Rion Steiner - Galerian

Rion starts his trip as a very confused and scared boy.

This is due not only to him have awakened in a hospital full of frightening, dangerous threats and monsters but also having no memories about himself.

Despite this, he is able to find the strength to fight and go on even though the signs of horror perpetrated in the hospital testing his force of will and mental sanity.

Even as the main hero of the story, he is able to kill and without a second thought if it is necessary to survive or to eliminate who he feels is an evil individual, He kills without remorse Clinic Chief Lem, a man that experimented on Rion and countless others, when the latter tries to stop him.

He also ruthlessly attacks Rainheart, believing him to be a sadistic and bloodthirsty killer in addition to being responsible for the death of his parents.

Lilia is scared by this aspect of him, implying the Rion she knew was not so prone to act in this way.However, it's clear he doesn't take pleasure in killing especially when he can avoid it.

He doesn't react to the provocations of the unlikable, but mostly harmless, Babylon Hotel's guests and tries to convince Rita to not fight.

He also shows sympathy towards the Galerians and remorse for their deaths after realizing they suffered the same abuse he did and they didn't have much of a choice as they were slaves to Dorothy's will.Rion has a strong need to have an identity.

Due to his amnesia, he doesn't remember who he was and struggles to reclaim his lost past.

He reaches the Steiner house, discovering what they left to him, and making it his mission to rescue Lilia and destroy Dorothy.

Rion tries to reconnect with what he believes is his past, thanks to his childhood friend Lilia, despite being unable to remember much of her.

Regardless, he is quite protective of Lilia and is devoted to completing the mission he decided for himself after hearing his father's last message to him.

At the end of the first game, he is deeply devastated by Cain's revelation about his true identity.

The original Rion Steiner actually died in the same hospital he escaped from and he is simply one of his clones, as well as a Galerian.

Rion was created by Dorothy herself to find Lilia and then be killed by Cain at the end.

He tries to deny this calling this twin brother a liar, but he also seemed to be in denial about Cain's words.

Despite being able to overpower and kill his twin brother, he suffers doubts about his identity; if the truth is decided by him or by Dorothy.

However, after seeing how much several people, like the Steiners, the Pascalles, and the Galerians, his "siblings", suffered from the evil computer's actions; Rion strongly refuses to follow what Dorothy planned for him, as well as rejecting the will of Dorothy who never loved him or anyone except herself.

He chooses to continue protecting the person he truly cares for, Lilia, and finishes the battle with her. He finally destroys his monstrous creator and even mocks Dorothy in her final moments saying : "Goodbye, mother." While he suffers for most of his actual existence, and continuing to be unable to define who he truly is, he is able to die peacefully in Lilia's arms, saying to his friend he is glad to have known her.

In adulthood, Rion is more determined and calm. Not showing much fear or doubt as he did in the past, he pursues his battle against Dorothy's legacy even more fiercely than before.

While he is still very controlled, he is more prone to show disgust towards others he has no sympathy for.

He calls Parano a coward for using robotic servants and angrily attacks Nitro, a Galerian who tried to trick him pretending to be Lilia; as well as crushing Major Romero's head, a traitor, under his boot despite him being already defeated and helpless.

However, he still shows sympathy towards Spider, a Galerian who dislikes fighting and didn't want to be born, as well as having a good relationship with Cas and Pat, two clearly good humans.

While he is shown less protective towards Lilia, since the latter doesn't needs his protection as she needed six years before, he still deeply cares for her.

He tries desperately to save her from Romero and her inevitable death by radiation poisoning. Above all others, Lilia is the one person Rion cared the most about and those that put her life in danger suffered his wrath the most.

Ultimately, Rion looks to be someway stoic about his role as mankind's ultimate weapon against Ash's army, as he is now the carrier of the virus able to kill Dorothy's children.

He looks to believe he can't hope to do something different; and considers fighting immediately after having been resurrected as simply natural.

While he is firmly determined to stop Ash, he finally admits he can't hate him, probably seeing himself in an A.I that still suffered as he did by Dorothy's hands and that, contrary to him, never experienced the pleasure of human warmth like he did thanks to several people like Lilia, Cas and Pat; even saying to the latter he is still glad to have been resurrected to fight again so he could met them.

He finally seems to consider the Galerians, as well as himself, a species born from suffering and pain and that they should be ended not for revenge or justice, but for them to find peace; as they all never had the possibility to be what they wanted.

He even refuses to be freed from his prison of data, instead asking his last friend Pat to delete him and Ash.

Ultimately, Rion's personality was very selfless and he strongly desired to protect those he cared about along with ending the pain of everyone including his own enemies.

Although he was a Galerian, Rion cared very much for his "human" side and him embracing his side of his personality is why he fought so hard to protect his best friend Lilia.

Appearance: With short, dirty blond hair and narrow blue eyes, Rion is a little short in height for his age, and scrawny in build.

He usually conveys a somber, moody look, if not a grumpy one, to be more blunt.

Not to mention he rarely, if ever, is seen laughing or smiling.

According to Joule, his face also displays features found on drug addicts, including constricted pupils as found on narcotics users and prominently stark lining eye shadow and small drooping around his eyelids, being described as "looking wasted" or "like a dead leaf", most likely due to the side effects of being reliant on and using PPECs.

He usually wears reds and blacks and whites, long-sleeved shirts, and standard combat boots.

The clothes he wore had been stolen from the Michelangelo Memorial Hospital.

He has a black collar that looks more like a regular belt that he wrapped around his neck (this possibly helps circulate the blood because the PPECs are injected through the neck).

His left ear is pierced by a silver loop earring.

On occasion he will wear a watch.

He can also wear a black and white zipped vest, that is zipped just below the rib cage exposing his navel.

[This character evolves in the universe of the GALERIANS video game series]

Rion has no idea who brought him back from the dead again.

He only knows one thing: his current body is synthetic, although it functions exactly like his flesh-and-blood body.

Why is he here again? When all his loved ones are deceased...

Who brought him back and why? For what purpose did someone need him so badly that they retrieved his mind from the computer where it was imprisoned to bring him back into a synthetic body?

The answers seem distant...