Kendar Rdan

Kendar is an antagonist and side character in Rumble 2 and Ride 2. The heir to a tech R&D Company, his company discovered a rare mineral near the home where he grew up near Azure and Griffin, and he turned it into an incredible new power source for his customized Duel Disks - and then partnered with the Ba'al infested RD Corp to market Hard Light Duel Disks, while finding strong duelists to send to a Dueling Retreat (that was basically a shallow excuse to infect duelists with SaaZe).

## Personality

Kendar is well aware that he a “pretty boy” and is quite classically attractive.  He’s the sort that doesn’t have to chase after girls, he more has to hold them off. He’s also more than a bit of an arrogant, misogynistic pig, and really hates losing duels to girls. A shrewd businessman (in his opinion) he was more than willing to play both sides against the middle once he learned of RD's connection to the Ba'al trying to end the world as he knew it.

## Biography

### Backstory

Kendar's backstory isn't covered extensively, although Griffin admitted that he wasn't always such a creep as he was in Seaside. He was best known for having dated Azure before the story, and breaking up with her because of her unfortunate habit of beating him in duels.

### Seaside Rumble 2

Kendar began a contest in Uminari City to try to pass out his Hard Light Generating duel disks to players, by forcing them to win 5 duels in a row with it. This of course was a front to pass people off to RD to be infected with SaaZe, but Kendar legitimately did not know that at the time. At the urging of his business partner (one of the many SaaZe) he began interfering with the students of the Academy by picking a fight with Akahito when several Raiders were looking for Talon's parts. He defeated Akahito with his "Worst Deck Ever", and taunted him with Namiko's deck that SaaZe had provided him for just that occasion. The taunting worked, as shortly thereafter Akahito had a return trip to the city, and literally destroyed Kendar's rental car by using Talon's heart in his soul to manifest a thousand knives spell card.

Meanwhile, Kendar was flirting heavily with Jas to get more information about Azure and the Raiders. He had a meeting with Jas and Griffin (the latter seeking information with Namiko on Akahito's behalf) when an assistant of his business partner called him away. Unfortunately, said assistant was NoNoN, who upon beating Jas in a duel sent him into orbit to barter Talon parts from Azure.

### Seaside Ride 2

Kendar had some minor work in here, mostly notable early on for being the first victim of Azure's new paintouch, and passing information along to Cynthia to try to poach Owain from Amber. However, when Azure got the ability to time travel to the Flower's Bad End future, she contacted him for a challenge, trying to get some Rdan Inc Hard Light Duel Disks for their trip. She started by challenging Kendar to a best 2 of 3, for Rdan tech disks - with the 3 games being Buddyfight, Duel Monsters, and Vanguard if needed for the tiebreaker, since she knew Kendar had Akahito's Magia deck. It didn't come down to Vanguard, however, as Azure beat him in Buddyfight due to him goofing around, and then beat him in Duel Monsters, although just barely against Kendar's serious Mekk Knight deck.

He honestly had no hesitation giving over several of his disks to her anyway, as before they left for the future Xiu Suzuki made her move, and absolutely *ruined* him in the court of public opinion, with a media blitz painting him as a willing participant in the near apocalypse, as well as hiring his secretary out from under him. It was so effective that his father was forced to cut ties with Kendar's branch of the company, shutting down completely, and leaving Kendar without a job to do; though he was quickly offered one by Kamilla, who as he commented was quite possibly the first person he encountered in ages more beautiful than he himself was, so he decided to spend some time with her regardless.

### Seaside Rumble 3

Kendar stayed uninvolved with the events at school, at one point even quipping to Loptr that "I'm not on speaking terms with the ones on campus." The Angel threat came to him at one point, however, as Serah - who had been corrupted by Lord after Lord fell to Eriel came to him. He immediately recognized the change in her behavior, since she had gone from hard to get to frankly trying to seduce him. It's not like Kendar isn't used to people trying to seduce him, but when it's someone who was so resistant to him he knew something was up. Plus, he had at least found out a bit about the issue from Loptr and Cynthia (the latter of which found out when Owain was erased.) He defeated Serah, but didn't get her to summon her Number, even after trying to look at her Extra Deck with his Mind Monster spell - the Negative Number simply didn't show, though he did note the deck being a card short.

## Relationships

### Azure Talon

This is a relationship that Azure would sooner forget. Kendar and Azure were an item pre-RP, and they split up in a bad way - Kendar is a prideful man, and couldn't stand always "losing duels to a girl". And Azure was *much* better than he was at Duel Monsters. This split also is was strained the friendship between Kendar and Griffin. Azure managed to swallow her pride to ask Kendar for help once or twice, but she also used him as the test dummy for her new Pain Touch.

### Griffin Talon

Kendar and Griffin were childhood friends, back from when (as Griffin puts it) Kendar was "less of a creep". Things changed when Kendar started going out with Griffin's little sister, and got really strained when they broke up; Griffin refused to pick sides on it, having been against the whole thing from the start and refusing to be put in the middle of it. They still maintained contact with each other, but they never ended up nearly as close as they used to be.

## Decks

Kendar's primary deck was known as "The Worst Deck Ever" - a 60 card deck designed to make his opponent hate playing Duel Monsters, using proactive cards like Monster Register and Level Cannon to punish his opponent for playing, and reactive cards like Magic Cylinder and Mirror Force to actively stop his opponent from playing. When serious, he used a Mekk-Knight Deck to shut down his opponent from playing while swarming the field with strong monsters.

In Buddyfight, Kendar used a Chaos deck built around the Autodeity Army, not the least of which because they were a counterpart to the Thunder Emperor's Fangs that Griffin used. He didn't play Vanguard much, and the two times he was shown playing it on screen was with Namiko's Silver Thorn deck that SaaZe had given him, or Akahito's Magia deck that he had traded the student Namiko's deck for.