Ringabel

Ringabel is a playable character in Bravely Default. He is an amnesiac found only with the enigmatic D's Journal, which seems to foretell events that will occur in the future.

Appearance and Personality
Ringabel is an amnesiac casanova, seducing women with his adolescent charm. Despite his flirtatious demeanor, he seems genuine in his desire to find his 'angel' and from time to time serves as counselor for some of the other characters and gives rare pearls of wisdom that show a cautious and wise side to his otherwise frivolous personality. He comes to the conclusion that his 'angel' is Edea Lee. Ringabel would later learn that he was Alternis Dim, his personality being a solemn warrior who takes his duties seriously and loyal to the Lee family with little hesitation. It was only after regaining his memory that Ringabel adopts traits of his original personality as he becomes slightly more serious and less flirty.

Ringabel's appearance changes according to which gear he is currently equipping in the game. When he was Alternis Dim, Ringabel wore a dark suit of armor with his helm usually obscuring his face.

Downloadable Content Outfits
Ringabel has several alternate outfits released as part of downloadable content in the Japanese release, which can be obtained in-game in the Western release.

Story


Prior to his memory loss, Ringabel was Alternis Dim, a member of Eternia's Council of Six who is a victim of a dimensional paradox. Orphaned at a young age, Alternis was found by Braev Lee who raises him before he became an officer in the forces of the Duchy of Eternia. During his travels, Alternis kept a journal of his activities, D's Journal, as he gave the Eschalot to the Sky Knights and infiltrated Caldisla to survey its defenses. During his stay, the Great Chasm opened up and swallowed the village of Norende. Alternis was responsible for rescuing Tiz Arrior, the village's only survivor. After two weeks, he returned to the Duchy. He was given a new mission to study the changes stemming from the Great Chasm as Edea joins up with Tiz and the Wind Vestal Agnès Oblige on their quest. Alternis also had feelings for the Grand Marshal's daughter Edea Lee, taking her sudden betrayal hard as he attempted to secure her safety while dealing with halting the wind vestal Agnès Oblige from awakening the crystals.

During his journey, Alternis made an enemy out of Qada when he came to the aid of a boy named Egil who was being tortured for knowledge on the location of the Fire Crystal. However, when Egil takes him through the Underflow to reach the Temple of Fire, Alternis is confronted by the Wind Vestal's group and nearly died were it not for Qada's torturous healing prior to being placed in a White Magic stasis chamber to fully heal from his burns. Once in top condition again, Alternis learns from Braev that the true threat is Agnès's cryst-fairy guide Airy. After Agnès awakens all four crystals, Alternis attempts to confront them at the Holy Pillar with the goal of killing the fairy from completing the ritual by any means. But once there, Alternis is forced to watch Edea and the others die by Airy's hand as he ends up in another world's newly created Norende Ravine. Losing his memory upon reaching Caldisla with only D's Journal on his person, Alternis gained the named "Ringabel" from the residents as they have met his counterpart of their world and filled in certain gaps of his memory.

A week after his arrival, when Ominas Crowe burned down the old house he took residence, using D's Journal under the notion that it is a tome telling future events, Ringabel joins Agnès Oblige and Tiz Arrior so that he can meet Edea, whom he referred to as his angel. In time, Ringabel aids the others in battling the Alternis of their world and is shocked to see his face before the dark knight fell off Grandship. Ringabel begins to question their journey when he regains parts of his memory, after confronting another version of the dark knight.

After he regained all his memories in the Third World, Ringabel remembers that he was the Alternis of a world that Airy already visited and that the fairy is evil. Ringabel confides this information to Tiz, asking him to tell Agnès for him. It was during his time in the Third World that Ringabel defeat the Alternis of that world to spare him the fate he and the two previous Alternises suffered. After defeating the God of Destruction, Ouroboros, Ringabel's fate is unclear. In the normal ending, it seems that he goes back to his dimension and places a flower on the Grandship as a memorial of the Edea that he couldn't save. In the true ending, he once again goes back to his world in time to save Edea, Tiz and Agnès of that world (it is heavily implied that he ends up in another world that's not his own) and takes back his original name: the Dark Knight, Alternis Dim.

In Battle


Ringabel's stats shift depending on the job class he is in. However, Ringabel consistently has great Dexterity and Agility, making him the fastest of the group. Though his Mind stat is the worst out of the group, which is odd since his Intelligence stat is the second best in the group. His MP and HP are also above average, making him great in the Ninja and Thief class.

Musical Themes
Ringabel's theme is "The Vagrant of Love", the theme played during his "Special Move" sequence.

Etymology
"Ring a bell" is a figure of speech referring to when one begins to remember something, or for it to seem familiar to them. This ties in directly with Ringabel being established as a character with amnesia, and is implied by Ringabel himself to have been given to him as an ironic joke.

Trivia

 * Ringabel's special costume is Melodist's Shirt.
 * The costume itself could be referred to Revo, the music composer of the game.
 * Ringabel is the only party member to be able to pilot the Grandship.
 * He is also the only known person able to pilot the Grandship.