* tendou's character design, personality, fighting style, and zanpakuto.
character design : hayato has buzzed, bleached hair that he often dyes. his original hair colour is black with a purplish hue. he wears a billowy bottom hakama that cinches at the ankles, a sleeveless shihakusho, black fingerless gloves that go up to the elbow. he has multiple ear piercings, a right eyebrow piercing, nose bridge piercing, and multiple tattoos on his torso, arms, and a large one on the right side of his neck. ( the images found here on his pinterest board are reference images rather than exact representations. )
personality : a man of few words, knows just what words to use to hurt you, much of what he says has weight behind it and can be calculated depending on context, dark humor, sarcastic, judgemental, straightforward, well-versed in proper etiquette and is well-spoken, can be polite, genius intellect, uninspired and lazy when it comes to accepting further responsibility, stubborn.
fighting style / further abilities : prefers using kido first in battle, both well-versed and strong in hado and bakudo, employs lots of acrobatic moves in battle, stealthy and extremely flexible. makes use of throwing knives that he keeps hidden in the fabric of his shihakusho.
other abilities / skills : contortionist, acrobat, cooks and sews, immune to a number of poisons.
zanpakuto : shikai release = 'choke', name for his zanpakuto translates to 'poison mouth'. unreleased, it's a wazikashi sword with a red hilt, worn at his right hip. in it's released state, it consists of ten blades that he uses as projectiles. when injured with a blade, a slow-acting poison enters the bloodstream, gradually infecting the person, first slowing them down and affecting the muscles, then targeting organs such as the lungs foremost, with the brain as the last to go. each slash only injects a certain amount of poison, a microdosage. depending on how quickly a person is slashed in succession determines how likely they are to be fully poisoned and die. ( meaning, the more quickly you're slashed and the more times you are, then you're most likely to die ). however, with hayato's fighting style, he tends to be sadistic, toying with the enemy. so, along with the nature of his zanpakuto and his fighting style, the death is usually slow and agonizing.
another ability of his, using his zanpakuto: he's currently able to swallow up to five of the blades, rendering his body a living poison. although for him, it increases his stamina if he's injured and neutralizes injuries. for others, if touched, an enemy's flesh begins to fester, creating boils and rotting flesh.
kurotsuchi mayuri has helped develop an antidote for the poison used by tendou's zanpakuto, which mayuri, nemu, akon and tendou only have access to.
weaknesses : his shikai has no natural defense besides if he uses the ability to turn his body into poison. after a fight, it takes him 7-10 days to fully recover / safe to be around others as his body "digests" the poison.
other weaknesses include : a phobia of rodents and bats.
