Tae Tomodachi

Reckless bastard (by Himeko)

Incomprehensible human (by Reika)

Naive boy (by Kagatsuma)

Weirdo (by Yoru)

Idiot (by everyone else)

Kagatsuma Kaware (indirect uncle)

### Affiliation

Freelancer (pre-Nightmare Thorn Arc)Hot On Universe legion (Post Nightmare Thorn)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Yoshimasa Hosoya (Seiyu)
Kaji Tang (English dub)

Arturo Cataño (Latin spanish dub)

### Debut

Chapter 6

> Fire is neither good or bad. It only follows the order of who controls it. "Tae, about his responsibilities
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Tae is a part of the Guardians of the Eternal Flame group of the Defenders of the Light, and is a major supporting character of Warped Eternity: Living Destruction's Abyssal Remnants.

## Personality

Even from the start, Tae is a brave warrior who is against the demigods, the dolls and the clans who spread genocides and kill thousands of humans and protectors. Tae's personality is usually friendly, helping people with sinple chores and works. Tae is notable for hating injustice and swearing that he would help the human race and the protectors against the Upper-Class Demigods even if that meant dying in the process. Tae is very determined to help the protectors protect the lives, and avoid the destruction caused by the creatures who serve under the Upper-Class Demigods. Tae is a kindhearted man, and he dislikes fighting women and children, unless it's completely necessary. He despises the dolls, because of the fire-resistant nature of porcelain and clay.

When Tae is happy, he acts relaxed and jokes around with the people. When Tae is sad, he usually likes to be alone and tries to bury his sadness. This is shown when the Adonnes clan executed a village, and he couldn't do anything about it. When Tae gets angry, he tends to be reckless. He also loses control and end up burning something. When Tae is scared, he starts making battle strategies to not die in a fight. Tae thinks that he must protect the villages he goes to and give them hope and stop their fear of the creatures who work under the Upper Class Demigods. Tae would also like to have a family even when the world he lives in is so rotten, so he doesn't lose the chance to sometimes be a womanizer, something Ryuga considers to be "weird".

He also wants to protect the innocents, which he finds in his journeys, and is determined to do so.

## Appearance

Tae is a tall, young, and extremely beautiful man, who wears leather clothes and black fingerless gloves and boots, which both are tools that create his flames. He also has black eyes and his hair is smoke gray. He also wears a jacket and wears brown pants.

## Age

Tae is currently 20 years old, this due to him being a traveller and a warrior for two years since he discovered how to correctly manipulate fire. At the start of the story he was 19 years old, but after his fight with Gast he remained for six months in a hospital (where he celebrated his 20th birthday).

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Abilities:** In terms of combat, Tae is very skilled in battle, with his gloves and boots he uses a nenjuma which creates flmes, although this are somewhat weak, that's why Tae uses mineral fuels to improve his fire, this resulted in a power capable of overwhelming strong opponents. However, he was still not viewed as a threat to the Lower- and Upper Class Demigods. However, his superhuman skills and abilities could still not match to one of the supreme officials of the Adonnes Clan, Adonnes De Gast, as Tae was overwhelmed by Gast's strength, and his muscular and snowstorm manipulation ability. Tae uses a Nenjuma which allows him to create and control fire, which Tae upgrades with his fuels, Tae inherited his gloves and boots from his mother which she used when she was young,

**Extrasensorial abilities:** Tae can detect if someone is lying, hiding their feelings, if has bloodthirst, a tragic past, etc... all this by feeling their internal heat. This also allows Tae to sense if someone is approaching and how many people are in a room and where they are at all moments even if their power level is higher than Tae's. Nevertheless this ability has 4 major weaknesess, First, Tae can't feel someone with no internal heat (like a doll) approach, Second If there's fire in a room Tae won't be able to sense anything, Third Tae can't sense nobody that has a camouflage lyrics spell. And Fourth this abilities are directly connected to Tae's nenjuma, which means he can't do anything of that without it.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Speed:** Tae's speed has increased throughout the series, and he eventually became capable of hunting the Dolls, and the Adonnes Clan members before they could react. His speed allows him to use swift strikes and attacks and overwhelm his opponents. His speed is compared to that of a cheetah, and in terms of leg speed, he was near to that of Shiraishi Ume's and even Ryuga Chisaka. His speed increased tremendously upon being trained by Rokihiko, and through countless hours of grueling training where Rokihiko wouldn't let him rest. His speed is said to be extremely inhuman at first, due to his Nenjuma.

**Immense Strength:** Tae's strength has rapidly increased, due to his increasing flow of Numen Energy, and he is difficult to beat.

**Swift Reaction Time:** Tae can easily dodge bullets, arrows and cannon balls with extreme ease.

**Immense Durability:** Tae has an immense amount of durability, as he was

**Immense Hearing:** Tae has an an superhuman hearing that helps him eavesdrop.

**Numen Energy Increase:** Tae can Augment his Numen Energy during combat to have more opportunity during combat.

### Mental Abilities

Tactical Intellect: Tae has trained in the military, which helps him during strategic combat.

Indomitable Will: Tae has a huge willpower which has lead him to survive uncountable things.

Apathetic State:

### Numen Abilities

**Taiyō Furea:** Tae uses a martial art known as "Taiyō Furea" which consists of attacking the enemy's weak points as fast and hard as possible, which in combination with his flames, Tae can destroy from human bones, to magical porcelain and divine beings with his moves.

**Master Armed Combat:** Tae is also very talented with the use of swords, bows spears and shields which he can set on fire to become even more dangerous in combat, although Tae prefers fighting barehanded or with his Red Flame Sword.

**Green Flame Manipulation:** Tae can generate green flames by using boric acid as a fuel, which is stable and powerful. He has an extreme ability manipulating his green fire. He is also a very quick thinker and an incredible battle strategist.

Tae has a lot of experience with fire, which not only allows him to create flames, but he knows how to extinguish them in emergency situations. However, his fire is created by his gloves which can create sparks, and with the combination of Boric Acid, it makes his flames green. However, due to the tremendous amount of muscles Gast can generate, he was only severely injured, and was capable of avoiding being slain.

**Green Flame Blade:** Tae can create fire blades that come out of his arms, this blades are as powerful as a high quality blade.

**Green Flame Snake:** Tae can shoot flames to a long distance, which resembles an enormous snake.

**Red Flame manipulation:** Tae can manipulate red flames by using Lithium as a fuel, red flames are more aggresive but unstable, which makes them useful in hard situations.

**Red Flame Sword:** Tae can make his red flames manifest as a red sword, which is more destructive than his green flame blades, but Tae only uses it when the situation needs it.

**Red Flame Lion:** Tae's Red Flame Lion is an offensive technique which consists on generating a blow of compressed gas which then Tae ignites, the explotion resembles a lion's head.

**Blue Flame manipulation:** Tae uses Copper to manipulate blue fire, which is very stable and has the property of spreading fast, but this isn't a problem for Tae, because he knows perfectly how to extinguish copper fire.

**Blue Fire Ocean:** The Blue Fire Ocean is a trap technique developed by Tae. The trap consists on spreading a mix of Copper hidroxide and alcohol in the floor, walls or even celling of a specific place where the battle will happen. When fighting with an enemy in that place (or leading them to the place) Tae ignites the space and quickly escapes to let them burn, after the fire is over Tae inspects the place to make sure the job is finished.

**Blue Flame Bird:** The Blue Flame Bird is an extremely long range attack which can travel from a country to another. The technique consists on using all the copper Tae has and throws it to a specific location, thanks to the location abilities Tae has and his knowledge on trogonometry, Tae is capable of hitting his target only with deductive concusions.

**Yellow flame manipulation**

Tae can create yellow flames with a sodium compound, the yellow flames are used only as defensive techniques. Fortunately for Tae this flames are stable but can't destroy nor damage nothing and no one (including Tae)

**Yellow armor:** Tae can create a flame armor in his arms, legs, torso and head (all at the same time or in parts) to protect himself from enemy attacks, this also protects him from acids and venoms.

**Yellow shield:** Tae can create a flame shield in one or both arms to have more protection. Tae very oftenly combines this technique with his red flame sword.

**Yellow armadillo:** Tae can manifest a yellow flame armadillo that surrounds him and gives him a bubble-like protection.

**Invisible Flame manipulation:** Tae can create an invisible flame by using alcohol which he purifies from grapes and apples as a fuel, although this fire doesn't have much power, it's super stable which makes it the most difficult fire to put out. This fire is Tae's most powerful not because it burns faster or has a higher temparature, but because is very easy to ignore, although the name calls it "invisible" it actually can be seen, but it's extremely hard.

When used in the daylight it can only be seen by the light deformation around the fire, like every other has. When used at the night the fire does glow a little and has a very dim purple glow, which can be easlily be mistaken as an ilusion, it can be also spotted by feeling it's heat. Because of all this reasons Tae only uses the invisible fire when he wants to be sneaky and infiltrate somewhere or to set traps.

**Invisible Flame arrows:** In this technique Tae shoots small drops of ignited alcohol to an inmense speed (500 meters per second approximately), those drops can explode dependin on their mass, (from 0.5ml to 1.0 l can't explode. From 1.1ml to 2.0ml explode).

**Transparent Fox:** In desperate situations, Tae unleashes all his alcohol and ignites it, which the explosion resembles a glass-transparent Giant fox who eats everything on his way, because of the destructive power and inmense devastation this technique makes, Tae only uses this as a last resource.

**Alternative Technique: Devil's furnace dance:** In this technique, Tae ignites his botts with a balanced mix of every fuel he has and starts a type of dance, which then he uses in combat, with kicks and stomps to burn his enemies, however, Tae doesn't use this technique very often, mostly when he can't use his arms, (broken, incapacitated, handcuffed, etc...) because it's the most dangerous for him amd his body, but also because it consumes all of his fuels fast.

**Alternative Technique: Mundane dodge:** In this technique, Tae can transform all his body (clothes included) into flames, which when gets a hit it colapses and can rebuold himself in another place. Tae can decide where he can reappear. Tae usually uses this technique to distract their enemies or to evade blows that are too late to block with his armor or shield. Tae rarely uses it, as it has too much power.

### Numen Styles

Inferno Style: Tae can create an inferno-like scenery where he has an almost absolute control of his flames.

## History

*Main page: Tae Tomodachi/Synopsis*

Tae was born in a family of miners, his father worked in a sulfur mine, Tae's mother was a martial artist and taught him the Taiyō Furea when he was very young. At the age of twelve, Tae began visiting the mines along with his father, who told him the hypothesis of a fire that wouldn't need oxygen to burn, such a fire would be able to kill magical creatures and maybe the demigods,

Tae's dad also told him that if somebody had that power and wanted to, that person could easily kill every living cell in the world. That made Tae understood that his goal of finding the formula of the eternal fire would be difficult to get and he needed to be sure that it doesn't fall in hands of the demigods. At age fourteen the sulfur mine exploded thanks to a Doll's doing, and his father died, Tae's mom fell in a depression and left him. At age 18, Tae finished creating his gloves and perfectioned his combat style and began acting as a vigilante in his home village.

Tae one day thanks to Kaoru Yuragami discovered the Smile experiments because one of them attacked him, Tae didn't understand at first what was going on but then he understood it. Tae was so disgusred by that discoverment that he puked blood that day and began investigating about who made such horrible things.

#### Warning: Spoilers of the 3 first seasons of the Hinekure Ta series and Tae's Gaiden (Spinoff)

##### First Season

At the beggining of the story, Tae begins his journey as a traveller and a Vigilant, for the most part of the story Tae studies the plans of the adonnes clan, improves his Taiyō Furea and experiments with different kinds of fuels, after Tae interrupts an adonnes clan massacre, which with a very unfair combat against Adonnes the Gast, who almost kills him but at the very last moment Tae uses his "Transparent fox" to escape and is rescued by Himeko

##### Second Season

The second season starts with Tae being healed by Hineko and remembering his father's lessons, and how his mother trained him and left him after his father's death . After Tae was completely healed, he invites Himeko to join him, in his travels which Himeko rejects at first, but soon after she accepts because she knows she also doesn't have somewhere to belong. Thanks to Himeko's abilities Tae finds a clue from his father telling him where the "Eternal Fire" may be. Tae ends up raiding Reika Kamino, and fights with her and altough Yae doesn't win, he managed to steal a key, which was Tae's main goal and escape thanks to his two new abilities: "Yellow flame manipulation" and "alternative technique: Devil's Furnace dance". The second season ends with Tae again in the hospital, but this time Himeko teaches Tae how to combine a magical lyrics with his nenjuma to regenerate the limbs and organs he lost in his battle against Reika".

##### Third Season

The third season begins with Tae and Himeko meeting Kaoru Yuragami and quickly become close, Kaoru leads them with Kagatsuma, Yoru and Sayomi, and all begin planning and negotiating peace in despheria to stop the recent desctruction of villages. But soon after they get to an arrangment they are attacked by the addonnes clan and everyone there has to fight with a high member. Tae fights with some adonnes clan members and shows his new ability "alternative technique: mundane dodge" against adonnes de Hanabi, who was interested on Tae and wanted to try him. The third season ends with Tae inserting the key into his heart and the eternal fire talks to him, saying that it knew all the things Tae did and what he sacrificed to save people that would never thank him, and allows him to use it's power, this way Tae unlocks the power to defeat a demigod.

##### Gaiden

(Note: The gaiden occurs between the second third season.)

The Gaiden begins with Tae not knowing what to do with the key he stole, and goes to see his friend Shiraishi Ume in the rice fields to ask her if she knew how did his father wanted him to use it, but she tells him that she didn't knew anything about a key. After he returned to the summer province, Tae found that Kenzu destroyed an entire town, and before when he spots Himeko heavily wounded he almost goes crazy and wanted to kill Kenzu, but he managed to calm himself, grab Himeko and escape to another place in despheria. The gaiden ends with Tae asking for a doctor in a bar for Himeko and a medic takes her to a hospital, and Tae promises her that what happened to the province won't happen again

## Relationships

### Hou Tomodachi (Father)

Tae always saw his father as a great person and an intelligent guy.

### Shie Escamilla (Mother)

Tae loves his mother very much even after she abandoned him, Tae didn't try finding her because he thinks she still needs time to process her grief.

### Adonnes clan

Tae hates the Adonnes clan and he's always trying new forms of interrupting their massacres.

### Demigods

Tae knows he can't land a finger on the Demigods yet, but his quest of the eternal fire may change the route of the entire story.

### Fiends

Tae doesn't know information about the fiends and the vessels, but he knows that corrupt humans, specifically the powerful ones, want to spread chaos and massacres, which he thinks is unacceptable. Thus, he is planning on slay them too.

### Adonnes De Gast

Tae thinks Gast is no fun, and thinks that maybe he can warm his heart, until it becomes nothing but ashes. Tae finds his strategies to be awsome and views him as an enemy to be careful with. Nonetheless, Tae will never forgive Gast actions and wants him to know how does it feel to be vulnerable against someone stronger than him, which Gast makes every villager feel daily.

### Himeko Kuratoge (Nightmare Thorn)

Tae finds Himeko serious face incredibly attractive and he doesn't care when he gets lectured by her, When Tae first met her he was almost dead after his fight with Gast, so naturally Tae tought he was at the doors of paradise, while Tae was being healed in the church by Himeko, Tae told her about his adventures, goals and achievements, and convinced Himeko to leave the church and join him, Tae didn't do this just she is pretty, he did it because he could sense the enormous power potential she had and that made Tae really curious about who Himeko really is.

### Kagatsuma Kaware

Tae initially hates Kagatsuma for being such a despicable person and dislikes everything he says or does in public, but one day he saw Kagatsuma lost in his toughts and thanks to Tae's emotion perception he began crying. Tae couldn't understand how could he be so sorry and have such a pity for someone so evil. Tae returned to his room in the hotel and since then Tae hasn't seen him again.

### Yoru

Tae thinks that Yoru is a little obsessed with serving Kagatsuma, and that he should start thinking for himself, Aside that Tae thinks Yoru is a nice kid and that he deserves better. Tae feels guilty that he couldn't save him from the merchant although he didn't even knew that merchant.

Tae also noticed Yoru's inmense magical power and he feared it, that made him think that he wouldn't be able to hurt kagatsuma in the near future, he also tries to not offend Yoru by insulting Kaware in any way.

### Reika Kamino

The first time Tae met Reika was in their battle, Tae was inmediatly shocked by her beauty and strenght, he also tried convincing her that humans were worth saving, but like Gast, she didn't listen to him which made Tae sad, but eben after their fight Tae wants to make her understand there are people who give their life for thers they care about.

### Sayomi

Like every other girl he meets, Tae finds Sayomi extremely attractive and strong, although he thinks that being the rage vessel must be exhausting, he tries to make negotiations with her in order to make a more succesful village and with less corruption and violence.

### Kaoru Yuragami aka Fish Shield

He gets along with him pretty well, altough his narcisism makes Tae somewhat uncomfortable from time to time, needless to say, Tae is extremely envious of him because he always has girls that chase Fish Shield while he is always rejected. Tae enjoys spending time with him in their missions against the corruption and massacres.

### "Mizuro"

Tae hates "Mizuro" with his entire soul, Tae doesn't know that Mizuro is just a fake name. Tae also could not understand why somebody would do something so horrible to a defensless village, the day of the massacre was the first time Tae couldn't protect the people he cared about, which left him with permanent phsicological scars.

### Shiraishi Ume

Tae thinks that Ume is an incredible woman and a very important being, he likes watch her train and helps her whenever he can.

### **Rei Matsuoka**

Tae has a great respect for his mentor and is greatful for making him a great warrior against the horrors of Despheria and the world.

## Goals

• Have an apprentice.

• Find love.

• Become part of a team against evil creatures.

• Have a family (both literally and figurative)

• Reunite with his mother.

• Kick Gast in the nuts.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

### Strengths

• Tae has a lot of knolwedge in militar strategy, math, geometry, trigonometry and medicine (although he isn't good enough to be a medic).

• Tae can easily make allies due to his charisma and ideals.

• Tae has resistance against fiends and vessels (although he still can be possesed by those).

• Even without his Nenjuma he is an extraordinary enemy.

• Tae is very attractive, which allows him to manipulate some girls.

•Tae can remember his enemy's attacks, characteristics and psicology after a battle.

• Tea's Nenjuma gives Tae a slow type of regeneration ability.

• Tae can scan and analyze his enemies before a battle to adapt his battle style.

• Tae can detect when someone or something is faking their feelings or lying (this because he can sense people's internal heat).

• Tae is invulnerable to hypnosis, due to his disperse mind.

• Since Tae has a lot of money due to him inherited his father sulphur mines... Tae can afford travelling wherever he wants.

### Weaknesses

• Tae is one of those people who falls in love with almost every girl he encounters more than twice a week.

• Although Tae is a rather chraismatic person, he can become very agressive when he sees somebody he cares about suffer because of an agression or injustice.

• Tae can become anxious when his plans and strategies doesn't work as expected.

• Tae is vulnerable to his own flames, so he has to be careful when and where he uses them.

• Tae tends to put other people's life before his in risky situations, this causes him to stop acting strategically and with plans as he normally would.

• Tae is vulnerable to acids.

• Tae has a limited amount of fuel.

• Without his elements, Tae's flames are almost harmless.

•Tae is vulnerable to sudden temperature changes.

• Tae's flames need more fuel to burn in cold places.

## Trivia

-Tae can use other chemicals to create different flame colors, although the green is his favorite due to it's versatility due to the balance between power and stability.

-The Taiyō Furea is a mix of what in real life is the "Krav Maga" and a Chinese Tiger martial art.

-Tae loves dancing.

-Tae would like to have a disciple to teach them his abilities.

-The lastname of Tae's mother before she married Tae's dad was Escamilla.

-Tae Inherited from his dad the sulphur mines, which he controlls from the shadows.

-Tae has a fairly high resistance against fire and a pretty strong tolerance to pain.

-Thanks to his nenjuma, Tae can regenerate his limbs (with or without his nenjuma near) but Tae could only learn how after Hineko taught him.

-Tae's nenjuma was one of the many familiy treasures of the Escamilla and Tae's mom was so skilled in the Taiyō Furea that she didn't need power ups to make her flames highly dangerous, that's why before she married she was known as "The venomous phoenix".

-Tae is completely straight.

## Quotes

"I look nothing like my dad? Yeah I hear that really often". - Tae talking about the difference between him and his father.

"I never chase you because I didn't want to interfiere with your grief, but not only I was worried about you, I was terrified to find you and see that you had became an alcoholic or a night lady, I'm glad to see that those things didn't happen altough I don't know if being a paid assasin is actually better, doesn't matter, I'm just happy to be with you again. - Tae talking with her mother when they both reunited.

"What are you waiting for little Ko? Come on adventure is waiting for us to arrive!" - Tae encouraging Hineko to continue their travel.

"You just don't seem to understand it right? It's not about what you get, I save people because it's the right thing to do and because... Ugh I won't even bother with you. You're not worth even a cent of your total money". - Tae's response to Kawatari's commentary.

"Look, I completely understand how you feel, he saved you and you owe him everything. But that doesn't mean that you have to be his butler, also Have you seen how he treats everybody? He just cares about money. There's a moment in everybody's life when you need to start fighting for your own ideals, feelings and friends, you have to stand up for yourself and one day you'll save many people that were in your same position". -Tae's advice to Yoru.

"Oh man, you're such a pretty boy, I bet you have a lot of beautiful girls going after you, I'm so envious right now... Were you saying something? Ah yes! You were whining about how humans are the worst right? Don't get me wrong I can sense as clear as mirrior that you lived torments, torture and abandonment, but what you should be truly sad about is how you lost your humanity. Don't you think I have seen humanity's worst face?, Till this day I have nightmares about what they have done, but I have also seen it's purest form, their most beautiful state. I even have seen how selfless and selfish one single person can be, come on Gast don't make me fight you, please". -Tae's response to Gast's talk.

"Wow, you're more beautiful than I thought! But It's a shame you think that of humanity, you know, I could show you the wonders of the world, although on a closer look, you don't look like a person who is willing to listen to me. Too bad But don't worry I will prove you that I'm no lazy man, just a freak" -Tae's response before his fight with Reika Kamino.

"Hey, could you pass me the hot sauce please? This food doesn't taste like anything" -Tae when he met Kaoru Yuragami.

"The Fish Shield? Yes I know him, he's kinda pretty cool don't you think? Although he maybe should be a little more humble, but that would take out the fun. Also can he stop being girl magnet for a second? I don't like to see people having for free what I work so hard to get. My strenght is nothing compared to his, but He's always encouraging me to become better. And I've promised him I would find a way to revert the smile experiment" -Tae about Kaoru Yuragami.

" Why did you do this? No. How, how could you manage to order your body to do such unforgivable actions? The hatred I have for you in this very moment is strong enough to make my blood boil, but I must stay focused, I won't be able to win if I fight you, but mark my words, I'll make you PAY!" -Tae, to Mizuro after witnessing Mizuro massacre Tsubaihe Province, and killing the women first.

"Hey, how are things going? Are you ready to go hunting with me?" -Tae to Shiraishi Ume when he visits her.

"A doctor! Can somebody help her!? She was attacked please somebody help her!!" -Tae in a bar after Himeko was attacked by Kenzu.