Tennouji Takeshi

Takeshi Tennouji (天王寺 健志, Tennouji Takeshi) is an idol from Raging Productions, initially a soloist, but was later put into the group, RAMPANT:Code.

Appearance
He has hair that is dark cobalt blue which can appear violet or black depending on the lighting. It is parted to the right and left, with some of his bangs reaching the top of his eyes. The end of his hair reaches the back of his neck. He has orange amber eyes. He tends to wear clothes that cover the neck, and is frequently seen wearing coats with fur trim or trenchcoats.

Personality
Takeshi is a nonchalant person with a very serious and stern disposition as well as a professional and intimidating aura around him. Despite his seriousness and sternness however, he is highly passionate about music and is described as being “white-hot” underneath his darker exterior – something that many around him take note of. He is also quite hard-working and extremely determined.

Notorious for his demanding and hard-working work ethic, he has high standards in people around him, justifying that the audience deserves nothing but the best performances. However, as the story progresses, he starts to mellow this input and dial back his behaviour, especially when seeing others getting affected by it (such as Otoya getting sick from overwork). Though others, like Reiji Kotobuki, note that while he isn’t as strict as he was before, he seems to have less expectations towards others and feels that he can fix things himself.

Takeshi’s bluntness and straightforward manner-of-speech is one of the most notorious things about him which makes him come across as harsh and demanding, even scary to some. The first time he met Otoya Ittoki and Eiji Otori, he frightened both just from his biting words alone. However, Takeshi doesn’t do this out of malice and appears to only do this because he feels it is better to be honest rather than lie. Subsequently, the number of times Takeshi has smiled genuinely or in a noticeable manner can be counted on one hand. This is in stark contrast to how he was a younger idol.

Beneath his scary and stern surface, Takeshi is more caring than he lets on but he shows it in actions rather than words. For instance, when Otoya was sick from overworking and over practicing, Takeshi ordered for him to go rest, culminating in him carrying back to the manor. He also gave a jar of Manuka honey to him later. Additionally, Takeshi took a blow from a crazed fan that was meant for Haruka, not caring about his injury until after it was decreed he would be off projects until fully recovered. When Seira Hoshikage tried to trap his kouhai during an interview, Takeshi instantly butted in and sharply steered the attention off of them. He's also noticeably got a soft spot towards children and treats them less harshly as he would an adult.

Much to others' surprise, Takeshi is quite geeky with some of his hobbies including reading manga (particularly Momo's Strange Journey), watching anime, surfing the net on his phone, and constructing Gunn-M mech figures. While he doesn't deny being an otaku, he's shown to have second-hand embarrassment when viewing people with body pillows or people with shrines, showing he has limits. His geeky likes also shine through in some of his projects as well, such as immediately offering to sing the OP for Sentai Breakers when he was twenty-two, and taking interest in a VN game by an indie creator who wanted someone to sing their OP.

History
Born in a humble fishing village in Kagoshima, Takeshi is the only child to Takuya and Fuyumi Tennouji. When he was two years old, his father passed away in a fishing accident. Despite being raised by just his mother, he got along well with the elders in his village and preferred their company rather than that of other children.

Song Chronology
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Haruka Nanami
At first, Haruka was both scared yet awed with Takeshi due to his position as a veteran idol who's been alive in the industry for fourteen years. Takeshi himself has nothing but the utmost respect for Haruka due to her skills and prowess in composing. Haruka herself has mentioned a few times that she likes working with him due to how versatile his voice is, particularly in genre writing. Takeshi carefully watches her wellbeing and he noticeably tries to be less blunt around her.

Otoya Ittoki
Initially, Takeshi had nothing but irritation towards Otoya, finding him "annoyingly happy - too much so, even". Otoya himself was intimidated and even a little scared of his senpai at first, finding him very harsh and extremely demanding; almost crying in frustration at the number of times Takeshi has stopped him to criticise him during their first training session. However, Takeshi noticeably starts dialling back his behaviour when Otoya got sick from overworking himself, even forcefully bringing him back to the Manor so that he could rest; realising that he shouldn't push his kouhai too hard.

Subsequently, Takeshi and Otoya start developing a more stable and mutually respectful senpai and kouhai relationship albeit there still being awkwardness and unintentionally harsh bluntness on Takeshi's end. Meanwhile, Otoya appreciates his senpai more and admires how he's been in the industry for so long while always managing to stay on top. The two have noticeably collaborated on a good number of projects together, including The Archmage's Diner. Takeshi's initial frostiness and harshness towards Otoya and subsequent closer bond with him is because he sees a lot of his younger self in him.

Eiji Otori
Much like Otoya, Eiji was also intimidated and a bit scared of Takeshi upon first meeting him. However, the more Takeshi criticised and pushed him, the more Eiji grew determined which won over Takeshi's respect quite quickly as he saw him as hard-working. Eiji and Takeshi have a noticeably more professional relationship than Takeshi eventually develops with Otoya, where both have a great amount of respect for the other. That being said, Takeshi is still protective of him like he is with Otoya, such as confronting the crazy fan who tried leading Eiji offstage. Eiji is sometimes the mediator between Takeshi and Otoya when Takeshi gets irritated towards Otoya.

Reiji Kotobuki
Contrary to what people would think, Takeshi and Reiji are actually good friends. Although Takeshi mentions that he could do without Reiji's habit of giving "childish" nicknames. Reiji had known of Takeshi back in his academy days as Takeshi was already an idol at that point, and someone most trainees and aspiring idols looked up to and admired. Reiji and Takeshi are seen quite a lot in each other's company and communicate often - Reiji commenting how adorable Takeshi's kouhai are, while Takeshi notes that Reiji seems to have little problem with Tokiya. When asked how the two became friends, Reiji responds that it's because the two of them have surprisingly similar experiences despite their differing personalities. At times, Reiji gives Takeshi bento from his family restaurant, which Takeshi appreciates.

Hirota Shirahata
Out of all his fellow members in RAMPANT:Code, Takeshi is closest to Hirota to the point they're both on a first-name basis. Hirota has nothing but respect for his leader and Takeshi reciprocates this respect, appreciating Hirota's steadfastness and reliability. That being said, Hirota does feel concern when it comes to Takeshi's health, physical and mental, and gives calm yet gentle urges to take care of himself. Besides Juri and Reiji, Hirota is the next person that Takeshi would be seen hanging out with when he's off from his work. Takeshi has noted a few times in his private logs that should he ever step down from being the leader of RAMPANT:Code, whether it's from him retiring from idolhood or moving on to being full professional, Hirota would be the one to take his place.

Trivia

 * Takeshi is the oldest active idol to date at age 32.
 * His designated theme colour is black.  However, it’s represented by a silver light in glowstick merchandise.
 * His QUARTET NIGHT counterpart is Reiji Kotobuki.
 * He has a noticeable dislike towards the tambourine.
 * Despite his strength and athleticism, Takeshi doesn’t like ball sports, including ping-pong, due to the fact that he gets hit often by the ball.
 * Takeshi has stated that his favourite type of manga and anime was action. Judging from his kouhai's faces though, he seems to enjoy particularly violent manga and anime.  However, he's more open to other genres and has been seen reading a shoujo manga at one point.
 * Due to his geeky likes, Takeshi sometimes makes references to other known media such as Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Ghost in the Shell.
 * People have noted a lot of similarities between him and Tokiya Ichinose.
 * His hometown is Kagoshima prefecture.
 * His hobby is drawing.
 * When created, the utaite in mind for him was SquaDus.