#Lfrith Gundam

[anthurak]

So I’d like to ramble a bit on a few interesting background details I’ve been noticing in Witch From Mercury, and just why exactly Aerial seems so damn OP compared even to other Gundams.

Consider for a moment what we’ve see of non-Aerial Gundams we’ve seen in the series proper so far; the Pharact Gundam, and the Lfrith Ur and Thorn. Now let’s compare these units with the Gundams we saw in the Prologue, specifically the two Lfrith Test-type units. When you get down to it, there really isn’t much underlying difference between them, is there? Sure, the Pharact and the modern Lfrith units may have newer and flashier armor and weapons, but they’re clearly running on the same GUND-Format system seen in the Test units back in the Prologue. Right down to seeing Elan 4, Sophia and Norea use the Permet score system the same way that Nadim and Wendy used it.

I think we can look at the Lfrith Test models seen in the prologue as representing a ‘First Generation’ of Gundams. The first functional ‘proof of concept’ for the GUND-Format system. A brand new piece of technology that functions on a basic level but still has major problems to be solved before it can be considered actually feasible. With that in mind, for as cool and flashy as the Pharact and modern Lfrith units might be, they really represent little more than incremental refinements to what Vanadis and Ochs Earth created twenty years prior. Heck, it’s almost certain at this point that the Lfrith Thorn and Ur actually ARE the original Lfrith test-units, having been recovered after the purge of Vanadis and given extensive retrofits and upgrades. Yet at the end of the day, neither Peil Tech or the Benerit group as a whole has managed to actually advance Gundam technology beyond what Vanadis developed.

Now let’s look at the other Gundam seen back in the Prologue; the main Lfrith Gundam. Because it’s pretty clear this was something entirely different. It’s pretty clear looking back at the Prologue that the Lfrith Gundam was meant to be the true next step in Gundam technology. At the very least, a means of making the GUND-Format system actually safe to use, and based on Cardo Nobo’s vague musings, probably a whole lot else we don’t know about yet.

Basically, if the Lfrith Test-types can be thought of as ‘First Generation’ Gundams, than the main Lfrith Gundam is a Second Generation Gundam. Representing a fundamental growth in the development of Gundam Technology. Just what exactly made Lfrith so different we can only guess at right now, though we can pretty safely assume that Artificial Intelligence was a MAJOR factor. The only problem was that by the time of the Prologue, Vanadis still hadn’t managed to crack the problem of getting Lfrith working.

At least until Cardo had the bright idea of plugging a small child into it.

Just from what little we see of Lfrith in action during the prologue, she is clearly something very different from even Gundams fielded twenty years later. Lfrith is able to utterly decimate trained mobile suit pilots with only the vaguest and even unknowing commands from Eri and the GUND-Format clearly has absolutely NONE of the previous unit’s harmful effects on Eri, even showing a different colored aura on her face.

And unlike the Test-units, the Lfrith Gundam managed to get away from that battle. Meaning that only Elnora/Prospera and the resurgent Ochs Earth have had access to the secrets and new developments of the Lfrith Gundam.

Meaning that while the Benerit group has been dinking around with the old, janky First Generation GUND-Format system that will straight up melt its users brain if it’s pushed even a little too far, Ochs Earth has spent the last twenty years research, refining and perfecting their Second Generation Gundam technology.

Really, is it any wonder that Aerial and Suletta have been able to run circles around and basically CURBSTOMP more or less every opponent they’ve gone up against, including other Gundams?

They effectively have a full tech-generation and twenty years’ worth of development lead over every other Gundam in existence right now. And of course that’s not even touching on what else Aerial might have up her sleeve…

[or-fi-s]

Wing-it for Bluedraconic

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[demilypyro]

Don't talk to me or my daughter or my daughter's daughter or my daughter's prototype

[athena-gunpla]

trans and lesbian

[lapsedpacifist]

And the Lfrith Anavata is finished. I essentially kept the original colour scheme for this one, but replaced the flat blue with a metallic and added an additional shade of grey for the rest of the body. The shell units were painted with a reverse wash, black base, then white, then Fluro pink.

[gundamfight]

[retro-friki]

Eri didn't get much character development, but it's quite telling that when she got frustrated over a perceived injustice against her, this four year old went directly to pick a fight with the giant robot.

[lin-squiggly]

I still find the prologue for witch from mercury one of the most fucking emotionally distraught things I've ever seen.

seriously, i've not cried harder at basically any other show other than maybe one episode of doctor who, anyway spoilers, kind of poetry also i guess?

a young girl sits in her mothers lap, an attack has occurred and their friends and family are dead, killed without mercy to destroy what they had made for political gain on the part of their attackers.

the girl is four years old, too young to understand, indeed sheltered enough from the death and chaos by the machine the people who cared for her made that she cannot understand that those she loved are gone.

she sits in her mothers lap, interfaced to a machine of which the interface tears through her mind and body. she doesn't realize it is killing her.

she sits in her mothers lap and controls the machine with her mind, navigating through the void of space and utilizing the many tools of the rubris, the weapon of war she pilots. she doesn't realize her actions are killing others.

she sits in her mothers lap and listens to her father, piloting another such machine and fighting for his life, sing her happy birthday, she does not realize she will never see him again.

she sings to finish the song he would never. she sits in her mothers lap. her mother knows everything, but she cannot stop because she knows if she stops they both die.

she doesn't realize what she is doing, she doesn't know shes dying, she doesn't know she is killing.

she sits in her mothers lap.

[purseownervolatile]

Just got an HG Lfrith!

Fantastic kit :)

[traaansfem]

@virtualgirladvance saw me mention this and wanted to see it. Anyway. BEHOLD! Transbian gundam Lfrith, painted by a transbian (girlfren) for another transbian (meeeeeeeee)! Ft. Hed the penguin, who is kind of just an orb/head the size of my torso

Mrau! Thanks to my mysterious and as yet untagged girlfren! Lemme know if you want credit for this or if you still need the secrecy of the closet :3

[kaxtwenty]

My demons won.

[arcadebroke]

[anthurak]

Gotta love those parallels, huh?

[demilypyro]

Why are you me, I'm me

[pastelraccoons]

Finally finished up Lfrith Ur!

Loved putting this kit together- especially the legs. Something about how chunky they are was super satisfying to put together.

And of course, I had to get a shot with both of the Earth Witches!

[lapsedpacifist]

All ready for decals.