High-ranking military official

Straight blond hair cut short tops a middle-aged face marked by a lengthy jawline, scattered wrinkles, and a thin mustache. His bright eyes appear noticeably sunken. Before his arrest he dressed in military uniform accented with a bolo tie, the marker of his senior standing.

Like his fellow assemblymen, he treats governance as a tool for guarding his own position, and the citizens of the Walls barely factor into his calculations. He supported dissolving the Survey Corps on manufactured pretexts to cement his grip on power. When Dot Pixis remarked that slaughtering humans struck him as madness, the aristocrat simply laughed and apologized through his amusement, quipping that another breach would certainly be unwelcome and revealing how little others matter to him.

He is among the four assemblymen flanking King Fritz when Erwin Smith is brought before the crown to answer for treason and the Survey Corps' continued existence hangs in the balance. During the audience he presses Dot Pixis over whether the Garrison commander played any part in the plot.

Anka's report that Titans have breached Wall Rose sends the council into rapid private discussion, and the officials swiftly agree to seal the gates rather than shelter refugees. Their talk turns to the Reiss family obtaining "it" within a few days, but Darius Zackly cuts the meeting short with the truth: no attack ever happened, the alarm was a test, and the assembly's reaction proves it unfit to lead. Soldiers arrest the official on the spot, removing him from power for good.