“I HEARD, AS IT WERE, THE NOISE OF THUNDER.
I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IT WAS DEATH,
SAYING 'COME AND SEE,'
AND I SAW,
AND HELL FOLLOWED ME.”
I D E N T I T Y
N A M E· Toshihide Maka.
A L I A S E S· Toshihide.
· Kyūsei Maka.
· Devil of Biology.
A G E· 211 (age of mind).
· 16 (age of body).
G E N D E R· Female.
O R I E N T A T I O N· Heterosexual.
M A R I T A L - S T A T U S· Single.
A S S O C I A T I O N
R A N K· Jōnin Medic.
P O S I T I O N· International War Criminal.
· Benefactor to Hidden Grass.
· Head Medic of Hidden Grass.
· Leader of Laboratory Town.
A F F I L I A T I O N· Laboratory Town.
· Village Hidden in Grass.
· Land of Grass.
R E L A T I O N S·
Toshihide Kagyaku (daughter).
· Toshihide Mayoke (granddaughter).
A L L I E S· Toshihide Mayoke.
· Subori.
E N E M I E S· Kumiho.
P E R F O R M A N C E
M I S S I O N - R E C O R D· S-rank: 9.
· A-rank: 3.
· B-rank: 1.
· C-rank: 0.
· D-rank: 1.
· Total: 14.
S T A T I S T I C S· Ninjutsu: 5.0/5.0.
· Taijutsu: 4.0/5.0.
· Genjutsu: 3.0/5.0.
· Intelligence: 5.0/5.0.
· Strength: 1.0/5.0.
· Speed: 4.0/5.0.
· Chakra Amount: 2.5/5.0.
· Hand Seal Speed: 3.5/5.0.
· Total: 28.0/40.0.
S K I L L - L E V E L· A-rank.
E L E M E N T· Water.
A R S E N A L
F I G H T I N G - S T Y L E· Trial and Error (しこうさくご, Shikō Sakugo): A school of medical experimentation utilized primarily by Toshihide Maka. Experimentation in the most general sense is not unique. Maka, however, focuses on experimenting with dead bodies, living bodies, and biological warfare utilizing cells or bacteria/viruses.
· Injection Method (ちゅうしゃほうほう, Chūshahōhō: A hybrid martial art, alternatively known as the
touch of death, derived from techniques taken from other martial arts and combined with the study of pressure points and acupuncture points. Touch of Death has some connection to shiatsu and acupuncture; it is an alternative medicine
and a martial art.
The practitioner can incapacitate whole limbs, rendering them useless, and even paralyze or render an opponent unconscious. It is said to sometimes cause immediate or even delayed death to an opponent when needles are involved.
· Borrowed Fist (かりるけん, Karikuken): A unique style of combat where, according to its founder Toshihide Maka, "the opponent falls into your fist." Established with the goal of defeating opponents soundly without lasting damage to either combatant, it works by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on.
When faced with a physical attack, be it a strike or blow from a weapon, the practitioner takes control of the offending limb and guides the attack. This keeps the practitioner from sustaining injury, while at the same time allowing for them to counter with a throw or subdue the attacker.
Clothing is a great tool for the practitioner of Borrowed Fist. Loose clothing is a liability which the practitioner can use to counter or divert blows, forcefully guide and move the opponent, send the opponent off-balance or strike and throw them.
Maka, in particular, is trained to the point where she is able to deflect blows aimed directly at her away from her body, move with the lightness and grace of a falling feather, and evade most attacks anyone can bring to bear against her.
T E C H N I Q U E S· Black Test • Fornication Resurrection (くろけん • かんつうふっかつ, Kuroken • Kantsūfukkatsu) [S-RANK]: An advanced medical technique which had been forbidden because of its dark nature. Toshihide Maka created this technique over several decades, from studying a number of parasitic species of wasps which lay eggs inside of caterpillars to reproduce.
The larvae born inside eat the caterpillar's insides, eventually killing it. Once the larvae eat their way out of the caterpillar, they metamorphose into a pupa. Fornication Resurrection was born of this idea, but is vastly different in execution.
To create the technique, Maka first crafted a protozoan version of herself, which acts as the egg. Maka modified her own saliva to include these protozoans, which are absorbed through the blood stream if she molds her chakra and then spits in an open wound or delivers a bite. It can also be delivered through injection.
It's very similar to sperm; a tiny organism with cilia for transportation. This organism holds Maka's personality, not just her DNA. It's the same way with organ transplants. The subject is implanting another human being's genes into their body. Even if it doesn't go any further, changes will happen in their cells.
The egg itself is covered with cilia to help gather and absorb nutrients. The egg later hatches into the new Maka's larval state, and she then "devours" her way out of their body, by way of absorbing all the fluids and chakra of the target, killing them in the process as Maka is reborn through their body.
It is not unlike an insect leaving a cocoon or husk, when she matures and develops her body back in a matter of weeks, from a pupa-like casing leaving from the target's mouth.
This technique is how Maka faked her deaths. In actuality, the current Maka is only a clone of the original, who died long ago during the Warring States Period. The current Maka, however, is every bit as dangerous as the original. This also explains why Maka appears to be a young girl, and not an old woman.
· Red Test • Human-Faced Wounds (あかけん • じんがおけが, Akaken • Jingao Kega) [A-RANK]: Human-Faced Wounds is a dark medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka. Maka infects her target with malignant tumors which take cues from her genes and recreate images of her body in the target.
The human body is made up of specialized cells and non-specialized cells. Specialized cells have a specific job that they do. Eye cells make up the eyes, hand cells for the hand. It is over the first few weeks after fertilization that non-specialized cells begin to become recognizable parts of the body.
At the end of this process, the body is left with very few un-specialized cells (known as stem cells). That's what allows the body to continue to grow, and to repair wounds.
In the use of Human-Faced Wounds, the specialized cells Maka introduces into her target's bloodstream are ordered to grow in random parts of the body, adding on body parts as they go. As a result, the target's body becomes riddled with extra arms, faces, and even internal organs... creating an abomination.
· Red Test • Human-Faced Heal (あかけん • じんがおなおる, Akaken • Jingao Naoru) [A-RANK]: A dark medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka out of the original Human-Faced Wounds. After using Human-Faced Wounds for the first time, and studying the subject for some time, Maka discovered the potential for human regeneration, something previously unheard of without the use of large amounts of chakra. Maka discovered that after removing the tumors, they grew back over time.
Using a modified version of the specialized cells used with Human-Faced Wounds, Maka thus can induce her own cells to become stem cells, to facilitate in repairing open and internal wounds with surgery. As such, Maka has fast regenerative capabilities comparable to some self-healing specialists.
Even if Maka is wounded mortally, so long as her brain is functioning, she can regenerate enough to be able to use her own surgical skills and available tools to repair her body on her own, performing such feats as organ transplants and surgical repair of potentially devastating bodily injuries and wounds.
· Red Test • Human-Faced Makeover (あかけん • じんがおへんか, Akaken • Jingao Henka) [B-RANK]: Human-Faced Makeover is a dark medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka out of the original Human-Faced Wounds. Using the same omnipotent regenerative cells she developed for Human-Faced Heal, she replaced the hematopoietic stem cells in her spinal bone marrow with those special cells, and within time, those specialized cells proliferated and spread throughout her entire body.
These cells were further modified to have the very interesting property of projecting one's imagination. In other words, one's body can be transformed, by the very feelings and desires of one's mind, provided they had the chakra required to do so.
For example, if she wished for longer legs or a better looking face, her body would gradually transform according to those desires. The downside is, these cells are unstable and thus can be quite risky to use, requiring concentration to transform.
· Metamorphosis (へんけい, Henkei) [C-RANK]: A medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka out of Human-Faced Makeover, requiring actual body modification. The result of adding the same omnipotent regenerative cells she developed for Human-Faced Makeover to the user's body, is that the user is granted the ability to change their form.
This is only capable after an initial surgery in which Maka replaces the hematopoietic stem cells in the user's spinal bone marrow with those special cells, and within time, those specialized cells proliferate and spread throughout the entire body.
These cells were further modified to have the very interesting property of projecting one's imagination. In other words, one's body can be transformed, by the very feelings and desires of one's mind, provided they had the focus required to do so. For example, if the user wished for longer legs or a better looking face, their body would gradually transform according to those desires.
A transformation technique in league with or perhaps superior to the Transformation technique, Metamorphosis allows for real transformation without risk of the transformation being undone. The downside is, these cells are unstable and thus can be quite risky to use in certain situations; when affected by an illusion or under great emotional stress.
· Danger Signal (きけんしんごう, Kikenshingō): A medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka. This is a body modification from which Maka has significantly increased the sensitivity of the hair on her body, resulting in a spider-like sensitivity to vibration; thus, she can sense other people outside of the five senses by detecting faint vibrations in the air and on the ground.
She has learned to register danger to her own life in response to threatening outside stimuli in the vicinity, and reacts almost instinctively now because of it.
· Kiss of Death (せっぷんし, Seppunshi) [B-RANK]: A medical experiment developed by Toshihide Maka, requiring actual body modification. The user's breath carries a debilitating venom (which the user is immune to) which bonds to the skin on contact to cause severe lesions and a powerful burning sensation.
If the venom is inhaled, a rash will appear on the lining of the lungs, causing extreme pain and possibly fatal respiratory difficulty. Also, if the venom is inhaled, the digestive tract, airway, kidneys or other organs can be damaged.
· Conjoined Faces (けつごうがお, Ketsugōgao) [B-Rank]: A dark surgical procedure developed by Toshihide Maka. Useful in torture, punishment or an example of her surgical skills, Maka will perform surgery on multiple opponents after first incapacitating them.
This surgery is gruesome in design, and involves Maka fusing the skin of one opponent to another and vice versa. She will make numerous cuts on her opponents, stretch their skin, and heal the wounds together. The targets usually end up immobilized and confused, afraid to cut themselves free from one another.
The surgical technique received its name during the Third Great Shinobi World War, where Maka used it to fuse the faces of an entire ninja squad together as punishment for using the Land of Grass as a battleground.
· Open Suture (あくぬいめ, Akunuime) [D-RANK]: A surgical procedure developed by Toshihide Maka. Useful in performing on-the-fly surgery or medical experimentation, Maka will form a unique hand seal with one hand and hold it as she drags a finger of her free hand along a length of skin on her target.
As she drags her finger along the skin, Maka applies chakra to painlessly rip open a flesh wound. As she does this, she chakra she feeds into the skin draws keratin from inside the target's body to form calluses along the length of the tear. These calluses resemble the teeth of a zipper, and the tear itself terminates in a sliding nodule which can be dragged along the length of the tear to latch the teeth together and close the wound.
This can be utilized to form a self-sealing wound, in which Maka can easily gain access to a variety of body parts to perform surgery on a target in an emergency. She can thus remove an object someone had implanted in the target, or tend to an internal injury or an organ about to fail. A more gruesome application of Open Suture is to form the wound on a hostile target, such as with disembowelment through evisceration.
· Mystical Palm (しょうせん, Shōsen) [A-RANK]: A technique utilized by medical ninja. This medical technique allows the user to speed up the body's natural healing process by sending chakra from their hands into a wound or afflicted body part. This allows the user to heal a patient without the need for medical equipment or surgery, making it highly useful on the battlefield. It can be used to treat both external and internal injuries.
It is vital to match the amount of chakra used to the severity of the affliction or injury. This requires a great amount of chakra control. Because of this, only a few highly skilled medical ninja are able to use this technique.
Some ninja, such as Yakushi Kabuto and Toshihide Maka have the ability to use it a short distance away from the target instead of close contact. By sending an excess amount of chakra into the patient's body, the user can also overload the patient's normal circulation, trapping them in a comatose state.
· Chakra Dissection Blade (ちゃくらかいぼうとお, Kaibōtō): A special technique used by medical ninja. This medical technique forms chakra into a small, sharp blade. This can then be used for highly accurate incisions for surgeries and anatomical dissections. Unlike regular scalpels, the Chakra Dissection Blade (commonly known as Chakra Scalpel) can make cuts inside the body without actually creating an open wound, limiting the risks of an infection.
Chakra Scalpel can also be used offensively, although it requires great precision to be effective. Because of this requirement, using the Chakra Scalpel offensively is highly unusual. In heated combat, even the greatest medical ninja won't be able to exert the precision needed to make fatal cuts, but it can still effectively cut muscle tissues and tendons, rendering the target immobile.
· Thought Experiment (しこうじっけん, Shikō Jikken) [A-RANK]: A medical-themed illusion crafted by Toshihide Maka. The illusion lasts until the target is rendered unconscious by the psychological torture. The technique has been deemed forbidden, due to the lasting trauma it can cause.
Upon casting this dark illusion, the opponent will feel themselves restrained on an operating table, unable to move in the illusion and outside of it. The opponent will then experience severe psychological torture as they are seemingly operated on or tortured without anesthetic. Extreme body horror can result, such as mutation or removal of organs and whole body parts.
· Experimental Study (じっけんてきけんきゅう, Jikkenteki Kenkyū) [C-RANK]: A medical-themed illusion crafted by Toshihide Maka. Upon casting this illusion, the opponent will rapidly succumb to a series of (or in some cases, just one) illusory effects, false symptoms designated by Maka herself at the start of the illusion.
· Experimental Stage (じっけんてきだんかい, Jikkenteki Dankai) [C-RANK]: A medical-themed illusion crafted by Toshihide Maka. Upon casting this illusion, the target will experience the normal effects of Mystical Hand, while Maka will actually be experimenting or performing surgery the target would otherwise be uncomfortable with. Maka can use this illusory technique to experiment on a target without consent, after or before healing the target with Mystical Hand.
· Sleeve Cloth Binding (そでぬのしばり, Sodenunoshibari): A binding technique utilized by Toshihide Maka. Derived from the original Cloth Binding, Maka uses a roll of cloth concealed within her sleeve to tightly wrap up the opponent, completely immobilizing them, thus preventing them from moving or using any techniques.
Just as versatile as the parent technique, the addition of further seals can be placed on top of the bound victims, preventing them from even being summoned while in effect.
I N V E N T O R Y· Material for Experiments (じっけんざいりょう, Jikkenzairyō): Medical ninja such as Toshihide Maka are sometimes seen carrying a medical bag instead of the standard medical pouch. This provides the medical ninja with more space to transport medical supplies into the field to administer emergency first aid.
· Laboratory (じっけんしつ, Jikkenshitsu): Toshihide Maka carries with her the makings of a field laboratory. Sterile equipment, utensils, medical tools and more are available to her on the spot. She has access to all she needs to perform emergency surgery on the fly or conduct experiments and carry out her research.
· Cadavers (したい, Shitai): Corpses, while not the most common ninja tool, have been incorporated in the techniques of some great medical ninja, primarily those who practice dark or forbidden medical techniques. Toshihide Maka is one such medical ninja, who has been shown to use scrolls to transport corpses and store body parts for emergency surgeries.
· Needles (はり, Hari): Also known as senbon; metal needles with a point at both ends. They often serve a medical purpose, being used to strike acupuncture points. They have little killing power, but can be thrown with great accuracy.
Medical ninja with proper medical knowledge, however, can effectively use these in battle to incapacitate or even kill their target, should they aim for vital spots.
To make them more effective, the ninja can poison the tips of the needles. An added benefit of throwing these at the opponent is that needles are smaller than other projectiles, making them harder to see and dodge.
· Data Bug (りょうさいきん, Ryōsaikin): Special data-gathering parasites created by Toshihide Maka for the purpose of spying. Maka secretly implants opponents that escape from battle, or subjects she wishes to spy on for a time, with these parasites so as to monitor them afterward.
· Dream (ゆめ, Yume): A sedative created by Toshihide Maka and designed to act quickly, putting the target to sleep as soon as it is administered. The sedative can be either ingested or injected. A coma can be induced from an overdose of the sedative.
· Rot (くさる, Kusaru): Bacteria created by Toshihide Maka which cause a cellular coccus infestation, killing the blood cells and decaying the body in a manner similar to a rapid flesh-eating disease. Using the blood as transportation, the bacteria moves to every part of the body after being injected or ingested.
O V E R V I E W
A P P E A R A N C E· Maka wears the traditional attire of a miko. On the left shoulder of her outfit, she bears the symbol of her forgotten clan. Beneath her clothing, Maka wears short black tights. The tights end at the mid-bicep and mid-thigh. Only the left sleeve of the tights reaches all the way to her wrist.
Maka regularly suffers from numerous physical side effects of her multiple rebirths, as well as emotional instability. She experiences severe mind-numbing headaches, which include blurry vision and even nosebleeds. She also experiences coughing fits, during which she expels blood. Lastly, she will on occasion experience crippling chest pain and trouble breathing.
D I S P O S I T I O N· Maka is a soft-spoken, polite, and gentle woman who uses honorifics when addressing others, including her subordinates and opponents. She rarely shows any signs of panic or distress. With her grace and kind manners, she lets others know quietly that while she may be soft, she is not to be taken lightly. Despite her gentle nature, even her allies fear her.
She speaks in a polite, feminine way until someone 'interrupts her fun,' when she speaks in a rude and blunt manner. In conversation, she is polite and refers to everyone she interacts with using the honorific
-ue.
She is considered to be the most skilled pharmacologist in any land. She possesses the knowledge to create her own drugs and medicines, as well as recognize and treat the symptoms of other drugs and poisons. She sometimes trades this knowledge to others, should they satisfy some wicked bargain.
Maka sees almost everyone and everything not as a living being, but as an object to be researched—including herself. This kind of thinking occurs when, for example, she decides not to intervene to prevent someone from their mistakes or endangerment. However, while she usually shows disregard for life, she has been known to warn people of possible dangers when they present themselves.
Maka also has absolutely no moral restraints regarding the people she kills; she considers slaughter a necessary part of her scientific research, a serial murderess thousands of times over who feels no guilt whatsoever over the lives she takes. She will not think twice about sentencing another to death.
Though she may act sarcastic, bossy and annoying towards her friends, it's quite evident that she cares for them. Sometimes she uses her lecherous side to disturb others (to her great amusement). She sometimes acts immature to keep others from realizing the gravity of the situation around them.
Toward those close to her, Maka shows a very different side of herself than when she is with others. With close friends like Subori or relatives like Mayoke, she is kinder and more open. She shares more opinions and thoughts with them.
Though she is close with some, she still keeps serious feelings to herself, not wanting to burden others with her serious problems. The reason to why Maka hides her feelings from others is unknown, but it is thought to be because she doesn't want to get hurt or too attached, mostly because she knows that one day they will vanish... as she always outlives her those close to her.
It is not difficult at all to embarrass Maka, despite her composure. She can become flabbergasted or stunned, and be made to blush. She can be subdued with compliments and kindness, often taken advantage of by her friend, Subori.
She constantly talks about how she has always been "that kind of woman" (referring to when she was alive, insinuating she refers to her current state as a form of death) and the things she could not do in life but now can since she has "died."
O R I G I N·
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M I S C E L L A N E O U S
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I M A G E S· Toshihide Maka in full: [
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