Thread:Dal101/@comment-25152698-20140817021524

1. Why is your character obtaining Sage Mode and/or ?

'''As a loyal member of the wiki, much like everyone else, I have devoted my free time in creating various character pages, several of which possess different abilities. As a fan of the naruto series for quite sometime now, the curse mark was something that always intrigued me, and I never got the chance to make a character with it before. '''

4. How will your character obtain the Cursed Seal? What type of seal is it? And what kind of power grants it?

'''At some point in the past, the evil tyrant known as Orochimaru instructed Kabuto Yakushi along with Team Guren to take a young boy named Yūkimaru to a lake. Yūkimaru, like Shirona, possessed an unknown connection with the three tails, which allowed him to control the beast to some extent, though not as greatly as Shirona. Yūkimaru's attempt to awaken the beast gave off a signal to Shirona, who in return arrived at the battlefield to represent Kirigakure. There, she briefly faced off against Kakashi Hatake once more, only to have her battle interrupted by an incoming reinforcements.'''

'''During the outbreak between the shinobi of Otogakure and Konohagakure, Shirona sided with Orochimaru's Team Guren, mostly due to her dislike of Kakashi and his sharigan for having defeated her during the Third Shinobi World War. When Yūkimaru enforced Isobu to attack all local inhabitants of the forest, Shirona was forced to flee alongside Team Guren, and proceeded towards their hideout to meet with Orochimaru. She intended to find a way to master her ability to control the three tails, seeing as how Orochimaru had been able to aid Yūkimaru.'''

'''Arriving in Orochimaru's hideout, Shirona formed a small partnership with the legendary sanin, promising to summon Isobu for his needs in return, if he had helped her gain control over her powers in order to do so. She was introduced to Kabuto's pills, which created a way for her to gain quicker control of her abilities.'''

As part of the training, Orochimaru later branded her with the cursed seal of earth.

'''The curse mark grants the user with two transformations, known as the state 1 and state 2 forms respectively. The state 1 form brings great pain to the user, as seen during Sasuke's preliminary match during the chunin exams. The physical properties of the wielder are boosted, enough so to match naruto's 1 tailed initial form. It was created by orochimaru after his study on jugo and his kekkei genkai.'''

5. What are the drawbacks of the Cursed Seal?

'''The state 1 form brings great pain to the user, as seen during Sasuke's preliminary match during the chunin exams. Also, as stated by ukon during the sasuke retrieval arc, going into the form and reverted back consumes a great deal of chakra.''' 