Minoru

Keeping it Real... ish

Name: Minoru Uchiwa
Profession: Hospital Orderly / Physical Therapist Assistant

Growing up around the Seattle area with his twin brother Isamu, Minoru was a happy-go-lucky kid. Where Isamu buried himself in books, Minoru preferred to climb on anything he could reach. By the time he was a teenager, he was quite the freerunner - a harmless kind of deviant, complete with lots of flips and other parkour tricks.

When Isamu headed out to the east coast for university, Minoru tagged along. It certainly made their parents feel better (they could live together and watch out for each other - and still do, along with Minoru’s pet butter ball python, Kazumi). After nearly a year trying his hand at a variety of odd jobs, he got a night shift position at the local hospital as an orderly. He soon realized that was where he was meant to be!

When Isamu moved to the Nexus to research at IRIS, Minoru came too, easily fitting right in at the hospital there. He is currently taking classes to become a Physical Therapist Assistant.

In his free time, Minoru trains for and competes in American Ninja Warrior under the stage name, Fan Man.

You're a Wizard, Minoru!

Name: Minoru Uchiwa
House: Slytherin
Year: 5th
Wand: Red Oak with a Basilisk horn core
Patronus: Dragon
Magical Abilities: Parselmouth

Unlike many pureblood wizards in his house, Minoru is kind, generous and understanding. He values hard work. He's upbeat and positive almost all of the time. He was sorted primarily because he could speak parseltongue and the other Slytherins picked on him endlessly... until he started winning them the Quidditch House Cup every single year.

Minoru is the seeker on the Slytherin quidditch team and his life's ambition is turning professional after graduation and playing for the Japanese National team. Unfortunately, that's going to be an uphill battle. His flying style could best be described as acrobatic parkour on a broom - something many have deemed impossible until they've seen it with their own eyes. And he still has to pass all of his classes. Thank goodness he has a scholarly Ravenclaw for a twin brother!

Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!

Name: Minoru Uchiha
Rank: Genin? Maybe?
Elemental Affinity: Fire
Summoning Contract: Snakes

As the son of a Kage, Isamu and Minoru were both raised from an early age in the ninja arts. But he was a pacifist, despite his acrobatic fighting style. He had massive chakra reserves, but never awakened his sharingan.

Once he graduated from the Academy, left the village to study under the Sankes and learn the mysteries of life, death and rebirth. This did not sit well with many in the village, and were his father less skilled in diplomacy, he probably would have been hunted down for going rogue. Nor was it easy. Minoru could not mould senjutsu chakra until Isamu created a sealing jutsu to help him passively trap it. But once that was done, he was finally able to transform into Sage Mode and achieve his dream.

Minoru has an affinity with all snakes and can summon them via his summoning tattoo. The longer he trains, the more snakelike abilities he taps into - i.e. heightened senses, a resistance to poisons, protective skin, regenerative substitution jutsu, healing abilities, etc.

May the Force be With You

Name: Minoru
Homeworld: Ossus, circa ~4250 BBY
Rank: Jedi Archeologist
Lightsaber color: blue violet amethyst

The brothers both showed Force sensitivity early in life, but displayed remarkably different interests. Minoru was more gifted athletically, and their parents thought it best for Minoru to study at the Jedi temple on Coruscant alongside other would-be Jedi warriors.

Getting him to sit still for meditation was like pulling rancor teeth, but Minoru was proficient with a training saber. Things got a little interesting, though, when he constructed his lightsaber. His master expected blue, but it instead took on an odd partly violet color - showing a possible connection with the Dark Side.

Growing up during the Third Great Schism, Jedi were once again fighting against other Jedi. Having bested a powerful dark sider in armed combat, Minoru was ordered by his master to kill him. He refused, letting the other man flee with his life. This act caused him to fail his Jedi trials and return to Ossus in disgrace. Fortunately, Isamu (and his master, librarian, Odan Urr) saw something else while Minoru performed the complicated moving meditation ritual, Alchaka. He belonged, not among warriors, but among Jedi researchers. His blade represented a connection to the light side of the force strong enough to come in contact with the dark side without being corrupted by it. His proficiency with the more physical side of the Force made him an ideal explorer of dangerous archeological sites.

And so, as part of the Academy of Jedi Archeology, Minoru spent the better part of his life traveling to darker parts of the galaxy that many Jedi feared to tread - such as Naga Sadow’s temples of Yavin 4, Freedon Naad’s supposed tomb on Onderon, the ancient ruins of Korriban, etc - to bring Sith artifacts back to the Chamber of Antiquities at the Great Library for protection and further study. Stories of his excavations were left on many a holocron, mostly thanks to Isamu’s meticulous record-keeping. He poured himself into his work until it was time for the Force to claim him.

Little did Minoru know that by collecting such artifacts, he helped set the library up for destruction by Sith Lord Exar Kun in 3996 BBY. It is fortunate that neither Isamu nor Minoru lived that long. Both brothers would have been heartbroken to see the library, and their homeworld, suffer as they did in the Sith War.