Tadao Yumeno

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* BEAST

Tadao Yumeno (夢野忠雄, *Yumeno Tadao*) is a member of the Port Mafia and one of the Five Executives in the Port Mafia. He has the Ability named Hell in a Bottle.

## Appearance

Tadao is a young man with fairly pale skin, several burn scars across his shoulder blades and lower back. He has silver-grey hair that is often quite messy and unkempt, with strands hanging in front of his eyes and several locks framing the lower half of his face, in the style of a long wolf cut. His eyes are a shade of greyish-blue, often appearing hollow and without light. He also has semi-sharp teeth, and a small dark line, a scar, on his tongue after being forced to fix a staple to it.

His outfit consists of a white button-down shirt that sports vertical black stripes, bound at the waist with a solid black corset. He dons black slacks and jet black combat boots with thick black soles. His slacks are bound with a black belt that has a dark grey buckle. The belt has a holster attached to it; he chooses to use it to hold guns or knives. He often wears bandages that reach from his shoulders to his elbows that are usually covered up by sleeves. He also wears a black choker with a few grey chains hanging from it.

In the past, he wore a white button-down shirt without stripes, sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He wore black slacks and jet black combat boots, similar to his outfit in the present. The choker was nonexistent, although he did sport a black trench coat, commonly worn over his shoulders. He would also commonly wear a black mask.

## Personality

### Fifteen

Tadao grew up in the orphanage with a boy, Atsushi Nakajima, for about fifteen years of his life. One chilling night while he slept, Tadao woke up to smoke in his room. He escaped the fire by jumping out of a broken window. He ended up by a river in Yokohama, where he collapsed from lack of water. However, a man clad in black and red found and offered Tadao to join the Port Mafia, and he accepted without hesitation, knowing that if he didn't follow, he would soon perish. The orphanage was repaired soon after the traumatic event. The person who took Tadao in was Ōgai Mori, the Port Mafia's leader.

Once Tadao was properly affiliated with the mafia, Mori assigned Ace as Tadao's overseer and caretaker. He learned a lot of things from him and Kōyō Ozaki in particular.

Tadao was also invited into The Flags (旗会フラッグス, Furaggusu), about a year after joining the mafia. The Flags were a peer support group, consisting of mafiosi 25 or younger. There were six other members of Flags in that group, all of which he became close friends with until they were brutally assassinated one night, aside from only one of them other than him.

The Dragon's Head Conflict (龍頭抗争, Ryūzu Kōsō?) was an underground conflict in Yokohama between various underground organizations. It lasted for eighty-eight days and is labelled as the darkest conflict in Yokohama's history. It occurred some time after the King of Assassins Incident, and Tadao fought in the conflict since the mafia needed all the help they could get. It left him severely injured and was a source of trauma for him, since it took him several months to recover from the memories of it. The conflict is also when Tadao was given the nickname, the Grey Fox (灰色のキツネ, Haiiro no kitsune).

### Seventeen

During the Dark Era, two years later, Tadao was seventeen years old. In Bar Lupin one night, he met Osamu Dazai, the youngest Port Mafia executive. Mori mentioned to Tadao that there was an executive close to him by age, yet he never talked to Dazai before. A little while after their first meeting, Oda Sakunosuke, a close friend, was shot and killed, and Dazai disappeared from the mafia because of Oda's dying wishes. Tadao wasn't that worried about him, but he became detached from the former executive and gradually forgot about him due to amnesia.

### Eighteen

Fast forward to a year after Dazai left the mafia, on Tadao's eighteenth birthday. He rose up the ranks in the Port Mafia, becoming an executive on that exact day. Tadao was suspicious that he only became an executive to replace Dazai, yet he never cared much. Little did Tadao know that Dazai was planning to change his ways and become a detective.

### Time-Skip

He tends to be quite calm and quiet, and rarely ever too homicidal in his tactics during missions. He often works with the Black Lizard to obtain information when he needs to, and he is quite close to Gin and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa as a result of their coordinated missions. The mafia members call Tadao the 'grey fox' of the Port Mafia, reasons unknown even to him. It could be his hair or eyes, his personality, or anything else. He doesn't really care about how he got it. His appearance and attitude are often described to be fox-like.

He manages to almost always be a bit shy and nervous around those he doesn't know, yet that is replaced by cold disdain if he is around the mafia. He might distance himself from others that he doesn't trust. He has a soft and anxious side that he never shows around anyone, unless he knows them extremely well. Because of his somewhat fragile insecurities, he is caught off guard and gets defensive when someone compliments him. He is rarely seen with a smile, since he doesn't like portraying his emotions to others. Regardless of how the other mafia members view him, he is close with the other executives and very few members of the Black Lizard. Hidden away beneath his emotionally stoic personality, he has a quite shy and awkward aura.

Due to the orphange fire six and a half years ago, Tadao has a mild fear of fire. It isn't strong enough to be considered pyrophobia, but if he sees fire or hears someone talking about it, he will go catatonic and unresponsive. He will remain silent and try to ignore the fire in itself, yet his anxiety might get overwhelming and cause him to use his ability out of spite. The fire gave him a few burn scars across his shoulder blades and upper arms, as well as his back.

## Ability

Tadao's ability, Hell in a Bottle (瓶の中の地獄, *Bin no naka no jigoku*), is mainly a defensive ability that allows him to emit a freezing cold white mist from his fingertips and manipulate its size and density. The mist has a white color palette and behaves as natural fog does in nature.

## Skills

### Fighting Prowess

As intimidating as he is, he hates being confronted, yet he still fights. He is fairly skilled in kickboxing and also has a good level of flexibility and strength. His kicks have enough force to slam someone into a wall and leave a dent. He does not prioritize punching and prefers using his legs to fight, since he can move faster that way. The amount of time it takes for him to deliver an attack is roughly a few seconds, depending on the recoil and how harshly the attack was given. For example, he would be able to hold his own against Chūya Nakahara, the mafia's strongest martial artist, yet could not physically overpower him without the use of his ability.

### Dexterity

He possesses an above average agility, having the ability to do back or front flips easily. He can also do a back bend without much effort. The amount of time he can withstand doing a back bend would be about thirty seconds, before he ultimately collapses and has to take a few moments before doing it again. He can scale rooftops, crouching and successfully jumping a length of 0.0021336 kilometers (7ft). He can move fairly quickly, being able to run at an average speed of 8mph. Aside from running, he is good at dodging attacks, such as ducking under blows or jumping high enough to avoid low-aimed attacks.

## Quotes

• (to Albatross) *"You're such an idiot..even when you're dead, I keep having nightmares about you."*

• (to Ango Sakaguchi) *"If I wanted to kill you, you would be dead already."*

• (to Osamu Dazai) *"Do me a favor.? Stop staring.."*

• (to Ryūnosuke Akutagawa) *"Just because my body is cold, doesn't mean I'm heartless."*

## Etymology

• The name **Tadao** means "painstaking" (忠) and "faithful, majestic, grandeur" (雄), Tadao itself means "satisfied"

• Tadao's surname **Yumeno** means "dream" (夢) (yume) and "field" (野) (no)

## Trivia

• His eyelashes are often in shades of white due to the frost that his ability creates. They can be spotted between grey and black, with streaks of faint white along the tips.

• He rarely drinks, but is not good at holding his liquor. In the event that he does drink, it will be light wine.

• He has three piercings in each ear, however the only earring he often wears is a small silver ring in his left ear.

• He has a sensitivity to warmth due to his constantly cold body temperature. He cannot take hot showers because of this, and he hates warm weather conditions.

• The strain from his ability causes him to get tired more often because how cold his body always is. His metabolism is slowed and his physical activity levels are lowered, such is what happens when someone gets colder than 65°.

• He suffers from nyctophobia, an irrational fear of the dark. Due to his ability giving him natural tolerance to opaque coloring and lights, being in the shadows terrifies him deeply. It's more severe if he's indoors, combined with his claustrophobia. Despite fearing the dark, he goes out on missions frequently at night without any trouble.