Cagalli Yula Athha Quotes

Cagalli has tracked down the Aegis pilot who blew up the Strike, and he has just told her that he killed Kira because Kira killed Nicol, who was fifteen and loved the piano. Her reply is a sentence a child could follow, and the show puts it in the mouth of the character least equipped for a philosophical argument, which is why it lands. Athrun has the facts, the grief and the training; Cagalli has arithmetic. The scene is also the pivot of the whole series, because Athrun does not answer. He says he does not know why he did it, and the not-knowing is what eventually walks him out of ZAFT. Revenge in Gundam usually gets a big speech against it from a Newtype or a princess. SEED gives the argument to someone holding a gun she does not want to fire, and lets it be a question rather than a lesson.

Shouted at Athrun over the radio while he is preparing to detonate the Justice inside GENESIS, and it works in the moment: he ejects. As a line it is doing something more specific than encouragement. Cagalli's father chose the other option in episode forty, staying in Orb's Kaguya mass driver facility to blow it up rather than let it fall, and she has spent nine episodes carrying his last message. So when she tells Athrun that living is the harder fight, she is arguing with Uzumi as much as with him, and she is disagreeing with her own father's death. The dub gives it as a slogan and the animation gives it a gasp of static. It is the one moment in the finale where the show's teenagers decide something the adults did not decide for them.