| Tendou Harima | |
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| Kana | |
| Romaji | Harima Tendō |
| Profile | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Possible 70s |
| Nickname/s | Great Flame (大炎, Taien) The Founder |
| Eye Color | None |
| Device | Ame no Murakumo |
| Personal Status | |
| Affiliations | Tendoushuu |
| Status | Deceased |
| Blazer Status | |
| Voice Actor | |
Tendou Harima is referred to as the Great Flame and the Founder of Tendoushuu. He was imprisoned in a special prison called Cocytus that placed him in cryogenic stasis. Tendou was freed after the power in Cocytus was shut down due to the chaos caused by Or-Gaule.
Appearance[]
Tendou is shown to be an elderly almost skeletal man described to be at least in his 70s. He possesses long hair and wears cloth wrapped around his eyes, as well as a cross made from twigs around his neck, a tattered pine-colored kimono, and no footwear. As a result of torture during his captivity, his body is covered in gruesome wounds, his skeleton is distorted, and his eyeballs have been gouged out, but green magic power flows out of the empty sockets like flames when he fights.
Personality[]
Tendou is a firm believer that violence and conflict is the true gift granted to them by God and to this end, he and his group caused the Teito Hotel Occupation Incident in order to start World War III. In that incident, he forced several middle school Blazers to fight one another to the death, as Tendou cried with the deaths of each one as if his own child had been murdered in front of him an act, which has caused Itsuki to question his sanity.
Though in his initial meeting with Touka Toudou, Tendou has shown to be a somewhat generous man as he even granted the young Blazer advise in the incidents that occurred to the Wakaba House where she grew up as well as hearing her plans in what to do after graduating from Hagun Academy. He had even watched the children in the orphanage, while the others were cleaning up.
However, in his talk with Touka, he started to reveal his true colors after realizing that she was dazzling like all the people around him who shines like stars. In his preaching to her, his ideology border on religious fanatism viewing all conflict and tragedies as a means of showing the true brilliance of people in the brink of despair and hardship and even viewing himself as God's Messenger even if it means starting another incident as he had done before.
In his drive to push Touka to Brute Soul, Tendou is willing to even kill the children at the orphanage who had shown him hospitality, lamenting that it is a necessary trial for Touka to overcome. He is sincerely impressed by youths such as Yuudai Moroboshi and Kuraudo Kurashiki who are willing to face him. As he is finally defeated by Touka, who gained the power to defeat him with the cooperation of Kyushu's civilians, he realizes the error of his ways, seeing the value of teamwork over cruelly pushing individuals toward awakening, and feels remorse for his actions as he dies.
History[]
In the past, Tendou fought in World War II. He achieved his "Awakening" after being captured and tortured alongside the rest of his comrades. He escaped by killing his captors, but was too late to rescue his comrades. Afterward, as a means to repent, Tendou started to instruct others to achieve "God's Blessing".
He later became the founder of Tendoushuu, a terrorist group who all believed that violence and conflict was the manner of how people should live. Both Tendou and his group also caused the Teito Hotel Occupation Incident resulting in several serious injuries and deaths, the most notable incident was forcing thirty middle school Blazers to fight against one another to the death, leaving one survivor among them. Afterward, he was defeated and frozen by Ryouma Kurogane, whose son Genma Kurogane built Cocytus to maintain his cryostasis.
Plot[]
The Great Flame[]
Tendou Harima made his appearance in front of Touka and the others after the mothers of the children who broke the orphanage's windows causing them to run away hearing him begging for food.
Powers & Abilities[]
Desperado: Tendou is a Desperado, a being whose broken to chains of fate, which bound him through achieving his awakening. As such, he has far greater magic compared to a normal Blazer since he can increase it through training.
- Excessive Awakening: He has undergone rare Excessive Awakening which grants him enormous power, increasing his mana and control over at the cost of him abandoning his humanity, turning him into a demon instead of a human. Itsuki has said that Tendou's body is no longer human and is as strong as his Device, which also caused him to remain conscious despite being asleep or frozen.
Immense Magic Power: As a Desperado, he has massive amounts of magic, displaying firepower well beyond even Stella Vermillion, who is touted as having the world's highest mana quantity. His magic showed no signs of decreasing fast even after releasing so much, Kurono has described him as being a mass of magic instead of physical matter. Even after his physical body perished, his magic power temporarily persisted in the form of his giant face in the clouds.
Disaster Manipulation: Tendou's ability as a Blazer. He is able to create and control disasters, letting him cause things like lightning, flames, and earthquakes. Tendou can also become like a cloud letting him ward off any kind of attack without being injured. Itsuki even referred to him as a human-shaped disaster.
Mana Control: Tendou has demonstrated superior magic control, being able to turn himself into a cloud-like form of pure magic power, intangible to physical attacks as well as most magical attacks. However, he is vulnerable to Yuudai Moroboshi's magic destruction, and it is presumed that Kurono Shinguuji's World Crisis could also destroy him at the level of spacetime. Furthermore, he could be harmed by superior magic power, though this is considered near impossible given his own massive reserves, and only accomplished by Touka converting Kyushu's entire electric grid into lightning magic.
Equipment[]
Ame no Murakumo (
- Tensai - Houten Banrai (
天災・方天万雷 Tensai hōten banrai, lit. "Sky Disaster: Sky-Crashing Heavy Thunder"): A Noble Art, where Tendou points his Device towards the sky and sends his magic towards it to create a huge thundercloud that releases lightning a million times stronger than Raikiri. - Kasai - Banshou Kaijin (
火災・万象灰燼 Kasai Banshō Kaijin, lit. "Fire Disaster: All into Ash"): This is a Noble Art where he causes flames to shoot out from his Device, engulfing the surrounding area in a conflagration. - Fuusai - Kokuryuu Toguro (
風災・黒龍蜷局 lit. "Wind Disaster: Black Dragon's Coil"): A Noble Art, where Tendou stabs his Device into the ground, then covers his surroundings with a black tornado far surpassing the scale of even Ouma's wind. The tornado also throws debris around, making Tendou difficult to approach. - Shinsai - Hoshinari (
震災・星鳴り Shinsai Hoshinari, lit. "Quake Disaster: Star's Ringing"): Tendou's Noble Art, which he stabs his Device into the ground pouring magic power into it, causing an earthquake capable of destroying half of a mountain. - Hyousai - Guren Jigoku (
氷災・紅蓮地獄 Hyōsai Gurenjigoku, lit. "Ice Disaster: Crimson Hell"): A Noble Art, which created a huge blizzard theorized to be able to kill the people of Kyushu in three days. - Kokuryuu Toguro – Houkou (
黒龍蜷局・咆哮 Kokuryū Toguro Hōkō, lit. "Black Dragon's Coil: Howl"): A modified version of "Kokuryuu Toguro", where he shoots black tornado bullets filled with debris at his opponent. - Raishin Ten'i (
雷身転移 Raishin Ten'i, lit. "Lightning Body Change"): A Noble Art, where Tendou turns into lightning and is able to move at lightning speed. - Unnamed Noble Art: Tendou's self-proclaimed strongest technique. He throws his Device up into the sky, transforming it into light. It then becomes a 100-meter sword of light that drops down on his opponent. Its power is comparable to a nuclear warhead, capable of destroying all of Fukuoka. In his ghostly state, he can create up to 12 of these swords of light at once.
- Shinbatsu – God Breath (
神罰・神雷 Shinbatsu Goddo Bresu, lit. "Divine Punishment: Divine Lightning"): A Noble Art used in his ghostly state, where he absorbs five swords of light to fire pure destructive power from his mouth instead of flame or lightning so that Touka couldn't absorb the latter.
Trivia[]
- His first name Tendou (天童) means "Cherub".
- His surname is a reference to the Harima Province, an old province of Japan.
- The name of his Device references to the original name of Kusanagi, one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan. Similar to how the Noble Art of Ouma Kurogane shares its current name.
- Tendou is the third Desperado to return from the dead, the first being Or-Gaule and second being Ikki Kurogane.