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E-mail: toboe_fangirl40(at)yahoo(dot)com
AIM/Plurk/Skype: Dragonhowl7 (AIM) and preseathepup@hotmail.com (Skype)
Timezone: PST
Current Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Maria Torres
Canon: Trauma Team
Journal:notyourdragon
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Birthday: April 5th (No canon birthday really given)
Canon History: Maria on Caduceus Wiki
Canon Abilities/Powers: The Trauma Series is known for being a game with alien parasites made by Bio-terrorists with the intent of destroying all of mankind. However, that's not the case in Trauma Team where everything is more grounded in reality and the surgeon does not have witchcraft magic star bull going on.
Maria isn't a Surgeon in the game anyway. Instead, she's the Paramedic. She's the first to the scene and the first applying treatment to stabilize any and all injured individuals. As her tagline says, the first moments are the most critical, making her job all the more important. Unlike an EMT, her job includes more invasive aid with abilities going to inserting intravenous lines, performing tracheotomy, releasing trapped air in the chest cavity, administering advanced medicines, viewing lab results, basic diagnosis, sutures, etc. It makes her position pretty hectic and her life even more so.
Her strength isn't anything to shake a stick at either. For being ordinary, she has to occasionally lift up bodies of varying weight and height. It's nothing compared to the Orthopedics Surgeon, but it's still enough to do her work.
As for other skills, Maria is pretty nifty with various modes of transportation. She can drive an ambulance, ride her motorcycle like a boss, and fly a helicopter like no one's business.
Sunshineverse History: Born and raised as a Konohagakure native, Maria was a forward child from the moment she could talk and walk. She wasn't born into any high class clan or into any notable family, but that didn't matter to her. If anything, it only gave her more reason to stand out and try to do her best and even better than the others who were enrolled at the academy. While that rarely happened, at least she was always guaranteed to be the one smiling and socializing/attempting to socialize with everyone. Her parents couldn't have been happier.
Unfortunately, she was one of the many young trainees to lose her parents during the Third War. They didn't have to die, and she tried her best to save them herself with only the clothes on her back, but she was dragged off the battlefield kicking and screaming. Her efforts were in vain though and Medical-Nin couldn't reach them in time. Sinking into self-loathing at her inability to do anything, she withdrew and her anger began directed out against others, turning into anger as she became more and more certain they should have been able to save her parents. Her desire to surpass and prove herself above her fellow students turned into doing everything herself and kicking aside anyone who got in the way.
She remained locked in her personal rebellion for pretty much the remainder of her time at the Academy, getting into fights, contesting her elders, and disappearing to be on her own a majority of the time. When she slipped away to give smoking a try, she accidentally set a building on fire. Maria hurriedly fled the scene, but crying caught her attention and she rushed back in. Turned out a younger girl got trapped and became too scared to move so Maria helped her get outside. Still, she did it without thinking, but awakened to that instinct to concentrate her effort into saving people instead of beating them down.
Shortly after the incident, she began taking her Academy classes more seriously. She studied harder and begrudgingly accepted making some changes in order to become the best Medical-nin possible; well, second next to Tsuande obviously. However, she couldn't shake off her attitude. Years of being frustrated with pretty herself and everyone around her remained despite her efforts to change and made her a bigger threat to her team than any enemy shinobi. It took her several tries to pass her Chunin Exams, but she managed to make a compromise with her teammates.
Steadily, she got to know her teammates better and actually managed to open up to them, but not without reminding them to keep everything she told them to themselves. With them on her side, she found herself managing to make peace with herself and lighten up. Nothing to the extent of being a child again, but she could smile again and laugh after what felt like ages. That desire to learn everything became less destructive and more productive, backed again by her confidence and a healthy determination to prove herself. Maria was able to get a position as a Medicial-Nin with surprising ease with this turn around and even jumped at the chance to take the Jounin Exam.
While still a temperamental individual, Maria turned into one of the go-to Medical-Nin for the higher ranked missions. Bettering herself in skill and speed, she still rarely relies on help and chooses to do things herself unless it's with her teammates. However, for life, and for Konoha, she'll make whatever compromise needed to protect both.
Sunshineverse Abilities/Powers: Maria's medical knowledge and skills is relatively unchanged except for maybe her diagnostic ability and understanding of poisons with additional ones being added mentally. With the addition of chakra and jutsus, she has learned other techniques such as Mystical Palm and Chakra Scalpel to aid injured teammates and also help her fight in direct combat. She's proven time and again to use whatever resources she has to her advantage especially environmental. An orphan has to learn to work with what she's given after all.
Jutsus:
• B-Rank - Earth Release: Shadow Clone
• Earth Release: Earth Dragon
• Earth Release: Earth Flow
• C-Rank - Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm
• C-Rank - Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage
• D-Rank - Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique
• Healing Technique
• Wide Healing
• Mystical Palm Technique
• Chakra Scalpel
• Derangement Palm
Appearance: Canon appearance
Maria maintains a pretty close appearance to her canon one. Dark-skinned with bright green eyes, her hair's kept short, and two faint horizontal scars appear beneath her eyes. She wears a standard pair of shorts, a tank-top which she throws her Medical-nin coat (usually unzipped) over or her Jounin vest, and sandals with guards that shield a majority of her calves. Around her waist she dons her hitai-ate like a belt. She tries to keep herself lightly dressed and indiscreet on the field so she'll generally not have her medic symbol anywhere on her. Going further with trying to blend in, her medical supplies are stored in what look like the typical shuriken/kunai/scroll bags that anyone not Maria might find weapons instead of her tools.
Personality: Hot-headed down to the very definition, Maria is a confident, spirited, and temperamental kunoichi and she holds her position in high regards. Any challenge she feels like taking on means she'll do it without much thought, and she becomes agitated when anyone really questions her actions. It's her way or the highway usually, but she has been known to make compromises, the most vital being with her team. Not to say she always needlessly jumps in before thinking. With missions, she'll cool her tendency to spring into action immediately and try to figure out how to get the maximum number of people back still breathing.
As she is, Maria isn't capable of being deceptive, and fails to intimidate people mentally. She bosterous and often wears her emotions in the open, preferring to be direct and handling things on her own after years of self-reliance. She knows losing people important to her has made her difficult to get along with and she's caused a great deal of trouble to everyone trying to help her. She doesn't want other people to go through the same or make even worse decisions than her. If its in her power, she'll make sure Shinobi come back alive to return to family and friends.
It's a heavy burden to take on trying to be the hero and that's how she likes to envision it. Yes, it's egotistical, but unfortunately, everyone around her she views as a disappointment save for the Hokage and her team. In this aspect, she's very judgemental, expecting others to fail her or do something incorrect the moment she meets them and can be very difficult giving them the benefit of the doubt.
If there's any one person who disappoints her the most, it's actually herself. Since she can't trust anyone else to handle her work, she hates herself when she fails. Due to this, she constantly practices and trains outside of work so she never does make an error. Still, when that slip-up does occur, she falls into a state of self-loathing that can last for a while against a punching bag.
How expectant she is aside, if one takes the time and effort in order to get her to come around and actually earn her respect, she will do what she can to not let that person down.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
+ Intelligent - Maria has always been witty, but she isn't book dumb. From remembering hand signs to recalling very fine details of the human body, she's brilliant. Enough chakra and proper use of medical tools, those first moments for her are the most critical.
+ Excellent Chakra Control - Medical-nins have excellent chakra control and Maria is no exception. It took a while to get it together due to her anger, but she's managed.
+ Highly capable in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu - Maria is quite skilled in Taijutsu and above average with Ninjutsu skills. It can buy her and her patients time, or maintain the distance already present between her and her opponent(s).
+ Fast field aid - She's known for stabilizing Shinobi for safe transport back to Konoha, practicing by timing herself and navigating the terrain. Not only with her jutsus, but with practical intravenous insertions, suturing, or bandaging.
- Short-tempered - It doesn't take much to have Maria haul off and hit someone with butting in on her business being a major no. She'll do her best not to hit anyone from foreign lands first, but she'll still call them out if they're being a dumbass.
- Genjutsu ability is pretty average - Since Genjutsu isn't much for medical aid, she never bothered learning any advanced techniques. She's decent at defending against/breaking out of them, but don't rely on her to trap any enemy Shinobi with them.
- Teamwork Issues - Given that she grew up a few years with her team and didn't open up to many people, Maria is notoriously bad at working with others. Oh, she'll do her job and converse with new people, but she won't take orders easily from those she doesn't know/work with on a normal basis, and she'll especially hate them if they try to tell her how to do her job with an attitude that says they know better.
Village Affiliation: Konohagakure
Rank: Jounin/Medical-Nin
Prose sample: Rubbing the back of her neck, Maria inhaled before turning her head. She grinned once there was a pop and sighed. That kink has been there since earlier in the afternoon; it was a relief to finally have it gone. Today had been another long and boring day. No missions going out that needed a Medical-nin and the citizens were careful as usual. Anyway, they didn't need her popping out to save their asses.
Her nose crinkled and she snapped her arm down, coughing. Okay, that had been disgusting. Sniffing again, she gagged. That was her! Well, it had been warmer today and the wind had been absent. Not to mention she decided today was a good day to do shopping on her break.
"Well, good thing I didn't get too far then." She grinned as she stopped at the crossroad and glanced around. "Do I want to go to the public bathhouse, or shower? Heh, I think I earned a nice soak..."
Changing her course, she was off to the bathhouse... only to immediately vault over the roofs to get back to the apartment. No way was she going to rent a towel or wash tub.
Bracket sample: Test Drive
Missive Sample:
Sasuke,
Sending this message ahead. Mission accomplished, but bastards had a new poison with them. It's wreaking havoc on his internal organs and the Palm Technique is only delaying it for fifteen minutes. We're still an hour out by the time this arrives and my chakra's going into rushing back and keeping this guy alive. Be ready to receive him at the front gate.
- Maria
Name: VG
Personal Journal:
vgcgE-mail: toboe_fangirl40(at)yahoo(dot)com
AIM/Plurk/Skype: Dragonhowl7 (AIM) and preseathepup@hotmail.com (Skype)
Timezone: PST
Current Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Maria Torres
Canon: Trauma Team
Journal:
notyourdragonGender: Female
Age: 28
Birthday: April 5th (No canon birthday really given)
Canon History: Maria on Caduceus Wiki
Canon Abilities/Powers: The Trauma Series is known for being a game with alien parasites made by Bio-terrorists with the intent of destroying all of mankind. However, that's not the case in Trauma Team where everything is more grounded in reality and the surgeon does not have witchcraft magic star bull going on.
Maria isn't a Surgeon in the game anyway. Instead, she's the Paramedic. She's the first to the scene and the first applying treatment to stabilize any and all injured individuals. As her tagline says, the first moments are the most critical, making her job all the more important. Unlike an EMT, her job includes more invasive aid with abilities going to inserting intravenous lines, performing tracheotomy, releasing trapped air in the chest cavity, administering advanced medicines, viewing lab results, basic diagnosis, sutures, etc. It makes her position pretty hectic and her life even more so.
Her strength isn't anything to shake a stick at either. For being ordinary, she has to occasionally lift up bodies of varying weight and height. It's nothing compared to the Orthopedics Surgeon, but it's still enough to do her work.
As for other skills, Maria is pretty nifty with various modes of transportation. She can drive an ambulance, ride her motorcycle like a boss, and fly a helicopter like no one's business.
Sunshineverse History: Born and raised as a Konohagakure native, Maria was a forward child from the moment she could talk and walk. She wasn't born into any high class clan or into any notable family, but that didn't matter to her. If anything, it only gave her more reason to stand out and try to do her best and even better than the others who were enrolled at the academy. While that rarely happened, at least she was always guaranteed to be the one smiling and socializing/attempting to socialize with everyone. Her parents couldn't have been happier.
Unfortunately, she was one of the many young trainees to lose her parents during the Third War. They didn't have to die, and she tried her best to save them herself with only the clothes on her back, but she was dragged off the battlefield kicking and screaming. Her efforts were in vain though and Medical-Nin couldn't reach them in time. Sinking into self-loathing at her inability to do anything, she withdrew and her anger began directed out against others, turning into anger as she became more and more certain they should have been able to save her parents. Her desire to surpass and prove herself above her fellow students turned into doing everything herself and kicking aside anyone who got in the way.
She remained locked in her personal rebellion for pretty much the remainder of her time at the Academy, getting into fights, contesting her elders, and disappearing to be on her own a majority of the time. When she slipped away to give smoking a try, she accidentally set a building on fire. Maria hurriedly fled the scene, but crying caught her attention and she rushed back in. Turned out a younger girl got trapped and became too scared to move so Maria helped her get outside. Still, she did it without thinking, but awakened to that instinct to concentrate her effort into saving people instead of beating them down.
Shortly after the incident, she began taking her Academy classes more seriously. She studied harder and begrudgingly accepted making some changes in order to become the best Medical-nin possible; well, second next to Tsuande obviously. However, she couldn't shake off her attitude. Years of being frustrated with pretty herself and everyone around her remained despite her efforts to change and made her a bigger threat to her team than any enemy shinobi. It took her several tries to pass her Chunin Exams, but she managed to make a compromise with her teammates.
Steadily, she got to know her teammates better and actually managed to open up to them, but not without reminding them to keep everything she told them to themselves. With them on her side, she found herself managing to make peace with herself and lighten up. Nothing to the extent of being a child again, but she could smile again and laugh after what felt like ages. That desire to learn everything became less destructive and more productive, backed again by her confidence and a healthy determination to prove herself. Maria was able to get a position as a Medicial-Nin with surprising ease with this turn around and even jumped at the chance to take the Jounin Exam.
While still a temperamental individual, Maria turned into one of the go-to Medical-Nin for the higher ranked missions. Bettering herself in skill and speed, she still rarely relies on help and chooses to do things herself unless it's with her teammates. However, for life, and for Konoha, she'll make whatever compromise needed to protect both.
Sunshineverse Abilities/Powers: Maria's medical knowledge and skills is relatively unchanged except for maybe her diagnostic ability and understanding of poisons with additional ones being added mentally. With the addition of chakra and jutsus, she has learned other techniques such as Mystical Palm and Chakra Scalpel to aid injured teammates and also help her fight in direct combat. She's proven time and again to use whatever resources she has to her advantage especially environmental. An orphan has to learn to work with what she's given after all.
Jutsus:
• B-Rank - Earth Release: Shadow Clone
• Earth Release: Earth Dragon
• Earth Release: Earth Flow
• C-Rank - Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm
• C-Rank - Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage
• D-Rank - Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique
• Healing Technique
• Wide Healing
• Mystical Palm Technique
• Chakra Scalpel
• Derangement Palm
Appearance: Canon appearance
Maria maintains a pretty close appearance to her canon one. Dark-skinned with bright green eyes, her hair's kept short, and two faint horizontal scars appear beneath her eyes. She wears a standard pair of shorts, a tank-top which she throws her Medical-nin coat (usually unzipped) over or her Jounin vest, and sandals with guards that shield a majority of her calves. Around her waist she dons her hitai-ate like a belt. She tries to keep herself lightly dressed and indiscreet on the field so she'll generally not have her medic symbol anywhere on her. Going further with trying to blend in, her medical supplies are stored in what look like the typical shuriken/kunai/scroll bags that anyone not Maria might find weapons instead of her tools.
Personality: Hot-headed down to the very definition, Maria is a confident, spirited, and temperamental kunoichi and she holds her position in high regards. Any challenge she feels like taking on means she'll do it without much thought, and she becomes agitated when anyone really questions her actions. It's her way or the highway usually, but she has been known to make compromises, the most vital being with her team. Not to say she always needlessly jumps in before thinking. With missions, she'll cool her tendency to spring into action immediately and try to figure out how to get the maximum number of people back still breathing.
As she is, Maria isn't capable of being deceptive, and fails to intimidate people mentally. She bosterous and often wears her emotions in the open, preferring to be direct and handling things on her own after years of self-reliance. She knows losing people important to her has made her difficult to get along with and she's caused a great deal of trouble to everyone trying to help her. She doesn't want other people to go through the same or make even worse decisions than her. If its in her power, she'll make sure Shinobi come back alive to return to family and friends.
It's a heavy burden to take on trying to be the hero and that's how she likes to envision it. Yes, it's egotistical, but unfortunately, everyone around her she views as a disappointment save for the Hokage and her team. In this aspect, she's very judgemental, expecting others to fail her or do something incorrect the moment she meets them and can be very difficult giving them the benefit of the doubt.
If there's any one person who disappoints her the most, it's actually herself. Since she can't trust anyone else to handle her work, she hates herself when she fails. Due to this, she constantly practices and trains outside of work so she never does make an error. Still, when that slip-up does occur, she falls into a state of self-loathing that can last for a while against a punching bag.
How expectant she is aside, if one takes the time and effort in order to get her to come around and actually earn her respect, she will do what she can to not let that person down.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
+ Intelligent - Maria has always been witty, but she isn't book dumb. From remembering hand signs to recalling very fine details of the human body, she's brilliant. Enough chakra and proper use of medical tools, those first moments for her are the most critical.
+ Excellent Chakra Control - Medical-nins have excellent chakra control and Maria is no exception. It took a while to get it together due to her anger, but she's managed.
+ Highly capable in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu - Maria is quite skilled in Taijutsu and above average with Ninjutsu skills. It can buy her and her patients time, or maintain the distance already present between her and her opponent(s).
+ Fast field aid - She's known for stabilizing Shinobi for safe transport back to Konoha, practicing by timing herself and navigating the terrain. Not only with her jutsus, but with practical intravenous insertions, suturing, or bandaging.
- Short-tempered - It doesn't take much to have Maria haul off and hit someone with butting in on her business being a major no. She'll do her best not to hit anyone from foreign lands first, but she'll still call them out if they're being a dumbass.
- Genjutsu ability is pretty average - Since Genjutsu isn't much for medical aid, she never bothered learning any advanced techniques. She's decent at defending against/breaking out of them, but don't rely on her to trap any enemy Shinobi with them.
- Teamwork Issues - Given that she grew up a few years with her team and didn't open up to many people, Maria is notoriously bad at working with others. Oh, she'll do her job and converse with new people, but she won't take orders easily from those she doesn't know/work with on a normal basis, and she'll especially hate them if they try to tell her how to do her job with an attitude that says they know better.
Village Affiliation: Konohagakure
Rank: Jounin/Medical-Nin
Prose sample: Rubbing the back of her neck, Maria inhaled before turning her head. She grinned once there was a pop and sighed. That kink has been there since earlier in the afternoon; it was a relief to finally have it gone. Today had been another long and boring day. No missions going out that needed a Medical-nin and the citizens were careful as usual. Anyway, they didn't need her popping out to save their asses.
Her nose crinkled and she snapped her arm down, coughing. Okay, that had been disgusting. Sniffing again, she gagged. That was her! Well, it had been warmer today and the wind had been absent. Not to mention she decided today was a good day to do shopping on her break.
"Well, good thing I didn't get too far then." She grinned as she stopped at the crossroad and glanced around. "Do I want to go to the public bathhouse, or shower? Heh, I think I earned a nice soak..."
Changing her course, she was off to the bathhouse... only to immediately vault over the roofs to get back to the apartment. No way was she going to rent a towel or wash tub.
Bracket sample: Test Drive
Missive Sample:
Sasuke,
Sending this message ahead. Mission accomplished, but bastards had a new poison with them. It's wreaking havoc on his internal organs and the Palm Technique is only delaying it for fifteen minutes. We're still an hour out by the time this arrives and my chakra's going into rushing back and keeping this guy alive. Be ready to receive him at the front gate.
- Maria
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