Gen Hagane

I want to walk on my own shadow, not in Gingka's because I am not Gingka Hagane, nor Gingka Hagane's sister, I have a name and that's Gen Hagane! - Gen Hagane in Beyblade Metal Fury

Gen Hagane (はがねげん, Hagane Gen) is one of the most important protagonists in Beyblade Metal Saga. She is known to the world as the 11th Legendary Blader and Number 1 Blader alongside her brother Gingka Hagane. Not only that, she also helped in becoming a temporary member of Team Gan Gan Galaxy with Gingka, Madoka Amano, Yu Tendu, Tsubasa Otori and Masamune Kadoya.

Appearance
She has light blonde hair till chin length. A lot of characteristics are similar to her twin brother Gingka, except her eyes are light blue in color. In Metal Fusion and Masters, she wears a black short umbrella skirt with a blue top with hoodie and brown gloves. She also wears brown boots.

Later in Metal Fury, she wears a white sleeveless top with a blue jacket. Instead of a skirt, she wears grey shorts with black stockings and the same brown boots.

When she was 7 years old, she used have long hair till her hips but after her mom's death, she felt that it was no use of keeping it so she cut it off. She used wear a blue jacket with red and white strips and a brown skirt.

Personality
Gen is a kind, caring and pretty girl blader. She is smart when compared to her brother Gingka which she always mentions to him when he does not get the ideas of somethings which make them start a fight. She gets angry when things becomes irritating like when her dad Ryo Hagane tells her that Tsubasa is her boyfriend and even when Gingka mentions that she likes Kyoya which is never the truth. She is friendly to almost everyone which is one of the characters that everyone likes about her. When it comes to battling, she has a huge spirit and is strong. But when someone taunts her about her mother in front of her, she gets emotional. This happened during her battle with Ryuga where she got out of control of the dark power in her which resulted in hurting herself. She didn't like people comparing her with Gingka which made her angry all the time. When she was little, she never gave up and just like Gingka, had a positive attitude even when she lost a match. But after her mother death, she never believed in bey spirits. Her thoughts were filled with her mother Aiko Hagane and fulfilling her wish of becoming the strongest woman blader in the world, in a way of promoting girls to battle too.

Just like Gingka, instead of having a huge desire for hamburgers, she has it for ice creams. Wherever she sees an ice cream shop, she would never leave that place until she gets one. She meets Tsubasa Otori when they both were little kids at a beyblade camp where she found him crying after he lost to a strong kid in a nearby forest. Despite not knowing him, she helps him by giving her old bey Luprio's fusion wheel which fit perfectly for his Eagle. This made Tsubasa satisfied and they became best of friends. However she disappeared from the camp without telling him which made them not see each other until 5 years later, they meet at the 10,000 points tournament as part of the Battle Bladers. But she never recognize who Tsubasa was to her in the past which Tsubasa knew because she lost her memories in an accident with Accalia. On her part, Gen remained mostly oblivious to Tsubasa's feelings for her and even considered him sometimes "weird" because of his shyness around her. But she later knew about Tsubasa's feelings when he confessed his love to her when he was affected by the dark power. Tsubasa forgot that he did but however Gen was even shocked to this. She never thought about loving somebody else because for her, she only loved her mom. But things got complicated because Ryuga told her that she can't fall in love with him which could result in Tsubasa's life in danger. Even when she said that she won't fall in love with Tsubasa, things didn't go the same as she started to have feelings for him ever since that day. But in order to keep her promise to Ryuga, she lied to Tsubasa that right now she just want to become stronger and love is a distraction to which Tsubasa becomes disappointed when they went alone to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Soon whenever she was around Tsubasa, she started to blush and couldn't talk properly to him which made Tsubasa think the same way about Gen just like Gen thought about Tsubasa. In Metal Fury Series, when she went back to Shanona Village where she met Asuna Miyamoto who had a crush on Tsubasa, she became jealous of her being with Tsubasa all the time, But however her opinion about Asuna changed when they battled with each other and Gen won. Asuna gives up the competition between who will be with Tsubasa but still teases her when Gen was near Tsubasa which resulted in making her blush and shock.

Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Gen first appears when she found Hokuto, the talking dog that guarded her after her dad's pretended death. After finding Hokuto, she meets up with her best friend Hyoma alongwith several others - Kyoya Tategami, Benkei, Madoka Amano and Kenta Yumiya which she later knew that they were searching for Gingka, her brother. Further more, she knew that Gingka came back to Koma village to set out to find the ancient scroll which said how to defeat the forbidden bey L-Drago. Hyoma later tells Gingka's friends that Gen is Gingka's twin sister and also a blader to which Gen shows her bey Accalia which Kyoya recognises. Kenta too recognises it and then they come to a conclusion that it was the second strongest dark legendary bey after L-Drago. She explains that it was her mother's bey and she got it after her mom's death which made her sad on the spot but then automatically she smiles weakly. Gingka's friends convince Hokuto to take them to the mountain peak where Gingka is. On their way the group faces a difficult trial in which Hyoma and Gen witnesses the power of Gingka's friends in friendship which seems to be very powerful. And in that moment Gingka returns to meet them halfway.

At night, Kyoya asks why she never battled in her life to which she replies that after her mother's death, her dad thought that she would end up getting the dark power just like her mom and that's the reason why he never allowed her to battle. Kyoya says that doesn't mean she has to stop battling and her mother gave Accalia for a reason. That's when Gen realizes the reason -to show the world that not only boys can be stronger but girls can do it too. That's why she gave her Accalia because she wanted her to accomplish the dream as she couldn't. But then Gen further tells that Hokuto will never allow her to go out of Koma village as it won't be safe for her. But Kyoya says that she has to tell him that she want to battle just like Gingka. Gen then thinks that he was right and said she will try and someday she will be strong just like her brother and Ryuga to which Kyoya says that before facing them, she has to face him to which Gen laughs. That was the first time in her life that she smiled to which Gingka and Hyoma were thrilled to see ever since her mom's death.

Soon Gingka and the others left the village and then a news arrived about a tournament called Survival Battle is gonna happen. Hyoma leaves the village to go check it out to which Gen was left alone. Then few days, she came to know about another tournament called Battle Bladers. This made Gen so exicted but at the same time she felt sad as she couldn't go. She was looking at the stars in the sky the same day and wished if her mom and dad were there with her as she got bored. Hokuto appears out of nowhere and asks whats wrong. She explains her situation and then says that she wants to get out of this village and battle too like Gingka. To her surprise, Hokuto understands her problem and tells her to follow her inside the house where Hokuto took out a box where she finally got her launcher and the other stuff. Hokuto says she can leave the village the next day and start her journey. He further adds that Aiko saw something in her like Ryo saw something in Gingka. Gen becomes happy and soon gets ready for the upcoming adventures.

The next day, she reaches Bey City and finds Hyoma with another girl Hikaru Hasama in the 10,000 bey points tournament. Later with Hyoma and Hikaru, she finds Gingka, Madoka, Kenta and Benkei. They have their lunch and talk about their bey points where she got to know Kyoya's to which she finds Kyoya an awesome blader. Gingka makes fun of her saying that she is in love with Kyoya to which she blushes and says its not the truth to which led them to fight with each other. After the talk, Gingka, Kenta and Benkei goes to search for Kyoya while Gen have her first battle with Hikaru. They battle and Aquario disappears but was easily found by Accalia because of Accalia's broad fusion wheel. Then Accalia changed modes and hits Aquaria. Aquaria loses power which made a chance for Accalia to go for its special move, Infinite Dark Pulse but she felt pain which made Accalia out of the stadium and Aquaria won. Gen then gets up from her sudden pain by Hyoma and remembered what her father Ryo Hagane told her that never battle or else she will turn up like her mother did. She later joined Gingka and the others to watch the tournament.

She gets lost after seeing the match between Gingka and Ryutaro. After a lot of twists and turns, she dashes into Tsubasa Otori. Since Kyoya's and Hikaru's battle was gonna start within seconds, she didn't chat with him and asked him the way to the audience seat. Later she finds Gingka, Madoka and Hyoma and takes a seat and observes the battle. She becomes amazed at Kyoya's battling style to which Madoka says she has a crush on Kyoya. Gen says she doesnt but Gingka then says he saw Gen's weird face when she has a crush on Hyoma for a month when they were little. Gingka taunts her again to which she feels irritated and further ignores him. Then at stadium B, after Benkei shows up, she was shocked to see Tsubasa as his opponent. Seeing her shock, Gingka asks whether she knows him to which Gen says that she met him a few minutes ago and he was the one who helped her to reach to them. Hyoma asks whether he hurted her to which Gen disagrees and asked why would he do that. Hyoma reveals that Tsubasa works for the Dark Nebula to which surprises her. She wonders why a nice guy like him would join a bad organisation like the Dark Nebula. Later Tsubasa wins against Benkei and he advances to the final round. Kenta, Kyoya and Yu wins the Battle and goes on to the final round. In the final round, Kyoya wins the match and he receives 10,000 points making him enter Battle Bladers.

Gen starts travelling with Hyoma to help him with his bey points. On their way, after a burger lunch, she meets a kid named Luke who challenges Hyoma to battle. She says to Hyoma that it's a waste of time battling him and calls Luke "Little Kid". Luke on hearing this challenges Gen to battle him and he calls her “Blabbermouth” and shows his bey Gold Phoenix towards them. Hyoma warns Gen that she could get hurt like she battled with Hikaru but Gen refuses. They both starts to battle and both beys clashes with each other and drifts apart. Luke goes for his special move Flame Blast but it was no use on Accalia. Accalia was continuously hitting Phoenix but no luck. She went for her special move Infinite Dark Pulse but she was getting hurt. But slowly she started to control it and the move was pulled off which made Phoenix out of the stadium. Luke leaves them weirdly and says to her that the next time they meet, he would battle her and defeat her. Gen finally becomes happy about controlling the power of Accalia.

While Hyoma battles for 2,000 points, Gen meets Doji who requests her to go with him to the Dark Nebula where Ryuga wants more power. He believes that Accalia has more power than Pegasus and it would be a great feast for L-Drago. She refuses the invitation but after she saw a Dark Nebula member destroying Hyoma's bey Aries and seeing Hyoma suffering, she went with Doji to the Dark Nebula. Later, Hyoma knew about this by reading Gen's letter who she gave to the lady at the reception. He alerts Madoka and was afraid of how Gingka would react to it.

At the Dark Nebula headquarters, Gen was requested to battle the Kumade Brothers in order to make Accalia more powerful since she didn't battle for so long. She defeated with one hit and Tsubasa and Yu wanted to battle her but Ryuga came in. She starts to become angry as she know he was the one who caused her father's death. Ryuga challenges her to battle and she agrees to it. They both launch their beys and Accalia was in the lead. She went for her special move but it was no use as L-Drago disappeared from the spot. L-Drago hit Accalia from behind but Accalia was saved by the performance tip. Ryuga said to give up but Gen refuses as she remembers her battle with Hikaru. Then she noticed that Accalia can change modes and went for it. With Blast Mode, Accalia changes into Balance mode and absorbs L-Drago's power. Yu was afraid if L-Drago would lose. But Ryuga was laughing which shocks Gen as she didn't know what was going on. Ryuga says that he expected her to use the move which he relieves that she has fallen into his trap by giving L-Drago power. By that he uses his dark move Dragon Emperor Soaring Bite Strike which finished Accalia. In other words, Gen lost to him.

Gen was trapped in a room of the Dark Nebula headquarters. Doji comes in and says to her to join the Dark Nebula. Gen refuses and recalls about the deal she made with him before. Doji says he wants to do more experiments on her and also says the power of Accalia can be used. Gen was angry and was about to get out of the room but Doji locked it and left. Gen tried hitting the door but she was weak due to her battle with Ryuga the previous day. Later, while she was lying down, her mind reminded of her battle with Ryuga and it made her eyes turned purple and Accalia into purple flames. But she becomes herself. Suddenly an explosion occurs near the room's door. She got up from the bed and faced the door. She saw a bey on the floor. It was Eagle and Tsubasa came in. She took out her launcher and faced him. Tsubasa said that he wanted to talk to her about the truth and to follow him. She didn't believe him and refused to. Since he didn't have any other choice, he told her that he is a member of the WBBA. Gen still didn't believe him. Tsubas showed his ID to him and said that he will promise her that he would take her to her friends. After a lot of thinking, Gen agreed and followed him. On the way, Tsubasa stops in the way to look if there is anyone so that they could escape. Gen looks suspicious at him and moves forward. There was someone on the way and Tsubasa pulls her towards him and hides from them. After they left, he took out her hand and ran. They reached the rooftop and was about to escape but that's when Yu and Doji blocks them. They bring in other bladers to stop Tsubasa and Gen. After defeating them all, they were about to escape but suddenly a helicopter came near them. It was Ryuga. Ryuga challenges Tsubasa to a battle. Yu and Doji want to battle Tsubasa instead, but Ryuga begins to battle. Ryuga was going for his special move which Gen warns Tsubasa about it. Tsubasa is almost defeated by Ryuga until Phoenix saves him. Phoenix takes Gen and Tsubasa with him and thus they escape.

They reach a forest and Tsubasa asks who Phoenix is and why he helped them. Phoenix doesn't reply to his question but instead knows Tsubasa that he is a member of the WBBA. Tsubasa relieves to them that he was assigned by the WBBA to look into the Doji's plans and put a stop to it. He also said that he will defeat L-Drago to which Phoenix disagrees and says that Tsubasa lacked the power that Gingka had. The key was to know Gingka's friends. Tsubasa becomes angry at him. Before Phoenix leaves, Gen thanks him for rescuing them. Gen and Tsubasa are left alone in the forest. Gen notices Tsubasa holding his hand. She comes near him and takes a handkerchief from her pocket and wraps it around his arm since he had a minor scratch. Tsubasa asks why she helped him and Gen says that he helped her to escape and thanks him. Gen requests that she wants to be friends with Tsubasa because she knew who he really is. Tsubasa becomes shocked but later he smiles.

The next day, on the way to Bey City, Gen asks Tsubasa if he does not have friends then who is his eagle to him. Tsubasa replies that he thought she has asked him about human friends so he gave her the real reason. Gen says that a eagle can be considered as a friend as she has a talking dog (Hokuto) to which Tsubasa shocks. She says that once they get into the city, he will have new friends - Gingka and the others. Tsubasa says that he treated them badly and he thinks they won't. To this, Gen says that she will tell them the truth as she knows that they will believe her. She gives the names of the others but a lengthy explanation about Kyoya to which Tsubasa asks whether she had a thing for him. Gen blushes which Tsubasa notices and asks why she was blushing and she lies to him that she has an allergy of the forest. Tsubasa suspects her but he says that he was joking and said that she gave a description about Kyoya not the others. Gen says that it was because of Kyoya that she is with him. She later explains about her father's death and the rest of the story. Tsubasa says that he is sorry to which Gen says that she thought he knew about it. Tsubasa says that since she didn't battle in any tournaments, there was no information about Gen. Gen then asks how he knew who she was and Tsubasa says that Doji told him about it.

They reached Bey City but Gen wants to the headquarters of the WBBA to which Tsubasa shocks. Tsubasa asks why and Gen replies that the USB which contains every information about Doji's plans should be given to the WBBA which is more important than meeting her friends. Tsubasa says that they had a deal but Gen ignores it and says that she wants to know whether Tsubasa is lying to her about the WBBA to which she looks at him weirdly. Tsubasa who couldn't take her staring accepts her request and they go to the WBBA. On the reaching there, Gen was fascinated with the view of the WBBA since she lived her past life in a village where she never visited a large building. She gets distracted by the ice cream shop inside the headquarters. Tsubasa leaves her as he had a meeting with the Director of the WBBA. Later, after giving the USB, he sees Gen surrounded by the WBBA members. They were talking about how she escaped from the Dark Nebula with the help of Tsubasa to which he shocks. She says that she is glad to have a great friend like him on her side to which Tsubasa smiles. He later leaves her in the WBBA as he went to face Gingka and the others.

Gen later sees that Tsubasa was missing and from one of the members, she knew where he was. So she rushed out of the building and just on time, she reached the battle ground where she saw Tsubasa being treated badly by her brother and his friends. She comes in front of Tsubasa and says to the others the truth about Tsubasa and how he helped her by taking his WBBA ID and showing them. Gingka and the others believes what she said and then later, considered Tsubasa as their friend.

The next day, the Battle Bladers started. Gingka, Kenta, Tsubasa, Kyoya and Benkei were qualiied to the next round while Hikaru and Hyoma couldn't as they were defeated by Ryuga and Renji of the Dark Nebula which made Gen said. At the evening before the day of the second round, she was with Hyoma. Hyoma was sad of getting defeated by Reji to which Gen said to ignore it or else he will have a headache. He realizes that she was right but asked whether she thought of battling after her defeat with Ryuga to which she was in deep thought and left the room leaving Hyoma by himself.

She was outside the buliding and was thinking about her defeat as it was the first time that she has ever lost in her life. Kyoya appears on the scene to which she shocks. He asks why she is here at the night and at first, she lied to him to see the night sky but then Kyoya didn't believe it. She gets to know that he was facing Ryuga to which she becomes sad. Seeing her sad face, Kyoya said to not worry about him and he will defeat Ryuga for sure and he almost leaves her. But before he did so, he also said he wanted to battle her after Battle Bladers to which Gen cheers up and thus was happy.

The following day, the 2nd round began but then Doji changed the pairings of the bladers and as a result, Gingka faces Ryutaro, Kenta with Renji, Kyoya with Benkei and Tsubasa with Ryuga. Kenta and Benkei were defeated. It was time for Tsubasa's turn and again Gen gets lost. She dashes into Tsubasa again who was on his way to the stadium. They talk about Ryuga and Tsubasa says that he knows what to do this time. They part ways as Gen shakes her hand with him saying good luck. Gen reaches right on time for Tsubasa's match and the battle begins. She observes carefully and then finally Tsubasa defeats the dark move of L-Drago to which she shocks. But unfortunately L-Drago was just absorbing Eagle's power all along in other words, he fell into his trap. Tsubasa's power get's absorbed and Gen comes out of her seat to stop it but she was too late. Tsubasa was unconsious and thus defeated and Gen became more angry towards Ryuga for his way of dealing things.

Later on that day, she was in Tsubasa's hospital room to know his condition. The nurse gives Eagle to her to keep it safe and she said that she will inform Gen when Tsubasa will wake up. After Gingka defeats Renji in the quarter-finals, she, Gingka and Madoka later finds out Yu has been kidnapped by Doji for betraying the Dark Nebula and Kenta and Hyoma went after them. Just when things were wrapped up by Phoenix, Phoenix's identity was revealed and it was none other than Ryo Hagane, her and Gingka's father. Gingka later knew about Gen and Tsubasa being saved by him and asked Gen why she didn't tell him about it to which Gingka burst into tears and hugs his dad thus having a happy moment. Gen who didn't care that much about her dad, made fun of GIngka of being a crybaby to which Gingka pulls her towards Ryo and they all hug as a family. Later, they rescue Yu and then Ryo reveals why he had stayed hidden from both of his children and why he took away Gingka's points just before Battle Bladers had begun.

At the semifinals, Gen warns Kyoya about Ryuga and L-Drago because she knows how it really effects as she had battled Ryuga before. But Kyoya says he can defeat him and then once again told her that not worry about him. When Kyoya was about to lose Ryuga, this time Gen got up from her seat to save Kyoya and when the final clash of special moves arrived, Gen was found to absorb a power which was later revealed that it was the dark power. Kyoya thus loses and Gen faints from the attack. Few minutes later, Gen wakes up to which made everybody happy but GIngka wasn't. He asked why she ran off in the middle of the battle to which Gen shouts back that she was trying to save Kyoya as it was her fault and says if she had won against Ryuga in the first place, all the three of them, Tsubasa, Hikaru and Kyoya would have been okay. Gingka was surprised to hear what she said but then Gen says good luck to her brother and leaves the room with a big bang.

Thinking about what she said to Gingka, she was snapped out of her senses by the ice cream guy as she was in an ice cream shop. But however the ice cream guy was asking too many questions about Gingka knowing she was her brother to which she felt jealous and left the shop telling him to keep the change for the money she has given to him. While she was walking in the streets, she sees a crowd of people near a TV shop and goes towards it. Further, she sees her brother facing Ryuga and Gingka was confused to what to do with Pegasus. People around the screen thought he was going to lose to which Gen felt bad and looked at both Eagle and Accalia which suddenly began to glow. She knew what she had to do now - to support her brother and let Ryuga know what really beyblade is. She reaches on the spot and shows her bey towards Gingka saying it to win for everyone including herself. Accalia suddenly unleashes a beam of light towards Pegasus and Gingka feels her bey spirit and thus his energy was back and finally defeated Ryuga and L-Drago. Gingka thanks Gen for her support, Kyoya, Hikaru and Tsubasa wake up from their coma. Tsubasa asks for Eagle to Gen as he knew that she had it to which she gets embarrased and says she forgot about it and gave it back. Tsubasa gives her a handshake for a thank you but instead Gen hugs him to which everybody were looking at them and Ryo makes fun of them saying they are in love. Both of them blushes and Gen becomes angry with her dad for making fun of her and thus ending the Metal Fusion season.

Beyblade: Metal Masters
Gen and Ryo was found to be talking about Aiko Hagane to which Gen says that she will show her power to the world by taking part in the reopening tournament for the WBBA. She sees Yu in the crowd and goes towards him and they talk about battles. The Blader DJ announces that the tournament was about to start. After the first round, she was found to be in 2nd place which annoyed Yu who was in 3rd and Benkei at fourth place. She finds out that Tsubasa was the one in the first place and he comes towards them and praises Gen for being in the 2nd place. At the semi-finals, Gen defeats Yu and move onto the finals where her opponent was Tsubasa. They start their battle with a big clash and while both beys were almost gonna hit each other, another unknown bey came out of nowhere and came in between. The guy behind it came out from his hidding place and was revealed to be Masamune Kadoya. He claims himself as the no 1 blader to which both Gen and Tsubasa take their beys and said they didnt want to battle a blader who does not have manners. Yu battles him instead and later, Masamune released the truth that he wanted to battle Gingka to which Gen says it wasnt his lucky day and was at Koma village to which he leaves without completing the battle with Yu. Gen says the next time she battles with Tsubasa, she will be stronger to which Tsubasa agrees and Gen leaves them.

Gen was dissatisfied when she found out that she couldn't battle in the tournaments for the world championship since it was related to Battle Bladers. She was stuck with her brother who didn't also faced the same problem

Her storyline
https://www.wattpad.com/story/238703233-beyblade-the-girl-hagane (Metal Fusion, Masters and Fury)

https://www.wattpad.com/story/250811059-beyblade-tgh-love-of-tomorrow (Shogun Steel)