Tengan Ward

Tengan Ward is one of the primary protagonists in the Beautiful Atrocity series, first appearing in "Instinct". Tengan is a detective who works alongside Jurrijin Rohan at the South Tampa Police Department up until 2002, where the two of them both quit and work as agents for Ryu Jurobei's KOBA division.

Tengan's parents are Masaru and Maya Ward, and he is a single child. His father, Masaru, is Japanese-American, which is where the name "Tengan" came from.

Appearance
Tengan has short, brown hair and has brown eyes.

Similar to Jurrijin, Tengan has a slightly above average build because of his intensive training in karate. He's most commonly seen in his work outfit, which is a buttoned up black suit with a gray dress shirt. His most favored tie is his go-to solid purple necktie. His glasses have thick lenses, but unlike Jurrijin he takes them off commonly.

Personality
Tengan is very work-oriented and relies on solid facts and logic for his problem solving, using little to no personal feelings unless it's a case that fascinates him greatly. He holds in a lot of his life frustrations, such as being held down by his father and the police department for his whole life.

Background
The Ward family were settled into Miami, where both the father and mother live there together. Tengan is the son of Masaru Ward, the CEO of Mori Red Law Syndicate. Tengan was pressured into joining his syndicate all throughout his life as a lawyer, and it only increased when he tried to run away to being a detective in South Tampa.

He escaped to the police force in hopes of living a life free of pressure from his father, but he was only met with even more when the department he was in often treated him like dirt, and threatened that the consequences of quitting the force no matter his age were going to be horrid.

In 2003, Tengan finally decided it was his time to break free. During an argument with his commissioner, Tengan shot him, claiming that both the Kevi Medical Group and Komino Perfect Society division all "go to hell".

A few months later, he established WARD10 Estate, a real-estate company he made to both send a message to his father and to act as a sister-company to Jurobei's KOBA division.