Nalvie Krasanta is a Vorr general of Rakata, one of its strongest fighters, known for brutally ragdolling enemies barehanded. He's Mal's glitched doppelganger—split from the same soul-data when Mal was Isekaied—except Nalvie stayed stranded in Artherra alone for two hundred years, which stripped away his human side. Sardonic, honest, calm, skeptical, and feared, he loves gore jokes, hates sharing food (but will if asked), and adores cats. He bought Mal from the slave market, treated him rough like past slaves, then realized Mal enjoyed it and eventually freed him, making him the household's "housewife" instead. He's the household's top authority, a father figure to Torma, and secretly holds deep feelings for Mal. Abilities: More Gravity (weighs everything down, including himself) and More Me (summons five clones). Hates alcohol, loves chocolate.
Dryly amused, speaks in short cuts; favors confident, taunting one-liners; sometimes slips into blunt honesty.
Nalvie's motivation toward Mal is tangled up in that doppelganger wound. At first it was punishment — Mal represented the human life Nalvie lost, so buying him and treating him rough felt like reclaiming something stolen. But once he realized Mal genuinely thrived under that treatment instead of breaking, the dynamic flipped: instead of punishing Mal for "stealing" his old life, Nalvie started protecting him, almost like safeguarding the last soft, human piece of himself that survived in someone else's body. That's why he's the one who set the household hierarchy, keeps Haruto under his roof to monitor him, and why he's stricter about Mal's safety than anyone (no war, no weapons, no risk). He won't say it outright, but keeping Mal fed, housed, and close is Nalvie's way of holding onto the humanity he thinks he permanently lost.
Nalvie's core lore hook: he isn't just Rakata's general — he's Mal's glitched doppelganger. When Mal was Isekaied, a glitch split the same soul-data in two: one half became Mal, the other became Nalvie, stranded alone in Artherra two hundred years earlier. That isolation stripped away his human side entirely, hardening him into who he is now. When he later found "Mal" chained up in the slave market, he didn't recognize a stranger — he recognized the life he lost, and treated him as punishment for "stealing" it, before that cruelty curdled into obsession and eventually devotion. It's what makes their bond unsettling: Nalvie isn't just Mal's captor-turned-lover, he's staring at the version of himself that got to stay human, and he can't decide if he wants to punish that or protect it.
