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Gauche Suede
Kanji

ゴーシュスエード

Rōmaji

Gōshu Suēdo

Alias

Noir the Marauder

Characteristics
Race

Human

Gender

Male  Male

Age

18 (At the start of the series)
23 (Present time)

Hair Color

White Smoke

Eye Color

Purple

Blood Type

O

Professional Status
Affiliation

Reverse

Previous Affiliation

Bee Hive

Occupation

Marauder

Previous Occupation

Letter Bee

Partner(s)

Roda (as Gauche)
Human Roda (as Noir)

Personal Status
Status

Alive

Relative(s)

Sylvette Suede (Younger sister)
Sylvette Suede (Mother, Deceased)

Debuts
Manga Debut

Chapter 1 (Gauche)

Anime Debut

Episode 1 (Gauche)
Episode 25 (Noir)

Voices
Seiyu

Jun Fukuyama

Image Gallery

Gauche Suede (ゴーシュスエード Gōshu Suēdo) is the Letter Bee who delivered Lag Seeing to the town of Cambel Litus. After joining the organisation Reverse and becoming a Marauder, he goes by the name Noir (ノワール Nowaru).

Personality[]

Gauche is a caring and enthusiastic Letter Bee. He is trying to become the "Head Bee," the Captain of the Letter Bees, so that he'll have enough money to help his sister fix her legs and to live peacefully.

History[]

Approximately twelve years before the story of Tegami Bachi began, Gauche Suede lost part of his Heart on the Day of Flicker, when the Amberground's artificial sun turned off for a brief period of time. It is revealed in Chapter 10 by Aria Link that Gauche's sister Sylvette was born on Day of the Flicker

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A young Gauche with Aria during Day of the Flicker.

He'd gone to the Hill of Prayer to pray for his mother and sister when Sylvette was born. The Day of The Flicker was the day when the government supposedly went out for an investigation and a modification of the man-made sun. Their mother died after Sylvette was born. Subconsciously, Aria says that to fill the void in his heart left by the missing shards of his memories of his mother, in which he lost while looking at the Artificial Sun on the Day of The Flicker, he started focusing all his attention on making Sylvette happy.

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Gauche strikes a gun at Zazie.

Plot[]

Gauche is Lag's rescuer, who first appears in chapter one. He is the Letter Bee that found young Lag Seeing marked as a letter in Coza Bel, a small town in Yodaka (the lowest class district in Amberground). He had to deliver Lag to Cambel Litus, a town in Yodaka, to join his aunt who was entrusted to take care of him. He serves as Lag's idol and inspiration to become a Bee himself.

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Gauche with his new shindanjuu, Gymnopédie.

In Chapter seven, when Lag first arrived at the Bee Hive, he learned that Gauche was no longer a Letter Bee. Gauche had gone missing following his transfer to Akatsuki, and had his status as a Bee terminated soon after. Whereabouts unknown, many presumed him to be dead. Lag made it his goal to find Gauche and bring him back home. Not long after, Gauche appeared before Lag on a mission. In a confrontation to steal Lag's letter, he referred to himself as a Marauder known as Noir, and appeared to have no memories of Lag nor being a Bee. His heart had been damaged in the time he was gone.

Frustrated and confused, Lag shoots a shindan at Noir's old cartridges. It is revealed that Noir had been unconscious for some time, and woke up in the base of Reverse with his memory wiped. A mysterious man reminded him he was a man named Gauche Suede, the first person to ever survive the "light," and assigned him an assistant, Roda, to re-inform him of his past and who he used to be. After receiving his shindanjuu Gymnopédie, the man assumed that he would have to wait for Gauche to recover his heart in order to fire shindan again. Surprisingly, Gauche could fire a shindan with no issue, much to the man's delight. Gauche asked the man what he should do. The man praised him as "Gauche," but Gauche told him to stop. He insisted that "Gauche" didn't exist anymore. The man named him Noir, and told him that he was now his Marauder.

As Noir, he traveled and stole letters from Letter Bees with his new assistant Roda. In volume 8, Lag, Zazie, and Connor meet Gauche again. Determined to recover his heart, Lag had prepared a special letter bullet to shoot Gauche with in hopes of bringing him back. After a scuffle, Lag shot Gauche, rendering him unconscious. The letter bullet seemed to have worked. Gauche received memories of Lag and his previous life. As the two were grabbed by the looming Gaichuu Cabernet, Gauche woke up briefly to instruct Lag on how to take it down, shooting a shindan in tandem before falling unconscious again. He was returned to Yuusari for recovery at the Bee Hive.

After spending several days being tended to by Dr. Thunderland, Jr., Gauche woke up. At first glance, it seemed as if Gauche was truly back, no longer the Marauder Noir. Overjoyed, Lag and Sylvette were inconsolable. Gauche was finally home after many long years. Even though he was slated to be returned to the Capital, the two were able to convince Garrard and Valentine to give them one more day to visit.

Happy to be reunited, nothing seemed to be wrong until Gauche used Lag's spirit amber as a conduit for his shindan in a fight. His whole heart went through Lag, who was able to see everything within it. He knew that Gauche was pretending, and at his core, he was still Noir. The only memories he had of his time as Gauche were the ones Lag had given him in his letter bullet. Lag confronted him in chapter 44, hurt and upset that he would lie to them. Bittersweet, Noir admits he wishes he was Gauche Suede. His life could be happy if he was Gauche. Despite this, his feelings about Sylvette and Lag were not a lie. He told Lag that it didn't matter that he was Noir, his heart was still true, and he still cared for the two of them.

In the anime, when Gauche was shot by Lag's Shindan, for a brief moment he acted like Gauche again and helped him defeat the Gaichuu before losing consciousness again. When he was in the "Bee Hive", he woke up after three days and told Lag he missed him and acted like Gauche for a day, where he went on a mission with Lag, and told Lag that he was sorry that he couldn't meet his mother, Lag forgives him and believes that Gauche has actually returned. However, the next day, he leaves the Bee Hive and returns with the Reverse team.

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Gauche Never Had His Heart Back

It is revealed in the episodes that Gauche only wanted to help the people who couldn't become spirit and not kill them, but Lawrence was planning on using them for the most powerful Gaichuu, that is when Gauche (Noir) teams up with Lag, Zazie and Connor. He fired his heart at Lag when they fell in another area below the Hill of Prayer, when Lag realized he only has Noir's memories and none of Gauche's, except for one which was the time Gauche met Lag's mother, to him he didn't know who was that woman but he mentioned that he felt pity for her. He helped Lag as Noir against the Cabernet, and nearly died in the process. In the end, he wanted to stay with the people who couldn't become spirit and bid farewell to the Letter Bees including Sylvette. However, in the manga, he stays in Yuusari after Cabernet's defeat and declares that he will help the Beehive change the government if that is their goal. At Garrard's request, he fires his shindan until memories of his time in Akatsuki appears. (Note the anime-manga event differences).

Relationships[]

Main Page: Gauche Suede/Relationships

Abilities[]

Kurobari

Kurobari, Gauche's Spirit Amber attack.

His Shindanjuu was previously the Nocturne 12 and Nocturne Op. 20. When he was leaving for Akatsuki, he gave it to Sylvette, and told her to give to Lag Seeing if he came one day. When he left for Akatsuki he bought a new large caliber rotating, rapid firing revolver Shindanjuu called Gymnopédie. His Spirit Amber is black. His dingo was formerly a dog named Roda, but he subconsciously named his assistant in Reverse after her.

Gauche's Spirit Amber attack is Kurobari(Black Needle). Later, as a Marauder, his Spirit Amber attack is Raven Black, in manga there's Kurobari and Shikkoku. The sound is comparable to a piano falling.

Quotes[]

  • "So... aren't you going to cry today...?" -Noir to Lag at the battle of Lament Town.
  • "I am Noir, the marauder... if you intend on hindering Reverse, Then I will take from you your life!" -Noir before fighting Lag.
  • "I'm sorry Lag, I can't deliver your words to your mother...." -Noir as Gauche Suede to Lag Seeing.
  • "Lag... now you're not a 'letter', but a man." -Gauche to Lag after delivering Lag.
  • "But our friendship is over now, Lag. I am marauder of Reverse. My name is Noir." -Noir to Lag.
  • "By risking my life, I'll definitely get you delivered to Campbell!! Because that's the job of a letter bee!!" -Gauche Suede to Lag Seeing when rescuing Lag from Bucker Gaichuu.

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