Kira Yamato

Kira Yamato (キラ・ヤマト Kira Yamato) is the protagonist of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and a recurring character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Kira is a Coordinator, and lived in the neutral colony Heliopolis with his friends. He got involved in the ZAFT attack on the colony and become the reluctant pilot of the GAT-X105 Strike, thus effectively enlisting in OMNI (the military of the Earth Alliance). Thereafter he followed the crew of the battleship Archangel in the fight against ZAFT. Based on the acronym of his mobile suit's operating system, Kira coined the nickname "Gundam" for his machine.

As an Earth Alliance pilot, Kira often had to confront his childhood friend Athrun Zala, a ZAFT soldier. While Athrun was driven to fight to protect his nation, Kira was more concerned about his friends brought aboard the Archangel along him. When Fllay Alster, Kira's friend from Heliopolis, witnessed the death of her father by ZAFT hands, she started to discriminate Kira as a Coordinator. In emotional distress, she faked affection for him and slept with him in order to make him kill all the Coordinators on her behalf. Kira later ended this relationship, after realizing that he and Fllay were not right for each other. It is unclear whether he realized she was manipulating him or not.

En route to the Alaskan Base JOSH-A, the Archangel is attacked by ZAFT forces, led by Athrun. During the initial skirmish, Kira damaged Athrun's Atrhun unit, and killed Nicol Amalfi, a friend of Athrun's and pilot of the GAT-X207 Blitz. In a later confrontation with Athrun, Kira lost his GAT-X105 Strike unit and was seriously injured. Thought dead, he awakened and later recovered on ZAFT, in the house of Lacus Clyne. It is during this time Kira developed an affection towards Lacus. To assist Kira to end the fighting, Lacus stole and gave to Kira the ZAFT ZGMF-X10A Freedom prototype. Kira then returned to Archangel with Freedom. Following the Battle of JOSH-A, Archangel defected to ORB and later to the Clyne Faction. In Orb, Athrun joined the Archangel after defecting from ZAFT and brought with him the Freedom's brother unit, the ZGMF-X09A Justice.

Eventually Archangel, the ORB ship Kunasagi and the Clyne Faction's stolen ZAFT ship Eternal, formed the Three Ships Alliance, supported by Kira's Freedom and Athrun's Justice units.

Towards the end of the Bloody Valentine War Kira learned that he was the Ultimate Coordinator; his fetus was artificially developed outside his mother's womb. He was the first and the last fetus to be successfully developed using the apparatus. Kira also learned that he was the twin brother to Cagalli Yula Athha, but she was born naturally. It has also been suggested that the only "failed" subject to survive, Junk Guild MS pilot Canard Pars, is also Kira's older brother, but these rumors have yet to be proven.

Kira, Athrun, Lacus, Cagalli and the Three Ships Alliance were instrumental in ending the Bloody Valentine War. In the final battle at Jachin Due, Kira engages and seriously damages the ZGMF-X13A Providence, piloted by Rau Le Creuset. Rau is killed by the Freedom's beam saber and the Providence itself is destroyed in a misfire of the giant superweapon GENESIS. The Freedom itself is seriously damaged.

After the war, Kira and Lacus lived in an orphanage in Orb, run by a Clyne family's friend, Reverend Malchio. As the events escalated to the Second Bloody Valentine War, the orphanage was destroyed by unknown forces trying to assassinate Lacus. Kira and Lacus returned to the Archangel and escaped from Orb, as the island nation entered the Earth Alliance. Before leaving Orb, Kira "kidnapped" Cagalli, saving her from an unwanted political marriage.

From there Kira continued to fight in the rebuilt ZGMF-X10A Freedom. His first sortie with the Archangel rogue faction was in the Dardanelles for the purpose of routing the EA/Orb offensive against the ZAFT battleship Minerva. His interference created a mess of things, including the death of ZGMF-X2000 GOUF Ignited pilot Haine Westenfluss. He continued to not trust ZAFT, even after Athrun tried to support it, and also intervened in a EA/Orb battle with the Minerva in Crete as well as to defend Berlin against the might of the GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam. His actions had already gained him an enemy, Shinn Asuka, a former Orb citizen who joined ZAFT after his family was inadvertantly killed by Kira.

In the following battle the Freedom was attacked and destroyed by Shinn and his ZGMF-X56S Impulse, who took adavntage of Kira's predictable battle tactics (never attacking the cockpit of an enemy MS) after examining the Freedom's battle data. Kira was able to survive the explosion with relatively minor injuries by using an emergency cutoff control to shutdown the Freedom's nuclear reactor before it went critical. The Freedom's upper torso, where the cockpit is located, sank into the ocean before being rescued by Cagalli in the MBF-02 Strike Rouge.

Kira appears to have some kind of sensitive power, like Mu La Flaga and Rau Le Creuset. Twice, he has been able to sense the presence of Neo Lorrnoke, and the second time he was able to recognize Neo as actually being Mu La Flaga. He also seems to be able to enter SEED Mode at will.

Personal Data

Genetic type: Coordinator
Age: 15 later 16 (18 in Gundam Seed Destiny)
DOB: Cosmic Era 55 May 28
Rank: Ensign (PHASE-15)
Family: Adopted Mother (Caridad Yamato); Adopted Father (Haruma Yamato); Father (Ulen Hibiki, deceased); Mother (Via Hibiki, deceased); Sister (Cagalli Yula Attha); Possible Brother (Canard Pars)
Height: 165 cm (5'4")
Blood type: A
Mobile Suit: GAT-X105 Strike, ZGMF-X10A Freedom, ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom.

Quote on file: "Not by will alone...nor strength alone..."-PHASE-34: Seen and Unseen

Quote on file: "I want to make this clear, there's more to me than just my strength. I'm not defined by my abilities alone!"-PHASE-50: Towards an Endless Future

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