Maria Louise (マリアルイゼ Maria Ruize) is a character that appears in Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
Appearance[]
Maria Louise is a young girl with blond hair and green eyes. Because she is still so young, she is of a shorter height than others. As a princess, she dresses in fine clothing and keeps a regal appearance. Despite this, she is shown to wear regular clothing.
Personality & Character[]
Maria Louise is rather tomboyish and mischievous in a playful manner. She is shown to be very infatuated with George de Sand and often goes out of her way to seek his attention and company. Despite this, she is honest and caring of those dear to her. Although she is a princess, she has been shown to not be afraid to do things a princess would not normally do.
History[]
Maria is the daughter of Neo France's head of state. She is passionately devoted to the handsome knight George de Sand, breathlessly watching his exploits from her vantage point aboard the royal airship Damocles. Despite her high status, Maria is a tomboy at heart, who disguises herself with jeans and a baseball cap when she sneaks off to carry out her own attention-getting plot.
During when she is watching an impending battle between George's GF13-009NF Gundam Rose and Neo Cuba's GF13-083NCB Arachno Gundam, the battle never begins as it is interrupted by Neo Japan's GF13-017NJ Shining Gundam and its fighter, Domon Kasshu, who wants a fight with George himself and removes the Arachno Gundam from competition by decapitating it. Maria is surprised to see the Shining Gundam appear as much as George is. George is able to avoid Domon's attacks and wound the Shining Gundam on its arm before taking his leave in Gundam Rose, passing by Maria on the Damocles, who can only call George her prince because of his chivalry.
Later, during a party at the Palace of Versailles, Maria spends some private time with George, but is saddened at how he seems to be more focused on defending the honor of his family name and his country than fighting for her. That night, as she laments the situation regarding George, she suddenly gets an idea to fake her own kidnapping, hoping that by doing so, George would come to her rescue, thus fighting for her like she wants. With that, she changes into civilian clothes, including a baseball cap and jeans, and flees the palace, leaving the word "Japan" written on her bedroom mirror to tell George that it was Domon who kidnapped her, hoping to get his match with him.
Later, at a street-side cafe, as she wonders if her plan is working, she is offered a drink by one of the waiters. However, when he tells her that she needs to pay for it, she has no money on her. Before the waiter can take her to be punished, Neo Cuba's Gundam fighter arrives with his crew and pays her bill personally, before confronting her over earlier events with George and Domon. However, before he can, presumably, hurt her, he is knocked out from behind by Domon, who then easily takes down his crew as well before preparing to take his leave, before Maria offers him the chance to get his match with George as he originally intended.
After having the waiter deliver a message to George back at the palace regarding where Domon will face him when he comes to rescue the princess, Maria returns to where Domon and his crew member, Rain Mikamura, have set up camp near the Arc de Triomphe, and reveals her plan. Though Rain tries to convince Domon to travel to Neo Russia and face their fighter and his Gundam, Domon goes along with Maria's plan, and the princess locks Rain in the bathroom with an encryption code when she refuses to cooperate.
Traveling to an abandoned location near the Seine River and badly damaged Eiffel Tower, Domon ties the princess to a tree to help work the ruse that he had kidnapped her. Soon, George arrives as intended, and agrees to face Domon. While the two Gundam fighters slug it out with their swords, Rain arrives to free the princess, who is still convinced that George is fighting for her, only to learn from George himself that he is only fighting for the sake, once more, of his family honor and that of his country. However, when Domon uses his Shining Finger attack to break out of a cage made by Gundam Rose's Rose Bits, the chain reaction of explosions causes the Eiffel Tower to suffer total structural failure and threaten to crush Rain and the princess as it collapses. Horrified, George has Gundam Rose catch the falling tower, saving Rain and the princess, but it leaves him completely defenseless against Domon, who hesitates to finish off Gundam Rose by decapitating it, even when George tells Domon to finish him off per the Gundam Fight rules. In the end, Domon refuses to deliver the death blow to Gundam Rose, and the match ends in a draw, but as a result of her actions, Maria faces punishment from her father, Neo France's head of state, for her little stunt, though back at Versailles, she apologizes for putting Gundam Rose though all that damage it sustained, but George now promises to fight for her, just like she originally wanted.
While he is training in the Guiana Highlands, the trauma from being under the Devil Gundam's influence back in Shinjuku causes George to suffer a nightmare of Maria being struck down and kidnapped by the Devil Gundam and he is unable to save her.
Maria would later travel to the finals of the Gundam Fight in Neo Hong Kong, arriving with her father to watch George's upcoming battle with Neo England's Gentle Chapman and his GF13-003NEL John Bull Gundam, who was presumed dead after a drug overdose during his earlier fight with George and Gundam Rose back in London, but unknown to them, had been resurrected by the DG cells of the JDG-00X Devil Gundam. After an argument between George and her father, the princess wanders off to sulk, and unintentionally comes across a gazebo where she witnesses the resurrected Chapman murder Neo England's Lord William who did not agree with Neo Hong Kong Prime Minister Wong Yunfat's deceitful plans for the finals. The princess is soon discovered, but before Chapman could do her harm, her cries for help summon George, who fights off Chapman, and discovers his infection by the DG cells. The princess and George flee, soon meeting up with Domon, Rain, and Neo Sweden's Allenby Beardsley, where Domon fights off Chapman and discovers his DG cell infection as well, before Chapman flees due to approaching authorities.
During the fight between George and Chapman, Neo Italy's Michelo Chariot, also infected with DG cells, infiltrates the control room for the force field around the arena, and deactivates the portion protecting the Neo France guests watching the battle, putting Maria, her father, and the other guests in danger, with the threat of turning off the rest of the force field if George attempted to fight back, leaving George in a dangerous position as he had to have Gundam Rose absorb all the damage from Chapman as he intentionally targeted the Neo France representatives to ensure George could not retaliate, mostly because it gave Chapman another chance to silence Maria after she witnessed him murder Lord William. Thankfully, Domon, Rain, and Allenby are able to scare off Michelo and restore the force field saving the Neo France representatives from Chapman's next attack that George would not have been able to block in time. The princess then watches as the John Bull Gundam transforms into the Grand Gundam, severely damaging Gundam Rose before George is able to fire a Rose Bit into the Gundam's eye, forcing it to relent and turn back into a defeated John Bull Gundam, declaring George the winner. Afterwards, when she sees Wong, Maria tries to identify him as the other person she saw when Lord William was murdered, but her father tells her to forget about it due to Wong's status.
Later, when George is ordered not to fight Domon by Neo France's head of state, even locking away Gundam Rose to ensure it, the princess tries to convince her father otherwise, taking George's side in the matter, but her words fall on deaf ears. She then can only worry for George when he chooses to sacrifice his family name's honor, steals Gundam Rose, and faces Domon in the GF13-017NJII God Gundam anyway, unlocking Gundam Rose's hyper mode, and a new attack, "Rose Hurricane." Afterwards, Maria's father realizes his mistake in judgement, and allows George to continue fighting in the finals.
Maria wishes George good luck as he travels to Lantau Island for the Battle Royale of the Gundam Fight, but when the Devil Gundam returns, the princess is swept off the boat she is on with George's butler, Raymond Bishop, but is rescued by the elderly man and his grandchildren that Domon had been staying with during the finals, bearing witness as Domon faces off with Michelo and his GF13-055NI Neros Gundam, which then evolves into the Gundam Heaven's Sword, which is then destroyed in a joint attack by George's fellow Shuffle Alliance members, Neo China's Sai Saici, and Neo Russia's Argo Gulskii. As George and fellow Shuffle Alliance member, Neo America's Chibodee Crocket, face off with Chapman and the Grand Gundam, she and the other crew members arrive on Lantau Island, where they are joined by Rain, piloting the JMF1336R Rising Gundam, and Neo Germany's Schwarz Bruder, in the GF13-021NG Gundam Spiegel, who work together to create a means for one of the crew members to make it over to the nearby generator for the barrier surrounding Lantau Island, and destroy it, disabling the barrier. Because of how small the opening is, Maria herself volunteers to go since she had the smallest stature and destroys the corner post that controls the beam rope with a grenade.
She then went to the colony of Neo Japan, which had been transformed into the Devil Gundam Colony, to support George and the other members of the Shuffle Alliance. During the decisive battle against the Devil Gundam Colony, she was in charge of the Gorby II port side bombardment cannons with Raymond and fought through the fierce battle. After the Devil Gundam was destroyed for good by Domon and Rain, Maria returned to Earth aboard Gundam Rose with George and Raymond, giving George a kiss, much to his surprise.
Relationships[]
- George de Sand: Maria Louise is greatly infatuated with George and will often do what she can to gain his attention. She greatly supports his efforts as a gundam fighter and attends his matches when possible. While she does appear frustrated with how George is more fixated on the tournament than on her, she understands his dedication and efforts.
- King of Neo France: Her father. The two appear to have a typical relationship between father and daughter. While Maria Louise loves her father, she appears unaware of the trouble her actions sometimes cause her father.
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Notes & Trivia[]
- She is named after the real-life Princess Marie Louise of Schelwig-Holstein, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria who later married Prince Aribert of Anhalt. It's implied that Maria is a descendant of her real-life counterpart.
Future Century Characters | |
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Shuffle Alliance Domon Kasshu - Chibodee Crocket - George de Sand - Argo Gulskii - Sai Saici | |
Devil Gundam Legion Kyoji Kasshu - Master Asia - Wong Yunfat - Gentle Chapman - Michelo Chariot | |
Neo Japan Ulube Ishikawa - Karato - Domon Kasshu - Kyoji Kasshu - Mikino Kasshu - Raizo Kasshu - Rain Mikamura - Dr. Mikamura | |
Neo France Raymond Bishop - Maria Louise - George de Sand - Jean-Pierre Mirabeau | |
Neo Sweden | |
Neo America | |
Neo Germany | |
Neo China | |
Neo Canada | |
Neo Russia | |
Others |