Aiden Pendragon-Mazoku

**Aiden Pendragon-Mazoku** (*魔族ペンドラゴンアイデン, Mazoku Pendoragon Aiden*), also called "A" by his friends, is a 19-year-old member of the Sword of Logos (by proxy) who transforms into **Kamen Rider Damascus.**

## History

### Early Life

Aiden was born in 2120 to Antwin and his mother, a year before his little sister, Aleia. After she was born and throughout their childhood, the sibling duo was often referred to as “Double A”; not only because of the fact that their names both started with the letter ‘A’, but to signify that the bond between the two was incredibly strong. After the tragedy that struck multiple years later, their sibling bond only grew stronger.

### Tragedy, Loss of their Father and Revelations Behind All

Antwin, while out trying to stop robberies, had been found by a group of demon hunters. Due to the fact that he was half-demon, they immediately made their move; that move was to decapitate the Swordsman of Darkness, leaving his body to crumple to the ground in a heap... which shouldn't have been possible due to his physiology. Word steadily circled around in the Pendragon mansion after the execution, and that information was swiftly spread throughout the world.

While Aleia fell into a reclusive state, Aiden was *furious.* His father had just been killed, and he was expecting for someone to catch the people responsible… and yet, every time the situation was brought up, it was immediately brushed under the rug and dismissed. Confused and extremely irritated as to why, Aiden made his way to the upper level of their household and overheard someone talking. That person was his mother; she was the one responsible for the murder, seeing as she had paid the demon hunters to take out her husband.

Out of sight, the older Pendragon sibling witnessed the woman packing multiple bags as she continued to talk to whoever was on the phone. She then took the containers out to her car before hopping in, starting the vehicle, and driving off.

### Meeting Sei and Adoption by the Mazokus

Infuriated at this revelation, Aiden made his way back into the mansion and picked Aleia up before departing from the building. Where they were going to go, he had no idea; but he didn’t want to stay there in case the police finally *did* decide to show. Eventually, the two found themselves in the city. Aiden had to put Aleia inside the entrance of a building in order to keep her from getting drenched by the rain, whereas he, himself, chose to remain outside in an effort to raise money so the duo was able to survive. However, after finding that he was unable to make any form of change, he angrily retreated into the building entrance his sister was sleeping in.

When guards attempted to evict the two from the property, a familiar face stepped in: Sei. He told the two to come with him; Aiden, though, was *not* about to trust some random person without proof that he was able to do so. He chose to take the gamble, however, and picked his sister up before following after the man. As they walked to Sei’s place, Aiden slowly began to open up and tell of their situation. Having been in the same place before, Sei offered residence at his house. Aiden hesitantly accepted, still skeptical about the entirety of the idea.

Over the years, as both Pendragons lived with Sei, Asahi and Ryoto, who had returned from his job overseas, they found themselves growing attached; not in a romantic sense, though. More of a familial bond. However, due to his pride, Aiden was unable to bring up what he wanted to, which led to Aleia approaching Sei with the request of adopting the two. Sei easily accepted before then calling Aiden into his office.

### Becoming Kamen Rider Damascus

Believing that he was in trouble, Aiden went in with his guard up; that was all thrown out the window, though, when Sei slid a case over to him. Confusion suddenly rushed through his body as he looked up towards the older man, who simply sat back with a smirk and gestured for the boy to open it. Aiden did so, coming face-to-face with a Driver, Seiken and Wonder Ride Book that looked nearly identical to Antwin’s. Shock immediately took over as he stared at Sei before he began to explain.

Sei had been trying for multiple years to create a Driver based on the different types he had seen; every time he felt as if he had made a breakthrough, something always happened that ended up destroying all of his progress and returning him back to square one. However, after he saw Antwin fighting as Calibur, ideas immediately lit up in his mind; a Driver based on the Caliburdriver. A Seiken based on the Ankokuken. Slowly but surely, he set out to work on the devices, and he had just only finished them before meeting Aiden and Aleia.

Awestruck and generally grateful at what Sei had done, Aiden closed the case and took it into his hands before, for what may have been the first time since Antwin’s death, smiling and bowing his head. He then returned to Aleia, who had somehow managed to put a transdimensional gun together. She then shot it, causing a portal to open before the two then walked through. Now, in the present day, using the PenDriver, Ookamiken and Golden Wolf Wonder Ride Book, Aiden transforms into Kamen Rider Damascus in order to both avenge his father’s death and keep his sister safe.

## Personality

Aiden is a rather cold and untamed individual, often coming off as aggressive and violent due to his common usage of vulgarity and consistency of resorting to threats. He carries himself as if he were part of the mafia (or yakuza), casually using his demeanor and status as a member of the Pendragon family to boss others around and treat them like trash. He has no regard or respect for anyone who is a criminal and will go out of his way to make their lives a living hell.

Beneath this tough and bold facade that he puts up, however, Aiden is a man who holds many insecurities deep within. Under the belief that he is the reason his father was murdered, combined with the fact that his mother left him and his sister, Aleia, Aiden holds heavy resentment towards both his former maternal caregiver and himself for not being capable of holding the family together. He is also incredibly sensitive to the topic of his father, refusing to talk about it and almost always skipping over it when brought up in a conversation. Due to mortals being the ones who killed him, he holds a large amount of contempt for the human race, believing them to be nothing but pests that need to be exterminated.

Aiden is protective and heavily defensive of his little sister Aleia, never leaving her side and refusing to let her go anywhere by herself. The reason for this is because he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if the only living member of his family (disregarding his mother) lost their life as well. He is also dismissive of any rumors people spread about her, obviously not believing them due to how well he knows his sister.

After meeting his time’s version of the Mazokus (Sei, in particular) Aiden’s personality takes a 180° turn. He becomes much more in tune with his levels of compassion and (mostly) discards his bold facade; however, he still remains vulgar. In opposition to this, he does not order people around. He also grows to slowly tolerate humanity more and more; understandably so, his mother isn’t included in that. This is only furthered once he meets the members of The Breakfast Club and the Kyurangers, along with the other Saber Riders. Considering them his family (and also not being that far off, considering how many teams he's linked to), Aiden is just as protective of them as he is Aleia. He's especially defensive of Reina due to the feelings he has towards her, which is only strengthened once the two begin dating. He also cares about both Tamaki and Taiga Terashima because of their relations to Reina and will go out of his way in order to make sure they're protected and cared for.

## Forms

* Golden Wolf
* Emperor Knight

**Golden Wolf**

"*Golden Read~! Ōkamiken Dama~! Overthrow the king! Can’t stop this! Miss me? Oh, it’s on! Golden~… Wolf~!*"

―Transformation announcement

Golden Wolf is Aiden’s default form upon completing his transformation into Kamen Rider Damascus, accessed through using the Golden Wolf Wonder Ride Book in the Seiken PenDriver.

Compared to the other Saber Riders (in particular, Saber, Blades, Espada, Kenzan and Slash), Damascus’ stats are significantly higher, thereby making him a good theoretical match for any of the five aforementioned Riders. However, he still loses to Buster and Calibur in terms of physical power.

**Emperor Knight**

"*Emperor Read~! Ōkamiken Dama~! Open the book! Pop out and attack! Fearing nothing! Ma~king fear stir, prote~cting the world~! Joy~ in the li~ght~! Emperor~ Knight! Korera kiba kara nogareru koto wa dekinai! Understand~?*"

―Transformation announcement

Emperor Knight is Damascus’ final form, accessed through using the Emperor Knight Wonder Ride Book in the Seiken PenDriver.

In this form, Damascus’ stats skyrocket up to the level of Saber Primitive Dragon, therefore making an evenly strengthened warrior to counter against the terrifying power of the berserk form’s attacks.