#vim jeturk

[war-is-bad-girls]

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[eunnieverse]

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[onigiriico]

Translated this one from the pre-s2 stream ✌ deciphering handwriting is pain so if there's any mistranslations here. yeah. OTL

[greatwyrmgold]

It's one thing if the bully character at the school our main characters go to wears his school uniform jacket over his shoulders like a cape. That's an established trope for delinquents.

It's another, much funnier thing for his CEO father to do the same thing with his suit jacket.

[most-likely-shadowhisker]

The Hypocrisy of the Spacians (or, why worries about Kessler Syndrome are bullshit)

So, a number of things happened in the latest episode of G-Witch. A number of them were, uh, traumatizing. For both the cast and the viewers. To keep myself distracted, I'm going to focus on a little detail mentioned in episode 12. (Spoilers under cut!)

Specifically, this line. Now, a lot of people have pointed out it's perfectly reasonable to ban kinetic space weaponry in favor of lasers; lasers don't leave behind any bullets or casings that can drift through space until they hit something and cause a Kessler Syndrome. And this is reasonable- until you look deeper.

Norea here immediately points out the first layer of hypocrisy (the Spacian military-industrial complex being more than happy to pollute Earth while at the same time worrying about the pollution of space). But there's something more that undermines the kinetic weapons ban and it's stated reasoning entirely, that being that guns aren't the only thing that leaves behind space debris.

Every laser that misses and hits a building or asteroid or whatever, every limb of an enemy MS that's sheared off, all that sends little shards and particulates of material flying off into space, where they'll keep flying until they hit something, normally at high velocity.

For an example, let's look at the Vim/Bob fight in they very same episode:

The elder Jeturk is more than happy to shear off limbs and leave them drifting, not to mention his using very fucking physical cluster munitions. (How are ordinary guns banned but cluster bombs aren't?! Or is this a case of Vim's money allowing him to get away with flaunting the rules? Either way, more Spacian hypocrisy.)

And that's before we get into what happens to defeated combants; the mandatory post-kill explosion. That explosion doesn't atomize the defeated mobile suit to take care of resulting space debris, it just sends that space debris flying in every direction, making it all the harder to clean up. Here's a couple shots of Vim's MS blowing up:

Look at how the Dilanza Sol visibly bulges outwards before the explosion completes, and the debris field left behind afterwards. A few weeks, years, decades, I dunno how long, but one day those little Dilanza Sol bits are going to drift into just the right position to ruin some freighter's day.

Now, one could argue that all this is just Vim's flaunting of the rules, or a result of Benerit Group being confronted with someone who doesn't obey the laws of war anyway. Problem is, they left behind plenty of space debris in other conflicts. Look at the aftermath of the Vanadis Incident:

Or, hell, the duel between Suletta and El4n, may he rest in peace.

Benerit Group and it's subsidiaries are more than okay with leaving behind fields of space debris from all sorts of sources, as long as those sources aren't guns. Even fore something as petty as a duel among students.

In conclusion, the ban on physical weaponry in the Ad Stella timeline isn't out of any genuine sense of care for the cleanliness of space, or worries about a Kessler Syndrome. The true reason is most likely moral grandstanding, similar to Imperial Germany kvetching about American shotguns in WW1. Alternatively, it could be as simple was wanting to deny what I assume are cheap, easy to manufacture weapons that could prove comparable to lasers to the poors/revolutionaries/poor revolutionaries most likely to buy and/or make them. Either way, the hypocrisy of the Spacian military-industrial complex is on full display here. The solar system of the Ad Stella timeline won't see someone fully dedicated to keep space clean and safe until the military industrial complex is dismantled- preferably in favor of a dictatorship of the proletariat that incentivized to care about the safety of freighter crews and so forth, instead of the corporatocracy incentivized to care about profit, damn everything else.

[anthurak]

So I think I’ll just call this now...

In G-Witch Season 2, not only are we going to see the other major leaders of the Benerit Group get killed off, they are going to all meat their end the same as Vim Jeturk did:

Dead at the hand of their children whom they’ve worked so hard to mold.

Sarius will be backstabbed by Shaddiq in a very ‘you have outlived your usefulness’ moment. Probably via poison or sabotaging Sarius’s life-support. Shaddiq seems to type to always want to keep his hands ‘clean’ so to speak.

And the four Peil CEOs are probably going to meet a much more painful end, like being thrown out an airlock or just unceremoniously gunned down by either Elan Prime of Elan 5, or perhaps both of them working together. Whether or not this involves one of the Elans immediately backstabbing the other is still up in the air.

Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if DELLING winds up meeting his end at the hands of Miorine.

And of course, I think we can all agree that the most likely fate for Prospera by the end of the show is a death at the hands of Suletta and Aerial in the show’s final battle.

Basically, this show has already established a theme of shitty parents molding and manipulating their children. So I’d say it's a pretty safe bet for this theme to conclude with set parents meeting their destruction at the hand of those very children.

[bloodraven55]

man i just knew bradley gareth would crush this scene

[zolag2537]

Father's Day

[lordsmaf]

[short-wooloo]

Do you think the fact that everything is (indirectly) his fault ever weighs on Lauda Neill?

It was his indifference to (pre character development) Guel destroying Miorine's garden, him telling Suletta "why don't you do something about it", that lead to Suletta challenging and beating Guel, leading to Guel's downward spiral, sending Jeturk into chaos, leading to their father's death (granted Lauda isn't quite aware of how that connects but still), and leaving him to pick up the pieces

I think on some level he does recognize it, but is in denial

[astraskylark]

Vim Jeturk: You played me like a fiddle!

Shaddiq: Oh no. Fiddles are actually difficult to play. I played you like the cheap kazoo that you are

[amalgamasreal]

Vim, Guell, Lauda on a Family Drive - by pohjola_1992

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[daisukoth]

here's part 2 of the clip

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PART 1

[ganiling]

1171: let them hate me, so long as they fear me

[ehronlime]

CW Vim Jeturk parental abuse

[anthurak]

Why do I get the feeling that Vim’s ‘backup plan’ is something like ‘stick my other still-obedient, highly-malleable and entirely too high-strung son/minion in some giantass, experimental, highly unstable/dangerous mobile armor, point him at Team Mercury and hope for the best’?