Ruben

Through Ruben's nimble fingers,
wine seems to amply flow.
On birds his eye, with love and hatred, lingers
as he recalls his batwing lost long ago.
He smiles sweetly to customers all day
but in his heart darkness dwells.
Ruben's thoughts his face will ne'er betray
as his sweet wine continuously sells.

Poem by Lore

Appearance
He has only one devil's batwing left on his head due to an assault as a child from a lunatic collector trying to saw them off to sell to the black market. Due to that accident, it became a trademark for him and on his cloak it will always have a half wing either embroidered onto the cloak or he gets one of Knox's specialist to sew a wing on. He grew one stroke of white hair after his wing taken from him. 
His colors are Navys and Gold whites. (very similar to Knox) 

Background
A Viscount who specializes in the Wine trade. He is childhood Friends and partner in crime with Knox.
Since he is the main wine provider, he is a favorite among the nobles (who gossip and sneer at his one-wing status) and gets a lot of fundings for new strains. Due to the status of his half-wing, Ruben worked hard to maintain his status and showed he wasn't weaken by the attack and is now one of the top feared man of the underworld. He acts sweet to the public, but in reality he does not care about the villagers. He looks down at them and their "pitiful" lives. He only sees them as pawns to move his business forward. 

Relationship
The only person he can be genuine with is Knox. Knox was his friend through and through. He did not judge or care for Ruben's image, only for his abilities, which helped Ruben push himself harder to master several useful arts. He picked up a fondness for birds, in the beginning he'd throw stones at passing crows or small sparrows. Some attacked him, some got knocked down and he began to pick out the feathers on one side of the wing. Several thoughts did come through his mind of cutting one side of their wings off and in one instance he was close to cutting a wing off an innocent crow but Knox was passing by and knocked some sense into him by commenting, "Right now you don't look any different from the man who took your wing." Ruben got mad but ended up crying for hours and had Knox reading beside him until he calmed down/knocked out and a butler carried him home.

Ruben began to grow affectionate towards birds (mainly crows and ravens as villagers call them bad omens) and his crow victim became his first little friend (After several months of pecking). Thus began his hobby of taming birds. 
Ruben likes to command his birds to peck at Knox's roses once in awhile to put them in his bath, but because Knox will burn his grapevines down, he has to be very careful when he should send them off. 

Wolfram became a wonderful addition to their circle, mainly due to his wings, so Ruben does not see Wolfram as an equal but as a pet. In the beginning, Ruben would come out of nowhere touching Wolfram's feathers which resulted in getting punched straight on and Knox pulling at his wing so they made an agreement where Ruben would provide a bottle of wine if he was allowed to pet Wolfram's wings for 45 seconds.