Tengen Uzui

## Portrayal

**Tengen Uzui** was a major supporting character of the original Demon Slayer, while he posthumously affects events in Demon Slayer: Blade of the Night. He was once a Shinobi, who switched jobs into a Demon Slayer. He was the previous, and first Sound Pillar.

## **Appearance:**

Tengen was a very tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular man with lightly-tanned skin and white hair. His hair was of an uneven length, the longest strands reaching his shoulders. Tengen lost his left eye in the battle against Gyutaro, and after the fight, he wore an eyepatch adorned with the same gemstones of his previous headdress.

During his days serving Demon Slayer Core, Tengen wore a sleeveless and dark turquoise version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform. However, after he retired, and was brought back to be the acting Sound Pillar after the Reformation, he wore a standard Pillar Uniform, colored dark turquoise, with an aqua colored yukata above it. The uniform's left sleeve is tied into a knot, given that he lost half of his left arm.

## **Personality:**

Tengen was an eccentric and flashy individual, always wanting to be "flamboyant", possessing a need for everything to be flashy and outstanding, even proclaiming that he was the god of flashiness and festivals.

However, Tengen did possess a caring side that was masked under his flamboyant facade, one he only showed to those that were extremely close to him, most notably his three, at the time, wives, Makio, Suma, and Hinatsuru, who Tengen was shown to truly care for, praising and encouraging Makio and Suma after their undercover mission. He displays a great deal of maturity with his care, given that, during his depressive period, he divorced Makio and Suma, not due to a lack of love or any of the sort, but because he didn't want them to suffer along with what he was going through at the time. Hinatsuru would also be divorced if not for her insistence, and Tengen concurring that out of the three, she was the one best suited to care for him at the time.

Tengen was also shown to be prone to depression. While he already struggled with such feelings prior to the timeskip, given that he often claimed to be destined to hell, Tengen's guilt and sorrow took a powerful hold on him after the failed attempt of the slayers to kill Muzan and the Upper Moons, with every passing year proving that they were further than ever, and now believing himself to be useless, Tengen let his own health fade, until he succumbed to illness.

## **Abilities:**

**Superhuman Strength:** Tengen possessed tremendous physical strength, displaying this by being able to fight at blistering speeds while carrying around his giant Nichirin Cleavers, swinging them incessantly to fend off his opponents without much trouble and being able to hold both his enormous cleavers at their tip with only two fingers

**Superhuman Durability:** Tengen developed powerful resistance to pain, as seen where he bared little to no reaction at having being caught up in a hail of Kunai knives and being pierced by them without even flinching or showing any form of discomfort or pain, continuing to attack Gyutaro as if nothing had happened

**Superhuman Speed:** Tengen possessed tremendous levels of raw speed and reflexes, often shown when he moved so fast he appears to teleport. Most notably, Tengen was fast enough to behead Daki, an Upper Rank demon, before she could even register what had happened. Moreover, he could fend off both Daki and the true Upper Rank Six, Gyutaro, despite being held back by a deadly poison that would've killed someone instantly under normal circumstances, alongside easily outspeeding and blitzing Ryo Yorunoha, when he technically should be around Tengen's power level.

**Tactical Intellect:** Tengen had incredible judgement, making decisions on the fly while in battle with Upper Rank demons to protect bystanders and minimize the damage dealt to the surroundings. Even when he was held back by Gyutaro's poison, Tengen was able to properly determine the most efficient strategy to fight off the Upper Rank demons and even fooled Gyutaro into thinking he was dead by stopping his own heart to prevent himself from dying from his poison, which managed to give Tengen an edge against him.

**Indomitable Will:** Tengen possessed an undaunted spirit and immense willpower, never faltering even when faced disadvantages and difficult circumstances. Despite being poisoned in the beginning by Gyutaro, he boldly proclaimed he could fight just fine, even attacking both Daki and Gyutaro at the same time, deflecting multiple poison blood blades with a missing hand.

**Enhanced Hearing:** Tengen had a heightened sense of hearing similar to Zenitsu Agatsuma. This ability allowed him to easily hear noises deep underground, and he used it to immediately discern that there are channels of underground tunnels and caves directly beneath him when he was looking for Tanjiro Kamado and Daki.

* **Echolocation:** As an advanced application of his hearing, Tengen also possesses echolocation. When trying to find the location of a battle underground, he analyzed the sounds reflected and resonated through the air by the walls of the caverns, and accurately locates and is even able to guess the number of people inside the tunnels by listening to the sound bouncing from their physical bodies

* **Musical Score:** A technique Tengen developed using his heightened sense of hearing to work in conjunction with his Sound Breathing, where he analyzed combat maneuvers and deconstructed the rhythm of his enemies' attacks into sound and read them like sheet music to the point every fight becomes like a song.

**Shinobi Training:** Tengen possessed great technical skill in weaponry such as kunai and explosives. His training also made him extremely pain tolerant and poison resistant, which saved him from Gyutaro's poison and allowed him to fight despite suffering numerous injuries and losing his hand.

**Enhanced Stealth:** Tengen is extremely stealthy, moving so silently that he doesn't make a single sound nor disturb the air. His stealth allowed him to evade the senses of both Tanjiro and Inosuke, both of which possessesing a heightened sense of smell and touch respectively.

**Poison Resistance:** As a former Shinobi, Tengen has been shown to possess high resistance to poison to the point where he could continue fighting while under the effects of a poison from Gyutaro that would have killed someone instantly under normal circumstances.

## **Fighting Style:**

**Master Swordsman:** Tengen was one of the most powerful and skilled swordsman in the entire organization. Unlike most Demon Slayers, Tengen chose to utilize a dual-wielding swordsmanship style with his Nichirin Cleavers, making use of a nunchucks-esque sword wielding style. Tengen could also use his sword wielding expertise in conjunction with his anti-demon bombs with great synergy, making him all the more dangerous. He also showed the ability to wield his Nichirin Cleavers with only one arm

### **Breathing Style:**

**Sound Breathing** *(Oto no Kokyu)*: A Breathing Style that Tengen created himself. He is currently the strongest User of the Sound Breathing of all time, having created five total techniques while mastering his Musical Score technique to even further strengthen his fighting ability

#### **Techniques:**

* **First Form: Roar** *(Ichi no Kata: Todoroki)* - The user lifts their twin swords above their head and slams them down with great force while simultaneously creating an explosion with his bombs to deal massive physical damage, causing a loud sound resembling thunder as a result.

* **Second Form: Commanding Melody** *(Ni no Kata: Shiki Ongaku)* - The user will repeatedly switch between holding the swords by the handle or chains, in a pattern unrecognizable by enemies, all the while performing wide slashes to damage them severely

* **Third Form: Thundering Shouts** *(San no Kata: Raimei no Sakebi)* - The user will continuously bash their swords in multiple surfaces, while rotating them with the chains, all in order to disorient the enemy and potentially cause damage in a wide range.

* **Fourth Form: Constant Resounding Slashes** *(Shi no Kata: Kyozan Muken)* - The user holds their swords apart and spins them rapidly in conjunction with releasing their bombs, creating massive explosions while defending themselves from attacks.

* **Fifth Form: String Performance** *(Go no Kata: Meigen Soso)* - The user holds one of their swords with a reverse grip and spins the other using the chain that connects them. They couple this by also releasing numerous bombs to detonate, causing great explosions that deal massive physical damage.

## **Equipment:**

**Dual Nichirin Cleavers:** Befitting Tengen's flamboyant personality, he carried an equally flamboyant set of weaponry, wielding two gigantic Nichirin cleavers that are amber in color. The blades each have a notch in the cutting edge and are held together at the hilt by a metal chain, making it very reminiscent to nunchucks. His handguards were circular shaped with 4 slight indentations and gold in color, there's a maroon ring that connects to the center with a green outline. The Cleavers are currently in Hinatsuru's possession.

**Explosive Beads:** Tengen carried dozens of black small beads that create large explosions and detonate with the slightest amount of friction, capable of harming the bodies of Upper Rank demons

**Kunai:** Like his three wives, Tengen carried around dozens of standard black kunai, which he used to threaten Omitsu's husband to reveal information about Zenitsu and Hinatsuru's disappearance and to destroy the Obi sash that captured Hinatsuru.

## **Familiars:**

**Nijimaru:** Nijimaru is very fashionable, and wears jewels. Tengen and Nijimaru were extremely similar in demeanor to an almost unsettling degree

**Ninju:** The Ninju are intelligent, physically powerful mice specially trained by Tengen for support.

## **Battles:**

* Tengen vs Gyutaro
* Tengen vs Ryo