Line #130 Characters/SugarPlums


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3	[[folder:Team Five]]
4	!! In General
5	* FreudianTrio: Ume being the Id, Hiroshi being the Superego, and Kiriko being the Ego.
6	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: They break the normal shinobi pattern of two guys and a girl.
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8	!! Ume
9	The narrator and protagonist. She's a reincarnated twenty something year old from our world who ended up in Kiri. She's not terribly happy about it.
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11	%% * ActionGirl
12	* AnimalMotifs: Ume is in character associated with rabbits and was originally given the nickname 'Red Rabbit' because of her red hair and high speed.
13	%% * BlowYouAway
14	* TheBigGuy: On her team she's this. It's why it annoys her that her teacher calls her Ume-chan.
15	* BoringButPractical: Ume can't use most of the series fancy and spectacular jutsu, instead she focuses on learning more mundane methods of fighting including swordsmanship, pressure points, poison, sealing scrolls and wind jutsu (of which she's only capable of either pushing herself or other people since she has no idea how to use cutting winds). These tactics however combined with her natural speed and complete willingness to throw everything she has at a target immediately especially when [[TalkToTheFist they're talking]] makes her potent fighter.
16	* CombatPragmatist: While ninja in general are this, Ume fights really dirty and is not above blackmail, intimidation, [[TalkToTheFist interrupting someone mid speech]] to get a hit in or [[GroinAttack aiming for tender locations]].
17	* ClothingCombat: [[spoiler:Eventually uses this in full force with khakri heavy cloth, particularly she can harden it like armor, use her bandages to capture and bind people as well as store things, and can freely manipulate several threads effectively using them as [[RazorFloss really thin ninja wire]]]].
18	* DoubleJump: Force Jumping, basically a normal jump with wind chakra is this for her, it's a fairly simple technique but increases her manueverability greatly on the battle field.
19	* IaijutsuPractitioner
20	* InSeriesNickname: Ume has three, Suigetsu calls her Buyo (gnat) which was her nickname in their sword class (because she's small, fast and hard to hit), Zabuza calls her Mokuyobi (Thursday) which is part of his nicknames for all the orphans (whom he collectively calls Golden Week) who are all named after days of the week (she's Mokuyobi because when they met she played a timid girl who followed around Kiriko whom he named Suiyobi (Wednesday) and her last one is what civilians call her the Aka No Usagi (the Red Rabbit).
21	* FatalFlaw: Ume's is her willingness to put [[ChronicHeroSyndrome others above herself]], always. At best she's a bit of a [[TeamMom mother hen]], at her worst she's a full blown MartyrWithoutACause. This has led her to multiple [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness impulsive actions]] that have nearly killed her, as well as[[spoiler: lead her to hiding her using antidepressants to prevent people from worrying about her]]. She is called out a couple times for the hypocrisy of this especially since she is the defacto leader of their group and thus cannot be replaced.
22	%% * FieryRedhead: Ume is brash, very blunt, and has serious authority issues.
23	%% * FirstPersonSmartass
24	%% * FlashStep
25	* {{Foil}}: She can be considered one to multiple canon characters, but especially to characters in Dreaming of Sunshine since it is set to be in that universe.
26	** Shikako: Both characters are reincarnated, both are reasonably intelligent and both act as JackOfAllTrades characters for their group. The differences lie in their approaches and situations. While Shikako references her past life but completely accepts the new culture of the ninja world Ume injects knowledge of her past life freely and frequently and grates against shinobi culture as a whole. Shikako was raised in a well established well connected clan, Ume was raised in an orphanage where she was malnourished and ignored. Shikako almost didn't go to the academy because her parents were concerned for her, for Ume it was not actually a choice she was going to go their or be homeless so she opted to go early to protect her siblings. They both struggle though for different reasons and circumstances, but Ume's world is considerably darker by default.
27	** Naruto: Both of them are orphans, wind nature, had at least one foreign parent. Though while Naruto has an [[UnskilledButStrong abundance of chakra]], a HealingFactor, is incredibly optimistic and doesn't focus at all on his natural affinity. Ume is actually deficient in chakra, has lots of [[DentedIron scars]], is very cynical, and relies heavily on her wind affinity.
28	** Sasuke: Both of them lost most of their adoptive families in a single large tragedy leading both of them to being very driven and [[CynicismCatalyst very cynical]]. While this led Sasuke to try and push people out of his life and focus entirely on bettering himself, Ume instead latched onto the few people she had left and started trying to work to better the people around her.
29	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With Kiriko, Minami, and Mitsuki, she's Choleric.
30	* FragileSpeedster: Ume is the fastest person in her class, she's also the most fragile and has the lowest amount of chakra.
31	* FunctionalAddict: It's mentioned in passing several times that Ume is addicted to a form of ninja sleeping pills as a way to deal with her constant nightmares. It's not treated as anything serious until [[spoiler:she has to start taking antidepressants as well, which not only impede her use of jutsu while she's on them, but when she spends several days unconscious because of suffering from injuries in combat she starts having seizures from withdrawal because she didn't inform the people she was traveling in that [[WhatTheHellHero? she was on them]].]]
32	* GoodIsNotSoft: Though a bit awkward Ume is a genuinely nice and incredibly empathic person especially to her friends, her siblings and to nonshinobi of whom which she is very popular. This of course doesn't change the fact that she is a very potent warrior and has a higher on screen body count than most of the main Naruto cast. If you threaten her or anybody she cares about she won't hesitate to kill you.
33	%% * LittleMissSnarker
34	* MadeOfIron: Inverted and deconstructed with Ume. She often takes damage from falls, training and gets knocked unconcious from situations where normal ninja would just shrug it off. At first it was attributed to her being younger then her other classmates but it's later revealed to be[[spoiler: because of her lower than average chakra pool when she runs out of active chakra she draws unconciously from her passive chakra which is what reinforces the body of normal ninja from harm. She's told that someone like her shouldn't be on the battle field at all because even facing normal shinobi she's much more likely to die the longer a fight goes on.]]
35	* NotAfraidToDie: Having done so before death isn't a big mystery to Ume, and she's almost blaise about that fact, which frustrates her [[AngerBornOfWorry siblings to no end.]]
36	* PintsizedPowerhouse: Ume is compared to everyone she works with absolutely tiny. At the age of twelve she is 4 foot 3, making her six inches shorter than Naruto (who is the shortest member of the Rookie Nine). Doesn't make her any less badass.
37	%% * PoisonedWeapons
38	%% * RedOniBlueOni: She's the Red to Kiriko's Blue.
39	* RedMage: Ume starts out as a straight up damage dealer with a focus on wind ninjutsu as her primary magic, but as time goes on she moves into more medical arts including diagonostic and healing ninjutsu along with being a decent swordsman.
40	%% * OriginalCharacter[=/=]SelfInsert
41	* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not overt at first Ume has several symptoms of PTSD including frequent nightmares, increased paranoia, avoids thinking about or speaking out loud her tragedies and more recently [[spoiler: suffered a flashback after seeing Kimimaro.]]
42	* SpiderSense: Sort of, Ume can't sense danger as a whole, she can sense when someone attacks her with the [[KillingIntent intent to harm]]. This doesn't work against things like splash weapons, when she's sparing with someone who won't harm her, or weapons with additional add ons (like ninja wire).
43	%% * SweetTooth
44	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: A running theme is though Ume can and will kill without hesitation when she needs to, she always has conflicting feelings about it after the fact because of how much it contradicts her upbringing in her previous life. She often has nightmares about it too.
45	* WeakButSkilled: Ume has low chakra for a ninja. She can't participate in extended conflict without the use of combat drugs. She's also exceptionally skilled at targetting weak points, hitting really hard really fast, and has excellent chakra control.
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47	!! Kiriko
48	One of the kids from the orphanage Ume was raised in. The closest person personally to Ume and later her teammate.
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50	* ActualPacifist: In story, Kiriko has never killed anyone and is almost always in a support position in combat. She can fight, but hates violence.
51	* {{Foil}}: To Sakura, both are orphans who mostly take noncombat roles (pre-timeskip), have high chakra control and train in medical jutsu. Kiriko is however more soft spoken and naturally gentle and adapt socially.
52	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With Ume, Minami and Mitsuki, she's Phlegmatic.
53	* InSeriesNickname: Zabuza calls her Suiyobi (Wednesday).
54	%% * MasterOfIllusion: Her academy specialty is visual genjutsu.
55	%% * YamatoNadeshiko
56	* {{Oneesama}}: She shows shades of being the first type. Ume refers to her as her sister, sibling or older sister most of the time. She's graceful and a lot of the time very concerned for Ume's wellbeing.
57	%% * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Ume's Red.
58	* ShellShockedVeteran: Is hinted at to having PTSD, mostly because Ume won't bring up the incident at the wall for fear of upsetting her.
59	%% * SummonMagic: Becomes the signer of the Rabbit Contract.
60	* WhiteMage: Primarily she falls into support roles as well as the best at using healing ninjutsu.
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62	!! Kishi Hiroshi
63	The heir to one of the seven families and later teammate to Ume.
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65	* BadassBureaucrat: Is the heir to a family of these. It's noted several times that while they're position is mostly in the background, the Kishi wield an incredibly large amount of power in Kirigakure.
66	* BlackMage: He's this full stop focusing almost entirely on ranged combat. He can use the most elements out of all the main characters.
67	* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: Learns how to use freezing jutsu during the chunin exams which is known to be incredibly difficult (it's just a step down from ice release in that freezing jutsu requires there be a large amount of water on the target and ice jutsu can create ice from the humitidy in large amounts).]]
68	%% ** BlowYouAway
69	%% ** DishingOutTheDirt
70	%% ** MakingASplash
71	%% ** ShockAndAwe
72	* BrainwashedandCrazy: [[spoiler: After the chunin exams he is put in a position under the Mizukage. As it turns out not only Yagura, but everyone who works directly under him are under the control of Obito. This reveals itself when Ume tries to take him from the village with the new information she has and he promptly tries to kill her]].
73	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Somewhat of an aversion, but later played straight. Ume defeating him doesn't immediately make him want to be friendly to her but it does set him on a path to investigate the bad treatment lower people receive of which he had been somewhat ignorant. Only several months later as well as being forced to lead a task force for their graduation do the two actually become friends.
74	* {{Foil}}: His background as a well educated clan heir makes him one to most of the other characters who are orphans. He's also a foil to Sasuke, while they are both heirs and natural prodigies, Hiroshi's clan focus is mostly noncombat related and his skill lies in using elemental jutsu.
75	%% * ReformedBully
76	%% * RoyalBrat: Hiroshi is the heir apparent of the Kishi, one of the seven founding families.
77	* TheSmartGuy: Discusses and experiments with jutsu with Ume, very knowledgable in strategy and not afraid to call Ume out on her more dangerous or risky ideas.
78	* SquishyWizard: Hiroshi is an incredibly talented ninjutsu user despite all else. He has the largest variety in ninjutsu he can use because he can use four of the five major elements. He also can't stand up to Ume, or any close range fighter at all if they close the distance on him.
79	* SummonMagic: Becomes the signer of the Owl Contract.
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81	!!Kishi Kansen
82	Their jonin sensei, also a member of the Kishi family.
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84	* BadassTeacher: The jonin sensei of Team Five, he is competent and skilled shinobi.
85	* DeadManWriting: [[spoiler: Leaves a message with the rabbit contract knowing it would be left to one of his students after he dies. It's gotten a little late because Ume isn't able to use the contract because of the chakra constraints, Kiriko is unwilling to touch it after he dies for some time out of grief and Hiroshi is indisposed]].
86	* EnergyBow: The variety where the arrows are made of lightning elemental chakra.
87	%% * [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
88	* LastOfHisKind: One of few remaining members of the Arashi clans, one of the clans who died off in the blood limit genocides.
89	%% * ShockAndAwe
90	* SummonMagic: A signer of the Rabbit Contract, [[spoiler:before he dies]].
91	* YesMan: He's this to the Kishi, it's a bit of a darker example when you realize that it's not out of ambition but out of geniune fear about what would happen to him and his family if he acted otherwise.
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94	[[folder:Team Three]]
95	!!In General
96	* FreudianTrio: Minami is Id, Mitsuki is Superego, and Chojuro is Ego.
97	* FighterMageThief: Chojuro is the fighter, Mitsuki is the Mage, Minami is the thief.
98	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Inverted.
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100	!!Minami
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102	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With Ume, Kiriko and Mitsuki, she's Sanguine.
103	* HammerSpace: Minami (and later Ume) carries a lot of random miscellaneous on her person at all times, whenever they need something specific she's the person to ask for it.
104	* InSeriesNickname: Zabuza calls her Kayobi (Tuesday).
105	* LovableRogue: Steals things usually just because she can, she's also very funny overall and no one really thinks less of her. [[spoiler:Especially when you realize that she originally stole things so she could give them to crippled refugees that lived at the walls of Kirigakure]].
106	* GeometricMagic: Works more and more with seals as time goes on.
107	* PhenotypeStereotype: Her eyes are greenish blue, a clear sign of foreign heritage.
108	%% * RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Mitsuki's Blue Oni.
109	%% * StickyFingers
110	* TrapMaster: Minami loves tricks, ninja wire and smoke bombs.
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112	!!Mitsuki
113	* BoringYetPractical: Mitsuki is capable of using more advanced jutsu but instead opts to use basic jutsu like water bullet because she can use it with increased speed and it uses less chakra.
114	%% * ChainPain
115	%% * DeadpanSnarker
116	%% * EnergyBow
117	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With Ume, Kiriko and Minami, she's Melancholic.
118	* GoodWithNumbers: On various levels, even though they're only twelve (nine in Ume's case) all the orphans have to live in apartments and manage their own budgets and income which Mitsuki in particular does. She can also calculate the trajectory of projectiles, and with some training from Ume, card count and calculate pot odds for poker.
119	* InSeriesNickname: Zabuza calls her Getsuyobi (Monday).
120	%% * MakingASplash
121	%% * MageMarksman
122	%% * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Mitsuki.
123	%% * TheSmartGuy
124	* TheStoic: Mitsuki is never outwardly surprised nor does her tone ever raise over the same normal pitch. She does have a sharp tongue when adults aren't around though.
125	* VariableLengthChain: Justified and explained, she wears a harness under her clothing that stores a long length of chain on the back like the wheel someone would use for a hose.
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127	!!Chojuro
128	* BacktoBackBadasses: In combat situations he'll sometimes be paired with a pure offensive fighter like Ume or Suigetsu and act as their shield while they fight through other enemies.
129	%% * CloseRangeCombatant
130	* InSeriesNickname: Zabuza calls him Kinyobi (Friday).
131	* MartialPacifist: While he can, he really hates fighting and killing people.
132	* ShellShockedVeteran: He suffers nightmares from his time on the wall.
133	%% * ShrinkingViolet
134	* StoneWall: Not in the normal sense but it's noted that he's an excellent bodyguard because he prefers using an entirely defensive sword style.
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136	!!Gonbee
137	The jonin instructor to Team Three.
138	* FriendToAllChildren: He's the first adult they meet to actually treat the rest of the characters as children after they begin their ninja training and is honestly disgusted when he finds out that Ume [[spoiler:was captured and beaten to be interrogated]].
139	%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure
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142	[[folder: Other Characters]]
143	!!Gonmaru
144	* TheBigGuy: Not at first, but by the age of fifteen he's as tall as most of the adults and still growing, he's also the most physically muscular.
145	* BruiserwithaSoftCenter: Gonmaru will specifically never aim to maim in nonlethal situations and in general has a very easy going. Though he is hinted at having a darker side in his POV.
146	%% * CloseRangeCombatant
147	* DarkandTroubledPast: It's noted unlike most the orphans, Gonmaru knew and remembers his parents. [[spoiler:It's revealed in his POV that they were both murdered]].
148	* DishingOutDirt: Earth nature and about the only jutsu type he does use.
149	* MightyGlacier: Gonmaru is the slowest character in the group, he's also physically the strongest and the toughest.
150	%% * StoneWall
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152	!!Benjiro
153	%% * TheGenericGuy
154	* JackOfAllTrades: In story he's said to be so average that he ranks average skill in almost all ninja arts with the only tilting being that he's water natured. It's noted that in of itself is downright bizarre and contrasting considering all of the other characters are all incredibly specialized in one or two fields.
155	* TheNondescript: His actual appearance is described as this which is noted to have to have been a mix of several different regions to look so universal. This among with his generic guy qualities actually makes him the perfect person to send on infiltration missions, in fact if he hadn't graduated with the rest of the class he would have likely been sent straight into infiltration corps.
156	* WhatTheHellHero: He gives this out twice, both to Ume.
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158	!!Hozuki Suigetsu
159	* TheAce: Suigetsu's natural talent combined with his family jutsu makes him a force to be reckoned with in a fight. Every time it's been an option Ume's perfectly fine throwing Suigetsu at a problem while the others devote time to other things.
160	* BlobMonster: Turns into water whenever attacked.
161	* BloodKnight: Much less brutal than his canon counterpart, but still very much enjoys fighting and combat.
162	* BizarreHumanBiology: Mentioned several times that because of his clan's secret technique that his biology is downright strange when being examined under jutsu. He also losses stamina the more water he loses from his form and thus has to constantly hydrate himself.
163	* DistressedDude: Just like in canon he get's captured by Orochimaru. There's an entire arc devoted to finding and freeing him.
164	* LastOfHisKind: At the end of the civil war all the other Hozuki have been wiped out.
165	* MakingASplash
166	* MoreTeeththantheOsmondFamily: Like canon he has pointy filed teeth, it's apparently a tradition of the Seven Swordsman.
167	* SweetTooth: Like Ume, loves sweet things.
168	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like in canon he prefers foods he can drink which means he is absolutely delighted when Ume introduces him to smoothies. In fact almost every scene he has a speaking role in after she does so he either mentions a smoothie or is drinking one.
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170	!! Momochi Zabuza
171	%% * [[BigFuckingSword BFS]]
172	* CynicalMentor: Zabuza is this to anyone he teaches, especially Ume. Which is saying something because of how [[KnightInSourArmor cynical Ume]] is.
173	* DeathSeeker: He outright states if he had succeeded in killing Yagura he himself would have gone off to die as he would have lost his purpose.
174	* KnightInSourArmor: Zabuza is a jerk, but he's a jerk who worked hard for the rebellion and put himself at considerable risk trying to save Kirigakure despite it's flaws.
175	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He is noted in story to be this for Haku, as Haku won't go on missions without Zabuza making it clear he's codependent on him.
176	* MoreTeeththantheOsmondFamily: Like canon, it's noted when he's dealing with civilians he generally covers his mouth with wraps, probably because they unnerve people.
177	* ParentalSubstitute: To Haku
178	* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: He and Haku heavily have this dynamic, especially in the courts where he says he basically let's Haku deal with all the courtly affairs because he doesn't want to put up with the formal bull.
179	%% * SnarkKnight
180	* SnarktoSnarkCombat: A lot of his conversations with Ume are this, mostly because they are both incredibly cynical and have no qualms tearing into each other.
181
182	!! Haku
183	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Like in canon Haku occasionally wears feminine clothing, though most of the characters know he's a boy, Suigetsu misgenders him and ends up hitting on him.
184	* CluelessChickMagnet: Pretty low key example, but both Mitsuki and Minami have a crush on him, which he doesn't notice until they both give him a NoworNeverKiss before the battle for Kirigakure.
185	* GoodCopBadCop: Plays the good cop to Zabuza's bad when the two of them first meet with the group.
186	* NiceGuy: Of course Haku like his canon counterpart is one of the most reasonable and easy to get along with characters. He also acts as a foil to Zabuza's jerkass tendancies.
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188
189	!!Danny
190	A black and white cat given to Ume by Yagato.
191	* CatsAreMagic: It becomes very clear over time Danny is not a normal cat and Ume notes this on occasion but it's yet to be revealed exactly what he is.
192	* CatsAreMean: Averted, he's actually incredibly relaxed and friendly, so much so that he'll willingly go with people who are actively hunting the rest of the party, if they scratch him behind the ears.
193	%% * CuteKitten
194	* FuzzTherapy: Danny will act as something of a stress reliever/service animal to Ume if he's around while she's having a breakdown.
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