Vice-Foreign Minister Darlian (ドーリアン外務次官?) is a character that appears in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
History[]
He is a mild-mannered and moderate man, and represents the Earth side at the colony summits held by the United Earth Sphere Alliance and each colony municipality. Darlian was a senator in the Sanc Kingdom who served the Peacecraft family. Upon the death of King Peacecraft when the UESA attacked, Darlian adopted Princess Relena Peacecraft and fled the burning country. Darlian instilled in his adoptive daughter the Peacecraft ideal of total pacifism, and continued to seek peace between Earth and the colonies.
In A.C. 195, as OZ and the Romefeller Foundation were gaining power and pushing for a more militaristic approach towards the colonies, Darlian became a threat to them. Thus, Lady Une, a high ranking OZ officer was ordered to assassinate the Vice-Foreign Minister. She threw a bomb in the middle of the conference, killing everyone else but mortally injuring the Minister. Then, members of the Colony Liberation Organization took the Minister and Relena into their custody. As the Minister lay dying he told Relena of her true heritage and urged her to continue the ideal of total pacifism and be wary of OZ. As Relena fell to a sedative, the Minister succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
In the manga "Glory of the Losers," he was watching a peace conference hosted by Field Marshal Noventa at the New Edwards base with Relena and the Marquis of Werridge of the Romefeller Foundation when the Gundam attack took place. He was injured while protecting Relena from the debris that collapsed as collateral damage, and died after telling her the secret of her birth.
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Preceded by | Vice-Foreign Minister | Succeeded by |
Unknown | Vice Foreign Minister Darlian A.C. 182 - A.C. 195 |
Relena Darlian A.C. 196 - A.C. ?? |