Bastion Misawa

Bastion Misawa is the teacher of Advanced Mathematics in Shōtotsu High School. He is a very analytical duelist (player of the Duel Monsters card game) and mathematician, who covers most of his cards and walls with formulae that he believes aid in becoming succesful on the game and life in general. He is often neglected by others, who rarely understand him.

Misawa is a supporting character in the first 3 seasons of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx anime, where his role was reduced and his presence ignored as the series progressed. In the manga, he plays a slightly larger role. He is roleplayed by the administrator of ACR, whose other character in the group is Walker Yumasaki.

Personality
Bastion is polite, calm and analytical, thinking that everything in life can be reduced to numbers. He’s very obsessed with creating strategies and formulas to win in the Duel Monsters card game, to the point that many of his cards and the bedroom walls are filled with such equations. He is prone to go crazy when moments of scientific enlightenment occur, cares for his friends, and is not tolerant of cheating and cheap tricks.

Biography
He was #1 in the Duel Academy entrance exams, but considered himself #2 until he could beat Jaden Yuki, which he never accomplished. For this reason, he stayed in the middle rank dorm of Ra Yellow and refused the chance to go up. As time passed by, he started to become neglected, and his role was just a sideline character rooting and commenting about duels with his friends, secret crush Alexis Rhodes and sometimes with rival Chazz Princeton. Due to the neglect he received when the evil Society of Light began to recruit top duelists and didn’t consider him, he decides to challenge their leader Sartorius to take down the organization, but is faced by brainwashed Chazz and is persuaded to lose by Sartorius, thus brainwashing him too. He remained ignored in the Society and bleached his hair to try catching attention. He returns to his senses after watching Jaden battle his idol, duel physicist Dr. Eisenstein, who re-inspired him, leading to Bastion following him to be his research assistant. In a quantum mechanics experiment, he is teleported into an alternate dimension where his friends are, and aids them in returning home, although he preferred to stay behind with human-shifting tigress Tania to rebuild the monster-filled dimension.

After a few months of helping out, he returned back to Earth and finished a master’s degree in Dueling Mathematics in record time by overloading himself with classes. He applied for a job as Advanced Math professor in Shōtotsu High School to promote scientific dueling, and hopefully inspire in other students the love for math and other sciences.

Appearance
Bastion is 20 years old, of mixed descent (part British and part Japanese), and of average height. He has black hair that is neatly arranged, with a large portion flushed back and slightly to his left, and featuring different layers.

He often wears green shirts and yellow vests in honor of his Ra Yellow dorm, and sometimes white (as a remnant from his Society of Light days).

Relationships
(work in progress)

Decks
Bastion has 7 decks with an 8 on the way. 6 are his elemental decks based on each of the attributes of the game and focused on a certain scientific field, but with other cards related to the element. For example, his Earth deck which (as shown in the anime/video games) is focused on electromagnetism also includes cards related to seismography and physics. His 7th deck remains as his overall strategy deck combining the best of each element to counter a specific opponent’s strategies. Bastion will be making an 8th deck based on the Thunder type (similar to the one he uses in Tag Force 3).

Earth Deck

Water Deck

Fire Deck

Wind Deck

Light Deck

Dark Deck

Seventh Deck

Other
More info can be found on his Headcanon page.