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In the Cosmic Era, Newtypes, similar to the ones in the Universal Century and the After War era, are implied to exist.

Overview[]

While the actual term is never used in Cosmic Era, certain characters display the traits of Newtypes, a concept borrowed from the Universal Century timeline of Mobile Suit Gundam. In Gundam SEED, Newtypes have extremely high degrees of spatial awareness. They are also capable of sensing other Newtypes, and when this happens, a white bolt typically flashes across the screen with an accompanying sound effect, a phenomena regarded as a "Newtype Flash". Newtypes are able to see a brief glimpse into the future, allowing them an advantage in combat, by being able to predict their opponent's move. However, this was not always precise. Some CE Newtypes also have the ability to transmit and receive psychic messages, as Prayer Reverie and Morgan Chevalier display in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray, but it is still unknown if this ability is unique to them or can be used by all Newtypes.

In the novelization of Gundam SEED, the abilities of the "Flaga bloodline" are elaborated on slightly. It is said that Al Da Flaga's business intuition was unmatched and that he had powers of "speculation", always successfully following the money. Mu is described as piloting the Strike with movements unlike those of a Natural, following his intuition, and this same intuition, passed from father to son, is explicitly referred to as one of the reasons Rau is able to pass as a Coordinator.

History[]

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED[]

Mu La Flaga and Rau Le Creuset were implied to be Newtypes from the very beginning, and after the series ended, director Mitsuo Fukuda explicitly identified them as having been Newtypes. Mu used his abilities to pilot a Moebius Zero mobile armor, which has four remotely controlled wired gunbarrels for multivector attack. Rau later became the pilot of the ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam, a mobile suit equipped with the DRAGOON system, which used many remote pods to attack from multiple directions simultaneously. Mu and Rau were able to sense each other within a certain proximity of one another. Kira Yamato also seemed to develop slight Newtype abilities later and was able to sense Rau's presence.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray[]

Prayer Reverie, the clone of a Moebius Zero pilot, displayed Newtype traits. During his first battle with Canard Pars, he was able to sense the latter's presence as a "black flame", presumably due to the hatred and anger in Canard's heart. When Morgan Chevalier, another pilot with high spatial awareness, engaged Canard in battle, Prayer was able to sense them and remarked that they should not be fighting. Just as Canard was about to finish off Morgan with a beam cannon shot, Prayer sent a telepathic message to him, telling him to detach his backpack. This message ended up saving Morgan's life, as it allowed his mobile suit to barely evade the beam cannon and retreat.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny[]

Kira NT Flash

Kira Yamato was able to sense Rey Za Burrel and evade his attacks.

Rey Za Burrel had a Newtype reaction to Neo Roanoke, the two of them forming a short-lived rivalry. Rey was shown throughout the series to have a strange connection to Rau, and was later revealed to be another clone of Al Da Flaga, making him Rau's "younger brother" in a sense. Neo was later revealed to be Mu La Flaga, who miraculously survived the destruction of the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam at the end of Gundam SEED. Rey becomes pilot of the ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam, a successor of the Providence Gundam, meanwhile Neo often piloted the mobile armor TS-MA4F Exus, which bore similarities to the Moebius Zero and later piloted the ORB-01 Akatsuki Gundam, which can be equipped with DRAGOONs.

During a battle between ZAFT and a combined EAF-Orb fleet, Kira Yamato has a Newtype reaction to Neo Roanoke. Later, when the Earth Alliance was attacking Berlin, Kira was again able to sense Neo, who was piloting a GAT-04 Windam. It is implied that Kira subconsciously knew Neo was in fact Mu, and he disabled his mobile suit so the Archangel could capture him (while Kira usually disables enemy mobile suits, this is the only instance where he asks for the downed pilot to be retrieved). Later, after Neo denies being Mu, Kira remains convinced that the two men are one and the same. Soon after that, Kira exhibits a Newtype Flash when he activated the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam's DRAGOONs for the first time. Kira and Rey were able to sense each other during the final battle between the Strike Freedom and the Legend Gundam.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray[]

Courtney Heironimus, a civilian test pilot employed by ZAFT, is revealed to have been the original test pilot of the YMF-X000A Dreadnought Gundam. Though it is implied that only a Newtype can operate the original DRAGOON system, in his on-panel appearances Courtney never displays any overtly Newtype-like abilities.

Notably, Prayer Reverie's spirit returns to visit Kazahana Azure and Canard Pars in this story.

Possible Newtypes[]

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • During an interview at Kyoto University in 2003, Mitsuo Fukuda revealed that in an early draft of SEED, Mu and Rau were to be the last Newtypes in the world and a key idea would be that humanity would have to find other ways (to resolve conflict).

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