Ram

Ram is a major character in the 2014 Japanese dark fantasy light novel series and its 2014 manga & 2016 anime television series adaptations of the same name, and a supporting character in the 2019 non-canon comedy crossover anime television series and its 2022 spin-off anime film .
Ram was born in the Demon Village alongside her younger twin sister Rem, where it was customary to dispose of twins at birth. However, Ram was born with incredible power, allowing her to protect her sister despite being a baby. Ram grew up as a prodigy despite only possessing one horn, always overshadowing her little sister. One day, the Witch Cult attacked the Demon Village, massacring the entire population with the exception of the twin sisters. During the attack, Ram's horn was sliced off by a Witch Cultist, permanently stunting her awesome potential. The sisters were subsequently taken in by Margrave Roswaal L. Mathers, a wealthy nobleman who put them to work as maids at his mansion.
Eventually, Roswaal began sponsoring a half-elf girl named Emilia, who was a candidate to become the 42nd ruler of the nation Lugunica. Subaru Natsuki, a Japanese teenager who had been transported to Ram's world, saved Emilia from a serial killer known as the Bowel Hunter while the half-elven girl was on a trip to Lugunica's capital city. As thanks for saving his ally, Mathers employed Natsuki as one of his servants despite the boy's lack in talent. Ram and Subaru were usually paired together for housework, and the two spent most their time together bickering like siblings whilst hiding their platonic affection for one-another.
Days after Subaru began working in the mansion, the assassin Meili Portroute infiltrated a local village under the governance of Lord Roswaal with wretched intent. Ram, Rem, Subaru, and Mathers fought together to defeat the mabeasts infesting the forests around the village, although Portroute escaped before she could be identified and captured. After the incident, Rem fell deeply in love with Natsuki. Around a month after Portroute's attack, the Mathers Domain faced another threat in the form of the Witch Cult. The Cult had sought to use Emilia as a vessel for the Witch of Envy to possess. Subaru, who had been away in the capital, returned to the domain with a small army of mercenaries and volunteers ready to battle the Witch Cult. Ram led the evacuation of the aforementioned village whilst Subaru & his new allies defeated Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, the Sin Archbishop of Sloth and leader of the plot.
Concurrent with the Cult attack, Rem fell into a coma when the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony Lye Batenkaitos devoured her name & memories. Due to Gluttony's power, everyone who knew Rem with the exception of Subaru forgot about her, including Ram. Although she couldn't remember her sister, Ram still felt a connection to her younger twin, and so sought to undo Rem's condition and remember her. Ram and Subaru subsequently grew closer, as they were the only ones left in the world who loved Rem and shared the goal of restoring her.
Ram is voiced by in Japanese and by Ryan Bartley in English. Murakawa has also voiced Bubble Girl in My Hero Academia, Constanze Amalie von Braunschbank Albrechtsberger in Little Witch Academia, Hotaru Ichijou in Non Non Biyori, Mamika Kirameki in Re:Creators, Escha Malier in Atelier, Rin Kobari in Magica Wars, and Ageha in Rin-ne. Bartley has also voiced Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yuna in Sword Art Online, the female version of Hakuno Kishinami in Fate/Extra Last Encore, Fluff in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, Candice and Korrina in Pokémon Masters, Komugi in Hunter x Hunter, young Sinbad in Magi: Adventure of Sinbad, and Takechiyo in Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon.
==Appearance==
Ram was identical to Rem in every aspect, with the exception of her eyes, the color of her hair, and the size of her breasts. Her pink hair was cut into a short bob and parted to fall over her left eye, as opposed to Rem whose hair fell over her right eye. Her large dark-pink eyes, pink lips, and soft skin gave Ram a youthful loveliness that Subaru Natsuki found both beautiful and adorable when he first saw her. Ram noticeably had a smaller breast size than her younger sister. As previously mentioned, Ram's eyes were different to Rem's, as the elder sister's were slightly more slanted. Her delicate frame featured narrow shoulders and stood at 150-hours centimeters tall (or five foot one).
Judging off of her appearance, Ram inherited the color of her eyes from her mother and the shape of them from her father. She also clearly inherited the natural shape of her hair from her father and the color of her hair from her mother. Ram, as a demon, could manifest a small curved-horn on the center of her forehead that was made out of pure pink energy. When her village was destroyed, Ram's horn was sliced off, leaving an obscured slit-like scar on her head where it used to be.
Most of the time, Ram wore a uniform issued to her as part of her job in Roswaal's mansion. This maid outfit consisted of a short black dress with white flowery accents, a white apron, white thigh-high socks, black Mary Jane shoes, and a white-and-black flowery headpiece. The outfit exposed Ram's shoulders and flaunted her body line in a provocative way, leading Natsuki to believe the designer's intentions weren't entirely pure. Positioned on the right side of her head, Ram had a purple hair-clip and a flower-shaped ribbon of the same color. Her weapon of choice was a wand made by Lord Roswaal out of the remnants of her horn. This wand allowed her to channel her magical energy better, reducing the burden magic had on her.
==Personality==
Ram is seemingly self centered and does things at her own pace, however in actuality she maintains a distance from people to ascertain them. She believes that Roswaal is the greatest and no one else is as precious except for her sister Rem. She is slightly more outgoing in comparison to the generally taciturn Rem, who generally allows Ram to take the lead in their sisterly bond. She is protective of her sister, and expects the best for her, hence her added disdain at Subaru when Rem falls in love with him, as she finds the boy wholly unworthy of her sister.
Ram is extremely loyal to Roswaal L. Mathers, threatening others (namely Subaru) with violence, should they endanger or badmouth him. Over the course of the series, it's evident that Ram has developed feelings for Roswaal. Her love for him was so devoted that when his unethical and outright villainous actions are exposed and he loses his affable visage, she remains in love and her own strong will motivates her to encourage/force him into achieving redemption, then returning to the side of righteousness.
Ram seems to enjoy annoying others by getting their names wrong. She constantly jumbled Subaru's name into "Barusu"; though it later becomes a habit since he stopped letting it get to him.
==History==
===Birth of the Demon God===
Among the numerous humanoid races that existed in the world, the demons were considered the mightiest. Their powerful bodies and the potency of the magical energy they employed both granted the demons peerless combat strength. However, as the members of the race had a elitist mindset that sought to preserve their mighty bloodlines, the number of demons was always low. The few demon settlements tended to be small rural villages located in mountain ranges that adhered to a strong Social Darwinist and isolationist way of life. The only visible physical difference between a demon and human were a pair of long curved-horns that sprouted from the forehead of a demon when their lives were in trouble. The horns would absorb magical energy from the atmosphere, greatly increasing a demon's physical and magical capabilities. Twin demons were usually only born with one smaller horn each, thus making them weaker than their two-horned kin. In order to maintain the purity of the race, the demons would usually execute twins when they were born.
The demon Ram and her younger twin sister Rem were born in a small demon village located in the Dragonfriend Kingdom of Lugunica. In adherence to demon law, the elderly chief of the village Setanta sentenced the infant twins to death. Both the mother Temae and the father Quark desperately begged for Setanta to spare the lives of their children, yet the stern old man chose to adhere to the law and execute the cursed twins. The children were placed on a shrine in the middle of the village surrounded by braziers that allowed the whole village to witness the deed at the dead of night. As Tamae screamed for the village to spare them Setanta prepared his singular attack to dispose of the children. Ram, hearing the cries of her sister laying beside her, demonstrated her power. In spite of being a mindless child, Ram used her magical energy to summon a massive torrent of wind that knocked the chief from his feet. After a brief moment of shock, every villager including the chief knelt before the pink-eyed child, firmly believing her to be the reincarnation of the demon god. As such, both twins were allowed to live.
===Childhood===
Ram was a prodigy, displaying magical power at a young age that was unrivalled by any of the adults in the village. She constantly outshone her sister Rem, who had been born relatively normal in comparison to Ram. Despite the inferiority complex that Rem had towards Ram, the sisters were very close and there was no resentment held between them. Ram was extremely protective and nurturing of Rem, always trying to build her self-esteem and encouraging her to forge her own path.
When Ram and Rem were around seven to eight years of age, the village was attacked by members of the Witch Cult. The Cult, which was dedicated to the reverence of the vile Witch of Envy, massacred the entire population of the village including Ram's parents. In the end, little Ram was forced to face the Cultists alone as the village burned. With her extraordinarily powerful wind magic, Ram cut through her assailants. As Ram fought, Rem, who had been sleeping, emerged from their home to find the village in ruins. Distracted by the emergence of her sister, Ram's horn was sliced off by a Cultist named Faust.
Before the sisters could be killed, Lord Roswaal L. Mathers, the most powerful mage in the kingdom, arrived on the scene and drove off the Cult. With her horn sliced off, Ram's potential had been permanently stunted. Roswaal took the sisters in, putting them to work as maids in his mansion. Overtime, Ram developed romantic feelings for Mathers.
==Powers & Abilities==
===Powers===
*Demon Physiology: Ram belonged to the demons, a species of demi-human considered to be the single most powerful race in the world. Whereas most lifeforms were born with a gate, a metaphysical apparatus within a person's body that autonomously absorbed the ambient magical energy that existed in the atmosphere and stored it in the individual's od (soul), demons were instead born with horns. Typical demons had a pair of long, curved, glowing white horns that protruded from their foreheads. Ram and Rem on the other hand, as twins, were only born with one horn each. Demon horns usually remained dormant inside a demon's body, only protruding from the forehead when a demon chose to manifest them. A demon's horns absorbed mana from the atmosphere at an incredibly fast rate, functioning like a more powerful version of a gate. Ordinarily, having only one horn would make a demon weaker than their kin because they would be unable to absorb as much mana. However, in the case of Ram, her singular horn absorbed mana at a rate at least ten times greater than the average demon's two horns. Demons also had exceptionally robust bodies that allowed them to absorb a greater amount of mana than other races. Ram's body was far superior to her kin, allowing her to safely absorb the gargantuan amounts of magical energy that her horn could process. If a demon over-exerted itself while manifesting its horns, it was likely that the recoil would render them weak. It was also possible for a demon to lose control of themselves, blindly attacking those in their way whether they were allies or enemies.
**Accelerated Healing
**Magic: Each person possessed a different elemental attribute that allowed them to produce magical spells related to that element. Of the six elements, Ram's designated element was wind, one of the four common attributes. When she still had her horn, Ram's wind magic was incredibly powerful.
***Wind Manipulation
**Physical Augmentation
***Superhuman Durability
***Superhuman Speed
***Superhuman Strength
**Sensory Scrying: Ram was capable of using the secret demon art "Clairvoyance" that was passed down by demons for generations. Few demons ever mastered the technique, and as of the modern day, Ram was likely the only individual capable of using it. The power allowed the user to synchronize with the vision of organic life-forms, briefly borrowing their sense of sight to see through the target's eyes. Even when there were no people within her range that Ram could borrow the sight of, the demon maid could borrow the sight of animals such as insects and steeds. By using all sorts of organisms, Ram could connect with a multitude of beings and form a security camera-like network where she would flip back and forth between organisms to observe an area. A creature usually wasn't aware that they were being used as a spy tool and even if they were, they had no way of stopping the power except by closing their eyes. However, to link with a life-form, Ram needed to be on the same wavelength as her target. Furthermore, her awareness of her own surroundings was greatly diminished when she employed the demon art and she also experienced motion sickness if she gazed through a single set of eyes for too long.
===Abilities===
Aside from her combative abilities, Ram was incredibly intelligent. Having received a formal education thanks to the patronage of Mathers, both Ram and Rem excelled academically. She had excellent observational skills and was a strong judge of character. Unlike her sister, Ram was able to discern that Subaru was not a threat despite the scent of the Witch of Envy that rested on him. She was also able to understand that Subaru wanted Garfiel's necklace from observing his line of questioning, even though Natsuki didn't convey this information to her. Ram was adept at household chores due to her years of servitude under Lord Roswaal. However, despite being teamed up with Subaru a majority of the time, Ram and her partner only completed around twenty percent of the work load, leaving the rest to Rem. Ram's cooking was only subpar, as she herself claimed her best dish was steamed potatoes.
==List of Appearances==
Anime Adaptation
*Episode 4: The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family (First appearance)
*Episode 5: The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant
*Episode 6: The Sound of Chains
*Episode 7: Subaru Natsuki's Restart
*Episode 8: I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying
*Episode 9: The Meaning of Courage
*Episode 10: Fanatical Methods Like a Demon
*Episode 11: Rem
*Episode EX: Memory Snow
*Episode EX: The Frozen Bond
*Episode 12: Return to the Capital
*Episode 15: The Outside of Madness (Appears as corpse(s))
*Episode 17: Disgrace in the Extreme
*Episode 18: From Zero (Appears in flashback(s))
*Episode 22: A Flash of Sloth
*Episode 23: Nefarious Sloth
*Episode 24: The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest Knight
*Episode 26: Each One's Promise (Appears in flashback(s))
*Episode 27: The Next Location (Appears in flashback(s))
*Episode 28: The Long-Awaited Reunion
*Episode 30: A Step Forward
*Episode 31: The Maiden's Gospel
*Episode 32: Friend
*Episode 33: The Value of Life
*Episode 34: Love Love Love Love Love Love You (Appears in flashback(s))
*Episode 35: I Know Hell
*Episode 36: The Taste of Death
*Episode 37: The Witches' Tea Party
*Episode 38: The Sounds That Make You Want to Cry (Appears in flashback(s))
*Episode 39: STRAIGHT BET
*Episode 40: Otto Suwen / A Reason to Believe
*Episode 41: Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone
*Episode 42: A Journey Through Memories
*Episode 43: The Day Betelgeuse Laughed
*Episode 44: The Permafrost of Elior Forest
*Episode 45: The Beginning of the Sanctuary and the Beginning of the End
*Episode 46: Reunion of Roars
*Episode 47: Happiness Reflected on the Water's Surface
*Episode 48: Love Me Down to My Blood and Guts
*Episode 49: Choose Me
*Episode 50: Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight
Manga Adaptation
===Chapter 1: A Day in the Capital===
*Chapter 11: Starting Life in Another World (First appearance)
===Chapter 2: A Week at the Mansion===
*Chapter 1: The Next Day (First identified as Ram)
*Chapter 2: A Debt That Cannot Be Repaid
*Chapter 3: Starting Working Life from Zero
*Chapter 4: The Promised Morn Grows Distant
*Chapter 5: The Lost Four Days
*Chapter 6: The "Second" Week
*Chapter 7: The Sound of Chains
*Chapter 8: A Deadly Game of Tag
*Chapter 9: "Hands"
*Chapter 10: The Morning He Yearned For
*Chapter 11: A Happy Nightmare
*Chapter 12: Subaru Natsuki's Restart
*Chapter 13: I Cried and Screamed and Will Cry No More
*Chapter 14: Earlham Village, for the Third Time (Indirect mention only)
*Chapter 15: The Meaning of Courage
*Chapter 16: Demon Beasts (Appears in flashback(s))
*Chapter 17: The Way of the Demonic 1
*Chapter 18: The Way of the Demonic 2
*Chapter 19: Rem
*Chapter 20: Speaking About the Future
==Trivia==
*Ram and Rem's birthday was on the 2nd of February.
*Ram and her twin sister Rem share several similarities with Ram & Rom from the Hyperdimension Neptunia video game series:
**Both Ram & Rem and Ram & Rom are a pair of young twin girls who adore each other.
**Both sets of twins have a sister called Ram and a sister whose name begins and ends in the same letter as Ram.
**While in their "White Sister" forms, Ram & Rom have pink and blue hair respectively. Emphasis shall be placed on the fact that both Rams have pink hair while both of their siblings have blue hair.
**The sisters with the pink hair are more outgoing than the sisters with blue hair, and are therefore both seen as the dominant twins. However, there is a differentiation in the age of the pair of twins, as the pink-haired Ram is younger than the blue-haired Rom in Hyperdimension Neptunia.
==External Links==
*Ram at the Re:Zero wiki
*Ram at the Isekai Quartet wiki
*Ram at the VS Battles wiki
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