Ah, the reasons I don't like Lacus are several people have already mentioned. For one, she is a very selfish person, and
two, she never makes a single mistake. When she is on the archangel, she wears whatever the heck she wants instead of an
Orb uniform. For me that represents selfishness, and a little bit of cowardice. There's a reason I'm not in the armed
services of my country, besides being very medicated. It's because, to wear a uniform is a very heavy
burden/responsibility, and I do not think I could handle it. Cagalli wears an Orb uniform, and her representative
uniform. She carries a heavy weight with her, and in my eyes, her putting on her military uniform, and then switching to
the representative uniform, shows great strength. Even more so, her decision to stay in Orb while everyone else went to
space, even though it clearly was a painful decision, shows her inner strength, and her strong will. She accepted that
she made a lot of mistakes, and she grew from those experiences. Destiny still messed her up pretty bad, and
unrealistically for her character, but I understand a little bit.
At the beginning of Destiny she was already, at age 18, the head representative of a country that had just come out, and
been devastated by war. I'm going to go ahead and guess that she had been the chief representative for at least a year,
maybe more. During that time, Athrun was healing from the war, as was Kira, who was being taken care of by Lacus.
Cagalli and Athrun had to hide their relationship, and since Cagalli was so busy with Orb, neither she nor Athrun
properly healed. So, while hiding her relationship with Athrun, she was being told over and over again that she was a
naive idealist, and that she was ruining the country, etc etc. So Athrun discovers that people are doing crazy shit in
his father's name, and the unhealed wounds opened up. Cagalli, who is already in a fragile state as well, gets verbally
assaulted by Shinn, which was pretty much pushing her head underwater when she is already drowning.
So, Athrun decides to go to PLANTS, leaving Cagalli. But he did propose right before he left, as a promise that he would
come back and marry her. SO Athrun is gone, and with him, her final support. Shinn berates her a bit more, and Cagalli
is feeling useless, and that she is destroying her country, which is just being reinforced by Unata, Yuuna, and all
those ugly old men. So Yuuna convinces her in her fragile state, that marrying him would be best for Orb, and also best
for Athrun. He convinces her that she is making Athrun unhappy, holding him back.
I still think Destiny is crap, but that's how I understand what Cagalli and Athrun were going through.
It was easy for Kira and Lacus to be strong, they had been living peacefully in an orphanage for two years, away from
politics.
Lacus is a flat character, and there is no character growth. She never makes a single mistake, which is I think what
bothers me most. I guess I find it highly unrealistic that Lacus was made a member of the PLANT council. She was a
singer, not a politician. And to stave of arguments about Cagalli, she was undoubtedly trained since she was a small
child to take over Orb. She had a very tumultuous time during the war, and she is a very impulsive, brash, passionate
person. But once she gets that under control, and uses it her advantage, i think she'll be an amazing leader. Lacus'
father was the chairman, but remember, that was an elected position, not one that Lacus would be taking over.
Another thing, and this is a bit petty on my part, is that there are WAY too many Lacus figurines. There's one for every
damn dress she wears, in multiple poses. I want multiple figures for Cagalli in a number of her outfits. But that's the
huge Cagalli fan in me.
@k4ede I agree, Cagalli looks so much more gorgeous than Lacus when she occasionally wears dresses, often under
coercion. And Kira does acknowledge on several occasions how great Cagalli looks in a dress. When Kira and Lacus get
married, I think Cagalli might outshine Lacus. Cagalli even has a more vibrant smile. At the end of episode 24, when
Kira comes for her, that smile..... gorgeous.
I know Kira and Lacus are supposed to be the two main characters, but it always seemed to me that it was Kira and
Cagalli, since so much time was spent on showing how they grew throughout the series.
@ 1234567890qaz I agree, that is probably the reason that he didn't give her a pet. Although if he did give her a
mechanical pet, you know, to replace the hamster, I think it would be a crab. I have had this thought in my head that he
would make her a bunch of crabs, of all different sizes, and would have them wandering around the dining room and on the
table.
@k4ede (again) Where can i read about this hamster? Although, because of PiggyHoHo's chibi town, I associate hamsters
with Stellar.
Additional side note. Any one every notice that Riza Hawkeye and Cagalli have pretty much the same coloring? You know,
aside from the fact that Hawkeye has a large chest.
I think I wrote too much..... sorry