History Characters / MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin

[[folder: Char's Old Friend '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)'''

* KillAndReplace: Edouard gets the real Char into swapping places with him at a spaceport, having sensed that assassins were after him and were planning to blow up the ship he was set to board. Char is assassinated in Edouard's place, with Edouard later stealing Char's identity in order to infiltrate Zeon.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: Amuro's NiceGuy moments from the original are generally cut in favor of him being unhappy about something. ''The Origin'' turns his original ''highly-''passionate (and often, quite sweet) attitude into a lot of 'sullen, dull, out of touch', and the "whiny" he's always been accused of. Never better demonstrated then when he fights with Frau Bow and makes her cry, then tries to continue being nasty to Sayla. Generally subverted in the animated version, where he's much closer to his original 1979 self.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Miharu, for a start, and he also has a bit of a crush on Matilda ([[HeadTurningBeauty along with the rest of the crew]]).

A friend of Jimba Ral, he, Casval, and Artesia escape to Teabolo's estate in Spain when they flee to Earth. Teabolo becomes the adoptive father of the Deikuns and renames them Sayla and Edouard Mass. He and his wife could never have kids and after she passed away he found new happiness as a father. Even though he knew Jimba would bring him into new harebrained political schemes, he went along with it because of his love for the children.

* MultiEthnicName: A Japanese first name and a Spanish surname.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Hiroshi Naka (JP), Jason Simon (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/KyleMcCarley (EN)

** First is when her mother dies not long after she relocates to the Texas Colony, which is followed by the death of her cat and Casval abandoning her. She then thinks he was killed when the ship he was suppose to be on was destroyed.
** Already swamped with work as a nurse, Tachi O'Hara informs her that Casval might still be alive and to "look for the red mobile suit". This ends up opening the old wound for her, but before she could get any more details she was recalled to the Mass's home when Roger Aznable tells her that Teabolo's health took a turn for the worst. The colony then erupts in violence as anti-zeon rioters attack innocent civilians. This was when she dropped her pacifistic ways and picks up a rifle to start killing all those that would threaten her home, only to find out that Teabolo died during the night anyways due to panic from all the chaos. With the Aznables having already left to find Char (and, unknown to them, killed when the port was destroyed by "Char"), Sayla was left alone in the world. Then the final thing she sees is the "red mobile suit" that Tachi mentioned, watching her from outside the colony walls. But instead of coming down to say anything, Char leaves, leaving Sayla running after him again like she did when he first left.

* PetTheDog: Despite being distant from his son, Tem still keeps a picture of Amuro with him that implies he often thinks of him. He also laments that he hadn’t made life easy for Amuro as well.

* PartingWordsOfRegret: In the Mobile Suit Gundam Pulitzer - Amuro Ray Beyond the Aurora spin-off manga, Kamaria would eventually regret not fully understanding Amuro’s role in the war and the actions he had to take when fighting against zeon.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AyumiFujimura (''The Origin''), Creator/SatomiArai (''Cucuruz Doan's Island'') (JP), Fryda Wolff (EN)

Another civilian, 22-year-old Mirai is the daughter of a powerful Federation politician. Quiet and understanding, she mediates most of the crew's disputes and serves as the ''White Base'''s helmswoman, and as Bright Noa's unofficial second-in-command.

* ActionSurvivor: Mirai is one of many civilians who enlisted in with the White Base crew. While not a formally trained soldier, she does well for herself when thrust into combat even using a gun and defending the base during Ramba Ral's final attack. Notably she shows some New Type capabilities before most of the crew bar Amuro.
* AgeLift: From 18 to 22. This was done to expand on her role in Sayla's past, aging her up during Sayla's youth so Mirai could play a larger part.
* ArrangedMarriage: With Cameron Bloom. She's less than interested.
* BrainyBrunette: Downplayed; Mirai's not the smartest because of her hair color (blonde Sayla is just as intelligent), but she IS very smart, with a good instinctive grasp of enemy tactics. It's part of why she's the NumberTwo from the get-go.
* BridgeBunnies: Technically, as she's the one who handles the helm of the ''White Base''.
* BreakTheCutie: She cracks ''especially'' badly when [[spoiler:Ryu dies and Bright suffers an HeroicBSOD]], and the whole deal with Cameron isn't kind on her either, leaving her absolutely ''shattered'' when [[spoiler:Sleggar goes out a hero]].
* DoABarrelRoll: [[ExaggeratedTrope With the White Base]], to shake off the Zaku attached to it.
* DudeMagnet: Has three men interested in her at one point late in the show.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers a brief but ugly one when she has to take over the ''White Base'' while Bright is otherwise incapacitated.
* ImprobableAge: She's twenty two and the NumberTwo on a military vessel. Justified by the lack of officers and Bright's implicit trust in her.
* ImprobablePilotingSkills: She's the first of ''Gundam'''s many assault carrier pilots, and as such, is the first to demonstrate these, perfectly flying a brand new military vessel, despite her very limited pre-war flight time. And that's not taking into account some of the crazy manouveres she pulls of with it.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: She becomes more interested in Sleggar after he slaps her.
* MilitaryBrat: As said below, she is the daughter of a very high-ranked Federation officer who died months before the series took place.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: Averted. Like Hayato, Mirai is fully Japanese and looks quite Asian.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The family who founded and ran Bandai at the time was called ''Yamashina''. Given how the immediate in-universe reaction to Mirai giving her name is "Oh, ''that'' Yashima family", it seems quite likely this doubles as a ShoutOut wink to the show's sponsor.
* NiceGirl: Mirai manages to be both composed ''and'' caring most of the time. '''Everyone''' on the ship appreciates this, and her genuinely lovely demeanor makes her an EnsembleDarkhorse in- and out-of-show.
* NumberTwo: Is unofficially this to Bright, due in part to her age, and in part to the fact that she's the pilot. Becomes official during Bright's {{Sick Episode}}s, when she is [[YouAreInCommandNow appointed to take command]].
* {{Ojou}}:
** Her DisappearedDad is a recently deceased high-ranked Federation officer, and her family had many connections within the colonies. She doesn't like it when people bring it up, though.
** Her family has a business in heavy industry; per AllThereInTheManual, they manufactured weapons like the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam Ground Combat Gundam]]'s machine gun.
* OnlySaneMan: Often plays this role, mediating between hotshot pilots like Amuro and ControlFreak Bright.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Especially in the original. Shiraishi plays Mirai with a very soft and pleasant voice, someone moderate who always seems to be keeping a level head. The levels to which she then freaks out and despairs while she's in command are hard to watch. On a lesser scale, Sleggar later slaps her very forcefully for, essentially, her bitchy attitude to Cameron. CantGetAwayWithNothing.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Mirai got herself into the unfortunate and terrifying position of being a lousy temporary captain because she'd been an excellent helm and NumberTwo up to that point. Fortunately, she got to go back to her old job.
* PsychicPowers: A fairly weak Newtype.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Not hard by contrast to Bright. Usually works, but not when she has to be TheCaptain.
* SkintoneSclerae: Like Bright's.
* ShipTease: With Bright, despite [[CannotSpitItOut him not being able to make his feelings clear]] until it's seemingly too late. A bunch with Sleggar towards the end, complete with a kiss and a ring.
* TeamMom: Is nicknamed "the mother of the White Base".
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: She's not meant to be pretty. She's also a shining example of this, and that's why she's in the middle of a LoveDodecahedron.
* YouAreInCommandNow: When Bright is bedridden, she's next in line. Doesn't like it much at all.

The youngest members of the ''White Base'' crew, 8-year-old Katz, 6-year-old Letz, and 4-year-old Kikka are three orphaned children from the attack on Side 7. Essentially adopted by the rest of the crew and closely looked after by Frau Bow, they stay with the ship for the war's duration.

* AsianAndNerdy: Katz is said to help the others with their homework towards the end of ''The Origin'''s flashback arc.
* BrattyHalfPint: Times three. Complete with "loud", "obnoxious", and "trouble-making".
** Special mention goes to Letz who [[UnreliableNarrator claims]] to have stolen a car once back on Side 7.
* ADayInTheSpotlight: The {{Tagalong Kid}}s prove ''seriously'' resourceful on their own at Jaburo.
* {{Expy}}: Their character designs affectionately reference the ''other'' BlondeBrunetteRedhead roles their voice actresses are playing. Katz is brown-haired with similar bangs and SkintoneSclerae like Mirai, Letz is redheaded (and overlooked) like Frau, and Kikka's blonde and blue-eyed like Sayla.
* FamilyOfChoice: Three orphaned kids who start viewing each other as siblings. Also Frau as their older sister, and they're also arguably the genesis, nucleus, and symbolic for the whole crew eventually viewing each other as a family.
* {{Heartwarming Orphan}}s: Occasionally. Just about ''everybody'' on ''WB'' has lost their family, but the kids are meant to be the hope for the future, and get a handful of very brave and sweet moments.
* HourglassPlot: By the time we see them again in the sequel, Katz - TheSmartGuy of the group - has become a hot-headed teenager itching to prove himself and constantly screws up due to his inexperience and hopeless crush on enemy pilot Sarah Zabiarov. Letz and Kikka, by contrast, have mellowed out considerably.
* OnlyOneName: Their last names are AllThereInTheManual.
* OnlySaneMan: Katz is the most level-headed of the three.
* PsychicPowers: They're all demonstrably Newtypes by the end of the show. [[spoiler:And help guide Amuro out of A Baoa Qu]].
* SadClown: Letz is the biggest prankster of the three, and has also had the hardest life, having been and orphan since before the attack on Side 7. His father was a Federation soldier who died in the Battle of Loum and his mother died of an illness not long after.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In Volume 4, [[spoiler:the kids discover that Zeon has both infiltrated Jaburo and is planning to destroy the new GM factory with bombs. After being captured, they escape, detach the bombs, and flee, saving Jaburo and the EFF countless resources which were then promptly used to successfully defend Jaburo against invasion]].
* TerribleTrio: When they're frequently misbehaving and wreaking havoc. (Kikka's usually in the lead.)

* LoveMartyr: She loses her freedom and her children simply for having loved Deikun and having had his children, and it's implied her death is greatly hastened for the same reasons. It's almost inevitable that Astraia would have had a happier fate had she never met or become involved with him.

* MenActWomenAre: Passivity is one of Astraia's strongest traits. Probably the most passive character in the series, she quietly accepts every harsh thing that comes her way, a {{Foil}} to her energetic ActionGirl younger friend Crowley Hamon. While she unquestionably loves Deikun, she shows no genuine interest or awareness in his feverant ideologies, only being truly devoted to the man himself, and by extent their children.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: This is likely a trope fans would never expect to see attached to any version of Gihren Zabi yet here we are. Although this Gihren commits most of the same crimes as his original self, he is given a few middling but legitimate redeeming qualities that keep him from being 100% evil, contrasting the AdaptionalVillainy his sister received. Ironically though, Degwin has this mixed up and believes ''Kycilia'' to be the lighter shade when put against Gihren, unaware of her own power hungry ambitions.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While far from the most malicious of the Zabi's in the original, ''The Origin'' plays up Degwin's more humanizing traits and emphasizes his love for Garma and his family. In a less apparent vein, his bid for power comes across as slightly less self-serving and he looks more like a WellIntentionedExtremist than a conventionally evil dictator.

* FalseFriend: To the real Char Aznable, and to Lino Fernandez, who had even been a real friend of the real Char's. It's almost possible to argue that Casval's decision to steal Char's identity and infiltrate Zeon was a spur of the moment decision — except that that entire plan hinged on Char ''never'' showing up in Side 3 and it's almost a certainty Casval planted the gun in Char's luggage. While it was a safe bet Kycilia would try to (and successfully did) assassinate "Edouard", Casval premeditated events (like he later would for Garma) and had Char somehow escaped, Casval would have certainly hunted him down and ensured he was finished off.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's either worse or lampshaded when he pretty much offers to join Gihren at ''The Origin'''s end. (Even given his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.)

** Very little is clear about Zeon's morality. He opposes the Federation, but it's clear that the Federation is corrupt. He rants about the future and superiority of Newtypes but that might have been a stress-related outburst, a result of possible poisoning, or perhaps his fascist leanings becoming more apparent.
** There's also the question of whether Contolism makes Deikun the leader of a widely-supported {{Cult}}, given how he specifically mentions his "teachings" and "disciples" as well as the slightly-creepy "reformation of humanity".

* MarriageOfConvenience: His marriage to Roselucia may have been out of convenience, given how she supported him both financially and politically, however she seems to have been in love with him. It would also make him a GoldDigger. Ironically, Astraia herself has no interest in Deikun's teachings, and flashbacks to their first meetings imply he saw her more as a source of physical comfort and carrying on his legacy (as Roselucia could not bear children due to her health) than an actual lover, though the specifics are widely glossed over.

* AdaptationalJerkass: The brief portrayal of Deikun in the original series was of a heroic (possibly) martyred MessianicFigure. ''The Origin'' makes him erratic, temperamental, and potentially dangerous, as well as opening the possibility of his death being a good thing for Zeon. Then there's the whole 'wife, mistress, and illegitimate kids' issue.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Very little is clear about Zeon's morality. He opposes the Federation, but it's clear that the Federation is corrupt. He rants about the future and superiority of Newtypes but that might have been a stress-related outburst, a result of possible poisoning, or perhaps his fascist leanings becoming more apparent.

* {{Doppelganger}}: To the real Char Aznable, with one exception -- Casval has blue eyes, as [[TitleDrop Title Dropped]] in the first ONA. True to the legend that meeting yours means you'll die soon, [[spoiler:it happened for the real Char, courtesy of the döppelganger, and for Casval, who then played dead under the above]].

* MenActWomenAre: Although it seems to apply only to her, not Sayla, Mirai, Kycilia or Hamon. The very first version of Frau didn't want to join the military, but did it anyway and received an E-3 rank. Yas's version stays with the crew as an exempted medical volunteer.

* SerialKiller: "The minimum death toll to be classified as a serial killer is 3-5 people, providing they were killed in separate incidents over a period of more than 30 days."[[note]] As opposed to the many people who died crewing a Gaw or a Gwazine as collateral damage and likely ''mass'' murder for Char's vengeance in the original (and still do in ''The Origin'')...[[/note]] [[spoiler:The additions of the real Char and Lino to Garma and Kycilia]] now qualify him, with the first three even having a distinctive pattern.

* YouKilledMyFather: He believes that his father was killed by the Zabis so Degwin could take power and even accuses them of it as a boy. Though whether or not they were behind his death is ambiguous, much less so is his mother's passing -- with their ascension to power she died alone, under house arrest. The thought of her dying secluded and away from her family was the last straw for him, and he began his vengeance quest upon hearing the news.

* FalseFriend: To the real Char Aznable, and to Lino Fernandez, who had even been a real friend of the real Char's.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Even at the age of 11 with an previously-untraumatic life, he was unemotional to the point he never screamed or cried about his father's sudden death. His sister is very upset at how easily he takes to killing his "enemies". See TeensAreMonsters.

* TheMistress: Deikun left his wife Roselucia for her, but remained married to Roselucia. Although Astraia is treated like his wife and both she and the children have Deikun's name, the true legal state of affairs rapidly becomes apparent after his death.

* TheResenter: She's ''very'' resentful of Astraia for giving Deikun the one thing she couldn't.

* JourneyToFindOneself: After the One Year War, Kai is struggling to find a purpose in his life, aimlessly going from job to job. Though operating as a journalist, his efforts are half-hearted at best, although he genuinly begins to consider it by the story's end.

* BladeOnAStick: Ortega wields a humongous two handed Heat Hawk that resembles a pole arm.