Gud Vair

Gud Vair
Gud Vair
Profile
Species	Human
Classification	Coordinator Carbon Human[VS Astray]
Gender	Male
Family	Three Socius Four Socius Finis Socius Seven Socius Eleven Socius
Nationality	PLANT
Affiliation	Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty Librarian Works [VS Astray]
Occupation	MS Pilot
Rank	Lieutenant Commander
Status	Deceased (Original) Alive (Carbon Human)
Mecha & Vehicles
Pilot ZGMF-1017 Vair's GINN LV-ZGMF-X23S Vent Saviour Gundam
Real World
Japanese Voices	Tetsu Shiratori
Appearances
Manga	GSA
Novel	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED VS Astray

Gud Vair (グゥド・ヴェイア Guudo Veia) is a ZAFT pilot who appeared in Gundam Seed Astray series.

Personality

Gud Vair is originally a soldier of the ZAFT forces, but later left the military because he hates the war. During and after the initial eleven months of the first Bloody Valantine War, Gud develops a split personality problem, one personality is kind, helpful, the other is revengeful and wants to kill anyone around him, including his friends. Bad noises would cause his fierce personality to come out, while soothing music such as the songs of Lacus Clyne will calm him down and the gentle side resurfaces.

Skills & Abilities

He is a ZAFT ace and wears the red ace uniform; with his outstanding skills he brought ZAFT many victories turning the tide to OMNI ENFORCERS Mass Forces.

History

Gud Vair pilots a customized red colored GINN with exceptional combat ability. 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 is at the colony that he meet and befriends Elijah Kiel, a mercenary employed by ZAFT to kill him. He is the one who told Elijah that not having the superior physiology of Coordinator despite being one is not a bad thing. His words left a lasting impression on Elijah and cements their friendship. When the EA fleet attacks the Literia space colony, Gud launches out and his fierce personality starts to surface, and he fights Elijah to a draw. Gud then begs Elijah to kill him and to end his suffering, but the latter could not bear to do so. He is later killed by Gai Murakumo who is accompanying the EA forces to the Literia space colony. Later, it is revealed that Gud Vair is actually a combat cooordinator who had escaped from the EA very early on and his split personality might have been a side effect of the imperfect mental conditioning employed then. The reason why the socius clones resemble him is because his genes are among those use in creating them.

Gundam SEED VS Astray

Gud Vair returns once more as a carbon human created by Librarian Works and he was the pilot of LV-ZGMF-X23S Vent Saviour Gundam. As the Serpent Tail (except Gai) is on Earth, the Librarian Works send out Gud piloting the unit and appears before the members of the mercenary group. Gud announces to Elijah his arrival, badly shocking him. The meeting is interpreted by the arrival of Orb's Murasame and he left, promising that he will be back. A few days later, they meet again and a battle soon started as Elijah refuses to join him. During the battle, Gud Vair is pleased to find out that Elijah's skill have improved. He then tricks Elijah into opening the cockpit door of his customised ZAKU and hijacks 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.

Gud is last seen in a three-star restaurant in Orb, meeting up with Seven Socius and Eleven Socius.

Gallery

Trivia

• Gud Vair shares some similarities with Anavel Gato, a Zeon ace pilot who appears in OVA Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. Both of them had a legacy of single-handedly defeating 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 with the relationship of Kou Uraki and Kelly Layzner than Kou and Gato. Gud befriends Elijah, a soldier from the enemy faction, while Kou befriends Kelly, also a soldier from the enemy faction. Both of them later fought each other on the battlefield.