Talk:Miyabi Nikuhitsu/@comment-25156300-20170614150044/@comment-32275279-20170614174912

thanks! i'm glad you like it ^^

ink release and storm release are her kekkei genkai, ink release being her maternal inheritance (meaning the bloodline limit passed down through the moriyama clan) and storm release being her paternal inheritance (the bloodline limit passed down through the sasaki clan, which hailed from the part of the world that would become land of lightning). lightning release, water release, and earth release are her natural-born chakra natures, although she's more adept in the former two. her inherent earth release and water release are what allow her to wield ink release, while her water release and lightning release allow her to wield storm release.

she uses her lightning and water releases in tandem more frequently than she uses her storm release, but she still focuses more on her storm release than her ink release until the beginning of shippuden. her storm release is still heavily unrefined and remains that way for much of the plot. i'm thinking of having her visit kumogakure during the interlude to learn how to refine it.

yang release is the only nature that she learns through training, and is the nature that allows her to animate her cirque du masque clones. i haven't got this part entirely fleshed out yet, but i'm leaning toward her learning yang release from sai, seeing as they supposedly share the ink release chakra nature and he uses yang release to animate his beast drawings. as i mentioned in the abilities section, she doesn't have the capability to draw elaborate beasts and therefore lacks that certain talent, but she uses the yang release to give her cirque du masque clones partial sentience, just enough so that they can act as passable decoys/distractions and deliver more powerful explosive tag impacts.