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197. Helmut Albarea
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It hurts to watch when a midboss doesn't know their place

Did anyone know his name is Helmut? I just saw it on the wiki, don't think it came up during the game. Anyway, Jusis and Rufus's dad. As you can imagine, not a very good person! Rufus wasn't actually his son, but he raised him as his own because he was a full blooded noble. Sounds good on paper, but it was solely to protect his family's reputation. Jusis was his son, but was born by a commoner woman, so Jusis was the red-headed stepchild and shunned by his father, in favor of Rufus. The point being, he cares less for his own son than his nephew, because of the amount of noble blood that each son has. Kind of fucked up, right?

He served as a midboss to the Noble faction behind Cayenne for the first two games, ultimately losing favor due to his actions in Celdic and being arrested and replaced as the head of house Albarea by Jusis himself. A fitting ending! The storyline is a pretty good one as far as the first two CS games goes, but daddy Albarea is shown to be a self serving ass who doesn't care about his family members, just their social standing. Not a very likeable character, and forgettable as soon as his arc ends. It gave Jusis the chance to grow and start accepting Machias though, so it was a necessary plotline. It would've been nice to have seen him again later in the series, experience some redemption or something. Would've raised him a bit on the list probably, really he just falls low due to being completely discarded after his arc ends.