#beltorchika’s children

[thetremblingroofbeam]

[buggernaut-kal]

1 AM ramble here we gooooooooooo

So with Char’s Counterattack essentially being a novel (High-Streamer) and a movie and ANOTHER novel (Beltorchika’s Children) you get some version differences, the big ones being the Nu Gundam and Sazabi being replaced with the Hi-Nu Gundam and Nightingale, respectively. I wanna talk about the aesthetics of the Nightingale.

To begin, let’s take a brief look at how it looks next to the Sazabi

At face value the Nightingale is a more monstrous Sazabi, hunched with all sort of protruding parts, but it’s like a stretched-out Sazabi in some regards. Both even share design cues from Char’s helmet in 0079. Sazabi is clearly meant to harken back to bulky Zeon suit designs with its legs and pipes around the waist, it’s got Char’s signature color like his Zaku II, and the cockpit/escape pod is in the head just like the Zeong. I believe the Nightingale was purposefully meant to harken back to the “final boss” suits of each prior Gundam series.

As mentioned, the Zeong had a cockpit in the head which doubled as an escape craft and the Sazabi built off of that idea with the escape pod being inside the head, which Nightingale carries over as well. On top of that, the Zeong has a stupid amount of thrusters in its lower torso, so many that the skirt extends back and gives the suit a centaur-like appearance from the side. Nightingale ALSO has an elongated back-skirt packed full of thrusters. (You could also argue the chest mega-particle cannon in the Sazabi and Nightingale could be referencing the Zeong’s waist cannons but I think that’s a stretch.) The Zeong is also a massive suit even without legs, and while Sazabi is a big boy, the Nightingale is a goliath compared to other suits. The Hi-Nu is even slightly smaller than the Nu Gundam to emphasize this height disparity just like the Gundam vs the Zeong in 0079.

But another Zeon MS that Nightingale draws from is the Qubeley. The giant shoulder binders are a dead giveaway, with the Qubeley’s main thrust coming from those shoulder binders and the Nightingale ALSO having massive shoulder binders packed with thrusters. The Quebeley is based off the Elmeth and compacts its bit weaponry down into funnels, which become THE weapon for Newtypes in combat, and the Nightingale stores funnels on its shoulders. The extra tie all the way back to the Elmeth is kind of poetic given Char’s hangups about Lala, and ironic given his relationship with Haman. Both are Zeon MS so it’s not a big surprise, but what I find particularly interesting is how The O fits in.

Far bulkier than nearly any Zeon MS, Scirocco showed that suits from Jupiter were weird. The O has pipes around the waist like the Zaku did, but importantly the skirt armor is super thick and has square thrusters built into their sides, along with the legs and feet being very bulky and bulbous. Both Sazabi and Nightingale draw from that, but Nightingale also sports a set of sub-arms in its front-skirts just like The O did. Not entirely sure what this means in-universe (maybe that Char embraced a bit of Jupiter’s design sensibilities through Scirocco as a fellow Spacenoid?) but it’s a clear homage at the very least.

But yeah, Nightingale is like a chimera of the Zeong, The O, and Qubeley to create this kind of Ultimate Final Boss of a mobile suit while also warping the aesthetics of Sazabi in the process. Interesting to note that all of these suits were designed by Spacenoids for Spacenoids, even if a Jupiter design is an outlier. A very neat design and I quite like that visual aspect of it. It also helps that all of these suits look cool (I have a soft spot for the Zeong, okay?)

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Hello Nu Gundam

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A ghost

[aroacegundamalex]

[ID: a closeup photo of a model kit of the Hi Nu Gundam from Beltorchika’s Children, painted, panel lined, and with various decal stickers applied. End ID.]

by KAZ

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[slowlysointernet]

Here's 'Char' not thinking or caring about his sister🙄.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Episode 8):

Mobile Suit Zeta Define(Chapter 15);

Mobile Suit Z-Gundam Game:

Illustration by Hiroyuki Kitazume:

Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack Beltorchika's Children:

Mobile Suit Gundam High-Streamer:

If you have any media literacy you would have noticed that these moments are put in deliberately and not by accident. 'Char' doesn't have a photo in his keep of anyone else other than his sister. Why do you think that is?

'Char' seldom mentions either of his parents, yet their shadows loom over him and just because a character doesn't outright state something to the audience in an obvious way doesn't mean that said character doesn't care about X,Y and Z.

If Gundam fans actually read/ watched the source material with their eyes and brains open and not with their own narcissistic self projections or endless memes then we wouldn't have this problem of media literacy being so dogshit.

[balrog-slayer66]

Amuro Ray / Beltorchika Irma by Haruhiko Mikimoto

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Beltorchika and Amuro building his RX-93-V2 Hi-V Gundam - by CRAZiECRiSSiE

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Sleepy Bel

[azuredrg]

maybe charmuro was a bad example because everything after zeta is just based on the sheer divorced energies char has. char's entire motive in cca was to 1. get amuro into space and 2. kill them both and if they got along and got together that would lowk ruin the canon & i am personally a fan of how Bad their relationship is. i think most fans of them are.

[puppygirlclaspers]

About halfway through volume 1, this is a really cool take on CCA! It's fun following along and seeing how the story changes in different ways. Definitely recommend it if you love gundam and want more mainline UC content!

[galactic-johnny]

Here is the RG Hi Nu Gundam (spelled like Hi-ν Gundam?) with the hyper mega bazooka launcher. I actually built this months ago but the bazooka launcher came in the mail 2 weeks ago. ngl i got it because I wanted it to go with the hyper mega bazooka launcher, which was financially questionable since the bazooka launcher is pbandai. Fortunately the RG Hi Nu Gundam is one of the best RGs ever (also the scale is closer to 1/100 than 1/144?). Also worth noting the bazooka launcher comes with 2 action bases. Sometimes you need a giant cannon to go with your giant robot. It also works with other gundams and the hands for the GWitch HGs fit in just fine. I showed Calibarn for scale. It's so large I couldn't get a picture that showed the whole thing with the details easily visible on my phone camera. The lat picture is it next to some MGs.

10/10 very fun.

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Nightingale

[cloudedbykatana]

First kit of 2024 done, and damn it sure is a big one and a Fantastic one. The HG Nightingale is a BEAUTIFUL kit, absolutely worth the effort. Char really knows how to make a mobile suit. Surprisingly fun and nuanced to pose, and has fantastic color separation

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