Rouger

**Rouger** was a member of the Zealots, one of the personal bodyguards of Busco P. Velvet and a bartender at Club Yorokobi. He was a supporting antagonist during the Transfer Arc.

## Appearance

Rouger was an extremly large african american man. He was clearly over 200cm in height and had an extremely muscular build. He had no hair nor facial hair. His right eye was a dark green color while his left eye was prosthetic and mechanical with a glowing red lenz. Rouger wore a pari of black suit pants, a white collared shirt with rolled up sleeves, along with a black tie.

## Personality

Rouger was a very calm and serious person, he never lost his cool even when recieving serious injuries or when insulted, he followed every order he was given to the letter and took his job seriously. This would lead him to be extremely valued by Busco, but it would also create a distance between Rouger and his fellow Zealots.

## History

### Transfer Arc

On the 6th of April 2873, Rouger would be manning the bar at Club Yorokobi when Faux Monsier would walk in, the two would have a brief encounter where Faux asks Rouger for the location of Busco P. Velvet, Rouger does not reply however, leaving Faux to be confronted by August Van Dogler.

Later that day, Rouger, along with Eloy Victor, Dimitroi Valencia, and August, would be sent by Busco to hunt down Amalia Van Ornell as well as the Andromeda Squadron. The group locates Amalia, as well as another member of Andromeda, Jana Yamagata, in Shibuya as they are walking to buy groceries. Dimitroi is the first to attack, firing a shot with a sniper rifle from an elevated position while Eloy quickly moves in. August goes after Amalia who escapes the scene, leaving Rouger as the last member to appear.

After a short duel between Eloy and Jana, Rouger steps in and attacks Jana, but the girl manages to avoid the attack and is able to momentarily defeat Eloy. After Eloy falls down for the first time, Rouger regains his bearings and goes for a second attack, Jana is able to block the attack but it sends her flying. Rouger and Eloy have a small argument before the latter chrages at Jana once more, Eloy is swiftly defeated once more but his charge allowed Rouger to get close. Rouger goes for another overhead strike, but misses once more as Jana is able to dodge it. Jana retreats in order to take a breather while Rouger tells Eloy to stay down as the man is supposedly only in the way.

After telling Eloy off, Rouger turns back to Jana and begins approaching her, the girl responds in kind and charges at Rouger. Just when Rouger thinks that Jana is about to enter his range, he swings his cleaver downward, but misses again and jams his cleaver in the concrete. Jana is able to run up the lodged cleaver and jump over Rouger, performing an air attack which wounds Rouger's back and temporarily disables him.

While Rouger is lying and recovering on the ground, Jana is able to defeat Eloy a third time, this time completely taking him out of the fight. While Jan relishes in her victory, Rouger is able to stand up and grabs Jana by the neck as soon as she turns around. The man scoffs at Jana and begins to choke her. He nearly manages to make Jana completely unconcious, but he is stopped at the last second by the appearance of Felix Svenson, who severs Rouger's arm.

Rouger falls down in pain and asks Felix who he is, to which the man replies that he is a Vampire. The two confront each other as Rouger is able to stand up again and grab his weapon. He attempts to swing at Felix, but his blade is shattered in one swipe from Felix's Bloodletter Fantasy. Felix comments that Rouger was aiming for center mass, and informs the man that vampires need to be decapitated in order for them to be killed. After that, Felix performs a flying roundhouse kick which hits Rouger's head, decapitating and killing him instantly.

## Relationships

### Zealots

#### Busco P. Velvet

Rouger was extremely loyal to Busco, and did his bidding without question. Not much else is known about the relationship between the two.

#### Eloy Victor

Rouger was shown to be somewhat of a guardian to the immature Eloy, as he would often instruct and scold Eloy on his actions, he would try to protect Eloy, such as when he on numerous occations attempted to make Eloy retreat out of harms way during their fight against Jana Yamagata, the two were also often deployed on missions together as a pair. While Eloy was shown to be disrespectful toward Rouger, he was most distraught over the man's death at the hands of Felix Svenson.

## Bounty

Rouger had a bounty of 1,700 Alliance Credits or 850,000 Plaques on his head. He was wanted dead or alive in the Alliance for "Extortion, money laundering, kidnapping and murder." It is as of yet unknown what happened to the bounty after Rouger's death in Chapter 3.

## Abilities and powers

### Physical abilities

#### Immense Strength

Rouger was shown to be immensely strong. His strikes were shown to be powerful enough to split concrete and throw Jana a distance of several meters.

### Mental abilities

#### Level headedness

Rouger was exceedingly level headed. He was able to remain cool in even difficult situations and could focus on his task without getting frustrated.

### Equipment and weaponry

* **Giant cleaver**: Rouger was shown wielding a Giant meat cleaver type weapon in combat. The cleaver seemed to be fairly powerful and packed a good punch, but it was slow and unwieldy. The cleaver was destroyed by Scorpio by shattering the blade to pieces with Bloodletter Fantasy before killing Rouger himself.

## Major battles

Rouger Battles

**Transfer Arc**

* Rouger and Eloy Victor vs Jana Yamagata

## Trivia

* Rouger was the first person to be killed during the series.
* Despite being clearly cybernetic, Rouger's left eye doesn't appear to have a purpose other than possibly allowing him to see from it.
* Rouger's name comes from Tojo mispronouncing the name "Roger" once when drunk,

## Quotes

* “That was my intention, but this girl seems to have more fight in her than we initially anticipated.” -Rouger responding to Eloy asking him why he did not kill Jana in Chapter 3. These were also his first words in the series.
* “I mean that you do not understand the fact that we are facing a skilled opponent. Just because you know how to kill people, doesn’t mean that you know how to fight.” -Rouger lecturing Eloy.
* “So, the rumors were true then. There is a vampire prowling Shibuya.” -Rouger to Scorpio after he reaveld his identity to him.
* “There’s quite the bounty on you, It’s lucky you showed up… I’ve never gotten to kill a vampire before!” -Rouger's last words spoken before his death at the hands of Scorpio.

## References

1. ↑ LOTS Chapter 3, Part 2: Rouger's name is revealed by Eloy.
2. ↑ LOTS Chapter 2
3. ↑ LOTS Chapter 3, Part 2
4. ↑ Volume 1: An Alliance document showing the bounties of various characters as well as the crimes they are wanted for is part of the extras of this volume.