Notes: Aeolia Schenberg was among the first people to predict the Second Impact. His plan, set into motion after it, has one more official tenet than it did in canon: Celestial Being would rid the world of war in order to prevent what was left of the rebuilding human population from annihilating each other. After one or two adversarial encounters between Celestial Being and the White Chalice, Veda made the prediction that the White Chalice would ultimately serve far more of a role in preventing conflict than promoting it, and issued the Ptolemaios instructions to join its fleet until further notice. Thus, a somewhat uneasy truce was formed.
Personality: Setsuna is an impossible Gundam nut, according to Lockon (Neil). He deifies Gundams about as close to literally as one can use the word “deify” without him literally bowing down and praying to them. He's aware on a surface level that they're machines, but he prefers to think of them as almost an abstract concept, which is how people and organizations (and songs, sometimes) can Be Gundam. To Setsuna, Gundams are something between sacred guardians of peace and the personification of peace itself. Rather iconically, he wants to become one.
He's not a very well-adjusted kid, is the thing. He displays little emotion, but he's not quite the soulless android type even on the surface—he gets angry, for example, just fine, and in extremely dramatic fashion. Aside from the fact that his development was stunted by the whole child soldier thing too early for him to have any social skills, the main problem is his one-track mind. He doesn't shut off his emotions to keep them from interfering with the mission so much as his obsessions and neuroses keep him too busy for most of the appropriate, getting-along-with-people emotions.
There is a scene, early in the series, in which Setsuna is sitting in a public square, minding his own business, where he briefly, vividly hallucinates a bomb striking the area and killing everyone but him. His total lack of reaction suggests it happens frequently; he's almost as haunted by war and his traumatic time in the KPSA as he is obsessed with Gundam's potential to end it. He has an established disdain for people who get melodramatic about problems that don't involve unspeakable death and carnage (Louise).
Setsuna has trouble with conversations. It's not that he doesn't want to talk, it's just that the things he's interested in talking about have a way of silencing everyone else. He's always thinking about war and suffering and religion and human nature and has very little concept of what is or is not a good time to ask someone a deep, difficult philosophical question. Similarly, he tends to relate everything he hears to his heavy musings (which is facilitated by every single subject of discussion in the 00 universe relating to the heavy stuff he muses about, but still).
The specific questions Setsuna is always asking himself and others are what makes the world so twisted—senseless, chaotic, in UGA's case almost destroyed, and full of war and hatred—and what the key is to undoing that distortion. He comes up with a lot of answers for the former, but the latter—aside from Gundam—he ultimately decides is understanding. I guess what I'm saying is that Setsuna is the Heart of Space.
Setsuna F. Seiei 1/3?
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AIM Contact: Captain Gardock/
Character Name: Setsuna F. Seiei
Source Canon: Gundam 00
Community Tag: “Setsuna F. Seiei”
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam_00
Notes: Aeolia Schenberg was among the first people to predict the Second Impact. His plan, set into motion after it, has one more official tenet than it did in canon: Celestial Being would rid the world of war in order to prevent what was left of the rebuilding human population from annihilating each other. After one or two adversarial encounters between Celestial Being and the White Chalice, Veda made the prediction that the White Chalice would ultimately serve far more of a role in preventing conflict than promoting it, and issued the Ptolemaios instructions to join its fleet until further notice. Thus, a somewhat uneasy truce was formed.
Personality: Setsuna is an impossible Gundam nut, according to Lockon (Neil). He deifies Gundams about as close to literally as one can use the word “deify” without him literally bowing down and praying to them. He's aware on a surface level that they're machines, but he prefers to think of them as almost an abstract concept, which is how people and organizations (and songs, sometimes) can Be Gundam. To Setsuna, Gundams are something between sacred guardians of peace and the personification of peace itself. Rather iconically, he wants to become one.
He's not a very well-adjusted kid, is the thing. He displays little emotion, but he's not quite the soulless android type even on the surface—he gets angry, for example, just fine, and in extremely dramatic fashion. Aside from the fact that his development was stunted by the whole child soldier thing too early for him to have any social skills, the main problem is his one-track mind. He doesn't shut off his emotions to keep them from interfering with the mission so much as his obsessions and neuroses keep him too busy for most of the appropriate, getting-along-with-people emotions.
There is a scene, early in the series, in which Setsuna is sitting in a public square, minding his own business, where he briefly, vividly hallucinates a bomb striking the area and killing everyone but him. His total lack of reaction suggests it happens frequently; he's almost as haunted by war and his traumatic time in the KPSA as he is obsessed with Gundam's potential to end it. He has an established disdain for people who get melodramatic about problems that don't involve unspeakable death and carnage (Louise).
Setsuna has trouble with conversations. It's not that he doesn't want to talk, it's just that the things he's interested in talking about have a way of silencing everyone else. He's always thinking about war and suffering and religion and human nature and has very little concept of what is or is not a good time to ask someone a deep, difficult philosophical question. Similarly, he tends to relate everything he hears to his heavy musings (which is facilitated by every single subject of discussion in the 00 universe relating to the heavy stuff he muses about, but still).
The specific questions Setsuna is always asking himself and others are what makes the world so twisted—senseless, chaotic, in UGA's case almost destroyed, and full of war and hatred—and what the key is to undoing that distortion. He comes up with a lot of answers for the former, but the latter—aside from Gundam—he ultimately decides is understanding. I guess what I'm saying is that Setsuna is the Heart of Space.