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164. Duke Cayenne
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This picture sums up why I love Duke Cayenne.

My favorite pepper-themed antagonist takes the stage. Assuming you don't consider sweet innocent Musse an antagonist, I guess. According to the wiki, his name is Croire de Cayenne, which is amazing. I don't know why he has a french article in the middle of his name, but that's pretty cool, n'on?

He's the primary antagonist of the first two games. Kind of, since Osborne still exists and is being framed as the big bad (thanks Crow), but Cayenne is the main leader of the Noble faction during the events of the civil war, alongside Rufus, who is of course actually working with Osborne the whole time. Not confusing, really. He's a confident guy, ultimately a pretty stereotypical noble, but shows a bit more awareness and forethought than some of the lazier nobles. He takes his position for granted in some ways, like he thinks that he's better than everyone because he was born a noble, but he does still work hard to expand his power. At the very least, you can't call him lazy, so props to him.

Him bringing Rean onto his ship to try and convince him to join up with them was funny. If he had done even the slightest bit of research into Rean's personality before hatching that plan I think it would've been shelved pretty quickly. That arrogance does fit into his character, though! I enjoyed that part of the game honestly, because just going around casually chatting with all the villains was kind of fun. Ultimately however Cayenne went down as the midboss of the Erebonia arc without too much trouble. Him being taken down then leads to the rise of Musse in a way, so there's that point to consider. You've done your country a great service, friend.