User Profile

Name: Duo Maxwell
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Point of canon brought in: Post Preventer Five
Human or Toon: Toon
Age: 16, almost 17, looks his age
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Occupation: Mechanic
Residence Sector: Toon Town

Appearance: Duo wears his chestnut brown hair in a meter long braid down his back. His rough cut bangs often hang down into his cobalt blue eyes. He has somewhat olive toned skin. He stands at about 5’3”, still growing, mind you, and has a very thin, yet muscular, build for his age. He often wears black with touches of red or white if he’s not wearing a uniform, spacesuit, or coveralls for some reason.

Personality: Duo is an exercise in duality. He lives up to his name by hiding his true feelings and personality behind a mask of open expression. He's outgoing to a fault, tactile with friends by putting his arm around their shoulders or patting them on the back, and loud. His exuberance can sometimes be extremely taxing to more serious and darker characters. He likes to tell bad jokes, make people laugh, and has a natural magnetism that seems to make him popular wherever he goes. But, under all that, there's a darker side to Duo Maxwell. Duo has seen more death in his 16 years than most people see after a full life of 80. This has naturally taken its toll on how he views relationships and his own life's worth. He does not trust easily, as a life on the streets taught him he can be betrayed. He often holds people at arm's length in his heart, as death has taught him that anyone can be taken from him, regardless of their age or occupation. His humor, while quick and sharp, is often tainted with a morbid tone, revolving around life and death, war and peace, heaven and hell. He often refers to himself as the God of Death because he feels that he can't die. Having lost everyone around him, he considers his life to be a fluke, that he's the one who should be doing the dirty work and taking the risks. He sometimes acts like things around him are a game, but he knows they are anything but that. Duo takes missions around him extremely seriously. For someone as loud and boisterous as he is, he can be a silent as a shadow, disappearing into a crowd with practiced ease. His mask is his way of keeping himself sane. He feels that, if he can still laugh, then he isn't lost.

Abilities/Strengths: Duo is an excellent mech pilot, a fast runner, and an experienced thief. He grew up on the streets, so stealing, running and hiding became his lifestyle out of necessity for survival. As a mech pilot, he was one of the Gundam pilots that descended to Earth from the colonies in AC 195 to fight against OZ and the Alliance for freedom from repression. In order to do this, he needed to be good... very good. He was apparently a natural with amazingly fast reflexes and surprising focus that was covered by his normally playful mannerisms. Because of his time with the Sweepers, Duo also learned mechanics and salvage techniques. He can get almost any vehicle to run in a pinch, at least enough to get you home if not perfectly. Duo has a tendency to be underestimated because of his thin frame and sloppy speech, considered weak and dumb, but he uses this to his advantage for the element of surprise. Duo is surprisingly intelligent and streetwise underneath his rough exterior, and he learns fast. Being extremely observant enables him to figure things out when people least expect him to. He also has this odd knack for not getting sick. When a plague ravaged his home colony, Duo was the only known orphan to survive without getting sick and without getting inoculated. He's not aware of any others (nor is the canon storyline, for that matter...). He had broken into a hospital and grabbed as many vaccines as he could for the gang of kids, but was one short. He didn't take a vaccine for himself, but never got sick.

Weaknesses: All normal human weaknesses apply to Duo. He can be injured, he can be upset by things. His temper is his greatest weakness... and sometimes, his smug and rather overly outgoing personality can get him into trouble or grate on other's nerves. Usually, Duo's a fairly good judge at when to hold back on his enthusiastic attempts at friendship, but he does have his moments that result in problems. He can be overconfident at times, and gets very frustrated when people who should know better underestimate him. He's very skilled at what he does, and he knows it. He also knows that people don't tend to see him that way. While he expects that from most people who don't know him, and sometimes uses it to his advantage, he is easily angered when those who do know him forget that he's good at his job.

History: Duo's earliest real memories are of living on the streets with a gang of other orphans like himself. Duo never knew his parents, and, if he knew his real name, he'd stopped using it long ago. When he was about six years old, a plague tore through the colony, killing thousands. The hospitals were only giving the vaccine to those who could afford it. With the homeless and street dwellers getting sick and dying, the little gang of street rats knew they needed to do something. Duo snuck into a hospital and managed to get his hands on the vaccine. He brought them back, but was one dose short to give them to everyone. He gave them out, not taking one for himself. He didn't get sick, however, surviving the plague. The leader of the gang, Solo, wasn't so lucky, having already been sick beyond the vaccine's help. He died, leaving Duo in charge.

Duo led the group from then on, taking care of the other kids and making sure they were fed and had shelter. After nearly getting caught by Alliance troops when breaking into the supply depot, the gang was taken to a Church where they were cared for and adopted out to willing families. Duo proved to be troublesome and kept getting sent back. The priest and nun, Father Maxwell and Sister Helen, cared for him themselves instead by sending him to school and showing him how loving a family situation could be. He was there almost a year when a rebellion broke out on the colony. The rebels took over the church, demanding care for their injured. When Father Maxwell tried to preach pacifism and peace to them, they struck him down. Duo panicked, seeing his father figure treated that way, and ran away. He had overheard them planning and knew they needed a mobile suit. He managed to steal one from the Alliance base, but came back to a destroyed church. Everyone inside had been killed.

After that, Duo drifted. He eventually stowed away on a Sweepers ship and left the colony. He lived in hiding in their supply bay, eating what he wanted. It took them almost a week to find him, and, when they did, the scientist the salvage crew was harboring was impressed that Duo had broken through their security system and eluded them for so long. He decided to let the kid stay, and this began Duo's life as a Gundam pilot.

Several days before the launch of the Gundam the scientist was building, Duo came across orders from their sponsor disclosing the plans and purpose of Operation Meteor. Deciding this wasn't something he wanted in on, Duo attempted to destroy Deathscythe, but was thwarted by Professor G. The scientist had seen the orders as well, and knew the young teenager wouldn't agree with the plan. He told Duo to 'steal' Deathscythe anyway, and carry out their revenge against OZ in his own way on Earth. Duo agreed, and he dropped to Earth with four other Gundams he didn't know about.

His first interactions with the other pilots were shaky. None of them knew each other. But, after studying each other's machines and working out their plans and differences, they all realized they were on the same side. Eventually, they gathered together as a single force, fighting against world oppression in one large battle at the end of a year long war. When the battle cleared, Duo found himself drifting again, not sure what to do or where to go.

He spent the time traveling, doing deliveries and helping out with the Sweepers group that had shown him so much and given him Deathscythe to begin with. After several attempts on his life, as well as those of the other Gundam pilots and a few of their friends, he and Quatre took the Gundams and loaded them on an old resource satellite that was scheduled for demolition. Sending it with four of the five Gundams towards the sun, they thought they had said goodbye to fighting and war forever.

However, that wasn't the case. A young girl claiming to be the daughter of Treize Khushrenada appeared and declared war on the Earth Sphere. She and her grandfather, the original architect of Operation Meteor, threatened to drop a colony on the Earth if they didn't surrender to her wishes. Helping his friend Heero, Duo broke into the colony and managed to stop the drop along with another of their pilot allies, Trowa. He then went to Earth once Quatre returned with the Gundams and fought against Mariemeia's army, stopping them from their takeover of the Earth Sphere. It was after that when they decided to end it for good. With Quatre and Trowa, Duo destroyed his Gundam, feeling a release of it's burden, and went back to the life of a salvage mechanic.

As with all things, peace is a work in progress. Duo received word from Sally Po that a group calling themselves Epyon de Telos had taken the Sanc Kingdom Palace hostage with several key people inside. He joined up with her and the other four former Gundam pilots and, together, they worked out a plan to rescue them. Things calmed down after the incident was resolved, and Duo went back to work with Hilde at the salvage yard. Two months later, he was taken.

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