Quote by JenosydesWhisperMatrixOkay over here in the States I
didn't get to see what Raila Cruse (you know Mu Laflaga's father's clone: sorry if I spelled his name
wrong) looked like under his mask...for all of those that are in the know can you tell me like does he have like a third
eye, rapidly ageing eyes, no eyes or WHAT! I'm going crazy! OH and it's okay if the answers are found in
Destiny just please tell me.
Okay what does the Seed aspect have to do with anything? They really didn't explain it too well only that it makes
Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli into Berserkers, which doesn't tell me anything *CRIES*.
Well okay I guess that's it...please focus mainly on my first question thanks!
Ok, if you've seen Gundam seed destiny, then skip this pic(which is kinda impossible) for I'm assured that
you've already seen it.
He looks pretty um... normal, but I think he wears that mask because he ages so fast. Also, because of this, he has a
short life span that made him bitter about life. Here's his life story which I found in a certain
website(wikipedia.org).
Rau Le Creuset is a unit commander in ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty). Cool, cunning, and very mysterious, Rau
Le Creuset is an adept commander in his field and an excellent mobile suit pilot. He becomes famous early in the war
during the Battle of Yggdrasil as a Red Jacket, in which he used his ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type mobile suit to
destroy 37 Earth Alliance mobile armors and six warships. This feat earned him the Order of the Nebula, a decoration
awarded to ZAFT's most outstanding soldiers. After the Battle of Endymion Crater on the moon, Le Creuset becomes
the commander of the newly constructed Nazca-class ship Vesalius. Under his command, the ZAFT vessels Vesalius and Gamow
attacked the neutral colony Heliopolis, where the military contractor Morgenroete was constructing prototype mobile
suits for the Atlantic Federation.
The raid ended with four of the prototype G weapons being captured by ZAFT and the destruction of Heliopolis itself. The
colony's destruction was due to the utilization of heavy weaponry on both sides of the conflict, as ZAFT tried to
capture or destroy the GAT-X105 Strike as well as the mobile suit carrier, Archangel.
Apart from attempts to take down the "Ashitsuki (English: Legged Ship)" (as ZAFT codenamed the Archangel), he
shares a strange connection with Earth Alliance Mobile Armor (MA) pilot Mu La Flaga and the two are shown to have a
rivalry of sorts throughout the war.
Despite his allegiance with ZAFT, Rau bears no loyalty to it, or anyone, for that matter. Fortunately his reputation is
high enough that the ZAFT Defense Council Chairman, Patrick Zala, revealed to him the real plans for Operation
Spitbreak. He betrayed Zala by giving whatever he was told to an informant named Muruta Azrael, who eventually is found
to be the head of the Azrael Conglomerate, a military supplier to the Atlantic Federation, and the leader of the Blue
Cosmos rulers of the Earth Alliance. This little betrayal caused a large percentage of ZAFT's earthbound forces to
be lost during Operation Spitbreak. However, most members of the Supreme Council and the ZAFT military are either so
intimidated or manipulated by Le Creuset that they would never suspect his treason. Only a select few individuals within
ZAFT are not so easily misled, and suspected that Le Creuset was up to no good, including Andrew Waltfeld, Siegel Clyne,
Athrun Zala, Dearka Elsman, and Lacus Clyne. Rau consolidated his power within ZAFT by sending the extermination squad
that would murder Supreme Chairman Siegel Clyne, securing Patrick Zala's position as Supreme Chairman. Although Rau
supposedly only answered to Patrick Zala, it becomes quite clear that Patrick was manipulated by Rau to the point that
in all practicalities, Patrick was Rau's minion, and not the other way around. By the final battle of Gundam SEED,
almost everyone loyal to Patrick Zala remaining in ZAFT was essentially under his complete control. However, Rau did not
desire this power in and of itself, but rather achieved it simply as means to an end.
Rau Le Creuset is a unit commander in ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty). Cool, cunning, and very mysterious, Rau
Le Creuset is an adept commander in his field and an excellent mobile suit pilot. He becomes famous early in the war
during the Battle of Yggdrasil as a Red Jacket, in which he used his ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type mobile suit to
destroy 37 Earth Alliance mobile armors and six warships. This feat earned him the Order of the Nebula, a decoration
awarded to ZAFT's most outstanding soldiers. After the Battle of Endymion Crater on the moon, Le Creuset becomes
the commander of the newly constructed Nazca-class ship Vesalius. Under his command, the ZAFT vessels Vesalius and Gamow
attacked the neutral colony Heliopolis, where the military contractor Morgenroete was constructing prototype mobile
suits for the Atlantic Federation.
The raid ended with four of the prototype G weapons being captured by ZAFT and the destruction of Heliopolis itself. The
colony's destruction was due to the utilization of heavy weaponry on both sides of the conflict, as ZAFT tried to
capture or destroy the GAT-X105 Strike as well as the mobile suit carrier, Archangel.
Apart from attempts to take down the "Ashitsuki (English: Legged Ship)" (as ZAFT codenamed the Archangel), he
shares a strange connection with Earth Alliance Mobile Armor (MA) pilot Mu La Flaga and the two are shown to have a
rivalry of sorts throughout the war.
Despite his allegiance with ZAFT, Rau bears no loyalty to it, or anyone, for that matter. Fortunately his reputation is
high enough that the ZAFT Defense Council Chairman, Patrick Zala, revealed to him the real plans for Operation
Spitbreak. He betrayed Zala by giving whatever he was told to an informant named Muruta Azrael, who eventually is found
to be the head of the Azrael Conglomerate, a military supplier to the Atlantic Federation, and the leader of the Blue
Cosmos rulers of the Earth Alliance. This little betrayal caused a large percentage of ZAFT's earthbound forces to
be lost during Operation Spitbreak. However, most members of the Supreme Council and the ZAFT military are either so
intimidated or manipulated by Le Creuset that they would never suspect his treason. Only a select few individuals within
ZAFT are not so easily misled, and suspected that Le Creuset was up to no good, including Andrew Waltfeld, Siegel Clyne,
Athrun Zala, Dearka Elsman, and Lacus Clyne. Rau consolidated his power within ZAFT by sending the extermination squad
that would murder Supreme Chairman Siegel Clyne, securing Patrick Zala's position as Supreme Chairman. Although Rau
supposedly only answered to Patrick Zala, it becomes quite clear that Patrick was manipulated by Rau to the point that
in all practicalities, Patrick was Rau's minion, and not the other way around. By the final battle of Gundam SEED,
almost everyone loyal to Patrick Zala remaining in ZAFT was essentially under his complete control. However, Rau did not
desire this power in and of itself, but rather achieved it simply as means to an end.
A chance encounter with Mu La Flaga and Kira Yamato in the abandoned colony of Mendel revealed his true identity and
motives. In a shocking revelation, he exclaims that he is neither Natural nor Coordinator, but rather, something far
more disturbing and sinister. His real name is Al Da Flaga, Jr., the direct clone of Mu La Flaga's father, Al Da
Flaga!
Considering his own son Mu as "nothing" because he was "diluted" by the inferior DNA of a woman, Al
Da Flaga, a powerful and wealthy Earth Alliance politician (and perhaps one of the few Cosmic Era Newtypes alive at the
time), conspired with Professor Ulen Hibiki to create several direct clones of himself, of which Al, Jr. would be the
first, and the one to be considered his "perfect son" and heir, superior in every way to his brother, Mu, who
was to be disinherited. Despite the fact that Coordinators had existed for quite some time, direct human cloning was
illegal, but Al Da Flaga believed his wealth and influence put him above the law, and thus, Dr. Hibiki agreed to this
transaction in exchange for the funds he would use to finance his Ultimate Coordinator project. By virtue of the Flaga
bloodline, Al, Jr. was a Cosmic Era Newtype, a trait he apparently inherited from his "father" and shares with
his "brother" Mu and thus, he possesses superhuman extra-sensory and mental abilities that far exceed that of
ordinary Naturals and Coordinators. However, the cloning would not end with Al Jr.; there were two other clones that
were accounted for: Rey Za Burrel, who would be seen with Rau when he was a child; and Prayer Reverie who piloted the
YMF-X000A Dreadnought against Canard Pars and supposedly died of imperfections due to the cloning process. Any other
clones that were created were destroyed when Mendel was abandoned. It is implied that these clones, containing Al Da
Flaga, Sr.'s Newtype DNA, were the prototypes for the Ultimate Coordinator project in which Kira Yamato was the
final product.
However, Al, Jr. was an imperfect clone due to short telomeres that caused rapid aging; at first, this was done
intentionally, so that Al, Jr. could catch up to Mu in age and replace him. Once Al, Jr. reached Mu's physical age,
they attempted to stop the accelerated aging process but found that they were not able to do so permanently. At this
point, Al, Jr. understood that he was an abomination and loathed his own existence and his "father" even more
so for creating him. He was forced to take a special drug that stabilized his aging; if he goes too long without taking
the medication, he suffers intense pain. Because of the pain of his imperfection, Al, Jr. becomes mentally unstable,
deciding that Naturals and Coordinators are both unfit for living, and sees to it that the imminent destruction of both
parties, and all mankind, is accomplished. The beginning of his revenge is depicted in the flashback seen in PHASE 45,
where a young Al, Jr. is heard laughing maniacally as his father is burned to death along with his estate by an angry
mob that accompanied him to undertake this grim act of retribution. But it did not end there.
He would assume the name "Rau Le Creuset" - "le creuset" being French for "The Crucible,"
a reference to Arthur Miller's famous play about the Puritan Witch Hunts, which is symbolic of his twisted mission
to "pass judgment on all of humanity by penalty of death" - and join the ZAFT military, where his piloting
skills, keen intellect, and uncanny powers of persuasion ensured his rise to the highest ranks of command. He dons his
trademark mask not to hide his identity but out of shame and hatred that he looks exactly like the one person he hated
most: his father.
Rau believed that every human's sole purpose for living is to be "better" than everyone else, and that
all people are miserable, selfish, and shameless creatures who will do anything to "get ahead." He justifies
this point of view by virtue of his very existence: he is the direct result of the worst act of human hubris ever
perpetrated - cloning. While he believes that humanity will eventually wipe itself out in time, he is not satisfied in
merely waiting for that to happen on its own. As he is imminently doomed himself due to his unstable genetic makeup, he
believes all life in the universe deserves to perish along with him and becomes hellbent towards making that end a
reality. So it comes as no surprise that Rau is effectively able to manipulate any character consumed by mankind's
"worst" motivations such as hatred, fear, revenge, greed, ignorance, or lust for power into doing whatever he
wanted towards that end, including Flay Allster, Patrick Zala, Muruta Azrael, and, for almost the entire duration of the
series, Yzak Joule. To facilitate this plan, he leaks to the Earth Alliance the N-jammer canceller technology used to
create the ZGMF-X10A Freedom and the ZGMF-X09A Justice through a disc he entrusted to Flay Allster, a young Earth
Alliance soldier (and a former crew member of the Archangel) that he captured during the Battle of JOSH-A. This
eventually leads to the use of nuclear missiles again by the Earth Alliance, and the eventual destruction of the ZAFT
military asteroid Boaz. With nuclear missiles on the Earth Alliance's side, and the GENESIS superweapon on
ZAFT's side, it seemed as though all life will end and his goal fulfilled. It was only by the actions of the Three
Ships Alliance at the Second Battle of Jachin Due that that plan was narrowly thwarted and mankind lived to see another
day.
In the final battle of the war, Rau piloted the ZGMF-X13A Providence, the final ZAFT Gundam. Because of the
Providence's sheer power, Rau managed to easily cripple the Strike and the Buster and short after destroyed an
escape shuttle that launched from the Dominion that contained Flay Allster, after which he has a final battle with Kira
Yamato in the ZGMF-X10A Freedom.
During his fight with Kira, Rau manages to cripple the Freedom using the powerful DRAGOON System installed in the
Providence. However, the young Coordinator makes a comeback and in one final desperate attack, mortally wounds Rau by
impaling his cockpit with a double-sided beam saber, and the Providence is then vaporized during a misfire of GENESIS,
along with Rau. Rau dies with a smile on his face. Is it a smile of relief that his tortured existence has been ended,
and that he was proven wrong by Kira about humanity's desire to continue on in search of peace and harmony, or was
there a darker meaning behind it?
Two years have passed since the Second Battle of Jachin Due, but with the start of a new war between the Earth Alliance
and PLANT and the subsequent use of nuclear weapons, Rau's words echo in Kira's mind: "This is a world
where people's hearts are filled with hatred, where fingers have no purpose other than to pull triggers..."
Rau's plans to end all of humanity may have died along with him, but Kira's fight is far from over...
Come to think of it, he lived a very lonely life that resulted in him developing a twisted concept of humanity's
existence.
I think this little piece of info also answers why Rau hates kira to the core and also gives info about the
"ultimate coordinator" project.
The famous(or infamous) seed mode doesn't actually make you berserk but it actually gives you the ability for to
enter into a state of enhanced awareness and peak physical ability. While in this state, the person (usually a mobile
suit pilot, but not necessarily) demonstrates heightened reflexes and extremely quick information processing. This
ability is usually triggered by extreme situations or from recalling significant traumas, often arising out of a need to
protect someone else in a critical situation.
