Muska and his agents pursue her and, not long after, Sheeta is recaptured just outside the mining town of Slag Ravine, along with the boy, Pazu, who saved her. She retrieves her crystal and escapes along the exterior of the airship, but ultimately loses her grip and falls. When Dola and her gang attack the airship, hoping to seize Sheeta's mysterious crystal for themselves, Sheeta takes advantage of the confusion and smashes a wine bottle over Muska's head, rendering him unconscious. In the beginning of the film, Muska and his men have kidnapped the young farm girl Sheeta and are holding her captive aboard a civilian airship. Muska also betrays General Muoro and the army, then even the other government agents when he no longer needs their assistance, and seems to have at least something of a sadistic side, as he reacts with a sort of triumphant glee to the destruction of Air Destroyer Goliath. When Sheeta continues to defy him, Muska reveals his ruthlessness: he kidnaps Sheeta twice, threatens Pazu to force Sheeta to cooperate, and shoots off Sheeta's braids in an attempt to frighten her into submission. However, his true objective is to get the Aetherium crystal belonging to Sheeta and, when he realizes that only she can use it, to force Sheeta to take control of Laputa for him. At first, he seems to treat Sheeta well, offering her fine clothes and acting somewhat kindly toward her. Muska is cold, calculating and duplicitous, and will turn on his allies once he has used them to attain his goals. Unlike Dola and her gang, Muska is uninterested in the treasures of Laputa he wants to find the island for the power it will give him. His design is similar to that of David in Katushiro Otomo's Steamboy.Īs a descendant of Laputa's royal line, Colonel Muska believes that he is entitled to rule Laputa and use it as a powerful weapon to bring the Earth under his control.

He is armed with what seems to be a Webley Mk VI revolver. He wears tinted glasses, a brown suit, a white shirt and a pale yellow cravat. Muska has light brown hair and hazel eyes.

My first love was a castle in the sky