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My name is Ernest Raviede. In the states, I'm something of a well-known archeologist.
― Ernest Raviede

Ernest Raviede (エルネスト・レヴィード, Erunesuto Revīdo?) is one of the main characters from Star Ocean: The Second Story, its remakes Second Evolution and The Second Story R, and its sequel Blue Sphere. An adventurous archaelogist from Tetragenesis, he is Opera Vectra's object of affection, but exploring the ancient ruins of the universe is of higher priority to him.

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Story[]

Journey to Expel[]

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Ernest Raviede in SD 366

The party first encounters Ernest at Krosse, where he is seen running down the streets. Nothing is made of it though, and the party simply resumes their business.

Later, an encounter with Opera Vectra, Ernest's girlfriend, makes Claude recall his encounter with the three-eyed man. They eventually team up with Opera to hunt down Ernest, who has been stranded on Expel. He was living in the Mountain Palace for a while.

Outside the Hoffman Ruins, the party finds Ernest, but he has been possessed by a ghost. The ghost attacks the party, but is defeated, freeing Ernest from its grasp. He reveals that he came to Expel to survey and study Symbology culture. Opera is relieved to be reunited with him, and as the two start to leave, Claude asks if they would like to travel with his party. Ernest and Opera accept and join the party.

During a few private actions, Rena asks why Ernest cannot return Opera's feelings, and he replies that he doesn't even know his own feelings. This is proven as he can have high Affection Rating with all of the female party members, and venture around with the male party members. Opera's sister, Opal, is also obsessed with him, and appears in his ending with Bowman.

Stranded on Edifice[]

Ernest SD 368 Combat

Ernest in combat in SD 368.

Immediately after the initial storyline, Opera and Ernest go off to explore uncharted planets and their ruins. Arriving on the planet Edifice, their ship is pulled into the planet's atmosphere and crash lands. Opera and Ernest immediantly send out an SOS signal to Precis back on Earth, but they decide to explore the area while they wait. Because of Ernest's love of archeology, and Opera wanting to be close to him, they wander off and are missing when Precis and their friends arrive on Edifice.

In Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Maria Traydor mentions Ernest by name, and discusses a theory he developed about symbology and technological development.

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Profile[]

Ernest is an adventurer and archaeologist with a highly inquiring mind, and who mades aliving by excavating ruins and chasing the historical facts. Although he knows very well of Opera's passionate feelings for him, exploring the ancient ruins of the universe is a higher priority.

Ernest's favorite instrument is the Cembalo, and his his favorite foods are Hassaku Tea (in Second Story) and Bloody Driver (in Second Evolution).

Gameplay[]

In Star Ocean: The Second Story and its remake, Ernest is an optional party member who can be recruited only if Opera has joined the party. He is a physical fighter who uses whips as his weapon of choice, allowing him to fight at virtually any range. However, his Special Arts are rather slow and often single-hit attacks.

He is also playable in the spin-off Star Ocean: Anamnesis, as a 5-7☆ Attacker. With him, the whip weapon type was implemented.

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Other appearances[]

FEZ Ernest clothes
  • Fantasy Earth Zero
    Ernest's clothes from Second Evolution were available during a collaboration, along with those of the rest of most of the main cast.

Trivia[]

  • Ernest will join the party only if Opera is a party member.
  • It's possible Ernest is loosely based on Earnest Evans, a character from the self-titled game for 16-bit Sega consoles, created by Wolfteam (some staff of which founded tri-Ace). The two share more than a few similarities, aside from the spelling of their names (エルネスト, Erunesuto?) vs. (アーネスト, Ānesuto?), and personalities.
  • In a Private Action with Claude, Ernest reveals that one of the reasons he was compelled to visit Expel for his research was because of fabled "Door to Another World" that is supposedly found at the Sacred Grounds of Linga. He expresses his theory that the area was probably man-made, and that someone (or something) was messing around with the site, which would explain why the zone is filled with all kinds of herbs considering it's a wasteland.
  • Ernest is the only The Second Story character to not have his voice actor changed in the remake, mainly due to Hiroki Touchi being a recurring voice actor for the Star Ocean series.

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