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#22 Loewe

This is one that could end up being controversial, because depending on what community you go to, Loewe is Top 3 material. He is the quintessential edgy anime badass. He has a sword, is called Bladelord, has white spiky hair, is strong as shit, has a badass coat, a tragic backstory that will have teenagers clamoring about how deep he is, etc. Look no further than Itachi from Naruto if you need a comparison, he's that guy.

I like the guy. I don't love the guy though, because I stopped caring about Naruto over a decade ago. Loewe is not that deep. His story boys down to "they killed my girlfriend, yo". Something similar happened to Agate, but his character went places. Josh lost the same person, and his character went even more places. Loewe decided to go full Edgelord, adopted a "peace turns humans into hypocrites" philosophy and joined the nearest maniac he could find, and even stuck with him after finding out he was responsible for Loewe's own tragedy. He then spends the actual game being by the most decent enforcer, occasionally trying to kill Agate (I mean, everyone has that urge from time to time), but otherwise praising Estelle and generally rooting for the good guys. Loewe seems like he is already done with Orobouros when the story starts and is just looking for an excuse to bail, honestly.

I enjoyed having Loewe around, and surely I enjoyed the two insanely difficult fights he gave, one per game. But I was unimpressed, honestly. Fortunately, Orobouros had a way better anti-villain story to give me. More on that later.

#21 Kilika

I'm going to copypaste the write-up because Kilika already wrote it for me 2 days ago, when she correctly predicted I would rank her # 21. Thanks, Kilika. She said she's just doing her job.

Kilika's efficiency is an in-universe meme, and it's a great one. All those clerks are doing a good job, but she's killing it. She is clearly overqualified for this position, perhaps because she was trained to be the wife of the Taito Dojo Master.

Kilika doesn't give a damn, though. It's hard to know if she is actually annoyed at people praising her, or if she is just so efficient she wants to get to business. And she has the cool sequence where she climbs a high level dungeon alone just to tell two boys that they need to grow the fuck up.

Her position in the boys' backtory is kind of weird though, because she feels like a side character in it. She never really becomes close to Zin and neither she and Walter get together again. She just quits and goes be a clerk in a guild. So she feels rather disconnected to the whole thing, despite being the primary reason for Walter's defection. I guess not everyone wants to, or needs, to be in the spotlight, and Kilika very much knows that.

21- Kilika
22- Loewe
23- Amalthea
24- Maybelle
25- Bleublanc
26- Walter
27- Don
28- Luciola
29- Hans
30- Julia
31- Sieg
32- Cid
33- Mueller
34- Kurt
35- Kyle
36- Josette
37- Aina
38- Queen Alicia
39- Russel
40- Jill
41- Anton
42- Clem
43- Ricky

Unranked:

Agate
Anelace
Campanella
Cassius
Dorothy
Dunan
Estelle
Gilbert
Joshua
Kevin
Kloe
Mogran
Nial
Olivier
Renne
Richard
Scherazard
Tita
Weissmann
Zin