Loid

Obedient, and will obey without question or embarrassment, as if it's completely normal.

Befitting of a spy, Loid is able to project whatever personality is necessary for his mission, though his true personality is rather cold and methodical, doing whatever it takes to complete the mission, from joining terrorist organizations to dating a target's daughter to becoming a father. He is normally seen to be a calm, aloof, and calculating individual who takes every situation seriously and merely views his approaches as logical means to an end. Contrary to his apathetic front, he has a kind and caring personality that reveals itself when it comes to his new family, even at the risk of his mission. Despite his stoicism and outwardly stern appearance, Loid has shown to bear a hidden selfless, solicitous, and concerned nature.

Loid's title as Westalis's greatest spy is quite deserved. His skills, both physical and mental, are second to none. He is able to effortlessly disarm an army of well-trained spies, remaining ice-cold under pressure, and calmly analyze any given situation and create a plan in seconds. Loid can not only figure out an entire person's personality and develop a tailored list of answers to any question they could ask, but he can keep track of that list in his mind, as well as an extensive number of codes.

One of Loid's goals as a spy is to work hard to understand the people around him, whether they are his targets or his fake family, trying to figure out what makes them tick and who they really are. However, Loid admits that he does not understand women or children. This has led to a lot of frustration when dealing with his family, as their unpredictable actions often make him overthink his interactions with them. To cope, he tries to plan for every possible scenario, but since he can rarely predict Yor or Anya, he often fails.

For instance, he once asked Yor on a date because he thought he had upset her, and came up with 862 plans to get her to enjoy herself on the outing. However, nearly all of his plans were scuttled from the onset due to the fact that Yor was, in fact, not upset but was in pain due to having been shot in the rear the previous night. As it involved her secret assassin work, Loid misinterpreted her attempt to mask her pain as being unhappy with him. Since she could not sit down on the day of the date but refused to explain why, it was nearly a disaster in spite of all his plans. It has also caused him to be entirely oblivious to Fiona Frost's obsessive infatuation with him, and to the fact that Anya's friend, Becky, has a crush on him.

Loid usually pursues his missions with an incessant and unwavering determination, often willing go to any lengths to accomplish his objectives, regardless of what the costs are. Despite his willingness, he has a strong sense of responsibility in that it is his burden and his alone to make his mission successful. He only kills when absolutely necessary and sees putting innocent civilians, even his pawns, in danger as unacceptable. For example, after he rescued Anya from Edgar, he intended to move her to a better orphanage and make a new plan for Operation Strix without involving a child. Additionally, while he knows he will ultimately leave Anya and Yor at the end of Operation Strix, he intends to make sure they are well provided for and kept safe upon the mission's completion.

Even the lives of animals are factored into his calculations. During the plot to assassinate Minister Brantz, Loid was at one point being pursued by a trained dog with a bomb strapped to his back. At the conclusion of the chase, he had the opportunity to shoot it at nearly point-blank range after it leaped at him. Instead of doing so, he shot the straps of the bomb backpack, allowed the dog to bite him, then grabbed the bomb off the dog and threw it into a nearby river. He then confined and later rescued the dog, who got adopted by Sylvia Sherwood.

Despite being a brilliant and capable spy, Loid can be overwhelmed and unwillingly forced to his limits. For example, when he celebrated Anya passing the first part of Eden's entrance exam, he succumbed to all fatigue and exhaustion (something Loid did not think possible) and believed he had lost his edge. Loid also can feel overly stressed when dealing with difficult tasks, especially when things do not go as planned or go wrong. To achieve his goal of getting close to Donovan Desmond, when Loid saw that making Anya into an Imperial Scholar would be too difficult, he came up with an alternative plan where Anya would befriend Donovan's second son, Damian, in the hopes that she would be invited to his home to play, which would allow Loid a chance to make contact with Donovan. However, he was completely dejected upon learning that Anya hit Damian and earned a Tonitrus Bolt on her first day of school; believing that the boy would most likely hate Anya now, both of Loid's plans were wrecked and left him unable to hide his anxiety.

Possibly resulting from his upbringing, Loid holds a rather strict discipline. It is his belief that practice and understanding are essential when it comes to studying[9], so when he tutors Anya, he often tries to drill the information into her without her consideration. When he first started tutoring her, Loid wanted to ensure that Anya fully understood the material she was working on, to the point of not giving breaks and banning her from watching cartoons until she got it. This, of course, upset Anya and led to squabbles between the two. However, thanks to Yor's suggestion, Loid has started becoming more lenient with her but still remains firm. Loid's strict behavior was also seen during his initial dog-guard training with Bond, where he quickly scolded the dog for mistakes and scared him a bit. However, Loid realized he was being too harsh and changed his approach to be gentler while making up with them.

Loid is one of the many victims of the second East-West war, having lost everything in the brutal bloodshed and was left to fend for himself in war-torn streets. To keep his emotions in check, he found it necessary to "turn off" his feelings and refuse to let himself have feelings of love or hate. This is crucial to his success as a spy; a spy with too much emotional attachment will hesitate to commit necessary despicable acts while one that fosters hate will create unnecessary violence. As a result, Loid has become very withdrawn and reclusive. Despite his expertise in social situations, he could not understand the appeal of certain past-time activities, such as watching fireworks, and would frequently come off as morose.

After years of isolation and seclusion, Loid has become detached from the very notion of developing any meaningful connections. Somewhat of a loner with the belief that people like him are not allowed to have any form of attachment either due to his true identity or actions, he often distances himself from essentially everyone, only closely interacting with certain individuals for extended periods of time if his assignment requires it. In spite of the Forgers only being intended to be a family for appearances, spending time with this family has allowed Loid to gradually begin letting his guard down and create trusting relationships with them. He sympathized with Anya and her desire to have a family. He has also opened up to Yor about his past, something he rarely brings up, to help affirm her place with the family. Bond is an equally important member of the Forger family to Loid and is the only member Loid has openly discussed his spy activities with, even once letting the dog tag along in a mission.

Loid's past as a powerless war orphan, where he experienced despair and isolation, has seemingly stuck with him into his adult years and serves as his detestation for warfare and motivation as a spy to create a world without war, where children would not have to cry and share his experiences. As someone who threw away his entire identity and previous life to become a spy, he sincerely empathizes with people like Yor, who sacrifices oneself for the sake of others and their beliefs, which was the deciding factor for her decision to marry him. In addition, Loid values friendship, emphasizing to Anya that they should be cherished, and quotes one of Bondman's lines that "Yesterday's enemy is today's friend" to encourage Anya to reconcile with Bond after they had a fight.

Unlike his current personality, Loid was once more emotional and naive. As a child, he was honest, rarely lied to his parents, and was easily influenced by public opinion without considering the bigger picture. Not understanding what war really meant, Loid enjoyed playing war games and was excited about the idea of being a soldier to fight the "evil" Ostanians, believing the propaganda he heard on the radio. Despite this, he was a good kid at heart who did not actually like violence but simply did not grasp the reality of war. When he lied to his father to receive pocket money to buy a soldier set, he quickly felt guilty about it, almost confessing to his father immediately afterward and wishing to work for money to pay his father back. After his father disappeared during the Ostania's initial raid of Westalis, Loid felt even more guilty and vowed to tell his father the truth when he returned; unfortunately, his father never did and most likely perished in the war along with his mother.

Perhaps his most ardent conviction is his belief that ignorance is both an intolerable weakness and an inexcusable moral shortcoming. This stems from the fact that up until his recruitment by WISE, practically everything he had believed in was based on incomplete information. Loid managed to survive and became an impassioned, well-meaning, but foolish soldier who blindly believed that the Ostanians were simply war-mongering monsters who had gleefully started this war to destroy Westalis. He hated the Ostanians for seemingly starting the war that took his parents and childhood friends, and he would go on to kill many Ostanian soldiers in vengeance. However, a chance encounter with Franky (who was then an Ostanian deserter) exposed him to the possibility that Ostania may not have started the war, but that instead, Westalis may have launched a false flag operation as an instigating excuse. A short while later, he also discovered that his childhood friends had all survived the initial bombing of his hometown, reuniting with them.

These two encounters, combined with the deaths of all his friends shortly thereafter, made him realize that his ignorance had caused both himself and others a tremendous amount of mitigable or completely avoidable suffering. Loid's preconceived notions about Ostanians, the cause of the war, and the fates of those he wished to avenge, had all been shaken by those interactions. The beliefs that he had accepted as the truth and clung to without question led him to spend most of his formative years wallowing in anger and bitter despair as a result. Loid had also come to realize that the Ostanians were just people who, like him, had been swept up by circumstances that they had felt strongly about, but had never stopped to truly think about. Upon joining WISE, he vowed to never make the mistake of allowing either unfounded beliefs or rampant emotionalism to rule him ever again.

Loid is a very handsome man with short blond ruffled hair, blue eyes, and light skin. His hair is often slicked back to varying degrees, depending on the occasion, and his eyes are usually narrowed, slanted, and sharp. Loid is quite tall, with a slim but athletic build. His exact age is unknown, although his history and appearance point to him being in his late twenties or early thirties. Because of his handsome looks, many girls become infatuated with Loid.

Loid is wearing a plain white T-shirt with blue jeans. He is also wearing a long-sleeved sweater.