Ernesti Echevalier

* Ernesti
* Tsubasa

* Anime
* Manga
* Novel

* Anime
* Manga

## Relationships

* Mathias Echavalier (Father)
* Celestina Echavalier (Mother)
* Lauri Echavalier (Grandfather)
* Adeltrud Walter (Childhood Friend & Wife)
* Archid Walter(Childhood Friend)

## Exclusive Mecha

* Silhouette Gear
* Toybox
* Ikaruga
* Magatsu-Ikaruga
* Toybox-Mark2
* Magatsu-Ikaruga-Nishiki

**Ernesti Echevalier** (エルネスティ・エチェバルリア, *Erunesuti Echebaruria*?), also known as **Eru** (エル, ***Eru***?) (JP) or "**Ernie**" (dub/manga), is the protagonist of th *Knight's & Magic* series. Formerly known as **Tsubasa Kurata**, he was a genius programmer and a robot otaku who died in a traffic accident in Japan and reincarnated in this new world.

## Appearance

Ernesti has a short and petite frame. Due to his feminine appearance he is sometimes mistaken to be a girl. He has glistering silver hair and purple-blue-green eyes just like his mother.

## Personality

Ernesti possesses a very strong and well known passion/obsession for not only creating robots/Silhouette Knights but improving existing models which almost borders on mania and continuously seeks new knowledge and ideas that he can work with. He also has a strong belief that robots should only be fought by other robots and finds anything other than that to be insulting and a breach of aesthetics. This belief is strong enough that while he enjoys seeing new technology such as Zaladecks airships he considers it a breach of aesthetics due to the fact robots would end up becoming obsolete if battleships became more widespread. Truthfully Ernesti is just a selfish, egotistical, narcissistic brat, yet at the same time he still cares for his friends, Addy and Kid. Ernesti displayed his support for the twins when he learned their background as illegitimate children.

## Skills & Abilities

* *Maguis Circuit Mastery*
	+ Eru's occupation in his past life ― programmer, helped him understand this part. In simple terms, the sigils and their interactions in the form of a script followed similar logic in programming code. The operation of the script by the Magius circuit was similar to a virtual computer. Since the Magius circuit was built within the brain, activating it didn't take time, performing better than computers in his previous life.
	+ After Eru grasped the logic behind it, he 'extracted' the architect sigil and control sigil from the textbook and started using his Magius circuit ― which was within the human brain ― to start coding. With such a large amount of codes, even a veteran programmer wouldn't be able to organize it within their head; they would need the help of software editors. Eru used the Magius circuit domain as a software editor to plan and compile the scripts.
* *Magic*
	+ Magical abilities in all *Element Attributes*.
	+ Restructuring Magic, is Eru's Specialty.
* *Physical Boost Mastery*
	+ Strong enough to fight a giant without any armor.(Vol 6-7)
* Invention
	+ Ernesti is a genius inventor that has created new inventions like a Gunblade-like magic rod that combines a sword and magic rod into one weapon.
	+ Inventions of his include:
		- Gunlike Rods
		- Strand Type Crystal Tissue
		- Back Weapons
		- Silhouette Gears

## Trivia

* Married at 18 after returning from the land of the giants. (Vol 8-9)
* The Japanese voice actor of Ernesti is Rie Takahashi who also voices Emilia from Re:Zero and Megumin from *Konosuba*.
* The English dub voice actor of Ernesti is Justin Briner and Alexis Tipton. Justin Briner also voices Izuku Midoriya the main protagonist in My Hero Academia. While Eric Vale plays his past self Tsubasa Kurata, who voices Tomura Shigaraki, Izuku's arch enemy and the main antagonist in My Hero Academia. Hence Ernesti is spiritually his own enemy.
* Because Ernesti's childhood prior to his training wasn't fully adapted, many viewers incorrectly believed Kurata immediately got reincarnated into the 3-year-old Ernesti.
* Both when he was Kurata and since being reincarnated, Ernesti has a habit of touching his chin when he's thinking.

## References

1. *Knight's & Magic* Episode 1, *Robots & Fantasy*
2. ↑ Jump up to:2.0 2.1 2.2 *Knight's & Magic* Episode 3, *Scrap & Build*
3. ↑ Jump up to:3.0 3.1 *Knight's & Magic* Chapter 1, *Robots & Fantasy*
4. ↑ *Knight's & Magic* Episode 2, *Hero & Beast*
5. ↑ *Knight's & Magic* Episode 4, *Light & Shadow*
6. ↑ *Knight's & Magic* Episode 5, *Hide & Seek*