Is there any point in fighting just for the sake of fighting?
― Ioshua Jerand
Ioshua Jerand (ヨシュア・ジェランド, Yoshua Jerando?, lit. Joshua Jerand) is one of the main characters of the first Star Ocean, as well as its remake Star Ocean: First Departure. He is on a search for his sister, having been separated from her when their parents were killed by the Crimson Shield.
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Ioshua at the Purgatorium
Son of a great symbologist from Silvalant, Ioshua is first encountered by the party at the secret entrance to the Purgatorium, where he enlists the help of the party to move a rock blocking the entrance. After helping him out, Ioshua explains that he is on a quest to find his lost sister, Erys, who he was seperated from years ago after the Crimson Shield attacked his family.
After leaving the Purgatorium, Ioshua is offered with the chance to join Roddick Farrence's group. Together they travel to the Van Kingdom, where they meet with Roddick's friends and a mysterious woman, Mavelle Froesson. Upon seeing Ioshua, Mavelle joins the group in their travels as well.
Later, at the Old Race Ruins, the group finds a strange device in a room filled with frozen Muah. There Mavelle reveals to the group she is actually Erys Jerand and used the device in the room to switch bodies with a frozen Muah. If Ashlay IS in the party, she will switch back to her old body, then reunite with Ioshua and join the party. If not, she will merge with the body in the ice without giving herself her own body, dying in the process so as to repent for her life of murders.
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Ioshua is usually gentle and calm, but tends to become emotional in matters concerning his sister Erys. Having experienced tragedy at a young age, he resents any kind of violence. Ioshua seems to have a sister complex that may go beyond the loss he felt for their separation. This is most clearly evident in his unwillingness to let her and Roddick Farrence be alone with each other, and how he enjoys telling stories of how she used to "cutely" pluck feathers from his wings when she was mad (much to the great discomfort of his audience).
His favorite food is Escargot.
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In Star Ocean, Ioshua casts mid-healing, and mid-destructive spells, and specializes in dealing Water, Wind, Earth, and Light damage. If the player recruits Ioshua, Mavelle will be permanently removed form the party when visiting a certain room in the Old Race Ruins. In First Departure, if Ioshua is recruited with Ashlay, the events will still remove Mavelle but the player will get Ioshua's sister, Erys, in return.
Ioshua is also a playable character in Star Ocean: Anamnesis, as a 5-7☆ staff-wielding Healer.
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- In the SNES version, he is the only character who can use both healing and damage dealing spells. In First Departure, his ability was the most heavily modified, accounting for Erys' inclusion.
- Ioshua is one of two characters who are unable to remove a starting accessory, the other being Phia.
- Ioshua is heavily implied to be the nephew of Sarah Jerand from Star Ocean: The Last Hope.
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