History Characters / FinalFantasyXVITheDhalmekianRepublic

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* {{Bookends}}: Clive and Theodore's first meeting starts with [[PoorCommunicationKills the latter mistaking the former for a Cast Stone]], resulting in a clash, though the mistake is quickly rectified. [[spoiler:Their last encounter has Theo, turned Akashic, attack Clive in a bout of zombie-like rage, though Eloise's presence makes him remember himself long enough to [[HeroicSacrifice end his own suffering before he can hurt anyone]].]] Both times, he's shown with his sword already drawn.

* SenselessSacrifice: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to him, the Bearers that were going to inhabit the empty village he was defending had already been shipped away to the continent before he made his stand against the dragon. While Eloise notes that the village can still be used for other potential freed Bearers in the future, Theo still died protecting the homes of people who would never use them.]]

->''"The Dhalmekian Republic, whose fortunes shift with the desert sands."''\\
Capital: Ran'dellah

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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When Clive cuts his hands off, he starts slamming the ground, screaming to kill Clive over and over. He doesn't get much better after being rescued by Sleipnir, who taunts him about his weakness so that he can manipulate him into entering the heart of Drake's Fang. By the time Clive finds him, he's become a delirious mess who's professing his undying love to a hallucination of Benedikta, and once this hallucination dies before his eyes, he completely snaps and becomes a monster driven by pure spite and rage.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It takes some time, but he comes around. At first he is unable to look past his hatred for Blackthorne, but when his home is in danger he recognizes what he must do and helps Blackthorne and Clive.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Despite being a Bearer, he gets infected by a particularly dense aetherflood and becomes Akashic]].

** Narrowly averted. He's on the hunt for the Cast Stones, bandits who force children to steal for them. So when he comes upon Clive and Jill interrogating one of those children (because they are also hunting the bandits) he assumes they ''are'' the Cast Stones and attacks them. Thankfully, no one is injured before the situation is clarified.

* {{Jerkass}}: His backstory and role in the main plot make it clear that at his core he's a selfish, greedy, hedonistic, and violent man.

* BackInTheSaddle: He's a retired military officer of Dhalmekia who is forced to come out of said retirement after pretty much every authority figure in the country is either run off or bumped off.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on being overridden by Hugo in the war meeting between Dhalmekia and Waloed and proceeds to disappear until the late stages of the main quest.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Havel and Byron Rosfield are revealed to be old friends, though both old men vehemently deny it. Even so, they fight valiantly at each other's sides.