Xun Qilin

My entry for the design your own ninja contest.
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Name: Xun Qilin (Soon Chee-lin)
Age: 15
Rank: Genin
Gender: female
Likes: Gaara, fried rice, hunan beef, soba, cool breezes on hot days, horseback riding
Dislikes: mushrooms, leeches, rude people, akatsuki
Appearance: bright red eyes, dark skin (from the desert sun), red western (chinese) style clothing, afghani bandana (actually fashioned from what an afghani man would wear verses a woman, meant to give that desert roamer look)

Family History: the Xun family immigrated into the wind country from the far west (referencing northern china as it would likely be in the naruto world setting) as merchants a century ago. Although they don't isolate themselves as a group, they do tend to hold to their original traditions, diets, and clothing; shaping and adapting them to function in the desert region they now call home. The family is most well known for their restaurants serving a popular rice/vegetable/beef dish proven to be rather filling and also energizing. Qilin is the first of her family to pursue a life as a ninja, and as has become tradition with them, she has brought her distinct western style into the ninja mix.

Personality: Extremely devoted to her distinct set of ideals, among them her idolization of Kaze Kage (Gaara) and jointly (since he honors it) the alliance with Konoha. Never speak ill of either to her if you value your life. Otherwise her demeanor is peaceful and calm. She is kind and benevolent, and even when angry (if you can tell she's angry) is always polite (if she plans to kill you she'll apologize before hand). She spends much of her time outside of training in meditation and performing Qiquong (chee-koo-ahng...slow moving excersizes meant to focus chii (chakra), essentially what most think of when you mention tai-chi).

Personal Bio: Qilin had been a smiling, sweet girl since the day she was born, serving to contrast the strange, brilliant red eyes she bore which led many to believe she was possessed or the offspring of a demon. Such rumors were short lived however in the face of that smile. It was that smile and friendly demeanor that one day led her to a sad red head boy with funny eyes, not but a few years older then her, but for some reason the other kids seemed to avoid like the plague. She tried to walk up to him several times, but would always be swept up by her mother and told that boy would kill her. It would make her sad, watching his shadow diminish as she was carried away, never able to understand why her mother would say such cruel things about him. As she grew she would watch the boy from a distance, growing ever sadder as she watched whom she learned to be the Kaze Kage's son, the demon child, Gaara, grow into a cold, bitter, and merciless rogue. Always, despite the knowledge of who he was and the unavoidable fear he would manifest in all including her, the desire to help him would grow. She graduated finally from the academy around the time Gaara departed to enter the chuunin exam in konoha. She finished near the bottom, her instructors commenting that as the years went on it seemed her motivation left her until she was barely scratching out a passing grade, and that smile she was blessed with seemed to have vanished (depression and confusion as well as changing hormones given her age). However, a sudden change took hold of her life not too long after. Gaara returned from the chuunin exam vastly different, as if the dark shell around him had cracked. Slowly, as the curse of isolation seemed to disappear from Gaara, the smile returned to Qilin's face. She began to train with diligence, at first as an attempt to catch Gaara's attention; a sort of youthful crush that never even so much as resulted in a glance much to her dismay (example if he walked past she'd try to look impressive with her training, would never speak though). However, on the day Gaara was named Kaze Kage, she decided in her heart that such an approach was childish, especially for someone who seemed to her beyond her reach. Thus after his inaugeration ceremony she made a solitary blood oath that rather then use her energy in hopeless romance she would devote herself to doing all she could to serve the new Kaze Kage and his ideals, and she would do it forever from the shadows outside of acknowledgment.

Weapons of Choice: Usually unarmed but may occasionally use a curved dagger. Otherwise standard ninja fare (shuriken, kunai)

Techniques: Qilin uses a western (chinese) style known as Baguazhong (Bah-koo-ah-jong....literal translation means eight trigram palm. Inner chinese art focused on circular movements. Wikipedia link here [link] . Is actually the martial art I am personally practicing IRL. Closest resemblance found in Naruto canon would be any Hyuuga character.) Her usual focus is in knocking the opponent to the ground then finishing them off. When in combat it often appears she isn't even looking at the opponent, rather appears focused on either some distant object of the floor. She also usually allows the opponent to make the first move and come to her.

Jutsu: Wind Drill- in appearance it seems a cross between secondary lotus and gatsuuga. It's a finish move she uses after knocking her opponent to the ground. It involves a rapid but controlled spin pivoting on her right foot targetting the abdominal area with the intent of knocking the wind out of the opponent, essentially she drills the opponent into the ground. Difference from lotus; not nearly as powerful overall, does not require use of chakra gates, and isn't self-damaging. Difference from gatsuuga; more controlled and focuses on a specific target point on the body. Weakness; useless unless the opponent is knocked down.

Sun Circle- (hand seals bird sheep bird boar) the only non-hand to hand technique Qilin uses. In appearances it is a minor summoning technique, however rather then familiars being summoned she manifests her chakra into varying aspects represented by the daoist trigram. The technique starts by manifesting a trigram around her. So long as she remains within it she may utilize the aspects (accepting final two aspects). The aspects are:
Lion: chakra manifests itself as a set of claws that can strike from the circle within a five meter radius. The claws are controlled by Qilin's hand movements and are small and swift acting as a blade. Weakness; range is easy to assess so only will work the short time it takes the opponent to catch on.
Snake: chakra manifests as a series of grasping vines sprouting from the ground. Weakness; vines are slow moving and easy to dodge, if they do not catch the opponent by surprise on the first strike they are waisted.
Bear: chakra manifests itself around opponent and begins to crush the body. Weakness; partnered to the snake aspect, cannot manifest unless opponent is trapped by the vines.
Dragon: chakra manifests itself as fire blasts projected from Qilin. Weakness; essentially an elaborate and weaker (at her level) variation of the Uchiha Katon abilities, thus sharing similar weaknesses.
Phoenix: chakra manifests itself as bird shaped flame shuriken. Their flight paths can be directed by various hand seals. Weakness; screw up the seal they fly the wrong way, also steering is based on Qilin's reaction time. Attack also isn't very powerful.
Rooster: chakra manifests itself into a blinding flash. In the daoist trigram the rooster stands for 'lying step' thus the ability is centered on the notion concealing the user's true intentions. Weakness; diversion, not an attack.
Monkey: chakra manifests itself within Qilin temporarily tripling her dexterity. Upon use circle disappears and must be resummoned to be used again. Weakness: defense only, does nothing to boost attack power, just the ability to dodge and lasts only four minutes tops. It also cancels the circle disabling any immediate future use of it. User also gets a strange craving for bananas.
Qilin (shares her name, it is actually a chinese chimera): chakra manifests itself around user as a fire miasma (similar to the nine-tails miasma of naruto) in the shape of a chinese chimera (wikipedia link here [link] ). User gains a temporary boost of attack power as well as a 'hot punch' (each strike feels like getting hit with magma). Weakness; cancels circle permenantly due to the fact it will literally DRAIN USERS CHAKRA DRY after two minutes of use (provided much of her chakra is intact). Much like primary lotus it is ONLY to be used as a last resort. It can also be potentially self damaging if the miasma is not kept stable. Interesting feature, the heat strangely does not effect the surrounding environment (based on the legend that the chinese chimera would not bend grass blades when walking).
Overall weakness; most of the technique requires the user to remain within the trigram circle, thus knocking them out of it cancels the circle and waists the chakra used in it. Some of the aspects are also expensive chakra wise (or bankrupting like the qilin aspect), and if used carelessly can quickly drain the user. She can also only maintain the circle for ten minutes time. Essentially at this point the technique is very unrefined and inefficient, in some cases almost a waist to use, being too weak and too expensive as well as not fully mastered. (sort of the equivilent of naruto's rasengen before they meet tsunade)

Heated Palm- (hand seals monkey boar bird) final unique jutsu, partnered to her hand to hand combat. Essentially, she uses her chakra to add scalding blasts of heat to her strikes.

Hopes and dreams for Future: to see kaze kage's wishes and hopes for the village come true.

Additional Info: although she idolizes him as the kaze kage, she has no actual link to gaara, no relationship, and he has no knowledge of her existence as well. There is nothing between them that would create a scenario in violation of the world setting.