188. Franz Reinford
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Just gotta go get some milk from the store real quick, I'll be right back...
Franz Reinford is another character that we don't really get to see much. Alisa thinks that he's dead for awhile IIRC. I vaugely recall something about Sharon killing him on a mission before she became the Reinford maid, though of course that's not true because 1) nobody dies in Trails and 2) Black Alberich took over his body. He shows up briefly at random through sheer willpower overpowering Black Alberich's body takeover, which seems out of character for some random scientist but I guess they wanted to give him some kind of cool moment. And then at the end of CS4, after the big bad dies he shows up in the true ending to give Alisa a proper goodbye which was nice. He chooses to use the god powers he got from the rivalries finishing to bring Crow back to life though, which is definitely a waste of collecting every Dragon Ball. Why not bring yourself back to life and raise your daughter? I'd say he mainly just ranks low for 1) that, 2) being associated with the whole gnome subplot, 3) Not having much screentime of his own, and 4) Deciding to marry Irina. God only knows how drunk they were when they met for that to have seemed like a good decision. Maybe Irina was cooler back in the day though, I don't know. Hopefully she had a better haircut.