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This technique was developed for spying with grisly effects. The user applies their hand onto the subject's face, stealing its features and making it their own. Since what is stolen is the face itself, the disguise achieved through facial feature alteration won't reveal the tiniest flaw. The victims of this technique are reduced to faceless corpses atrocious even to look at. The user can change their voice to be like that of the victims, making a very convincing copy. This technique was originally developed by Orochimaru, but upon visiting his labs, Ringo Uchiha discovered manuscripts of this jutsu and learned to use it in an entirely different way, allowing her to copy faces of individuals without the need to remove the faces and kill them. She also performs the initial copying with a hand sign.