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Haman is a lot like Char.
Like Char she is an incredibly competent pilot and leader, but is emotionally stunted from having a hard upbringing.
With her parents dead, Haman was left in charge of a giant barren rock floating in space. It's inhabitants a lost people with no where to turn, with no hope in sight. Yet despite it all Haman somehow managed to build a nation out of it, and Axis went from being so insignificant that the Feds could hardly remember it existed, to being the Federations #1 enemy (having to sacrifice much, including her closest friends along the way).
Now imagine being Haman, being left alone to lead a broken people for years at such a young. All of it done for Char, waiting for him to return, eventually growing as cold as the asteroid itself. Then Char FINALLY returns, and what happens? HE GOES TO FUCKING PUNCH HER. Haman's only justification for wasting all that time turned against her, because she used a child to build Axis into place where people could actually survive.
So without Char, she tried to fill in that void by finding another powerful newtype. Both Kamille and Judau refused her. With all she accomplished, her whole motivation was to prove herself to someone she felt was worthy. And all those people rejected her, so she broke down and sodoku'd.
It's beautiful really: Char was a fundamentally broken individual who had trouble valuing human life. He only cares for few people, and Haman was not one of them. It's just like with Reccoa and Quess, these woman go out of their way for him and he couldn't really care less. In the case of Haman she ended up being just like him. That's the funny thing, because her setting up Minerva to lead Neo-Zeon was literally what Char did with pre-teen Haman. But Char couldn't see that and just instead saw Haman as an enemy from there on.
