Soichiro Tenma

"*Our role is not to pass judgement, but to enforce the world’s justice. Our word is law. Our sword, honor. Even if it means discarding both, anyone that would obstruct that justice, is an enemy of the world itself.* "

**Soichiro Tenma** (天満宗一郎,*Sōichirō Tenma*) is a member of the Onryōkai Clan, a Noble House in the Seireitei. He is the Captain of the 5th Division of the Gotei 13 and the Kidō Corps, serving as their Kidō Corps Commander.

## Appearance

Tenma is a young looking soul, with very soft features, with his most distinct characteristic being his cat-like attributes from reincarnating as a beast. Tenma has long hair that reaches his lower back, with two large cat ears standing at the top of his head. Due to his animalistic physique, the color of his hair is separated into two distinct types, bearing the strongest resemblance to a Tabby Cat; with blonde hair on top of his head, and white fur that covers the vast majority of his body. Tenma has light blue colored eyes, and is rather short in comparison to other Shinigami, with a small tail seen behind him. This is further specified in the size and length of his uniform, with long sleeves that obscure his arms from sight. A feature that visibly differentiates him from others is his large red scarf that he has tied along his neck, stretching as far as the lower portion of his hakama. During his tenure in the Kidō Corps, Tenma uses their signature face-coverings to obscure his feline features.

After his promotion to Captain, Tenma dons the traditional white haori over his Shihakushō, with the 5th Division's insignia emblazed on the back. In equal measure, he alters his appearance a little, tying his hair back into a single ponytail while exposing the fur on his chest, his sleeves still large enough to obscure them from sight. Having mastered his Zanpakutos, no longer keeps them seperate, keeping them both sheethed alongside the left side of his hakama. While managing his responsibilities as the head of the Kidō Corps, Tenma swaps out his Captain's uniform for something in favor of a more ornate aesthetic, donning a bright red robe across his white haori, with both sides of the robe emblazoned with the symbol of the Kidō Corps.

Tenma's current appearance as Captain of the 5th Division.Tenma's uniform as the Kidō Corps Commander.Tenma's previous appearance as a Lieutenant.
## Personality

"*This is why I don’t use it, it leaves a damn mess everywhere, in more than one sense of the word. It's why I bothered to learn Kidō in the first place.*"

Tenma is a very methodical thinking person, often breaking up topics and issues for him to tackle one at a time, choosing to take a single-handed manner to tackle his problems rather than multi-task. Leaning more toward focusing on one thing with his full attention instead of dividing his attention, once Tenma sets his mind on something, he pursues it to its fullest extent. As a result, it has earned him the disdain of his family, Onryōkai Clan, a noble family that emphasises combat abilities, contrasting his studious nature, that makes him feel self-conscious in the way he speaks, often speaking in a very relaxed manner. It was this very reason that he keeps to himself, maintaining a very coordinated and composed persona, making him look somewhat introverted to others due to his outward appearance and the soft spoken manner he speaks.

Even in the face of combat, Tenma prefers to retain some form of sophistication in battle to differentiate himself from his opponent, poising himself to a higher degree, almost as if he were compensating for any other faults that would bring a disservice to his abilities. This was best demonstrated during the events of Kurome's training drill, with Tenma expressing a strict distatse of using his Shikai due in part to the messy nature his ability exhibits. As a result of this, Tenma prefers to use Kidō, taking a great liking to it during his time at the academy, denoting its fascinating nature and creative approach to battle a factor to why he chose to specialize in it.

Adopting a very polite tone and manners when speaking with those at a higher position, it serves as his way of demonstrating to others that his people are more than simple beasts, always holding himself accountable to a much higher degree than others because of it. It's for this very reason that he is very strict in the way he handles things, always feeling the need to prove himself in front of others. This was only expounded upon after he became a Lieutenant, with many other officers flocking to him, with Tenma taking them under his wing as the interim captain of the 5th Division. After graduating from Shin'ō Academy and joining the Kidō Corps, his academic pursuits only increased. His curiosity in the way things worked and funtioned grew to such a degree that Tenma developed a compulsive need to figure out how things worked, using whatever means he could use to ease his curiosity, and apply whatever he learned to help fund his side proects and research into new Kidō.

Holding his sense of honor and dignity as a Shinigami on a much higher standing than even his own life, Tenma considers the lives of his men as anything but expendable, leading them with the same trust and respect that he would expect to receive in return, and denotes it as being one of his greatest prides, maintaining himself accountable for the lives of those that would protect the peace. Tenma places an extreme emphasis on the rules and the standards that the Gotei 13 expects them to act on, creating a standard that he uses to lead the 5th Division, often emphasizing the “world’s justice” as their principle, using a term coined by the previous Captain-Commander to refer to it. However, it should be noted that Tenma has absolutely no qualms with killing if it serves a greater purpose, so long as logic and reason govern his decision when doing it. Holding no sympathy or tolerance for those that would threaten the stability of the Soul Society or its laws, he becomes so extreme and absolute in his enforcement of it, that he goes so far as to execute members from other squads for breaking it if it should be required of him, starkly contrasting his initial impressions.

Almost as if to lash out at creatures of similar nature to his own, Tenma thinks very poorly of Hollows to an almost sadistic degree, denoting them to lifeforms lower than that of insects, with Arrancar simply being another creature higher on the proverbial food-chain.  However, when Tenma becomes too worked up or becomes too frustrated, his animal-like instincts take over, flipping his personality to the farthest extreme. Becoming more aggressive, his features become more animalistic, hissing and baring his fangs at whatever stands in between him and his quarry.

## Equipment

**Khakkhara**: While attending to matters regarding the Kidō Corps, Tenma uses a traditional monk's staff in favor of his Zanpakutōs, facilitating his ability to use Kidō by enhancing the power of his incantations and capacity to gather Reiryoku at a much faster rate. Due to the demotion from two swords to a singular broad-sided staff, this khakkhara in particular was especially constructed by the Kidō Corps for Tenma to use as a means to defend himself while serving as the Kidō Corps Commander, durable enough to withstand his captain-class Reiatsu from crushing it, while simultaneously allowing him to fend off Hollows and armed enemies without breaking from the extreme duress of combat. Functioning as a conduit, Tenma can pass his spirit energy along the khakkhara to fire off spells from various parts of its body for elevated effects, boosting their properties by significant margins.

* **Torakyoku** (虎曲, *Tiger Song*): Tenma passes his Reiryoku into the staff and shakes it several times, allowing the rings at the top to shake and jingle, the noise produced creates a high-pressured frequency that affects everyone in his immediate vicinity, frightening low-class Hollows while incapacitating spiritual being that are substantialy weaker than him, driving away any potential threats.

## Powers and Abilities

**Kidō Master**:

* **Kaidō** (回道, *Turn Way*): He is proficient in the use of in healing Kidō, having used it to treat his own injuries in the middle of battle.
* **Sōkeimetsu** (双経滅, *Twin-Verse Destruction*):
* **Tenmabaku Zakuroki** (天馬縛石榴木,, *Pegasus Binding Pomegranate Tree*):

**Master Swordsman**:

**Genius Intellect**: During his time at the academy, Tenma recieved the highest scores in his classes, and graduated 1 year after joining on his first attempt, immediatly being scouted for a Division position in the Soul Society. This is only expounded upon with by the fact that he did so without any support from his Noble House, garnering the recomdenations of all his instructors at the academy and attention of the Kidō Corps. Extremely perceptive and bright for his age, Tenma displays the quality of a natural prodigy, backed by by his analytical nature, picking up even the smallest of details and reacting accordingly before things could develop. His gift for Shinigami skills even garnered him a promotion to Lieutenant of the 5th Division from the Kidō Corps based on his understanding and ability to learn and adjust in the middle of battle, as Tenma was able to evaluate the overall cast time to Kurome's Kidō spell at a first glance.

* **Expert Strategist & Tactician**: A very capable leader, Tenma has shown the skills needed to guide and command a number of Shinigami, acting as the interim capatain of the 5th Division and the Kidō Corps. Not simply limited to non-conbative missions, this mentality, to keep a calm and collected disposition, has allowed him plan in battle even while disoriented and his senses assaulted, as Tenma was smart enough to use physical pain and his mental fortitude to push past the attack.

**Enhanced Speed & Reflexes**: With enhanced instincts and a keen senses, Tenma is very quick to react at a moments notice, using all his senses to identify a battle scenior, even perceiving poisons and acids thanks to his nose. Due to his light form and animalistic method of running, Tenma moves around while on all four legs, allowing him to run at speeds that give off the illusion of being present in multiple places at once. His quick response time has allowed him to fight and evade opponents much stronger and faster than him, able to hold his against a Hakuda expert.

**Shunpo Expert**:

**Immense Spiritual Power**: Even when Tenma was a Lieutenant, Tenma demonstrated spiritual pressure that was much higher than one would expect for someone of his station, the pressure alone capable of influencing his environment in a detrimental way the moment he began to elevate it in battle. After his promotion to Captain and Bankai training, it was only elevated even further, gainng better control on the volume he can exude.

* **Expert Reiatsu Control**: As a high-ranking member of the Kidō Corp, Tenma is extremely knowledgeable on how Reiatsu works, skilled in using his to adapt at fine-control in order to elevate it to various degrees of intensity. Even going so far as to materialize the Reishi that comprises his spirit and reshape it into a sword after having witnessed Quincy perform it.

* **Reishi Swords**: A unique tehcnique Tenma created from imitating Quincy and replicating their technique by applying his own interpretation of it for Shinigami. Created by combining Zanjutsu and Kidō, Tenma creates a blade that is comprised solely of his spiritual Reishi and Reiatsu to provide the force behind every swing, able to adjust the size and length of the blade at will to match his needs based on how much spiritual power he uses. Creating from either hand, Tenma can duel wield them or simply create them from thin air, using them as projectiles from a distance or combine them with both Zanjutsu technique and Kidō spells.

### Zanpakutō

**Higanbana Onmyōkoi** (彼岸花陰陽鯉 *Distant Shore Flower Ying Yang Carp*): While in its sealed form, Tenma's Zanpakutō takes on the form of a pair of uchigatana swords, being longer than the average katana but light enough for him to use in each hand without slowing down his swings. Having triangular cross-guards pointed in three directions, each sports a red handle tied in length with a white cloth. On most occasions, Tenma keeps them sheathed alongside his left side, allowing him to quickly draw them one-handedly with his dominant right hand, allowing him to use  iaijutsu and iaido in combat.

* **Shikai**: Its Shikai command is **"Ivory Trail That Guides The Midnight's Flow, Ebony Stone That Reveals** **Morning's Destination"** (真夜中の流れを導く象牙の道、朝の目的地を示すエボニーの石, *Mayonaka no Nagare o Michibiku Zōge no Michi, Asa no Mokutekichi o Shimesu Ebonī no Ishi*). After finishing, Tenma holds out both swords, melting in black and white blotches of ink before reforming to create two new swords. Nearly identical blades, they take the form of twin short swords, with the blade on his right being black, and the one on his left completely white, with a symbol of a magatama of opposing color making up the guard on each sword.

***Shikai Special Ability***: While in this state, Higanbana Onmyōkoi gains the ability to steal colors, with Tenma able to take the hue and shade of anything touching his blades and store them within his scabbards, leaving nothing but black or white colors behind. Done so by making simple contact, the amount of color he can take is dependent on how long the blades make contact with it, staining them with a unique mark in the shape of streaks of ink that match the blade he uses. The more color Tenma takes, the more power and strength he steals from the recipient, done so by “taking the color out of their life” with his white blade, the color representative of the owner's spirit energy and ability. Each Zanpakutō serves a different purpose, with the white blade responsible for stealing colors while the black blade obscures and erases them. Anything that the black blade touches loses its power and becomes a part of its territory, able to manipulate these areas to various degrees, while the white areas allow Tenma to project the colors he steals on them. A unique reaction occurs when the white and black colors make contact with each other. As a result, depending on how much of a surface has been stained white, the damage that his black blade can cause is proportional to the size of the surface it covers.
* **Nanaironiji** (七色虹,, *Seven-Colored Rainbow*):
* **Kurodoro Namazu** (黒泥鯰, *Black Mud Catfish*):
* **Gōketsu Mushae** (豪傑武者絵, *Gallant Warrior's Portrait*):
* **Bijinga Geisha** (美人画芸者, Beautiful Painting Artisan):
* **Kokatae** (子騙絵, *Children's Trick Illustration*):
* **Chikairō Muzanshō** (血回廊無惨 少, *Blood Gallery of the Miserable Few*):

Due to his Zanpakutō's fickle personality and unwillingness to agree with Tenma, it maintains its true power hidden, limiting how much Tenma can draw from Higanbana Onmyōkoi, resorting to using a false name and release command as a result. While under these conditions, his Zanpakutō gains a different set of abilities.

* **Shikai**: Its false Shikai command is **"Balance All Things In The World"** (ワールドバランスのすべてのもの, Wārudobaransu no subete no mono). The name he uses to activate its release is "**Onmyōkoi**", using half its name. While releasing it, Tenma holds Onmyōkoi upside down as the blade shatters, reducing it into a large body of black fluid that floats around Tenma and across where the blade and guard meet, reforming to form an entirely new blade. Consisting of a massive blade in length, the very point of the sword breaks away into five lines, creating a hand-like engraving at the top. The hilt's grip undergoes several changes, the green hue that comprises the handle goes from green to a red, visceral design, reminiscent of flesh and sinew.

***Shikai Special Ability**:* When released, the blade of Onmyōkoi is capable of reducing itself into a body of black ink that is constantly being produced from the scabbard and guard, spilling over as the excess hovers around Tenma, capable of reforming whenever he desires. Its main ability is the manipulation of this fluid for all manner of attacks, with every slash and swing producing more in massive quantities to the point that, with the sheer pressure emanated reminiscent of a waterfall. The way he manipulates or maneuvers all the ink is by simple hand gestures and through the use of the hilt, either sharpening the body of ink enough to cut his target to shreds or compress the pressure to pierce through his target. By manipulating the speed and direction in which it flows, Tenma can use the ink as a defensive measure, increasing the volume to stop sword swings and projectiles. Because it is composed of fluid, Onmyōkoi can surround and envelop the target by slipping past the smallest of cracks or crevices. The longer it remains active, the greater the length and reach Onmyōkoi has, its mass growing the more ink it produces. The ink that Onmyōkoi creates is unique in the fact that it cannot be removed or washed away until Tenma deactivates his Shikai, permanently staining whatever touches it, regarding those stained by Onmyōkoi as being *“marked”*, and those who touch the black stains as the ones who *“enter his domain”*. In addition, Tenma can warp to any area or spot that has been marked or stained by Onmyōkoi’s ink and those who have been touched by it, even able to hide within its recess on any surface and travel inside it.
* **Kurohatō** (黒波涛, *Black Wave*): By gathering the ink and allowing it to build up from the hilt, Tenma can charge it up with spirit energy and unleash a black slash of hyper focused ink and Reiatsu following the arc of the swing, cutting his opponent with extreme precision. Alternatively, by simply adjusting the volume without compressing the ink, Tenma is capable of generating a monumental wave of ink with the same pressure as a massive deluge. By cotroling how much he fires off in rappid succesion, Tenma can use it to cover a large space in his ink by plashing it over a large surface, increasing Onmyōkoi's field-of-effect, often times doing so by forming orbs of ink that fire into the air like cannon balls, the pressure more akin to bullets or generating a large enough body of fluid. The power and speed of Kurohatō is comparable to the amount of ink that he has accumulates and spirit energy he has compressed.

* **Reishokukoi** (霊食鯉, *Spirit Eating Carp*): By swinging his sword, Tenma can produce ghosts from the ink that Onmyōkoi produces, taking the form of the white skeletal remains of koi fish, floating and drifting in the air as if it were a body of water. Following the strict commands of Tenma, the ghosts feast on the spiritual power of anyone around them that isn’t Tenma, as well as anything that is composed of Reishi, growing larger and in greater numbers the more they feed. Due to this, the ghosts attack indistrimitaly any source within the general vicinity, with Tenma having to be careful about when best to use it.. As part of the same source, the ghosts can take advantage of the teleporting properties of the black ink, swimming within its recess to other areas that have been stained. Much like the ink Onmyōkoi creates passively, the ghosts when touched, attacked, or destroyed produce a unique type of ink that is completely white, contrasting the black ink created passively. Similarly, the ink cannot be erased, serving to mark his targets. However, unlike the black ink, this new source allows Tenma to destroy anything that has been marked by Onmyōkoi’s black ink, the unique mixture between both triggering devastating effects, such as causing the mutual destruction of both the target and ink by erasing the parts that touched it.
* **Nigomei Ochīkinkō** (濁冥陥均衡 Impure Realm Collapsing Equilibrium): An attack that can only be used when Onmyōkoi’s first two techniques have already been activated, Tenma uses the blade to cut his arm or use any source of blood already present, letting it mix with the ink. The mixture causes all the ink currently active to turn red, causing everything that has made contact with it to evaporate. Functioning as a last resort attack, it undoes all the ink that Onmyōkoi has created and stained across every surface, object, or person, dragging them into a separate space, the result of which erases them, resulting in the destruction of those affected. Done so to such a degree that it removes everything attached to them, including flesh from bone, severing or removing them depending on the amount of exposure. After use, it deactivates his Shikai, rendering it inactive for the greater part of a day.

* **Bankai**: **Higanbana Onmyōkoi: Kuroike Yumedatsushiro** (彼岸花陰陽鯉黒池夢奪**城** *Distant Shore Flower Ying-Yang Carp's Black Pond Dream Stealing Castle*): Throwing his Shikai in two different directions, Tenma lunges one sword into the air and the other sink into the ground, evaporating into both spaces before darkening the sky and whitening the ground. When actived, Higanbana Onmyōkoi materilizes its inner world and projects it out into reality in the form of a black castle that centeres around Tenma's body, trapping anyone near or around him during the time of its activation, being forcibly drawn in. The inside of the castle takes on the form of a bright red drawbridge in the middle of a pond, the waters filled with black and white dragons.

***Bankai Special Ability***:
* **Shiki Monogatari** (四季物語, *The Tales of Four Seasons*):
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* **Sanjūrokkei** **Ukiyoe** (三十六景浮世絵, *Thirty-Six Views Illustration of the Floating World*):

## Weaknesses

### Zanpakutō

**Fickleness**:

**Indiscriminate Effects (Shikai)**:

## References

1. ↑ Twin Lotus, Burn Brightly: Tenma admits that his Shikai "makes a mess" whenever it's activated, preferring to use Kidō as a result.
2. ↑ Something Strange: Tenma uses Kaidō to stop heal his injured shoulder after defending against a Cero.
3. ↑ Another Day: Tenma is offered to become full-fledged Shinigami before graduating in only a single year.
4. ↑ BREAK THE NOISE: Tenma admits to falsifying his name and status in order to enter at Shin'ō Academy at the lowest possible level, using his natural skills to succeed on his first attempt.
5. ↑ Hunt: Tenma was the first to pick up on the acidic nature of the Hollow's sweat.
6. ↑ Twin Lotus, Burn Brightly: Tenma recognizes the spells used in Kurome's attack, and calaulates that the incantiation would be longer than normal due to the various spells mixed in.
7. ↑ Something Strange: Tenma guides a small team of Kidō Corps officers to open the Senkaimon.
8. ↑ Black Silence: Tenma uses pain to power through Kurome's Tenteikūra and Raikōhō combination.
9. ↑ Hunt: With his keen sense of smell, Tenma identifies the Hollow's fluid as being acidic.
10. ↑ Spar: Tenma uses his natural speed to dart around the ground and trees in rapid succession
11. ↑ Spar: Tenma holds his own against Aya's Hakuda.
12. ↑ Twin Lotus, Burn Brightly: Tenma increases his Reiatsu, the pressure was enough to damage the surrounding trees and cracking the ground.
13. ↑ Something Strange: After watching Quincy harnes Reishi, Tenma immitates their technqiue and creates a sword from his own spirit particles.