Take the wrong one and you'll need to rebuild your character.

Which is why I was hoping you could suggest one...

Edit: Or I could just not mention what it was in the bio, either works.

I always thought that all of the Cranes had natural white hair... or was it just the Asahinas? Ah well.

You strike me as a mantis, but I don't know about your kama technique. The mantis caln lost their family name when they kidnapped the emporer as part of a bet.

dante- no they die it that color in memory of the first Daidoji son of doji and kakita who went into the shadowlands to find something i don't feel like looking up and came back with white hair. Proof that the prissy Crane should leave fighting the demons of hell to the real men in the crab clan.

Finished character. Changes: Dropped per by one to give him 5 reflexes. Also noticed Ronin have 2 base honor, so I gave him that, and, upon writing his bio and the extra notes (which would have seemed contrived to stick in the bio) I realized death trance (namely the part about him not believing in suicide) didn't make much sense, so I dropped that and used the three points to give him perfect balance and one point in shintao. I also gave him weapons, selling his arrows for a sai and bow for the money, and calculated his T.N. to be hit... and I must say I like that part of his sheet. I also thought of giving him a sworn enemy from his ex-clan, but decided he had enough problems. I think that covers the changes.

Also, I was wondering if I could take a +5 or 10 TN to use the back of his katana in Iajitsu (because if it's focused too much he might be able to kill someone with a single draw) which would be for people with the same or lesser skill, or aim for an arm which would be for people he THINKS are of equal skill (those better, that he thinks are the same due to his over confidence).

Edit: I'm also thinking of dropping dangerous beauty, as that he can still be pretty, but just be unaware of how to use it (due to being a social bore), and a point of honor to remove unluck...

Edit 2: Does ambidextrous allow him to wield two weapons at once and does wielding two give an advantage? Because if it does I'll add wakizashi, if not, I'll drop it and something else to remove unluck.

Name: Nanashi Taken (pronounce ta-ken, using the kanji for great and sword when written)
Clan: Ronin
Profession: Swordsman
Bio: Once Taken was once a samurai in the service of a daimyo; however, that did not last. Taken was always an idealistic youth, and did not believe in killing under any but the most grievous circumstances. Unfortunately, this led to problems in the young samurai's life, as that an assassin attacked his daimyo, and, although Taken was able to defeat the assassin, he elected to allow the man to live. That night, the assassin freed himself from his cell and killed Taken's lord, making the man a ronin. His family shortly disowned him, and Taken has been roaming the country side since.
Extra notes: He doesn't believe in killing or suicide, and never grasped the part of bushido that claims death is not failure, other than that he more or less follows the code.

Fire: 2
Agility: 4
Intelligence: 2

Air: 2
Reflexes: 5
Awareness: 2

Earth: 2
Stamina: 2
Willpower: 2

Water: 1
Strength: 2
Perception: 1

Void: 4.

Primary Weapon: Average quality Katana--2k2
Primary Armor: Light Armor+5 TN to be hit.
T.N. to be Hit: 30


Skills:
......Defense 2
......Iajitsu 2
......Kenjutsu 2
......Battle 2
......Nofujutsu 1
......Acting 1
......Athletics 1
......Shintao 1


Techniques / Spells: None

School: None
Rank: 1

Advantages / Disadvantages:
......Antisocial +4
......Bad Reputation +2
......Black Sheep +5
......Idealistic +2
......Overconfident +3
......Soft Hearted +2
......Unluck +5
......Vanity +1
......Compulsion +3 (Condition is that when he sees a defenseless person or persons attacked, he will step in regardless of his chances)
......Ambidextrous -3
......Crafty -3
......Quick -3
......Perfect Balance -2
......Dangerous Beauty -2

Glory: 6

Honor: 2

Insight: 121
(Rank1: 0-150 pts
Rank2: 151-175 pts
Rank3: 176-200 pts
Rank4: 201-225 pts
Rank5: 226-250 pts)
Experience Points: (I'll give these out and instructions for their use when the RP starts)

Wounds: 4
-0:
-1:
-2:
-3:
-4:
Down:
Out:
Dead:

Allies and Enemies: No real allies, no real enemies.

Weapons and Equipment: Sai (bought with 10 silver from selling arrows), Katana, Wakizashi, Light Armor, Kimono, traveling pack, 4 Koku (left over from selling bow), 10 bu

Gifts, Bestowments and Recognitions: (None yet)

History and Glorious Deeds: (None yet)

Your math is off by 13 points I'd reccomend cutting disadvantages. To lower a trait below 2 you need to use the weakness disadvantage. You also still need Hunting skill and the ronin disadvantage. You will leave your wakizashi alone and ambiextrous means your ambidextrous if you want to weild two weapons there is a school for that. It's called the Mirumoto bushi school

Bah, I forgot to add hunting and ronin to the file on my computer, which I did that off of. Hold on while I figure out where I screwed up my math and fix it.

Now this... is highly aggravating. Mostly because I think a character concept hasn't been taken, then I find out it has, then I decide on another one, find out that the other one was taken as well, and tha the original... wasn't.

I'll hold off on the character creation, but as it I'm either a ninja or a swordsman.

oh don't worry about krylo, He's taking a combat twink to a social gathering. Make your crane swordsman.

Krylo- both our math scores were off. when I said you had 13 points unspent i was mistaken. You are 11 points in debt. I'll let you try again one more time, then I'll intervene and make necessary edits if you are off again.

Ah well... we'll see...