Lacus Clyne



"Lacus Clyne seems to be a good Gundam pilot since she was a popular female vocalist. Oh, and she's also the co-leader of the Clyne Faction during the First Alliance-PLANT War and later the USRAC War for the Grand Alliance alongside 5pb. I think not only defeating the Beleninsk Pact, the New Central Powers and the Coalition of the Red Star, including the Global Liberation Union, is not the only job we can do for her, but also defeating South Vietnam is what we can do too.. well, for her. Like what I said."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Clyne

Lacus Clyne (ラクス・クライン Rakusu Kurain) is a character from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny television series. A popular female vocalist, she became the co-leader of the Clyne Faction during the First Alliance-PLANT War and later the USRAC War for the Grand Alliance alongside 5pb.

At first glance Lacus appears to be naive and a bit of an airhead, but it is only due to her idealistic and pacifistic nature. Beneath the surface as a pop star and a PLANT idol, she is actually a quite deep and philosophical person, as she demonstrates when she delivers speeches throughout the series - mainly about the widening rift between Naturals and Coordinators, the ironies of calling for peace yet doing so with weapons in hand, and the real causes of war as being within the human heart itself. As the leader of the Clyne Faction (and later the Three Ships Alliance and Terminal), Lacus is very charismatic, strong-willed, and determined to see their fight for peace through to the end. Like her father, Siegel Clyne, Lacus wishes to see a world where Naturals and Coordinators would willingly work together and coexist in harmony, disregarding the notion that Coordinators are an evolved species. Being a pacifist, Lacus holds a strong dislike for war, expressing that they are simply started and repeated through a neverending cycle of attack and retaliation.