History Characters / KamenRiderGeatsProtagonists

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* DropTheHammer: Her first Armed Buckle weapon is the ''Raise Hammer''. Boost/Hammer form enlarges it to be as ''tall as she is'' with [[RocketPoweredWeapon an additional rocket booster on its head]].

[[caption-width-right:260:The Celebrity Influencer]]

** Neon herself is on the receiving end of this when [[spoiler:she is outed as the Desastar]]; neither Keiwa nor Ace hold it against her after the events of the ''Divergence'' DGP and treat her as if it never happened.

** [[spoiler:Her ''Series/AmongUs'' imposter-inspired Desastar status nay also foreshadow the fact that she isn't a real person, and is created as a ReplacementGoldfish for Akari, the Kuramas' original daughter.]]

* HatesTheirParent. Downplayed. Her parents' mistreatment makes her resentful of them to try getting away from her household, though she still worries about their well-being.

* HourglassPlot: Starts off the series as one of the most naive participants in the DGP who relied on Raise Claw, and is later mentored by an older woman, Sae, who partners with her and helps her with her problems. In the "Yearning" arc, she takes Sara -- who's as naive as she used to be and also uses Raise Claw, but is older than her like Sae -- as a mentee and forms a fighting duo with her, while helping to keep her safe. [[spoiler:She also ends up TakingTheBullet for both girls against when Michinaga attacks them.]]

** Despite being introduced as a girl who looks for "true love", #1 [[DefiedTrope defies]] RescueRomance after Ace rescued her. She's instead repulsed by his attempts to flirt with her despite being thankful for the rescue.
** For someone who receives no love due to being raised by cold, unsentimental parents of [[AbusiveParents both]] [[ParentalNeglect extremes]] who only want her to use her for their company's growth, including ArrangedMarriage, her own emotional well being be damned, she somehow has spades of it to others.

* JerkassBall: In the beginning of ''Divergence'' arc, she seems colder towards Keiwa, dismissing him and goes ballistic to him with little provocation. [[spoiler:This would later be explained that she's revealed as the [[{{Griefer}} Desastar]], where she has mission cards she's forced to do, such as throwing bombs to other Riders, in contrast to [[JerkJock Sae]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Daichi]]'s behavior. InUniverse, Ace notes that she has changed when she tries to accuse him.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:ZigZagged. As the Desastar, she's incentivized to commit acts of sabotage against the other Riders, and actually helping them fight the Jyamato only makes it harder for her to win. Not that it stops her from doing so anyway. Though her being helpful and minimizing her sabotage might also contribute into reducing suspicions off her.]]

* StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: Neon claims that she's used to sneaking out from home to run away from her parents, which contributes to her being quite good at basketball as Sae noted.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her name contains the kanji for "sound", [[OddNameOut in contrast to]] Kousei's ('''光'''聖) and Irumi's (from "'''illumi'''nate"), both of which have to do with light. [[spoiler:She's not Kousei and Irumi's real daughter, and was created when Kousei wished for the Goddess of Desire to create an ideal heir after his daughter Akari died.]]

* HourglassPlot: Starts off the series as one of the most naive participants in the DGP, and is later mentored by an older woman, Sae, who partners with her and helps her with her problems. In the "Yearning" arc, she takes Sara -- who's as naive as she used to be, but is older than her like Sae -- as a mentee and forms a fighting duo with her, while helping to keep her safe. [[spoiler:She also ends up TakingTheBullet for both girls against when Michinaga attacks them.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:As the Desastar, she's incentivized to commit acts of sabotage against the other Riders, and actually helping them fight the Jyamato only makes it harder for her to win. Not that it stops her from doing so anyway.]]

* SpoiledSweet: Neon's extremely wealthy, and it's implied that since childhood she had almost everything she ever wanted handed to her, but she's a sincerely nice girl without a mean bone in her body. While the ''spoiled'' part is downplayed considering how [[AbusiveParents her mother Irumi]] treats her, [[spoiler:it gets played straight after she makes amends with Irumi, who's happily offering to let Neon get anything she wants in #45.]]

* TheCutie: The series producer describes her as a beacon of light, and she generally serves to keep the series lighthearted in whatever scenes she's in; her death has things take a noticeably darker turn until she's revived.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Even after being betrayed by Kanato, she still tries to talk some sense into him after hearing his wish and backstory, [[spoiler:and when he returns, tries to convince him that he can be happy without bringing others down.]] She feels bad over the killed non-delinquent Jyamato. [[spoiler:Once she's no longer living with her abusive mother, she's still concerned enough about Irumi to visit her and see how she's taking the news of Kousei's arrest. Later, she gives Kousei [[YouAreBetterThanWhoYouThinkYouAre a pep talk]] after saving him, even giving him a handkerchief to wipe off his bloodied lip.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Yearning'' arc has this for her, with her stint as Kamen Rider Hakubi being highlighted and other characters catering to her, like Keiwa and Neon focusing on protecting her from antagonists like Michinaga and Daichi.

* TheCutie: The series producer describes her as the beacon of light, of which she's kept around to make the series not too dark before her demise.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: She has similar quirkiness, averageness, and sense of justice as Keiwa, and her henshin pose takes Keiwa's start while ending with Neon's.

* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: GenderFlipped. She's this in Daichi's eyes, at least, she's someone unremarkable who leads a boring, simple life. At first, he thinks nothing of her memories when he takes them, but after his change in perspective later on, he finds her ability to be happy with the simple things in life interesting enough that he actively protects her so that he can try to understand ''how'' she finds this satisfaction.

* CharacterFocus: The ''Yearning'' arc has this for her, with her stint as Kamen Rider Hakubi being highlighted and other characters catering to her, like Keiwa and Neon protecting her from antagonists like Michinaga and Daichi.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: She's generally as quirky and goofy as Keiwa is, and her henshin pose takes Keiwa's start while ending with Neon's.

* RidiculouslyAverageGirl: In Daichi's eyes, at least, she's someone unremarkable who leads a boring, simple life. At first, he thinks nothing of her memories when he takes them, but after his change in perspective later on, he finds her ability to be happy with the simple things in life interesting enough that he actively protects her so that he can try to understand ''how'' she finds this satisfaction.

* TheHeart: Neon's kind-hearted, generous nature inspires several other characters to befriend her without much effort, and even Ace himself has a tendency to look after her when he can. Michinaga tries to convince Keiwa to get back to his normal self after his FaceHeelTurn by telling Keiwa that she's been kidnapped. This even lets her get through to her parents; despite her strained relationship with them, her unfailing persistence in looking out for them and helping them stick together ultimately has them give her the genuine love she's wanted so badly.

* PunnyName: Na-Go's preferred Raise Buckle and the armor it grants is colored gold, cyan, pink, and silver, all in a metallic finish. All four are considered ''Neon'' colors.

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* SympathyForTheDevil: Even after being betrayed by Kanato, she still tries to talk some sense into him after hearing his wish and backstory, [[spoiler:and when he returns, tries to convince him that he can be happy without bringing others down. Once she's no longer living with her abusive mother, she's still concerned enough about Irumi to visit her and see how she's taking the news of Kousei's arrest. Later, she gives Kousei [[YouAreBetterThanWhoYouThinkYouAre a pep talk]] after saving him, even giving him a handkerchief to wipe off his bloodied lip.]]

* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Sanguine

** Both Neon and Ace are famous celebrities with familial issues and fixations on the past -- Ace is searching for the mother who left him [[spoiler:thousands of years ago after giving birth to his first incarnation, and wants to learn why he's even reincarnating]], while Neon just wants to be loved the way she remembers prior to her kidnapping. [[spoiler:Both were created by the Goddess of Creation, inherit the memories of their past incarnations, and use creation-based powers in their [[SuperMode final form]]. They also eventually realize that [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong they've always had the latent traits they're looking for]]; Ace's {{Reincarnation}} stems from his desire to see his mother again, and Neon has always had the ability to experience true love, but didn't realize how much others cared for her]]. The difference between them is that Neon initially wants to run away from her life in order to find genuine love, while Ace wished for a celebrity lifestyle himself as part of gaming the DGP's wishes to try to find his mother. Neon is also [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense naive and can be occasionally out of touch with how things work]], compared to Ace who has an untold amount of worldly knowledge and experience due to being Really700YearsOld [[spoiler:via inheriting the memories of all his previous incarnations from 1 AD; Neon, by contrast, only inherits the memories of the [[DeathOfAChild short-lived]] Akari. Additionally, Ace's RealityWarping creation powers come from himself, while Neon's Fantasy Buckle is a reproduction of Ace's powers that he created himself. In #49 when Ace recreated the world he also wipes the memories of himself from everyone's memories which was what Neon's wish was in the Yearning Arc which she decided not to fulfill in the end. It's implied that part of the reason Ace wiped everyone's memories of himself would be considered his way of resignation of his celebrity career in order to serve his duties as a full-fledged god to watch over and ensure the world remains a place for everyone to be happy while Neon continues her celebrity career with her supporter Kyuun as her producer.]]

** Both Neon and Ace are famous celebrities with familial issues and fixations on the past -- Ace is searching for the mother who left him [[spoiler:thousands of years ago after giving birth to his first incarnation, and wants to learn why he's even reincarnating]], while Neon just wants to be loved the way she remembers prior to her kidnapping. [[spoiler:Both were created by the Goddess of Creation, inherit the memories of their past incarnations, and use creation-based powers in their [[SuperMode final form]]. They also eventually realize that [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong they've always had the latent traits they're looking for]]; Ace's {{Reincarnation}} stems from his desire to see his mother again, and Neon has always had the ability to experience true love, but didn't realize how much others cared for her]]. The difference between them is that Neon initially wants to run away from her life in order to find genuine love, while Ace wished for a celebrity lifestyle himself as part of gaming the DGP's wishes to try to find his mother. Neon is also [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense naive and can be occasionally out of touch with how things work]], compared to Ace who has an untold amount of worldly knowledge and experience due to being Really700YearsOld [[spoiler:via inheriting the memories of all his previous incarnations from 1 AD; Neon, by contrast, only inherits the memories of the [[DeathOfAChild short-lived]] Akari. Additionally, Ace's RealityWarping creation powers come from himself, while Neon's Fantasy Buckle is a reproduction of Ace's powers that he created himself. In #49 when Ace recreated the world he also wipes the memories of himself from everyone's memories which was what Neon's wish was in the Yearning Arc which she decided not to fulfill in the end. It's implied that part of the reason Ace wiped everyone's memories of himself would be considered his way of resignation of his celebrity career in order to serve his duties of his newfound complete godhood to watch over and ensure the world remains a place for everyone to be happy while Neon continues her celebrity career with her supporter Kyuun as her producer.]]

** Both Neon and Ace are famous celebrities with familial issues and fixations on the past -- Ace is searching for the mother who left him [[spoiler:thousands of years ago after giving birth to his first incarnation, and wants to learn why he's even reincarnating]], while Neon just wants to be loved the way she remembers prior to her kidnapping. [[spoiler:Both were created by the Goddess of Creation, inherit the memories of their past incarnations, and use creation-based powers in their [[SuperMode final form]]. They also eventually realize that [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong they've always had the latent traits they're looking for]]; Ace's {{Reincarnation}} stems from his desire to see his mother again, and Neon has always had the ability to experience true love, but didn't realize how much others cared for her]]. The difference between them is that Neon initially wants to run away from her life in order to find genuine love, while Ace wished for a celebrity lifestyle himself as part of gaming the DGP's wishes to try to find his mother. Neon is also [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense naive and can be occasionally out of touch with how things work]], compared to Ace who has an untold amount of worldly knowledge and experience due to being Really700YearsOld [[spoiler:via inheriting the memories of all his previous incarnations from 1 AD; Neon, by contrast, only inherits the memories of the [[DeathOfAChild short-lived]] Akari. Additionally, Ace's RealityWarping creation powers come from himself, while Neon's Fantasy Buckle is a reproduction of Ace's powers that he created himself. In #49 when Ace recreated the world he also wipes the memories of himself from everyone's memories which was what Neon's wish was in the Yearning Arc which she decided not to fulfill in the end. It's implied that part of the reason Ace wiped everyone's memories of himself would be considered his way of resignation of his celebrity career in order to serve his duties of his newfound complete godhood to make the world a happier place for everyone while Neon continues her celebrity career with her supporter Kyuun as her producer]]

** Both Neon and Ace are famous celebrities with familial issues and fixations on the past -- Ace is searching for the mother who left him [[spoiler:thousands of years ago after giving birth to his first incarnation, and wants to learn why he's even reincarnating]], while Neon just wants to be loved the way she remembers prior to her kidnapping. [[spoiler:Both were created by the Goddess of Creation, inherit the memories of their past incarnations, and use creation-based powers in their [[SuperMode final form]]. They also eventually realize that [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong they've always had the latent traits they're looking for]]; Ace's {{Reincarnation}} stems from his desire to see his mother again, and Neon has always had the ability to experience true love, but didn't realize how much others cared for her]]. The difference between them is that Neon initially wants to run away from her life in order to find genuine love, while Ace wished for a celebrity lifestyle himself as part of gaming the DGP's wishes to try to find his mother. Neon is also [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense naive and can be occasionally out of touch with how things work]], compared to Ace who has an untold amount of worldly knowledge and experience due to being Really700YearsOld [[spoiler:via inheriting the memories of all his previous incarnations from 1 AD; Neon, by contrast, only inherits the memories of the [[DeathOfAChild short-lived]] Akari. Additionally, Ace's RealityWarping creation powers come from himself, while Neon's Fantasy Buckle is a reproduction of Ace's powers that he created himself.]]

** Neon and Keiwa are similar in a few ways. They're both main Riders that started off as [[NaiveNewcomer fresh faces]] in the DGP and got tricked by other Riders (Keiwa by Ace, and Neon by Kanato), but both GrewASpine and TookALevelInBadass later, while still [[HeroicSelfDeprecation thinking poorly of their own abilities]] and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife undergoing a life crisis]]. They both spend a fair bit of time in their base forms before getting an upgrade in the ''Genesis'' arc (though Keiwa gets the Command Buckle as a midway step), and they both look after Sara once she becomes Kamen Rider Hakubi, who pays tribute to them by mimicking both of their henshin poses. However, they're also radically different in other aspects--Keiwa is TheEveryman initially struggling to find a job, but still living happily with his CoolBigSis despite their dead parents; Neon, by contrast, is TheOjou and a famous celebrity, and has both of her parents but an extremely poor relationship with them due to her mother's controlling nature and her father's secrecy. Their Boost debuts also contrast each other--Na-Go is shown dominating against {{Mooks}}, while Tycoon is shown failing against the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Finally, they're juxtaposed with each other in the ''Genesis'' arc: Neon realizes that she can fulfill her wish without the DGP and is fully supportive of Ace's vision of a better world, gaining her formerly AbusiveParents' love in the process, while Keiwa's already eroded trust combined with the loss of Sara causes him to turn his back on Ace's vision and ally with the DGP in an effort to bring her back, causing him to be alienated from everyone else.]]

* RidiculouslyAverageGirl: In Daichi's eyes at least, she's someone unremarkable who leads a boring simple life. At first, he thinks nothing of her memories, though later this'd intrigue him to learn about her happiness, including protecting her.

** Neon and Keiwa are similar in a few ways. They're both main Riders that started off as [[NaiveNewcomer fresh faces]] in the DGP and got tricked by other Riders (Keiwa by Ace, and Neon by Kanato), but both GrewASpine and TookALevelInBadass later, while still [[HeroicSelfDeprecation thinking poorly of their own abilities]]. They both spend a fair bit of time in their base forms before getting an upgrade in the ''Genesis'' arc (though Keiwa gets the Command Buckle as a midway step), and they both look after Sara once she becomes Kamen Rider Hakubi, who pays tribute to them by mimicking both of their henshin poses. However, they're also radically different in other aspects--Keiwa is TheEveryman initially struggling to find a job, but still living happily with his CoolBigSis despite their dead parents; Neon, by contrast, is TheOjou and a famous celebrity, and has both of her parents but an extremely poor relationship with them due to her mother's controlling nature and her father's secrecy. Their Boost debuts also contrast each other--Na-Go is shown dominating against {{Mooks}}, while Tycoon is shown failing against the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Finally, they're juxtaposed with each other in the ''Genesis'' arc: Neon realizes that she can fulfill her wish without the DGP and is fully supportive of Ace's vision of a better world, gaining her formerly AbusiveParents' love in the process, while Keiwa's already eroded trust combined with the loss of Sara causes him to turn his back on Ace's vision and ally with the DGP in an effort to bring her back, causing him to be alienated from everyone else.]]

* RecurringExtra: For much of the early episodes, Keiwa and Sara are regular customers of his restaurant, with Keiwa even becoming his employee later on. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome He disappears as the story shifts away from the characters' personal lives and more towards the DGP itself]], but returns in the penultimate episode.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Neon shows the most variation in the cast in her choice of hairstyle and wardrobe, showing off a new expensive-looking getup at least OnceAnEpisode after the show breaks out of the LimitedWardrobe enforced by the DGP uniforms. Even with the limited wardrobe in place, she still switches her hairstyle around every episode or two.

* RecurringExtra: For much of the early episodes, Keiwa and Sara are regular customers of his restaurant, with Keiwa even becoming his employee later on. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome He disappears as the story shifts away from the characters' personal lives and more towards the DGP itself]].

* DeadAllAlong: Neon was known to be kidnapped when she was a child, but survived. [[spoiler:Turns out that Neon was a replacement of the Kurama family's real daughter Akari, who actually died in said kidnapping attempt.]]

** Both Neon and Ace are famous celebrities with familial issues, yet holds some fixation on the past relating to that which they still run into - Ace's first mother who left him thousands of years ago, and Neon's household when things go south for her. [[spoiler:Both were created by the Goddess of Creation and inherit the memories of their past incarnations, and use creation-based powers in their [[SuperMode final form]]. Both also eventually got conclusion in their stories learning the [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong latent traits they're looking for]]; Ace's creation powers for his {{Reincarnation}} and Neon's capacity of love for others]]. The difference between them is that Neon wants to run away from that lifestyle (particularly from her abusive mother) to find genuine love, while Ace is hellbent on finding his mother, to the point of wishing for a celebrity lifestyle himself as part of gaming the DGP system for ages due to his simpler wish regarding his mother being completely rejected. Neon is also [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense naive and can be occasionally out of touch with how things work]], compared to Ace who has an untold amount of worldly knowledge and experience due to being Really700YearsOld [[spoiler:via inheriting the memories of all his previous incarnations from 1 AD, while Neon only inherits the memories of the [[DeathOfAChild short-lived]] Akari. Additionally, Ace's RealityWarping creation powers come from himself, while Neon's Fantasy Buckle is a reproduction of Ace's powers that he created himself.]]
** Neon and Keiwa are similar in a few ways. They're both main Riders that started off as [[NaiveNewcomer fresh faces]] in the DGP and got tricked by other Riders (Keiwa by Ace, and Neon by Kanato), but both GrewASpine and TookALevelInBadass later, while still suffering from HeroicSelfDeprecation (e.g. defeating the final boss of the ''Scheme'' DGP). They both spend a fair bit of time in their base forms before getting an upgrade in ''Genesis'' arc (though Keiwa gets the Command Buckle as a midway step), and they both look after Sara once she becomes Kamen Rider Hakubi, who pays tribute by mimicking both of their henshin poses. However, they're also radically different in other aspects--Keiwa is TheEveryman initially struggling to find a job, but still living happily with his CoolBigSis despite their dead parents; Neon, by contrast, is TheOjou and a famous celebrity, and has both of her parents but an extremely poor relationship with them due to her mother's controlling nature and her father's secrecy. Their Boost debuts also contrast each other--Na-Go is shown dominating against {{Mooks}}, while Tycoon is shown failing against the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Finally, they're juxtaposed with each other in the ''Genesis'' arc: Neon realizes that she can fulfill her wish without the DGP and is fully supportive of Ace's vision of a better world, gaining her formerly AbusiveParents' love in the process, while Keiwa's already eroded trust combined with the loss of Sara causes him to turn his back on Ace's vision and ally with the DGP in an effort to bring her back, causing him to be alienated from everyone else.]]

* TheHeart: Neon's kind-hearted, generous nature inspires several other characters to befriend her without much effort, and even Ace himself has a tendency to look after her when he can. Michinaga tries to convince Keiwa to get back to his normal self after his FaceHeelTurn by telling Keiwa that she's been kidnapped. Though her family is strained, she helps them stick together, earning her wish of genuine love herself.

* ObliviousToLove: Non-romantic variant. Despite forming meaningful relationships with others, she seems to be unaware of how much people care deeply for her, due to how long she hadn't been outright told before, rooting from her lonely upbringing via her controlling mother. [[spoiler:Learning about her origins further makes her think that she's not capable of being loved. As shown in #36, she's shocked when Keiwa refers to her as his friend and doesn't realize how sincere Sara's devotion to her as a fan truly is. She has to be explicitly told that she's loved to make her recognize it, as #44 shows, regaining her happiness in the process.]]

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: She's a wealthy heiress and famous influencer whose naïvete means she doesn't realize that her live-streaming makes it easy to track her location or that people like Kanato can exploit her fame for their own ends. She is also unaware that the typical soba shop wouldn't have [[SnootyHauteCuisine caviar]] until Ace points it out. [[spoiler:Sara opts to help her alleviate this when she moves in to a new house, not knowing that the commoners pack things by themselves.]]

* SpoiledSweet: Neon's extremely wealthy, and it's implied that since childhood she had almost everything she ever wanted handed to her, but she's a sincerely nice girl without a mean bone in her body. Though the ''spoiled'' part may be downplayed considering how [[AbusiveParents her mother]] treated her, [[spoiler:but is played straight when she make amends with her, and is shown offering her to get any stuff she wants in #45.]]