He's rather obviously religious, the tialk on his forehead being a massive indicator and the long hair may be another.
98% of the time he's seen in public he wears his uniform (black suit and tie with a zipper instead of buttons, always zipped, steel toe boots), and when not wearing it he is a very monochromatic dresser. Pale blues being the only other color besides black or white that he owns. He wears his tie a touch too tight.
He has multiple scars, though they're usually hidden beneath his clothes. The most visible is a relatively new one on his face from Kadaj, fainter older ones litter his arms and there are a number that are from a katana rather obviously going through his body as well as surgical ones on either side of his ribcge, the one of his left is crossed by one of the same age where he had two ribs completely replaced with metal.
His hands are calloused from gun use, swordplay, writing a lot and generally using them very very often.
While faint, and majorly unnoticeable he does have a wutaiian (essentially Japanese) accent, especially when under duress or inebriated.
He's nearly 40 years old, and moves like someone who's been trained to fight their entire life though has gotten a bit stiff over the years between essentially destroying his body with work and general age-related deterioration.
He carries on his person at least one handgun and two knives at all times.
Non-Physical/Mental/Social tics:
He smokes predominately clove cigarettes, but very rarely does so in public and never indoors.
He swears, but doesn't take the name of any god/goddess in vain.
He can definitely hold his alcohol, and practices doing so on a regular basis.
He is extremely protective of his Turks and Rufus, despite whatever he shows the world at large.
He feels absolutely no remorse for killing people, it's not saving the few he's tried to that eats at him.
He is a master of finding loopholes.
He feels he has no actual control over his own life and has accepted it.
Tseng's views on his nationalty and heritage are a massive mixed bag, he was in Midgar during a LOT of the war against Wutai and being rather obviously from there he recieved a lot of hate regarding it. He prefers to be seen as a Turk than Wutaiian because people aren't as likely to try to beat a Turk up or insult them to their face. He isn't sure if his homeland would ever accept him back after what he did against it during the war, let alone if the people he'd go back to are still alive.
TL;DR: Tseng is effing complicated, never had a say in his own fate really (and has accepted this), doesn't like to let people close and as the leader of a bunch of deskworker assasins will mess you up if you screw with them. He's pretty much a Tonberry.
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Let's start with the obvious visual things:
He's rather obviously religious, the tialk on his forehead being a massive indicator and the long hair may be another.
98% of the time he's seen in public he wears his uniform (black suit and tie with a zipper instead of buttons, always zipped, steel toe boots), and when not wearing it he is a very monochromatic dresser. Pale blues being the only other color besides black or white that he owns. He wears his tie a touch too tight.
He has multiple scars, though they're usually hidden beneath his clothes. The most visible is a relatively new one on his face from Kadaj, fainter older ones litter his arms and there are a number that are from a katana rather obviously going through his body as well as surgical ones on either side of his ribcge, the one of his left is crossed by one of the same age where he had two ribs completely replaced with metal.
His hands are calloused from gun use, swordplay, writing a lot and generally using them very very often.
While faint, and majorly unnoticeable he does have a wutaiian (essentially Japanese) accent, especially when under duress or inebriated.
He's nearly 40 years old, and moves like someone who's been trained to fight their entire life though has gotten a bit stiff over the years between essentially destroying his body with work and general age-related deterioration.
He carries on his person at least one handgun and two knives at all times.
Non-Physical/Mental/Social tics:
He smokes predominately clove cigarettes, but very rarely does so in public and never indoors.
He swears, but doesn't take the name of any god/goddess in vain.
He can definitely hold his alcohol, and practices doing so on a regular basis.
He is extremely protective of his Turks and Rufus, despite whatever he shows the world at large.
He feels absolutely no remorse for killing people, it's not saving the few he's tried to that eats at him.
He is a master of finding loopholes.
He feels he has no actual control over his own life and has accepted it.
Tseng's views on his nationalty and heritage are a massive mixed bag, he was in Midgar during a LOT of the war against Wutai and being rather obviously from there he recieved a lot of hate regarding it. He prefers to be seen as a Turk than Wutaiian because people aren't as likely to try to beat a Turk up or insult them to their face. He isn't sure if his homeland would ever accept him back after what he did against it during the war, let alone if the people he'd go back to are still alive.
TL;DR: Tseng is effing complicated, never had a say in his own fate really (and has accepted this), doesn't like to let people close and as the leader of a bunch of deskworker assasins will mess you up if you screw with them. He's pretty much a Tonberry.