Tayuya

Tayuya was a fair-skinned girl with a slender build and was the shortest member of the Sound Four. She had brown eyes that were accentuated by her eyelashes extending into the corners of her eyes, and she was usually sporting an impassive expression on her face. Tayuya's most distinctive feature was her long, untamed, dark pink hair that fell past her shoulders with long parted bangs framing either side of her face and one between her eyes. Her cursed seal is applied on the back of her neck, where it is in a circular pattern of three hooks, similar to a triskelion, concealed by her hair.

Tayuya's attire was a black shirt under a tan tunic with elbow-length sleeves and bore the symbol of the Sound Four on the hem, and black skin-tight shorts. She wore black arm-warmers, traditional black shinobi sandals with calf-length leg warmers covered by bandages, and a purple, rope-like belt tied in an inverted bow around her waist. To keep her wild hair out of the way, Tayuya also wore a black hat with pipe-like stripes and bandaged sides, keeping her bangs in place while the rest is pushed back behind her ears to trail down her back.

As one of the Sound Four, an elite group who served under Orochimaru's direct orders, Tayuya was a strong kunoichi. She claimed to be the second strongest member of the Sound Four, subsequent only to Sakon.

Tayuya was very fast, nimble, and evasive, able to gracefully perform leaps and flips while simultaneously playing her flute during her fight with Shikamaru Nara. Although she was a long-distance fighter, Tayuya possessed above-average strength and seemed to have some competence in taijutsu.

As one of Orochimaru's closest and most powerful warriors, Tayuya was branded with a cursed seal. When active in Level 1, it spread across her entire body in straight lines, spreading out in a jagged, zigzag pattern. When in her Level 2 form, her skin became a dark shade of brown, gained yellow eye irises with dark black eye sclerae, and two black vertical markings appeared under her eyes. Tayuya's hair becomes longer, growing to her thighs, and several horns appear on the top of her head, which grow when she exerts herself. In this state, she gained an immense boost in strength, stamina, and endurance.

When experiencing strong feelings of hatred and rage, she could draw even more power from the seal. As a result, after her reincarnation, the power of her cursed seal was increased considerably. An example of this was the fact that the range of her sound-based genjutsu techniques was greatly increased.

Tayuya was the only member of the Sound Four to use sound as her primary fighting style, in the form of her Demonic Flute, and was shown to have immense skill using it. In a fight with Shikamaru, she was able to dodge attacks and play her flute simultaneously. However, her flute, having been her only weapon, left her more vulnerable to close-range combat as she lacked a preference for any other tools. In the anime, after her reincarnation, she corrected that mistake.

Nevertheless, Tayuya still used her flute for a variety of purposes; one such purpose was controlling her Doki: three massive, ogre-like creatures that can absorb an enemy's physical energy through spectral worms spawned by the creatures. Another one of her abilities was performing sound-based genjutsu, such as Demonic Flute: Phantom Sound Chains. Since it was transmitted through the sound of her flute, it had an extremely long range and power, and could affect the opponent even if she didn't know their exact location. In the anime, after her reincarnation, it was noted by Shikamaru that her range grew considerably.

Tayuya had access to a very unique summoning, three eerie-looking creatures called Doki that she controls through her flute, and engages the opposition in physical combat in her place. These Doki are very strong, durable, and their large size belies their equally amazing speed. Aside from acting as Tayuya's personal physical shield and warriors, the Doki are able to weaken enemies by releasing the materialised spirits stored inside of them and absorbing their chakra.