Kira Yamato

Kira Yamato, also known as Kira Hibiki, and alias the Ultimate Coordinator, as he is a new subspecies of Newtypes, the Coordinator.

## Appearance

Kira is a young man with tanned skin, neck-length brown hair, and amethyst-colored eyes.

As a civilian, Kira usually wore a black shirt and mint green pants. After joining the Earth Alliance, he wore a special male version of the OMNI Enforcer uniform, although he chose not to wear the rank badge. In combat, he wore a black, white, and teal version of the OMNI Enforcer pilot suit.

Later (in The Long Journey, Part 3) as a civilian, Kira wore a charcoal colored shirt and trousers with straps at the shoulders and belly and a red undershirt underneath. After reuniting with the Archangel, Kira donned an updated version of Shar's military uniform. Initially, he dressed in the uniform of an ensign, and later, after being promoted to admiral, he wore a high-quality version. While piloting his mobile suit, he wore a custom-made version of the Orb pilot suit. His pilot suit was painted blue, black and white with red highlights on the shoulders.

Soon as a civilian, Kira wore a purple shirt, a beige jacket, and dark gray pants with a matching belt. After joining ZAFT, he wore a white uniform with gold insignia marking his rank as commander.

## Personality

Kira dislikes war and conflict, but is more than willing to fight if it means protecting her friends and loved ones. Due to his kind and sensitive nature, he is said to be too soft for war. He can be stubborn at times, especially at critical moments. As the series progresses, Kira becomes traumatized by the people he has killed and those he has failed to protect, revealing that he is atychiphobic (fear of failure), causing him to become obsessed with protecting the Archangel. After his fight with Atrun, Kira begins to wonder what needs to be done to end the conflict(s) and comes to the realization that he needs to prevent as many tragedies as possible by trying to fight without killing anyone. However, he is still sometimes forced to kill on the battlefield, preferring to do so only when necessary and as a last resort. This was especially the question for the Dark Crusaders, but instead of an answer, he received only an attack in his direction, without giving an answer to the question.

After the first war with the Decepticons, Kira's character as a whole became more calm, mature and philosophical. He has earned the respect of the soldiers of the Orb army due to his piloting skills and being the brother of the Orb ruler. Kira often acts in ways that would best be described as a reluctant hero; this may be due to Kira not seeing herself as a leader, being a mobile suit pilot, often leaving leadership decisions to Lacus or Cagalli.

## Story

Via Hibiki was pregnant with two children - twins, who were to be named Kira and Cagalli. Her husband, Ulen, needed a test subject for his artificial womb, a device designed to control the Coordinators' birth process. To her dismay, Uhlen used Kira's fruit to turn him into a Coordinator, but the process worked - Kira was born a flawless coordinator, a new subspecies of Newtype. Soon after, tragedy struck - their home and lab were attacked by Blue Cosmos, Via and Ulen were presumably killed, but Kira and Cagalli managed to survive. In an effort to hide and protect the children, Caridad and Haruma Yamato adopted Kira while Uzumi Nara Atha wanted to adopt Cagalli.

Kira lived in the neutral Earth colony Heliopolis, where he spent his peaceful life attending an engineering college with his friends Cy Argyle, Kuzzy Buskirk, Mirially Howe, Tolle Koenig, and Cy's fiancee Flay Allster. However, Heliopolis was soon attacked by Neo Zeon forces. Chaos reigned in the colony, and the citizens were forced to take refuge in shelters for evacuation. During the evacuation, Kira stumbled upon a mysterious young lady and decided to follow her out of concern for her safety. Following her, they eventually found two Alliance mobile suits, the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam and the GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam, at the production facility. At that time, Kira managed to pilot the Gundam and was able to repel the attack, but did not really understand who was the leader of this invasion. He also noticed that they were stealing not only the new Newtypes, but the stranger who was also important to them. He also soon joins the alliance.