Baion

Baion is one of the representatives of the Human race who awakened 3000 years after the end of the world.

## Appearance

Baion is a tall man with short spiky turquoise hair, a pointed beard and sideburns. He is dressed in a dark gray bodysuit, over which is a white lab coat with a black collar and shoulders, emblazoned with Project CODA insignia. One of his most notable features is his glasses with red lenses.

## Personality

He is described as having a God complex. He considers himself superior to such intelligent and living races as Kanina 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 people to whom he belongs, and 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.

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 wipe out all organic life to the ground.

In addition to the God complex, Baion 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 core, consisting of Shadows.

In addition to his ruthlessness, 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 Elha and Beluga, whose essence, according to his own According to him, they survived only by pure chance and, having gone through a long path of reincarnation, 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 Merveli Millon to create hybrids, despite the fact that she appeared to Kanin, although this is likely due to her remarkable intelligence. In fact, Merveli was the only being in the entire Shepard 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 was defeated by Red, he tells him about her and finally recognizes him as their common son.

## Story

Baion's childhood, adolescence, adolescence and even youth are buried in the past, but all that is known is that he was once one of the best scientists of his time. According to Yurlungur, he personally took part in the War for Juno, which took place 3,000 years ago, seemingly ignoring either side of the conflict and acting primarily in his own interests. This also allows us to say that by this time humanity had developed so much that it was able to extend life by hundreds and even thousands of years. In general, towards the end of this war, Baion became the initiator, developing and launching a project codenamed “Reset”, which subsequently marked the end of the war. What was left of the continents rose into the air, and the Futzu Tower, containing Yurlungur and Juno together, ended up on a huge humpback whale, thereby escaping Baion until the events of the second part of the game. As for the latter, the cunning scientist froze his body in cryogen shortly before the process began, because of which absolutely all people except him died.

2700 years later, Baion awakens from his sleep due to mining work and for the next fifty years, if not less, wandered around the new World, which arose from the ruins of the old and which was inhabited by anthropomorphic dogs and cats that outlived their owners. And this is all thanks to what people have come to - they have increased their own life expectancy. True, during his travels, Baion learned about many wars and conflicts that occurred after the “Reset”, and after his awakening he even saw some of them with his own eyes and continued to observe their occurrences and resolutions, became more and more cynical and in the end was disappointed that his project didn't change anything. In the end, more than 310 years before the events of the game, and obeying old memory, he arrived and secretly entered the hidden village of Ragdoll with the Paladin clan located there. Next to her, he discovered the Berius mech and remembered the existence of another project, C.O.D.A., the data of which was located in Futzu, the location of which he did not yet know. but he decided that it was thanks to him that he would bring balance to this world.

Realizing what he would be working on, Baion most likely had a hand in the activation, if not the discovery, of two Titan-Machines: Lares and Lemures, and also created, if not also discovered, and took direct and mental control of the creatures , which are currently dubbed "Shadows". The keeper of the medallion from the Paladin clan tried to seal Lares, in response to which Baion sent a small army of Shadows to the hidden village and the latter, together with the freed Lares, destroyed every last one, sparing no one. Almost everyone...

After this, the difficulties in controlling the Titano-Machines, even one, became obvious, due to the fact that he was alone, Baion had no choice but to turn off Lares and go into the shadows. He had no choice but to wait until the unrest disappeared, and at the same time watch new wars, continuing to be disappointed in those who got the Earth.

Baion became active only 17 years before the actual action of the game. And this time thanks not to a large crowd of people, but to an individual representative of the Kanin race... even the representative who discovered him. She and Baion discovered a lot in common in each other, but Baion was still lonely, because he was the only representative of his kind. Eventually, he and Merveli agreed to create perfect creatures, half human and half Kaninu, who would later be known as Hybrids, and which were supposedly created from the DNA of both of them.

After several months of breeding, three hybrids were created, a girl and two boys: Nero, Blank and Red. Baion declared the first to be absolutely perfect, which could not be said about Red. The fact is that only Blank and Nero could be in human form all the time, and Red, on the contrary, could be in Kaninu form. Baion considered Red defective and wanted to get rid of him. Merveli, who began to understand his true nature, decided to save the life of the youngest of the hybrids, and therefore put him on a robot, such as Dahak, on which she sent him. After this incident, Merveli again tricked Baion and those whom he considered “perfect” into immersing themselves in cryogenic capsules so that they would not harm anyone. Only before falling asleep, Baion figured out Merveli's plan and activated Lares for the first time in a long time, as a result of which he forced his former assistant to think about how to get rid of this threat. At the same time, thanks to her intellectual abilities, the latter attracted the attention of the Kurvaz guild, as a result of which Lares faded into the background. Only when Lares was destroyed by what Baion considered “inferior”, after these unfortunate nine years, the last representative of the human race was able to awaken again, after which he immediately activated the “heart” of the Giant and began to bring Nero and Blanc to their senses.

After five months, which were spent restoring Lares and training the hybrids to control the Titan-Machines, which is what Lares is, Baion sends two hybrids Nero and Blanca to the nearest island, which also happens to be the capital of the Shepard Republic. During the operation, the hybrids stumble upon Red. After a brief skirmish where the Kaninu transforms into a human, Blank severely injures him but does not kill him and the two decide to retreat to report another hybrid to Baion.