Post by AKARI on Mar 10, 2012 15:56:14 GMT -6
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Uzumaki Akari
Type of Weapon: Paper Lantern(s)
Weapon Description:
Akari possess not just one, but dozens of these chouchin lanterns.
Most are white with Kanji of people's names painted on them in black. There are a few larger red lanterns among them all, each covered with several binding and suppressing seals. About half of these lanterns (disregarding the red ones) have the Four Symbols Seal on their sides, while the other half remain blank.
When she carries a lantern with her, she usually has it hanging off the end of a long steel pole.
Special Abilities:
By themselves, these lanterns do nothing at all, other than look decorative. But when used by the Namikage, they act as a miniaturized prison cell.
The Fuuinjutsu specialist is able to utilize the Four Symbols Seal through the lanterns, allowing her to seal the body and soul of a target within the chouchin lantern itself, on which the fuuinjutsu will appear. Of course this sealing requires fine chakra control, so the target must be in some way shape or form incapacitated beforehand.
Those inside the lantern will be cut off from all of their senses, leaving them in the blackness of an empty, black void until their sanity has failed them.
Notes:
In a sealed room beneath the lake, Akari keeps an entire collection of lanterns, some being filled and some being empty. She utilizes this as a prison for the extremely dangerous shinobi and creatures that have have attacked the village. Akari had started this paper lantern prison years before she became the Namikage.
The woman never carries the lantern with her unless she is prepared to seal someone or something. Otherwise, the woman would summon both the rod and an unused lantern herself.
There is a limit to what can be sealed in these things. Only one life form is able to fit into a lantern at a time, so an appropriate amount of lanterns must be brought to seal multiple people.
Bijuu and other large creatures could technically be sealed into one of the red lanterns, which house an assortment of seals that can help repress the beast until a proper suitor is decided. However, a beast such as the Kyuubi would break the lantern, and cannot be sealed by this. Also, sealing such a gargantuan monstrosity takes a great deal of chakra, as Akari could most likely only seal something such as these once a day.
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