Cesar

Magus Pine

> "*Not worth it? Oh, don't sell yourself short! A good businessman is always looking for expansion opportunities.*"
> ― Cesar
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**Cesar** is a former mercenary and self-proclaimed businessman with a wild sense of fashion and style and a large ego. When he was younger, he was pressured into joining a gang of miners. One day, he dug up the Portal Gloves, which gave him the power to leave the gang and become a mercenary.

In Grapple Force Rena, he makes a deal with Lueh to obtain an army of hollows and take over his town, forcing all it's residents to pay a "protection fee". His occupation is ended and he is eventually defeated completely by Rena and Pine. He later teams up with Rena and goes to the Fairy Forest with her to get revenge on Lueh, and later still teams up with her again to storm Capital City after being kidnapped and experimented on. At the end of the game, he turns his tower into a casino for all to gamble away in.

## Appearance

Cesar is a fairly young man with brown eyes and hair. He has a large set of pearly white teeth, with the sun reflecting light off of them every time he shows of his smile.

He has a rather tacky sense of fashion, as Pine describes it. He wears a red polo shirt with a handkerchief stuffed inside of it, and a large black tuxedo that drapes down to his feet. He wears tan leather pants and brown boots that he keeps onto his feet with brown ties. He also bears two noticeable accessories: a black top hat with a red ribbon around it and two white gloves with a green design on their backs.

## Personality

Of the many egotistical characters in Grapple Force Rena, Cesar is perhaps the one who thinks the most highly of himself. He believes that only the powerful have right to rule the world and that the weak must submit to them. Unlike Rena, Cesar does not believe that justice is destined to prevail, but rather that it can prevail if those enforcing it are strong enough. Cesar is also rather vengeful, as he joins up with Rena, someone he doesn't like, twice in order to get revenge on both Lueh and the Archmage.

## Abilities

* **Basic Melee Combat**: Being a former mercenary, Cesar is well-equipped to dish out some physical attacks with his cane when he feels the need to.
* **Teleportation**: Cesar's signature move is his ability to create portals between points in space using his Portal Gloves. There appears to be no limit on how far apart his portals can be from each other.

## Relationships

### People of Mesa Town

The people of Cesar's hometown don't appear to desire Cesar's protection from the outside world. Justine, a young lady in Mesa Town, refuses to pay the protection fee, so Cesar's hollows throw toilet paper on her house every day until she relents. Other residents of the town viewed the takeover as inevitable, however, such as Petra, a miner, who says that she believes Cesar is just taking revenge on people who have mistreated him. When he opens up his casino, several residents of Mesa Town choose to visit it anyway. Cesar himself never makes it clear what his specific feelings towards the townsfolk are, but it can be assumed that he doesn't have much positive to say about them.

### Lueh

Cesar is initially ecstatic about working with Lueh, seeing as having a hollow army would make him more powerful. With that said, Cesar never appears to consider his relationship with Lueh to be that of friends, but rather views it as a business partnership instead. When Lueh attempts to kill Cesar for failing to defeat Rena, rather than be upset, Cesar becomes determined to get revenge on his former partner.

## Quotes

*"Not worth it? Oh, don't sell yourself short! A good businessman is always looking for expansion opportunities."* -to Galoot after he says that his home is too far away from Mesa Town for Cesar to care about occupying it

*"If you feel like getting humiliated again, feel free to stop by Mesa Town. Nobody there even bothers to fight back anymore, so I could use the entertainment!"* -to Rena and Pine after they fail to stop him in front of Galoot's house

*"Ugghh! Don't spout that cheesy hero nonsense at me!"* -to Rena and Pine when they claim that their justice will prevail against him

*"You're tough, sure. I'll give you that much. But if you think that's because of 'justice', you're just deluding yourself."* -to Rena after she claims that justice always prevails in the face of evil

*"That's not why you won. You won because you were stronger. And you were stronger because you were luckier."* -to Rena after she saves him from Lueh

*"But you ARE going to do it, right? The only one who cares about reasons around here is you, kiddo."* -to Rena when she initially refuses to work with him to stop Lueh