Castitas

Castitas (貞操, lit., Chastity) is a renowned medic based within Konohagakure. Raised by an adoptive family following his life as an orphan, he was taught the intricacies of medicine and physical anatomy. His medical knowledge has proven beneficial to the village and he hopes to one day provide a breakthrough in medical science by revealing his findings.

Background
Castitas was orphaned just a few days after he was born in a small village just outside of Kumogakure, after an illness of unknown origin took the lives of his parents. Shortly before their deaths, they had him sent to Konohagakure for him to live a better life. From there, he was raised by two of Konohagakure's medics. After hearing the news of the illness that took the lives of Castitas's parents, the two medics decided they were going to teach him the ways of medicine, to allow him to identify diseases and help treat them. For years, his adoptive parents taught him more and more advanced forms of medicine as he got old enough to understand each of the fields. From there, he was trained how to use it in combat during his time in the ninja academy, using his knowledge of medicine and anatomy to push through to graduation. By the time he was eighteen, he was a celebrated Chunin and had tremendous knowledge in medicine and taijutsu, having rarely had to utilize ninjutsu save for the basic techniques he learned in the academy along with his medical ninjutsu. He was assigned medic work in the Konohagakure Medical Facility where he continues to help people and write down his medical theories.

Appearance
Having been raised by a family focused on medicine, Castitas has eaten fairly healthy. His healthy eating habits has granted him a fit, toned out physique that is easily discernible among his peers. Even at a young age, he was seen as more fit in comparison to his fellow academy students. He is fairly tall and dark skinned, both attributes he inherited from his original parents. His hair is rather unkempt and adorned in hues of white, with a large tuft of hair pointing rightwards. Many other parts of his hair are equally unkempt and it flows unpredictably. His eyes are sharp, glowing with a hue of gold. Below the neck, he wears a simple outfit consisting of a tan colored, medium fitting shirt, nothing tight or loose, with a pair of relaxed fit pants and a pair of boots. Oftentimes he wears a Konohagakure flak jacket over his shirt to give him some protection.

Personality
Castitas bears a somewhat stern, but just attitude towards life and other things in general. He always speaks in rhetorics, something he inherited from his adoptive father's speech mannerisms. As such, it's never known whether or not he's speaking rhetorically unless he says so, though his teammates had picked up on his changes in voice tone when he's speaking rhetoric or not. When in combat, Castitas keeps an almost intimidatingly calm approach to his opponent, even looking as if he was letting his guard down. All of this serves as a way to make his opponent uneasy and cause them to make rash decisions that he quickly takes advantage of. He never underestimates his opponents, but at the same time, he does not overestimate them. He's completely aware of his opponent's capabilities by what he sees in them and approaches all opponents equally. For him, destiny is not a beaten path, but the choice of going on a path no one else dared dream of walking down. It's this determination in life that allows him to get through just about any stressful situation that makes its way into his life with a calm and just manner. His willingness to protect those he trusts gives him the strength to fight past the darkness that clouds his path. Perhaps inherited from his mother is the urge to continue protecting those who need help, to heal them whenever possible, and never leave behind the wounded if there's still something left to do.

Abilities
Trained in the thorough intricacies of medicine and taijutsu, Castitas has combined the two into a non-lethal, but extremely debilitating, martial art. He chooses not to cause permanent injuries to his opponents, so he avoids attacks that could cause any damage that can't be otherwise reversed. This is what has made him an intimidating opponent against those he faced, because he chooses to break his opponents, without breaking their body. His usage of the Eight Gates, his taijutsu, heightened combat response and perfect knowledge of human anatomy make him a dangerous opponent, even to those who try to keep their distance from him.

Taijutsu
Taijutsu is the biggest and single weapon in Castitas's offensive arsenal. Having combined his perfect knowledge of the human body's anatomy with his taijutsu, Castitas can break his opponent thoroughly, but not a single bone in their body will be broken. Instead, he goes for less drastic measures. Using his knowledge of pressure point location, Castitas can leave his opponent numbed down with but a single strike in any part of the body's brain-to-limb nerves, which are nerves that lead from the brain, to the limb. This allows him to incapacitate an opponent with little to no effort on his part. When more drastic measures are required, Castitas takes on a somewhat more offensive approach. Once again using his knowledge of human anatomy, Castitas knows how much pressure to put on a limb to dislocate it out of its socket without breaking it. He has done this to more than a third of all of the opponents he has faced, and knows how to dislocate any limb like the back of his hand. Whether it be a small joint like the joints in the fingers, to larger joints like the arm's connection to the shoulder, Castitas knows how to dislocate it and how much pressure that's required to do so. His modus operandi is breaking his opponent, without breaking their body. Calm movements allow him to move past his opponent's defenses without even getting close to their attacks, just swerving by them and taking advantage of the short window of time where they're open to counterattack to deliver his own array of attacks that they will not see coming.

Medical Ninjutsu
Though Castitas has no offensive capabilities in ninjutsu, he possesses a sharp knowledge in medical ninjutsu. Having been taught every single field there is in medical ninjutsu, Castitas knows what technique to use for any kind of injury and how long it needs to be applied. This has given him a strong support role, healing his teammates' injuries, no matter how severe they were. There is only one thing in this supporting arsenal that he has used offensively, and that is the chakra scalpel. His last resort to keep an opponent from fighting back, Castitas uses his chakra scalpel to deliver surface cuts that don't dig deep, but do allow air to permeate into the wound, causing it to hurt even worse. He never cuts too deep and has never had to. Every usage of his chakra scalpel has been enough to open up his opponent, even without deep lacerations. Castitas has learned how to activate his chakra scalpel at the last second just before impact, which throws his opponents off expecting a punch. This allows him to trick his opponents and deliver a wide aray of cuts that they don't expect from him.

Athleticism
Thanks to Castitas's fit, physical frame, he is capable of a large array of athletic potential. Primary skill being his speed, Castitas can run at incredible speeds and distances without any sign of slowing down. Thanks to this, he can outrun most opponents if he has to and can wear them down enough to fight them off. His speed seems to improve day by day as his running speed becomes greater and greater. This has also lent him extraordinary swimming capabilities, allowing him to swim better than most elite level swimmers and can swim for vast distances, even in strong tides, one of his preferences to train his physique. His strong core allows him to endure hot and cold temperatures even at extremes, having withstood the sweltering heat of Sunagakure's deserts in the middle of its dominant Summers and the brutal cold of the Land of Iron even in the middle of Winter, where the blizzards are at their peak in the land, all while pushing himself to his physical limits, which seems to be at an extreme level, as very few things have been able to slow him down.

Heightened Combat Response
Because of increased activity in the parts of the brain that respond and react to stress, Castitas has a heightened response in combat. Because his brain has been more "wired" to feed into the fight portion of the fight-or-flight instinct, he can react to threats in a manner only the elite of fighters are capable of. The amygdala, which helps play a role in emotions, begins to suppress feelings of fear or anxiety upon the detection of a threat. In turn, the hypothalamus begins the processing and release of various hormones that aid in strength and speed to help protect his body from the threat he has to fight off. Afterwards, the hippocampus begins to suppress certain stress responses such as anxiety and fear. The prefrontal cortex begins to activate, giving Castitas increased attentive awareness and allows him to take advantage of planning in the midst of combat. Finally, the adrenal gland begins to work in producing epineprhine, or adrenaline, into the body to allow him to keep fighting until his body's stress levels return to normal levels via homeostasis.

Ninjutsu Defense
Because Castitas does not rely on offensive ninjutsu in combat, he has learned how to defend against it enough for him to close the distance to his opponent. His body's resilience to physical stress allows him to take most basic techniques with little to no damage done to his body. But to protect from stronger ninjutsu attacks, Castitas steels his body with an influx of chakra, which serves as a protective barrier that reacts to the technique's element and mirrors it, allowing further protection against the attack. By utilizing physical energy dominant chakra, Castitas can deflect the attack, as if pushing away the blow of a sword by thrusting a shield forward, with the amount of energy required being determined by the intensity of the attack. All in all, he is well protected against most forms of ninjutsu, but is still open to more powerful forms that his chakra can't respond to.