Rau Le Creuset

Evil-doer
Full Name	Rau La Flaga
Alias	Rau Le Creuset Commander Le Creuset
Origin	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Occupation	Officer of ZAFT Commander of the Le Creuset Team
Powers / Skills	Piloting Master strategist High-level intelligence Marksmanship Tactics Charisma
Hobby	Fighting Mu La Flaga.
Goals	Wipe out all life on Earth. Kill all Coordinators and Naturals (both failed).
Crimes	Kidnapping Attempted murder Attempted genocide
Type of Villain	Cataclysmic Misanthrope

“	I am the only one who's earned that right in the entire universe! I alone have the right to judge all of humanity!	„
	~ Rau Le Creuset

“	Suspicion, ignorance, prejudice, the dark emotions directed at those who can be loved. If love is the brightest light, then are these emotions created from the shadow it casts? Things that are different, things we don't understand, differences that foster anxiety, leading to hatred, and ultimately...confrontation	„
	~ Rau Le Creuset

Rau Le Creuset is an officer in ZAFT serving as the commander of his own Le Creuset Team and the rival of Mu La Flaga. In truth he is actually a clone of Mu's father created by him who seeks to wipe out all of humanity, seeing them as not worth saving. He is one of the primary antagonists of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and a posthumous antagonist in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

He was voiced by Toshihiko Seki in the original Japanese version, Mark Oliver in the Ocean Group dub, and will be voiced by Kevin T. Collins in the HD remaster dub.

History

Rau was created by Al La Flaga to serve as a worthy successor to him, seeing his own son Mu as inferior. He was produced alongside several other clones by Al La Flaga and Professor Ulen Hibiki.

After killing Al La Flaga by burning down his mansion, Rau left Earth to travel to PLANT and join ZAFT. He changed his name to "Rau Le Creuset" and donned a mask over his face to hide it, as it was the face of the man he hated most. Rau's piloting skills and charisma soon led to him rising through the ranks of ZAFT, eventually being given his own squadron in the Le Creuset Team. However, Rau held no real loyalty to the organization and was only with them to further his own ends. He also established ties with the radical anti-Coordinator organization Blue Cosmos and its leader Muruta Azrael, occasionally leaking information to them so he could play the two sides against each other.

Rau eventually enacts the final stages of his plan: cause the GENESIS to fire on Earth and wipe out all of humanity. Piloting his Gundam, the ZGMF-X13A Providence, Rau fought Kira in a fierce battle that ended with him being impaled. Dying, Rau smiled, believing that he had won. However, as this was going on, Athrun detonated Justice's reactor within GENESIS, destroying it and ensuring that Rau's plan did not succeed.