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[Masamune]

G E N E R A L information

Name:
Masamune Hoji

Age:
Twenty-eight

Date of Birth:
January 21^st

Gender:
Male

Class:
Civilian^{[ Swordsmith ]}

Relatives:

Okazaki Masamune - Ancestor
Masamune Hiromitsu - Father
Masamune Kaoru - Mother
Masamune Ai - Sister

Clan:
Masamune Ichizoku

Country:
Hi no Kuni

V I S A G E information

Case File:

Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 147
Apparel: Hoji typically wears simple clothing that is both comfortable, and easy to fight in. A simple white kosode and navy navy kimono adorn his torso. Covering his legs is a black hakama with a white obi sash around his waist. He also wears a white haori with silver, black, and navy etchings of river with fish along the bottom and the linings. On his wrists he wears black leather wristguards with steel plating and black fingerless gloves. Around his neck he wears a pendant with the Masamune Ichizoku insignia, which he keeps hidden under his clothing.

P E R S O N A L information

Mental Evaluation:
Hoji by nature is a quiet and reserved individual. He enjoys the simpler things in life, such as being out in nature. Because of his quiet nature he is often viewed as unsocialable, which is partially true as he does not like to be around a certain amount of people for too long. When forced to interact with people he typically responds in a manner that requires the least amount of talking, or simply uses gestures to explain what he needs said. In fact, his true motives for traveling extend from this anti-social side of him. Not wanting to have to deal with people constantly coming to him so that he could forge weapons for them he started to travel. Hoji also takes great pride in his work and the work of other weaponsmiths, and gets frustrated easily when he see that weapons aren't being taken care of properly. Because of this pride a person must prove themselves first before he'd make them a weapon.

Background Analysis:
The Okazaki Ichizoku, a clan famed for housing the greatest swordsmith that the world will ever know -- Okazaki Masamune. As his success and fame grew the clan soon found itself renaming the clan in his honor. Generations have passed and the numbers in the clan have steadily dwindled to two small families of three or four. While both families are weaponsmiths only one amongst them possesses any true skill in the arts of smithing. This individual is none other than Masamune Hoji -- the successor to Okazaki Masamune.

His childhood was rather simple, for the most part. He lived on a decent piece of land given to his family by the Hi no Kuni daimyo decades ago. There his family set up an elaborate forge where they could work. From all over people would come to see the weapons that they crafted, and on rare occasions purchase some of the few remaining blades of Okazaki Masamune himself. Living in this kind of busy environment jaded Hoji's opinion of people, seeing them as nothing more than greedy, selfish annoyances.

As he grew older and his skills at the forge expontentially increased his credit in people would only become more sullied. With the word of his skills spreading throughout the continent more and more people came to recieve weaponry made specifically by him. While taking pride in the success of his creations he started to grow weary of the people that wanted them. Each of them wanting nothing but to selfishly gain power, and each of them not worthy enough in his eyes. See, money was never important to Hoji. He loved making weapons, and he wanted to see those weapons used by someone who could properly wield them.

It is for this reason that he decided to leave his home. Figuring that if he were to don the role of a raveling swordsman people wouldn't be so quick to find out his true identity. He still maintains mild communication with his family, but prefers to keep his distance from them as well. Now, being on his own, he lives his life on a whim. Traveling wherever the wind takes him, and where his heart guides him.

Chakra Nature:
Fūton | Suiton

Jutsu:

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I N V E N T O R Y information

Inventory:

Shūken
^{[ Sword Collection ]}
At all times Hoji carries with him a a large cylinder that carries a plethora of his swords. There are at least twenty different blades in it at all times. He has them organized in a specific order so that he knows which blade he has drawn, and he is capable of switching them on the fly.

Yawaraka-Te
^{[ Tender Hands ]}
This is a blade that was forged by Okazaki Masamune himself, and Hoji's prized possession. This sword, as if possessing the soul of Masamune, will only allow itself to be wielded by the true successor of the Masamune. When wielded the sword supposedly syncs with its wielder, truly making it an extention of their body. Wielding it becomes natural and fluid, almost as if one were simply moving their arm. This sword also has the ability to "judge" the souls of people. Those wielding this sword will find themselves unable to needlessly cut those the sword has deamed innocent and undeserving. However, if the wielder channels their chakra into the blade white fūin will appear along the sides of the sword. When these fūin activate the word will allow itself to cut the innocent, but instead of causing harm to them it will heal them instead. In retrospect, when the sword has deamed someone unworthy the fūin that form along the blade will be dark purple. When it is like this the sword's cutting abilities are improved twofold.