Editing Dilan

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{{Character
|name=Dilan
|image=[[File:Dilan KHIII.png|350x400px]]
|katakana=ディラン
|romaji=Diran
|fr=Dilan
|es=Dilan
|de=Dilan
|type=Entelechy
|charworld1=Radiant Garden
|game1=Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
|game2=Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
|game3=Kingdom Hearts III
|enva=David Dayan Fisher
|java=Yosuke Akimoto
|journalBBS=One of the Royal Guard who keep Radiant Garden safe. His savage looks belie a silver tongue and natural talent for manipulating the hearts of others.
|journalDDD=The human form of Xaldin, one of Organization XIII's Nobodies. In an earlier time, he was one of Ansem the Wise's apprentices and helped guard the castle.<br><br>He has awoken in Radiant Garden, but his condition remains unstable.
|s1=Xaldin
}}
{{Q|Radiant Garden shall not fall under the likes of you.|Dilan to an Unversed}}
'''Dilan'''<ref>Dilan's name is misspelled as "Dilin" in [[Ansem%27s_Reports#Secret_Ansem_Report_3|Secret Ansem Report 3]] within the North American version of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', but was corrected to "Dilan" in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix|Final Mix]] version.</ref> is one of [[Ansem the Wise]]'s six apprentices, and the human form of [[Xaldin]].

==Story==
===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
[[File:Where the Heart Goes 04 KHBBS.png|thumb|left|Aeleus and Dilan kick Isa and Lea out of Ansem's castle.]]
Dilan appears with [[Aeleus]], both guarding Ansem's castle, [[Hollow Bastion]], in [[Radiant Garden]]. [[Ventus]] first encounters them while he is looking for [[Mickey Mouse]], but they refuse to let him in saying that the castle is closed.  Dilan suggests that Ven should go home before [[Unversed|the monsters]] get him. Aeleus then spots [[Trinity Armor|an Unversed]], and both guards are about to attack it. Ventus runs ahead of them and begins chasing it, despite the guards' protests. They were about to go after Ven, but [[Even]] comes and openly wonders what will become of the castle if they leave. Aeleus and Even begin to argue, but Dilan reminds Aeleus that their duty is to protect the castle. Even then tells them that Ansem wants to see them and both guards head inside.

Later, [[Braig]] brings Dilan and Ansem to an amnesic [[Terra-Xehanort]], along with [[Aqua]]'s [[Keyblade]] and [[Keyblade Armor]] that had been left with him. Terra-Xehanort can only remember his possessor's name: [[Xehanort]]. While Braig takes "Xehanort" to Hollow Bastion, Dilan carries the armor and Keyblade for Braig.

Following Ansem taking Terra-Xehanort in, Dilan throws [[Lea]] and [[Isa]] out of Hollow Bastion.

===Between ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''===
About a decade prior to ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|game}}'', Dilan was still one of six apprentices to the ruler and scientist of Radiant Garden, [[Ansem the Wise]], alongside Braig, Even, Aeleus, [[Ienzo]], and Xehanort. Worried the [[darkness]] in people's [[heart]]s would eventually consume his world, Ansem began performing tests on Xehanort's heart. Eventually, he created a laboratory in his castle's basement for such experimentation, by the urging of Ienzo. 

However, Dilan and the other apprentices had their own intentions for the laboratory, and began conducting inhumane experiments on the human heart and the darkness within it. Such experimentation led to the creation of [[Heartless]]. Ansem quickly discovered their secret experiments and immediately ordered them to stop. One day, after being advised to review their research data by King Mickey, Ansem found that the effects of their experiments had become irreversible. Eventually, Dilan and the other five apprentices dabbled too deep into darkness through their continued experiments. Dilan, along with the others, was consumed by the darkness, producing a Heartless. However, the apprentices all had strong wills, and so Dilan also became his [[Nobody]], Xaldin. The six Nobodies formed [[Organization XIII]], and banished Ansem the Wise to the [[Realm of Darkness]].

===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===
[[File:Lea Awakens 01 KH3D.png|thumb|Dilan is revived, along with Even, Aeleus, and Ienzo.]]
Dilan returns to personhood following the destruction of his Heartless and Xaldin. He awakens within the [[Heartless Manufactory]] with Even, Ienzo, Aeleus, and Lea. Having not fully recovered, he rests with Even as Ienzo and Aeleus search Ansem's study.

===''Kingdom Hearts III''===
To help them in their search for leads to find [[Aqua]], Dilan shows [[Riku]] and Mickey the location in Radiant Garden where he found [[Terra-Xehanort]].

He soon after searches the town with Aeleus to find Even, who has gone missing.{{fact}}<!--kh3 ultimania says Vexen was turned before the end of KH3D, needs clarification--> However, neither of them are able to find their comrade.

The night before the second [[Keyblade War]], Dilan and Aeleus rush into the lab to see Ienzo with their former master Ansem the Wise, who has been returned to them by [[Demyx]]. As Ienzo apologizes to Ansem for their betrayal, Dilan is comforted by Aeleus.

Following the final battle with [[Xehanort]], Dilan and [[Aeleus]] in [[Radiant Garden]] watch as [[Naminé]] comes out of the lab after her examination by [[Ansem the Wise]], [[Even]], and [[Ienzo]], when [[Riku]] arrives on a [[Gummi Ship]] to pick Naminé up.

==Design==
Dilan is a tall, broad-shouldered man that wears a dark slate grey guard uniform, which is adorned with a curled heart symbol, and white gloves. The front of his jacket sports two rows of gold buttons, silver highlights, and a red and white heart like the one on his gloves. He also wears a belt and knee-high boots, both of which are black. Dilan's hair is black and worn in long dreadlocks. He keeps most of his dreads tied into a low ponytail, but one dangles over the right side of his face. He also has thick sideburns, though they do not hook over his cheeks like Xaldin's do, thick eyebrows, and violet eyes. 

Dilan wields a single [[lance]] with silver edges, a blue head, and a handle that alternates from violet to silver. The curled heart symbol is incorporated into the head of the lance.

==Personality==
While Dilan appears to bear similarities in personality to Xaldin, given his rather strict nature, his character seems to be much more benevolent and noble than his Nobody, demonstrated when he was willing to defend Radiant Garden from the Unversed and expressed genuine concern for Ventus's well-being after the latter volunteered to fight the Unversed alone. In fact, Dilan was only stopped from following Ventus by Even ordering him to return to his post.

A strong possibility is that Xaldin's hostile attitude towards Axel shown in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' is derived from Dilan's confrontation with Lea at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', whom he throws out of Hollow Bastion along with Isa for trespassing.

==Gallery==
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File:Dilan's Lance.png|Dilan's Lance.
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==Notes and references==
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