Tama's parents died when she was still very young. Tama also uses the personal pronoun ora (おら) for herself, which is associated with ruralism.

Yansu is an auxiliary verb used in the Kansai Dialect, most specifically in the Shiga Prefecture, meaning 'to be'. She tends to end her sentences in de-yansu ( でやんす ?). Tama speaks with an Edo and a Tōhoku dialect. However, she can also be careless, as shown when she revealed her allegiance to the Kozuki Family to the Beasts Pirates, drank out of a contaminated river and falling ill in the process, and disregarded her master's warnings not to show her powers in front of others, which caught the attention of Holed'em. Tama has great faith in the Kozuki Family, as she used their name as a threat to those who upset her. She is also very brave, as she stood up to the Beasts Pirates when they tried stealing her belongings and even attacked one of them after being freed from captivity. Being a kunoichi in training, she has a habit of starving herself as a means of training her body, forcing it mentally to let go of her hunger. She is quick to make friends, trusting and helping Luffy moments after he assured her he means her no harm. For footwear, the girl has brown-soled zōri. She wears a light-green girl's yukata with a plain, yellow flower pattern, several differently colored and patterned patch-works, and a yellow, bow-knotted tsuke obi with long tails in the back as well as a light-pink obiage, and an orange obijime. She has dark-violet hair arranged in a Shimada style, with a yellow comb inserted where the back bun is sectioned off, plus a pale-pink hana kanzashi on each side with a hanging bura (a string of petals resembling upside-down hearts). Tama is a fairly short and thin (given her wanting nutrition) girl whose face, befitting her age, has big, soft features, including black (violet in the anime) eyes.

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