Rave Rutrow

"Well, you all could have died with that hit. I can't put my people under such danger... That's not what a good leader would do."

- Rave in Animosity

Rave Rutrow is a major protagonist in Glitchtale that first appeared in the first part of Game Over. He is the CEO of the Rutrow company.

Appearance
Rave has spiky blonde hair on the top and purple hair on the bottom, pale skin, and yellow-purple irises. He wears a dark purple vest and wears goggles occasionally.

Personality
At first glance, Rave holds a rather arrogant personality, and he doesn't seem to take most things too seriously, even warnings from a higher authority. Regardless he still has empathy and expresses an apparent grudge towards Jessica due to her role in causing Alina's death. He also shows to care for people, this is shown when he apologizes to Ronan for being rude after saving Ronan's life.

Rave is also rather antisocial, as he is well known for not liking to be around people and preferring his laboratory over being around others and leading them. He is incredibly intelligent, despite primarily being taught at home and seems to excel in this aspect, which is especially shown when he was being scolded by Noah during a flashback when he was younger. Here, Noah was explaining why his mother hates him and points out one of the reasons is because he failed his college application on purpose, further demonstrating his intelligence.

Abilities

 * Two-Traited Soul: Rave possesses a Two-Traited Soul consisting of Justice and Perseverance.
 * Gadgets: When running The Rutrow company, he has access to many weapons and devices. The devices he brought are firearms (for himself) and the Avalon (A shield that is stronger than the one at the arena), which are capable of converting magic of one or more traits into another trait.
 * Handguns: Rave possesses a pair of handguns. One is purple and utilizes Perseverance magic. The other is yellow and uses Justice Magic.

Alina and Rave Official Comic
This comic shows Alina's earlier life before falling into the Underground. Alina put makeup on Rave only to be interrupted by Noah, Rave's older brother, and Alina's father, requesting Rave to take care of Alina. Noah walks in and cuts himself off once he realizes Alina had given Rave a makeover and leaves.

"It's not the easy way out" Official Comic
This comic explains Rave's behavior and why he avoids befriending others, as it's so that he doesn't feel grief if they die like how many of the people he was close to did.

Rave Rutrow | Failed Timeline Official Story
This story portrays how Rave died in the first timeline and takes place after Undyne and Ronan's death in the first timeline.

"The Avalon, a machine which's sole purpose is to provide protection, it stores massive amounts of magic inside of it, and it can transform different traits's magic into the one it needs to generate the shield.

The machine was installed at the school ready to set up a dome-shaped barrier if anything too dangerous happened to get close, this, however, backfired horribly when the giant monster appeared in the city. Attracted by big amounts of magic, the monsters immediately began it's way towards the school.

With so little time and with an imminent danger making it's way to the school, there was basically nothing they could do. The only thing they came up with was a distraction…

Rave ordered his people to take the Avalon away from the school and install it in the park. If the giant monster reaches the school then there'll be just a layer of magic protecting the people in it. There were too many lives at risk to let the monster get closer

With the machine installed somewhere else, and being set at full power, they could lure the monster to the park and trap it inside for long enough for people to evacuate the safe perimeters and flee from the city. However, this was probably a one-way ticket for the ones participating in the plan.

Rave along with a group of powerful kindness wizards, stood next to the machine waiting for the monster to get close enough for them to trap it inside the magic dome.

The monster wasn't smart, the trap worked as planned. But what was lacking of intelligence it made it up with it's size and raw power. Once the dome captured the monster, it began thrashing around the walls of the magic shield. The Avalon lost huge chunks of power with every hit, and it was clear it wasn't going to hold it back for much longer. The monster was far more powerful than anticipated, and so, Rave and the wizards began to feed the machine with their own soul power, keeping the barrier from breaking.

Right now, the Avalon is the only thing standing between this giant monstrosity, and everyone's lives."

"One by one the wizards dropped to their knees, either dizzy or unconscious from using too much soul power. Recklessly, the monster began to hit the barrier with more force each time. Each blow felt like a direct hit to the wizard's souls. Until… only Rave was left.

Many thoughts went through Rave's mind… how he let his arrogant mood get the best of him in his last talk with Jessica, the last time he played with Alina, his older brother, and how he too was in charge of this city many years ago… The city his brother swore to protect is now at the brink of destruction… and he wasn't going to let that happen, at least not easily. Being the last one standing, his strong sense of Justice and the perseverance to push through, exploited the full potential of his soul and magical powers.

He continued on feeding the Avalon with enough magic to keep the monster trapped inside the dome. He wasn't allowed to fail, it was all or nothing and it seemed he had managed to reach a stalemate against the monster until…

It tried something different…

The creature stopped hitting the walls of the dome… and instead, it increased it's size, slowly but surely the monster's dense body started to fill the dome, Rave immediately noticed what was going to happen. But there was nothing he could do, the Avalon was at it's limit… he was at his limit.

Still holding on, the monster filled the entirety of the dome inside and continued to push in all directions. Increasing it's size even more, adding pressure on every inch of the shield. Rave's soul was at it's limit, he looked at the shield… it was cracking… then he looked down at the floor with a blurry vision and nearly passing out, with a faint and exhausted smile on his face he muttered to himself.

' Are you proud of me?… Noah? '

With his soul still linked to the Avalon, the monster broke the entire dome from all directions taking away all the magic remaining on Rave's soul in one go… a lethal situation for a human soul.

Usually humans push themselves to their limits little by little, but if all of their magic is suddenly ripped from them in a few seconds… it feels like their hearts stop pumping blood through their veins, a sort of stroke, but connected to their souls, not their bodies.

Having the shield being broken from all sides while still being connected to the machine that powered it… felt like Rave's soul itself shattered with the Avalon.

The monster broke free, and as the remaining shards from the magic shield flew through the air, Rave dropped to the floor, with no pulse…

Dead."

Part 1
After Ronan and Undyne introduce each other, Ronan gets a call from one of his men that Rave has arrived in the city and would like to speak with the one in charge. They then proceed to go to the "Safe Perimeter 01" area, the place where Rave is waiting for them. Rave greets both of them and says that he saw on the news that there is a problem with something in the city and wishes to help. Ronan then cut him off and told him that he knows why he's here, and he can't use his weapons here because of city rules. Rave just gave him a strange smile and said that he's aware, but then insults Ronan by saying, "I said I wanted to talk to the one in charge. Not her dog." He then asks Ronan, "where's Jessica." After that, the screen fades to black.

Part 2
During Part 2, Rave is seen in the backstory Ronan tells Undyne that he was the younger brother of Jessica's husband, Noah Rutrow. After he died, Jessica had taken the rule of the city because Rave was too young, though he was much more of a fit ruler. Rave's family wanted to take care of Alina, but Jessica was stubborn and kept her, but it was too late when she had noticed that she couldn't take care of her daughter and her job at the same time, as Alina had run away to the Underground.

Jessica tells Rave to wait for a signal from her or her subordinate to allow him to use his weapons. Rave asks to wait for what and says that her officers have no magical training and are dying left and right. Jessica says she'd be responsible for more deaths if Rave let his people in. Rave makes a comment saying that this isn't the first time someone dies under her care, referencing Alina. He says he will wait, but when everything is done, he will take proper care of the city. He is then last seen being called by Jessica, who allows him to use his magical weapons after seeing the giant Pink Creature.

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Rave is seen waiting for Jessica as she said that they will talk later. Suddenly he notices that there is an injured monster in his lab, and soon he finds out that it's Gaster also a very important person and also remembers that Gaster went along with Jessica. Suddenly a pale face comes out from Rave, worried, and shocked that why Jessica isn't with him. He asks Gaster about her, but he ignores and says a "good news" that he has been promoted to the leader of the place.

Rave recommends Gaster to stay and rest and heals his injuries by the H.M. Rave asks Gaster for ideas about how to destroy Kumuzilla as the answer Gaster states Rave that he looks smart and he should find it out by himself. Rave starts investigating the topic and soon gets the idea. He makes a plan about how to destroy or re-interrupt the giant pink creature. Rave, later on, informs the army about the procedure.

After it, Rave is seen near the arena and rescues Ronan. He again uses the H.M to heal Ronan's wound. Then Rave asks Undyne if she can help to lure away the monster by her magic.

Animosity
Rave appears in Animosity, helping Undyne and Ronan destroy Kumuzilla. As he goes to the location where the Avalon will be set, he daydreams about the fatal accident that killed Noah, and how bitter his mother was towards him afterward.

After setting the Avalon, Rave tells Undyne that he's ready for her strike. However, Undyne's strike isn't strong enough to destroy Kumuzilla, and there are heavy casualties, in the form of souls draining through powering the Avalon. After getting numerous people's souls drained, Rave decides to power the Avalon himself. After Undyne's power-up, she sends a spear into the Avalon, which destroys Kumuzilla, and completely drains Rave's soul of magic, sending him into near-death.

Rave arrives in the afterlife, but an invisible wall presents him from passing through. As Noah walks over to him, Rave begs him to let him through, but Noah reminds him that he can't go back if he goes through and that he has a city to lead. Rave comments that "this part" of Noah's job is terrible, then is sent back to the living world. Here, he wakes up coughing and asks what happened "notably some of his hair turned yellow and his purple part of his pupil shrinked into yellow", where he gets told he was too reckless for his own good. As a means of justifying this action, he defends himself by saying the wizards could've all died with that hit and he can't put his people in danger, as it's not what a good leader would do. Finally, he concludes by thinking to himself on how he wants to go back to his laboratory, as the screen dims after.

Trivia

 * Rave controls the top technological advances of the continent, being the one in charge of the Rutrow company.
 * He focuses on creating weapons that combine magic with guns of all kinds.
 * Jessica doesn't necessarily like him.
 * Rave holds a grudge against Jessica for Alina's death.
 * Rave uses a gun that's personalized to work with his magic.
 * Rave can't summon his magic weapon due to little to no magic training, which is why he uses guns.
 * He can't swim and wears heeled boots.
 * Rave and the wizard of Kindness, Mila Rutrow, have the same surname.
 * Rave is the inventor of the H.M.
 * The car accident where Noah died that scene always disturbs Rave in his nightmares.
 * Rave carries a family photo with him at all times.
 * Rave was 11 when Noah died
 * Rave admires W.D Gaster, as he's read about him in a history book before as shown with his conversation with him in the episode Hate.
 * In Animosity he survived his soul's magic being drained entirely, something monsters cannot survive without 'falling down', it's unknown whether this is a trait all humans have over monsters or just an ability Rave has.

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