History Characters / TheCreationAlchemistEnjoysFreedom

* ChildhoodFriends: With Mabel. Agnis used to visit the castle a lot when she was younger and Mabel already worked there as a maid at the time, so the two ended up becoming friends and often played together. While they grew apart after Agnis accidentally burned Mabel, the latter never really held it against her, and yeared for the two to become freinds once more. Thor ends up granting that wish by helping Agnis control her power with the [Health Pendant].

%%* ChildhoodFriends: With Mabel. (Zero-Context: Entry is just a name)

* TraumaticSuperPowerAwakening: An unusual take in that the power awakening triggers the trauma, not the other way around.

%%* BenevolentBoss: She welcomes all input from her palace servants. (Zero-Context: Entry is just "trope is here")

---> "What has happened to me?! [[NeverMyFault Thor! You did this! Take responsibility!]]"

* JerkassHasAPoint: He initially dismisses Thor's claims that he could help with Agnis's condition, since he and his daughter had already tried every avenue themselves, leading him to give up on finding a solution and instead trying to find ways to convince Agnis that her condition isn't a bad thing. For all he knew, Thor was just a charlatan trying to sell them a fake solution, or worse an asshole who wanted to humiliate Agnes by giving her something that seemed to work that would fail eventually and burn her clothes in public. When he calms down and realizes that Thor's [Health Pendant] really does work, he apologizes for his behavior.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Justified. When he first meets Agnis, he notices that the armor she's wearing is about to fall apart, and offers to fix it. This angers her father and has her cower away in embarrassment, to his confusion. He later learns that she was '''completely naked''' under said armor, by necessity.

** When the princess gives Duke Regus the cold shoulder at a party, he publicly demands to know why she's spurning him. She then makes his scheme public, even showing one and all the very contract he signed to provide a sword that only looked like it was repaired because he didn't want to admit that he couldn't complete the task he volunteered for.
** He tries to recover his reputation by conspiring with a margrave who lives near a silver mine the empire and demon territory were planning to share to once again throw Thor under the bus in a scheme to net more silver for the empire than the contract allows, and bribing General Respalgia, in whose territory the mine lays. He was unaware that the demon general is a man of honor above his warrior ethos, ''and'' has a debt of gratitude towards Thor. This results in Duke Regus's attempt at embezzlement reaching the ears of the emperor and Bragas not only being demoted from Duke to Count, but being sent to the front lines, personally, to "lessen his sins."
** He is given a chance to get amnesty by being ordered to write Thor an apology letter. His "apology" has absolutely no sincerity, and he tries to throw blame off to Margrave Garoa '''and''' makes it glaring obvious that the only value he sees in Thor is as an imperial mole. Thor doesn't even open the letter and has Mabel both open it and read it aloud, in front of the Demon King's army. When she's done, Thor tells the imperial messenger, one of the very same knights that banished Thor in the first place "Tell Bragas that Thor Regus is dead ''just like he wanted'', I am Thor '''Canaan''', and I will have nothing to do with the Doragia Empire!"
** When word of his failure comes back to him through Zagran, he protests "But I wrote the letter!" Zagran points out that the promise of amnesty is only valid if ''the letter worked'', which it clearly didn't, and it is only because the Emperor thinks that there might be a means to use Thor's grudge that Bragas hasn't been executed yet. When Bragas Regus hears that he has his life only because of Thor's existence, he breaks down in despair, howling like a wounded animal and has to be carried out of Zagran's manor. Zagran himself finds it '''very''' gratifying.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only has one truly relevant scene, going to the government office where Thor works to collect Liana's sword and have it fixed. He botches this so, so badly that he nearly eradicates the Regus house all by himself.

* BreakingSpeech: When Bragas and Garoa screwed up the silver mine negotiations, Zagran was content to send Bragas to the front lines in some unstated border conflict with another nation, but when Bragas failed the simple task of ''writing an apology letter'', Zagran has had enough and berates him with a speech so destructive that [[VillainousBreakdown Bragas throws himself to the ground and starts wailing like a wounded animal]], pounding the dirt with a mighty vengeance, and having to be carried away. Considering everything that happened to this point, both sides of the FourthWall [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech found this]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil cathartic]].
--> '''Zagran''': "You have abused Thor and denied him advancement for three years, '''three years''', and that's after he renounced his family name and lived like a commoner. When you summoned him to your estate, you could have made entreaties to his patriotism, or offered to make amends. '''[[TooDumbToLive You did not do that.]]''' ''Instead'', you insulted him, berated him, '''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and ordered him to die]]'''. Thanks to you, [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is irreconcilable]], and [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate you have cost the Empire a very, very valuable tool,]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and worse, given that tool to our enemies!]] If it were me, I'd have you executed for '''treason''', but The Emperor has decided to spare you because maybe, just maybe, [[FateWorseThanDeath there's a way we can use his grudge against you to spare the Empire as a whole]]."
--> '''Bragas''': "I owe my life to THOR?!" (falls to the ground and starts pounding at the tiles) "AAAAAARRRGAAAGGGAAHH!!!!"

* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Which Zagran, Minister of Military Affairs, calls him out on, but it never registers thanks to Bragas's own loathing of Research and Development. A talented alchemist like Thor is ''desperately'' needed by the Empire, especially the royal family, but by bending over backward to alienate Thor to the point that [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is utterly irreconcilable]], Bragas Regus has cost the empire a very, very valuable tool, and what's worse, gave said tool over to the Empire's enemies, the very demon king the empire wants permanently cowed. If Zagran had his way, Bragas would be executed on charges of '''treason'''.

--> '''Zagran''': "You have abused Thor and denied him advancement for three years, '''three years''', and that's after he renounced his family name and lived like a commoner. When you summoned him to your estate, you could have made entreaties to his patriotism, or offered to make amends. '''[[TooDumbToLive You did not do that.]]''' ''Instead'', you insulted him, berated him, '''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and ordered him to die]]'''. Thanks to you, [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is irreconcilable]], and [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate you have cost the Empire a very, very valuable tool, and worse, given that tool to our enemies]]! If it were me, I'd have you executed for '''treason''', but The Emperor has decided to spare you because maybe, just maybe, [[FateWorseThanDeath there's a way we can use his grudge against you to spare the Empire as a whole]]."

* BreakingSpeech: When Bragas and Garoa screwed up the silver mine negotiations, Zagran was content to send Bragas to the front lines in some unstated border conflict with another nation, but when Bragas failed the simple task of ''writing an apology letter'', Zagran has had enough and berates him with a speech so destructive that [[VillainousBreakdown Bragas throws himself to the ground and starts wailing like a wounded animal]], pounding the dirt with a mighty vengeance, and having to be carried away. Considering everything that happened to this point, both sides of the FourthWall [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech found]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil this]] cathartic.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a two-faced scheming weasel, but even he was beyond outraged when his spies filled him in on exactly how Thor was abused and told to go die as he was thrown out of the empire to the demon king territory, [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate then goes on to berate Bragas Regus for it]].

--> '''Zagran''': "You have abused Thor and denied him advancement for three years, '''three years''', and that's after he renounced his family name and lived like a commoner. When you summoned him to your estate, you could have made entreaties to his patriotism, or offered to make amends. '''[[TooDumbToLive You did not do that.]]''' ''Instead'', you insulted him, berated him, '''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and ordered him to die]]'''. Thanks to you, [[PointOfNoReturn his grudge is irreconcilable]], and [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate you have cost the Empire a very, very valuable tool, and worse, given that tool to our enemies]]! If it were me, I'd have you executed for '''treason''', but The Emperor has decided to spare you because maybe, just maybe, [[IronicHell there's a way we can use his grudge against you to spare the Empire as a whole]]."

* BreakingSpeech: When Bragas and Garoa screwed up the silver mine negotiations, Zagran was content to send Bragas to the front lines in some unstated border conflict with another nation, but when Bragas failed the simple task of ''writing an apology letter'', Zagran has had enough and berates him with a speech so destructive that [[VillainousBreakdown Bragas throws himself to the ground and starts wailing like a wounded animal]], pounding the dirt with a mighty vengeance, and having to be carried away. Considering everything that happened to this point, both sides of the FourthWall [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech found]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil this]] [[CatharsisFactor cathartic]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: In the manga, he's right to shout down his butler and put the oaf under house arrest for being directly responsible for the incident that smeared the Regus family name with mud by arbitrarily deciding to make purely cosmetic repairs on Liana's sword without clearing it with him first, '''and leaving behind obvious proof.''' Of course, the [[{{Hypocrite}} lion's share of the blame]] goes on Duke Bragas for exiling Thor and willfully keeping himself ignorant of who was working on the sword, but the butler clearly exceeded his mandate and only made things worse.

* BreakingSpeech: When Bragas and Garoa screwed up the silver mine negotiations, Zagran was content to send Bragas to the front lines in some unstated border conflict with another nation, but when Bragas failed the simple task of ''writing an apology letter'', Zagran has had enough and berates him with a speech so destructive that Bragas throws himself to the ground and starts wailing like a wounded animal, pounding the dirt with a mighty vengeance, and having to be carried away.
--> '''Zagran''': "You have abused Thor and denied him advancement for three years, '''three years''', and that's after he renounced his family name and lived like a commoner. When you summoned him to your estate, you could have made entreaties to his patriotism, or offered to make amends. '''You did not do that.''' ''Instead'', you insulted him, berated him, '''and ordered him to die.''' Thanks to you, his grudge is irreconcilable, and you have cost the Empire a very, very valuable tool, and worse, given that tool to our enemies! If it were me, I'd have you executed '''for treason''', but The Emperor has decided to spare you because maybe, just maybe, there's a way we can use his grudge against you to spare the Empire as a whole."

--> '''Zagran''': "Guards, carry him out of here and take him away!"

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a two-faced scheming weasel, but even he was beyond outraged when his spies filled him in on exactly how Thor was abused and told to go die as he was thrown out of the empire to the demon king territory, then goes on to berate Bragas Regus for it.

* PlausibleDeniability: He prefers to have the blame for all his schemes in the hands of disposable pawns. This does eventually fail him when one of his pawns screws up so badly that he can't avoid the blame anymore.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He initially dismisses Thor's claims that he could help with Agnis's condition, since he and his daughter had already tried every avenue themselves, leading him to give up on finding a solution and instead trying to find ways to convince Agnis that her condition isn't a bad thing. For all he knew, Thor was just a charlatan trying to sell them a fake solution, or worse an asshole who wanted to humiliate Agnes by giving her something that seemed to work that would that would fail eventually and burn her clothes in public. When he calms down and realizes that Thor's [Health Pendant] really does work, he apologizes for his behavior.

** Bragas is a coward who loved to beat up on Thor, knowing the latter couldn't fight back. General Respalgia never showed it, but he was impressed that Thor would have the courage to speak to him face to face despite being a weakling.
** Bragas only cares about how his children can boost his name, and when Thor couldn't, brutalized him. The general cares more about his children's welfare, and when Thor fixed Agnis's issues, is ''proud'' to consider Thor his son-in-law.
** Both of them socially isolated their children. The general did it because he had no other option, as Agnis was a threat ''to herself'' and everyone around her. When that was taken care of, he's more than happy to let her out in public. Bragas did it out of nothing but pure, unfounded pride and used social isolation to try and drive his son to suicide, and when that failed, sent him off to what he considered certain death, just to be rid of his self-perceived shame.

* AssumedWin: He is so delusional that he was expecting victory parades for his scheme to embezzle silver from a mine in Duke Respalgia's territory with the intent of causing a political schism within the Demon King's territory. Even if the scheme had worked as intended, there's no feasible way he could ever publicly be given the credit.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Banishing Thor to die in the Demon King's territory was supposed to erase the "shame" of his household and give him and his all the glory and perks he thinks he deserves. At least that's what went on in his head. The reality is that he permanently alienated a very, very rare and valuable tool his country needs in its expansionist agenda and cold-war with the Demon King country, and worse, actually gave said tool ''to'' the Demon Lord his empire is trying to keep intimidated, and it just gets worse from there.

* DumbMuscle: All he can see as "useful" is someone with glaringly obvious utility on the battle-field. Everything else is a "useless incompetent."

* JerkassHasAPoint: In the manga, he's right to shout down his butler and put the oaf under house arrest for being directly responsible for the incident that smeared the Regus family name with mud by arbitrarily deciding to make purely cosmetic repairs on Liana's sword without clearing it with him first, '''and leaving behind obvious proof.''' Of course, the lion's share of the blame goes on Duke Bragas for exiling Thor and willfully keeping himself ignorant of who was working on the sword, but the butler clearly exceeded his mandate and only made things worse.
* LaserGuidedKarma: As punishment for permanently alienating Thor by verbally and physically abusing him for not having combat oriented classes or stats, he gets sent to the front lines in a border clash between the Empire and some unstated other country. When he tries to beg and plead for an alternative, he gets the phrase [[IronicEcho "It's been decided!"]] yelled back at him, though he does get permission to take 5 of his household knights with him [[{{Irony}} who are all just as cowardly as he is]].

* PsychologicalProjection: He presumed that since General Reselgia is a warrior who values strength, that he'd also happily look down on non-combatant support fields, like Thor's alchemy, and that's why he went with the scheme to try and bribe Duke Reselgia with a portion of the stolen silver from the mine, and if there's trouble, dump the blame on Thor. Problem is, demi-humans have long, long memories and they remember '''why''' they lost the war 200 years ago. The summoned Hero didn't win with just overwhelming might, he also had powerful logistics and was a TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe. As such, the Demon Lords have had a policy of "don't underestimate humans" and "all professions are valuable." So Reselgia wouldn't have looked down on Thor even if Thor hadn't earned his gratitude and his daughter's hand in marriage.

* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Which Zagran, Minister of Military Affairs, calls him out on, but it never registers thanks to Bragas's own loathing of Research and Development. A talented alchemist like Thor is ''desperately'' needed by the Empire, especially the royal family, but by bending over backwards to alienate Thor to the point that his grudge is utterly irreconcilable, Bragas Regus has cost the empire a very, very valuable tool, and what's worse, gave said tool over to the Empire's enemies, the very demon king the empire wants permanently cowed. If Zagran had his way, Bragas would be executed on charges of '''treason'''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Could it be?! We've screwed up! [[OhCrap SHIT!]] It's too late, Thor's already been send as a "sacrifice."]] As the head of the Regus family butlers, he's the one who loved to mock Thor the most, second only to Duke Bragas himself.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: The fact that he summarily sent Bragas Regus to the front lines as punishment for abusing Thor, enraging General Respalgia, and costing the empire several years worth of silver from the mine is a more than fitting punishment for the DirtyCoward.

[[caption-width-right:350:Duke Regus! This isn't what you promised! Why the heck is Respalgia mad at the idea of the "useless" Thor beign a scapegoat! WHY!!]]The Margrave whose demesne borders General Respalgia's territory and who was sent to negotiate with the general in regards to a silver mine found there. He colludes with Duke Regus to steal silver from the mine and then try to bribe the general with the stolen silver, hoping to create a fracture in Demon King territory's upper echelons. This all completely falls apart both because the general is a man of honor and because the margrave insulted Thor, to whom the general has a major debt of gratitude.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The fact that he summarily sent Bragas Regus to the front lines as punishment for abusing Thor, enraging General Respalgia, and costing the empire several years worth of silver from the mine is a more than fitting punishment for the DirtyCoward.