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| - Jude is the typical idealistic hero. He was born in the traquil village of Ciel with his mother Ethelda. Eventually, as the Brionac forces take the city in an effort to claim a missing ARM, Jude, along with Arnaud Vasquez wind up liberating the captured Gene Driver, Yulie Athreide. Unfortunately, Jude follows up this heroic rescue by activating the "Shapeshifter" arm, when then promptly destroys Ciel, which he then discovers is an isolated orbital bio-dome and not a real village at all!
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| - Jude is the typical idealistic hero. He was born in the traquil village of Ciel with his mother Ethelda. Eventually, as the Brionac forces take the city in an effort to claim a missing ARM, Jude, along with Arnaud Vasquez wind up liberating the captured Gene Driver, Yulie Athreide. Unfortunately, Jude follows up this heroic rescue by activating the "Shapeshifter" arm, when then promptly destroys Ciel, which he then discovers is an isolated orbital bio-dome and not a real village at all! Jude's quest after that point is to keep Yulie safe while attempting to find and rescue his mother. He learns more about the conflicts of Filgaia, the often-painful nature of being an adult, and the truth of his origins as a Gene Driver. Unfortunately, most of these issues are not resolved well for Jude, particularly the true identity of his father. Despite all these issues, Jude remains the bright, cheery, 'gung-ho' member of the group. At the end of his story, Jude retires from adventuring and becomes a forest ranger near his newly settled town so he can take care of animals. He says, explicitly, that he never sees his comrades again even though Yulie lives but a short distance away. However, this is a mistranslation. The same line in the Japanese version simply states the group never fulfilled their promise to all meet again, likely because of the death of Raquel Applegate.
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