochimaru's offer at first, she ultimately chose to live her loved ones' dream rather than linger on their dead bodies and accepts the position of Hokage, becoming Orochimaru's opposition and leaving him with only one option of replacing his crumbling, useless arms: Transferring to another body through the use of Fushi Tensei.
+Statistics+
Physical
Strength: 41
Speed: 58
Stamina: 57
Mental
Intelligence: 59
Tactics: 58
Willpower: 56
Chakra
Power: 48
Control: 52
Reserves: 60
+Technique List+ (Although Orochimaru is said to have learned thousands of jutsus, these are the techniques merely shown throughout the series. Also, a few have been added for my own purposes and enjoyment.)
Ninjutsu
Title: Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)
Rank: D - A
Description: This Jutsu, using a contract, Seal, and the user's blood, binds an animal to the user. The type of animal is determined by the contract and Seal performed. The blood is used as a signature to make the contract, which can be written on a scroll or tattoo, valid. Once bound, the animal can be summoned to perform a task or help the user in battle. The summon usually is subservient to the summoner. summoners. In Orochimaru's case, he summons Manda?s serpentine family (snakes).
Title: Kusanagi no Tsurugi: Kū no Tachi (Kusanagi Sword: Long Sword of the Heavens or "Grasscutter")
Rank: B
Description: This technique arms Orochimaru with the Kusanagi, of Japanese legend. Orochimaru opens his mouth and a snake comes out, opening its mouth, and produces the Sword of Kusanagi. The sword can also be greatly extended in length. Orochimaru has so far reserved the use of the sword to difficult fights: the Sandaime Hokage during the invasion of Konoha, the Jiraiya and Tsunade teamup, and four-tailed Kyuubi Naruto.
Title: Nan no Kaizo (Soft Physique Modification)
Rank: D
Description: Originally developed for spying activities, this technique can be done after some surgery and actual body modification. The user can then stretch and twist any parts of their body at any angle, elongating and allowing themselves to coil around their opponent, surprising them. This can also be used to make the user's body more malleable and snakelike.
Title: Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei (Summoning: Impure World Resurrection)
Rank: S
Description: This technique allows the user to revive the dead. The user must first sacrifice a living human in order to tie the deceased person's soul to the world (unlike the normal summoning technique, which only uses some of the user's blood). Then, the body is formed out of dust and dirt and rises out of the ground in front of the user inside a wooden coffin. This technique can also be used on multiple people at once.
Title: Juin Jutsu (Cursed Seal Technique)
Rank: A
Description: The Curse Seal was developed by one of the Legendary Sannin, Orochimaru. As a form of control, Orochimaru will place cursed seals on those he wishes to grant more power. A person with the curse seal only has a 10% chance of surviving. In other words, the chances of surviving a cursed seal is one out of ten. This form of attack used exclusively by Orochimaru, in which he bites into the victim's neck, planting a cursed seal. Given Orochimaru's ability to extend his neck to great distances, he uses this attack with ease. Look here for more information.
Title: Gogyo Fuin (Five Elements Seal)
Rank: A
Description: This jutsu is used to strengthen the seal on the Kyuubi. The original seal allowed Kyuubi's chakra to seep out into Uzumaki Naruto, but the additional seal disturbs this, preventing Naruto from using Kyuubi's chakra and even controlling his own chakra properly.
Title: Futon: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)
Rank: C
Description: The user sends out a powerful explosion of wind, which can easily level almost an entire area. It is known that a variation of the technique involves a smaller blast of wind which gets ignited with flame, making it stronger and more damaging to the given target.
Title: Shikon no Jutsu (Dead Soul Technique)
Rank: C
Description: This technique uses their to temporarily bring life back into the hearts of the deceased, creating the illusion that they are still alive while their bodies are controlled like puppets. An excellent jutsu when used as a distraction, and with the proper skills, it can make for an incredible escape plan.
Title: Jishinha (Seismic Wave)
Rank: B
Description: This jutsu sends sound into the ground and causes a seismic wave that is similar to a earthquake in the surrounding area (about a 30 foot radius). Usually done to off-balance the opponent for an easy kill. However, the user must put at least one hand onto the ground. The jutsu will end, should the hand(s) be removed from the ground.
Title: Fushi Tensei (Living Corpse Reincarnation)
Rank: S
Description: This Kinjutsu, developed by Orochimaru, allows him to transfer his mind to someone else's body. If repeated periodically, it basically grants the user immortality as long as the user can find new host bodies. Orochimaru can only perform this technique once about every three years. It also seems that when the three years are almost over, he is forced to moved into another host, as the previous one begins to reject him. However this may just be if the quality of the host isn't up to the power Orochimaru contains and if he had a proper container it is believed that he could stay in the host indefinitely.
Title: Shushagan no Jutsu (Vanishing Facial Copy Technique)
Rank: B
Description: This jutsu allows the user to copy the face of another person, effectively impersonating the said person.
Title: Sen'eijashu (Hidden Shadow Snake Hand)
Rank: C
Description: Users of this technique project several snakes from their wrist as they make a punching motion towards their intended target. The snakes often bite and wrap around the given target, potentially inflicting multiple wounds and are even capable of poisoning the victim as well. This technique is possibly tied to a similar Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique) that involves venomous snakes.
Title: Sen'eitajashu (Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hand)
Rank: B
Description: Alike to the Sen'eijashu, but with far more snakes. In addition, these snakes appear to be much longer than the height of a typical human and can extend to greater lengths.
Title: Kuchiyose: Rashomon (Summoning: Rashomon)
Rank: B
Description: This Kuchiyose creates a demonic form of the main gate of old Kyoto. It is also a form of ultimate defense.
Taijutsu
None.
Genjutsu
Title: Shihouhapou (All Directions)
Rank: E
Description: This jutsu distorts the hearing of the opponent, causing the sounds of the user to appear to be coming from every direction. Commonly used to confuse the target concerning his foe's location, or used to intimidate the one?s adversary by convincing him that he is surrounded.
Title: Hiru Bansho: Boka no Jutsu (Leech All Creation: Attack Prevention Technique)
Rank: C
Description: The user merges with or within a nearby object, taking on its properties, and avoiding any damage. When Orochimaru used this Jutsu during his fight against the Sandaime Hokage, he leaves behind an illusion of himself getting barraged by the Sandaime's attacks in order to confuse his opponent.
Title: Kanashibari no Jutsu (Temporary Paralysis Technique)
Rank: C
Description: This technique is used to cause one's opponent to lose the advantage of movement. Freezing them in their tracks, this creates an opening for a more dangerous attack.
