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Tsunayoshi Sawada | Katekyo Hitman Reborn | Reserved 1/4
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Character
Name: Tsunayoshi Sawada
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Gender: M
Age: 14
Time Period: End of the manga, after the Curse of the Rainbow story arc.
Wing Color: Flame colored. That is to say, shades of orange and yellow.
History: Here and here.
Tsunayoshi Sawada | Katekyo Hitman Reborn | Reserved 2/4
Tsuna is the shounen hero who would immediately be aghast at having to do something actually heroic. Then, after much fuss, he'd fail the first test. And yet somehow, he'd still save the day and have absolutely no clue as to how he did it. Afterward, he'd insist vehemently that no one ever put him up to such tasks again, only to be promptly pulled into the same situation with exactly the same results—or better.
But he still wouldn't have a clue as to how or why.
And this pretty much sums up not only the events of his life, but also his attitude towards things.
-Reborn
The first time you see Tsuna, he's getting hit in the face with a basketball. Like a loser. It's an occurrence that is all too common in his life. He even has a nickname to go with it: No-Good Tsuna. Toss him a can of soda and he misses the catch. Save him from a giant turtle attack and he trips after he's saved and ends up in the hospital with a broken leg. What luck, you say? What luck, indeed. He has none of it. He's no good at school; no good at sports; no good at life. And he candidly admits it. Tsuna sees himself as a loser. He acts like a loser, so everyone around him treats him like one. They don't expect anything from him and he doesn't expect anything from himself either. He doesn't seem to mind it much.
But who's to say most (if not all) kids his age aren't losers? Being a loser actually means he's more normal than most of the people he knows.
In any case, despite his incredibly bad luck, trusty incompetence, and general clumsiness, he's a typical teenage boy. He acts goofy around the girl he likes. He likes to slack off. His room is a mess because he thinks cleaning up is troublesome. He'd rather play games or read comic books than study.
Teenagers are all about their public image, and Tsuna's no different. He wants to maintain his public imagine, too—even if it's that of a loser. But y'know, he's a normal loser! Not a weird loser. And that makes all the difference to him. His weird friends and family more often than not embarrass him, and there are a few instances in the canon where he wishes he were anywhere else, or he pretends to not be associated with these weirdos. What Tsuna wants to be is Mild-Mannered Loser Tsuna, who minds his own business, and not Superloser Tsuna, who's involved in troublesome world-saving affairs. Or even worse, troublesome attention-catching affairs.
-Fuuta
Wanting to maintain his status as a normal loser is not much of an ambition, if you can even call it that. That's because Tsuna doesn't seem to have much ambition in the first place. He doesn't want to grow up rich or to do anything astounding. He doesn't particularly want to grow up to be anything at all, really—and he certainly doesn't want to be a mafia boss, god forbid!
At first Tsuna only goes to school so he can catch glimpses of his crush, Kyōko Sasagawa. No, really, that's the only reason. In one chapter, he notices she's not at school and decides to cut, because what's the point if he can't see her? Later on Tsuna goes to school because it's fun and he has friends—but he still doesn't care about learning or studying. His incentive to study is zero and he remains mediocre at everything. In all of Tsuna's life, he has never scored 100% on any test. He's flunked every test since his enrollment. He takes supplementary classes for art. Art. He also takes supplementary classes for just about everything else. What else is there to do for someone like him except to float aimlessly through life and eventually become a lowly salaryman? At least, that's the way he looks at it.
-Tsuna
He's not ambitious, but that doesn't mean he doesn't strive for anything. He didn't at first, but this changed. Throughout the series—right until the very end of it—you see him striving to protect his family and friends. His resolve to protect shapes him into becoming a stronger person. Above all else, Tsuna is an extremely kind boy and a good person. Wimpy, yes, but his inability to turn down requests shows his inherently kind nature. (It also shows that he's a terrible pushover and a doormat, but that's because he's too nice sometimes. And because he's a wimp, but we've already established that.)
In any dangerous situation, even when he's scared for his life, his first priority is to protect the people he cares about. On his own, Tsuna's first instinct is flight rather than fight, but put him in a situation where his loved ones are in danger and he'll fight with all of his will—his dying will, his living will, his everything to protect them. To him, no one person is any more important than the next. For example: when Kyōko, his crush, and Haru Miura, one of his more wacky and troublesome friends, are poisoned and Tsuna only has enough antidote for one of them, he decides "it would be just as bad no matter who died!" Later, he lets himself get beaten up and even goes so far as to agree to stab himself for their sake. If anything, this protective trait makes him a brave coward. The thought of stabbing himself utterly terrifies him, but it is not a task he's willing to ask his friends to do for him. Not when they have already tried to protect him numerous times before. In a nightmare situation, Tsuna shows he can rise to the challenge.
This kindness is in no way limited to only those he cares about. He's just as soft-hearted and forgiving when it comes to his enemies. During the Kokuyo arc, he worries over his enemy's subordinates. Even though Tsuna claims he doesn't want to lose to Mukuro Rokudō because of his cruel disregard for his own men, Tsuna shows concern for Mukuro's life at the end of the battle.
When Tsuna's in this protective mode, he's more serious than ever. He has a calm wariness to him and he's concentrated on his resolve to protect. His eyes become sharp, focused at half-mast. He stands firm and ready. He is quite different from the usually wide-eyed and clumsy Tsuna, who generally hunches over in fright or shies away from trouble.
-Tsuna
Although Tsuna willingly fights to protect his friends and family, he dislikes violence. And with it, he dislikes the mafia. He's extremely unwilling to have anything to do with the mafia. Tsuna fights for his friends so they can live their lives peacefully, having snowball fights or just hanging out together. He doesn't want to complicate things or put anyone in danger by having the mafia involved. His reaction to Reborn's insistence that he become the next Vongola head is DENIAL, DENIAL, REFUSAL, DENIAL. When it comes to his aversion to mafia business, he's very frank about his thoughts on the matter—not that it helps much since no one ever listens. Jerks.
Tsuna's the type of person who wants to pass on anything weird/dangerous/abnormal/embarrassing/mafia (which is a adjective in this case) in life. He would take an indefinite rain check for all of those if he could. Unfortunately enough, most of the people in his life are weird/dangerous/abnormal/embarrassing/mafia. When he's forced to deal with these things, he complains and moans about his unlucky life. Usually Reborn quickly shuts him up with a brutal kick to the face. A typical day features Tsuna making horrified faces at the crazy shenanigans that come his way. This makes him appear very high-strung to onlookers. It's quite common to see him screech out "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" when faced with something overly bizarre or horrifying. (Note: not /hi/ like the greeting, but pronounced as a stretched /hee/, a squeak of absolute fear and horror.) There are also times when he accidentally lashes out at his friends in his irritation, but he always apologizes afterward.
At the same time, Tsuna also admires his weird friends. They all have something they want to work towards and accomplish. They all try their best even if by doing so they cause problems for him. He gets irritated at times, but he really does marvel over how great they are as friends. He's incredibly proud of his friends, especially Hayato Gokudera and Takeshi Yamamoto. They inspire him to try harder as a person, and they make him feel like he's not such a loser after all.
As stated previously, Tsuna doesn't aspire to become anything, and he doesn't seem to mind being a loser. While that's not necessarily wrong, it's not the full story either. When Tsuna was a child, he expressed the desire to change. Even then, he thought of himself as a useless person. He wrote in his report that he wanted to change and to become a giant robot when he grew up. Giant robots are typically heroic symbols for children. In a way, this symbolizes his desire to become a hero of sorts.
Along the way, however, Tsuna forgot that people could change and sunk into the false comfort of constant uselessness. When Reborn and his friends enter his life, Tsuna begins to change unconsciously. He's still changing now and for the better. This change means he's learning how to truly accept and be himself, which sometimes means being a loser and a klutz and a no-good student, but at other times means being a protector and a friend (even if his friends drive him insane). It doesn't mean he wants to be a hero, though admittedly that would be nice. Tsuna's not a hero. But he'll do a heroic deed without thinking anything of it. He's just stupidly humble like that.
(Not to mention, Tsuna is also stupidly oblivious in the strangest ways. He can see through all of Reborn's disguises, but he still can't indentify who adult Reborn is.)
-Tsuna
When Dino first meets Tsuna, he says that he doesn't seem ambitious. "You look unlucky, too," he adds, "Your disposition to be a boss is zero." Well, he's still not ambitious and he's still plenty unlucky. But Tsuna is beginning to shape up to be the kind of boss Vongola needs, though good luck getting him to realize it. Tsuna used to correct Reborn for calling his friends his Family (specifically Famiglia). He would always insist: "They're not my Family, they're my friends…" If anything shows Tsuna's growth throughout the series, it's the moment he admits to Gokudera and Yamamoto that he thinks of them as family. Not quite in the way Reborn wants it to mean, but it doesn't make Tsuna's dedication and loyalty to his family any less fierce. He'll never abandon them and he's already the kind of boss that will die for them. His trust in his family and allies is absolute.
Tsunayoshi Sawada | Katekyo Hitman Reborn | Reserved 3/4
-Tsuna's able to use the Dying Will flame, which enhances his physical and mental strength. Dying Will gives Tsuna a great boost in confidence. It also makes him faster, stronger, and more resilient. For example, even if he's beaten until his body can barely move, he will still get up and fight because the Dying Will flame will push his body past its limits. Or despite its limits. It manifests as a small flame on his head and has many modes. Tsuna has gone through all modes during the course of the series. He has a pair of mittens that turn into fighting gloves when he goes into Hyper Dying Will mode and with it, he can perform various attacks. His attacks are extremely powerful, often resulting in huge craters or damage to the surrounding environment. His gloves also allow him to fly and hover in the air because of the flames they create.
-His Hyper Intuition power is a part of his bloodline. Reborn describes it as the ability to "see through" others. In this case, "to see" means "to know instinctively" as well. Hyper Intuition allows him to sense danger. In the Kokuyo arc, it lets him see through Mukuro's illusion. It also instinctively leads him to strike directly at a nerve to paralyze his opponent. Hyper Intuition is not all-seeing, however, and Tsuna has been fooled a couple of times despite it.
-He's tough like a weed. Even without his Dying Will, Tsuna gets beaten up all the time (usually by Reborn) and he still gets back up and walks around almost like nothing's wrong. Of course, he's in a lot of pain, yes, but he's only human! Give him a break. At least he's walking.
-Tsuna is stubborn when he wants to be. If he sets his mind on something, he'll see it all the way though. There are just some things he is absolutely sure about, especially when it comes to his family or his allies. He's shown "a face that has no intention of losing" when the chances of winning were worse than zero. His resolve to protect those around him is just that strong.
-Although he appears badass at times (but don't tell him that, he won't believe you), there are still a few loser techniques he relies on. The most common one is the Toilet Escape. When he wants to get out of an awkward situation, he pretends to go to the bathroom, and runs away. A variation of this technique is his Nurse's Office Escape.
Weaknesses:
-He's short. And thin. He's gotten stronger since his training with Reborn, but without his Dying Will, he's probably still average. According to Fuuta, his sprinting speed is ranked last place. His leg strength and endurance are just about the same. He still can't do sports, even if he's really good at fighting with his Dying Will. It's said that the sports team he's on will lose. (And sure enough, they do.)
-Not to mention, he's extremely clumsy. Tsuna often trips over himself and fall down stairs. When he was a kid, he accidentally got a bean stuck up his nose and had to go to the hospital.
-He's book-dumb. Supplementary lessons in art, remember. He doesn't even know what a leap year is. Potential leadership skills, yes. Potential problem solving skills (of the math sense), no. In fact, he sucks at his 7s times tables. In the final chapter, this is how he translates a sentence into Japanese: "The… cat is… growing… from the dog?"
-Tsuna lacks self-confidence. There are numerous instances where he claims how impossible it is for someone like him to do this or that in the Daily arc. He's more confident now compared to before, it is still now much. To be honest, he's 100% more confident in his friends. Dying Will has let him discover better parts of himself, but he's still in the process of finding out more.
-He's a doormat. It's hard for him to turn down requests, either due to his kind nature or his fear of the other person. Fuuta ranked him as first place in his inability to turn down requests.
-His Family is at once his strength and his weakness. He'll surpass himself for them, but he will also submit to hurting himself for them if he has to. Tsuna will willingly die for them, no questions asked. He'll take the short term consequences if it means his Family's chances of survival will be better in the end. In the Varia arc, he pleads with Gokudera to escape and lose rather than win and die. When Gokudera comes out alive, Tsuna sinks to his knees and thanks him, saying he's so glad to have him back.
-Tsuna has a very strained relationship with his father. If there are any dark spots in his life, it would be this. In Tsuna's own words, he considers his father "an embarrassment of a man." He was never there for Tsuna or his mother, and Tsuna resents him for it. He also resents the man for being better and stronger than him despite being just as much of a no-good loser as Tsuna is. He doesn't respect the type of man his father is and he doesn't want to acknowledge him. When his father comments that fighting Tsuna is boring, it unsettles Tsuna so much his Dying Will fizzles out and he drops his fighting stance. His father's disregard affects him deeply and their relationship explores a more complex and vulnerable side of Tsuna that's not seen much in the series. Faced with his father, Tsuna either becomes incensed or shaken, momentarily losing his focus.
-Can't drink coffee; scared of moths; can't sleep in the dark; gets seasick. These are all embarrassing secrets revealed in the Daily arc.
Tsunayoshi Sawada | Katekyo Hitman Reborn | Reserved 4/4
First Person:
H-hello? Hello?? [Tsuna looks frantic in his snapshot, brows knitted and face pressed close to the screen. His voice comes out a little rushed and breathless.] Hey, Reborn? Gokudera-kun? Yamamoto?! Is there anyone out there at all!!!
[With each name, his voice rises in pitch until the last bit comes out as a desperate yell.]
What the heck is going on… Argh, I told Reborn I didn't want to be the Neo Vongola whatever and look what he does!! Don't tell me this is another one of his random tests… Man...
[He starts pressing random buttons, hoping to click on an SOS button. Or an emergency escape button. Or anything helpful, anything at all.]
What's with this thing anyway? What does this do—Ah! I can write with this I think? I hope so…
[He switches to TEXT. His writing comes out wobbly and messy, as if his hand's not used to writing in such a language. But he's too upset to notice anything wrong with it.]
PLEASE HELP ME.
I'M LOST IN THE WOODS.
ALSO I HAVE WINGS SOMEHOW? AM I DEAD.
IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING, PLEASE ANSWER ASAP.
SOS. SOS.
(OOC: if this sample doesn't work, then Q&A please!)
Third Person:
Tsuna wakes when he hits the ground with a thump, having fallen ungracefully out of a tree.
"Augh, wha—ouch…!" He grits his teeth and blinks blearily, awake but in pain. His right shoulder throbs dully from where he'd landed on it. With his tremendous luck (sarcasm, ha…), he'll probably have one nasty bruise there to remember the occasion by.
A part of him thinks that it's okay; the fall wasn't bad; he's had worse. Especially from his own home tutor. Another part thinks oh, god, is he actually getting used to this mafia thing? Darn that Reborn!
He hisses a breath and shakes his head, slowly climbing to his knees. No, no, nonono. He's not used to this at all. Falling out of a tree hurts! Who in the world is used to falling out of trees anyway—wait.
Tsuna blinks and looks up. Yes, trees. He squints. Maybe—no, they were definitely trees. So he's—he's in the woods? But, no, this doesn't make any sense.
"Where…" He stops. Then again, he reflects, it's happened before. Kind of. On the bright side, he didn't wake up in a strange coffin in the middle of the woods this time. Ten years into the future. This makes his situation now—dubiously—a big plus. (Okay, so he's not too sure about the not-the-future-yay part, but he's hoping. He's hoping.)
"Aha… I-I bet this is one of Reborn's torturous training exercises," he mutters darkly, shuddering in advance. And then shuddering again when he realizes he doesn’t have a shirt on. "EH??" he screeches, crossing his arms over his chest protectively. "Why am I naked?! What's going—oh, oh… Wait… Ah…"
Well, he still has his pants. This is good.
He fumbles around with one hand, patting down the grassy area beside him as if doing so will make his shirt appear. Or make Reborn pop out. It's a sad day in the life of a regular ol' middle school student when a baby magically popping out of the grass is more likely than a shirt being found. But Tsuna finds himself with nothing more than a handful of grass and a bad feeling in his stomach. He doesn't exactly understand why though. The trees don't look dangerous. The more he studies them, however, the more dangerous they begin to appear. Like man-eating trees. Or boy-eating trees. He gulps and crosses his arms over his chest again, hunching into himself to ward off the cold and the nervousness.
Tsuna feels it then. A slight brush of something unfamiliar at his upper-arms. He stills. And then slowly, oh-so slowly, turns to look.
"H-hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?! Why do I have wings?!"
—Oh. Oh, no. It figures this would happen the one time he wakes up in something other than a coffin.
"I don't believe this," he says, voice squeaky and faint with disbelief. "I'm finally dead, aren't I."
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