Aina Saharin
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| Aina Saharin | |
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| Mobile Suit Gundam character | |
 Aina Saharin as depicted in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team |
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| Voiced by | Kikuko Inoue (Japanese) Emily Brown (English) |
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| Age | 20 |
| Date of birth | UC 0059 |
| Nationality | Principality of Zeon |
| Known relatives | Ginias Saharin (Brother, Deceased) |
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| Allegiance | Principality of Zeon |
| Mobile weapons | Prototype Zaku II Apsalus 1 and 2 |
Aina Saharin (アイナ・サハリン Aina Saharin?) is one of the main characters in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, next to Shiro Amada. "Saharin" is a Japanese transliteration of Sakhalin (サハリン).
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[edit] Overview
Aina is Ginias' sister and a daughter of the Zeonic noble family Saharin. She is an ace pilot, but she shows concern for her soldiers' lives. Saharin family friend Captain Norris Packard acts as a surrogate father for the young Aina at the base looking out for her. Although she's technically only a test pilot for most of the series, only Ginias outranks her at the Zeon base.
[edit] Story
Aina and Shiro Amada work together to be rescued after their short battle in which Shiro in a Mobile Ball takes on Aina and her Zaku admist a debris field. The both manage to escape the destruction of their craft before they are completely annihilated ending up in an unrecognizable mostly destroyed Federation ship. Their first run in once inside the ship is a hostile one but Shiro after shooting a hole in her space suit knows that they need to help each other or they are not going to gain any rescue. During their coordinated attempt to return to their respective sides, Aina and Shiro form a bond, which is shown by Aina giving Shiro her personal pocketwatch because Shiro's watch has been smashed. He keeps the watch for most of the series after forgetting to give it back to Aina as they part ways.
After returning to her brother's base on Earth, Aina begins test piloting the massive Apsalus I Mobile Armor, created by her engineering genius brother Ginias. Unknowingly Aina and Shiro's 08th MS Team have a couple of run ins. On the second encounter during Shiro's and the 08th MS Team's attempt to capture the Apsalus II he grabs onto mobile armor causing Aina to scream at Shiro's suit saying that he'll kill them both. To his surprise Shiro realizes the voice is that of Aina's and he makes contact with her high above a mountain range as she tries to escape, with his mobile suit still attached to the Apsalus II. Eventually this whole process sends the two and their machines going off course and crashing in the mountain range during a snowstorm. As they crash, they almost both get killed and Shiro proclaims his love for Aina as he's on the verge of possible death. During their time spent in this canyon, both begin to show their affection for one another, yet at the same time have to deal with the conflictions of their respective sides, keeping them apart. Shiro gives back Aina her watch and she is rescued first, then Shiro once her party is well gone. To Aina's dismay Ginias knows about her relationship thanks to a recon photo taken right before her rescue and her more feminine way of dress and demeanor of a woman in love. Shiro himself has to face a military inquiry that accuses him of being a traitor in the light of his relationship with Aina, further putting a strain on his beliefs. He makes it a priority to save Zeon lives, instead of taking them from then forward.
During the final Federation assault on the Zeon base at the end of the series, Aina takes off in the Apsalus III with her brother in a failed attempt to cover a Zeon transport's escape through a temporary cease fire. Ginias botches her plan by firing during the launch, resulting in the Federation shooting the transport during it's escape in retaliation. Aina whom in her own process of retribution is caught off guard by Shiro showing up in his heavily damaged EZ8 Gundam. She takes heed to him and attempts to convince Ginias to surrender but her brother's sheer conviction to destroy Jabrow and the Federation makes him shoots her. As she falls out of the cockpit Shiro in the EZ8 catches her as shes falling to the ground. Coming out of unconcienseness she and Shiro discover that her watch actually stopped the bullet from Ginias' pistol from penetrating into her chest. She and Shiro decide they have no choice but to kill Ginias' and destroy the Apsalus together with the badly damaged EZ8. The two destroy the Apsalus III as it fires one last devastating particle cannon shot, destroying the Federal Forces mobile battleship and almost killing Aina and Shiro in the process in which process Shiro loses his left lower leg. She and Shiro escape to the mountains and start a life together free from the obligations of war that had been forced upon them. When Kiki and Michel find them in Episode 12, Aina is pregnant with her and Shiro's child.
[edit] Trivia
- Aina's surname, along with Ginias, was mentioned by various sources as Sakhalin. According to the American Gundam website, Aina and Ginias' surname was also referred to as Saharin, possibly a translation from Japanese.
