Roy

Roy is quiet and shy, and his attitude is mostly ruled by his will to look like a respectful person. He doesn’t often speak his mind unless he’s asked to. He’s got a lot of kindness and empathy, and worries about being useful.

He likes music and plays the flute. He fights with a sword and shield, and wants to get better at magic in early story because of having a Cure Ring, given by his mother.

Background

Roy was born in Tipa, as the first son of a farmer family. He has a younger sister, Paulie, and also some grandparents, uncles/aunts and cousins around.

In Tipa, his family grows a lot of food in their fields. Roy learns to help them pretty young. He also grows up surrounded with Clavats’ values, namely: respect, honesty, hard work and pacifism. His parents are sometimes strict but they love him and are proud of him overall, because does good work and never refuses to lend a hand, and because he’s kind to others. Even to his other family members and other villagers, he grows to be seen as an exemplary kid.

When he’s a teen, his parents start to suggest the idea of him becoming a caravanner. They say Rou would probably be great at it and that bringing myrrh would help the village. Roy gets some sword lessons and even though he’s not too good at first, he keeps practicing with his dad. Roy actually doesn’t know what to think about becoming a caravanner; he’s not especially thrilled at the idea, but he thinks it’s a common thing for a boy his age anyway. And because being a caravanner is the ultimate way to be useful, he doesn’t think too much about it.

But as time goes by and reality hits, Roy realizes that the idea of leaving the village for a long time, into the unknown, surrounded by miasma and fighting monsters, is actually frightening. He realizes he wasn’t into it to begin with, but his family is now expecting him to go and he can’t let them down and not live up to their expectations.

Despite being praised by most of his family, Roy has self-esteem issues, which actually kinda stems from the very same fact. He’s not aware of it at first, but expectations combined with the values he grew up with, made his natural shyness worse. He’s been doing what everyone else wanted for so long that it’s hard for him to disagree or speak what he really wants. He comes to the point of blaming himself when he feels he doesn’t fill some expectations.

Needless to say, when the journey starts, Roy is convinced he has to be that ideal and devoted caravanner that some people around expect him to be. He hopes to find some comfort by going with Délia, who has been his friend for years, and who’s leaving for the first time too.