Shinn: "Sheesh. What the hell have you done to it? Those are villain theme colours. 'NB09 Coral Dawn' ? What kind of eighth-grade syndrome naming is this?"

Shinn, internally: [at least Athrun fought to let me keep calling it Destiny and have it use Rey Za Burell's colors...and the worst insult: twin back-mount cannons, really? Kira's old parts, no less. At least she had the decency to get the power back to what I knew in Requiem so there's that, I guess.]

Shinn: <<Strange thing is that honestly, we're probably not that good. You know who was? My senior officer, Athrun Zala. He truly is the best of us, the best damn pilot of our time. He was the bar Kira and I had to surpass, and if you think we're good, he'd take one look at your arena leaderboard and erase everyone there. Be glad none of you ever pulled him here with us.

Shinn: <<Athrun taught me how to fight. Kira taught me to find the real reasons why. And now, I'm here to teach those lessons to every last pair of ears who would listen.>>