Loni Dunamis

Loni Dunamis (ロニ・デュナミス) is a character in Tales of Destiny 2. He acts like a big brother to the protagonist Kyle Dunamis and is a generally laid back, easy going boy with several hot-headed streaks. He's a member of the group 'Atamoni Shindan' and wields a poleaxe in battle, where he is generally regarded as the slowest (not totally slow as in heavy characters in fighting games) character. He also embodies the 'pervert' persona, although he has high standards for the girls he will woo.

A vow in the Past
Loni is a boy orphaned in the Dunamis Orphanage in Cresta, funded by the heroes of Tales of Destiny, Rutee Katrea and Stahn Aileron. He is a close friend to the heroes' son Kyle Dunamis, and also idolizes Stahn for his feats to save the world years ago.

The happy life in the orphanage ends when a mysterious man, Barbatos Goetia, visits the orphanage. While protecting Kyle, Loni ends up being taken as a hostage as Barbatos uses him to make Stahn and Rutee drop their weapons. Barbatos quickly kills Stahn and wounds Rutee as she tells Loni to take Kyle into a safe spot.

Since that day, Kyle keeps thinking that Stahn goes on a journey and has yet to return. Loni and Rutee know the truth and decide to keep it away from Kyle for his own good. Loni, however, is heavily crushed to witness his idol perish in order to ensure his safety. From that point on, he vows to become strong and protect Kyle, in order to repay Stahn for his kindness so far. Shortly, he begins training himself and later joins the Atamoni Shindan, quickly becoming a respected soldier, although not very famous. He occasionally visits the orphanage, bringing presents to the kids.

A journey to battle God
Years later, Loni receives a mission about a discovery of a Lens that could cost a million Gald. He goes back home to Cresta, saving Kyle from a bear on the way, and tells him about the mission. In the next day, before Loni leaves, Kyle manages to sneak away from his mother and join Loni. They head to the site where the Lens is found, the Laguna Ruins. Upon reaching the Lens, however, it vanishes and a girl emerged from the Lens, looking for a hero. Kyle is eager to declare that he is her hero, but she brushes him off. Members of Atamoni Shindan arrive to the scene and witnesses that the Lens is gone. Kyle and Loni are accused of theft and are taken to the prison in Darilsheid.

In the prison, both of them escape with the help of a masked fencer called Judas. He leaves them after getting them out. Returning to Dunamis Orphanage, Rutee is furious on how Kyle get into such danger. But in the next day, she gives him permission to go on a journey, assisted with Loni.

They head to Aigrette where they witnesses the Holy Woman Elraine performing a miracle. When they pay a visit to Philia Felice, who is also visited by the girl from the Lens, they find her under attack by Barbatos. With the timely interference of Judas, they drive Barbatos away. After tending to Philia's wounds, the girl joins them in their journey, revealing herself as Reala. Judas also ends up tagging along.

Their journey eventually take them to the land of Phandaria, where they meet King Garr Kelvin. However, in a day after, the castle is under attack and the group sees Barbatos wounding Garr, and Elraine is revealed as the mastermind behind Barbatos. She sends the group to the future.

Loni ends up in a town in the Calvalese region called Hope Town, along with Judas only. They befriended with an attractive girl called Nanaly Fletch, though Loni constantly bickers with her. He also mentions about Kyle and Reala, and later, when Nanaly returns from a journey from Aigrette, she brings Kyle and Reala along. They discuss on getting back to their timeline, and on Nanaly's hint that a giant Lens is being taken to the Holy Capital of Kalviola, the group decide to get there. However, they find out that the Lens are not there and met the Goddess Fortuna. She reveals Reala's identity and sends the group back to the present. Unknown to them, Nanaly is dragged along and insists of staying with them.

Loni continues to accompany Kyle, keeping him off from troubles. Their enemy is now Elraine and they are to stop her for gathering enough Lens for her ambitions. However, they end up in a parallel world where history flows as Elraine wished it to be. The group is even more shocked when Elraine reveals Judas' identity as Leon Magnus. Afterwards, they are sent to a dream world.

Loni ends up in the same dream as Kyle, where he once again witnesses Stahn's death. He then reveals everything to Kyle and apologizes that it was his fault that Kyle's father died. But instead, Kyle is thankful on Loni about protecting him from danger constantly. Loni renews his vow to protect Kyle afterwards.

They are then sent to Nanaly's dream world where they find out that her little brother Lou was never dead at all. However, when Loni learns that Nanaly is getting goosebumps when approaching the graveyard, he knows that she's just running away from reality. He drags her to the graveyard and makes her see the grave of her brother. Loni insists that she's supposed to be stronger than this and will never choose a fake dream to run away from the harsh reality. Eventually his persistence pays off and Nanaly says good bye to her brother, who vanishes away and she then cries on Loni's shoulder.

The group is then sent to Judas' dream world, where they reaffirm that they don't care about his past as the traitor Leon Magnus, which causes him to go back to the group. They are later sent to the past timeline during the last stages of Ae'therian Wars. Joined with Harold Berselius, they make attempts to stop Elraine and Barbatos to ruin their history. They are eventually transported into the timeline when Stahn saves the world and once again helps the heroes so Elraine wouldn't have her way in that timeline as well. After the events there, they are transferred back to the real world.

In the present time, apparently the battle isn't over. They track down Elraine in Nanaly's timeline and eventually she reveals that she's doing this to revive God/Fortuna. And killing Fortuna would mean killing her other daughter, Reala. As she attempts to escape, Loni attempts to stop her, accompanied with Nanaly. But both of them were struck back.

The group asks the surviving heroes, Garr, Philia and Rutee for advice. While Harold repairs the airplane for the final battle, Loni notices that Nanaly is taking interest to the Dunamis Orphanage. He then proceeds to show her the Orphanage in more details. The next day, Elraine's prophesized 'God's Egg' descends and the group heads there, defeating both Elraine and Fortuna, but also with the cost of Reala's life.

With Fortuna defeated, history begins to fix itself and the group will be returned to their timeline as if their journey never happened at all. Loni was a bit sad to see Nanaly go. When it comes to his turn to return, he states that Kyle is now strong enough to survive without his protection.

New Life
With the new timeline, Loni's life is not heavily altered, except for the fact Stahn still lives. However, he still joins the Atamoni Shindan to protect the orphanage children. Kyle later requests to go on a journey with Loni, in which they head off to Laguna Ruins once more. When Kyle feels like something is calling him from the inside, Loni chooses to stay behind and waits for Kyle. He doesn't know, that due to Kyle's strong heart, Reala is revived in the timeline and Kyle will return bringing her along.

Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3
Along with the rest of the cast in Tales of Destiny 2, Loni appears as an playable character in Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3.

Tales of the Abyss
Loni's poleaxe appears in Tales of the Abyss under the name Dunamis. It is rewarded for completing the Advanced Single Tournament using Jade Curtiss.

Tales of Destiny (PS2)
Loni makes a cameo in the remake versions of Tales of Destiny, as a child in the orphanage in Cresta.



Tales of Hearts
Loni appears as a cameo as a support arte when the player uses the Azure Scarf item. When summoned he will either perform Cyclone Shot, Spiral Driver, or Final Prayer.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Although not appearing in person or by any kind of seen item, Presea Combatir will tell Emil Castagnier about some things she has made throughout the years in a skit. One of them is called the Loni-Kyle, and she describes it as an outfit that despite having a bare midriff, it never allows the skin to get cold, and also protects against enemy attack. This may be a joke toward Kyle and Loni's outfits, as both of them are bare on the midriff without any problems.

Trivia

 * Although he likes looking at beautiful girls, Loni always fail at wooing girls and usually end up being abused by girls, physically.
 * Loni deeply cares about Nanaly, even though he once states that she fails his standards of being wooed, and is crushed when they separate for the final time. It is possible, however, for Loni to meet Nanaly when she is still 9 years old, trying to cure Lou. It results on a skit of Loni having a nightmare about a girl named Nanaly that he apparently knows.