BEAST Tadao Yumeno

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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 has long, slightly puffy sleeves, often covering his hands. The buttons are all firmly held together. Over the shirt, he commonly wears a black cropped jacket with the sleeves rolled up. He dons black slacks and jet black combat boots with thick black soles for running or traversing rough terrain. 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 preferably, knives.

## Personality

### Seventeen

During the Dark Era, two years after he joined the Port Mafia and four and a half years from the current time, he was seventeen years old. In Bar Lupin one night, he met Osamu Dazai. The two quickly hit it off and slowly became close friends, working together more often on missions. While Tadao initially had his trust for Dazai grow the more they talked, that all changed when Dazai was leading the Port Mafia. He still trusts his leader, however, he always seems on edge, having an off attitude whenever in his presence. Dazai was the one and only person who could ever truly intimidate Tadao, breaking through his cold facade and turning him into a shell of his normal self.

### Eighteen

On Tadao's eighteenth birthday, he rose up the ranks in the Port Mafia, becoming an executive on that exact day. As his rank had risen, he became closer to Dazai, naturally completing more difficult missions and working alongside Chūya Nakahara. Upon learning more about him over time from the Dark Era, Dazai would often tease Tadao, mistaking his namesake and calling him a 'little rabbit'. This references his shy and nervous demeanor underneath the cold facade he always shows to everybody else.

### 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. 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 never seen with a smile, since he doesn't like portraying his emotions to others.

He is quite used to being called a freak, since it happens a lot due to his calm facade and unnerving eye color. 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.

In this universe, Tadao isn't real. Well, he is, but he also isn't. From his counterpart in the main universe, that person is real, completely real. Tadao was almost an exact match to his counterpart aside from the small shifts such as a colder personality and weaker health, nosebleeds and frequent headaches and the like. But the real Tadao was killed. In the early days of the BEAST universe, where the orphanage fire drove Tadao to join the Port Mafia.? The only difference was the absence of Atsushi since he was the mafia's White Reaper. Without a close friend Tadao became more lost into his own self, colder and less friendly, but also tired of his life. So when the fire drove through the orphanage, instead of him running away and being found by Mori like in the original universe, Tadao died. He stayed in the building and let the fire kill him.

But since Dazai was interacting with the Book and knew of his own counterpart's memories and past, he also knew of Tadao; the man whom knew Dazai in the main universe. Dazai had this knowledge, but he also knew that Tadao, as a child, was killed in the orphanage fire when he was only fourteen and-a-half, just shy of fifteen like Dazai was.

So using that knowledge to his advantage, Dazai used the Book to rewrite Tadao back into existence. He appeared by the river, just as he planned, and Mori found him and took him into the Port Mafia without any prior knowledge that he wasn't real. Tadao, in this world, is written from the Book because Dazai \*needed\* someone along with Chuuya to keep him sane. Tadao in the main universe is not written from the Book, but Dazai wrote him into existence in this world because his old self died in the fire.

## 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.

## 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 has poorer health, for reasons unknown. He tends to have frequent nosebleeds, headaches, and prominent dark circles under his eyes that never seem to fade away no matter how much he sleeps.

• 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°.