#and as a combat duo

[ryllen]

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[fatedroses]

Two former military elites taking merc jobs perform absolutely hellish battle tactics together.

[raticalshoez]

i'm having hyperfixation drought so i did what i did best and created a crossover episode

[ikuzeminna]

What's up with the wolves?

This post made me want to talk about Duo and how he was initially conceived as Gundam Wing's protagonist, but instead of derailing OP’s post with my ramblings, I thought it better to make them a separate post.

We all know this shot of Duo in the first opening, and like many others I, too, have wondered why on Earth the American street urchin character would be sporting heraldic wolves on his jacket as though he’s European nobility.

They never show up in the series proper, just the opening. And there is absolutely nothing about Duo that could remotely relate him to nobility. He's pretty much the furthest thing from it.

...unless we count Deathscythe H's design, which does sport a strong romantic death theme. But that's about as European as Duo gets.

So what if this is the creators being cheeky and including it as a nod to his initial protagonist status before it was given to Heero? Because if Duo was the protagonist, that would mean he would have been Relena's foil, who is of royal blood. And then we would have had the same juxtaposition as this:

Oh, look, another orphan wearing fancy clothing.

But back to Duo. The precise term for what Duo has emblazoned on his jacket is a wolf rampant. Well, two actually. Would that make them combatant..?

When they're mirrored like that, you expect them to hold a shield. Like these two unicorns here:

Do you recognize it? It's Romefeller's crest. Romefeller has two white unicorns rampant on a red background while the guy who fights them gets two golden wolves rampant on a black background.

Wait a minute. White, red, gold, black?

Really?

Someone must have had a field trip with the designs.

Back to the wolves. According to Wikiwand, wolves in heraldry "typically symbolised the rewards of perseverance in long sieges or hard industry." A long siege is definitely what the colonists were going through. Doubly so regarding Duo's crappy childhood.

So is Duo really connected to wolves?

Well, here's a fun fact.

The wolf (French: loup) is often used for canting (meaning heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name in a visual pun or rebus) by families whose names feature some variant of the word 'lou/wolf'. Examples include Videlou, de Lou, Lupus, Wolferston, Wolseley, Lovett, Lowe, Lovell, Lupton or Wolfe.

Lowe. As in, Odin Lowe. This dude:

Heero got cheated out of fancy wolf crests.

And here you have it. Before Heero stole Deathscythe's parts for Wing, Duo had gotten Heero's wolf crest. Then again, they would have been wasted on Heero's green tank top anyway, so good for Duo.

[brainrotcharacters]

caught myself in 4k giving heart eyes to the screen (rewatching Wade and Logan duke it out in the Void)

[egypquotes]

Sekhmet: I know this isn’t going to end well and I don’t care. So don’t you try and stop me, Sobek!

Sobek: I wasn’t stopping you. I was asking if you had a spare camera so I can record this.

[sapphiretanto]

Much to their siblings’ and friends’ confusion/annoyance, Karai and Leo will drop random info about Japanese history at extremely random times, for no reason. Fight me.

(Don’t you dare tag this as a ship)

[lavenderjewels]

Love every time the recent jjk chapters cut back to Maki and she’s just. covered in blood going :D

[bluebellwrenart]

Tabloid x Avril height difference breathe if you agree

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Merchant archetype + Investor’s Abacus + Rebellion + Phantasmal Doll + Formation of Vigour go brrrrr

[avis2]

Madness Combat doodle

I drew this little Madness Combat doodle in between art!

[carsaadi]

funny duo

THING THAT CAN LAND AND THING THAT CAN WATER

[fatedroses]

Local Garlean Adventurer gets the first head kisses he's had within the last decade, is content.

...Even if he has to fold himself in half for them.

[null-entity]

DIEEEEeee!!!

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[nozomijoestar]

Me & who

[ghostfromsomewhere365]

Wrong guy

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