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-== Character Information ==
+{{revamp}}
-DJ #03 - DUEL<br>
-Age - 25 (2dx3)<br>
+= Character Information =
+[[Image:HV Duel.png|thumb|200px|Duel's [[AC HEROIC VERSE|HEROIC VERSE]] appearance.]]
+Old DJ #03/New DJ #11 - DUEL<br>
+Real name - Leonard Baxter <br>
+Age - 23<br>
 Blood type - O<br>
 Birthplace - London<br>
-Likes - black tea (drinking milk tea)
+Likes - black tea (drinking milk tea), sushi, Drum'n Bass, Happy Hardcore<br>
+Introduced in: [[AC 3rd style|IIDX 3rd style]], but didn't appear in videos until [[AC 7th style|IIDX 7th style]]
+= Character Backstory =
+== Arcadia (Goli's Graphic Gallery) / IIDX bible ==
+Duel is originally from East London, the mecca of clubbing, in England. In the past, he naturally liked clubs with an underground atmosphere, but recently he's been listening to music that incorporates a wide variety of elements.
+A former hooligan with a passion for soccer, Duel was a teenager who often got into trouble for assaults. However, a fascination with Japanese movies brought him to Japan after a change of heart. Duel stopped by a video game arcade once, and fell in love with IIDX. He was so impressed with Japanese culture that he founded "TO-RA-YA," a company selling pure Japanese culture, in order to develop an online business for Japanese connoisseurs in his home country. He has been promoting Japanese music and culture to the world. He was a leading provider of Japanese music and culture to the world, but went bankrupt in the wake of the recession. However, he published a book, aided by his study of Japanese history and his hobby of memorizing dialects of various regions of Japan. His first book, "Matcha Milk Tea" became a phenomenal hit around the world. With the royalties, he bought his own IIDX machine.
+Seeing the beauty of Japanese taste with the green color of wasabi, he has been going to "Tetsu Sushi" every day for a month. He was living an elegant royalty life, eating high-class sushi as usual. However, after the sushi, he sometimes orders a cup of tea, only to have [[Tekka]]'s grandfather sprinkle salt on his face. Even so, he is picky about his tea time. He likes the tanning he and [[Ereki]] had at a tanning salon, and he promotes it to Tekka as well. Is it because of the Japanese beauty or because of the black hair of [[Sakura (character)|the red girl]] that [[Q-Jack]] is chasing around?
+== Arcadia (ROOTS26) ==
+When Duel was a teenager in London, his parents' retail store went bankrupt due to the stock market crash of its parent company. Duel's life became extremely impoverished, and he became a broker in the black market in his mid-teens just to survive. His father fled to alcohol and drugs in order to escape his debt-ridden life, causing Duel to lose both the father he looked up to and his childhood dream of becoming a soccer player. The anger of poverty turned the once passionate soccer boy into a "hooligan" who repeatedly engaged in violent brawls at the stadium. Duel was blacklisted by the Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police), and hid in the underworld when he caused trouble. However, this life came to an end after several years when Duel was stabbed with a knife, and critically injured in a fight over territory rights.
-== Character Backstory ==
+While recovering in the hospital, a chance viewing of a Japanese movie introduced him to the colorful culture of Japan, a stark contrast from the gray, smoggy London he grew up in. From the movie "[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo Otoko wa Tsurai yo]," Duel came across the words "[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri_(Japanese) GIRI]" (social obligation) and "[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninj%C5%8D NIN-JYO]," (compassion) and decided to move to Japan. After traveling around Japan for a while, Duel decided to apply his skills and business acumen from his black market days to the real world. Duel developed an online business, and his books on culture from British and Japanese perspectives sold well worldwide, and he was able to live off the royalties. He has given his parents back at home a loan to rebuild their store, and is currently working on a new business venture of his own. Through all of this, he has always been supported by the memory of the milk tea his father used to make for him when he was a child.
-Duel is an English import. As a boy he was something of a troublemaker, and was always getting into fights. However, at one point he happened to see one of the movies from the long running series "Otoko wa Tsurai yo". Impressed by the protagonist, Tora, he decided to reform, and eventually ended up studying overseas ... in Japan. There, he discovered and immersed himself in IIDX.
-Duel has a high regard for order and civilization, and always observes tea time. Eventually, he'd like to start a net business for his friends back in England, selling Japanese music and spreading Japanese culture throughout the world. His speech is a little weird, as it's influenced by the dialects of Japanese speakers all over the country.
+= Trivia =
+* Duel appears in beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS's poster and intro. He's holding a machine gun and bites a rectangular necklace.
+= Video Appearances =
-{{IIDX Character}}
+*[[MAX 300]]
-[[Category:IIDX Characters]]
+*[[LOVE SHINE]]
+*[[DoLL]]
+*[[FAKE TIME]]
+*[[EDEN]]
+*[[EMPTY OF THE SKY]]
+*[[TOE JAM]]
+*[[ALFARSHEAR Futatsukamui ni mawaru yume|ALFARSHEAR 双神威に廻る夢]]
+*[[Parasite World]]
+*[[ZERO|零 - ZERO -]] (GOLI [[CS DistorteD]] Edition)
+*[[RootAge|R∞tAge]]
+*[[GO OVER WITH GLARE -ROOTAGE 26-]]
+*[[EROICA]]
+*[[RAGE feat.H14 of LEONAIR]]
+*[[BIGWAVERS]]
+= Gallery =
+<gallery class="center">
+duel.jpg|Duel in Arcadia magazine.
+DuelResortAnthemDJLevelA.png|Duel from a result screen in [[AC Resort Anthem|Resort Anthem]].
+</gallery>
---[[User:Vjgyo|Vjgyo]] 21:37, 18 Apr 2006 (EDT)
+{{IIDX Character}}
+[[Category:beatmania IIDX Characters]]