#gundam wing: the glory of losers

[uristmcdatingsim]

Who the fuck out here feeding Heavyarms? Who’s loading all that fucking ammo into my big boy?? THAT MANY bullets?? IN THIS ECONOMY??

[seaofolives]

🎭 #torokatober2024 day 29/31: zero 🎻

“Quatre? Quatre.”

He gets like this at particularly…stressful moments of his work. Staring into space, facial expression unattended, posture straight, but unmoving. A remnant of something best forgotten, but keeps creeping up on Quatre whenever he starts to get scared of the decisions he has to make.

“Quatre.” Trowa cups his cheeks and turns his head to face him. “Quatre, it’s okay. I’m still here. Quatre.”

Little by little, the light of recognition returns to his eyes. As do his old fears.

Quatre latches onto him, and Trowa nods, brushing his back. “It’s okay. I’m still here. It’s okay.”

find the list of prompts here!

[craftssakura]

[idiotfactory]

After almost 2 years on the backlog I finally put together the MG Heavyarms EW! Such an incredibly fun kit to put together it really brought back my love for mastergrades in general. Definitely a pain in the ass to pose the belt for the minigun just would not cooperate but fuck if we ball. Still beyond pleased with the end result! Now to build Calibarn or Schwarzette next? Or maybe Big-O?👀

[crimehat]

we cannot linger on this stunted view like rabid dogs of war.

[christianmswanson]

I rarely post anything anymore, I’ve been a busy parent 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is where flugel is at

[fallenwingzero]

You can see the tears through his helmet ;-;

[ikuzeminna]

Is it Tsubarov or Tubarov?

So, this one is funny. As you can see above, the wiki has adopted the latter spelling, which originates from the translation of Glory of Losers and Frozen Teardrop by Zeonic Scanslations. It's also where "Bilmon" first popped up as a last name for the guy, by the by. If you look at the katakana, it spells tsu-ba-ro-fu, but as anyone who has learned the Japanese alphabet knows, there is no tu, so tsu is usually used in its place. Just like there is no si, only a shi, which leads to all the "city boy" humor. Meaning, a translator might find themselves pondering if they should go with tu or tsu in a name, especially if it's a made up one. And in this case, the translator decided to go with tu because he probably felt "Tubarov" sounded more correct. This is Gundam Wing though.

From the Gundam Wing Perfect Archive Series, p. 189. Tsubarov's name is supposed to be derived from the German word for 12, zwölf. The z in German is always a "ts" sound, so "Tsubarov" is actually the correct spelling. And before anyone thinks to themselves "well, why didn't they just go with the number then?" That's because the very first translators wanted to be phonetically close and anyone trying to pronounce zwölf who doesn't speak flawless German would probably end up saying some form of "ze-wolf" which doesn't even come close. The American dub had troubles pronouncing Hilde, for crying out loud. Like that's a hard name. So Tsubarov it is, just like it is Noin and not Neun. But. And here comes the funny part, which is just a euphemism for me having had to take linguistics, so now you all get to suffer through it with me. "Two" in German is "zwei". Depending on the region or if you watch Star Wars, you'll hear it pronounced "zwo", too, though. R2D2 is the most famous example. It also used to happen a lot on the telephone when people spelled telephone numbers or the number of a bank account etc. so that it doesn't get mixed up with 3, "drei". "Two" and "zwo" have the same root, the Proto-Germanic "twō". The difference is that English stopped pronouncing the w and German had a sound shift known as the High German consonant shift, where a lot of Proto-Germanic "t" sounds changed into "ts" which is how the letter z is pronounced in German. So, tomato, tomahto, or in this case, Tubarov, Tsubarov. It's amusing how a language on the other side of the globe lacking a tu ended up reverse sound shifting a name derived from a German word because a fan thought it'd sound better that way. What are the odds.

[its-a-kasshu-thing]

This is just a random observation that I noticed about Gundam Wing:

After like 10 years, I decided to rewatch the series and then I reread Heero’s Episode Zero chapter. According to EZ, Heero and Odin were only together by “contract”. That, to me, implied that Odin is not Heero’s biological father and that he’s only taking care of him out of some sort of obligation.

Now I haven’t read Frozen Teardrop and I don’t really plan to because, (I mean come on, have you seen that plot lol) I could pick apart what I do know about it but, it just seems a little odd. Heero’s chapter seems to lead the reader to the conclusion of Odin obviously feeling guilty about killing Heero Yuy and then he just randomly has this little boy with him. It’s as if that boy was Heero’s son and since Odin killed his father, he felt compelled to take the boy on as his own.

I understand FT says that Odin is in fact the boy’s biological father with Aoi Clark (who doesn’t even have an official character design btw) **Neither does Solo from Duo’s official backstory but I digress** being his mother but I just find it strange that the kid doesn’t have a name if he was Odin’s after all. Maybe it was mentioned that his name really is Odin Lowe II but why would that name not be alluded to at all in the series? The series alluded to his mantra that Heero repeats throughout the series which is basically to listen to the heart. Obviously Odin cared enough about Heero to take care of him. It just doesn’t make sense why this kid wouldn’t know his name/have a name. Also, I just find it random that Heero is related to Trant Clark, some random Oz soldier, that was curious about the zero system, with nothing really substantial mentioned about him like idk a great revelation that he’s like Heero’s uncle or something. Heero didn’t even end up fighting him lol.

I personally think it would have worked out better plot wise if Heero was Heero’s son rather than Odin’s because it would have only emphasized further that Heero really is the “perfect soldier”. He fights for the “revenge” of the colonies while beneath the surface he actually fights to avenge his own father without even knowing it. That’s the thing that makes Heero so pure intentioned though. He fights solely for peace within, not only the colonies but, the Earth as well (as seen at the end of the series). Revenge was never really the goal of any of the pilots or else they would have fully taken part in Operation Meteor, wreaking havoc everywhere for everyone both oz and civilians on Earth alike.

Also, I love how Odin’s character design in EZ was retconed for the more Heero looking one in FT/Glory of Losers and, at the same time, Heero Yuy’s design also has a striking resemblance to the main pilot. It’s like they couldn’t decide who Heero’s father should be.

Also, the Sanc Kingdom sought peace from Earth while Heero Yuy preached peace in the colonies and then you have the heir of the Sanc Kingdom end up with the son of the colonies’ prominent pacifist.

My headcanon is Heero is still the product of a love affair just not with Odin as the main man but Heero Yuy. Like his wife probably ordered for her husband to be killed for cheating with some younger woman, making Heero his illegitimate son, adding to the chaos of it all, resulting in his birth to be the actual catalyst that sparks war between the colonies and Earth. Somehow, I think that would have made more sense and really tie everything together so neatly and dramatically.

[tinyozlion]

“Little Prince” / “Prince of the Stars” - Literature References in GW

I am so delighted to report that the phrase Relena uses in episode 2-- "Does that mean Heero is a... Little Prince?" (or "Star Prince" in Japanese)-- is exactly what it seems to be:

It’s a reference to "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

More specifically, it’s from one of the backstories in “Episode Zero”– giving you yet another reason to read this important supplementary manga! It’s also featured in the new manga adaptation of GW, “Glory Of Losers”, which is excellent.

--Saint-Exupéry was himself an aristocrat by birth, and a notable pilot. He flew both as a pioneer of international postal flights, and as a fighter for the liberation of occupied France in WWII. He was shot down on a reconnaissance mission, flying his P-38 Lightning over the Mediterranean, and disappeared without confirmation of a wreck or his death. He was presumed missing in action until in the final years of the 20th century, when a silver bracelet with his identifiers was discovered off the coast of Marseilles . 

Fun fact: if you read “The Little Prince” with Gundam Wing in mind, you will experience Several emotions!

--Once upon a time, Relena Darlain encountered a lovely, somber young man who came from the sky and rescued her from danger. She did not trust him, because he had come in a Mobile Suit, a machine of war and death. He called her “princess”, almost without thinking, as if it were the natural thing to call her– this was terribly confusing, for she was certain she was not a princess of any kind. Thinking the young man was simply being whimsical, she asked whether that made him a knight, or a dragon? He looked distant for a moment, as if conflicted by something weighing heavily upon him, but then gave a response suiting the theme of the moment, saying “I’m a prince from the stars”.   The somber young man was indeed a little prince, who you might imagine came from a very small kingdom– home to a beautiful rose that was as fearless as she was helpless, with only little thorns to protect her that would not even deter a hungry sheep. He had run away from the responsibilities of this kingdom, and now could not return. When he’d first come to earth, he met a fox, who told him the only way to truly understand things was to tame them, and that one was responsible forever for the things that one tamed. The fox had said only that which was intangible really mattered. This had made him appreciate and love his rose even more, though she was far beyond his reach now, and the intangible goals he sought would only take him farther away. Years later, the girl Relena Darlain met another somber young man who had fallen from the sky as a shooting star– he was fierce and wild and not at all like the little prince she had met when she was a child. But he had come from the stars all the same, and something about him reminded her of that first encounter, and of the children's book of the same name. They were both hurt, and lost, and very alone. She said this thought aloud to herself dreamily, because at that moment she was still a child, though she wouldn’t be for very much longer. 

  —

–The title of the Japanese translation of Le Petit Prince is “Hoshi no ouji sama”-- the subtitles for this in the anime read “Star Prince”, which is correct for Japan, and in the dub it is “Little Prince”, which is correct for the English title. This is a lovely bit of translation synchrony that doesn’t help one single bit in understanding what Relena means when she says this! But that is why we have Episode Zero, and if you really need proof that this is indeed a reference to the childrens’ book, I believe Sumisawa brings it up explicitly in Frozen Teardrop.

Gundam Wing is chock FULL of references to western lit and film– Wizard of OZ, White Fang, Lawrence of Arabia, Roman Holiday; “Darlain” is close enough to “Darling” that I suspect it’s a Peter Pan reference, and even Lady Une’s name is likely a reference to My Fair Lady, due to a very early scrapped idea for her character where she was a sort of clumsy, provincial girl that Treize was teaching to be “elegant”-- an element that stayed on in the series, albeit in a MUCH different context from Henry Higgins / Eliza Doolittle, thank god.

“Come on Gundam, move your bloomin’ arse!”

[signofoz]

From Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers

Vol. 10 | Chapter 60

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HEAVIER THAN YOU, HEAVIER THAN I, HEAVIER THAN ANYTHING -- HEAVYARMS IGEL UNIT.

G?PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted shots of MG [Master GradeA] XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms "Endless Waltz" (Igel Unit) gunpla premium model kit by Bandai.

MODEL KIT OVERVIEW: "This Gundam Heavyarms is a 1/100 master grade scale model kit that becomes a fully articulated figure once completed. Gundam Heavyarms is equipped with double gatling guns that can be attached to his arms or stored on his back.

This "Endless Waltz" version includes water transfer decals designed by mecha artist Hajime Katoki and a set of its extra weapons, called the Igel Armament, to recreate Heavyarms as it appears in "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory to the Losers." The set consists of pieces to build two shoulder missile pods, two small missile pods for each leg, and a pair of treads to attach."

-- THE AVID COLLECTOR (hobby & collectors online shop)

Source: https://thehangarbay.co/products/mg-xxxg-01h-gundam-heavyarms-ew-igel-unit-jul.

[keendaanmaa]

11 21 and 3 for the superlative song ask.

11. Songs for looking out an airplane window

Today - B.A.P

When you call - Jung Dae Hyun

White noise - Amber Liu

Wave - Ateez

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21. Songs that make me think of my favourite books (frankly, I'm several orders of magnitude more likely to associate songs with characters than storylines, and I rarely do either spontaneously out of the blue, so this is me combing my character song playlists for characters that come from books. Try to guess who the characters are if you like!)

Second Wind - Petra (The Horse and His Boy)

Cyberpunk - Ateez (Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers)

Heathens - Twenty One Pilots (Alex Rider)

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3. Song to swoon to

Three million years - Amber Liu

Face - Woosung

Love Gets Old - Chris Botti

The Way of Love - Charlie Peacock (this isn't the version I want but his music is darn near impossible to find on youtube in the first place, so this is the closest one I could find)

One Thing - Charlie Peacock (once again the version I want doesn't exist on youtube)

Banks - Needtobreathe

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From this ask game

[ghost-proof]

I finally got my physical copy of the 14th volume of Glory of the Losers and this cover is gorgeous. Love the softboi!Heero look. All of Tomofumi Ogasawara's art is so perfect in this manga 😭

[alphaikaros]

Reviving my tumblr just a little bit

[fighterxaos]

Holiday Buyer's Guide 2017 Day 3: Comics & Manga

Holiday Buyer’s Guide 2017 Day 3: Comics & Manga

Welcome readers to the annual Holiday Buyers’ Guide! Today, is the third part in this five-part series, part-three focuses on our picks for comics and manga. Getting kids into comics at an early age should help get them to read more. They will be entertained, and maybe learn something from the stories. However, this year our manga choices may not be suitable for all ages, but the comics surely…