Naraku

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The Basics

Name: Naraku (Formerly Onigumo)

Alias: Onigumo

Age: 100 (appears to be in his 30s)

Species: Half-Demon

Gender: Male

Height: 6’0

Weight: 275 lbs

Hair: Long Black Hair

Eyes: Red eyes

Build: Athletic muscular build

Skin: Pale

Class (Ranking): Villain.

Original or Canon: Canon-Inuyasha

Theme songs:

Monster-Skillet
Bodies-Drowning Pool
Angel of Darkness-Yasmin K

Lineage & Relations:

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Lineage:

Mother: Unknown
Father: Unknown
Siblings: Kagura, Kanna, Muso, Goshinki, Juromaru, Kageromaru, Akago, Hakudoshi, Byakuya (Detatchments), Onigumo (Original Body)

Relations:

Crush: Kikyo
Love:
Rival: Inuyasha, Miroku, Kagome, Sango
Enemy: See Rivals

Appearance:

Naraku takes form of a young lord, Kagewaki Hitomi. He then controlled a body underneath a white baboon cloak-like outfit. Later on, he dresses in a simple, common outfit. It was dark blue with a purple vest on top.

Once gaining more power during his state of dormancy at Mount Hakurei, his appearance changed completely. His outfit then turned purple and light blue, but with boned armour. It has green tentacle-like arms coming from his back, which has large hoop bones which leads to a red-eye on his chest, and two gauntlets on his arms. After he absorbed Moryomaru, he gained a gigantic spike of diamond armor on his right arm and his tentacles and the majority of his bone armor were discarded, with only his gauntlets on his arms and his eye remaining.

After Kikyo's death however, the spike was discarded and his current form became a simpler version of his post-Mount Hakurei outfit.

When he absorbed the Jewel, he became a gigantic spider with eight large horizontal "fangs" and an armored abdomen, his core form within the spider however, was his true body with tentacles connecting him to the spider form. During the final battle, he turned into his normal form but with several diamonds forming the armor and a gigantice armored spider web that replaced the connecting tentacles, he then took on an oni-like appearence and his hair turned white, he also gained a rib cage on his body, but this form was just a head. After Kagome shot him with her arrow, he was reduced to a head with a spine and his face returned to normal. His dead from within the Shikon Jewel was his head and a giant spider web, though it had a more normal appearance.

Personality:

Naraku and Inuyasha are more alike than either man would care to admit, in fact their goals at one time were the very same, obtain the Shiko-no-tama jewel and make themselves full demons but as Inuyasha traveled with Kagome and the others his goal shifted to becoming human rather than a demon which further cemented the observation that they were polar opposites. Inuyasha is driven by friendship, trust, and a desire to protect others while Naraku is driven by dominion over all, deceit, and conquest. They were also once in love with the same woman, the high priestess Kikyo, but Kikyo loved Inuyasha and took care of Onigumo out of pity or so Naraku thought leading him to selling his soul to kill Kikyo and put Inuyasha in suspended animation for fifty years.

Many call Naraku a soulless monster and for all intents and purposes that is true for Naraku is willing to sacrifice his detatchments with little regard for their safety but he inspires loyalty in them whether naturally or because they were once one at some point but the detatchments are capable of independent thought. Naraku has proven to be a manipulative individual, deceiving the servants of Lord Hitomi’s castle into believing he was their lord and he has shown that he will manipulate even the most trustworthy individuals to go against their morals such as when he convinced the demon slayer Sango that Inuyasha killed her clan when really it was Naraku himself. Overall Naraku has shown to be a heartless deceitful individual with little regard for anything but his ambition.

Abilities & Weaknesses:

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Powers/Abilities

• Master Manipulator-Naraku has shown to be a master at manipulating demons and humans alike. Naraku transforms into Inuyasha and cuts Kikyo down and fatally wounds her in which Kikyo thinking that Inuyasha had betrayed her, used the last of her strength and spiritual power to shoot a sealing arrow at Inuyasha in a final attempt to pin him to a tree, which effectively sealed him to the Sacred Tree (or Tree of Ages) for fifty years, as he was left in the eternal sleep. Naraku even went as far as to fill the bandit Rasetu head with thoughts that he would be properly salvated if his remaind were taken to Mount Hakurei. But instead it was Naraku's plan to lure Kikyo there so he could kill Kikyo which soon after he resurrected and manipulates the band of seven into releasing a series of attacks on Inuyasha's, Koga's, and Sesshomaru's group. Naraku has also manipulated the emotionally damaged Hakushin into erecting a powerful barrier around Mount Hakurei which keep him hidden and protected from his enemies while he upgraded into his new body.
  
  
• Saimyōshō (Hell Wasps)-Naraku's minion wasps from hell. They are useful for stopping Miroku's Wind Tunnel, spying on his enemies, and gathering Jewel shards. Their stings are fatally toxic to both humans and demons alike, but they are rather weak as demons come and are thus easily and numerously slain by InuYasha's group
  
  
• Shapeshifting- He can take the form of anything he chooses (usually a humanoid), and change his voice along with his physical appearance. He can also change his body however he wants. This is seen when he fights Sesshomaru in an attempt to absorb him and when he fights Moryomaru to reclaim Akago.
  
  
• Demon Puppets-Puppets which resemble him. He controls them from afar and can see through their eyes. They are mostly made of mud and soil, and are able to spring roots in order to attack opponents.
  
  
• Superhuman Strength and Speed-Much like Sesshomaru, Naraku is far stronger than a normal demon and can move faster than the eye can see, both in the air and on the ground.
  
  
• Flight-Similarly to Sesshomaru, Naraku possesses the ability to float midair, and to ride upon a cloud of his own shoki. After his transformation into a full yokai, Naraku never chose to employ his shoki-sustained flight, but flew only by the strength of his will.
  
  
• Demon Parts-As he is made up of multiple demons in one body, Naraku is able to manipulate their body parts at will in order to restructure and strengthen his body, and he can also regenerate himself from injury and reform his body parts if they are cut off. He most commonly uses these parts to form tentacles which he uses to attack.
  
  
• Absorption-Naraku is able to absorb other demons into his body, adding their powers and body to his own. This is primarily how he gains strength, by seeking out and absorbing strong demons, giving him access to their powers. Naraku can also expel weaker body parts in order to rid himself of them. (For this board it is being added that with other characters Naraku will absorb them to siphon their power and use it himself and then expel them leaving them weak while Naraku has access to their powers for a period of time)
  
  
• Psionics-Naraku has shown using various psychic powers and capabilities; including levitation, telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, mind control, illusion-casting, and astral projection.
  
  
• Detatchments-He can make incarnations out of his own body to do his dirty work for him. Most have a spider mark on their back which is a result of being born of Naraku when he still was a han'yō with Onigumo inside him. After he purged himself of his human presence in the countless lumps of flesh inside Mount Hakurei, he and all his future children were free of having that scar on them.
  
  
• Barrier-A barrier which prevents the foe from finding and/or attacking him. At first his barrier was only useful in hiding his presence. As he persevered in absorbing new, stronger demons into his body and discarding the weaker ones, it became powerful enough to survive the Kaze no Kizu, which is why Inuyasha needed to obtain blood from the bat demon, Taigokumeru, in order to penetrate. After Naraku became a full demon (in a sense) the barrier became so powerful that nothing but the Kongōsōha was able to pierce it.
  
  
• Demon Control-Whenever someone sends an attack of yōki (demon energy) into Naraku's barrier he can channel the flow of the attack into his own jaki (yōki aura) and then attack his opponents with it. However, this can only be done with attacks that cannot penetrate his barrier, which means it's useless against Inuyasha's Kongōsōha.
  
  
• Regeneration-Naraku can quickly heal his own wounds and also put back together severed pieces of his body. He can control 100% of his body all the time (even when severed), which comes in handy when he is trying to absorb someone. However, there is a limit to how much he can regenerate. The more damage he takes, the more time he will need later on to recover. Too much damage can kill him, which is why he had to flee from his enemies in the beginning of the series. Usually, he will absorb demons to speed up his regeneration process. However, after he removes his heart, which comes out as Akago, he was able to regenerate no matter how much damage his body took since his life force wasn't in his body.
  
  
• Human/Demon Shift-Unlike Inuyasha, who is forced to become fully human on the first night of a new moon every month, Naraku, as a half-demon with Onigumo inside him, could choose what time of the month he lost all of his powers and became human, although he was merely a human head attached to a mass of yokai parts during this time, which he used to experiment with his body and rid himself of any unnecessary parts. Since the events that have transpired on Mt. Hakurei, he no longer has to become human at any time, being a full-fledged yokai.
  
  
• Beam Attack-Naraku sends out one or more of the horns on his elbows in a zigzag beam attack or extends his fingers into tentacles with a glowing attack at the tip of fingers to attack his foe(s). In the manga this attack was of a silverfish color and in the anime it is of a purple color. Furthermore, even though this attack is a yōki attack, because Naraku is using his body parts infused with shōki to attack his opponents, Inuyasha cannot use his Bakuryūha (Backlash Wave) against it since it counts as a physical attack.
  
  
• Miasma (Shōki)-Naraku's trademark, a poison which kills anything that touches it. It's what makes his poisonous gas. Naraku uses it to cover his entrances and exits, and can surround himself with the gas while flying. He created a "false Shikon shard" for Kōga with this substance. It was able to power Kōga in the manga and anime for a while until it backfired, poisoning him, and ultimately leading him to remove it with the help of Kagome. Naraku's body is filled with it, which is why when a foe bites him or even touches him he/she gets poisoned. Later on, as his power grew upon his transition to full demon, his shōki is able to take on a liquid form and acts like a river of acid. His shōki is so strong that it allows him to break away pieces of the nearly completed Shikon no Tama to use in his schemes. In the current manga, he can melt entire mountains. Over time his shōki has become so dangerous that after he infects Kikyō with it, neither Kagome nor Kikyo's holy powers seem to be able to purify it. Kikyo absorbs Midoriko's soul in order to protect herself but she comments that she doesn't know how long Midoriko's power can last against Naraku's venom, in the regard that she and Midoriko remain at the same strength while Naraku continues to increase in power. Eventually, even the influence of Midoriko is nullified with Naraku's absorption of the tree and Mōryōmaru.
  
  
• Living Body Pieces-After absorbing Akago/Mōryōmaru, Naraku gained the power to merge pieces of his body with other demons, thus giving him control over them and increasing their regenerative abilities. He can send pieces of his body abroad to scout for new demons, for him to add into his body. It is important to note that these pieces, after becoming separate of Naraku's body, became living beings that can move and fight on their own.
  
  
• Phantom Castle-Naraku is seen having the ability to create various "Phantom Castles" as a temporary headquarters throughout the series.
  
  
• Dormancy-Naraku has the ability to hide himself within one of his servants and make it appear as though he has disappeared, or have been killed, rather. A simple task; he gets himself "killed'" and hides within the body of a servant of his choice.One of the first times we see this is in the second movie when he hides in Kohaku's back he seems to leave a spider mark like his on who ever he lays dormant in although it seems to only be visable once he is close to immerging. To reinforce this deception, he even (although temporarily) removes Miroku's Wind Tunnel and returns Kagura's heart
  
  
• Black Magic-Naraku knows many different spells and curses, a prime example being the Kazaana, and the Illusory Death, as seen in Episode 33.
  
  
• Armor Shell-Upon absorbing Mōryōmaru, he gained the Armor Shell Upon absorbing Mōryōmaru, he gained the ability to cover himself at will with Mōryōmaru's impenetrable shell. It has been revealed that Naraku is hiding the Shikon Jewel underneath this shell.
  
  

Weaknesses/Physical Flaws/Psychological Flaws:

• His fondest wish is to be with Kikyo
  
  
• His heart is still that of Onigumo and will die without it and remains half human because of it
  
  
• Overconfidant
  
  
• Also a side effect of Onigumo’s heart is Naraku can still feel emotion which he finds distasteful
  
  
• Naraku must change into his human form once a month though it is infrequent due to his ability to choose
  
  
• Power Hungry
  
  
• Lonely
  
  
• Short Tempered
  
  

History:

Once, there was a man named Onigumo who was full of deceit and hatred for others. The manga tells us almost nothing about his life before he meets the protagonists, but the anime adaptation shows him in a flashback associated with a group of roaming thieves. It tells how he tricked his bandit leader, Rasetsu (the elderly man in the anime who gives Kikyo his top knot to be sent to Mount Hakurei in order to purify his soul) into approaching Kikyo and attempt to obtain the Shikon no Tama, or Jewel of Four Souls; however, Onigumo did not warn him that with Kikyo, there was a half-demon named Inuyasha. Rasetsu survived the encounter with Inuyasha, lost an eye, and returned to his camp only to find that Onigumo had made off with his troops. Rasetsu discovered Onigumo and his troops at an inn down the road celebrating their change in leadership. Enraged, Rasetsu blew up the inn, but the charred body of Onigumo somehow managed to survive the blast. Rasetsu then threw the barely-living Onigumo off a cliff. (This, however, does not explain his spider scar, as Onigumo had the scar before he met Rasetsu).

By either chance or fate, the badly burned Onigumo was found by Kikyo, who slowly nursed him back to the point of being able to speak. Onigumo developed feelings for Kikyo, but knowing that he could not move for the rest of his life, he summoned countless demons using his corrupted soul. He then had them devour his body in exchange for giving him a new body with which he could claim Kikyo and the Jewel of Four Souls. Thus the countless demons were bound together in one body with Onigumo serving as a connector.(In an anime special, it is implied that a spider demon, which looked like a small replica of Naraku's spider form in the second movie, was in fact the leader of these demons.) This resulted with Onigumo being reborn as the half-demon Naraku.
In the meantime, he did not forget about his ultimate goal of obtaining the corrupted Shikon no Tama. He disguised himself as both Inuyasha and Kikyo and tricked them into hating each other, as he describes that "the Shikon Jewel is the most beautiful when it's tainted by the hatred Kikyo and Inuyasha have toward each other".

He mortally wounded Kikyo while disguised as Inuyasha, took the Shikon no Tama and returned it to the village, then disguised himself as Kikyo and attacked Inuyasha. Inuyasha, sensing something was wrong, instinctively went back to the village to retrieve the Jewel. However, disguised as Kikyo, Naraku told the villagers that Inuyasha would come for the Shikon no Tama at any cost, thereby forcing Inuyasha to use force to obtain the Jewel. As he was getting away with the Jewel, Kikyo, with her remaining strength, sealed Inuyasha to the Tree of Ages. Naraku, who desired both the Jewel of Four Souls and Kikyo, thought that she would use the Jewel to heal herself, but instead she requested Kaede to cremate the Jewel along with her dying body, so that it would be taken to the afterlife with her.

Onigumo's soul, within Naraku, objected to Kikyo's death. At this time, Naraku took action to prevent Onigumo from consciously influencing the half-demon's actions. Onigumo perceived this process as imprisonment in a deep dark place where he proceeded to sleep.

For fifty years after Kikyo's death, Naraku secretly plotted and waited for the Shikon Jewel to appear again. After the appearance of Kagome as the present-day reincarnation of Kikyo and Inuyasha's awakening, he moved forward with his plan of gathering the shattered shards of the Jewel. Knowing his weakness as a half-demon, he relied mostly on evil tricks and traps while gathering information on his potential enemies that would stand before his insidious plot.

Being a half-demon like Inuyasha, Naraku also sometimes experiences a period of weakness. During those times, he loses all his demon powers and reverts to his human "form". While in this form, he is composed of his head attached to countless random demon parts. Naraku has the freedom of choosing this time, unlike Inuyasha, and since he is made up of thousands of demon, each time he "experiments" and "reconstructs" his body, he gets rid of weak and useless parts while keeping the vital ones to get stronger. It is possible that during each of these periods he expelled more and more of his humanity. This process ultimately led to the creation of his stronger form.

RP Sample:

Why was life so hard? This was the question Remy kept asking himself as he sat on his cot throwing playing cards into a bucket. He was back with the Marauders Rogue hated him. Life was defiantly crappy for Remy right now. Remy stood and left his room looking around the base. Last time Remy was with the Marauders they slaughtered several Morlocks. Something Remy has never forgotten.

The base was just as depressing as Remy had remembered it. Sinster hasn't changed at all. How did he manage to convince Remy to become a Marauder again? It didn't matter what did matter is Remy was here and he'd be damned if he'd let Sinister lead him into another massacre like with the Morlocks. He'd stop him...or die trying.

Remy turned a corner only to be met by Sinster. He grinned at Remy showing off those pointed teeth of his. Always made Remy want to kick him in the face every time he smiled. One of these days he would. Remy crossed his arms and looked at him. "What do you want?" Sinister's grin held firm. "I got a job for you." Remy's mouth twisted into a sneer. "Oh? Gonna 'ave me rob some little kids? Steal der lunch money? Or jus outright kill them" Sinister placed his hand on Remy's shoulder making his skin crawl as he did. "You'll see."

Remy didn't know what Sinister had planned but he knew that he wouldn't like it. Passing through a pair of metal doors Sinister led Remy into one of his labs but what Remy saw horrified him. Rogue was strapped to a metal operating table unconscious. Remy turned and grabbed Sinister by the throat. "What 'ave you don ta her?!" Sinister chuckled. "Giving her what she always wanted...control. Like you her inability to control her powers comes from a section of her brain that I will remove. Noticed she is not bound. She is not a prisoner here." Remy growled and let him go. "So 'hat am I doin 'ere?" Sinister stood and smiled. "You are the test. When she wakes after the procedure you will be my guinea pig." This was too much. He had gone too far. Remy had to act...now.

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[The Horned Frog]

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