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In her earliest days she can recall, Mai was exposed to the chill of underground laboratories as a lab rat. Her eyes were forced from their sockets and a new set of artificial eyes replaced them. When it failed to reproduce the powers of the sharingan, the experiment was labeled a failure and the girl was discarded back into the civilian population with her useless eyes. Her only fortune was to be left within a small urban area connected to one of the tunnels of the Hidden Sound. The Hokage (having taken the mantle after the fall of Konoha) took pity on her and took her in, performing surgeries to improve her hearing and training her. Eventually she was able to function well enough to fool the academy, where she began a determined career as a shinobi and met others like her.
Mai would eventually become a respected name within the Hidden Sound, serving as the Jonin Hancho with the strange abilities of her eyes. She lived in a state of duality: loving the man who had saved her from her fate and hating his policies that enabled unethical experimentation at the same time. With growing descent in the ranks, she was forced to make a choice. She ended up siding with her conscious, joining rebellion and rising as a figurehead. Despite her efforts for a bloodless coup, her father-figure left her with no choice and engaged her in a deadly battle. After his death she was left with matters of the state in her hands, including an increasingly aggressive neighbor in the empire to the south. She has made few changes to the laws beyond preventing experimentaion on unwilling participants and children.
Despite passion leading her into the position, Mai has been cautious since taking over. She is overcome with paranoia about her subordinates, being very selective with who she trusts. Shinobi nations on either side of her borders seek her aid in various ventures, but she is hesitant to pull the Sound into any conflict outside of dealing with the empire. She believes that other leaders want to prey on her inexperience, so she is difficult to negotiate with.
Visual Genjutsu [Grand Master]
The ocular genjtsu achieved by Mai rivals that of legends of powerful Uchiha genjutsu users. Although her eyes are fake, if she concentrates she is able to place a person under the influence of a visual influence of a vivid genjutsu that cannot be broken with kai. With lesser illusions she can pester anyone that looks at her eyes, commonly tricking the brain into seeing flickering strobes that cause disorientation. Her visual genjutsu was powerful enough to drive the previous kage into madness. She is capable of using the temple of nirvana technique, which can put large crowds of people to sleep, although those who recognize the feathers have a chance to kai themselves out. She has learned to project illusions through even just the reflection of her eye in a pool of water.
Water Release [Master]
Mai is able to produce large quantities of water from her stomach, and she often uses this to flood terrain around her. This not only makes it easier to hear movements, but to get others to fall prey to her ocular genjutsu through reflections in the water. When she uses the release offensively she favors sweeping waves to reduce her margin of error and violent currents to sweep opponents off of their feet or even drown them in the right conditions. She also sometimes employs water clones just to add to the mind games that she can play with her enemies.
Stealth [Journeyman]
Even without eyesight, Mai has better skill at sneaking around than the average shinobi. She often moves into a position of hiding while enemies are caught under her genjutsu, preferring to use the trees as cover.
Taijutsu [Apprentice]
Mai's previous taijutsu training hasn't held up well with blindness, but she has been learning basic grappling techniques which are much more reliable for her to get a hold of foes and keep them at bay while she tries to make eye contact with them or using a whistle to induce a genjutsu to escape with.
Shurikenjutsu [Apprentice]
Mai's skills in shurikenjutsu are somewhat lacking, given her condition. She is still able to get close enough in a lot of cases when she moves to throw a weapon at someone, but her lack of precision makes it somewhat easy to dodge her attacks. She tends to avoid using shurikenjutsu.
Sensory [Apprentice]
With her particular condition, Mai has honed her abilities as a sensor to be more than nothing. Not wanting to rely on it as a crutch, she only has a faint ability to sense chakra signatures nearby, although she can distinguish them from person to person rather infallibly.
All Seeing Eye
The All Seeing eye are surgically implanted eyes modeled after the spinning movements of the sharingan. At the cost of sight, she is able to create hypnotic spinning patterns with their eyes to project visual genjutsu without the need for hand seals. Mai's already powerful genjutsu is further enhanced by the eyes construction, allowing almost impossible illusions.
Surgically Enhanced Hearing
Mai's ears have been improved through a surgical procedure. In perfect silence she is able to detect the sound of heartbeats, enabling her to function better without relying on eyesight. By listening to echoes, she is capable of maneuvering easily as if she weren't blind.
Rookie Proficiencies
Lightning Release, Fuinjutsu
Mai Nobusama
In her earliest days she can recall, Mai was exposed to the chill of underground laboratories as a lab rat. Her eyes were forced from their sockets and a new set of artificial eyes replaced them. When it failed to reproduce the powers of the sharingan, the experiment was labeled a failure and the girl was discarded back into the civilian population with her useless eyes. Her only fortune was to be left within a small urban area connected to one of the tunnels of the Hidden Sound. The Hokage (having taken the mantle after the fall of Konoha) took pity on her and took her in, performing surgeries to improve her hearing and training her. Eventually she was able to function well enough to fool the academy, where she began a determined career as a shinobi and met others like her.
Mai would eventually become a respected name within the Hidden Sound, serving as the Jonin Hancho with the strange abilities of her eyes. She lived in a state of duality: loving the man who had saved her from her fate and hating his policies that enabled unethical experimentation at the same time. With growing descent in the ranks, she was forced to make a choice. She ended up siding with her conscious, joining rebellion and rising as a figurehead. Despite her efforts for a bloodless coup, her father-figure left her with no choice and engaged her in a deadly battle. After his death she was left with matters of the state in her hands, including an increasingly aggressive neighbor in the empire to the south. She has made few changes to the laws beyond preventing experimentaion on unwilling participants and children.
Despite passion leading her into the position, Mai has been cautious since taking over. She is overcome with paranoia about her subordinates, being very selective with who she trusts. Shinobi nations on either side of her borders seek her aid in various ventures, but she is hesitant to pull the Sound into any conflict outside of dealing with the empire. She believes that other leaders want to prey on her inexperience, so she is difficult to negotiate with.
Proficiencies
Visual Genjutsu [Grand Master]
The ocular genjtsu achieved by Mai rivals that of legends of powerful Uchiha genjutsu users. Although her eyes are fake, if she concentrates she is able to place a person under the influence of a visual influence of a vivid genjutsu that cannot be broken with kai. With lesser illusions she can pester anyone that looks at her eyes, commonly tricking the brain into seeing flickering strobes that cause disorientation. Her visual genjutsu was powerful enough to drive the previous kage into madness. She is capable of using the temple of nirvana technique, which can put large crowds of people to sleep, although those who recognize the feathers have a chance to kai themselves out. She has learned to project illusions through even just the reflection of her eye in a pool of water.
Water Release [Master]
Mai is able to produce large quantities of water from her stomach, and she often uses this to flood terrain around her. This not only makes it easier to hear movements, but to get others to fall prey to her ocular genjutsu through reflections in the water. When she uses the release offensively she favors sweeping waves to reduce her margin of error and violent currents to sweep opponents off of their feet or even drown them in the right conditions. She also sometimes employs water clones just to add to the mind games that she can play with her enemies.
Stealth [Journeyman]
Even without eyesight, Mai has better skill at sneaking around than the average shinobi. She often moves into a position of hiding while enemies are caught under her genjutsu, preferring to use the trees as cover.
Taijutsu [Apprentice]
Mai's previous taijutsu training hasn't held up well with blindness, but she has been learning basic grappling techniques which are much more reliable for her to get a hold of foes and keep them at bay while she tries to make eye contact with them or using a whistle to induce a genjutsu to escape with.
Shurikenjutsu [Apprentice]
Mai's skills in shurikenjutsu are somewhat lacking, given her condition. She is still able to get close enough in a lot of cases when she moves to throw a weapon at someone, but her lack of precision makes it somewhat easy to dodge her attacks. She tends to avoid using shurikenjutsu.
Sensory [Apprentice]
With her particular condition, Mai has honed her abilities as a sensor to be more than nothing. Not wanting to rely on it as a crutch, she only has a faint ability to sense chakra signatures nearby, although she can distinguish them from person to person rather infallibly.
All Seeing Eye
The All Seeing eye are surgically implanted eyes modeled after the spinning movements of the sharingan. At the cost of sight, she is able to create hypnotic spinning patterns with their eyes to project visual genjutsu without the need for hand seals. Mai's already powerful genjutsu is further enhanced by the eyes construction, allowing almost impossible illusions.
Surgically Enhanced Hearing
Mai's ears have been improved through a surgical procedure. In perfect silence she is able to detect the sound of heartbeats, enabling her to function better without relying on eyesight. By listening to echoes, she is capable of maneuvering easily as if she weren't blind.
Rookie Proficiencies
Lightning Release, Fuinjutsu
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Mai Nobusuma looks like Makima.
Chainsaw Man
Mai Nobusuma looks like Makima.