"MAZE"
望月 島津
望月 島津
[Appearance]
- Maze is dark-skinned and has dark brown, waist-length hair that is typically braided, each lock fastened by a maroon clip at the end. He is short in stature for his age, with his peers typically towering over him, and is almost never seen without his sunglasses on. His eyes are black, and his perpetually flat facial expression lends to his cool, docile nature.
His outfit consists of the standard red turtleneck shirt of Iwagakure shinobi and a full-body mesh suit, both of the sleeveless variant. He also wears long maroon shorts with a lapel over his right leg, fingerless black gloves, and black shinobi sandals. When not on mission, he wears his forehead protector around his neck. Conversely, he ties it around his braids behind his head when deployed.
[Personality]
- Often, Maze is mistaken for a reserved, discerning individual due to his perpetually flat facade, a trait carried by most members of his family. A child at heart, however, this betrays his impulsive and immature behavior. Always emulating his father's 'coolness' and using variations of the man's deadpan catch-phrases, he is somewhat of a weird kid.
Having been raised in a household ruled by a hardened and pragmatic authoritarian of a father, the ignorant adolescent that Maze keeps under wraps when in the presence of his father tends to peek through his inherited stoicism when out of the house. This is a side of the reclusive boy that few are aware of, though.
Maze has largely been shaped by the trauma experienced when his father exiled his older brother, Shinsuke, from the household for failing the academy entrance exam a third time. With his closest friend forced out and forsaken, the harshness of the world expedited Maze’s maturation, somewhat. With age, Maze has realized that any illusions of wisdom or caring or kindness that he once believed his father possessed are, in fact, just that: illusions of his own making.Like any child, however, he holds onto fleeting hope, still yearning for the adoration of his father and the warmth of a stable family. In this, he seeks to excel as a shinobi in all facets, dedicating himself wholly to his Ninpou.
[Background]
- Born as the fourth and youngest son of Mochizuki Shinpachi, the man renown throughout the ninja world as the ‘Mountain Demon of the Hidden Rock’ (岩の山鬼, Iwa no Yamaoni), a childhood heaped with high expectations seemed inevitable. However, the stigma of the family’s utter lack of talent had worn away at whatever presumptions outsiders might have had for the progeny of the great Shinpachi by the time Maze reached the appropriate age. With all of his older brothers having failed their father’s lofty expectations of them as shinobi, Shinpachi assumed no different would be seen from the young Maze.
In fact, not a single member of the Mochizuki family attended the boy's graduation exam.
What comfort he hoped to find in his brothers was nowhere to be found. Having lived under the oppression that Maze’s childhood was mostly void of, Shinsaku and Shintarou carry a deep-seated bitterness in their hearts and an unfounded resentment of their younger brother for how ‘easy’ his life has been. Never willing to aid him in any way, everything that Maze has learned, thus far, has been a product of his dedication.
Excelling in the academy, Maze graduated as one of the top students of his class. As a member of one of Iwagakure’s sensory units, he strives toward reaching levels of renown that eclipse not only that of the great Yamaoni but that of his father’s greatest rival---the Tsuchikage, himself.
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