Trowa Barton - Anime - http://maxpages.com/gundamwing2001/Trowa

The pilot of the gun-toting Gundam Heavyarms, the boy who calls himself Trowa is the most mysterious of the Gundam pilots. Calm, cool, and detached, he seldom speaks and never smiles. Trowa falls in with a travelling circus troupe as cover for his terrorist mission, finding employment as the world's most dispassionate clown. Trowa is a gifted and fearless acrobat, and these abilities also prove useful in his alternate occupation as a Gundam pilot.

Despite his youth, Trowa is an experienced professional soldier. His preferred combat tactic is to stand his ground and spray the battlefield with an endless hail of bullets, though every now and then he'll dispatch an enemy with his acrobatic trademark move - a mid-air triple spin, ending in a deadly knife slash.

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Trowa Barton is the mysterious one of the group. Especially in the Japanese version, he seems to be completely without emotions, divorced from them as if he's watching life go by from someplace else and the things that would make ordinary people happy or sad simply don't seem to have an impact on him. The first time he helps circus-performer Cathrine Bloom with her knife-throwing act, she remarks that even though he is facing blades hurled at him by a stranger, his eyes the whole time look dead. Add to this that Trowa says very little and you have a mystery.

Trowa's past is indeed a mystery. When we first see him in the series he introduces himself as Trowa Barton, but in Endless Waltz we learn that is not his real name, that he actually never remembers having a name. Separated from his parents in infancy, Trowa grew up under the care of a mercenary, and was taught how to fight early on. This period in his life may have been traumatic, causing him to dissociate somewhat from the part of himself that really feels things, making him appear to have no emotions at all.

That view - that his memories are what generate the need to close part of himself off, is supported by the strange fact that when he becomes temporarily amnesic in the middle of the series, he seems to express fear, anxiety and wonder, which go away again when he regains those memories. In any event, Trowa seems t function on a very surface level with people he meet every day and only a few seem to get past that. Heero certainly, by way of his singleminded pursuit of the mission of Operation Meteor, Cathrine with her friendliness and maternal ways, and Quatre, perhaps for his sheer adoration of Trowa. Eventually, it is these people he will come to fight for as the series draws to its tense conclusion.

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