#Quess paraya

[enelo]

[shin-meddlesome-hero]

These Char posters go really hard.

[suranet]

Gundam/Pokemon AU

Sayla, Lalah, Quess, and Four's teams in the AU.

[winonaparadise]

✅ underrated ✅ overhated ✅ gundam girlthing of all time

[siodam]

Cute girl🎀

[kishidoodle]

A matching standee idea I had that may or may not go anywhere, but here's the art for in nonetheless.

[roseillith]

Char's Counterattack OST (1998) artwork

[peculiarocelot]

Sum sutff

[thaumazomai]

assorted gundam doodles; some requests, some not. second part to come soon!

[kishigunpla]

A quick look at the Char's Counterattack poster book, a bonus from the May 1988 issue of Animage magazine. More photos under the cut.

[turboghast]

"So that's why married couples fight with eachother!" - Quess, watching Amuro chase Char

[gamer-of-the-day]

Today's Gamer of the Day: Quess Paraya from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

[amuwo]

Quess in B6 as a treat for you :3

QUIRKY GIRL SUMMER!!!!! she just found out about alexandrias genesis

ask meme source

[bulecelup]

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[hath-e]

Quess Paraya, (also whenever I talk about characters from outside of the Hathaway movie I'll only focus on their relationships Hathaway instead of them as a whole)

A selfish and stubborn girl, who also happened to be one of the strongest newtypes before Banagher, naturally talented and quick learning, and she became Hathaways Noa first and only obsession, and yet she couldn't care any less about him, her interest was much more with first Amuro and later Char. She was looking for someone to be better than her dad, and Hathaway was looking for someone like himself because of his dad, the both share that parental trauma yet neither of them can help another, inspite of that Hathaway tried while Quess was trying to find love with Char.

And yet Hathaway went down the path he's on because of her, because he's still that 13 year old boy who stole a Jegan and doesn't know how to properly interact with people. And yet he saw how the world didn't change after someone he admired so much die, so he had to take the change in his own hands.

Quess was a catalyst for everything that Hathaway does, and if it wasn't for her, he would have never joined Mafty, the fact that someone who Hathaway couldn't have known for more than 2 days affected him so much shows how much he really loved her inspite of the unrequited feelings.

Go watchh CCA it's an amazing movie

Anyhow tmrw 閃光 and the day after Bright Noa

(Pic is a movie screencap from Gundam Hathaway)

[shin-meddlesome-hero]

Some notes on Char’s Counterattack while it’s still fresh in my brain and right before I watch video-essays about how I didn’t understand the movie. (With spoilers)

For starters, it was as gay as promised. I’ve seen the Charmuro scuffle scene like a million times and it turned out to actually be gayer in context. For me, this is the aftermath of a very bitter and harsh divorce. The thing is already unsalvageable. They still try to talk it out every time they’re near each other, but Amuro is about to give up on Char completely (if he hasn’t, already). He even tells Lalah that he doesn’t want to be with that guy for all eternity as newtype ghosts, that’s how done he’s with Char.

As with Char, it feels that we needed another anime season or at least a couple of OVA’s to explain how he got there. I know that it had something to do with how disillusioned he was by the events at the end of Zeta, but the movie feels like it needed to give more context about him. It’s very clear that his ideals take a back seat in favor of his real motivations. He just wants to get back at the universe. Would trowing a meteor and freezing Earth actually help Earth’s restoration and humanity’s evolution? Did he stop to think that by doing such thing he’ll get Sayla and Kamille killed? Or was he too far gone to care about anyone that isn’t Lalah and maybe Amuro?

This may be unintentional but it’s amusing that the first part of Quess Paraya’s arc looks like a teen girl’s power fantasy: she meets Amuro, she gets adopted by Char, she happens to be the most special Newtype who becomes an ace pilot in a few days, there’s two boys after her, Char entrusts her to act on special missions and she even gets to kill her lousy dad. Under this framework it makes sense that she acts so selfishly all the time. Of course this later takes a dark turn when she starts feeling all the horrors of war and eventually gets killed by one of the older women she antagonized. Despite her not being a nice person at all, she was only a kid who was affected by her family situation and desperately needed a father figure. Amuro was honest enough to realize that he couldn’t fulfill that need (and he didn’t have to), on the other hand, Char admits that he took advantage of her and used her as a machine. He would’ve never done that to Kamille, that’s how low he’s fallen.

Finally, Char’s last words were about how Lalah Sune could’ve been a mother to him, showing that at the end he was unable to get over both his mother’s and Lalah’s death, which is very tragic from a man that most of the time came out as Larger than Life. However, none of this justifies his actions. Char’s Counterattack was the last piece in the puzzle that is Char Aznable, and after watching it, all I can conclude is that he’s kind of a loser, isn’t he?

(Yes, I’m aware that it’s way more complicated than that, there’s still much to say about how he projected on Amuro and the nature of his relationships with other characters of the franchise among other topics like Amuro’s growth and Hathaway’s arc, but these are just preliminary thoughts. I may do a more thoughtful review once I write more about Zeta and ZZ. Also those video essays about how I Don’t Understand Char are still on my to-watch list, my perspective could change after getting through all that).