A petulant, whiny, spoiled, irritating 11-year-old brat on crack - the kind of annoying young child no one in their right mind would put in charge of babysitting his siblings, let alone commanding an elite army unit. Now that that's out of the way...

...Analysis of the REAL Dilandau Albatou follows below.

According to official stats, the equivalent of 15 Earth years. This appears to be considered adult on Gaea. (15-year-old Millerna, Episode 9: "I'm an adult now!") It is also the age at which Fanelian kings are traditionally old enough to be crowned, and it's apparently an age of marital consent.

15 has been/still is considered adult in some Earth cultures, too. (All of which makes better justification than "animé creators just have an obsession with high-school-sophomore-aged main characters" - which they do...)

(Personally, I'd suggest Dilandau should be more like 18-21, from his behavior and his leadership experience / responsibilities.)

Officially: Red, 8th Moon (Equivalent of August 8)

(Having known a number of Leos, I'd have to say the Fixed Fire Sign doesn't quite fit his highly Mutable personality either. A better fit IMO would be Gemini with lots of Aries / Fire in the chart, but that's my view...)

Magenta/"garnet".

White hair...reddish eyes.... none of this necessarily indicates that Dilandau is albino, IMHO. Believe it or not, I know a number of people with ty-negative albinism. Their hair is cream-colored (a bit yellowy), not silver-white. When albinism occurs with red or violet eyes (ty-neg.), the pupil of the eye is also pink. People with albinism always have problems with vision, and many have very low vision (20/200 is typical for ty-neg.) or are blind. Dilandau's eyesight appears perfectly normal, he has no problems with bright sunlight, and and his pupils are black.

Albino hair colors in humans range out from lighter-than-normal to pure white via the "blonding" track; human albino hair is not silvery.

Dilandau looks quite pale, especially in the bluish lighting of the 'Vione', but really no lighter than most people around him (And Zongi is far whiter.) It is quite common in the Animéverse for people (of all ethnicities) to have hair and (huge, round) eyes of many colors not found in our world, like aqua, pink, purple, green... Folken also has red eyes, Van has maroon eyes. And blue-eyed ash-platinum-haired people are generally also not albino either, so unless melanin can magically appear where there was none (as opposed to an alteration of existing features)...

Charismatic, arrogant, vain, smug, egocentric, maniacal, ruthless, violent, cocky, insubordinate, obsessive, impulsive, capricious, moody (did I leave anything out? ;-) ), prone to megalomania. "Does not handle frustration well" is an understatement. He's a petty tyrant, and rather sadistic. As a leader, Dilandau frequently punches or slaps his subordinates (contrary to popular belief, slapping is not a "feminine" behavior but instead a very practical one - it inflicts pain but virtually no damage.)

IMPORTANT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: Things he appears deficient in are: self-control, compassion, a conscience.

NOTE: As the series progresses, it starts to be apparent that at least some of this is facade.

Villain (Go away, Van!) *Ahem.* Leader of an elite military unit of Guymelef (mecha) soldiers known as the Ryuugekitai (DragonSlayers) of the Zaibach Red Copper Army. (Based on something Dilandau says in Episode 4, it appears that the Ryuugekitai have a prior history of hunting actual dragons, which may be where they got the name. I doubt they were created just to hunt down Escaflowne.)

More:
(psych report!)

The more the series progresses, the more glimpses one gets onto Dilandau's manic-depressive personality. He is actually one seriously unhappy person, and seems to thrive on adrenaline rushes in battle as a substitute for anti-depressants, as well as self-medicating with alcohol.

Dilandau is emotionally dependent on the Ryuugekitai, for all he that appears to treat them harshly. There's obviously more going on, because they are fanatically loyal to him, and care about his well-being. (In fact, they function rather like surrogate family.) They seem to know how much he needs them and that he really does care about them, although he probably would not admit it. (Dilandau definitely has trouble expressing his feelings.)

I don't know if it's canon or not, but Dilandau supposedly handpicked the DragonSlayers himself, often rescuing them from really lousy circumstances. (This would explain why they are all about his age, too... hey, there's some compassion! Ulterior motive: it also would ensure they are more grateful/loyal.)

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