Tenko Chabashira

Tenko Chabashira is the Ultimate Aikido Master and one of the unwilling participants in Monokuma's Killing School Semester. A fierce girl by nature, the tragedies of the killing game challenged her social naiveté. With despair prompting her to forsake her responsibilities to Neo-Aikido, she has grown fat and disorganized, and she hardly ever steps outside of her room. Her light blue uniform and white tights are terribly ill-fitting now, but her green eyes speak of a nervous, fearsome passion. Tenko Chabashira was born aggressive, to the point where her bouts of extreme anger and hyperactivity left her parents worried about her future ability to fit into society. At a young age, her parents sent her to live at a temple, where they hoped elder figures could discipline her and bring order to her combative soul. It was there that she met the head priest, referred to by Tenko as her master, who helped raise her into the woman she is today, for better and for worse.

Earning Tenko's undying trust as he raised her during her formative years, he communicated the responsibilities of life to her using concepts that made sense to her, like justice and the self-improvement of her combat abilities. As a result, Tenko is far more sociable now than she once was, but she also has a poor grasp on what is true and what is not. Her disdain for men is the most visible product of this foster care, leaving her an unabashed misandrist, unaware that men are anything more than lascivious deceivers.

It is undeniable that Tenko is a gullible and childish adult, but her physical capabilities are nonetheless deserving of her ultimate status. Together, she and her master took the ideals of Aikido, a very defensive martial art, and redefined it in their own image into something aggressive and slapdash: Neo-Aikido. It lacks any official rules or ranks, as it was created as an outlet for Tenko to discipline her aggression. According to her, maintaining control over one's diet, cleaning their room, and going to bed on time are all imperative if one wants to become skilled at Neo-Aikido, implying that her master used her excitement for the art as a vehicle to ingrain in her certain fundamental responsibilities.

On her own, away from home and trapped within Monokuma's Killing School Semester with her fellow classmates, Tenko at first maintained her resolve and held fast to the core ideals of her beliefs, even through the multiple senseless killings that occurred. Out loud, she could scream and attempt to maintain solidarity with the other girls, but witnessing so many deaths left the quiet parts of her entrapped life deafeningly loud. It gave her reason to notice so much more than she normally cared to: how much people disliked being around her and how weak the connections she made were as a result of her own boisterousness. It horrified her, driving her to isolate herself and become nihilistic about the future of both herself and her classmates. If no one wants her to protect them, then what's the point?

Tenko never leaves her disaster of a dorm room, instead spending all day and night practicing Neo-Aikido against the training dummies inside of it just to exert her energy. Disregarding her dietary responsibilities and eating an excess of sweets has led to significant weight gain despite the exercise. Her new tummy protrudes over the waistband of her frilly uniform skirt, but as of now, she isn't much weaker for this excess body mass. Tenko has continued styling her hair into her unique style of twin-tails, and a large green pinwheel bow rests on the back of her head.

The fattened, reclusive Ultimate Aikido Master