Baion

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## Bio

### Relatives

Red Savarin (biological son)
Nero (biological daughter)
Blanck (biological son)

### Voice Actor

Tomohiro Tsuboi

**Baion** (バイオン, *Baion*) is an ancient Hybrid awoken before the events of the *Solatorobo* and the final boss of the game. He plots to awaken Tartaros and reset the world with his followers Blanck and Nero.

## Biography

Baion is a Hybrid with short spiky turquoise hair along with a sharp beard and sideburns. He dresses in dark gray bodysuit covered by a white lab-coat with a black collar and shoulders, adorned with CODA Project symbols. One of his most notable features are his red-lens glasses

## History

### In *Fuga: Melodies of Steel*

After the "best ending" to *Fuga*, an epilogue 700 years after the story's events shows Baion in a hooded cape standing next to his Robo, the Bérius. He laments over how history is repeating itself with the destruction of the Free Lands of Gasco and the wars following it. He swears to continue his purpose of activating CODA despite his shortcomings.

## Personality

By the time he appears in Solatorobo, Baion is malicious and arrogant, which makes him even more dangerous than his “predecessor” Bruno Dondurma. However, unlike the late leader of the syndicate, to whom the character in question has no relation, Baion is portrayed not as an ambitious and power-hungry tyrant who wants to rule the world, but as a mad scientist who did not care about everything that surrounds him, and therefore wants to erase all organic life down to foundations.

Baion has a pronounced God complex. He considers himself superior to such intelligent and living races as Caninu and Felineko combined, and even openly admits that he views himself as a God during his battle with Red in the Tartaros Core. He even views the humanity who lived in the distant past, as another “failure” in nature’s plan. In addition, absolutely everyone who does not live up to his expectations falls into this category.

In addition to the God complex, Bayon also carries within himself a Messiah complex, for he believes that with his actions he is “saving” what is left of the Earth, and thanks to his actions such phenomena as wars will disappear.

The two traits described above, in a bad sense, complement the fact that Baion is an absolutely hard-hearted person. He is incredibly cold-blooded and, first of all, thinks only about putting his own goals into practice, and therefore does not feel an ounce of sympathy or concern for anyone, and as a result, he calmly kills both enemies and allies and is even ready to abandon the latter to their mercy fate, which he did with Nero and Blanc, taking control of Red. And when the latter killed the two hybrids described above, Baion did not regret their deaths at all, since he deliberately gave the order to remove them. And this is not to mention the backbone, consisting of Shadows.

In addition to his mercilessness, Baion is also characterized by his penchant for genocide as his preferred and most effective method of solving problems. More than 300 years before the events of the second part, he discovered and burned a village that was previously considered hidden, simultaneously slaughtering almost all the members of the Paladin clan that were there, with the help of the faithful Shadows, except for Elh and Beluga, whose entities, according to his own according to him, they survived only by pure chance and, having gone through a long path met him again at the present time, which is the time of the game. And long before the destruction of the Paladins, Baion ended the war for Juno, destroying all humanity except himself, and splitting the Earth, raising everything that remained of the planet’s continents into the skies, and he himself was preserved in a cryogenic capsule. In addition, Baion himself considers genocide a natural phenomenon in nature, which is also his goal.

However, despite all the character traits described above, Baion is not selfish and is even ready to sacrifice his life, as he demonstrated during the battle with Red in Ariadne’s room. In addition, he still knows and remembers the definition of virtues.

Also, for a certain time, Baion worked closely with Merveille Million to create hybrids, despite the fact that she appeared to Caninu, although this is likely due to her remarkable intellect. In fact, Merveille was the only being in the entire Shepherd Republic that Baion did not view as a "failure" and for whom he had positive feelings from time to time. Nine years after she left and he was defeated by Red, he tells him about her with warmth and finally recognizes him as their common son.

Also, after his defeat at the hands of Red, Baion, in the last moments of his life, changes his point of view on the world and existence in it, recognizing that people and similar their creatures can change, learning both from each other and from their past mistakes and even asked Red to use the Re-CODA chip to finish him off, thus showing a certain amount of remorse for his previous actions. And before all this, he calmly accepts his defeat.

## Trivia

* Certain sources say that the name Baion is of Greek origin and in translation means "life"
	+ In addition, the name of this character echoes the English word "bane", which is synonymous with words "curse" and "doom"
* For the most part, both in appearance and in character, Baion is based on Gendo Ikari from the anime series *Neon Genesis Evangelion.*