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Clotho Buer is a fictional character appearing in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Special Edition. He is one of three soldiers designated as Biological CPUs, also referred to as Extended humans, assigned by the Earth Alliance to operate a new line of prototype mobile suits. His personal data was erased from official military records, effectively classifying him as a living weapon rather than a conventional soldier. Clotho serves as the pilot of the transformable GAT-X370 Raider Gundam.
Standing at 165 centimeters tall, Clotho is an eighteen-year-old male with red-orange hair. His background prior to becoming a Biological CPU is deliberately obscured due to the deletion of his records, but it is implied that he was part of a program that involved children being trained at facilities like the one on the asteroid Lodonia. As a Natural, his combat abilities are artificially enhanced through the regular administration of a performance-enhancing drug known as Gamma Glipheptin. This substance boosts his stamina and reaction time during battle, allowing him to pilot a mobile suit at levels comparable to a Coordinator. However, the drug has severe side effects, including painful withdrawal symptoms that affect the nervous system when its effects wear off.
Clotho has a talkative and quarrelsome personality, constantly engaging in arguments with his teammates, Orga Sabnak and Shani Andras. He brings a distinct energy to combat, often shouting out video game-inspired battle cries while piloting the Raider Gundam. This behavior gives his fighting style a somewhat reckless and game-like quality, as if he views the life-or-death battles as a form of entertainment. Between missions, he spends much of his free time playing on a portable game system called the Great Wonder Swan XXX, practicing his hand-eye coordination and shooting skills even while off-duty.
Despite his often psychotic and proud demeanor in the heat of battle, Clotho is capable of displaying rational thought. He becomes visibly annoyed when his teammates interfere with his movements, such as when Orga uses the Raider in its mobile armor form as a ride board without asking permission. He also shows irritation at near misses from friendly fire. In his final moments, as the effects of his medication wear off and he suffers from withdrawal, Clotho loses all restraint and sense of self-preservation, attacking desperately without clear thought. His motivation for fighting is not rooted in ideology or loyalty to the Earth Alliance. When asked by Athrun Zala why he fights so desperately, Clotho gives a straightforward answer: he fights simply because he does not want to lose, not because he believes in any particular cause.
Clotho serves as an antagonist in the final stages of the First Alliance-PLANT War. Alongside Orga and Shani, he is deployed as part of a special forces team under the command of the Blue Cosmos leader Muruta Azrael. The trio is first sent to attack the neutral Orb Union, where Clotho engages the Freedom Gundam piloted by Kira Yamato and the Justice Gundam piloted by Athrun Zala. Throughout these engagements, his fighting skills appear average at first, employing a reckless combat style and heavily utilizing the Raider's mobile armor mode. However, his abilities gradually improve over the course of the war.
His key relationships are defined by his status as a Biological CPU. He operates as a teammate alongside Orga Sabnak and Shani Andras, though the three constantly bicker and show little genuine camaraderie. Clotho in particular finds Shani annoying, and on one occasion Shani directly tells him to shut up during a battle. After the deaths of his two comrades, Clotho's mental stability deteriorates rapidly. His direct superior is Muruta Azrael, who controls the supply of the Gamma Glipheptin drug, using it as a means of control and punishment when the pilots fail their objectives.
In the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Special Edition compilation, which condenses and revises certain events from the original television series, Clotho meets his end during the Second Battle of Jachin Due. Following the death of Orga Sabnak, Clotho is killed by Dearka Elsman piloting the GAT-X103 Buster Gundam. This death scene occurs immediately after Orga's demise, providing a definitive conclusion to the character's arc within this version of the story.
Standing at 165 centimeters tall, Clotho is an eighteen-year-old male with red-orange hair. His background prior to becoming a Biological CPU is deliberately obscured due to the deletion of his records, but it is implied that he was part of a program that involved children being trained at facilities like the one on the asteroid Lodonia. As a Natural, his combat abilities are artificially enhanced through the regular administration of a performance-enhancing drug known as Gamma Glipheptin. This substance boosts his stamina and reaction time during battle, allowing him to pilot a mobile suit at levels comparable to a Coordinator. However, the drug has severe side effects, including painful withdrawal symptoms that affect the nervous system when its effects wear off.
Clotho has a talkative and quarrelsome personality, constantly engaging in arguments with his teammates, Orga Sabnak and Shani Andras. He brings a distinct energy to combat, often shouting out video game-inspired battle cries while piloting the Raider Gundam. This behavior gives his fighting style a somewhat reckless and game-like quality, as if he views the life-or-death battles as a form of entertainment. Between missions, he spends much of his free time playing on a portable game system called the Great Wonder Swan XXX, practicing his hand-eye coordination and shooting skills even while off-duty.
Despite his often psychotic and proud demeanor in the heat of battle, Clotho is capable of displaying rational thought. He becomes visibly annoyed when his teammates interfere with his movements, such as when Orga uses the Raider in its mobile armor form as a ride board without asking permission. He also shows irritation at near misses from friendly fire. In his final moments, as the effects of his medication wear off and he suffers from withdrawal, Clotho loses all restraint and sense of self-preservation, attacking desperately without clear thought. His motivation for fighting is not rooted in ideology or loyalty to the Earth Alliance. When asked by Athrun Zala why he fights so desperately, Clotho gives a straightforward answer: he fights simply because he does not want to lose, not because he believes in any particular cause.
Clotho serves as an antagonist in the final stages of the First Alliance-PLANT War. Alongside Orga and Shani, he is deployed as part of a special forces team under the command of the Blue Cosmos leader Muruta Azrael. The trio is first sent to attack the neutral Orb Union, where Clotho engages the Freedom Gundam piloted by Kira Yamato and the Justice Gundam piloted by Athrun Zala. Throughout these engagements, his fighting skills appear average at first, employing a reckless combat style and heavily utilizing the Raider's mobile armor mode. However, his abilities gradually improve over the course of the war.
His key relationships are defined by his status as a Biological CPU. He operates as a teammate alongside Orga Sabnak and Shani Andras, though the three constantly bicker and show little genuine camaraderie. Clotho in particular finds Shani annoying, and on one occasion Shani directly tells him to shut up during a battle. After the deaths of his two comrades, Clotho's mental stability deteriorates rapidly. His direct superior is Muruta Azrael, who controls the supply of the Gamma Glipheptin drug, using it as a means of control and punishment when the pilots fail their objectives.
In the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Special Edition compilation, which condenses and revises certain events from the original television series, Clotho meets his end during the Second Battle of Jachin Due. Following the death of Orga Sabnak, Clotho is killed by Dearka Elsman piloting the GAT-X103 Buster Gundam. This death scene occurs immediately after Orga's demise, providing a definitive conclusion to the character's arc within this version of the story.