History Fanfic / GundamSeedDestinyAltered

* {{BFS}}: Mudie Holcroft's Sabre Dagger, from her introductory chapter. The Sword Impulse has two which can be combined at the pommel. The Storm Impulse and Strike Noir also each have two slightly smaller ones. The Destiny has a pair as well that are improved versions of the Sword Impulse's, and retain the ability to combine.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed example with [[spoiler: Shinn, who after a brief conversation in which he apologizes to Athrun for having apparently killed Kira, finally puts the pieces together and realizes that the stranger he met in Orb, who was nothing if not cordial towards him, and the pilot of the Freedom are one and the same. He feels like absolute crap over it, and on a few occasions afterwards is mentioned to still be struggling to come to terms with it. Ultimately, when they meet face-to-face again in the epilogue and Shinn realizes that it is his fault Kira is crippled, he feels guilty about it, and ends up apologizing.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Shinn, oh so much. He starts out, as in the series, angry, self-centered, and irrationally hating the Athhas. As time goes on, he gradually learns to put his own grievances aside and becomes more aware of and mature in dealing with the consequences of his actions, eventually putting the past behind him entirely. [[{{BigBrotherMentor}} Athrun]], who plays a pivotal role in this development, even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] this in one chapter when he comments on Shinn's [[spoiler: dramatically altered stance on Orb. This stands out as Shinn ultimately blames the Seirans for housing Jibril, not Orb as a whole]].

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Shinn and Stella, who are on opposite sides of the war... at least initially. After she nearly dies, they ''do'' get their happy ending: By the epilogue, they are married and living together.]]

* BecomingTheMask: Deliberately, completely averted with Meer. [[spoiler:Not only is she perfectly candid in her first private conversation with Athrun about the duplicity of her act, but at no point does she ever claim to ''be'' Lacus Clyne. On the contrary, near the end of the story she ''very'' publicly reveals that she is in fact ''not,'' as well as the fact that the true Lacus Clyne is long since dead]].

* AscendedExtra: Yzak is promoted from barely getting a couple of cameos in the series to being one of the story's central characters. Also, Canard Pars, Sven Cal Bayan, Mudie Holcroft, and Lukas O'Donnell, who are pulled from assorted side-stories.

** The Zamza-Zah’s four legs each mount a cannon, four CIWS turrets, and a claw large and powerful enough to crush ordinary mobile suits, on the back of which it also equips a powerful beam cannon.

** Ezalia Joule wears a slightly less awesome dark blue one, as do most members of the Supreme Council.

* SuperPrototype: The Gundams, of course. Also, the Alliance fields a series of very large Super Prototype mobile armors. The DOM Trooper technically is one as well.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Subverted occasionally with the Impulse's [[{{MechaExpansionPack}} Silhouette Packs]]. In at least two instances, enemy units attempt to attack the Silhouette Pack while it is en route towards the Impulse, but are prevented from doing so by someone else intervening.
* TransformingMecha: Several: both Saviour Gundams, the Gaia, Abyss, and Murasame.

** Shinn blames what happens to his family on Cagalli, and he is very obvious about it. He is called out a number of times on it, and eventually gets over it.

*** The semi-original [[https://gsdestinyaltered.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-YX29R_Knight_Saviour_Gundam ZGMF-YX29R Knight Saviour]], which as an upgraded Saviour Gundam, combines this with elements of the Infinite Justice (which it replaces).

*** Likewise ''Altered'''s [[spoiler:[[https://gsdestinyaltered.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-X42R_Destiny_Gundam titular Destiny Gundam]]]] combines elements of its canon counterpart, the Infinite Justice Gundam, and the Strike Freedom.

** Also, Athrun, when [[spoiler:Kira is apparently killed by Shinn]].

* FantasticRacism: The Atlantic Federation, of course, and BigBad Jibril and his cohorts. Mudie Holcroft (of the Eurasian Federation) also counts initially, as she was trained by Lukas O'Donnell. [[spoiler:She must learn to put her racism aside when she finds she has to ally with Coordinators against Lukas and the people he works for following the Battle of Berlin.]]

** Meyrin Hawke, Lunamaria's sister, also makes no appearance, except for an extremely brief cameo in the background during the final scene of the prologue chapter.

* AnyoneCanDie: Quite brutally invoked: unlike the original series, [[spoiler:Lacus Clyne is actually killed by a sniper]]. It also appears to be the case with [[spoiler:Kira and Stella, but both subvert it; Kira survives the destruction of the Freedom, but is left permanently crippled. Stella survives the Destroy's destruction despite near-fatal injuries, and makes a full recovery]]. And then there's [[spoiler:Rey Za Burrel, who initially is also a subversion in that while this appears to be the case when he is supposedly killed by the Freedom, he survives despite near-fatal injuries.]]. The final battle plays it straight, as [[spoiler:he is killed by Shinn.]]

* AttackDrone: A number of machines have wirelessly-controlled unmanned remote weapons, including the Chaos, Thales, Legend and Destroy.

* BiggerStick: The aptly-named GFAS-X1 Destroy. At 56 meters tall and 400 tons, it is physically the ''Biggest'' Stick. The initial prototype goes on a rampage that levels four cities and causes ''millions'' of casualties before it's ultimately brought down.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Unlike in the series, Yuna Roma Seiran is killed this way when a furious Cagalli puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range -- an impulsive act which she immediately regrets as she hadn't finished interrogating him. The sniper who kills Lacus is also killed in this fashion shortly afterwards]].

** Averted with [[spoiler:Stella. Though Kira nearly kills her trying to stop the Destroy Gundam's rampage]], he is prevented from delivering the finishing blow by [[spoiler:Shinn. Despite extremely severe injuries, Stella ultimately survives]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Stella, who is put into the Destroy and goes on a city-destroying rampage, destroying everything in sight and killing millions because she is terrified that they will kill her. [[spoiler:She is only stopped by Kira violently disabling the Destroy, but Shinn intervenes in time to keep him fron killing her... but not enough to stop her from suffering serious injuries.]]

* BrokenBird: Stella Loussier, ''so'' much. The process of turning her into one of the Alliance's so-called "Extended Humans" left her a mentally unstable {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with the emotional maturity of a child and ''severe'' paranoia that manifests primarily as a potentially crippling fear of death.

* CorporalPunishment: Athrun lays hands on Shinn twice for stepping out of line. Once for disobeying orders during the Indian Ocean battle, and once after Shinn [[spoiler: brags after apparently killing Kira]]. Though the latter was rather unjustified [[spoiler:as Heine tells Athrun that he had no right to punch Shinn for taking out someone who had proved time and again to be their enemy.]]

* DoubleWeapon: The Sword Impulse, Freedom, Knight Saviour, Legend, and Destiny all have paired swords (w that can be combined at the pommel to form one.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Shinn, who has gone through a TraumaCongaLine that began when his entire family was horrifically killed right before his eyes when he was just fourteen, and continues through to the end of the story.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted - The GINN High-Maneuver Type II units used by the zealots instigating the ColonyDrop use katanas, but they are hopelessly outclassed by newer beam weapon-equipped mobile suits. The only reason they last as long as they did is that each and every one of them -- their leader Sato, especially -- is an experienced veteran, while all but a handful of their opponents are rookies.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:When Shinn tosses the Blast Impulse's Beam Javelin into the Abyss Gundam's cockpit, Auel Neider ends up getting impaled so forcefully that the LaserBlade bisects him, violently ending his life]]. Enemy [[{{Mooks}} mook]] [[CannonFodder suits]] also suffered this fate at Shinn's hands on a few occasions.