Even though Re: Zero: Starting Life in Another World debuted in 2016, it is still considered as one of the most popular isekai anime out there, with a level of popularity in the genre that is very rare among fans. The highly memed “I love Emilia” rejection of Rem’s feelings played a massive part in popularizing the show even among those who weren’t fans.
While many fans obsessed over the dynamics shared by Subaru, Rem, and Emilia, Ram was left in the shadows. Even so, she slowly and steadily managed to win her place in the hearts of fans, especially of those who read the light novels of the anime, where more details about her were revealed.
10 How Old Is Ram?
Ram is introduced to fans in the 4th episode of the first season of the Re:Zero anime. In that episode, her age is 17, the same as her twin sister Rem.
However, unlike many anime characters whose ages remain constant, the twins' ages are shown to increase with the passage of time within the anime’s universe. In the first and second arcs, Ram is 17 years old. In the third and fourth arcs, her age is 18, while her age is shown to be 19 in the fifth arc.
9 Why Does Ram Meet Roswaal Secretly In His Room In The Middle Of The Night?
When Ram was a child, she lost her horn during an ambush of her village. Since horns were like organs for Oni, being without one meant she had to bear constant pain.
This is why Roswaal concentrated all the 6 elements and transferred the mana created from them to Ram to help ease her pain and make her feel better.
8 What Is Her Relationship With Garfiel?
Garfiel is 14, which means he’s a young and immature boy who also happens to nurse a one-sided crush on Ram. Ram views him in a platonic manner, going out of her way to help him overcome his childhood fears by making him face his past.
Whenever Garfiel confesses his feelings to her, she immediately shoots him down because, even though she clearly cares for him, she is not interested in him romantically at all.
7 Does She Know It Was Roswaal Who Ordered The Slaughter Of Her Oni Clan?
Ram does in fact know that Roswaal was the one behind the attack on her entire clan, but he was not directly responsible for their deaths. He merely gave out the order for their annihilation, and the Witch Cult did the rest.
When Ram learned the truth, she was enraged and swore revenge. However, things did not turn out the way she expected them to and her anger eventually subsided.
6 Why Did She Agree To Work As A Maid For Roswaal?
Even though she was angry and wanted revenge, Ram still put her sister Rem’s welfare above everything else, including her own life. Roswaal took advantage of this fact and used Rem to force Ram to enter into a contract with him.
If she refused, Rem would die, which is why she reluctantly agreed to work at Roswaal’s mansion. Her anger at Roswaal for killing her clan had now turned into loathing for threatening Rem’s life.
5 What Changed Her Mind About Being An Ideal Maid For Roswaal?
After Gluttony was successful in consuming Rem’s name, Ram forgot all about the sister she loved and existed for. As such, her hatred toward Roswaal disappeared because now she did not have a reason to hate him. In her mind, Rem was never threatened by Roswaal.
She did not care that much about her oni clan to begin with, which is why the more she worked for Roswaal, the more he cared for her and thus, the more she respected him.
4 How Did Ram React After Rem Disappeared?
Since Rem simply ceased to exist in Ram’s mind, she did not feel anything amiss in her life after the disappearance of her sister.
Subaru’s Return by Death ability was the only reason why he was able to remember Rem, but unfortunately for him, he could not travel before Rem’s name was taken away. All of this happens in the third arc of the light novels, and eventually, even though Subaru discovered Rem’s comatose body, he had no idea how he could revive her.
3 Does Ram View Roswaal In A Romantic Manner?
Ram has complicated feelings for Roswaal. She definitely has more than mere platonic feelings toward him, but it's tough to say whether her obsession with him is due to her over-dependence on him or because she loves him.
The novel shows how she is ready to give up not only her own life but Rem’s life as well just so that Roswaal could get what he wanted (which was killing Garfiel).
2 Does Roswaal Reciprocate Ram’s Feelings For Him?
Roswaal does not reciprocate Ram's feelings. He is consumed with guilt and self-doubt over the annihilation of Ram’s oni village, which he strongly believes Ram hates him for from the bottom of her heart. While that was true in the beginning, her feelings toward him changed later on, something that he failed to notice.
In fact, Ram ends up confessing her feelings for him, which shook him to his core. Since his feelings hadn't change for the last 400 years, he assumed that Ram's hadn't changed either.
1 Why Did Ram Want The Tome Of Wisdom Gone?
Roswaal possessed 2 copies of the original Gospel, and the reason behind this was because he believed in them and their predictions blindly. He believed whatever was written in them would come true without fail, but this rubbed Ram off the wrong way.
She hated how the Tome of Wisdom took him down a dark path, more so because she believed he was capable of being a genuinely good person. This is why she destroyed it at the end of Arc 4.
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