Kaiou Dorian

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is therefore not canon to Glad you Came

**Kaiou Dorian** (怒李庵 海王, *Dorian Kaiō*), sometimes romanized as **Kaiou Durian**, is a fictional character from anime and manga series of Baki the Grappler. He is one of the five escapees who tracks down Tokyo's fighters. He escaped from Algardos prison after being hanged. He is a practitioner of Chinese Kenpo and the first Western man in history to attain the Kaiou title.

## Personality

Dorian is calm and relaxed most of the time. Despite being a great Chinese Kenpo fighter and achieving the Kaiou title, Dorian somehow lost his faith in martial arts, or just abandoned them because of his own ego. In battle, he usually counts on his gadgets and dirty tactics to win. One of his favorite tricks is to suddenly start crying, bewildering his opponent and making them feel pity. Dorian occasionally shows a more childish side to his personality, such as his enjoyment of the amusement park rides before his battle with Atsushi Suedou. Dorian prides himself that unlike Doppo, who only learned karate, he learned many things. He is an extremely experienced and skilled fighter, who uses his environment and secret weapons to his advantage, as well as knowing a couple languages and being able to manipulate his opponent's psyche in battle. Of all the convicts Dorian is probably the most balanced in terms of power, skill and cunning.

After he incapacitates Doppo Orochi in a cowardly surprise attack, he realizes in his final confrontation with Kaiou Retsu that he's wasted his life as an opportunistic fighter. He had never been defeated in his life, but at the same time he hasn't fairly won any of his fights, and became mentally disabled after losing to Kaiou Retsu. His world view up to that point had been shattered, and his mind has basically erased everything that was associated with who he was in regards to his goal for defeat. Having realized that never knowing defeat means he's never succeeded in his goal, his mind basically erased who he even was, his "ego" (self). He now has the personality of a small, innocent child who loves candies. Later, his short appearance during the Chinese Challenge tournament shows he can't even fight anymore. Justified as he mentally regressed to the point he is barely aware of his surroundings.

His way of thinking can be interpreted in different ways. His desire to know defeat could be even treated as the desire to be proven wrong; something that he can't admit because of the ego he's developed as a result of all of his success. Deep down, Dorian realizes all of his victories are meaningless because he won through trickery and ruthlessness, but he clings to them because that's all he has. In a strange sort of way, battle with Atsushi Suedou was his best fight because he wasn't that much stronger or weaker than Dorian, hence why Dorian seemed to enjoy it, but the fights with Doppo and Retsu were the wake-up call he'd been asking for all along.

Despite being a silver haired senior, he had exhibited signs of an extremely juvenile mentality, before his mental breakdown and regression into someone with a child-like psyche. This can be seen in the scene where he enjoyed himself in the amusement park and walked with Ashida, the park owner, holding his hand. Another example can be his scenes of panicky crying or brutal wounding of his enemies as if he does not even understand that someone can feel pain. Dorian was a little boy during World War II. It can be concluded that there has always been a small child in Dorian's mind because he never had a normal childhood.