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"When your life changes in front of your very eyes, you either change with it, or get swept away!"
Name:
Nīse Tenkai
Other Names:
Kōtetsu Fukui (a pseudonym within the local resistance's branch, "Kogarasumaru")
Ray-1 (acting callsign)
Gai (favorite nickname, from "Kai")
Nice Guy (catty remark, as "Nīse" means "fake")
Poser (same as above; rarer)
gyozamen (online handle - he sucks at English, though)
[Hero Club]
Gender:
Male
Age:
16
Real Age:
"...S-Still 16..."
Grade:
Second Year High School
Birthday:
3rd September
Species:
Human (?)
Genre:
Mecha
Series Name:
RaiZer: Freedom War
Description:
Overall, Tenkai seems to possess a complexion that's a smidge darker compared to the average Japanese youth. Standing at 1 meter and 73 centimeters tall, he is rather thin for a boy his age, but definitely not enough to be deemed lanky (or worse, unhealthy). Indeed, another person could easily feel good health radiating from his energized stature alone. Tenkai is most commonly seen outfitted in his signature vest, shirt and shorts, complete with a pair of running shoes - sans the socks, however. While a pursuer of better self-health, Tenkai rarely concerns himself with his attire, and mostly goes out in whatever makes him feel most comfortable and is easy to move around in.
He wields eyes that are capable of narrowing into a sharp and cold gaze at times, hiding the well-meaning youth away inside...
Personality:
An independent lad that nevertheless is going to need some help with the homework, Tenkai, or "Gai" as he likes to be called, is a brave young man with a good heart and a natural drive to help those around him. He is straightforward and rather simple on the surface, preferring to do away with pretenses and announcing to the whole world exactly what he thinks of something. That's not to say he's always cruelly blunt with his opinions. Rather, he is the other way around, and as such Tenkai will struggle with the truth just as often as others. He dislikes it when people make mention of his family name or its literal meaning. Quietly, Tenkai often worries that he lacks the proper amount of responsibility befitting a young man growing into his adult shoes. While in the past, his mother had always proceeded to tell him that this pressure was only his father's influence working on him, he hasn't yet been strongly convinced.
Despite this, Tenkai is often pulled into the spur of the moment, and he wouldn't think twice to join in on the fun of others in his vicinity, be they a hot-blooded sports tournament or just some random shenanigans on the side. He is quick to accept others as they are without judging them, and can easily empathize with the "less-normal" crowd, a quality which in hindsight only serves to further his aforementioned worries. Adding to this, he is oft fascinated by the darkly and the supernatural. His childhood, during which this quality displayed itself much more strongly, is often dominated by the earnest research towards ghosts and ghouls alike in his leisure. Nowadays, this attraction has mostly died down due to the rise of other, new obligations, though it still surfaces time and time again, lending to his imaginative side.
Normally, Tenkai is a relaxed fellow who likes to be seen by others as easily-approachable, and is quite dependable to boot. Because he is still human, however, he is vulnerable to becoming tired and losing any sense of restraint should the push becomes too much for even himself to bear. Possessing a strong idea of right and wrong, Tenkai is all about protecting the innocent, but he can just as quickly become a merciless executioner for those with nefarious intentions. When pitted against great odds, Tenkai is prone to dangerously dive head-long into the fire for the sake of others. He values actions over words, and quick actions even more so. He trusts those with more experience in a certain matter, and thus shows the corresponding level of respect.
And while he would give his life for his friends and compatriots, the same couldn't be said for his enemies. To the youth, all the villains deserve is justice by his hands. Without the boy realizing it, this foolishness is what would come to mold his forthcoming days, as the strings of destiny begin to unravel...
History:
Ever since his parents divorced amicably, Tenkai has been working his best to lessen the burden on the two of them, as well as his younger brother, who now lives with his parents in shared custody. He's since enlisted as a member of a volunteer office in town, which also doubles as his humble apartment nowadays. The office is run by a close family friend, whom Tenkai seeks to repay fully for promising to sponsor his education through his new high school and college in a few years' time. When not burying himself in his schoolwork and studies, Tenkai would work with the office to lend aid to the more rural areas in Japan, and sometimes even overseas.
On one of these sojourns of duty to the mainland by ship early this year, Tenkai was met upon by a foreign woman with bewitching appearance and surprisingly fluent grasp of the Japanese and Chinese languages. Before they could talk further, however, the ship was suddenly attacked by a force that sought to eliminate the woman, branding her a
traitor. In the ensuing battle, the woman revealed her name to be
Bellénova Prazińska, and that she needed his help. Once Belle had successfully fought off the attackers (thus saving him and largely everyone else on the ship), the pair escaped at port after a rather explosive epilogue to the battle that afterwards had made the woman's fate unclear to anyone else but the boy who helped her out of the water.
Quietly making their way back to his hometown, Belle used the entirety of the journey to explain to him slowly and carefully that she had known his recently deceased aunt and uncle, whom had worked for the same clandestine organization she had betrayed, called the "National World Government", or NWG. After coming to a conclusion based on the past battle that she could fully trust him, Belle delved further, telling Tenkai that while his aunt and uncle put up a front about devoting their lives to NWG to the point of being unable to raise children of their own, they were secretly mavericks themselves, working to ensure the world could one day be free from parasites such as the NWG.
Fearing that the NWG's staggering technological growths signal an early demise for the resistance and the ideals they had willingly fought this secret war for, the couple had worked for years on end, discreetly collaborating with various groups and individuals across the globe whom share the same goals, using the noise whipped up by the much louder resistance to cover their tracks. Belle proceeded to tell Tenkai that at one point in the last year, they had reached a breakthrough in their efforts, excavating something in the seas between Japan and mainland China after a peculiar seismic activity was recorded in the very same area. Having befriended the couple, Belle was moved to work together with them despite her initial orders, but sometime afterwards they were found out.
Only she managed to escape. Tenkai couldn't afford to shed any tears after hearing the woman's words, and he regretted this. He hadn't known them closely, but Tenkai always knew they were genuinely good people. Realizing he couldn't doubt the woman anymore, Tenkai vowed to help her new cause. With any and all previous routes of information now lost to her, Belle was forced to contact the branch of the world resistance in the nearby area. And they answered her call, introducing themselves as "Kogarasumaru". With the branch's help, they investigated the various liaisons of Tenkai's uncle and aunt.
After more than a month had passed, the group found themselves suddenly pulled into a desperate race towards the deserted industrial area on the outskirts of the prefecture. It was here, that the boy, for the sake of his family, and his newfound allies, for the sake of the world, would come face-to-face with the shape of the future...
Equipment:
Aside from random small things taken from his apartment and the clothes currently on his back, Tenkai carries with himself his wallet which contains all his money as well as identification, and a basic mobile phone (with camera) in a flip design. The phone has actually been subtly customized by Kogarasumaru to fulfill their illicit comm needs, and is capable of transmitting through a direct, encrypted line to headquarters for immediate contact after the proper steps have been taken.
[progress sketch no. 2 by Issei Nijimura]
- Raier -
Pronounced "ray-er", it appears as a horned giant humanoid, with a metallic grey and pale white body.
Raier was discovered by Tenkai and Kogarasumaru in an underground makeshift laboratory beneath an abandoned factory. Records indicate it is a completely alien mechanical life form that possesses metal-like cells with the ability to self-repair. It is currently mostly unresponsive, save for mentally communicating with Tenkai, the first human to approach it after awakening, and its subsequent actions afterwards; moving forward with Tenkai's guidance to demolish the NWG's urban-type mobile weapons and forcing their sniper-type suits to retreat, therefore saving the resistance members, during the attack on
Ebihara Industrial West Bloc.
This incident, which occurred in roughly the span of ten minutes, alerted the NWG to the apparent rise of the resistance's new, dangerous mobile suit. Following its discovery, the machine, now having a name, is kept in another undisclosed location, left behind after the city's project to revolutionize its sewage systems. There, it is continuously researched on by resistance scientists along with the documents found during the battle of Ebihara Industrial in order to discern its true nature. Among what's known so far is that the alien technology supposedly found by the NWG all those years ago fit the properties of Raier's structure, making it likely that the NWG's technologies and Raier come from the same source.
Most notably, Raier possesses the ability to pervade through the boundaries of space-time to a small extent, allowing it to appear wherever Tenkai needs its presence. After manifesting at his location, Raier teleports Tenkai on board to "function as its heart", as Kogarasumaru puts it. He then synchronizes with Raier, manipulating the giant machine from within a hollow sphere located in its chest lined with cords and fins. It is said that because its space-time function saps a great amount of its energy, the machine only ever makes use of its space-time ability to appear above ground, and then return to base afterwards. It may also use this ability to escape difficult situations, but there is always the possibility of failing if it attempts the full-body transportation effect during live battle.
For combat purposes on a lesser scale, Tenkai is able to call upon Raier to manifest its appendages (arms and legs, etc) around himself for protection or to command as his own, in which the outer shell of the summoned appendage envelops Tenkai's own limb. While this method is faster, the strength produced is also weaker. However, this also ranks the the lowest in terms of energy consumption, and when compared to Raier's own energy regain rate, Tenkai may sustain the appendages that he's summoned to himself for an indefinite amount of time. Because the manifested appendages are being sent through space-time through different channels (so to speak), each appendage will consume power parallel to each other. Summoning all four of Raier's limbs to himself will consume four times the amount of energy from the machine than only summoning one.
Besides its arms and legs, Raier seemingly carries no other notable form of weaponry (as of yet). However, scanning has been able to identify a certain mechanism embedded inside each of Raier's shoulders and hips. It is speculated that these "tulips" are capable of opening up, which would most likely be the case in the activation of the mechanism dubbed the "proton smasher". Possibly, it is a long-range weapon capable of detonating objects at extremely high-speeds similar to a rail gun. Furthermore, there have been interest in the functions surrounding Raier's horns. For now, Raier alone could reveal all of his own secrets, however, and at the moment he only seems interested at asking questions instead, even as Kogarasumaru braces for further battles with the NWG...
Abilities:
Apart from being quite the athlete, Tenkai by himself is nothing special compared to the average human. He normally has the strength of a young adult human, along with his other parameters. However, once he has resonated with Raier at a low level, he gains increased speed, endurance, and strength. While he can summon the giant machine Raier to his side, Tenkai also has the option to manifest only a small portion of the giant robot for a myriad of uses, from the mundane to the downright heroic. However, he mostly avoids from using it in his daily life, from fear of accidentally revealing Raier's existence to others around him. If in a pinch, he could always count on logistics support from Kogarasumaru HQ, as well as Belle's assistance.
Skills:
- Cleaning : Low
- Running : High
- Fighting : Average-High
- Talking : Low-Average
- Cooking : Average
- Fishing : High
- Following : Average
- Searching : Low-Average
Companions:
Besides Raier and his constant curiosity towards Earth, Tenkai is also accompanied by Bellénova Prazińska, an ex-agent of NWG that now sides with the resistance. While the information she possesses on the NWG is invaluable, so are her abilities learned and perfected during her days working for the NWG. Realizing this, the resistance top brass has assigned her to protect Tenkai and Kogarasumaru to her best ability, putting her in the place of a recently-transferred employee from the United States for a company in town. To fill her new identity, she has taken up the nickname "Kushina" and begun to act more jovial and fun-loving, based on her own ideas of Americans. She has begun to drink and now makes jokes at Tenkai's expense more often. Around town, she is known to some as Tenkai's "new, sexy western girlfriend", a facade which she seemingly doesn't object to.
Reasons for joining club:
Originally, he took a fancy to the Occult Society, particularly due to a recent discovery of the English legend of the giant
Gogmagog, which he imagined could have been another giant alien like Raier. Wishing to hear from a more experienced group, he unfortunately mixed up the Akizuki sisters' names and was pointed in the direction of the club led by Akane instead - the Hero Club! After being presented with the express chance to help a lot of people together with others, how can he turn away afterwards?
Voice Actor:
Takuma Terashima
[Voice Ext.]
Counterpart Requirements:
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Other Information:
He's rather hard-working when it comes to his health, to the point that many at his previous school have touted him as a junior dietician. Tenkai keeps in contact with these very same friends through the net, mostly using his online handle above. Also, did you know gyozas can be surprisingly healthy
and delicious?