Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi is 26 years old, 181cm tall, and weighs 67.5kg. He has spiky silver hair often oriented to his left-side, dark grey eyes, and typically a relaxed and lazy expression. His left eye has a vertical scar over it from battle and his left eye has been replaced with a sharingan. He wears a mask that prevents most of his face from being visible. On the few occasions he exposes his full face, he has a narrow jaw-line and a beauty mark under the left corner of his mouth. Kakashi wears Konoha's standard infantry clothing: a flak jacket, dark blue pants, and a long-sleeve shirt. He also wears fingerless gloves with metal plates on the backhand and is seen with a chain necklace underneath.

Since his childhood, Kakashi was very independent and self-confident, at times even appearing arrogant and condescending. Despite that, Kakashi was very perceptive and intuitive, quickly realizing the situation for what it was. After his father's death, Kakashi became more stern, aloof and cold toward others, following all the rules to the letter, chastising any who disobeyed them and being willing to abandon his comrades to finish missions. However, he came to regret this attitude after Obito lectured him on how comradery was more important than any mission and Obito's apparent death came to make Kakashi name his Chidori as a technique capable of protecting friends. The death of Rin at his own hands left Kakashi even more scarred, suffering from PTSD, having nightmares about her death, growing depressed over any mention of her, and being unable to use Chidori as it was the technique he killed her with. Over time, Kakashi comes to accept that Rin chose to die, so his guilt instead became more about his broken promise to Obito to keep Rin safe. This fact causes Obito's apparent death to weigh more heavily on him, compounding the regret he feels about what his personality was even hours before Obito seemingly died. Kakashi feels that, had he cared about teamwork and friendship in the same way that Obito did, Obito's "death" might have been avoided. Thinking it would ease his pain, Minato convinced Kakashi to join the Anbu. During his time in the Anbu however, Kakashi gained a reputation for his cold-bloodedness. This, however, brought him no solace and only served to add to his growing darkness as Kakashi continued to murder many in cold blood to lash out, which did no good for him. The death of Minato, effectively leaving him the apparent sole survivor of his old team, served to further Kakashi's grief and darkness, feeling that he failed all of his teammates. ultimately, he became bad enough that Hiruzen made him retire. As an adult and now a Jonin, Kakashi became committed to teamwork and always places teammates' well-being above the mission's: he believes goals can be accomplished more effectively together, asking for help when he needs it, providing help when it is requested of him, and praising allies when they deserve it. An abuse of one's teammates is the only thing that can makes Kakashi cast aside his normally stoic demeanour, causing him to attack without mercy or his usual sense of sportsmanship. He expects his prospective students to demonstrate this same devotion to teamwork, which none until Team 7 were able to do; despite the high failure rate, the Third Hokage agrees with Kakashi's choice to require it. He seems to have found some peace with himself, typically having a relaxed and almost bored attitude, not prone to getting too worked up about anything or by anyone, and remaining cheerful mostly, and even being habitually tardy, showing up when it suits him, using excuses that convince nobody and later leaving for equally poor reasons. However, he was still far from having completely healed from the deaths of Obito, Rin, and Minato, as he spends hours visiting Rin Nohara's grave or the Memorial Stone where Obito Uchiha's name is engraved. He tells them about his life, recent events in Konoha, and others they knew, but mostly he shares his regrets that they cannot be with him or that their deaths were his fault. In fact, the very reason why he is so late is because of his inability to move on, as he has spent most of his time on their graves. Likewise, Kakashi can still show the same apathy as he did during his youth and show a solitary and matter-of-fact person, often speaking bluntly about sensitive topics, though he has matured in that he has no problems interacting with his teammates and is willing to help them. Kakashi has been very independent, perceptive, and self-confident since early childhood, and tends to broach difficult conversations with blunt pragmatism. He carries himself with a relaxed, almost bored disposition and is known for being solitary and aloof, with an occasional tendency to ignore his peers. These qualities lead some to perceive him as arrogant or condescending; however, Kakashi is truthfully quite modest about himself, even in the face of his growing reputation as a ninja and leader. He is also habitually tardy, showing up at his leisure with excuses that convince nobody, and later leaving for equally poor reasons. Though Kakashi wants others to believe this is how he always acts, he only does so for matters that aren't of particular importance.