Kozue Uchiha

Name: Kozue Uchiha
Nickname: N/A
Age: 21
Gender: Female

Height: 5’3”
Weight: 110 lbs
Appearance: Kozue is a somewhat short and slight young woman with black hair and purple eyes (probably not an inherited trait). She has a somewhat light skin tone and complexion, and frequently wears things like turtlenecks and long sleeved shirts. Her favorite color is a sort of dark purple, but she realizes that wearing clothes in this color would probably draw attention to her, so casually, she sticks with a beige or grey garment. She has long-ish back-length hair that he's often considered keeping short, which once had luster, but is now kind of dull and dry. She has long since given up on making it look lustrous, since she doesn't have as much time as she used to.

Despite her youthful appearance at first glance, further examination will reveal more troubling details. Stress lines are starting to form on her face, and stretch marks on her abdomen tell of rapid and sudden weight gain for some reason. Varicose veins on her legs hide some story that she's rarely willing to tell to anyone. Constant hard domestic work has left her palms rough, and the bags under her eyes certainly don't suggest that she gets that much sleep. She's frequently seen ill from diseases contracted from her various children (who in turn, picked them up from some other brat at school or daycare), so her skin will sometimes be flushed with fever on occasion. Despite all this, however, her hygiene in general isn't that bad.

Well-clipped fingernails and mostly white teeth show that her habit-keeping isn't really in disrepair. While off-duty, she keeps her hair back using a single hairband (generally black or her favorite dark purple, to blend in with the aforementioned hair). Her earlobes are attached, like most of her family's, due to this being a pretty much genetic trait.


Village: Iwa
Character Rank: Jonin
Character Tier: A-3
Clan: Uchiha
Element: Fire (since I can’t roll, right? )
Bijuu Roll: -

Personality: While an experienced ninja, Kozue is a somewhat naive person. Yes, she's been through a lot in her short time on earth, but not enough to make her cynical in the slightest. Within her heart lies the firm belief that everyone is (or can become) a good person, if they try hard enough. On her own part, she does her best to maintain her loyalty to her village, regardless of her clan's origins. Greatest of all, however, is her love for her children. With her schedule and position, it's difficult to manage both of them at once, but she's somehow been able to do it so far. She copes with the stress... well, a little poorly to be honest, which leads to the next point.

She doesn't perform that well under pressure and gets flustered easily. Although she might be alright at multitasking, if two or more of those tasks are high-maintenance or extremely important, her trepidation overcomes her temerity. While she's pretty much never embarrassed by her rather peculiar situation with her children in public, she's never really spent much time thinking about it. Indeed, Kozue's pretty bad at introspection in general.

Kozue has a very innocent view of responsibility, and of most things in general. Frequently, she pushes herself to the point of exhaustion, due to her feeling that she always has to do her best to provide for her family and village.

Now for the more trivial matters. Kozue doesn't really like the super sweet things (she takes a lot of icing off the top of the cake before actually eating it). Her hobbies are the more old-fashioned ones: drawing, going on short power walks and the like, really nothing unusual, save for the fact that she's bad at pretty much all of them, which doesn't disturb her in the least.

Character History: Kozue was (and remains to this day) a very cheerful and positive girl. Born to a small cell of Uchihas in Iwagakure, she quickly realized that their clan's presence in the village was endangered by the mere nature of their tiny gene pool. Once a gene pool lost its diversity (as the clan had now), it was only a matter of time until extinction was brought upon them. Naturally, they tried all sorts of methods to avoid this outcome. Cloning was the first of them, and it was met with a small measure of polite success. However, they realized how potentially unviable and dangerous cloning could be, so they resorted to more drastic measures.

While all this was going on, Kozue struggled (slowly but surely) up through the ranks in Iwa. She wasn't the brightest of students, lacking the brilliant intelligence or shocking talent needed to really make a name for herself. What she lacked in these departments, however, she made up for (to some capacity) with hard work and effort. Some people noticed this, but decided that her lack of potent inborn traits made her not as good of an investment as some of the other rising stars. So, Kozue was overshadowed by her colleagues, but that was fine with her. As long as she was doing her best and NOT failing, she was content.

About now was the time when the Uchiha agenda got to her. After the failure that was the cloning venture, they decided to take the much simpler route: breeding their clan members. Naturally, they faced a rather difficult decision: either outsource their breeding to those outside the clan and risk gradual loss of the bloodline, or inbreed and risk gradual loss of genetic diversity. In the end, they decided on inbreeding, and as such, started planning for the long run.

Being a fertile, sturdy Uchiha female of about 15 years of age at the time, Kozue was naturally one of the first to be selected. She knew what the clan was doing, and why it had to be done. So rather than agonize over it and allow it to traumatize her in any way, she accepted it and made the most of her situation.

They more or less tossed her in a completely dark room with someone else from the clan (she was pretty sure it was one of her cousins, but to this day she still doesn't know for sure). Nine months later, she gave birth to Haruki, a boy. He was somewhat sickly, but somehow managed to make it. Throughout the next six years, she'd have two more children under the clandestine program: Takara, her only daughter, and Souta, a son and her youngest, born three years ago. Unfortunately, after the program ended, the support for her and her children drastically decreased, leaving her stranded in a figurative sense. Without anyone to back her up, she resolved that it was up to her and her alone to take care of her new brood. It wasn't easy, to be sure. Since other people didn't know about the breeding program, they assumed she was just an irresponsible girl who didn't learn her lesson after the first "mistake". In addition to the difficulties of sudden motherhood, she had to deal with vitriol (at worst) and scorn (at best) from others as well.

Still, she knew it was all for the best, in the end. Her life had never been her own, after all.

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