Tokitatsu Higashibojō

**Tokitatsu Higashibojo** (東 (ひがし)坊 (ぼう)城 (じょう) 時 (とき)達 (たつ) *Higashibōjō Tokitatsu*) is a Special Grade sorcerer enrolled at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High, he spends his time studying Barrier techniques. He’s been in disagreements with the higher-ups before involving his Cursed Technique’s nature.

## Appearance

Tokitatsu is a well built young man with light skin, dark pink eyes and mid-length silver hair splitting at the front. He used to wear the traditional uniform composed of the standard uniform and partially baggy pants turning slimmer as they reached the ankles, completing his wardrobe with grey high-top shoes. He now wears a long-sleeved traditional uniform with an added fur coat hoodie. His bottom attire consists of long black jeans that turn skinnier continuously as they reach his ankles, finishing this with white low-top shoes. His civilian attire consists of a long-sleeved turtlenecked beige sweater and long black jeans.

## Personality

He is a very stoic and non-expressive person who finds it hard to socialize, however, upon conversating with an individual he becomes a bit more immersive depending on the subject matter. He becomes more expressive when he befriends someone, his skepticism, however, remains and serves as a blockage to truly bonding with an individual.

He used to be an introvert who always felt unprepared and pessimistic over assigned missions, to the point where his deteriorated mental health would cause him to choke up and restrict his capabilities. His brain's superiority in emotional processing has only amplified the burden. Having this as an endeavor in tandem with the accumulated stress of his family’s sake has often caused him to feel extremely deprived of happiness and hope, as if he was sinking into a never-ending cycle of mental helplessness, due to this he was often assigned to 1st-grade missions or lower. After practicing mindfulness regularly his state of mind steadily improved, it was thanks to this decision and his dedication to practicing Jujutsu that he was able to circumvent his doubts and focus on the tasks at hand.

It wasn't after many assignments that he truly recognized the corrupt nature of the Jujutsu world, his obligation from the higher-ups to complete assignments governed solely by personal bias caused him to become cynical, not only toward the higher-ups, but to people in general. His view of the profession became distorted.

After performing a Black Flash during a high-stakes battle he identified not only the core of cursed energy but the enjoyment of battle assorted with the bitterness of his profession. Acknowledging his strength and his growth as a Jujutsu sorcerer, he managed to remove the mental restrictions that he had been battling against, this would later cause a significant boost to his self-esteem, and diagnose him with mental solitude. As a side effect, greatly reduced the value he had over the lives of civilians somewhere along his progression, and severed his connection to empathy towards most people. Not long after, he found his true self all while reflecting on his current purpose, a purpose to stimulate his family’s position, it was an experience profound enough to realize his innate domain.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level:** As a Special Grade sorcerer he has shown immense skill over Jujutsu, his rigorous training and focus that he has done contributed immensely in his success. Due to his ancestry and his brain composition he was born with the innate talent to manipulate his cursed energy much more efficiently than an average sorcerer. He is implied to have a massive reservoir of cursed energy. His study and practice over Barrier techniques and enchanted words, fortunately, increased his skill to levels on par with the most skilled Barrier users, even being able to change the environment within Tengen’s Sunyata barriers. His skill negates the reliability sorcerers have over the development rate of the internal and external parameters of their domain.

**Evolved Brain Physiology**: As a part of the Higashibojō he was born with a more complex and intricate brain in the department responsible for sorcery. As a side effect of this evolution, the rest of the brain had also undergone a development that would allow for much easier understanding over learnable skills and a greater increase in experiencing and processing emotions which indirectly influences the flow of cursed energy. This gives the ability to pick up on distinct details that most people would usually miss in their day-to-day lives.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Even before enrolling into Jujutsu High he learned proficient martial arts from his family lineage being able to compete with experienced sorcerers. During his experience in Jujutsu High he developed immense skill that he was able to utilize to outperform even veteran Grade 1 sorcerers. After utilizing his innate technique with his skill he evolved to another level, being able to parry almost all offensive methods that capitalized on hand-to-hand exchanges, and apply his skills to deal damage to vital spots on the body. He specializes in grappling tactics, having been educated on dozens of different methods.

**Immense Strength:** Thanks to his toned body and his cursed energy reserves he was able to achieve abnormal strength heights, he’s shown the prowess to effortlessly break reinforced walls with a punch, shattering a massive cavity in the ground beneath him from a failed attempt at striking a curse, rip a massive thoroughly rooted tree stomp out of dense soil with negligible difficulty, and even tossing a medium-duty truck into a nearby building single-handedly in an attempt to rid of a curse user. It is through utilizing this strength he was able to generate enough force to propel tougher opponents straight through several buildings composed of reinforced concrete.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** It is because of his reinforcement technique that Tokitatsu has shown an immense amount of running speed, being able to move faster than the eye could perceive. He’s able to outmaneuver his opponents and forcibly create exploitable blind spots. His already impressive speed skyrockets if stacked with his innate technique, as he becomes capable of maneuvering at supersonic speeds. It had increased his speed and agility to such a degree that he was able to blitz the Special Grade cursed spirit Jogo who is known for his unparalleled speed.

**Tactical intellect**: He’s shown to posses the ability to create solid plans on the spot to overcome a specific endeavor. Due to his brain composition, he’s able to analyze his surroundings and utilize them to his advantage very effectively, he’s been said that he has **eyes** that can see **quality**, which amplifies his growth as a sorcerer that much more. With deception being a main focal point in combat, he often uses the “**Sujin’s Waterfall**” technique to sabotage the footing of opponents in manners that are designed to make opponents lose their cool, Tokitatsu has made sure to make full utilization of this technique in every fight, furthermore, should the opponent’s reinforcement technique falter to the output of the technique they'd risk melting. Even during the recovery period of his burnt-out technique, he manages to deceive opponents by swelling up certain areas with cursed energy to defend certain spots so as to emphasize the area’s fragility, typically leading opponents to strike over the area point blank in an attempt to a critical blow, resulting in devastating and difficult-to-deal-with counters.

### Jujutsu

His reserves are large enough to give him the luxury of using Jujutsu for extended periods of time, giving him the ability to use the maximum output levels of techniques in succession.
His brain also opens access to further heights of output since the flow rate of cursed energy is finely processed, when combined with his reinforcement he's able to fortify his body as hard as tungsten.
After his experience with the Black Flash, he's now able to strengthen his body to its utmost limits without having to lose much energy. His efficiency allows him to spare nearly all of his wasted energy, reducing it by an outstanding degree. With an improvement over his utilization of cursed energy, he is able to constantly strengthen himself for long hours or days when push comes to shove.
He’s become skilled enough to use positive energy while simultaneously using cursed energy. However, this greatly impairs the quality of his reinforcement and may risk frying the brain from the burden.

During his second time using a black flash, his brain underwent a unique experience that completely rewired his understanding of cursed energy, allowing him to understand his strengthening technique and giving him the skill of near-precise manipulation, granting him great efficiency.

## Trivia

* The Higashibojō family lineage originated from the Gojo family.
* Due to him being able to experience life more profoundly, the "zone" caused by a Black Flash caused a profound awakening.
* He is fascinated by Barrier techniques and how they interfere with physics.
* His self-esteem is unusually high.
* He is among the fastest sorcerers.
* He took the time to build muscle in hopes of further increasing his cursed energy output.
* Being in the epicenter of politics in the Jujutsu world had given him substantial financial literacy. Pulling strings with his connections, he's a shareholder of several successful Real Estate in Tokyo and Kyoto. The income is directed to himself, his family, and the Jujutsu society.