NICOL AMALFI SPOILER!
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Nicol is the youngest member of Rau Le Creuset's Gundam team, pilot of the stealth-equipped Blitz and easily the gentlest personality among the group. He is a gifted pianist who would rather talk about music than prove himself through combat, but the war gives him little room to stay outside it. Nicol is especially close to Athrun and often acts as the person willing to lower the temperature when Yzak's temper turns the team against itself. His death becomes one of Gundam SEED's major breaking points. During the fight with Kira, Nicol moves to protect Athrun and is killed by the Strike. The loss sends Athrun and Kira into their most violent confrontation, each blaming the other for a death produced by a war neither of them originally wanted.
NICOL THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
COMBAT LEDGER //
Open page →Result: Nicol Killed
Nicol moves to stop Kira from finishing off a depowered Athrun, and Kira, reacting rather than aiming, cuts into the Blitz's cockpit. THE BREAKDOWN: this is the fight that costs Kira his first real kill of someone he never wanted dead, and the show treats it as a genuine rupture rather than a combat statistic. Worth flagging for your own records: the HD remaster reanimates this scene to read as more clearly accidental than the original 2002 broadcast did, so which version you're archiving stills from actually changes what the footage shows.
