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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

For some reason, there's this one part of the Gaim x Drive movie that really confused me. Takatora uses Duke's Genesis Driver to transform into Zangetsu-Shin, and not Duke Melon-Energy. At first it sounded like a plothole, but then I got to thinking:


What if, in the case of the Energy Lockseeds, the undersuits are actually tied to the lockseed and not the Driver itself? The regular lockseeds appear to be more 'natural' while the Energy Lockseeds, IIRC, were artificially created (hence the whole soda vs juice thing). There's one other type of artificial lockseed that shows up in the series, which is the Yomotsu Heguri lockseed, which has the ability to overwrite the undersuit data in Mitsuzane's belt (even if it is just a red repaint with slight retooling).

This would explain why Kaito still transforms into Baron Lemon-Energy rather than Duke Lemon-Energy with what we can assume is Ryoma's Genesis Driver. It would also explain why Takatora transforms into Zangetsu Shin instead of Duke with his original Melon-Energy lockseed.

Also there is no faceplate on the genesis driver.
The faceplate pretty much signifies that it is bonded to the vanilla user.
Maybe somewhere along the way Ryoma must have decided to remove this feature since there is the possibility of losing or getting the belt destroyed, which can result in a huge setback for example if you are outnumbered or are ambushed by enemies, etc.