#yamagi gilmerton

[mystei]

[lilenui]

Just some stitches of Yamagi in his natural habitat, that is Shino's lap. Although he might insist this couldn't be further from the case.

[littlechisa]

[seratartt]

Timeskip Yamagi…?

[niaojirou]

My first impression of Yamagi and Mikazuki

Original

[wordsandrobots]

Falling for a fool: #20

You live. You break a little more, feeling each new loss as keenly as the last, despite whatever chunks of your soul have already been cored out. But you do live.

You are not alone. Your family limps on, to new futures, kinder ones than you dared imagine from inside the trap of your old existence. That is victory, of a sort.

You grow up. You decide to be more like him, to seize what the world has to offer and never let it forget you're there. You doubt you will ever be as loud or brave as he was, but you think he might have been proud of you, for making his armour your own.

You remain the fool who longed for a shooting star, thinking it the sun.

But that's OK. Even fools may find someone to fall for them, eventually.

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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, episode #50

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And that's all she wrote, as far as Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans goes. If you've enjoyed this bout of vaguely poetic riffing on the visuals of Yamagi and Shino's relationship throughout the series, may I direct your attention to more of my fanfic, namely the IBO sequel series I have been writing in a haze of creative energy since I finished watching the anime.

(I fix one [1] thing and go ham with the consequences.)

[sounds-in-the-fog]

Shino is infuriatingly clueless

[wordsandrobots]

Reblogging again to put an extra double underline under this.

(I have found exactly two[2] pieces of official art in which Yamagi is blushing, both ancillary promotional art. One features Shino dragging the poor sod into frame with a hand literally threaded through his hair. The other is him reacting to something Ride has drawn on a pad. Make of that what you will. [These are reprinted in the character art book; I sadly cannot immediately find them online, sadly]

In all other art and the series itself, he is entirely composed, with the possible exception of that Tekkadan Radio instalment where he's looking at Shino's arm around him with a 'and what am I supposed to do with this' kind of expression.)

Some YamagixShino Thoughts

In the midst of all the heartbreak I���m experiencing watching these last few episodes of Iron-Blooded Orphans… I just wanted to write an appreciation post of sorts about one of the best characters/ships in the series. 

After watching the scene where Eugene attempts to comfort Yamagi following Shino’s death… One thing really stood out to me in hindsight:

Throughout his entire time on the show, I did not see a single scene where we see Yamagi blush. 

And that’s significant to me. Because… not to call anybody out, but I’ve been spending time in the fandom both on here and on pretty much every platform where fanfiction is written, and I keep seeing people talk about how “sweet” Yamagi is. 

And I’m just over here, like, “Were we watching the same show?”

Because Yamagi was the sassiest one there, and it’s part of what endeared me to him so much. (Apart from the initial pull of a having a canonically LGBT+ character in very masculine genre, which is really, really cool to see.) I feel like there’s this quiet pull to characterize him as just the generically soft gay kid, and that’s really not who he was.

I never saw anything to suggest he was terribly insecure. And he certainly never came across as sweet to me. Just quiet. But perfectly confident and competent when he wanted his voice to be heard. And I loved that about him. 

So yeah, given how often he does get to interact with Shino, it really stood out to me that we never see him blush around his crush. He doesn’t get all flustered when he talks to Shino– he has no trouble getting distracted while working with him or reprimanding him for not taking things seriously enough or anything… And it just made that relationship feel all the more real to me. They don’t feel like character archetypes following a script.

And on that note… At what point do we get to just suck up the technicalities and start calling them a canon couple? Cause I mean…

It’s established that Shino knew Yamagi had romantic feelings for him. 

I believe there’s an interview with the creator floating around here somewhere confirming that– for all his talk about girls– Shino was bi. 

Shino is very physically affectionate with him leading up to that final battle. 

And, without coming out and saying the words exactly, he’s clearly encouraging Yamagi to make the first move and act on his feelings. At the very least, he’s blunt about wanting a private celebration with him–opposed to going out drinking with the other members of Tekkadan like usual– after this battle.

And then, of course, he doesn’t end up making it back, but…

I think we can all acknowledge that if Shino had lived, he and Yamagi would be together by now. 

[maxderats]

Inktober! I always kinda skip it or drop it after a few days, but this year not only did I tried it, I even finished it! So here are the results of my first actually completed inktober challenge. I didn't go with the list, instead my "list" was to make one gundam character a day from october 1 to october 30.

Day 1-2 : Suletta Mercury & Miorine Rembran (Gundam : The Witch From Mercury) Day 3 : Nika Nanaura (G-Witch) Day 4 : Ojelo Gabel (G-Witch) Day 5-6 : Guel Jeturk & Felsi Rollo (G-Witch)

Day 7 : Feldt Grace (Gundam 00) Day 8 : Atra Mixta (Gundam : Iron-Blooded Orphans) Day 9-10 : Takaki Uno, Aston Altland and Fuka Uno, they're watching Ratatouille (GIBO) Day 11-12 : Kati Manneqin & Patrick Colasour, they're doing the Frieren dance (G00)

Day 13-14 : Norba Shino & Yamagi Gilmerton, yes that one frame wasn't gay enough for me (GIBO) Day 15 : Sabina Fardin (G-Witch) Day 16 : Azee Gurumin (GIBO) Day 17-18 : Norea du Noc & Sophie Pulone (G-Witch)

For the next page, I did characters from other mech shows just as a way to change a little bit of air. Day 19 : Rui Kanoya (Re:Creators) Day 20 : Lio (Promare) Day 21-22 : Asuka & EVA-02 in one of the gorgeous redesign JB/Gunbusted did Day 23 : Rossiu (Gurren Lagann) Day 24 : Flame (Synduality Noir)

As we were coming closer to the end of the month, the theme for the last page was halloween costumes! Day 25-26 : Orga Itsuka & Mikazuki Augus (GIBO) Day 27-28 : Suletta & Miorine again (G-Witch) Day 29 : Tieria Erde (G00) Day 30 : Chuchu/Chuatury Panluch (GIBO)

I had a lot of fun doing it and will for sure try it again, though maybe not in october specifically? Still many characters I wanna do, more Turbines and Grassleys, Merribit, Cracker & Cookie, Elan, more 00 characters... Having such a closed theme really helped getting into it every day without thinking too much about what to draw.

[mobiledolls]

in the same vein as the last poll, i'm going to list my favorite overall gundam characters from the series i've watched (limited to two max per series) and if you see this, vote for your personal favorite out of this list! (yes a lot of these are repeats. i love women)

my special request for this one is that if you have only seen one of these series to refrain from voting and hit "results" instead, because if you've only seen the one series then of course you're going to vote for the only character(s) you know. thank you!

[mystei]

[lilenui]

Shino and Yamagi in their Wishing on Space Hardware pilot suits, a more basic representation.

[littlechisa]

[drpsyche]

[anime-of-the-day]

LGBT+ Character of the Day: Yamagi Gilmerton

Anime From: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans

Yamagi is an extremely easy character to overlook; however, I’d like to mark him as a shift in mainstream male focused anime. Yamagi is clearly in love with Shino, a male Gundam pilot. We get clues to this through the first season and validation of this in the second season. Yamagi blatantly tells Shino that he loves him and Shino’s response is basically an “I know” kind of thing. Shino has known for a very long time that Yamagi likes him, but he didn’t let that change his relationship with him. Nor does this change the relationship between anyone else on the ship with Yamagi. Tekkadan, the group Yamagi is a part of, is a family and it doesn’t isolate or reject Yamagi because of his feelings. They accept him no matter what.

[wordsandrobots]

My skim through the various normal suit variants shown in Iron-Blooded Orphans ended on an unexpectedly dour note, so here's one additional screenshot, taken during Funeral Rites, right after Yukinojo compliments Yamagi on the fireworks idea (complete with slap on the back).

I... I think this might be the happiest we ever see Yamagi looking? He looks like a little kid! That's very notable when generally his expressions and demeanour really cut against that. Says a hell of a lot about his relationship with Yukinojo, if you ask me.