#Clyne Lacus

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom - Dir. Mitsuo Fukuda - Jan 26, 2024

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Lacus Clyne ; Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ☆ MegaHouse

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SEED FREEDOM // Japan Tour [ Part 1 ]

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I recently finished my yearly rewatch of Gundam Seed/Destiny and every time it reaffirms why Kira and Lacus are in my top 5 ships! Just everything about them makes me so happy X3 I bit off more than I could chew doing a full bg on the first piece that the second is a bit more rushed XD

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Just a few more days to the release of Gundam SEED Freedom! Look at this illustration collaboration between Sanrio and SEED characters~

This is just too cute. I never imagined that this collaboration can work so well.

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✨GUNDAM SEED FREEDOM in 1.26✨

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You know what was actually my BIGGEST issue watching Gundam SEED Freedom?

Watching Kira and Lacus get a Big Damn Kiss(tm), post-victory-sex, and most importantly, getting to co-pilot a Gundam into the big final battle together, and thinking to myself...

'Man, Suletta and Miorine TOTALLY should have gotten all this TOO, dammit!' XD

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Despite being close allies, I don't think Cagalli and Lacus agree on everything. So, they make their disagreements everyone else's problem. It's relatively civil all things considering. Their meetings just tend to run a little late.

Just a little.

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom - Dir. Mitsuo Fukuda - Jan 26, 2024

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SEED FREEDOM // Japan Tour [ Part 2 ]

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Lacus didn't need to be an accord.

I just wanted to do a short thing about Lacus, a character I love immensely, despite the fact that I don't like what was done to her in Freedom.

I can almost separate her as three separate characters between Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED DESTINY, and Gundam SEED FREEDOM. These three different characters serve different functions and can almost come across as three different characters.

Gundam SEED: The version of Lacus we encounter in SEED comes off as an oblivious pop star. Aboard the Archangel, she is charming, pretty and very oblivious to the nature of the people around her. She charms Kira, and the other crewmembers. She doesn't come off as a threat. It isn't until she is handed back to Athrun, and Rau attempts to launch an attack on Kira, that we see that Lacus is well aware of military rules and stops the attack quickly. The shift in change of voice, her curtness and even her expression tell you that the facade she had aboard the Archangel was not the full picture of Lacus. She is full aware of where she is and what she can do.

This continues in SEED. From somehow rescuing Kira, to getting the Freedom from him from what is likely a high security military base (and doing it with the same super oblivious pop-star charm she had aboard the Archangel), to how she manipulates Athrun into realizing he needs to leave ZAFT. This Lacus that we see is cunning, capable and knowledgeable in ways that we couldn't imagine. She changes the tide of the war and her influence on others is awe inspiring. Even Cagalli, for all of her piloting abilities, can't amass the same reactions that Lacus does. She knows the military, she knows the political climate, and she can influence people. She is the most powerful character in SEED, and they didn't make her pilot to do it.

In Gundam SEED DESTINY: Lacus takes a step back and wants the normal life with Kira. It's understandable - she is a young woman in love, who wants to spend her life happily with Kira. But it isn't the same politically savvy young lady we see in SEED. She doesn't want to use her influence, even if the world is struggling. It comes to a point where she can't even stop others from using her influence.

In DESTINY, Durandal tries to use Lacus's power as a figure to manipulate others. He can use the music side of her, but he has trouble understanding what she was really like. Lacus was not the oblivious, cheerful pop-star that Durandal portrays Meer as. She was cunning. She knew the military. She knew how to use her words in a way that would force others to consider her perspective. Meer can't replicate that because they simply don't know how intricate Lacus is.

Given that Lacus relies on Kira as a sword, I don't even think Kira understands that depth of Lacus. She is not simply a figurehead. She is experienced. We don't see the SEED Lacus who charmed her way out of a dangerous enemy ship, or charmed her way into getting the Freedom, because she just becomes the worried, scared girlfriend. She speaks up in a speech against Meer when she finally has to, but that speech shows none of the tact that Lacus had in SEED.

In Gundam SEED FREEDOM: They reduce everything that SEED Lacus accomplished by making her an Accord. She was intelligent, knowledgeable about the military, apprised of world affairs, and knew how to use the gaze focused on her and direct it to others. She was powerful without needing to be an ultimate coordinator. Being an accord and simply attributing all of this to her ability to read minds and influence others as something generated in a laboratory, destroys just how compelling Lacus truly was. It is so disappointing. It is tragic that it really hurts her character development. Instead of putting her on the forefront of the battle with the same charm she had, she is reduced to simply waiting for Kira to rescue her, piloting the Mighty Defender pack to Kira, and then piloting for him? It's such a strange twist when Lacus could barely move the Infinite Justice in DESTINY. It reduces her from being a powerhouse character to just being another genetically enhanced character who didn't work for what she had.

The Lacus in SEED, who showed tact, charm, cunning, was an amazing character. She wasn't stupid in the slightest. in FREEDOM, she doesn't even try to charm her way out of Orphee. She doesn't try anything except claiming she's resisting. It isn't the same character, and I'd argue this hurt her more than anything.

I would have preferred the story simply leave her as an endearing, powerful political figure, and for Aura to want her to join them because Durandal told her about how powerful Lacus is. Maybe throw in that she knew Lacus's mom and had been promised Lacus to be with Orphee. The Accord bits were never necessary.

Nail in the coffin for me was when Cagalli was shafted, but still given all of the power that Lacus could have had. She spoke up against Orphee, showed political tact by letting the Millenium escape, prepared for the Accords powers with remote control AND the remade DESTINY era gundams, and was shown to be a much better political leader.

Lacus could have been that and more. She didn't need the piloting. She didn't need mind reading. She only needed to be Lacus, full on Lacus, let loose. She was such a compelling character, who broke the mold of the oblivious, pink character that she should have been in just in SEED. I hope they don't touch her character more and make it even worse lol.

It literally is three different characters if you separate the three Lacus. She is not even remotely as intelligent or capable as the version in SEED.

[momosuzurina]

SEED FREEDOM FINALLY💐✨💕

Too late to draw…But I'm so happy to enjoy the Gundam Seed movie between four months☺️✨

Sweet Memory!！🍬