Tatsuya Kushihara

**Tatsuya Kushihara** is the main protagonist of Part 2 and an ally in Part 3 and 4. He is the 2nd TaTe of the TaTe's Bizarre Adventure series. He is also the second most recurring TaTe in the series.

Tatsuya is a natural-born Thunder Breathing user and eventual Vision user wielding the psychic photographic ability, Dendro Vision. Tatsuya meets the fantastic threats approaching him throughout his life with initiative and impressive ingenuity, battling Demons, the Pillar Men, and malevolent Vision users.

## Appearance

Tatsuya is tall, handsome, and powerfully built, with light eyes. He has short, dark and unkempt hair, parts of his bangs shooting outwards in spikes, apart from which he closely resembles his father Takeo Kushihara.

Like all other members of the Kushihara family, Tatsuya has a small green Windmill-shaped birthmark on the rear of his left shoulder

Tatsuya wears a sleeveless and black version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, a white belt, baggy chocho zubon pants that extend into tabi socks, a pair of zōri with red straps, and bands of white cloth wrapped tightly around his calves resembling kyahan, he dons a long, broad, white scarf with purple pattern. In Switzerland he dons a long, broad, striped scarf; and later, as a gift from Hayate, a long, thin headband patterned with a row of tessellated triangles.

### Thunderbolt Crusaders

Tatsuya retains most of his health and muscularity, though his face displays his age. His hair is short and gray, and he sports a thick, well-trimmed beard.

During the group's journey to Greece, he wears an outfit comparable to Indiana Jones' basic outfit: a fedora; a light, short-sleeved, buttonless shirt; khaki pants; dress shoes; and white gloves with dark wristbands concealing his prosthetic hand (a result of his fight with Sazrach). At his introduction he also wears a trenchcoat and a turtleneck sweater.

## Personality

In *War Tendency*, Tatsuya is a hotheaded, impetuous, and confrontational young man. Quick to violently respond to the slightest provocation, Tatsuya would often get into brawls growing up; prior to events of the story, he had been imprisoned seven times and expelled once from school for fighting. Having no respect for authority save of Tsumuri, Taron has antagonised policemen and mafiosi alike. Furthermore, Taron is a foul-mouthed individual and regularly taunts his enemies, enjoying aggravating them. His signature taunt is predicting his enemy's next line, which is shown to be correct all the time. He notably taunted Sazrach when he launched him into space, claiming to have again planned everything from the beginning just to annoy him.

Tatsuya is a playful man and prefers fooling around over having any responsibility. By his own admission, his most hated sentences are "hard work" and "work hard", and still had to be pushed to train his Breathing talent in spite of facing certain death if he didn't meet and fight Targros again. Tatsuya has a fairly goofy side and spends half of his fights enjoying having outsmarted his current enemy with incredibly zany schemes, which take his opponents by surprise by how silly his plans are at first sight. He also often incorporates his taunts into fights, to distract his enemies into otherwise obvious traps. A show-off, Tatsuya likes being the center of attention and couldn't stand that his rival Hayate had a special technique. With his prestidigitation talent, Tatsuya mixed his boastful nature and his love of pranks into a dangerous tool in battle.

## Abilities

**Combat Intuition:** Other than his Clackers and Katana, Tatsuya has used a number of other weapons and tools in conjunction with the Breathing and his strategic wit.

* **Cola Bottle:** He used Breathing to pop the cap off of a cola bottle at a corrupt police officer and two tequila bottles' corks against a pair of Soviet soldiers, in the form of high speed projectiles.
* **Tommy Gun:** He used a Tommy gun to shoot Fujita and then strike him with the stock charged with the Breathing. This was followed by secretively attaching a grenade to Eric's scarf, the pin of which was attached by strings to the pins of several other grenades Tatsuya had managed to plant on Fujita's back.
* **Yarn of Wool Hat:** He used the yarn of a wool hat (which is highly conductive of the Ripple) to form a net underneath the spike-filled arena to use against Regiel.
* **Sledgehammer and Crossbow:** He wielded a large sledgehammer in the chariot race against Targros, which he slathered in oil to improve its conduction of the Breathing. Tatsuya also used a heavy crossbow to fire a Breathing-charged iron ball at the wall of the arena, where it rode around the entire wall before launching off and hitting Targros from behind.

**Indomitable Will**: Tatsuya possesses an undaunted will and spirit, being able to fight and engage in battle against enemies stronger than him with his sheer will alone to kill Demons and protect Tsumuri even when he sustained severe injuries and wounds.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes**: Tatsuya possesses superhuman speed and reaction time, being able to travel faster than the eye can see and even move faster than Tsumuri, an extremely skilled sword master, and react to the blinding movement speeds of demons.

**Swordsmanship**: During his battle with the Pillar Men, Tatsuya was one of the most powerful and skilled swordsmen in the entire organization. This was shown during his fight against Regiel where he was entrusted to strikes Regiel. Tatsuya makes use of a unique swordsmanship style that utilizes slithering motions to bending his sword and attacks in impossible ways.

**Thunder Breathing**: A Breathing Style that Tatsuya learned after tutelage from an unknown cultivator. Tatsuya considered to be the most skilled Thunder Breathing user of his generation.

**Dendrokinesis**: As Dendro Vision user, Tatsuya can mimics the plants and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are standard yet varied swordsmanship techniques that focus on swift and powerful strikes that always follow the shape and pattern of a vines and plants.

* **Divination**: Tatsuya's first Elemental Ability allow him to generate divine information. By using any object or material in conjunction with his vine, He can display any information he wishes to see.
* **Thunder Breathing Transmission**: Tatsuya's second Elemental Ability is ability to transmit Thunder Breathing through his vine as an extension of his body. He has used this property of his vine to attack IKAZUCHI or prevent him from touching him by wrapping the vines around himself, like a cloak of high voltage wires.
* **Electronics Manipulation**: Tatsuya's third Elemental Ability seems to be able to interface and tamper with electronic systems beyond its ability to divine information. Tatsuya uses this ability once to take control of a Cessna's electronic system and force it to stabilize. He also uses his vine to check Vincent's video game console to confirm whether it has been tampered with or not.