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Gud Vair (グゥド・ヴェイア Guudo Veia?) is a character introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray.

Personality & Character[]

Gud is a former soldier of the ZAFT forces, however, he deserted the military because he develops a disdain for the war. He has a split personality problem: one personality is kind and helpful, the other is evil, murderous, and wants to kill anyone around him, including his friends. He also has a strange addiction, as he is a noise junkie and likes listening to irritating noises that others dislike. He even keeps a pair of broken headphones that play nothing but noise. The noises also caused his evil personality to surface. The evil personality can however be suppressed by soothing music such as the songs of Lacus Clyne.

Skills & Abilities[]

He is a ZAFT ace pilot and wears the red ace uniform; with his outstanding skills, he brought ZAFT many victories.

History[]

Gud was a Combat Coordinator created by the Earth Alliance some time before they started the Socius series. However, he was considered a failure as he managed to break free of the EA's mental conditioning and escaped. He later joined ZAFT and became an ace pilot who uses a customized red-colored GINN. He is known as "The Hero Of ZAFT" because once when all friendly forces were annihilated, he managed to defeat the enemy fleet single-handedly. In the next year, he did not lose once and opposing enemies are always worried about their fleets being annihilated by him.

He later left the military because he hated the war and arrived at the Literia space colony. It was at the Liteiria colony that he meet and befriends Elijah Kiel, a mercenary sent by Patrick Zala to eliminate him. He was the one who told Elijah that not having the superior physiology of a Coordinator despite being one was not a bad thing. His words left a lasting impression on Elijah and cemented their friendship.

Gud had a pair of broken headphones that played nothing but noises, he used to wear it while piloting MS for ZAFT. While at the Literia he accidentally came into contact with Lacus' soothing music, which broke his addiction to noises. He also learned that soothing music could suppress his evil personality. He later asked Lowe Guele and Kisato Yamabuki to fix his broken headphones.[1] Unfortunately, Kisato did not repair them properly. When the EA fleet attacked the Literia space colony, Gud launched out and his evil personality surfaced due to the partially fixed headphones, which were still playing noises, and he attacked Elijah. As he was about to deal a fatal blow to Elijah, Kisato's repair on the headphones worked and it started playing Lacus' song. Gud's kind personality then surfaced and he begged Elijah to kill him to end his suffering, but the latter could not bear to do so. As Lacus' song ends, Gud knew that his evil personality would resurface and he bid goodbye to Elijah. However, before his evil personality could kill Elijah, he was killed by Gai Murakumo, who was accompanying the EA forces to the Literia space colony.

Later, it was revealed that Gud's split personality might have been a side effect of the imperfect mental conditioning. The reason why the socius clones resemble him is because his genes are among those used in creating them.

Revived as a Carbon Human[]

Gud returned once more as a Carbon Human created by Librarian Works and became the pilot of LV-ZGMF-X23S Vent Saviour Gundam. As Serpent Tail (except Gai) was on Earth at the time, the Librarian Works sent out Gud to pilot the unit and appeared before the members of the mercenary group. Gud announced to Elijah his arrival, badly shocking him. The meeting was interrupted by the arrival of Orb's Murasame and he left, promising that he would be back. A few days later, they meet again and a battle soon started as Elijah refused to join him. During the battle, Gud was pleased to find out that Elijah's skills have improved. He then tricked Elijah into opening the cockpit door of his customized ZAKU and hijacked it so that he could escape from Librarian Works. He left Elijah with the Vent Saviour so that he could better deal with Librarian Works.[2] Later, Gud went to a three-star restaurant in Orb, to meet up with Seven Socius and Eleven Socius.

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • Gud Vair shares some similarities with Anavel Gato, a Zeon ace pilot who appears in the Universal Century Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory OVA. Both of them had a legacy of single-handedly defeating the enemy fleet while their ally forces were defeated, both of them encountered an enemy soldier outside of the battlefield and later had a fierce battle, and both of them had white hair. However, Gud's personality greatly differs from Gato.
  • The relationship between Elijah and Gud is more similar to the relationship of Kou Uraki and Kelley Layzner than Kou and Gato. Gud befriends Elijah, a soldier from the enemy faction, while Kou befriends Kelley, also a soldier from the enemy faction. Both of them later fought each other on the battlefield.

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