Manliest Video Game Characters #1

Welcome to my very first entry of "Manly Video Game Characters". The point of these posts is to educate you on the awesomeness inherent in the personality traits of certain males in the Vidya. I figured I'd start this segment off with a lesser known character, and work my way up from there.



Ronixis J. Kenni
(Star Ocean: Fantastic Space Odyssey)

Where to start? Ronixis, commander of the Starship "Calnus", of the Earth Federation, ends up getting involved with the affairs on the primitive planet of Roak. In the process, he's essentially given the leadership over the group of ragtag members who end up restoring order to the planet, and saving the future they came from in the process.

Ronixis is your normal Military-type Anime Character; Strategic, cocky, and sarcastic. He drags his second-in-command, Ilia Silvestri, along with him for the ride they take when they discover all the weird "petrification" shit going down on Roak.

Ronixis figures out that there's only one way to reverse the petrification, and that's to retrieve a sample from the monster from whose blood it was created; The Archfiend. The only issue? - It was killed centuries ago.

So Ronixis comes up with a plan; They use the Forbidden Time Gate on planet Styx to go back in time, and stop the disease from taking the planet over. They state clearly that they don't know how it works, why it works, and that it might have a mind of its own. And the entire planet is sealed off to keep people from attempting to use it.

This stops Ronixis for approximately three seconds.

... The man encounters a TALKING Time Machine, and says, "Well, Fuck it. We ready? TOO BAD!", and jumps right on in. He disobeys direct orders from the Leader of the Federation, and risks a Court Marshal; That's ASSUMING his ass won't get torn asunder by jumping through AN UNKOWN PIECE OF TIME DISTORTING EQUIPMENT, WHICH TALKS.

Not only that, but they're forced to leave their space-age equipment on the planet they traveled from. Ronixis ends up downgrading from a Laser Pistol?... To a Crossbow. And somehow STILL manages to do insane damage with it.

Moving along in the story, he helps the others defeat the Archfiend, and becomes one of the legendary members of the party who defeated it in the legends of the future. After being sent back to his own time in the game, he proceeds to knock Ilia up, and they pop out a child whom - in the sequel - goes on to become the greatest swordsman on planet Expel. Greater even than Dias Flac, who I consider nearly equally as manly as Ronixis.

And to top it all off, when faced with certain death in the sequel? The man goes down with his ship, after telling his son it was up to him and his friends to save the universe. He could have easily ordered a retreat, or even had the crew eject? But the man purposely takes a particle cannon shot to the cockpit.

This said, Ronixis marks the first entry on my list of "Manly Video Game Characters".