Mace
| Mace メース Mace
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Artwork for Magical Vacation by Shinichi Kameoka | |
| Gender | Male |
| Species | Wolks |
| Birthplace | Masalatea Village |
| Relative(s) | Unnamed parents (deceased) |
Mace is a character in Magical Vacation. He is a wolks from Masalatea Village on the Dark Plane whose parents died from ooze fever.
Profile
Mace is honest, brave, and respectful. His wolks nature makes him very compliant with his superiors, but he yearns for a sense of belonging. He is also incredibly selfless, always taking others' feelings into consideration and doing his best to help.
He is a young wolks male with scruffy fur, which is mostly dark gray, except for some lighter gray fur around his face. He wears a purple poncho with yellow and red geometric patterns, gray pants, and brown shoes.
Biography
Early life
When he was young, Mace's parents caught the deadly ooze fever. The village wolks refused to find the medicinal ice seed in Gela Windhole, since their last chief was murdered by the hailcrab that lurked within. Mace's parents ultimately died from their illness, so to avoid taking accountability, chief Ginger and the villagers accused Mace of being a monster and shunned him from Masalatea Village. Mace continued to live on the town's outskirts, where Ginger's daughter Cinnamon paid him frequent visits. Their romantic interest developed over time, with Cinnamon doing favors for Mace such as baking him cheesecake.
Magical Vacation
Shortly after warping to the Dark Plane, the party arrived at Mace's house and watched him talk with Cinnamon. She promised him the villagers would eventually welcome him back into the village, though Mace remained doubtful. The party visited Ginger later on, to which his servant warned him that Cinnamon was still hanging out at Mace's house. Mace then showed up outside Ginger's house, telling the servant he retrieved a handkerchief that Cinnamon left behind. The servant forbade Mace from giving the handkerchief to Cinnamon in-person, advising he wait until tomorrow to get Ginger's permission. At the inn, Mace told the party that Cinnamon purposefully left her handkerchief behind, believing it would make him appear more trustworthy to the wolks. Suddenly, the innkeeper intervened and explained how the villagers left Mace's parents for dead, also informing him of the icy seed in Gela Windhole.
The next morning, Mace talked with Ginger's servant once again and asked to see Cinnamon. Unfortunately, he was turned away, as Cinnamon had allegedly caught ooze fever after being near him for too long. Overcome with guilt, he vowed to find the icy seed and boarded a boat to Gela Windhole on Ice Island. The party quickly sailed to Ice Island as well, finding Mace collapsed in the depths of the cave. The hailcrab suddenly attacked, but they managed to defeat it and keep the wolks safe. Despite being injured, he hobbled back to Masalatea Village with the icy seed in his possession.
Back in Masalatea, Mace presented the seed to Ginger's servant, only to be denied access and accused of seducing Cinnamon. Dejected, he handed over the seed and asked that it be fed to Cinnamon, promising to leave the village forever. The party was given it instead, so they entered Ginger's house to investigate Cinnamon's condition. In actuality, she never came down with ooze fever, and was only quarantined as a way to get Mace to either die or leave the village. Ginger admitted that Mace was far braver than any man in Masalatea, to which Cinnamon berated him and ran away. Soon after, the party caught Cinnamon up on Mace's situation, compelling her to venture the Dark Plane in search of the lost wolks.
Mace would not be seen again until the party passed through Kumuyamuto Desert, finding him inside Zundoko Pit. He told them of his recent adventures, which involved gathering putty peas to repopulate Kugande Village with putties. Learning that Cinnamon was searching for him, Mace opted to set out and meet with her, so the party let him borrow their magic doll, MD04-FLOUNDER. As repayment, he taught a special whistling technique to Cidre, which let him move gray-feathered ricebirds.
Later on, Mace and the party crossed paths in Basorimo Village, where he continued to express worry over the putties. Luckily, the students owned a putty pea, so Mace urged them to give it to Bachelard in Kugande Village. After doing so, they found Cinnamon at Basorimo Village's inn and told her that Mace had left for Kugande. The two wolks were finally able to reunite, and Mace decided that he and Cinnamon were going to live in Kugande for the rest of their life.
Trivia
- When Mace moves to Kugande Village, he adopts the putties' habit of saying でぺたん depetan at the end of sentences.
Nomenclature
His name comes from mace, a spice derived from nutmeg.
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 Japanese |
メース Mēsu | Mace |