▪︎Kakashi Hatake

Appearance.

Height: 6'1” Weight: 165lbs Age: 35 Blood Type: O Hair: silver-white, perpetually upstanding and messy. It’s a follicle pattern thing. His eyebrows and eyelashes are darker. Eyes: right: steel-grey, sleepy-looking, inscrutable. Left: Sharingan, one previous owner, slightly used. Skin: pale, scarred. If you look closely there’s a very faint tan line around his right eye. Facial Features: he has an angular jaw, sharp cheekbones and fine-bladed nose—his father’s mirror image laid over his mother’s delicate bone structure. A long white scar sliced across his mouth looks a little like he tried to kiss a kunai. He has another on the right side of his jaw, just dropping off the edge of bone. His canine teeth stretch to delicate points and give his smile a wicked edge. Other Physical Traits: Kakashi looks lean, but there’s solid muscle beneath that uniform. If you could talk him out of his clothes, you could use him as an anatomical chart for a class of med-students. He’s got quick, talented hands and beneath the slouchy, lazy exteriour, there’s a subtle feeling of a wire under high pressure.

Handedness: favors his right, but ambidextrous in a pinch. Voice: low, cool, slightly drawling. Identifying Marks: the hair, the mask, the hand-me-down eye—what isn’t an identifying mark? Even the back of his head gets in him trouble sometimes, with the Sakumo-hating crowd. Usual Clothing: out of his ANBU uniform, Kakashi wears his jounin uniform. On rare occasions he’ll dress in more casual civilian clothes, but even those tend to be plain or shading to black. He rarely takes his mask off.

Personality

General Personality Traits: from the outside, Kakashi looks slouchy, lazy, grey-haired and useless. He reads porn, takes a sideways attitude to social graces, and is functionally terrible at talking to, well, everyone. He snarks like he breathes. Underneath that, he’s also sharp as a razor, a dedicated leader (in training), a flawed workaholic, and ready to die for Konoha. He’s mostly amiable with other ninja, but he doesn’t make friends. There are castles of defences built to keep other people from getting in his head and under his skin. He very rarely touches anyone, and has a special trick of just not being there when other people try to broach his personal bubble — he doesn’t move, he’s just not standing where you thought he was. He smiles when he’s lying, makes jokes when he’s frightened, and despite years of trying to get over it, still has a reflexive deathwish.

Quirks: keeps a mask on his face and a book in front of his mask. Likes his dogs more than he likes most people, and understands them a lot better. Can sleep anywhere, on anything. Never really appears to eat, but food vanishes around him. Perpetually late, but he’s (almost) always exactly where he needs to be. Sexual Orientation: no one is quite sure. He reads Jiraiya’s terrible rainbow of porn, but as far as the rumor mill knows he’s never dated anyone. The general suggestion is that he’s so far in bed with Konoha, there’s no room for anyone else. Gifts/Talents: genius, excellent memory, fabulous ninja, responsible plant owner. Not much else. Flaws: many and varied. Religion and Philosophy: culturally shinto/buddhist. His father believed in Gods, but his father gutted himself on the living room floor. Kakashi believes in surviving for the next mission.

Likes and Dislikes

Likes and Loves: his dogs, his porn, salt-fried saury and grilled eggplant cooked in miso. Competent teammates and successful missions. New jutsu. Time to himself. Naruto. Dislikes and Hates: sweet food, collapsing after a fight, incompetent teammates. People who take an issue with his father, his eye, or his village. Loss, of any kind. Fears: making a critical mistake, intimacy, letting the village down. Dreams and Ambitions: To copy ten-thousand jutsu and create at least five new ones before he dies. To be at least as good a captain as Minato was.

Abilities and skills

Fighting Style: lightning-fast with a touch of head-fuckery. Ninjutsu, genjutsu, and fuuinjutsu are his main strengths, but he’s no slouch at taijutsu. His edges are his collected jutsu, the ability to think on his feet, and his Sharingan eye. He doesn’t mind playing on his reputation, either.Chakra natures: Lightning, Water, and Earth. Sensory range: 5 km. Preferred Weapons: kunai and ninjutsu, often shuriken. He tends to use his own hands before he draws a sword, but he’s fast with a blade. Special Jutsu: two: the Chidori, and its nastier big brother, the Raikiri. The Raikiri gets its name from the time he cut a bolt of lightning in half. It’s that fast. Weaknesses: Kakashi’s barely average chakra reserves are his major weakness and he knows it. He tries to end conflicts before that becomes an issue. When his Sharingan is covered, the blind spot it leaves and the lack of depth perception are occasionally a problem. He’s worked hard to compensate for both. Service Record: graduated the Academy at seven, when the teachers had run out of good reasons to keep him. Promoted to chuunin at ten and jounin at thirteen. Joined ANBU at eighteen. War Record: fought in the Third Ninja World War and against the Fox, lacks fond memories of both.