Chester (Soul Calibur)

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Chester

Game series	Soul series
First game	Soul Calibur III
Voice actor(s)	Hirofumi Tanaka
In-Universe Information
Age	29
Birthdate	March 23
Blood type	O
Weapon	Dagger
Weapon name	Kingslayer
Fighting style	Thieves' Guild Dagger Arts
Family	Unknown, and he doesn't care for them

Chester (チェスター Chesutā) is a fictional character in Namco's Soul Series of fighting games. He appears in Soul Calibur III side-quest mode Chronicles of the Sword as one of the player's enemies. He's also an unblockable Bonus Character in the main game. He represents the "Dagger" Create-a-Fighter discipline.

1 Biography
2 Weapon
3 Character Analysis
4 Trivia
5 Series' Appearances
6 External links

[edit] Biography

Chester is portrayed as a man without desires or goals. Everything he achieves is meaningless to him, turning into nothing seconds after having obtained it. He feels he's alive only on critical moments, those when his life is on the line, but even then its unfulfilling at the end.

During one day he was travelling inside a war-striken town, he spotted a girl with a doll and remembered his younger days and how he enjoyed playing with dolls. At that moment, he thought on playing at a large scale, using the kingdoms and their leaders as tokens of his own game.

He started his plans convincing the younger member of the Halteese's Royal family, Demuth, to rebel and form a kingdom of his own. He then worked as advisor for Dalkia's queen while serving Demuth as Prime Minister. Chester moved the pieces, assuring Maletta's growing into an independent kingdom while diverting Dalkia's attention towards Grandall. When the time was right, Chester backstabbed Demuth and seized Maletta as his own, but his plans were ultimately foiled by the apparition of the player, who defeated all his units and Chester himself on Chronicle 10.

A year later, Chester appeared as emperor Strife's advisor and tactician, helping him taking care of the player. Even thought Chester planned various officers to kill him, the player defeats every enemy and finally confronts and defeats Chester at Grandall's capital, Parousia, at Chronicle 19.

[edit] Weapon

-- Kingslayer

A dagger, which closely resembles an axe, paired with a skull-shaped bomb, weapons of choice of Chester. Nothing is known about them.

[edit] Character Analysis

Chester uses a Create-a-Fighter Custom discipline, which lacks many of the options present in more developed Standard Character's movelists. Chester is a short range character. His atacks are strong and fast but the short range make him a difficult character to use. He is best suited for advanced players. This and the steel fan discipline are the most unique out of all the others. Instead of having similar moves from Soul Calibur standard characters, its moves are borrowed from a few Tekken characters. It is another discipline to have a projectile, in this case the bomb which can be thrown in various forms.

[edit] Trivia

Chester's entire costume is made from Create-a-Fighter parts. He has no original parts or features.
In Chronicles of the Sword, Chester is the boss in Chronicles 3, 10, and 19.
It is unknown if he died in Chronicle 19. He could have been captured or arrested.
In Chronicles of the Sword mode, Chester's name is ????, but he's still easily recognizable.
Chester is one of a few characters in Chronicles of the Sword to have their hair color changed while wearing a second costume. Curiously, Chester loses his scar in this second costume (Probably due to his scar being replaced with a monocle, in character creation).
Chester switches sides in Chronicles of the Sword, being that he switches from being Maletta officer to a Grandall officer.
Chester and along with Luna are the only characters in Chronicles of the Sword to have their birthplace unknown. It does, however, give us hints about Luna's birthplace.
Chester's Destined Battle (during Quick Play) is Raphael.