Dan Kizami

**Dan Kizami** known in Japanese as **ダン風見** is a fan-made character, and the main protagonist of *Ascension of the Dragons*. He is a boy that came from the real world, and is currently a member of the Lancers as one of it's most strongest, and important members. Before joining the Lancers he was a big fan of *Yu-Gi-Oh!*, and grew up idolizing several characters, and takes dueling to heart giving his best to stop the Interdimensional War teaming up with several friends, his girlfriend Riley Akaba, and spirit partner Ray Akaba.

## Design

### Appearance

In the first season Dan is a fair-skinned young man that has riled brown hair wearing a blue short sleeve shirt that has a horizontal yellow line. He is also wearing a pair of black shorts that house a belt where he places his decks in with a pair of NIKE Shoes that are blue, and white with a blue logo on it. He also has blue eyes that burn with a fiery passion.

In the second season he now wears a blue jacket that has pockets on it with a white undershirt, his usual black shorts with the belt, and his NIKE sneakers with his brown hair still it's usual style.

### Personality

Dan has a fiery passion for Dueling wishing to duel the best of the best. He is often care-free, and ongoing ready to face anything he can encounter. When he is dueling he responds with a positive tone, and is calm to explain his monsters abilities never impatient or angry when he's interrupted or if someone has a counter. Whenever he's at the face of danger he doesn't feel threatened, and stands his ground rather then running, and leaving his friends for his benefits. He is also brave not easily intimidated by the sight of danger.

He's also a good sore loser not bothered at losing, and welcomes his defeat taking it as a way to get stronger, and do better strongly bounded by Dueling's purpose as a way to have fun never as an indulgence for winning or losing. He also gets riled up at big battles calling them as a great time for having a fun time against powerful opponents, and duels with his best.

But underneath this cheerful personality is a serious, and calm side whenever he's angry at the sight of bullying or someone who is willing to kill millions, and ruin the lives of people that threatened or destroyed peace at the fullest to get what they want. When dueling under this side he is calm, and collected often pointing out the flaws, and weak-points of his opponents, and does not mess around often starting off to form a powerful formation.

He also hates people willing to cheat to gain an advantage growing outraged at the mere thought of it calling out to the opponent if they do it. Though he is willing to fight a fair battle he is never one to cheat back to have an unfair advantage, and believes that fighting fairly is the way to fight true battles, and goes into duels until the end making him honorable not willing to abandon a duel. He also has a strong sense of justice, helping those hurt by the Fusion Dimension and refusing to harm or sacrifice others to achieve his goal which also extends to his monsters using their abilities as much as he can stated during his duel with Sergey Volkov. He states that he has these traits by watching the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* protagonists.

Despite his calm side, and hatred of cheaters he wishes for ending things to not rely on violence making him a pacifist wishing to end things in peace, and is not one to take advantage of emotions for their downfalls. He also has a sense of modesty saying he's not thee strongest duelist of the group viewing himself as a bug compared to the other opponents the Lancers had faced.

### Abilities

As a child from the real world Dan displayed no supernatural abilities but he is not bound to have abilities that any normal human can have. From focusing on *Yu-Gi-Oh!* for years he had advanced knowledge, and knows many things that can aid in the Lancers' mission to stop the Fusion Dimension though he can't remember everything. He also is a great strategist always using his monster's abilities to either change the course of battle, or perform various combos. It was shown that he can communicate with Duel Spirits, and can talk telepathically to Ray to form strategies, or plans for times ahead.

In Action Duels he is shown to be a fast runner from running nearly half a field to reach an Action Card, and often uses Action Cards to hav both an advantage, and aid his strategies. He can also avoid attacks from jumping or dodging from obstacles from going through obstacle courses.

In Turbo Duels he was experienced on his Duel Board from riding a skateboard during his time at a skate park, and tried his best
to perform skateboard tricks but can only perform minimal of them with effort. He is also using more traps then Speed Spells stating that by using this method he can use Speed World 2's effect for an advantage as Speed Spells take him a long time to activate.

In Chapter 39 one of Dan's most strongest qualities is his undying Charisma from being influential to supporting both friends, and enemies alike refusing to toss away injured people for his benefits, and his charm of helping anyone harmed in the Interdimensional War, and wanting peace to be restored as it should be not giving in to hatred, or anger.

## Biography

When he was young he was left alone for unknown causes. He was sent to Foster Care, and when they don’t care about him he often helps out Mother Nature, and helps take care of the Earth, and it’s people together.

While being a *Yu-Gi-Oh!* Fan he made three Decks which helped him through in duels, and he’s a clever Duelist.

## Relationships

### Ray Akaba

At first after losing to Yugo, Dan was alarmed by her, and didn't know what to do. But soon Dan had later come Ray as a friend, and she said she'll help him train, and practice his Decks along with using the different summoning methods at her suggestion. She, and him are good partners planning ahead, and talking about what to do mostly while Ray is surprised at times from Dan's smarts, and creativity, and Dan is in turn from learning Ray is Riley's older sister, and from being a good mentor. Ray also is a bit protective of Dan as evidence from being angry at Armstrong from cheating in his duel to win, and rigged the Duel Disk System to where only Dan would get shocked so much she fixed it herself by unknown reasons.

Dan also treats Ray with upmost respect, and always listens to what her suggestions was though he can sometimes ignores her concerns whenever his urge to help people is needed despite it being at dangerous conditions. But even though it is so Ray only smiles proud that Dan would risk his life to help people. Ray also listens to what Dan has to say for his plans, and can help as best as she could for her abilities.

### Yuya Sakaki

Dan, and Yuya had a sibling relationship.

### Declan Akaba

Dan views Declan as a fun, and interesting opponent while dueling.

### Celina

Dan at first thought Celina was Lulu due to their strange resemblance, but quickly realized it wasn't so, and was surprised at her sudden request to duel. After he lost Celina had bonded onto him almost treating him as her son, and has been protective of him forming a powerful OTK against three Stomptroopers at once, and always comforts Dan whenever he's nervous, or scared. Celina cares about him so much that she vows to protect him, and promises to help him win against the Fusion Dimension.

## Decks

*Main article: Dan Kizami's Decks*

Dan plays four Decks he either let his opponent’s decide what Deck he plays or he makes the decision himself. It each focuses on Dragons with every different summoning methods. All of his decks focus on only 1 summoning method (With the exception of "Red-Eyes" with it using 3 different methods), and use of strategy to use them on his first turn by summoning more then 1 monster often relying on the graveyard for his combos to work out.

Later from his training with Ray Akaba he had incorporated more summoning methods for his three Decks, and change them for it to happen. Now these Decks focus on more methods, and the use of Pendulum Summoning to start off at a strong start. With the use of Pendulum, and more methods his strategies get more stronger as he duels with the us of strategies to assist in his battles.

In his first Duel he plays a **"Red Dragon Archfiend" Deck** that functions on Synchro Summoning tactics. Using skills he learned from one of his favorite characters Jack Atlas he uses the power of his monsters to easily Synchro Summon to gain an advantage. He even recyles using his opponent’s monsters to Synchro Summon more fluently, and more fluidly. He also has cards that can protect his dragons from harm from his other dragon’s effect should they become necessary. He also focuses over summoning “Red Nova Dragon” when he gathers the right materials for it.

With Ray's Training he had enforced his **"Red Dragon Archfiend" Deck** to include quick summons with the use of Pendulum Summoning, and using more methods focusing on Beatdown Tactics. He also reinforces his attack patterns to using the trap card "Assault Mode Activate". And as some of his cards including paying Life Points he had enforced his deck to allow him to regain Life Points. It also focuss over summoning a monster that was made from his own form of Double Tuning: "Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity".

In his second Duel he plays a **"Red-Eyes" Deck**. Unlike it's regular function he uses methods on Fusion Summoning tactics. He considers this deck his main deck. He focuses over using his graveyard to his advantage to summon his monsters, and using spells, and traps to make every Fusion Summoning count. He also has several stall strategies to where he can get more of an advantage. For the finishing touch he also uses Burn tactics to use for "Archfiend Black Skull Dragon" when he summons it. He also seems to conduct a recycle strategy using "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" to summon Dragons from his hand or graveyard.

With Ray's Training he had evolved his **"Red-Eyes" Deck** to focus on other summoning methods. Alongside Fusion, and Pendulum Summoning he also uses Synchro, Ritual, and Xyz Summoning making him the first duelist to use all five summoning methods in a single deck. While it still has it's strategy to summon strong dragons, and utilize effect damage it also uses strong beatdown methods with the boost of "Dragocytos Corrupted Nethersoul Dragon". And with Ray's training he has access to his version of Yuto's "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon" known as "Dark Anthelion Dragon", and can access greater Pendulum Heights. To better deal with his opponent's monsters he includes cards like "Special Hurricane" to negate their effects, or destroy them. He also has cards to increase his draw power.

In the Friendship Cup he uses a **Turbo "Red-Eyes" Deck**. It mostly focuses on quick summons with it mostly being Synchro Summons, and also depend on Normal Monsters for his cards to resolve while having a low tendency to using Speed Spells since he stated before that Speed World 2 takes a long time to use, and use Speed World 2's effect instead.

In his third Duel he plays a **"Hieratic" Deck**. This Deck is his Xyz Deck where he uses Xyz Summoning Tactics where he uses multiple monsters effects to do so. Many of these effects costs the ATK, and DEF of his monsters but he manages to get around this by using his moves quick, and fast with cards to tribute his monsters to summon new ones. If in emergencies he can use "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon", and it's evolve form "Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" to quickly regain an upper hand.

With Ray's Training his "**Hieratic" Deck** has evolved to new heights. Now focusing more on Normal Monsters, and focusing on Burn Damage with the use of "Lycanthrope" to evolve more in his heights to build more support. It also re-enforces on burn damage.

In his Duel with Shay he uses a **"Light and Time Dragon" Deck**. This is his second Xyz Deck which along with Xyz he uses the use of Rank-Up Magic cards to strengthen this deck. It is a Twilight Dragon Deck, and the use of the Field Spell "Chaos Zone" to summon monsters from banishment, and the use of banishing monsters with the effect of "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon". The main function is to summon many of the Dragons in the legend, and use their effects to control the field. The main function should Dan be serious summons "Number 99: Utopic Dragon" with the use of "Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force", and eventually summon the strongest monster in the Deck "Number 100: Numeron Dragon". Despite the deck's strength it's greatest downfall should be that it's mainly composed of high leveled dragons, and that should he make a wrong move it would backfire.

Due to Ray's Training he evolved his **"Light and Time Dragon" Deck** to focus more solely on summoning Dragons that can increase their levels including cards from the "Galaxy" archetype to better support them, and also use cards that can focus better on defense, and include other summons. He also worked a secret strategy with Dennis, and Celina to use a combo of "Dragon's Mirror", and "Lunalight Sabre Dancer" to summon "Five-Headed Dragon", and give it 3000 ATK to formulate a OTK.

In his Duel with Mr. Armstrong he uses what he calls a **"Facility" Deck** made from the cards that Primo collected from his time in the Facility. It is focusing over quickly summoning monsters mostly Synchro Monsters, and effects that returns cards to the hand for a hard advantage.

With Ray's advice on constructing a new Deck to use against Sergey's Earthbound cards he made a **"Duel Dragon" Deck** focusing on Plant Monsters to Synchro Summon the Duel Dragons which are the manga counterparts of the Signer Dragons for quick defense, and maintain a hard forefront to defend against Sergey's Destructive Tactics, and protecting himself against the direct attacks of the "Earthbound Immortals".