Name: Tsukino Yumi
Age: 10
Physical Description: Spiky light blonde hair haphazardly drapes down her head despite any attempts to try and otherwise contain it. Her skin is a fair, almost pale, color that hints at a background of limited sun exposure. Yumi's red irised eyes glitter with youthful optimism and a smile is almost always streaked across her carefree expression. The girl's build is slight and she stands somewhat shorter than most girls of her age, though only by a few inches. Overall her skin, tone and stature speaks of a girl who's hardest decisions in life was what sort of outfit to wear on any given day.
Mental Description: Just as she presents herself, Yumi has a rather carefree attitude and personality; likely from having been shielded from most of the harsh realities that would otherwise harden her by her parents. She tends to underestimate challenges, but either through luck, talent or divine favor that overconfidence rarely seemed to cause her any issue, though life as a civilian child is more more lax than that of a shinobi. She has never had any real fears about the future, always taking for granted that things will always be as prosperous as they always have been. Given all of this, she isn't exactly air-headed but simply inexperienced and naive to the cold harsh reality of life.
History: Unlike most others, Yumi was not actually a native-born of Sunagakure. She was brought there along with her parents and uncle just over three years ago. Entrepreneurship was her parent's forte, and in using it they had amassed a modest fortune in the far northern part of the continent over the past two decades. Times were getting hard in her homeland when Yumi was five years of age and at the recommendation of her uncle, the family made preparations to sell their assets and move to the new great business venture in Sunagakure.
Neither Mother Suna nor Lady Luck smiled upon the small clan upon their arrival however. While they did arrive safe and managed to open a business in the Desert Crown, the business was far from successful. For two years after their arrival their funds had been steadily drained until it exhausted nearly all of the clan's money. A few months ago her father's brother suddenly vanished and and just a few days later her father recieved a large investment from an unknown benefactor. Even with the new influx of money the clan continues to bleed money, but her parents remain hopeful that their luck will suddenly turn about someday!
For better or worse, young Yumi has remained blissfully unaware of all of these happenings. As far as she knows the business is quite successful and she enjoys a rather pleasant upper-class existence. Even her uncle's disappearance had been explained away, saying that he had simply gotten homesick and had decided to move back to her hometown in the north. It was just last month that she was informed that she was to attend the village's shinobi academy; which was a desperate attempt to either make their daughter self sufficient in case the worst happens or to try and tap into the great fortune that shinobi must make. Which answer one received would differ depending if one asked her mother or father, though neither would disclose that to their sheltered daughter.
Thankfully she must have had some level of potential in the shinobi arts, because the academy eagerly accepted the girl into their ranks, despite her inexperience. How this will turn out for Yumi is yet a mystery. Will the harsh sand grind away her innocence and polish her into a skilled shinobi or will it wear away at her until she breaks from the cruel training that the academy promises?
Age: 10
Physical Description: Spiky light blonde hair haphazardly drapes down her head despite any attempts to try and otherwise contain it. Her skin is a fair, almost pale, color that hints at a background of limited sun exposure. Yumi's red irised eyes glitter with youthful optimism and a smile is almost always streaked across her carefree expression. The girl's build is slight and she stands somewhat shorter than most girls of her age, though only by a few inches. Overall her skin, tone and stature speaks of a girl who's hardest decisions in life was what sort of outfit to wear on any given day.
Mental Description: Just as she presents herself, Yumi has a rather carefree attitude and personality; likely from having been shielded from most of the harsh realities that would otherwise harden her by her parents. She tends to underestimate challenges, but either through luck, talent or divine favor that overconfidence rarely seemed to cause her any issue, though life as a civilian child is more more lax than that of a shinobi. She has never had any real fears about the future, always taking for granted that things will always be as prosperous as they always have been. Given all of this, she isn't exactly air-headed but simply inexperienced and naive to the cold harsh reality of life.
History: Unlike most others, Yumi was not actually a native-born of Sunagakure. She was brought there along with her parents and uncle just over three years ago. Entrepreneurship was her parent's forte, and in using it they had amassed a modest fortune in the far northern part of the continent over the past two decades. Times were getting hard in her homeland when Yumi was five years of age and at the recommendation of her uncle, the family made preparations to sell their assets and move to the new great business venture in Sunagakure.
Neither Mother Suna nor Lady Luck smiled upon the small clan upon their arrival however. While they did arrive safe and managed to open a business in the Desert Crown, the business was far from successful. For two years after their arrival their funds had been steadily drained until it exhausted nearly all of the clan's money. A few months ago her father's brother suddenly vanished and and just a few days later her father recieved a large investment from an unknown benefactor. Even with the new influx of money the clan continues to bleed money, but her parents remain hopeful that their luck will suddenly turn about someday!
For better or worse, young Yumi has remained blissfully unaware of all of these happenings. As far as she knows the business is quite successful and she enjoys a rather pleasant upper-class existence. Even her uncle's disappearance had been explained away, saying that he had simply gotten homesick and had decided to move back to her hometown in the north. It was just last month that she was informed that she was to attend the village's shinobi academy; which was a desperate attempt to either make their daughter self sufficient in case the worst happens or to try and tap into the great fortune that shinobi must make. Which answer one received would differ depending if one asked her mother or father, though neither would disclose that to their sheltered daughter.
Thankfully she must have had some level of potential in the shinobi arts, because the academy eagerly accepted the girl into their ranks, despite her inexperience. How this will turn out for Yumi is yet a mystery. Will the harsh sand grind away her innocence and polish her into a skilled shinobi or will it wear away at her until she breaks from the cruel training that the academy promises?
