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Esrt Brattern (エルスト・ブラッテルン)
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Title
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Metal Blue Summoner
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Gender
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Male
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Race
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Human
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Group
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Eucross
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Homeland
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Lyndbaum
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Summon Affinity
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Machine
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Voice Actor
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Sugita Tomokazu
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"Believe in me! If you keep believing in me I will not lose!"
— Erst
Esrt Brattern (エルスト・ブラッテルン, Erusuto Buratterun) is a character from Summon Night 5.
Personality[]
Erst is a dependable young man. He's very brave and believes the source of this courage comes from believing in others. He likes to think that as long as he believes in someone, this person will believe in him, giving him the strength he needs to go on.
Background[]
Erst is a registered Summoner working in the protagonist's hometown. He's responsible for his much younger brother Ghift and admired by many, including the main character. During a certain incident, Ghift did some experiments with the family's old scriptures and ended up going missing in the woods for a long period of time. To find him, Erst went into the woods with his little brother's childhood friend - who insisted in tagging along. To help him in the search Erst called his Cross Gaudi, and using his abilities they were easily able to find Ghift; though they were separated by a sudden attack from a group of mysterious creatures that Erst would later recognize as Netherworld creatures, summoned by his own little brother. One of the beasts uses an injury to enter Erst's body and started to possess him little by little. Before it was too late, he rescued the protagonist who had fallen into a gate to the Netherworld, but had discovered that a Cross contract was made between the protagonist and a creature from that world. Believing in the power of the cross resonance (that only occurs when two beings have strong feelings for each other), he used his influence to send the two to study in Savorle to become experienced Summoners capable of finding a solution for the Nether Beasts ordeal. Ghift shows up later to bid his farewells to his older brother upon deciding to join the Colorless Faction, but Erst was unable to stop him due to the pain inflicted by the Nether within him. The corruption was close to fully possessing his body and will, if not for Gaudi making the ultimate sacrifice; he used his Cross ability to transform his own body into an armor made to protect Erst's body. In doing so, he successfully slowed down the progress of the possession, however the properties of the Nether caused the two fuse into one single entity. As this new being he began his quest to fight the Nether Beasts using the only method possible to stop them, which is absorbing them into his body. By doing this, he was frequently spotted in situations where the Nether Beasts appeared and ended up being wrongly accused of summoning them. Hence forth, he would be recognized as the Blue Machine Summoner (蒼機の召喚師, Souki no Shoukanshi, lit. Summon Master of the Blue Machine).
Development[]
About ten years later, he meets the protagonist again - now a Summoner working together with the same creature from the past as their Cross. Erst called the bond connecting them their "weakness" before disappearing. He still possessed a bit of his old self since he even tried to help Ruelly and her friends when they were taken hostage by the Crimson Chain. He began to fight against the main party when his consciousness got one step closer to full possession. After one of their battles, he even neglected his old beliefs of gaining strength from the faith of others, causing the protagonist to become depressed and weak. Erst would later capture Ghift - who was at the Eucross HQ at the time - in order to kill him and any other summoner capable of using the Nether Summoning arts. Upon discovering Ghift was the only one with this ability he decides to kill him, yet this decision fails to become a reality due to the sudden attack of a group of assassins sent by the Crimson Chain. Ghift was furious with his older brother's actions and tries to infect the protagonist with a giant wave of Nether beasts, but Erst protects the main character and becomes fully consumed by the Nether creatures. Falling in total despair, his younger brother later attempts to fuse with him to become an entity known as Brattern's Legacy. They finally find peace when the main party fights a decisive battle against them on the moon, completely erasing their bodies.
Trivia[]
- This is one of the rare roles given to Sugita Tomokazu where he does a serious character. Prior to this, he did the voice for Var-Xe-LD from Summon Night 3, one of the two funny Mechanical Soldiers in the Summon Night universe.
- For some reason, Erst also wears clothes with the same emblem used by his younger brother during the present events, even though they don't work together for the same organization. Since this emblem is meant to symbolize Ghift's rebellion against the New Summoners' ways and his membership in the Colorless Faction, it's pretty unlikely that Erst would use the same emblem. This could be remnants of an old idea where both would actually be allies.
- More signs of this theory is seen in the Anime Opening, where both are side-by-side watching a Nether beast attack.
- When Erst fuses with Gaudi, their voices do an echo effect to give the impression that they kept each of their voices while combined (like the fusion warrior from Dragon Ball Z), even though Erst and Gaudi share the same voice actor.
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