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Arttober 2023 Day 1: Suletta Mercury
Happy 1yr Anniversary to the Witch from Mercury!
#fanart#sketch#drawing#fan art#gunda#mobile suit gundam#gundam#gundam the witch from mercury#witch from mercury#suletta mercury#suletta x miorine#miorine rembran#ariel#gundam ariel#arttober2023#arttober
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I might have a slight problem
So since my last backlog update I’ve added: Durga I, Sol Raptor, AUV Amaterasu Regalia, Noir, Ilshana, MGEX Strike Freedom
Also I needed to put the Virtue box sideways so you can properly see just how massive that kit is (well not really like size massive but weight massive).
Since then I’ve built: MG Kyrios, HG Calibarn, HG Schwarzette, HG Guntank, 30MS option part set 6, 30MS Luluce (mid progress while I figure out how to make the noir jacket work).
Be warned and stay safe kids. Plastic crack is real.
#I have the RG Unicorn Full Armor and the MG Ver Ka Unicorn Full Armor also coming for bday/Christmas I think?#and I have one more Megami device kit preordered#I think I want to start saving cash by putting away some eveytime I would get a kit and then when the backlog is down make a big bulk buy#OH YEA#I have the FM Ariel coming for my bday lol#gundam#plastic crack claims another#gunpla#plamo#model kit#crimson builds gunpla#Megami device#frame arms girl#gundam seed#g gundam#gundam thunderbolt#unicorn gundam#witch from mercury#gundam 00#30MS#gundam build fighters#gundam advance of zeta
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#GUNDAM#gundam witch from mercury#suletta mercury#0079#mecha#mech#ariel#earthnoid#spacenoid#anime#giant robot#machine#goat#nika nanaura
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Honestly the people saying that they’re sorry to SEED fans because the movie feels like a teen drama fanfic is sending me, guys did you watch the series. I was expecting nothing less.
#even with its faults SEED/Destiny will always have a place in my heart#SEED was my introduction into Gundam as a kid#it was such a bonding point between my brother and so many of my friends#it was the entire start of my friendship with Ariel#I bought my junior prom dress because it was the same color as cagalli’s dress#I’ve read my gundam seed fanfiction than I have read any other series#the hours I used to spend looking at fanart and in Rp communities because of it#it really shaped a lot of my life#I’ve watched the series start to finish easily 15 times#and while as an adult I can say it’s no longer my favorite series and the writing is questionable at best#I still love it#I’m so excited for the movie#it has 3 lover triangles?? two of which they made up just to cause needless drama for the movie?#a two seater gundam that I’m pretty sure is going to have no reason to be two seater other than for romantic reasons#I heard someone say athrun and Kira both punch shin in the face because they’re mad at each other and he tells them to calm down#and I don’t even know if that’s a joke or not but that’s the level of ff.net bullshit we’re on let’s fucckin goooooo
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Please keep in mind I don't know most of the ships/couples in the preliminary round. If you think something doesn't belong in this poll, vote that couple/ship out & please be civil!
For Suletta and Miorine:
For Seele and Bronya:
For Sam and Max:
For Shiraori and Ariel:
For Vilanelle and Eve:
For Reko and Nao:
#bqcb preliminaries#sulemio#gundam witch from mercury#your turn to die#naoreko#villaneve#killing eve#sam and max#shiraori#ariel#so i'm a spider so what#kumo desu ga nani ka#honkai impact#bronseele
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Hiii this is me trying pop art style with 2 of my favorite mecha pilots
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I've been thinking about Aerial for a while, in episode 13 they pretty much revealed that Suletta regularly talks to Aerial off screen, and we never get to hear any of what she's telling her. This might seen normal, but then I realized that Suletta is discussing with Aerial about a lot of stuff we can only speculate on, like her feelings and thoughts on the other characters.
Like what was she thinking during her talk with Miorine in the greenhouse? Did she talk with Aerial beforehand about how Miorine is angry at her and she doesn't know how to fix it? What did Aerial answer to her? And does Aerial also agree that they have no choice but to kill?
Most importantly, just how much is Suletta telling her? How much does Aerial know? It always felt pretty weird that Prospera is so confident in her plans, but when you consider that Aerial can apparently control Permet networks(which pretty much everything in this world uses), and Suletta is telling her everything that happens in Asticassia,
Is Aerial being a mole to Prospera?
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Suletta Mercury extols the virtues of the Little Mermaid.
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Love Suletta's incredulousness at these duels -- you beat him before, and now he's come back with a newer better model to challenge you with? That's hardly sporting at all!
Also, this was the previous suit....
Maybe there's a good reason he's not piloting it again? I don't think you can snap those pieces back together after that. :)
#gundam#witch from mercury#Suletta#Ariel#mobile suits#spoilers#sort of#this is kind of how the show goes
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She's complete!
#yes it took me this long#dont look at my stickerless Deathsythe#ill get to it#gunpla#mobile suit gundam#ariel#g witch
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God I love these digimon model kits, they’re so fun to pose after assembly. Machinedramon lacks detail but makes up for it in CHONK.
#I got my Ariel set from Witch from Mercury to assemble today#machinedramon will dwarf her#digimon#machinedramon#gunpla#is it gunpla if it’s not a gundam?
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#gundam witch from mercury#spoilers#i couldnt get a normal hand that looked right so here you go#ariel shoulda had one of these though#suletta mercury
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Its been a long time since I've watched a Gundam series. The last one I watched was the first build fighters but haven't since. That was until I saw a gif from G witch. It was of the Ariel with its bits surrounding it. I thought it was cool so I went ahead and started season 1.
I immediately fell in love with suletta. And as the story went on I figured out why. I saw myself in her. The episode that hit particularly hard was episode 11. The feeling of being a hindrance to people how she didn't say anything even though there was no food left for her.
That hit home in many ways. I often feel like I did or said something wrong or misunderstood the person’s reaction. Even so I feel like I insulted them or am bothering them so I leave them be. Things might clear up but most often we never talk again. I felt relieved, like a weight off my shoulder when miorine talked to her.
The duality of her relationship with her mother how she would listen without questioning, when Mio made her lose, the gut punch when she found out the truth and was ejected from ariel. Watching all that hurt cause I connected with it.
I actually waited till the remaining episodes came out to finish it cause I didn't want to watch her hurt.
I hated how she viewed herself. Because that's how I saw myself. Something about seeing it made me angry but not at her. Despite everything in my life, I'm still worried what people think of me, still presenting what my family expects me to be. Still fear that my existence is a hindrance. And watching a show like that hit too close. It made me feel like nothing's changed despite growing up.
I've only recently started moving forward. Admitting who I am and who I want to be. And Im happy that she was able to overcome it and find happiness in the end.
With all that's going on in the world it was nice to see a happy ending.
May All Blessings Find Their Way To You, I'm Wishing It
#gundam the witch from mercury#miorine rembran#the witch from mercury#g witch#gwitch#sulemio#suletta x miorine#gundam#suletta mercury
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MASK MONDAYS EPISODE 2: PROSPERA MERCURY
Welcome back to week 2 of Mask Mondays! You thought I wouldn't do it, but I did. And when I say "you" here, I mean "me."
For any tag browsers, I have recently resolved to analyze a different mask, helmet, or headgear-adorned fictional character every Monday until I quit this website forever. I'll be real: Returning to Tumblr after two years' break has been quite the balancing act. It's addictive in a particularly draining way, and reconciling that has taken a lot of energy I would rather have spent on research. Therefore, this week I'll be discussing a character who I already have strong and well-informed opinions about: Prospera Mercury, the principal antagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.
Okay, folks, let's be on the level here. What the fuck? Why does no one ever talk about Prospera? I know the show is popular here, it's what pushed me to watch it in the first place. Everyone loves posting fanart and talking about how endearing the protagonists are. But there's NO ATTENTION PAID to Prospera Mercury? Compelling arc and presence of character aside, I would've assumed the tall evil lady in the business suit would've been enough for a ton of people. Something is certainly amiss.
What bothers me most about this situation is that Prospera Mercury is arguably the most well-realized character in her show. As a text, the Witch From Mercury has strong opinions about Gundam, The Tempest, and the world at large, and all of them are brought together by its antagonist. Prospera Mercury is an absolute well of material, far more than can be covered in a single post. So while I'll be returning to her later, I want to spend this week laying down foundations: If you'll allow me, I'll be trying to prove once and for all that The Witch From Mercury isn't just using The Tempest as set dressing.
Named after Gundam 0079 antagonist Char Aznable, the "Char clone" is perhaps the most ubiquitous concept in its franchise. Almost every Gundam show, film, and OVA contains a morally ambiguous masked antagonist who challenges the hero's moral principles while maintaining a complex and terse relationship with the villainous faction. The Witch from Mercury too adopts this concept, but twists it to say something truly controversial. Prospera Mercury, the text argues, is not a Char Aznable clone. Char Aznable is a Prospero of Milan clone.
It's no revelation that The Witch From Mercury is loosely based off William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," but understanding why this choice is so important requires a summary of its principal antagonist. The antivillainous sorcerer Prospero is a natural talent and skilled manipulator unjustly exiled from his place of birth. As he grows in ability, he is overtaken by resentment and dedicates himself to exacting revenge. He executes a grand plan that goes off nearly perfectly, but when on the verge of total success, Prospero has a change of heart. Realizing that bettering the future is more important than staying in the past, he steps down, relinquishing his power to the new generation.
To dispose with subtlety, Char's character arc in the original Gundam series is nearly identical to Prospero's. There's a reason Prospera is closer to Char in terms of motivation and role than any other Char clone before her: She's channeling the primordial Char from which they all descend!
Insane as this sentence sounds, Prospera Mercury's position as Char clone manifests Prospero's flaws in ways other adaptations couldn't possibly emulate. Take Prospera's willingness to shatter personal bonds in service of pointless revenge, a quality unmistakable in Char, but quite well-hidden in Prospero. Prospero treats Ariel (yes, telling the names apart will get annoying) as an equal all throughout The Tempest, yet takes for granted that Ariel's freedom comes second to punishing Antonio and Alonso. Similarly, despite the two sharing a strong platonic bond if not a romantic one, Char is more than willing to send Garma to die if it means twisting the knife in the Zabi family's side. Robert Egan's "This Rough Magic: Perspectives of Art and Morality in The Tempest," a woefully undercited article despite being over fifty years old, summarizes the magician's moral perspective as follows:
"[A]n acknowledgement of evil as part of the natural condition of man is unacceptable to Prospero. His years of seclusion in his library have instilled in him a moral perspective rooted not in the real world but in the ideals of his art... In short, he rejects the sinner with the sin" (176)
In this lens, the actions of both Prospera and Char make perfect sense; any who divert from their morality deserves punishment by default, and any who agree would readily give their all to strike back at the wickedness in the world.
Prospero, Prospera, and Char all also share a deep hypocrisy that is literally worn on the latter two parties' faces. Yes, after who knows how many paragraphs, it's finally time to talk about the mask. Despite being well aware that the system she participated in does not value human life, Prospera rebels against it not by joining forces with its opponents, but by acting as a model citizen with the goal of dismantling it from the inside. Char, obviously, embraces an identical practice, as does, I wish to argue, Prospero.
Intriguingly, Gundam's interpretation of "working within the system" does not hinge upon a pragmatic argument, as so many real-world political treatises have done, but an ethical one. Char and Prospera successfully co-opt Zeon and the Benerit group to suit their needs, but in doing so, adopt the practices that made these so abhorrent in the first place. When given the chance to ally with the Earthians or the Mercurian working class that took her in, Prospera instead embraces the mask of the corporate elite and becomes the usurper she despises.
After so bluntly accentuating Prospera's hypocritical and egotistical tendencies, The Witch From Mercury almost demands the viewer to interrogate its source material in search of parallels. And indeed, Prospero's most academically well-treaded moral failings (most of which involve Caliban) without exception find their origin in his resolve to serve as a king and judge on the island where he could not in Milan.
I have a lot more to talk about with Prospera (I have been intentionally avoiding discussing her relationships with Eri and Suletta), but my ass is running out of time and I'm not risking another three-paragraph tangent. I probably won't make another Monday post for Prospera anytime soon, but the Mask Mondays exercise will continue, whether I like it or not!
Link to "This Rough Magic:" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2868575
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