Kyoji Iwasaki

**Kyoji Iwasaki** (岩崎恭司, *Iwasaki Kyōji*) is the 24-year-old leader of Team Baron who can transform into **Kamen Rider Baron**.

## History

### Background

Kyoji Iwasaki was born in a middle class household, where his life was almost completely normal, until the Yggdrasil corporation entered his neighborhood, and instructed to take down his neighborhood in order to start construction for Yggdrasil Tower. Kyoji’s house life got worse and worse from that point, his father became an alcoholic and got into constant arguments with his mother, which made him incredibly afraid.

Kyoji’s relationship with his mother slowly grew as she was the one who’d calm him down after her arguments with his father, and she told him to always remain strong, it was his mother's words that gave him his resolve to bring down Yggdrasil for what they were threatening to do to his livelihood. Kyoji’s hatred for Yggdrasil hit its peak when the arguments became too much for his mother to handle, causing her to leave her husband and run away, and the guilt of causing his wife to run away made his father sent him over the edge, as the day before Yggdrasil would begin taking down his home, Kyoji found that his father had taken his own life.

Kyoji was sent around foster homes as his neighborhood was torn down by Yggdrasil, and his hatred for the corporation grew further and further as he got older, but he found an outlet, something to take his mind off of what had happened in his childhood, those being singing and dancing, which lead to him joining a dance group. It didn’t take long for Kyoji to rise among the ranks of the group and become the highlight of the group, eventually becoming the first person in the group to be officially named the leader of the group, which he named “Team Baron”.

Kyoji would lead Team Baron as part of the “Beat Riders”, names given to the multiple dance groups and participated in the “Inves Games”, where the teams compete for dance stages by using Lockseeds to make monsters called Inves fight each other, where the winner gains the stage. Kyoji lead Team Baron into being one of the most popular Beat Rider teams, with the only other team rivaling them being Team Gaim, this lead to Kyoji having a near obsession with surpassing Team Gaim, so he could target Yggdrasil, this grabbed the attention of a mysterious man who’s a well known Lockseed dealer, who gave Kyoji a strange device, and a Banana Lockseed, that was said to be something he could use to surpass the other Beat Riders, Kyoji took these items, completely unaware of what fate will have in store for him.

## Personality

Kyoji is a very complicated individual to get a complete grasp of, on one hand, he’s very often seen as a cold, ruthless leader who’s bent on proving that he's the strongest one in the room, with little to no regard for the well being of others, but he has been shown to have regard for those who can be considered “weak”, and he encourages others to find their own strength. This also stems to Kyoji’s own mentality towards himself, as he believes that he is actually among the weak, and that people like him should gain power to prevent themselves and others from being stepped on by those who are considered strong, and he will go to pretty much every length possible to obtain said power.

Kyoji also has a deep hatred from the Yggdrasil Corporation, believing that they are the worst of the strong, and look down upon those who are weaker than themselves more than anyone else. While Kyoji hates those who abuse power and others, he believes that compassion holds back someone’s true potential the most, so he has pretty much cut most of his personal connections to focus on obtaining more and more power. Despite his nearly unbroken exterior, Kyoji has a soft spot for children, who believes that their strength could be what changes the world, he also cares for the lives of the other members of Team Baron, and has a good amount of respect for opposing Beat Rider, Keiji Hashiyama, despite voicing the exact opposite.

Unlike his teammates in Team Baron, Kyoji dislikes cheating and dirty tricks as he likes to win fair and square, often berating them for cheating if he finds them doing so. Kyoji also has respect for people with an unbreakable fighting spirit, if someone will lay their life on the line for the right thing, they’ll gain his respect, and maybe even have him fight on their side. Kyoji also values loyalty, showing a great amount of respect for those who uphold their word and proven their loyalty, giving him a great amount of respect for the members of Team Baron, often regarding them as his brothers and sisters.

## Forms

* Kamen Rider

* Sengoku Driver

* Standard

* Banana

**Banana Arms**

"*Come on! Banana Arms! Knight of spe~ar!*"

―Transformation announcement

Rider Statistics
* **Rider Height**: 208 cm
* **Rider Weight**: 114 kg

Ability Parameters
* **Punching Power**: 8.8 t
* **Kicking Power**: 12.4 t
* **Maximum Jump Height**: 24 m
* **Maximum Running Speed**: 100 m per 6.1 seconds

**Banana Arms** (バナナアームズ, *Banana Āmuzu*) is Baron's banana-based default form. Accessed through the Banana Lockseed, this form bears the **Burn Casque** helmet with the Burn Sight visor.

While assuming Banana Arms, Baron dons the **Banana Armor Part** and his Arms Weapon is the Bana Spear.

This form is Baron's most balanced form. In this form, Baron's punching and kicking power is more stronger than Gaim's. However as a tradeoff, Baron's maximum height and running speed is lower than Gaim's, making him able to jump a little higher than Gaim in Pine Arms, but also barely be able to outrun Gaim in Pine Arms. While Banana Arms appears to be purely offensive with little to no defense, Baron can use the Bana Spear to create Banana projections that can absorb hits. When Kaito eats the Fruit of Helheim, his abilities are strengthened by the fruit, allowing him as Baron in Banana Arms to almost go head to head against Gaim in Kachidoki Arms.

This Arms has two finishing attacks.

* **Cavaliend**: Baron activates the Squash function on his Sengoku Driver and give a very powerful kick in the shape of a banana.
* **Spear Victory**: This finisher has three variations depending on which function Baron activates from his Sengoku Driver.
	+ **Squash:** Baron releases a spear-shaped beam of energy from the Bana Spear to thrust at the enemy.
	+ **Au Lait:** Baron smashes down his enemy with a giant banana-shaped energy projection from the Bana Spear. When stabbed into the ground, however, the energy travels along the ground for a bit before rocketing back up in the familiar banana-shaped projecting, skewering whatever is in its path.
	+ **Sparking:** Baron stabs the Bana Spear into the ground, creating multiple banana-shaped projections which hit an opponent several times from below. This also provides as a defensive wall against incoming attacks.

**Appearances:** Gaim Episodes