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Main Duo

Tropes that apply to both

• A Birthday, Not a Break: Neither girl has had any luck having a "Happy Birthday".
  • According to Cradle Planet, some of Suletta’s birthdays, while she lived on Mercury, would involve her pulling risky maneuvers to save the miners. Suletta hasn’t celebrated her birthday in years. Interestingly, it hasn’t been clarified if Suletta’s birthday is even her own or it was originally Eri’s birthday.
  • Miorine’s 17th birthday was nothing short of a tragedy as she felt forced into breaking Suletta's heart in a desperate bid to keep her out of her mother's schemes. To make matters worse, the whole thing was clearly set up by Prospera almost as a taunt, with the signal to go ahead with the plan being a "Happy Birthday" jingle just to rub it in. Miorine would come realize her actions were a mistake, but Suletta and her would reconcile.
• Ambiguously Bi: Their developing relationship with each other is one of the central points of the series' story concluding with them being Happily Married, but nothing concrete is ever said about either of their sexualities. Besides their growing interest in one another, there are passing implications with some of the male cast, such as Suletta's brief interest in Elan #4, or Miorine implying something could have developed between her and Shaddiq if he had been less reticent. Miorine also never brings up Incompatible Orientation to protest against her Arranged Marriage, in spite of how much she hates it, though such protests likely wouldn't have swayed her father.
• Battle Couple: If only by the technicality that they got engaged after the first episode thanks to the rules of the school, even if they didn't plan to go through with it. While Suletta is the only one fighting in the field, Miorine plays a role by coming up with battle plans and acting as Mission Control. In the duel with Guel she also helps by interrupting the people who were trying to cheat.
• Boy Meets Girl: Girl meets girl about to suffocate in space. Girl saves girl, then again comes to her aid against an abuser and gets accidentally engaged. Girl has her heart shattered to pieces and loses girl. Girl finds girl again, reaches out her hand, and they end up Happily Married. A tale as old as time.
• Brains and Brawn:
  • While Suletta isn't a fool, she lacks political savvy and knows little about the current state of the Earth Sphere, so she lets Miorine do all the planning. Meanwhile, since Miorine is a terrible pilot, she has to rely on Suletta whenever the need for a Mobile Suit battle arrives, while she acts as Mission Control.
  • Episode 11 showcases their stark difference in physical fitness when Miorine chases Suletta to get her to tell her what is bothering her. Suletta easily outpaces her to the point Miorine looks like she is nearly ready to collapse, and when Suletta comes back to see if Miorine is okay, Miorine takes the opportunity to grab Suletta. While Suletta says she tricked her, Miorine rebukes her by saying it was being cunning.
  • In Episode 22, Suletta regains her Holder outfit by defeating Guel in a fencing duel. She also manages to get Miorine out of her depressive spiral, helping Miorine resolve to support her plan to confront Lady Prospera. Additionally, in the plan, Suletta acts as a distraction, managing to single-handedly destroy a number of Quiet Zero’s defenses, while Miorine’s group is meant to infiltrate and shutdown Quiet Zero. In Episode 23, Miorine is able to successfully figure out how to shutdown Quiet Zero while Suletta fights off Aerial.
• Cannot Spit It Out: A shared character flaw between the both of them. Suletta tends to collapse under the strain of most social situations, and will bottle up her emotions and discomfort to the boiling point instead of talking out her problems with people, save for asking her mother for advice. On Miorine's part, she has no issue with being up-front when she needs to be in tough situations, but this doesn't extend to personal matters, and she's noticeably terrible at taking the initiative to express personal feelings unless she's pushed into it or realizes that she has to say something. In Episode 22, they finally have a heart-to-heart that allows them to mend their relationship. Episode 24 shows that they are happily married and openly affectionate towards each other.
• Cyborg: At the end of the series, Miorine apparently has devices planted on the back of both her and Suletta's heads, so they can communicate with Eri.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: Suletta is a full-blown idealist, always willing to help others, see the good in them, and choosing to go out of her way to do so. Miorine is jaded and mistrusting due to the machinations of the Benerit Group and the circumstances of her engagement, choosing to close herself off and not bother with anyone else's affairs. At the end of the series, Suletta's idealism has rubbed off on Miorine. While Miorine recognizes that attempting to making lasting positive changes is possible, it will involve making mistakes. However, she is more optimistic that she can face those mistakes with her wife and friends at her side.
• Despair Event Horizon: Both of them face theirs at different times in the show.
  • Suletta's moment is at the end of Episode 17, when she loses the final duel against Guel because of Miorine's sabotage, and also loses the Holder title, Aerial, and her engagement to Miorine, as per the duel conditions. The moment her pilot suit returns to the standard colors, she's left screaming and crying in despair. Episode 18 pushes her even further past it when she learns of her origins and is cruelly abandoned to cry in the middle of space by both Prospera and Eri. Suletta is able to begin recovering in Episode 19 thanks to Earth House's unconditional support.
  • Miorine's comes at the end of Episode 19, when Prospera takes advantage of Miorine's trip to Quinharbor to stage a fake terrorist attack in Miorine's name using Aerial Rebuild. This causes further tension between Earthians and Spacians while Miorine was trying to make peace by showcasing GUND-Arm's medical GUND prostheses. She's pushed further in Episode 21, when she witnesses firsthand what Quiet Zero is capable of when Prospera uses it to utterly decimate an entire Space Assembly League fleet in an instant; she's crushed by the overwhelming guilt she feels for assisting in Quiet Zero's completion. Miorine is pulled out of this spiral by Suletta in Episode 22, when Suletta reassures her that for all their mistakes, their meeting and bonding wasn't one. Miorine nearly crosses this again in Episode 24 when she briefly believes Suletta is dead. She quickly recovers after Suletta regains consciousness.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After everything they went through, Suletta and Miorine end the series happily married, and they have formed a family with Elnora and Eri. Suletta is recovering from the effects of Calibarn, and spending her time playing with the children in the area where she and Elnora are recovering. Suletta is also implied to have begun establishing schools as she dreamed of. Meanwhile Miorine is making efforts to peacefully negotiate with protestors, accepting that mistakes will be made. However, she will move forward and face her mistakes with her wife and friends by her side.
• Everyone Can See It: Friends and foes alike all appear to be very aware that their affection for each other runs far deeper than either of them seem to realize at first.
  • Earth House all seem to ship it to varying degrees, and after Suletta's breakdown following the events of Episode 18, they automatically (and partly incorrectly) assume it's because Miorine broke off things with her for good.
  • Guel immediately catches on to Suletta's feelings for Miorine after Suletta rejects his Love Confession, and is quick to express that he's happy for them.
  • Shaddiq notes how much Miorine has changed since meeting Suletta as far back as Episode 7. When Miorine faces him again in Episode 22 after lacking any of her typical fire in their previous meeting, Shaddiq correctly guesses it was Suletta that snapped her out of her depressive spiral.
  • Prospera easily exploits this to manipulate the both of them. She tells Suletta that it's fine to kill people if it means keeping the people she loves safe, specifically naming Miorine, and in the wake of the attack on Plant Quetta, Suletta continues to believe her mother because it allowed her to save Miorine's life. With Miorine, her desperation to pull Suletta away from Prospera's influence causes Miorine to willingly become a pawn in her plans, and she uses Suletta's freedom as a bargaining chip to get Miorine to agree to complete Quiet Zero and run for the presidency of the Benerit Group.
• Expy: The two of them are very often compared to Utena and Anthy of Revolutionary Girl Utena: they are a Lady and Knight pairing of an idealistic and tomboyish warrior with boundless skill, and a prim aristocrat who is the heir to a great power but holds little agency in using it beyond her utility to various cruel suitors, down to the circumstances of their first meeting and engagement being near-identical. That said, over the course of the series, it becomes clear that the situation is a lot more mixed, to the point of some fans comparing it to a Role Swap AU. Unlike Anthy but a lot like Utena, Miorine is reckless, headstrong, forthright in her attitude, and constantly fights her role in the system despite frequently playing right into it. Meanwhile, unlike Utena but a lot like Anthy, Suletta is an introverted Extreme Doormat with little self-worth being manipulated by an older relative, and the bearer of a far more supernatural power—not to mention, both are referred to as "witch."
• First Girl Wins: Their meeting is the first on-screen interaction either of them have, and the first episode ends with them engaged. They eventually end up Happily Married.
• Foil: Suletta and Miorine are opposites of each other in many ways: Suletta comes from a poor and harsh background and is labeled a "country bumpkin", while Miorine is the daughter of a powerful man and is called a princess. Suletta is shy but friendly, while Miorine is confident but abrasive. While Miorine is looking for personal freedom from the whims of her father and other powerful men, Suletta really wants to help others even if there is no benefit for herself. Even their physical appearances fit this trope, with Suletta's darker skin tone, medium-length red hair and tall stature contrasting with Miorine's fair skin, waist-length white hair and short stature.
• Forgiveness: In Episode 22, while it isn’t said aloud, Miorine and Suletta admitting to each other that they've made mistakes, along with how easily they are able to talk to each other later, indicates they have forgiven each other. Shortly afterwards, Miorine reconciles with Earth House and to a lesser extent her father. In Episode 24, they also seem to forgive Elnora and Eri for their previous actions as well.
• Friendless Background: Both Suletta and Miorine did not have much luck in the friend department prior to meeting each other.
  • Due to Mercury being just a mining colony Suletta had no other children her age to interact with, leading to her socially awkward disposition. One of her objectives in going to school is gaining any kind of friends, but the task proves to be difficult thanks to her lack of social skills and not having a good first impression with many of the people she has interacted with. After she gets detained by the School and is awaiting expulsion back to Mercury, the only one willing to visit her outside of Miorine is Elan, who shows no hostility toward her or her current predicament.
  • Miorine admits openly that she has only ever focused on escaping to Earth and never bothered making friends. She also prefers to spend her time in her greenhouse over interacting with other students. Additionally, the fact that Suletta, someone she only met that day, was the only one willing to stand up for her when Guel was destroying her greenhouse says a lot. It also doesn't help that Miorine has inherent trust issues, as she fears anybody being friendly with her is just an act to get close her father.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: Suletta has red hair that's usually tied back into a ponytail, while Miorine's hair is long, white, and usually unbound. The hair contrasts continue into the epilogue where Suletta retains her hair length but now has it unbound, whereas Miorine cuts her hair completely short up to her neck.
• Happily Married: They're shown wearing matching rings in the epilogue, and Eri refers to herself as Miorine's sister-in-law.
• High-School Sweethearts: Suletta and Miorine meet in the equivalent of a high school, and they ended up engaged. Over the course of the series, they become closer and more affectionate towards each other, eventually fulfilling their engagement and marrying by the epilogue.
• Holding Hands:
  • Episode 22 provides extra focus on them holding hands after Suletta manages to get Miorine to come out of her room following their heart-to-heart.
  • One of the final shots of the series focuses on them holding hands as Miorine helps Suletta stand up. The Episode 24 end card also shows the two of them happily holding hands, one version set at Asticassia in Miorine's greenhouse, and another at the hillside in the epilogue.
• Idiot Hair: Both Suletta and Miorine have these, but different aspects of the trope apply to them separately. For Suletta, her cowlick represents naivete, a little bit of spaciness, and social awkwardness; for Miorine, it reflects her recklessness, impetuous nature, and tendency to leap before she looks.
• Lady and Knight: Same-sex example. After becoming the Holder and her fiancée, Gundam pilot Suletta more or less becomes the refined and princess-y Miorine's champion when it comes to the school's dueling game. While Suletta was initially unsure and hesitant, she soon grows to be proud and love her status the more she and Miorine's feelings for one another develop, promising to stay by Miorine's side forever and to never lose a duel. This takes a tragic turn in Episode 17 when Miorine, trying to free Suletta from Prospera's machinations, betrays Suletta by shutting down Aerial as Suletta was about to defeat Guel. This results in Suletta losing her engagement, Aerial, and the Holder title, timing it to prevent Suletta from challenging Guel again to win any of it back. In Episode 22, Suletta regains her Holder status, and she becomes Miorine’s knight again after they reconcile.
• Marriage of Convenience: Miorine initially wants Suletta to keep her position as her fiancée until she can escape to Earth, since any other person that wants her to be her fiancé[e] would obviously want to go through with the marriage rather than help her run away. However, by episode 11, they both express a desire to stay together forever; by 17, Suletta is openly enthusiastic about their impending marriage. Tragically, it is at this point that Miorine resolves to push Suletta away, bargaining with Guel to resume their engagement as part of a plot to remove Suletta from Prospera's influence. In Episode 22, they reconcile to an extent, with Suletta retaking her Holder uniform from Guel, and presumably the status which comes with it. Episode 24’s epilogue indicates they are indeed happily married and content.
• Meet Cute: The very first scene of Episode 1. Suletta arrives at school and just happens to stumble upon Miorine's escape attempt. She saves Miorine from suffocating in space, but Miorine is infuriated rather than grateful, headbutting Suletta and yelling at her. According to the novelization, Suletta is captivated the moment she first sees Miorine's face.
• Misery Builds Character: Season Two puts both of them through the wringer.
  • Suletta is betrayed by Miorine with Guel's help to remove her from her mother's influence. Then, she is abandoned by Aerial and her mother after they tell her she’s a clone that is no longer needed. Suletta is only able to begin recovering thanks to Earth House’s unconditional support; thanks to them, Suletta is able to pick herself up, and realize why Miorine and her sister treated her like they did when Lady Prospera uses Aerial to reignite tensions on Earth. After the destruction of Asticassia, she resolves to help as many survivors as possible, working rescue and relief efforts throughout the fallout of the attack. When presented with a chance to pilot a Gundam to confront Lady Prospera, Suletta resolves on her own to do so, realizing how much her older sister had been shielding her all her life. This culminates in Suletta taking the opportunity to speak with Miorine again, regaining her status as the Holder from Guel before having a heart-to-heart with Miorine.
  • Miorine pushes Suletta away, believing it to be for her own good, leaving Miorine as Lady Prospera's principal puppet and making her feel responsible for a terrorist attack that Prospera falsifies at Quinharbor on Earth while Miorine was attempting to negotiate with the Earthian protest leaders. She descends further into misery after finding out Asticassia was destroyed following her ordering Guel to corner Shaddiq there, and Lady Prospera reveals she completed Quiet Zero — rendering all Miorine's actions meaningless in the first place — which she uses to kill numerous SAL pilots. Miorine is left believing she will only commit more mistakes that will get more people killed. Suletta is the only one to get through to her with a heartfelt conversation about their mistakes, and she regains the resolve to confront her own mistakes with Suletta by her side.
• No Social Skills: Despite appearances, both Suletta and Miorine have their issues with socializing, but in different ways.
  • Suletta was the only child on Mercury growing up, all of her knowledge of the outside world came from anime, manga, and video games, and her best friend/little sister is an 18-meter tall Mobile Suit that is extremely limited in the ways it can communicate with its pilot, despite being a conscious, thinking being. As a result, she has a lot of trouble speaking to other people and tends to panic easily outside of battle.
  • It's less apparent at first with Miorine, since she's much more confident when it comes to actually speaking to people than Suletta is, but due to her emotionally isolated upbringing—compounded by Delling's neglect and her own decision not to reach out to or try to rely on other people—she has a very poor understanding of how to actually interact with others as equals, and tends to be brash, pushy, and somewhat thoughtless in her interpersonal relationships. This is a large source of the conflict she has with Chuchu and most members of the Earth House at first.
• Odd Couple: Suletta's shy and innocent personality is a strong contrast to the abrasive and prideful Miorine, but despite a rocky start they rapidly begin to grow closer to each other.
• Official Couple: Their relationship is in large part what the entire show is built around, from them getting engaged in the first episode, their growing closer to each other, the transition of their marriage from one of convenience to one of genuine emotion, and the massive trials that the rising conflict places between them and any kind of happy ending together. Nonetheless, by the final episode, they are both quite clearly Happily Married, rings and all.
• One Head Taller: Suletta is one of the tallest female characters in the show while Miorine is one of the shortest. The result is a striking eight-inch height difference between bride and Holder.
• Perfectly Arranged Marriage: An odd example. Miorine's father has made her hand in marriage and, by extension, future control over his massively powerful and profitable company the prize granted to the school's top pilot. After Suletta defeats Guel and claims the top duelist rank at the end of the first episode, Miorine declares Suletta to be her fiancée. Despite ostensibly using Suletta as a guardian while she plots an escape from the whole situation, Miorine repeatedly goes out of her way to help her new groom, displaying a drastic shift in character noted by those who have known her longest. By Episodes 10 & 11, Miorine has stated outright that she no longer desires to run away because Suletta entered her life and became her groom, while Suletta has grown to appreciate her role and proudly starts to refer to herself as Miorine's groom. While the formal arrangement is broken by Miorine's bargain with Prospera in Episode 17, Suletta regains the Holder title from Guel, and the two are able to reconcile in Episode 22 after a heart-to-heart. They are Happily Married by the time of the epilogue.
• Poor Communication Kills: Their shared weakness of having No Social Skills is what causes the majority of their interpersonal conflicts with each other.
  • By Episode 10, Miorine completely immerses herself in GUND-Arm Inc, and leaves Suletta in charge of taking care of her greenhouse, which Suletta is happy to do because she sees that responsibility as an extension of Miorine's trust. However, when Miorine makes multiple decisions without consulting Suletta, including hiring gardeners, Suletta interprets this as Miorine seeing no further value in her. It doesn't really help that Miorine doesn't actually explain the reasoning of her decisions, and that she's too distracted to realize that her responses to Suletta make her come across as indifferent to Suletta's feelings. For her part, Suletta is too stunned and heartbroken to properly convey to Miorine that her well-intentioned actions come across as hurtful.
  • This continues in Episode 11, on separate tracks: Suletta can't vocalize her growing insecurities about her place in GUND-ARM, while Miorine continues on with business as usual; it takes Nika talking to Miorine, Suletta talking to her mother, and Miorine overhearing that conversation for them to finally move past the problem.
  • In Episode 17, they fall into One Dialogue, Two Conversations when Miorine asks Suletta whether she would abandon Aerial if Miorine told her to do so. Suletta says no, stating that Aerial is like family to her. Naturally, Suletta means "I have my limits and would never give up Aerial—I won't give up on the people I care about", but Miorine, already dispirited by her encounters with Prospera and knowing that Suletta is still beholden to Prospera's whims, assumes that Suletta's answer means "no, no matter what you say to me, I won't give up this incredibly dangerous lifestyle that has already led to me killing multiple people". With no more ideas of what she can possibly do to get Suletta to finally realize the truth about Prospera or give up on risking her life, Miorine ultimately decides to take the choice out of Suletta's hands and colludes with Guel and Prospera to sabotage Suletta's final duel in order to force Suletta to stop endangering herself.
  • In Episode 22, they more or less bridge the communication issues, both admitting they've made mistakes, and resolving to move forward together despite them. Episode 24 presents them as happily married and openly affectionate towards each other which indicates they apparently have overcome their previous communication issues.
• The Promise:
  • After their first heart-to-heart in Episode 11, Miorine asks Suletta to keep a number of promises, including her never leaving her side and to continue winning duels which Suletta agrees to.
  • In Episode 22, Suletta promises Miorine that she will accompany her to Earth to face the mistakes she has made. They also promise to grow more tomatoes together. Come episode 24's epilogue, they're working on fulfilling the former at least.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Suletta is emotional and passionate, if a bit shy sometimes, while Miorine is more authoritative, intellectual, and reserved. It even carries over to their respective color motifs; Suletta's associated with red, Miorine with blue.
• Rescue Romance: Happens at least twice with each taking turns saving the other:
  • The two first meet when Suletta rescues Miorine after spotting her floating in space (unaware that Miorine was trying to escape to Earth), giving Miorine a bad first impression of Suletta. Their relationship starts to properly develop, however, when Suletta comes to Miorine's aid and stands up to Guel when he trashes Miorine's greenhouse, leading to Suletta winning the subsequent duel against him, the title of Holder and, with it, Miorine's hand in marriage.
  • Despite being the Holder/Miorine's groom, Suletta initially did not think too much about their engagement. This changes after the incubation party in Episode 7, where Suletta is caught in a trap set up by the Benerit Group to publicly defame her as a Gundam pilot, leading to Miorine stepping up and starting her own company to protect Suletta and Aerial. Afterwards, Suletta becomes more openly accepting of the engagement, immersing herself in her role as Miorine's groom and growing more affectionate towards her.
  • In Episode 22, there's more of a mental/emotional rescue than a physical one. After making numerous mistakes, Miorine has hit rock bottom in a depressive spiral that no one was capable of helping her out of. Until Suletta re-enters her life, getting through to her and giving her the strength to move forward.
  • In Episode 24, after Suletta nearly sacrificed her life to stop the threat of Quiet Zero and the Space Assembly League, Suletta is left floating in space. In a Book Ends to their original meeting, Miorine, with help from Chuchu, is the one to rescue her.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: At first their relationship was strictly a transactional one, with neither wanting to go through with their engagement and only maintaining it until both get what they want. However as the story progresses, both of them start developing genuine feelings for each other, going out of their way for the others' sake beyond any necessity of simply maintaining their arrangement. In Episode 23, Miorine makes it clear to Prospera that she does indeed plan on marrying Suletta. The epilogue in Episode 24 reveals they are Happily Married.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: While they never look bad, Episode 7 proves that both Suletta and Miorine can look great at formal events, as they're wearing beautiful dresses.
• Ship Tease:
  • Episode 7 has Miorine stepping in front of an entire conference, boldly declaring herself Suletta's bride, before proposing a start-up company and even begging her father for financial assistance (actions which both directly contradict her previously stated goals) all to save Suletta and Aerial. In subsequent episodes, Suletta appears to take their engagement far more seriously.
  • Episode 10 has Suletta behaving head-over-heels for Miorine while the latter is away on business, counting the hours until her return, and is visibly distraught when Elan plants the seed of doubt in her in that their marriage would only be political and Miorine's heart wouldn't be in it.
  • Episode 11 has Miorine giving Suletta an impassioned rant on how much the latter has changed her life for the better, reinforcing her choice from episode 7, and even asks her to promise to stay by her side forever.
  • Episode 17 has the two expressing their mutual feelings, but never directly to each other. Suletta explicitly rejects Guel's confession because of her feelings for Miorine, and later says that she wants to ask Miorine to stay by her side forever, complete with wanting to have a wedding with rings and dresses. Miorine, when speaking with Guel after Suletta rejects him, makes it clear that she's going to do whatever it takes to make Suletta happy, even it means breaking her heart by sabotaging said duel, causing her to lose everything that she held dear, and acting like their relationship meant nothing to Miorine at all in order to permanently push Suletta away from Prospera and the dangers of Quiet Zero.
  • In Episode 22, Suletta accepts a challenge to a duel with Guel before she can have a heart-to-heart with Miorine, allowing him to return the Holder uniform and status to her upon his defeat. Granted the chance to talk with Miorine again, they discuss how they've both made mistakes, but Suletta makes it clear her meeting Miorine was not one. Giving Miorine the courage to rise and face her mistakes, their talk culminates with Suletta offering Miorine her hand and Miorine accepting it, the camera focusing and lingering on their hands linking together. They would later share a tranquil moment where they promise to grow more tomatoes together.
  • In Episode 23, Miorine is shown anxiously looking at the keychain Suletta gave her while Suletta is fighting Quiet Zero, and she’s about to begin her part of the plan. She delivers a scathing "Reason You Suck" Speech towards Prospera for her treatment of Suletta, and when she offers Lady Prospera mercy she outright states she plans on marrying Suletta.
  • In Episode 24, Miorine saves Suletta while she is floating in space, initially believing her to have perished, causing her to break down in tears. When Suletta wakes up, Miorine's tears turn to joy, telling Suletta to answer her sooner and affectionately calling her an idiot.
• Skilled, but Naive: Both, but for different reasons.
  • Suletta is a genuinely excellent pilot, but she might as well have grown up inside of Aerial's cockpit. Not only does she have messy social skills and relatively little common sense, but the fourth episode reveals that she has very little knowledge of the "formals" of mobile suit mechanics, being baffled by a test that Miorine (who is shown to be a terrible pilot) refers to as the bare basics.
  • Miorine, despite being much more cynical than Suletta, is also quite sheltered. She is a polymath of a manager and administrator who can memorize a manual in minutes and turn a company running out of what's practically a garage into a legitimate contender, but she doesn't have a sense of just how cutthroat and cruel the business of war profiteering can be. This is quite visible in episode 19, where despite her overall plan being good on paper and wholly beneficial, she isn't aware of just how high the tensions between the two factions are running, which leads to her being nearly stonewalled in what should by all rights be a slam-dunk of a negotiation. It also leads her to underestimate just how dangerous Prospera actually is, which lets Prospera use Miorine's trip to Quinharbor as an excuse to stage a terrorist attack that completely scuttles Miorine's attempts to peacefully resolve matters with the Earthians.
• Spanner in the Works: Both Suletta and Miorine prove to be major problems for the three branches' plans and Lady Prospera.
  • In just the first episode, Suletta defeating Guel in a duel completely derails Vim Jeturk's plot to assassinate Delling and secure Guel's marriage with Miorine.
  • Miorine derails the Witch Trials taking place during episode 2 by confronting her father and challenging him to a duel for her freedom of choice and Suletta's sake, giving Lady Prospera and Jeturk opportunities to make Delling sound even more unreasonable and untrustworthy while presenting themselves as reasonable counterpoints and alternatives. She even gets her way, buying a reprieve for Suletta and Aerial and choosing them as her champions for her duel. She does it again during the incubation party in Episode 7 by starting up her own company to protect Suletta and Aerial from the joint scheme of Zenelli, Jeturk, and the Peil CEOs to expose them.
  • Suletta and Miorine's teamwork in episode 9, combined with Earth House lending a hand, put an end to Shaddiq and Sarius Zenelli's plans for Aerial: the events of the episode ensure that Shaddiq can no longer interfere with Miorine since he lost the duel and by proxy has to leave GUND-ARM Inc. alone, which means that Sarius has lost one of his primary direct levers for getting rid of Aerial.
  • In Episode 22, Suletta is able to help Miorine regain her resolve after Lady Prospera had successfully managed to break her spirit, and they resolve to confront her together. Subsequently, Lady Prospera definitely did not expect Suletta to oppose her, and doesn't appear to suspect that Suletta is just the diversion while Miorine's group attempt to shut down Quiet Zero.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: While technically "fiancée" rather than "girlfriend", "Wife" by the epilogue, Suletta and Miorine are this towards each other.
• Unwitting Pawn: Suletta is completely out of the loop on her mother Prospera's plans, and mostly just goes with the flow of what she's told to do because she trusts her mother. Miorine knows something's fishy about Prospera, but knowing she's against Delling turns it into an Enemy Mine situation. And even that turns into another example of how the girls have been left in the dark, as Prospera and Delling are actually working together in finalizing their project, Quiet Zero.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • In Episode 11, Miorine is surprised to hear that Suletta thinks little of herself, believing in turn that Miorine doesn't trust her. After giving Suletta a Dope Slap, she confesses just how much Suletta means to her and how Suletta's motto and presence in her life became the thing that gives her strength. She talks about how Suletta becoming her groom changed her life, how she's found joy and fulfillment in a life she used to scorn, and how she no longer wishes to run away.
  • Suletta returns the favor in Episode 22, after Miorine reveals her fear of making more mistakes that might cost more people their lives. Suletta reflects on some of the mistakes she's made in the past, stating that she intends to move forward regardless. She then makes it clear to Miorine in no uncertain terms that their meeting and forming the bond they have was not a mistake. This finally gets through to Miorine, allowing her to find the resolve to move forward with Suletta.

Suletta Mercury

Affiliation: Shin Sei Development Corporation, Earth House, GUND-ARM Inc.

Main MS: XVX-016 Gundam Aerial, MSJ-121 Demi Trainer, XVX-016RN Gundam Aerial Rebuild, X-EX01 Gundam Calibarn, FP/A-77 Gundam Pharact (Remote Controlled), MDX-0003 Gundam Schwarzette (Remote Controlled)

Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)^{Foreign V As} Krishna Tapia (Latin American Spanish), Amanda Tavares (Brazilian Portuguese), Jang Yena (Korean)

"Me and Aerial won't lose!"

^{Click here to see her in her pilot suit}

The series' protagonist. A 17-year-old, second-year transfer student from the planet Mercury studying at the Asticassia School of Technology in the piloting department.

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• 13 Is Unlucky: Counting the original Ericht, she’s the thirteenth child of Prospera, created as the “Key” to unlock the full Permet Score potential in Aerial. Her actions end up bringing disaster for herself and others.
• Accidental Proposal: After she defeats Guel, per the rules of the school's dueling system, Suletta ends up becoming Miorine's new fiancée.
• Ace Pilot:
  • She has a strong bond with Aerial's AI, and draws out more potential from Aerial than anyone else that pilots her. This allows her to defeat the best pilots at school even when they bring the best machines available with them.
  • In the Cradle Planet web novel, Aerial mentions that Suletta has already beat Prospera's scores in the training simulations by age six. At eleven years old, she can take on a rescue mission — previously estimated to be impossible to complete within seven minutes — by herself in under four minutes. Obviously Aerial is outstanding in terms of power, but her narration makes it clear: Suletta has learned how to navigate Mercury's hostile surface with extreme ease, can operate Aerial's beam saber with the precision of a surgeon, and pushes her Mobile Suit to speeds that would be difficult to handle even for the most expert pilots.
  • Despite experiencing the feedback of a high Permet Score data storm for the second time in her life — with no filter at all, and in a suit she's never piloted — Suletta obliterates a significant amount of Quiet Zero's army when pushing to make contact with Ericht and her mother while piloting the Calibarn.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Though she doesn't quite understand what Aerial being a Gundam means, she's been able to subconsciously push Aerial's Permet Score all the way to 8, when level 4 has been almost universally lethal in the past.
• Action Girl: Following Sunrise's "Anime First" approach to Canon, she's the first ever female main character in a Gundam TV anime, and she's more than capable of living up to the task, being an amazing duelist and excellent pilot. In Episode 22, she was also able to beat Guel in a fencing duel.
• Affectionate Nickname: Giving one of those to a friend is on her list of things to do when she finally attends school. She tries to call Miorine "Mio-Mio" after winning her second duel but is instantly denied.
• The Alleged Boss: Suletta is Holder, which comes with a number of responsibilities, a great deal of authority, and seemingly a seat on the Dueling Committee. She's not really caught up in any of that, however, and the Dueling Committee works fine without her. However, in Episode 10, she is able to use her authority as the Holder to allow her friends to film a new promotional video for GUND-ARM Inc.
• All-Loving Hero: What she settles into after her Character Development during Season 2. Even after she felt betrayed by Miorine, her mother, and her Gundam/Sister, Suletta still retained her sense of idealism, wanting to help anyone she can, even those who actively antagonized her previously, and holding no resentment towards those who betrayed her. Eventually, she is able to reconcile with Miorine, her mother, and her sister and form a family with them.
• Ambiguously Human: Of the cyborg variety. Other witches in the series, like her mother or Elan, have implants and enhancements that allow them to interact with the GUND format of their mobile suits. Suletta doesn't have anything similar when piloting Aerial, which is somewhat in line with other (non-Gundam) mobile suits not requiring said implants, but she does get the same circuit board-looking patterns as other witches do when directly exposed to data storms. Aside from that she does appear to have some measure of Super-Strength and a fair bit of stamina for her age, easily lifting up chunks of concrete that are destroyed by Norea's final attack at Asticassia; given Aerial's true nature, it's not unlikely that Prospera would be willing to modify the clone of her daughter like that. Still, it has never been clearly stated if Suletta is in any way modified or just a baseline human.
• Ambiguous Situation: After the startling revelations of Episodes 6 and 14, everything involving Suletta becomes murky. At first, it became questionable if Suletta and Ericht Samaya were the same person, since Suletta is 17 and the Attack on Fólkvangr, aka Ericht's fourth birthday, was 21 years ago. Once Prospera admits that Suletta is her second daughter, it's still left up in the air just where Suletta came from. She has a Strong Family Resemblance to Nadim Samaya, who died four years before she was born, meaning that Suletta could have been born through artificial insemination, cloning, being an enhanced human, or by a different biological father that had similar eyebrows and skintone. Episode 18 answers this, revealing that Suletta is a "Repli-Child", a clone based on Eri's DNA.
• Artificial Human: Of the clone variety; Episode 18 sees Ericht reveal to Suletta that she's a "Repli-Child", made using Eri's own DNA.
• Apologizes a Lot: She even apologizes to a Haro guide in the first episode.
• Badass Adorable: A shy and good-hearted girl, but an Ace Pilot nonetheless.
• Berserk Button: While normally a shy, stuttering mess around others, mishandle or steal Aerial and she will not be merciful.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Suletta is a nice person, but as mentioned below, when she gets in the cockpit of her Gundam, she is a force to be reckoned with. Then Prospera convinces her that it's okay to kill anyone she deems a threat, and Suletta suddenly becomes a whole lot more terrifying even to the ones she cares about and wants to protect—she literally crushes a man into red pulp in front of Miorine to protect her.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: While timid, she is a dangerous pilot nonetheless, as evidenced when she took down Guel Jeturk, at the time the school's top pilot, in under a minute. Taken to more nightmarish extremes come Episode 12, where said timid and clumsy girl casually crushes a terrorist into paste and walks over his remains without even registering the fact that she had just killed someone.
• Bigger Stick: While certainly an Ace Pilot, Suletta—by her own admission—relies heavily on Aerial's superior tech to beat her opponents. She's even described as "nothing special" when Aerial's GUND-Format related abilities are disabled.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: She has a pair of eyebrows almost as big as her eyes, which noticeably make her resemble a Tanuki.
• Big "WHAT?!": She has such a reaction at the end of Episode 2 when Miorine visits her cell and tells her she needs to win the duel Miorine challenged her father to, or else Aerial gets scrapped and she gets expelled from the school.
• Blind Obedience: She will follow her mother's command without question, regardless of whatever moral quandaries might be present. This eventually begins to frighten Miorine to the point that she confronts Prospera.
• Brought Down to Normal: When piloting the same trainee mech as everyone else, Suletta struggles mightily when the visual sensors are knocked out.
• Broken Pedestal: Happens three-fold over Episodes 17 & 18. First, Miorine breaks her heart by revealing she sabotaged her during her duel with Guel, claiming she no longer considers Suletta useful, though it's Subverted in that Suletta refuses to blame Miorine despite coping with things poorly. When Chuchu and the rest of Earth House talk her into finally confronting Miorine about how she really feels, she instead has an encounter with Aerial, learning that she was created from Eri's DNA as a "key terminal" to aid in Eri's development as Aerial. Eri, mirroring Miorine's intentions, then states that Suletta's purpose has been fulfilled, and rejects her from Aerial's cockpit, stating that she no longer needs her. Prospera then completes the pedestal-breaking by confirming everything Eri said to Suletta, telling Suletta to live her own life at Asticassia, then leaving a heartbroken and crying Suletta to drift in space with an SOS beacon on.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: While she survives it all, piloting the Calibarn for as long as she did at Permet Score 5 did no favors for her health, even with her inherited data storm resistance from Eri, to say nothing of her working with her sister to push beyond Score 8 to command the Gundams and disable the SAL's superweapon. The end result is that she briefly seems to have gotten killed for it, and even three years afterwards, she's shown to have scars on her face from the data storm and is still undergoing rehabilitation, needing crutches to get around.
• Brutal Honesty: She'll stutter her way through, but she never gives anything less than her honest opinion, as part of her philosophy to confront dangers head-on. In episode 3, Guel tries to excuse his earlier loss as not taking the duel seriously, but Suletta just tells him that's just another way of admitting his loss.
• Character Tics: When she gets nervous or scared, she tends to cross her arms over her chest with her hands by her face in a defensive manner.
• Child Prodigy: Suletta surpassed her mother in skill at age six. Now, at 17, she is the greatest mobile suit pilot in her age group, and likely better than many adult pilots.
• Child Soldier: As per Gundam tradition. Between the prologue and the main series, Suletta's mother trained her to reach her potential as a pilot to fulfill her role in Elnora's plans for revenge.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: She has a near pathological craving to be needed, and as such constantly feels driven to save those she notices are in distress even when there is no need to. This stems from her upbringing on Mercury where she would often be called on to save those who ended up in trouble due to the hazardous work environment, as she was the best pilot around, as well as Prospera's neglectful parenting strategies impressing upon her that she's only valued for what she can do for people. When Miorine, Ericht and Prospera all tell her that she is no longer needed over the course of Episode 17 and 18, she thoroughly breaks down.
• Classical Anti-Hero: She started off as a socially-inept New Transfer Student who happens to be an experienced pilot and a mindset of obeying her mother's words without considering if it would be right or wrong herself. Her Character Development over the course of the second season sees her develop into more of an All-Loving Heroine instead.
• Clones Are People, Too: Episode 18 ends with Suletta learning that she was created from Eri’s DNA. Notably, after Prospera confirms that this is the truth of her origins, Suletta is not upset about being a clone at all, only that her mother and sister are abandoning her because the purpose she was cloned for has been fulfilled, causing them to say they no longer need her. Later on, when reflecting on it to others, she brings up the idea rather matter-of-factly, and only suggests it as a reason for why Prospera would favor Eri over her. Additionally, despite being a clone, she doesn't seem to have much, if anything, in common with Eri barring appearance.
• Companion Cube: Suletta has stayed close to Aerial for years and considers her part of her family. Notably, she always calls Aerial "Aerial" and not "the Aerial", similar to how one would speak about another person.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Suletta is very different from her immediate predecessor, Mikazuki Augus.
  • Mikazuki was an incredibly stoic, ruthless Anti-Hero defined by his single-minded loyalty to his loved ones and willingness to kill people in cold blood. About the only thing Suletta has in common with him is being an excellent pilot; she is a nervous, awkward Nice Girl willing to extend a helping hand even to people she barely knows. Mikazuki also started the series as Orga's closest ally and friend, and is well respected among the other members of Tekkadan, while Suletta is a New Transfer Student in a completely new environment, and treated as such by her peers. Episode 12, however, shows that Suletta is just as capable of brutally killing to protect her loved ones as Mika, without even changing expressions—it's just that she'll remain upbeat and cheerful, whereas Mika won't emote at all unless it's really personal.
  • Later episodes further the contrasts: Suletta is an artificially made replica of Aerial's original body that has no issue piloting Aerial gracefully and efficiently, but gets left behind by Aerial, her mother and her love interest to live her own life; she spends the rest of the series trying to undo all of that in order to be a family with them all, which she ultimately succeeds in doing. Mikazuki, on the other hand, was an ordinary guy that required a Deal with the Devil with Barbatos for any real power and died in its seat fulfilling the cause left to him by his mentor, but left his love interests with a child. Additionally, Suletta ends up physically disabled due to the strain of piloting the Gundam Calibarn at high Permet scores, just like Mikazuki loses the use of his right arm, eye, and leg to the Barbatos by pushing himself too hard; while Suletta's rehabilitation will potentially allow her to recover her physical mobility on her own, Mikazuki's deadened limbs and eye were completely nonfunctional outside of the Barbatos and remained so until his death.
• Cool Big Sis: Sophie sees her as this, despite not actually being related. Suletta doesn't mind and gladly throws herself into the role, taking the girl on a trip of Asticassia, despite struggling with keeping her from breaking rules.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: In episode 18, she prepares to tuck into a gigantic bowl of ramen topped with what appears to be everything she could find in the cafeteria, including lettuce, bacon, asparagus, peas in mashed potatoes, cherry tomatoes, and a fried egg. Upon seeing this, her friends immediately realize how badly she's faking her mood.
• Country Mouse: Sci-fi version. Mercury is considered an isolated backwater planet within the setting. Suletta, having grown up there, has a lot of adjusting to do to fit in with the rest of the students.
• Cowardly Lion: For the most part, Suletta is a nervous and stuttering wreck, especially in social situations. However, if someone needs her help, she'll step in without question, no matter what she has to do. She gradually begins to grow out of this as the story progresses.
• Cower Power: When confronted, Suletta has a tendency to hide behind other characters, usually those shorter than her.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Due to her rather isolated upbringing on Mercury, Suletta is generally shy around strangers and is unsure of how to act in a proper school setting, leading many people to not take her seriously. However, once she gets into the cockpit of Aerial, she proves to be a fearsome opponent and is easily able to knock out the school's top duelist.
• Custom Uniform: Suletta initially wears a standard issue uniform, but its colors are eventually changed to a white and gold colored version. This is the result of her claiming the spot from Guel as the school's top duelist known as the "Holder". Episode 17 has her reverting back to the standard colors after Miorine revokes the Holder title from her after engineering Suletta's loss against Guel. He subsequently returns it to the custom Holder colors after she beats him in a quick fencing duel in Episode 22.
• The Defroster: To Miorine. As the story and their relationship progresses, Suletta's genuine kindness and care for her, along with her idealism, is what enables the other girl's Character Development, allowing her more positive traits to be highlighted and for her to develop a more idealistic outlook on life. Unfortunately, Prospera knows and exploits Suletta's status as this for Miorine in order to get her to cooperate with her, playing on Miorine's paranoia that she could command Suletta to do anything from giving up her dreams of opening a school on Mercury, or even killing people using Gundams.
• Dented Iron: The series ends with Suletta having burn scars on her face (and possibly other places on her body) and crippled by overusing Calibarn and pushing her body beyond Permet Score 8. However, the epilogue indicates that she is recovering use of her body, and she might make a full recovery while her wife Miorine supports her.
• Didn't See That Coming: While Suletta was aware that duels settled various disputes and could be used to decide marriage partners, she had no idea that the top duelist of the school automatically becomes engaged to Miorine. She simply accepted the idea of taking Guel on in a duel to force him to apologize for destroying Miorine's greenhouse, and the engagement wasn't mentioned until after she won.
• Disney Death: After nearly sacrificing her life to end Quiet Zero and stop the Space Assembly League, Suletta is unresponsive when Miorine finds her floating in space. She regains consciousness when Miorine accidentally headbutts her helmet. A teary-eyed Miorine admonishes her, telling her to answer her sooner.
• Dissonant Serenity: Played for Drama in episode 12; to save Miorine from a terrorist, Suletta smashes him with Aerial right in front of Miorine, then climbs out, slips on the bloody pulp that used to be a human being, laughs at how clumsy she is, and cheerfully greets Miorine with her hand still completely covered in blood and gore. Miorine, who is covered in the man's blood, understandably has a Thousand-Yard Stare the whole time.
• Doublethink: A manifestation of her Blind Obedience to her mother. She believes anything Prospera tells her, even if it contradicts what she said before or the facts in front of her. This is best seen in the initial episodes of the second season, when she keeps insisting Aerial isn't a weapon but a machine that helps people, even after killing someone with Aerial at the end of the previous season. It's only when Sophie throws that contradiction at her face, asking why Aerial would even have weapons in the first place, that Suletta realizes something is wrong with what her mother told her. Even as she tries to reassure herself, she is clearly shaken by it.
• The Dulcinea Effect: On Suletta's very first day of school, she witnesses Guel abusing Miorine and steps in to challenge him a duel, undaunted by the fact that she'll have to leave campus forever if she loses.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first scene in the series shows her having a comically exaggerated freak out upon noticing a person in danger, before recomposing herself and going to their rescue even when other people are telling her to leave it to them. With this, we see that Suletta, while a socially awkward stuttering mess, will not hesitate to save someone.
• Everyone Has Standards: Suletta may have a pathological need to be useful, but even she seems annoyed when Miorine throws in cleaning her room twice a week as part of her demands of her groom.
• Experienced Protagonist: By the time Episode 1 begins, she is more than experienced in mobile suit piloting and easily takes out the ace of the school, Guel Jeturk, in no time.
• Expository Pronoun: Uses the very backwater and rural "Uchi", reflecting her nature as a Country Mouse. Later on, she switches to "watashi", a more standard semi-formal pronoun.
• Extreme Doormat: As the series goes on, it becomes clear that Suletta is very easy to push around, thanks to her lack of self-esteem, her mother's conditioning, and her overly-trusting nature. This becomes a major part of her conversation with Miorine in episode 16, where Miorine point-blank asks Suletta whether, if her mother told her to do so, she would give up her dreams of becoming a teacher on Mercury or use her Gundam to kill people. Suletta, though visibly not happy at the question, answers in the affirmative, simply because she trusts that if her mother told her to do it, then there would probably be a good reason behind it, and that's enough for her. In fact, the only thing Suletta claimed she would never want to do even if her mother said otherwise is give up the Aerial. A major point of Character Development during the second season is her deliberate choice to break free from this trope; she actively admits that her "things to do" list was influenced by Prospera more than it was made of her own volition, and she becomes a lot firmer in making it clear when she's choosing to do things because she wants to do them, not because she was told to.
• Flat "What": Suletta's response to Guel's proposal to her after she defeats him a second time.
• Flying Broomstick: Gundam Calibarn comes equipped with a combination beam cannon/booster unit with a distinctly broomstick-like silhouette. Though rather than between the legs, it holds this "broomstick" under its arm.
• Foil: Besides being a foil to Miorine, she is also a foil to Shaddiq. Shaddiq has a lot of loyal followers, and he had a preexisting relationship with Miorine, but he was unable to trust anyone, and he couldn't bring himself to be honest with his feelings. Suletta started out with no one and only just met Miorine. However, Suletta was able to form bonds of trust with not only Miorine but members of the Earth House which allowed her team to defeat Shaddiq's team.
• Foreshadowing: The divination Aliya performs for Suletta in Episode 5 heavily hints at the more hidden points of her familial relationships and of her and Eri not being the same person. Aliya points out her mother at the near-center as being a heavy influence, providing an early indication of how Lady Prospera has been molding Suletta into having Blind Obedience from the beginning and the tight hold she has over her, while an odd stone at "12" indicates a sibling, which confuses Suletta despite her treating Aerial like family. It ultimately turns out that Suletta is the twelfth clone of Ericht Samaya, whose spirit resides inside Aerial.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Suletta starts off as a shy, socially awkward transfer student whom nobody gives a second thought to, and ends up curbstomping the school's top ranking duelist and seizing his title. All in the space of a single episode.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: When her mother kills soldiers to save Suletta, Suletta is horrified. Prospera explains in her "run and gain one, move forward and gain two" philosophy that it's fine to kill to protect. From then on, Suletta is instantly willing to kill, to the point of seeing nothing wrong with splattering a terrorist and then joking about how clumsy she is. Miorine is understandably horrified at her nonchalance, and it's not until the second season that it becomes clearer that Suletta regrets her reaction as well as her behavior.
• Genre Refugee: Suletta is basically someone from a Slice of Life anime (and even thinks like she's in one) inserted in a standard Gundam anime. Deconstructed to horrifying effect come episode 12, where she proceeds to engage in typical cute and clumsy Slice of Life anime shenanigans while standing over the splattered remains of a terrorist, seemingly so disconnected from the situation she's in that she can't even register just how traumatizing the whole thing is for Miorine.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Following the battle at Quiet Zero, Suletta has faint, vein-like scars on the sides of her face (and most likely across the rest of her body), all as a result of the Volcanic Veins from piloting a Gundam.
• Good Wears White: Suletta wears mostly white clothing due to being the Holder, and she is easily the nicest, most heroic character in the series.
• Graceful in Their Element: Outside of Aerial's cockpit, Suletta is an extremely neurotic and jittery girl. Inside, she is an Ace Pilot who becomes the Holder effortlessly on her first day of school.
• Heroic BSoD: The events of Episodes 17 and 18 put her through a brief one in Episode 19, where she outright locks herself in her room and refuses to eat until she can't ignore her stomach growling. Earth House's support allows her to overcome it, and in Episode 22 Suletta is able regain her Holder status from Guel, and she is able to pull Miorine out of her own Heroic BSoD.
• Heroic RRoD: While she is resistant to the Gundam's data storms, she is not immune, a fact that she is painfully reminded of when the the strain of piloting the Calibarn finally becomes too much and nearly kills her. And after she tried to use it again with Quiet Zero she was left with possibly life-long debilitations and scars from the resulting strain.
• Heroic Sacrifice: While she doesn’t die, Suletta comes close to when she pushes her body past Permet Score 8 to end Quiet Zero and the threat from the Space Assembly League. She is left scarred and crippled, but the epilogue indicates that she is recovering.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite her catchphrase, her lack of self-confidence in social situations is visible, and only magnifies when she feels like Miorine and the rest of Earth House don't need her during episodes 10 and 11. In a conversation she has with Miorine, she explicitly compares herself to a weed, and thinks of herself as a fool for assuming that she had friends in Miorine and Earth House. In fact, she will always blame herself over blaming someone else even if it was never her fault. In the wake of Miorine rejecting her in Episode 17, she only blames her own failure to keep her promise and believing their engagment was a mistake, rather than blaming Miorine for shutting down Aerial. Suletta appears to have overcome this issue by Episode 22 as she states that meeting Miorine and the bond they formed was not a mistake.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Either due to genetics or the low gravity of Mercury, Suletta is easily a head taller than just about every girl present at Asticassia in the same age range at 170 cm. Though this doesn't appear to extend to the boys. Incidentally, she's also taller than any other teenaged main Gundam pilot. Especially evident when she's side-by-side next to Miorine who is one of the shortest characters in the entire cast. A few episodes imply she's the stronger of the two by a good margin, with Miorine grumbling about her "freakish stamina."
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Suletta just wants to live a normal school life, and never intended to get involved in the school duels and inadvertently become the Holder. She eventually comes to embrace being the Holder and Miorine’s fiancée.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Getting friends is the first thing on Suletta's list.
• If It's You, It's Okay: When Suletta accidentally engages herself to Miorine, she's completely baffled by the idea of a romance between two women, and goes along to keep from being expelled. When the date to fulfill it is near, Suletta is vocally enthusiastic about marrying Miorine. They end up Happily Married in the epilogue of Episode 24.
• The Immune: Downplayed. Suletta's status as Ericht's clone gives her some tolerance to a Gundam's data storm, to the point that she can handle the Calibarn's despite it having no data storm filter and then take its Permet Score to 5, when 4 is already a near-guaranteed death sentence. However, because of how abnormal Ericht's own true immunity to data storms is, Suletta didn't fully acquire it even though she's her clone, and as a result is still risking her life from piloting the Calibarn.
• Improbable Piloting Skills: Back on Mercury she was able to rescue someone stranded a long way away from the base and make it back in four minutes (from a time limit of seven) via weaving through a complex network of canyons across the planet's surface. This is made even more impressive by the fact that Suletta was eleven at the time, and one wrong move would have resulted in Aerial getting severely damaged as even her frame is unable to withstand the Sun on Mercury for long.
• Innocently Insensitive: Taken to a much, much more severe degree in episode 12, when she cheerfully announces how she came to save Miorine after smashing a terrorist with Aerial's hand and nonchalantly picking herself up out of his bloody remains to offer Miorine a blood-soaked hand, completely oblivious to the traumatized look on Miorine's face or the fact that she sprayed the man's blood all over Miorine while Delling is in critical condition nearby.
• Innocence Lost: This becomes the theme of the second season for Suletta — as she gradually comes to realize the truth behind Prospera's actions and her own origins, she also comes to realize just what kind of person Prospera actually is and the hardships awaiting her in the world outside of Asticassia.
• In-Series Nickname: Suletta is called "The Witch" in hushed whispers by episode 4; it also counts as a Red Baron name.
• It Was a Gift: The hairband she currently wears was worn by her mother Elnora in her youth and in the prologue.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: As her mother taught her, it's better to confront danger head-on rather than flee it, because win or lose, you gain experience and pride. As such, she's an incredibly awkward and anxious person most of the time, but when the time comes to pilot Aerial in battle, her personality does a 180 and she becomes a confident, decisive warrior. Then as soon as the fight's over she's back to a stuttering wreck. Suletta admits in Episode 11 that she has a hard time always following through with that philosophy, and she repeats in to get herself motivated.
• Lightning Bruiser: Her piloting style is focused around quick and agile movements while pressuring enemies at close range. This, when combined with what appears to be some manner of prerecognition, makes her damn near impossible to hit by all but the most skilled pilots, such as Shaddiq. This comes with the caveat that she's only able to control three GUND-bits without Aerial's help—not that it slows her down much.
• Little Big Sister: Exaggerated — she considers her Gundam, an 18-meter tall Mobile Suit, a younger sister. With the reveal of Aerial's true nature, the trope is played straight but from the opposite direction than initially presented; Suletta is the younger of the two siblings chronologically, but she towers over Ericht, who manifests within data storm networks as a small child.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Not only is she kept in the dark about her mother's revenge scheme, but she also wasn't even told what a Gundam is, or that Aerial is one. She finally learns Aerial is a Gundam at the end of Episode 7.
• Meaningful Name: Suletta is named after "Sol Hetta", which means "solar heat" in Swedish.
• Moral Myopia: She dips her toes in this trope in Episode 14 before realizing it and stopping herself. As Sophie starts ranting about how her terrorist actions are for the sake of getting stuff most people take for granted like food, a soft bed, and a family, Suletta tries to counter by saying none of that justifies violence, before remembering she killed someone to protect Miorine, a person she cares about. The shock of this realization gives Suletta pause in the middle of the battle, and is the only thing that seems to shake her rock-solid faith in her mother even for a short period of time in the episode.
• Naïve Newcomer: While she is an Experienced Protagonist in terms of piloting, she is naive when it comes to any social conventions, as shown when she missed the implicit insult when other students asked if her mother chose her hair band.
• New Transfer Student: Starts the series off as one hailing from the planet Mercury, and studying at the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Benerit Group mega-corporation that has a near monopolistic hold over mobile suit production.
• Nice Girl: Suletta is kind, friendly and polite to everyone. It is telling that the main reason the events of the story came to unfold was because Suletta stepped up to defend Miorine when Guel was terrorizing her. The only real fly in the ointment is that her worldview and moral compass is very much shaped by — and can be influenced by — Prospera, and it takes very little convincing on Prospera's part for Suletta to be okay with killing someone if it means defending her loved ones. However, over the course of the following episodes, Suletta reaffirms that she really is a pleasant and helpful person by her own choice, striving to do and be better after her worldview is completely upended by the events of Episodes 17 and 18.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She chose to fight Guel to force him to apologize to Miorine. By defeating him, however, she brings herself and Aerial into the spotlight, allowing the Council to deduce Aerial is a Gundam, leading to her arrest. If Miorine hadn't interfered, she would have been expelled and Aerial dismantled.
• No-Respect Guy: Suletta was not respected by people on Mercury, and the people she rescued tended to complain while she saved them. While Prospera would often praise her for her abilities, Prospera also neglected her for long periods of time to attend to other business. The first person that acknowledges her good heart and encourages to stand up for herself is Miorine.
• Oh, Crap!: She's left shocked after finding out that she is now engaged to Miorine, and that such engagements happen relatively often. Based on her priceless facial expression, you'd think the poor girl was being put to death. In Episode 11, she has this reaction when she sees Miorine overheard her conversation with her mother and subsequently accidentally causing Miorine to hit her head in a struggle.
• Only Friend: Despite only knowing her for a couple of days, Suletta quickly became Miorine's only friend at school after she had a falling out with Shaddiq.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Suletta stops stuttering when she's so completely focused on what's in front of her that she has no time to be afraid or nervous, and in the situation where that's most common (piloting Aerial) she tends to speak with a fair amount of emotion in her voice. The events of Episode 19 and 20 have her both drop her stutter and speak in a quiet, calm tone that's very much unlike her as she realizes that Eri pushed her away to keep her out of Prospera's revenge scheme (Episode 19) and while she's moving concrete to try and unearth other students from the rubble at Asticassia (Episode 20).
• Otaku: Growing up on Mercury without any other children for company, she spent her free time on anime, manga, and video games.
• Phlebotinum Girl: Suletta is a precociously-talented teenage girl, uniquely capable of using the series' most advanced mobile suit, and loyally pilots it in service of a Char Clone. She is however a Lighter and Softer version of the archetype: Suletta is the series protagonist instead of a sympathetic antagonist, she primarily pilots a suit for duels instead of for warfare, and is more neurotic than unstable. Most significantly, she's something of a decoy for her sister Ericht, who is a much straighter example.
• Pinball Protagonist: If Suletta had her way, she'd be doing nothing but studying and making friends at school. However, people around her keep dragging her into their powerplays and revenge plots. Thanks to her lack of political savviness, it's always Miorine who comes up with a way to save the day, culminating in Miorine creating a new company to protect Suletta and Aerial, of which she is obviously the CEO. While Suletta is still the one to fight Mobile Suit battles, she does so while following Miorine's plans most of the time.
• Plucky Girl: Despite her anxieties and worries, once Suletta has committed to a course of action, she will not let anyone stop her from following it through. Her persistence, alongside her growing devotion to Miorine, is a large part of what fuels her refusal to lose her Holder title to anyone, and even when faced with setbacks like losing her Holder status because of Miorine trying to protect her from Prospera, she eventually finds her footing and keeps pressing forward, slowly gaining more surety in herself.
• Positive Friend Influence: Her kindness, positive attitude, and philosophy has changed a lot of people for the better since she arrived at the school. Miorine, who usually is only concerned about herself, has performed several selfless acts for Suletta's sake. Guel became less of a Jerkass influenced by an Inferiority Superiority Complex, and Elan manages to recover some of his memories and finds some happiness in his seemingly empty life before being killed. Needless to say, it comes as a titanic shock for Miorine when Suletta casually crushes a terrorist into paste right in front of her and happily jokes around while covered in his blood.
• Primary-Color Champion: Her Gundam Aerial in its red, blue, and yellow glory, as per series tradition.
• Rebuilt Pedestal:
  • Finding out that Prospera lied to her about Aerial's true nature as a Gundam hits her hard, but afterwards, Prospera explains to Suletta that the only reason she lied about it in the first place was to protect both Suletta and Aerial from the fear of people who hate Gundams and those who pilot them. Suletta's fears are satisfied, and she thanks Prospera for protecting both her and Aerial; Miorine, however, is clearly bothered by how easily Suletta accepts Prospera's explanation.
  • After the rough time she's been through in Episodes 17 and 18, Episode 19 has Suletta direct this to Aerial, once she sees that Aerial is part of the False Flag Operation that Prospera launched during Miorine's negotations with the Earth Independence League. Since Suletta just heard Martin's confession about why he reported Nika's connections to Dawn of Fold, she realizes that Aerial was following the same line of logic he was, and pushed her away explicitly to keep her safe from Prospera.
• Red Herring: The audience is lead to believe Suletta is a grown up Ericht Samaya under another name due to her age and the physical resemblance and being Elnora's daughter. As it turns out, she isn't Ericht at all, but a clone based on Eri's DNA.
• Red Is Heroic: The protagonist of the story, with red hair and Chronic Hero Syndrome.
• Rescue Romance: Played with. Her initially Unwanted Rescue of Miorine along with defeating Guel at the end of the episode results in her engagement to Miorine. Suletta is confused as all heck, and Miorine is impressed but doing it out of the law of her Arranged Marriage—but it begins to see the two growing closer.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Assumes Shaddiq is in love with Miorine after seeing him proposing to her, but Miorine quickly dismisses it. As it turns out, that particular proposal was indeed the political maneuver Miorine is used to, but Shaddiq really is in love with her, though he doesn't dare to go after her in a straightforward way.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Suletta's upbringing on Mercury made her into an incredible Ace Pilot who becomes the school's Holder on her first day, but it also meant she grew up socially isolated from any other children her age and never developed much of a will of her own.
• Sarcasm-Blind: She didn't seem to realize the girls asking her questions when she first arrived at school were insulting her. Her honest answers took the wind out of their sails.
• Scars Are Forever: She develops burn scars on her face as a result of intense data storm exposure in the closing episodes, which remain even three years later in the epilogue.
• Shrinking Violet: She is very shy and lacking in communication skills. One of her main mannerisms is a tendency to hide behind the nearest object or person in social situations (usually Miorine). While her shyness never completely goes away, it becomes a lot less pronounced over the course of the show, particularly after the events of Episode 17 and 18.
• Skewed Priorities: Her reason for not wanting an Arranged Marriage? One of her dreams for when she finally goes to school is to go on a date, and she can't do that if she gets married. What makes it this trope is that she explains this after being informed the alternative to the Arranged Marriage is her expulsion.
• Sociopathic Hero: Zig-zagged a bit. At first, it seems that Suletta becomes disturbingly okay with killing people after Prospera justifies to her when it's acceptable versus when it's not, and happily jokes around about her clumsiness to Miorine while covered in an enemy's blood. However, a few weeks after that, despite putting on a cheerful front with the Earth House kids, she is still shaken and questioning whether or not she had to go so far. Prospera simply tells her not to worry about it, and Suletta takes her words as gospel until her fight with Sophie in episode 14 has her question her actions at Plant Quetta again, especially when faced with the similarities between Sophie's willingness to kill for the things she wants and her own willingness to do the same for Miorine. In Episode 16, when Miorine confronts her over her actions and bluntly asks if Suletta would be fine killing people if it's what her mother wanted, Suletta says yes after some hesitation, holding back her true feelings on the matter in favor of her mother's philosophy. Ultimately, by Episode 22, she's willing to acknowledge that she's killed people and is notably unenthused about it, grouping it with the "mistakes" that she's made when she speaks to Miorine.
• Speech Impediment: Suletta often stutters and hesitates when speaking, reflecting her shyness and anxiety. She usually stops when she is inside Aerial's cockpit, which is used to showcase her increased focus on the situation at hand, and she becomes a lot less prone to it over the course of the second season.
• Stepford Smiler: In Episode 18, she tries to hide her distress about the events of the prior episode by acting more upbeat and cheerful than usual. None of her classmates are fooled.
• Strong and Skilled:
  • In the Cradle Planet web novel, Aerial notes that Suletta has been doing rescue operations on the inhospitable world of Mercury for most of her life, and said operations were largely unassisted beyond the bare minimum of Aerial's tech and equipment.
  • In combat, she is shown to heavily rely on the Aerial's incredibly powerful technology, using a flock of Attack Drones to cut the opponent to ribbons before they can even respond. And then, in episode 9, she ends up in a situation where she can't use them—and in response, after putting a field in place to shut down anti-drone tech, she draws a beam saber and charges in, and if anything, comes across as more dangerous, dancing about the battlefield, taking down multiple skilled pilots in a matter of seconds, and only struggling against Shaddiq due to being outnumbered and the Aerial having taken serious damage beforehand. The other pilots are utterly shocked at how effectively she performs, calling her a monster.
  • This extends to outside the cockpit as well — she's just as capable with a fencing foil as she is with Aerial's beam sabers, which she demonstrates in Episode 22 by beating Guel in a fencing duel.
  • Episode 22 also demonstrates that Suletta is a skilled pilot that can take on multiple opponents at once with a Gundam she never piloted while dealing with the strain of Permet Score 5.
• Super-Strength: Downplayed. It's not been commented on, but it seems that living on Mercury has given her a measure of this. Miorine complains about Suletta's incredible stamina while chasing her in Episode 11, and in Episode 13 she's able to lift Nika and run around while carrying her without signs of exertion. At the end of Episode 20, she easily moves slabs of concrete rubble as she digs through the wreckage of the school for survivors of Norea's rampage.
• Survival Mantra:
  • "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." The meaning of the phrase is pretty simple — you will always gain more by facing adversity rather than running away. Aerial notes that it's been a "spell" that's helped Suletta press forward; Prospera is the one that taught it to her, and both Miorine and Guel end up borrowing the mantra to give themselves courage in difficult times. Episode 12, however, shows a dark side to this "magic spell", as it can justify any logic to Suletta as long as it is couched in this mantra. Prospera tells Suletta that murder is one way of "moving forward", as long as she "gains" the safety of her loved ones, and the girl immediately makes it part of her belief system without question.
  • In the second season, Suletta replaces this with a new mantra: "Even if there's nothing to gain, I have to move forward". This change signifies that she's intent on finding her own way in life now, and no longer intends to be beholden to Prospera's manipulations.
• Technopath: She was found to be capable of interfacing with the GUND system to a degree that most other pilots could not do without frying their brains, using the system with next to no effort and without any signs of strain. This is largely a result of Aerial (or more specifically, Ericht) being responsible for handling the GUND system interfacing entirely on her own, meaning that Suletta (or anyone that can use Aerial's GUND system) takes none of the blowback from raised Permet Scores. Nonetheless, being made with Ericht's DNA means she's inherited some of her progenitor's superhuman compatibility with data storms, giving her the endurance to operate Gundam Calibarn at Permet Score 5 for an extended period of time — keeping in mind that normal people start dying at Permet Score 4, and that Calibarn is a Flawed Prototype with data storms even more vicious than a regular Gundam's.
• Tender Tears: Suletta tends to cry in stressful situations; she begins weeping openly in Episode 4 when she repeatedly fails her makeup exam attempts due to some Spacian bullies sabotaging her Demi-Trainer's screen making her think she'll never graduate, and again in Episode 5 when she gets insulted by Elan causing her tear up immensely. And again in Episode 17 when everything she cared for seems to betray her.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Having grown up with anime and manga and never gone to school before, Suletta has an idealized view of what school life is. Her wishlist when she attends Asticassia includes calling friends by their nicknames, hanging out on the rooftop, studying in the library, and going on dates.
• Token Minority: She is the only Mercurian attending Asticassia, leading to many students calling her by her home planet. She is also the only Spacian member of the Earth House.
• Tomato in the Mirror: She learns in episode 18 that she's a "Repli-Child", a clone based directly on Eri's genetic code.
• Trauma Conga Line: Episode 17 and 18 put Suletta through the wringer, starting when she loses her third duel against Guel, forfeiting her title and Aerial to Jeturk House. Then, Miorine reveals that she shut down Aerial because she wanted Suletta to lose and claims she was just using her as a shield like Suletta had once feared. While Suletta tries to cope with her loss by acting cheerful in school, it's obvious to everyone how she's hurting. Then, it gets worse when she tries to confront Miorine, only to be sidetracked by Aerial; she enters Aerial's cockpit and learns of her true origins directly from Eri, who tells Suletta that she's not needed anymore and needs to stop clinging to Eri and Prospera. After being ejected from Aerial's cockpit, Prospera appears, confirms everything Suletta just learned, and tells her to go back to school as she and Aerial fly off to Earth. Suletta is left all alone, crying her eyes out in the void of space after the people she cared for most abandoned her one by one.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Assuming she is her purported age, the fact that she can turn a terrorist into paste and then engage in happy-go-lucky clumsy girl antics while standing in his blood is downright disturbing.
• Tyke Bomb: A curious subversion. Prospera did raise Suletta to be a mobile suit pilot to advance her goals, but only by fighting duels, not actual combat. Prospera cuts her daughter loose prior to the actually violent stages of her plans, having only ordered Suletta to kill a single person, and in an unexpected emergency (the Plant Quetta attack). Even doing that ultimately lead to Suletta questioning her mother and rebelling, showing she was definitely not accustomed to violence.
• The Un-Favourite: Though it's ambiguous as to what their actual relationship is, whenever Prospera is in private, it becomes clear that she considers Ericht to be her daughter, and Suletta to be a useful pawn in the quest to get Ericht back. More than a few lines of dialogue before the reveal initially sound like they're referring to Suletta, but are actually talking about Ericht, largely by way of referring to "daughter" in the singular. Prospera is also openly gleeful during episode 17 when she hears about the events that occurred, despite them being traumatic to Suletta. Suletta herself explicitly confirms this in Episode 21, as she states very plainly when speaking to Guston and the rest of Earth House about Prospera and Aerial's origins that Prospera only really considers Eri to be her daughter.
• Vague Age: Played with. Suletta is explicitly identified as 17 like most second year students. However, Episode 6 reveals that Ericht Samaya's fourth birthday was 21 years ago, causing a mismatch between the age that she "should" be (25) versus her stated age. It turns out that this is because Suletta and Eri are completely separate people; any further ambiguity about Suletta's age is put to rest in Episode 18, which establishes that Suletta is a clone of Ericht created 17 years prior.
• Volcanic Veins: Notably absent from her in comparison to other GUND Format users until episode 18, when Eri forces her to witness both the Vanadis Incident and the day her body died, where they also appear on a newborn Suletta. Notably, they are the same red color seen on most other Gundam pilots, indicating that Suletta lacks Eri's total synchronization with data storms, despite being her clone.
• Warts and All:
  • In Episode 21, Suletta states that despite everything her mother and Eri have done, she still loves them.
  • In Episode 22, during her heart-to-heart with Miorine, Suletta makes it clear to her that despite all the mistakes she's made, including what Miorine did to her, that their meeting and forming a relationship was not a mistake.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: During Episode 8, Suletta's eyes widen rather disturbingly after accepting Prospera's explaination for why Suletta wasn't told that Aerial was a Gundam. These eyes return in Episode 12, after she witnesses Prospera kill a terrorist that was about to find her and she ends up terrified at just how easily her mother could do it. A quick "pep talk" from Prospera snaps her out, with unsettling results.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: Not kill, necessarily, but Suletta defeated Guel in a duel because he was being a Jerkass. She was completely oblivious that this would make her Holder (the top position for duelists in the school) and win her Miorine's hand in marriage as a result. Now she has to keep that position come hell or high water because Delling and other scheming corporate heads want her out, and Prospera's faction wants her in.

Miorine Rembran

Affiliation: GUND-Arm, Inc (CEO)

Voiced by: Lynn (Japanese), Natalie Van Sistine (English)^{Foreign V As}Valeria Tavera (Latin American Spanish), Marcella Almeida (Brazilian Portuguese)

"I'm sick of people making decisions for me. This is my fight!"

^{Click here to see her as the CEO}

A 16-year-old, second-year student in Asticassia School of Technology's management strategy department. She is the only daughter of Delling Rembran, the president of the Benerit Group and chairman of the school's board.

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• A-Cup Angst: In Episode 7, Miorine lends Suletta a dress, and Suletta mentions it is tight around her bust; Miorine seems a little annoyed by the implication, bitingly stating that "of course it would be".
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite absolutely hating him, Miorine begs her father to become the first investor in her GUND Format research start-up in order to protect Suletta and draw in other investors... and it works!
• All for Nothing: Miorine's best efforts throughout the second season to make any headway in fixing the issues in front of her repeatedly backfire on her, instead just playing into Prospera's hands. First, during Episode 19, Miorine's peace talks with Earth representatives at Quinharbor allows Prospera to use the visit to stage a terrorist attack, which torpedoes Miorine's attempt to resolve things peacefully. On top of that, her initial plan to keep Suletta safe and free from the hazards of piloting a Gundam — separating her from Aerial so that Prospera would stop manipulating Suletta as her pilot — also backfires miserably, as sending Guel back to Asticassia to uncover Shaddiq's involvement with Dawn of Fold pushes Shaddiq to unleash Norea on the school, nearly getting Suletta killed in the attack because she didn't have a mobile suit to defend herself. Subsequently, Prospera deploys Quiet Zero, revealing her bargaining to force Miorine into the role of Benerit Group president was entirely unnecessary, while Suletta decides to try piloting the Gundam Calibarn to confront her mother — a Gundam known as a "Monster" due to the hazards of piloting it. These failures lead to Miorine descending into a depressive spiral and isolating herself, until Suletta encourages her to face her mistakes rather than run from them.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • In Episode 16, she specifically asks Suletta if she would give up on her dreams or kill people just because her mother asked her to, in an attempt to get Suletta to recognize just how much her mother is cotrolling her. While Suletta grows visibly uncomfortable as she recognizes what Miorine's driving at, she reluctantly admits that she would do almost anything that Prospera asks of her, even if it hurt or inconvenienced her, and as with Suletta's past crises it only ends in her reaffirming that her mother knows best. This visibly shakes Miorine, and she immediately leaves to confront Prospera in a frustrated rage.
  • Miorine asks Suletta another one of these in Episode 17, specifically if Suletta would give up Aerial if Miorine asked her to. Suletta admits that she wouldn't, because Aerial is family to her. This answer convinces Miorine that the only way to save Suletta is to coordinate with Guel and Prospera to sabotage Suletta's duel and ensure that Guel takes back his status as both Holder and Miorine's groom.
• The Atoner: In Episode 22, Suletta helps Miorine gain the resolve to face her mistakes rather than run or hide from them. She outright tells Shaddiq, they both have much to atone for as she negotiates a deal with him. Episode 24 shows that Miorine is making good on her attempts to atone for her mistakes. She recognizes she might make more in the future, but she'll face the future together with her wife Suletta, and her friends.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: After going through her Jerkass Realization and catching Suletta in Episode 11, Miorine has an impassioned rant where she tells Suletta that the reason why she doesn't try to run away anymore and deals with everything is because she has Suletta and her motto and tells her to stop holding things in and let her return the favor.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Miorine quietly says "If you move forward, you gain two", which Suletta taught her in the first episode before she challenges her father to a duel in Episode 2. It goes on to form the core of her philosophy in life going forward from there.
• Break Her Heart to Save Her: Miorine sabotages Suletta's third duel with Guel so that Suletta is forced to give up Aerial and her position as Holder; Miorine's reasoning is that this will free Suletta from Prospera's plans. She goes the extra mile by revealing her treachery to Suletta in the most callous way that she can, pretending she never cared about her and only used her as a shield, leaving Suletta completely devasted and heartbroken. Suletta is only able to start feeling better thanks to Earth House's efforts while it condemns Miorine to being Prospera's new chief pawn. Her actions also lead to Suletta being put into greater danger than before. During their reunion/reconciliation, Miorine admits that what she did to Suletta was a mistake.
• Broken Pedestal: Her faith in Suletta is clearly shaken in episode 12 when Suletta nonchalantly crushes a man into paste right in front of her and completely fails to register the gravity of that action, let alone how traumatized Miorine is by getting covered in the man's blood. However, Episode 13 shows that Miorine blames Prospera for the incident, knowing that Prospera pushed Suletta to go through with it, and in Episode 16, she properly explains her feelings the matter to Suletta—she is grateful to Suletta for saving both her and Delling, but is extremely discomfited by how Suletta was so cheerful after the fact. In Episode 22, Miorine appears to have regained her faith in Suletta after she helps pull Miorine out of her depressive spiral.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • In the second episode, Miorine calls out her father regarding his hypocrisy and challenges him to a duel to protect Suletta. He refuses to listen to her and tries to assert his authority over her until she forces him into a duel, which he only accepts as to avoid losing face in front of the rest of the Benerit Group.
  • In Episode 16, she calls Lady Prospera out regarding how she manipulates Suletta. Then in Episode 23, on her Parental Favoritism towards Eri and her hypocrisy of claiming to love Suletta despite abandoning her. She tears into Prospera for said favoritism, telling her that Suletta is putting her life on the line because she still loves her mom and telling Prospera that if she's truly a mother, then she should love her daughters equally.
• Caring Gardener: She tends a small private greenhouse on school grounds. It's one of the few spaces she has to herself, though many students mock her hobby of "playing farmer" as being below their station. In episode four, her actual room is also shown to partially be taken over by a hydroponics bed which she tends to. In Episode 21, Suletta distributes the tomatoes she and Miorine grew together to the survivors, and they unanimously agree they taste delicious.
• Character Development: Goes hand-in-hand with Defrosting Ice Queen. Shaddiq points out that Miorine would never have done something for someone else before meeting Suletta. In Episode 11, Miorine confesses to Suletta that she no longer runs away and is happy with the life she once rejected because of Suletta becoming her groom. Her development is further showcased during their reconciliation in Episode 22 - in contrast to Episode 11, where she hid her face against Suletta's chest, she willingly allows Suletta to see her at her most vulnerable. After accepting Suletta's hand, Miorine is shown to be more open about her feelings with Suletta, especially after they get married.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She is very unhappy about Suletta getting closer to Elan, trying to cut their interactions short under the reasoning that Elan is "an enemy" who's after Miorine's hand in marriage as well. She even has to be held back by the other Earth House members when she gets angry at Suletta going on a date with Elan. Downplayed, however, as by episode 6 she seems to have made peace with the fact that Suletta can't not meddle with the lives of people who need help, which is how she met her in the first place. She jokes to Nika that she is an "understanding bride who can tolerate minor two-timing".
• Closet Key: Suletta hadn't even heard of two women marrying each other before meeting Miorine. After time spent as Miorine's groom, Suletta fully embraces the idea of a wedding between the two while wearing their nicest dresses.
• Cry into Chest: Though she makes a point of denying that she's crying and her face isn't seen, The Glomp that she gives Suletta in episode 11 is implied to be something close to this, as she's expressing a bunch of repressed emotions about just how much she appreciates Suletta for supporting her and asking Suletta not to leave her side.
• Curtains Match the Window: Miorine's hair is white (or silver) and she has ice-gray eyes to match.
• Custom Uniform: Miorine wears short shorts, black tights, and unique boots.
• Declaration of Protection: Gives one to Suletta in Episode 7 when defending her from the machinations of the Benerit Group's Big Three just before running off to confront her father to get help from him after her pitch for a start-up GUND-ARM-based company doesn't initially pull any investors. She gives another one for Suletta later in Episode 16 when she confronts Prospera on the latter's manipulations towards her daughter.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: While she acts abrasive towards Suletta at first, it doesn't take Miorine long to start warming up to her. This is best seen when she goes from refusing to let Suletta into her greenhouse in the first episode, to willing to let her in by the third, with this trend of her defrosting because of Suletta continuing as the series progresses. Episode 17 on the other hand brings this to screeching halt as Miorine freezes her heart again by pushing Suletta away, but only so that she can free her from Prospera's manipulations - something Miorine comes to regret by Episode 22 when she and Suletta reconcile. After allowing Suletta to see her at her most vulnerable, and Suletta still offering her support, Miorine immediately defrosts again. By the end of the series, Miorine has thawed out completely as she becomes more openly affectionate with her wife, best displayed by how she is able to quickly change from her business persona to her more affectionate persona when she sees Suletta.
• Delayed "Oh, Crap!": In Episode 16, when Suletta says that "Mom knew you would understand" about the events of Plant Quetta, Miorine realizes that Prospera has been manipulating both her and Suletta—specifically, that Prospera "agreeing" with Miorine that Suletta may have gone too far in saving both Miorine and Delling was a setup to make sure that any conversation between Miorine and Suletta would result in them reconciling. After grilling Suletta with a few pointed questions that make her aware of just how deep Prospera's control of Suletta is, Miorine runs off and immediately confronts Prospera, telling her to stop using her own daughter as a puppet.
• Determinator: Repeatedly redoes Suletta's exam after Suletta's mech is compromised, refusing to give up guiding Suletta through a minefield for multiple hours to get it right.
• Deuteragonist: Miorine is the second-most important character in the story after Suletta, and between the two of them is the savvier and more prone to taking action, particularly with regards to the corporate-politics of the setting. The story heavily focuses on both girls' development, both as individuals and their relationship with one another, with head writer Ichiro Okouchi even stating that Witch from Mercury is "a story of two people". Miorine also receives as much focus as Suletta in promotional materials, as well as the openings and endings.
• Didn't Think This Through: A common problem Miorine faces is being forced to make spur of the moment decisions due to the machinations of others, or not stopping to think about how other people will react to her decisions. When she has enough context and an idea of what she's in for, she tends to excel, but every decision she's been pushed into by urgency has horribly missed the mark, getting her into far more trouble than she bargained for. In interpersonal cases, she tends to make certain assumptions without vetting the decisions with other people, which tends to put a wedge between herself and other people because she never accounted for their feelings and has to try to sort it out after the fact. Even when she does manage to make her way through whatever trouble her hasty decisions bring her, the other machinations going on behind the scenes tend to bite her in the ass at the worst possible time. Prospera uses this to her advantage to emotionally destroy Miorine over the course of the second season by constantly manipulating Miorine into isolating herself or giving Prospera too much leeway to enact plans, ultimately leaving Miorine completely broken until Suletta is able to get through to her in Episode 22.
• The Dog Bites Back: Miorine confronts her father and challenges him to a duel by pointing out that if he refuses he'll be disobeying his own rules. Vim agrees with Miorine and manages to get him to agree to the duel by slowly getting the other members of the council to challenge Delling's opinion.
• Drives Like Crazy: She is repeatedly shown to be terrible at driving just about anything, whether it's Aerial, mobile workers, or even the school bicycles.
• Establishing Character Moment: Headbutting Suletta showcases her abrasive personality. However, when she goes out of her way to save Suletta from being crushed by Guel's reckless actions, it proves that there is more to her than she initially appears.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite her abrasive behaviour, she doesn't discriminate against Suletta for being a Mercurian or against the Earth House students for being Earthians, allowing her to form some sort of rapport with them despite not being a member herself (save for Chuchu who barely tolerates her and the feeling is more than mutual). She also utterly hates Delling for what he's put her through as a horrible father figure, but she refuses to simply let him die for her sake when Dawn of Fold's attack critically injures him after he shielded her from debris.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Pride. Because of how self-reliant she's had to be, she doesn't initially want or like to receive help from other people. When Suletta challenges Guel for her sake, Miorine reacts by stealing Aerial to fight, despite being a terrible pilot. Her insistence on sparing her pride meant she had no friends or connections before meeting Suletta. She is forced to confront these failings in Episode 7 when Prospera calls her out for living off the largesse of the father she hates so much, and her plan to save Suletta and Aerial nearly fails because she can't get anyone to support it. Realizing how little she can do alone, she finally begs her hated father for help, which is what finally achieves results.
  • Acting without consideration for other people. Much like her father, she will disregard people's personal feelings and do whatever she feels is right under the assumption that she knows what's best for them. She decides to hire caretakers for her greenhouse and hire Elan #5 as a test pilot for GUND-ARM, Inc. without telling Suletta, causing a huge misunderstanding between them because Suletta thinks Miorine simply no longer needs or wants her around to do those things. Then, in episode 17, she decides to proceed with a plan to ensure that Prospera will stop manipulating Suletta. However, because of how unshakable Suletta's faith in Prospera is, and because Miorine can't think of a way to get through to Suletta, she instead chooses to keep Suletta in the dark about everything, and approaches Guel to set up a rigged duel that will cause Suletta to lose. She later admits to Suletta what she did to her was a mistake. In Episode 24, Miorine is shown to become more mindful, as she recognizes she may make more mistakes while trying to do the right thing, but she’ll face her mistakes with her wife, Suletta, and their friends..
  • Impulsiveness. She often acts on what she thinks is the most expedient solution for her problems without actually thinking things through properly, and while sometimes it pays off (mostly when it comes to creating GUND-ARM Inc.), it usually leads to no end of grief for both herself and those around her when her impulsive decisions catch up with her. This is evident in many of the previously given examples (stealing Aerial, the greenhouse caretakers, etc.), but she is made painfully aware of it when Prospera uses Miorine's visit to Earth in Episode 19 as an excuse to instigate an incident with the Earthians and cause even more chaos. Miorine had the best intentions for said visit, but because she didn't consider just what extremes Prospera would go to, she basically torpedoed her own plan from the start. The subsequent chaos, and Prospera activating Quiet Zero, pushes Miorine into a depressed huddle in her room until Suletta comes to visit her and talks her through it.
• Genius Slob: The fourth episode reveals that despite her hoity-toity attitude and her keeping the greenhouse spotless, her actual living space is filled with garbage bags and old food. Miorine seems to be aware of this as she asks Suletta to clean her room for her during her impassioned rant in Episode 11.
• Grand Theft Prototype: She steals Gundam Aerial to duel Guel. Unlike most instances of this trope, she's terrible at piloting her ill-gotten goods, and Suletta is less than amused when she retakes control of Aerial, even going so far as to headbutt Miorine to get her off the controls.
• Hates Their Parent: Openly admits to both Suletta and her bodyguards that she hates Delling, who sees her less as his offspring and more as a tool to be used in his power-hungry ambitions. While she still hates him, Episode 22 indicates she managed to reach some level of peace with him.
• Heroic BSoD: While escorting a critically-injured Delling out of Plant Quetta, Miorine stumbles upon an Earthian terrorist; however, before anything bad happens, Suletta and Aerial Rebuild intervene. With zero hesitation, Suletta splats the terrorist with Aerial's hand, leaving only his arm intact and spraying Miorine with blood. Poor Miorine's so shocked by this, as well as how nonchalantly Suletta disembarks from Aerial and extends her blood-soaked right hand to greet Miorine after slipping in the man's remains, that she can only question how Suletta's capable of smiling, muttering about how Suletta is a murderer.
• Hidden Depths: While she initially seems abrasive, she proves to be more than a rich man's daughter. In the first episode, she is shown to be quite capable of taking care of plants, and she gives Suletta some food when she realizes she is hungry while still putting up a "mean" front. The fourth episode also showcases her genuine intelligence, with her being able to act as mission control after speedreading a manual and memorizing it in a very short time.
• Honorary True Companion: Unlike Suletta, she doesn't formally join Earth House, but she does start hanging out with them a lot since Suletta is her Only Friend and fiancée. The other members of the House all seem to be okay with the arrangement (save for the Spacian-hating Chuchu), and Nika even has friendly talks with her in Episode 6. Forcibly recruiting them into GUND-ARM Inc., however, leaves the house split, and she has to earn their cooperation by coming up with a peaceful application for the company's resarch into the GUND format. Come Episode 16, the rest of Earth House (including Chuchu) have warmly accepted her as their friend, with Miorine sharing the same sentiments when she tells the Earthian leaders in Episode 19 that she cannot bear to separate from them as they are her "valuable partners". In Episode 22, Miorine apologizes to Earth House for her actions, which they accept as she works alongside them to stop Quiet Zero. Episode 24 showcases that the company she formed with Earth House has become a success, and it has played a role in allowing Spacians and Earthians to connect.
• How Dare You Die on Me!: After Delling shields her body with his during the Dawn of Fold attack in episode 12—taking a critical injury in the process—and starts mumbling deliriously about a promise he made to Miorine's mother, Miorine angrily responds by telling him that he should've said something about it earlier, followed by swearing to make sure he gets out of Plant Quetta alive so that she can be pissed at him while he's still laid up in a hospital bed. In Episode 22, she tells her father not to die, so he can atone for his mistakes while she atones for her own, a resolve that he appears to accept.
• Hypocrite: Her previous accusations about her father abusing his power get thrown back at her by Prospera, who points out that Miorine still benefits greatly from the privilege that comes with being his daughter and uses it to accomplish whatever she wants. She takes that criticism to heart.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Episode 17 has Miorine expressing her desire for Suletta to live freely and happily, in a world away from the Gundam's curse and the corporate politics of the Benerit Group. So she conspires with Guel to sabotage a duel with Suletta, remotely shutting Aerial down during said duel in order to let Guel win. Suletta loses both Aerial and her Holder status as a result, and Miorine deliberately discards her bond with Suletta by claiming that she was only using Suletta — but in doing so, frees Suletta from Prospera's machinations. Unfortunately, it only means that Miorine gets the bulk of Prospera's attention, and the subsequent manipulations leave her on the edge of despair until Episode 22 when she and Suletta reconcile. Episode 24 subverts this trope as they eventually become Happy Married..
• Innocently Insensitive: On returning from her business trip in episode 10, Miorine nonchalantly explains that she's hiring gardeners to tend to her greenhouse, freeing Suletta of a "chore" she asked Suletta to take on, and bringing Elan —in actuality, Enhanced Person #5—on as a GUND-ARM test pilot. When Suletta states that she denied Elan his request for a date, Miorine seems unbothered by the idea of Suletta and Elan getting to know each other better. The insensitive part comes in because Miorine is so distracted by her own affairs that she doesn't even look at Suletta for most of the conversation, so she doesn't realize that Suletta was more than happy to tend to the greenhouse because of its importance to Miorine, nor does she see how heartbroken Suletta is at the idea that Miorine doesn't actually want or need to rely on Suletta nearly as much as Suletta thought she did.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite how abrasive she is initially towards Suletta, she becomes fiercely protective of her after Suletta defends her from Guel, never sparing any effort to save the girl when she is in trouble, despite still throwing insults at her direction sometimes. Episode 7 even has her starting up her own company in order to protect Suletta and Aerial again. Even before that, she saves Suletta by pulling her out of the way from getting crushed by Guel's Dilanza despite still being annoyed that the Mercurian girl ruined her escape plan, then later gives Suletta a tomato when it becomes clear that she is hungry without any prompting, despite her mother's tomatoes being a Tragic Keepsake.
• Jerkass Façade: She pulls one on Suletta at the end of Episode 17 after revealing her role in sabotaging Aerial to ensure Suletta's loss, claiming that she never really cared about their relationship in order to push Suletta away from her and Prospera. She adds that Suletta did a good job as her shield, revokes Suletta's Holder status, and bids her "Mercurian country bumpkin" farewell. In Episode 22, she admits to Suletta what she did was a mistake, and they thankfully reconcile.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Miorine was at her worst, most of her vitriol was rightfully directed at Guel, and she was right that he was basically his father’s lapdog, proven as early as the following episode.
• Jerkass Realization: She has one of these in episode 11, to an extent; a pointed comment from Nika and accidentally overhearing Suletta's conversation with Prospera leads her to realize that she never explicitly told Suletta how much she values Suletta's support.
• Leg Focus: Her first appearance in her school uniform focuses on her legs, with continued attention paid to them such as in her room in episode 4, or during her conversation with Shaddiq in episode 8. Episode 22 focuses on her legs to showcase her resolve to open the door for Suletta after they reconcile.
• Like Father, Like Son: As much as she hates him, Miorine and her father share some distinct character traits, mostly the negative ones.
  • From early on, it's obvious that Miorine's picked up Delling's habit of ordering people around, expecting them to comply without question. She often tells Suletta to do what she says (e.g., not trusting Elan, or anyone else from the Three Houses at Asticassia) and initially gets agitated when she has to explain her reasoning to Suletta. She does it again with the Earth House students, too—she simply tells them that they'll be joining her new company in Episode 8, only belatedly giving anyone who doesn't agree the option to back out. She's far more understanding than her father, though, when push comes to shove: by the end of Episode 6 she's accepted that Suletta's character is to meddle in others' affairs, and when the Earth House students are divided over whether or not to try developing the GUND-ARM format into military technology, she takes the initiative to do some more research on alternatives and offer them a second option so that they have an actual choice in the matter.
  • Related to the above, even once her attitude softens a bit, Miorine and her father both tend to act without consulting other people; their primary thoughts are directed to the results of what they're doing, not the impact it has on others. Aside from the incidents with the Earth House students listed above, there's also the events of Episode 10, wherein Miorine's attempts to lighten Suletta's workload under the assumption that Suletta didn't like doing certain things for her actually make Suletta feel useless to Miorine. This becomes a bigger problem in the second season — much like how Delling distanced himself from Miorine and disregarded her feelings about being a prize in the dueling game in order to protect her from his political opponents, Miorine does the same thing to Suletta in Episode 17, sabotaging Suletta's final duel so that Suletta loses Aerial, her status as Holder, and her engagement to Miorine. After the duel's end, Miorine acts like their relationship meant nothing at all, using harsh words to push Suletta away from her — and by proxy, Miorine's new "partner", Prospera — in the hopes of freeing Suletta from Prospera's plans. While that part is successful, it also leaves Miorine isolated and vulnerable enough for Prospera to use her as the perfect patsy to advance her plans, and winds up indirectly endangering Suletta again to boot. In Episode 22, she ends up reconciling with both Suletta and her father, resolving to face her mistakes with Suletta and her friends rather than wallow alone in misery.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Before she met Suletta, the only place she even felt remotely at home was her greenhouse.
• Meaningful Name: Her surname "Rembran" is likely derived from the Rembrandt, the largest crater on Mercury, in reference to how Miorine largely impacted the life of Suletta Mercury.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • At the end of Episode 19, her negotiations for peace with the Earth Independence Movement leaders failed, no thanks to Prospera's actions. As a result, she's blamed for starting a battle between the Earthians and Spacians. Miorine collapses on her knees and realizes it's her fault because she trusted Prospera too much.
  • Then in Episode 21, Prospera uses Quiet Zero to destroy the entire Space Assembly League fleet. After seeing what Quiet Zero really is, Miorine is horrified that she helped Prospera create a weapon of mass destruction.
  • In Episode 22, Miorine is briefly horrified that Suletta is going to face Lady Prospera, but is too shaken from her repeated errors to that point to either encourage or discourage her. However, Suletta is able to reassure Miorine, helping her regain the resolve to face her mistakes.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Miorine's usual brash, headstrong attitude is noticeably absent in Episode 21 as she tries to deal with the emotional aftermath of Prospera's destruction of Quinharbor in the previous episode. She's extremely subdued when speaking to other people, and spends several parts of the episode fixated on how she's responsible for the events that have occurred, which only gets worse when Prospera and Aerial use Quiet Zero to wipe out the Space Assembly League forces that attempt to capture them; after this, she's visibly crying and shaking. Episode 22 follows this up by showing her disheveled, sleep-deprived state in the aftermath of Quiet Zero's startup; she refuses to respond to Guel checking in on her, and by the time she opens the door to her room to speak to Suletta face-to-face, there are clear bags under her eyes and her hair is an absolute mess.
• Ojou: She's the daughter of a MegaCorp president, with the somewhat spoiled and entitled attitude to match.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: After going through her Jerkass Realization and overhearing Suletta's conversation with her mother in Episode 11, Miorine confronts Suletta regarding the situation. It culminates with Miorine crying into Suletta's chest and asking her not to leave her side.
• Please Wake Up: In Episode 24, it is implied in her non-audible dialogue that she was saying this to the unresponsive Suletta as she was shaking her. She breaks down in tears when she believes Suletta died only to be relieved when Suletta wakes up after an accidental headbutt.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • In the first episode, when Guel tries to force Miorine to join his house Miorine is unimpressed by him and merely tells him that he is nothing more than his father's lapdog.
  • Miorine chews out Chuchu in Episode 4 regarding her treatment of Suletta by pointing out that calling Suletta and Miorine "Shitty Spacians" when they hadn't done anything to her makes her no better than the Spacians that treat her poorly.
  • She gives Shaddiq one at the end of the duel between Earth House and Grassley House after the latter's defeat in Episode 9. Miorine tells Shaddiq that she figured that he would try to eliminate Suletta himself, calling him out on how he told her to trust him when she knows he doesn't trust anyone besides himself, which gave them their opening to defeat him and his team.
  • In Episode 23, she gives Lady Prospera a scathing one for her treatment of Suletta and not loving her daughters equally.
• Rebellious Princess: Her first scene in the series is her attempting to run away from the Arranged Marriage her father decided for her. She tries to run away again in the second episode when he forcibly drops her from the school and arranges a different suitor for her, and even though she changes her mind about leaving and confronts him to save Suletta, she still continues pushing back against his decisions every chance she gets.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She thinks Elan is after her hand in marriage like Guel, and tells Suletta to not get close to the boy because of this. Turns out that Elan does have an ulterior motive to approach Suletta, but it's not related to Miorine. What he—and Peil Technologies—actually wanted was Aerial.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Towards Suletta. After making repeated mistakes with devastating consequences, from pushing Suletta away to allowing Quiet Zero to be completed, Miorine is left at her most vulnerable, and no one is able to get through to her. That is, until Suletta reappears in her life, admitting to her own mistakes, but reassuring Miorine that their meeting wasn’t one. This restores Miorine’s resolve and faith in Suletta as she asks Suletta to come with her to Earth in the future to face her mistakes, and they both work together to face Lady Prospera.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Miorine's tomato garden serves as a metaphor for her heart—a closely guarded sanctuary only those she dearly trusts are allowed inside. This is especially evident in the contrast between Suletta and Shaddiq; both are respectful of Miorine's boundaries, staying outside as she tends to her tomatoes. However, where Suletta rushed in to defend her from Guel, Shaddiq always remained outside, leaving Guel to his devices rather than risk his friendship with Miorine or even his own safety by overstepping. As a result, Miorine quickly opens up to Suletta, permitting her inside and even allowing her to tend the tomatoes with her, while her relationship with Shaddiq soured over his inaction. The symbolism gets taken a bit further in episode 9 when Miorine prunes an unripened tomato after Shaddiq laments how their relationship might have turned out had he taken that step so long ago. When she cuts it, it represents the bond they once had being irrevocably severed.
  • In Episode 22, the door to Miorine's room represents that Miorine had closed her heart to everyone following Prospera's attacks on Quinharbor and the Space Assembly League's fleets with Quiet Zero, which Miorine obliviously facilitated. However, when Suletta has a heart-to-heart with Miorine and asks to come in, Miorine decides to open the door herself rather than letting Suletta open the door for her. In doing so, Miorine allows Suletta to see her in her most vulnerable state, when she previously refused to let Suletta see her crying, showcasing she has fully opened her heart to Suletta.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Wears a blue dress which reveals much of her back to below her arms during the incubation party in Episode 7.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: She's the daughter of the president of the Benerit Group who lives her entire life in space despite her desire to go to Earth. While she is aware of the discrimination that the Earth House endured, she doesn't know much about the underlying problems that the Earthians are experiencing. This is exemplified by her negotiations with the Earth Independence Movement in Episode 19 where she presents job offerings for the Earthians until one of the leaders tells her that the monopolization of Permet, the mistreatment of Earthians, and the proxy wars on the planet are the issues why they demand the Spacians to leave Earth alone.
• Shoo the Dog: Episode 17 has her engineering Suletta's loss against Guel in the final duel before her 17th birthday with cooperation from the latter, all in order to make sure that Suletta is free from Prospera's manipulations. She even goes the extra mile by acting like her relationship with Suletta meant nothing at all, returning the keychain the other girl gave her and brutally dismissing her as a "Mercurian country bumpkin". They reconcile in Episode 22.
• Shorter Means Smarter: At 150 cm, Miorine is one of the shortest characters in the entire cast, with only Chuchu being shorter than her. She is also one of the most intelligent characters in the entire cast, being the top student of the management department and being able to study for two positions outside her field on short notice. She actively takes up the role of the strategist once GUND-ARM, Inc. is formed.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Same-sex example. Compared to any of her would-be suitors, particularly Guel or even Shaddiq (whom she had a history with but who treated her no better than the other people in her life), Miorine accepts Suletta as her groom far more readily, primarily due to Suletta's genuine kindness and concern for her as an individual and not as a trophy to be won. Because of this, she goes out of her way for Suletta's sake multiple times, and later expresses to Suletta in Episode 11 that she does not want to be separated from her, asking her to promise her not to lose any duels until her birthday which would solidify their marriage.
• Start My Own: In order to protect Suletta and Aerial from the schemes of the Benerit Group, she founds GUND-ARM, Inc., a GUND Format research and bioethics start-up, using funds from various investors (her own father included).
• Tears of Joy:
  • Shortly after reconciling with Suletta, she supports Suletta's attempt to achieve Permet Score 5, knowing it's their best option to fight Lady Prospera, even though it could put Suletta's life in danger. After Suletta manages to achieve the desired threshold and survive, Miorine's stony facade breaks as she sheds tears of joy and relief.
  • In Episode 24, her tears quickly turn from tears of sorrow to tears of joy after she finds out that Suletta is alive.
• Tender Tears: In Episode 11, Miorine cries into Suletta's chest, but she refuses to let Suletta see her tears. As Miorine is reconciling with Suletta in Episode 22, she allows Suletta to see her in her disheveled state. Suletta silently offers Miorine her hand which results in Miorine wiping off the leftover tears she had before accepting it.
• Took a Level in Idealism: At the beginning of the series, Miorine comes off as jaded and mistrusting due to the machinations of the Benerit Group and the circumstances of her engagement, choosing to close herself off and not bother with anyone else's affairs. It isn't until her interactions with Suletta and witnessing the other girl's idealism that cause her to change and go out of her way to push for better change. By the time of the epilogue, Suletta's idealism has rubbed off on Miorine completely. While Miorine recognizes that attempting to making lasting positive changes is possible, it will involve making mistakes. However, she is more optimistic that she can face those mistakes with her wife and friends at her side.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Despite Miorine's claims that she doesn't care about people besides herself, she has become more willing to do things for the sake of others as she hangs around Suletta more, a change that Shaddiq makes note of during Episode 7.
• Tragic Keepsake: Miorine greatly values her deceased mother's tomatoes to the point that she threatens Guel's posse when it looks like they'll endanger them. However, she is fine with sharing them with certain people, such as Suletta.
• Trash of the Titans: Miorine's personal quarters, unlike her gardens, is in disarray abound with trash bags and clothes.
• Tsundere: For most of her scenes she goes from indifferent to abrasive towards others, but she still goes out of her way to protect Suletta many times through the series. It takes until Episode 11 for her to openly express how much she cares about her, which starts with a series of blistering insults expressing her annoyance that Suletta won't talk to her, followed by (grateful) complaints about how Suletta's Determinator nature pushed her forward in ways she didn't know she needed to make her happy. After their reconciliation in Episode 22, Miorine appears to have no issue showing Suletta her Dere side as shown in their conversation to grow more tomatoes together. In the epilogue, she showcases her usual business demeanor when talking to other individuals, but she drops it when she meets with her wife Suletta as she is seen openly smiling and being affectionate towards her.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: While Delling is noticeably past his prime, Miorine is at the peak of her youth physically.
• Unknowingly in Love: It's clear throughout the anime she is developing genuine feelings for Suletta, even if she initially doesn’t realize the extent of her feelings. The novel takes it up a notch when she goes through a GUND-ARM Inc. meeting, and Suletta is the first thing that comes to her mind after it's over. She can’t entirely explain why that is the case, but regardless she decides to call Suletta and she gets extremely annoyed when she can only get Suletta’s answering machine.
• Unwanted Rescue: The main story opens with her trying to escape from the academy only to be "rescued" by a panicked Suletta.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Shaddiq, though "friend" might have been a stretch. The two once tried to plan a project together, only for their fathers to disapprove and scold them. While Shaddiq still remembers such memories fondly, Miorine seems to have forgotten all about it and has since moved on. When he concedes that his attempts to force his acquistion of GUND-ARM Inc. have failed, and reflects that he should've been honest and direct with his affection for her, Miorine says to herself that it's "too little, too late". In Episode 22, she shows a willingness to make a deal, so they both can make up for their sins.
• What the Hell, Hero?: The last words of the Episode 12 are calling out Suletta’s Dissonant Serenity after she killed someone to protect her and her father. Then, she outright calls Suletta a murderer.
• What You Are in the Dark: In episode 2, Miorine has the opportunity to leave Asticassia and escape to Earth, thus freeing herself from her father's grip for good. However, she ultimately decides against it as that would mean abandoning Suletta to her fate.
• When She Smiles: It takes until the end of Episode 3 for us to see Miorine smiling outside of the opening and ending themes. It happens after Suletta wins her second duel with Guel, ensuring they will both be allowed to remain at school, and giving Miorine her first victory over her father. As expected, she is downright radiant. Happens again near the end of Episode 8 when she smiles while leaning against Suletta's back during their scooter ride back to the Earth House. Miorine actually gets the same big dumb smile Suletta had when looking at the ugly keychain Suletta got for her. In Episode 22, after Suletta gets Miorine out of her depressive spiral, she smiles at the idea that of growing more tomatoes with her in the future. Miorine also smiles when Kenanji tells her that adults need to take responsibility for the situation involving Quiet Zero. At the end of Episode 24 when she is interacting with her wife Suletta, she consistently has a smile on her face. In fact, she drops her usual business persona, and immediately smiles when she sees Suletta.
• Workaholic: She becomes one after Episode 7, as the responsibilities she takes on as the president of GUND-ARM Inc. demand more and more of her time. Despite all of her complaining about the amount of effort her duties require of her, she's actually happy about it, as a large part of it came about from Suletta supporting her and letting her feel like she could carve her own path in life. She's only able to tell Suletta this during a heartfelt conversation in Episode 11.
• Working with the Ex: While they were never in an actual relationship, Episode 17 has her working alongside her former groom Guel in order to protect Suletta from Prospera by offering to reinstate their engagement; Miorine requires Jeturk House's backing in her bid for the presidency of the Benerit Group, and Guel requires her financial support in order for him to save his father's company from bankruptcy. Despite their contrasting goals, they both ultimately work together out of their shared love for Suletta. In Episode 22, Suletta defeats Guel in a duel and becomes the Holder again, once more making Guel her ex-fiancé as they plan to fight Lady Prospera and Quiet Zero.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A non-fatal example. Miorine deliberately invokes this trope as part of a Jerk Ass Facade in order to save Suletta from Prospera at the end of Episode 17. After revealing that she sabotaged Aerial to ensure Suletta lost to Guel, she falsely tells Suletta that their relationship was all a lie and that she was simply using Suletta for her own means. She comes to regret this decision, but they thankfully reconcile and work together to stop Lady Propera.

Mobile Suits

Units that have shown to have some level of personality appear on this list.

XVX-016 Gundam Aerial

Pilots: Suletta Mercury, Miorine Rembran (stolen), Elan Ceres (testing only), Prospera Mercury

"You can't come here."

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The primary Gundam of the series and Suletta Mercury's sister. Suletta enrolls with her in the academy and pilots her to participate in the duels.

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• Ambiguous Situation: While episode 14 seemingly makes it clear beyond doubt that Aerial and Ericht are one and the same, and that any time Aerial has talked to Suletta it's actually been Eri, episode 23 casts some doubt on this. When Ericht is about to kill Suletta's friends, the data storm suddenly subsides. Ericht is just as surprised as everyone else, and seemingly yells at Aerial itself to not intervene, suggesting that Aerial might have intent and agency separate from Ericht.
• Attack Drone: The signature trait of a Gundam in this series, and Aerial is the prime example. Notably, she's the first instance in the franchise of a protagonist suit starting with such equipment, with it being typically reserved for a Mid-Season Upgrade at the earliest. Aerial can even take over other Gundam's drones, with plans for her own personalized drones called GundNodes being planned as of Episode 18 which are seemingly planned to function similarly to the Rig Ring to allow Aerial to further spread the range of her Data storms.
• Beam Spam: Aerial's primary method of offense. Alongside her beam rifle, each of the eleven GUND Bits comprising her shield is able to act as a beam-equipped Attack Drone strong enough to remove limbs from a mobile suit, letting her overwhelm the enemy with a barrage of blasts.
• Benevolent A.I.: To Suletta, at least, having sworn to herself to always protect her. Those she fights might question how "benevolent" she is, given how brutally Aerial defeats them. Ultimately revealed to not be an AI at all; the intelligence inside Aerial is the result of Ericht Samaya being uploaded into it, effectively functioning as an Operating System. Even the benevolent part starts to be questionable after a while; in the Cradle Planet novella, Eri is fully on board with Prospera's revenge plans, and once Suletta has fullfilled her purpose, she discards her like everyone else did, though ostensibly still out of a desire to protect her.
• Beyond the Impossible: Aerial's ability to reach high Permet Scores with no discernable data storm affecting the pilot is repeatedly found baffling by those familiar with Gundams, to the point that Prospera uses this as her primary argument that Aerial isn't one. It's eventually revealed this is due to Aerial's ability to control the data storms that usually make piloting Gundams a lethal affair, turning what's commonly regarded as a "Curse" into a powerful weapon, being able to control other Gundams at Score 6, and operate without a pilot at Score 8. For comparison, regular people suffer severe strain at 3, and going up to 4 for any considerable length of time is a death sentence.
• BFG: Her main armament after her reconstruction into the Aerial Rebuild is a huge rifle that can extend and dock with all of the GUND bits to fire a Wave-Motion Gun.
• Bigger Stick: Even accounting for her pilot's skill, it is fairly clear that Aerial is by far the most powerful mobile suit at Asticassia, with all three of her duels thus far showing Aerial to massively outclass her opponents: in her first duel against Guel's Dilanza, Aerial took her opponent apart in mere seconds though the use of Gun-Staves, and in her second, despite going up against a more powerful Darilbalde and being handicapped by the sprinkler system, Suletta and Aerial still manage to hold their own quite handily. This even applies to other Gundams, as Aerial's ability to increase her Permet Score to arbitrary levels with no harm to her pilot allows her to fully override any system that uses a Permet link, from negating the dedicated anti-GUND "Antidote" countermeasure to weaponizing data storms to cripple enemy Gundams and hijack control of their bits.
• Big Little Sister: Suletta refers to Aerial as her 'little sister' despite the machine being a huge mobile suit. Chronologically, Ericht is eight years older than Suletta, but the Virtual Ghost shown within Aerial is still a young child, so her integration may have kept her mind from maturing.
• Big Sister Instinct: Though Suletta calls Aerial her little sister, this still applies. Aerial is extremely protective of Suletta, often activating functions and sometimes taking control away from Suletta to protect her. The confirmation that it's Ericht inside of Aerial makes it even more obvious.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: When Suletta is endangered by Sophie, who in this case is a terrorist but at least has Suletta's sympathies, Ericht outright maims her to the point of the GUND overwhelming Sophie. It's unknown if Ericht stopped because of Suletta's begging or because Sophie was already dead, but it has become clear that the little girl we knew from the prologue will kill anyone who threatens Suletta or what she cares about, and any other standards don't seem to matter — including not being upset with Prospera over what was done to her, but instead over what Suletta was being used for.
• Brain Uploading: According to Prospera, Ericht Samaya's biometric code was transferred to the Lfrith via data storms since Eri's body couldn't withstand the harshness of space; the Lfrith was then remodelled into Aerial to serve as Eri's new body. As a result, Aerial doesn't have an AI, she has an uploaded intelligence, Eri, acting as her operating system.
• Companion Cube: Subverted; you'd think from the lack of response that Aerial is just a machine that Suletta treats as a person. The short story interquel makes it very explicit that Aerial is sapient, as it's told through her perspective, she just has very little ability to communicate. As she hits higher and higher Permet Scores, Eri's consciousness begins to manifest more outwardly. Initially, Suletta can barely talk to her in some capacity, with their communication growing clearer once she reaches Score 6, at which point she is also able to manifiest in a ghost-like form. Finally, at Score 8, she can just control Aerial on her own.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To her immediate lead Gundam predecessor, the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos. While they share a having a degree of sentience, their differences are more pronounced.
  • Barbatos is exclusively equipped with physical weapons, while Aerial's weapons are all beam-based. As a result, they also have opposing fighting styles — Barbatos is a Close-Range Combatant that uses massive maces as its main weapons, while Aerial is a Long-Range Fighter due to her 11 Bit Staves using beam cannons for offense. Barbatos is also never equipped with a shield for defense, while Aerial's Bit Staves all have the ability to join together into a massive one named Escutcheon.
  • There's also the matter of the relationship between the Pilot and the MS. When Mika piloted the Barbatos, he figuratively made a deal with the devil every time he connected to the Alaya-Vijnana system, which eventually did enough neurological damage that he started losing the use of an entire side of his body. Suletta, on the other hand, can draw the full potential of Aerial without suffering side effects. Mika also only treated the Barbatos's room as a warm place to sleep, not thinking much of it until he climbed into the cockpit, as compared to how Suletta and the Aerial view each other as family, with their relationship being treated as a sibling pair fighting as one unit.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Downplayed. Her emphasis on Attack Drones and beam weaponry means that she loses her overwhelming advantage in the rain, as water can dissipate shots from long-range beam weaponry. That said, she's still a highly advanced mobile suit that can be deadly even in close combat. Duels are also fought with Power Limiters to prevent casualties and structural damage, so the rain may not be so crippling when Aerial is prepared for actual combat.
• A Day in the Limelight: The short story Cradle Planet gives an overview of Aerial's perspective from Suletta's early childhood up until going to the academy.
• Deconstruction: Most mainline Gundam series have the Gundam be a forefront of warfare and combat, turning the tides of conflict almost singlehandedly in some way or another as one of or the ultimate weapon(s) of their respective stories. Aerial is a major crux of the storyline — but only settles officiated duels, as she is significantly restricted from doing much of anything else due to the non-warfare nature of this series while the human cast handle a great deal of politics and social circumstances revolving around her. Even more so, the Gundam as a title is referring to the GUND-Format system and is the real catalyst of the plot; this results in Aerial being such a big deal by her raw hardware rather than being built to be the deadliest thing around, and arguably isn't since anyone can technically make a Gundam if they replicate the GUND-Format which isn't inherently exclusive. Only the literal ban on GUND prevents this. Reconstructed somewhat with the reveal that Aerial isn't just a well-made example of the GUND-Format, but its pinnacle, the data storms inherent to the system having been used to transform a human being into a mobile suit - none other than Ericht Samaya. This unique status allows Aerial to bypass all the known flaws with the GUND-Format, while also achieving feats unthinkable by any other machine in the setting.
• Deflector Shield: When deployed in their drone formation, Aerial's Stave Bits can project an energy field between them capable of dispersing beam shots.
• Diverting Power: Aerial is heavily dependent on its GUND Bits for most of its signature combat functions. This gives it unparalleled flexibility for a mobile suit as they can be recombined and rearranged in various ways to attack, defend, or otherwise boost specific functions. However, it cannot do all these things at the same time, and deploying the Bits in one formation means that they're not operating in a different formation. As noted in Logical Weakness, Aerial can struggle when trying to multi-task with them.
• Drone Deployer: Has Stave Bits that can either serve as drones, combine with Aerial and her beam rifle, or combine to become a shield.
• Empathic Weapon: Aerial appears to be fully sentient; the Interquel short story and the Opening Song are both told from Aerial's perspective, and Suletta can communicate with her on some level.
• Evil Costume Switch: Aerial Rebuild has a noticeably darker color palette and more militaristic aesthetic compared to her original design. Fittingly, Rebuild’s first appearance is what heralds the darker tone of the second cour, as well as foreshadowing Aerial as the Final Boss for Suletta to overcome for the show’s final arc.
• Evolving Weapon: Aerial begins the show astonishingly powerful and only grows moreso as the series progresses, as Suletta's piloting skill allows Aerial's data storm network to grow, hitting higher and higher Permet Scores without her even realizing, which in turn allows Ericht's consciousness to reassert itself more and more. Prospera's ultimate goal hinges on Aerial hitting Permet Score 8, at which point Eri becomes so fully realized she doesn't even need a pilot to move any more — and at the very end, Suletta's resolve allows her to reach a Permet Score even higher than that.
• Fem Bot: Once again, Suletta considers the Aerial her little sister. She always calls the mech "Aerial", like a proper name, not "The Aerial" like an object. Lady Prospera also freely calls Aerial her daughter, at least in front of Suletta. This is because, with Ericht within Aerial, Aerial basically is Prospera's daughter.
• Field Power Effect:
  • At higher Permet levels she is able to project a field that greatly enhances Suletta's spatial awareness to the point that she seems to gain a sixth sense, being able to tell exactly where people are.
  • She can also project a data storm field that disrupts all Permet tech within the area. Gundam's are especially vulnerable to this. At higher scores she is able to even seize control of whatever remote weapons the opponent might have and, in the case of an opposing Gundam, even the suit itself.
• Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: By Suletta's assessment, Aerial does not believe her conspiring with their mother's plan is right, but cannot think of anything else that's better.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In order to protect Suletta and Prospera from Peil and the League's interplanetary laser weapon, Aerial uses herself and the Quiet Zero drones to project a massive energy shield over the area. The blast is stopped, but the drones are vaporized and Aerial is ripped apart. The last we see is her wrecked cockpit, powerless and unresponsive.
• Hive Mind: Several sequences strongly hint that it's not just Aerial herself that is sentient, but even her Stave Bits as well; Suletta at least seems to make a distinction between Aerial and "everyone", referring to the Stave Bits. And when Aerial later appears to Elan as a ghostly silhouette of a child, all of Aerial's Stave Bits appear as silhouettes as well, implying they all may have some degree of sentience, or at least are subsystems of the main AI. Episode 18 has Eri claim that they are all Repli-Children like Suletta, though their function is described as expanding her consciousness, with only Eri herself and Suletta being their own individuals.
• "Instant Death" Radius: At Permet Score 6 or higher, she's capable of hijacking other drones and Gundams at will. The horrific side effect of this is that it also forces the data storm onto the other Gundam pilot, and such a high Score is almost immediately lethal, as poor Sophie finds out. While she can hijack the drones and/or bits of non-Gundam Mobile Suits just as easily, the pilots don't seem to suffer any form of blowback from it.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Aerial shows many signs of intelligence, but no hardware specifications or technology designed to achieve such have been mentioned anywhere as of yet. Episodes 14, 15, and 16 reveal that it wasn't an accident, Ericht Samaya became the Aerial's "OS".
• Leitmotif: After its upgrade it gains the theme "AERIAL REBUILD".
• Logical Weakness: Aerial's bits can either fire beams, or protect her. Emphasis on the words "either" and "or" because they cannot do both at the same time, and she has to devote all bits to offense or defense. Shaddiq's team exploits this weakness by having the team fire from multiple directions and keep Aerial's bits busy protecting the machine, preventing them from returning fire. When Aerial reaches Permet Score 6, she can use smaller groups of bits to generate shields between themselves and still return fire. She also seems to have much more flexibility in her offense and defense post-Rebuild.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Her eleven bits can combine into a shield.
• Man of Kryptonite: Episode 6 reveals that she also possesses an Anti-GUND pulse weapon similar to the Antidote utilized by Grassley Defense Systems, which she uses without Suletta's input to cripple the Pharact. That it disabled the Pharact which was operating at Permet Score Four, while Antidote only works up to Three suggests it's superior to Grassley's technology at that. Episode 14 reveals this is actually not an anti-GUND weapon, but Aerial using data storms to completely override other Permet Links, able to not just cripple, but take over opposing craft. By episode 21, when Aerial is hooked up to Quiet Zero and using the Gundnodes, she can take over any Permet Links within its sphere of influence.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Just as Prospera's alias is derived from Prospero from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Aerial's comes from the wind spirit Ariel. Like the spirit, Gundam Aerial has become a vital instrument of revenge by an exile who calls upon her to help their child marry the child of their usurper. The GUND Format even causes a phenomenon called "data storms", in reference to the eponymous storm that the spirit conjured to force a ship onto Prospero's island. Aerial is likewise capable of controlling the data storms at will.
  • Aerial’s name can be parsed down to "Eri", her AI Ericht Samaya’s Affectionate Nickname.
• Mecha Expansion Pack:
  • The Stave Bits can dock themselves around the Aerial's body to grant her increased mobility and performance. This is known as the "Bit-On" form and is Aerial's default form.
  • There's also the optional Mirasoul Flight Unit, which replaces the standard backpack for additional propulsion, while the beam sabers stored on the latter are transferred onto the former.
  • Quiet Zero could be considered Aerial's final add-on, a colossal space fortress built for the sole purpose of extending the range of her data storm to potentially interplanetary distances. Besides the ability to seize control of entire fleets within its radius of effect, it comes with a veritable army of Gundnodes and their expansion packs, making her a threat to the entire solar system.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: Following extensive damage after the team duel with Grassley House, Aerial is rebuilt into the Aerial Rebuild near the end of the first season. Her reconstruction adds on new boosters for increased mobility and trades her old rifle for a much bigger weapon that can dock with all eleven bits to form a beam cannon.
• Morph Weapon: Downplayed. The Stave Bits themselves are unable to change forms; however, they can change how they configure themselves depending on the situation, able to act as attack drones, form a deflector shield, attach themselves to the Mobile Suit's body to increase its performance, and even attach themselves to Aerial's rifle to grant her increased power.
• Mundane Utility: The Cradle Planet reveals that she can also function as a multimedia device.
• Next Tier Powerup: Like other Gundams, Aerial's full capabilities are gated behind Permet Scores, but unlike other Gundams, she can increase her score on her own and without notification. Following the duel in Episode 9, in which Aerial defeated the anti-Gundam Antidote field, continued coordinating her bits, and moved faster than she ever has before, Lady Prospera notes that Aerial achieved a Permet Score of 6, which isn't something Suletta or the viewer would normally be aware of. Once she has achieved Score 8, Eri claims to be capable of controlling the Aerial on her own, without the need for a pilot.
• Only the Chosen May Pilot: Double Subverted; while anyone can pilot Aerial like any other mobile suit and can even use her GUND-format functions (as Elan proves), so far Suletta has been the only person who can communicate with Aerial and get a response from her at all, indicating that Suletta alone can draw more potential from her than anyone else. Episode 16 reveals that she can and will reject pilots she doesn't like, putting Elan #5 through painful data storms before ejecting him from the cockpit. This gets tragically and horrifically turned on its head after she reaches Permet Score 8, which Eri claims allows her full autonomous control of Aerial, no pilot needed; wishing to sever Suletta's dependency on her, Eri hits Suletta with a data storm flare just like what she did to Elan #5.
• One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce: Aerial is unique among Gundams because her pilots receive all the benefits with no negative consequences. This doesn't come from Suletta being tolerant or immune to the negative effects of GUND-ARM technology, as Elan's brief time in the cockpit revealed he felt no pain piloting Aerial compared to his standard Gundam Pharact, even after raising the Permet level, and the usual Volcanic Veins didn't activate either. The "missing factor" that makes her safe to pilot is initially a mystery, too—in Episode 8, after interviewing Lady Prospera, Miorine complains she forgot to ask what it was. The conversation between Prospera and Belmeria in Episode 14 flat-out states that it's because Ericht is acting as Aerial's OS and is the one mitigating the storm's effects, not Suletta. However, Suletta IS needed as the only pilot skilled enough to push its Permet Scores higher and higher, which is necessary for Eri to fully awaken.
• Power Parasite: Aerial can exceed other Gundams' Permet Score by so much she can hijack their drones.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: By transferring her biometric data into the Data Storm, Ericht Samaya is essentially Aerial's OS. Since the Stave Bits OS are also made from the minds of child clones of Ericht that her mother had made, it's powered by almost a dozen forsaken children. Suletta is the 13th, completing the witch's coven needed to operate it.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: The bulk of the series leads up to revealing Aerial's former humanity and her regaining sapience, but the same process makes Aerial a Person of Mass Destruction at Prospera's beck and call.
• Punny Name: Her name can be parsed as "Eri-L", a disturbing hint as to the true nature of its OS.
• Purple Is Powerful: Not Aerial herself, but any Gundam she takes control of with her data storm has its shell units turn purple.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: When she gets upgraded to the Aerial Rebuild, her design is noticeably more rugged and muted, reflecting the darker tone-shift that the show takes in episode 12.
• Story-Breaker Power: Aerial was one of the most powerful mobile suits in existence even at the start of the series. Her base-level armament is top-of-the-line, her Attack Drones can cut an enemy suit into pieces in seconds, she's extremely fast, she has a Deflector Shield, and she's backed up by the best pilot on Mercury. Multiple stories in the early seasons have the antagonists struggling to come up with a countermeasure to her, and without much success. Once Suletta starts leapfrogging up the ladder of Permet Scores and Aerial gets refurbished in the first season finale, even other Gundams equipped with live ammunition don't pose much of a threat to her, as she can ignore the typical Gundam counter of Antidote, take control of remote equipment in a large radius, and even force potentially lethal data storms onto other Gundam pilots. For that exact reason, after the five-on-five battle, the series treats Aerial's victory against any other suit as an inevitable result, focusing instead on the various schemes that characters make around her and the devastation that such a powerful suit wreaks on her enemies—and after episode 17, Aerial leaves Suletta and becomes the final opponent Suletta herself must face.
• Technopath: Aerial can control any Permet tech within a designated area, and it is not limited to mobile suits—anything that makes use of the technology is vulnerable to this ability, including drones or vehicles. This is something Prospera makes use of to set up a False Flag Operation by taking control of a tank and having it fire on Aerial.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: There are a number of them to emphasize that Aerial is a she, not an it.
  • One notable difference between Aerial and other Gundams in the franchise is that her faceplate has large, rounded 'eyes' (compared to the narrow slit look of most Gundams), nearly as large and round as the ones on the G-Self, as a sign of femininity.
  • She also has the Mobile Suit equivalent of long fingernails, and while having claws isn't new in Gundam, Aerial is unique in that hers are distinctly not pointed or offensive looking, rather looking like unpainted cosmetic nails that a person would have.
  • Aerial's frame is also noticeably narrower around the waist when compared to other contemporary MS, the Lfrith included.
• Undying Loyalty: To Suletta. Albeit she's on board with Prospera's revenge plan, she's decidedly not happy that Suletta got caught up in them. Once she achieves Permet Score 8 and Eri awakens in full, she pulls a Cruel to Be Kind on Suletta, rejecting her so that she can live her own life beyond Prospera. This however, completely shatters Suletta.
• Unrobotic Reveal: Aerial can think like a human because she is made from one.
• The Voiceless: While Aerial does have external speakers and can utilize communications channels, she does not have a voice synthesizer module of any kind, nor can she move without a pilot, restricting her to manipulating the cockpit monitors for communication, and at best, emitting a soft electronic hum. Suletta seems to understand her fluently regardless. We do hear children's laughter when Aerial attacks and Suletta claims to hear her voice more clearly in Episode 6 though, so she might have other means of communications not yet shown. In Episode 9, Suletta seems to be able to communicate directly with her, but according to Miorine's screen, it looks like Suletta is just talking to herself. This changes once she achieves Permet Score 6, as it allows her to fully manifiest a ghostly apperance that is visible and capable of normally communicating with those interfacing with her.

XGF-02 Gundam Lfrith

Pilots: Elnora Samaya, Ericht Samaya

^{Pictured is its Bit-On Mode. Click to see Shield Mode}

One of the first Gundams, developed by the Vanadis Institute in an attempt at finding a solution to the lethal side-effects to the GUND piloting system.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Given that Lfrith disappears from the story after the prologue, Mercury is stated to not have the means to construct a Gundam from scratch, and Ericht's relationship to the Gundam matching how Suletta describes her relationship with Aerial, it seems likely that Lfrith was rebuilt as Aerial. This is confirmed in episode 16. Prospera explains that Eri's mind was "synched" with Lfrith's data storm, leading her to refit the machine to become Eri's new body, Aerial.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Like with all Gundams, pilots using Lfrith's GUND system are in danger of killing themselves from the mental and physical taxation. Lfrith was intended to solve this problem, though they weren't making much headway until the 4-year-old Ericht accidentally became her pilot.
• Deflector Shield: The shield that its bits can combine into can generate a shield capable of deflecting attacks, even before fully combining.
• Drone Deployer: It has drones that can be stored on its back for increased thrust, deployed as attack drones or combined into a shield.
• Last of Their Kind: At the end of the prologue, Lfrith is the last known Gundam in existence and is eventually rebuilt into the Aerial, with all the rest supposedly being scrapped due to the Gundam ban. Emphasis on "known". Over time, the show reveals that there are other Gundams out there, including ones made by Ochs Earth who have been operating in secret since the Vanadis incident. There is also the Calibarn, a pre-Lfrith Gundam model in storage.
• Like a Daughter to Me: While Lfrith doesn't appear to have an innate personality like Aerial, the Vanadis scientists who created her all considered her their daughter, and Ericht saw her as a little sister.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Its bits can combine into a shield.

X-EX01 Gundam Calibarn (Unmarked Spoilers)

Pilots: Suletta Mercury

An early Gundam model, originally made as a competing machine to the Lfrith. However, due to lacking the data storm filters that later models would be outfitted with, it was extremely dangerous to pilot, earning it the nickname of "Monster" and leading it to be shelved in favor of its competitor.

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• Attack Drones: Doesn't have them, unlike every other Gundam in the show, perhaps further signifying its age. It does eventually get to borrow Aerial's GUND-Bits (and it is compatible with them, since they can dock on Calibarn's body and even turned white to match its color scheme), but it lacks any to truly call its own though its HG kit also includes the Aerial's GUND-Bits.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: The Calibarn is a downright ancient prototype created alongside the Lfrith, but is the only Gundam Suletta has access to that can fight against Quiet Zero without being overridden.
• Captain Ersatz: To the Tallgeese, as it is an exceptionally old, almost fully white-colored mobile suit dragged out of storage whose life-threatening lack of safeguards allows for incredibly high performance, with exceptional speed and maneuverability if anyone can handle it. And like the Tallgeese, its main weapon is a single, powerful long-barreled beam cannon.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To its immediate final lead Gundam predecessor, the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex, similar to the first Barbatos contrasting Aerial.
  • In terms of similarities, they're Super Prototype Gundams that serve as the third and final suits that the main characters of their respective series ever pilot before being destroyed by the end of the show, and were built well before the start of their respective series. Both the Lupus Rex and the Calibarn have extremely dangerous and taxing versions of the in-universe piloting systems installed, and utilize both a large, handheld weapon and remote armaments that initially belonged to other Gundam units.
  • In terms of differences, Lupus Rex is a Close-Range Combatant and is equipped with physical weaponry just like its un-upgraded version, the Barbatos, while Calibarn is a Long-Range Fighter and is equipped with beam weaponry like Aerial is. Their remote weapons also differ — Lupus Rex's Tail Blade, which was originally the Hashmal's, is attached to a wire and functions like an INCOM, while Calibarn inherits Aerial's wireless, funnel-like GUND Bits. Their nature as a Mid-Season Upgrade for their pilots is also very different; Mikazuki never switched Gundams, since the Lupus Rex is the final overhaul of the original Barbatos, while Suletta switched to the Calibarn from Aerial, just like most of her Gundam protagonist predecessors — this is because Aerial (a.k.a. Ericht in a Mobile Suit body) abandoned her in favor of joining Prospera to enact Quiet Zero.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Once combined with Aerial's GUND-Bits, both Suletta and Ericht working together allow Calibarn to ascend beyond Permet Score 8, signified by it emitting a rainbow radiance.
• Flawed Prototype: Calibarn lacks the data storm filter that other Gundams are equipped with, which makes it a lot more dangerous to pilot. Suletta only makes it because being a clone of Ericht gives her increased resistance (though not her sister's outright immunity) against data storms, and the strain ultimately leaves her with visible scarring and long-term nerve damage.
• Flying Broomstick: Going with the theme of Gundam pilots being Witches, the Calibarn's primary armament is a combined gun-thruster shaped like a witches' broom.
• Fragile Speedster: The Calibarn lacks the defensive shields of Aerial but makes up for it with loads of thrusters to maintain breakneck agility. Aside from the main back thruster, it also has a massive booster in its main weapon as well as even using thrusters in the knees (something normally only used for vector thrust) to gain speed. It becomes a Lightning Bruiser after it inherits Aerial's GUND-Bits (it is actually capable of using them, as seen in the show and its model kit).
• Leitmotif: "Liberation from the Curse"
• Meaningful Appearance: Fitting for a Gundam named after the sword that could only be wielded by the rightful king of Britain, the Calibarn shares its red and white colour scheme with the English flag.
• Meaningful Name: Calibarn is a portmanteau of Caliban, the name of Prospero's slave in The Tempest who is often depicted as monstrous, and Caliburn, the sword King Arthur pulled from the stone. The former name reflects both its reputation as a "monster" and the fact that it is piloted by Suletta Mercury who Prospera used as a tool for her plans, while the latter reflects Suletta's heroic nature, and how, like Arthur, only she can wield the Calibarn.
• No-Sell: As a Gundam, it's able to prevent any of Quiet Zero's attempts to hijack it as long as it's at least Permet Score 5, and this ability is why the Calibarn is brought out to battle it in the first place.
• Odd Name Out: Unlike every other Ochs Earth and Vanadis-developed Gundams, Calibarn does not have any Mythical Motifs of Norse Mythology, instead being a direct Shout-Out to The Tempest and King Arthur.
• Only the Chosen May Pilot: Because of her resistance to Data Storms, only Suletta can pilot the Calibarn and survive.
• Red Is Heroic: The shell units on the Calibarn glow bright red, compared to Aerial's white and the GundNodes' blue.
• Power at a Price: Its lack of a data storm filter is both the Calibarn's biggest boon and its biggest flaw — on the one hand, it will almost certainly kill its pilot since there's no protection from a data storm while piloting it, but it also allows the Calibarn to put out power at lower Permet Scores that is comparable to other Gundams operating at a higher Score. To wit, Suletta in the Calibarn at Score 5 can go toe to toe with Aerial operating Quiet Zero, which at minimum is at Score 8.
• Super Prototype: Its lack of data storm filters means Calibarn can maintain a higher Permet Score than most Gundams while using the same amount of Permet. This lets it resist data storms that would shut down modern Gundams and increases its response time while being piloted.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: The Calibarn is mobile suit dubbed a "monster" that can easily kill its pilots, and is primarily white with dark red highlights to contrast with Aerial's Primary-Color Champion color scheme.