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Or here!Gundam Seed: Bloodlines is an Alternate Universe take on
Gundam SEED in which Kira and Cagalli's places are reversed - Cagalli is a coordinator living on Heliopolis, while Kira is the prince of Orb. When ZAFT attacks Heliopolis, Cagalli is reluctantly forced into the role of the Strike Gundam's pilot.
Early chapters pretty much follow SEED's plot, but the series begins to diverge as it goes on.
Gundam SEED: Bloodlines contains examples of the following tropes:
- Action Girl: Cagalli, even moreso than in the original series.
- The author seems to love this trope considering how many characters of this type belongs to the cast.
- Anti-Villainous Rescue: Cagalli was saved by Athrun from dying during her reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
- Anyone Can Die
- Avenging the Villain: Asta Joule's goal is to kill Cagalli for killing her younger brother who was also the most villainous member of Athrun's team of Gundam pilots.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Flay, who goes from Cagalli's perspective from "stupid bitch" to "warrior".
- Berserk Button: Cagalli hates being called "princess" or a boy.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: The main reason why Cagalli survived her capture by Blue Cosmos members. Instead of killing her as soon as possible, their leader rants which gives her rescuer the time to neutralize him.
- Cool Down Hug: Cagalli hugs Stellar to keep the latter from killing her. It's more effective than she expected.
- Dark Action Girl: Asta Joule, Yzak's older sister and pilot of the new Duel Gundam. Also Stellar and presumably the rest of the female Extended. Flay has also become one.
- Death by Adaptation: Yzak, Andrew Waltfeld and the people in Tassil, Murrue.
- Does Not Understand Sarcasm: Stellar
- Eye Scream: Hilda Harken's right eye is stabed by Flay with a knife.
- The Empath: The (named) Extended. And now Cagalli.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The only reason Cagalli empathised with Yzak and his older sister, Asta.
- Heel Face Turn: Stellar Louissier, and later the other members of her Extended unit.
- Hollywood Atheist: According to Hilda Harken, PLANT is "a nation of atheists".
- Honor Before Reason: Subverted during the concluding battle of the Desert arc.
- Hostage for MacGuffin: Hilda Harken's attempt to trade Melanie's life for Cagalli's.
- Incurable Cough of Death: The clearest sign that Asta Joule's days are numbered.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side: Hilda betrayed the Earth Forces because she expected ZAFT to win the war and did not want to be treated as a "blood traitor" by the other Coordinators.
- Imprinting: the Extended do this. After her original "mother" dies, Cagalli has to get Stellar to imprint on her.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Doctor Malcolm, much to Cagalli's disappointment.
- Literal-Minded: Stellar
- The Mole: Hilda Harken
- The Main Characters Do Everything: While Natarle's involvment in Cagalli's rescue from Blue Cosmos can be justified by her (heavly implied) spec ops background, the same can not be said from Murrue leading a boarding party into a Blue Cosmos base. It ends badly for her.
- Manipulative Bitch: Cagalli doesn't want to be one, but the dramatic situation force her to be manipulative (or so she thinks).
- Multinational Team: The current crew of the Archangel consist of the Atlantic and Eurasian survivors of Heliopolis/8th fleet and Artemis, respectively, and the saved Orb refugees from Heliopolis.
- Love Triangle: Cagalli, Athrun and Tolle, though Cagalli thinks it is a love rectangle because she suspects Miriallia to be interested in Tolle.
- Musical Theme Naming: Chapters are named after songs or albums.
- Omniglot: Cagalli is a language major who speaks seven languages.
- Phlebotinum Girl: Considering what we know about Kira in the original series, Cagalli may qualify. Also Stellar.
- Promotion to Parent: Cagalli becomes Elle/Melanie's caretaker after her mother is murdered.
- And then it happens again with Stellar.
- Redemption Equals Death: Joan Memphis, the oldest member of Stellar's Extended unit
- Rescue Romance: Sort of. Ever since Athrun saved Cagalli from dying during her reentry into Earth's atmosphere, his love for her stopped being one-sided
- Shout Out: Waltfeld's conspiracy theories claim there was an "innovative society" in the past.
- Mythology Gag: This is a reference to one of the author's previous fics, Gundam SEED Kismet.
- Running Gag: Cagalli being mistaken for a boy.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Most of the saved Orb refugees from Heliopolis thanks to Prince Kira, and Ahmed and Aisha in the Desert arc.
- Species Loyalty: Defied by Cagalli who is more loyal to her friends and fellow (Orb) citizens than other Coordinators which is noted to be very unusual.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Cagalli pulls this off twice - first against Hilda and again against Stellar.
- Teen Genius: Prince Kira who was able to put a virus into the government computers when has was nine years old. It's particularly notable because he is not a Coordinator in this story.
- Tonight Someone Dies: Chapter 42.
- Too Dumb to Live: The Blue Cosmos members in Desert Dawn. They are more willing to die fighting against superior ZAFT forces than let a Coordiantor like Cagalli protect them.
- Touched by Vorlons: To paraphrase the author Cagalli goes Newtype thanks to Stellar.
- Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: After her successful atmospheric entry, Cagalli has to fight her way back to the Archangel.
- The Unreveal: Doctor Malcolm was killed by Stellar just when he started giving exposition about one big secret of the Cosmic Era and how it is connected to Cagalli.
- Villainous BSOD: Hilda Harken has one when she realized that even murdering Elle/Melanie would neither save herself nor her mission.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 42. The plot had begun diverging from SEED's in chapter 40 with Cagalli being taken to the Blue Cosmos base, but the wham comes in this chapter with the death of Murrue.
- Worthy Opponent: Cagalli is this to Waltfeld.
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