Xicero

Xicero
Biological Information
Age	120
Citizenship	Eto
Occupation	Senate Chancellor
Physical Information
Gender	Male
Other
Appears In	Gravity Rush 2
Voice actor	Tsuguo Mogami

“

I was such a fool. I deposed a good queen and replaced her with a petulant child. — Xicero

”

Xicero (キセロ Kisero) is a minor character in Gravity Rush 2. He is the Senate Chancellor of Eto who single-handedly deposed Queen Alua from her rule one-hundred years ago, and betraying his friend Syd in the process, actions he came to deeply regret.

History

Before Gravity Rush 2

Xicero was a member of the Eto Senate, and was good friends with a fellow senator named Syd. When he became convinced that Queen Alua's persistent desire to save the people below Eto from the black ocean would doom them all, he pushed her off a narrow walkway and left her dangling, but not before he added that if she had a Guardian, she could have saved herself, and that her lack of a Guardian meant she did not deserve to be queen. Prior to the fall, Syd intervened and tried to help Alua back up, but Xicero stabbed him in the back, causing him to lose his grip, and send Alua falling. However, the Creator Bit intervened and saved them.

Not long after, Xicero rose to the position of Senate Chancellor, whilst claiming that Queen Alua had disappeared and Syd had died in an accident. During his almost one-hundred year tenure, he eventually became racked with guilt in what he had done to Alua and Syd, deposing what he came to realize was a good queen, and betraying his one true friend in the process.

Gravity Rush 2

One-hundred years later, Xicero admitted to Alias that he regrets his decision, having seen that Alua's successor, Cai, is evil and vicious. He planned to help Kat escape the castle, but Cai discovered his plot, ordering Wolp to attack Xicero, and mortally wounding him. Not long after, he helped Kat escape the palace.

Characteristics

Appearance

Xicero is pretty tall, dark-skinned elderly man with a long white moustache and split beard. He is also completely bald. As for his attire, he wears a long white robe, with head and shoulder decoration that seems typical of Eto residents.

Personality

Xicero doesn't get very much screen time before he dies, but from what little screen time he did have, he seemed to have a calm demeanour, particularly towards Queen Alua, though this was most likely out of obligation due to being one of her royal servants. He is shown to be remorseful over his actions a century prior that kicked off the series, and he was willing to make amends for his misdeeds.

A hundred years ago however, he was perfectly willing to turn on his peers when their ideals clash with his own. This is demonstrated by shoving Queen Alua off of a narrow walkway for being a weak leader, and stabbing Syd in the back for trying to rescue her. It is not known if he was like this towards anyone else, however. He was said to have been a very shrewd politician, even from when he was young, his only rival being his friend Syd.

Appearances

• Ep. 21 - The End of the World
• Ep. 22 - Castle of Sand
• Ep. 23 - Lamentations

Gallery

A younger Xicero.

Trivia

• His name may be based on the Roman politician Cicero, who was a member of the Roman consul.
• Due to how the passage of time works in-universe, and assuming the Creators aren't considered humans, Xicero would be the oldest character is the series, at 120 years old.