Haken Browning

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

- Haken Browning

Haken Browning is one of the main protagonist characters of the Super Robot Wars spinoff series Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier.

Personality & History
Haken is a cool, chivalrous, yet slightly perverted (though it is implied that this is because of his foster father's influence as his father is shown acting in a similar manner) 23-year-old bounty hunter from Lost Herencia. He was originally found by John Moses on the Mai Tierra being cradled by Aschen Brodel and they are both adopted by him, upon growing up he takes over Moses's job of managing the ship Zeit Krokodil (Time Crocodile in German), serving as its captain and is noted to be similar to his Moses in many ways including their penchant for reckless, almost insane plans.

Artillery & Weaponry
His weaponry consist of a customized rifle with a built-in pile bunker and bayonet called the Night Fowl and a long-barreled handgun called the Longtomb Special. Haken's move-set consist of gunplay and an explosive set of playing cards.

Endless Frontier
Endless Frontier begins with Haken and Aschen preparing to explore the Mai Tierra, having obtained the license to do so. Inside the ship, they find princess Kaguya Nanbu of Kagura Amahara. After finding out about the bounty to return her safely to her home, They travel back to her world, but eventually get caught up in a mystery involving crystals growing in infesting areas around the Endless Frontier worlds, the wandering war machines Phantom, Nacht, and Abend, and a mysterious army of androids. During the course of these adventures, he also encounters Reiji Arisu, Xiaomu, Saya, KOS-MOS and T-elos, who had been drawn into the Endless Frontier.

Over the course of this adventure, Haken finds the truth of his origin deep within the bowels of the Mai Tierra: He is W00, the intial form of the W-Series Super-Soldiers of the Shadow-Mirror. But rather than a bioroid, Haken is a genetically-engineered human designed to be a superior soldier and pilot. After having determined that it would take too long for such soldiers to grow up, the W-Series project was switched over to bioroids instead. The infant Haken was placed on the Trilobite-class battleship Neverland, which was lost in the jump from the Shadow-Mirror universe. The rear half, containing Haken and the first samples of the W-Numbers ended up in Lost Herencia, where he and Aschen (W07) were found by John Moses. He would also discover that their worlds were the result of a war involving the Shadow-Mirror and a species of creatures known as the Einst. After fighting and destroying the Einst primary consciousness, Haken and his party found that the worlds of the Frontier has been merged into one, and their extra-dimensional comrades had been sent back to their own homes.

Project X Zone
Haken appears in the second, 10 minutes long trailer alongside other Namco characters with Kaguya Nanbu as his partner. He appears to know Sanger (the former commanding officer of his mother's alternate-dimensional counterpart) as he compliments him as a crew member of the Kurogane and pilot of Dygenguard.

His theme is "Where Infinities Meet", the remixed main theme of Super Robot Wars: Endless Frontier.

From Endless Frontier
Texas Hold'em
 * Haken knocks the enemy into the air with Night Fowl's blade, fires a string of bullets, then blasts them away with the Night Fowl's stake driver.

High Low Draw
 * Haken slashes the enemy into the air by tossing Night Fowl upwards, then fires his Longtomb Special several times into the enemy until his rifle comes down.

Best Flush
 * Haken spins his rifle, slashing the enemy and knocking them into the air, then juggles them with several explosive cards.

Five-Card Stud
 * Haken pierces the enemy with five charges of the Night Fowl's stake driver.

Jackpot Blind Bet (Support)
 * Haken opens fire with both the Night Fowl and Longtomb Special, knocking the enemy into the air and finishing with a leaping point-blank shot.
 * Haken jumps into the battle shooting both his guns at the enemy as in Jackpot, launches them higher with the Night Fowl's stake driver and knocks them back.

Last Showdown
 * Haken starts with High Low Draw before rushing behind the enemy to slash them like in Best Flush. He charges in front of the enemy again to stab them with the Night Fowl's stake driver. Finally, he unleashes a supercharged energy beam from the extended Longtomb Special.

Rampage Specter Ultimate Gespenst Kick
 * The Nacht and Abend double-team a single enemy with a version of the Alt Eisen and Weiss Ritter's Rampage Ghost combination.
 * A combination attack with the Phantom. Haken and the Phantom attacks the enemy with a combination of gun and blade attacks, and the Phantom finishes with a powerful diving kick and a beam cannon blast.

From Endless Frontier EXCEED
Texas Hold'em
 * Haken slashes twice before spraying bullets from the Night Fowl, then slashes two more times before knocking the enemy away with the Night Fowl's stake driver.

High Low Draw 2nd
 * An improved version of High Low Draw where after the Night Fowl returns, Haken juggles the enemy with his Night Fowl by shooting at it.

Fire Mouse
 * Haken knocks the enemy into the air with an exploding card and shoots them with the Night Fowl before surrounding himself with playing cards that push away the enemy.

Full House
 * Haken quickly slashes the enemy multiple times with the Night Fowl's blade before releasing an arc of bullets.

Seven Stud
 * An improved version of Five Card Stud where Haken pierces the enemy with seven charges instead of five.

Best Flush 2nd
 * An improved version of Best Flush where instead of letting the cards blow up themselves, Haken proceeds to shoot them with his Longtomb Special.

Jackpot
 * Haken opens fire with the Night Fowl and the Longtomb Special before leaping into the air, firing a point blank dual wielding shot.

Quad Solitaire
 * Haken opens fire with the Night Fowl, does an upwards slash and stabs the enemy with the Night Fowl's stake driver before quickly charging a laser beam that blows both the enemy and himself away.

Trivia

 * Haken's last name comes from Excellen Browning - Or rather Lemon Browning, his creator/mother. He also shares many similarities with Excellen, such as their flirtatious nature towards the opposite sex.
 * Haken is one of the two characters in Endless Frontier who references Sanger Zonvolt as they both share similar character designs; the other being Kaguya Nanbu.
 * Haken also references Kyosuke Nanbu, with a number of gambling themes (even moreso than Kyosuke), and a weapon that involves a stake driver.
 * Haken's weapon, Night Fowl, appears to be built with technology similiar to Alt Eisen's Revolving Stake, as seen in the manga that he pierced a Einst's armor and core while preforming a Texas Hold'em.