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[G-Witch] still going nuts about this show btw
💙 ooh baby, a triple 💙
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Miorine standing on a box in the second one
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she absolutely would is the thing
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Something I'm thinking about a lot is the framing of Aerial in the blessing being covered by vines, moss, etc.
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Which makes you think the implication is that she's abandoned
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But it's actually the opposite
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The few shots we get to see of the base on Mercury make it obvious it's incredibly sterile and mechanical
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The only glimpses that Suletta ever got of extensive greenery like that were through the extensive records of anime, books, etc. that Aerial had uploaded
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So Suletta imagining Aerial to be covered in a bunch of plants isn't really a sign of ominous foreshadowing of abandonment
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It signifies that no matter what she wants to bring her little sister together so they can see how green Earth is personally
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I'm pretty sure Gundam 00 also used similar imagery in its EDs
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it's a cool aesthetic
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robots and plants
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it is ALSO hella cool yes
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“We dream of a peaceful future where weapons of war like gundams are no longer necessary”
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Which is an aesthetic that fits 00 a lot more than WfM, admittedly
oh i'm scary
I mean we'll see where WFM goes
oh i'm scary
it's probably not gonna be "war rules and we should do it more"
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i think making aerial a character in her own right was a brilliant move for the structure of the show honestly
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because they're in an academy, the pilots aren't in any mortal danger during a duel. it's explicitly not to the death.
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HOWEVER, slicing apart someone's mech is fair game
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in most gundam series your mech getting fucked up is something that can be fixed and that's probably true here, but also it means a character that we like a lot is getting hurt
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and also even with suletta's incredible synch potential with the GUND system, we know that damage to the mech at least manifests as intense pain for the pilots
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so whenever suletta and aerial end up dueling, they automatically have so much more at stake than their opponent
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it's really neat
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like if aerial got fucked up the way that she and suletta fucked up guel's dilanza, at the very least she'd be extremely hurt if not DEAD
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and i don't want the sweet robot getting injured : (
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I was gonna be like "it's an AI why would it feel pain" but
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the GUND system shit where it operates as a prosthetic limb that interfaces with a human mind
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like yeah it probably can feel pain
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yep
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it feeling pain would actually probably be an upside of the system before it got turned into mobile suit tech, since pain is how you tell that something is WRONG and that you need to fix it
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you would want a pain sense on a robot arm, to know if you're damaging it
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exactly
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FUCK something really obvious that I missed
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the Gundam who wants to communicate but has no voice and a pilot who desperately wants to see the outside world but all she has is cultural artifacts
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is named, aerial,
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I'm imagining a conversation that went something like this
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shalalalala kiss the girl
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"hey mom gunsis says she wants her name to be ariel :0"
"...can you say that again, Suletta?"
"like the princess in that movie we watched together. she kept blinking whenever her name came up and rewound that part where she got her voice back. i think she liked it : )"
"I- hm. Lfrith is too distinctive, so Aerial WOULD be a good codename for the model..."
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