🥊 What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

When he was twelve, Tsukasa's sister Mirai entered a coma. His family was poor, and the doctors didn't think she would improve. Not only would no one help them, but a man even beat him senseless for 'stealing' seashells to make his sister a necklace. His parents didn't handle it well, not even their own lives. The world was full of cruel, selfish people (older people) who cared more about money than people. The only person who could—who would—help Mirai was him.

Tsukasa learned mixed martial arts and entered competitions (and cage fights) near immediately. People laughed at first. They weren't laughing long. He won championships. He took sponsorships. He became a celebrity. He did tv shows (he fought a gorilla even). What didn't matter to him, so long as he made enough money to support his sister's medical care until a time she could be healed. For six years, everyone told him it was hopeless, but he refused to give up hope.

In the end, he was proven right, and it was all worth it. All the time. The lack of friends. The stunts. The attention. Even a truce with Senku.

🥊 What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?

Tsukasa has a strong moral code, a sense of right or wrong, rooted in religious upbringing. Some of it is simple: killing is wrong, except in self-defense. Even then, the other side must be honored and handled honorably. With animals, this means using every part of it. With people, that means respecting the dead and seeing the injured treated, whatever side they are on. That comes with the caveat of being an active threat, naturally, but it's an overall philosophy.

He's forgiving of others—advocating for Hyoga to join their fighting team, even after Hyoga betrayed him and tried to murder him—when they show remorse or can be brought around. He's not naive, unlike certain scientists. He keeps an eye on anyone whose alliance may be temporary or attitude an act. However, he's less forgiving of himself. Tsukasa insists on his need to atone for his crimes (attempted murder via damaging statues) and would have accepted any punishment handed out. He still feels the need to atone for his sins.

🥊 What are your characters dreams and nightmares? Do you believe they are more likely to obtain one rather than the other?

Tsukasa's dreams (and more aptly, his nightmares) are about society, rather than his personal fate. He finds the old world order of capitalism morally unambiguously wrong. An impure world not only in action but the very state of the world and its exploitation and pollution. His nightmare is a return to that world. That rooted his initial opposition to Senku and the kingdom of science. Science developed terrible weapons of war, weapons of mass destruction, and the worst acts in human history. It also had been funneled to support the rich and the powerful, at the expense of the masses and the planet. That must be avoided. He was willing to do evil acts and bear the weight of that sin to prevent the greater horror.

While he has been brought around on rebuilding society with technology, he remains staunchly devoted to his self-appointed mission to ensure the world remains pure and ethical. Should he see the roots of corruption and exploitation, he'll put a stop to it. (In fact, that was why people worked hard to keep him apart from Ryusui for a while). The world has already started toward his dream of a morally pure world, not exploiting the innocents. Every step forward, it becomes more likely that Tsukasa shall see that dream come true, but he'll never relax so fully as to lose it.

🥊 What is a time where your character failed drastically at something and how did it impact them, what did they do about it?

Technically, Tsukasa did not know whether or not he failed to kill Senku. Senku certainly appeared to die, but as with the rules around tv shows, no body, no proof. It was possible he had failed (and indeed he had). Even without knowing for certain, he specifically revived Gen Asigiri, a mentalist, in order to determine whether Senku lived and to infiltrate his camp, should he. Admittedly, that was an even larger and more drastic failure—Gen immediately sided with Senku and played a crucial role in bringing down the Tsukasa Empire. In fact, he even told Gen he considered that his greatest error for some time. After all, it saw his defeat and opened the path to a corrupt world. Yet in the end both failures were for the greater good. Tsukasa recognizes them as such.

He can fail drastically, and it can be a good thing.

Tsukasa recognizes the difference between that kind of failure and those that need to be learned from. He promised Senku and Taiju they would never be in danger when he was around, yet he became the danger to them. Hyoga's betrayal showed him how clear and wrong a failure it was to keep that promise. As such, even when mortally wounded, he fought Hyoga with Senku. After his life was saved, he honored that promise.