Dratton Bergman

> "*OCT Major and the Commander of this force Dratton Bergman. First Unit, no contact with the Demon Group.*"
> ― Dratton Bergman's introduction to Russell Burrows
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**Dratton Bergman** is the Major as well as the Commander of the OCT.

## Appearance

Despite being in his late 50s, Dratton Bergman is a tall, muscular, and bulky man with tan skin and a beard. His white hair was styled in a swipe back. He usually wears a crimson-colored Operational Camouflage Pattern coat with gloves and boots outside the black military uniform.

According to Russell Burrows and several characters who are members of OCT, Dratton gives the aura of superior and is pretty intimidating to both his foes and men.

## Personality

Dratton appears to be an experienced old man who gives out powerful vibes of a violent person that one should not mess up with. As a commander, he was known for his intimidation and thorough leadership. Dratton was known for his notoriousness among the public and was feared by many. According to Russell Burrows, his strong-arm strategy has sacrificed 60% of the hostages in the past, leading to the latter wariness towards him.

As a patriotic man who has an undying loyalty to his country and the national order, Dratton will do anything to prevent the order from being disrupted, keeping the Shadow of Lhaplus from any threats. According to Dratton's declaration in Season 9 and Season 10, he will crush any threats to the Order whether it was Russell Burrows or Noel Cerquetti. He does not take betrayal and corruption easily, as shown by the accusation of Luce when she stopped his time in Le Cerqueil and during his return and helps Ribelio to capture Luce.

However, Dratton is an understanding and honorable man despite his brutalities. When facing Fugo in Melloy, he fought with enthusiasm with the latter and gave his enemy his respect upon knowing him. In the showdown with Fugo in the abandoned steelwork, he expresses his understanding of Noel's Faction's actions of terrorizing Lhaplus, which reminds him of his past. According to Dratton, there are two types of targets to him and the OCT with the first one causing chaos for their enjoyment, which are thugs and should be eliminated while the other one resort to using violence for their grievances with the society, which he considers them as convinceable.

He also has a good sense of judging the potential of an individual, as he accepts both Ribelio and Fugo to OCT and makes them authorized demons despite them making their contract illegally along with their attitudes towards him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Demonic Abilities

#### Arsenal

Dratton can produce projected red-hot weapons in many types he knew and uses them as much as he wanted. Such as cannons, firearms, hammers, and more. He also can decide the size of each weapon and they have massive destructive power that can destroy any living things within a range.

Dratton can weaponize his body and utilize it with full power as in his battles with Fugo.

#### Strength

As a demon, Dratton has massive physical strength combined with his demonic power and experience in combat as a soldier making Dratton a formidable, if not the most dangerous opponent one ever faces.

### Other Abilities

#### Combat Skills

As a member of OCT, Dratton is a well-trained man in combat as he has been through battles against threats to the nation. Dratton can use his intimidating strength and utilize any weapons he has without using his demonic power as demonstrated when he uses a Smoke Grenade to block Luce Marie's vision.

#### Leadership Skills

As the Major of OCT, Dratton has the power to lead and influence OCT and he has many achievements military as he was among the leaders sent to command the force send to Lhaplus. However, unlike Luce and Ribelio who would minimize and avoid the unwanted damages as much as possible, Dratton prefers thorough and absolute strategies that allow him to dispatch all threats, even if it causes some damage and someone has to die in the process. Proven when Russell Burrows takes note of Dratton's strong-arm strategies and has sacrificed 60% of the hostages in his previous missions.

#### Observation

He is a skilled observer as shown when he speculates about Luce Marie's power being limited within her sights after his experience in Le Cerqueil. Later speculate more weaknesses that Luce possessed with multiple contracts such that she can only freeze one target at once.

#### Knowledge

As an experienced man who works with the government, Dratton is knowledgeable, especially when it comes to the knowledge regards of demons and the devil's contracts.

His profound knowledge about the devil's contracts and its limitation is the reason why most demons and devils have to lose against him and his leadership. As shown when he speculates Luce Marie's demonic power's limitation, which allows Ribelio to successfully blow up her car in the car chase.

#### Intelligence

Dratton is a wise man and decisive in making decisions, choosing to retreat from Le Cerqueil after being aware of the unfavoured situation for him, later instead of returning and continuing his command in Lhaplus, he chooses to report Luce's actions to the Central Commands, which gave him and Ribelio the advantages to reclaim OCT from latter in Season Final 1/2.

## Relationships

### OCT

Dratton is the Major and the overall commander of the force sent to Lhaplus, to the soldiers of OCT, Dratton is a powerful and intimidating leader, and they are loyal to him and do not disobey any orders from him.

#### Luce Marie

Among the forces sent to Lhaplus, Dratton gives Luce his respect as a commander and leader for her accomplishments and achievements in the past. She is also the only person who has not made any difficulty. However, after she reveals herself as a demon and betrayed him on Le Cerqueil, she lost all of her commander's respect for her.

After the event, as Dratton left Lhaplus, Luce became the Acting Commander and took control of the force in Lhaplus for her convenience. Unbeknownst to her, after Dratton retreated from Le Cerqueil, he headed to the official HQ of OCT and filed Luce's actions to their superiors, this allowing him and Ribelio to easily take her down later. As in Season Final 1/2, after he returned to Lhaplus, with the instant testimony of Ribelio about Luce's demonic powers, they reclaimed OCT and stripped Luce from her military title. According to Dratton, as he reported her to the heads of OCT with all concrete evidence, a formal penalty will be made for her.

#### Ribelio Strada

They have a rough relationship with one another due to Ribelio's temper and attitudes of annoyance colliding with Dratton's ideals and often making use of the latter's demonic powers. Dratton would often make Ribelio fight as a demon on the battlefield and disregard his opinions. Nevertheless, he still allows him to fight as a soldier as long he gave him the wanted results.

On one hand, despite their rough relationship, Ribelio did acknowledge the importance of Dratton's role within OCT as shown in Season 11, when Ribelio is skeptical of his mysterious disappearance and the sudden changing of command of the force within Lhaplus. On the other hand, Dratton trusts and values Ribelio to some degree, later revealed in Season Final 1/2, that the reason why Dratton treated Ribelio the way he was is because of Ribelio's attitude along with his constant view of himself since the young man has lost his fighting spirit after becoming a demon and only fought as an animated corpse, which disappointed the major as he believes the latter has some potential as a soldier and a leader.

However, after witnessing Ribelio and his team worked their best to reclaim the organization from Luce while he was away, Dratton gave the young lieutenant a newfound respect as he realizes that he have refounded his spirit and determination and acknowledged that Ribelio have become sharper and much mature, befitting his position and the title of Second Lieutenant. He decided to trust him with the task and responsibility to capture their treacherous First Lieutenant while he deal with Fugo and take care of the mess that he caused in the city.

#### Spica

Unlike his relationship with Ribelio, Dratton gets along quite well with his lieutenant's devil. Spica is one of the few people that does not feel intimidated by Dratton's presence as she often calls and refers to him as "Beardo" and is the only individual who can casually talk to him. Dratton on the other hand doesn't seems to mind the nickname and seems to be fine or at least, unbothered with Spica teasing him.

However, Dratton would occasionally use Spica for his convenience as shown in Season Final 1/2 when he asks the great devil to poke her head out of the car's window, Spica did accomplish his request while unaware that she was used as bait so that Ribelio could easily shoot Luce's car, which resulted in the devil's time getting frozen as she was in Luce's sight.

### Lhaplus' Faction

#### Eraldo Burrows

They are close friends as the patriots of the country and are close when the former Mayor of Lhaplus was still alive. Even after his death, Dratton still refers to him as "comrade Eraldo" and vows to take revenge on Russell Burrows ever since he knows the truth.

Reveals in Season Final 2/2, Eraldo is the one who brought the light to Dratton when he used to terrorize in the name of activism, ever since then the former gives the latter his utmost respect even after his death and sought revenge for him.

#### Russell Burrows

Russell Burrows is wary of Dratton for his notorious reputation and aura, and he knows that the latter has the authority and influence of the government. On one hand, he viewed him as an obstacle to his plan in Lhaplus and need Dratton along with OCT to disappear for his convenience.

On the other hand, deep down, Dratton has no respect for the current Mayor of Lhaplus as he knows how corrupted Russell is as not only he did refuse to follow his father's footsteps since becoming the mayor but has been abused and has been taking advantage of the Shadow of Lhaplus for his convenience ever since the day, above all, he also knew that Russell is the one who has taken responsibility for this Eraldo's death. Because of this, he believes that the latter has to die.

According to Dratton, Russell Burrows falls into the first category of him and the OCT as "the one who causing chaos for their enjoyment".

### Noel's Faction

#### Fugo Dressel

Their relationship is antagonistic as a terrorist and the OCT's commander. Dratton does not think much of Fugo as a criminal but is no more than a reckless brat but later gave Fugo some respect as a fellow leader of their faction after he and his friends escaped from the OCT and outsmarted him in Melloy.

However, later in Season Final 2/2, it is revealed that Dratton knew that the demon group terrorize Lhaplus as the result of Russell Burrows' corruption. Upon the final duel in the Abandoned Steelwork, Dratton realizes that Fugo commit the act of terrorism as a way to appeal the society and change the current Lhaplus, he decided that is it worth convincing the demon as Fugo falls into the second category of OCT - using violence out of grievances with the society.

In the climax of the duel, before Fugo maximum all of his powers from the Fall, Dratton stopped him and fatally wounded him in the process as he knew that the latter would die if he continue using Fallen Down with that body's condition of him. Despite winning the battle, Dratton chooses not to finish Fugo but has a heart-to-heart conversation with him about their actions and the "price" of their revenge to change Lhaplus and since Dratton found that Fugo has some similarities with him in his old time, the latter deducts that the former used to be like him in his younger years, which the old soldier admitted himself. At the end of the battle, Fugo is either being arrested or received an honorable death out of respect from Dratton.

> "*If you still have the strength to do something then use it on something more meaningful.*"
> ― Dratton to Fugo[source]
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Later, revealed at the end of the series that after the final battle, Fugo and Dratton have made a deal and Dratton agrees to have Fugo either be reported as dead or being arrested and required him to abandon being "Fugo Dressel", which he accepts. Following the event, Dratton took Fugo to OCT and made him a "potential" authorized demon working in OCT under his command and said to him that his strength should be use on something else more meaningful. Indicating that he did value Fugo's power, strength, and will. However, due to Fugo's criminal record, he must be under the organization's watch until he gains the approval of the higher-ups and joins the force.

According to Fugo, the latter often lectures him even after allowing him to reunite with his friends, suggesting that Dratton has somewhat become a father figure to Fugo or a guardian figure.

## Trivia

* His representation color is the Operational Camouflage Pattern Red.
* He has some similarities with Fugo. For instance:
	+ They are the leader and the main figure of their faction's members.
	+ Both are demons whose powers are related to fires.
	+ They are skilled in utilizing weapons and both have used a Smoke Grenade to block Luce Marie's vision once.
* He has the most negative reputation among the leaders of OCT. Described by Burrows as "notorious".
	+ This is due to his strong-arm strategy and actions that have sacrificed 60% of hostages.
	+ When Noel uses her hearing skills to eavesdrop on the businessmen's conversation in the cafe shop about him to learn about Lhaplus' condition and they have said that it would be best to avoid gun fights and call him "monster general".
		- They also said that he has injuring hostages and killed the suspects without questioning them.
* The only members in OCT that did not feel intimidated by his presence are Luce Marie, Ribelio Strada, and Spica.
	+ Ribelio and Spica are among the few people to never call Dratton by his title, as Ribelio is the only individual who ever calls him or refers to Dratton by his first name despite not having any closeness and that his military position being lower than Dratton.
		- Spica calls him by the nickname she gave to him as a reference to his beard: "Beardo".
	+ Luce can casually talk to him even when betrayed him in Le Cerqueil.
* He is similar to Jino Lorenzi in terms of being surrogate parent/guardian of one of the Dressel brothers.