Kuroba Tokugawa

**Kuroba Tokugawa** is a core ally in Tempest Crusaders. And a Hayakawa student who was brainwashed by KAZEHARA during an earlier trip to Dahri and is sent to kill Tatsuma Tenji. After being freed from KAZEHARA's influence, he decides to join Tatsuma on his quest to Dahri to save Tatsuma's mother and find redemption.

Kuroba is a Vision User and wields the long-ranged Anemo Vision.

## Appearance

Kuroba is a young man of average to above-average height and fit to slender build. His primary outfit is a proper, trench coat-length, green gakuran/tsume-eri with gold accents and dress shoes typical for Japanese high schoolers. He is also shown wearing striped pajamas during his initial encounter with The Rooster. In the anime, he wears the pajamas when admitted to the hospital, along with bandages wrapped around his eyes. After he rejoins the rest of the group, he wears black sunglasses over his twin scars. He is always seen wearing cherry earrings.

Kuroba keeps his red hair styled fluffed up in the back and longer around the nape of his neck, characterized by a large, twisting bang hanging to the side of his face. Strangely, the side the bang hangs at is inconsistent, changing depending on the way he's facing.

## Personality

Kuroba Tokugawa is first introduced as an evil and cruel teenager because of AJAX's brainwashing. Thus he remorselessly attacks unrelated civilians and adopts a might makes right mindset. However, he reveals himself as a righteous, though blunt individual. Kuroba is brutally ruthless with his enemies but endlessly loyal to his companions. He possesses a manipulative charisma in front of potential enemies, seen with Tatsuma during their first meeting, the stewardesses before Tower of Grey, and the beggars during his encounter with A. Adham. In a flashback, his mother reveals that he was quiet and disassociated from his peers, turning away anyone who tries to approach him. His own ability to see led to a lonely childhood where he felt nobody could understand him, becoming depressive and cold.

His reason for joining the Tevan Group is for both fighting evil, as he mirrors Tatsuma's own explanations for saving his life, and of course a sense of debt toward Tatsuma or saving his life. Thus Kuroba is also a brave individual, willingly participating in the dangerous journey to Egypt and is also able to keep his nerves even in the direst situations such as having been punched through by AJAX.

## Abilities

**Possession**: Kuroba is capable of possessing living entities, seen with the school nurse and Dobhar-chú, by having his Vision's tentacles enter through a bodily orifice.

**Martial Arts Expert**: Kuroba appears to be rather proficient at martial arts. During his fight against Tower of Gray, Kuroba knocks out the Vision's User, shouting "Atemi!". This is a reference to the Japanese art of Atemi, which targets points of weakness in the human anatomy. This may be why he is of such an athletic build.

**Painting**: Kuroba is shown to be capable of painting in his introduction, albeit in a semi-abstract style. He paints a picture of Tatsuma before slicing his leg with his Vision by drawing a red mark on the canvas. He is not seen using this ability again.

**Marionette Puppetry**: Kuroba is able to manipulate marionette dolls well, using it as a controller for his potential vessel, like the nurse that attacked Tatsuma. He is not seen using this ability again.

**Vision Mastery**: Kuroba is, due to a lifetime of possessing his Anemo Vision, quite proficient at using it. Although it is mostly seen as a catalyst, Kuroba states that its true form is that of a bunch of strings; as such one of his key tactics is to secretly unravel His Vision's tentacles while keeping the main body as a distraction. Thanks to that, Kuroba can avoid attacks by unraveling his Vision, use the strings as piercing weapons or ropes, and reach for things in the distance. It also gives him a distance advantage, being able to attack from far away with a flurry of whirlwind drils.

**Intelligence**: Kuroba is the most quick-thinking of the group, being able to devise extensive strategies and plans on the spot, such as during with his fight with Dobhar-chú, where he hid his Vision for future use while in the process of being knocked unconscious, and tricking his way out of a hoard of greedy beggars with a single coin. He is brilliant at analyzing, piecing together the ability of AJAX's stand while dying. He is also well informed on the behaviour of different cultures, explaining to Tatsuma on how to order tea and thank the wait staff in Hong Kong.

**Anemokinesis**: As a Anemo Vision user, Kuroba can powerful torrents of air and whirlwinds, and replicates it with his movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve purely offensive attacks, most of which utilizing rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range or utilizing the air around them to deliver sharp sickle-shaped attacks.

* **Coiled**: Kuroba Elemental Ability can weave out a network of sensitive strings that detects the enemy's movements, as during the battle with KAZEHARA. and unleashed multiple compressed air blasts.