Relena Darlian

Relena Darlian is one of the main characters in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
She is voiced Akiko Yajima in the Japanese version, and by Lisa Ann Beley in the English version.
==Personality==
==History==
===Background===
Originally born as Relena Peacecraft in the Sanc Kingdom, she was a daughter of King Peacecraft and younger sister of Miliardo Peacecraft (Zechs Merquise). Her kingdom was attacked was attacked by the United Earth Sphere Alliance when she was an infant, and one of the king's senators who would later become the Vice Foreign Minister of the Alliance would save Relena and adopt her as his daughter.
===Mobile Suit Gundam Wing===
On her way with her father, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian, back home to Earth, she would first witness a machine entering the atmosphere to commence Operation Meteor. After arriving the airport, Darlian is summoned to a meeting with the Alliance officials, but he feels like preparing for his daughter's 15th birthday. She is offered a ride by the Alliance soldiers speaking with Darlian, but she decides to walk the way back home. On the way back, she complains about her birthday, but then notices a body washed up on the shore. When he shows signs of life, she, under the assumption that he was an Alliance soldier, goes and gets help. Upon returning, she takes off the soldier's helmet and finds out he's in his teens. To her surprise, he becomes secretive about his appearance and attempts to self-destruct, only to fail. He then takes out the arriving medics, and hijacks the ambulance. Even though he drove off, she still introduces herself and asks for his name anyways.
The next day at school, she returns to see her students again, and a new boy named Heero Yuy shows up at her school. The boy turns out to be the same soldier she found on the seashore. She tries to start a conversation with him, who ignores her. Later, she tries to invite him to her party, only for him to tear up her invitation letter and give her a death threat afterwards. This surprises her, asking what kind of person he was. 
On the way back home, she reflects back on who the boy was and why he gave her that attitude, realizing that what she saw yesterday was his secret. She first attends her birthday part, but one of her classmates arrives late and mentions the strange sight of Heero driving an ambulance. Seeking him, she goes out and then finds him at an Alliance dock handling missiles. She tries to converse with him, and then he points his gun at her. However, another boy shows up and shoots Heero in the arm, and checks to see if she is alright. Despite the fact that Heero was actually threatening her, she still checks to see if Heero is alright; however, Heero attempts to grab his gun, only to got shot by Duo Maxwell a second time in the leg. Even so, she still defends him from the attacker and uses shreds of her birthday dress to bandage the wounds, surprising Duo who thought he was saving her from Heero. She then notices the Gundams coming to shore, only for Duo to block her view. After Heero attempts to destroy the two mobile suits, Relena then asks who those two people were.
The next day she would visit Heero Yuy in an Alliance hospital and would first meet Major Sally Po. Relena would find him strapped down out of fear of his unknown abilities, and there she learns that he was not a member of the Alliance military. At the same time, Duo Maxwell breaks Heero out of the hospital, and Relena and Sally find the window the boys jumped out of, and Relena fearing for Heero's life shouts out his name. This wakes him up and he unveils his parachute, though a bit too late that it only stopped him from plunging to his death, but not enough to lighten his fall resulting in him rolling down a hill, onto a seashore, and breaking his leg in the process. She and Sally are shocked to see that he actually survived.
Later, Relena accompanies her father as he returns to the colonies on another visit there. However, he is the target for an OZ assassination plot by Lady Une, which Relena nearly foils when she returns the compact the bomb was in to Une, but Une gets it back into the conference room just in time, resulting in Vice Foreign Minister Darlian being critically injured. Before Relena can be executed as well for witnessing it, she and her father are evacuated to safety by Doctor J's men. As he laid dying, Darlian reveals to Relena that her real name is Relena Peacecraft. Following the events on the colony, Relena returns to Earth and her school just in time to learn that Heero is transferring out. During the school dance that night, mobile suits sent by Une to assassinate Relena are intercepted by Heero in Wing Gundam, resulting in where he saves Relena from being crushed by falling debris, much to his own shock.
After that, Relena is not seen too much until she arrives at a gala in Moscow, escorted in by her Darlian grandfather, Marquis Weridge. However, when Une is revealed to be at the gala as well, Relena seizes a chance to take vengeance for her adoptive father and tries to assassinate Une. She misses, only blowing off the corsage Une was wearing, and is forced to flee from Une's personal OZ bodyguards, who are initially stymied by Weridge and other guests, but when they finally catch up to and corner Relena, before they can take her back to Une, Lucrezia Noin arrives, explaining she has orders from Trieze himself and Zechs Marquis to take Relena into her protective custody. When Une's men protest, Noin gives them a stern warning by shooting the hat off one of them, which convinces them enough to let Relena go. Afterwards, to prove her loyalty to Relena, Noin shoots the OZ lion pin off the discarded hat. From that point on, Noin becomes Relena's closest confidant and bodyguard.
Some time later, Relena and Noin, now sporting their military blazers as Sanc Kingdom representatives with Relena taking her place as Princess of Sanc Kingdom and Noin her loyal bodyguard, travel to a meeting of the European nobles who are supporting the Romefeller Foundation, the main organization funding OZ. While there, after being told most of the details by Noin, Relena slips away to take the stage to tell the nobles and OZ members there how the Gundams would soon come to rectify their mistakes before being squashed by Noin and confronted by Trieze afterwards. After Zechs frees the Sanc Kingdom from the grip of the United Earth Sphere Alliance, Relena takes her place as sovereign of it, with Noin serving as her majordomo and chief of security.
Upon learning that Heero is preparing to fight Zechs in Anarctica because their previous fight was interrupted thanks to Lady Une, Relena travels there to ask Heero to defeat Zechs, only for Noin to reveal that Zechs is Relena's brother Miliardo. While Relena is shocked by this, they are soon forced to withdraw when OZ forces approach, with Zechs offering to hold them off as they retreat, surrendering to them once Relena and Noin were out of danger and a safe distance away.
After Relena returns to the Sanc Kingdom and takes her place as its sovereign, she soon finds conflict with Duke Dermail of Romefeller when he points out her brother fighting in space instead of serving as a pacifist diplomat like she is. Despite that, Relena continues to teach and pass on her pacifist beliefs to the girls at the school back in Sanc Kingdom, only to soon get a new student in Dorothy Catalonia, Duke Dermail's granddaughter, serving secretly as a spy for her grandfather. When Heero and Quatre arrive in Sanc, Relena offers them sanctuary there, and when the kingdom is attacked and they defend it, she agrees with Noin to have a small defense force made to help defend the kingdom, including defectors from OZ, especially Trieze Faction members, those soldiers loyal to Trieze who broke ties with OZ when Trieze was branded a traitor by Dermail and Romefeller over their Mobile Doll idea. However, with the threat Relena poses to their plans, Romefeller plans an assassination attempt on her by having Dorothy drive her to her next meeting with Dermail and the other Romefeller executives, thus separating Relena from Noin, then as Relena heads home in her own limo driven by Pagan, send a pair of Virgo Mobile Dolls to vaporize her. The plan nearly succeeds, but Noin and Quatre are warned ahead of time and intercept the Virgos just as they had Relena cornered and disable them, saving her life, but Pagan has to be taken to the hospital due to his own injuries sustained from crashing the limo, leaving Relena shaken until Quatre and Noin put her at ease.
When Romefeller launches another assault on the Sanc Kingdom, despite Noin and the defense forces putting up a valiant effort to protect the kingdom, Relena chooses to surrender to Romefeller and dissolve the nation, becoming their prisoner. Dermail offers her a chance to serve as Romefeller's chief representative, renaming her "Queen Relena" from "Princess Relena", but though she accepts the offer, Relena decides to use her position to further her pacifist goals, which the Romefeller delegates actually accept, ruining Dermail's plans to only have Relena serve as a puppet monarch while he has Romefeller continue their militarization policies. With Romefeller fully accepting Relena's pacifist ideologies and now seeking peace and disarmament, Dermail tries to regain his power in space, but is slain by the White Fang colonial revolutionists while trying to reach Space Fortress Barge, where White Fang reveals Relena's brother Miliardo is now their leader as he declares war on the Earth Sphere Unified Nation and Relena.
Faced with having to lead the military forces of Earth against her own brother and the White Fang, Relena is given a chance to be free of her political restraints and her position as Queen when Trieze returns to take over as King and lead the military forces that would allow Relena's seeds of peace to be brought to fruition. With Trieze taking her place and back to being Princess Relena again, Relena heads into space to confront her brother, but is imprisoned aboard the White Fang's battleship Libra until she is rescued by Heero and taken to the Peacemillion, the ship currently serving as the Gundam Pilots' mobile base. After Peacemillion is rammed into Libra to take out its primary weapon, Relena is evacuated to the MO-II resource satellite with Howard, Sally Po, and the others on Peacemillion, reuniting with Lady Une, who offers Relena another chance to take vengeance for Vice Foreign Minister Darlian, but Relena refuses, having seen enough bloodshed, forgiving Une for killing her adoptive father. Relena then joins everyone as they watch as the Gundam Pilots struggle to stop the two ships from plummeting to Earth and causing a nuclear winter, and though they initially succeed, a part of Libra continues to plummet to Earth, until Heero, piloting the Wing Zero, prepares to destroy it with Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle. Relena maintains her utmost confidence and faith in Heero, and her trust in him is proven true as Heero destroys the section of Libra with one shot, and emerges unscathed from the aftermath.
With the end of the Eve Wars, Relena returns to using her Darlian surname as she becomes the new Vice Foreign Minister of the ESUN, but upon as she prepares to leave the colony she visited to return to Earth, she finds that Heero left her a teddy bear and birthday card on her shuttle. Calling out to him as he was leaving the hangar, Relena takes the card and, like with the one she gave Heero when they first met and what he did with it, tears it in half, asking that he hand it to her in person next time, before watching him depart with a smile on her face.
===Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz===
One year after the Eve Wars, in AC 196, Relena is drugged and kidnapped by members of the Barton Foundation led by Trieze's illegitimate daughter Mariemaia, who intends to do what her father couldn't and conquer the ESUN under the guidance of her grandfather, Dekim Barton. Though it initially succeeds when she takes the presidential palace in Brussels and seals herself and Relena up in the bunker, Mariemaia's plans fall apart when a still-alive Zechs, Noin, Quatre, Trowa, and Duo attack the Mariemaia Army's Serpent mobile suits without killing the pilots, and then Heero appears in the battered Wing Zero Custom to use its Twin Buster Rifle on the bunker. Relena puts her trust in Heero, while Mariemaia is left shocked and horrified that Heero is willing to shoot the bunker despite Relena being inside to stop her plans for world conquest. When Heero's third and final shot pierces the bunker, Lady Une arrives to protect Relena and Mariemaia from falling debris. Afterwards, as Dekim starts to lose it and demand that Mariemaia take her place as leader of Earth, Relena, quite literally and figuratively, slaps some sense into her, causing Dekim to pull a gun on Relena and threaten to shoot her for poisoning his granddaughter's mind, but Mariemaia takes the initial shot meant for Relena, and before Dekim can fire again, he's fatally shot by one of his own soldiers who apologizes to Trieze for betraying his vision. Heero arrives shortly thereafter and collapses into Relena's arms as the fighting with mobile suits is finally brought to an end. While Mariemaia recovers and is adopted by Lady Une, the other Gundam Pilots self-detonate their suits, and Relena returns to her position as Vice Foreign Minister with Heero watching over her as her bodyguard.
==Relationships==
===Heero Yuy===
==Trivia==
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