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Gauron from Full Metal Panic.

You're going to have to dip into a couple of previous week's villains as reference material for this, specifically The Major and Ladd Russo. Gauron belongs very much to the same school of villains as these two, being a psychotic character who is completely off the rails.

However, there's a kind of difference between the three. While The Major calmly approaches and designs his sheer bloody slaughter, and Ladd whimsically kills whoever seems the least suspecting with a sense of true freedom, Gauron has a strange sense of controlled chaos about him. He has referred to himself as a businessman, though his business is generally terrorism and related enterprises. This results in a balance of somewhat who really does absolutely not give a fuck, but carries himself as though he knows exactly what he is doing.

Of course, there is more to this strain of villains than simply being insane. They have to really sell just how insane they are in their own ways. The Major does so with his deranged, almost fetishistic love of war, Ladd does so with his unique and detailed views on killing and what he likes most about it, and Gauron? With his love of our protagonist, Sosuke Sagara. Ever since he met Sosuke (then named Kashim) in the middle east at a (disturbingly) young age, he was utterly in love with the remorseless killing machine that was Sosuke Sagara. Most of his actions within the series are simply to antagonise Sosuke. In the manga, he's even gone as far to say that he wants to kill Sosuke and fuck the corpse. He is completely, madly obsessed with him.

Put frankly, Gauron is just compellingly insane. He holds that key difference from Ladd that while you never knew what Ladd was going to do next, Ladd didn't know either. But Gauron completely knows, and he won't look back for even a second once he knows what he's going to do, no matter how insane it is.

Favourite quote: "I LOVE YOU, KASHIM!"

Favourite scene:

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