Gwyn Reynolds: Character Arc Breakdown: Beyond Cold Equations
"My whole life I've been surrounded by numbers."
When we first meet Gwyn he's very much living a sheltered life steeped in his very mechanical view of the world. After meeting Dante however, this perfect order begins to unravel. When they battle, instead of shattering as he predicted it would, Dragon came out of the battle intact. It survived. This frustrated the carefully calculated outcome Gwyn envisioned.
"Everything can be described with equations."
For the first time his calculations didn't provide the perfectly predictable answer born from the razor sharp precision he was used to achieving. From then on we see the carefully structured shell of predictability he constructed around himself continue to unravel. And he spends the majority of the season trying to maintain it. Maintain his grip on what he believes the world to be.
"Everything in the world can be explained by numbers."
Again and again the friendship between Dante, Delta and Arman defy this idea. The way they increase each other's strength in battle and the way their support pushes each other forward. The idea that friendship between people can empower them is something that can't be measured or calculated which is something that is non-existent in the perfectly manicured world of numbers and equations that Gwyn created for himself. Which they did a great job visualizing.
When this fundamental aspect to his thought process was challenged, it threw his understanding of the world into chaos. He thought things like friends were a waste of time. Dante was the focal point for this frustration of his worldview and it's for this reason he declared his for hatred Dante.
It was only once he understands there is more to the world and to life than the equations he wrapped himself in was he able to find joy in something beyond the mathematical.
He finally understood their was more to life than what he'd been surrounded by in his sheltered existence. Gwyn's arc is a lesson in expanding one's horizons beyond what they're surrounded by. There's much to know beyond what we're accustomed to. Gwyn is a unique antagonist among the pantheon of Beyblade adversaries and a welcome one with clear characterization and depth.