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Second Prince of Rhodolite
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✎ bio by @thevioletscar 👑
Second Prince of Rhodolite, genius, master tactician, expert swordsman; in essence, I am superior to you in every way, and you would do well to remember that. I have no time for fools and simpletons. Those who instigate drama on my message board will receive swift and harsh punishment. However, I will allow those who recommend quality reading material to continue doing so as long as they prove useful and informative. Literature providing a deep exploration of human emotions, particularly love, is of special interest to me, as I find the insights provided therein to be especially useful in understanding and controlling my subjects.
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Chev is just about as unrealistic a character as you can get, but the game does a good job of making him believable, even while making a point of everybody saying how unrealistic he is. Belle is constantly saying she wouldn't believe such-and-such of anybody else, but she believes it of Chev. Clavis has dubbed Chev a "thousand-year wonder." He's the complete package: looks, intelligence, and physical ability.
If Rhodolite didn't have the Belle system in place, Chev would be the next king, no questions asked. His mother was the queen and the king's first wife, and until Jin arrived at the palace, everybody thought Chev was the king's firstborn son, too. He remains the firstborn legitimate son. Then take into consideration his extraordinary... everything, and there's really no competition. On paper, Chev is the best choice for the next king.
Except.
Chev has never experienced love and has thus detached himself from all emotion. Everybody feared him basically from birth, including his own mother and father. He was never a child. He was always a threat—to his own parents, to his brothers, to the rest of the nobility, to Rhodolite’s political enemies—and he has always had to rely on himself and himself alone. By the time he was eight years old, he’d stumped his tutors, beaten his swordsmanship instructor black and blue, and formulated a strategy that won a losing skirmish against Obsidian. Nobody knew what to make of him or what to do with him, and people fear the unknown.
I’m guessing that was around the time the assassination attempts started.
His mother, who bore a passionate and unrequited love for the king, had hoped Chev would help her earn her husband's affection. When Chev turned out to be a threat to both of them, she distanced herself from him, and then she saw him kill an assassin in front of her. How terrifying would it be to see your elementary-school-age child kill a grown man without hesitation or apparent emotion?
She lost it. And Chev lost all hope of ever experiencing a mother’s love.
It’s never stated explicitly in the game, but it seems apparent to me that Chev was actually jealous of Clavis’ close relationship with his mother. There’s a side story event where Lucien, a member of Chev’s inner circle, tells Belle about how he came to work for Chev.
Brace yourself. This is wild.
- Lucien is the only assassin who ever survived trying to kill Chev.
- He attempted to assassinate Chev multiple times when Chev was a child.
- Yes, that means Chev killed every single assassin who tried to off him, even when he was a child.
- This all means that Lucien is pretty darn amazing (and really needs a part in ADT).
Even more so when you consider Chev offered Lucien a job because Lucien impressed him so much.
Lucien told Belle that Chev went to see his mother every week until she died. He didn’t think Chev consciously planned these visits, but he would always end up crossing his mother’s path near her room, and she would have a full mental breakdown. She would yell and scream at him, even throw things at him and injure him, and he would just stand there in silence and take it. Leticia, Clavis’ mother and the queen’s best friend, would eventually get Chev’s mother into her room and calm her down, but her reaction to Chev escalated every time she saw him.
Chev subconsciously wanted his mother to be his mother. But she never was.
When she died, Clavis expected Chev to mourn her. Clavis offered Chev a shoulder to cry on, and Chev told Clavis he thought he’d feel something for her, too. But he didn’t. He said it had felt for a while like he saw everything from a bird's-eye view, as if he were reading a story but not a part of it. He couldn't feel what the people in the story felt.
Clavis said that was when he realized Chev was not a human at all. He was a beast. And Chev became even more emotionally detached after that.
But there are also plenty of clues in the game that Chev cared for his brothers, especially Clavis, with whom he spent the most time growing up. He was the one who noticed whenever Clavis got sick, not Clavis’ mother, and he was the one who would drag Clavis to the infirmary and make him get medical treatment. He was the one who found the twins after their mother tried to kill Nokto, and he was the one who carried an unconscious, bloody Licht back into the palace.
He has always kept a tight lid on his emotions because he keeps seeing people making horrible decisions and mistreating others in the name of emotions, especially love, which has led him to the obvious logical conclusion that emotions are weak and fallible.
Duty over emotion. The kingdom over the individual. He has a responsibility as royalty to his kingdom, and he will always put that over the individual. He sees no value in a person's emotions, and he claims to see no value in the individual, either.
And that’s where he is when the game begins.
He's a compelling character with so much potential, but I don't like how the game shows his relationship with Belle. She's determined to prove the value of love to him. She wants to change him. That isn’t a healthy way to approach a relationship, because one only has (some measure of) control over oneself. A person cannot force another person to change.
So Ivetta doesn’t do that.
In fact, Ivetta couldn’t care less about Chev learning the value of love. She’s trying to keep her head down, do her work for the day, and go home. She doesn’t want to catch his attention, and she certainly doesn’t want to get into a relationship with him.
Fortunately for her, she does catch his attention, because I wrote her to be smart enough and strong enough to impress a man who refuses to give anybody a second glance unless they prove their value to him. And then he has to examine himself and change if he wants to win her over.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlElgNPANvT
