the most heavily armed transgender allegory of the 24th century, the source of tieria erde's first catastrophic identity crisis meltdown but certainly not his last, one of the last visible remnants of a prototype design of gundam 00's main gundams where they were all both themed and named after chess pieces1, it's NADLEEH and VIRTUE!
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in this concept, the 0 gundam was known as the King Gundam, exia the Pawn, dynames the Knight, kyrios the Bishop, virtue the Rook, and nadleeh the Queen. exia would have originally been the one to transform into nadleeh, reflecting a pawn making it to the other end of the board to become a queen. the literal chess schtick got scrapped later in development, the nadleeh transformation was instead given to virtue, and the general idea of a surprise twist powerup sequence was handed out to everybody in what ultimately became Trans-Am.