Dawn

**Dawn** is one of the 4 main characters and is the second friend of Jin. He travels abroad along with his friend Jin.

## Appearance

Dawn appears to be an adolescent boy with spiky blond hair, red eyes, and tan skin.

He wears a fire-designed open shirt, black tube top, a blue crystal pendulum necklace, black jeans, black fingerless gloves, and shoes with his own Nado bag on his jeans.

His jacket and tube top's design appear to be shorter and appears to reveal his midriff in Season 2 and Season 3.

## Personality

Dawn is often bigheaded, blunt, and sarcastic making him the comic relief among the group. Dawn also known for his hot-headed and belligerent tendencies as demonstrated throughout the series, especially during his disputes with Davis. As a treasure hunter and being the breadwinner in his family, Dawn greatly valued the value of money and somewhat materialistic, he have a greedy side of him when he is about to trick Pandora to gave him his points.

Despite all flaws, he is loyal to his friends by usually the first one to come up with a plan and strategies to get the group of sticky situations. Dawn is pretty cunning and creative in his plan as he suggest the whole group to crossdress to enter the Temple of Atlantis Hunter God and he have some stealthy skills as he is capable of breaking locks as demonstrated in Season 3. Dawn have a caring side as he takes on himself the responsibility to take care of his whole family and looks after Jin for his clumsiness and somewhat lack of common sense.

## Biography

Dawn was said to be from a family is poor and originally he tried to get money and nado points to feed his family by and associated himself with gamblers such as Chester and gangs such as the Three Kings.

Though upon his first tournament with Jin, Dawn was impressed by his to harness spiritual powers and decides to ditch Chester and have Jin as his new partner for the Annual Nado Tournament .

Upon hearing that Jin was going to go with Hurricane Tower with Cecilia and Davis, Dawn decides to go with them due to his desire to go on a grand adventure. He eventually became the first human to control a god-level nado without getting embedded with a war god's soul or lifeforce.

Although he started off a simple normal person who eventually became one with the most famous champions aside his friends.

After the world reset Dawn ended up joining the King Family in believing that they would share some of their money by helping them with their schemes, though he rejoined Jin after regaining his memories in their tournament.

## Relationships

### **Chester**

Dawn actually makes his debut with as an assistant of Chester, who happens to be a professional nado player and a gambler. Dawn originally joined Chester was impressed by his wealth from nado playing due to him wanting to learn how to get more points and money. Though after both of them were defeated by Jin he decides to no longer be Chester's assistant and be Jin's new teammate.

They later meet in the Hurricane Tower when Chester was brainwashed as Emperor War God, after battling him, Dawn and his friends manage to get Chester back to his sense.

### **Jin**

Dawn's first encounter with Jin was when he was assigned to help Chester to have Jin get out of the way. After their tournament, Dawn was impressed with how Jin was able to own a balanced type nado and harness spiritual powers unlike any other he's seen. Because of this, he decides to join Jin's team as he wants to improve his spiritual powers while Nado playing.

Throughout the series, Dawn appears to display admiration for Jin he would sometimes like to tease him in certain situations. However, he have to occasionally take care of Jin and somewhat similar to his clumsy friend's babystitter.

### **Mr. Arthur**

   Dawn originally heard of Mr. Arthur as being the founder of the nado corporation called Arthur's corporation and the father of the persistent nado champion Cecilia. He ends up meeting Mr. Arthur from the first time after bringing him back to his senses after being brainwashed into being "The Chariot", one of the masked war gods that were sent to fight them. Even then, he didn't recognize Mr. Arthur until he said that he was Cecilia's dad which greatly surprises Dawn. Dawn ends up realizing that he has a lot in common with Mr. Arthur as Mr. Arthur himself was once a simple man with his love for treasure hunting and adventure and looks up to him. At the beginning of season 2, Dawn even decides to join Mr. Arthur on a treasure hunt in the underground ruins where they find Pandora. Though he would still sometimes tease Mr. Arthur by calling him "old man".

### **Davis**

    Davis is often seen to bicker with Dawn they are two opposites in personality with Dawn often calling Davis an "uptight stubborn defense type" and Davis calling Dawn "a wild child attack type". However, they once managed to successfully team with each other in their tournament against Egypt Hunter God with Aspis and Golden Fire with each other into being both an attack and defensive type; this was due to them both knowing each other's strengths and weaknesses from their tournament together. Davis was also seen to go along with some of Dawn's antics such as cross-dressing to go into the Atlantis Temple in season 2 and trying to spy on Jin and Cecilia when they were apparently going alone together in season, even though Davis claimed that they were ridiculous.

### Cecilia

Before meeting Cecilia, Dawn acknowledge and admired her as a skilled Nado player through her nickname "Victorious Queen"

Their first encounter in the restaurant was rather tough as she orders Davis to investigate Jin and Dawn as he challenges them for having spiritual power. After their first encounter with Destiny and her underlings, they finally begin the adventure inside the Hurricane Tower. After that, Cecilia always travels with him along with the group. Their relationship is friendly but not as close as with Davis and Jin until the event in the abandoned mansion in the third season.

In Season 3, as both of them found an underground dungeon in the abandoned mansion, Dawn immediately wanted to venturing inside, as Cecilia suggesting them waiting for Davis and Jin before going deeper into the dungeon, Dawn provoking her and called Cecilia "missy". Not wanting Dawn to call her like that, she decided to go in with him. Inside the hidden dungeon, they talk about each other past and understand one another better. They got closer to each other after a battle with the Nados in the mansion. Jin also noted that their relationship has turned better than usual.

### **Pandora**

Dawn was the first one to discover Pandora when traveling with Arthur and offered to take Pandora back with them. Despite Pandora technically being chronologically being older than all of them, Dawn often treats Pandora like a child due to her naivety from memory loss and adjusting to the modern world. In some ways, Dawn even tried to take advantage of Pandora on some occasions by originally wanting to have brilliant sword god as his treasure and once even tried to trick Pandora into giving him some nado points through his scanner before being disciplined by Davis.

However, Dawn is still seen to be generous with helping Pandora gain nado points by taking her to a street tournament and admires Jin's care for her with Dawn deciding to hand Pandora to Jin when Pandora was at a vulnerable state at the Greek Temple.

## **Trivia**

* Dawn was the only character to go to Hurricane Tower without having a major history with it as Jin has a connection with Justice, Cecilia being the High Priestess, and Davis wanting to take revenge on it.
* Dawn is left-handed.
* Dawn is also the only character that never had any major flashbacks with his family, though they only got mentioned once when explaining that he was poor.
* When fighting the four masked war-gods, Dawn was the only one who didn't fight an actual war god and was instead tasked to fight a brainwashed Mr. Arthur who was impersonated as the Chariot War God.
* Dawn's zodiac sign is a Leo that matches his element of Fire.
* A character named Gu Yan (顾炎) (English name: Ryan) for Infinity Nado Valkyrie seems to be based on Dawn with him being the deuteragonist and Dawn's Chinese name being Ren Yan (任炎).