Gilliam Yeager

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  • Name: Gilliam Yaeger
  • AKA: Helios Olympus, Apollo
  • Voice Actor: ???
  • Status/Rank: Major
  • Theme song: Time to Come, Hero Chronicle
  • Related characters: Sanger Zonvolt, Ratsel Feinshmecker, Kai Kitamura (Close friends, former members of the Aggressors.)
  • Mecha: Gespenst, Gespenst R, Gespenst RV

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Personality And Traits

Gilliam is an enigmatic character. Very few others know about his origins. He is a serious man, given to always thinking things through before acting. Gilliam has a tendency to know much more than he usually lets on, due to his work in the intelligence division. He is close friends with the other members of the Aggressors, and often collaborates with them when the Hagane and Hiryu are dealing with other threats. Like Kai, he prefers to use heavily customized Gespensts.

History

Gilliam is unique in the fact that he may have actually been the same person in every game he's been in. This is because Gilliam has crossed through many dimensions in his travels, which lends itself to his already formidable deductive powers. His first appearance was the game Hero Senki, in which he first appeared as an amnesiac ally. Later in the game, he becomes the final boss, revealing his true name as Apollo. He reasons with the heroes that the world they are in should not exist; after all, what kind of world has monsters, cyborgs -and- mobile suits all existing at the same time? Apollo deems the world a failed experiment, and intends to undo, but he is stopped by the combined efforts of the protagonists. This is also the XN Geist's only appearance so far.

He later appears in SRW 4, as a cameo of sorts. This is presumably where he obtains intimate knowledge of the Inspectors and Guests, as well as some of the characters he later meets in Original Generations.

Gilliam also appeared in Battle Dodgeball, but this is considered non-canon by most.

He plays a much more significant role in the Original Generation Timeline. Appearing as an ally from the Federation early on in Kyosuke's route, Gilliam provides supplies and intel to the ATX team and Hiryu Custom crew as they make the jump to space. He clashes several times with his friend and former teammate, Sanger Zonvolt. After the resolution of the DC War, Gilliam returns to the background, gathering more information on the predicted alien attack. After he returns to the now united forces of the Hagane and Hiryu Custom, he and Radha Byraban deduce that their Aerogater foes are most likely brainwashed earthlings. Gilliam plays a fairly minor role in Original Generation 1, though if he fights Ingram or Levi, it is suggested that there is much more to him than meets the eye.

This is expanded upon in Original Generation 2. The Shadow Mirrors, an extra-dimensional faction bent on causing war to advance humanity, manifest themselves in the protagonist's universe after a narrow escape from theirs. It is later revealed that they managed to do this with the help of a system that Gilliam created when he formerly worked with them under the name of Helios Olympus- System XN. One of Vindel Mauser's main goals is to capture Gilliam and use him to stabilize the system, which doesn't work nearly as well without him. During Gilliam's first sortie against the Shadow Mirror forces, he makes several comments about this world also being in a test tube of sorts- though he has no intentions of repeating his past mistake. Indeed, in the final battle with Vindel, Gilliam reveals that he is -not- originally from the Shadow Mirror's universe, but was instead stranded there and trying to use the System XN to return home. After arriving in the Original Generation universe, he decides to abandon this pursuit and atone for his past sins, which are presumably his first transgression in Hero Senki and allowing the Shadow Mirrors to follow him.

In Original Generation Gaiden, Gilliam is instrumental in counteracting the Bartoll menace, using his impressive military connections to determine the origins and uses of the ODE system. He joins the fight directly after relaying this information to his allies. Later, Gilliam devises a plan to infiltrate the Swordian using its own technology against it. His previous knowledge of warping devices proves to be invaluable in using the Swordian Daggers to teleport past the energy draining field directly- a device which the Swordian's occupants themselves haven't quite mastered. He makes several ominous comments about Dark Brain's physical makeup, noting that an amalgamation of negative emotion given sentience and form is just like... something.

Trivia

  • It's become something of a running gag in recent installments to plug other Banpresto games during certain Save and Quit skits. In Original Generations, he recommends that the player try out Hero Senki, and notes that it's quite unlike him to make such a shameless plug. In Original Generation Gaiden, he plugs Super Hero Sakusen- ironically enough, a game he wasn't even in. In Moon Dwellers, Gilliam will ask the player to try Battle Dodgeball 2, mentioning that he and Roar will be on the final team, but it has nothing to do with Moon Dwellers.