Hubert Oswell

Hubert Oswell, known in Japan as Hubert Ozwell (ヒューバート･オズウェル), and born as Hubert Lhant (ヒューバート･ラント), is Asbel Lhant's younger brother by one year, in Tales of Graces. He is part of the military and has the status of a major. Though he is of the Lhant family, he became a member of Oswell while Asbel was absent.

Prologue
During the prologue, a young Hubert and Asbel go to explore a flower field in a mountain that is located close to their hometown of Lhant. As they near it, they see an amnesiac purple-haired girl sleeping in the field. Hubert and Asbel introduce themselves to her and decide to name her Sophie, inspired by name of a flower that she was fascinated by. Hubert and the others return, Hubert and the others decide to give Sophie a tour of Lhant. Hubert, Asbel, Sophie, and Cheria Barnes meet Richard, but Hubert and Cheria decide to stay behind, after Asbel and Sophie decide to take Richard to the flower fields.

The next day Hubert goes with his father to the flower fields, after Asbel and the others manage to make it back to the top of the cliff. After returning to Lhant, Aston and Hubert go to Baronia to meet with a man from Strata. After Asbel and Sophie arrive in Baronia, Asbel plans to explore the capital city with Richard, Cheria, Hubert, and Sophie; however, Richard does not show up. While waiting for him, Hubert and the others accidentally discover a secret underground cave beneath the city, and the party decides to explore it. While inside the cave, they discover an unconscious Richard on the ground, and Asbel hurries up to wake him. While Asbel and Sophie tend to Richard, a monster appears and attacks Hubert and Cheria, leaving then unconscious. After Sophie succeeds in destroying the monster at the cost of her life, Aston decides to give Hubert up for adoption to the Oswells, a wealthy family from the neighboring kingdom of Strata.

Reunion
Seven years later, Hubert returns to Lhant after Fendel soldiers attack the city, Hubert arrives with Strata soldiers and defeats the Fendel soldiers. Asbel returns to his house to speak to Hubert, but the reunion ends up in chaos and Hubert and Asbel end up fighting. Hubert instantly defeats his older brother and Asbel is thrown out of Lhant by Strata soldiers.

Richard’s Betrayal
After the events in Windol Castle, Asbel decides to head back to Lhant to warn Hubert of Richard's actions, but they arrive right exactly when Richard attacks the city. Richard attacks both Asbel and Hubert and knocks Hubert out. Sophie arrives and fights Richard for a short while, but Richard remains victorious and tries to kill Sophie. Asbel intervenes and manages to attack Richard, causing Richard to stop. Asbel, Sophie, and Hubert are forced to fight Richard and they manage to defeat him. After being defeated, Richard is taken back to Baronia by his soldiers.

After defeating Richard, Hubert asks Asbel to head to Yu Liberte in Strata to explain the situation about Richard to David Paradis. Asbel accepts the request and manages to get the party to agree to go with him. After the events in the Strata Desert Ruins, Asbel and the others return to Yu Liberte and meet up with Hubert. Hubert decides to join Asbel on his journey and suggests they head out to Fendel to find Richard.

Appearance and Personality
Once a timid little boy who was forced to follow his brother in schemes that would get them both into trouble, Hubert's experiences with the Oswell family that took him away from his brother turned him into an arrogant, overly rational and extremely serious young man. Hubert was adopted after the death of a childhood friend, an event which led him to the belief that Asbel was a bad influence on him. This led to Hubert resenting his brother, and during their reunion he boasts that he has become stronger and more mature than Asbel could ever have hoped to become.

Hubert eventually opens up more to Asbel, although they never quite restore the bond they had as children. Due to being the youngest child, he empathises with Pascal's situation with her sisters, understanding the difficulty that comes with having siblings. It is implied, but not directly stated, that he has a crush on her but whether she holds any affections towards him remains unknown. In the future arc, on the day before their final battle, he admits his feelings to her but she mistook it as him going to marry someone else and tells him that she'll take a bath before attending the wedding ceremony.

Fighting Style
Hubert possesses two fighting styles, though most of his physical prowess is shown through his Artes Style attacks, collectively known as Ryoukenwaza (両剣技). Through this style, he uses his double-bladed sword to perform melee artes which deal significant damage. While has a high physical attack statistic compared to most of the other playable characters, his defense and HP values are not very high, making him somewhat fragile as a melee character. He accomodates this weakness through his second style, Soujuujutsu (双銃術), which consists of both ranged physical attacks and magic. He has only two healing spells, Antidote and Healing Wind. Some of the ranged attacks which make use of his pistols involve a short spellcasting delay.

Relationships
Asbel Lhant - Hubert acts bitterly toward Asbel at the beginning. During their first reunion after 7 years, Hubert ignores Asbel completely, and only shows interest in Sophie. Later in the game, Hubert starts bonding with Asbel once more, although, not as much like when they were kids.

Cheria Barnes - Hubert still treats Cheria as a friend, although they do not talk much after the game's 7 year mark.

Malik Caesars - Hubert has seen Malik before while Richard showed them around the city of Balonia. While older, he treats Malik like an ally, occasionally talking about fighting styles. At first, he distrusts Malik just like he did with Pascal. When the party learns about his past, that he was a citizen of Fendel, their hated enemy, his distrust towards Malik increases greatly. However, after a little incident, Hubert asks for forgiveness from him. But Malik only replies that he will never scold a soldier who recognizes his own weakness. He also believes that Hubert will not make the same mistake in the future, knowing his character. After this, they are constantly be seen talking to each other about various things. Malik is later seen to often tease Hubert about Pascal

Pascal - Hubert, due to his serious and stoic nature, initially sees Pascal as a nuisance due to her obsessions and zany behavior.In Lineage and Legacies, Hubert eventually develops a crush towards Pascal, as he somehow found himself enamored with her exuberant behavior in spite of his initial misgivings. Hubert is shown to care a lot more for her, up to the point where he confesses, but in turn, gets misunderstood.