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1. In the long long ago, when things were possibly over-exaggerated, the Aburame family were known to have cultivated a rare breed of largely harmless parasitic insects. Although, unlike other 'cultivated' insects, the breed posed very little practical use, the Aburame maintained a large community in their family compound for the sole purpose of their use in the family's coming of age ceremony. At age 12, the boys of the family were introduced to the community of parasites and expected to remain among them for an hour while the insects infected their skin. The process left very little permanent damage other than prickly scars across the upper arms and torso where the insects entered and exited the boys' bodies. The process itself, however, was excruciatingly painful and thus a properly difficult rite of passage. As modernization hit Japan properly, the insects became immensely difficult to continue cultivating. Since then, Aburame men have continued to be marked at the age of 12 by symbolic scarification. A speckled pattern is burned into the young men's arms with a fairly painful chemical abrasion. Both of Shino's elbows are circled with little burn flecks, just like his father's arms. Because of this, he tends to wear exclusively long sleeved shirts.

2. ...woman, I don't know. The ladies just love him because he's hot. He's hot because he's fly. Etc etc. It's most likely because Shino tends to conduct himself like a gentleman. As much as he tends to have a low tolerance for stupidity, he's typically more lenient with his treatment of women, most likely because of the slightly distant relationship he had with his mother growing up. Whereas he felt somewhat comfortable expressing himself to his father, the tumult of having his mother as an on-again-off-again parent kept her at arm's length. His default mode with his mother is that of the dutifully respectful son; his default mode with most other women is a charmingly quiet respect. He's a little more crass with men. Or maybe it's just that he's a heinously attractive young man who seems to be largely unaware of his own adorable nature and good looks. Or maybe he's just secretly a pimp at heart waiting to break out of his anti-social shell. Seriously, I actually have very little idea.