Tengen Zenin

Tengen Zenin is a member of the Zenin clan, and it's current leader. He is in a three-man squad of Special Grade sorcerers, pairing up with Aokigi Mashiori and Soryu Gojo.

## Personality

Tengen was described to be serious, but kind. He took his missions seriously and thought tactically at all times. During a battle with a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, he used his tactical thought process to overwhelm the Curse and ultimately exorcise it. After becoming head of the Zenin Clan, Tengen was a kind-hearted but strict leader who made sure the rules were followed, but was understanding towards the issues and internalized oppression his clan faced.

During his time in Kyoto Jujutsu High, he was described as a "no good slack off" who never did any of his work or bothered to pay attention, claiming he knew everything. Despite this, he showed incredible feats of power and immense tactical knowledge even at such a young age. He was very competitive, never shying away from a competition between friends. Even as an adult, he'll still frequently challenge his friends to a game of Who Can Exorcise it First. Despite slacking off and being arrogant during his school years, his mood switched immediately and shockingly when a friend or classmate was threatened and/or put into danger, almost like something in his mind snapped. He would go silent, and only pure rage reflected in his pupils as he quickly and effectively decimated his opponents.

He has been shown to shoot down any request at an intimate, open relationship and has never truly spoken to anyone about his past. Even to Soryu, his childhood friend and Jujutsu partner, he never unveiled his true beginnings, telling an abbreviated version. Tengen commonly bottles up his emotions and releases them all in battle through his movements, though maintains a calm demeaner.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Throughout his life, Tengen has made use of great strength, speed and stamina to quickly overwhelm and overpower his opponents, striking their weak points with shocking accuracy. He was, even at a young age, labeled with a potential far beyond that of almost all Sorcerers and has been Special Grade ever since. His strength is beyond expectation due to dense muscle mass, and his speed is nothing to scoff at.

**Immense Strength:** Tengen possesses immense amounts of physical strength due to massive amounts of training, and can further increase his strength through the use of Cursed Energy, having been shown to punch boulders so hard they turn into dust with a single hit. Tengen further displayed this strength by exorcising a Cursed Spirit with his bare hands alone when his Innate Technique was temporarily disabled.

**Immense Speed:** Tengen has shown many feats of impressive speed, such as blitzing Cursed Spirits, moving so quickly his Cursed Energy left a silhouette behind him and, with the assistance of Cursed Energy, punching so quickly he created a sonic boom. Furthermore, he has been shown to be able to keep up with Soryu Gojo, who was once known as the fastest Jujutsu Sorcerer to ever live.

**Immense Agility:** Tengen has expressed immense agility through acrobatic movements and swift mobility. He has been able to dodge attacks midair and perform multiple acrobatic movements in a short frame of time, even appearing as if there were three of him attacking at once. Lower grade Cursed Spirits have a hard time keeping up with his movements and often get overwhelmed easily.

**Advanced Hand-to-hand Combat Skills:** Tengen has expressed masterful hand-to-hand combat skills that he achieved through massive amounts of training. One of his most impressive feats was being the second in his school to ever complete the High Speed Combat Robot challenge, which consists of six bladed arms on a tree stump spinning at high speeds. The goal is to stop all six arms at once, without taking damage, and breaking through the metal "armor" and wooden stump, destroying the dummy. It is a test of both strength and speed.

**Master Armed Combatant:** Tengen is a master of many weapons, such as staffs, katanas, knives, batons and more. He carries many weapons with him during missions and uses them with deadly effectiveness, even being able to switch techniques and/or weapon while fighting. One example of this is when he went from an offensive sword technique to something resembling Iaijutsu, a quick-draw technique, slashing through his opponent and then impaling them through the chest with a spear without looking.

### Jujutsu

**Immense Cursed Energy:** Tengen has massive Cursed Energy pools, being able to use and maintain his Innate Technique for a significant amount of time. Furthermore, he has been shown to be able to flood Cursed Energy into his attacks at such a high level that it creates an impact force akin to having a massive boulder dropped on your chest.

**Shadow Garden Formation:** Tengen's innate technique. This technique involves using shadows as a gateway to a pocket dimension known as the Shadow Garden of Dancing Petals, in which Tengen can store items and create shadowy black clones of himself to attack opponents. Additionally, he can manifest limbs or appendages from these shadows almost as if they are reaching for opponents. This technique also allows Tengen to expand his shadow and absorb nearby materials and objects into it. His shadow serves as not only an offensive weapon but also as a vessel for travel. Tengen has displayed the following techniques:

* **Shadow Garden Summoning:** A technique in which Tengen summons any number of clones of himself from nearby shadows to assist in battle or attack a target in his place. Each clone requires a designated amount of Cursed Energy to summon and continue to drain Tengen's Cursed Energy at a steady pace as long as they remain in the physical realm. However, these clones possess their own pools of Cursed Energy, though significantly smaller than Tengen's, that carry the same signature as Tengen's, meaning they can be used as a distraction for tracking devices.

* **Domain of the Fallen Abyss:** A storage technique in which Tengen pushes any object into his black, liquid-like shadow. These stored items do not have any effect on Tengen, and can be summoned at any point. The most common usage of this technique is Tengen using his shadow to store his arsenal of weapons that he can quickly draw and exchange during battle, switching up the battle field.

* **Binding Wrath of Shadow:** A technique in which Tengen summons a large arm, tentacle or tail to bind and restrain opponents for a period of time. It is worth noting that these appendages are almost sticky to the touch and have a quicksand-like consistency that causes objects in contact to slowly sink into them. It is unknown what happens to objects or creatures who are fully absorbed. These appendages aren't incredibly hard to destroy, but act independently of Tengen and can strike back.

* **Transportation:** A technique that involves Tengen expanding his shadow and forming it into a portal that he can place in the air or on physical objects. These portals directly link to his shadowy pocket dimension, described to be like swimming in an endless black ocean while surrounded by ravaged bodies, sunken objects and various shadowy formations of dangerous creatures such as dragons, sharks, krakens and the like. Furthermore, there is a blood red moon permanently in the sky, casting a red sky upon the black sea.

* **Shadow Style, Blade of Invokation:** A technique in which Tengen coats his weapon of choice in shadowy black flames that burn cold and exponentially increase his power. Maintaining said flames drains Tengen's Cursed Energy at a set pace relative to the size of the flames.

* **Summoning:** A technique in which Tengen summons creatures from his abyssal shadows such as giant scorpions, snakes, dragons, wolves and more.

**Domain Expansion:** The expansion of Tengen's domain results in the formation of an open-barrier technique known as Expanding Domain of Eternal Shadow, expanding Tengen's shadow to massive proportions in which all of his techniques can roam freely, almost as if he is merging his dimension and the physical world. During his first usage, many clones of himself barraged his opponent, sinking in and out of the shadows to appear at random intervals. The actions of the appendages, clones and creatures summoned by this Domain are independent of Tengen but will react to verbal commands.

## Equipment

Tengen possesses an arsenal of weapons such as maces, spears, swords, staffs, throwing knives, knives, daggers and more. The amount he owns is unknown, as they are all stored in his shadows. He also is in possession of five mythical Cursed Tools. The Inverted Spear of Heaven (Model: Fatal), Tri-sectioned Staff of Scitar, Staff of Demonic Rage, Flame-bearer's Blade and one other unnamed Cursed Tool.

## Trivia

Tengen's favorite food is lamb, though he rarely gets to eat it.

Tengen's Domain Expansion was inspired by Megumi's **Chimera Shadow Garden**.

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