Rance

About
Rance is the eponymous character of the Rance series of games. His surname is unknown.

A kichiku warrior by nature, he is motivated by sexual instincts instead of love or justice. He lives in a small town named Ice, of the Free Cities, and is member of the local Keith Guild, taking on various odd jobs when money runs out. He has a slave named Sill Plain, and owns a humanoid artificial lifeform named Athena 2.0.

His heroics have saved three out of the four major nations in the Continent from being conquered by Dark Lords, as well as helping quite a number of damsels in distress. On the other hand, his impulsive sex drive has, to put it extremely mildly, scarred quite a number of young women for life.

Personality and Appearance
He's a brutal warrior that loves good women, his main drive is sex. He'll go through any means to have sex. He's incredibly honest and straight-forward. He feels no shame in admiting that his goal is to get laid or frontally tell a woman to have sex with him as soon as he meets her. Despite this, he is very uncomfortable in the face of romance from other girls that end up genuinely falling in love with him, especially evident when Uesugi Kenshin confesses to him during the events of Sengoku Rance. Before the start of the series, he purchased a slave called Sill Plain. He makes her cook for him, clean, carries his stuff and has sex with her whenever he feels like. He's also a gigantic jerk with her most of the time and is always bullying her or blaming her when they are in trouble. Despite how much of a bastard he can be to Sill, deliberately trying to hurt her or kill her will make him incredibly angry. He actually values her deeply and shows great concern for her, to the point that most believe that he's in love with her, but he will always deny it claiming that she's "just his slave". Rance shows very clear traits typical of "tsunderes" towards Sill. Even though he's quite cruel with her most of the time, she actually loves him as well and follows his every order and has even been willing to die to save him. He's very brutish and cruel. He always plays dirty and is an overall jerk to more or less everyone, even the people he likes. He hates men in general and doesn't like to work with them, unless they are really useful and efficient at what they do. However, he can't stand handsome men because he thinks they could steal his women. He often abuses of his power and loves to prove his superiority over his enemies. He's so cruel that even the gods judged him wrongly. They expected him to become an evil brutal king that would cause chaos onto humanity, so they would be entertained by the massive amounts of human suffering. Instead, Rance actually shortens the wars he's involved in and minimizes any human suffering.

He's basically a twenty year old man with the mind of a really horny teenager. He's not averse to killing people for trivial things like ruining his sandcastle, or just to test out Sill's healing power. He knows that things like rape, murder, and stealing are bad. He just doesn't believe it's bad when HE does it. He is incredibly arrogant and believes he's the greatest in the world, often refering to himself as Rance-sama.

However, he does have some morality. He will never attempt to have sex with a kid (he is actually horrified of the idea and hates pedophiles). His "no loli" rule especially applies to his daughter and doesn't allow anyone to lay a finger on her. Obviously he's firmly against incest as well. Rance is actually a very protective and caring father and would mobilize armies to guarantee his daughter's safety.

Also, while he himself might be a borderline rapist personality wise, he generally believes women should be able to walk away having enjoyed the experience. Recently, he has matured a little, and found enjoyment in making the girl climax as well.

As long as she's cute or beautiful, he doesn't care for their personality. Voluptuous, slender, virgin, slut, he likes them all. Ages he finds them attractive are between 15 to 29. Note this doesn't mean that he will only like women of those ages, but rather women that look around that age gap. He has no problem in having sex with beings that are thousands of years old if they look like 20 year old women(like Dark Lords or Devils). He prefers to have consensual sex, and will at least attempt persuasion before going straight to rape. Rape is usually his "last resort". Despite the fact that he has raped many women and will always attempt to have sex with every beautiful woman that crosses his path, he's actually very respectful towards women outside of the bed. He never looks down on any woman and will always protect any cute girl that is being abused. He also hates people that hurt or kill women. He's surprisingly good at helping others with their psychological problems, which is why he ends up being so charismatic despite his negative points.

Also, he almost never will outright kill a woman even it's his enemy. Such a girl must be both extremely ugly and evil, as even Dark Lords will be spared if they're cute enough. There has been a few instances in which this wasn't the case though. In Rance III he claimed that he would kill Satella if she had killed Sill. A non-canon example is in Kichikuou Rance. If Sill is executed, when Rance finds Ruberan(the one that originally defeated him and captured Sill) he will be so enraged that he will order to have her gang-raped to death by his soldiers. If Sill was not executed however, Rance will just happily laugh after capturing Ruberan and will even release her after she re-encounters with her sister Merim. Rance also has an unexepected hobby. He loves to collect rare shells and he actually has a pretty impressive collection. He's incredibly upset if a shell breaks and finding a super rare and unique shell usually gives him more satisfaction than sex. Rance also develops an interest in shoujo manga during the events of Rance Quest, thanks to Magic; before that he used to look down on them.

He can drink, but he does so just to look cool. He's not actually that strong a drinker, and in fact loses to both King Gandhi and Arms Arc in drinking contests during the events of Rance Quest, Leila in Rance IV, and Oda Nobunaga in Sengoku Rance. He doesn't believe in the preachings of the AL Church, and is not affiliated with any religion.

His signature clothes is his green suit with his cape. Aside from having a magic sword and a hyper weapon(and by that we mean his dick), he himself is an ordinary male human in almost all respects. He also has some iconic sharkteeth, a trait that was inherited by his daughter.

Abilities
Rance is a very strong fighter that fights primarly with a sword. He has a Sword Combat Lv2 skill and an Adventuring Lv2 skill. Due to the training the Female Warrior gave him as a youth, he's a well-rounded and fully capable adventurer. Thanks to his Adventurer Skill, he can travel long distances with no need for a party. But he doesn't travel alone, he prefers to bring Sill along as it's more convenient to have someone do all the work and carry everything. When he's in a spot of trouble, he concocts underhanded plans that people would call brash or savage. He has no hesitation when he attacks, and he has an overinflated ego, these things make him a formidable foe.

Unlike other humans, he has no level cap. (He's the only human without a cap). If he trained hard, he could realize his infinite potential, but his laid-back nature means his level never goes too high. A side-effect to his anomalous nature is that he can raise the level cap of any woman he has sex with(although it takes years to raise the cap to a noticeable amount and has only been noticed by women that has known him for years). This could also work for men, but he wouldn't ever do such a thing. Rance's lack of level cap is actually genetically inherited by his offsprings, and as such, his daughter Reset Kalar also has no level cap. As a Lv2 sword fighter, he can use a special skill he named Rance Attack. He has stated he has no idea how Rance Attacks works, what causes it, and why only he can do it. He just knows it's a very powerful Razor Wind attack that he can do. He also has an attack named Kichiku Attack, which is even more powerful than his Rance Attack, but is so savage and powerful that is said to have side effects.

He can equip and use the Demonic Sword Chaos even though most humans with a weak will would be manipulated by the sword, but Rance's natural personality makes him the perfect wielder of Chaos, who considers Rance his soulmate.

Rance is the kind of person you wouldn't trust to keep the peace or to rule, but he is quite capable in erasing enemies, and no matter how dire is the situation, with the right motivation, he will prevail. Rance is incredibly efficient and competent most of the time, and he has proved to be a great leader. It's for this reasons that people like Rick Addison or Barres Province admire his skills. Patton Misnarge trusts him more than anyone and believes that Rance can accomplish anything if he's determined enough.

Reputation
No one ever believes what he says but so far he has saved Leazas, Zeth, and Custom and has defeated a former Demon King and a few Dark Lords. He also saved JAPAN, the Kalar, killed more Dark Lords (at this point only the dragons and some hero must have a demon kill count as high as Rance's) and succesfully led a revolution in Helman, and made one of his women the AL church's pope.

Despite all his achievements he is unknown to the world due to several circumstances.

Lia does not want Rance's exploits to be known, since she fears competition, so no one credits him for his assistance in Rance 03.

No one knows the truth of the collapse of Zeth during Kamilla's invasion, since if it was known how close they were to total extermination, panic and unrest would follow.

In JAPAN he was the secret shadow ruler of the Oda House, and while it was widely known that a foreigner was leading the house, his name didn't get the fame he would have otherwise received.

The rest of his adventures either were totally secret, or obscure enough so only well-informed people would even care care about it.

Rance himself goes around gloating about his accomplishments around the world, but no one takes him seriously.

Rance Day
Since Rance Quest rance built a castle in the free cities called the Rance Castle. When not going out on an adventure, Rance has an average day. When not adventuring he spends most of his time sleeping or eating. After going through tough and long missions(like saving a country or so) he tends to leisure for a while and relax for months.

Morning: Wake up at 8:00 and H Sill. For breakfast, eat something delicious made by Sill. Take a walk or walk around in the city and then go to a dungeon or H more girls.

Afternoon: Go shopping.

Night: Eat dinner with Sill. Watch some magic vision, read a book, then play with toys. H Sill, then sleep.

Trivia

 * Once upon a time, the Japanese H-game magazine "TECHGIAN" had a ranking to let the readers vote for their favorite H-game character. For a long time, Rance held the first place. Then TECHGIAN changed the ranking to "your favorite H-game heroine", disqualifying Rance since the original intention of the poll was to rank girls.
 * Canonically, he has three children: Dark Rance (by Ferris), Rangi (by Isoroku), and Reset (by Queen Pastel).
 * Also he currently has four more girls pregnant. The Queen of Leazas, Lia Parapara Leazas. The heir of the Mouri House, Mouri Teru. The princess of Zeth, Magic The Gandhi. And the mercenary from JAPAN, Tokugawa Sen.
 * Since he was treated as the village chief's servant rather than his son, it's likely he has no last name at all. For the record, since one needs a full name for registration purposes, Rance declared that his full name was Rance Super King.
 * Sometimes he goes by Rance Clear, but this isn't his real surname.
 * He destroyed the planet Kurupiston while exploring Ylapu, by pushing a button marked not to touch it (which launched nuclear warheads towards Kurupiston, lightyears away). But the button didn't seem to do anything because of how far away it is from the continent.
 * If he visits the gender changing temple in Sengoku Rance he turns into one of the hottest females in the entire game. It also leads to a Nonstandard Game Over.
 * He appears in Daiteikoku as the leader of Mongol raiders, named Rance Khan (after Genghis Khan) and his companion horse (Jinba) is a cameo appearance of Sill Plain.
 * He made a cameo appearance in Toushin Toshi. He participated in the tourament and lost because he sexually assaulted his opponent. His appearance is only mentioned in the Toushin digest (an ingame MV program). It was not mentioned who his partner in the tourament is.
 * Whenever Rance looks at the sun he sneezes. Though it's never explained, it's likely that his actions against the Light God are the reason.
 * Rance is a glitch in the Planner Scenario in that he has potential to be the strongest person in the continent due to his lack of level cap. His only technical cap is dependent on the game's engine.
 * The seashells Rance loves to collect were from Shellfish, one of the earliest forms of life of the Rance World. They were the enemies of the The Round Ones, the first Protagonist Race, and eventually went extinct. As such, they are extremely valuable artifacts from a by-gone era which is why Rance is incredibly dismayed if one breaks.
 * On a note of sexual innuendo, the term "Lance" also translates into the identical Japanese word.
 * In the first games he was ambidextrous but after Kichikuou Rance, it was retcnonned to being only left-handed.