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!!A Hero's Mask

I'm an aspiring artist and writer with an obsession with, well, nearly everything. Been practicing on the FF.Net account and all that, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~langnoi here]]. I've written, variously, ''FanFic/ThePromise'', ''FanFic/HowToHireANinjaMaid'', ''FanFic/PiecesOfEden'' and ''Literature/SilverScales''.

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!!!Kei
-->''"You can call me Kei."''
Kei is a self-insert who was basically designed to enter the ''{{Naruto}}'' universe in an extremely unorthodox manner and interact with the cast differently. This is because she's Sakura's new split personality.
* AFriendInNeed: Why she continues to help Sakura[[spoiler: despite not sharing the same body anymore]].
* BrainyBrunette
* BigSisterInstinct: She develops it for Team Seven as well as various other characters.
* BrilliantButLazy: She's very creative, but hates hard work.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Not that she realizes this at first, but some of her actions end up causing little changes that make things different. [[spoiler:Such as Lee not getting crippled by Gaara because she pushed Gai to interfere in the match, Sarutobi winning the fight with Orochimaru due to foreknowledge and Jiraiya's help, and Asuma and Kurenai nearly dying and Kakashi getting kidnapped because Gai was somewhere else entirely when Itachi and Kisame showed up]]. [[HeroicSafeMode She doesn't]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone react well]] [[HeroicBSOD to the last one.]]
-->'''[[TranquilFury Kei]]''': ''[[ThisIsSparta Give. Him. Back.]]''
* CloudCuckooLander: It certainly seems this way when she references things no one else understands. Her philosophical tangents tend to end this way as well--the "Love and Hate" speech below ends with a note on how she's [[SelfDeprecation just a bit bitter about never finding a boyfriend]].
* CombatMedic: While she does know a bit about medical techniques as a result of her improvisation while in Sakura's body, she admits that she'd much rather fight than heal. She even uses chakra scalpels as weapons if she feels she can get away with it. But when the shortage of medics becomes a problem, she's a competent-though-not-amazing team medic under pressure. [[spoiler:And later, she successfully argues this point so that she and Shino (as a bodyguard) are allowed to go on the Sasuke Retrieval mission.]]
* CombatPragmatist: One of the things Kei's father taught her is that ''every'' fight is a serious one and to treat them all the same way. So, she tends not to pay attention to little things like "honor" and "common decency" when she actually has to fight.
* CutenessOverload: Her reaction to Kakashi's summoned dogs, particularly Pakkun.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly toward the Konoha villagers, but often [[SelfDeprecation directed toward herself]] when other targets aren't available.
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler:She died in a car accident in the real world and was reincarnated into Sakura's body. She finds this out after a short chat with the entities that screwed up her reincarnation to begin with.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's rather unapproachable around strangers, but she can be warm and kind to people she cares about. Even if she isn't all that good at hugs.
* {{Determinator}}: She took a Tsukuyomi for Sakura's sake and ''[[BeyondTheImpossible still]]'' [[HopelessBossFight tried to fight Itachi]].
* GenreSavvy: Both as a result of having seen 90% of the ''{{Naruto}}'' series in particular and of [[{{Otaku}} being an anime fan in general.]]
* HeroicSafeMode: The end result of a ''[[{{Understatement}} very bad day]]''. [[spoiler:[[EvilDuo Itachi and Kisame]] put [[OfficialCouple Kurenai and Asuma]] in the hospital (not that Kei knows this) and are carrying [[MindRape Tsukuyomi'd]] [[BadassInDistress Kakashi]] around, [[LovableSexManiac Jiraiya]] took off after some woman, [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan Naruto]] and [[YouKilledMyFather Sasuke]] are in '''''deep shit''''' because the Akatsuki members are in town, Tsunade refused to teach her to be a medic, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and she burned breakfast that morning]].]] [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Not that it helps any.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: She will use pretty much ''anything'' to fight and win. This even applies to the fight with Ino, where she runs out of kunai and resorts to choking the girl out with her own ponytail. As Kei puts it, ''she'' was never Ino's friend and since Ino took out Sakura with the Mind-Transfer technique, it's open season. [[spoiler:After being kinda-sorta released from the hospital post-Itachi (read: she ran away), she uses a set of crutches to whack Sasuke over the head when he thinks about running off. She also uses an air horn to startle the Sound Four when they try to tempt Sasuke away from Konoha, which has the side-benefit of screwing Tayuya over, allowing her to get in a cheap shot against Jiroubou, and [[TheCavalry calling every ANBU in the area in to investigate the noise.]] [[XanatosGambit Just as planned]].]]
* [[spoiler:LiteralSplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler: [[MindRape Once she's been hit by the Tsukuyomi]] and [[MentalWorld is forced to retreat to her mindscape]] [[AngstComa to deal with the fallout]], Kei [[PowersThatBe finds something there]].]]
* OlderAlterEgo: For Sakura.
* ThePowerOfLove: One of the facets of her personal philosophy is that you can't have much of anything without love. On another occasions, she mentions that it can be one of the most powerful forces in the world in terms of motivation, even for people you wouldn't expect. She (even later) notes that it's not necessarily ''good'' on its own, and elaborates when asked.
--> '''Kei:''' ''"Hatred is love turned inside-out. You can't really hate people unless they've hurt you through that love--it doesn't really matter if they did it by hurting someone you cared about or by betraying your trust, because it's all a matter of taking everything good about love and everything dangerous about it, and twisting it until it turns into something terrible."''
* PsychoticSmirk: [[XanatosGambit When a plan comes together perfectly]], or when she's fighting someone she really, ''really'' wants dead.
* RantInducingSlight: Being told that she's heavy for a kunoichi, then later finding out that she weighs more than Itachi does. It's sort of like her BerserkButton.
* ShockAndAwe: She has a lightning affinity. She just zaps people. She calls her first and favorite original technique [[GratuitousEnglish Stun Gun no Jutsu]]. [[spoiler:There's a reason for this--she realized that lightning was one of the three elements that don't require any [[ElementalBaggage outside source]] to generate while still being chakra-conservative. The fact that this was her affinity was just icing on the cake.]]
* SirSwearsALot
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: She seems to occupy both ends at once, oddly enough. She ''believes'' in the former and actually acts according to the latter.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Kei drops all honorifics when she's in control, as well as calling several different characters by nicknames.
* SuperStrength: Courtesy of Sakura's chakra control.
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:Pulled off when Itachi goes to use the Tsukuyomi while Sakura is the one in control of the body. It was a [[BatmanGambit gamble]] on her part to tell Itachi about the future.]]
* TrappedInTVLand: In a different way than usual.
* TheUnpronounceable: She says this regarding her actual name. When further questioned, she says it's just that most of the other characters can't produce the morphomes necessary to say it correctly and there's no point in making things difficult.
** OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: This is the result.
* VoicesAreMental: [[JustifiedTrope Kei deliberately talks in a lower register than Sakura due to a certain amount of laziness on her part.]]
* WaifProphet: What she appears to be from the perspective of anyone who first meets her in Sakura's body. [[RetroactivePrecognition This isn't entirely accurate.]]
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I'm an aspiring artist and writer with an obsession with, well, nearly everything. Been practicing on the FF.Net account and all that, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~langnoi here]]. I've written, variously, ''FanFic/ThePromise'', ''FanFic/HowToHireANinjaMaid'', and ''Literature/SilverScales''.

* {{Kuudere}}: She's rather unapproachable around strangers, but she can be warm and kind to people she cares about. Even if she isn't all that good at hugs.

* SlasherSmile: [[XanatosGambit When a plan comes together perfectly]], or when she's fighting someone she really, ''really'' wants dead.

* CloudCuckooLander: It certainly seems this way when she references things no one else understands. Her philosophical tangents tend to end this way as well--the "Love and Hate" speech below ends with a note on how she's [[HeroicSelfDeprecation just a bit bitter about never finding a boyfriend]].

* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly toward the Konoha villagers, but often [[HeroicSelfDeprecation directed toward herself]] when other targets aren't available.

Kei is a self-insert who was basically designed to enter the ''{{Naruto}}'' in an extremely unorthodox manner and interact with the cast differently. This is because she's Sakura's new split personality.

* ImprovisedWeapon: She will use pretty much ''anything'' to fight and win. This even applies to the fight with Ino, where she runs out of kunai and resorts to shocking the girl out with her own ponytail. [[spoiler:After being kinda-sorta released from the hospital post-Itachi (read: she ran away), she uses a set of crutches to whack Sasuke over the head when he thinks about running off. She also uses an air horn to startle the Sound Four when they try to tempt Sasuke away from Konoha, which has the side-benefit of screwing Tayuya over, allowing her to get in a cheap shot against Jiroubou, and [[TheCavalry calling every ANBU in the area in to investigate the noise.]] [[XanatosGambit Just as planned]].]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler:After being kinda-sorta released from the hospital post-Itachi (read: she ran away), she uses a set of crutches to whack Sasuke over the head when he thinks about running off. She also uses an air horn to startle the Sound Four when they try to tempt Sasuke away from Konoha, which has the side-benefit of screwing Tayuya over, allowing her to get in a cheap shot against Jiroubou, and [[TheCavalry calling every ANBU in the area in to investigate the noise.]] [[XanatosGambit Just as planned]].]]

* [[spoiler:LiteralSplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler: [[MindRape Once she's been hit by the Tsukuyomi]] and [[MentalWorld is forced to retreat to her mindscape]] [[AngstComa to deal with the fallout]] and [[PowersThatBe finds something there]].]]

* [[spoiler:LiteralSplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler: [[MindRape Once she's been hit by the Tsukuyomi]] and [[MentalWorld is forced to retreat to her mindscape to deal with the fallout]] and [[PowersThatBe finds something there]].]]

* ButterflyOfDoom: Not that she realizes this at first, but some of her actions end up causing little changes that make things different. [[spoiler:Such as Lee not getting crippled by Gaara because she pushed Gai to interfere in the match, Sarutobi winning the fight with Orochimaru due to foreknowledge and Jiraiya's help, and Asuma and Kurenai nearly dying and Kakashi getting kidnapped because Gai was somewhere else entirely when Itachi and Kisame showed up]]. [[HeroicSafeMode She doesn't]] [[HeroicResolve react well]] [[HeroicBSOD to the last one.]]

* [[spoiler:DeadToBeginWith]]: [[spoiler:She died in a car accident in the real world and was reincarnated into Sakura's body. She finds this out after a short chat with the entities that screwed up her reincarnation to begin with.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler:After being kinda-sorta released from the hospital post-Itachi (read: she ran away), she uses a set of crutches to whack Sasuke over the head when he thinks about running off. She also uses an air horn to startle the Sound Four when they try to tempt Sasuke away from Konoha, which has the side-benefit of [[TheCavalry calling every ANBU in the area in to investigate.]] JustAsPlanned.]]

* HeroicSafeMode: The end result of a ''[[{{Understatement}} very bad day]]''. [[spoiler:[[EvilDuo Itachi and Kisame]] put [[OfficialCouple Kurenai and Asuma]] in the hospital (not that Kei knows this) and are carrying [[MindRape Tsukuyomi'd]] [[BadassInDistress Kakashi]] around, [[LovableSexManiac Jiraiya]] took off after some woman, [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan Naruto]] and [[YouKilledMyFather Sasuke]] are in '''''deep shit''''' because the Akatsuki members are in town, Tsunade refused to teach her to be a medic, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she burned breakfast that morning]].]] [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Not that it helps any.]]

* WaifProphet: What she appears to be from the perspective of anyone who first meets her in Sakura's body. [[RetroactiveProcognition This isn't entirely accurate.]]

* WaifProphet: What she appears to be from the perspective of anyone who first meets her in Sakura's body.

Kei is a self-insert who was basically designed to entire the ''{{Naruto}}'' in an extremely unorthodox manner and interact with the cast differently. This is because she's Sakura's new split personality.

* {{Kuudere}}: She's rather unapproachable around strangers, but she can be extremely warm to people she cares about. Even if she isn't all that good at hugs.

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* ButterflyOfDoom: Not that she realizes this at first, but some of her actions end up causing little changes that make things different. [[spoiler:Such as Lee not getting crippled by Gaara because she pushed Gai to interfere in the match, Sarutobi winning the fight with Orochimaru due to foreknowledge and Jiraiya's help, and Asuma and Kurenai nearly dying and Kakashi getting kidnapped because Gai was somewhere else entirely when Itachi and Kisame showed up]]. [[HeroicBSOD She doesn't react well to the last one.]]

* ButterflyOfDoom: Not that she realizes this at first, but some of her actions end up causing little changes that make things different. [[spoiler:Such as Lee not getting crippled by Gaara because she pushed Gai to interfere in the match, Sarutobi winning the fight with Orochimaru due to foreknowledge and Jiraiya's help, and Asuma and Kurenai nearly dying and Kakashi getting kidnapped because Gai was somewhere else entirely when Itachi and Kisame showed up]]. She doesn't react well to the last one.

* TranquilFury: The end result of a ''very bad day''. [[spoiler:[[EvilDuo Itachi and Kisame]] put [[OfficialCouple Kurenai and Asuma]] in the hospital (not that Kei knows this) and are carrying [[MindRape Tsukuyomi'd]] [[BadassInDistress Kakashi]] around, Jiraiya took off after some woman, [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan Naruto]] and [[YouKilledMyFather Sasuke]] are in '''''deep''' shit'' because the Akatsuki members are in town, Tsunade refused to teach her to be a medic, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she burned breakfast that morning]].]] [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Not that it helps any.]]

* ShockAndAwe: She has a lightning affinity. She just zaps people. She calls her first and favorite original technique [[GratuitousEnglish Stun Gun no Jutsu]]. [[spoiler:There's a reason for this--she realizes that lightning is one of the three elements that don't require any [[ElementalBaggage outside source]] to generate while still being chakra-conservative. It helps that Kei managed to pass her physics class back when she was a normal student.]]

* ShockAndAwe: She has a lightning affinity. She just zaps people. She calls her first and favorite original technique [[GratuitousEnglish Stun Gun no Jutsu]].

* [[spoiler:LiteralSplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler: [[MindRape Once she's been hit by the Tsukuyomi]] and [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind is forced to retreat to her mindscape to deal with the fallout]] and [[PowersThatBe finds something there]].]]