>>23349621
I mean yeah Char does feel alive when fighting and in CCA he doesn't trust humanity's future but Zeta pretty clearly shows him trying to be better. It's not really fair to write off Zeta's actual character rendition of Char when he still ultimately was writing and directing the show as well as signing off on the work.
The dude has had weird notes before and the novels have contradicted the animated shows even back for MSG, to disregard Char's character because of notes before production isn't accurate. Especially since the guy clearly would check his work as shown here >>23349907
with what this anon posted. Sure, WoG can be used to shore up blatant mischaracterization or fill in some unintended plotholes but it's dumb to disregard the entirety of Char's arc in Zeta as redditor nonsense or as trite misinterpretations of the character that Tomino disagrees with.

Also the videogame literally gives us an explicit view into how Char was feeling right after his fight with Haman, and this matches with the offscreen development that we can interpret from Zeta going into ZZ and CCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQMz7YHPIiI

And I'll throw this in too because an /m/ anon made this a long time ago and it accurately sums the character up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQj2zqqSIks