Ovan's emotional manipulation of several characters to serve his own goals is what makes him a villain in my eyes. His goal of saving Aina may have been the greater good, but it was at the cost of nearly everyone around him. Ovan needed Haseo to go through the trauma and turmoil to grow strong enough to activate his epitaphs Rebirth ability, and nothing more.
Ovan is a tricky character to analyze as he essentially has two different sides of him. Not long after I posted the video I think I can figure out which side is which (Ovan or Tri-edge). And it’s through the performance of his voice actor. Ovan when he speaks has two different tones which we are during the brief interaction with Tri-Edge and Ovan as well as when Ovan reveals that he has Tri-edge in his arm. It’s subtle, but to me it showed who was who. When Tri-Edge speaks its more monotone. Where as Ovan when speaking is heard at a slightly higher tone. Tri-Edge and Ovan are constantly trying to gain control. Through Ovan, Tri-Edge can give Sakaki the AIDA to set up the events at Moon Tree. I’m still in the belief that some of his actions were not caused by him. The reason he even accepted the blame was because it was through his character. Both the things he did and the things the AIDA in his arm did. As I said in the video. Ovan’s actions are understandable. He wants to help Aina and all the lost ones that were the result of Tri-Edge, but trying to handle everything himself, and the manipulation he did do throughout roots and GU make him a villain to me as well. It was out of selfishness and sense of responsibility that lead him to saving everyone. He even paid with his life as he is in a coma after the events of GU
great vid dude, i really needed someone to put Ovan into perspective for me because i was having such a hard time thinking about his motives and actions, i still have a lot of troubles with his character but its mostly how he is written, like how Haseo is almost obsessed with him and has a "i will inherit your will" momment after calling him out for having a genuinely dangerous plan to bring back his sister, i get that the AIDA influence may be related to him making up that plan, but i think that the AIDA influence on him must be the weakest part of his character, i get that to some it would result tragic the idea of someone not being fully in charge of his desitions, but to me that idea is what robs them of being a character, i dont feel like if i followed the story of a man and his mistakes, it makes me feel that i followed the path of a tornado
I agree to a certain extent. If CyberConnect had more time to work on Volume 3 then perhaps it would be explained a bit better. The game is still good but you can really tell in places that things got rushed or scrapped. I don’t want to go as far as say that the AIDA was the weakest part about Ovan. If anything if they explained where he got Corbenik, how did he discover the creator room, and how he even knew that Haseo would return to The World then at least there would be some clairity. My own person theory is that either Ovan working for the NAB he had files on the second internet crisis. Perhaps even the Terminal Disk files that we have access to now. CC Corp got away with the stuff they were trying to do and perhaps he was assigned to look into the Company and The World. With Aina playing the game he even got to spend time with his sister so it would be killing two birds with one stone
Given how much manipulation he has done to reach his objective he clearly has the base for a villain. I think the main difference between him and someone like Kefka is that in the end, he was the one making the final sacrifice for a "good purpose" which was recovering all the Lost Ones from their coma. Altough he clearly didn't count Haseo's reaction during their final encounter before the Rebirth. "That's it?!! You finally come clean and now you think everything has been straightened out?! This close to the end?! When things have gotten this bad?! Tell me! How many people do you think you've hurt since this started?! How many have grieved?! How many have suffered?! You stepped on so many people just so that you could achieve your self-serving dream! No one has that right!! Everybody grieves! Everybody suffers!! Everybody has truths they want to ignore! You are not special, you're just like everyone else! Ovan!"
Kefka is a villian that only knew destruction and chaos, a villian that could not comprehend things like love, cooperation, and connections. Ovan is the opposite where he has a noble goal but it is overshadowed by the things that he does to achieve it. You could say that he was doing what he did to limit the time with Tri-Edge, but it still doesn’t excuse some of his actions. I think Ovan is a great villain in this series!
I would say that hes an antagonist, however I wont deny that hes done way .ore harm than good. I think the villians in .HackGU switch between volumes. Goes from Azure Kite to Sakaki to Cubia. The reason i say Cubia is that he was directly in Haseo's way. Haseo's goal was to defeat those three. Where as for Ovan, Haseo only fought him because he revealed be was Tri-Edge. Sure, Haseo's objective was to get back Shino, but Ovan's appera ce in the story had mixed approaches. Wnether he'd be good or bad.
I see Ovan as "He's good and bad, but not evil." There are things that he has done that even Haseo calls him out for but others were most likely due to the influence of the Tri-Edge AIDA. In this story I see both Ovan and Haseo going on the same journey, but both taking different paths and approaches to achieve their goals.
Ovan's emotional manipulation of several characters to serve his own goals is what makes him a villain in my eyes. His goal of saving Aina may have been the greater good, but it was at the cost of nearly everyone around him. Ovan needed Haseo to go through the trauma and turmoil to grow strong enough to activate his epitaphs Rebirth ability, and nothing more.
Ovan is a tricky character to analyze as he essentially has two different sides of him. Not long after I posted the video I think I can figure out which side is which (Ovan or Tri-edge). And it’s through the performance of his voice actor.
Ovan when he speaks has two different tones which we are during the brief interaction with Tri-Edge and Ovan as well as when Ovan reveals that he has Tri-edge in his arm. It’s subtle, but to me it showed who was who. When Tri-Edge speaks its more monotone. Where as Ovan when speaking is heard at a slightly higher tone.
Tri-Edge and Ovan are constantly trying to gain control. Through Ovan, Tri-Edge can give Sakaki the AIDA to set up the events at Moon Tree. I’m still in the belief that some of his actions were not caused by him. The reason he even accepted the blame was because it was through his character. Both the things he did and the things the AIDA in his arm did.
As I said in the video. Ovan’s actions are understandable. He wants to help Aina and all the lost ones that were the result of Tri-Edge, but trying to handle everything himself, and the manipulation he did do throughout roots and GU make him a villain to me as well. It was out of selfishness and sense of responsibility that lead him to saving everyone. He even paid with his life as he is in a coma after the events of GU
great vid dude, i really needed someone to put Ovan into perspective for me because i was having such a hard time thinking about his motives and actions, i still have a lot of troubles with his character but its mostly how he is written, like how Haseo is almost obsessed with him and has a "i will inherit your will" momment after calling him out for having a genuinely dangerous plan to bring back his sister, i get that the AIDA influence may be related to him making up that plan, but i think that the AIDA influence on him must be the weakest part of his character, i get that to some it would result tragic the idea of someone not being fully in charge of his desitions, but to me that idea is what robs them of being a character, i dont feel like if i followed the story of a man and his mistakes, it makes me feel that i followed the path of a tornado
I agree to a certain extent. If CyberConnect had more time to work on Volume 3 then perhaps it would be explained a bit better. The game is still good but you can really tell in places that things got rushed or scrapped.
I don’t want to go as far as say that the AIDA was the weakest part about Ovan. If anything if they explained where he got Corbenik, how did he discover the creator room, and how he even knew that Haseo would return to The World then at least there would be some clairity.
My own person theory is that either Ovan working for the NAB he had files on the second internet crisis. Perhaps even the Terminal Disk files that we have access to now. CC Corp got away with the stuff they were trying to do and perhaps he was assigned to look into the Company and The World. With Aina playing the game he even got to spend time with his sister so it would be killing two birds with one stone
Given how much manipulation he has done to reach his objective he clearly has the base for a villain. I think the main difference between him and someone like Kefka is that in the end, he was the one making the final sacrifice for a "good purpose" which was recovering all the Lost Ones from their coma. Altough he clearly didn't count Haseo's reaction during their final encounter before the Rebirth.
"That's it?!! You finally come clean and now you think everything has been straightened out?! This close to the end?! When things have gotten this bad?! Tell me! How many people do you think you've hurt since this started?! How many have grieved?! How many have suffered?! You stepped on so many people just so that you could achieve your self-serving dream! No one has that right!! Everybody grieves! Everybody suffers!! Everybody has truths they want to ignore! You are not special, you're just like everyone else! Ovan!"
Kefka is a villian that only knew destruction and chaos, a villian that could not comprehend things like love, cooperation, and connections. Ovan is the opposite where he has a noble goal but it is overshadowed by the things that he does to achieve it. You could say that he was doing what he did to limit the time with Tri-Edge, but it still doesn’t excuse some of his actions. I think Ovan is a great villain in this series!
I would say that hes an antagonist, however I wont deny that hes done way .ore harm than good. I think the villians in .HackGU switch between volumes. Goes from Azure Kite to Sakaki to Cubia. The reason i say Cubia is that he was directly in Haseo's way. Haseo's goal was to defeat those three. Where as for Ovan, Haseo only fought him because he revealed be was Tri-Edge. Sure, Haseo's objective was to get back Shino, but Ovan's appera ce in the story had mixed approaches. Wnether he'd be good or bad.
I see Ovan as "He's good and bad, but not evil." There are things that he has done that even Haseo calls him out for but others were most likely due to the influence of the Tri-Edge AIDA. In this story I see both Ovan and Haseo going on the same journey, but both taking different paths and approaches to achieve their goals.