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Tatenashi Sarashiki is a character from the IS:Infinite Stratos anime and novels.
Tatenashi is the Student Council President of the IS Academy and the older sister of Kanzashi.
In the AWA fics, Tatenashi is a student at the AWA Academy.
In the XP4 fics, Tatenashi debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Infinite Stratos.
Appearance[]
Tatenashi has short light blue hair, dark red eyes and a voluptuous figure, with slender thighs and large breasts. Her IS Academyuniform consists of the typical white and red blouse, but hers is shorter compared to others, with a yellow tie, and a pale green overcoat around it, along with red leggings.
She is also known to dress scantily in front of Ichika just to see his reactions, which she finds 'cute' (e.g wearing only panties with a simple white shirt or a 'naked apron' although she did wear a swimsuit underneath).
She usually has blue fans with her that display kanji that indicate what she is going to do or what she is talking about. Her IS suit is dark blue.
Personality[]
In the light novel, she is said to have very high standards due to her prestigious family, where everything must be done perfectly.
Despite that, she has, as Ichika puts it, "a wild or rather whimsical personality with slight cat-like mischief."
She enjoys teasing people (her unfortunate victims are mostly Ichika and Laura). Despite her tendency to tease others, Tatenashi has also shown moments of being flustered, mostly as a result of her feelings for Ichika.
She is very charismatic and a natural leader, easily earning the respect from most of the students at the academy.
Her teasing includes appearing before Ichika half naked or even asking him to undress her. She often does both when she has him give her a massage, after which she teases him about him enjoying it. Tatenashi also teases Houki about how Houki's breasts are as big as her own. She seem to have stopped teasing Ichika on the subject, ever since she realized her feelings for him. She even gets clearly angry with him whenever she sees him looking at other girls' bodies. She still enjoys teasing girls on the subject and putting them in embarrassing situations, such as the Live Cosplay Changing Race.
She does have a serious side, though she tends to talk playfully even when serious, so it can be difficult to determine just how seriously she is taking things. Tatenashi takes failing rather hard, due to the fact she has many titles and positions (Student Council President, Sarashiki family head, and IS Representative of Russia).
She is also a little insecure when it comes to her sister, as she wants to help/support her, but they do not get along with each other, due to their competitive natures - a holdover from their childhood. This is one of the few topics where she shows a gloomy side instead of her normal cheerfulness.
Despite all of the advances she made on Ichika, and joking she could fall in love with him (which ends up happening), Tatenashi is actually quite innocent when it comes to being in love herself. Having never been in love before, she found herself being unable to control her new found feelings. This resulted in her becoming very nervous and overly-conscious around Ichika, displaying none of her usual confidence or playfulness that she would before. This sudden change made it easy for others to notice her new found love for Ichika.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Tatenashi is part of the Heroes Coalitions as a Solo Hero. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Infinite Stratos[]
In Chapter 9, Tatenashi took part in facing the IS Golems and the Emotionless in the arena of the IS Academy.
In Chapter 10, Tatenashi took part in defeating Autumn, the Emotionless and the IS Droids in the arena of the IS Academy, and later witnessed Autumn disappearing into a portal, much to their shock and confusion.
In Chapter 11, Tatenashi took part in a party somewhere in the IS Academy where it was announced that the Heroes Coalitions & the IS Academy had form an alliance, much to everyone's joy and delight.
Abilities[]
As the head of a secret organization and the current IS Representative of Russia, she is implied to be exceptionally skilled in many areas related to IS and other skills related to fighting. She's been consider a prodigy even by her family standards ever since she was a child. She is known to be talented in judo, as she knocked Ichika out during their first fight (Ichika stopped counting and passed out after being thrown around 9 times). She apparently has developed a knack for unlocking Ichika's room lock (much to his chagrin). Outside of her combat skills, she is very cunning and intelligent in many fields. She usually puts her wits to work by managing the students at IS Academy while keeping Ichika close to her. She likewise said to be very skilled at almost everything she does, including cooking.
Furthermore, the title of the President of Student Council goes to the most proficient student, thus explaining why she is the SC President even though she is a second year student. She has more than once defended her right to the position by easily defeating all of her opponents. However, her overconfident in being the strongest student at the academy can cause her to leave herself open to dangers and counter attack, and as a result, she gets injured when she could have avoided it by being more careful.
Her personal IS is the 3rd Generation Type, Mysterious Lady. The Mysterious Lady's exoskeleton is mostly parts of the leg, with only a few parts above the waist. It uses a large lance, and controls a special type of water that can charge the lance with power, create a fake, block strong attacks, turn into mist and explode.
Trivia[]
- She holds the unofficial record of making Ichika get a nosebleed when she makes him massage her. Ironically, after falling for him herself, Tatenashi end up having nosebleeds when she imagined being in a relationship with Ichika.
- Tatenashi is Ichika's third female roommate in Room 1025.
- In the Light Novel and World-Purge OVA, she revealed her real name to be "Katana" to Ichika. Stating that the eldest child and head of the Sarashiki family must take the name 'Tatenashi'. Her real name is not suppose to be known to anyone but her family and that telling it to someone of the opposite sex is consider a sign of affection in her family. Because of this, she began thinking of making Ichika marry her someday.
- Tatenashi has many similarities to Tabane: Both are respected geniuses in their fields, both are very cheerful and playful and somewhat lecherous. Both of them have younger sisters whom they love and care about but who feel inferior to their elders and started to avoid them as a result (this problem has been solve in Tatenashi's case). The main difference between the two is that Tatenashi has no problem talking to and being with to other people while Tabane doesn't really care about many people.
- Outside the IS universe, Tatenashi is extremely similar to Chō'un Shiryū from Koihime†Musō in both physical appearance and personality (both have short light-blue hair, red-shade eyes; both are top-tier fighters—both are lancers, as a matter of fact—with intellect to match; and both are always calm, playful, and often quite perverted). It is possible that Tatenashi is based on Chō'un, as IS came out 2 years after the release of Koihime.
- She has a similar appearance to Sen Yarizui from "Ben-To."
- She also has a similar appearance to Ruka Suirenji from Hayate no Gotoku.
- She has the same birthday with Chifuyu Orimura.
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