Personality: Rudy is a silent protagonist, but not a blank slate. His lone unprompted line of dialogue in the original game is an exasperated shout of "Hey... I'm sorry! Alright! It won't happen again!" - bad punctuation aside, it's plain from that one line that he's not the kind of guy who will stand for being told that he ought to have saved treasure instead of a friend. Rudy will always place the welfare of others above his own, to the point where he'd happily throw himself in front of a falling building to save someone's life. It seems he places very little value on his own survival, so long as no people are harmed. (This may actually be due to what he is - a biomechanical weapon would be programmed to preserve the life of its human "masters", right?)
While it might depend on the actions of the player as to how obvious it is, he really is a Friend To All Living Things kind of guy. After demons attacked Adelhyde, he ran around the burning city to find survivors and get them to the castle; he listens to his friends' stories with the same calm acceptance that he does everything else; he's happy taking care of animals for little more pay than room and board.
As previously stated, he was raised to believe that his unusual powers were meant to protect people, and he took that to heart - just as deeply as he wants to be accepted, he wants to help people.
That deep need for acceptance is another major influence on the way Rudy interacts with people. While he is no doormat - I cannot stress this enough - he will generally defer to the opinion of people he wants to be around when a decision is necessary. He doesn't like making waves, having learned that standing out can get him kicked out (see: Surf Village, his interactions with other kids in earlier years). His biggest fear is rejection, exemplified by the ordeal the Guardians put him to: it manifests as the people of Surf Village calling him a monster, and indeed the manifestation of his own shadow as one. (Despite the surface similarities to certain bits of Persona 4 in the way I phrased that, it's not a boss fight.)
Overall, he's an unusually kindhearted fifteen-year-old. The weight of his abilities weighs on him much as Peter Parker's abilities weighed him down: great power comes with great responsibility, and he knows it, and that shows. Still, he's an optimist, and kind and polite to a fault.
Other: -He's not human! But he won't know this for quite a while. -His class? "Outcast", as opposed to, say, fighter or mage or whatever. (All right, the remake changed it to "Wanderer". I think using that as the translation of wataridori and Rudy's class name both was a decision that lost something.) -I'm aware that the official US spelling is, as of ACF's release, in fact Roughknight - it comes down to personal preference and a desire to be able to make jokes about how he totally has a stripper name. -He is, as of 2003, voiced by Kenichi Suzumura, and sounds uncannily similar to Suzumura as D. Gray-Man's Lavi in the battle dialogue fragments from Alter Code F. Granted, he's a good bit less manic-sounding as Rudy, but the resemblance is striking enough that as a result, I tend to write his actual speech as somewhat informal when he's talking to people he perceives as friends or social equals. If not justifiable by voice actor, well... he's a roving youth in a world that's some bizarre cross between Generic Fantasy Not-Europe and the Wild West. (Even so, his grandfather raised him to be polite to adults and people in authority, and he is.) -He's literate at a smart-teenager level and comes from a world without chatspeak, so his typed-out posts may seem unusually close to formal.
Additional Links: -TvTropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildArms1) - note that the What Happened To The Mouse bit is incorrect, I'm no longer sure what else is and isn't. -Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Arms#Characters) - as accurate as it can be. -Wild Arms wiki (http://wildarms.wikia.com/wiki/Rudy_Roughknight) - finally, it's not a typo-riddled trainwreck! Probably the best resource out of the three.
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While it might depend on the actions of the player as to how obvious it is, he really is a Friend To All Living Things kind of guy. After demons attacked Adelhyde, he ran around the burning city to find survivors and get them to the castle; he listens to his friends' stories with the same calm acceptance that he does everything else; he's happy taking care of animals for little more pay than room and board.
As previously stated, he was raised to believe that his unusual powers were meant to protect people, and he took that to heart - just as deeply as he wants to be accepted, he wants to help people.
That deep need for acceptance is another major influence on the way Rudy interacts with people. While he is no doormat - I cannot stress this enough - he will generally defer to the opinion of people he wants to be around when a decision is necessary. He doesn't like making waves, having learned that standing out can get him kicked out (see: Surf Village, his interactions with other kids in earlier years). His biggest fear is rejection, exemplified by the ordeal the Guardians put him to: it manifests as the people of Surf Village calling him a monster, and indeed the manifestation of his own shadow as one. (Despite the surface similarities to certain bits of Persona 4 in the way I phrased that, it's not a boss fight.)
Overall, he's an unusually kindhearted fifteen-year-old. The weight of his abilities weighs on him much as Peter Parker's abilities weighed him down: great power comes with great responsibility, and he knows it, and that shows. Still, he's an optimist, and kind and polite to a fault.
Other: -He's not human! But he won't know this for quite a while.
-His class? "Outcast", as opposed to, say, fighter or mage or whatever. (All right, the remake changed it to "Wanderer". I think using that as the translation of wataridori and Rudy's class name both was a decision that lost something.)
-I'm aware that the official US spelling is, as of ACF's release, in fact Roughknight - it comes down to personal preference
and a desire to be able to make jokes about how he totally has a stripper name.-He is, as of 2003, voiced by Kenichi Suzumura, and sounds uncannily similar to Suzumura as D. Gray-Man's Lavi in the battle dialogue fragments from Alter Code F. Granted, he's a good bit less manic-sounding as Rudy, but the resemblance is striking enough that as a result, I tend to write his actual speech as somewhat informal when he's talking to people he perceives as friends or social equals. If not justifiable by voice actor, well... he's a roving youth in a world that's some bizarre cross between Generic Fantasy Not-Europe and the Wild West. (Even so, his grandfather raised him to be polite to adults and people in authority, and he is.)
-He's literate at a smart-teenager level and comes from a world without chatspeak, so his typed-out posts may seem unusually close to formal.
Additional Links: -TvTropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildArms1) - note that the What Happened To The Mouse bit is incorrect, I'm no longer sure what else is and isn't.
-Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Arms#Characters) - as accurate as it can be.
-Wild Arms wiki (http://wildarms.wikia.com/wiki/Rudy_Roughknight) - finally, it's not a typo-riddled trainwreck! Probably the best resource out of the three.