Tao Fa

Tao Fa was a Tensen-class Sennin affiliated with Lord Tensen and a partial ruler of Kotaku who went by the moniker Ratna Taisei. She is a major antagonist of Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Tao Fa had golden eyes, eyelashes and short, pink hair that took the shape of flower petals, which formed a flower at the top of her head. She wore a pink hanfu with two ribbons, a black robe underneath, a beaded necklace with a golden peach amulet, a white hakama tied with a yellow obi, and black boots. Underneath her layer of clothing, Tao Fa wore a silk bikini top and a skirt. In her and Ju Fa's Kishikai state, their bodies melded together to create a large, bulb shaped body, resembling somewhat like a heart, formed from their Yin and Yang bodies, with unusually shaped petals acting as feathers/wings, and vines protruding from the bottom as tails. The head of the Kishikai possessed four faces, two from the right being Tao Fa's Yin and Yang faces while the left being Ju Fa's. Upon switching to their defensive form, the body releases multiple spore vines and their faces switch places. In Fuchi's opinion, the appearance of Tao Fa and Ju Fa's Kishikai was the embodiment of "love". Tao Fa was outwardly cheerful and friendly, as she was rarely ever seen in a bad mood, which was a stark contrast to her partner Ju Fa. Even after Chōbei's betrayal where the human cooperated with his brother to attack and slice off her head, Tao Fa did not express any anger towards him for his actions but rather disappointment for thinking that they had formed a friendship. Her demeanor also applied to humans as well, or at least ones that were willing to cooperate with Lord Tensen's plans such as Chōbei. However, she still carried the same view of using them as tools to create Tan and showed no signs of sympathy towards them. Because she specialized in Bōchū Jutsu, Tao Fa was quite vulgar and often liked to flirt with others. After meeting with Chōbei and Tōma for the first time, Tao Fa asked if they wanted to join her and Ju Fa in Bōchū Jutsu and offered herself to Fuchi despite him being her enemy, seductively stating that she was willing to show him anything he wanted to see, whether it was her organs that Fuchi was only interested in. She also had a preference as to who she found attractive. During their encounter, Tao Fa took a liking to Fuchi because she thought that he looked cute, while brushing off Gantetsusai because of his old age and felt disgusted when he expressed his perverted behavior towards her body. While presented as a cheerful individual on the surface, it was later revealed and admitted by Tao Fa herself that this was only a coping mechanism for her to painfully endure Lord Tensen's 1,000 year struggle to gain true immortality. On the other hand, Tao Fa also gave speculation that her behavior in general was a sign that she was already mentally unstable. In the past, Tao Fa felt sorry for the Hōko and didn't like the idea of using them as tools to replenish their Tao. However, after the Hōko were on the verge of extinction, and realizing that Lord Tensen's training would be all for not if they died, Tao Fa no longer felt any sympathy for the Hōko or anything living as long as it meant that Lord Tensen would be finished with their pursuit for immortality. This was proven when she used one of the Hōko's corpses as bait to lure in humans from the mainland as new sources of Tao, an action that gave birth to her constant smiling. After Gantetsusai commented on how Lord Tensen enjoyed "toying" with humans, Tao Fa immediately lost her smile from Gantetsusai's misunderstanding remark and expressed her grief. Tao Fa had stated that they preferred the female gender because of their liking to their appearance. As such, they also acted feminine on top of their appearance.