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Mobile Suit Models: XGF-02 Gundam Lfrith (Pre-production model, Ur, Thorn), X-EX01 Gundam Calibarn, EDM-GB Gundvölva
Vanadis Institute
The research institute that developed the GUND Format. It was later bought by Ochs Earth and made to assist in the development of GUND Format mobile suits known colloquially as "Gundams". Cardo Nabo
Affiliation: Ochs Earth Corporation, Vanadis Institute
Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijo (Japanese), Laurie Steele (English)
"Humanity was born in the cradle of Earth. Our bodies are far too fragile for us to venture into space. Just as an infant has to put on clothes, humanity must don the GUND to truly go out into space."
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The head researcher for the GUND Format project, Elnora's mentor and mother figure, and Ericht's grandmother figure.
- Affectionate Nickname: Nabo was referred to as Granny (婆, Baba) by Eri. Nadim scolded her for doing so, but Elnora assured him that Nabo did not mind. She was correct.
- Back for the Finale: She returns as a Permet ghost in the finale to talk Prospera into living a peaceful life with Suletta.
- Big Good: She serves as the caring mentor at the heart of Ochs Earth's operations in the prologue, and long after her death the Earth House investigates her and continues her research for its original intended goal.
- The Bus Came Back: Not in the usual sense. After her death in the prologue, Earth House watches a video Nabo created in the past to explain the GUND Format.
- Defiant to the End: At the end of the prologue, even when faced down with a fully armed Black Ops team intent on killing her, Cardo Nabo stood her ground and even pulled a gun against them despite knowing full well that she wouldn't live.
- Everyone Has Standards: She rejected the school of thought that would later lead to the development of the Enhanced Humans.
- Killed Offscreen: She is last seen being confronted by Delling's men, and the scene ends there. Her corpse is never seen, and her death was confirmed afterwards, but there remains some tiny level of ambiguity about what really happened.
- Minor Major Character: She's one of the most important characters in the background and setting of the series, being one of the main developers of the GUND Format, around which most of the story revolves, as well as directly being Elnora's mentor. However, she's limited to a handful of scenes in the prologue, where she dies. Afterwards, she does get brought up and her immensive importance is knowledged, but her actual screentime is tiny.
- Motherly Scientist: She cares very much for those working under her and even treats the Gundam Lfrith as her own child.
- Parental Substitute: Was a mother figure to Elnora, as well as a grandmotherly one for her daughter Ericht.
- Pragmatic Hero: The central purpose of her work was for medical and transhumanist research. However the Vanadis Institute most likely could not get funding without also doing weapon development, and so Nabo partnered with Ochs Earth to get the money necessary for her actual goal. That being said, she still turned the weapon program on its head by developing the Lfrith, which is clearly WAY more than a simple weapon.
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes: Her left eye lacks any kind of reflection in contrast to her right eye. An interview with the producer revealed that the eye is artificial.
- Spanner in the Works: Her assigning Ericht's vital signs under everyone's notice to be capable of operating the Lfrith ends up making Eri and Elnora the only survivors of the entire Fólkvangr purge, and ultimately paving the path for the rest of the series in the present.
- Transhumans in Space: She firmly believes that for humans to have any chance of surviving in space, they must adopt something like GUND to reinforce their weak bodies, something she compares to an infant having to wear clothes to protect it from the elements. This however puts her in conflict with more conservative actors.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Making Eri capable of piloting the Lfrith saves Eri and Elnora's lives. It also gives Elnora the means to seek her vengeance against Delling by merging Eri with the Lfrith to create the Aerial Gundam, not to mention set things on the course for the "Quiet Zero" project, which Nabo never would've seen coming and would likely have been utterly horrified by.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Does not make it to the end of the prologue. She's still hugely important to the background of the series however.
Nadim Samaya
Affiliation: Ochs Earth Corporation, Vanadis Institute
Main MS: XGF-01 Gundam Lfrith Pre-Production Model
Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese), Chris Guerrero (English)
"Happy birthday dear Ericht..."
Ericht's father, Elnora's husband, and a development manager working on the Gundam Lfrith.
- Ambiguously Brown: Suletta gets her tan from him and his first and last names are most commonly found in Western and South Asian countries like Iraq and India.
- Back for the Finale: He returns as a Permet ghost in the finale to talk Prospera into living a peaceful life with Suletta.
- Four Is Death: Dies after activating Permet Score 4 to drag Avery away from his family, on his daughter's fourth birthday no less.
- Heroic RRoD: Overclocks the GUND system on his pre-production Lfrith so Elnora and Eri can escape.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Just as Eri and Elnora are cornered by the Beguir-Beu, he rushes his Gundam at the enemy to buy them time to get out while they still can, overclocking his GUND system in the process. He does not make it out alive.
- Last Words: Sings his daughter "Happy Birthday" over the coms before the backlash from the GUND system kills him.
- Papa Wolf: Rushes his Gundam at Avery and his Beguir-Beu so that his wife and daughter could escape safely.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He dies at the end of the prologue, but his Heroic Sacrifice sets in motion his wife becoming Lady Prospera, and in turn Suletta attending the Asticassia School of Technology.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Does not make it to the end of the prologue.
Wendy Olent
Affiliation: Ochs Earth Corporation, Vanadis Institute
Main MS: XGF-01 Gundam Lfrith Pre-Production Model
Voiced by: Yo Taichi (Japanese), Krystal LaPorte (English)
"I have to avenge Nyla."
A Vanadis Institute researcher, she was Elnora's junior as a test pilot, and a close friend of Nyla. During the Attack on Fólkvangr she piloted a Gundam Lfrith Pre-Production Model.
- Back for the Finale: She returns as a Permet ghost in the finale to talk Prospera into living a peaceful life with Suletta.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: To avenge Nyla's death, Wendy takes on the Beguir-Beu in the Gundam Lfrith Pre-Production Model. Wendy is helpless and does not land a single hit before Kenanji Avery suppresses her GUND format (rendering her mobile suit useless) and kills her.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She barges into battle in her mobile suit after Nyla's death, singlemindedly focusing on destroying as many Cathedra mobile suits as she can before she's killed by the Beguir-Beu.
- Those Two Guys: Had this dynamic with Nyla, before her death.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Does not make it to the end of the prologue.
Nyla Bertran
Affiliation: Ochs Earth Corporation, Vanadis Institute
Voiced by: Sachiko Kojima (Japanese), Nazia Chaudhry (English)
"I'll treat you to something after this."
A Vanadis Institute researcher, she served as an operator and participated in testing the Gundam Lfrith.
- Back for the Finale: She returns as a Permet ghost in the finale to talk Prospera into living a peaceful life with Suletta.
- Boom, Headshot!: An offscreen soldier lands a shot straight through her head just after she manages to push Wendy out of the line of fire.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When she realizes their facility is being raided, she pushes Wendy out of the line of fire at the cost of her own life.
- Those Two Guys: Had this dynamic with Wendy, before her death.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Does not make it to the end of the prologue.
Ericht Samaya (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)
Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
"They look just like candles! Isn't it pretty?"
The 4-year-old daughter of Elnora and Nadim Samaya introduced in the Prologue. All spoilers are unmarked since everything about her existence after the prologue completely changes the viewer's understanding of the show, to the extent that there's no sense in hiding it.
- A Birthday, Not a Break: The Prologue takes place on her fourth birthday, the day her home was destroyed and almost everyone she knew was killed.
- Ambiguous Innocence: Because Ericht's mind still appears as an eight-year-old, it's hard to tell how much of her behavior is malicious, how much of it is done because she's actually underdeveloped, and how much is just done because her mother told her to.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- She was initially believed to be Suletta Mercury, but episode 6 casts doubt on this by revealing that the Folkvangr incident was 21 years ago, meaning that she would be 25, while Suletta is 17; there's also a child-like silhouette shown in Aerial's place during Suletta's duel with Elan that vaguely resembles Eri. Episode 14 breaks the ambiguity by having Prospera state outright that Suletta is a separate daughter, and Ericht's mind became the Aerial, transferred from her physical body using the Data Storm.
- Eri's description of the Witch's Coven (the collection of other "Eris" that appear to inhabit Aerial's bits) is equally open to a collection of digital clones or simply fragments of her own mind.
- The nature of Eri's existence bound to Suletta's keychain is a mystery to everyone, Eri herself included, though it doesn't seem to cause her any discomfort.
- Brain Uploading: Her biometric code somehow "synched" with Lfrith's data storm. While her physical body is long gone, she still exists as Permet particles that survive within the Aerial and effectively functions as its Operating System. In the finale, she got uploaded into Suletta's matched keychain after Aerial's destruction through means that are a mystery even to Eri.
- Children Are Innocent: She unknowingly sics the Lfrith's Stave Bits on three enemy mobile suits, only recognizing that the three dots on the monitor remind her of candles.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Eri finally directly talks to Suletta only for her to coldly reveal that she is a clone, is not needed anymore, should stop clinging to her and their mother, and ejects her out of Aerial's cockpit into space. Dialogue with Prospera implies she did this in the hope Suletta would be able to live her own life freely, taking a page out of Miorine's book from Episode 17.
- The Chooser of the One: As she is the consciousness of Aerial, she is the one who decides who is allowed to pilot her and take advantage of the various benefits of a high Permet Score. Suletta and Elan 4 can both pilot her and even activate her Permet Link, but she rejects Elan 5 with a painful data storm and a warning that he doesn't belong—a feat she then repeats on Suletta in Episode 18 to emphasize that Suletta is no longer the "one" that has been chosen. In Episode 24, after she listens to Suletta’s resolve, she works with Suletta one more time.
- Decoy Protagonist: At first, viewers are led to believe that Ericht in the Prologue is simply Suletta before the events of the series proper. Several hints throughout the first cour of the story begin to cast doubt on this, and then Episode 14 confirms that the Mercurian redhead the story has been following this whole time is not Ericht, but a separate character entirely; it turns out that said 4-year old was turned into a Gundam.
- Doomed Hometown: At the end of the prologue, she loses not only pretty much everyone she knows, including her father, but also her home colony of Fólkvangr, which gets bombed into oblivion after she and her mother Elnora manage to escape.
- The Dragon: Even though she has more scruples than her mother, she still acts as Prospera's right hand and pushes the plot forward, especially once she regains her agency.
- Emergency Transformation: According to Prospera, Ericht becoming Aerial was a last resort to save her due to her body failing to survive in the harshness of space.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- According to the Cradle Planet novel, Eri is okay with Prospera's vengeance plan, but she wants Suletta to stay out of it, and she disapproves of Prospera's plan to get her involved because Suletta is innocent. Notably in Episode 18, the first chance she gets to cut Suletta out, she immediately takes it.
- Episode 23 further shows this. When Suletta comes to stop her and her mother, Eri seems to go out of her way to try and not harm her sister, trying instead to disable her Gundam, and when that fails, trying to threaten to kill Miorine and her crew to get Suletta to relent. Ericht is fully willing to kill for her mother's plan, but she will not cross the line into actually harming Suletta.
- Hive Queen: She is the centerpiece of the Witch's Coven and has a complete consciousness. The others are simply acting as an extension of her mind; they help support her and can even speak independently, but lack true individuality.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Erichtho
, a terrifyingly powerful witch from Roman literature. - Obnoxious In-Laws: During the epilogue, Eri appears to revel in playing this role with Miorine who only seems mildly annoyed by her antics, though Miorine does make a not-so-favorable comparison to her mother's behavior.
- Older Than They Look: In the present day, her Virtual Ghost looks a bit older than Ericht in the prologue (who was basically a preschooler), but not significantly. From what we see, Ericht was transferred into the Lfrith when she was still young (around the age of eight, if the sight of a baby Suletta is to be taken as the baseline), so she still looks like a kid whenever someone sees her apparition despite the length of time since the prologue. Mentally, however, she seems to be many steps removed from the innocent little kid she was back in the prologue, with an eerily calm, cold, and not entirely human personality.
- Perpetual Frowner: Whenever her apparition is shown she always maintains a solemn expression on her face. She does however finally smile again when Suletta manages to convince her to cooperate in the finale.
- Phlebotinum Girl: Ericht, through Aerial, ends up playing the franchise's archetype much straighter than Suletta ever appeared to. She's the actual reason Aerial surpassed every limitation of the GUND Format, became both a transhuman and Living Macguffin, is loyal enough to Prospera to kill on her behalf, and ultimately becomes an antagonist Suletta wishes to save (out of familial love rather than the more-common romance). However, Suletta is the rare Gundam protagonist who succeeds in saving her sister from a tragic fate.
- Randomly Gifted: Ericht's extreme GUND tolerance seems to just be a result of random variance. Given her clone Suletta doesn't possess quite the same ability, it may not even be entirely genetic.
- Red Herring: The viewer is first left to assume she's Suletta's younger self, just with her name changed to protect her identity the way Elnora changed her name to Prospera Mercury. Suletta even mentions not remembering her father, which would match up with Eri and the events of the prologue. However, several hints start mounting up as the story progresses, coming to a head in Episode 14 when it's revealed that Eri and Suletta are completely separate characters.
- Technopath: She succeeds in awakening Lfrith when Folkvangr comes under attack, and suffers no ill effects from using the GUND Format. Prospera later reveals Eri's biometric code actually perfectly synchronized with Lfrith's data storm, which is why it caused her no ill-effects, and why Prospera was able to turn her into Aerial. Eri's presence and perfect synchronization allow Suletta (and other pilots that Eri permits) to similarly use the GUND Format without suffering any of the usual side effects from the data storm, while freely going up to Permet scores that are unthinkable for even the most heavily modified experimental subjects, letting her take over other wireless machines.
- Transhuman: She is the Aerial's OS, as she became it via data storms transferring her biometric data into the Lfrith, which was remodeled into the Aerial.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Despite initial hints to the contrary, Eri isn't Suletta—she's the "AI" operating Aerial, and is the one speaking to Suletta whenever she communicates with Aerial.
- Vague Age: As of the beginning of the main story, Eri is around twenty-five years old chronologically. However, her Virtual Ghost form presents herself as looking the same as she did when she entered the Aerial, a short time after Suletta's birth—presumably when she was about eight or nine. In terms of her personality, she definitely doesn't act like she's that age, but she also seems somewhat less mature than a woman in her twenties. Of course, given how much spending almost two decades inside a computer would affect a person's development, paralleling her to any kind of "normal" age group is an exercise in futility; more often than not, she comes off as simply inhuman, though still possessing a clear capacity for emotion and sense of empathy. In the epilogue, she is chronologically twenty-eight years old, and she acts like a childish annoying younger sister to Miorine when they travel together.
- Virtual Ghost: Gundam pilots experiencing entanglement with Aerial at Permet Score 4 or higher see visions of Eri in place of the machine or the GUND-Bits. Elan 4 only manages to see a faint white silhouette, Sophie is able to see Eri clearly as she dies, and Eri reveals herself in full to Elan 5 when he tries to steal the Aerial. She looks like her old self, still in her space suit and all, only a little bit older than in the prologue (albeit still child-like) and with permanent blue Volcanic Veins from GUND.
- Volcanic Veins: Like other GUND Format users, circuit-like patterns appear on her skin when she uses Lfrith's GUND Format. Unlike others, however, hers appear blue and don't cause her any discomfort, due to her perfect synchronization with the Data Storm. In the modern day, she's depicted with them whenever she appears as a Data Storm apparition.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that she is not Suletta is one of the biggest reveals of the entire series. Factor in the knowledge that she is Aerial for all intents and purposes, and you've got a character you can't talk about at all beyond her role in the Prologue without spoiling several critical pieces of information.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After telling Suletta the truth of her own origins, Eri tells Suletta that her job is done and that she isn't needed anymore — punctuating her point by briefly exposing Suletta to a painful data storm — before forcibly ejecting her from the cockpit, in an attempt to get Suletta to live her own life going forward. In Episode 24, Suletta showcases her resolve to Eri about wanting to form a family with her and their mother again which gets through to Eri, and she realizes she does need Suletta and works with her one last time.
Space Assembly League
The apparent governing body of the various Spacian colonies. Though only mentioned briefly in the first cour, they turn out to be major players later on. In General (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)
- Chekhov's Gunman: They're only mentioned in the first cour as Feng and Guston's true employers, but become incredibly important in the second cour.
- Enemy Mine: The Space Assembly League aren't seeking Earth autonomy, but support Dawn of Fold as a means to weaken the Benerit Group.
- Evil Versus Evil: They oppose both the Benerit Group and Prospera's Quiet Zero, but are better than neither. The Asticassia students assist them against the latter, oblivious that the League would immediately try to destroy Quiet Zero while they're still in it.
- Expy: Of the Universal Century’s Earth Federation. Both being powerful but corrupt governing authorities of the Earth Sphere that the heroes reluctantly find themselves working under in order to stop a greater threat.
- Fictional United Nations: The Assembly League negotiates peace between the various fronts (colonies), and maintains a standing army to intervene in conflicts, though it appears to have rather limited power similar to the real United Nations. They aspire to United Nations Is a Superpower, and they've covertly gotten pretty close already, what with the underground connections, fleet of ships, and a superweapon.
- Full-Circle Revolution: The Space Assembly League rightly consider the Benerit Group excessively-powerful for a corporate entity, but are no less power-hungry or duplicitous in their attempts to break it up. Their first act of open hostility is using a superweapon on an already-incapacitated enemy, even though it would damage every front in the region. They'll even elevate Peil Technologies, the company in the group with the most illegal and unethical activities, into greater power for turning on their partners. An officer's comments about the League embodying the will of the fronts (Spacians) suggests they weren't planning to stop the exploitation of the Earth if they had their way.
- Karma Houdini: They suffer no repercussions for their conspiracies or attempt to violently blow up Quiet Zero, apparently managing to keep everything under wraps or pinned on Shaddiq. Miorine kept them from seizing the Benerit Group's assets by distributing them to the Earth first, but Sabina points out in the epilogue that the League and other Spacians will do their damnedest to take them back.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: As their laser weapon is only supposed to be a energy transmission system as far as the general public is concerned, they planned to spin its use to destroy Quiet Zero (devastating all of Langrange 4 in the process) as an "accidental discharge".
- The Man Behind the Man: The League was a key figure behind Shaddiq's plans, though he was far from loyal to them.
- Mysterious Backer: They have been secretly funding Ochs Earth and through them the Dawn of Fold.
- Superweapon Surprise: The Space Assembly League have an asteroid-mounted Wave-Motion Gun they pretended was an energy-transfer device.
- Walking Spoiler: Most of their actions are critical to the end-game of the series' second cour.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Guston recruits Suletta's group to infiltrate and deactivate Quiet Zero on the League's behalf. Once they succeed, Guston's superiors immediately try to blow the facility up with all the students still inside.
Feng Jun
Affiliation: Space Assembly League
Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Julie Cleburn (English)
"Space is in need of new rules."
An agent of the Space Assembly League, tasked with watching over the movements of the Benerit Group. She disguises herself as a courier for her espionage activities, which is how she meets Miorine.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Has a small role in Episode 2, hired by Miorine to help her get to Earth, before she changes destinations. She reappears in Episode 10, revealing herself as more than just a courier.
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: She investigates Prospera and Shin Sei by interrogating Belmeria who told her about Quiet Zero. Unfortunately, she's shot by Prospera's right-hand man, Godoy, as a result of digging too deep.
- Foreshadowing: In her last scene in her debut episode, she comments that it would be good to have Delling's daughter own them a favor, and that space needs new rules. This hints at her having a more important job than it seems at first.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She pushes Belmeria inside a shuttle after she gets shot by Godoy, and entrusts Guston with protecting Belmeria so that the truth of Quiet Zero can be revealed to the public.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- The reveal of her real job retroactively makes her one due to her actions in her debut. When Miorine fails to meet her at the appointed time, she correctly deduces something happened and goes to meet her personally. However, she also makes clear she can only wait for so long before having to leave, and later admits to Guston she went out of her way for Miorine because she believes they can profit from having helped her.
- During her interrogation of Belmeria, she reveals that the Space Assembly League is responsible for maintaining Ochs Earth, who supplied Dawn of Fold with Gundams to suppress the Benerit Group as their influence grew stronger. However, Feng Jun wants to prevent bloodshed and asks Belmeria for her help.
- Uncertain Doom: The last we see of her is Godoy advancing on her and several more shots being fired as the doors close on them, while Guston and Belmeria make a break for it. It is heavily implied that she's killed, but her body is not shown on screen.
Guston Parche
Affiliation: Space Assembly League
Voiced by: Junichi Yanagita (Japanese), Van Barr Jr. (English)
"Weren't you supposed to take her to Earth?"
An agent belonging to the Space Assembly League. He is Feng's subordinate, and often takes on a disguise as a courier alongside her.
- Ace Pilot: A rare example of a non-military pilot. His official profile takes note of his excellent skills as a helmsman.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Like his boss, he has a small role in Episode 2 before returning eight episodes later. He has a larger role in Season 2.
- The Lancer: He is Feng's subordinate in the Space Assembly League and accompanies her during missions.
- Satellite Character: We never learn much about him besides that he shares Jun's ideals about the current situation of the Earth Sphere and is loyal ot her. While he outlives her for several episodes, those episodes don't explore his motivations to act beyond wanting to continue Jun's work in her honor.
Dawn of Fold
An Earth-based terrorist organization that fights against the war partitioning and general abuse that the Benerit Group inflicts upon Earth. General Tropes
- Child Soldiers: While most of Dawn of Fold's pilots and members are adults, the two notable exceptions are Norea and Sophie, who pilot the Gundams Lfrith Thorn and Lfrith Ur respectively.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: To most Spacians, the Benerit Group included, Dawn of Fold is just an especially tenacious gang of terrorists. For many Earthians, especially those that live in areas where Dawn of Fold is based, Dawn of Fold is seen as the only way for Earthians to properly strike back, and its members take care of the people that live alongside them.
Norea Du Noc
Affiliation: Dawn of Fold, Earth House (Infiltrator), Oara Materials (Cover)
Main MS: EDM-GA-02 Gundam Lfrith Thorn, EDM-GB Gundvölvas (Remote-controlled)
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)
"You Spacians polluted Earth and ran."
A former GUND Format test pilot. She goes along with her partner Sophie Pulone to Plant Quetta when Dawn of Fold is hired by Shaddiq Zenelli to attack the plant as part of his plans to break up the Benerit Group.
- Ace Pilot: A Gund-Format test pilot, and a skilled member of a terrorist organization, capable of piloting modified Gundam Lfrith units. During the attack on Plant Quetta she shoots down 5 Demi Garrison's in less than a minute without using the Gund-Format.
- Alas, Poor Villain: In her final moments, Elan #5 reaches out to her and begs her not to give up her life just to spite the Spacians, offering to go with her so they can continue living together. She seems to come to her senses, especially after seeing a vision of Sophie, and is about to accept Elan's offer when she is shot down by Dominicus forces.
- Ambiguously Bi: She has a very close relationship with Sophie that can be read as romantic, with the show even treating her as The Lost Lenore. She also grows closer with Elan #5, and seems like she was about to accept his offer to continue living together.
- Armed Legs: If nothing else, the Lfrith Thorn has clawed feet, and a shorter height than most contemporary MS.
- Ax-Crazy: Initially appearing to be the more calm and composed of the Earth Witches compared to Sophie, it soon becomes apparent that Norea is just as unhinged, if not more so, than her partner. From trying to squash Nika flat with the Pharact when she threatened to expose their identities, to killing a student pilot in cold blood during the Rumble Ring simply for being a Spacian. The combination of her grief over Sophie’s death, spending weeks hiding in Grassley House’s storage room with Nika and Elan #5, and Miorine being implicated in the Quinharbor massacre erodes what little sanity Norea had left. When Shaddiq frees her from captivity, she immediately does exactly what he expected her to: boards Lfrith Thorn to stage an attack on Asticassia, all too willing to take an opportunity to kill as many Spacians as possible.
- Back for the Finale: She and Sophie appear as Permet ghosts when Suletta takes over Quiet Zero.
- Backpack Cannon: Look closely at the Thorn's backpack, and you can make out a massive, rhombus-shaped shield-like cannon with twin gun nozzles.
- BFG: Her Lfrith Thorn has a large blaster cannon.
- Character Death: She's killed in episode 20, when a pair of Dominicus mooks hit the cockpit of her gundam just as Elan was successfully talking her down.
- Cold Sniper: Given her cannon and her demeanor, she acts as a long-range precision support fire (and defense) for her partner Sophie.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her cold mannerisms, she does care about Sophie. She's very obviously holding back tears when she recovers the Ur and Sophie's corpse.
- Evil Counterpart: Serves as one for Chuchu. Like Chuchu, Norea holds a deep-seated resentment towards Spacians for their mistreatment of Earth and serves as the sniper of her team. However, unlike Chuchu, Norea's anger and hatred has hit the point that she'll murder anyone that gets in her way, Spacian or otherwise. Episode 14 reinforces this notion by having her go out of her way to attack Chuchu during the assault on Asticassia.
- Fantastic Racism: Resents the Spacians, and while this isn't enough to break her stoic behaviour, she lets her hatred be known during the battle at Plant Quetta, accusing her foes of polluting Earth and running away, expresses disgust at the excesses and luxury of Asticassia in comparison, and murders a student during the Rumble Ring just because he's a Spacian. In Episode 18, she even tells Enhanced Person Number 5 that the risks of piloting a Gundam are worth it if it means she can kill every last Spacian.
- Hidden Depths: Based on her sketches, she appears to have artistic talent.
- Hypocrite: Takes out her grief over Sophie's death on Nika, angrily pummeling her and claiming that it's not only her fault that Sophie is dead, but that many of their allies on Earth were going to die due to the Benerit Group discovering that Dawn of Fold was behind the terrorist attacks and preparing to retaliate. All of this in spite of the fact that Nika had literally nothing to do with the events that lead up to Sophie's death, as well that fact that she and Sophie were the ones who blew their covers by attacking the school in the first place, while Nika had only threatened to expose them, simply hoping to keep them from doing anything drastic at the school.
- Jerkass to One: She's normally polite to her teammates in the Dawn of Fold as well as towards most other people, managing to hide her distrust of Spacians rather well. However, she's shown to be an absolute jerk towards Nika, whose pacifistic ideas and methods clash with Norea and Sophie's more extreme methods. When Nika threatens to expose their true affiliations, Norea doesn't hesitate to threaten and later attempt to murder her out of spite. It gets worse following Sophie's death in battle, where Norea outright beats up and verbally abuses a captive Nika, despite Suletta and especially Aerial being the ones more directly involved.
- Karmic Death: She ends up dying in very much the same way she mercilessly killed an Asticassia student in Episode 14, via getting sniped by a beam rifle through the cockpit. She is also a witch and was killed by Dominicus, which she dismissively referred to as has-been witch hunters.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: She was about to ask Elan#5's real name until her cockpit was sniped by a Dominicus Corps mobile suit.
- Knight of Cerebus: Along with her partner Sophie. Before their arrival in the plot, Witch from Mercury had been (mostly) Lighter and Softer then most Gundam series. Their attack on Plant Quetta and later Asticassia instantly propels the series into a darker direction and introduces the cast to the violent world that awaits them outside the confines of the school.
- Kick the Dog: Murders one of the student pilots participating in the Rumble Ring by shooting his Mobile Suit through the cockpit, more or less purely out of spite for Spacians as a whole, while the whole school is watching. Said student was in the act of fleeing the Rumble Ring and posed no danger to her. While she and Sophie's objectives were to perform a terror attack, it seems like the intent was more to use it as a smokescreen for the abduction of Sarius; brutally killing one of the students was at the very least excessive in regards to their mission.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Has one mounted on the back of the Lfrith Thorn.
- Madness Mantra: Repeatedly shouts “How dare you?!” when beating a captive Nika over the death of Sophie. The English dub trades this for a more fleshed out "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Later once her grief for Sophie starts to reach the boiling point she starts to similarly mutter "die" endlessly before breaking down sobbing.
- Marionette Master: In contrast to Aerial's GUND Bits, Norea and Sophie use the Gundvölvas, a squad of pilotless mobile suits coordinated by the two via their Permet Link.
- Meaningful Name: A subtle case for her mobile suit. Her Gundam is called the Lfrith Thorn. Thorn (ᚦ) is a runic letter which represents a giant or jötunn. Quite fitting for a giant mech.
- Mortality Phobia: After Sophie's death, she develops a fear of succumbing to the Gundam's curse just like she did. This proves to be a Commonality Connection that leads to her opening up to Elan #5. After the destruction at Quinharbor, it's a sign of her Sanity Slippage that she forgets her fear of death and hops in a Gundam anyways, something Elan calls her out on just before her death.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Despite seeming to be the more calm and level-headed one between herself and Sophie, she's very quick to resort to simply eliminating potential problems. When Nika tries to interfere with her and Sophie's infiltration of Asticassia, Norea first threatens her with a knife, then barely a day later tries to crush her under a mobile suit's foot.
- Mythology Gag: Her character design resembles a Gender Flip of Kamille Bidan, and her Lfrith Thorn has a similar faceplate to his Zeta Gundam. She also deliberately attempts to step on an important character while checking out a Gundam, much like he does. Norea even becomes close to one of the Elan clones, who are very reminiscent of Kamille's love interest Four Murasame.
- Nightmare Fetishist: The sketches she draws in her notebook are of dead animals, snakes and other unsettling imagery.
- Noble Demon: She was ordered not to allow any means of escape and was willing to even blast escape pods, however the moment that Nika flashes her the Dawn of Fold callsign, she immediately backs off showing that at least she's not a Team Killer. This behavior also extends to showing concern for her teammates as she immediately warns her team to retreat as soon as Aerial Rebuild breaks out her mega beam cannon.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: At the end of Episode 13 she points out to Suletta that they have no reason to duel her under school rules, as their objectives have nothing to do with them and it would be a pointless burden. Sophie accepting Suletta's request anyway seemed to subvert Norea's intent, but it turns out in the next episode that Sophie considers going after Suletta in the middle of a terrorist attack to the school to a be a duel, which fits their plan well enough.
- Oh, Crap!: Visibly recoils in understated horror when the Aerial Rebuild pulls out its BFG, as she immediately knows it's nothing but bad news.
- Percussive Pickpocket: Pretends to have accidentally bumped into Elan by not looking where she was going so she can steal his student notebook.
- Pet the Dog: After Sophie dies thanks to the backlash of the GUND-Format, Norea informs Suletta of what happened, telling the shocked girl that she isn't responsible for Sophie's death and retrieving her body and mobile suit, not taking the opportunity to attack Suletta despite her being outside of Aerial and defenseless.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cold, calm Blue to Sophie's emotional Red. Interestingly, her Thorn is painted in a brighter brown color palette as a contrast.
- The Resenter: Her profile describes her as harboring a deep resentment towards Spacians, despite her stoic affect. During the battle at Plant Quetta, she expresses contempt for Spacians polluting the Earth then abandoning it, and when infiltrating Asticassia she's disgusted by the luxury and excess of it in comparison to her ruined home planet.
- Sanity Slippage: After Sophie’s death, Norea becomes noticeably more violent and unhinged, taking her anger out on Nika and then repeatedly trying to kill Elan #5 while spending weeks isolated in Grassley House’s storage room. The news of the Quinharbor massacre is what finally sends her over the edge, proceeding to cause a massacre at Asticassia after Shaddiq frees her in hopes of taking as many Spacians down with her.
- Spree Killer: After watching the news of Quinharbor's destruction, Norea rages at the Spacians for taking everything from her and pilots Thorn to destroy the school, causing destruction everywhere, and injuring and killing students along the way. She's stopped by Elan #5, who calms her down by telling her to run away with him so they can survive. Unfortunately, Norea gets shot down by a Dominicus Corps mobile suit.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: The Lfrith Thorn's main weapon is capable of firing as both a long-range beam rifle and a beam shotgun.
- Tragic Keepsake: After Sophie's death, she keeps her armband. It's burned into nothing when Norea dies.
- Together in Death: She and Sophie briefly appear during the Permet storm in the final episode, showing that they have, on some level reunited there.
- Tranquil Fury: She keeps her stoic behavior while touring Asticassia, but at the end of their short dialogue she lets it slip to Elan that she hates seeing a reproduction of a flourishing Earth made by the Spacians who abandoned the real thing, which has since been left a shadow of what it once was.
- Unwitting Pawn: Though Norea effectively takes orders from Shaddiq because of his Dawn of Fold connection, she doesn't realize he has her captured and then released to further his own goals. He knew she would go on a killing spree in Asticassia, and expects the spilling of Spacian blood would finally get the Space Assembly League to confront the Benerit Group.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied. Elan #5 going through her sketchbook shows that before her current grotesque art of death and decay that are in line with her cold and hateful personality, she had made a drawing of a clear lake, indicating that she wasn't always like this.
- Villainous Breakdown: Slowly loses what’s left of her sanity after Sophie’s death, including beating a captive Nika and trying to murder Elan #5.
- Villainous Friendship: While she and Sophie are polar opposites in terms of personality and constantly bickering with each other, the pair are genuine friends. Norea breaks down in tears after Sophie's death.
Sophie Pulone
Affiliation: Dawn of Fold, Earth House (Infiltrator), Oara Materials (Cover)
Main MS: EDM-GA-01 Gundam Lfrith Ur, EDM-GB Gundvölvas (Remote-controlled)
Voiced by: Shiori Izawa (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)
"Suletta Mercury…I'd love to meet her. I wonder if I ever will."
Another former GUND Format test pilot. She goes along with her partner Norea to Plant Quetta.
- Ace Pilot: A Gund-Format test pilot, and a skilled member of a terrorist organization, capable of piloting modified Gundam Lfrith units. Rips apart a squad of Witch hunters and goes toe-to-toe with the superior Aerial Rebuild. It's only due to Eri's intervention that shes finally put down.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Her death is treated somberly. During her Villainous Breakdown, she rants about the things she wants that she was denied as an orphan, she's brought to tears upon seeing Ericht's soul in the Aerial, and Suletta both begs Aerial to not kill her and tries to save her from the broken Lfrith Ur afterward, though it's too late.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Hits Suletta with two during her last battle with her, asking her if there were things she was willing to fight and kill for and what the purpose of all of Aerial's weapons were if not to be a tool of violence. Suletta gets hit hard by both points, realizing that she was (and still is) willing to fight and kill for Miorine's sake and that she actually doesn't know the reason why her mother outfitted Aerial with such powerful weapons despite supposedly being meant for peace.
- Ax-Crazy: She is not well in the head, considering how she is only interested in Suletta and the Aerial. On top of that, even the possibility of death when she uses Permet Score 4 against the Dominicus Corps doesn't really damper her mood in the slightest.
- Backpack Cannon: The Lfrith Ur sports a massive "Phased Array Cannon" on the backpack that splits open at Permet Score 3. However its usage and function are never shown or elaborated on.
- Back for the Finale: She and Norea appear as Permet ghosts when Suletta takes over Quiet Zero in the finale.
- Big Damn Heroes: In a mundane way, she keeps showing up and dragging Suletta away whenever Elan makes her uncomfortable, since Suletta is too nice to turn him down outright.
- Big Sister Worship: She refers to Suletta as "big sister Suletta" and genuinely looks up to and admires her, even while disagreeing with Suletta's view on Gundams.
- Blood Knight: Seems all too enthusiastic about the chance to shoot down things, including a defenseless cargo shuttle and an entire block link of a space station. Her profile even makes specific note of her instinctual love of violence. This love for combat is ultimately what does her in when she charges into Aerial's data storm knowing full well Eri intends to kill her.
- Blood from the Mouth: She coughs up blood as a result of data storm blowback, most likely because her elevated blood pressure led to blood vessels in her lungs bursting.
- Character Death: Sophie dies in Episode 14 from data storm blowback whilst fighting against Suletta and Aerial.
- Cute But Psycho: Looks like an attractive teenager, but is also an utterly Ax-Crazy Blood Knight.
- Cute Little Fangs: She has a set, reflecting her wild personality.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She invokes this by telling Suletta that her stake in their duel is that Suletta will become her real sister if she wins. Suletta, for her part, does not seem opposed to the idea, but still intends on winning because of her promise to Miorine. Too bad they never get to this point due to Sophie's death.
- Expy: Of Nena Trinity; just like her, she enjoys violence and battle to their fullest.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: The fact that she is sympathetic helps. Norea clearly cares about her a lot despite her aloof attitude, suffering Sanity Slippage after her death, and even Suletta had taken a liking to her. In the episode following her death, several children on Earth are shown holding a funeral for her, and it's stated that she was a hero to them.
- Filching Food for Fun: She steals some food from Rouji's plate while getting a tour. She does this rather openly, he's just too shy to stop her.
- Gatling Good: Her Gundam has a gatling gun as its main ranged weapon.
- Genki Girl: In the first episode of the second cour, she is very excited about getting a tour of Asticassia from Suletta, and spends the tour pulling Suletta from one thing to another, taking school vehicles for joyrides and stuffing herself on food. This is not an act, she is just genuinely that excited about spending time with her idol.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a large collection of stuffed animals that appear homemade or frequently repaired (indicative of her poor upbringing). She refers to them as her family, giving each of them roles as mother, father, and sisters. She also doesn't hesitate in stealing a Haro guide and adding it to the collection.
- The Glomp: How she announces her arrival at Asticassia to Suletta: by throwing herself at the girl's arms.
- Hidden Depths: Her plushie collection, which she refers to as family members, indicates that she has a love of typically childish things, and her refering to them as her father, mother, sisters, etc. may be a coping mechanism for being orphaned. The next episode, she outright says that she fights for enough food to fill her belly, a soft bed and warm showers, and toys and comics that someone her age would want.
- Honor Before Reason: She accepts Suletta's challenge to duel despite having no reason whatsoever to do so. In this case it's less honour that makes her do it, and more her admiration for Suletta, and a desire to both prove her wrong, and to battle her again.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: During her Motive Rant to Suletta, Sophie tells her all the things she want: enough food to fill her stomach, a soft bed, warm showers, comics and video games, and a family that loves her. Essentially all she wants is the normal childhood she's been deprived of.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: In her case, what Sophie desires most of all is familial love. She has stuffed animals that she refers to as her family members, and the thing she emphasizes most of all is a real family that loves her, which is why she wants to force Suletta to be her sister.
- In Love with Your Carnage: After seeing Aerial's new BFG in action, Sophie laughs in delight and says that Aerial has pierced right through her heart.
- Jerkass: She is more openly antagonistic than other members of the Dawn of Fold, threatening Guel with a gun even after Naji said they weren't going to hurt the civilians on the craft.
- Knight of Cerebus: Along with her partner Norea. Before their arrival in the plot Witch from Mercury had been (mostly) Lighter and Softer then most Gundam series. Their attack on Plant Quetta and later Asticassia instantly propels the series into a darker direction and introduces the cast to the violent world that awaits them outside the confines of the school. She's also the first pilot killed by Aerial's Permet override, hinting that Aerial's true power is far more dangerous than anyone thinks.
- Leeroy Jenkins: While she is a capable pilot, she has little to no impulse control and may veer off the plan if she thinks the job can be done more effectively another way. She can also ignore the main objective when something she takes personal interest in appears, as was the case with Suletta.
- Lightning Bruiser: Despite being bulky and heavily armed the Lfrith Ur is extremely fast and agile. With the Gund-Format driving that speed its able to effortlessly run circles around ordinary mobile suits.
- The Lost Lenore: While it's ambiguous if there were romantic feelings involved, Sophie is certainly very important to Norea and after she dies, Norea's mental health takes a noticeable downturn. Just before her own death, Norea has a vision of Sophie smiling happily and reaching out to her in the evening sun.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Her death is ultimately played off as a result of the Gundams curse. In reality it was brought on by Aerial's data storm and murderous intent on Eri's part.
- Mauve Shirt: She appears in five episodes but she has decent characterization that made her stand out. And when she died, it shows how it is still dangerous to pilot a Gundam, and her death impacted Norea's emotional state.
- Meaningful Name: A subtle one for her mobile suit. Her gundam is named Lfrith Ur. Úr (ᚢ) is a runic letter which, depending on which version of the runic alphabet you're using, can either mean Rain, Dross (aka. metallic impurities in molten metal), or Aurochs, a kind of extinct giant cattle. All three are relevant for a giant metallic mobile suit which uses a gattling gun.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Expresses to Suletta her plans to kill Miorine so that she can have the Mercurian girl all to herself in their battle against each other in Episode 14. Suffice to say, things do not end well for her.
- Purple Is Powerful: Cranking up the Permet score on the Lfrith Ur causes the neon red lights to turn purple instead of Aerial's blue. Its actually a result of Aerial's override.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The battle-happy, wild and emotional Red to Norea's calm Blue. Interestingly, her Ur is painted in a darker blue palette as a contrast.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Sophie only plays a noticeable role in a total of four episodes, and dies just past the midway point of the story. She still manages to cause two of the biggest Wham Episodes in the series to that point by utterly destroying the peaceful status quo of the character's lives twice over, as well as leading to The Reveal that Aerial is actually Ericht.
- Simple, yet Awesome: Unusually for a Gundam, the Lfrith Ur does not rely on onboard Gund-Bit Attack Drones or even Deflector Shields. It's tremendous power is a result of its exceptional speed, agility, firepower, even physical strength and the vastly superior Gund-Format to effectively employ said capacity.
- Teens Are Monsters: She's a psychotic teenage terrorist who relishes fighting and killing.
- Together in Death: She and Norea briefly appear during the Permet storm in the final episode, showing that they have, on some level reunited there.
- Token Evil Teammate: Of the Dawn of Fold's mobile suit pilots, she's the one who's the most willing to resort to violence and kill anyone on sight, enemy or not.
- Villain Has a Point: Despite her generally psychotic behavior, she's not exactly wrong to question Aerial being supposedly made to help people when it's equipped with so many deadly weapons. It even momentarily shakes Suletta's faith in her mother and makes her wonder why Prospera built it like that. She is ultimately proven right.
- Villain Respect: She is utterly transfixed by recordings of Suletta's fight with Grassley House, practically gushing with praise for her skill, hoping to meet her one day; her profile even notes her interest in Suletta and Aerial as "Witches" of a different origin from her. She gets her wish at the end of episode 11, gleefully introducing herself to her fellow "Witch".
- Villainous Friendship: Despite her and Norea being total opposites in terms of personality and constantly bickering with each other, they do care about each other. Norea is brought to tears by Sophie's death.
- Villainous RRoD: Survives this until Eri deliberately causes Gund-Format blowback whilst hijacking her Attack Drones.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Her mobile suit, the Lfrith Ur, is the only Gundam in the show whose final fate is left up in the air. After Elan #5 used it and fled, he eventually abandoned it in space and what happened with it afterwards is never elaborated upon.
- Womanchild: Despite being roughly Suletta's age, she acts a lot younger, being childishly exciteable, having plushies she refers to as her family, and refering to Suletta as "big sister" in an admiring way and dragging her around Asticassia's campus like a kid at a festival. It's implied to be a coping mechanism for being orphaned at a young age.
- Worthy Opponent: Sophie admires Suletta's skill as a pilot and yearns for the thrill of fighting her. Unusually for this trope, Sophie genuinely likes Suletta as a person too and enjoys hanging out with her even outside of combat scenarios.
- Yandere: Towards Suletta and the Aerial, focusing only on them as her targets. She's not even remotely interested in other opponents otherwise, and is disappointed when her orders distract her from her pursuit. Her affection towards Suletta on familial level also has shades of this as later in Episodes 13-14, where she expresses her desire to have Suletta as her big sister, even threatening to kill Miorine in order to have Suletta for herself.
Naji Geor Hija
Affiliation: Dawn of Fold
Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese), Ray Hurd (English)
"We won't take any lives. We simply want to discuss the disparities between Space and Earth."
Leader of Dawn of Fold. He carries out guerrilla activities under the guise of improving the status of Earth's inhabitants.
- Anti-Villain: He ordered a massacre on Plant Quetta, but does so with the intention of killing Delling, who leads the corporate collective which oppresses and exploits Earth. He also makes it a point not to hurt the civilian engineers on the craft he comandeers since they aren't involved.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has a noticeably deep and authoritative voice, fitting for the leader of a terrorist group.
- The Leader: Naji is the commander of Dawn of Fold.
- Minor Major Character: He is the leader of a major terrorist organization whose members make a big impact on the plot, but Naji himself doesn't have much screentime and is never focused on as a character.
- Non-Action Guy: While he leads missions personally, he is not a pilot like Sophie and Norea.
- Parental Substitute: Shaddiq refers to Naji as "your father figure" when he speaks to Nika. It is implied he is this to Sophie and Norea as well.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's the ruthless leader of a terrorist organization, and always seen wearing a very fashionable pink shirt.
Olcott
Affiliation: Dominicus Corps (Formerly), Dawn of Fold
MS piloted: MD-0021 Desultor, HU-45p Prodoros
Voiced by: Satoshi Mikami (Japanese), Micheal Stimac (English)
"I'm not your father. As for what to do next, you'll have to think for yourself."
Commander of the Mobile Suit Squad of the anti-spacian organization "Dawn of Fold". He is a brave warrior who has fought many battles and is trusted by his troops.
- Artificial Limbs: His left arm and a decent chunk of his torso are prosthetics.
- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 15 focuses almost entirely on his perspective, shedding light on his past and motivations.
- Defector from Decadence: As revealed by Kenanji, Olcott's real name is Ridrick Kruger, a former pilot of the Dominicus Corps who had switched sides and joined the Earthian rebels instead after his family were victims of collateral damage.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: He only wears a glove on his left hand. Episode 15 reveals that it hides that his hand (and the rest of his arm) are artificial.
- Number Two: While a subordinate of Naji, as the commander of the Mobile Suit Squad of Dawn of Fold, he is directly in charge of Sophie and Norea during missions.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His son died during one of the conflicts on Earth. His death still haunts him to this day.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: His flashbacks to the day his son died, coupled with his unemotional behaviour, imply he is suffering from PTSD.
- The Stoic: He rarely expresses overt emotions, preferring to deal with what's in front of him with calm and logic.
- Villainous Respect: Given he didn't try to capture Guel to use him as a bargaining chip again at the end of Episode 15, it seems the boy earned his respect after trying to save Seethia instead of running away on his own, even if he failed in the end.
Seethia
Affilation: Dawn of Fold
Voiced by: Natsumi Kawaida (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)
"Give me back my daddy."
A girl who lives in a refugee area on Earth where Dawn of Fold is based.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She bleeds to death in Guel's arms while he vainly finds a transport to take her to safety.
- Doomed Hurt Guy: She gets injured by debris during the attack on the Dawn of Fold base. Guel tries to save her, but Olcott correctly guesses that it's too late to save her given the severity of her injuries.
- Fantastic Racism: Like many Earthians, she resents Spacians for the poor state they have left Earth in.
- Misplaced Retribution: She blames Guel for the death of her father, purely because Guel came back alive from the battle where her father died.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Tries to kill Guel with a knife due to Misplaced Retribution, and may have gone through with it if Olcott hadn't stopped her.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the same episode she is introduced in.
Sedo Wanchek
Affiliation: Dawn of Fold
Voiced by: Natsumi Fujiwara (Japanese), Molly Zhang (English)
"Come on! I said eat, Spacian!"
A young boy who lives in a designated recovery plan area on Earth together with the members of Dawn of Fold. He's friends with Seethia.
- Fantastic Racism: Like many other Earthians, he holds deep resentment against Spacians for the terrible state they have left Earth in. He warms up to Guel after learning about how he fought for Seethia.
- Saying Too Much: When meeting Guel again in Episode 19, he specifically states that he looks up to the "Prince", someone who graduated from Grassley's Earthian adoption program and that "everyone" in Dawn of Fold knows about. Kenanji swiftly points out that "Prince" was Shaddiq's nickname in the Grassley program for Earthian orphans, and that there's no way anyone affiliated with Dawn of Fold would or should know that nickname unless Shaddiq or someone else in the program was in contact with Dawn of Fold.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Only shows up for two episodes (if you don't count a brief cameo in the finale), but his Saying Too Much moment is what brings the finale of a major plotline of the series. The good guys obtain evidence of Shaddiq's plans through him, kickstarting the final battle with the boy.
