Zhu Jin

Zhu Jin is a major antagonist of Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku. They were a member of Lord Tensen and a partial ruler of Kotaku who went by the moniker Tathātā Yuanjun. Zhu Jin had golden eyes, prominent eyelashes, and orange flower petal shaped hair, along with long strands of stigma-like antenna. For their attire, Zhu Jin wore a shirt with a large collar, a beaded necklace, a fancy dark skirt, a hakama, and dark boots. On top, Zhu Jin wore a hanfu decorated with dark markings and two long sashes that float around them. When entering in their Kishikai, Zhu Jin's body took on the form of a huge flower resembling a hibiscus with flower tentacles at the bottom. Two bodies representing Zhu Jin's Yin and Yang forms acted as the flower's style and had four anthers protruding from the top. When partially transformed, some of Zhu Jin's hair, arms all the way to their chest, and torso darkened with sprouted bulbs and long leaves formed from behind their body, making their form resemble somewhat like a revealing coat. Their ears were also more pointed and their fingers became claws. After fusing with the Banko, the giant flower took on the form of Zhu Jin's head with plant vines and anthers protruding from it and holds a flower bed within the top of the head with a replica of Zhu Jin's Yin body as a stigma. Upon it being morning, the Zhu Jin-fused Banko's form further evolved where it developed a body with veins and flowers sprouted from holes layered around it, two pairs of breasts, and four arms. Strands of vines also started to freely hang from its body. Zhu Jin is characterized as being an unenthusiastic individual that is inclined to put in the effort in tasks they are given, which is greatly shown by the constant bored expression on their face. During their training in the Five Training Methods of Immortality, Zhu Jin was known to slothfully get by on their lessons. After running into Gabimaru at the gate entrance to Hōrai once they were finish dealing with Tenza and his comrades, they expressed their depression in having to do their job twice, and rather than fighting Gabimaru at first, they begged for him to leave. Consequently, Zhu Jin's sloppy attitude caused them to suffer greatly in battles against strong opponents and would turn towards using their Kishikai abilities in order to fix their mistakes. Due to this behavior, Zhu Jin was regarded as being the younger sibling of the Tensens. Like their fellow Tensen, Zhu Jin lacked the emotional compacity to feel sympathy for humans or other living things and would show no mercy in killing them to create Tan if spotted. They had also shown to have a sadistic side, as they smiled as Tenza was viciously beating them, knowing that it was futile because of their regeneration. When dealing with humans who try putting up a fight, Zhu Jin became easily irritated and would put in some effort in trying to kill the target they deemed annoying. After confronting Tenza, Zhu Jin felt annoyed with their attempts at trying to attack them and decided to kill him instead of keeping him alive in order to turn him into Tan as originally planned. During their confrontation with Gabimaru, Zhu Jin expressed their infuriation with fighting the ninja and opted to using Tao attacks to kill him. Despite usually keeping a straight face at all times, Zhu Jin would break into a state of panic and fear when faced with an unbelievable crisis, which would prompt them into taking matters seriously. After being reduced to their weaken state by Shion, Zhu Jin became wary of his attacks to make sure they would recover and became fearful of their life after seeing Shion's rage. Once they had managed to recover, Zhu Jin also displayed a rather cocky attitude as they thought Shion had no chance of winner against them while they had access to their Kishikai abilities after partially transforming. Upon their defeat in their battle with Shion, Zhu Jin slightly matures in that they came to realize that their lazy attitude was a bad reflection on themselves and to the Tensens they were close to and developed the motivation to complete the Rite of Consumption by fusing with the Banko. Zhu Jin also wished to be praised by their peers if the task was complete. Though their actions could be perceived as being commendable, Gui Fa noted that their way of going about it was also reckless as their failed attempt to complete the Rite of Just Consumption ended up destroying 1,000 years of research in the process. Unlike the other Tensens (with Gui Fa as an exception), Zhu Jin does not carry a preference to either being male or female and allows themselves to switch in and out of the two chi's over time.