Tales Of Symphonia Ratatosk Isotope
An introverted, timid young boy from Palmacosta. During the Blood Purge, he came across the bodies of his parents and was severely traumatized.
Afterwards, he was forced to move in with his abusive uncle in Luin, where he is universally despised for his weak personality and for accusing town hero Lloyd of being the instigator of the Blood Purge and the murderer of his parents. He wants to avenge his parents, but due to his timid personality finds himself paralyzed with doubt and fear.At the beginning of the game, Emil signs a magical contract with Tenebrae to become a Knight of Ratatosk and protect Marta.
From that moment on, whenever he enters battle he taps into a second, badass,. With this newfound power, he joins Marta on her quest to retrieve the Centurion Cores and awaken Ratatosk so that he can finally track down Lloyd.Emil provides examples of the following tropes:.: Well, aunt and uncle, both of whom verbally abused him on a daily basis. Early in the game, Emil even mentions that he hopes his uncle won't hit him again.: To Marta and Collette, at least. Richter and Tenebrae find his awkwardness irritating.: Was ostracized by the villagers of Luin for disliking Lloyd.: Played with in that neither he nor the player knows he has amnesia until.: He is an amnesiac fake personality of the Lord of Monsters Ratatosk.: Is usually compared to a dog early in the game.: He might even be worse then Colette.: After he seals his.: When he finds out that he killed Aster. He doesn't let anything on to the party, though.: Regular Emil is this after he slowly begins to.: 'I will teach you the true meaning of divine punishment!'
.: The Post-Final Boss, and one of the game's narrative climaxes, is a duel between Emil and Ratatosk within their shared mindscape.: Lloyd Irving for both Emils until later in the story. Regular Emil is one for Ratatosk Mode Emil, who thinks very poorly of him.: Sometimes he's even prettier than Marta.: While in his 'Ratatosk Mode'.: Created from Aster's body. Both Emil and Ratatosk Mode Emil get heaps of it. Emil becomes braver and more confident over the course of the journey. He also becomes the dominant personality out of him and Ratatosk and takes his place and stops Richter's plan.
The sequel Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk (テイルズ オブ シンフォニア ラタトスクの騎士, Teiruzu Obu Shinfonia Ratatosuku no Kishi), localized in English as Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, was announced on July 20, 2007 for the Wii. It was released in Japan and North America in 2008 and in Europe a year after. Its not Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, its being clear its only the original. Tales of Symphonia Chronicles will probably be a bundle on Steam if the sequel comes.
Ratatosk Mode Emil starts out as a huge that loathes regular Emil and ends up pissing off everyone in his determination to protect Marta, but softens up a little bit in regards to Marta. After that he's really Ratatosk and was close to committing genocide, Ratatosk comes to respect Emil and through the journey, realizes how wrong he was and finds another way to fix the problem of no mana = world dying.: Emil is this to Ratatosk.: Lloyd Irving is a classic - headstrong, quick to action, confident in himself, and optimistic about bringing change to the worlds. In contrast Emil, is a male, lacking confidence in himself, and very quick to apologize until his and kicks in.: Being the summon spirit Ratatosk in human form, Emil lacks a lot of information that would be expected from a resident of Palmacosta - fishing, the Desian Human Ranch nearby, etc, leading to a lot of.: Regular Emil is like this for most of the game,.: His Ratatosk persona is like this toward Marta.
Especially evident after random battles.: Emil is the Darkness element in the Grid but he is the nicest guy in the game. Ratatosk on the other hand doesn't become this until the end of the game after the final boss.: Both Emil and Ratatosk Mode Emil have their moments, usually in victory quotes or skits.: In very bizarre ways. He impersonates two entirely different dead people at the same time, but the second case is unintentional. His current appearance is that of a boy Ratatosk killed named Aster. Ratatosk then created a fake personality that was designed to quickly fill in the gaps of its memory; during the mass murder in Palmacosta six months prior, a woman named Lana, blinded by her injuries, mistook Ratatosk for her son, Emil, and so the false persona came to believe it was Emil.: Has shades of this. Sheena: She earned the nickname 'HE Bomb'.Emil: 'HE Bomb'?
Shouldn't it be 'SHE Bomb?' Sheena: Emil could give Collete a run for her money.: Palmacosta.: 'Ratatosk Mode' is not a, Ratatosk is Emil's true self. Emil is just a fake personality.: In 'Ratatosk Mode', during his Mystic Arte's extension, Ain Soph Aur.:.
He definitely has traits that are similar to: they're both, that sport an. A former member of the Vanguard. She believes that Emil saved her life during the Blood Purge, and from that point idolised him as a. When she meets up with her hero six months later- and he becomes a Knight of Ratatosk- she drags him into a quest to retrieve the Centurion Cores before Lloyd does. She absolutely idolises Emil and can't seem to get it through her head that he's not the person she believes him to be.Marta lived in Palmacosta during the events of the first game until it was destroyed during the disastrous revival of the World Tree at the end of disc one. She blames the, Colette for the destruction of her home and the resulting death of her mother.Marta provides examples of the following tropes.: She's way more competent than Emil in a fight when they first met.
Even after he gets stronger, she's still got him beat in terms of raw power.: A cute, unassuming girl that kicks a lot of ass. And without the aid of an Exsphere, no less.: Ratatosk Mode Emil is exactly the kind of man that Marta imagined Emil to be.
Later she finds out the hard way just what an absolute he is.: Do not threaten Emil when she is around. Notably played for dramatic effect near the end of the game when she kills Alice, briefly dropping her and persona in favour of a quiet, monologue.: Of the 'guarded has a crush on the bodyguard' variety.
Emil became her guardian knight, a Knight of Ratatosk, in order to protect her and Ratatosk's core.: Marta starts out as a who ignores Emil's real personality for the one of the manly badass she pictured him to be until he calls her out on it. She matures and comes to see Emil for the person he really is and falls in love with him for who he really is. Marta also matures in the way she handles the situation with the Vanguard and the fact her father is the leader. At first she just kept running away and trying to avoid confronting him, but she comes to accept that she has to stop him to save him from himself. This pays off big time.: Her defining personality trait. To a degree, since it doesn't win Emil over; it just annoys him throughout the journey until he calls her out on it because he's sick of it.
She tones down on this via.: Ratatosk's Core is attached to Marta's forehead. The only way to remove it is for her to die. Except it's a fake, planted there by Ratatosk to throw off his enemies.: Marta is one of the main attackers and gets all of the single target heals as well as some buffs.: She says Regal looks kinda sexy in his prison uniform in one of her journal entries. She then embarrassingly retorts this statement.
One fang, actually.: Marta was a member of the Vanguard, whose top leader was her own father Commander Brute. She left the organization after learning her father was planning to use the Centurions' Cores to gain power by obliterating Tethe'alla.: When Emil turns out to be Ratatosk.: She's crazy for Emil, and he eventually returns her feelings. That said, Emil is Ratatosk, the Lord of Monsters, and a.: Palmacosta.
Twice, in fact.: Two on both sides actually. They're actually fake, but her mother wore them on her first date with her father. Marta then says that they brought them together and now they'll bring her and Emil together (who can only laugh awkwardly).: She has very long pigtails that go past her knees.: Marta deals great damage and can heal really well but against heavy hitting enemies she can't take many hits.: Attacks by spinning in circles, with disks attached to her right wrist.: Mainly because she never bothered to taste her cooking, and her father said that. In a subversion from the norm, once she realizes how bad she is she vows to get better and eventually becomes a decent cook.: Marta's father is revealed to be Brute Lualdi, the leader of the Vanguard.: Her primary offensive magic.: in that the object of her affection finds her constant attention and praise annoying. Not only does the journey she takes Emil on not improve his life, it actively makes it worse. Emil and Ratatosk both call her out on this behavior late in the game, with Emil telling her he's not a badass knight in shining armor like she wants him to be, and Ratatosk telling her that she's nothing more than an annoying brat. However, it as Marta goes from a petty schoolgirl crush on Emil's dark side to legitimately falling in love with the real Emil.: She is the primary healer of the party and gets all of the single target healing spells.: Goes at least to her knees.
Certainly proves Dawn Of The New World is past the first game's.: Her father is the Vanguard's leader who is trying to become King and Marta is rebelling against his plans and antics.: The core on Marta's forehead isn't real. It's a fake put there by the real Ratatosk to draw attention away from him.: Her father is Brute, who, while not necessarily ugly, is no model.: Toward Colette. She acknowledges that she was just blaming Colette for what happened and apologises later in the game though. Voiced by: (JP), (EN)The Centurion of Darkness, and Emil and Marta's guide.
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As a Centurion, he is the servant of Ratatosk and helps both Emil and Marta so that his master can be reawakened. He can control Darkness-elemental monsters, and sends them to fight in his place.Tenebrae is extremely snarky and has a dark (no pun intended) sense of humour. He takes delight in teasing fellow Centurion Aqua and injecting conversations with mischievous comments that serve only to make bad situations worse. Despite this, he is often forced to act as the to the insanity of the other party members, and has a minor complex over being regarded as '.Tenebrae provides examples of the following tropes:.: His name is not Doggie, Tenebie, Mr. Doggy, Tenby, Tenny, Brae-Brae, Trae, Mr. Fairy or Paw Pad, though he eventually gives up and allows Tenebie.: He's fully aware that Ratatosk intends to exterminate humanity, but wants to resurrect him anyway. He deceives Marta and Emil the whole time to do so as well.
However, its implied that he's hoping that Ratatosk will simply change his mind.: Don't call him a dog, he hates it. Also don't betray Ratatosk or be his enemy, the scene where Aqua tells Richter to destroy Ratatosk's core is one of the few scenes where Tenebrae is completely angry and yelling.: Especially if Colette is around, which prompts him to say that his reputation is done for.: Darkness is his very source and substance. According to Raine, the way his fur feels even reminds her of darkness.: He tends to say 'How rude' a fair amount.: Although he does take delight in playing harmless pranks, snarking and making terrible puns.: There's a reason he's called 'Spiteful Tenebrae'.: Colette starts by calling him 'Doggie.' When he objects, she goes for the slightly more respectful 'Mr.
Doggie', before eventually settling on 'Tennebie', which sticks. Presea also adds 'Paw Pad' and 'Fairy' later in the game.: Dips into this on occasion. Probably the funniest example being him deliberately misinterpreting Sheena and Regal's comments on how close Zelos is to his half-sister Seles as them saying that Zelos has a crush on her. Right in front of him. Zelos is not amused.: Centurion, actually.
And only sometimes.: Saves the party from a bomb in Meltokio. It doesn't actually kill him, though; it just returns him to a dormant state, and the party has to make a detour to the Temple of Darkness to revive him.: Actually invisible to everyone, if he so chooses- comes with the territory of being in charge of Dark mana.
Lampshaded in an early skit.: Tenebrae is Latin for 'darkness', and he's the Centurion of Darkness, in charge of the resource distribution system for Dark mana.:.: Unlike Aqua, who turned on her master when she learned of his genocidal plans, Tenebrae remained loyal to the very end.: With Raine. She finds him fascinating, and he adores the attention.: His design and personality are meant to evoke this. And he's Ratatosk's only remaining servant that isn't sleeping or turned traitor.: Sheena in one skit. And then there was one that was so bad, Genis and Raine him with. And this is not either, it really was that bad of a pun.: Played with. He give Emil pointers about winning Marta over, but he's only half-serious about it. In his asides, he's pretty confident that their relationship is going nowhere.
Given who Emil really is, that's no surprise.: Subverted. He implies to Emil that he and Aqua have going on, but it's pretty obvious that he's just being a jerk.: It's often very unclear whether he's giving Emil legitimate advice or just screwing with him. Tenebrae thinks it's hilarious.: Towards Ratatosk the entire game and towards Emil, once occurs. Voiced by: Youko Honda (JP), (EN)The Centurion of Water, she is Richter's constant partner and ally. She is utterly infatuated with Richter and has actually renounced her loyalty to Ratatosk in favour of following Richter everywhere he goes. As the Centurion of Water, she can make pacts with Water-elemental monsters, using them to fight in her place.
She tends to be highly emotional, and shares a love-hate relationship with Tenebrae.: She's actually quite nice and sociable to Emil. She's just devoted to Richter. And she has good reason for abandoning Ratatosk.: She's very much in love with Richter. Normally this is impossible for Centurions, but Tenebrae suspects that Richter's strong will had an unprecedented effect on her.: To Richter.: She's actually nicer to Emil than Richter is, most likely because she can sense that Richter is fonder of him than he lets on. This is inverted with Tenebrae; while she's friendly to Emil and Richter is at least grudgingly polite to Tenebrae, she and Tenebrae can barely tolerate each other's presence.: She's the only Centurion to have sided against Ratatosk, solely because she loves Richter. Turns out, this is inverted, since she also found Ratatosk's plan to wipe out humanity reprehensible.: Naturally, considering she's the Centurion of Water.:, her name is in Latin.
Hers means 'water'.: Her only method of fighting is summoning Water-element monsters.: Her relationship with Tenebrae. He loves winding her up, and she lets her buttons get pushed far too easily. Voiced by: Rintauro Nishi (JP), (EN)The leader of the Vanguard.Tropes associated with Brute:.: Once he's freed from the influence of the Centurion's core.: Fitting for a megamanaical would-be dictator.
Though that's really just Solum's core talking. He's not actually evil at all.: Except not really. He's just Richter's front man.: Thanks to Solum's core.: 'Means and methods are in the eyes of justice!' .: He mainly uses Earth-element Artes in combat.: Very much so. Most of it seems to be induced by insanity.
Marta's father.: A bizarre case of this happens while he's. He thinks Marta is disagreeing with his plans because she's driven mad by Ratatosk's core, so he promises to use the other cores to remove it safely. He's operating on, but it shows that he still cares about his daughter more than other Vanguard members like Richter do.: He's willing to do anything to stop Tethe'alla's oppression of Sylvarant. And we do mean anything. Voiced by: (JP), (EN)A commander in the Vanguard, one of the primary antagonists of the game. Despite looking like a little girl, she is sadistic and obsessed with gaining power.Tropes associated with Alice:.: One of the many literary allusions she's got going.: Her mystic arte, Fimbulvetr. It's a gigantic explosion of ice.: She uses her soldiers as seats when she's tired and beats up her subordinates and carved 'Alice's Pet' into Hawk once she bested him for the combat commander position.: And that's putting it very, very mildly.
She's a through and through, but her cruelty is accompanied by this. Cutesy demeanor that wouldn't be out of place in the moe fandom.: Don't let her appearance fool you, she's the commander of the Vanguard's combat division for a reason.: She was the only half-elven girl in an orphanage, where everyone treated her like crap.
She only had one friend, Decus, and when it looked like he was about to be lynched for a crime he didn't commit, she used a demonic pact to summon demons to get everyone killed.: In most any other Tales game or even in another Japanese RPG? She would easily be a party member, but because she never truly learns that Love is not a weakness or that, the closest she gets to a is a where Decus never gets to hear her say she actually did love him.: When Decus takes Emil's sword for her, she finally can't take it anymore and admits she loves him back, and then goes into a rage to avenge him.: Everyone in the Vanguard who isn't Richter, Brute, or Decus is downright terrified of her, and for. Most people in Sylvarant also know well to steer clear of her, too, if they know what's good for them. She realizes she has feelings for Decus right after he's killed. She, herself is killed shortly after.: Directly after she says that she's 'tired', a Vanguard member immediately prepares himself as a makeshift bench for her, with Alice sitting down like she belongs there. Then when Hawk tries to explain himself, she promptly - read: viciously - whips him for talking back.: She's adorable.
She's also physically abusive toward her subordinates, doesn't hesitate to try to kill Marta, and just about everyone in the Vanguard who isn't Brute, Decus, or Richter is terrified of her.: To Mithos from the previous game. Both are half-elven orphans who both experienced discrimination from humans, and who had serious issues dealing with loss: Alice took the loss of her parents and the near-loss of Decus to become a commander in the Vanguard and as motivation to become powerful.
Mithos, on the other hand, went completely batshit insane after Martel's death, after he became powerful, and arguably because of it. Both hate humans (and have every reason to do so), except that Alice is basically the of the Vanguard, where as Mithos only has (well, had) only one human with him in Cruxis, and was ultimately betrayed by just about everyone he's ever trusted except for the Desians, whereas Alice had the of Decus right up until his death, which was the only time when Alice realized her feelings for him. Mithos had the power Alice wanted, whereas Alice had the trusted companion Mithos wanted, and when it was all said and done, it only brought anguish to both of them.: All of her desire for power and her refusal to rely on others stems from the fact that she lost her parents, grew up in an orphanage where she was routinely bullied for being a half-elf, and almost lost her only friend, Decus. From that point on, she swore she'd never depend on anybody, and wanted to acquire power for herself at any cost.
The fact that she had such a crappy childhood probably has a lot to do with where her personality came from, too.: She's a half-elf.: She says 'No one likes a strong-willed little girl. Come on, Decus' during one encounter with Marta, but doesn't realize/care that this applies to herself/Decus. And then later when she calls Marta a hypocrite, it kinda undermines her whole statements a little, since Alice is one herself.: And that's putting it very, very mildly.: Alice is a horrible sadistic person, but she does have a point that Marta relied too much on Emil and Ratatosk early on, instead of using her own strength.: She refuses to fall in love because she feels that caring about another will make her weaker. She gets proven right when her love for Decus gets her killed.: Alice invokes this trope so much. Most people, upon seeing a character who and speaks with a very high-pitched and 'cutsey' sounding voice would think 'She's going to be a Party Member!'
Or 'Well she may be beating her subordinates, but she will perform a and see the error of her ways.' She is, a (despite wearing white), and use an absolutely 'cute' voice even when telling the characters she's about to kill them, treating Decus or her subordinates like crap, or beating monsters into obeying her. While she does get a redemption, it's right when she dies at the end.: From her, Marta says she's willing to forgive Alice since she thinks she was.
Alice hammers in just how much of a she really is when she says she wasn't, since she desired everything.: An odd case. If you're a male and she gives you a nickname, congratulations! That means she likes you, for better or worse.
If you're a female and she gives you a nickname, watch out. It's one of the only hints we get that she likes Decus more than she lets on.: Averted; she'll regularly spam First Aid when you fight her, meaning you should.: Downplayed; she's obviously not a fan of Tethe'alla's oppression of the Sylvaranti people, but she's generally only in the Vanguard as an excuse to hurt people and to become more powerful.: She's at least 18. Justified because she's a half-elf.: In her sidequest. She also saves an old woman that's trying to get a doctor to help her grandson that's being attacked and abused by a clergyman during the events of the game and gives the old women a recommendation to get her grandson treated for free.: Well, more like Punctuated when she whips Hawk in Asgard. Me!.: She gives one to Marta before she and Decus fight Emil and Marta in the Ginnugagap. Alice's speech basically consists of ripping Marta a new one for being powerless and relying so much on Emil and Ratatosk to save and protect her.: It's the first word that comes to Marta's mind when describing her, along with the '.
And then we see her.: All of her non-magical artes end with a ♡.: To Emil. Both of them control monsters, but while Emil befriends them, Alice enslaves them. They also both grew up as outcasts, but while Emil became withdrawn and submissive, Alice became sadistic and bloodthirsty.: Her three 'pets,' Aramis, Athos, and Porthos, are named after the three main characters from. Her unique Artes are all also named after famous artistic works, such as ' ' by, and ' Winter Daydreams' by.: She goes apeshit after Decus died in her arms confessing his love to her, and picks Decus' to trying exacting revenge.
It doesn't last long as she's quickly killed off.: When Decus dies.: Her weapon is some sort of hybrid between a rapier and a riding crop. Voiced by: Akio Suyama (JP), (EN)A commander in the Vanguard. He's obsessed with Alice.Tropes associated with Decus:.: He wields what resembles a claymore and does so with ease. Alice tries to use it to avenge him and she can barely hold it.: As is standard for the series.: Definitely has a few screws loose. Aside from the obsession with Alice (enough that his Mystic Arte has him stopping in the middle of a fight to stare at a picture of her,) he's also regularly making weird flamboyant motions with his hands and proudly wears cologne that can only be described as chemical warfare which becomes a key factor in finding out that he's posing as Lloyd.: To Alice.
He chooses his last moments to come out and say that he loves Alice. Not that he hadn't made it painfully obvious beforehand.: He thinks that his cologne has this effect.: On the few occasions in which the party speaks to him when he isn't around Alice or under the effects of Solum's core. He even says at one point that he'd rather not fight Emil but knows that he'll have to.: 'Ausbruch!'
'Stein Hagel!' Note Outburst; Beam; Stone hail; Cyclone; Avalanche; Whirlwind And his Mystic Arte is the ever popular Strum und Drang.: He loves Alice so much, he jumps in the way and takes Emil's sword for her, which causes her to go through the.: While under the influence of Solum's core. Even without that he still is kind of hammy. Decus: Die in my arms!.: It's hard to tell unless you see him from behind but Decus has a ponytail all the way down his back.: Decus himself is a pretty decent guy who's a little.out there. However's he's hopelessly in love with a sadist who regularly asks him to commit horrific acts on her behalf, which he does without any hesitation.: He doesn't give a damn about the Vanguard, the world, or anything else. Everything he does is done out of his devotion to Alice.: He used Solum's core to transform into Lloyd and committed all of the crimes that Lloyd supposedly committed.: He uses it in his Mystic Arte.: Used in his Mystic Arte.: He fell in love with Alice after she saved him from a lynch mob.: Thanks to prolonged exposure to Solum's core.: ALICE!!!!!!!!!!!!.: To Marta. His slavish devotion to Alice is a rather disturbing mirror to Marta's fangirl obsession with Emil.
But she eventually grows to love Emil as a person; Decus allows his love of Alice to turn him into a psychopath.: His obsession with Alice, although they're both villains. For Alice in their final confrontation with Emil and Marta.: Until Brute takes Solum's core away from him.: Alice doesn't return his affections and outright trashes him in front of his face. What does he see in her? Actually.she truly does love him. Voced by: (JP), (EN)A scholar who conducted research on the Great Kharlan Tree and Richter's deceased best friend. Just like Emil.: Insulting his friends, or any half-elves, for that matter.: In the Successors of Hope novel, he loses it when he hears another researcher refer to Richter as a 'stupid half-elf'. Where do you think Emil gets it from?.: Implied by Richter, who mentions that he had 'a few screws loose in his head'.: With Richter.: With Emil.
Subverted in that it's actually EMIL that looks like him.: How else could he have befriended someone like Richter?.: To Richter.: In the Sucessors of Hope novel, he has a pendant with his infamous catchphrase etched onto it. After he loses it in the Balacruf ruins, it finds itself passing through the hands of every party member of the original game (sans Lloyd) as they try to return it, until it finally makes its way back to Richter, by then becoming a. The whole Ratatosk fiasco was set off because he killed Aster. In more ways than one, since Emil has taken on his appearance.: He was in his mid to late teens.: Non-romantic example to Richter. In fact, everything Richter does in the game all leads up to his plan to revive Aster.: His very existence is a huge spoiler. Voiced by: (JP), (EN)A soldier in the Vanguard. He works for Alice, and is often treated as her personal whipping boy.
He has a particularly unfriendly rivalry with Magnar.Tropes associated with Hawk:.: The few times he's shown in command of his troops, as opposed to being commanded by Alice, he's shown to care for them a lot.: His first scene with Alice has her beat him brutally for asking her to be patient. It's also revealed that she apparently carved 'Alice's Pet' into him once she kicked his ass for the commander of combat position in the Vanguard.: He's definitely one of the crueler of the Vanguard, even if Alice has him beat by a pretty substantial margin.: It's a lot clearer in the Anime opening and offical artworks.: Just because he's treated as a complete doesn't mean you should take him lightly when you have to fight him. A soldier in the Vanguard. The first time you meet him, he will claim to be following orders from the Church of Martel.Tropes associated with Magnar:.: He shows up pretending to be Commandant of the Martel Knights but he's really just a member of the Vanguard in disguise.: Use enough lightning artes on him during the second fight, and he'll sprout one of these.: After Marta gives herself up in order to save the village of Luin, he orders it to be burned down anyway.: Ratatosk Emil beats seven shades of piss out of him after their fight.