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THE BASICS
Name: Akimichi Chouji
Canon: Naruto
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Wing Color: white with red barring
CANONPOINT & HISTORY
Canon Point: Chapter 617
Canon Point Explanation: I want Chouji at about the same canonpoint as Shikamaru, because I’d like him to understand what his best friend is going through without forcing painful explanations. Also, I’ve enjoyed the recent arcs (even when they are attempting to break my heart and crush my soul) and would like them incorporated into the history I play from.
History: History on the Naruto Wiki
PERSONALITY
Chouji’s lack of self-confidence has always been what holds him back the most. As a young child he questioned whether anyone would ever want to be his friend. More recently, he asked his father who would ever have any interest in marrying him. He initially saw himself as the weak link in his team as a shinobi, with little confidence in his combat skills.
Much of his insecurity is due largely to teasing about his weight. It has become something of a sensitive subject, and calling him fat is a quick route to injury. Though he is typically very polite and rarely speaks or acts in anger, very few things can override the instant rage that takes over in response to such insults. While Chouji can do quite a bit of damage in one of these rages, the strength with which they provide him is superficial at best. He only truly fulfills his potential when fighting for the sake of people he cares about. During the first fight in which Chouji employs his clan’s ultimate technique, he says that his motivation for fighting is not being called fat or having the last chip stolen from him, but the insults made by his opponent to Shikamaru. Insulting or hurting Chouji’s friends is a bigger taboo than comments about his weight or interfering with his favorite foods.
After some time during his childhood never fitting in, chosen last or not at all for games, Chouji has an intense appreciation for friendship. Shikamaru was his first friend, and that bond is one that Chouji will treasure forever. Chouji’s favorite pastime is watching clouds with Shikamaru while eating barbecue chips. Food is important to Chouji for the sake of his techniques, but he also appreciates it for its own sake. Sometimes a little too much; food is portrayed as a bit of an addiction for him. He craves it for his own enjoyment every bit as much as to maintain his clan-specific abilities.
Over time he has established other friendships and will fight for each of those. The people he cares about come first for Chouji. His best friend can set aside emotions and think logically, but Chouji listens to his heart first and his mind has to catch up later. He will never be the stoic shinobi ideal. When he is afraid before a battle, he doesn’t suffer in silence. Chouji admits it aloud. Chouji is the first to hesitate when he might endanger someone important to him, and he will freeze for far longer than his teammates. The most emotional member of the team, he is the worst at setting aside his feelings in a fight. He has enough determination and loyalty to his village to lay his feelings aside every time when it is absolutely necessary, but Chouji typically needs a reminder. Upon his father’s apparent death, Chouji left him at Kakashi’s urging in order to get vital information to the Hokage. When his teammates’ fathers died, Chouji was ready to comfort them immediately, and Shikamaru was forced to remind him that there is no time to grieve in the middle of a battle. If his team were divided into brain and brawn, Chouji would fall solidly into the second category. That division doesn’t take into account, though, the role his heart plays in the team dynamic.
Chouji has always had an aversion to fighting against friends. When still in school, he protested even a friendly spar against Shikamaru. Fortunately, he had an understanding best friend who forfeited rather than force the issue; Shikamaru would not hesitate to declare a spar too troublesome to bother with if it saved Chouji some inner turmoil. When put into a position where he had to face his mentor’s reanimated body in a fight, Asuma’s personality intact but control of his body taken from him, Ino went so far as to take over her teammate’s body. Chouji could not stand to harm the man who had led their team and shaped their growth as people and as shinobi. It took persuasion from Ino inside his mind and a reminder from his father about the oath Chouji swore as clan heir to break him out of this state. Chouji had promised to protect his team’s clans and the village of Konoha as a whole, and he had to fulfill his promise no matter how difficult it was. When he finally found the determination to do what was necessary, Chouji’s abilities shocked his father and teammates. Breaking his mental and emotional boundaries allowed Chouji to break through to a new level of power and engage his ultimate jutsu without the dangerous side effects of the pills.
Chouji gains confidence as he manages to overcome obstacles and hesitations, and Asuma has expressed faith that Chouji now possesses the confidence he needs. This may not mean that his old doubts are entirely eradicated, but he can overcome them when it truly matters.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
Physical: Chouji is physically very strong, and consumes a huge amount of calories to maintain his muscle mass. He can convert these calories to chakra through his clan techniques and uses them to enhance his strength. Basic ninja skills include such things as use of chakra to walk up walls, leap between tree branches, and walk across water, as well as a grasp of thrown weapons such as kunai and shuriken, and generic martial arts.
Skills specific to Chouji and his clan include the ability to enlarge part or all of his body to several times its original size, plus the ability to shape his body into a ball and roll at his enemies while rapidly rotating; the latter of these he now makes more effective through hardening his hair into sharpened needle-like protrusions, his body capable of inflicting puncture wounds in addition to blunt force trauma. His clan’s ultimate technique entails the use of specially designed pills, each with side effects of varying severity. Chouji can, in a moment of confidence and pure clarity of intent, achieve his final technique without use of the pills. He has done so on one occasion. With this technique, Chouji grows what are essentially giant butterfly wings composed of chakra, and his attacks gain much more force than usual. While he still loses weight in the calorie-to-chakra conversion, he does so in a non-life-threatening way.
He currently has a bit of a residual power boost from Naruto’s transfer of Kyuubi chakra. How long this will last is unknown, but essentially, it gives him an extra reserve to draw from that can either increase his stamina or the power of his attack.
Mental: His willpower is substantial, even if it is only truly present when he fights for the sake of his friends, family, or village. Prior to nearly every significant fight, from the chuunin exam all the way to the war now being waged, Chouji has hesitated and admitted his fear. As soon as the battle begins and his friends' safety is on the line, though, this hesitation vanishes. It is replaced by determination to win any fight, no matter how difficult, for their sake.
His trust in his teammates, and particularly in Shikamaru, is completely unshakable. During the mission to retrieve Sasuke, Chouji never doubted that Shikamaru had a plan, even when Shikamaru claimed he wanted to surrender. Because he gives his trust so fully, Chouji never hesitates to take orders or advice from those he looks up to. Part of that trust is gratitude for the faith Shikamaru has in him. Chouji has doubted himself in the past, but he has never once expressed similar sentiments about his comrades. Because of this, he does tend to be fairly in sync with his team, and he is good at watching those around him for cues. Shikamaru can predict everything else, but Chouji can predict Shikamaru.
Chouji is fairly well adjusted in terms of not taking on guilt or regret, unlike certain other members of his team. He has enough empathy to understand Shikamaru's guilt over Asuma's death, but he does not have similar feelings. He would feel guilty if anyone he cared for came to harm because of him, but he is also much more practical and realistic in determining what is truly his fault. Chouji has never expected himself to be perfect or anticipate all eventualities, though he is determined to protect those he cares about.
Emotional: Chouji has an abundance of kindness and empathy. While this can be a weakness on the battlefield in certain situations, it also makes him all the more willing to fight for those he cares about. It fuels his determination. In non-combat situations, it is an asset almost without fail. He will be there for his friends the second they need him, as demonstrated by his readiness to comfort Ino and Shikamaru before they are actually ready to grieve. Chouji watches out for his friends off duty as well as on, trying to ensure their well-being, and this gives him a sense of purpose that balances and grounds him.
He does not hold grudges against anyone who insults him, once his initial anger has subsided. His gradual increases in self-confidence have helped him learn to stop taking these insults to heart, too, and Chouji no longer internalizes any comments that might previously have hurt him. Part of the reason for this is his ability to draw strength from his friends' belief in him. During the Sasuke retrieval mission, for instance, Shikamaru's faith was enough for Chouji to believe in himself in spite of negative comments from teammates and enemies alike. Chouji may be heavily dependent on his bonds with his friends, but he knows how to convert this into independent strength.
Weaknesses:
Physical: The side effects from the pills typically needed to reach his strongest technique are quite literally life threatening, so the pills are only worth using in truly desperate situations. Without fairly immediate medical attention, inducing the technique through pills will kill him. Chouji is also heavily dependent on food; given that his jutsus by nature require him to convert calories to chakra, he has to maintain a high body weight and a consistently high calorie diet in order to continue using his techniques.
Mental: Food is not just a practicality for Chouji; he also craves it on a level that approaches addiction. Asuma went so far as to tell Chouji ought to go on a diet during the last bits of advice for his students prior to his death. Chouji’s intelligence is average, which stands out on a team which includes the strategic genius of his generation and a fairly sharp-witted specialist in mind jutsus; Chouji will defer to his teammates for battle plans. On a less serious note, he also has a phobia of lizards.
Emotional: Lack of self confidence has always been Chouji’s biggest weakness, though this has lessened over time as he has matured and through the support of his friends and mentors. He has been known in the past to doubt his skills as a ninja, his physical appearance, and whether anyone would be interested in him either for friendship or romantically. There is still a small degree of this self-doubt lingering, though Asuma’s last words to him show faith he’ll overcome any traces of it eventually. He is also more emotionally demonstrative than many of his peers and less able to set aside his emotions. This can be a liability in battle, and Chouji has always relied on friends and teammates to pull him back into a fight when he can’t set aside the more emotional side of things.
SAMPLES AND Q&A
First Person: The grocery store was out of barbecue chips today; instead, they stocked flavors I’ve never heard of before. I bought some, of course.
I don’t think this combination will work, but here goes.
...Actually, chicken and waffle chips are not bad. They take some getting used to, but they’re growing on me. I think I’ll buy some more before the store realizes they’re carrying the wrong kind of chips.
I wonder what other flavors would taste good. What is the strangest thing you think would taste good on chips?
I would be willing to share if anyone else is brave or curious enough to try a few. Meet me on the roof this afternoon. The clouds are nice today.
Third Person: Chouji washed fresh scallions in the sink, smiling in anticipation of dinner. He’d brought home a heavy load of groceries, and it was his turn to treat his teammates to something delicious. Chopping the vegetables with an efficiency borne of long experience with blades outside of the kitchen, Chouji noticed a flicker of movement at the edge of his peripheral vision, up near the ceiling. He very carefully refrained from taking outward notice for a moment, then spun quickly, brandishing the kitchen knife. Its blade had been sharpened to the same degree as any weapon in his pouch, and he knew its balance well enough to make a decent throw if necessary.
His now-identified target froze, and so did Chouji.
It wasn’t a threat, the logical part of him insisted, and of course he refrained from attacking. As it began to creep down the wall, he held his ground, gaze following its every move. It wasn’t, of course, that Chouji really thought he would come to any harm, but he was uneasy with the idea of letting it out of his sight while it was here, in his home, in the kitchen where he was trying to prepare a meal. Chouji was hungry, and he hoped it left soon so that he could go back to cooking. Dinner couldn’t come soon enough, and it would be later still if he was delayed as a result of this home invasion.
Never taking his eyes off the menace, Chouji slowly opened the nearest window. While he moved, it stopped. Chouji withdrew from the window, laid the knife down on the wooden cutting board, and folded his arms over his chest to wait. Sure enough, when he went still, it continued crawling down the wall.
It seemed to take hours, though if that amount of time truly had passed Chouji was sure Ino and Shikamaru would already be present. His intense focus momentarily distracted him even from his hunger.
Finally, a six inch lizard skittered over the edge of the windowsill, the tip of its tail vanishing from sight last of all.
Chouji shut the window a little too hard.
Q & A:
1. What is the most difficult thing you've ever done?
Fighting Asuma-sensei. I never wanted to cause him pain. I couldn't. He was proud when I finally attacked him, but it was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
2. If you had to choose between obeying the person you respect and saving the person you love, which would you choose? Why?
No one I look up to would order me not to protect my friends, not unless it would endanger everyone else I care about. Anyone who did would lose my respect. For the sake of the village, I think I could hold my ground rather than abandoning my post, now. I swore an oath. If I break my word, there won't be a safe home for those I love to return to.
That is the only time I would ever obey orders rather than save someone I love.
Even then, I doubt I would ever forgive myself for it.
3. How do you think you perform in a crisis?
Not as well as my teammates. When I'm afraid, or when I hesitate, Shikamaru and Ino have to make up for my weakness. My father did too. I won't let that happen anymore. I'll be stronger next time.
4. What is your greatest regret?
The time that Naruto snatched and ate the last piece of meat at Yakiniku-Q just as I reached for it.
5. How much do you value power? What is the limit of what you'd do to possess it?
I want power to protect my friends, my clan, and my village. I will never harm them to gain power, because then it would all be meaningless.
Even after being forced to fight Asuma-sensei, that is still the limit. I couldn't let him kill the people he loved; that would have harmed him more than my fists. It took me too long to accept that and help him. Any power I gained from that battle was for Sensei's sake and for the sake of Konoha.
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THE BASICS
Name: Akimichi Chouji
Canon: Naruto
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Wing Color: white with red barring
CANONPOINT & HISTORY
Canon Point: Chapter 617
Canon Point Explanation: I want Chouji at about the same canonpoint as Shikamaru, because I’d like him to understand what his best friend is going through without forcing painful explanations. Also, I’ve enjoyed the recent arcs (even when they are attempting to break my heart and crush my soul) and would like them incorporated into the history I play from.
History: History on the Naruto Wiki
PERSONALITY
Chouji’s lack of self-confidence has always been what holds him back the most. As a young child he questioned whether anyone would ever want to be his friend. More recently, he asked his father who would ever have any interest in marrying him. He initially saw himself as the weak link in his team as a shinobi, with little confidence in his combat skills.
Much of his insecurity is due largely to teasing about his weight. It has become something of a sensitive subject, and calling him fat is a quick route to injury. Though he is typically very polite and rarely speaks or acts in anger, very few things can override the instant rage that takes over in response to such insults. While Chouji can do quite a bit of damage in one of these rages, the strength with which they provide him is superficial at best. He only truly fulfills his potential when fighting for the sake of people he cares about. During the first fight in which Chouji employs his clan’s ultimate technique, he says that his motivation for fighting is not being called fat or having the last chip stolen from him, but the insults made by his opponent to Shikamaru. Insulting or hurting Chouji’s friends is a bigger taboo than comments about his weight or interfering with his favorite foods.
After some time during his childhood never fitting in, chosen last or not at all for games, Chouji has an intense appreciation for friendship. Shikamaru was his first friend, and that bond is one that Chouji will treasure forever. Chouji’s favorite pastime is watching clouds with Shikamaru while eating barbecue chips. Food is important to Chouji for the sake of his techniques, but he also appreciates it for its own sake. Sometimes a little too much; food is portrayed as a bit of an addiction for him. He craves it for his own enjoyment every bit as much as to maintain his clan-specific abilities.
Over time he has established other friendships and will fight for each of those. The people he cares about come first for Chouji. His best friend can set aside emotions and think logically, but Chouji listens to his heart first and his mind has to catch up later. He will never be the stoic shinobi ideal. When he is afraid before a battle, he doesn’t suffer in silence. Chouji admits it aloud. Chouji is the first to hesitate when he might endanger someone important to him, and he will freeze for far longer than his teammates. The most emotional member of the team, he is the worst at setting aside his feelings in a fight. He has enough determination and loyalty to his village to lay his feelings aside every time when it is absolutely necessary, but Chouji typically needs a reminder. Upon his father’s apparent death, Chouji left him at Kakashi’s urging in order to get vital information to the Hokage. When his teammates’ fathers died, Chouji was ready to comfort them immediately, and Shikamaru was forced to remind him that there is no time to grieve in the middle of a battle. If his team were divided into brain and brawn, Chouji would fall solidly into the second category. That division doesn’t take into account, though, the role his heart plays in the team dynamic.
Chouji has always had an aversion to fighting against friends. When still in school, he protested even a friendly spar against Shikamaru. Fortunately, he had an understanding best friend who forfeited rather than force the issue; Shikamaru would not hesitate to declare a spar too troublesome to bother with if it saved Chouji some inner turmoil. When put into a position where he had to face his mentor’s reanimated body in a fight, Asuma’s personality intact but control of his body taken from him, Ino went so far as to take over her teammate’s body. Chouji could not stand to harm the man who had led their team and shaped their growth as people and as shinobi. It took persuasion from Ino inside his mind and a reminder from his father about the oath Chouji swore as clan heir to break him out of this state. Chouji had promised to protect his team’s clans and the village of Konoha as a whole, and he had to fulfill his promise no matter how difficult it was. When he finally found the determination to do what was necessary, Chouji’s abilities shocked his father and teammates. Breaking his mental and emotional boundaries allowed Chouji to break through to a new level of power and engage his ultimate jutsu without the dangerous side effects of the pills.
Chouji gains confidence as he manages to overcome obstacles and hesitations, and Asuma has expressed faith that Chouji now possesses the confidence he needs. This may not mean that his old doubts are entirely eradicated, but he can overcome them when it truly matters.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
Skills specific to Chouji and his clan include the ability to enlarge part or all of his body to several times its original size, plus the ability to shape his body into a ball and roll at his enemies while rapidly rotating; the latter of these he now makes more effective through hardening his hair into sharpened needle-like protrusions, his body capable of inflicting puncture wounds in addition to blunt force trauma. His clan’s ultimate technique entails the use of specially designed pills, each with side effects of varying severity. Chouji can, in a moment of confidence and pure clarity of intent, achieve his final technique without use of the pills. He has done so on one occasion. With this technique, Chouji grows what are essentially giant butterfly wings composed of chakra, and his attacks gain much more force than usual. While he still loses weight in the calorie-to-chakra conversion, he does so in a non-life-threatening way.
He currently has a bit of a residual power boost from Naruto’s transfer of Kyuubi chakra. How long this will last is unknown, but essentially, it gives him an extra reserve to draw from that can either increase his stamina or the power of his attack.
Mental: His willpower is substantial, even if it is only truly present when he fights for the sake of his friends, family, or village. Prior to nearly every significant fight, from the chuunin exam all the way to the war now being waged, Chouji has hesitated and admitted his fear. As soon as the battle begins and his friends' safety is on the line, though, this hesitation vanishes. It is replaced by determination to win any fight, no matter how difficult, for their sake.
His trust in his teammates, and particularly in Shikamaru, is completely unshakable. During the mission to retrieve Sasuke, Chouji never doubted that Shikamaru had a plan, even when Shikamaru claimed he wanted to surrender. Because he gives his trust so fully, Chouji never hesitates to take orders or advice from those he looks up to. Part of that trust is gratitude for the faith Shikamaru has in him. Chouji has doubted himself in the past, but he has never once expressed similar sentiments about his comrades. Because of this, he does tend to be fairly in sync with his team, and he is good at watching those around him for cues. Shikamaru can predict everything else, but Chouji can predict Shikamaru.
Chouji is fairly well adjusted in terms of not taking on guilt or regret, unlike certain other members of his team. He has enough empathy to understand Shikamaru's guilt over Asuma's death, but he does not have similar feelings. He would feel guilty if anyone he cared for came to harm because of him, but he is also much more practical and realistic in determining what is truly his fault. Chouji has never expected himself to be perfect or anticipate all eventualities, though he is determined to protect those he cares about.
Emotional: Chouji has an abundance of kindness and empathy. While this can be a weakness on the battlefield in certain situations, it also makes him all the more willing to fight for those he cares about. It fuels his determination. In non-combat situations, it is an asset almost without fail. He will be there for his friends the second they need him, as demonstrated by his readiness to comfort Ino and Shikamaru before they are actually ready to grieve. Chouji watches out for his friends off duty as well as on, trying to ensure their well-being, and this gives him a sense of purpose that balances and grounds him.
He does not hold grudges against anyone who insults him, once his initial anger has subsided. His gradual increases in self-confidence have helped him learn to stop taking these insults to heart, too, and Chouji no longer internalizes any comments that might previously have hurt him. Part of the reason for this is his ability to draw strength from his friends' belief in him. During the Sasuke retrieval mission, for instance, Shikamaru's faith was enough for Chouji to believe in himself in spite of negative comments from teammates and enemies alike. Chouji may be heavily dependent on his bonds with his friends, but he knows how to convert this into independent strength.
Weaknesses:
Mental: Food is not just a practicality for Chouji; he also craves it on a level that approaches addiction. Asuma went so far as to tell Chouji ought to go on a diet during the last bits of advice for his students prior to his death. Chouji’s intelligence is average, which stands out on a team which includes the strategic genius of his generation and a fairly sharp-witted specialist in mind jutsus; Chouji will defer to his teammates for battle plans. On a less serious note, he also has a phobia of lizards.
Emotional: Lack of self confidence has always been Chouji’s biggest weakness, though this has lessened over time as he has matured and through the support of his friends and mentors. He has been known in the past to doubt his skills as a ninja, his physical appearance, and whether anyone would be interested in him either for friendship or romantically. There is still a small degree of this self-doubt lingering, though Asuma’s last words to him show faith he’ll overcome any traces of it eventually. He is also more emotionally demonstrative than many of his peers and less able to set aside his emotions. This can be a liability in battle, and Chouji has always relied on friends and teammates to pull him back into a fight when he can’t set aside the more emotional side of things.
SAMPLES AND Q&A
First Person: The grocery store was out of barbecue chips today; instead, they stocked flavors I’ve never heard of before. I bought some, of course.
I don’t think this combination will work, but here goes.
...Actually, chicken and waffle chips are not bad. They take some getting used to, but they’re growing on me. I think I’ll buy some more before the store realizes they’re carrying the wrong kind of chips.
I wonder what other flavors would taste good. What is the strangest thing you think would taste good on chips?
I would be willing to share if anyone else is brave or curious enough to try a few. Meet me on the roof this afternoon. The clouds are nice today.
Third Person: Chouji washed fresh scallions in the sink, smiling in anticipation of dinner. He’d brought home a heavy load of groceries, and it was his turn to treat his teammates to something delicious. Chopping the vegetables with an efficiency borne of long experience with blades outside of the kitchen, Chouji noticed a flicker of movement at the edge of his peripheral vision, up near the ceiling. He very carefully refrained from taking outward notice for a moment, then spun quickly, brandishing the kitchen knife. Its blade had been sharpened to the same degree as any weapon in his pouch, and he knew its balance well enough to make a decent throw if necessary.
His now-identified target froze, and so did Chouji.
It wasn’t a threat, the logical part of him insisted, and of course he refrained from attacking. As it began to creep down the wall, he held his ground, gaze following its every move. It wasn’t, of course, that Chouji really thought he would come to any harm, but he was uneasy with the idea of letting it out of his sight while it was here, in his home, in the kitchen where he was trying to prepare a meal. Chouji was hungry, and he hoped it left soon so that he could go back to cooking. Dinner couldn’t come soon enough, and it would be later still if he was delayed as a result of this home invasion.
Never taking his eyes off the menace, Chouji slowly opened the nearest window. While he moved, it stopped. Chouji withdrew from the window, laid the knife down on the wooden cutting board, and folded his arms over his chest to wait. Sure enough, when he went still, it continued crawling down the wall.
It seemed to take hours, though if that amount of time truly had passed Chouji was sure Ino and Shikamaru would already be present. His intense focus momentarily distracted him even from his hunger.
Finally, a six inch lizard skittered over the edge of the windowsill, the tip of its tail vanishing from sight last of all.
Chouji shut the window a little too hard.
Q & A:
1. What is the most difficult thing you've ever done?
Fighting Asuma-sensei. I never wanted to cause him pain. I couldn't. He was proud when I finally attacked him, but it was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
2. If you had to choose between obeying the person you respect and saving the person you love, which would you choose? Why?
No one I look up to would order me not to protect my friends, not unless it would endanger everyone else I care about. Anyone who did would lose my respect. For the sake of the village, I think I could hold my ground rather than abandoning my post, now. I swore an oath. If I break my word, there won't be a safe home for those I love to return to.
That is the only time I would ever obey orders rather than save someone I love.
Even then, I doubt I would ever forgive myself for it.
3. How do you think you perform in a crisis?
Not as well as my teammates. When I'm afraid, or when I hesitate, Shikamaru and Ino have to make up for my weakness. My father did too. I won't let that happen anymore. I'll be stronger next time.
4. What is your greatest regret?
The time that Naruto snatched and ate the last piece of meat at Yakiniku-Q just as I reached for it.
5. How much do you value power? What is the limit of what you'd do to possess it?
I want power to protect my friends, my clan, and my village. I will never harm them to gain power, because then it would all be meaningless.
Even after being forced to fight Asuma-sensei, that is still the limit. I couldn't let him kill the people he loved; that would have harmed him more than my fists. It took me too long to accept that and help him. Any power I gained from that battle was for Sensei's sake and for the sake of Konoha.