Laurent Thierry

**Laurent Thierry** (ローラン・ティエリー, *Rōran Tierī*?) is an expert international con man, renowned for his persuasiveness and quick wit.

## Appearance

Laurent has fair blond hair and light blue eyes with prominent heavy eyelids. In his initial appearance, he wore a pink Hawaiian shirt with lilac-colored flower patterns on it, white pants, and shoes. In other episodes, he's seen wearing a navy blue suit, lighter blue tie, and black shoes.

Ryōta Kosawa stated he got the main inspiration for Laurent's appearance from famous French actor Alain Delon. Furthermore, he was inspired by actors like Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. Laurent was supposed to resemble your typical good-looking western movie star. Laurent is about 6'1" (185 cm) tall.

## Personality

He operates as a Robin Hood of sorts, only targeting the corrupt and criminal, who obtain their wealth by unrepentantly harming honest people, for his scams; he prefers to expose his victims for their crimes and use the profits from his scams to help honest and underprivileged people. While ruthless toward his victims, he treats his comrades and associates like a family. He has a flirtatious nature and is a reputed playboy.

He comes off as very silly most of the time, though he is serious at times. However, despite the charming and affable demeanor he puts on, he is an extremely angry and vengeful man, having carried homicidal ideations towards others. Most notably, these feelings are targeted at Mr. Liu of the Shanghai Mafia branch of Akemi Suzaku's human trafficking empire. Due to his perceived failure to protect his fiancée Dorothy, he suffers from hallucinations of her from time to time, which often leave him either morose and visibly depressed. However, due to his immaculate sense of self-control, Laurent has displayed incredible willpower, proving himself superior to his enemies in both terms of will and morals.

## History

### Background

Laurent grew up in Brussels, Belgium with his French mother Emma Thierry. He studied several different languages as a kid as he aspired to become a diplomat. One day, an investor named Hugo came in with an offer to invest in Laurent's future, but he took advantage of Emma's dyslexia tricking her into signing a contract that actually transferred all of her life savings to Hugo. Shortly thereafter, Emma passed away, leading Laurent to live a life of gambling in Paris hoping to get revenge on Hugo. One night, he tried to kill Hugo, but ended up stabbing a woman named Dorothy instead. Laurent would later find himself being recruited into the Confidence group after this incident.

### Part 1

While visiting Asakusa in Japan Laurent runs into Makoto Edamura, a young man who Laurent had already decided would help with his plans with Sakura Magic. Makoto tries to trick Laurent whom Makoto thinks is just a foreigner with a lost wallet con, but after gaining the fake wallet Laurent switches the fake wallet with Makoto's actual wallet with a hug.

Laurent meets with Makoto again due to Makoto fleeing from "police" and entering Laurent's taxi, the pair then went to L.A. Laurent tries to leave Makoto at the airport but Makoto follows him into his car because he wanted his 300,000 yen back so while in L.A. traffic the pair make a deal: If Makoto could sell it for more than Laurent then he'd get the money that Laurent took from him back along with gain Laurent as an underling, meanwhile if Laurent won he'd get Makoto as an assistant.

The pair they arrive at the mansion of Eddie Cassano to sell the man some "imports" from japan. Laurent introduces Makoto as a pharmacological doctor from Japan. He then presents the “product” he’s willing to license for sale: “Sakura Magic”, a designer drug in the form of a piece of candy which Abby while acting as a wanna-be actress tries and shows to give an amazing high.

After Makoto is also given Sakura Magic he runs off in a mix of anger and fear, Laurent and Abby are able to catch up with him and knock him out, then tying him hanging upside-down from the “Y” in the Hollywood sign.

After cutting Makoto down from the Hollywood sign and going for some dinner, Laurent explains that Sakura Magic was fake and based off a rumor and that Laurent had set Makoto up to end up in L.A. with him for his plan, saying that it was because there were few good Japanese confidence men in L.A. After dinner, Laurent left Makoto & Abby together in a hotel room.

The next morning Laurent finds out that Makoto had left, but is certain that Makoto would be back by noon, but Makoto didn't. So the pair went to speak with Cassano, only to find that Makoto had already gone to talk with Cassano had got the price risen to double the original price.

Laurent finds out that Makoto had won over Cassano, by saying that he likes said the movies that Cassano helped make along with telling Cassano that he'd sell lab notes on the formula for Sakura Magic.

### Part 2

After the success of their last operation, Team Confidence celebrated in their headquarters in where Makoto confronted Laurent about Makoto leaving the group and away from the life of conning people.

## Trivia

* His name is possibly a reference to the real-life con artist Christophe Thierry Daniel Rocancourt, who used the name Christopher De Laurentiis as one of his many aliases.
* In the second part of screenwriter Ryota Furusawa's interview with excite.co.jp, he confirms Laurent is attracted to all genders/bisexual
	+ "**Furusawa:** Anyways, I want you to be full of questions, so for the time being, I have a setting that allows men and women of different ages. I had the image of a playboy, but it doesn't really matter who you are!
	+ "**Furusawa:** I haven't put him in the foreground much, but I wanted to make him a person who can feel the atmosphere of 'Maybe I'm looking at Edamame with those kinds of eyes?'"
* Laurent is a polyglot, knowing 9 different languages including French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

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