Setsuna F. Seiei Headcanons

[ninthfeather]

Hey, @keiraide, I don’t know you that well, but I’ve gotten into a habit of doing little sets of birthday headcanons for people in the Gundam 00 fandom, at least when I know about them. So happy belated birthday (yesterady was very busy)!   Given your cosplay, hoping you’ll enjoy some Setsuna heacanons.

 

Ian and Setsuna did not necessarily get along at first.  When he first came to CB, Ian was not pleased that CB was actually going to let this kid fight, but all Setsuna understood was that Ian got grumpy when he was around.  Also, Setsuna wanted to see as much of the robots as he could, from the very beginning, which meant he kept sneaking into the hangar and getting in the way of repairs.  Eventually, Ian resigned himself to not being able to influence Veda, and also realized that his frustration was spooking Setsuna.   They eventually brokered a deal in which Ian let Setsuna sneak in and look in at the robots occasionally, while they weren’t being repaired.

 

Setsuna, for a long time, associated the culture he grew up with and the religion he threw away because of Al-Saachez together.  So he didn’t make much of an effort to hold onto bits of Krugis’s culture when he first joined Celestial Being, beyond the clothing, which he still felt most comfortable in.  After Fallen Angels, maybe, there’s one or two times that he went to a restaurant that served food that vaguely resembled what he remembered, or searched the internet for music that actually sounded right.   He gets some help from Marina between the end of the series and the arrival of the ELS, but his journey into deep space obviously cuts those efforts short.

 

Setsuna actually really likes interacting with Marina’s orphans when he’s at the Katharon base, and it surprises him.  He thought it would bring up bad memories, but honestly it mostly just makes him happy, to see children who have been affected by war but are already healing.  And while they aren’t easy to deal with, by any stretch, what they want of him is simpler than what most people ask, anymore.

 

When he first meets Lockon, it’s not so much that he’s simply annoyed by the man.  It’s more that he recognizes the pattern of behavior.  He and some of the other older boys in the KPSA had once done the same thing when Al-Saachez had recruited someone too young to really help–gentle smiles, jokes, pushing treats on the kid when they were available.  It was the least they could do, knowing that the child in question would be going to Paradise far ahead of them.  But Setsuna isn’t going to die so easily, and he refuses to be treated as a liability.

 

Sometimes he stays up nights wondering how much of it really was Schenberg’s plan.  They know now that the Trinity siblings weren’t something he was directly responsible for, but did he predict them, nonetheless?  Did he plan the sheer scope of Fallen Angels?  Did he realize that the Innovades would turn against his plan?  Most of all, was it really his plan for one of his pilots to be the first Innovator?  In the end, it seems to Setsuna that maybe he hasn’t quite gotten out of the habit of believing in a higher power.