Suikoden V/Characters/The Godwin Faction

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The Godwin Faction

Marscal Godwin

• A Nazi by Any Other Name
• Bald of Evil
• Big Bad: He's the ruthless head of the House of Godwin.
• Bling of War: His outfit is particularly fancy.
• Blue Blood
• Fantastic Racism: Xenophobic and disrespectful of the 'lesser demi-human races'.
• The Mourning After: His wife was assassinated by Nether Gate.
• Redemption Equals Death
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: With the help of his scheming son Gizel, he orchestrates a coup in Sol-Falena to take control of the throne, believing that the only way to have successful country is to have unrivaled military strength, rigid order, and centralized government.

Gizel Godwin

• Affably Evil
• Arranged Marriage: Had one to Sialeeds when he was a kid.
  • Perfectly Arranged Marriage: It's implied he viewed it as this.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Has some with Sialeeds, though it comes off more as mutual bemused Foe Yay.
• Bishounen
• Blue Blood
• The Charmer
• Duel Boss
• Enigmatic Minion: He doesn't share his father's extremist views, but still supports him for his own reasons, helping him to organise a coup in Sol-Falena on the night of his engagement banquet to Princess Lymsleia.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Love Makes You Evil: It's implied in the manga that part of his motivation for plotting against the queendom is because the princesses' vow to never marry destroyed his engagement to Sialeeds.
• Manipulative Bastard: What he's become, according to Sialeeds, his ex-fiancé.
• Suicide By Prince
• Villainous Valor: Only at the end of the Game. When the Loyalist army storms the palace, he waits with Lymsleia in the throne room. At first it seems like he's holding her hostage, but Lym calls his bluff. He then revels that he simply wanted to talk with the Prince. After a conversation about the well meaning intentions that lead to the war in the first place, then challenges the Prince to a one-on-one duel. The Prince is by that point a seasoned warrior; Gizel knew that, and was quite aware that he would (most likely) not survive.
• Xanatos Roulette: His favorite type of plan. Lampshaded by Marscal and Sialeeds, who point out that his Stormfist plan only succeeded through blind luck - the plan being to conive and cheat his way to victory in the Sacred Games, and thereby winning Princess Lymsleia's hand in marriage and ultimately securing power for the Godwin Faction.
  • Villain Ball: It should be noted that his planning tends to have repercussions for him in the long run. The above spoiler is of particular note, as his machinations tipped off the Royal Family, which ultimately enabled the Prince to escape during the Coup due to the precautions they(the Royals) had set up.

Dolph

• Complete Monster
• Creepy Monotone
• Duel Boss
• The Dragon
• Emotionless Guy
• Forgotten Childhood Friend: To Lyon
• Go Out with a Smile
• Implacable Man: Every time he is defeated, he gets right back up.
• Monochromatic Eyes
• Not So Stoic: Creepy variation, as he turns out to be a Blood Knight whose apparent lack of emotion is merely due to all the drugs he uses to enhance his performance.

Childerich

• Axe Crazy
• Blood Knight
• Confusion Fu: He fights in an odd, unpredictable manner, using fluid movements to fox his opponent in a very similar manner to Voldo of Soul Calibur fame.
• Duel Boss
• Expy: Remember Luca Blight...? Childerich's personality will certainly remind you...
• Facial Markings
• Hidden Weapons: He fights using two hidden wrist-blades.
• Humiliation Conga: After taking your castle, he was caught in Lucretia's Xanatos Gambit and lost almost all his troops, then faces your army in one of the easiest campaigns in the game since your army is at its full strength and greatly outnumber his. Next time you see him, you kill him in a duel.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: By the time you reach the final face-off with him, he's pissed off enough people to earn himself a few willing to declare "Leave Him to Me!" Take them along to that conflict, and they'll actually argue over this. If you let them fight and they lose against him, they're Killed Off for Real.
• Slasher Smile: He sports a contemptuous smirk.
• Stupid Evil: He kills Godwin supporters just because their town was conquered by the prince's army. The survivors of his rampage quickly re-evaluate their loyalty to the Godwins.
• Taking You with Me: After his ambush is destroyed and he finds himself outnumbered, he ingests Raging Nostrum.

Dilber Novum

• Anti-Villain
• The Rival: To Boz Wilde. The pair are known respectively as "Dilber of the West" and "Boz of the East".
• Worthy Opponent
• You Shall Not Pass

Bahram Luger

• Alas, Poor Villain: Raja cries after he dies, since he's her former disciple.
• Anti-Villain
• Honor Before Reason: After having his loyalty questioned by Childerich, he makes a suicide run against the Dahak.
• My Country, Right or Wrong
• Villainous Valor
• You Shall Not Pass

House of Barows

Salum Barows

• Blue Blood
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: A medieval variation.
• Fat Bastard: He's almost spherical.
• Humiliation Conga: After the truth about the Lordlake Rebellion and the whereabouts of the Dawn Rune are revealed.
• Large Ham
• Not So Different: Whereas the Godwins push forward more offensive policies, he supports more peaceful actions. Despite these, few actually trust his welcoming smile, as in many ways he's Not So Different than his rival faction...
• Not So Harmless
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Receives one from Sialeeds when she murders him, mocking his ways and informing him that without him, the house of Barows will collapse.
• Smug Snake

Euram Barows

• The Atoner: If he does his optional Heel Face Turn
• Blue Blood
• Character Development: If the player decides to recruit him and see him through his optional Heel Face Turn.
• Dirty Coward: Although he thinks he's terribly brave, of course.
• The Dulcinea Effect: As seen when he encounters Princess Lymsleia.
• Expy: Like Snowe Vingerhut of Suikoden IV, Euram is an Upper Class Twit who panicked when placed in a position he wasn't fit for, triggering a tragedy.
• Eyes of Gold
• Hopeless Suitor: For the Princess.....
  • Stalking Is Love: ....Although her obvious rebuttal lands on deaf ears.
• Large Ham: Like his father.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Redemption Demotion: Despite being fought in a boss battle, he cannot be used outside of war battles.
• Rich Idiot With No Day Job
• Tome of Eldritch Lore: He is the owner of the Book of Condemnation, which features in an abstruse Sidequest that must be completed to recruit Alhazred.
• Upper Class Twit
• Unexpected Successor: His brother Hiram was being groomed as his father's successor... until he got assassinated.

Luserina Barows

• And Now for Someone Completely Different: She is used to swap party members in and out of the Prince's team. She's also nothing like the rest of her family.
• Arranged Marriage: Salum continuously tries to get her into one with the Prince.
• The Atoner: Feels she has to be one for her family's actions, even though she's not asked to.
• Blue Blood: The Noble House of Barrows.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It's implied in a few scenes that she has a crush on the Prince.
• English Rose: Her character type.
• Hair Decorations: She sports an alice band.
• Hair of Gold: She sports a veritable river of long, wavy honey blonde hair.
• Proper Lady / Silk Hiding Steel: She's sweet and graceful and apparently stays home while her dad and brother politic in the capital. However, if you talk around Rainwall, you'll find out that she is the one running the place. She also takes part in the coming battles as 'morale', in other words, encrouaging them to victory.
• Purity Personified: Looks the part and mostly acts the part, but she abandoned her family rather easily.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Whereas she is demure, polite and kind, her brother Euram is foppish, spoilt and cowardly.
• Spoiled Sweet: Compared to her Smug Snake dad and Upper Class Twit brother, its amazing she turns out so helpful and kind.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Some characters can't believe they're related, and this is only one of the reasons.

Chuck

• Bag of Sharing: His speciality - he looks after the HQ warehouse, where all items and equipment can be dropped off, stored and retrieved when necessary.
• Duel Boss
• Dumb Muscle
• The Giant: He's huge.
• Gentle Giant: The only time he fights is when he's been misled into believing that the prince is trying to steal Luserina's wedding present. Afterwards, he swears he never wants to get into a fight again.
• I Owe You My Life: Luserina fed him when he was starving to death.
• Man Child
• Undying Loyalty: To Luserina.
• Wolverine Claws: His weapon of choice - a vicious, spiked glove.

Boz Wilde

• An Axe to Grind
• Anime Hair: He sports a huge mohican fin of hair.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Colonel Badass
• Horrible Judge of Character:Salum is one of his best friends.
• Informed Ability: He's apparently a good fighter. Since he's unable to be used outside of war battles, he never gets a chance to prove it.
• The Rival: To Dilber
• Those Two Guys: He tries to get this dynamic started with the straitlaced Dinn, and he eventually semi succeeds.

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