Tokugawa Sen

About
Tokugawa Sen (徳川 千) is the princess of the original Tokugawa House that ruled Mikawa. Because she greatly enjoyed fighting, she was nicknamed "Princess Battle" ("戦姫", pronounced as "Senhime", which is the same as "千姫" or "Princess Sen"). She sometimes has to correct people because "sen" can also mean "thousand".

When the Youkai racoon dogs conquered Mikawa and took over the Tokugawa House, forcing all humans to serve them, Sen refused to obey and kept fighting to the bitter end. Out of fear against her, the racoon dogs locked her up in the Mikawa dungeon. Sen wants to rebuild the Tokugawa House, but it's somewhat of a lofty goal considering Rance took over and everything the racoon dogs did to the people, so she dedicates her life to what she loves: being on the front lines in battle and training.

She eventually took a liking for Rance since he's nice enough to help her and is a strong partner in the battlefield. After the Oda House unified JAPAN it was left with too little conflict and she didn't have any opportunity to fight. As a result, she traveled to The Continent mainland in order to fight more, becoming a mercenary.

Personality and Appearance
She was raised as the princess of the Tokugawa House in JAPAN, but unlike most princesses she started to become more and more fond of combat rather than her duties as a princess, to the point she started taking an active role in the front lines during war. She loves the thrill of the battlefield more than anything in the world and doesn't care for what side she fights as long as she's able to experience the excitement of the battle. She won't take any role in the side she's fighting for unless she grows personally attached to her companions and allies.

This is seen in Sengoku Rance, were she's perfectly willing to abandon Rance and the Oda House and join another house if she doesn't get to fight enough. It's not until she develops a rather close relationship with Rance that she decides to stay definetely.



Her love for fighting is borderline masochistic and insane. She prefers to fight in losing battles or go to suicide missions because she claims that there's no fun or excitement in winning battles and that if she were to die she wouldn't care, since the risk is the price to pay in exchange of that thrilling emotion. Rance managed to convince her to not throw away her life in suicide missions after saving her life in the battlefield and has, since then, been more careful and respectful of her life.

When not in the battlefield, Sen proves to be a very nice and caring person. She has natural parental skills and is pretty affectionate to the people she likes. Although she likes to spend most of her free time training and growing stronger. While at first she didn't like sex, she ended up enjoying the experience after growing more attached to Rance.

Abilities
Sen is a very strong fighter that battles primarily with a spear. Since she loves fighting so much, she spends most of her time training and battling. The raccoon dogs that conquered the Tokugawa House were legitimately scared of her and had to lock her up after she rampaged so much, proving how fearsome she can be in combat.

She's also shown capable of killing an entire battalion of fighting Hannies that were enraged because someone led her to peek on 2 Hannies making love. She was also strong enough to wipe the floor with Nero Chapet vii, one of the generals of the Helman Army. Although Nero is particularly weak for his rank.

Statwise, she has a level 1 skill in spear combat a huge cap 65, with her current level being 45. She has a great potential for growth and was one of the strongest fighters in JAPAN when she was around. She also has a Lv1 Guard skill, which is a skill oriented in defense and protection. Funnily enough, she has a lot of skills that are not combat oriented too, like a Parenting Lv1 and a Luck Lv1(although it is arguably useful in combat too). She even has a Lv2 skill in Housekeeping, meaning that despite her not being too ladylike and being more fond of combat, she does seem to have natural talent for being a great and caring house-wife.

Trivia

 * See Senhime for historical reference.


 * She's the first one of Rance's fated girls to get pregnant.
 * In the Sengoku Rance popularity poll she was ranked 5th despite being a secondary character. Whereas in Rance IX she got the 6th place among the heroines.