Garter

Garter (ガーター) was the president of Garter Corporation and Gettan's primary confidant. He acted as the figurehead for the Major Corporate Alliance, overseeing movement and providing reports on circumstances, while Gettan dictated policy and actions.

Appearance
Characterized by his obesity, Garter's appearance described as "frog-like."

Personality
Garter is a pusillanimous individual who obediently follows Gettan's orders, after his hostile takeover. Incompetence may outmatch his weight, as all Major Corporate Alliance directive failed.

Anti-Mitsugoshi Alliance
Garter is the president of the Garter Corporation who felt pressured along with all the other trading companies president at Midgar Kingdom regarding the strengthening trade monopoly carried out by Mitsugoshi Company in commercializing the nation's economy for their highly innovative products and introducing paper money to the world, which then becomes very popular among the kingdom's citizens to the point that Mitsugoshi created their own bank.

In fact, there was no shortage of merchants that regard the company as a threat and the demand for Mitsugoshi goods so tremendous that even a whole coalition of merchants wouldn’t stand a chance against them no matter how hard they tried, with Mitsugoshi's position rock-solid for some time and not only in the Midgar capital, even foreign nations from overseas throughout the world also wanted to have business relations with Mitsugoshi in building their company's branch shop in their capital.

Fearing the growing power of the Mitsugoshi and their increasing influence day by day, all the company presidents decided to quell their business disputes as a non-aggression pact and unite in bringing all the strengths of their trading companies that is built with their legacy years of experience and history until they merged together into a singular organization and the Major Corporate Alliance was formed where the coalition is a consortium of conspiring merchants that attempted to fight and overthrow Mitsugoshi's economic dominance with Garter being appointed as its head because his company had a private army with a reputation for their very capable strength that is equivalent to a nation which then dispatched all the MCA's mercenaries for carrying out its actions in disrupting their competitors' trading systems and supply lines. Moreover, the Alliance tried to make their own paper money just like Mitsugoshi for circulation to the point where they even created banks and asked the citizens (even forcefully} to replace Mitsugoshi's bills with banknotes from MCA.

However, the MCA's only successful effort was making the losses from the traveling salesmen that used to carry Mitsugoshi's goods to the commoners out in the countryside had suffered because of their actions after raiding them, while their adversary from Mitsugoshi isn’t flinching at all for whatever reason due to their urban trade was completely unaffected and still accelerating their expansion, without realizing that the Mitsugoshi Company is Shadow Garden's public cover, which they had been keeping an eye on the Alliance's movements and preventing their endeavors secretly from the shadows.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Despite being the MCA's head, Garter turned out to be made a subordinate by Gettan who is the person he hired to help him destroy Mitsugoshi Company after handing over control of his own company to Gettan when he gave the Alliance's trade president members promises of victory to their adversary with Garter only following every direction of his orders in sabotaging their competitors' trade in order to combat them and sending progress reports to Gettan which making him the figurehead of the Alliance, without realizing Gettan's affiliation that he is a member of the Cult of Diablos who is entrusted with his mission to eliminating Mitsugoshi in exchange for earned a seat in the Knights of Rounds for his dedicated hard work so that Mitsugoshi does not become a powerful threat and adds new opposition as the Cult still dealing with Shadow Garden.

Since the Alliance's efforts were fruitless in stopping their competitor's trading system, Garter attempted to financially sabotage Mitsugoshi per Gettan's order by sending their best enforcers, especially the Clovers who were Gettan's personal mercenary group to mount a daring attack on Mitsugoshi's carriage supply lines and eliminate their employees in order to intercept their business, but ended in defeat with Garter stunned by reports of the MCA's failure direct assaults that the Mitsugoshi carriage supply line is unimpeded and continued to run smoothly due to not knowing that the sent assassins had encountered fierce resistance from company employees who were Shadow Garden's well-trained forces, leading to many of their deaths and a few of them being captured for interrogation.

From one of them, Garter gave another failure report to Gettan after receiving news that the Alliance camp had been raided as his private troop prepared to disguise themselves as bandits to attack Mitsugoshi's camp carriage, resulting in the death of all the mercenaries in the camp, even one of the Clovers members also became one of the victims and Garter suspected that Mitsugoshi had hired several dark knights.

Then he received orders from Gettan to sent the remaining Clovers in carrying out a night raid on Mitsugoshi's headquarters with the aim of getting all their money and manufacturing details without failure as Garter is preparing his private army to support the Clovers along with a rear guard who is responsible for reporting back in case of mission failure.

However at the next day, the Alliance's planned operation in the Mitsugoshi Company's main building is also completely unsuccessful with all of his mercenaries along with the Clovers never returning from their mission and were presumed to have been killed.

After another failed interception of the Mitsugoshi Company transport vehicles, Garter and Gettan discuss recourses. Third-party skirmishes did not affect the Misugoshi Company's urban trade, the primary source of revenue, leaving their net income within the boundaries of market volatility. Anxiously, Garter awaited Gettan’s instructions. This time, the Major Corporate Alliancewas going to attack Mitsugoshi’s primary headquarters. Garter dashes away from the beastkin warrior, hoping this would be the last remnants of bad news. The later discovery of counterfeits made that desire unfounded.

The merchant met defeat for the third, failing to raid the Mitsugoshi Company’s headquarters and eliminating John Smith, the suspected counterfeiter. His trail ended in Lawless City, making further pursuit a fool’s errand. Garter reported another development about a large liquidation of Major Corporate Alliance bank notes. Gettan dismissed him, exacerbated by his incompetence with only concern for the future. After Gettan’s death and Major Corporate Alliance’s collapse, insolvency was the final fate of the portly merchant.

Powers & Abilities
Garter had authority over his corporation, which grew exponentially after he became the "leader" of the Major Corporate Alliance. It was lost after the Alliance's collapse.

Gettan
Gettan was a hired beastkin that Garter tried to employ, but subordination was not the warrior's intent. The hierarchy reversed and Garter retired himself to a submissive role.