Titan is a character in SolarBalls who debuted in The Moons of Saturn. He is Saturn's largest moon, and served as the main protagonist in two of his starring episodes, The Moon meets Titan and The Truth about Titan. He also served as the main antagonist in the Mission to Titan duology and the central semi-protagonist and the redeemed secondary antagonist of The Moon Revolution Arc. He was Saturn's favorite moon. He is also the birth place of Silicon-based Organism.
History
Titan started out as a kindhearted moon, with good intentions who was fascinated with the Earth. He seems to be accepting of Saturn even when he told him the theory about his rings. He was indifferent, but overwhelmed when he was deemed Saturn's "favorite moon", as well as the other moons also disliking him for being the "favorite moon". Despite this, he holds a charitable demeanor and has honest intentions.
However, Titan's fascination with the Earth did not pay off as he became very disappointed upon Earth telling him that moons should know their place. which was shown in Mission to Titan - Part 1. He was angered when Astrodude refused nicely when he unwittingly promised to search for life on him, and when the Moon explained why the Earth was acting like the way he did. He also tried to hide the fact that Astrodude was on his surface, and how he had forced him to stay there. Soon he changed, and in The Moons of Jupiter - Part 2, he agreed with Ganymede to take down the Earth. However, in The Moon Escapes, Moon reminds him of the life on Earth and once Callisto covered up for Moon and stated that she flung him out of the solar system, only then did Titan started to realize his wrong doings.
In The Moons of Uranus, he declares Earth, Uranus and Saturn as bullies, which seems like he has taken the wrong way and has become cruel. Titan went even further in The Moon Revolution - Part 2 , when he and the other moons decided to hold Earth's Moon hostage so that when the Earth comes looking for his moon, they can all attack him. However, in The Moon Revolution - Part 3, he experiences a change of heart after listening to the Earth’s speech and was seen smiling again for the first time, and calling down the attacks in the process. Despite this, Ganymede ordered the moons to attack. In The Moon Revolution - Part 4, Titan realizes that Ganymede has led him to the wrong way and protects the Earth from the asteroids thrown at him by the moons. He also had a brief fight with Ganymede, saying that he has turned his protest into a war and briefly gets defeated by Ganymede. Afterwards, he advocates that the moons should peacefully and productively improve their relationship with their planets instead of resorting to senseless violence.
In The Moon Club - Part 1, Titan, seeking for a new approach, decides to create a safe space for moons to discuss their relationship with their planet, but didn't include Ganymede and Europa. Later he gathered the moons around and tried to proceed with important things, however failed due to the moons starting the hide-and-seek game. He reflected on this and realized that most of the moons were kids and probably uninterested in solar system politics, pointed out by Titania. Then he engaged in the game and made the relationships in the club much closer. Pressured by everyone including Earth's moon, he eventually reluctantly included Ganymede and Europa into the club, and took their advice of going to the Sun. In The Solar System Trials - Part 1 he argued with Luna about this, showing his doubt on the reliability of Ganymede and Europa.
In The Solar System Trials - Part 2, he was shown to be easily controlled by emotions, place much importance on his opinion of Ganymede and Europa, and failed to defend for the moon side without biases. He was inclined to defend for the Earth, and tried to "change the topic of conversation too eagerly", as Callisto put it. Thus the moon side chose Ganymede and Europa as qualified representatives to go on with the trial.
Personality and Traits
Titan is one of the moons who has had the most development of his personality. He started out as mainly just curious toward the Earth, being indifferent to being known as Saturn's favorite moon, but also mostly uncaring about the other moons' troubles with their planet. After the events involving him and the Earth, his personality shifted. He grew more demanding, stubborn, sensitive, and private. However, he has many positive qualities too, being decisive, circumspect, and intelligent in decision making, as Deimos and Phobos had faith that whatever choice Titan makes would be the right one. Titan doesn't favor violence, but is capable of resorting to it when taken over by arrogance. This is shown when he initially favoring a strike, but eventually decides to take revenge on the Earth by joining the Moon Revolution plan to bombard him with asteroids. He captured the Moon and set up a trap for the Earth, intent on going through with that plan, only for his mind to be changed in The Moon Revolution - Part 3. Since then, he has been on good terms with the Earth and sympathetic to those who wronged him on the planets side, showing he can ultimately be forgiving when appealed to.
Subsequently, Titan becomes a very moderate figure in the contest between moons and planets, but still maintained his partial and sensitive personality as leader of the Moon Club, now applying it to Ganymede and Europa, forbidding them from entering the Moon Club, as well as generally trying to impose his own agenda, needing to be persuaded to participate in the hide-and-seek game and ultimately still doing his own thing during the game by sorting the moons by planet. He also showed tendencies of being too clingy and obsequious to his new friends, notably Earth, refusing to imply that he did anything wrong other than speak out of their own insecurity in the Solar System trials. Overall, his stubbornness still shows as he still refuses to admit that he himself did anything wrong, despite the Moon blaming him for the events of the revolution. In doing so he also ignored the grievances of the other moons by defending the planets excessively in contradiction to his original cause. This eventually led to every other moon agreeing that Titan should not be the representative in these trials. Ultimately, however, Titan still cares about the welfare of the moons and aims for a peaceful and pleasant improving of relations. He also showed sympathy upon the verdict that Ganymede and Europa had to leave the solar system, meaning he is fundamentally caring, even if his own selfishness can occasionally get in the way of showing it. In Search for Planet X - Part 3, however, he confessed that he had did something wrong when he just kept judging Ganymede and Europa. And he opposed to the Sun for banishing them, along with other moons and planets.
Trivia
- Titan is the second character and the first moon to be the focus of an arc.
- Titan hides his atmosphere, similar to Venus, albeit only partially with some orange clouds still visible, unlike Venus.
- Also like Venus, Titan's greenish-blue surface does not reflect how it truly appears in visible light, which would be orange. They both have atmospheres many times more massive than Earth's, completely obscuring any view of their surfaces from space with the unaided eye.
- Titan and Venus's surface appearances in SolarBalls are instead based off of false color images obtained with ultraviolet-infrared imaging and synthetic-aperture radar, respectively.
- He has an underground frozen ocean which contains silicon-based organisms (albeit unconfirmed in real life).
- He is the second celestial body in the show known to sustain life, the first being the Earth.
- He speaks with a Southern U.S accent, similar to Pluto, but less thick.
- In Mission to Titan - Part 1, Computer stated that "there are no killer robots this time". This is an error on Solarball's part - the European Huygens probe landed on Titan in 2005.
- However, the probe would not have necessarily been a threat to Astrodude.
- He is one of nine characters to have their own plush.
- He's the second character who suffers changes with his features after Earth. That is when Titan said that his underground oceans started to evaporate because he was heading to the sun along with Luna, Phobos and Deimos in The Solar System Trials - Part 1.
- As for Earth, he was freezing many times during some episodes.
- Titan was given the name Titan due to the belief that it was the largest moon in the Solar System, until more accurate measurements revealed that Ganymede was larger.
- He is the only moon known to have an atmosphere denser than the Earth's and also is called the most Earth-like celestial object in the Solar System.
External links
- Titan on Wikipedia.
