Mu La Flaga

Name: Mu La Flaga

Age: 28 Appearance: Blond, blue eyes, olive skin, 6 feet 1 - tall and decently muscular

Title from War: Hawk of Endymion

Personality: Mu has a carefree and boastful spirit. He is lighthearted and friendly, willing to accept a Coordinator like Kira Yamato into the crew of the Archangel. Mu does not show any actual hatred towards Coordinators, but is genuinely surprised and impressed by their abilities at their peak. Mu is casually boastful of his abilities, with his motto being that he can make "the impossible possible". Mu also tends to be somewhat of a ladies' man, being very friendly to the females aboard the Archangel and often making nicknames for them. Mu is a Lieutenant Commander.

Skills: His high spatial awareness allows him to be extremely proficient in employing the remotely controlled gunbarrels of the TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero; he was part of a very small group of pilots capable of handling the Moebius Zero, and the only one of those to survive the Battle of Endymion Crater. He uses these abilities to effectively duel Dearka Elsman's GAT-X103 Buster Gundam even though his Moebius Zero is less powerful and less technologically advanced, and later against Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam and Rey Za Burrel's ZGMF-1001/M Blaze ZAKU Phantom as Neo using the TS-MA4F Exus, Moebius Zero's newly-created successor.

His mobile suit piloting skill is also excellent, and he was able to dispatch the normal grunt units with ease. However, it was only until he received the ORB-01 Akatsuki Gundam, which could be equipped with remote weaponry, was he able to unleash his full potential while piloting a mobile suit.

Background: Mu was born to an aristocratic family. However, his father, Al Da Flaga, believed he was "genetically impure" because of the DNA of his "inferior mother". Seeking a new successor, Al had himself cloned. Both of Mu's parents later died when their home burnt down.

Mu later joined the military and eventually became a veteran and ace mobile armor pilot. He was well known as the "Hawk of Endymion" for destroying five ZGMF-1017 GINNs with his TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero at the Battle of Endymion Crater, a feat previously considered impossible. However, Mu knew that this title was nothing more than a formality to cover up what happened in the battle. It was during this battle that Mu faced ZAFT officer Rau Le Creuset in combat for the first time, and realized that he and Rau shared a strange extrasensory connection, the two then became rivals for the remainder of the war.[2] The Battle of Endymion Crater also left him as the only remaining pilot capable of handling the Moebius Zero, as its wired gunbarrels require a high degree of spatial awareness not commonly possessed by either Naturals or Coordinators.

Battle of Heliopolis and joining the Archangel

Mu joined the crew of the Archangel where he was introduced to Murrue Ramius, the head foreman of the G Project's transport and the highest-ranked soldier of the three, including Ensign Natarle Badgiruel, the leader of the Archangel's remaining crew. Upon seeing Kira, Mu deduced immediately that Kira was a Coordinator due to his superior abilities, and Murrue revealed that he had also defeated a GINN beforehand. As this caused Kira's friends to become defensive, Mu clarified he meant no ill-will, but admiration as the Strike had previously cycled through several test pilots that failed to properly control the unit before Kira. As Kira and his friends had still seen important military secrets, they were detained on the ship and were not allowed to leave. Natarle considered having Mu pilot the Strike instead, but he flatly rejected the idea as he couldn't understand its OS. With very few options, Ramius decided to utilize both Kira and the Strike for the Archangel to make its escape from Heliopolis. GINNs from the Le Creuset Team soon arrived and led a second attack on the Archangel inside the colony.

As the crew was deliberating what to do since they were too understaffed to fight, too slow to outrun a Nazca-class destroyer or even surrender, Kira returned to the ship, unexpectedly bringing a stranded Life Boat from Heliopolis. In spite of the ship using an unknown identification code and holding Atlantic Federation military secrets, Natarle recommended heading for the Eurasian Federation's base at Artemis. While the refugees were given shelter, Mu called Kira as Kojiro Murdoch was demanding he maintain his own unit. Kira initially refused as he was only forced to pilot the Strike, but Mu asked if he would refuse when the ZAFT forces threatened them again, and Mu pointed out that they were the only ones that could defend the ship. He encouraged Kira to use his abilities to make a difference. Aware of the true struggles, Kira and his friends join the Archangel's crew as volunteers. Before disembarking as Rau threatened to stop the Archangel from reaching Artemis, Kira told Mu he was only fighting to protect the people on board, and Mu expressed the same belief; as no one will fight without reason, but they cannot protect if they will not fight.