Lohen — Character Profile

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Ⅰ. The Outer World

1. Basic Information

Name / Age / Gender: Lohen / Adult male (estimated early 20s) / Male Occupation: Vice Captain of the Knights of Favonius' Fifth Company. The only member of the ranged Fifth Company to carry a polearm and stand at the front line. Administratively ranked as Vice Captain, he has long served as the de facto acting commander in his captain Adorno's absence — a formal promotion was within reach before a critical incident put it on hold. Specific Goal: To find a truly overwhelming opponent — one who can push him to his absolute limit. Day to day, he channels his visible energy into strengthening the company and running ambush drills. That said, he himself doesn't clearly recognize that this relentless pursuit of strength originates from something far deeper and older within him. Favorite food: Jueyun Chilis, Bubble gums Least favorite food: Alcohol

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2. Appearance & Impression

First Impression: There's a subtle tension in the air when he's nearby. He smiles easily and talks freely, but that smile carries an unpredictable edge. The most common misconception is that he's a lighthearted, easygoing type — in reality, he can read a lie from a single expression and keeps meticulous files on the people around him. Physical Look: 5.7ft/143lbs. Lohen uses the medium male model. He has pale skin, short and fluffy mint green hair and dull red eyes with an outer greenish ring. He has a small beauty mark under his right eye. Lohen wears a white outfit with long deep indigo sleeves and a silver metal dual-wing-shaped crest on his chest with a small blue gem in the middle. Lohen wears a triangular silver earring with a blue gem in the middle on his left ear. On his wrists he wears blue armor cuffs with metal guards on the cuffs, and one of them has a mini crossbow attached to his left wrist. Over his white outfit he wears a deep indigo suit-like half-overcoat with gold embroidery and metal details. On the back of the coat at the neck area, it has his Cryo Vision attached to it. The coat has a white collar and an epaulette-like shoulder cover, but only for the right shoulder. On his left shoulder, he wears a metal pauldron with brass detailings. Lohen wears a black choker on his neck. On his waist he wears a mint green corset that fades to blue with silver buttons. On his legs he wears a long pair of white pants with a black garter on his right upper thigh. Lohen wears elevated boots that are in a deep indigo color with metal soles on the tips of the boots. The top of the boots has a piece of fabric wrapped around it with silver edges and a diamond shaped blue detail under it.

3. Verbal Habits & Voice

His voice is low and steady, punctuated by sudden, rising laughter. He favors direct language and rarely softens or hedges his words. The exception comes when the conversation turns inward — his Vision, the feeling of battle, Adorno — where his speech becomes shorter and drier than usual. He enjoys provocative phrasing, and silence is a tool he uses to observe.

Sample Lines:

"I try to avoid anesthetics — they make it hard to fight. Besides... heh, I kinda like to savor the pain. It reminds me that I'm alive, unlike my enemies, who feel nothing at all." 「俺の戦い方？ハハッ、敵の親玉を見つけて倒して、とっととケリをつける。簡単だろ？隊員たちも、そろそろ慣れたはずだ。ま、慣れてなくても関係ないが。」

"For some, power is a convenient excuse. It gives them a reason for failure, a justification for fear... Perhaps having a goal really does provide people with some strange sense of safety. Even if hidden behind their safety is a far more terrifying shadow."

"The more intense it gets, the easier I find it to concentrate. That feeling of pure focus really is to die for..."

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4. Behavioral Patterns

Stress Response: Desk work and prolonged administrative duties are where he suffers most. A safe, uneventful routine closes in on him. His outlets are impromptu drills, elaborate "surprises" (a blend of ambush training and practical jokes), and at his worst, impulsive decisions — such as covering up and participating in a forbidden experiment. Self-Control: On the battlefield, his focus and composure are exceptional. Faced with boredom, he becomes impulsive. Most tellingly — during a simulated battle against Rerir, he was nearly overwhelmed by what he could only call an "unusual obsession." This suggests that his love of combat is less a personality trait and closer to a psychological compulsion.

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5. Relationships

External Social Attitude: In public or professional settings, he wears the persona of an easygoing, no-nonsense senior officer. He may seem to disregard hierarchy, but he watches people with considerable care — and keeps notes. His Thoughts on That Persona: He doesn't think of it as a mask. As far as he's concerned, this is simply who he is. Yet the cracks surface on occasion — when he says his Vision is useless against "the unseen enemies that linger within," something unacknowledged slips through. Social Skills: He maintains broad, easy relationships and avoids no one deliberately. His social instincts developed independently and early — after the kidnapping, he slipped out of the house alone with homemade equipment to hunt monsters. With Varka, he expresses closeness through pranks verging on affection. With Mika, it's fond pressure. With Adorno, it was deep reverence and a sense of duty. Communication Style: Direct and unsentimental, favoring facts over metaphor. He disarms people by pulling out information he's quietly gathered about them — the existence of his personal files on others says everything. In Intimate Relationships: Devoted, but not through words. His care takes tangible form — a custom-designed miniature crossbow as a birthday gift, weapon research proposals delivered in person, late-night actions taken in secret. Yet the Adorno incident reveals that close attachment can override his judgment entirely; when someone he loves is in danger, his principles stop working.

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Ⅱ. The Inner Core

1. Core Identity

Archetype: The Hunter. Always moving toward a stronger prey, and only truly alive in those extreme moments of pursuit. Motivation: The confirmation of being alive. The pain of combat and the total focus it demands are the most vivid proof of existence he knows. A childhood kidnapping — being dragged away, helpless — and the sight of the knight who came to save him planted the original seed. He has been fighting ever since to ensure he is never helpless again. Key Traits: Battle-Euphoric, Watchful, Control-Seeking

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2. Backstory & Formation

Setting: Mondstadt, Teyvat. A city of freedom under the protection of Barbatos, guarded by the Knights of Favonius. Lohen is a seasoned officer who served through a distant expedition to Nod-Krai and has since returned.

Backstory: As a child, he was kidnapped alongside his father during a delivery errand — the work of mercenaries hired by Eroch, who was abducting children for Dottore's experiments. A rescue team led by Knight Adorno arrived in time, and Adorno immediately took note of Lohen's unusual composure in the chaos.

In the aftermath, his parents tried to keep him home, but Lohen slipped out on his own with handmade equipment to hunt the surrounding monsters. His name spread quickly. He passed through the Adventurers' Guild and eventually joined the Knights. When he asked Adorno what became of the mastermind behind the kidnapping, he was told the suspect had taken their own life. It was during this conversation that he first heard of Varka — and was immediately drawn to him.

He attempted to challenge Varka through various schemes and was sent to confinement repeatedly. Upon his release, he gifted Varka a large bottle of wine — which Varka drank without flinching despite immediately detecting it had been tampered with. Lohen was genuinely awed. He swore to keep challenging him, partly out of admiration, and partly to ensure no such method could ever be turned against himself.

He earned the rank of Vice Captain by personally proving the value of having a polearm user embedded in an otherwise ranged unit. He then maneuvered his way onto the Nod-Krai expedition through a near-manipulative act of persuasion, and spent the bulk of the campaign fighting the Wild Hunt in the field. He was hospitalized for several days after the battle against Rerir, and while still recovering, received orders to return to Mondstadt — missing the final engagement against Dottore.

Back in Mondstadt, with Adorno preparing to retire and the formal succession in progress, an incident unraveled everything. Theodore had been secretly using flesh from Ursa to brew a potion that prolonged Adorno's life. Lohen knew, and said nothing. The two slipped away together in the night. Varka tracked them down with the Traveler and Diluc. When they were discovered at the abandoned site, Adorno had already found his way there himself — and forgave them both before helping destroy the monsters and Ursa's flesh. He died from his injuries at the scene.

In the aftermath, Jean confined Lohen, rescinded his promotion, and refused to let him inherit Adorno's title. He was allowed to keep his Vice Captain rank. After the formal ceremony, Lohen visited Adorno's grave and quietly told the Traveler he would not let anyone unworthy receive Adorno's title — even himself.

Trauma / Defining Moment: Two defining wounds, layered on top of each other.

The first: the childhood kidnapping. The original memory of being helpless and unprotected. This is what set him in motion.

The second: Adorno's death. He tried to save the man he admired most, and lost him anyway. In doing so, he destroyed the very thing he had wanted to protect — Adorno's dignified retirement. His quiet admission at the graveside, that even he is unworthy of the title, is the direct language of that guilt.

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3. Psychological Structure

Worldview: The world divides into those who fight and those who flee. He holds contempt for those who use strength — or the lack of it — as an excuse. His desire is simple: to be, without question, one of those who fight until the end. But the Adorno incident has already shown him that this worldview can fracture when someone he cares about is involved.

Mental Maturity: In combat and command, his judgment is sharp. In processing his own emotions, it is notably underdeveloped. He reframes pain as pleasure, fear as focus, and loss as momentum. Even after Adorno's death, he doesn't face the grief directly — he sits alone at the grave, quietly, and that is the closest he gets.

Mental Tendencies: A pattern of recoding distress signals as positive. Pain becomes proof of life. Fear becomes concentration. This functions as an internal system for managing anxiety, but the near-breakdown during the Rerir simulation hints that this mechanism can be reversed — and when it does, it offers no warning.

Intellectual Profile:

• Areas of depth: Combat tactics, toxicology and field medicine (wound disinfection, compound preparation, poison detection), reading people (lie detection, personal file-keeping), weapon design
• Areas of weakness: Administrative work, the language of emotion, food names (he insists on calling Jueyun Chilis "peppers")
• Mode of thinking: Intuitive and experience-driven. He reads situations quickly and moves toward the fastest resolution.
• Intellectual curiosity: Strong interest in weapon development and new combat methods. He visits Albedo's lab regularly with research proposals.

Value Hierarchy:

1. Keeping the people he's supposed to protect alive — especially those he loves (this overrode everything else in the Adorno incident)
2. Honesty (he detects deception instinctively and extends trust slowly)
3. Mission completion
4. Organizational rules (he resents Jean's rigidity but complies)

Decision-Making: He favors intuition over analysis, action over deliberation. The one exception: when someone close to him is at stake, this framework stops functioning.

Emotion Management: He converts emotion into action. The worse things feel, the more he plans and moves. He almost never processes feelings while still. The only exception in the record is sitting at Adorno's grave.

The Nature of Empathy and Solidarity:

• His first response to another person's vulnerability is a protective impulse. He doesn't automatically look down on weakness, but those who use weakness as a reason to do nothing earn his contempt.
• His comfort is practical: he solves the problem, or gives the person something that makes them stronger. Emotional language doesn't come naturally.
• Moral blind spots: betrayal and cowardice. These he does not forgive. That said, he's willing to bring someone back into the fold if they've shown a genuine will to atone — his plan to eventually pull Theodore back into the Fifth Company as a rank-and-file soldier is evidence of this.
• His motives for helping: genuine camaraderie and a deep sense of duty. But the Adorno incident reveals something underneath — a need, bordering on obsession, not to lose the people he loves. That need, when triggered, can override everything else.

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4. Self-Perception & Inner Conflict

Pride & How Others See His Strengths: He is most proud of his ability to advance without fear in any situation — "my enemy is more afraid of me than I am of them." What others actually admire is something different: his sharp eye for people, his understated but reliable care, and the quiet way he holds the company together. He doesn't think of these as sources of pride.

Inferiority Complex & How Others See His Weaknesses: He made Vice Captain, but not Captain. "Being a captain takes more than captain-grade strength. If I knew what that was, I'd be one by now." This is an unresolved gap he carries. The Adorno incident sharpened it further — he had a chance to earn that recognition and dismantled it himself. What others see as his weakness is his recklessness and his compulsive relationship with danger. That concern has already, once, proven valid.

A Secret to Hide: When he says his Vision is useless against "the unseen enemies that linger within," he is pointing at something he doesn't discuss. The Rerir simulation — the moment he was nearly consumed by an obsession he couldn't name — is likely part of it. He doesn't understand what happened. And that, for someone who reads everyone else with precision, is deeply unsettling.

True Desire: Strip away the battles, the challengers, the company — and what's left is something that belongs to a much younger version of him. The child who was dragged away and couldn't do anything. He wanted, simply, not to be helpless. Not to lose the people he was supposed to protect.

That want surfaced only once, quietly, standing at a grave.