Tojin
A young nightmare painter who patrols with Akane. Heavily built with bulging arms and a square chin, he carries his supplies in a large painter's bag and gives Painter a friendly shrug in passing. STD:YNP:Ch 1
Known facts
- lifts-for-self-improvement-not-combatSurprises Yumi at the Noodle Pupil by explaining that his physique is not in preparation for any war — the body is the most incredible tool a person owns, he says, and he simply wants to see how far he can push his own. He is, by Painter's assessment and his own demeanour with Akane, shy with women.STD:YNP:Ch 21
Events
- STD:YNP:Ch 1 Strolls the perimeter with Akane and gives Painter a small shrug before following her on.
- STD:YNP:Ch 5 Kneels at a nearby table at the Noodle Pupil adjudicating a noodle-eating contest between two young painters.
- STD:YNP:Ch 16 Sits backward on his chair at the clique's table working a grip exerciser between hands, sleeves rolled to forearms, and orders two bowls of pork-and-egg without noodles.
- STD:YNP:Ch 21 Sleeves rolled up, declares the whole expedition an intervention.
- STD:YNP:Ch 21 Leaps up mid-meal to flex for Gaino and the lifters at the next table, then comes back blushing and apologises to Yumi for the spectacle.
- STD:YNP:Ch 25 Comes into the alley with Akane to check on the scream, blocking the easy retreat.
- STD:YNP:Ch 26 Trails Akane up the steps, supplies the cynical reading that Nikaro is goofing off again on his quiet beat, gives Yumi a sympathetic smile about covering for her brother, and is sent off to ask Ito's team to take their patrol so the clique can intervene.
- STD:YNP:Ch 26 Returns to the table with sleeves rolled up after handing off the patrol, joins the huddle around Yumi, and warns gently that they don't want to interfere — before Izzy declares that she absolutely does.
- STD:YNP:Ch 27 Hands clasped tightly, eyes on the table, won't meet Yumi's gaze as he tells her what being promised a Dreamwatch companion slot meant — what he had told his family — and admits he had been ready to stake everything on her brother.
- STD:YNP:Ch 29 Finds Yumi frozen against an alley wall, weathers a hysterical fist to the chest, lectures her about going out untrained — then looks at her properly and goes silent at the terror in her face.
- STD:YNP:Ch 29 Stumbles out of the alley behind Akane, sees the nightmare in its full form for the first time, falls backward and lies frozen — saved when an invisible Painter steps over him and confronts the thing.
- STD:YNP:Ch 30 Returns from briefing the foreman with the news — the foreman believed him after seeing the playground, the Dreamwatch is summoned, and he apologises to Yumi for the intervention.
- STD:YNP:Ch 33 Flexes his neck muscles for Yumi's approval, then, when she rounds on the group, quietly says he cannot pretend Nikaro did not hurt him.
- STD:YNP:Ch 39 Stands first to back Painter — *suppose we'd better go with you then* — promises to bring Takanda and Yuinshi and the painters they can muster. Tells Painter he glimpsed him during the stable-nightmare attack and has decided that pretending to be in the Dreamwatch is, after all, a worse lie than not.
- STD:YNP:Ch 40 Among the painters waiting at the western edge of Kilahito; placates one of the senior leaders of the gathered groups when their patience starts to fray.
- STD:YNP:Ch 40 Carries the front of the line at the painters' circle, takes up the *we are the Dreamwatch now* cry, and helps freeze nightmares long enough for Painter to paint the people back out of them.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 1
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- factThe Noodle Pupil
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- factNikaro
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- factGaino
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- factNikaro
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- factNightmare Painters