Tieria Erde
| Tieria Erde | |
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| Gundam 00 character | |
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| Alias | Unknown |
| Nationality | Unknown |
Tieria Erde (ティエリア・アーデ, Tieria Āde) is a fictional character in the Gundam series, Gundam 00. He is the pilot of the GN-005 Gundam Virtue. His character is voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya.
Name
Whether the name Tieria Erde is the actual real name of the Gundam Meister is unknown, as very little is known about Tieria. However, considering that most of the Gundam Meisters are constantly referred to with their codenames, with their real names a Level 7 secret, it is likely the name "Tieria Erde" is also a codename.
History
Compared to the rest of the Gundam Meisters, Tieria is the most enigmatic, with none of his past explained. So far, his life and history before Celestial Being's public string of armed interventions is unknown.
Personality
Tieria seems rather stoic and distant, although also proud and arrogant. Constantly believing he has the best interests of Celestial Being in mind, he rarely acts out of impulse, and has little patience for the impertinent. To this end, he often clashes verbally with the other Gundam Meisters, as well as his "superior", Sumeragi Li Noriega, on topics ranging from insubordination to ideology. Tieria is often noted for being on an extremely high horse, looking down upon others. Tieria also shows an unnatural loyalty to Veda, the supercomputer of Celestial Being, which Tieria can directly interface with. This link between Tieria and Veda can explain Tieria's holier-than-thou attitude, and his belief that he is a judge of the members of Celestial Being.
Tieria is shown to also be rather intelligent, and capable of making competent snap decisions. His direct connection with Veda permits him to know more about Celestial Being than his fellow Meisters. Tieria is also an able strategist and tactician; when he reinforced Setsuna fighting against the Gundam Thrones, Tieria led Setsuna in effective formations to fight two-against-three against the Throne units.
He has an extremely rocky relationship with fellow Gundam Meister Setsuna F. Seiei; the former does not understand why the latter was chosen by Veda as a Gundam Meister, and believes Setsuna's brash actions and random insubordination will breach the code of secrecy of Celestial Being. On the other hand, Tieria has found much more common ground with the other Gundam Meisters, Setsuna and Lockon in particular, with the emergence of Team Trinity, whom Tieria dislikes immensely. The three have gone as far as to enter combat against the Throne Gundams without orders and fought in tactical formations, surprising the rest of Celestial Being, who thought Tieria was too disagreeable to work together well with Setsuna.
Veda
Tieria seems to have the ability to directly interface with Celestial Being's supercomputer, Veda. When this happens, Tieria's eyes glow with a rainbow-ish, digital hue that signifies a successful connection. The first time Tieria displayed such an ability was when Choubu, the Human Reform League's anti-Gundam squad, attempt to capture GN-005 Gundam Virtue; Tieria was forced to activate GN-004 Gundam Nadleeh, hidden under Virtue's armor, by interfacing directly with his Gundam's computer. This ability is later elaborated upon when Tieria interfaces directly with a Veda terminal onboard the Ptolemaios. This allows Tieria to access anything uploaded to Veda, including information and live video feeds from cameras connected to Veda. Tieria can also access the "TRIAL" system on Nadleeh, which permits him to control all Gundams connected to Veda. Tieria first activated this system when fighting Team Trinity, which Tieria used to shut down both Throne Eins and Throne Drei, declaring that neither Johann nor Nena Trinity were suited to be Gundam Meisters, and were to be sentenced to death. However, it would seem that, lately, Veda has been compromised by internal elements; Tieria found himself unable to access Level 7 information in Veda, an unprecedented occurrence, while Team Trinity seemed to have access to information in Veda.
