Regal Bryant

Regal is a protagonist in Tales of Symphonia, and is the last member to get.

Character
Though he looks kind of scary and warning at first, he is a very polite gentleman. He shows care to everyone he knows, and as the oldest member in the party (excluding [[Kratos)]), he feels responsibility to watch and help them. He seems to have connections to Presea, or at least seems to know her from somewhere. Because of a crime he committed, he uses his shackles as a symbol fort that crime, and uses only his feet in fighting.

Regal is a kind and gentle soul, and a very talented cook (unusual, given the only free appendages he has are his feet, which becomes a topic of humor during an optional skit). Despite his kindness, Regal is extremely hard on himself, thinking his crime unworthy of any forgiveness. Regal is very content with being alone, although he does enjoy company and conversation, especially with Lloyd. His emotions are almost always very subdued.

The Convict
A very serious convict sent by the Pope of Tethe'alla to capture Colette, the party first meets him at the Meltokio sewers after defeating minor convicts. He gets a hold on Zelos and says that if they made a move, he would kill him. Presea comes forth and manages to save Zelos, and when Regal sees Presea, he becomes stunned. Genis uses the chance to attack the man with a Fire Ball. Regal then retreats together with the other people.

The next time Regal shows up is in the Gaoraccia Forest. He assures the party that he is not going to take Colette for the moment; he just wants to talk to Presea. Genis is angry at the statement, but lets Regal do it. When Regal sees Presea’s Exsphere, he gets angry and attempts to take it off, but Presea hits him away. The party takes this as a warning and fights him. Upon his defeat, Regal passes out, and is carried by Colette to Mizuho. When waking up, he is helps the party when Zelos says that since he wants to talk to Presea, he would have to stick with them without doing anything funny. Regal agrees.

President of Lezerano Company
While traveling, Regal shows to know a lot of things that few people do. This makes Zelos suspect Regal for being much more than just a convict, as he also remember to have met him somewhere before when he was little.

When Regal gets to know that the group knows that Presea’s sister Alicia was killed by the one she served, he requests them to take him to Altamira, a place he has avoided until now. They then see in Altamira that Bryant’s assistant, George, is threaten by the Exsphere Broker, Vharley. Regal saves George by revealing that he is actually the president of Lezerano Company who has been absent for many years. When Vharley disappears with the help of Kuchinawa, Regal tells the group his real identity, and Presea then understands that Regal was the one who killed Alicia.

They go up to the terrace where Alicia’s grave lies, and her spirit comes forth once again and expresses her happiness that she could meet her master one last time. She and Regal then tell the others that they were in love, but because of their cast-differences, George split them apart by giving Alicia to Vharley for the Angelus Project. Regal was forced to give Vharley the Toize Valley Mine in order to get Alicia back, but by then, Alicia’s Exsphere had already made her mana to go out of control, thus she had transformed into a monster, killing everybody she saw, Regal included. Begging him to kill her before she killed him, Alicia died by the hands of Regal.

After killing Alicia, Regal handed himself over, and was put into jail. However, the Pope promises him that if he can capture Colette and bring her to him, the Pope them will arrest Vharley for him. This is the reason behind his attacks on the group before joining them. Presea says that she can’t forgive him even if Alicia wants it, but she will try not to se at him as an enemy.

Welgaia
When everybody except Lloyd disappears because of the Derris-Emblem, Regal and Presea/Colette are in a cell, waiting rescue. However, the cell door opens, and when they go out, they see the illusion of Alicia there. Confused, the two group-members are about to fight each other, because one thinks that Alicia is a fake while the other thinks otherwise, but Lloyd comes and stops them, injuring himself. After that, Regal then accepts his past and decides to help Lloyd all the way.

In the end
At the end of the game, Presea and Regal stand before Alicia’s grave, where Presea reveals that she is actually twenty-eight years old (it seems like Regal is the only one who knows this). Regal says that he will go back to be the president in Lezarano Company and try to stop Exspheres to make people monsters like with Alicia. Presea says that she will help him, and that Alicia would have wanted it, as well. This may be a sign that she has forgiven him.

Regal’s fighting-style
Regal always wears handcuffs to symbolize his crime and his promise that he will never use his hands to kill again. Thus he is forced to fight with his feet. Regal is a fighter, supplementing his melee capabilities with a small amount of healing (chi) magic, like Farah from Tales of Eternia. He fights exclusively with his feet, and uses greaves to enhance the power of his kicks. According to him, before he donned his trademark shackles, Regal mainly fought using his hands, and his strength and mastery of this previous style far surpassed those of the Traubel style he uses throughout the game, at one point he shows that that his mastery of his previous combat style was so advanced that when combined with his Exsphere, he can shoot powerful manabeams. He used that technique to free the party while they were being held in Welgaia, although it isn't known why he didn't use it when Botta and his Renegades were drowning or when he and Presea/Colette were prisoned.

Regal’s Devil’s Arm is ‘’’Acopalypse’’’, but his strongest weapon is ‘’’Dynast’’’ which he will get from his master in the Traubel style. His gag weapon the player can buy in the fully restored Luin is ‘’’Glory Arts’’’.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Regal returns in the sequel of the game. He is arrested for causing fires in Izoold, but with the help of the new protagonists, Emil Castagnier, Marta Lualdi and Tenebrae, as well as Raine and Genis, he is let out. It is shown that he took of his chackles just like he promised Alicia after the game. He uses his power as the president of the Lezarano Company to help Lloyd to collect the Exspheres all over the world.