THE OFFICIAL ENDING NOTE TO BROKEN LULLABY! ^-^ Read if you have time, but no worries if you don't!
Sorry if any of the below is tangled with poor grammar, I wanted to get Lullaby Part 2 posted ASAP!! ^-^ I'll come back and fix it soon, and that will also give Lullaby a second run. Thank you!!!
Characters By Order of Appearance **grins childishly**-
Ilia Ivankovich – A highly decorated pawn of Mr. Barton through out the beginning movement of the original O.M.. This man at first supplied Dechem with hard to find… gundanium that he got solely off the black market while in short supply. His age is unknown, but he's been working hard for a long time to support himself and by fate's cruel design ends up working on the wrong side of the track, for the wrong man, and bullied into marring his daughter, Leia.
After the object of his affection walks in on a deal going sour, he is forced to turn Amanda and her mother away for their own safety; little did he know Dechem kept close tabs on her just in case he would ever have to use her as an angel to harrying Ilia into doing work.
Most of Ilia's great attributes are apparent in his son even though they knew little of each other, such as Ilia's commanding and good-natured presence.
Amanda (Mandy) Alexander – Raised by a single Mother Amanda grew up knowing how hard it was to survive on her own, little did she know, she would be doing it too someday. After her mother's illness crippled her working capability, Amanda took up her mother's position at the garage sacrificing her writing and school to do so. However her reasons where a little less that honest or noble, since her mother had started working that she had been acutely aware of the chemistry between her and her mother's boss.
After being fired and banned from the garage, Amanda finds out she is pregnant with a son, drops out of school, gets a minimum wage waitressing job, her mother dies, and she gives birth. This all adds to the simple complexities that create her determination to be the best mother anyone could be! She wanted to be as good of a mother as hers was, if not better, even if she had to do it alone.
Though Amanda had always been aware of Ilia's other business she didn't stay away, and searched Ilia out not just for money, but also for love and the desire for her son to know her father. In the end, maybe she should have listened to her mother and let Ilia go.
Mrs. Alexander – is Amanda sickly and mysteriously aware mother. She took a job as a mechanic at a garage, but fell rapidly ill to cancer and eventually couldn't work. She knew all along about the feelings between her daughter and boss, and had valuable words of wisdom from a woman who had been there and done that.
Helen – Any Duo Maxwell fan knows who Helen is; she's from the church. True to her word, next time Chance sees Helen (as Duo) she is in fact a nun. After Amanda's (and Chance's supposed) death Helen is struck by severe grief, and in her anguish she turns to god. Never in Duo's stay does she think him to be Chance, but she wishes he was and tries to protect him the way she wanted to her godson. If you read episode zero this hypothesis works out well, it even fits the odd emotions you always see in her face.
Contrary to common belief Sister Helen is actually a young woman in her mid-to-late twenties, the perfect age to be Amanda's best childhood friend.
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Dechem Barton – The true creator of operation meteor! Dechem trapped Ilia under his claw for his connections, then kept him around for work moral when he was no longer needed. He is a very straightforward uncomplicated man, with simple reasons of genocide and world destruction fueling him, always willing to sacrifice even his grandchild for higher ideals.
His actions basically create Duo who later comes back in Dechem's own plan with his fellow gundam pilots and destroy him and all his plans. Had he never killed Ilia and Amanda, if he had just let them go, he may have survived his own stupidity. Then again, the scientists all along had different plans for the Gundams.
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Chance Alexander – ^-^ I don't need to say much about Duo, because… well he is Duo and his part is explained by the cast. What do you think? Did he keep his hair because it reminded him of his mother? Was he the loose end that hung Dechem?
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Mrs. King- An bitchy neighbor who at first fancies Chance's bright purple-blue eyes, but after a trial session, the commander being Chance, she finds the boy's larger-than-life nature to be too much.
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Milo- The whipped apartment owner, he conned his wife into giving the young mother a chance; but when Mrs. King and Milo's wife team up to get Amanda and her noisy "hellion" evicted for breaching her contract nothing is to stop them, especially not a cowering husband. The breach in the contract, you ask? No children.
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The Butter Man – ^-^ You'll never guess who this cold freak is? Quinze on his way to see Dechem.
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The Secretary/Leia Barton Ivankovich- Not at all as bad as she may seem, Leia is an emotional character. She traded high school for nursing school and work for her father's medical facility, but then for her father she marries Ilia to strengthen business ties (and so Barton can completely get his claws into him) at the tender age of 16. LoL. He picks 'em young doesn't he?
Under her father's wishes she drops the last name Ivankovich.
Having been really in love with Ilia, she is heart broken after his death and takes a small change for the sweeter and returns to her love of nursing… where she later meets the suave Treize and gives Dechem Barton the necessary heir he needs for dominance, Marimeia.
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The Savior Neighbor & Dr. Garron- because they are not the focus I decided to let you piece together these two characters yourself during the story and then comment on them afterward. This is Duo's first encounter with Dr. G.
Dr. G was visiting Duo's neighbor and discussing important plans unbeknownst to his technical employer Mr. Barton when they smelt smoke and heard the ravaging of a fire. Baka Duo doesn't even recognize him in his dream… or maybe that was Chance's way of protecting himself, forgetting. Nevertheless, this is where Dr. G takes an interest in the boy for his resilience and later recognizes him as the stowaway on the ship just before he is asked if he wants to pilot a gundam.
Did Dr. G know that Dechem was the murderer and arsonist? Did he later choose Duo specifically because Dechem had seen him worthy to destroy? It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. Duo was quite the loose end to leave.
