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In the Zero, the Deathscythe represented death for Duo. The one thing that he cherishes, he fears in that moment. Contradiction, right? But, there's a lot of contrasts in Duo's life. You guys might disagree with this, but I'm going to go ahead and throw in my two cents.

There are lots of ironies in Duo's life. He's grown up knowing death and believed there was never a God or miracle to save those he cherished. However, he still wants to have faith. He bears the priest attire and continues to preech about loving life, even as he takes on the role as the "God of Death". But, why does he do this? What's with the whole, "God of Death" stuff? What do you do when you're faced with an enemy you can't defeat? You cannot beat death. So.. Duo becomes that which he fears and hates so he's able to escape it. It's the only way he is able to save those around him.

The path to peace for the gundams is through killing. This creates yet more conflict in Duo's life. He fights to protect the colonies and to prevent them from sharing his past. But, in the end he is creating death. He's killing soldiers and leaving children without families. Children that may one day take the same path he has. There is no rationalization for Duo. He only knows that it is for the sake of peace, a life without war and death that he continues to fight. For this, he takes lives and creates distruction.

So why would Duo fear Deathscythe? He loves Deathscythe. It can't hurt him. Unlike Solo and Maxwell church, It'll never leave him alone and it will never die. It's a safe zone. But, Zero shows Duo the opposite. Zero takes what Duo cherishes and twists it back into what he fears. He's terrified. Duo is filled with cold fear. Shinigami is before him and he's lost control. He's alone. In his moment, his bond is lost as Deathscythe's turned into the one thing that's taken everything from him.

Death.

It comes from Episode Zero and was never included in the anime series from problems that came up. Episode Zero was written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa (the writer of the Gundam Wing anime), so it's been mostly accepted as canon information. Additionally, the fact that it was originally planned to have been included in the series supports it. However, because of scheduling issue, it didn't make it. crying

Ah, that's right. My bad. I was running on auto-pilot and just made the assumption that it was in Episode Zero. Those creaters, always mixing past information around and confusing me. rolleyes

I think there is a mini segment about Solo though, at the end of Duo's episode Zero in the summary. Then again, my memory could be failing me; It's been quite a while since I've read them.

Hope I can get around to purchasing them. Then again, my savings kind of died when I splurged on the entire DVD box set. crying

No, you're right: there's a little blurb about Solo in the notes after Duo's vignette in TOKYOPOP's release (don't have the untranslated Japanese version, I'm afraid), but it's nothing particularly in-depth.

Ouch, touchè, Lady Une. Maybe I should check the binding next time. mrgreen

If Trieze was confined within the Rommerfeller Foundation, and his actions were being severely limited, how did he acquire enough gundanium to build Epyon? And where did he get the plans for the zero system? Well, Zechs ended up using it too so did they just...get around?

Also, when you first see Epyon, you see Lady Une behind Trieze and that's after she's been shot. Is she really there? I mean, Trieze had already acknowledged her as dead. Was it only symbolic? Or something else?

She was there. End of Episode 28 in her blue outfit with a white rose and in the shadows encouraging him. I guess he was imagining. He offered up a red rose when he put down her pictures. Just a bit of trivia but the white rose is true love and red rose is passion. Just glad it wasn't yellow... That's friendship.