Shvein Hax

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## Shvein Hax

* FUGA
* FUGA 2

## Bio

### Voice Actor

JP + FR: Kenji Nomura

**Shvein Hax** is the lead member of the Berman Empire's army and the final boss of *Fuga: Melodies of Steel*.

## Biography

Hax is the senior general and commander-in-chief of the force tasked to invade Gasco. For the sake of his homeland, he always has a cool head, no matter what.

Hax is a tall Doberman Caninu with an extremely threatening aura, which is exaggerated with his large black cape. He keeps a cane on hand and chews a bone adorned with a cigarette holder.

## History

Hax was a very gullible Caninu back in his childhood. Due to the fairy tale Jeanne's more vengeful half created and retold to him by his grandmother, he believed that a lost God resided beneath Gasco's capital Paresia, defeated and separated from its heart by a powerful Steel Devil. Since then, he had his heart set on reawakening that God, who is actually the Titano-Machina named Vanargand, even if it meant terrorizing the continent. At one point in his military career, he was Colonel Pretzel's second in command, before ultimately rising up to become the Supreme Commander of the Berman military. He used his influence to recreate the Devil of his stories, in the form of the Tarascus. At another unknown point in his life, he suffered a burn in his right eye that needed an eyepatch to cover it.

During the events of *Fuga*, Hax had already deployed the Berman army to take over the entirety of Gasco. While he was originally tasked by the emperor to simply regain the land the empire had supposedly lost, his ulterior motive was to take full control of Paresia while making use of other towns & villages to further progress reaching his goal. This included destroying every occupied space of the continent, the mass murder of Felineko for Bio-Energy, and enslaving citizens into mining out Vanargand's "heart" and installing it inside the Tarascus.

Hax's plans are succeeded due to Jeanne fooling the children aboard the Taranis to approach the Tarascus. With this, he tests the power of the Managarm and is able to demolish the Gasco Army members who came in to help the children. What was left in the area was nothing but fire. He then makes his grand escape to Paresia and awakens Vanargand who creates mass destruction to all of Gasco, causing the continent to become an archipelago. During this, Hax becomes corrupted with his newfound powers and is almost unrecognizable. He becomes coated with a striking blue aura and reveals scars that were previously unseen.

The children of the Taranis make haste to Paresia and manage to fall into the Vanargand's previous Soul Cannon wound from the third World War on Earth, thanks to a sudden cave-in. When they confront Hax, he goes into a power-tripped rage and attempts to kill anyone who gets in his way with the Tarascus. The only way to end his life and stop the Vanargand is by using the Soul Cannon. As Jeanne sought a way to fire it without sacrificing the children, she found Jihl's stasis pod and realized he was acting as the tank's power source. Deciding to use his energy, the Taranis fired the Soul Cannon and struck down the empowered Tarascus, killing Hax in the process.

## Gallery

Illustration by HaikimaruHax as depicted in the Fuga manga

## Trivia

* In keeping with the food-based naming scheme, Shvein Hax is named after "*schweinshaxe*", which are German pork knuckles.
* According to a Famitsu interview, Hax was able to fire the Tarascus' Managarm without passing out thanks to his immense endurance allowing him to shrug off the weapon's life-draining effects.