Nyotengu

Personality:

Nyotengu, like Bankotsubo, has a loud and arrogant personality, but contrasts from him in also being somewhat playful and laidback. She's quite energetic and appears to enjoy fighting, especially inflicting pain on her opponents, hinting at a sadistic motivation. She's also quite suggestive and flirty, as she sensually licks her lips after a match. She's very loud and frequently yells in delight as she's attacking her opponents. She seems to despise defeat, as she acts overly dramatic and angry after a loss. Although if her opponent proved him/herself to be exceptionally skilled, she'd overlook her defeat, as evidenced by her reaction upon being defeated by Ryu and to a lesser extent with Leifang. She appears to enjoy alcoholic beverages, as evidenced when she partied with Raijin and Fujin (who implied she often gets worse when she's drunk), as well as her bonding with Brad Wong.

Her actions are very sensual and suggestive, with her dialogue including a lot of double entendres, and her attacks include a lot of subtle provocative poses on her part. This provocative posing is also demonstrated during her run-in with Ayane, where she briefly holds Ayane's waist from behind and gyrates while teasing her. Besides that she appears very confident in her fighting abilities; when taunting she will tell the opponent that she's merely toying with them or that they should not be shy of approaching her. She can also fan herself arrogantly as she expresses that she's tired of her opponent's empty boasting, and she can even laugh to herself in an arrogant and haughty fashion. She also can glide away in a relaxed state as she waves for her opponent to come over.

In Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, she is capable of befriending the other girls on the island, showing her friendly, peaceful, and playful side. She was also implied to have a slight soft-spot for humans, as she mentioned that part of the reason she went to New Zack Island was because it presented a rare opportunity for her to actually experience human aspects. Owing to her being a Tengu, she is also shown to be unfamiliar with certain human conventions, such as birthday cakes being reserved for birthdays (or special days, in her case), and also the concept of cameras. That said, she is familiar with other human conventions, such as the concept of giving a future spouse a ring. Even though she doesn't have any friends on New Zack Island in the beginning of the vacation, she can easily become immediately close or attached with the player's character by playing with her in a few Butt Battles. In Xtreme Venus Vacation, she is also shown to be something of a prankster, as during the main episodes, she briefly poses as the voice of the God's statue and later during a ghost festival posed as an undead schoolgirl. She also shows her friendly yet mischievous side in Dead or Alive 6 when she encountered Leifang and Brad Wong. Unlike Bankotsubo, who shows nothing but hatred and disgust for the human world and wants to cause chaos, it is shown in Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 that she loves and appreciates the human world, calling it a wonderful and fascinating place to live.

Appearance: Despite being a female tengu of a very high age, she takes the form of a woman who appears to be in her early to mid twenties, in stark contrast to Bankotsubo's demonic, monstrous appearance. She has pale, creamy colored skin, and a voluptuous figure, with curvy hips and a large bust. She is of above-average height for a Japanese woman, has an oval face and a small beauty mark on the left of her chin. She has light purple eyes and also seems to be wearing light purple eye-shadow. Despite lacking the trademark beak-like long nose of the tengu, some of her costumes do reference it with long-nosed masks. Like Bankotsubo, she has wings, but they're smaller, and change color depending on her outfit, usually appearing in jet black. Her dark bluish hair is intricately done, with a "hime cut" of perfectly straight bangs and side-locks. Unusually, the rest of her side-locks are left uncut and long, and tied to the sides with topknot style bands on the tops. The rest of her hair is worn in perfectly straight cut pigtails which she wraps up. She also wears traditional Japanese hair decorations called kanzashi and a miniature hat called a tokin.

Her main costume appears inspired by geisha fashion like Kokoro, except Kokoro's is more modest and modern looking; Nyotengu wears a kimono that oirans, or Japanese courtesans, used to wear. The opening is directly in the front, the main purpose of which was for the oiran's clients to have "easier access". The kimono is both flame-red and black, and the skirt and wide sleeves have intricate patterns and designs on them. The kimono is worn loose to expose more of her cleavage and she wears a white, shorter kimono underneath. Like Bankotsubo, she wears tabi and geta sandals, and carries a fan. Her fan, as is the case with Japanese mythology regarding tengus, is powerful enough to summon a strong gust, as demonstrated in Xtreme Venus Vacation, with the resulting gusts potentially being powerful enough to destroy clothing.

Early life Details of her life are unclear, other than that she apparently existed as early as the Heian Era of Japan. She was also instrumental in causing a week-long typhoon in the capital due to wanting to alleviate the heat, and apparently observed a particularly ambitious warlord known as Lord Fool. She apparently was also childhood friends with an oni named Kanna, or at least, that's what she believed.

Arrival at New Zack Island She apparently landed on New Zack Island briefly, only to lose her wings due to a "mysterious power" at work on the island. Although shocked due to it technically rendering her not Nyotengu anymore, she nonetheless took the opportunity to experience a vacation among humans.

The Sixth Tournament At some point, she encountered Leifang, who was training for the tournament. She offered to give Leifang some advice regarding getting stronger, should the latter beat her. Leifang ultimately did so, although Nyotengu then tauntingly gave her mixed messages on how to get stronger before promptly flying off.

She later encountered Brad Wong, who was trying to retrieve a legendary whiskey, making off with the treasure before he could get it. She then told him to fight her for it. After doing so, they shared some of the whiskey.

Next she met Ryu Hayabusa while the latter was training and, being aware of his role in taking down Bankotsubo, offered a sparring match to experience his abilities first-hand. She ultimately was defeated, with Ryu bluntly telling her to leave before teleporting away. Although put off slightly by his rudeness, she nonetheless was infatuated by him and satisfied.

She also ran into Ayane, and revealed she was the real "Female Tengu of Mount Miyama", in reference to Ayane's previous boasts, before sparring her. She also gatecrashed the Sixth tournament, with Zack deciding to have her act as the "half-time show guest star", which she agreed to.

Arrival at the Venus Islands She arrived at the Venus Islands due to expressing some interest at the "lively" human presence there, and was called upon by the owner of the island. Impressed with the owner for being bold enough to address her, and expressing some interest in the Venus Islands due to it "captivating the human mind", she then beckoned the Owner to follow her. Shortly afterwards, her wings vanished again, thus rendering her human yet again. Largely undaunted, she decided to give the Venus Festival a try, thinking the vacation would generate some excitement.

Fighting Style: Nyotengu uses a similar move set to Bankotsubo; she is slow but powerful, with the ability of flight, as well as to summon large deadly gusts of wind. However, unlike Bankotsubo, she seems to focus more heavily on aerial combos, having 2 unique stances that involve flight: Hiten-No-Mai (Dance of the Scarlet Sky), and Karasu-Tobi (Flying Crow). These stances allow her to perform powerful extra moves as well as having evasive purposes. Most of her attacks unfortunately are quite slow, and her more powerful moves require long start-ups, and have slow recovery frames. As a result, quicker, more combo-focused fighters like Kasumi can easily take advantage of her vulnerable, recovering state. Also, her attacks that have long start-ups can be easily interrupted, or a well-timed hold can push aside a slow attack.

To make up for her slow speed, she can glide away from an aggressive opponent or towards them, using her wings, and the proper use of her unique stances can confuse and break the rhythm of her opponents. She also has stronger than average holds and throws, as well as numerous air and ground throws that can be performed from both her regular and unique stances. Incorporating these throws into her combos will allow her to deal maximum damage, but often requires careful timing and execution. She possesses a plethora of moves designed to crush and evade foes too, as well as being very well suited for applying guard pressure as she has a lot of attacks that can guard break her foe and leave the momentum in her favor to easily turn the tide of battle. Her reach is also great and her mix-ups have great delay to compensate their relative slow speed.

Dead or Alive 6 has given her more to work with, adding new moves to further confuse her foe such as a mid kick after her forward mid thrust attack and another spinning guard break attack to crush her opponent's guard. She's now also able to throw off opponents from a distance with her new mid thrust flip kick and her sidestep evade from her Hiten-No-Mai air stance. She's regarded as being a solid character with the only main weakness being her speed which forces players wishing to master her to play more defensively and wait patiently for openings when dealing with opponents who surpass her speed.