#my ass will never get through a Gundam unless someone watches it with me but fuck if I know where to start

[no1ryomafan]

Ranting in my server how much it saddens me mechas impact on Japan is unknown in the states even now because most people don’t know of the old shows that brought up the genre especially when the take of “Evangelion is a deconstruction of mecha” is still a take I’ve unironically heard in this year-from one of my fucking irls no less-because I learn more and more how crucial this genre was to Japan-

but than I turn around and ago “yeah I watched maybe 4 mechas and don’t have the desire to really watch more even if there’s some I should probably get too” and I wonder if this makes me come off as a worse “umh actuahlly” person or this is showing how awful my commitment skills to anything as of late have been given there’s NON mecha anime I still need to watch.

#meg text #mecha rambles #this one was a lot shorter but the tags won’t be #I really don’t mind the idea of people fighting in big robots but I think I realized I like the robots being sentient #getter does it in such a compelling way no other mecha has hit for me even if the animes gloss over it #jeeg has its fucking pilot become the mech but that was only one mc and it never gets shit #and I have dabble into transformers but haven’t gone back to it bc I was hit with episodic formula #also I’m not kidding when I say it’s a struggle for me to watch anything even when it’s reasonably short #I started Android kikadier which is 13 eps + a 4 ep follow up ova and still HAVENT GONE BACK TO IT #my ass will never get through a Gundam unless someone watches it with me but fuck if I know where to start #(this is also not a mecha suggestion post I literally never get back to do anything unless I’m fixated) #starting to think I’m more hyperfixated on history and influence but than I come to actually watching a show and I go “yeah no”

[anmousewrites]

Gundam Wing Rewatch Part 2

So unlike last time where I watched half the series and then tried to remember everything, this time I took notes the whole way through. That means some of this has a ‘live-blog’ feel to it, and I’ll sum up my feelings at the end.

1) What is up with Duo hitting the self destruct and not... self destructing. 2) See, now you’re back to being Zechs. I guess he defaults to Zechs when he isn’t sure of himself, because it is a facade that is comforting to him (added later: yeah, he definitely uses that side of him as a crutch) 3) Praise the Lord for Releena Peacecraft and Lucretzia Noin Re: creating defenses for the sanc kingdom. Actually praise the lord for them anyways. 4) Heero oscillates between being very communicative and exceptionally taciturn.  I don’t think he does it at will. The lying, however, I think he’s completely aware of although he might not know how to stop it. Get this boy a therapist please. 5) Quatre makes an interesting distinction between people meant to fight and people meant to lead 6) Treize stop being charming. Just stop. 6b) You too, Zechs

So Epyon showed Treize he was gonna die, which explains why he wasn’t really worried about Heero shooting him. I guess if Epyon shows the same thing to Heero, Treize will feel a little better about having to cut out of the party early. Kind of sad to think about though. Also, wise when giving a suit to Heero Yuy to take the self det offline. Very wise.

That answers a question I have had since childhood. Why does Epyon not have any ranged weapons? Because it was designed to fight mobile dolls, who have shields that render anything but the beam canon useless. Maaaakes sense. WHO THOUGHT THE ZERO SYSTEM WAS A GOOD IDEA? Like just... Everyone who touches it goes crazy. Yes, Heero, Quatre and Zechs all manage to make it work, but GATDANG that stuff is no bueno.

Amnesiac Trowa breaks my fucking heart. I don’t blame Catherine for having him call her sister, because she basically is, so it does make things a little easier to explain. Every time he shows up I similarly feel wildly protective so good job. Also A+ for a female character who likes to show up without wearing much and is never treated less by the narrative for it.

Hilde never really gets to the same level of greatness as the other female characters, but that’s kind of fair. The cast of GW is huge. She’s not bad, she’s just a little bland.

Also, weirdly, playing against type, Heero’s ongoing deep philosophical understanding of human nature and politics and Quatre’s ability to seamlessly slide through a battlefield leaving blood in his wake. There’s a lot less stereotyping going on than I remember. LOL @ Romefeller constantly trying to play catch-up to Treize’s charisma The fight against the invasion force at the Sanc Kingdom actually has me emotionally invested? Also Epyon is a Problem Child (TM). MAGUANAC COOOOOOORPS. Kay I love them idgaf they’re just SO GOOD. The Sanc Kingdom takeover must have been one of the most costly things they’ve attempted? Like the amount of troops they go through is bonkers.

Dorothy, you’re a wad. “You should definitely take up arms to defend your ideals of pacifism.” Releena ain’t falling for that. She’d rather dissolve her country and save the lives than betray her morality.

EPISODE 36 MARKS THE FIRST TIME RHYTHM EMOTION IS PLAYED IIRC AND IT’S GREAT. Ngl they play it a few times when things get real and it still hypes me up.

Heero and Zechs are two people who spend way more time fighting each other than they should. Why, guys.

“They should leave the fighting to me. I’m the only one who should have to suffer.” DUO JEEZ. “As they say, evil attracts evil.” Fucking get this boy to a therapist.

Lol @ Sandrock’s first fight in space where everyone else is really worried about the gundam but it is actually the least well equipped for space atm so really they should be worrying about the other guys

Man, I like Treize, okay? Like I think his idea is dumb (he’s not the only one with it though sideeyes Code Geass but like... He trades Releena spots for a bunch of reasons. One, she was going to be successful and that’s an issue. But also because he knows that if things go well, somebody’s going to have to die, and when he is talking to a comatose Une at her bedside (btw UNE’S BACK, kinda) it’s just... it’s sad. YAAAAY Everyone is finally in the same spot for once. I guess that’s how you know we’re getting near the end. Functional Amnesiac Trowa is a lot easier to watch, and Duo and Heero reuniting is a great time.  It reminds you how likeable they all are.

Amnesia cure via Zero System WELL THAT WORKS Also p surprised that Releena didn’t vidcall Milliardo with ‘what the fuck are you doing’

The politics/philosophy in GW really varies in quality. Sometimes they have some Important Shit to say, and other times it’s like... what does that even MEAN THOUGH. After a completely nonsensical conversation with Releena where half of what was said was pretty dumb (except her call-out. Burn.) they then manage to salvage it with something profound. Milliardo asks Quinze if he thinks that he’s weak for what he just saw with his sister. Quinze replies that no, in Milliardo wasn’t capable of trying to protect people, he wouldn’t be leader. That’s a very fair point I think.

Quatre begging not to go under the Zero system again sounds like he’s asking someone not to torture him... which it basically is. But him basically deciding to risk his sanity to help the team is very Quatre of him, and it also gives us Team Leader Quatre which is a bit of a subversion of his character archetype and I love it.

What are the rules to Space Empathy TM? No one know.

Okay sometimes this show really nails the badass elements. “There are no survivors.” Is an example. I laughed, but wow

Heero insinuating that Milliardo and Treize’s war is based on personal things (which is true, in a roundabout way) is kind of hilarious. His conversation with Releena is cute, too. His unfailing motivation in turn motivates her, and she’s shown time and time again how hilariously good she is at influencing people. They have very different roles, but they’re complimentary.

Hilde... redeems herself a little. It was nice to see her go out and DO a thing. Also, gimme my Une. Why she still asleep. Her boyfriend is gonna die in space. Where is my Une.

Screaming a little. I don’t remember how the series ends or how Treize dies. This is gonna be rough.

There’s Une. Suddenly, and like a boss. Hello. And then... does Une know? Like does she KNOW? It sounds like she does. It LOOKS like she does.

Okay so... the Dorothy and Quatre fight. He’s got her beat, talent-wise, and is absolutely not buying into the bullshit she’s spouting. Duo calling the scientists ‘the gods of plague’ is VERY fitting and I love his overdramatic ass so much. Dorothy is a cheap jerk... and she somehow discovered Treize’s plan. I reluctantly give her credit. She’s an interesting character but I really don’t like her much.

And Quatre, after being STABBED, still joins back in the fight.

I’m not sure why Zechs is till fighting in the end unless it’s to chase death. I mean, that’s probably it, and Heero isn’t buying it. Also Treize’s death was a lot harder to watch than I remember. Zechs is definitely trying to die in space, but we’ve all seen Endless Waltz. It doesn’t stick.

Heero shouting that he will survive, after how much he degrades himself and says he isn’t worth anything, is a great end. And the mirror with the birthday card vs her party invitation is also pretty great. It doesn’t tell us a lot about what happens to everyone else, but I guess that’s what Endless Waltz is for.

Okay so, end summary...

Gundam Wing is some good shit. I don’t know if it would hold up without the nostalgia factor and I have no way to tell, but I enjoyed myself. It has a few faults. It’s 22 years old and showing it’s age, it has some overused tropes in it, stuff like that. But the characters are just as interesting as I remember, the plot is better than I gave it credit for, and the music is fuckin’ on point. I genuinely had a great time re-watching it, and am proud to list it as one of the few shows I’ve seen cover to cover. They set up and examine character archetypes, they discuss some very interesting things about what peace means, and what people are worth, and they show us a very interesting, textured world full of very interesting people.

I’m gonna watch Endless Waltz again tomorrow and I’ll probably do a write up for that too.

10/10, do not regret my life as a fan

#gundam wing #analysis #I love it I am not sorry

[seitoushin]

W.I.P. Wednesday

This is the start of the next part of my ABO!Gundam Wing verse. 

Heero enjoying a slow start to his morning.

Wakefulness came to Heero in chunks. First the was the shock of conscious, though that period between groggy, fuzzy sleep and wide awake was getting longer and longer with each peaceful year. Reflexes honed through training and wartime necessity, were slow to leave,  and some never would, but the knowledge that he was safe, that the world wasn’t tearing itself apart for seemingly no reason, and that it wasn’t his job alone to fix it, made him slow to leave that cocoon of well rested sleep.

 Once he was awake though it was a simple matter of assessing his body and his surroundings. All was normal physically, though he was still getting used to slick sensation between his cheeks that accompanied his morning wood now.  He could feel solid, but flexible weight against his sides and legs. The bed behind his head radiating warmth.  So He wasn’t alone. A deep breath confirmed it. He could smell his mates in the room, almost overwhelming  him, their combined scent forming a musky earth cloud in the room.

Slowly blinking his eyes own he stared up at a familiar pale ceiling. He flicked his eyes down slightly to see the edge of a pale violet wall in the dim light from the west facing window. So in Duo’s room then. Letting his gaze wander further down he could see the indigo bleed into pale blue violet and hazy pink. So it was still early yet.

Tipping his head to left brought a mop of blonde hair tucked against his side into view. Moving his head pulled a disgruntled sound from the dark head tucked under his chin. A whipcord strong arms pull them closer together, jostling his legs and eliciting a pained groan from the body draped over his legs. All that was missing was-

He felt long fingers card through his bands and rub his scalp and he let out a groan of his own. He grunted softly when those same deft fingers slide to the back of his head and nudged it forward. He reluctantly lift his his head so that the body under it could slide free before settling back into the warm left by Trowa’s retreating body.

He watched the half-naked acrobat slip from the head of the bed, mindful of their still sleeping bed fellows. Dark blue eyes took in powerful muscles twitched as his tall lover stretched, pale olive skin stretched over his rolling shoulders. A low rumble of appreciation threatening to come up from his throat, cock twitching in interested along with another part of his anatomy, which pulled a slight frowned to the Japanese man’s lips.

Arousal wasn’t an unfamiliar sensation to Heero after four years. In that first rutt he’s been nervous and stiff, not sure what to do or where to place his hands. But he was a quick study, learning what did and didn’t get partners and himself off. With such willing and patience teachers, he swiftly learn the spots on his partners that could make them shiver and moan, while also learning to let go and allow them to do the same for him. So getting a hard on for his lovers wasn’t going to send him running for the hills, but the feel of sticky, dampness that started to pool beneath him when he was excited was unsettling. Not for the first time he wondered why couldn’t have just stayed a beta.

A low chuckle brought Heero’s attention back to Trowa. His arms were folded over his chest and his eyes crinkled with silent amusement. It was the kind of ridiculously smug look that made Duo stick his tongue out at him or Wufei threaten to punch him. He was sorely tempted to do the same. Instead he glared at him, the effect greatly diminished by Wufei sleepily kissing at neck. Damn if it wasn’t hard to be made and horny at the same time.

This just made the uni-banged man laugh more, his shoulders visibly shaking. Heero poked his tongue out at him.

“Don’t stick that out unless you intend to use it.”

“I will. Just not on you.” He was met with a disbelieving snort before the other stretched again and padded quietly from the room, leaving Heero to try and extract himself from the pile unassisted. ...Asshole.

Heero wiggle slightly to full assess his position. One set of arm was wrapped securely around his torso, he could tell by the way they tightened when a breathed that they were Wufei’s. Quatre’s arms were somewhere coiled loosely around his hips. The blonde’s head was pillowed on Heero’s chest, lazily nuzzling his skin in sleep. Duo was curled over Heero’s knees and calves, his head burrowed into Wufei’s hip. His own arm with useless, one curled beneath Quatre and the other trapped between his side and Wufei. In other words, there was no getting out of this without waking everyone up. This was why he didn’t sleep in the middle.

His moving hadn’t gone unnoticed either. He couldn’t stop the full body shiver the came over him when Quatre pressed his own half hard length against Heero’s thigh and ass cheek. Any attempt to get away from Quatre’s lazily rolling hips pressed him right against Wufei’s crotch, which was partly rubbed his own groin. His lazy chub was started to get fully erect, meaning more of that same slipper liquid was coming from his ass. At some point his movement must have disturbed Duo, because Deathscythe’s former pilot rolled onto his stomach and brought his arm down over Heero’s stomach, effectively pinning him in place.

The tiniest meow from the door offered him salvation from his sensual fate. He craned his neck as the bed shifted again. Noir, their 20 pound snowshoe cat stood expectantly on the corner of the bed, chirping at Heero the way she did every morning after she’d been gifted to him.

It was a long established rule between them that there was to be no sex if any of the cats were in the room. No so much because they were put off be by being watched (far from it most of the time), but one ill fated attack by Dagger on Trowa and Duo while they were fooling around had been enough for all of them to make sure door were firmly closed when clothing came off.

Heero made a soft clicking noise to call the cat up the bed, hoping her heavy paws would step on someone, thus making them move before Heero had to. She stepped around Wufei and over Duo’s back to flop down on only stop on Heero’s frame not covered by his lovers’ limbs at all. He looked down to glare at the traitor and received a kitten to the nose and a hearty purr for his trouble. No help whatsoever.

To add insult to injury, where Noir was, Cloak and Dagger were rarely far behind. Sure enough he could feel the little monsters clamber onto the bed. He wasn’t surprised when the large green eyes leaned into his field of vision and followed by a curious tawny colored paw, claws thankfully sheathed.

He let his head fall back into the bed and his eyes close in surrender. There was no winning this morning. He wondered what Dr. J and Dekim Barton would think if they could see what had become of their perfect soldier, an omega, mated to four men and pinned under three he could still easily lift but wouldn’t because he didn’t want to disturb them. Not that he particularly cared. Both men were dead and gone, and thus not not his problem anymore. It was more morbid curiosity at this point.

The soft click of a camera shutter stopped him from venturing towards that mental pitfall. His he head snapped up fast enough to jostle both Wufei and Quatre as leveled a glare at Trowa, who was now fully dressed, the lens of his camera phone pointed at the bed and a big smirk on his lips. (Well big by Trowa’s standards, which merely meant it was visible to the outside world.)

“I will kill you.”

“Love you too.” He glared at the silver otter box in lover’s lands. “And no hacking my phone.” He almost hated that they knew him that well.

“No death threats before caffeine.” Wufei, now more awake than he had been, mumble and pressed a kiss to Heero’s neck again. One dark eye opened a take in the European. “You leaving already.”

“In a few. You know how spaceports are.” It wasn’t a surprise. It was routine for Trowa to spend the bulk of his summer helping Catherine at the circus, only breaking during the busy season for his rutt before going right back to the ring.

Trowa made his way around the bed,kneeling over them. He bent in half and caught Wufei’s lips in a lazy kiss. A languid press of lips and tongue that drew a pleased moan from the drowsy Asian. Once satisfied he leaned further over the bed, hand braced above Heero’s head and on Wufei’s shoulder, and peppered kisses over Quatre face, moving down until he captured his lips. He nipped and lick at softly lips until the petit Alpha return the gesture, aquamarine eye fuzzy with sleep and pleasure.

Trowa sat back slightly and looked down at Heero with one thin brow raised confidently. Heero met his forest gaze with a petulant stare. It only last a few seconds before Trowa lean down and kisses him too. And despite himself he did him a little tongue.

“You’ll be okay while I’m gone?” It was not a question Heero expected to hear from the usually relaxed Alpha. But it was clearly a question.

“Why wouldn’t we be?” He didn’t get an answer, just a soft hum before green eyes flicked to Wufei and Quatre. Before Heero could but further voice to his confusion, Trowa press a kiss to his forehead and almost leapt off the bed.

“You know how to reach me if you need me.” Again Heero wasn’t sure what Trowa was getting at. He couldn’t help but think that there was something that Heero wasn’t accounting for.

Trowa paused to take in Duo’s sprawled body, still sound asleep, and now drooling on Wufei’s briefs. Heero could see the mischief in those green eyes, and judging by the giggles and snickers beside him so had the other two.

Trowa presses a light kiss to Duo’s bare should, one hand running down the braided pilot’s back tenderly. He savored the soft sighs as he slid his hand under the waistband of Duo’s short to push them down over the curve of his ass. With a quick glance up the bed as his companions and a sly smirk on his lip he struck, hard and fast across those pale cheeks five times.

The resulting yelp and tumble off the bed were worth the glare of betrayal Duo shot at them the floor, Trowa’s long legs having carried him out of the before Duo even sat up.

#Gundam Wing #ABO #OT5 #Heero Yuy #Duo Maxwell #Trowa Barton #Quatre Winner #Chang Wufei #slash #yaoi #un-betad #W.I.P. #Omega!Heero #Mostly Heero's POV