#Gundam 00 spoilers

[neildylandy]

finally finished, and this one may be my best custom yet: introducing the HG Gundam Zabanya (Last Stand Ver.)!

this one's been a looooong time coming, and what a fun ride it was!! the top shelf of my first gunpla display case has, naturally, always been reserved for 00 kits (and sometimes their build fighters/divers variants—looking at you, cherudim saga and 00 diver arc), and with the current setup i have in there, i knew that i probably only had room for one more gundam, so that gundam damn well better be a good one.

and oh my god was this a good one. full breakdown under the cut.

the build itself, being a high grade from 2010, wasn't really anything special, but who cares about that, i got to try out WEATHERING for the first time! weathering fucking rules. you take your marker ink and the shittiest, stiffest paintbrush you own and you just absolutely go to town. how could i not love that. brilliant exercise, gorgeous final product, this will definitely not be the last time i do this to a kit.

the gold, silver, gunmetal, metallic red, bright metallic green, and some of the white was also handpainted, and the crystal over the forehead sensor was sharpie-dyed with navy blue. this kit comes with a ton of stickers for color accuracy (a common issue with HG 00 kits) but thanks to all this paintwork i ended up barely using any of them.

that snazzy gun comes as a donation from my spare parts box, since i wasn't really a fan of the two rifles that come with the base kit. i honestly have no idea what kit it's originally from (EDIT: i have now been informed that it was MG kyrios's submachine gun), but it was basically one solid hunk of grey plastic with a single green sticker on it before i jazzed it up with all the gunmetal and the weathering.

this kit also served as a trial run for my new DSPIAE gunmetal brush pen, and i'm very pleased with how it looks and how it felt to use! if other DSPIAE markers are as good as this one, consider me sold. prone to scratching, though, so definitely a marker better served for accent pieces or parts you're not expecting to handle very much.

the cloak was just some cheap amazon purchase, i think. smelled awful for whatever reason. works great, though, especially once i roughed it up a bit with scissors. there's a little wire in the collar that keeps it scrunched shut around the head.

the ELS crystallization was done with the same trick i used on my ELS Brave: cut up a couple (in this case, two) spare beam saber blades into a variety of pointy shapes, glue 'em on, paint 'em silver.

i think the lore i was going for with this custom design was that this was from a version of A Wakening of the Trailblazer where the fight(s) with the ELS went on for much longer, thus prompting a more last-ditch, ragged appearance from zabanya (hence the name Last Stand). i'm sure setsuna will take care of things before those ELS crystals spread too much further, though...!

and, finally, since that big cloak and all those ELS crystals do cover up quite a bit, here's some photos i took of just the kit by itself in all its weathered glory.

with this, my MG dynames, and the cherudim saga type.y2k, i've finally built (a version of) all three lockon stratos gundams. here's hoping they make something new and fun for lyle to fly in 2027 (and then a tiny plastic version for me to put in my house!)

[rin-hanarin]

I missed my Lockon Lives AU more than I initially thought, I think I need help.

Also dang Neil, who let you have a twin and an alternate persona you can argue in your head with? (I did)

[tieria-erde]

does anyone remember

[howmanydeaths]

ELS Qan[T] has a day out

[local-redhead-bookworm]

RIP to Alejandro Corner, least successful Treize clone. You died as you lived, tacky and annoying

[scratching92]

Okay, I'm like a decade late but I just need to say that the operation to destroy the Memento Mori in Gundam 00 is genuinely some of the sickest shit I have ever seen.

[cobaltfluff]

watched gundam 00 and like idk what happened in those 50 eps but what i DO know is that lockon 1 and tieria were boyfriends and the only ship that mattered

[samusmaximus]

I need to try (and then fail) to fuck him (because I'm pretty sure he only fucks gundams)

[tieria-erde]

here's a snippet from aoi kizuna, a spin-off manga anthology that goes into a little more detail on some events from the show. this is its take on the lead-up to tieria's famous "crossdressing" scene; i think it speaks for itself~

TIERIA ERDE from MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00

JUSTIFICATION:

"jesus christ look at her. i'm supposed to believe she's a cis man?? the hair and glasses are 100% tgirl swag, and if you held a gun to my head and made me wear slacks & a buttondown, her pink sweater is literally exactly how i would femme it up. also i haven't gotten this far but apparently she crossdresses later in the show and from the pics she pulls it off perfectly." - @caterjunes

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[rose-matcha-latte]

fun fact: gundam 00 s2 ed 2 enhances angst so i (poorly) edited it into the 5nore scene enjoy angsters

[neildylandy]

Lockon smiles up at him. Something feels like it's settled in his chest, cold enough to freeze everything into sharp, glittering little pieces. It's his show now. Even Regene's stopped pretending like he's not watching.  Might as well give them all what they're after.

chapter 19 is up! what's old is new again. lockon comes face-to-face with his past.

also: in case you missed it, i got some amazing art of regene and innovator!lockon commissioned recently! check it out!!

[bronanlynch]

lockon/tieria (gundam 00)

rated t | 4.6k words

canon divergent from around the end of season 1

ft. trans woman tieria, discussions about utility and purpose, and the first steps toward developing post-veda ideology

in which Lockon and Tieria pick up the pieces OR, “Veda didn’t tell me how to feel about you,” Lockon said, “and Aeolia Schenberg sure as hell didn’t.” “You can’t know that,” said Tieria. That sharp, frantic edge to her voice had returned, like a warning light blinking before a system failure. She sounded like she was on the verge of tears, and Lockon didn’t even know if she could cry. Lockon knew that she could bleed, had seen her with bruises from being thrown around the cockpit during difficult missions and scrapes on her knuckles from punching the wall after frustrating ones. “I can’t… I don’t know where Veda ends and I begin.” “Veda’s not here right now,” said Lockon, reaching out for Tieria’s hands, “and you are. So I have a pretty good idea.”

[tieria-erde]

mobile suit gundam 00 - the second birthday [pg. 25-27]

read from the beginning

previous

[howmanydeaths]

The Quantum Council now has their leader, Robot Spirits ELS Qan[T] from 2012!

(She burned a $150 hole in my wallet, but worth it.)

[daylandeangelo]

(light spoilers) i think Gwitch ended up taking the biggest softball path it could have taken and ignored the much harder questions. a bit of a bummer, honestly but

the characters still remain some of my favorite in the series, so the finale REALLY hinging on that made me feel fairly satisfied. plus the lesbians won and I was truly terrified that sunrise would Coward Out on that front.

still im gonna be thinking about this show for awhile. might write something a little more coherent about it in the future idk

[chrissysky]

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who voted. Looks like it's going to be Tuesdays so... starting later today, I'll be watching two episodes of Gundam 00 (season two) every week until we get to the movie. Which has aliens, I've been told. And perhaps two Lockons???

gonna put this up for a week and see where we end up. 😂