▹ Tachihara Michizo ⧎

✒️ Regardless of who he is working for, Tachihara cares deeply for his comrades. He was first to try to stop Higuchi when she tried to save Akutagawa on her own and has been seen visibly harboring guilt for when he cut down Hirotsu and Gin for the sake of his mission as a spy. He has also been seen caring for Teruko when she showed she was heavily injured from going against a plane head-on. He's also notably patient with those who are spoiled, including letting Teruko sit on his shoulders with little protests of being his "slave" and letting Elise put a bow on his head.

✒️ Beneath a lot of Tachihara's rough and punk-like exterior is a strong sense of incompetency and inferiority compared to his older brother who was praised as being "perfect" while he was deemed by his family as being inferior, even being questioned as to why he didn't die instead of him. These things have driven Tachihara to act out and live a life of delinquency and ruthlessness by affiliating with gang activity, but despite these things, he still couldn't shake off these negative feelings. His insecurity and desperation to escape his brother's shadow was so strong, that Tachihara took on the first "order" that allowed him to become someone "not like his brother or his opposite" and joined the Hunting Dogs and infiltrate the Mafia to get revenge on Yosano for "killing" his brother, even when he knew and acknowledged that all of it was an excuse to appease his own negative feelings.

✒️ On the surface, Tachihara is an arrogant, impulsive, rash individual, more than willing to solve problems through sheer brute force and his dual guns. A violent temper leads to frequent conflict between him and other mafiosi, namely Gin, whom Tachihara views as creepy and frequently insults, leading to arguments, and Hirotsu, who often shuts Tachihara's temper down by threatening him. Tachihara's self-preservation prompts him to obey Hirotsu in the end, albeit reluctantly.

✒️ An apparent thirst for battle and arrogance fuels Tachihara's temper. He's often seen with a rather feral smile on his face whenever fighting. He seldom considers the weight of a mission over the rush of eliminating his targets. He shows no hesitation nor remorse in murder, in fact sometimes urging to just eliminate a troublesome person if he finds their baggage more than they're worth.

✒️ His rebellious side doesn't negate how he values orders, seeing them as an utmost system. Due to this, he attempts to dissuade Higuchi from saving Akutagawa against Mori's orders, even suggesting an alternate plan that wouldn't disobey these orders. Furthermore, he maintains his composure when dragged into shopping with Elise, and tolerates her putting bows in his hair. Despite guards laughing at him, Tachihara doesn't snap.

✒️ Despite his rough exterior, Tachihara is capable of thinking rationally, just not in the heat of the moment in the Port Mafia. He can recognize danger quickly and finds himself on edge over how nonchalant Mori, Kōyō, and Chūya's meeting went. Tachihara has a proficient understanding of how to deal with the enemy, alluding to a much more cunning side of his true nature.

✒️ Much of Tachihara's details of joining the Port Mafia are unknown, however, it is a ruse. His identity as the fifth Hunting Dog reveals a much more clever, driven man. Unlike Ango Sakaguchi, Tachihara always intended to infiltrate the Port Mafia, using his position in the Hunting Dogs to operate as a spy.

✒️ 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙮 ➣ Tachihara is a slightly imposing young man with short, spiky hair dyed rust red and amber eyes. He wears a plaster on the bridge of his nose. His natural hair color is black.

✒️ 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 ➣ His normal outfit consists of a long-sleeved and rather baggy white V-neck shirt with the border being black and the left sleeve rolled up so it isn't visible. This shirt is partially covered by a military green crop jacket that has beige fur around the collar. Underneath, he wears a gun strap for his dual guns. He also wears dark blue pants, brown boots, and a black band on his left wrist.

𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 :

｟ 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰 ｠ ｟ 真冬のかたみ,, Mafuyu no Katami ｠

✒️ Grants Tachihara ferrokinesis, the ability to manipulate metal. It allows Tachihara to remotely control any metal object, mainly his Hunting Dogs blade and his guns. His prowess can even move a mannequin-like a human, and the weapons he controls all float. It has also been mentioned by Teruko that his Ability is useful for stealing, altering information, and also for assassination, which makes him someone who is "born to be a spy".

𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙎 : ✒ Physical Prowess ➣ As a member of the Hunting Dogs, Tachihara underwent a light enhancement surgery. As such, he can take damages with little injuries including an explosion from RDG1800.

✒ Safe-cracking ➣ Tachihara is seen to have known how to crack safes during his criminal life. This resulted to him being recruited to the Hunting Dogs.

✒ Michizō Tachihara (立原道造, たちはらみちぞう,, Tachihara Michizō) is the fifth and final member of the Hunting Dogs special units, operating undercover as a Port Mafia mafioso and Black Lizard battalion leader. Later, he serves as a double spy for the Mafia on Ōgai Mori's orders. He has the ability named Midwinter Memento.

➳ 𝙆𝙖𝙣𝙟𝙞 : 立原道造 [たちはらみちぞう]. ➳ 𝙃𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 : 176cm / 5'9. ➳ 𝙒𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 : 62kg / 136 lbs. ➳ 𝘼𝙜𝙚 : 19 Y/O. ➳ 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 : 30th July. ➳ 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 • 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨 : Male • He/They. ➳ 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙚 : A. ➳ 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 : Mafioso, Black Lizard Commander. ➳ 𝘼𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 : Port Mafia.

➹ 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 : Pencils • Hyacinths. ➷ 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 : The past.

𝙉𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙎𝘼𝙆𝙀 : 「 From talented child artist to writer, Tachihara held prowess in a variety of fields, mainly in architecture an poetry. Beginning with tanka (the most common style of traditional Japanese poetry, he later on took free verse and incorporated images of nature rather than the urban backdrop of his hometown. His famous works include the "Gentle Song" and "Of Dawn, of dusk". 」

𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 : ✒ Midwinter Memento (真冬のかたみ,, Mafuyu no Katami).

𝙍𝙀𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙎 : ➭ Shunzen Tachihara [⚰︎] → Older brother.