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| “ | Help me, Shisandan. Restore my hands to me. Somebody... Anybody... How can this be? Why is it always you? I'm far more powerful. And far wiser, too. O My Lady, The Hero... It was said I was born to serve you, and yet... | „ |
| ~ Ares' final words after Red killed him. |
Ares Srowa is a major antagonist in the Japanese light novel series Banished from the Heroes' Party, serving as the main antagonist of chapters 1-4 alongside the anime's first season. He is the arch-nemesis and self-proclaimed "love rival" of the main protagonist, Gideon Ragnason/Red.
He is the responsible for the disbandment of the Heroes' Party due to his selfishness and incompetence.
He was voiced by Taku Yashiro in Japanese and Brandon McInnis in English.
Biography[]
Ares is the son of a former (failed) duke. However, he hates his family, mostly due to his father was stripped as a duke from his failures.
Ares is a former member of the Heroes party until he betrayed them. He is the archnemesis and self-proclaimed love rival of Gideon Ragnason, aka Red. He is responsible for Red's banishment from the Heroes Party out of his jealousy of him for having the attention and love from Ruti Ragnason (Red's younger sister) which foolishly caused the Heroes Party to be disbanded eventually over time when the members quit and abandoned their roles (which includes Ruti herself) due to their growing hatred towards Ares for his idiocy and delusions. He later meets his own demise during his final battle against Red in his brash, yet foolish attempt to take Ruti for himself.
During his fight with Red, Rit and their allies for his foolishly attempt to take Ruti for himself, Tisse uses her spider familiar to hold off Ares allowing Red to kill the delusional fool when he cut off both Ares' hands and strike a fatal blow at his chest with Ruti's sword. Ares cowardly dies when he was bleeding to death and begging anyone to save him only for his plea to fall on deaf ears until he passed away due to blood loss.
Legacy[]
After his death, Ares' corpse is buried unceremoniously. Due to his dimwitted and deluded actions, the Heroes Party is disbanded, and his tarnished legacy has allowed himself to be hated and unforgiven by his former fellow Heroes when he banished Red and betrayed them for his own selfishness, lies and deceptions (though Red and the former heroes (except for Theodora and Yarandrala) attend his unceremonious funeral). The former heroes decided to live at Zoltan with Red (though it is temporary for Danan when he decided to return to his hometown).
According to Red, Ares is not going to be reincarnate by his "sage" blessing due to him being no longer at the mercy of the God Demis for his sins, meaning that not only is Ares dead, but also, he died in vain.
Personality[]
Ares is a narcissistic, selfish, delusional, hypocritical, lying, traitorous, sadistic, spiteful, and ignorant person who is the son of a failed duke that cares about nobody but himself.
He hates his family because of his father was stripped from his status as a duke. Ares attempted to marry Ruti just so he would rise as a noble while leaving his family to the dust but only to failed and he died pathetically at the hands of Ruti's brother, Red (Gideon) because Ares is even more pathetic than his father.
He hates Red for having his sister, Ruti Ragnason's attentions and love. He deemed Red as a "liability" within the Hero's Party when he banished Red and lied to his fellow Heroes that he "left for his own accord". However, due to his foolishness and lies, his actions have caused many of his fellow Heroes (who are respectful and supportive to Red) to leave/quit the Heroes' party (such as Danan LeBeau, Yarandrala, Tisse Garland and even Ruti Ragnason herself) as well, leading the disbandment of the Heroes' Party, due to their hatred towards Ares much of his dismays and fears. When Ruti reunited with Red and decided to stay with him, his hatred towards Red grew even worse.
After banishing Red out of his jealousy, he believes his "tactics and genius" to be better than Red and will manage to defeat the demon lord. Unfortunately, his so-called "genius" only leading the Heroes Party into complete disadvantages and failures where they cannot defeat the demon lord as well caused his fellows to grow their hatred towards Ares even further, meaning that his so-called "intellects: is inferior to Red's tactics and genius (which is superior and the only thing enabling the Hero's party to defeat the Demon Lord) this shown Ares to be a dimwitted fool who has an extremely low intelligence.
He is also a coward who is afraid to die even when he earned Ruti's wrath twice. He also refused to fight his own battles when he always run away from his fight and letting those fighting his battles for him making him a worthless weakling when he was killed by Red.
He is also a pervert who is obsessed of Ruti Ragnason. He desired to have her to fight against the demon lord and later getting her to marry him. However, he was rejected by her due to her love for her brother, Red. When he attempted to get her to be his side, he only gets rejected once again when she stabbed him for what he did to her brother.
After he failed to get Ruti to be with him, he is continually persistent who became a deranged lunatic that has suffered a complete mental breakdown through Ruti's rejections and her resignation as the Hero. Even when he was threatened that Ruti will kill him, Ares is more of a sore loser when he once again foolishly attempted to get her to be with him one last time only for him to be defeated and killed by Red.
He also lacked remorse and redeem qualities when he refused to accept that what he was doing is wrong.
In the moments before his death after Red killed him, Ares begged anyone to save him, but no avails (because of his selfishness and delusional beliefs). In his last words, he questioned Red why he always succeeded everything. while Ares failed at something, showing that Ares is even more of a deluded sore loser when still believing himself to be superior and wiser than his "love rival" as the latter refused to accept himself in reality of being weak and dimwitted until he finally died due to blood loss.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Magic: As a "sage", Ares has a proficiency of magic. He can create a barrier. However, he only learns are extremely weak and basic magic when he didn't train or prove his abilities.
- Manipulation: After banishing Red, Ares created a fabricated lie when he revealed to his teammates of the Hero's Party that Red "just left for his own accord". However, this manipulation is pathetic as it only caused members of the Hero's Party to abandon the roles and quit (such as Yarandrala, Danan, Tisse and finally Ruti).
Weaknesses[]
- Arrogance: Ares is extremely arrogant and cares nobody but himself. His arrogant lead himself to his demise at Red's hands.
- Physical Prowess: Despite blessed with magical abilities, Ares is an exceptional weakling who lacked physical prowess. These shown as he was punched in the face by the rageful Yarandrala (who eventually abandoned her role and left the Hero's Party due to Ares banishing Red), stabbed twice by Ruti (who also abandoned her role and resigned as the Hero) and slashed by Red (who eventually killed Ares when he cuts both his hands off and dealt a fatal strike to his chest with Ruti's sword).
- Delusional: Ares is proven to be extremely delusional. He refused to accept himself to be weak and dimwitted. His delusional hatred towards Red has blinded him as he refused to accept that Ruti chose her brother over him. His delusions of grandeur have become his downfall as Red killed him.
- Low Intelligence: Ares is proven to be very dimwitted when only deludedly believing himself that he is intelligent. Unlike Red, he has a very poorly tactics which lead the Hero's Party in a complete disadvantage against the Demon Lord' army. His dimwittedness has caused his teammates of the Hero's Party to quit and abandoned their roles (such as Yarandrala, Danan, Tisse and finally the leader, Ruti) due to their overall hatred towards Ares.
- Cowardice: Ares is a lazy coward when he refused to fight his own battles as he let those to fight his battles for him. He is afraid of Ruti (his so-called "love interest" who never actually love Ares) when she stabbed him twice. He is also afraid of death when he was bleeding to death, begging anyone to save him but no avails because of their hatreds towards him.
Relationships[]
Enemies[]
- Gideon Ragnason/Red (arch-nemesis and killer)
- Ruti Ragnason
- Tisse Garland
- Rit
- Yarandrala
- Danan LeBeau
- Theodora Dephilo
Trivia[]
- Ares is named after the Greek god of war of the same name.
- Ares is the first and only known human who died in the series.
- It is unknown if he was aware that Red and Ruti are blood-related siblings or just doesn't care due to his arrogance and dimwittedness.
- Ares is arguably the weakest and the most hated character in the series generally by the fans.
- Ares deserved to die when his hands were cut off and his chest was slashed to a fatal blow by Red (while using Ruti's sword).