Tenko Chabashira

Tenko Chabashira (茶柱 転子 Chabashira Tenko) is a student in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and a participant of the New Killing School Life featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Tenko is titled as the Ultimate Master (超高校級の「合気道家」chō kōkō kyū no “aikidō-ka” lit. Super High School Level Aikido Master). She is a practitioner of the martial art she created with her master, called "Neo-Aikido".

Early Life
Tenko is a practitioner of the martial art she created with her master, called "Neo Aikido". She has an issue in the past where she started to hate men. She attended Stone College Prep High School (亜巌大付属高校) during her high school days.

Name
Her first name kanji 転子 tenko, means "rolling child". This is a reference to her talent, as Aikido includes rolling in its techniques. Her last name kanji, 茶柱 Chabashira (lit. "tea pillar"), is a figurative term referring to a how, when drinking green tea made with chopped tea stalks (see Kukicha), a few thin stems can go through the kettle into the drinker's cup and float around near the surface of the liquid. Chabashira specifically is when one such stalk ends up floating completely upright - an uncommon occurrence that is considered a lucky omen.

Alternate Fates
In New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version, Tenko was inside the cafeteria along with Himiko Yumeno and Kaito Momota. She introduced herself to Kaede Akamatsu, who thinks that Tenko is cute, automatically making her blush and feeling embarrassed. However, when Kaede asked confirmation from Makoto Naegi, Tenko doesn't need his answer, showing her dislike towards men.

During the incident of Yasuhiro Hagakure's murder, Himiko was having a tea with Tenko in the cafeteria. She gives her the lecture about the different between magic and witchcraft and stated that during that time there were always only two of them. However, Tenko noticed a male entered the kitchen but didn't have time to put a closer attention since Himiko's lecture intensified and doesn't let her to have a free time until the body discovery announcement was broadcasted by Monokuma.

Appearance
Tenko has a fair skin tone, sharp green eyes and long black hair put into two long pigtails. Her hair is held by long white ribbons, a large green bow with a white floral pattern and she also wears a purple headband with a star-shaped adornment on the left side of her head. She wears a blue school uniform top that stops above her bellybutton, a frilly blue skirt, white socks with a blue stripe that end under the knee and. She has a beauty mark under the left side of her mouth and she has a pink choker with a yellow bell.

Personality
Tenko is an incredibly noisy and generally cheerful person. She wears her emotions plainly and has a habit of yelling out in a loud voice to show her fighting spirit. She also refers to herself in third person.

As a Neo Aikido practitioner, Tenko takes pride in facing the opponent from the front, and she courageously tries to confront the "Exisal" killing machines. Indeed, despite being an Aikido practitioner, Tenko can be very aggressive and quickly resorts to violence, insisting that it's self-defense. She takes pride in inventing the Neo Aikido along with her master and throughout the game, she will constantly threaten guys or Monokuma with her deadly Neo Aikido techniques, saying that it is very powerful. However, she admits that compared to Gonta Gokuhara's incredible power, she had no match for him.

Due to some issue in the past, she feels strong hatred towards boys, to the point of referring to them as "awful boys" (lit. replacing part of the normal word for boys with the kanji for death). She seems to believe that boys are much more likely to do negative and deceiving things than girls, like always being the first to lie and always shifting the blame right away. She dislikes boys so much that even the nice things they do can cause her to react very negatively. For example, she doesn't like boys praising her. If a boy compliments her looks, her expression will die in an instant. She also never allows a boy to touch her, throwing him reflexively if they even attempt to try.

Contrasting her hatred towards boys, Tenko likes other girls much more. During dangerous situations, she recklessly rushes to protect all the girls, and only them. She also gets very shy and humorously humble if a girl compliments her looks, blushing strongly and insisting that her looks definitely aren't good. She appears attracted to girls and is especially fond of idols, often having dreams about them. Himiko is her favorite, and she often admires and wishes to accompany her, which annoys the magician.

Tenko also occasionally has a more panicky side, as she seems to panic in a class trial if she is suspected to be the culprit, and overall tends to react strongly in humorous ways. She is also shown to be capable of reading the minds of those she throws, and give right kind of advice.

Despite her loud and aggressive nature, she is polite to everyone, even boys, referring them with the formal suffix "-san". Her politeness is so powerful that it surpasses her hatred toward boys.

Ultimate Aikido Master
Tenko and her master has developed a new style of Aikido named the Neo Aikido. Different from the original teaching of Aikido, the Neo Aikido that Tenko invented is more aggressive and has many offensive techniques.

In other languages
Tenko's talent as it appears in official translations of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Relationships

 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles:

Kaede Akamatsu
Kaede has a tendency to compliment Tenko's looks, surprising her and causing her to blush. Due to her prejudge against boys, Tenko warns Kaede about Shuichi, even though there is no any real reason for it.

K1-B0
Because Keebo lacks a gender identity and isn't a male despite his somewhat masculine form, Tenko doesn't treat him as harshly as the class' boys.

Quotes
New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version (English)
 * "I'm not the culprit either! Only degenerate males would commit such an act of violence!" (Defending herself from being the culprit during the Class Trial)
 * "Let me make this perfectly clear-- the art of Neo-Aikido is not used for murder! If I had to fight off a male, I'd throw him across the room!" (Refuting being the culprit during the Class Trial)

List of Appearances
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 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
 * New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version
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 * New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing Comic Anthology

Trivia

 * Other characters who also speak in third person within the series beside Tenko are Ibuki Mioda, Monaca Towa, Angie Yonaga, and Gonta Gokuhara.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Tenko the 8th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.

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