Subaru Ikariya

**Subaru Ikariya** is a character in *Monark*.

## Background

> You wouldn't want to piss me off! I'M the one behind these anomalies!
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Subaru is an unsettling first-year high school student at Shin Mikado Academy. He has a fascination with the occult, and reads about the dark arts by himself in the library each and every day. The teachers consider him suspicious, and his attitude often gets him into fights. He has recently been threatening students by claiming he caused the anomalies plaguing the academy.

Before becoming a student at the academy and after, he was bullied and picked on for the fact that he was poor, a fact which his mother repeatedly apologized to him for. This made Subaru want the power to protect himself as well as those he cared about. At some point in time, a student did report the bullying, but Subaru himself rejected the accusation because in his mind it was someone pitying him for not being able to stand up to himself. The one thing he hates more than being picked on for being poor, is people pitying him.

After the barrier was erected around the school, Subaru began to take credit for the anomalies and the mist. After a while of this, Subaru was cornered in a 3rd floor classroom by Hidefumi, one of his bullies, who proceeded to shove him out an open window. Hidefumi and his friends (also bullies) refuse to tell the truth, instead saying they locked Subaru in the classroom and he jumped out the window himself. After his "suicide" another student went to try and find his body, but couldn't find it.

After he was thrown out the window, Yoru pulled him into the Otherworld before he hit the ground. Kakeru theorizes this is the reason why Subaru ended up living, as he wasn't truly in his body when it hit the ground. It was with Yoru that be became the Pactbearer of Wrath. Yoru gave him the bare minimum of information, not even informing him of what a Pactbearer is, and never told him that he wasn't the only the only one, leading Subaru to believe he is the sole Pactbearer and thus convincing himself that he truly was the reason behind everything happening in the academy.

During the Protagonist and Kokoro's time in the 1st Year Building, Subaru never shows up in his own body, always controlling someone else's. During his time controlling someone's body, the person is fully aware of Subaru's actions and are not able to do anything to stop him. The reason for him not being in his own body during this whole time yet still managing to wreak so much havoc is still a mystery, though it may be explained through his consciousness jumping between the Otherworld and taking possession of his victims using his Authority. There is a case explained in the Cromwell note of Wrath where a previous user used their Authority to allow themself to manipulate their own body so they could walk when they had been wheelchair bound before the pact, this case proves that this could be possible.

In an attempt to save himself, Yasunori kills Hidefumi so that Subaru might let him go. Instead this enrages Subaru into killing him. Kokoro and the Protagonist attempt to stop Subaru, but he knocks them unconscious using what looks like a lightning spell. He then uses the same spell to kill Yasunori.

In shattering his Ideals it is revealed that Subaru fell in love with Kokoro, or more accurately his idea of what Kokoro is like. His feelings for her come from the fact that she didn't pity or look down on him and seemed indifferent to what was going on. In truth, Kokoro didn't intervene because she didn't know what to do or how to interact with him. Meeting him at his third Ideal, Subaru confesses his feelings to Kokoro, not caring if she rejects him. When Kokoro *does* in fact reject him, she corrects him on the fact that she did care about what was going on just didn't know how to act. It's not the rejection that sets him off, but instead the fact that Kokoro destroyed him image of her. He becomes enraged at the Protagonist, accusing him of manipulating and changing Kokoro, which kicks off the boss fight.

After the fight it is revealed that Subaru was in the infirmary the entire time already in a comatose state as a result of the fall. At the beginning of the game you can see him in the infirmary at the bed farthest away from Kakeru against the wall. During Act 2 all the defeated Pactbearers are released from the infirmary, healed with no memory of their time as a Pactbearer. Subaru can be found on the 1st floor of the 1st Year Building by the door.

## Profile

From the in-game smartphone profile:

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> A member of the Go-Home Club who enrolled in the academy for high school on a scholarship by merit of his exception scores on the entrance exam.
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> Creepy and unsettling, he reads about the dark arts by himself in the library each and every day.
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> The teachers consider him suspicious, and his attitude often gets him into fights.
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> He has recently been threatening students by claiming he caused the anomalies plaguing the academy.
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> His grades are actually quite good, as are his study habits.
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1. ↑ behindthevoiceactors: SUBARU IKARIYA