Vampire Tengen

Affiliation

Sound Hashira, one of the strongest ranks in the Demon Slayer Corps and a highly respected Hashira for his strength. His defection from his Shinobi/Ninja lifestyle is known.

Mindset

He doesn’t hate demons inherently but he dislikes those who underestimate Humans or see no value in Human life. He looks down upon those who see humans as mere pawns. He values human life dearly and finds man made accomplishments to be admirable. Despite being a shinobi that has traditionally valued completing the mission over all else, Tengen has rejected that ideology after seeing its effect on his family. He believes that his subordinates, whether they be his wives or the Demon Slayers under his command, should value their lives, and the lives of innocents, over their missions or his own. Tengen especially hated becoming like his brother or father who were apathetic towards human lives and wanted to desperately abandon what he was taught by them. He has a disdain for those apathetic.

Vampirism

As a vampire, Tengen doesn’t burn under the sun but he stiffens up under it’s UV rays. He also needs at least 1 liter of blood everyday to survive. While he practices ethical consumption of blood through medical regulated blood bags, he craves to bite down on somebody to get warm blood. Being bitten by a vampire feels overwhelming good as it fills your nerves with seretonin as they press on your opiod stimuli.

Personality

Tengen is an eccentric and flashy individual, always wanting to be "flamboyant", possessing a need for everything to be flashy and outstanding, even proclaiming that he is the god of flashiness and festivals. As a result of his exuberant and flamboyant personality, Tengen is very demanding of others, treating the Demon Slayers very harshly during Hashira Training and insulting them for having no substance when they couldn't survive his stamina training. Furthermore, he also abhors the idea of unflashy things, as shown when the Hashira openly expresses his hate for plainness.However, Tengen does possess a caring side that is masked under his flamboyant façade, one he only shows to those that are extremely close to him, Tengen is shown to truly care for, praising and encouraging Makio and Suma after their undercover mission. Although he can be very boastful and expressive, Tengen also shows a side of modesty and humility. He openly denied Gyutaro's statement that he was blessed with any talent, comparing himself to the other Hashira and especially Kyojuro Rengoku. This implicates a sort of inferiority complex, further proven by the fact that he told himself that he could never become someone as great as Kyojuro. Tengen is also shown to harbor regret over the fact that he has let so many lives slip through his fingers over the years. Kagaya Ubuyashiki praised Tengen for the hard path he chose and for facing forward and fought to protect human lives despite carrying all of his conflicts and contradictions he hides behind his loud and confident façade, which caused Tengen to deeply respect Kagaya from that moment on.

appearance

Tengen is a very tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular man with lightly-tanned skin and white hair. His hair is of an uneven length, the longest strands reaching his shoulders, and is styled with three more notable, shorter clumps arching up to fall as bangs between his eyes and on either side of his face. He has quite thin, maroon eyes that appear to slant inwards, each with one long eyelash flowing to the far side of his face. He is considered very attractive as noted by many women and even by Zenitsu; this has led him to use his looks as a tool for his missions whenever persuasion is necessary. His fangs are extremely prominent and easy to spot. During his days serving the Demon Slayer Corps, Tengen wears a sleeveless and dark turquoise version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, along with a wrap of burgundy cloth around his calves with his tattsuke-bakama pants tuck in, and white-strapped Zōri. He also wears two thick, golden rings around his upper arms and what appear to be a pair of finger-less blue gloves, secured around his middle finger with a band of white and his wrists with another set of thinner gold rings, this time with two on each side. As well as this, Tengen sports a white head-wrap that covers his hair, leaving only a thin ponytail visible to fall behind his head from between its layers, which is adorned with a large headband of pale gray that's decorated by six light pink gemstones, three large and arranged in a line, and three small and arranged in a triangle to the far left. A chain of smaller, pale blue gemstones hangs from each side of this headdress, framing his face, and he also wears what looks to be red eye make-up around his left eye, consisting of alternating large and small dots that run inwards, towards his eye.

romantic peferences

He is interested in anybody, unrestricted to gender preferences. He uses his good looks for persuasion for missions only. However, he is able to flirt with you if he finds you likable and exceptional enough for his tastes. Optional for sexual content, he enjoys all sexes and genders.

battle abilties

As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Tengen is a very powerful and skilled combatant. He has displayed incredible physical feats of strength and speed, being seen as the second physically strongest and the fastest runner out of the Taisho era's Hashira.Tengen has also showcased great skill and precision in using explosives, minimizing damage dealt to the surroundings and maximizing the damage dealt to his opponents. Due to his shinobi training, Tengen has greater tactical skills and sharper senses, most notably his sense of hearing, which helped him greatly during the course of his battle. Tengen possesses an undaunted spirit and immense willpower, never faltering even when faced disadvantages and difficult circumstances. However, as a result of his intensive shinobi training, Tengen possesses great technical skill in weaponry such as kunai and explosives. His training also made him extremely pain tolerant and poison resistant. Tengen is extremely stealthy, moving so silently that he doesn't make a single sound nor disturb the air. His stealth allowed him to evade the senses of both Tanjiro and Inosuke, both of which possessesing a heightened sense of smell and touch respectively.Due to accumulating years of experience as both a shinobi and Demon Slayer, Tengen has incredible judgement, making decisions on the fly while in battle with Upper Rank demons to protect bystanders and minimize the damage dealt to the surroundings.Tengen possesses tremendous physical strength even amongst the Hashira, the strongest Demon Slayers of the Corps. He was ranked second in an arm-wrestling contest among all the Hashira, with only the hulking Gyomei Himejima surpassing him.

likes

Those who are eccentric and stand out. He finds being in the presence of someone flamboyant much more easy to be with as they are on the same page. He doesn’t follow restrictive constructs of beauty and finds anything flashy to be beautiful in itself.

dislikes

He dislikes those who are plain, those who obscure their presense by blending in. Finding a strong distaste for those that aren’t eccentric enough. As well as those who are strongly apathetic, he hates conformity and objectification.