Baiken

Baiken is a DLC guest character from Arc System Works' Guilty Gear series who appears in Samurai Shodown (2019). She is voiced by Mayumi Asano, the same voice actress who voices her in the Guilty Gear Xrd series.

Personality
Hailing from an alternate reality where not only her family but Japan itself have been destroyed by Gears – living weapons created from infusing humans with magic that rebelled against their creators – Baiken is an aggressive, impulsive and anti-social person motivated solely by revenge, and her sole drive is wanting to kill "That Man". She has remained bitter over her family's demise and intensely hates Gears. She tolerates a small handful of characters, such as Anji Mito, to a certain extent. Though she dislikes the idea of the Japanese being treated like a special race, she occasionally shows pride towards her heritage. Baiken also comes off as a masculine female character, and she mentions that she has abandoned her gender. Despite her rough personality, she is capable of compassion and mercy.

Powers

 * Ki Manipulation: Being of Japanese descent, Baiken seems to possess the ability to manipulate Ki in the form of seals, although she is not reliant upon it nor as versatile in its usage as others in the series.
 * Object Summoning: She also seems to have knowledge of summoning magic in order to conjure tatami mats for her attacks.

Fighting Style
Boasting the claim that there is nothing her blade cannot cut, Baiken is considered to be a fearsome fighter, using her secret weapons and traditional Japanese katana with great skill despite the loss of her eye. Her secret weapons, designed to surprise her opponents, are hidden within the sleeve of her severed arm: a Japanese mace, a feudal cannon, a bladed fan, a chain rope, a hook, a claw, and a spear.

Music

 * Smoking Hot - Samurai Shodown (2019)

Trivia

 * Baiken is likely named, although using different kanji, after Shishido Baiken, an kusarigama-wielding Edo period samurai who had a duel with legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Notably, the song "Sun and Steel" by Iron Maiden is in tribute to Musashi.
 * Her theme in Samurai Shodown (2019), Smoking Hot, contains elements from "Momentary Life" (her theme in Guilty Gear X & the Guilty Gear XX series), and "ROKUMON" (her theme in Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2).
 * Baiken appears as a Samurai Shodown (2019) as a guest DLC character, despite she not (yet) being playable in Guilty Gear Strive, the 2021 entry in the Guilty Gear series.