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HistoryCultureBorn in the shadow of the prestigious Uchiha clan, the Tenya grew into a war-savvy clan out of sheer necessity. While their numbers, fame, and power never touched that of their faux-rival, they excelled as a powerful unit of fighters thanks, in equal parts, to their unique bodies and extreme willfulness. While the clan would not formally state that the Uchiha are their rivals and it’s unclear how much these would-be foes care about the feud, many of the clan view the wielders of the Sharingan in a somewhat negative light.

Internally, the clan is hyper competitive due mostly to the nature of their bloodline. Because the occurrence rate of the kekkei genkai is so relatively low, children born with it are highly coveted and praised. Additionally, because the mutation has a large variance in how much it spreads across each individual, those with numerically higher amounts of siphons are typically viewed as more capable than those with less. On the other hand, females with fewer siphons are typically thought to be more beautiful and there is a high amount of pressure for both genders to have symmetrical vents. The striation, while physically obvious, has not created a full caste system though as hard work and skill can still trump even the most gifted with the blood.

While the low expression of the genes has caused some struggles in the clan, it has also caused some good. The genes appear to care little for the purity of the bloodline and, as such, the clan has not fallen into xenophobia (beyond the Uchiha) or inbreeding. External marriages are rather common, though generally the Tenya attempt to enfold the external group rather than lose one of their own.
DescriptionThe illustrious bloodline of the Tenya family manifests itself in a fairly low rate, even for pure born members. Roughly 40% of males and 20% of females exhibit the bloodline and, unfortunately, one cannot obtain it after birth.

The actual bloodline is visibly obviously to anyone who meets a Tenya as their body is covered in a collection of small “vents” and siphons from nearly all portions of their body, with the only consistent exceptions being the face and nether regions. These openings do not open into their actual body but instead connect only to their own, close network, though the clan possesses extra, internal tenketsu which innervate the system. Aesthetically, the vents vary from person to person, though they never protrude more than a few millimeters from the fresh.

This system of what are essentially tubes allow fluids to pass freely through the clansmen’s bodies. They passively create a field around them of sofly circulating fluid which extends no more than 2 millimeters off the end of their longest protrusion. This field does nothing on its own, can be viewed via doujutsu and the like, and is used in some clan specific techniques.

The clan member can, with the use of chakra, suck in and rapidly expel fluids around them in controlled jets or bursts to aid in their movement, most often used to increase their speed in controlled bursts. This has a number of uses ranging from simply running quickly to more advanced maneuvers like instantly changing direction or trajectory or going from resting to an accelerated speed much faster than a normal body could. Top-tier practitioners can enact extreme aerial stunts, stall their momentum, and move in unnatural ways.

Offensively, standard attacks see them temporarily boosting their striking speed just before impact, launching their attacking limb forward almost like a rocket. Higher skilled users can use the propulsion in reverse to emit a sudden shockwave from their vents, which adds power and slight range to their attacks. These kind of shockwave based attacks become common for older members but cause them to rebound away from their target, giving them a sort of hit-and-run method of attack. Typically, their taijutsu abilities scale more on potency than pure strength as they end up relying on their ability to accurately emit the shockwaves via their propulsion system.