I love using goofy quirky characters in my stories. Then again, who doesn't. The other night I was fleshing out my Ninja Order of Animalburg and ended up with the character Nails. Nails got his name because he can seemingly live through anything. He's a master at taking a hit so that it generates the least amount of damage. This skill didn't come naturally or easily though. Nails is missing a finger, about 40% of his tail, a piece of his ear, six teeth, and his appendix (though that had nothing to do with ninja work). All the same, Nails comes off as a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow who at once accepts that he has bits of himself missing and seems to have no notion that it should affect him in any way.
In Animalburg, the ninja all strive to be as tough as Nails.
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