Kozai Uzumaki

Kozai wrote:

Name: Kozai Uzumaki
Nickname: Witch
Age: 16
Gender: Female

Height: 4’9”
Weight: 90 lbs
Appearance: Kozai is a diminutive girl, looking about three or four years younger than she actually is. With an underdeveloped body and height, she has difficulty looking most people of her age in the eyes without craning upwards to see. With red hair that's only just moving out of the childish tawny color she had in years prior and bright blue eyes, she's the iconic aryan youth, although she SHOULD have been on her way into womanhood by now. She prefers to wear more formal clothing, but sized down somewhat, making her look a little ridiculous on occasion. For such a purpose, she does have sets of casual clothes handy, though she feels ever so slightly exposed while wearing them.
Outside of this, she keeps a clean hygiene and a straight posture, showing no signs (whether she would like to or not) of her actual age. She keeps her hair somewhat short, though not TOO short, still showing off her seeming cheerful girlishness. It's well brushed, which isn't saying much since there isn't much length to take care of in the first place. A practical shinobi's consideration, one might say, to keep hair out of the grasp of enemies who might use it to gain an advantage.


Land: Ame
Character Rank: D
Clan: Uzumaki
Element: N/A

Personality: Outwardly, Kozai plays the role of the small girl that she appears to be. She eats plenty of sweets and stares out at the world around her with eyes of purity and wonder. While she asks plenty of questions, she rarely tends to listen to the answers, being (apparently) somewhat airheaded and ditzy. This false side of her has a very strong sense of justice and righteousness, and seems to be appalled at such gross wrongdoings as war and human experimentation and breaches of ethics. One thing that sticks through this blanket of falsehood is a tendency to have a great loyalty to village, kage, and clan.

The true Kozai, of course, is different. She's resentful about how she appears to everyone else, but that's not something that can be helped. She has a very bitter and cynical outlook on life, seeing wars as inevitable results of human nature that can only be profited from, and breaches of "ethics" as only natural. Clearly, the girl isn't really capable of feeling the empathy that many human beings do in most situations. Institutions like marriage only exist to further economic gain and increase the standing of one's family in the village. She pursues these ends with focus and determination that is little seen in someone of her stature.

Character History: Kozai was born into the prominent Uzumaki family, and was treated well growing up. Although she lived a life of comfort, however, the family was frequently taken up into political intrigue and hardships, so Kozai got a small taste of what the real world was like as she began to think for herself. The cruelty of other people, even the ruthless measures she sometimes saw her parents take (though they tried to hide it from her observant eyes) shocked her at first, but gradually it began to shape her character, turning her into someone jaded and bitter with the world already at a young age.

Her parents weren't stupid either, however, and while she was able to hide her pessimistic worldview (knowing that it would make her unhappy parents even more unhappy), she wasn't able to hide her growing talent for various types of jutsu. They resolved that as soon as she was old enough, they'd put her, their only child, into the academy with as much backing as they could give her. To Kozai, of course, this all had an ulterior motive (so she thought, though there was actually none other than love). From her point of view, they were trying to put as many assets under her belt as they could, so that she could be a marketable asset to the clan and family. Successful shinobi were always good for the clan, and a well known ninja could easily wed another, given the appropriate arrangements. Matrimony for honor or money was not a bad goal in her mind, so she cooperated with her parents' plans.

It was during her formative years in the academy that she realized that she had powers that far exceeded those of the studious upstarts around her. She decided to seek private tutelage and press on with her studies independent of her classmates. It was also around this time that she found out about her developmental problem. She stopped growing early and still had yet to flower and bloom. While this wasn't much of a big deal to her parents (which she found odd), it crushed her. It meant that she was no longer a marketable potential wife for the forseeable future, and had little hope of bringing in a large fortune into her household. Still, she was slowly honing some pretty deadly skills, and could certainly hope to see success in that field within the next few years.