lila. 32. she/her. bi trans woman. multifandom blog. interests change often but reliably you'll get fate, pokemon, kamen rider, symphogear, and other anime/tokusatsu. occasional homestuck warning. 98% reblogs, 2% milk
if a fae asks for your name and you give them your deadname does that mean you’re free to pick up your chosen name from there on or are you just nameless forever no reason haha but please answer quickly
I still think it’s really cool how Amuro starts as the shittiest pilot alive (because he’s a 15-year old) that only gets carried because he’s in the biggest, fattest stat stick in-universe at the time (a few retroactive additions made in the future notwithstanding), enough that even its crappy vulcan guns are tearing Zaku IIs apart, and when he starts getting a bit too cocky, Char and Ramba Ral show up in objectively inferior pieces of junk and absolutely deliver his pizza, they just drag his face across every available surface in Planet Earth like he’s a Yakuza mook, all because they are simply that much better at piloting, and the thing is, Amuro takes that very seriously.
He goes from shitass kid in an unfortunate situation that doesn’t want to get in the robot to the most unwell child soldier in the war, which is really saying something, but most importantly, becomes so good at piloting the Gundam that the Gundam physically cannot handle Amuro’s piloting. They need to apply “Magnetic Coating” to its joints so they don’t fucking snap away from the main frame because Amuro, one, moves too damn well but also in too extreme a way for the frame to handle it, two, despite being equipped with two sabers, a shield, a beam rifle and vulcan guns, Amuro is a stern believer in introducing most everyone in thagomizer range to his Rated Z for Zeon hands, the single most official pair of hands in the business, tax free. He KEEP going Ip Man on these dudes, he does NOT need to do a Jamestown on these mother fuckers but he INSISTS. Somehow even the Gundam Hammer, which is a giant Hannah Barbera cartoon flail– Ok, look at this thing, words do not do it justice
Even this god damn Tom and Jerry prop is less savage that whatever Amuro decides to do the moment he’s done throwing his shield to get a free kill on someone and it officially becomes bed time forever for the unfortunate sap at the business end of his ten-finger weapons of mass destruction.
The RX-78-2, “Gundam” for its friends and family, even has a top of the line cutting edge Learning Computer that ‘learns’ alongside the pilot and their habits. This data extracted from it was so absolutely fucked up that it completely revolutionized Mobile Suit combat afterwards, which is a wholesome thing to think about when The Best Combat Data Ever came from a really angry, really stressed 15 year old that doesn’t even like piloting. He was 15! He made Haro with his own hands! Amuro literally just wanted to make funny cute spherical robofriends! Amuro was out there trying to make Kirby real, but fate had other plans for him. His cloned brain put in a pilot seat is one of the setting’s strongest 'pilots’.
They made fucking Shadow the Hedgehog with his brain, god damn.
By the end, Zeon is rolling out Gelgoogs out of its mass production lines. These things are in the Gundam’s ballpark in terms of overall specs (or “power level”). Amuro is bodying them as if they were episode 1 Zaku IIs.
AND THEN HE GETS FUCKING PSYCHIC SPACE POWERS. Not that he needed them, he bodied a couple Space Psychics without any of those powers before awakening to them. But heaven’s most violent child was not done evolving, whether he liked it or not.
Char bodied him in a souped up Zaku II at the start, a machine objectively inferior to the Gundam. Amuro more or less one-sidedly beats the shit out of Char when he’s in a custom Commander-type Gelgoog that you could consider to be equal spec-wise to the Gundam. Amuro is the embodiment of Finding Out. He is Consequences. You tell him he better make it hurt, better make it count, better kill you in one shot, buddy, he needs half a fucking shot. The complete transformation. One could consider the central 75% of the show as long drawn out training montage turning a kid into the Geese Howard of giant robots.
I feel what’s important to be said about this is that - as far as the original Tomino quadrilogy goes - this is never portrayed as anything but an absolute tragedy.
Let’s talk about episode 13. Can we talk about episode 13 please? I’ve been dying to talk about episode 13. It is simply the best and most important Gundam episode that there is.
Obviously, spoilers for anyone who hasn’t watched the original series.
In Episode 13 - Coming Home, the White Base continues its sojourn through Zeon territory, and makes a stop near Amuro’s hometown. Amuro borrows the Core Fighter to go check in with his mom.
After a brief scare finding his childhood home empty, he learns that his mom is just busy working at a nearby refugee camp. He finds her, they hug, have a touching reunion, then catch up while Amuro rests in one of the refugee camp beds.
Except, it’s kind of hard to land a fucking fighter jet in a small town without being noticed. A pair of Zeon soldiers come to do a sweep of the camp, under the correct assumption that there’s an EFF pilot lurking about. Amuro hides under the covers as they poke around, but ehhhhn, it’s just old people and kids, nothin’ ta see here. Except then Amuro’s EFF pager (shut up, it was 1979) goes off. They move to investigate and, left with few other choices…
Amuro shoots.
The first Zeon soldier goes down. The second runs. Amuro chases, then empties his gun off-screen.
His mother is horrified.
“Even they might have children, you know? How can you aim a gun at someone like that and fire,” she says. “You’ve grown so cruel.”
Amuro protests. He tells her it’s war. He asks her if she loves him. He checks in with White Base.
“Amuro, I don’t remember bringing you up to be like this,” his mother says.
“Please, go back to the way you were!” She begs.
Amuro runs off to the Core Fighter. He does a strafing run on the nearby Zeon base while his mother, heartbroken at what her son has become, clutches one of his childhood toys.
“Maybe it’s because he was raised by a man,” she says to herself as tears well up in her eyes. “He wasn’t like that as a boy. He was a boy who couldn’t even kill a fly.”
Amuro gets in the Gundam and finishes the job, destroying the Zeon base.
After Amuro’s cheeky rampage, the White Base lands. Amuro says his goodbyes to his mother, while Bright comes out to tell her what a good, good soldier her little boy has been. He also asks Amuro if he’d rather stay behind since, y'know, he is a child, not an enlisted soldier.
Amuro thinks about it for a moment, then stoicly salutes his mother and tells her to take care of herself. He and Bright leave on the White Base. We’re then treated to what I would confidently call the single most gut-wrenching scene in the entire Gundam franchise.
Kamaria Rey watches her son leave. She doesn’t move, doesn’t say a word.
As she loses sight of him, she falls to her knees.
For a full minute, we watch Kamaria weep as the White Base takes off and slowly disappear over the horizon, carrying back to war the soldier that was once her sweet, innocent baby boy. She hardly moves until the last few seconds before the episode fades to black, where she hangs her head in resignation.
so, just for the record, staff’s blatantly discriminatory rules enforcement practices are only half the story. like, if you ever find yourself wondering why trans women are always getting termed right after their posts about transmisogyny start getting numbers (and mysteriously start getting mature content flagged for seemingly no reason), its bc there are a couple of specific circles of people who mass report tgirls who talk about that sort of thing too loudly (or, y'know, they’re just generally annoyed by). there’s at least one discord server more or less dedicated to the practice to my knowledge and i wouldn’t be surprised if there were more.
staff, of course, can perform the tied hands routine bc of this - they’re just responding to reports! and now that the first ban is served, any subsequent attempts to rebuild one’s social life are read as Ban Evasion. girls are left with the non-choice of permanent exile or starting over from scratch, trying to be quieter this time so they don’t get found. this is the point, and its being done with purpose by people who, funnily enough, spend most of their time talking about the importance of Community. lol and lmao
My favourite translator said that when she was an ambassador for Hungary she took all these Japanese politicians on a tour and she was trying to circumtranslate ‘merry go round’ cause she didn’t know the Japanese word for it by calling it a ‘horse tornado for children’ and they had no blessed idea what she was saying and she finally started running in circles going up and down and they go ‘ohhhhh, in Japan we call those ‘merry-go-rounds’“
“Are you saying that Jesus isn’t fully man” he’s literally not. He’s half deity. Why did you word it like that?
“Jesus was fully human and fully divine” is conventionally accepted doctrine. It’s called the hypostatic union. It’s in the Athanasian creed.
Sounds like wormnoodless is recapitulating Eutychianism (Christ exists in one nature and of two), which was rejected by the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451, instead adopting Dyophysitism (Jesus Christ is one person of one substance and one hypostasis, with two distinct, inseparable natures: divine and human), which is still the main belief of most major denominations.
Ive strongarmed my job into giving me at least 1 day a week but thats not enough to keep afloat on its own, we have electric to pay and Engie is almost out of food so anything yall can spare rly helps :c
Hey im her partner who was recently recovering from major surgery that necessitated taking some unpaid leave to recover, so we are REALLY struggling to afford food, bills, and pain management for both of us!! Please help if you can, and boost if you cant
