a character with Sally’s design in any other canon: minor, probably a motherly figure who makes bread and tells people to rest and recover Sally Po: fights mobile suits with a machine gun and a knife
similarly, a character with Lady Une’s design in any other series would never kick a man out of a plane and shoot him in the head as he is already falling to his death
Do Good At War Things is not my sole or even main standard for a canon being good at women, even a canon about war, but I’m just constantly so pleased that like
like it is a little bit with Noin at some points but that hasn’t even mattered or come up in her arc at all in the past 15 episodes and you could argue it’s a thing with Lady Une but just, in general, GW is never incessantly like AND SHE’S LIKE THIS BECAUSE SHE’S A WOMAN! WOMANLY QUALITIES! THIS BEHAVIOR IS A SYMPTOM OF WOMANHOOD about literally anyone
Sally Po: fights mobile suits with a machine gun and a knife