Teru Saotome

This boy used to be a very good and famous ballet dancer. Teru even has articles that were written about him on the net. He was very passionate in his peformances, and it showed. One day, however, one of the stage lights broke and fell on him, breaking his right foot. This unfortunately rendered him unable to dance anymore. While he was in hospital, all he could do with his healing leg was watch television. He mostly enjoyed watching Beyblade battles, notably Ginga Hagane's. He eventually got really attracted to beyblades, and one of the girls in his dancing troup saw that. She had always admired him, and she was really shocked when she witnessed the accident that happened on stage. To try to make him happy, she soon brought him a very special beyblade: Earth Virgo GB145BS. This blade, he quickly learned, had very good abilities at keeping its balance and it also span around with grace, just like a dancer. He realized that was the perfect gift for him.

It took him no time to get to a good level in beyblading, beating even reputed bladers like Hikaru with ease. His style is basically a copy of what he used to do when ballet dancing. Since he cannot do it anymore, that is his only way of keeping one of his passions close to him.

In general, Teru is very calm and disciplined. He plays with interest, but also with clear goals in mind, such as getting his name known at least in the Beyblade world. He does not really talk a lot, but when he does, his words drip with content.

Trivia
'Otome' means 'virgin' in Japanese, whereas 'teru' is 'shine'.