Gowther

is a member of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Goat's Sin of Lust. He is first mentioned to be engaged in a battle with the order of Holy Knights known as Dawn Roar.

Appearance
Gowther has amber eyes and dark red hair (sometimes depicted as magenta) that reaches just past his jaw. His usual attire consists of a striped gray long-sleeved shirt underneath a white sleeveless top, as well as a pair of dark pants and short boots. He has a very feminine face, and as such, am can be mistaken for a girl. Gowther also wears a pair of glasses with light frames and apparently cannot see without them.

From flashbacks and his wanted poster, Gowther is depicted as a large man, although he is still comparatively smaller than people of the Giants' Clan. His facial appearance is never shown, frequently adorning a set of full body armor with a helmet featuring a pair of horns, but with one broken. He is most noticeable for his massive spiked metal shoulder plates.

His Seven Deadly Sins Goat symbol is located on his right pectoral muscle.

Personality
During the battle between deformed Dale and Dawn Roar, Gowther first reveals himself, speaking in a distinctive emotionless manner. His expression never changes, being perpetually blank and his speech bubbles are distinctively square, as opposed to the round bubbles of everyone else. Despite his emotionless nature, Gowther does care about others, as shown when he protects Pelio from an attack from the Armored Giant. He is shown to be completely clueless and unconscious of others' feelings, not understanding the meaning of friendship. He often states things factually, not understanding how what he says can upset people. He decides to assist Elizabeth on her journey not because of a desire for justice, but because he feels obligated as a member of the Seven Deadly Sins. He enjoys reading heartfelt tales written by humans, and often acts out the scenes from the books.

Despite his title of Goat's Sin of Lust, Gowther has not yet shown any signs of lust-fullness. He has, however, displayed a cold and rather cruel side when using his Nightmare Teller technique on another person, remarking how fragile humans are when confronted with their deepest fears.

As Armando
When Gowther disguised himself as Armando, he displays an easily flustered attitude, and frequently plays with Pelio and his group. He demonstrates apparent gratitude towards Pelio for saving his life many years ago, and is shown to be willing to endanger himself to protect the young boy.

History
At some time before the betrayal, the Seven Deadly Sins met with King Liones with his young adopted daughter Elizabeth, whom Gowther remembered.

Ten years ago, Gowther, along with the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins, was summoned to the castle to meet with the Great Holy Knight, Zaratras. Believing they were there to discuss their defeat of the Troll Queen (as well as the unintended destruction of the Great Druid Altar), they were instead shocked by the gruesome discovery of Zaratras's body. All of them were then ambushed by the Holy Knights.

An unspecified amount of time later, Gowther encountered a monstrous, crazed creature while attempting to hide in the Ordan Forest. Sensing the beast's sinister power, he sealed it within his suit of armor. Later Gowther was found by a young Pelio outside of the village, collapsed and badly injured presumably from his battle with the beast. He was subsequently carried back to the village by Pelio, who continued to look after him until he was healed. Gowther decided to take on the persona of Armando, and was hired by Pelio's father to look after the young boy.

Introduction arc
Gowther's wanted poster is displayed on a board in Boar Hat.

Armor Giant arc
Gowther makes his first true appearance as the easily embarrassed Armando, reluctantly playing along with Pelio and his gang's role-play of the Seven Deadly Sins. The children's game eventually led them to the Boar Hat, with Pelio demanding as the "Captain" of the Seven Deadly Sins, to know why a bar was built in his village without his permission. Soon after the real Seven Deadly Sins appear, having just arrived in the town looking for news of their other members.

After an initial fright, the children took a liking to Diane, playing with her while Armando speaks with Ban. Apologizing for any trouble Pelio and his friends might have caused, though Armando is told by Ban not to worry, but that he should put a stop to the children's role-play of the Seven Deadly Sins, lest they anger the Holy Knights. The group is then interrupted by a roar coming from the forest, which Armando explains that the villager's attribute it to a mountain god. A townsman then arrives, hastily declaring that a group of Holy Knights was now searching through the mountains for a dangerous criminal. While the Seven Deadly Sins confer amongst themselves, Armando watches placidly, oblivious of the fact that Pelio and his friends have run off in search of the criminal and the Holy Knights.

As the children are traveling in the forest, Armando tries to convince Pelio to turn back since it's dangerous. Pelio gets upset at Armando and tells him he shouldn't have saved him in the past and continues to walk. Mera asks Armando what Pelio meant and Armando tells Mera how he met Pelio and the reason he's so loyal to him. "Gowther" later has been found at a mountain next to Ordan by the Dawn Roar. "Gowther" is seen standing on a whole group of knights that he easily defeated. Gowther and the Dawn Roar come to a stand off, and each side waits for the other to move so they can attack. But Pelio comes in and tries attacking "Gowther" with a sword, thinking that he was the dangerous criminal. "Gowther" then tried to smash Pelio, but Armando pushs him out of the way and got smashed instead, making the opening the Dawn Roar were waiting for.

As the battle begins, the Dawn Roar charges toward "Gowther." In response to this, the Seven Deadly Sins arrive to save "Gowther" from the Dawn Roar. Unfortunately, the Deadly Sins become overwhelmed by the Dawn Roar, and as a result "Gowther" gets damaged. As Weinheidt was about to send out a powerful arrow attack to Gowther, it was stopped by Armando who tells everyone that it was impressive that the Dawn Roar was able to damage the armor, but they might soon regret releasing the seal. Pelio then runs towards Armando, happy that Armando's uninjured, but Armando apologizes to Pelio for hiding his identity and reveals to everyone that he is the real Gowther.

The Dawn Roar think he is kidding, but Weinheidt confirms that he is Gowther due to the latter stopping his full powered arrow with his bare hand. Ban then walks toward Gowther and tells him he thought he was a big old man under the armor. Gowther was surprised to see that Meliodas had not aged in ten year. At first Gowther does not believe that the kid before him is King, but he quickly changes his mind when King transforms into his fat form. Threader gets excited to meet the Deadly Sins, but says that they are there for the Armor Giant's head. Gowther concludes that an all out battle would destroy the village, so he removes the armor giant's head and gives it to Threader to get him and the Dawn Roar to leave.

Threader accept the offer but told him that if he got the mission to take his head and left with his group. King then tells Gowther that he was surprised as he though he was sympathizing with the monster to which the Gowther does not understand. Gowther then tells everyone that the monster was most likely human which shocks them. The monster later gets up despite being headless and Gowther reveals that it was once a Holy Knight. Gowther than explain that he forced the monster inside his armor to tame it for a while and takes Pelio out of the battle field. When Pelio wakes up, Gowther tells him to leave the area since it is too dangerous for Pelio and heads back to the Deadly Sins to fight with all his power. Gowther then appear to Ban and Meliodas who were arguing whether to save the beast or not. Gowther saved Meliodas from the monster with a strange power like bow, growing on his arm.

Gowther revealed that he used his power Invasion where he trap the beast in an illusion world created from what his heart most desire to see, Ban's about to kill the beast until Meliodas stops him, saying that the beast is partly human but Ban does not listen and removes the beast heart with a whip. After the beast starts fighting again Gowther carries King after he's hit by the beasts Venom Spit but once Meliodas kills it, they all go back to the bar. Gowther then re-introduces himself to the group, particularly to Elizabeth, who welcomes and is pleased to meet him, then ask if she could use his strength which Gowther refuses, much to her shock. He then tells her that this was not the first time they've met since she met all the Deadly Sins when she was a youngrt to her surprised. Gowther then accepts Elizabeth offer as she is the princess.

Gowther watches the group having a party and is glad to meet everyone again/ Meliodas starts to chat with Gowther while mentioning how none of them are the same race and Meliodas proceeds to ask Gowther about what happened during the ambush ten years ago. He replies by using his power to look into his memories, saying that it was Merlin who attacked and rendered him unconscious. Meliodas is shocked that Merlin was the traitor and asks Gowther if he knows where Merlin is to which the latter does not know. Gowther then uses Invasion on everyone else and, much to their dismay, reveals their secrets: Diane true height, what Ban did during a past battle, and the reason why King cannot use his true strength, though King cut him off. Meliodas then tells Gowther to read the atmosphere, to which he does but asks everyone if Elizabeth is in love with Meliodas which King yelled at him for of them being killed by Diane, who fortunately turned out to have passed out from drinking.

Gowther spots Pelio to which Meliodas tells him to chat with the latter. Pelio hugs Gowther when they are alone and asked him to stay, which Gowther could not do since he has to be there for his teammates which Pelio thinks that Gowther is using it as a way to leave him. Gowther then shape back to Armando to explain to Pelio that Armando personality does not exist and that he bases his personalty on a traveling entertainer since Pelio enjoyed him and the hair style belonged to Pelio's dead mother. Pelio grows upset at Gowther for revealing such information and decides that, since he cannot stay, Pelio will become a Holy Knight to capture him and would not forgive him even if he apologize to him, but Gowther turns around and tells him that they would then meet again which makes Pelio break down crying.

Kingdom Infiltration arc
As Meliodas explain his reason to head to Liones and get his sword back, a mysterious Holy Knight appear out of nowhere and takes Elizabeth, saying she was the last key to the Coffin of Eternal Darkness. Meliodas orders Diane to throw him to Liones with Ban a deciding to go followed shortly by Gowther, saying he wanted to see the bond between Meliodas and Ban. Diane toss the Deadly Sins toward Liones at full speed. During the speedy flight, Gowther couldn't hear a word from Ban just said. Meliodas, Ban and Gowther just landed on Liones while running toward the kingdom. Holy Knights were aware of their arrival and sent out their Holy Knights to stop them. Meliodas told the Gowther and Ban that they mission is to save Elizabeth and to keep their fight to a minimum. Ban wonder if Meliodas' minimum well be going all out which Meliodas respond that he will go all out. As Meliodas and Ban continuously massacres every Holy Knight who attempts to stop them, Gowther keeps running.

The trio then stop when they feel a large power coming from the south side of the kingdom which turns out to be Camelot's army with their leader Arthur. Later, the trio continued to cut through the Holy Knights as they attempted to break through. Deciding to end this with minimal bloodshed, Gowther used his Sacred Treasure Herritt to overwrite the memories of the attacking Holy Knights and turned them into allies. Gowther explains his technique to the bewildered Meliodas and Ban who then told him not to use it on them no matter what, to which Gowther complied. The trio sneak away from the Holy Knights and goes into hiding in order to figure out a plan. Ban told Meliodas that they should head to the Liones castle because in fairy tale, the princess always get lock in underground prison. Meliodas agrees to the plan and they head to the castle as Melodas promise to save Elizabeth. The trio then sense a battle going on to the south gate which Meliodas decided to head over there, thinking Elizabeth could be there.

The trio sees a giant sharp rock appear in the kingdom, and realize it was Diane created by ability and thinking she could be in trouble. Gowther offers to go to the area and help her while Meliodas and Ban save Elizabeth. Gowther rushes towards Diane's location as fast as he can, but three Holy Knights fund and trap him in order to kill him. Gowther ask if they could fight somewhere else so they do not hurt the people, which the Holy Knights do not agree to, but Threader appeared and disabled them, but then begins fighting against Gowther. Threader starts attacking Gowther while the latter dodges his attacks. Threader then asks him if he believes in fate which Gowther says that things happen so is not fate. Threader says that he wanted to fight Gowther for so long, and was surprised to meet him so soon. But Gowther claims there is no reason to fight until Threader says that the Deadly Sins betrayed the king and grows angry because of their reason. Gowther stop his blade and tells Threader that he has to end this quickly, but Threader uses Overpower on Gowther, giving him the chance to break his neck.

Threader went into thought at how the king saved him until Gowther stood up despite his broken neck and saw his memories. Threader was shocked to see Gowther in good shape. Gowther told Threader that now they do not have a reason to fight since they both serve the Royal Family, but Threader refuses, saying that the Dawn Roar replaced the Deadly Sins which Gowther mistook as Threader being his junior and shake his hand which Threader shake it off. Gowther then asks Threader if the king really told him that the Deadly Sins are traitors which silences Threader. Though he then says that the king is sick and was not the one who told him, but the Great Holy Knights. But Gowther again ask if the king really told him, which shocks Threader upon realizing the truth and he walks away, realizing he made a mistake. Wasting no time, Gowther finally proceeds to the battlefield where he saved a now-renegade Holy Knight Guila in a bridal manner from Great Holy Knight Dreyfus's Pierce attack while firing a small light arrow on his arm. Gowther thanked Guila for protecting Diane, and went down to face Dreyfus which the latter point out Gowther ability as the most dangerous of the Deadly Sins since it is able to crush minds. Dreyfus rushs in and stabs Gowther through the chest with Break to stop Gowther before using his ability, but Gowther was still alive and punch Dreyfus and sent him flying. Gowther put a illusion on Dreyfus which turn into a nightmare for Dreyfus as he is seeing his dead brother and starts breaking down in tears, regressing into a child. Gowther stares coldly at Dreyfus, calling him a fragile human.

As Gowther was about to leave Dreyfus to his nightmare, the latter sense a dark pressure coming near. Before Gowther could react, Dreyfus broke free from Nightmare Teller and return back to the real world while Gowther lay down frozen, but thanks to Gowther, Dreyfus was heavy injured mentally and decided to retreat along with Gilthunder while Helbram fight them off. Meliodas mentions that Gowther's powers are fading due to his frozen state. When Helbram, after casting off his human form, attempted to kill a still-frozen Gowther, Diane and the others involved with the Sacred Tree's roots, King used Chastiefol's Form Eight Pollen Garden to protect them. As Hauser spoke of a idea of truce between the Deadly Sins and Holy Knights, Gowther seemingly regained consciousness and used Light Search on Hauser and said his words hold no deception. Hauser was alarmed to Gowther's sudden recovery and believed that he was stabbed through the chest but realized that he was healed thanks to King's Chastiefol: Form Eight Pollen Garden. Diane thanked Hauser for helping them, but Gowther mention that Hauser isn't doing it for them, but for Diane which Hauser denied while blushing. When Dreyfus accept the idea of the truce, Hauser was happy for Dreyfus, but Gowther ask the Great Holy Knight if it was other side that accepted the truce, to which the latter denies what he is talking about, and went off with the others to save Elizabeth.

Abilities/Equipment
During his fight against the Dawn Roar in Ordan, Gowther caught Weinheidt's charged arrow with his bare hands and sliced through armor of the Armored Giant with ease. Evidently, he is blessed with great strength and power despite his frail body frame. He possesses a set of enchanted armor which is able to suppress and prevent powers from becoming uncontrollable. Point-blank attacks and consecutive smashes by Dale and Diane respectively have shown to cause minimal damage. Furthermore, he is completely unaffected after Threader breaks his neck as he gets back on his feet and fixed his neck back to normal as if nothing happened.

Not much is known about Gowther's true strength as Gowther usually use his Invasion to trap people in illusion instead of fighting them directly. However, despite not fighting with his strength, Gowther is still known to be the most dangerous of the Deadly Sins due to his ability to break and trap minds, as proof to his fight against Dreyfus, a Great Holy Knight.

Twin-Bow Herritt
Gowther's sacred treasure; Herritt, is a twin bow made out of energy that can be summoned when Gother needs it. It draws out the capacity and works in conjunction with his ability, Invasion.

Abilities

 * Invasion: A power that allows Gowther to entrap his opponents within their own memories. It also grants him the ability to read the thoughts and memories of others.
 * Transformation: Gowther appears to have the ability to change his appearance to a limited extent, such as changing the length of his hair.

Meliodas
Gowther and Meliodas have a friendly relationship and he strongly respects his captain. He was willingly use Search Light to help Meliodas recover his lost memories of the incident ten years ago.

Diane
Gowther and Diane are both members of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gowther share a friendly relationship with Diane despite saying her secret out loud like her true height. Gowther has however shown to care enough that he left to help Diane in her fight against Holy Knights in Liones.

King
Gowther and King are both members of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gowther share a fairly close bond with King and are both somewhat serious in battle. He cares for King as a fellow comrade, and carries him when he was injured by Dale's Venom Spit.

Pelio
Under the disguise of Armando, Gowther and Pelio have a master and servant relationship between then, with the Deadly Sin taking on a motherly role. Despite Gowther emotionless nature, he is shown to care for Pelio, changing his personality and appearance to appreciate the young boy. Although Pelio states that he will become a Holy Knight and capture him in the future, Gowther is only cautious of the thought that they will be able to meet again in the future.

Elizabeth Liones
Gowther and Elizabeth have a friendly relationship. Gowther's reason for joining the Deadly Sins is because of Elizabeth's status of princess.

Trivia

 * Sir Gowther is a relatively short Middle English tail-rhyme romance in twelve-line stanzas, found in two manuscripts, each dating to the mid- or late-fifteenth century. The titular character is said to be the half-brother of the famed wizard Merlin.
 * Gowther is the first member of the Seven Deadly Sins revealed to have their symbol on the right side of their body, as opposed to the left.
 * Gowther is one of two people whom Meliodas did not recognize due to their armor, the other being Cain.
 * Gowther has bad eyes and is unable to see without his glasses.
 * Gowther enjoys heartfelt tales that humans write, often role-playing their events after he reads them.

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