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Character Name: Kanade Tachibana
(Her nickname "Tenshi" is given by Yuri of the Afterlife Battlefront, when the group didn't know of her actual name.)
Character Series: Angel Beats!
Character Age: Unspecified, but probably about fourteen or so physically.
She was at least in high school but short enough for her age to pass as a junior high school student. She's already dead and came from a high school set in an afterlife where she's unable to age.
Name in Mayfield: Kanade Uchiha (previous stay), Kanade Denmouth (curent stay)
Residency: 1251 Williams Road (previous stay), 2236 Stevens Road (current stay)
Background: Angel Beats! Wiki
Personality:
As Otonashi describes her, Kanade is awkward. Ridiculously awkward. And even she agrees with him.
Despite being a human being, her outward expression is difficult to read, making herself seem robotic with the lack of emotion. Even in the midst of battle, she rarely flinches upon receiving a hit. When speaking, she's blunt and uses very little words. She purposely doesn't convey her messages clearly and avoids going for a straightforward approach, either assuming or waiting for others to come to understand her eventually. This kind of behavior may be ineffective and a bad communication method with people that most often leads to misunderstandings. It's unknown on how many years Kanade stayed in the afterlife, but even a small misunderstanding of her beliefs led to a war between herself and the Afterlife Battlefront.
Her lack of emotion is only seen in her outward expression, but she will display concern by comforting others through reassuring words or stroking their hair.
However, Kanade's robot-like behavior is only the personality she maintains while she has duties to be concerned about. She is capable of expressing her human emotions as long as she feels completely free of concerns. She still isn't as talkative, but she can smile, skip, and even hum her favorite tune.
When it comes to Kanade's goals and beliefs, she is highly devoted and would do her best to maintain a high reputation to influence others such as rising to become student council president of her school. What she desires for everyone is to live a fulfilling life and find inner peace while following the rules of society. When order is disrupted, she wastes no time in going to another one's aid and trying to set things right. She isn't aggressive and only uses force when necessary to lead people on to what she believes is the proper path. She prefers giving warnings and avoiding needless violence as much as possible. However, she only acts depending on what "role" she's given and if another individual gives her orders to comply to. For example, when she was stripped of the role as a student council president and a model student, she backed down from keeping order in the world because she no longer had high influence on others. Kanade had temporarily become an average student and had to rely on Otonashi on what she wanted to do. The only thing that can make her stray from her focus is mapo tofu, her favorite food.
She can be very civil and cooperative. Her answers come out truthful and brief. Even if she doesn't know something, she'll honestly reply that she doesn't know. She's a good listener, often taking in opinions and suggestions that she finds beneficial to herself and others. Whenever she develops something new, she would ask where it's good or not. When Otonashi suggested that she should have wings to appear more angelic, she gave it some thought and created wings for herself in the end.
Although very little is known about her past, Kanade gives the impression of the kind of girl that rarely goes out to do activities with friends. She expresses interest in learning new activities, but she's also the type that waits to be invited instead of asking to join in on the fun. She's very inquisitive, always asking whether she's doing something right or not while she's learning. She also seems to take joy in activities that involve writing and art. Kanade isn't the best at it, but she takes a lot of pride in all the effort she puts in her work.
Abilities:
Kanade's abilities were developed by a software called Angel Player. Her abilities are voice-activated and appear as a series of floating white zeros and ones before completely taking shape. Most of the following information is taken from the Angel Beats! Wiki. The website also has images on how her weapons and attacks appear.
☑ Hand Sonic: Calls forth a blade or a pair of blades from each of her wrists. The blades are strong enough to slice through steel. They come in several different forms.
☑ Hand Sonic (Version One): Has a shape of a long sword.
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☐ Hand Sonic (Version Two): A longer sword than version one with a curved-diamond shape on the tip.
☐ Hand Sonic (Version Three): Shaped like a sai.
☐ Hand Sonic (Version Four): A large mace shaped like a lotus flower. Kanade created this version as an attempt to make her weapons look "cuter".
☐ Hand Sonic (Version Five): Blades shaped like a pair of pincers. Since Kanade was being viewed as "evil" by the others, she attempted to make a weapon with a more "evil" appearance.
☐ Distortion: Repels projectiles and bullets by creating an invisible shield around her.
☐ Delay: Creates a sort of afterimage for close range. It is effective in dodging melee attacks by confusing the enemy into attacking elsewhere.
☐ Harmonics: Makes a clone of herself which is identical to her except the clone has blood-red eyes. Clones created through this ability has their own consciousness and has all the abilities of the original - including Harmonics itself. This ability is apparently sightly glitched, as her clones was shown to rebel against her to the extent of almost killing her.
☐ Absorb: A "hidden ability" which acts as the reverse of Harmonics. It allows the reintegration of clones created through Harmonics into the original's body. This, however, poses some risks as Harmonics clones also possess their own consciousness. This ability is connected to Harmonics using a command called timewait, which is simply a wait command which delays the execution of this ability. This ability was created by Yuri as method of dealing with the Harmonics clones.
☑ Overdrive: A passive ability that gives her superhuman strength. In the series, it's shown that Kanade is capable of jumping at great lengths, slicing objects, and lifting heavy objects with ease. She's also shown in the first episode that she's capable of ejecting bullets from her body.
LOSS - Memory of freeing herself from her regrets by thanking Otonashi.
☐ Howling: Emits powerful high-frequency, high-amplitude soundwaves from crossed Hand Sonic blades, meant to make an enemy faint. Created by one of the Harmonics clones.
☐ Angel Wings: Sprouts wings from her back that, while they don't enable her to fly, can be used to slow descent and let her survive drops such as jumping from the roof of a building. However, this technique seems to only be a decoration, as one of the Harmonics clones has shown the ability to jump from the rooftop to the schoolyard with ease. This is an unnamed ability and doesn't need to be called out to activate.
☐ Energy Blast: This is another unnamed technique produces a blue explosion that is shot out of her back in a vaguely angel wing shaped blast. It was stated to be as powerful as a bomb by Naoi, after it demolished a mass of Shadows.