? Mobile Suit Gundam Æon
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? Mobile Suit Gundam Æon
? Mobile Suit Gundam Æon
Onigashima
hell yes
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In year 2705 of the Survival Age, Earth is a shattered ruin
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Armies in half functional ancient mobile suits march back and forth following wars that they have forgotten the purpose of
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Warlords rule whatever stretches of land they can claim with their armies
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How far you can go is dependent on your strength and ruthlessness
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And into this world, 13 shining, flawless, invincible mobile suits descended from on high
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Called Gundams, these machines sought out their own pilots
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And allowed themselves to be used for whatever purposes they saw fit
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but the Gundams have wills of their own
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And some ulterior motive that is beyond human understanding
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A pilot can fuse their minds with the ancient computer cores that lurk in these godlike machines, gaining superhuman reflexes and tactical ability at the cost of gradually forgetting what it means to be human
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the appearance of the Gundams reignited a dozen wars across the world as everyone fought to control these superweapons
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but
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The Gundams are not actually invulnerable
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They can be damaged
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Destroyed, even
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in a great battle, at great cost, one gundam was destroyed
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It's computer core crushed, it's internal systems melted
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All that remained was the outer armor
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A few weeks later, however
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The gundam was seen back in action
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The gundams have powerful, unknown abilities
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Some people whispered that they could even come back from the dead
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And were truly immortal
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That's not what's going on
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What's going on is
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Some guy found the ruins of the Gundam and stole it
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Emptied out all the broken, incomprehensible internal systems
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And replaced them with good old fashion Earthling engineering
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This mobile suit LOOKS like a gundam
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And thanks to an oversized fusion reactor that can be overclocked, it can even match a gundam in strength
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for like 90 seconds
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But it's not a gundam
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It's a sham
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being run by a man who saw his whole life upended by the Gundams
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And is trying to figure out how to get revenge
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it's got some real sturdy armor, patched up with extremely non-invincible armor
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On the gundam pilots? On the gundams themselves?
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GOOD FUCKING QUESTION
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Dude is just
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constantly panicking
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because he knows that in a REAL fight against another Gundam he's toast
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but in just the right situation
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So he has to lie and bluff and cheat and stack the deck for every fight to have a CHANCE
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there's no reason a fake can't beat the real thing
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Fair fights are for suckers
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Trick the Gundams into minefields
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Collapse cliff faces on them
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Convince their pilots to step out and then assassinate them on foot
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Bring your own army of backup
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Use absurd weapons that will fall apart after one use because no human engineering can possibly survive that much energy flowing through it
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There Are No Rules
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sometimes, after a few fights, a Gundam pilot starts to believe that they are invincible
Doge-lover Joja
Bernard Wiseman school of MS combat
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and they start to fall for tricks more easily
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because who cares. you can Gundam your way back out of anything
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right??
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After a while he starts catching himself talking to his fake gundam
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It's made of entirely mundane hardware except for the armor
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but it still FEELS like it has it's own will
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While they don't have a real gundam
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I think what they do have is like
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backing
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He's not an independent operator he's got a whole organization
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That are all in on this plan to fake having a Gundam
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In an insane attempt to take down the Gundams
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God they're like
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fucking' NERV
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But instead of fighting Angels they're fighting Gundams
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Bringing insane amounts of conventional firepower to bear against godlike machines with unknown abilities
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Every fight is a desperate last ditch one in a million plan
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Okay so let's dig into this
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What is this organization
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Who is this guy
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Why are they doing this
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Where are they getting all these supplies
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seems like probably they're from one of the more comparitively civilized corners of the world
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in contrast to the Roving Mobile Suit Gangs parts
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that makes sense
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They're from somewhere that, in the old world, wasn't terribly important
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And thus when everything went to shit they were largely untouched
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And were able to rebuild relatively quickly
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Possibly imply that the upper leadership of this organization has some kind of contact with space
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no I don't like that
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I don't think anyone is communicating with space yeah
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space is a mystery void
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They've been watching space
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They can't actually tell what's going on up there in any meaningful way
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but boy howdy something sure is
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But they knew something was up and thus were the first people to figure out what was up with the Gundams
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They start out as an antagonist faction
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No wait it's coming together
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This guy isn't a char clone, because we already have that
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but he is
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a Graham Aker clone
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Starts out in a mook suit and is kind of pushing himself beyond his limits trying to keep up with the gundams
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Possibly tries to kill Tessa a few times
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The guys at the top are like "We need to destroy the gundams. They're throwing the world into chaos and threatening our way of life"
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My guy is like "I need to kill the Gundams because I was struck by a semi-divine revelation after seeing one of them wipe out half a city with one beam cannon shot"
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"It casually wiped out my entire life leaving me with nothing."
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"This power was not meant for humans"
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Largely the same goal as his superiors but he's got a much more PERSONAL view on things
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His "Gundam" has an overclocked fusion reactor that can match the raw physical power of a true gundam, if not their more esoteric abilities
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For about 140 seconds
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After that the heat level gets so high that it starts cooking him alive in his cockpit
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So that's how long he has to win any fight
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Unlike Graham, he never successfully damages a gundam in his starting suit
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Rupert Church, pilot of “Gundam” Nodens
Shine Star Rock
There's an inherent pluckiness to this that still feels like such a massive underdog story, even if he's got organizational backing
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Like the armies of tanks shooting at Godzilla
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The most important first step of any anti-gundam operation is how do we limit its movements
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Nodens can’t fly so they have to keep the other gundam on the ground so that he can reach it but also so they don’t blow the scam
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We’re gonna weekend at Bernie’s this gundam for as long as we can
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So obviously, Church can’t destroy all the Gundams
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He’s not the protagonist and the gundams aren’t unambiguously evil
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But he does need some kind of closure
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Probably the gundam that blew up his city
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Doesn’t destroy all the gundams but DOES get an inigo montoya moment
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Gundams all have to be in some part about what pursuing revenge does to a person
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So thrn I need at least two other pilots
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I need this untouchable rival and I need the original pilot for Nodens
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I think Nodens was originally already a bulky power type
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Which helps this deception live
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Maybe Nodens’s first pilot was the one who lost themself in the Dive and went on a rampage
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they'd need to have somehow survived the experience if they're gonna go on to be Church's rival
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idea:
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we've talked about the idea of a Gundam's spirit surviving in the network
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but what if this guy was so deep in the Dive when he died
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that he also persists in the Gundam network
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as a mad ghost
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I pictured these as two separate characters
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oh I see
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But I’m having second thoughts about that
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Lemme contemplate ideas for a while
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...
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
what if it was an earlier clone that blew up Church’s home town
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He’s trying to get revenge on someone who died months ago
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I'm deeply into it
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And was also a victim
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Thematic. Tasty
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delicious
knight of death
do you think church could've been manipulated into participating in the big attack against goetia
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which would cause sol to have a huge vendetta against him for what he did in his own Gundam
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Oh god this got really big
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A lot of concepts have been added
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It so busy at work I cant concentrate on this properly
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I will make a fresh plurk later