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* Main/CombatPragmatist: In a handcuffed match against the current gladiator champion Oerebus, Baruna picks up his dagger and stabs the guy in the throat despite the traditional rules of going unarmed.



* Main/Foil: To Michael. Often when Baruna spares a defeated enemy's life, Michael chooses to kill them even when it's no longer necessary. [[spoiler: Michael also pulls a Face-Heel turn whereas Baruna sticks with Ares to the end.]]

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* Main/CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: Michael]] ties Ares up on a cross and leaves him for the carrion birds.



* Main/TheCharmer: He can turn on the charm when he puts his mind to it.
-->'''Governess:''' I refused a couple times, but in the end I gave in to his killer smile.



* Main/ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Manages to slaughter dozens of skilled fighters with two small daggers attached with a rope that could easily be caught or tangled.

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* Main/DefectorFromDecadence: In Darak, gladiator champions are treated like lords and showered with admiration from their countless fans. Baruna would rather have freedom as a wandering mercenary.
* Main/ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Manages to slaughter dozens of skilled fighters with two small daggers attached with a rope that could easily be caught or tangled. In fact, letting enemies do this is occasionally part of his strategy.



* Main/Foil: To Michael. Often when Baruna spares a defeated enemy's life, Michael chooses to kill them even when it's no longer necessary. [[spoiler: Michael also pulls a Face-Heel turn whereas Baruna sticks with Ares to the end.]]



* Main/MeaningfulName: The proper spelling of his name is 'Varuna', the Hindi god of water and order.

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* Main/KillTheOnesYouLove: He's forced to kill the mentor who taught him how to use the rope daggers. This is a large part of his motivation to escape being a gladiator despite his status as champion.
* Main/MeaningfulName: The proper spelling of his name is 'Varuna', the Hindi god of water and order.law.


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* Main/SlaveBrand: He has a slave tattoo on his back and a smaller one on his shoulder from his gladiator days.


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* Main/TallDarkAndHandsome: The tallest amongst our main characters, and alluded to in-universe as quite good-looking.

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-->'''Baruna:''' Don't you know that small peppers are hotter?
* Main/OralFixationMain/IndyHatRoll: He, Michael, and Gohue are the only ones who make it past a falling grate this way. Which then leaves them trapped alone with forty elite body guards.
* Main/MeaningfulName: The proper spelling of his name is 'Varuna', the Hindi god of water and order.
* Main/OralFixation: He almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, even in the middle of life or death battles.
* Main/SmokingIsCool: Cool enough to light one up in the middle of battle and lend a spare cig to your enemy.

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* Main/BlueBlood: Ares is the son of a nobleman and his mistress, although he remembers none of this after hitting his head while trying to escape a mercenary hired to kill him after his father's death.



* Main/RoyalBlood: Ares is the son of a nobleman and his mistress, although he remembers none of this after hitting his head while trying to escape a mercenary hired to kill him after his father's death.


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Another mercenary that joined up with Tample in the same round of recruitment as Ares, Baruna is generally a calm, reliable friend who uses rope daggers instead of swords like most of the main cast.

Later on, it's revealed that he gained his incredible weapon skills from his years spent as a slave in Darak. Not only was he a gladiator slave, Baruna was also the reigning champion before he decided to escape from captivity so that he could have a choice in who he killed and who he didn't.

He acts as a foil to Michael and spends a lot of his fights backing up his friends, whether it's taking out the countless mooks in the background so that his friends can have one-on-one duels against the enemy commander, providing mid-range support against enemies too strong to fight alone, or even [[spoiler: fighting the Red-Eyed swordsman alone to buy time for Ares to recover.]]

[[spoiler: By the end of the series, Baruna joins Ares in re-establishing the Tample mercenaries.]]
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* Main/HonorBeforeReason: He'll attack the enemy commander in the middle of a tense negotiation table just because the enemy commander has red eyes.



* Main/MeaningfulName: Ares - the Greek god of war. He chose to name himself after strongest person he could think of [[spoiler: after losing his memory after hitting his head while fleeing for his life as a child.]]

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* Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He has to be pinned down by Michael and Baruna to keep him from getting them all killed for attacking an enemy commander in the middle of enemy territory during negotiations.

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-->''"Listen up. Anyone who goes after me dies. Anyone who goes after the girls won't die, but will wish he could."''

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[[spoiler: By the end of the series, his skills with the sword are legendary and he becomes the commander of the re-established Tample Mercenaries that he and Baruna funded with their bounty from killing the Red Eyed Swordsman Kiberos.]]
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-->''"Listen up. Anyone who goes after me will receive death. Anyone who goes after the girls will recieve pain and suffering until he wishes for death."''

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-->'''Here, take this crapit pie. It's freaking delicious.'''

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''Here, take this crapit pie. It's freaking delicious.''

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The titular hero of the story, Ares is a young vagrant swordsman who joins the Tample Mercenaries for the promise of food, shelter, and snacks. Despite his apparent simple-mindedness and naivety, however, Ares' long term goal is a vengeance, against the Red-Eyed Swordsman who killed his master, Chiron.

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Kiron.

His real name is Sebastian, the son of a nobleman and his mistress. After his father died, the nobleman's wife and son hired an assassin to kill him and his mother. While fleeing, he jumped from a cliff after his mother was killed and lost his memory from hitting his head. This is how Kiron found him.
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* Main/AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Ariadne's safety comes first, even if it means he'll have to miss out on a huge battle, scale a castle wall during a siege with her on his back, or snapping out of a heroic BSOD just to save her.
* Main/BerserkButton: Threaten Ariadne, and Ares makes an about face from idiot hero to a killer on a warpath.


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* Main/IDidWhatIHadToDo: Maim and torture an assassin in front of the girl you love because that's what it takes keep the others from attacking her? Even if she's horrified and hates you for it? Yes, if that's what it takes.

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* Main/TheNoseKnows: He can pick out Ariadne's perfume in the midst of a crowd of smelly soldiers from dozens of meters away.



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**During his fight with Cygnus, they each drop their weapon and pick up each other's, stand there awkwardly for a moment, then amicably trade each other the sword and spear without speaking a word.
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* Main/GiveMeASword: In his fight against Sion, Ares' swords repeatedly break, prompting Michael to toss him a better one from across the room.

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* Main/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The same guy who can't figure out that the reason he can't see is because he's wearing his helmet wrong, also fights on par with legendary swordsmen twice his age.

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* Main/BloodKnight: Ares picks fights for no reason other than the fact that he's itching for a spar. These range from barrack room brawls to death matches against other renowned warriors.
* Main/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The same guy who can't figure out that the reason he can't see is because he's wearing his helmet wrong, also fights on par with legendary swordsmen more than twice his age.age.
* Main/EyeScream: [[spoiler: The Red-Eyed Swordsman carves out Ares' right eye as a reminder of his quest for vengeance.]]
* Main/FriendlessBackground: As a swordsman apprentice, the other children stayed away from him because he was supposedly a killer-in-training.


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* Main/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The same guy who can't figure out that the reason he can't see is because he's wearing his helmet wrong, also fights on par with legendary swordsmen twice his age.



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Main/IdiotHero: He's often more concerned about his next snack than the threat of imminent death on a battlefield.
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Main/MeaningfulName: Ares - the Greek god of war. He chose to name himself after strongest person he could think of [[spoiler: after losing his memory after hitting his head while fleeing for his life as a child.]]
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Main/LoveAtFirstSight: He falls for Ariadne pretty much the moment they walk past each other in the street.
* Main/RoyalBloodMain/MissingMom: She is killed by the mercenary hired to hunt them down.
* Main/RoyalBlood: Ares is the son of a nobleman and his mistress, although he remembers none of this after hitting his head while trying to escape a mercenary hired to kill him after his father's death.

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* Main/HeroicBSODMain/HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After Michael wipes out the Tample Mercenaries and leaves Ares for dead.]]
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