In her childhood, Tenko was often annoyed how she was scolded for acting too agressive and too un-ladylike, making her abit insecure about her femininity
Tenko in spite of disliking most men actually feels bad when she hurts a man just for touching her shoulder or any other non sensitive body spots. She doesn't find pleasure in hurting those that don't deserve it
In her freetime, Tenko cooks pastries for her friends
While she's mostly attracted to women, she later on realised she was attracted to men too, which bothered her and she worried that she was no longer attracted to girls. Thanks to Kaede though, she realised that she can be attracted to both. And still prefer girls of course.
Once Tenko tried to perform and dance on stage but the audience booed at her for not being cute.
While she's pretty muscular and strong, Tenko actually hates it and actually wears loose clothing to cover her body up, out of disgust.
Her best friend at the temple where she trained was a monk named Kenta Ochisuita, her spiritual brother-in arms
She taught herself tons of meditation techniques and yet struggles with mastering several aikido moves
Tenko won many tournaments through brute strength rather than combat knowledge, though in matches she is more analytical than one would think, being able to spot and anticipate upcoming attacks with ease
A reason why Tenko disliked men, is because how everyone called her unfeminine in the past and she thinks being masculine in certain aspects is gross
She hosts self defense lesson for girls mostly, but also for boys if they behave. She's more strict to boys but wants them to succeed too
In her free time, she plays the guitar
In secret, she has a crossdressing hobby and loves wearing top hats and masculine clothing. But she's not telling anyone that including Himiko
When Tenko is really pissed, she's not violent at all. Instead she's just silent and won't speak a word.
Tenko hates r*pists with a passion and tracks them down to punish them. This also counts for women who r*pe men, because Tenko believes that sexual degeneracy is bad no matter the gender
She refuses to harm any physically/mentally disabled person, even if they're male.
She and Kaito often argue but deep down, Tenko sees her as the brother she never got.
<3 I'm not saying lesbian tenko hc's aren't valid but this is just my take on the character <3
Bi, pan, omni, etc tenko headcanons are valid just as lesbian ones. Tenko is a HORRIBLY written character and some lesbians (or just wlw/lgbtq in general) wouldn't want a lesbophobic and sexist character as lesbian rep?
Stereotypes like creating neo akido just to fight men (aka, lesbians are dangerous towards men/want to HARM men.), the whole "she's lesbian cause she has had bad experiences with men" trope, and how clingy and stuff she was towards himiko. ALSO the fact she was just flat out sexist towards men?
Not to mention we have much better wlw coded characters to be idolized as the "Dr fandoms lesbian queen." like himiko, mahiru, ibuki, toko could be a example of lesbians who face comphet, aoi, sakura. Literally any DR girl??
And if non lesbian headcanons erase her character maybe its a GOOD thing to erase if her character are (is?) lesbophobic stereotypes.
- A lesbian.
Rantarou is the first and only person to evade/delay Tenko's attacks!!
And for that, Tenko finds him incredibly interesting, baffling and infuriating all at once.
He's the ULTIMATE ADVENTURER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
He's got fast reflexes and amazing observation skills.
The first time catches him off guard, he merely put a hand on her shoulder and her reflexes kicked in. Due to her unapologetic/defensive nature, he makes a note to minimise surprising her. Understandably annoyed. But in hindsight could admit it's rather riveting.
The second time she attempts to throw him is quite obvious, there's a way she stands, and a build-up of her frustration. First, he avoids conflict by creating distance. This bothers her. When she came at him directly and fuming, he readies a counter-attack. He moves with her body and manages to swing and hold her arms across her torso as if she were hugging herself. All Rantaro has to do is ensure he doesn't lose his grip or balance. The height advantage also ensures she can't throw him over her head. He feels rather triumphant. She accuses him of stealing her strength.
This starts their physical rivalry and Tenko constantly attempting to throw him and show him who's boss, to which it's p 50/50.
Tenko's random attacks keep him on his toes and his training in check. She of course sees this as a further challenge. Duels are a regular thing in the courtyard and her dojo depending on the weather.
CAN YOU GIVE FLUFFY HEADCANONS FOR AMACHA ON DATES??
YOU BET YOUR FINE BOOTY I CAN ANON
(⊙ω⊙✿) Me likes the way you think!!
Fluffy Headcanon Set of Amacha on Dates
You might wanna be sitting for this...there's a lot...
They study hard for an hour and a half before a well-deserved break, in which Rantaro starts cooking up a storm. Tenko insists on helping since he refused to take her money. "Tenko's sure you just want her to pay a high price! Tch, typical--"
Their first date is accidental. She came over to study/work on a school project/get tutored. Considering one of his father's Japan-based houses is close to a train station, the two decide to go there; it was quieter than the dorms.
It's a quaint traditional home for 1, on the larger side in comparison to typical Japanese apartments. Being a quiet, hideyhole for FatherAmami, it was vacant of maids/butlers. Of course, Rantaro cooks dinner for them.
'So that's why Rantaro took so long "getting study snacks" at the supermarket' Tenko realised. This unexpected thoughtful side of his making her soften inside.
"No need, Chabashira-san. Your thanks will be enjoying the meal I slaved away making just for you~." He teases. Despite attempting to refute and ensure he was aware she didn't mind chipping in some money, he refused with no end. Including the train fare and his precious tutoring time. He didn't want anything from her. Though that didn't stop her from asserting he was hiding ulterior motives, nor internally denying the fact she savoured every denial he made whenever she joked about him trying to get in her panties. She appreciated the constant dismissal, while silly, it reassured her; comforted her.
She starts chopping up veggies both spitefully and with pride. The food smells delicious, he can see it on her face despite her verbal denial. They get caught up in cooking and conversation, studying further never gracing their minds. They were too busy enjoying the other's company. He pleasantly surprised her, thus why she continued to launch questions at him.
She speedily sets the table before he can. A little too excited to eat his food.
Because the house is so old, the lights go out. The fuse box is a pain to figure out on an empty stomach, thus why Rantaro breaks out the fancy candles and they eat by candlelight. It's very romantic, Tenko starts to blush as it reminds her of romance manga. Now thankful for the light shortage since he couldn't grasp the extent of her embarrassment.
They talk for hours. By 9pm they're too tired to even attempt studying, and instead finish the night with a Disney movie and tea and biscuits on the pull-out sofa bed. "How luxurious!!"
Tenko's excitement never looked more beautiful/endearing.
Rantarou's dozes off first, his light snoring made her giggle. He was so dainty. She gently lays the blankets he previously prepared over his sleeping form.
Sitting a comfortable distance to finish the movie. A lullaby plays on screen and Tenko is easy prey. She ends up sinking into the bed beside him, the cool autumn air didn't help her sleep-cuddling tendencies, thus making her spoon him for warmth. His sleeping form happily complies and fits in the mould she made.
Both being early risers, Rantarou's embarrassed to be in the situation, but smiles anyway, patting her hair, she instantly stirs, he pretends to be asleep.
When Tenko rubs the sleep from her eyes, she stares at him, their positions exposing she was, in fact, the instigator of such affection. She slowly slides out, utterly embarrassed and completely confused. She gets to work in the kitchen, {even wearing his apron} to surprise him with breakfast in bed. "As thanks" for dinner the night before... He is happily surprised, both at her way of showing gratitude and the feelings making his chest tight at the image of her wearing such domestic accents.
^ Those dinner/study/movie endeavours continue for almost 3 months before he has the guts to invite her to Disneyland, confident she'd love it. She asserts the idea and is all-in after Rantarou confesses the last time he went was with his sisters...he sounded so gloomy whilst reminiscing and she insists they go to restore the happiness it's supposed to invoke!! It'd be a crime otherwise.
He goes all out. He buys them front of the line, year-long passes. They're worth it. This one's the official first date. At least in his head, he tells her it isn't but he wants it to be, and it definitely looks like one.
Tenko is no longer scared or feels threatened around him, not in the slightest. Strangely though, anger stirs inside her chest and makes her lips thin whenever girls fawn/compliment him so boldly.
He waits patiently for Tenko when she's using the bathroom. On her way out, her appreciation is emphasised by a wide grin as he watched her with excited eyes. A stranger crosses their path. Tenko increases her speed, "He better not ditch Tenko for this beautiful and pure ginger fox-- oh how embarrassing that would be!! Not to mention low!"
A girl from school attempts to confess to him, in the happiest, most magical place of all. She's a year younger than them. So pure, kind and sweet. He doesn't have the heart to outright reject her, thus stumbling over his words awkwardly, Tenko can sense he's trying to be gentle.
Tenko smoothly approaches and wraps an arm around his, making him freeze his faltering, "Kasumi-chan. Tenko heard your beautiful speech. You're so brave and sweet and beautiful. Any boy would be lucky to have you, but unfortunately... Rantarou-kun is spoken for." She wants to break it to her as gently as possible, and pretends their dating, as a softer blow. After giving Kasumi the necessary confidence/reassurance, Tenko watches the girl trot back to her friends. A content smile marking her face.
She follows, willingly, paying no mind to the contact whatsoever, excluding the butterflies in her stomach.
With his free hand he pats her head, "Very smooth, Chabashira-san, I'm impressed. I would never have thought you'd-"
"Oh, shoosh avocado!" Avoiding eye contact and hiding her blush. Since their arms were still tangled, Rantaro interlocked their fingers and drags her along, "C'mon, Tiga~"
He showers her in mostly food but of course gifts her something cute she had her eye on.
They have a blast. Afterward, Tenko found herself often speculating when they could go again. Due to his big spending habits she tends to repay her gratitude in free Neo-Aikido training and the rare times she'd make sweets for Himiko, she'd give him a decent portion.
Because Rantaro is so loving and crushing hard but doesn't know how to love her, he often shouts her lunch or packs an extra bento for her. This surprises Tenko.
He's so thoughtful and wonderful she has her suspicions. But still blushes whenever he brings her lunch in public with her friends around.
To combat this, she insists on helping him with his studies and is a great confidence booster whenever she can sense her sparring partner is doubting/self-loathing. Due to their regular training, continuous study sessions, bonding over food and movie nights. They become really good friends.
One day, Tenko can't shake the rejection from Himiko, especially when Himiko happily hugs and is very clingy with Angie and the others. The stinging morphs into a deep cut. Rantaro finds Tenko pushing herself. He's at first impressed. Then majorly concerned after realising she'd been at it for 4 hours straight.
He confronts her, she breaks down in tears. It breaks his heart to see such a loving, devoted girl be treated like this. He knows Tenko would sacrifice everything to see Himiko smile, so instead of taking it up with Himiko...
"You know...we've been making great progress with our school work. This weekend, why don't we go to a theme park, as a reward?"
This marks the third/forth official date since they'd revisited disneyland a few times prior. He takes her on all the rollercoasters, they bond over the adrenaline rush, it's a good distraction. She's like no one he's ever met before, and only falls harder.
Plus, the slow love-story these two would have to build that loyalty, blind-trust and love that's indestructible is a big reason why I love amacha~! Hope it was ok! If not just lemme know and I'll do more future-date things, like further in their relationship haha!
Sorry got a lil' off-topic...BUT it's VERY vital Tenko gets over her dependence on Himiko before anything can really flourish between these two, BUT I love the idea of Rantaro happily pining after Tenko and making sure she's ok, cuz no one else would.
When did you start shipping it? who was the one to confess feelings first (I think that it whould be Tenko)? also to everyone who hates ppl for shipping this: Fuck you.
EEEK!!!! OK
When did I start shipping Amacha? You ask,
I believe it all started when I saw this: (Credit to: killingharmonyimagine)
It was what got me thinking about the potential that lied between these 2 characters [not to mention, this happened BEFORE the english localisation - I’ve loved Amacha for a long time woot ] and also how cute and angsty their love story would be if Tenko was the protag. [I’ve thought A LOT about this]
Exhibit A. Instead of Kaede getting her nails painted, Tenko is offered to get her hair braided. Tsumugi wanted some practice and Tenko’s locks was a challenge she was looking forward to, while the latter had never experienced such a basic activity and desperately wanted to have some girl time after the stresses of accepting they’ve been forced to participate in a killing game, Rantaro walks in with all this knowledge about thick/long hair on athletes and offers the girls various styles to make things more efficient for Tenko in brawls. Rantaro takes over and presents Tenko with a couple of his ideas in action and {Exhibit B}surprisingly, he knows what he’s talking about and during the following days the braids are so helpful to Tenko, Rantaro is the only one capable of maintaining them. {Exhibit C}He teaches her some tricks to braiding and when he dies, Tenko’s hair just becomes this weight on her shoulders reminding her of what could have been. She cuts it when remembering Rantaro’s advice {Exhibit D} “For athletes short hair is typically easier to work with, but if you’d prefer to keep your long hair, I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve I’d be willing to try out on you.”Heck their FTEs turn into them discussing Rantaro’s concerns/past all while he does her hair (=゜ω゜) Just contemplate that for a sec!!
ALso when I was playing through NDRV3 myself, I grew attached to Rantaro quite a bit and it hurt after seeing how quickly Kaede’s death over shadowed Rantato’s, which is why it warmed my heart when Tenko was the first character to not only bring him up but also make POSITIVE comments about him and his death. Like ohmygod she’s such a sweetheart even though she goes on about how she hates men ;w; i love her sm
Here’s the canon just for the AmachaAlliance becuz my heart hurts in the best way for these two (▰˘◡˘▰)
Regarding who confessed first -
in my opinion, Tenko is the first to reveal her feelings as well~
Even though she’s god-awful at hiding how she feels (I mean this in the best way, Tenko is a queen anD RANTY BE HER KING) Rantaro’s too considerate for his own good and wouldn’t risk tarnishing the friendship they achieve.And I think Tenko fumbling over her words in an attempt to confess just to blurt out: “OK! I LIKE YOU! …OK???” or “Tenko wants you to take her out on a date!” is just adorable and down-right so uncalled for it would surprise Mr.SuperChillAtAnyGivenMoment himself and she’d be able to catch him off guard and make Rantaro the flattered, flustered mess.
But I also like the thought of Rantaro making an attempt to ask Tenko on a date without making the offer seem like an actual date. Just imagine Rantaro mentioning the fact that his mother couldn’t make it to a movie and gave him the tickets so they wouldn’t go to waste, and in a very careful attempt he asks Tenko if she’d like to join him, she’s a lil’ shook which cues Rantaro’s will to comfort her with the line “Oh, don’t worry, I don’t mean like a date…[awkward laughter]” and she gets “offended” and replies with: “H-How dare you be so thoughtful! Tenko can take care of herself! I-I-In fact! …I’d love to go on a date with you…“ ultimately turning it around cuz of her conflicted-ass feelings. Yus!!
Anyways sorry this is so long, I’ve tried shortening it but there’s so little amacha in the world I thought a little rambling wouldn’t be the worst thing out there right?
Do you think that Tenko would get along with Rantaro's sisters?
UM IS THE SKY UP???IS THE GROUND BELOW ????YES. UH-HUH. And DUH to your question Anon!!!
Soz, I’m just a weee-bit passionate about this topic since, Rantaro’s sisters take a huuuge part as to why I love Amacha being a couple and why Tenko would see Rantaro as a very eligible male to peruse.
And even if you don’t ship amacha, there’s no denying the fact that Tenko’s character would ADORE Rantaro’s sisters.
1. Tenko LOVES cute, small, petite girls that remind her of Japanese idols. What’s more pure than a young, naturally cute/adorable, petite little girl dressing up and showing off her singing and dancing skills (you know, when kids go through that faze of dressing up? With 12 sisters, I’m preeeetty sure at least 1 of Rantaro’s sisters went through that faze if not currently going through it now)
2. Also, a HC that I loooove, some children enjoy brushing, braiding and in general just playing with hair… have you seen how long Tenko’s hair is???? I’m sure at least 6 IF NOT ALL of Ranty’s sisters would be super happy to style Tenko’s hair. And even when the girl’s botch the job, or tug on her hair too harshly, Tenko would suck it up to make the girls feel special and talented!!
But anyway YES I think Tenko would get along swimmingly with ALL of Ranty’s sisters.
Heck I’m confident that Tenko could win over a protective sister of Rantaro’s. Just think.
Rantaro is a wealthy, handsome, smart young man, as sad as it is, people would definitely try to use him, whether it be for money, for fame, for luxury, for sex - you name it boo. And from this, one of Rantaro’s sisters gets extremely protective just because she’s tried of seeing her kind-hearted brother get abused and hurt, AND she’s tired of people using her as a way to get closer to her brother. So when Tenko comes along, Rantaro’s sister believes Tenko is just as bad as the last person who tried to use her epic bro and isn’t wasting her time on Tenko. She confronts Tenko with the whole “Look. If you’re just getting to know us to impress my brother, I’d advise you to get the fuck out, because I’m over people like you taking advantage of him!” Tenko somehow explains her hatred towards boys and it clears up the tension for a while. And when Tenko starts to realise the flutter in her chest that occurs whenever he smiles at her isn’t strictly friend-related feelings, she seeks permission from his most protective sister to make sure she’s comfortable. And spares her own happiness in order not to make another girl feel any uncomfort.
And of course after all the time Tenko has spent with his sisters (simply cus they be cute and she loves dressing up with them, holding concerts in Rantaro’s living room, teaching them Neo-Aikido, doing their make-up/vice versa), Rantaro’s sis realises Tenko is too genuine to be exploiting Rantaro, and just really likes having her energetic, positive life-lessons and protective nature around.
Like, oh my god, Tenko’s curiosity will always get the better of her and she’ll be enthusiastic about trying something new, and Rantaro’s adventurous side can’t help but want to know where it could lead him, especially with his almost-as-brave significant other by his side.
Just think of all the trouble and happiness it could lead them to.
Just adorable, innocent, fun.
Needless to say, I just ADORE the thought of Rantaro teasing Tenko with little lines like:
“No, it’s okay, I get it now. You just don’t wanna go paragliding with me because you’re scared of heights.” While simultaneously giving her one of his classic all-knowing smirks.
And what does Tenko do to retaliate against her playful boyfriend, you may ask? Well she can’t just let him get away with mock-wounding her pride...
“Pah! You’re on handsome! Rantaro should know by now that Tenko Chabashira doesn’t go down without a fight!”
“T-T-Tenko i-isn’t...a-afraid of- s-seeing the world without her f-feet attached to the ground...!” The audible gulp in her throat doesn’t support the statement she was oh-so desperately trying to claim as her truth.
“Uh-huh,” Rantaro nods, disbelief clear in his voice behind the amount of playfulness he adds as a sugarcoating, “And you’re shaking because...?” He places a hand to her shoulder to show her the extent of her body’s quaking.
“Sh-Shaking?! Tenko isn’t shaking! I’m just...shivering! Yeah! It’s been snowing in Japan thanks to the winter weather, you know!” She states, a pride in her voice that doesn’t match the lack of confidence in her face.
“And? How does that affect you when we’re in Africa?”
Cue Tenko’s throat crying for a second time in turmoil.
“It’s okay, I just thought the view of Mozambique’s coastline would be nice to see...especially if it’s with you,” He sounded genuine, and it did sound like a beautiful sight to see, not to mention how romantic Rantaro made it seem with the tone in his husky voice, “You don’t have to if you really don’t want to. I still love you.”
If that didn’t induce her, the kiss he laid to her forehead sure did.
After a moment of internal screaming she lunged at her boyfriend with arms wide open, encouraging him to cuddle her, “HHHMMM, and it’s because Tenko loves you she lets you get me into these kinds of stupid things...” And after a moment of grumbling, she takes his hand within hers and begins tugging him towards their motel room’s exit, “FINE! Let’s do it! Tenko will even out-paraglide you!”
“Just watch me Rantaro!”
“Come on!”
“W-Wait Tenko...not that I don’t appreciate your enthusiasm... I still have to book the time with the instructor.”
