#gundam 00 imagine

[scarletlotus182]

I really love this other ongoing bit of Allellujah and Hallellujah arguing in the middle of battle while Marie and Soma just have to put up with it

#scarlet.txt #gundam 00 #i like to imagine they're focusing on maneuvering and trying to keep everyone alive

[qan-t]

#gundam 00 #feldt grace #graham aker #i appreciate that the movie let itself have this quiet scene between two characters who #in a million years #you'd never normally imagine interacting #being able to relate in their shared concern and dismay #giving the audience a moment to breathe #and giving us insight into graham's head we wouldn't have otherwise gotten #we (understandably!!) get more time with feldt #so graham needed this i think #i hope in s3 they can bond or something. follow up on this established connection #not that i want them to just be like BOY ISN'T SETSUNA GREAT #and that's it #i love him but interactions that end at character shilling aren't compelling #it'd just make for a good starting point #platonic odd couples are fun #screencap

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

I'm always fascinated when someone at the club rants about "how they just invented T'au to cash on them anime weebs", completly oblivious to the time and culture of their creation. So T'au came out first in 2001, and were obviously conceptualized some years prior, which puts them into the late 90s in their original design. This is slowly hitting "the majority of the populance has no relevant internet access whatsoever" levels of "barbaric analog ages".

So imagine where GW sits in the late 90s - its a small studio somewhere in England barely coming to touch with the first elements of the internet, with the most dominant medium being television which... is not really about "exotic" shows from the other end of the world? Those get ported over when they have proven to be a hit in their own country mostly.

And without the internet as we know it today, the anime community just... did not exist. You have to understand that the whole concept of online anime culture centred around piracy, fansubs, fanart, and the creation of the term "weeabo" was a mid-to-late 00s thing, and it took almost another decade before "weeb" was somewhat reclaimed and no longer an online-slur.

There was a whole generation that grew up with (often horribly localized) japanese shows on TV (Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon) which came over with some delay to their release in Japan. By the time this generation came to congregate into online spaces and form any sort of fan-identity and culture, the T'au and their battlesuits had already been a design over a decade old.

"But wait isn't Gundam from the 70s"? Yes, that is totally correct. However, this is the one glaring mistake people make: you cannot compare modern day media content circulation around the globe to the analog ages. Those of us who remember these barbaric analog times know how it was: you just did not know stuff existed. If it was not in the newspaper or on the telly, it might as well not exist unless you knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy.

Sure, the Internet was slowly becoming a thing that found widespread use, but it would still take a while - not to mention the technical limitations. No streaming episodes. You start the download (if you can find someone who hosted the file of a series you had to know even existed first) somewhere around lunch, to hopefully get something to watch in the afternoon. Oh and also that blocked the household's phone-line and if the download cancelled for whatever reason then it was back to square one. Under such conditions, the online community we know today could simply not exist, as the alternative was importing stuff from the other end of the world for quite the money, or hoping a really shoddy localized VCR-tape ended up at your Blockbuster-equivalent.

Of course there was anime before that time, even those regarded absolute classics in the west, but those mostly achieved that rank over here in retrospective. When in the late 00s people wanted to watch stuff and had the ability to do so they shared what was considered "the classics" first (shared to the best of their ability with one episode cut into 5 parts on youtube with sometimes very questionable subtitles).

So even if we assume there was someone at GW in the 90s who was a total "proto-weeb" and Gudam-fan, there was literally no reason to "make knock-off Gundams" because the miniscule western wargaming audience SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW THE STUFF.

You can't make a marketing ploy to reference something your average consumers have never heard off. If anything, the creation of the T'au as a robotic-centred faction was inevitable: they needed a design that could hold their own in the setting, but Necrons hogged the full-robot niche, Imperials were weird cyborgs, Orks the "madman-scrap-tech", and Nids the "biotech". The only thing left here was "not full robot but also very clean and efficient" - and just like that, the Battlesuits and Drones were born.

It was only in later years when the Internet had come into full swing where they decided to go full-suit with releases such as the Riptide, but if we talk about the OG design of T'au and the first decade? Nothing to do with anime or "fishing for weebs". The fish would not be coming to that spot for almost a decade, and it would take a bit more before their numbers were plentyful enough to make it worth casting a line out.

#random rant #wh40k #T'au #tau empire #warhammer 40k

[the-eeveekins]

Why The Witch From Mercury is Important to Me

This will be a long, somewhat rambling and mostly personal thread. It's not about the show's quality or any issues I had about it (and YES, the show is flawed and has issues), but about why G-Witch's characters and themes were important to me and I think many others. Most of this I've already shared to a degree, but I wanted to expand my original thoughts, and put them all into one post.

I've been a Gundam fan for over 20 years, I got into the series with Wing on Toonami and have watched the vast majority of the animated series. As a woman, I longed for the day Gundam would have a female main character in the spotlight of a major show, but honestly at some point I'd given up on it. I just thought that if they hadn't done it by now, they never would.

Then, last March, they released this short 30 second trailer revealing The Witch From Mercury, and showing off Suletta and Aerial, and I was ecstatic! Finally, a female MC in a Gundam series, I was so excited for a new Gundam series for the first time since 00! I watched that short clip countless times over the months in anticipation of the series airing, I even grew addicted to the little song that plays during it.

Over time, the characters and key art were revealed and I saw some people float the idea that maybe Suletta and Miorine would be love interests. I didn't pay it any mind at the time. I was sure they'd milk their relationship for bait along the way, but there was no way they'd commit to Gundam's first female MC being gay. Even after the first episode aired I was still skeptical: There was the bait I was expecting, they're not seriously going to go through with it though.

And here we are, almost 10 months after G-Witch started airing, and Suletta & Miorine are married. It not only wasn't bait, but they committed to it in a way I never would have imagined coming from a franchise I loved like Gundam. It was done with care and respect for the characters, it didn't feel like it was exploitative or added just for fanservice, but was a very real relationship.

I'll admit, I was initially among those disappointed we didn't see a kiss or the wedding at the end, but my greatest fear was the ending would be as ambiguous as possible, or even worse, walk back what we'd seen, so as not to offend people. Instead we got the sister-in-law line, the matching wedding rings, how close they were and they way they looked at each other with love and talking about going home together. We didn't see them kiss or see the wedding, but we got to see them married, and I think that's incredible.

As a gay woman, and a Gundam fan of over 20 years, Suletta is an immensely important character to me. Suletta and Miorine's relationship, and it being a central focus of the story, is immensely important to me. They're things I dreamed of having in Gundam, but never really thought would ever happen. I've been so happy about them for a long time now, but these last two days I've been so unbelievably happy that I was given their story. I love them so much and I'm never going to forget these two.

And this ties into why I think G-Witch has been important to so many people, regardless of how they feel about it's quality, because of it's representation and themes. Suletta, the main character of the show, is a queer, neurodivergent, disabled woman of color. She was well written, and she got to have a happy ending married to the woman she loves, where she's thriving and happy despite her mobility. She's not treated with pity or remorse, and she's still pursuing her dreams of making a school.

And not just Suletta, there were so many characters belonging to different minority groups that got strong representation and happy, satisfying endings. If you're a woman, if you're queer, if you're a POC, if you're any sort of ND, if you're disabled, The Witch From Mercury not only gave you good representation, but also said you're deserving of love, empathy and happiness.

With regard to it's themes, I absolutely love how G-Witch stressed love, empathy, compassion, acceptance and forgiveness over hate, vengeance, punishment and karma. Suletta and Miorine made many mistakes during their journey that they could never take back, but they accepted each other, including their mistakes, and resolved to move on together and makes amends for them if possible. Suletta never got mad at Miorine, Prospera or Eri for the things they did to her and she never blamed them, all she did was understand and accept why they did the things they did, and move forward with her love for them. She accepts the people she loves, mistakes and all, because of her unrelenting love and compassion for them.

Even Prospera, the main antagonist, ultimately rejected revenge for the sake of saving her daughter. She was a less than stellar parent to Suletta, and her actions lead to a heavy death toll, but ultimately Suletta accepted her and her actions to save Eri. And rather than go for an easy karmic death, she was allowed to have a happy ending: Eri was saved, and she's living a peaceful life with her family. A life that was robbed from her 24 years prior.

And ultimately, those themes are why we had an ending where literally no one died, and nearly every character got to have a happy ending. Gundam has always said that violence is bad, but The Witch From Mercury was the first to say "Alright, then we'll solve the problem without violence." We got a big magic spell that was a Gundam Pride Parade in space, and combined with Miorine's actions, events were resolved peacefully.

That's why G-Witch is important to me. It gave me and many others representation in ways you almost never get from a major franchise like Gundam, and without feeling like it was doing it to just check boxes off on some executive's diversity list. It stressed themes of love, empathy and acceptance and rejected hate, revenge, karma and even death. And I think that's incredibly important in this day and age. Representation Matters. Love Matters.

I've been very emotional over this show the last two days because I've been loving it for a while now, and while I'm sad to see it end, I'm so grateful that it happened, flaws and all. I've been crying on and off since the last episode ended and I've had trouble sleeping, but I've been so unbelievably happy over what this one show did and how much it's meant to me. The characters may not be real, but the happiness Suletta & Miorine have brought me is very much real.

For me; Suletta, Miorine, and The Witch From Mercury were truly a blessing.

#gundam the witch from mercury #g witch #the witch from mercury #sulemio #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #Youtube

[anthurak]

I have to agree that everything wrapping in the remaining episodes us very unlikely. Miorine just had her major defeat, and she's not a pilot that has the fast track of Gundam battle to act on character development. Throw in the election and her reputation in flames... There's a route for Suletta to wrap her arc to a satisfying conclusion in regards to facing her mother. I don't see one for Miorine especially in regards to escaping her father's shadow (blood stained daughter) not quickly

Yeah, my running theory is that the remaining five or six episodes of the season will resolve the current conflict between Suletta and Miorine and Aerial, as well as show Suletta fully realizing and breaking free of Prospera's manipulation. But at the same time, literally EVERYTHING else goes to hell.

Like I'm imagining Suletta and Miorine reunite, reconcile and probably have their big love confession... just in time for shit to hit the fan. Where all the different villainous plots finally kick in, Shaddiq starts his coup, maybe Prospera flips the switch on Quiet Zero and all out war breaks out on Asticassia. I'm thinking something like the end of 00's first season where everything is falling apart and the last few episodes are the heroes fighting desperately just to survive.

One idea that particularly sticks out to me is the image of the season ending with just Suletta, Miorine and a trashed Aerial blasting their way out of the academy and being forced to flee into space, with no idea how many, if any, of their friends are still alive.

Cue timeskip :D

#gundam #g-witch #g-witch spoilers #g-witch ask #grundpfeiler ask #Suletta Mercury #Miorine Rembran #Aerial Gundam #basically the show goes 'hey our girls are back together! BUT AT WHAT COST?!!!'

[weirdunclegamer]

Whoops, its been like... one, two, three... six kits since I’ve done a photo shoot to share.  My bad, I get lazy when life... happens.  Anyway its finally time for Aerial’s upgraded form!  The Aerial! ...but rebuilt!  It is mildly funny to me that they decided to go with no actual new name addition, its just... Rebuild... we rebuilt it after it got beat up.  But we rebuilt it better!  Cuz Aerial wasn’t OP enough!

Another great G-Witch kit.  Every one I’ve made (four so far) has been solid as all heck, and the show’s designs are nice and varied.  It felt like when the rebuild form finally got shown that people immediately went into the usual “which is better!?” fit, and I of course don’t think either one is better overall.  I do like Rebuild’s shield better though, it feels far more solid, like its one piece in shield mode, which a shield aught to be.

I do wish it didn’t lose the red feet... what is it with the more “futuristic” looking designs leaning so hard into the color blue?  I blame 00 for this.  And you know I got that mirasoul unit for base Aerial.  I’m sure most people posed the rebuild with its hand down on the ground for recreating that scene, so I tried being a little different with the arm up before coming down.  Also anyone else feel like the reason Rebuild’s backpack looks like that is cuz of the mirasoul backpack?  I like to imagine that was why they gave it that in universe.

Weirdly a bunch of my gundam kits lately have had X shaped silhouettes... even though only two of them are actually the X gundam.  More pics under the cut!

#gunpla #mobile suit gundam #gundam #mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury #witch from mercury #g witch #high grade #plamo #plastic model #I wonder if she'll get a third form like so many before her

[dog-forest-spirit]

What are your theory as to why Sunrise keeps clinging to the Inuyasha rights? They have been absorbed by Bandai, and yet they are clinging to them. Cash cow Gintama merch they still had their stickers on until recently, their own huge franchise Gundam given over to Bandai quite a while ago, but the Inuyasha anime? Still copyright 2009 Sunrise. They insisted on giving Sesshoumaru red and white also as a theme color, but now have given him a greyish purple because of the manga. But still they cling to it. Inuyasha is quite big internationally, is that why? But Gintama was the mos exported series for quite a while..! But many fans pretend it doesn't exist anymore after their stupid "what if" story (checked last merch for that, and that was in July 2022 while Inuyasha has long into next year, Moroha unsurprisingly has more of his self-insert than herself in her merch, that stupid tanuki thing). And I got to admit that I still feel a little queasy when I rewatch the first anime, especially later episodes with Rin after knowing what fantasies some of the people involved had 🤢.

When they finally lose the rights, will they be brought up quickly? As many fans want a more faithful adaptation, or will Bandai snatch them up again to take them and give to another company within them to animate? Do you think Takahashi will try getting involved with who they go to when that time comes? I really hope they'll tone down Miroku. The "eew, grooming" scene is really important so I wish it could be part somehow without one of the heroes being a creep, (it was before sumisawa got involved)

Imagine the cool transformation scenes where Inuyasha's ears and colors change during sunrise properly animated! I want to see it!

A new anime that will set it free from the grossness of the past..! Maybe even have Sesshoumaru's mother calling Sesshoumaru a hogosha and ask him why he chose a human rather than a yōkai or at the very least finding a wife first before adopting so he doesn't have to take care of her alone..! Or her in-character calling Rin another pet along with Jaken, which Jaken corrects with Sesshoumaru being Rin's hogosha but not correcting himself being called a pet because that seems in-character for him somehow. And hopefully a new translation of the manga as viz's Americanization where they'd rather introduce Hawaiian words rather than treating a Japanese series as Japanese..!

Sorry for babbling...

They are probably holding on to them because it’s more profitable to keep them than to sell them to someone else and I have zero idea tbh :( sunrise is so ass backwards they handled the yashahime controversy in the WORST possible way they consistently picked the worst option every single time and I hope we can get a new adaption but I don’t know if it’ll happen any time soon :( I’m sure inuyasha was more popular internationally and that’s a big ^^ but ranma 1/2 was huge too and it hasn’t gotten a new adaption urusei yatsura JUST got one I feel if we get one it won’t be for another 10/15 years but if we get one I hope it gets the fruit basket treatment inuyasha has its faults but it’s a really good series and introduced anime to an entire generation of adults but I feel inuyasha is left out of the “iconic 00s” anime conversation which is also :/ I’m going to be optimistic but I don’t know how realistic it’ll be but we didn’t think we’ll get a sequel (pedobait family show spin off spoof) so 👀

I would LOVE a prequel and would have preferred that over whatever yashahime was but only if sunrise does NOT touch it I want a studio who really cares about the source material and doesn’t treat these adaptions like fanfic and throws cheap plots in with even worse characterization for money most anime doesn’t run nonstop anymore so if we get one hopefully it gets the love it deserves

#I feel sunrise ruined the inuyasha brand :/ #and what little inuyasha had left was destroyed with yashahime #tragic :(((( #long post #and you’re good anon ❤️ #you can argue that hunter x hunter got a reboot #like 10 years later but they had a lot more source material #and it made sense to just redo it #the OG and the final act had like? 6 years difference? (2004-2009/2010) #but if we get a reboot PLEASE ADAPT THE MATERIAL PROPERLY #it took 167 episodes for 350 chapters but 26 episodes for 200 chapters???? #and the plot order is FUCKED #why did they do that #like everything is out of order #EVERYTHING

[amalgamasreal]

Sorry for badgering you but... idea.

As soon as Suletta is added to the newest SRW game all the other Gundam protags gather around her and start giving headpats to their adorable new little sister.

So I've had this thought already and it has varying levels of cute to cringe to "ugh". With the UC pilots I think a majority of them would love her but you've got the outliers of Kamille and Hathaway and who knows what direction they'll jump in. They could hate her or they could form an unhealthy obsession with her. AND THEN you've got the psychos in Lane and Io, and the less we think about them meeting Suletta the better. Judau and Shiro would probably be the most healthy for her to meet if I'm honest.

Out of the 90's AU's I would hope to fuck she ended up in X rather than Wing, the crew of the Freeden would be much better equipped to deal with her than any of the Wing boys. That being said she might get along with more than a few of the G-Gundam pilots.

She'd be so out of her depth in the SEED world, if she thought that her school was dramatic imagine being dropped right into GUNDAM: THE SOAP OPERA. She'd probably just want to join Jesus Kira on his goddamn island.

If she ended up in 00 then Setsuna would have a heart attack the moment he saw her, or Aerial, especially if they met pre-movie and him going all ELS. He might even be envious of her being able to talk directly with Aerial.

I don't want to think about AGE, let's skip that one.

As long as Orga didn't tell him to kill her then Mika would probably get along great with Suletta, or at least his friends would and he would tolerate her.

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #mobile suit gundam universal century #mobile suit gundam future century #mobile suit gundam after colony #mobile suit gundam after war #mobile suit gundam cosmic era #mobile suit gundam post disaster #mobile suit gundam ad stella

[gremoria411]

Another Gundam SEED Freedom trailer. How lovely.

I’ll fully admit that I watched the dub for Seed, so I don’t recognise the voice at the start there, but consensus seems to be that it’s Durandal? Shinn, Luminaria and Athrun are all confirmed to be in the new movie, with Athrun seems to be off doing his own thing compared to the rest of them. At a guess, I’d guess that Kira and his team seem to be operating under Orb’s authority, since they seem to be saluting a lot? They do seem to be reporting to a member of Orb nobility (the little kid in the green throne). Then again, it could be that Terminal’s just developed into the Cosmic Era’s answer to Celestial Being, of 00 fame. So maybe Athrun’s outside the system? I’d put money down on him and Kira coming into conflict again, especially since the latter half of the trailer seems to be playing up that Kira’s going to do something foolish, and Athrun lacking a non-pilot uniform at present.

It seems like the plot’s going to involve Durandal’s legacy? Though honestly it seems equally possible that it’ll just be brought up offhandedly. The PLANT Supreme council seems to have a new meeting place, with Lacus present at a meeting, so I imagine the focus’ll be more on them.

(Honestly this was the easiest reference image I could find for the characters) So, character wise we’ve a mix of new and old. Agnes Gieberath is the main new one, it seems (and honestly given her prominence I’d expect her to have a new Gundam along with Kira, Shinn, Athrun and presumably Lunamaria). Honestly the only thing we know about her is that she exists, nothing on personality or backstory at this point, but she’s likely one to watch. Yzak and Dearka are back, which is nice (I’m quite fond of post-character-development Yzak). We have the three Dom Trooper Pilots on the end that were essentially Lacus’ muscle in Seed Destiny. I fully expect them to either have character development or be killed off (Hilda might survive). That just leaves the final three new characters of Toyah Mashima, Albert Heinlein and Alexi Konoe. I don’t have much to say on the latter two, save that Konoe gives me a traitor vibe and if Heinlein doesn’t have something close to a German accent in the dub then I’ll be severely disappointed. But Toyah Mashima?

My, he seems to have a very familiar design. A small blonde kid that seems to resemble Mu La Flaga? Hmmm, sure that’s not gonna be relevant in any way. Probably nothing.

Still no word on the Gundam’s though. They wouldn’t be hiding them this much if they weren’t new in some way, so I’m betting they’re waiting until the model kits come up for order.

I will be honest, it’s slightly weirding me out how they’ve changed all the female characters lip designs though. It’s a very small change, but it just makes Lacus’ pout in the trailer unintentionally parodic. It’s not a problem as such, but all the male characters still have the old designs, so it just seems to differentiate them for no real reason. Eh, I’m sure I’ll get over it.

#Gundam seed #Gundam seed Freedom #ramblings #gundam #Toyah Mashima #Agnes Geibenrath

[jaybuilds]

Because this kind of sword can double as a makeshift Voiture Lumiere-system(ex. Red Frame Kai), this is also part of why it’s got a GN Drive- I imagine while it’s traveling at accelerated light speeds from Trans-AM, it could just jettison its backpack near the 3 minute mark, and forgo any downsides. Alternatively, it could just connect its second sword and effectively have another 3 minutes of this speed.

Since No Names canonically have eyes on the back of there heads, I figured this gunpla could just have beams come out of its heels and fight with the ones on its forearms, akin to something like Aegis Gundam.

Another thing I thought would be interesting, is if those same forearm mounted sabers could utilize a pair of ‘beam lassos’, which could let it pull enemies/objects/etc towards itself, or probably anchor itself to something. Add to it, the blades on its back skirt have an included connector, so if need be, they can join together to form a scissor-like weapon.

Finally, the beads orbs on its body are meant to resemble the aesthetics of 00 suits, which is part of how I wanted to justify that this thing could use Trans-AM with those GN Drives. Not to mention, overclocking its systems with Trans-AM is what allows the swords to generate excessive amounts of energy into a beam that can be projected from it. (Basically a beam saber cranked up to 11)

I was initially stressed over some things, which is part of why I didn’t give this thing more of a proper description. So… here you go.

#gundam #gunpla #gundam build divers #astray no name #astray blue l #gundam 00

[ninthfeather]

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[scarletlotus182]

Imagine having like, a HUGE plotline for Gundam 00 spoiled by Super Robot Wars

#scarlet.txt #gundam 00

[qan-t]

warning gundam 00 spoiler

hi! i really enjoy your posts. can i ask about innovators (pure or innovade) eyes when they change color to yellow, is there explanation about what kind of abilities they can do when that eyes activated? i know about when setsuna used it to activate quantum burst or when innovades interact with veda with it, but is there more lore about the eyes? or if you have opinions about it i wanna read it too. thanks in advance!

glad you like the blog, anon <3 it's funny you ask this, because i was just thinking about innovator eyes for writing reasons. this is very rambly and i apologize in advance. the first interesting thing i can think of harkens back to some older lore that should still be somewhere over on the gundam 00 lj community under the translations tag. the gist of it that i remember is that it served as an explanation for why tieria wears glasses despite not needing vision correction. apparently it's to protect his eyes, on account of something to the effect of his eyes being necessary for the connection with veda to be made. maybe they're the specific component that allows this interface to happen? it seems a little like a handwave to explain what was probably just an aesthetic choice on yun kouga's part, but it's an interesting tidbit nonetheless. notably, the super soldier characters' eyes don't glow despite being capable of using qbw. innovades and innovators have stronger qbw (a stronger capacity for them, maybe you'd put it?), so there being something special about their eyes that helps facilitate their use at higher levels actually makes a lot of sense. this has some pretty horrifying implications for tieria if you imagine a scenario where neil wasn't able to protect him from patrick. what if neil hadn't been the one to lose an eye that day...? what characters can actually do with qbw varies a lot between the super soldiers, the innovades, and setsuna. i think we can assume that qbw are always present to some degree -- alle and soma had serious problems just being in the vicinity of one another, and the els are attracted to anyone with the capacity for them -- but they can further still be 'activated'. we most often see glowing eyes when characters are intentionally accessing them -- consider when tieria activates them to get the els to follow after him instead of setsuna -- but intention isn't a prerequisite. regene and louise' eyes glow when their qbw are being accessed. ultimately i think it signifies qbw being used at a higher level on a whole. i get the impression too that ribbons had stronger qbw than the rest of his group if he was able to get into regene's head despite not being of the same genetic type. regene can presumably only speak telepathically with tieria, along with revive -> anew, etc. (worth noting, and i just checked this, but regene's eyes don't glow when he's speaking telepathically to tieria for the first time they meet. maybe this doesn't require high levels of qbw usage?) setsuna is an interesting case as the primary innovator we see. innovades as a whole seem to have a lot more control over the usage of their qbw than setsuna does. the one exception here would be anew, but only before she awakened to her true nature. setsuna has the strongest qbw potentional, but probably because he became an innovator so recently, his particular usage of them seems to vacillate between intentional and unintentional. quantum burst was intentional, but trans-am burst comes across to me like something that happened unconsciously out of setsuna's desire to protect everyone. consider also the scene where the lights on ptolemy go out and saji sees that setsuna's eyes are glowing. i didn't get the impression that setsuna even realized it. innovades were built to use them, but setsuna just kind of ended up with these abilities. that both innovades and innovators possess glowing eyes could be seen as another spot-on prediction from aeolia, too. imagine he anticipated how a true innovator might appear, and designed the innovade eye functionality in that image. from a meta perspective, glowing eyes are a great visual shorthand for QBW Stuff Is Happening, and thematically it conveys something too (although i might be reaching here). eyes are considered the windows to the soul, and i think you could argue that was taken into consideration here, where glowing eyes to ultimately represent the transference of information. communication.

#ask #gundam 00 #meta #tumblr does not want to let me edit the fucked up italics i give up

[buppypuppy]

Weeks ago, I was watching Gundam 00 with Lockon and Cam and I heard the name "Revive Revival." I had to pause the show, and I laughed for a solid three and a half minutes. Just now, I heard the name "Anew Returner" and had to pause and laugh for like, A Solid Ten Minutes. One shudders to imagine what other names will make me feel.

#God Damn The Sun

[tumblezwei]

Any other Gundam shows you might be interested in watching? I like to imagine Ruby would use a mashup of Gundam Deathscythe from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Gundam Dynames from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 if she were in a Build series.

Iron-blooded Orphans seemed interesting to me, so did Wing

Honestly I feel like I'll end up hopping around until something sticks lmao

#ask #alksblog

[tieria-erde]

oooh tell me about "only the young die good" because that title Hurts Me

i am SO happy you asked about this one bc lemme tell you dude, this au is my baby HKJDFHG even though i haven't actually worked that much on it in comparison to my other 00 projects... i think this au is a year or two old by now, but it's sort of gotten sidelined by other things (like xenogundam), so i haven't written a lot for it yet. here's a snippet from the prologue!

"—leaving." "And why is that? Don't you want to say hello to our guest?" "..." "You look so serious! Suit yourself, then. I'll talk to him." "...Regene." "Yes?" "When I come back, you'd better be able to convince me that this was a good idea." "...I'll see you later, Ribbons." A quiet scoff. Footsteps. The sound of a heavy door creaking and slamming shut. And then— And then... And then, Tieria Erde's eyes snap wide open.

the classic "lockon lives" au, but with a twist! because instead of lockon stratos, tieria erde is the one who goes to confront ali al-saachez during operation fallen angels, and instead of lockon stratos, tieria erde is the one who dies. nadleeh is destroyed, and its pilot along with it; only the gn drive can be recovered from the scene. setsuna missing, allelujah missing, tieria dead—lockon is the sole survivor of the gundam meisters. except, unbeknownst to the remaining members of celestial being, there are systems in place to resurrect a fallen innovade, and regene regetta doesn't seem satisfied to let his sibling die just like that.

so, this au doubles not just as a lockon lives au but also as an innovator!tieria au; regene spends the 4 years between seasons 1 and 2 convincing tieria to join ribbons's side, while neil spends those years stewing in his survivor's guilt and mourning the friends he's lost. i may not have a lot written for this au but i have PLENTY of thoughts, bc the concept is just chock full of so many fun implications and ideas. like, how would neil handle being the only gundam meister left? in canon, tieria is able to assume a more leaderlike position in those in-between years, but neil is so bitter and downtrodden that i don't even know if he would be able to bring himself to believe that setsuna and alle are still alive. as much as he tries to act like he's an optimist we all know that's not the case lmao. also imagining lyle as seravee/seraphim's pilot? very fun. give that man a big gun, i think he'd like that! also, tieria would get to interact with louise and neil would get to interact with saji, which is... ohhhh you have no idea how many thoughts i have on that. the parallels between louise and neil are palpable and you bet i'm gonna explore those as much as i can. there's lots more i could go into (ie: anew my beloved) but this post is long enough and i don't want to give away too much so i'll keep quiet for now :3

i think the fact that i have so many thoughts about this au is actually a big reason why i've barely written anything for it HKGDFJGK like, there's so much to explore that i have a hard time sitting down and sorting out details like "what actually happens in the fic" and "the order in which those events happen". but i really want to make this au into a proper fic some day! i swear to god i'm gonna do it!!

as for the au's title, it comes from a song of the same name by saintseneca! it hurts me immensely too, so i'm glad i could inflict the same pain upon you <3

#ngl i've been dying to talk about this au for ages so thanks for asking about it hkjdfghkdsg #you can tell these thoughts have been festering for over a year because this post is a mile long #tag game #ask game answers #ask #laora-ryn #00 spoilers /