Trowa Barton

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Trowa Barton

Trowa Barton (derived from French 3, trois) is one of the five leading characters from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

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[edit] Biographical information

[edit] Personality

Trowa is a quiet, though determined person. He tends to prefer to be low-key, although some speculate he does have an unconscious desire to be noticed due to the fact that of all the names he could have chosen for himself, he chose that of an extremely wealthy and high-profile (though deceased) man; it would be difficult to blend in with a name like that. Trowa is often portrayed as an observer who carefully calculates the moves of others before deciding his own course of action. When on the battlefield, Trowa attacks his enemies with utter ruthlessness and deadly accuracy. His skills and knowledge in piloting makes him best pilot out of the five . He tends to hide his feelings well behind an impassive mask. Symbolically, Trowa is often affiliated with masks not only because of his neutrality and his talent for infiltrating enemy ranks, but also because of his side-job as a circus clown --a job where his dress is a costume and painted mask. He seems passive about misfortune, seeming to have the attitude of "what will be, will be."

[edit] About the character

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[edit] Gundam Wing

Trowa Barton is one of the five pilots who participated in Operation Meteor, in which five space colonies each launched a respective pilot and his Gundam to Earth to wage war against the oppressive Earth Sphere Alliance. Trowa pilots the XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms, and uses its sheer firepower to unleash destruction upon his enemies. In order to remain undercover, he is employed as a circus performer who has a way with acrobatics and animals. Despite a job that requires a joyful disposition, he maintains a very distant persona.

Eventually he joins up with the other Gundam pilots, and even strikes up a friendship with one of them, Quatre Raberba Winner, though he continues to remain distant. When the pilot of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam Heero Yuy self-detonated his mobile suit as a sign of defiance, it was Trowa who nursed Heero back to health. During his recovery Heero taught him some of the philosophies that he had learned from his mentor Odin Lowe. When the circus was to perform at an OZ base, Trowa (based on the quote he learned from Heero, "The best way to live your life is to act on your emotions"), decided to self-destruct Heavyarms and sacrifice himself. Trowa was stopped when he opened the cockpit to order his surrogate sister Catherine Bloom to flee, who responded by jumping in and slapping Trowa, telling him not to throw his life away.

After leaving the circus with Heero, the two of them travelled together as part of Heero's plan to apologize to the members of the late Earth Alliance leaders. The two were eventually approached by Lucrezia Noin, and went to Antarctica for Heero to continue his duel with Zechs Marquise. Trowa lent Heero the Heavyarms for the duel since Heero did not want any special treatment from Zechs, even after Zechs showed them that he had rebuilt the Wing Gundam. Trowa later repaid the favor by taking the Wing Gundam to deal with OZ's search party that was looking for Zechs. Shortly afterwards Trowa went to outer space, but left the Heavyarms behind on Earth.

While in space Trowa chose to infiltrate OZ and based on his piloting record, becomes the pilot of a prototype mobile suit, the OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate, which was created by the Gundam Scientists. Due to his record, he was seemingly favored by Lady Une. After he helped captured Heero who tried to kill the Gundam Scientists, Trowa decided that Heero would pilot the other unit created by the five scientists, the Mercurius, but would have the Mercurius's self-detonation switch placed in the Vayeate. While undercover, he and Heero first faced the Tallgeese piloted by Zechs who had left OZ and has now resumed his life under his real name of Milliardo Peacecraft to act as a goodwill ambassador for the Sanc Kingdom. The two later confronted a mentally unstable Quatre who had been driven insane under the influence of ZERO system. Quatre comes to his senses after Trowa destroys himself and Vayeate and is presumed dead.

Trowa later reappears as an amnesiac, found wandering in a colony by Catherine Bloom, who had now taken to Trowa when he was in the circus like an older sister to a younger brother. She is determined to see he is no longer harmed, especially when Duo and Quatre attempt to bring him back with them to join the other gundam pilots. Trowa ultimately chooses to join them, despite his continuing amnesia. Only after he steals Wing Zero to defend a colony where Catherine and the members of his circus troupe are being threatened by OZ does he fully recover his memory, resultant from exposure to the ZERO system of Wing Zero.

Using the newly modified Heavyarms equipped for space combat that was brought from Earth by Sally Po, Trowa survives the Eve Wars between the White Fang (an extreme group of colonists attempting to destroy Earth) and the Earth Alliance under Treize Khushrenada. He returns to the circus, the only true home he has ever found.

[edit] Endless Waltz and Episode Zero

Young Trowa, Gundam Wing: Blind Target
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Young Trowa, Gundam Wing: Blind Target

During the events of Gundam Wing, Zechs notes that after being introduced to Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton that neither of them are using their real names. Like Heero, who was code-named after the martyred pacifist leader of the colonies, Trowa did not pick up his name at random.

During the course of Endless Waltz, it is discovered the real Trowa Barton is the son of Dekim Barton, the ambitious and bloodthirsty head of the Barton Foundation, and is dedicated to conquering the Earth Sphere in the name of the Barton family. Doctor S, the engineer who created Heavyarms, and one of his assistants end up shooting the real Trowa out of the fear that he will execute the original objective of Operation Meteor. A nameless mechanic that the real Trowa had been rather friendly with, offers Doctor S and the assistant to take Heavyarms and sabotage Operation Meteor on the condition that he is allowed to use Trowa's name.

Since then, the enigmatic and silent young man who chose to take the Gundam Heavyarms has been known as Trowa Barton. Trowa's true identity is a mystery even to Trowa himself. From the prequel manga, Trowa may possibly be Triton Bloom, the supposedly dead younger brother of Catherine Bloom.

In Episode Zero it was revealed that before he joined the Barton group, No-Name (Nanashi) (which is what Trowa called himself before he took on the name of the real Trowa Barton) was part of a rebel outfit as a mobile suit pilot. In the year After Colony 190, during this time he was there he met a girl named Middie Une (She has no relation to OZ's Lady Une). However one day during a failed Operation, the Alliance was tipped off about the operation and some of the rebels betrayed the group to join the Alliance. Although No-Name was able to save the life of his commander, the commander knew that the traitors wouldn't have tipped the Alliance off about the operation. However during an Alliance bombing, only No-Name and Middie survived and after escaping No-Name revealed that Middie was the traitor as he had noticed that her handheld game was actually a transmitter and that the crucifix she gave to No-Name was also a transmitter. Middie revealed that she only aided the Alliance to support her brothers and sick father. Middie admitted that she truly had loved him, but also hated him as he was an empty person who had nothing to hold him back. However, No-Name responded by leaving her quoting that she had it better off than him since she had a family to go back to. It was only after he left that she realized her true feelings for him, but couldn't stop him from leaving.

During the Mariemaia uprising in Endless Waltz Trowa went undercover as a member of the Mariemaia Group and was able to discover that their true plan was the original Operation Meteor. With Heero and Duo's help, Trowa was able to stop the colony drop. Trowa then piloted the Heavyarms one last time and disabled as many Serpent mobile suits as he could until the Heavyarms ran out of ammo. Afterwards Duo self-destructed the Heavyarms with along his Deathscythe Hell and the Sandrock Gundam, Trowa was then convinced by both Quatre and Duo to keep his current name as Trowa Barton. Trowa then returned to the circus.

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