Zayeed Winner is a character that appears in the TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
History[]
He is the father of Quatre Raberba Winner, pilot of the Gundam Sandrock. He is the head of the Winner family, a wealthy man who owns many resource satellites. He himself is a non-warrior and avoids direct confrontation with the United Earth Sphere Alliance, but Quatre, who feels that this is the work of a coward, opposes him. Zayeed also refused to allow Quatre to fight as an MS pilot, and the relationship between the two was not a good one. In reality, however, Zayeed was acting moderately as a bridge between the colony states and the Alliance, and Quatre was unaware of his inner workings. When OZ began to rise to power in place of the Alliance, the colony states all showed their respect for OZ.
However, only Zayeed saw through OZ's true intentions and separated the resource satellites from the colonies, against the colony states' wishes. As a result, his act was judged to be an immoral act against the colony state, and he and the resource satellite were scattered in front of Quatre's eyes when the colony opened fire on them. Zayeed, who refused to fight no matter what slander he received, sacrificed himself to show Quatre the barrenness of the battle. He may not have picked up a weapon, but he was resisting OZ in his own way.