Desil Galette (デシル・ガレット Deshiru Garetto?) is one of the antagonists of the Mobile Suit Gundam AGE television series.
Personality & Character[]
Desil at first seems like a typical cheerful and innocent young boy who with a playful streak. Beneath his exterior is a selfish, cruel and callous individual who thinks nothing about killing his own allies while still just playing around.[1] He is arrogant and looks down on people, thinking their lives are worth less than his. He is unable to accept defeat as he believes himself to be superior. This attitude is likely due to how much he was spoilt as a a result of his talents when he was younger. He can also be very fickle, withdrawing from battle when he loses interest.
As an adult, Desil is no longer treated as favorably as when he was a child and no longer as cheerful or playful. However, he still has the same arrogance and callousness. He looks down on the people around him and his jealous of Zeheart, his younger brother, who was made commander. He still cannot let go of losing and still obsesses with his loss to Flit Asuno more than two decades ago. In the same manner, he is unable to accept losing to Asemu Asuno.
Skills & Abilities[]
As an X-Rounder, Desil possesses similar abilities to Flit and Yurin L'Ciel. He uses them effectively while piloting the AGE-1 Gundam, surprising both Flit Asuno and Woolf Enneacle. Despite his young age he is shown to be a very capable pilot to the point where he can even pull off difficult stunts while fighting UE mobile suits.[1]
Desil's X-Rounder abilities give him access both to the usual precognition as well as the rare ability to control mobile suits which are piloted by other X-Rounders. This control extends even to more experienced X-Rounders, such as from the Magicians 8.
History[]
First Generation (A.G. 115)[]
Fardain[]
Desil Galette is first seen when Flit almost runs him over with a scooter after the former runs out onto the road. He sustains a small injury, which Flit offers to treat on the Diva. Although their meeting seemed like a coincidence at first, it was all planned by Desil. When on the Diva, Flit treats his injury and Desil tells him that he has no parents and was found on a ship drifting in space as the sole survivor. He then runs off and Flit chases him. They run into Vargas Dyson, who tells Flit that he shares the same aura as Desil.
A couple of UE mobile suits are soon sighted. Desil steals Flit's AGE Device and uses it to activate the Gundam, which he then takes out into space. He engages the Gafran in battle, though he treats it as a game, and easily overwhelms them. Flit and Woolf Enneacle follow after him in the Genoace and Genoace Custom and join the battle, but he maintains control of the battlefield and takes out the UE, even though they are his allies. He then returns to the Diva and gives the AGE Device back to Flit, telling him that they will meet again if Flit doesn't die. He later expresses his disappointment to Yark Dole about Flit and the Gundam. Yark tells him off for associating with those people, telling him that he was a member of 'Eden'. Desil apologizes and leaves.[1]
When Flit and Woolf discover the Zedas at the Madorna Workshop, he pilots it remotely and attacks them. He easily overpowers both their Shaldoll's and Flit's new Titus upgrade, then leaves the battlefield when he gets bored.[2] He makes another appearance in the Zedas when the launch an attack against Fardain, where he causes internal conflict by manipulating the forces of Zalam and Euba to fight each other. When Flit intervenes and makes them stop, Desil attacks him. Because of his X-Rounder abilities, Flit is able to sense that Desil is the pilot. Though Desil overpowers him again, Flit leaves the battle to equip the Spallow while Woolf stalls him. He ultimately loses when Flit returns and he is forced to withdraw. He throws a tantrum in his room and is seen sulking when Yark lectures him not to waste machines over the monitor, causing him to lash out in anger. He insists that he is a lot stronger than this. [3]
Battle of Ambat[]
Just before the battle of Ambat, Desil and Yark Dole abduct Yurin L'Ciel, intending to use her for her X-Rounder abilities in the upcoming battle.
When the battle is well under way, Desil heads out in his xvv-xc Zedas and engages Flit in the AGE-1S Gundam AGE-1 Spallow, shocking the latter that Desil is aligned with the UE. During the fight, Desil clearly has the upper hand due to his X-Rounder abilities, and all the while taunts Flit. When Flit begins to match Desil, the young boy reveals his trump card, the xvb-xd Farsia, piloted by none other than Yurin. Desil, via his X-Rounder abilities, controls the Farsia, forcing Yurin to fight, and double teams Flit, cruely laughing at Flit's hesitance to fight Yurin. When Flit begs Desil to stop, Desil complies by going in for the kill, however Yurin gains control of the Farsia at the last second, and takes the blow meant for Flit, resulting in her death. A grief-stricken Flit asks Desil why Yurin had to die, to which an indifferent Desil responds that there is no reason, and all that happened was that he lost one of his "playthings". This enrages Flit, who now fully awakens his X-Rounder abilities, and attacks Desil and easily rips apart the Zedas. Desil, unable to keep up with Flit, quickly loses his composure and breaks down into tears, unable to accept that he has lost. Flit leaves Desil to float in space, as the young boy manically screams that he did not lose.
Second Generation[]
Awakening From Cold Sleep[]
The Invasion of Big Ring[]
Later in the invasion of Big Ring, Desil revealed himself along with his new mobile suit Khronos, eliminating a few enemies. When Asemu's AGE-2 Gundam AGE-2 Normal was nearly defeated by Zeheart's Zeydra, Flit appeared with his AGE-1F Gundam AGE-1F Flat. During the fight with AGE-1, Desil recongized the pilot in the cockpit was Flit and which Flit recongized Desil as well. They had a deadly fight each other with anger. At the end of the battle, AGE-1F Gundam AGE-1F Flat cut off the body part of Khronos (resulting the defeat of Desil). Desil was eventually forced to retreat by his brother Zeheart with his unhappy mood.
The Assault on Diva[]
Later, Desil convinced Leo Luis, Lessie Adonel and Mink Leiden, members of the Vagan Magicians 8 X-Rounder Corps to join him for an assault on the Diva, intent on settling his revenge with Flit. However, his plan was thwarted, thanks to Flit keeping him at bay, thanks to using the Diva's armaments to keep Desil mobile, while at the same time not provide Desil an opportunity to attack. Desil and Mink were then forced to retreat thanks to Asemu Asuno and Woolf Enneacle eliminating Leo Luis and Lessie Adonel, respectively.
Battle of Nortram & Death[]
During the battle of Nortram, He was determined to defeat Flit Asuno, but was intercepted by Asemu Asuno and Woolf Enneacle. Desil battled Woolf fiercely while at the same time, battling Asemu, Desil had to turn the tables on Asemu by using his ability to take control of the other two members of the Vagan Magicians 8 X-Rounder Corps, Zafar and Ned, and pinning Asemu's Gundam tight in between the mobile suits, allowing Desil to go in for the kill, before going after Flit Asuno, but Woolf Enneacle fired his shots at the two Vagan X-rounder mobiles, getting Asemu out of there, and the moblie suits exploded. This allowed Desil to move in and backstab Woolf Enneacle's G-Bouncer and sent Asemu into a deep thirst for revenge. Desil was shot at by the Genonace and Adele mobile suits and retreated, after Woolf Enneacle's death, he slashed the Diva team mobile suits that Arisa, Max and Obright Lorain were piloting rendering them useless.
Asemu then charged at Desil without hesitation and brutally started attacking Desil with pure determination and desire for revenge after Woolf's death. Without any help from Zeheart, he had to fight Asemu, he kept firing his shots at Asemu, but kept missing, Desil wondered why he couldn't read Asemu's movements even though Asemu wasn't an X-Rounder like him, Desil missed his swipe at Asemu and he had parts of his Khronos mobile suit hacked and slashed away, while Asemu shouted his name to Desil, Desil shouted he couldn't lose and his Khronos exploded, killing him for good.
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Trivia[]
- Desil's voice Actress, Ayahi Takagaki, voices several characters from other Gundam series:
- Feldt Grace from Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
- Nobell from Gundam Reconguista in G.
- Manny Ambassada from Gundam Reconguista in G.
- As an child, his appearance resembles that of Devine Nova from Mobile Suit Gundam 00. As an adult, he looks like Bring Stabity.
- Desil is the youngest person ever to pilot a Gundam-type mobile suit in the franchise. Though Ericht Samaya operated XGF-02 Gundam Lfrith bit weaponry at age 4, her status as its pilot is unclear due to her mother also being in the cockpit.
- Though unconfirmed, it is possible that the Zedas which Flit faces during the collapse of Nora was being controlled by Desil. The way it seemingly lost interest in battle aligns with Desil's personality.