Kira Yamato
Kira Yamato is a male anime and manga character who features in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
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Biography
Kira Yamato (Japanese: キラ・ヤマト) was the biological son of Hibiki and Via Hibiki where he had a fraternal twin sister named Cagalli. In the mid-C.E. 50s, Via Hibiki was pregnant with two children - twins who were to be named Kira and Cagalli. Her husband, Ulen Hibiki, needed a test subject for his artificial womb, a device made to handle the birthing process of Coordinators. To her horror, Ulen used Kira's fetus to modify him into a Coordinator, but the process worked - Kira would be born a flawless Coordinator. Soon after, tragedy struck - their home and laboratory were attacked by Blue Cosmos and Via and Ulen were presumably killed, however, Kira and Cagalli managed to survive. Seeking to hide and protect the children, Caridad Yamato and Haruma Yamato adopted Kira while Uzumi Nara Athha would adopt Cagalli. During his childhood, Kira befriended a young boy named Athrun Zala while he attended a military preparatory school in Copernicus City in C.E. 61, and the two became very close. In C.E. 68, Athrun was called away back to the PLANTs, but before leaving, he gave Kira a parting gift - a robotic bird named Birdy.
Enrolled at Heliopolis technical college, his talent as a highly skilled computer programmer meant that he assisted in research and development whilst also being a student at the institution.
In C.E. 71, Kira lived in the neutral colony Heliopolis, where he spent his peaceful life attending an engineering college with his friends: Sai Argyle, Kuzzey Buskirk, Miriallia Haw, Tolle Koenig, and Sai's fiancee Flay Allster, with whom Kira had a crush on. However, on January 25, Heliopolis was attacked by ZAFT forces. The colony was thrown into chaos and the citizens were forced into shelters for evacuation. During the evacuation, Kira stumbled into a mysterious young lady and decided to follow her, worried for her safety. As he followed her, they eventually found two Earth Alliance mobile suits, the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam and the GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam in a production facility. The young lady collapsed to the revelation of Alliance mobile suits in a neutral colony like Heliopolis, blaming her father for the disarray of events. While the young lady was in a state of shock, Kira still prioritized her safety and left her in one of the safety shelters, much to her dismay. As Kira searched for another shelter, he noticed the fight between a ZAFT soldier and a female officer of the Earth Alliance forces. Since the officer was in danger, Kira alerted her to the presence of another ZAFT soldier behind her.
After the war, he moved to the secluded Marshall Islands in order to live in peace. He and Lacus over a two year period were noted to had assisted Reverend Malchio and Kira's adoptive mother with their orphanage.
Overview
Personality and attributes
At his core, Kira was a kind, compassionate, and selfless person who was willing to put his own life at risk to protect others without hesitation, especially his friends and loved ones. A strong believer in individualism, Kira firmly believed in the freedom of choice for all people and had a profound respect for life. Kira was an introvert by nature and spent long periods alone contemplating his thoughts and emotions but also enjoyed being with and talking to others. Despite being very intelligent, Kira could be stubborn and had the habit of entering into dangerous situations without thinking them through. However, this tendency, combined with his kindness towards others earned him the friendship, trust, and loyalty of many people.
It was said that even from childhood that he was always a bit of a 'cry baby'.
In battle, he was known to experience moments where he fell into a berserker-like rage.
After being given to the Yamato's, he was adopted by his aunt with his adoptive mother being Caridad Yamato and father was Haruma Yamato.
One of his most treasured items was a robotic pet bird called Birdy (トリィ, Torī) that had been a gift from his friend Athrun.
Kira was said to had a soft spot for Flay Allster and thought she was cute. At the time, she came to be involved with his friend Sai Argyle where the two were a couple.
Powers and abilities
He lacking any true form of military training but his fighting ability developed quickly and greatly over time through combat.
While lacking any formal military training, Kira's fighting ability developed quickly and greatly as his time in combat increased, along with his mastery of SEED Mode. In contrast to his piloting capabilities, Kira is shown to be inexperienced with handguns, preferring not to use them, as shown when he throws a gun at an assailant during a terrorist attack instead of firing it. He has to be reminded by Mu to remove the safety on his gun during the battle of Mendel, while in pursuit of Rau inside the colony. By the Second Alliance-PLANT War, however, his handgun skills have improved significantly, seen during the second assassination attempt on Lacus Clyne at Copernicus City on the Moon. Kira might have been better in his handgun skills, but it was shown that he can't use swords for fighting, as shown when he was challenged by Shura Serpentine in their first meeting in Kingdom of Foundation's capital city Ishtaria.
His nature as a Coordinator meant that he was a highly skilled Mobile Suit pilot. It was these traits that allowed him to pilot the highly advanced GUNDAM GAT-X105 Strike (GAT-X105 ストライク). He later came to possess an even more advanced Mobile Suit which was the ZGMF-X10A Freedom (ZGMF-X10A フリーダム).
Notes
- Kira Yamato was created by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa where he featured in the setting of the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED universe.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED:
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