Donovan Desmond

"Our children may share our blood, but they aren’t us. They’re essentially strangers. It is impossible to understand strangers. In the end… people will never truly be sympathetic with each other."

- Donovan to Loid and Damian in Chapter 38

Donovan Desmond (ドノバン・デズモンド) is the Chairman of the National Unity Party of Ostania and Twilight's current target. He is the main antagonist of the series.

Appearance
Donovan is a gaunt man with light skin and his eyes are wide and sunken, seemingly always very widely open so that they appear nearly perfectly circular, with extremely shrunken pupils and a complete lack of irises. His hair is black and combed back, appearing to be closely shaved on the sides of his head, with a lock of gray-white hair on his left. He has a noticeable lack of eyebrows and has a moustache. There is a line of scars at the sides of his head. The only time he is seen surrounded by people, his stature is revealed to be shorter than that of the adult men around him.

He wears a tan brown suit with a black tie that is held together using a brooch with a star-shaped symbol.

Personality
Donovan seems to place great importance on achievements as he is negligent towards his younger son, Damian. When Damian tries to question his father, Donovan simply lets out a long and audible sigh until Damian lets it go. Mysteriously, despite his great emphasis on the Desmond name, he is not offended and even disinterested in the fact that Anya hit his son. He is very cautious and rarely makes public appearances, but he regularly attends social gatherings at Eden Academy.

He believes that people can never truly sympathize with each other, even to the point of thinking of his own children as strangers. Loid alludes that this may be why he seeks to cause war, in order to control others through military force instead.

History
His portrait was displayed in Eden Academy along with the other Eden Academy alumni who were also imperial scholars; implying that he attended Eden Academy in his youth.

Donovan has previously made public appearances, however, he has disappeared from the public eye for unknown reasons and now he only attends to social gatherings at Eden Academy, the school both of his sons attend to. According to Loid Forger, Donovan is a former Prime Minister of Ostania.

Donovan is the father of Damian Desmond and Demetrius Desmond.

Damian Desmond
Despite his distant relationship with Damian, he agrees to meet with Damian after the Imperial Scholars Mixer for unknown reasons. When asked, he only answers that it was on a whim.

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