Baiken (Guilty Gear)/Eldrazi Kido

* Guilty Gear
* Guilty Gear X
* Guilty Gear XX
* Guilty Gear Λ Core Plus R
* Guilty Gear Xrd
* Guilty Gear -Strive-

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## Summary

**Baiken** (梅喧, Baiken) is one of the few characters of Japanese descent in the *Guilty Gear* fighting game series (others being May and Anji Mito). Baiken was a hidden character in *Guilty Gear* but became a normal character in later installments. She is a samurai on a journey to kill That Man and avenge the citizens of Japan, which he caused to be destroyed during the Crusades.

## Powers and Stats

**Power Scale: Low 4-A**

**Name:** Baiken

**Source:** Guilty Gear

**Gender:** Female

**Age:** Unknown

**Classification:** Human, Samurai

**Alignment: Chaotic Neutral** (A mannish woman and natural-born warrior, Baiken is willing to do whatever it takes for the sake of her goal, and accepts the natural consequences of her actions, having solemnly consigned herself to damnation for her sins. As implied in Λ Core Plus, her quest entails the danger of giving in to her bloodthirsty side, as shown within some of the endings for the game. However, her personality in Xrd seems to have mellowed slightly, allowing her to express herself less crudely towards people. While she still desires revenge for the death of her family, she knows when to prioritize the greater good of her people over her personal vendetta)

**Motivation:** (Baiken is an aggressive, impulsive and anti-social person motivated solely by revenge, wanting to kill That Man. She has remained bitter over her family's demise and intensely hates Gears. Despite this, she tolerates Anji Mito to a certain extent although she knows how to put aside the desire for revenge to protect her people as is known in GGXRD)

**Notable Abilities:** **Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Weapon Mastery**, **Martial Arts**, **Extrasensory Perception** (Able to see the aura of others), **Enhanced Senses** (She could feel Awnser), **Non-Physical Interaction** (Type 4: Able to hit Zappa's spirits and able to interact with Raven who declared herself non-existent), **Magic**, **Information Manipulation**, **Higher Dimension Manipulation**, **Truth Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Fate Manipulation**, **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Statistics Amplification**, **Dream Manipulation**, **Law Manipulation**, and **Dimensional Travel** (Magic is a source of transcendental energy coming directly from the Backyard and The Backyard is made entirely of information and superior dimension, it even defines the fundamental truths of reality, that is connected to dreams, being able to alter the rules of reality in any way, manipulate fate, and increase power), **Summoning** and **Text Manipulation** (Can summon tatami mats), **Telekinesis** (Can keep his sword in the air), **Energy Projection** (It is capable of projecting energy), **Ki Manipulation** & **Magnetism Manipulation** (The Japanese can control ki, being able to attract mechanical objects), **Curse Manipulation**, **Power Nullification** and **Statistics Reduction** (She can induce curses on his opponent that prevent them from jumping, prevent the use of special attacks, induce slowness or cause enemy attacks to cause less damage), **Fire Manipulation** (Shown here), **Awakened Power** (Awakened her power to defeat I-No in her bad ending), **Regeneration Negation** (**True-Godly**:Scaling to Each character in *Guilty Gear: the Missing Link* who participated in the tournament is able to permanently kill Justice in their own endings. Justice would regenerate from the Absolute World erasing everything in the Backyard and the universe due to having Eve's seed. Able to kill gears that have superior regeneration to Sol Badguy due to Sol being the prototype gear; Sol would regenerate from the Absolute World erasing everything in the Backyard and the universe due to being implanted with Adam's Seed and Scaling on top of Raven, who regenerates from the destruction of his non-existent body)

**Energy Capacity: Nebula Scale** (Pre-Xrd Eddie stated that they are comparable and She managed to confront Ky, who is comparable to Sol Badguy, which defeated Justice, who has whose Information Density is equivalent to a galaxy cluster)

**Speed Level: Immeasurable** (Comparable to Sol, who can able to move within Underworld Hill, a place that surpasses time itself and comparable to Demi-Humans who transcend physics and time itself)

**Strength Level: Unknown**

**Resilience Level: Nebula Scale** (Able to withstand attacks from characters such as Ky)

* **Resistances:**
* **Reality Warping**, **Biological Manipulation**, **Spatial Manipulation**, **Matter Manipulation** and **Disease Manipulation** (Was unaffected by the effects of the Information Flares to Japan)
* **Subjective Reality**, **Fusionism**, **Boundary Manipulation**, **Existence Erasure** (Type 5), **Mind Manipulation**, **Soul Manipulation** (Type 3), **Matter Manipulation**, **Death Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Space**-**Time Manipulation**, **Transmutation**, and **Matter Manipulation** (Able to enter Delilah's absolute world with no issue)

**Arsenal:** Her Demon Tools (A katana, mace, feudal cannon, bladed fan, chain rope, hook, claw, spear, and blunderbuss)

**Intelligence:** Skilled fighter, incorporates various weapons into her fighting style along with magic and ki, which is very impressive considering how she is essentially a regular human by Guilty Gear standards.

**Weaknesses:** Has lost the use of her left eye and right arm, although this doesn't seem to greatly impede her in battle.

**Stamina: Very High** (Has fought other character for extensive periods of time)

**Endurance: Average**

**Range:** Extended melee range with weapons, at least hundreds of meters with her cannon and chain, thousands of kilometers with attacks.

## Trivia

* Baiken's move, Suzuran (爵走?), is a homophone to 鈴蘭?, meaning "lily of the valley". The English band Queen features a song of the same name on their album *Sheer Heart Attack*, a favorite of series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari. Baiken's quest shares parallels with the lyrics of the song.
	+ Likewise, several of Baiken's other moves double as Japanese homophones/pun to common terms in the same exact fashion, all written in different kanji than their original versions.
* In *Guilty Gear XX*, her false bounty described her as "A merciless swordswoman who slices her opponents into ribbons with her arsenal of dark weapons."
* Both Baiken and Jam possess a move called Mawarikomi.
* Baiken is a smoker, appearing with a *kiseru* in some of her victory poses.
* In one of the endings for *A Core Plus*, Baiken claims to have cast away her gender. However, due to how the ending contradicts future events that occurs in the series (eg. Baiken killing I-No within the ending yet the latter appearing later on in *Xrd & Strive* unscathed), it is currently uncertain if Baiken has actually done so canonically.
	+ This is also made more uncertain given how Baiken had became a serial killer within the ending (being referred to as "Baiken the Killer" by Ky), which strongly contradicts to how Baiken is like in her appearance in *Xrd* and *Strive*.
* A costume based on Baiken's *Xrd* look, for Maria S Leonburg, appears in *#COMPASS*.
* Baiken has made guest appearances in the following games: *Brave Frontier*, *Chain Chronicle 3*, *#COMPASS*, *Last Period*, *Crusaders Quest*, *Epic Seven*, *Elemental Story*, *Code Shifter*, *The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Online*, *Samurai Shodown* (2019), and *The King of Fighters All Star*.