Lacus Clyne is a character from the anime series Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny.

Lacus Clyne is the daughter of PLANT Supreme Council chairman Siegel Clyne. She is a Coordinator, whose career as an idol singer has brought her enormous popularity in the PLANTs. She is betrothed to Athrun Zala, mainly out of political expediency, but as the Bloody Valentine War goes on, Lacus meets and is slowly drawn to Kira Yamato, pilot of the Earth Alliance's GAT-X105 Strike Gundam.

Dispatched to join a memorial service on the anniversary of the "Bloody Valentine " tragedy, Lacus is left drifting in space when her ship is attacked by Earth Alliance forces, and her lifepod is subsequently retrieved by the Alliance warship Archangel. Lacus treats friend and foe alike with kindness and respect, and even her fiancé Athrun is sometimes perplexed by her apparent naïveté. Late in the war, she helps Kira Yamato steal the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam as a counter to the ambitions of Patrick Zala. Because of this, she and her father Siegel were declared as traitors, and Siegel was gunned down by Patrick Zala's minions. Near the end of the Bloody Valentine, she leaves the PLANTs with her stolen support ship, Eternal and joins the Orb Union owned Izumo class battleship Kusanagi and the recently defected Archangel, to form the Clyne Faction, a group dedicated to stopping the war. She finally falls in love with Kira, and gives him a ring before the final battle and tells him to come back safely.

At the start of Gundam SEED Destiny, Lacus is living with Kira at Reverend Malchio's orphanage in the Marshall Islands. In addition, ZAFT Supreme Council Chairman Gilbert Dullindal, in need of clout in order to prevent the ZAFT citizenry from panicking and attacking the Earth Alliance full out, has begun to showcase Lacus impersonator Meer Campbell as Lacus herself, using her to influence the populace. The real Lacus is almost killed when a group of Coordinator assassins tried to kill her, but Kira fights them off with his Freedom Gundam. She, along with Ramius, Kira, Andrew Waltfeld, Cagalli, and most of the Archangel crew reunite, to stop this new menace.

In the original Japanese version, Lacus is voiced by Tanaka Rie. In the English version, she is voiced by Chantal Strand.

Three of her songs Shizukana Yoruni, Mizu no Akashi and Fields of Hope can be found in the various Gundam SEED soundtracks and music albums.

Personal Data

Genetic type: Coordinator
Age: 18 (16 at the start of Seed Destiny)
DOB: Cosmic Era February 5 55
Blood type: B
Height: 158 cm