Ryoga Kamakura

Ryoga Kamakura (鎌倉涼賀) known as Zarc in Sword Art Online (SAO) Project Alicization Battle Art Online and Project Arcadia, is a reoccurring character in the Sword Art Online Series and a Major Antagonist in the Aincrad Arc and the War of the Underworld sub-arc of the Alicization Arc. He was one of the 50,000 players trapped in Sword Art Online, where he was the leader and founder of the red guild named «Supreme Army» his hose more 1000 members included few surviving Laughing Coffin his guild was destroyed by the Knight of Blood Oath and Aincrad Liberation Force where he and few other members of the Guild survived the onslaught and escape.

Personality
Ryoga displays a keen, intelligent, power-hungry attitude, capable of doing anything achieving the task He is extremely confident, bordering on arrogance, and selfish but doesn't deviate from his reserve attitude and always carries an air of intimidation as noted by Kirito. He has a polite, yet strong, way of speaking, often using elegant words. He occasionally mocks people by calling them "mongrel", "wretch", "fool", "weakling" among many other insults. However, he rarely swears.

He sees every cruel act he commits as "necessary evil" and displays cold and ruthless pragmatism at the time of dealing with problems, stating that sometimes the unpleasant thing is a necessary thing. He is a firm believer that "the end justifies the means". Despite being capable of cruelty, Zarc does not derive any sort of pleasure from the brutal actions he commits or he orders his men to commit.

Despite being capable of killing people to achieve his goals, Zarc holds a deep hatred for those players who kill for fun or sport, such as members of Laughing Coffin. He thinks that, if somebody is willing to kill somebody else, he first needs a proper reason to do so. His pragmatism makes him see death as a necessity, and he would prefer not killing if possible. Nevertheless, he can make an alliance with surviving Laughing Coffins Members

He is also a keen strategist, he is very calculative and holds great intelligence, reasons why he first became the Leader of the Supreme Army and would later become one of the most powerful guilds in SAO. Zarc is also a master obscuring all that he does, shrouding his moves in deception, making him very unpredictable.

Background
Ryoga's parents died sometime when he was young under unknown circumstances. He was then adopted by his abusive uncle and aunt, who mistreated, beat, and made him suffer. This mistreatment suffered made him the person he is in the game.

Sometime later He ran away from home only to return home after learning that his Uncle and Aunt had died just several hours after he ran away and later received 1 Billion yen from his Uncle and Aunt's Life Insurance. He later acquired the game SAO and was trapped alongside the other 50000 players.