Dorssen Kataberia

**Dorssen Kataberia** (ドルッセン・カタベリア) is the son of the commander of the Royal Guards. He is one of the love interests in the game.

He is initially infatuated with Yuri Neuer, but becomes disillusioned with her over time. He was formerly part of Edward Tone Tasmeria's entourage.

## Appearance

He stands out with his short hair and muscular body.

## Personality

He has a great pride of being the heir who was going to be a Royal guard. He preferred to train with Knights than to go to school. He is a hard worker and committed to martial arts. He is quiet, reserved and had a great deal of trouble blending in.

According to Iris Lana Armelia, he will jump into action in the hopes of being a knight and hero, without thinking of the consequences. He is slow, prideful, arrogant, self-righteous and unconsciously prejudice. He easily give into rumors and speaks his mind out.

## History

As a member of the Kataberia family, Dorssen was raised to believe that he was meant to become a member of the Royal Knights in order to protect the royal family. Due to this, he had been trained and given lessons in martial arts by his father from a young age. He originally did not wish to join the Royal Academy due to thinking it was a waste of his time, but since he was the only son of his family, he was required to do so.

Due to his physical prowess, he easily ranked first in terms of combat. Despite that, he continued to hone his abilities. He used to practice alone on the training grounds at the academy until the day he met Yuri Neuer, the daughter of Baron Neuer. who was impressed by his skill and used to praised him. Their meeting continued and he got close to her than others to the point of developing feelings for her. Yuri fell in love with Prince Edward before he could express his feelings, so he decided to protect her in shadows.

When Prince Edward and Yuri were pitted against Duke Armelia’s daughter, he sided with Yuri and physically held Iris down.  He held her down until Iris requested he let her go. While he was reluctant to do so, he gave into her demand when she pointed out that someone who aspires to be a knight should not harm a defenseless girl. Dorseen remained quiet for the remainder of the confrontation.

After they successfully exiled Iris, he felt as if he had successfully protected Yuri. but he was forced to face consequences. He was reprimand and punched by his father for raising his hand against a duke and that too a girl with little to no evidence against her, Dorssen couldn't comprehend the reason for being scolded and consider his father's word to be politics of the noble houses. Dorssen didn't care about the politics for he had saved a girl as a Royal Guard, even if it means standing against an upper noble. He was placed in house arrest for not understanding his fault.

Despite the circumstances, no matter what Prince Edward said, there wasn’t any kind of official announcement of the engagement being annulled at the time. As a result, Iris was still the fiancé of the second prince, a noble, a women and also the future queen which meant that Dorssen had already committed an unforgivable crime by physically assaulting her.

Instead of being punished, his father, Count Kataberia, called him back home for discipline and placed him in house arrest, waiting for the official announcement of the annulment of the royal engagement. Thus, the Kataberia family protected Dorssen. While Dorseen was confined, the Armelia family was not happy with Kataberia family due to Dorssen forcefully holding Iris down to the floor and injuring her. Due to Dorseen not receiving any appropriate punishment nor any other form of apology for that incident relations became strained between the family for years. When the Katabelias tried to mend things with Armelias, they failed, especially Merellis Reiser Armelia. Merellis personally told Count Kataberia she was not impressed by his actions, and she chose to ignore any events hosted by the Kataberias which harmed Kataberia family's reputation along with their status quo with Armelia and their support faction being ruined. Dorssen's father would send him to late night Knight training, as a discipline action.

During the remainder of days at the Royal Academy, he remained friends with Prince Edward and the other members of his group. Yuri would observe that Dorssen seemed tired, and he would simply brush it off as him being tired from training. Berne would correctly guess that he was being punished by his father. They would also briefly speak about the Azuta Corporation while not being aware that Iris was the President.

When Iris was invited back to High Society by the Dowger Queen, he along with other members of Edward's group confronted her. While he didn't say anything, he made it clear that he was disgusted by her being allowed to return. However, he backed down after the Dowger Queen personally welcomed Iris.

Few days later, his mother asked him to join her for tea as well as sample some chocolate from the Azuta corporation. He was surprised to learn that Iris was the President. Afterwards, his mother questioned his actions and sided with Iris. She explained Iris' side of the story. From Iris' perspective, her fiancé was about to be seduced by another woman, and it wasn’t unjustified or uncalled for Iris to channel all her jealousy and hatred towards Yuri. As a matter of fact, it was Yuri's fault to be close to another's fiancé. His mother added that Iris was exiled from both the academy and society because, Dorssen and others confronted her in front of everyone, instead of verifying the truth or to deal with the accuse in person.

Dorseen's mother made it clear that due to Iris being banished from High Society along with her engagement being annulled, it would be difficult for her to find another possible match. However, she also expressed a certain level of admiration for Iris to rebuild herself despite the humiliation she suffered. After explaining all of it, his mother again questioned Dorssen, if he still claims his actions are befitting of a knight and also added that he didn't protect anyone, but favored his love interest. She then ended the conversation by telling Dorseen that he should be ashamed of himself.

He joined knights after his graduation. He came across the disciples of his ideal and was given an opportunity to have a duel. During his duel, he realized that he is outmatch to their skill but the fury of their attack intensified to the point of almost killing him. The match was halted just before the sword piercing him. Dorssen asked why they didn't join the knights to which they answered that their loyalty was only to their master. One of his senior was happy for Dorssen's safe return and told him that it was a miracle for him to be alive. Since their master was Iris whom Dorssen used force against. His Senior also recollected a time when those two disciples went on a rampage against the army and royal guards who insulted their master in an argument trying to recruit them. When Dorssen asked his senior about what type of person Iris was, he answered that he didn't met her, so he couldn't tell, but from the action of those disciple he concluded that she must be a great person.

Finally, Dorssen understood the gravity of his action. His feelings for Yuri had blinded him so much that he didn't see the obvious things in-front of him. He was permitted to attend the academy. There, he avoided Yuri altogether. He realized that he couldn't turn back time and just move along.

He wanted to learn more about Iris, since he didn't know anything about her prior to that incident, so he wanted to reevaluate her and also his actions. He tried to meet Iris with no luck. He came to know that all her servants are loyal to her.

He decided to visit her fief to know more about her. He found that the people of her land adored and loved her. He found her administration is on a whole new level. The people of the fief refused to believe his claim of Iris attacking the future queen, some even glared at him for his remarks towards her. While some even politely warned him to hold his tongue, since not all of them were tolerant to slander against their lord. The people already felt that a woman as a fief in-charge being natural. Her fief was clean and secured even at night, surpassing the royal capital. The infrastructure is good with popular free primary schools and hospitals. He wondered, if she reformed after that incident or he given into the bad rumors circulated about her at that time without verifying it. When he came to know about a goons problem in the fief, he jumped in and got entangled in the problem.

When he finally met her, he couldn't ask for her forgiveness, since his apology is meaningless at this point, as he cannot give back the things which were taken from her. He took her advice and left her territory with a renewed ideals. After his meeting with Iris, he decided to turn a new leaf and left her territory. He retired from the knights’ order and at the same time, the Kataberia family plans to cut ties and exile him. After returning to the capital his whereabouts remained unknown.The Kataberia family official acknowledge the misdeed of Dorssen and sent a formal apology to Iris household.

Later, it was revealed that he had lost his life to Divan with much effort and Yuri was aware about it with no concern for she felt him to be an obstacle. It is implied that due to him being exiled from his family that no one else besides Divan and Yuri are aware of his fate.

## Relationships

### Iris Lana Armelia

He hated her for harassing Yuri and he used brute force while confronting her. Later, he realized that his action against Iris is pure violence. This guilt drove him crazy. To put an end to his string of thoughts and guilt, he decided to apologize for his action alone, but still believe his reasons for that incident was just. All of his acquaintance saw this as a shallow attempt to make himself feel better and escape the guilt. After several discussion with his comrades and seniors, he wanted to learn more about Iris, since he didn't know anything about her prior to that incident, so he wanted to reevaluate her and also his actions.

When he finally met her, he couldn't ask for her forgiveness, since his apology is meaningless at this point, as he cannot give back the things which were taken from her. He took her advice and left her territory with a renewed ideals.

Likewise, Iris felt a strong distaste for Dorseen due to him harming her. She considered him to be a person who exercised poor and wanted nothing to do with him. She saw him as nothing but trouble even if he had noble intentions. When she confronted him in the aftermath of the incident he was caught up in, she exiled him from her fief, and he willingly complied with it. Iris had her men keep an eye on him to ensure that he left. Afterwards, Iris received word that Doressen was expelled from the knights and disowned by his family. Iris couldn't help but feel pleased by this turn of events, but she admitted she really didn't care about what became of him.

### Yuri Neuer

Yuri was his love interest. He wanted to protect her smile, even if she loved someone else. For her, he was willing to go against, even the daughter of the duke. After realizing his foolishness, he avoided her completely till her graduation. While trying to re-evaluate his action against Iris, he internally still try to defend Yuri and tried hard to find fault in Iris.

On the other-hand, Yuri saw him as a convenient pawn. She constantly fed his ego and lavished him with praise to the point of blinding him to facts. After Dorssen was no longer useful to Yuri, Divan disposed of him, and Yuri was aware of it. Yuri showed no remorse for Dorseen's death because she felt that Iris's resolve touched him, and he would be a liability.

### Berne Darshi Armelia

They became friends during their days in the Academy, but Berne presumably cut ties with Doreseen and other members of Edward's Group when he decided he had to take responsibility for his own actions.