Soun Tendo (AST)

==Appearance==
==History==
As Soun was making the marriage arrangement with his old training partner. Genma convinced him that it would be best to raise Ranma and Akane together. However Soun quickly realized that he was just trying to pawn his son off on him and only agreed if Genma raised Kasumi in exchange. This proved to be a bad idea when Kasumi returned 10 years later haven fallen into the spring of drowned boy. Soun would have most likely have strangled Genma to death if Kasumi hadn’t come to his aid.
The next day after Kasumi walked the others to school Soun informed Genma how bad Akane and Ranma’s engagement was going. There plan on raising them together had backfired substantially Akane and Ranma saw each other more as brother and sister so were against Soun trying to force them to be together. Since it was essentially the same problem with Nabiki Genma suggested that they use Kasumi. Soun was enthusiastic about the idea. Nodoka however felt that it wouldn’t not work, but decided to keep quite.
When Kasumi returned and excited Soun and Genma and an apologetic Nodoka greeted Kasumi to tell her the news. When Cologne trapped Kasumi in her cursed form and formed Soun and Nodoka about her marriage to Shampoo. Soun started straggling Genma who had signed the marriage certificate while Nodoka argued with Cologne. Ranma, Akane, Kasumi (currently trapped in male form) and Shampoo would leave the adults to talk about this while heading off to rescue Ryouko (Ukyo in her wolf form) from Azusa. Nodoka expressed her frustration at Cologne forcing Kasumi into a marriage, only for her to explain how same sex marriages work in Joketsuzoku. Though she is an elder she is just as bound to the law as anyone else. Cologne was forcing Kasumi to remain male since it was the best interest of Shampoo.
Realizing that had been manipulated into looking like the bad guy Nodoka asked Genma to explain exactly what happened. Kasumi joined in when he returned with Cologne filling in the part that Kasumi memories were cloudy about. After the tale of the tournament and marriage was given, and with the situation not easily resolvable, it was decided Shampoo would stay with the Tendos in Akane's room.
Some days later, Shampoo and Kasumi were at the Tendos for dinner when the topic moved to Kasumi’s recent training Ranma admitted that he had reached a slump. Genma offered to take Ranma on a training trip, but Nodoka refused to allow it to happen. He had already done enough damage to Kasumi and she wouldn’t allow him to the same with their son. There argument ended up leading to Soun bringing up the engagement.
While Ranma tried to deny interest in marrying Kasumi he more consciously tried not to hurt her feeling. This allowed the fathers to back him into a corner where anything he said would hurt Kasumi unless he just conceded the point. Kasumi herself could just bow her head at the two’s actions. Shampoo meanwhile repeatedly interrupted the conversation by breaks cups. Not that much later dinner had broken up, and everyone was returning to their regular activities. 
When Kasumi and Shampoo were about to leave, Kasumi asked Shampoo to apologize, but she refused and left. Nodoka who had been there to send Kasumi off suggested that that she get Shampoo into school so that she could get more experience dealing with others. The three adults were horrified when Happosai suddenly showed up. Genma immediately jumped for the pond, while Soun proceeded to prostrate himself in front of the master. Even Nodoka's normal placidity was shattered. She was quick to change Genma back to true form, since if she and Soun had to deal with Happosai so did she.
Nodoka directed the others out of the room as Happosai focused his wrath on his two former students. In order to save himself Genma ended up presenting Ranma to Happosai to be his new heir. Nodoka initially became enraged at the thought of Happosai taking her son away, though she relented slightly told that he could train Ranma there. Ranma did impress Happosai with his durability after he slammed Ranma into the stone fence when he attacked him for his initial dismissal. Ranma managed to push through the pain, and went on the offensive again Kasumi seeing this offered herself as heir. Happosai refused, while impressed by her skill he believed that pretty girls should be cherished and not subjected to his training.   
When Happosai learned of the engagement and Kasumi’s marriage to Shampoo he started questioning Ranma’s manliness. This caused Nodoka to insist on a date between Kasumi and Ranma, much to Shampoo's displeasure. When Sampei called the dojo to tell them to meet at Hotel La Bac, Genma attempted to make an excuse to stay only to be subjected to Soun’s Demon Head Technique. They arrived to find not only nearly the entire class where Saki explained that she believed that Kasumi, Usagi, and Shampoo were in there. Ranma was initially skeptical, especially when Kitsune started talking about the Illuminati, before Saki shut her up; but she asked them to just trust her. She went on to tell them the place was most likely booby trapped in addition to Shadow and Shadow Lady being in there, but was caught off guard when Ranma asked her if she had a plan.
Luckily Kitsune somehow got the buildings blueprints allowing them to map out a route. It turns out that the building protected by an anti magic field that also effected chi, while Saki had keys that block the effect they would still need to take out the power source. Genma was volunteered to lead the party that would search the floors below and take out the power. When he tried to protest Soun walked up behind him and gripped his shoulder VERY firmly. Not wanting a second exposure to the demon head Genma agreed.
After destroying the power source and finding the others the split up again so that the injured could be taken outside. By the time they finally found Kasumi she was possessed and attacked them. Soun was the last opposition, and Kasumi had shown him no more mercy than the others who lie collapsed around her. As he lost consciousness he gasped out his daughter’s name.
Only after the sudden outburst of energy in the building, caused by Usagi shattering her crystal to escape the nanobots control, was Kasumi finally stopped as her true personality started to fight that possessing her. This gave Ranko and the others the opportunity to aid those fallen, including Shampoo, finding her barely breathing. However, after Kasumi cast out the possessing mind, Rose enter the picture, revealing she was the one doing the possession, although believing herself to be Bison. She would attack them, nearly finishing them off, even threatening Shampoo, but Kasumi recovered and faced off with her, allowing the others to escape. Ranko would carry Shampoo most the way, although handing her off to Akane near the end to return to get Kasumi.
However, a barrier stopped Ranko from doing so and she too was forced to exit with the others. Utilizing a slide created by Frost, they escaped the building before it was consumed in a strange field. Soun watched in shock, knowing that his daughter was still inside. However, shock changed to surprise as the dust started to settle and a great dark sphere remained in the buildings place. As the events came to a close, and Sailor Uranus brought out Kasumi from the field. Soun was instantly be his daughters side when she awoke and was informed by Dr. Tofu that Shampoo was alive and apparently stable.
A good number of those who had ventured inside Hotel La Bac were taken to the hospital. Most of it was minor injuries, including those Soun had suffered, but the exhaustion was particularly nasty and he had found himself passing out before he could visit Kasumi. He wasn’t able to check up on her until the next day which is why he nearly attacked Tofu with demands of Kasumi’s condition, going so far as to volunteer his various organs. After calming him down Tofu assured Soun that Kasumi was in no danger. However after some prompting from Cologne he admitted that she was suffering from healing sickness. Luckily it wasn’t a serious case. 
Satisfied, and greatly relieved, Soun finally noticed Shampoo had apparently already recovered enough to go to Kasumi's room at the hospital and wait for her to awaken. Tofu would note that her recovery was in fact quite remarkable, Soun suggesting it was due to the strange light they witnessed, that caused by Usagi's crystal shattering. Seeing that there was nothing else to do he decided to let Kasumi continue sleeping and come back later. The inevitable meeting with Hinako happened on way down to the lobby where she accidentally ran into him. Catching her before she could fall, he invited her to the cafeteria with him where they could wait for Kasumi to wake up.
After Kasumi and Shampoo became intimate Ranma convinced Genma that things would end better if he was the one who told Soun. The two met up with Soun in the Tendo common room before he was going to see the renovated San Cheng Huang. Genma opted to go with the blunt approach and tell Soun outright that Shampoo and Kasumi were sleeping together. After Soun went into a state of shock Genma managed to count to six before the inevitable happened, and a cry of anguish erupted throughout the house.
Soun’s first instinct was to march over to the restaurant and bring Kasumi home. Genma was quick to put a stop to this calming Soun down by pointing out that this would do nothing but alienate her. There was also the matter of her personal moral code to consider which asking her to abandon Shampoo would violate. As Soun tried to figure out where things went wrong, Genma told him about her break up with Haruka. What happened really affected Kasumi’s self-confidence. He suspected the Amazon law gives Kasumi a feeling of safety, knowing Shampoo can't abandon her like Haruka did. In an effort to cheer Soun up he reminded him that she’d still need to marry a male so that Shampoo could regain her status.
Making his way to the restaurant he joined a tour of it with Shampoo’s parents. Kasumi led him into a backroom, out of view of the others. Before she could say anything he revealed that he already knew though he didn’t explain how. He just wanted to know that she wasn’t being coerced, that it was something she truly wanted. When she affirmed the later he knew he just had to learn to live with it. Forcing a smile on his face, Soun asked her to continue with her tour.
Shampoo’s mother Comb could tell something was wrong from and introduced herself. The smile she gave when she offered to talk inexplicably made Soun nervous. The conversation went off the rails when after being told about his and Nodaka’s living situation Comb started to insinuate to that they were having an affair. She let the let the matter drop when Kasumi returned saying that it was time they consider finding a place to stay. Under Comb's gaze, Kasumi clued in and offered a room. With that Comb and Brush who offered a smile in apology headed downstairs. Shampoo would tell Soun not to mind her mother as she was crazy. A bit shaken by the confrontation, and caught off guard by Shampoo's candor. Soun let the matter drop and after praising the restaurant departed as well.
After Palm attempted to kidnap Akane and Kodachi the rest of the Tendos and Saotomes were forced to move into the San Cheng Huang. Both Soun and Nodoka assured Kasumi that it wasn’t her fault as they made themselves at home. Soun even considered it to be a mini vacation. Though Nodoka didn’t wonder if it was wise to keep the restaurant running. Peach told her that while it probably wasn’t they should on principle. At the very least it would frustrate Palm. She did warn Kasumi to secure her employees’ safety.
==Abilities==
The Demon Head technique is a variation of the Human Battle Aura and one of one of Soun's most fearsome techniques. Genma like to call it the demon aura from hell. He had yet to see anyone disagree with Soun after using that technique, and even Happosai fears it.
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