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Yugo Tennouji , more commonly refered to as "Mr. Braun", is the main antagonist of the visual novel and anime series Steins;Gate. He is the owner of a CRT store, Rintarou Okabe's landlord and the father of Nae Tennouji. While seemingly a neutral character for most of the story, he is eventually revealed to be an agent of SERN and the true leader of the Rounders who manipulates Moeka Kiryuu from behind the scenes under the codename FB. However he holds no true loyalty towards SERN and is working mostly under coercion to protect his daughter but is still willing to go to any lengths to protect her, even murder.
Mr. Braun is also featured in Steins;Gate 0 as a supporting protagonist/anti-hero. While still leader of the Rounders he and Nae are unwittingly pulled into Okabe's struggle to prevent World War III between America and Russia, forcing them to cooperate against their common enemies.
He was voiced by Masaki Terasoma in Japanese and Christopher R. Sabat (who also voices Vegeta and Souichirou Kuzuki) in English.
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Appearance[]
Yugo is a tall, muscular man in his early thirties with a bald head and a short-boxed beard. He wears a yellow shirt with a blue apron that reads "I Love CRT" over it.
Personality[]
He has a great passion for CRT Television and refuses to upgrade to any other type. This coupled with the fact he owns a CRT store has resulted in Rintarou nicknaming him "Mr. Braun" after the inventor of CRTs, German physicist Ferdinand Braun and the common Japanese name for CRTs, "Braun Tubes".
While appearing as a tough and menacing man and often using this demeanor to jokingly bully Rintarou, he actually has a soft spot for the lab members and cares about their well-being. His daughter Nae is his top priority and he will go to desperate lengths to ensure her safety.
Yugo has a bad temper, and is very easily annoyed by Rintarou's mannerisms as well as his "experiments" upstairs. He regularly threatens to raise the lab's rent money should the experiments continue to disturb him, though this has never actually happened.
In the presence of both his daughter and Rintarou, he would often attempt to "protect" her from Rintarou, whom he sees as a "pervert", though he was likely joking.
Yugo is later revealed to be under constant stress and guilt, afraid that if he disobeys SERN, they will kill him, Moeka, Suzuha, and Nae, like they did his wife and unborn child.
Biography[]
Growing up, Yugo was an orphan living in the streets of Paris, forced to survive from whatever he could find in the sewers.
After seeing a gellified human in the sewers he was residing in, he was recruited by SERN, which provided the money he needed to get out of the slums. After a while, SERN ordered him to go to Akihabara in Japan. It was here that he met Suzu Hashida (his neighbor) and Tsuzuri Imamiya (his future wife). After he burned down his home in order to slow down SERN, later lying that it burned down because of his smoking, Suzu let him live with her. While he wanted to do it for free, he insisted on paying rent. Later on, she sold him the building that would later host the Braun Tube Workshop and the Future Gadget Lab. After her death (either by suicide or illness) he inherits her house and continues living there. He eventually married Tsuzuri and had a daghter, Nae. In 2001, while Tsuzuri was pregnant with their second child, she was gellified by SERN in order to keep Yugo in line.
Sometime prior to the first D-Mail, Tennouji recruited Moeka Kiryu into the Rounders and communicated with her under the code name "FB". It was only when Rintaro and Moeka discovered his identity that FB was revealed to be a man, as he introduced himself as a woman to Moeka, and used female phrasing. Yugo explained that he took up the exterior and identity of the one the recruit needs the most, so as to gain their blind and absolute trust and use them to no ends.
For the first half of the story, Yugo only appears as a mean landlord to Rintaro. He quickly hires Suzuha as a part-timer after she tells him that she loves CRT TVs and constantly gets on her for slacking off. After Suzuha's initial trip to 1975, Yuugo gives the lab mems a letter from Suzu that she told him to give to Okabe on that date and that she had died 10 years prior. When the lab Mems ask him how she dies, he reveals it to have been a suicide. After Okabe sends the D-mail, allowing Suzuha to go back in to without getting Amnesia, he confronts Yuugo again and asks about Suzu Hashida. Yuugo takes Okabe to his house and explains that she died of illness before giving him the divergence meter.
When Moeka gets cut off from FB, Rintaro decided to work with her to track down FB, who turned out to be none other than Yugo himself. The three had a brief conversation before Yugo, realizing not only his usefulness to SERN has run out and that Rintaro tells him that Suzu is actually Suzuha Amane who came from the future to stop SERN creating their dystopia and he was dishonoring her memory all those years, he draws a gun to his head and commits suicide, much to Rintaro and Moeka's horror.
In the anime, Yugo takes his conversation with Rintaro and Moeka to a construction yard, as to keep Nae uninvolved. After revealing hios past, he fataly shoot Moeka before killing himself.
When 1% Divergence is obtained, Yugo is seen running his shop, having apparently never worked for SERN in this attractor field; but as the story of Steins;Gate 0 unfolds, Okabe confronts him and forces him to admit that he is indeed still a Rounder. However, he is viewed as an ally this time because he wishes to protect Nae from the danger she might be in after seeing the faces of shadowy attackers.
Yugo thus protects Kagari and Suzuha by having them work at his shop, and briefly uses his interrogator skill to help Okabe out in finding out who is after the former. It is hinted that he is far more ruthless and less redeemable, as he never encountered Suzu Hashida - since Suzuha traveled back to 2010 and not 1975. How much exactly his personality differs in this regard is unknown, however.
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