Mullin Shetland
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Mullin Shetland (Μαλην Σετλανδ) (モラン・シェトランド?) is one of the main characters from the 2003 anime series Last Exile.
Mullin Shetland is a nineteen-year-old rifleman on the battleship Claihm Solais, which is the flagship of the Anatoray fleet. He has fought in nineteen battles and needs only one more survivor medal (received from surviving a battle) to become promoted out of the rifleman line. A third of the way through the series he joins the Silvana and becomes a mechanic servicing the vanships. He has a brief crush on the vanship captain Tatiana Wisla but soon forgets about it realizing the futility of it as he moves on to other things. Around the end he leaves the Silvana to train again as a rifleman in a secret joint operation to take back the battleship's Claudia engines and free the world of the Guild.
At this time he meets Dunya Scheer from the Disith fleet, also involved in the operation. He and Dunya fall in love with each other, climaxing in Mullin asking Dunya to go on the same ship together. Dunya accepts his request, as the operation to take back the ship's Claudia unit begins. The operation ends with Mullin taking the unit back, but being gravely wounded in the process, believed dead. The epilogue shows that he survived to be with Dunya and live on a farm alongside Dunya's siblings. Many viewers mistakenly assumed the child shown to be Mullin's son. Additional materials state the child is Dunya's younger brother.
[edit] Trivia
- Mullin's Japanese voice actor was Shinichirô Miki. His American voice actor was Dave Wittenberg.
- Before each battle, he chants the mantra "Disith bullets will avoid...Mullin Shetland's body," over and over. He attributes his surviving of the 19 battles to this mantra. He also teaches this mantra to Dunya, who uses it before the mission to retake the Claudia unit.
