Kitsuchi

Height and heavy muscle make Kitsuchi an intimidating presence, his skin a pinkish tan. Dark eyes sit beneath cropped hair of a dull grey, and a bulbous nose tops a chinstrap beard finished by a small, upward-pointing soul patch below the lip. He sticks to Iwagakure's regulation gear, wraps his right arm in bandages, and knots the Alliance headband in bandanna fashion. Unusually for a Stone shinobi his lapel closes on the left, a detail read as a sign he favors that hand. The fuller beard arrived only as he aged.

A grave, orderly temperament defines him, paired with an even keel that pressure does little to shake. He weighs a moment quickly, acts without hesitation, and speaks with authority, all traits of a capable commander. Great pride sits in him too, both in his own ability and in his daughter, whom he trusts alongside himself to swing a battle the Alliance's way. Still, a hotter streak surfaces now and then, much as it does in Kurotsuchi and Onoki; on one occasion he barked at his daughter to hold her tongue.

As the officer over the Second Division, the Alliance's close-quarters unit, Kitsuchi stands among Iwagakure's finest. Sheer force is his signature: he flung Kinkaku a fair distance even as the man wore a six-tailed shroud, and one stretch of the war left him perched atop a heap of White Zetsu clones he had felled by himself. Bulk does not slow him either, quick enough to pull Darui out from under the stomping foot of the Outer Path's Demonic Statue, and the anime adds sturdy taijutsu, driving pairs of Zetsu into the dirt.

Earth Release is where he truly shines, handled on a scale almost no one rivals. With his daughter he split the ground open to lay bare the Zetsu ranks tunneling below, and later a team of Stone earth-users raised and sank the land at his command, sealing the newly revived Ten-Tails inside a huge trench. For melee he coats his fist, and more of himself when needed, in rock hard enough to make each strike land like a hammer. He names the Sandwich Technique his deadliest option, calling up slabs of stone bigger than that towering Outer Path idol to mash foes flat, and he can throw up shelters and towering walls of earth as well. Midway through the fighting he taught Shikamaru the seals for a basic earthen guard so a mass of shinobi could blunt the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball.