Naoya Zenin

Cursed Technique Projection Sorcery (投とう射しゃ呪じゅ法ほう, Tōsha Juhō?): Naoya inherited his father's innate technique, allowing him to turn one second into 24 frames and trace a predetermined set of movements using his field of view as the angle of view. While the technique is active, anything touched by Naoya's palm must abide by the technique's 24 FPS rule or they are frozen for one second inside an animated frame.

Projection Sorcery (投とう射しゃ呪じゅ法ほう, Tōsha Juhō): Naoya retained his innate technique and it spirit was greatly improved by his cursed physiology. Combined with the ability to fly, Naoya's body could build up speeds that far surpass those of when he was a sorcerer.

Acceleration Mode: Naoya's body drew in air through the inlets while he flew around and used thrusting pressure and cursed energy to eject that air for increased propulsion. By flying around in circles to build up his speed, Naoya reached mach 3.[45] His body hides its tendrils within its shell and curls up when accelerating toward his top speed so that very speed won't destroy him. Curling up increases Naoya's toughness but a binding vow prevents him from being durable outside this mode. Time Cell Moon Palace (時じ胞月ほうげっ宮きゅう殿でん, Jihō Gekkyūden?): Naoya's domain took the form of a womb-like environment with a giant eye in place of a uterus.[47] The domain's can't-miss attack are lines of film that enforce the 24FPS rules of Projection Sorcery on a cellular level.

Naoya carried a tanto-style knife he kept tucked in his clothes. He didn't like to use it openly and only utilize it for sneak attacks.

Intelligence

High Tactical Intellect: Naoya was always considered to have a genius-level intellect, even as a child. He shared the same talent for strategic timing that Naobito possessed, allowing Naoya to calculate his opponent's moves into each approach he takes.

While working together with Yuta to kill Yuji, Naoya accurately foresaw Choso attempting to block their path. As soon as Yuji began to run away, Naoya prevented Choso from blocking off Yuta and engaged him one-on-one. Naoya saw Choso use Blood Manipulation before their fight and knew his best course of action was to counter Piercing Blood from the start.[39]

Even while obeying Projection Sorcery's 24 FPS rule, Naoya takes into account the possibility of his opponent countering. When Choso adapted to Naoya's speed using Flowing Red Scale: Stack, Naoya quickly recognized this was able to avoid Choso's counteroffensive by accurately predicting his moves.[40] Against Maki's Shiranui-Gata, Naoya deduced it was a trap and wisely decided to avoid a direct confrontation, choosing to continue gaining speed and hold on to his advantage.[41]

As his ego was retained after becoming a curse, Naoya's intellect is far surpassed that of most other cursed spirits. He used clever maneuvers to avoid Maki's attacks and accurately analyzed Noritoshi's abilities while fighting them both at the same time.

Overall Skill Level: Naoya was a special grade 1 sorcerer and head of the Hei, the Zenin clan's most powerful collective of sorcerers. He was considered to be amongst the pinnacle of talent within one of Big Three Families with strength comparable to his father's. Naoya considers other strong sorcerers within the clan such as Ogi and Jinichi weak compared to himself.

Naoya employed the cursed technique he inherited from Naobito with elite proficiency. It granted him incredible speed that Naoya prided himself on. He combined his strategic intellect with his close combat prowess to quickly overwhelm his enemies without suffering any damage. Naoya had the same knack for timing as his father and prioritized gathering speed even more than the former head did.In his first encounter with Yuji and Choso, Naoya was able to blitz right past the defenses of the two exceptional fighters and landed a hard hit before parrying a counterattack and escaping without suffering a blow. It happened so fast that Yuji and Choso weren't even sure what happened, but they immediately associated this with a cursed technique. Naoya expected to take Yuji out in one hit and admitted Sukuna's vessel was tougher than expected. He followed up by confidently adding that he could increase his speed even further. Fighting Choso one-on-one, Naoya was quickly able to overpower the special grade Death Painting Womb. Thanks to information on the other sorcerer clans, Naoya was familiar with Blood Manipulation and focused on preventing Choso from controlling blood outside his body. His high-speed attacks put Choso at such a disadvantage that Naoya didn't even need to divulge how Projection Sorcery works. Naoya believed that his speed could prevent Choso from charging up Convergence and releasing Piercing Blood, Blood Manipulation's most fearsome move, leaving him assured of victory.

Naoya confidently pursued strength to the point where he viewed everyone else as inferior to himself. He refused to acknowledge anyone's talent, referring to his elders, Jinichi and Ogi, as weaklings despite their experience as senior members of the clan. Naoya's reckless and conceited attitude irritates even his fellow clansmen, to the point where Ogi and Jinichi attacked him for being excessively pompous.Raised in an environment that breeds superiority, Naoya developed several sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies and strongly embodied all the stigma about the Zenin clan. He has no family values ​​whatsoever other than trying to outdo everyone to become head of the clan. He didn't express any amount of concern for Naobito, his father, on his death bed and has said more than once that he hates all his older brothers as well. Naoya views women only as wives and casually told Maki and Mai's mother that a woman who can't walk three paces behind a man should be stabbed in the back.[4]

Upon learning that Megumi usurped him for the head of the clan, Naoya didn't hesitate to plot a way to kill him. Naoya was well aware that his clansmen might prefer Megumi to himself but didn't care at all for their approval.[5] He had no issues attacking Megumi's allies in an attempt to draw him out and was willing to kill them in order to do so.

From a young age, Naoya was always praised and told by others that he was a genius. He was severely spoiled as the youngest and most promising of the Naobito's children. He was conditioned to view himself as his father's successor and as a result, Naoya's arrogance grew to unbridled levels even as a small child. He looked down on all those he views as weaker than him, which is the vast majority of the people Naoya came across.

The only person Naoya ever appeared to have any respect for was Toji. He went to visit him as a child to mock the pitiful man without cursed energy but was instantly able to recognize Toji was extremely strong in spite of that. This led Naoya to embrace the ideology that the sin of the insignificant is the ignorance of true strength. Naoya felt he was one of the only ones who understood Toji and strived to be as exceptional as he was.

Naoya was a tall and slim man with brown eyes and dyed blonde hair accented with his dark green roots. He almost always has an arrogant grin plastered across his face and believes himself to have an appearance befitting a clan head, implying he's much better looking than other members like Jinichi. He has three piercings in his left ear, one in his ear lobe, and two along the upper cartilage.

Naoya wears a traditional attire that resembles most of his clan members. He sports a white long-sleeved shirt that buttons the color underneath his teal kimono. He completes his outfit with light-colored hakama bottoms and waraji sandals.

80 kg

188 cm

Zenin Clan

Jujutsu Sorcerer

Zenin Clan Naobito Zenin (Father) Ogi Zenin (Uncle)

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