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Kira initially refuses to pilot the Strike again, but Mu persuades Kira to do it. During the following battle with ZAFT forces, Kira kills Miguel and the colony of Heliopolis collapses. Kira retrieves a damaged lifeboat<ref name="Flay"/>; Flay is among the survivors onboard. |
Kira initially refuses to pilot the Strike again, but Mu persuades Kira to do it. During the following battle with ZAFT forces, Kira kills Miguel and the colony of Heliopolis collapses. Kira retrieves a damaged lifeboat<ref name="Flay"/>; Flay is among the survivors onboard. |
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Throughout the series, Kira often confronts his friend [[Athrun Zala]]. Athrun joined Zaft after his mother was killed in the [[Bloody Valentine War#Bloody Valentine Incident/Junius Seven Massacre (February 14)|Bloody Valentine Incident]] and he tries to persuade Kira to join as well. Kira refuses, choosing to protect his friends who are onboard the ''[[Archangel class assault ship|Archangel]]''. |
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At [[Cosmic Era locations#Artemis asteroid|Artemis]], Kira is called a traitor to Coordinators by Eurasian Federation Admiral Gerard Garcia, who attempts to steal the ''Archangel'' and the Strike from the Atlantic Federation. |
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A twist of fate lands Athrun's fiancée, [[Factions of the Cosmic Era#PLANT|PLANT]] pop idol [[Lacus Clyne]], onboard the ''Archangel''. [[Natarle Badgiruel]] uses her as a shield to stave off ZAFT forces after they destroy an Earth Alliance fleet, killing Vice Foreign Minister George Allster, Flay’s father, in the process. |
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Kira later frees Lacus and with the help of Sai and Miriallia returns her to Athrun. Again, Athrun asks Kira to join ZAFT but Kira refuses. Kira is later court-martialed by the ''Archangel'''s senior staff, but all charges are dropped due to Kira being a civilian. |
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After Flay witnesses her father's death, she berates Kira for not saving him, accusing him of not fighting his best because his opponents are also Coordinators. Flay later apologizes, and shows affection for him, believing this will make Kira fight harder and kill all the Coordinators on her behalf. Kira's fighting becomes more violent, he enters [[List of Cosmic Era human enhancements#SEED factor|SEED mode]] for the first time and damages the [[GAT-X102 Duel Gundam|GAT-X102 Duel]], and scarring its pilot [[Yzak Joule]]. |
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When the ''Archangel'' rendezvous with the Earth Alliance's 8th Fleet, Flay, followed by Kira's other friends and then Kira enlist as Earth Alliance soldiers. Soon after, during a battle that results in the destruction of the 8th fleet, a fleeing shuttle of survivors from Heliopolis is destroyed by Yzak, who thinks it contains retreating Earth Alliance soldiers. |
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Kira is traumatized by his failure to protect the civilians. When Kira breaks down and cries, Flay comforts him and eventually the two of them have [[sex]]. They later grow apart as Kira becomes obsessed with protecting the ship, to the point that he begins sleeping in the Strike. |
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===Enter the Desert Tiger: Andrew Waltfeld encounters Kira Yamato=== |
===Enter the Desert Tiger: Andrew Waltfeld encounters Kira Yamato=== |
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| Kira Yamato | |
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| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED / DESTINY character | |
| File:Kyamato.JPG Kira Yamato in Gundam SEED | |
| First appearance | Gundam SEED episode 1 |
| Last appearance | Gundam SEED Destiny "Final Plus" episode |
| In-universe information | |
| Relatives | Caridad Yamato (adoptive mother/aunt)[1] Haruma Yamato (adoptive father/uncle)[1] Ulen Hibiki (father, deceased) Via Hibiki (mother, deceased) Cagalli Yula Athha (twin sister) |
| Nationality | Orb Union [GS/GSD] |
Kira Yamato (キラ・ヤマト, Kira Yamato) is a fictional character in the Gundam universe. He is the main protagonist of the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
Kira, along with five other notable mecha and pilots from the various Gundam series, were recognized in the second set of "Anime Heroes and Heroines" stamps, released in Japan in 2005.[4] Kira has done well in Anime Grand Prix popularity polls for favorite male characters. He came in 1st in 2002 [5], 2nd in 2003 [6], 2nd in 2004 [7], 1st in 2005 [8], and 2nd in 2006 [9].
Kira is a first-generation Coordinator.[2] At the beginning of Gundam SEED, Kira lives on the neutral space colony Heliopolis to avoid the Bloody Valentine War.[2] An expert in computer science,[2] he assists with research and development at the Heliopolis technical college[10] he attended. In both Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny, his friendship with Athrun Zala forms one of the main themes of the story.
Gundam SEED
Crossfire at Heliopolis
At the beginning of the Gundam SEED series, Kira lives on the neutral colony of Heliopolis where he attends a college with his friends Sai Argyle, Kuzzey Buskirk, Miriallia Haw, and Tolle Koenig. Kira is also attracted to Sai's fiancée, Flay Allster. Kira owns a robotic pet bird, Birdy (Torii (トリィ) in the Japanese version), which was given to him three years earlier by his childhood best friend, Athrun Zala, who built it.
Heliopolis is attacked by ZAFT forces. During the evacuation of civilians, Kira is separated from his friends and follows a mysterious female stranger, who he later pushes into an evacuation "shelter".
Kira eventually finds two prototype mobile suits, the GAT-X105 Strike and the GAT-X303 Aegis, and a battle taking place between Earth Alliance soldiers and the ZAFT special forces team in the factory. While Kira helps an Earth Alliance officer, Murrue Ramius, he recognizes one of the ZAFT soldiers as his old friend, Athrun. The two friends are stunned by each other's presence. Murrue attempts to shoot Athrun, but he captures the Aegis and escapes, while Murrue and Kira board the Strike.
Outside the factory, ZAFT pilot Miguel Aiman attempts to capture the Strike using his ZGMF-1017 GINN mobile suit. Murrue is no match for Miguel, and seeing that his friends are endangered by this battle, Kira takes control of the Strike which forces Miguel to retreat.
After the battle, Murrue tells Kira and his friends that they have to stick with her because they have stumbled upon an Earth Alliance military secret. They are then attacked by Rau Le Creuset. Kira forces Rau to flee and they are joined by Mu La Flaga, Natarle Badgiruel, and several other Earth Alliance survivors of the raid on Heliopolis.
Kira initially refuses to pilot the Strike again, but Mu persuades Kira to do it. During the following battle with ZAFT forces, Kira kills Miguel and the colony of Heliopolis collapses. Kira retrieves a damaged lifeboat[10]; Flay is among the survivors onboard.
David is gay!!
Enter the Desert Tiger: Andrew Waltfeld encounters Kira Yamato
After the Archangel lands in North Africa, they are attacked by a ZAFT squadron lead by the Desert Tiger, Andrew Waltfeld. At first Kira cannot pilot the Strike properly in the desert, but he reprograms the Strike's operating system to adapt to the environment.
Resistance group Desert Dawn intervening and the ZAFT forces retreat. Kira is reunited with Cagalli Yula Athha, the girl he helped escape from Heliopolis. Cagalli has been worried about him and is shocked to see him piloting a mobile suit.
After a squadron of ZAFT's TMF/A-802 BuCUEs under the command of Andrew destroy the town of Tassil, Cagalli and other members of the Desert Dawn recklessly chase after them. Several resistance fighters, including Cagalli's friend Ahmed El Fasi, are killed, though Kira arrives in time to save Cagalli. After the battle, Kira argues with Cagalli.
Later, the two of them are sent to gather supplies. As they sit down for lunch, they meet a disguised Andrew Waltfeld. Blue Cosmos terrorists attack, targeting Andrew. In the confusion, Kira saves Andrew from being shot in the back. Andrew thanks Kira, and he sheds the disguise, Cagalli realizes who he really is.
Andrew's girlfriend Aisha takes Cagalli to get cleaned up and then brings her back in an elegant dress. When Cagalli confronts Andrew, he pulls out a gun and asks Kira if a war will end when all of your enemies are destroyed. Andrew says he does not know why Kira is fighting his own kind, but as long as Kira pilots the Strike, they are enemies. He then puts the gun away stating that his home is not a battlefield and that Kira had saved him. He lets Kira and Cagalli leave.
Kira and Andrew find it difficult to fight in the next battle, where Andrew pilots the new TMF/A-803 LaGOWE to face Kira personally. Kira asks Andrew to stop because the battle is over, but Andrew is determined to keep fighting until one of them is dead. Kira activates his SEED abilities and destroys the LaGOWE that Andrew is piloting. Kira cries after the LaGOWE explodes because he did not want to kill Andrew.
Flight over the Indian Ocean: The winds of change
While traveling on the Indian Ocean, Kira remembers his final battle with Andrew, the death of Flay's father, and the destroyed civilian shuttle and begins to cry. Cagalli hugs him and tells him everything will be okay, and finds herself holding his hand. She tells him not to get the wrong idea, as she simply wants him not to cry anymore.
She asks why he is with the Earth Alliance when he is a Coordinator. He recalls being asked that many times. Flay hears their voices, and leads Kira away, obviously jealous of Cagalli.
Later, when the Archangel is undergoing repairs at Orb, Kira ends his relationship with Flay. It is unclear whether he realized she was manipulating him or not. He also meets Athrun, who is spying to see if the Archangel is in Orb. Although Athrun knows Kira is the Strike pilot, he does not reveal this to the others in his ZAFT team.
Kira helps Orb create an OS for Naturals to pilot mobile suits based on the Strike's combat data. This gives the Orb M1 Astrays superiority over the latter Earth Alliance Strike Daggers.
Before he leaves Orb with the Archangel, Cagalli shows Kira that his parents are watching him depart. Kira asks Cagalli to apologize to them for him, explaining he cannot see them right now, especially when he might say things that he may regret. Kira tells her to be safe and thanks her. As he turns to go inside the Archangel, Cagalli embraces him and tells him not to die and to come back to see her again, which Kira promises.
Kira and Athrun: A tragic duel
While en route to the Earth Alliance Alaskan base JOSH-A, the Archangel is attacked by Athrun and his comrades. Kira damages all of ZAFT's opposing mobile suits, then accidentally kills Nicol Amalfi, a close friend of Athrun's and pilot of the GAT-X207 Blitz, when Nicol tries to protect Athrun. In their next battle, Kira's friend Tolle Koenig is killed when Athrun destroys the FX-550 Skygrasper he was piloting. Kira and Athrun activate their SEED abilities and try to kill each other to avenge their dead friends. Kira is seriously injured when Athrun attaches the Aegis to the Strike and bails out before the Aegis self-destructs.
Acquiring a new mobile suit: The ZGMF-X10A Freedom
Although believed dead, Kira ends up in the PLANTs in the mansion of Lacus Clyne. The anime does not explain how he ends up in Reverend Malchio's garden, but makes it clear that Malchio had brought him to the Clynes. The Gundam SEED manga[clarification needed] shows Kira stagger to Malchio's before collapsing. In Gundam SEED Astray, he is pulled from the wreckage of the Strike by Junk Guild member Lowe Guele, who turns Kira over to Reverend Malchio, a friend of the Clyne family (Kira thanks Guele when ReHOME delivers supplies for the Three Ships Alliance later in the war).
During this time, Lacus tells Kira that he is safe and that he can stay as long as he wants to. However, he overhears a message to Lacus' father Siegel Clyne, from Council member Eileen Canaver that PLANT chairman Patrick Zala lied about ZAFT's newest major operation and that the bulk of ZAFT forces are actually on their way to crush JOSH-A in Alaska, the main base of the Earth Alliance military and where the Archangel is currently stationed. Kira decides to leave PLANT and save his friends onboard the Archangel. Lacus helps Kira enter a ZAFT base and gives him the ZGMF-X10A Freedom, then kisses his cheek.
Kira returns to Earth. During the Battle of JOSH-A, Murrue warns Kira about the underground Cyclops system and Kira alerts both ZAFT and Earth Alliance soldiers of the impending danger. Yzak Joule refuses to believe him and attacks Kira with the Duel. Even though Yzak killed the refugees, Kira refrains from killing him. Instead, he disables the Duel and saves Yzak from the Cyclops blast, keeping with his vow to limit casualties for any and all sides on the battlefield.
After the Battle of JOSH-A, the Archangel defects to Orb. In Orb, Cagalli, the daughter of the country’s leader Uzumi Nara Athha, tearfully embraces Kira, calls him an idiot, and admits she feared he was dead. Kira reminds her that he kept his promise to return.
Later, Athrun decides that Kira is not his enemy. Using the ZGMF-X09A Justice, Athrun aids the Archangel during the Earth Alliance's invasion of Orb. After staving off the Earth Alliance, Athrun and Kira call a truce to discuss the situation. They acknowledge that Nicol and Tolle did not deserve to die, and that they had wanted to kill each other despite being best friends, in order to avenge the deaths of their comrades. Kira asks Athrun to join Orb, so they can eventually put an end to the war.
The Earth Alliance attacks Orb again. Uzumi Nara Athha gives Cagalli a photograph of her and Kira when they were infants and tells her that although she is leaving her father she will not be alone, for she will be with her brother. Uzumi Nara Athha sacrifices his life in order to prevent the Earth Alliance from getting their hands Orb's mass driver.
After the Archangel and the Kusanagi escape into space, Cagalli shows Kira the photo. He is shocked, especially since the woman holding them is not Caridad Yamato, the only mother he has known.
Rise of Three Ships Alliance and the Mendel Colony conspiracy
Eventually the Archangel, the Kusanagi, and the Clyne Faction's stolen ZAFT ship Eternal ( commanded by Kira's former adversary Andrew Waltfeld), form the Three Ships Alliance, supported by Kira's stolen Freedom and Athrun's Justice mobile suits. In the Astray manga, this group receives assistance from the Junk Guild, and the prototype Archangel tender ship turned Junk Guild vessel ReHOME serves as a tender ship for the Three Ships Alliance.
During the Battle of Mendel, Kira learns from Rau Le Creuset that Caridad and Haruma Yamato are not his biological parents. His true parents were Ulen and Via Hibiki, geneticists who are both deceased. He also learns that he is the Ultimate Coordinator; his fetus was artificially developed outside his mother's womb, and all his genetic enhancements are exactly as they were intended to be. He is the only fetus to be successfully developed using the apparatus. Kira also learns that Cagalli is indeed his twin sister, who was born naturally and not genetically altered.
After this, Kira is shocked when he learns that Flay, whom he had believed was transferred from the Archangel along with Natarle Badgiruel before the Battle of JOSH-A, is in a nearby lifepod. Flay says she has something that will end the war and weeps with joy on hearing Kira's voice again, since she thought he was dead.
Kira fails to retrieve her lifepod because the Freedom is beheaded by the GAT-X252 Forbidden and GAT-X370 Raider after Kira recklessly tries to get to Flay before everyone else does. Flay is brought onboard the Dominion instead. As Forbidden and Raider pilots Shani Andras and Clotho Buer continue their assault on Kira, he is saved by Athrun and Dearka Elsman.
After making it back to the Eternal, Kira looks at Lacus, ends up seeing Flay instead and passes out. When he wakes up, looks at Lacus again and he imagines seeing Flay naked. Before Cagalli can about to ask Kira about the photo of the two of them when they were babies, Athrun takes her outside, leaving Kira and Lacus alone together. Kira cries himself to sleep in Lacus' lap.
Battle at Jachin Due
Three Ships Alliance help in ending the Bloody Valentine War. Just before the final battle, Lacus helps Kira come to terms with his true origins and admits her love for him by giving him the ring that belonged to her mother. Kira responds with a thanks for her support and kisses her on the cheek.
In the final battle at Jachin Due, Kira fights both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance, assisting in the destruction of the Earth Alliance's Peacemaker Nuclear Taskforce's motherships. Kira later battles Rau Le Creuset, who now pilots the ZGMF-X13A Providence. While fighting Le Creuset, Kira again hears Flay cry out from an escape vessel and backs out of the fight in an attempt to rescue her. Instead of going after Kira, Le Creuset attacks the escape vessel. Kira stops Le Creuset's first attack and sees Flay, who has tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. While Kira is distracted, one of Rau's DRAGOONs fires from above and destroys the vessel, killing Flay. Kira cries out in anguish, realizing Flay's death could have been prevented if he had not lost focus.
Enraged over Flay's death, Kira activates his SEED mode and stops Le Creuset from destroying the Eternal and Kusanagi. Though the Freedom is heavily damaged in the renewed fight, he mortally wounds Le Creuset and the Providence is destroyed by the sabotaged ZAFT superweapon GENESIS. While Kira drifts aimlessly in space outside of the Freedom, it is revealed that he was wearing the ring Lacus gave him as a pendant on a necklace. He is later rescued by Cagalli and Athrun.
Gundam SEED Destiny
Kira has been living on a secluded island (one of the Marshall Islands) in Orb territory since the end of the war.[3] He and Lacus have spent the last two years after the war assisting Reverend Malchio and Kira's adoptive mother with his orphanage.[3] The Junius Seven Colony Drop Incident, which triggers the Second Bloody Valentine War forces the group to move in with Murrue Ramius and Andrew Waltfeld at their shared mansion in Orb.
The mansion is destroyed by an unknown force of Coordinators trying to assassinate Lacus. The attempt on Lacus's life forces Kira to once again pilot the Freedom and participate in combat in order to protect his loved one, despite Lacus's reluctance in him taking up arms again. He still abides by his policy to limit casualties, by disabling the opposing mobile suits in SEED mode, though the pilots then self-destruct their machines briefly shocking him.
Orb joins the Earth Alliance, forcing Kira and Lacus return to the Archangel and take up secretive residence in the Kingdom of Scandinavia. Before leaving Orb, Kira kidnaps Cagalli from her arranged marriage to Yuna Roma Seiran, despite Cagalli's initial objections. He also helps Cagalli realize her mistake in letting Orb side with the Earth Alliance and helps her come to terms with her errors in judgement, despite her good intentions.
Return to the battlefield
After a period of being part of the Archangel crew, Lacus decides to go into space to investigate what is going on, although Kira initially objects as he would not be able to watch over her, she assures him she will be careful and holds him to reassure him. Lacus, Andrew, and the shuttle they have stolen are nearly shot down, but Kira protects them.
Kira continues to fight in the rebuilt ZGMF-X10A Freedom. His first sortie with the Archangel is in the Dardanelles, trying to stop the OMNI/Orb offensive against the ZAFT battleship Minerva. He destroys the Minervas main "Tannhäuser" cannon, causing severe damage to the ship, Kira then disarms several mobile suits on both sides of the skirmish.
Kira is blamed for causing the death of ZGMF-X2000 GOUF Ignited pilot Heine Westenfluss by the hands of ZGMF-X88S Gaia pilot Stella Loussier (both were trying to attack Kira and Heine got in Stella's way).
Kira, accompanied by Cagalli and Miriallia Haw, secretly meet with Athrun in Crete, where they are spied on by Lunamaria Hawke. Athrun says they will not end the war by their methods and Cagalli must return to Orb if she wants Orb to leave the Earth Alliance. Kira tells Athrun that he distrusts ZAFT's leader, Gilbert Durandal, since Lacus was targeted by a special ops team of Coordinators using newly designed ZAFT Mobile Suits. Though Athrun returns to ZAFT, both sides are affected by the other's words.
Kira intervenes again in the Earth Forces/Orb battle with the Minerva in Crete, where he saves the Minerva from a possible finishing blow. Kira confronts by Athrun in the ZGMF-X23S Saviour. Due to the situation around them, primarily his distraught twin sister, Kira declares that if Athrun thinks that the Archangel's presence in trying to stop the battle is pointless and that Cagalli is to blame for Orb's path, then that makes Athrun his enemy. Kira easily defeats Athrun this time, and dismantles the Saviour, taking care not to injure Athrun.
Freedom's last battle
Kira and the Archangel soon go to Berlin to fight against the monstrous GFAS-X1 Destroy, and are eventually joined by the Minerva, along with Shinn Asuka's Impulse. Kira kills Stella Loussier, the pilot of the Destroy. This saves the lives of many, including Shinn. Shinn, who was in love with Stella, plans to destroy Kira in revenge.
Soon after, PLANT Chairman Gilbert Durandal orders the destruction of the Archangel and the Freedom during the mission code-named "Operation: Angel Down". The Minerva participates reluctantly, but Shinn Asuka is eager for revenge.
Freedom is attacked by Shinn and his ZGMF-X56S Impulse, who has prepared for this battle. Taking advantage of Kira's unwillingness to kill and Impulse's ability to replace damaged parts on-the-fly, Shinn defeats Kira. Kira shuts down Freedom's nuclear reactor before losing consciousness and is retrieved from the ocean by Cagalli in the MBF-02 Strike Rouge.
ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom
Soon after, Athrun Zala and Meyrin Hawke defect from ZAFT after being framed by Rey Za Burrel and Gilbert Durandal. While they recover from being shot down., Lacus and her ship Eternal come under attack by newer ZAFT's Zaku and Gouf squadrons after investigating the remnants of the space colony Mendel for clues about Chairman Durandal's plans. Kira rushes into space in Cagalli's Strike Rouge mounted on booster rockets, but the Strike Rouge is seriously damaged from numerous attacks.
Andrew Waltfeld provides cover in a ZGMF-X88S Gaia and tells Kira to go into the Eternal to pick up his new unit. On the Eternal, Kira and Lacus are reunited and she presents Kira with the newly constructed ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom albeit with some hesitation. He uses his new mobile suit to disable the attacking forces.
Kira then returns to Earth with the Strike Freedom to help Cagalli defend Orb, which is under ZAFT attack because Yuna Roma Seiran and his father Unato had provided refuge for the Logos leader Lord Djibril. Lacus Clyne flies down in the ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice to deliver it to Athrun Zala.
Second Battle of Orb
Shinn in the Destiny tries to defeat Cagalli's ORB-01 Akatsuki, when Kira arrives to defend her. While Cagalli withdraws to deal with the political situation, Kira and Shinn battle. After Shinn has to withdraw back to the Minerva, Kira then disables many of the ZAFT mobile suits invading Orb. Shinn relaunches accompanied by Rey in the Legend. They double-team Kira until Athrun arrives in Infinite Justice, after which Kira faces off against Rey's Legend, while Athrun engages Shinn in melee combat.
After the ZAFT forces withdraw, Athrun loses consciousness. Kira, in Strike Freedom, catches the Infinite Justice in mid-air, preventing him from crashing. Back aboard the Archangel, Kira removes Athrun's helmet and flight suit, revealing that Athrun's wounds have re-opened and are bleeding profusely. Kira then orders a stretcher to bring Athrun to the Archangel's sick bay, where he recovers, tended to by Meyrin.
Return to space
Lord Djibril escapes into space during the battle. ZAFT forces withdraw from Orb and the Minerva is sent to reinforce the ZAFT Lunar Team's attempt to destroy the Earth Alliance's Lunar-Based Laser Cannon, "Requiem" which has fired and destroyed some of the PLANTs.
During that time, Kira is promoted to Admiral and appointed as the Commander of the Orb Space Fleet. The Archangel is also officially commissioned into the Orb Military Fleet and assigned as Kira's flagship. Archangel is ordered to the lunar city of Copernicus to gather intelligence on Durandal's operations. Cagalli stays in Orb to coordinate the recovery and lead the country.
The Archangel returns to space and docks at Copernicus City. Kira, Lacus, Athrun, and Meyrin attempt to gather intelligence under the guise of a shopping trip. There, they receive Meer Campbell's red Haro containing a message from Meer saying she is afraid of being killed. Athrun and Meyrin suspect it is a trap, but Lacus insists on meeting Meer.
It is a trap. Sarah, Meer's bodyguard, has organized a team of assassins to kill Lacus. Athrun, Kira, and Meyrin fight them off, protecting Lacus and Meer. Athrun requests backup from the Archangel which sends Mu La Flaga (Neo Roanoke) to aid them in the ORB-01 Akatsuki. After his arrival, the badly injured Sarah, makes a final attempt to kill Lacus, but Meer is mortally wounded instead.
Shortly after Meer's funeral, Durandal announces his "Destiny Plan" to the world and his vow to eliminate anybody who does not follow him. Orb, the Kingdom of Scandinavia, and the Atlantic Federation all denounce Durandal's plan. Orb orders their space fleet to stop Durandal from accomplishing the "Destiny Plan" and prevent the destruction of Orb.
Battle of Messiah: Assault on REQUIEM
In the final battle, Kira orders Athrun and the Archangel to disable the Requiem directly, while the Strike Freedom confronts Rey's ZGMF-X666S Legend. Kira tries to persuade Rey to stop fighting and supporting Durandal before disabling the Legend. After that, the Strike Freedom attacks the space fortress, Messiah, leading to its eventual destruction.
Kira then exits the Strike Freedom and searches for Gilbert Durandal in the command center of Messiah. While they are talking and pointing guns at each other Talia Gladys, the captain of the Minerva as well as Durandal's lover, and Rey Za Burrel, who has been Gilbert's most dedicated follower, also arrive and draw pistols. Rey shoots Durandal, he had been enlightened by Kira's words and dreams of a future, which would have been suppressed by Durandal's Destiny Plan. Before Kira leaves the Messiah, Talia Gladys asks Kira to tell Murrue Ramius, her Archangel counterpart, that she has a son and she wishes Murrue to meet him someday. Kira agrees and leaves the Messiah in Strike Freedom before it falls onto the moon surface and explodes. Talia and Rey stay with Durandal.
Aftermath
Afterwards, at the ravished Orb memorial previously visited by Shinn and Kira in episode 8, Athrun introduces Kira to Shinn as the pilot of Freedom. Shinn is stunned by the identity of the pilot whom he tried to defeat numerous times, and previously met before without that knowledge. Kira asks Shinn to make peace with him and asks Shinn to join him and Athrun in the fight for humanity's peace. A crying Shinn agrees.
In the ending credits of Gundam SEED Destiny: Special Edition IV, Kira is wearing a white ZAFT uniform reserved for important military officials. When Kira and Lacus saw each other in the PLANTs they immediately rushed towards one another and hugged each other, surprising most of the people present.
Other
The Astray X manga features mercenary Canard Pars, the only failed Ultimate Coordinator prototype known to survived. Canard, consumed by an inferiority complex and hatred towards Kira, and constantly thought fruitlessly searches for him with the intention to defeat him and become the true Ultimate Coordinator. During the course of the series he abandons this goal and finally comes to terms with himself. It is unknown whether Kira is aware of Canards existence.
Fighting and piloting skills
While lacking any true form of military training, Kira's fighting prowess has developed much as the series progresses. In the original Gundam SEED series, Kira is shown to be inexperienced with handguns, preferring not to use them. He even has to be reminded by Mu to remove the safety on his gun in episode 44 while in pursuit of Rau on Mendel station. He is shown as a skilled unarmed fighter, however, and is extremely effective with his mobile suit's artillery. In Gundam Seed Destiny, his handgun skills improve dramatically as seen in the second assassination attempt on Lacus Clyne.
His implied status as a person with high spatial awareness ability also has an impact on his fighting abilities.
In Super Robot Wars Alpha 3
Kira is one of the Gundam SEED characters who appears in the Super Robot Wars Alpha finale - Super Robot Wars Alpha 3: To the edge of the galaxy. While his stats are boosted once he goes into SEED mode at 140 morale, compared to Newtype ace pilots like Kamille Bidan and Judau Ashta, who normally have superior skills, he has higher aiming and dodging ability in his SEED mode, though only coming close to Amuro Ray's. This trait is evened out once the Newtypes undergo the Newtype flash.
Birdy
Birdy, known as Torii in the Japanese version, is a robotic pet bird owned by Kira. Birdy is voiced by Naomi Shindou in the Japanese anime and Tabitha St. Germain in the English dub.
About three years prior to CE 71, Birdy, a robotic pet bird, was created by Athrun Zala for Kira, a childhood friend of his.[11] Birdy is shown throughout the series, in various episodes, and is a symbol of Kira and Athrun's friendship.[11]
The first time Birdy is seen in the series, it is with Kira at the college he attends in Gundam SEED. He is accompanying Kira, but Birdy leaves later on for an unknown reason. When the Archangel is undergoing repairs at Orb, Birdy is the reason Kira runs into Athrun face to face, who is spying to see if the Archangel is in Orb.
In Gundam SEED Destiny, Birdy is portrayed as a figure who alerts Kira & Athrun's presence to each other as seen in the ending of Episode 51. In Episode 46 of Gundam SEED Destiny, Birdy is the reason why Athrun spotted the hidden assassin Sarah.
References
- ^ a b "Cosmic Era timeline (C.E. 55)". GundamOfficial. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Kira Yamato Gundam SEED profile". GundamOfficial. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
- ^ a b c "Kira Yamato Gundam SEED Destiny profile". GundamOfficial. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
- ^ http://yushu.or.jp/english/e_sdate/05jpn/05kine/050801c1.html
- ^ Favorite Male Character, 25th Annual Anime Grand Prix
- ^ Favorite Male Character, 26th Annual Anime Grand Prix
- ^ Favorite Male Character, 27th Annual Anime Grand Prix
- ^ Favorite Male Character, 28th Annual Anime Grand Prix
- ^ Favorite Male Character, 29th Annual Anime Grand Prix
- ^ a b "Flay Allster profile". GundamOfficial. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
- ^ a b "Birdy Gundam SEED profile". GundamOfficial. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
