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Tag yourself, I'm Col. Xqcs Xqcs

more of amazon's shit ass subtitles for wing <3

#gundam wing #can i get some of that crack you're on

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Incomplete notes:

-The DG plot thread in general is really interesting - I love the mystery angle, and the Schwarz thing is deliciously messed up, as I might expect from you and trust to be good

-The Drama of the Three Schwarzes promises to be intriguing

-Team Everest has some potentially fascinating character interactions waiting to be had! Argo and Sai have a little bit of an existing dynamic that's super interesting, but George doesn't have much onscreen with either of them (though we do know he respects Argo's expertise). Their half of the plot is great, obviously, but also, hell yeah inter-Shuffle interactions.

-On that now, oh, I'm sure Team Castle would be some shenanigans, and I'm not just talking out of my own bias. (Yay for Rain making herself useful in town - let's see some of that medical knowledge!)

Edit: Also I love Marie-Louise. You're right, she involves *herself* in plot and it's great.

Completely self indulgent post but here's one of the post-canon scenarios I have in my head for G Gundam.

Maybe skip this post if you don't like dark themes. Not all of what I've outlined is dark (most of it isn't), but I do cross the line past what appears in the show in regards to DG cells and abduction.

The shuffles all get roped into restoration projects on Earth between the 13th and 14th gundam fights, partially to have something to do alongside their training, partially out of inspiration by the common points of the Kasshus' and Master Asia's goals, and partially because netting their countries some decent publicity is likely to earn them favors during the Gundam Fight's off-years.

Sai is contacted by Kyral about an effort to clear out the infamous buildup of trash and cadavers on Everest; he wants Sai to leverage Neo China's help as something of a reparation kind of deal and Sai goes sure why not.

Sai recruits Argo because Bolt Gundam is built to withstand the cold, and he thinks Argo and Nastasha could help reverse engineer that quality to enable the use of their Gundams as both heavy work equipment and protection from the harsh environmental conditions that normally prevent this kind of operation.

George gets involved because someone he knows has a distant relative who died on the mountain a century ago, and they wanted him to check in with the forensics team on the project. This detail is important because eventually it becomes clear that there is a mystery to solve (that I myself haven't figured out all the details of yet but broadly know the setup and conclusion); DG-infected people are disappearing and not being investigated due to stigma. Our heroes are naturally going to be pissed about this, and will need an "in" with the field if they want to do anything about it.

First massively self-indulgent element: The forensics/body identification team inexplicably includes the real-world author Kathy Reichs, who somehow exists in this universe, and there's a little side bit about her having written a Bones book right before the 12th fight that featured a cooked cadaver found inside a gundam after entry into the Earth's atmosphere. There are a lot of weird coincidences in the book that parallel the DG incident, which creeps everyone out, but the similarities are merely born of the writer threading the needle of being believable and interesting in a way that became very true to life.

What does become relevant is when the Shuffles eventually meet up, she's able to explain the implications of a bunch of weird shit the fighters discovered (also Marie Louise read her book, and one of the in-universe liberties Reichs took writing about the gundams' black boxes that she explains in the afterword leads to ML realizing something important; that Neo Germany does not have its gundam's remains.)

While the Everest project is happening, Domon, Chibodee, and Allenby all want to continue their training somewhere on Earth, and receive a proposal from (an OC of mine who is) a historic preservationist (and an acquaintance of Allenby's): she has acquired the grounds of an abandoned castle in Europe* after submitting a plan to restore it, and needs to hire people to help with the labor.

*the castle is probably somewhere in Germany because I also want this pitch to have drama over Schwarz (pre-13th fight), Schwarz (Kyoji), and Schwarz (the next guy who was supposed to inherit the mask when the older ninja retired). Also Germany is fucking pretty.

In exchange for the help of the three gundam fighters, they and Rain get paid, plus room and board anywhere on the grounds, plus full access to the grounds and miles of sparsely-inhabited countryside for training purposes, and the privacy and ability to practice with their gundams that comes with being in the middle of fucking nowhere. Rain sets herself up to work a clinic in the next town over as well as practicing pro re nata wilderness medicine (I'm convinced every medic supporting the gundam fight would need to be able to do this.)

The group involved in the Castle project sticks around for a time, makes some good progress, and engage in occasional Shenanigans that come up when you put a bunch of weirdos in a Situation.

They aren't in town a lot save for Rain, but when they are they eventually start to pick up on gossip and news about the Mysterious Disappearances correlated with DG cell infection (as well as details that turn out to be important later). Eventually Rain brings this to Domon and Chibodees' attention and they decide that, yeah, this is tied to the DG, this is their problem, they should convene with the rest of the Shuffle Alliance about it.

Also of course Schwarz is involved because I'm the one writing this; the culprits' DG-tissue harvesting operation relies on having him captured and helpless, using cells from his body to "update" other victims' DG infections to a less aggressive strain. One thing I haven't decided is whether I want a reinstantiated Wong to head this shit, or make up my own morally bankrupt opportunistic asshole looking to twist the DG to their own benefits. I also need to decide where on the planet the center of all this insanity is, and it needs to be a place that isn't going to have any unfortunate implications (because that's a genuine risk with dark story elements)

... That's about as much as I have that is thought-out enough for me to explain. I return to thinking about this scenario a lot because it puts most of the characters way out of their element (and has a bunch of details that appeal to me specifically), and it kind of evolved into an incomplete plot outline that I don't currently have any plans to flesh out.

I think it's an interesting enough direction to go, because it follows through with a lot of the themes present in G, but takes advantage of the genre shift to avoid DBZ-crazy power scaling and adjusts the conflict more to a matter of where the main characters' prowess is most effective (Both in and out of the gundams. I'm assuming there are a ton of guys similar to Michelo's gang that just need fighting interspersed with everything else I described. In fact, kicking Some Group of Douchebags out of their protection racket is probably how team Castle even gets ahold of evidence related to missing persons.)

#G gundam #comments and replies

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Also loving the inclusion of the gals!

-Bunny enables Chibodee's impulse control problem

-Janet goes with the crowd

-Cath is responsible but can be swayed

-Shirley is stubborn and a bit of a contrarian

Thoughts? 😂

I had way too much fun thinking about this...

*edited to add: I must say that, of course, Sai Saici's only reason for being put so high up is that he's offended anyone would choose McDonalds over his own food. And not because he has more than one or two bones of responsibility and self-restraint in his body xD

#G Gundam #memes #can i get some of that crack you're on

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Some of my favorite screencaps of Kyoji Kasshu from G Gundam, with emphasis on cybernetics and whump.

#G Gundam

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https://darkcloudxero.com/2024/04/22/domon-g-gundam-30th-anniversary/

Was just reminded by my brother later in the day that today was G Gundam's 30th anniversary. That being one of the first Gundam series that I saw as a kid. On top of taking a lot of influences from Hong Kong movies, of course it is still one of my favorite series. With little time I had to come up with something quick to paint to celebrate the occasion. Thank you for all these incredible years.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

#G Gundam #quality art #hello i love this color palette

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idk how many ppl will see this but u can give me a face n some sk8 bois if u want to!

#stealing this #askbox meme #go go go

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Hello Gundam fandom, I am nearly done with the UC timeline and I'm debating which timeline to watch next. So, I'm doing a little poll to see what's popular and what people like :3

#polls #g gundam #gundam wing

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#fandom #mood

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Let them have a nice chat together and chill

Bonus:

#G Gundam #quality art #get dunked on sai

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Three comic strips I did some time ago poking fun at my inability to draw Domon (mostly his hair).

#self reblog #i still struggle with him tbh

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An almost-too-fond farewell. Once upon a time, a friend prompted me with a pose that I thought looked like "a goodbye hug that accidentally got very intense all of a sudden". That one single pose inspired a whole page comic featuring Chibodee's big stupid crush on Domon. Tumblr probably cropped the panels weird :/ This is old, but I was vaguely surprised I hadn't posted it here before

#self reblog #it's old but i still like it #comics are hard!

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If you think a busted nose and two black eyes is gonna get Chibodee Crockett to give up the fight, you've got the wrong guy.

#self reblog #I'm proud of this one okay

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#polls #writing

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#my art #alcohol marker #cats the musical #cats oc #oc: aida #George cats #admetus cats

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Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

#fandom #mood

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Thank you! I will never stop being flattered at little comments like this. The context for why they're put on the spot is this ancient thing because why wouldn't I break the fourth wall? I just decided to redraw it to see how much I've changed in ten years.

Giving this its own post - some things improve over ten years, but other things never change.

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@roadsidebrambles I've been saying this since middle school!

@youreaclownnow I'm not much of an active yumejoshi but Pegasus is my fuckin husband (when I'm not shipping him with other dudes). Let me know how that rewatch goes!

I am sending to you the letter "O" for the Fandom askbox meme. For G or yugioh?

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

Red Red Wine, which is of course about Pegasus drinking to dull the pain of losing Cynthia, and honestly I've been gunning for someone to AMV this since the beginning of YouTube at least

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