Kira Yamato

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

As an Earth Alliance pilot, Kira often had to confront in battle 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, a 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.

In a confrontation with Athrun, Kira losed his GAT-X105 Strike unit and was seriously injured. Thought dead, he awakened and later recovered on ZAFT, in the house of Lacus Clyne. 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 defecting from ZAFT and taking with him the Freedom's brother unit, 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 is 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 learned also that he is 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.

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 escape from Orb, as the island nation entered the Earth Alliance. Before leaving Orb, Kira "kidnapped" Cagalli, saving her from an unwanted political marriage.

Kira appears to have some kind of sensitive power, like Mu La Flaga and Rau Le Creuset. When Flay Allster was killed and Kira talk with her after her death, the scene was reminiscent of when Lalah Sune was killed by Amuro Ray in the original Mobile Suit Gundam series.

Personal Data

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

Quote on file: "It's not fair! You're going to tell me that's the only mobile suit on board, and I'm the only person who can pilot it!" – PHASE-03: Collapsing Land