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GUYS GUYS GUYS I AM SCREAMING HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Not an anime analysis but fic idea:

Every character that reached Permet score 4 and up, weither they died while linked up or not, created an echo or a copy of their conciousness that exists within the data stream of Permet. This latent data, which is normally unobservable by operating systems, could perhaps be uploaded/carried from machine to machine as long as there is permet and a link present to carry said data.

What I'm trying to say is digital Daddy Nadim being found and woken up by Suletta within a discarded component of the Aerial after a copy of his data was uploaded during the prologue after he used Permet score 4 and saw the digital sphere. (Cause OG Aerial is a refitted Lfrith ala episode 18)

Now also include some detective of both Nadim and Suletta working together trying to figure out Eri and Elnora's plans.

Also the reason why Eri hadn't found Nadim within Aerial is because Eri was a part of the main OS and Nadim was dormant/fragmented. Weak in comparison to her who likely reached a way higher score and integration.

Like Eri this is the real Nadim, but potentially other characters who died from Permet data storms may be real too, such as Sophie. Potentially a ghostly copy of Elan 4 is around somewhere also but this one is really a copy because it might be more limited and because Elan 4 didn't actually die from a data storm like Nadim and Sophie.

I just want good dad Nadim to give Suletta some comfort in these trying times, damn it!

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I'm just saying, but if Suletta had been aware of Prospera and Eri's plans from the beginning she 100% would have supported them. Early Miorine would likely not have cared about Quiet Zero either or her position as potential president of the Benerit Group because all of that was spurred on and encouraged by her affections for Suletta. For sure Suletta would have done in a good word for Earth House and Miorine to Prospera and Eri, who would likely accommodate her request.

Because please remember, Quiet Zero wasn't only Prospera's project, it was Dellings Project too. Not only that, Prospera must have more than a decent amount of support from as of now unknown people who aided her in her plans. If Suletta has been involved, she'd likely have met countless of people who'd back up her mothers actions in her mind, allowing her to justify her actions.

Suletta absolutely loves her mother and sister, and while you all have a bone to pick with Prospera, Suletta simply doesn't. Suletta is a dutiful and loving daughter who, had things gone a little differently, would be right there with her mother and sister aiding the Quiet Zero project. Thats not to say that Suletta is evil, Suletta would simply have no reason to care about the consequences of her mother and her allies actions as, again, they would be justified in her eyes.

Also Suletta wouldn't be evil or brainwashed, she'd simply be slightly different world view. In fact, from her perspective it might even be righteous and justified. With the help of all her mothers allies, the organisation that obviously backed Prospera and even worked together with Delling at one point, and with the help of Eri who is inside of the data storm, Suletta would be helping with potentially bringing in a new era of peace, in which current weapons of destruction and oppression, that brought her mother and her allies such grief and resulted into the deaths of hunderds if not thousands, would be put out of commission and into the control of her beloved sister.

Old post, didn't want to throw it away but still relevant.

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Episode 22 spoilers regarding the new Gundam and Gund Bits

So like since I'm an 2nd ED truther I am currently MANIFESTING 5 GUND-bits for Suletta from Calibarn. I believe the Broom eifle has the potential to split into multiple bits, 5 to be exact. 4 similar bits and 1 sticky one.

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@paxesoterica

The children aren't heroes no, they're children. I mean sure they're heroes in a sense that they are actively trying to both impeove the world as well as help their schoolmates, showing increadible compassion and empathy as they also helped with rescue efforts.

But from a narrative standpoint politically? They can't do fucking jackshit lmao. Earth House is poor as dirt and they sure as hell do not have the resources, experience or skill to fight against literally any of the other factions in the show. In the grand scheme of things it would honestly be an absolute fucking slaughter if literally any of the factions wanted them gone in an "accident". The chance of any of them fighting and winning against either Prospera or the other factions is literally *nihil*.

They are kindergarteners that are helping their crying classmates and showing basic human decency before strange adults lead them out for slaughter before the butcher (ala the investigator thats part of the SAL leading them to Prospera). Like I simp for Prospera alright but I'm not fucking stupid, Aerial and she could literally snap their fingers and have them all oblitirated. Them not being obliterated is both plot armour as well the potential of Prospera not taking out more of her anger unnessecarily against teenagers who virtually pose no threat to her.

If the children are heroes, they are only so far as that they are capable of being humane in this rotten society, joping for the best and working hard to improve things. They're neither an army nor a faction powerful enough to have any real meaningful impact on the Spacian political sphere. Perhaps Guel and Miorine do, but again their children inside of a corporate structure. Depending on how many shares they posses or have inherited, they can easily be ousted by other shareholders and have new CEO's installed.

Hello and welcome back to Simping For Prospera! We will once again be ⭐️controversial⭐️. In this post, we shall ask the following question:

Why would Prospera winning be so bad?

Taking a step back, its fascinating to see what kind of world the authors have written for this series. In what seems to be an almost post-capitalist hellscape, mega corporations have all the power over both its employees as well normal people in a way means it has powers thats only appropriate for an institution thats democratically elected by the normal people.

The Benerit Group has tremendous power, control and resources in space and opress the people of earth, using both economic and physical violence to crush those who oppose it. At its beck and call is the organisation Cathedra and it subdivision Dominicus, a para-military organisation. Once again, a corporation has the power and military might we, in this and age, normally only give to governments.

At its core, all organisations involved in the Benerit Group are military ones. Vying for subsidies and funding from governmental bodies and wealthy investors alike, using weapons programs to keep it all turning. Peil, Grassely, Jeturk, they all produce mobile suits and are the primary members of the group, which exists out of many corporations.

At the same time the Space Assembly League seems to have some sort of authority over the members, allowing them to freely investigate. Likely this is because they are an actual political organisation, perhaps actual representatives of both earth and space and not the corporations. Yet this faction and/or organisation, which may or may not be the only non-corporate controlled form of government there is in space and thus the only other faction with any "legitimate" power, work together with terrorists such as the Dawn of Fold in order to take down the Benerit Group which shows how much power the group really has.

All of this goes to show how spectacularly corrupt the whole society and every active participant inside of it is. Money is basically only invested if its in the interest of the powerful and whats in their interest is to primarily invest in the means and technology to utterly crush those who may threaten their power. Weapons, resources, property, means of travel, they all utterly dominate it. In other words, buisness men and women are at the top of it all. People who only care about and for money.

Then where are all the others? The artists, researchers, teachers, etc? Right under the tumb of the upper class of course. The rich are the ones who decide who gets funding, why they get funding, how they get funding and how much funding they receive. Medicine is beholden to the ones who can provide the funding for it.

The Vanadís Institute, where research was done on the GUND-format by Cardo Nabo and her staff, is one such faction that had to align themselves with more militaristic organisations in order to receive funding for their research. Instead of being able to focus purely on the improvement and freeing of humanity through the use of technology to make themselves more durable against the hardships of space, the institute had to work together with Ochs-Earth and bend to the whims of the military to even more powerful mobile suits then there already were, Gundams.

Instead of being a way to save lives and advance humanity, the GUND-format was seen as a way for Earthians to gain power and to get on even footing with the Spacians by developing weaponry that could fight rival or even surpass Spacian tech. Such is the world, violence almost always prevails.

And Spacian rule has not been kind, not to Earthians or lower class Spacians. Mercury is so inhospitable, raising a family there is considered borderline insanity (see, Cradle Planet and read between the lines). The risks are simply too great. In the show we can see that Mercury is basically considered some backwater, irrelevant place in the middle of nowhere, far away from the Earth sphere. The Space equivilant of the middle of nowhere, of a falling apart mining town almost.

Its not nearly as severe as what the Benerit Group does upon Earthians and Earthian aligned people however. Look no further then the massive amounts of indiscriminate murder committed against the researchers of Vanadís for daring to create mobile suits which might threaten Spacian rule or the violence which they turn upon the Earthians in order to keep them surpressed when they protest the injustices done upon them by the Spacian leeches, sucking the earth dry of its resources and siphoning its wealth. The violence caused by greed is truly incredible.

And then we have Prospera. Prospera, who is Elnora Samaya. Prospera, who was mentored and likely cared for by Cardo Nabo, lead researcher of Vanadís and ardent believer in the GUND-format. Prospera, who truly believes in the ideals of the Vanadís Insitute and what it wished to accomplish with GUND technology. Prospera, who lived on Folkenvanger which housed the institute, who was married to a manager of the project. Prospera, who was a tester and pilot herself. Prospera, who had her whole *life* inside of the institute: family, friends, collegues.

She felt safe there, she felt comfortable. She was amongst like-minded people, with people she trusted, trusted enough to raise her precious daughter there. To have a family.

And then they were all killed.

(almost) the whole institute was wiped out, from researchers to managers to technicians and other employees, including their families. In the grand scheme of things, its just an other event where many innocent lives are lost to the hands of Spacian and specifically corporate oppression and control.

That being said, looking at it from Elnora's perspective this is absolutely a beyond traumatic event. Her whole world was turned upside down. She lost her collegues, her friends, her mentor, her husband and later on her precious daughter. All the while those who ruined her life sit high upon their fancy chairs, enjoying their wealth and with not a real worry in the world, playing god in their meeting rooms.

No justice would come to them for their actions, oh no. There is no law which would hold them accountable for their indiscrimimate murder, they ARE the law. They are the judges, the juries and the executioners.

Isn't that just crazy to think about? The insanity and the hubris of the most powerful Spacian faction? Evil is often described as something "profoundly wicked and immoral". I'd say that the actions of the Benerit Group, the Mobile Suit Council, Cathedra, Dominicus and even the Space Assembly League are quite wicked and immoral.

Then tell me, do you blame Elnora for wishing to take them down? To bring down the Benerit Group? To not work with the Space Assembly? Should her actions not be seen as admirable, in a way? Her desire for revenge against the injustices done upon her and her drive to take down those who are her enemies?

Is it wrong to cheer for the opressed instead of the oppressor?

Sure, one may argue that Prospera's actions are too violent, as she basically sacrificed the inhabitants of Quinnharbor, but what is one town/city in the face of the many atrocities perpetuated by the Space Aseembly League and Benerit Group? What is one town compared to the safety and happiness of her lovely daughter within the Data Storm, as well as close to 2 decades of planning and preparing?

As for Suletta yes, she might be a "repli-child" who, was simply a "key" and yes Eri might be her main focus, that does not mean she did not treat Suletta well. In the first season, prologue as well as Cradle Planet we can see how gentle Elnora is. She is sweet and smiles and is patient with her daughters. She listens to their worries and and indulges in their chatter. Suletta obviously loves her and feels safe with her. This shows that even if Elnora didn't think of her as her daughter, she still treated her well. She treated her gently and she made her feel loved. Eri is her first priority yes, but that does not mean that she doesn't care for Suletta. Prospera is thus not personally an evil person who revels in the pain of those who cannot fight back, such as a young child. She even agrees with Eri that Suletta should be happy, even if its not with them.

But what does Prospera, Elnora, want? What is her goal with Quiet Zero and would it be that much worse then the Benerit Group? The Quiet Zero project seems to be a collaboration between her, Delling and whichever organisation is helping her. Besides wanting to expand the range for Eri so she can live more freely, what else is the project for? They for sure likely cannot care less about Eri, thats not their daughter and for all they care its just an extremely advanced AI with the imprint of a dead child.

Quiet Zero, most likely, is an attempt to forcefully put an end to most of the fighting. Since basically everything uses permet, entire stations and other Spacian infrastructure and even some Earthian ones use Permet, they'll all be vulnerable to being taken over by the Quiet Zero data storm and thus Eri. This power would allow Prospera and Eri to forcefully take over all the organisations who oppose them and to get their revenge against those who ruined their lives. They and everyone else on their side who aid them are likely so disillusiomed with the system and the consatnt tragedies caused by corruption and greed, they are entirely willing to take over everything themselves. They are likely planning to take over the Earth Sphere and the rest of Spacian territory by force and to have them at their mercy, easily dismanteling them, especially as they'll be unable to resist.

There are no good good guys in gundam, there are only desperate people clawing for power and control.

Suletta and the Earth House aren't the "good guys" or "heroes", they're normal school kids going to a military academy under the control of major corporations who just wanna do their best and survive and are at the mercy of corporate giants and their spawn. The Benerit Group aren't heroes/good guys, and neither is the Space Assembly League, Ochs-Earth, Dawn of Fold, they're all evil as fuck imo. There are no good guys, there are only victims and perpetrators.

So tell me, what exactly are we rooting for in this show? Why should Suletta "talk" or "reason" with her mother? Why do we not want Prospera to succeed? I can understand Suletta reaching out to her mother and sister in order to understand where they are coming from and why they had left her, why they never told her of their plans even. To have open communications. But I don't understans for the life of me why Suletta or Earth House should give a single singular shit about Prospera upheaving all of Spacian society. Miorine and Guel perhaps do, but they are benign to the Earthians and likely wouldn't mind in the long run/could be reasoned with. It depends.

So, with all of this said: why shouldn't Prospera win?

(Anyway I have a whole lotta fears and specukation about the SAL and Suletta, as well absolute red flags for her and I am fucking manifesting annother season at this point for more Suletta and Eri development)

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I agree, Shaddiq is not an incel in any capacity. He has show to posses the ability to be sweet and thoughtful, its just that he's also full of himself and elbow deep in his own shenanigans and plans which he likely has been working on since childhood.

He is the childhood friend who was too afraid to explicitely make clear what he wanted in an agreement with Miorine and now he's paying the price through his regret, guilt and inability tot hink clearly. He puts Miorine on a high pedestal while at the same time infantilizing her in his mind, which honestly isn't that strange because Miorine was quite frankly utterly fucking powerless in the beginning of the story.

For all that she's a spitfire, she was solidly under her fathers thumb and seen by various factions within the group as a stepping stone or method to power. Its clear that Shaddiq didn't want her for those reasons, he wanted her because he actually liked her but also didn't want her to feel like he was treating her like an object to be fought over too. Of ourse life never plays out the eay you want it to tho and his lost his chance and has to live with it. He needs to open his eyes and realise that Miorine should be held responsible for her own actions and to not infantilize her, as well as to not blame Guel for supporting her in her endeavours. He is not her keeper, neither of them are. (She is absolutely being manipulated tho)

So yeah Shaddiq is not an incel, he's a childhood friend wearing rose colored glasses, obscuring his own vision so he only sees the old image that he had of Miorine. The image of her helpless and powerless. Miorine does not want to feel helpless or powerless.

Also Shaddiq has literally never treated any of his girls, his fellow pilots, badly or in a way that implies that he just thinks of them as objects or useless for being girls. He doesn't hate girls, he doesn't try to play them, literally nothing. He's just a guy with a crush on a childhood friend who has yet to fully mature and realise that his friend is no longer the powerless little girl of his youth.

Just repeating myself at this point but yeah fuck off out of here with "Shaddiq is an incel" talk smh.

looked at twitter for like five minutes because xofi implied something about shaddiq discourse, and sweet mother of christ, he's not an incel. his whole thing is "i'm the best and nicest option among miorine's potential suitors, so that will definitely bring her to me." it doesn't work, and he dislikes himself for his own cowardice because of it. "i'm not like those other guys" is a key component to the Nice Guy type. he's not an incel.

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Hello and welcome back to Simping For Prospera! We will once again be ⭐️controversial⭐️. In this post, we shall ask the following question:

Why would Prospera winning be so bad?

Taking a step back, its fascinating to see what kind of world the authors have written for this series. In what seems to be an almost post-capitalist hellscape, mega corporations have all the power over both its employees as well normal people in a way means it has powers thats only appropriate for an institution thats democratically elected by the normal people.

The Benerit Group has tremendous power, control and resources in space and opress the people of earth, using both economic and physical violence to crush those who oppose it. At its beck and call is the organisation Cathedra and it subdivision Dominicus, a para-military organisation. Once again, a corporation has the power and military might we, in this and age, normally only give to governments.

At its core, all organisations involved in the Benerit Group are military ones. Vying for subsidies and funding from governmental bodies and wealthy investors alike, using weapons programs to keep it all turning. Peil, Grassely, Jeturk, they all produce mobile suits and are the primary members of the group, which exists out of many corporations.

At the same time the Space Assembly League seems to have some sort of authority over the members, allowing them to freely investigate. Likely this is because they are an actual political organisation, perhaps actual representatives of both earth and space and not the corporations. Yet this faction and/or organisation, which may or may not be the only non-corporate controlled form of government there is in space and thus the only other faction with any "legitimate" power, work together with terrorists such as the Dawn of Fold in order to take down the Benerit Group which shows how much power the group really has.

All of this goes to show how spectacularly corrupt the whole society and every active participant inside of it is. Money is basically only invested if its in the interest of the powerful and whats in their interest is to primarily invest in the means and technology to utterly crush those who may threaten their power. Weapons, resources, property, means of travel, they all utterly dominate it. In other words, buisness men and women are at the top of it all. People who only care about and for money.

Then where are all the others? The artists, researchers, teachers, etc? Right under the tumb of the upper class of course. The rich are the ones who decide who gets funding, why they get funding, how they get funding and how much funding they receive. Medicine is beholden to the ones who can provide the funding for it.

The Vanadís Institute, where research was done on the GUND-format by Cardo Nabo and her staff, is one such faction that had to align themselves with more militaristic organisations in order to receive funding for their research. Instead of being able to focus purely on the improvement and freeing of humanity through the use of technology to make themselves more durable against the hardships of space, the institute had to work together with Ochs-Earth and bend to the whims of the military to even more powerful mobile suits then there already were, Gundams.

Instead of being a way to save lives and advance humanity, the GUND-format was seen as a way for Earthians to gain power and to get on even footing with the Spacians by developing weaponry that could fight rival or even surpass Spacian tech. Such is the world, violence almost always prevails.

And Spacian rule has not been kind, not to Earthians or lower class Spacians. Mercury is so inhospitable, raising a family there is considered borderline insanity (see, Cradle Planet and read between the lines). The risks are simply too great. In the show we can see that Mercury is basically considered some backwater, irrelevant place in the middle of nowhere, far away from the Earth sphere. The Space equivilant of the middle of nowhere, of a falling apart mining town almost.

Its not nearly as severe as what the Benerit Group does upon Earthians and Earthian aligned people however. Look no further then the massive amounts of indiscriminate murder committed against the researchers of Vanadís for daring to create mobile suits which might threaten Spacian rule or the violence which they turn upon the Earthians in order to keep them surpressed when they protest the injustices done upon them by the Spacian leeches, sucking the earth dry of its resources and siphoning its wealth. The violence caused by greed is truly incredible.

And then we have Prospera. Prospera, who is Elnora Samaya. Prospera, who was mentored and likely cared for by Cardo Nabo, lead researcher of Vanadís and ardent believer in the GUND-format. Prospera, who truly believes in the ideals of the Vanadís Insitute and what it wished to accomplish with GUND technology. Prospera, who lived on Folkenvanger which housed the institute, who was married to a manager of the project. Prospera, who was a tester and pilot herself. Prospera, who had her whole *life* inside of the institute: family, friends, collegues.

She felt safe there, she felt comfortable. She was amongst like-minded people, with people she trusted, trusted enough to raise her precious daughter there. To have a family.

And then they were all killed.

(almost) the whole institute was wiped out, from researchers to managers to technicians and other employees, including their families. In the grand scheme of things, its just an other event where many innocent lives are lost to the hands of Spacian and specifically corporate oppression and control.

That being said, looking at it from Elnora's perspective this is absolutely a beyond traumatic event. Her whole world was turned upside down. She lost her collegues, her friends, her mentor, her husband and later on her precious daughter. All the while those who ruined her life sit high upon their fancy chairs, enjoying their wealth and with not a real worry in the world, playing god in their meeting rooms.

No justice would come to them for their actions, oh no. There is no law which would hold them accountable for their indiscrimimate murder, they ARE the law. They are the judges, the juries and the executioners.

Isn't that just crazy to think about? The insanity and the hubris of the most powerful Spacian faction? Evil is often described as something "profoundly wicked and immoral". I'd say that the actions of the Benerit Group, the Mobile Suit Council, Cathedra, Dominicus and even the Space Assembly League are quite wicked and immoral.

Then tell me, do you blame Elnora for wishing to take them down? To bring down the Benerit Group? To not work with the Space Assembly? Should her actions not be seen as admirable, in a way? Her desire for revenge against the injustices done upon her and her drive to take down those who are her enemies?

Is it wrong to cheer for the opressed instead of the oppressor?

Sure, one may argue that Prospera's actions are too violent, as she basically sacrificed the inhabitants of Quinnharbor, but what is one town/city in the face of the many atrocities perpetuated by the Space Aseembly League and Benerit Group? What is one town compared to the safety and happiness of her lovely daughter within the Data Storm, as well as close to 2 decades of planning and preparing?

As for Suletta yes, she might be a "repli-child" who, was simply a "key" and yes Eri might be her main focus, that does not mean she did not treat Suletta well. In the first season, prologue as well as Cradle Planet we can see how gentle Elnora is. She is sweet and smiles and is patient with her daughters. She listens to their worries and and indulges in their chatter. Suletta obviously loves her and feels safe with her. This shows that even if Elnora didn't think of her as her daughter, she still treated her well. She treated her gently and she made her feel loved. Eri is her first priority yes, but that does not mean that she doesn't care for Suletta. Prospera is thus not personally an evil person who revels in the pain of those who cannot fight back, such as a young child. She even agrees with Eri that Suletta should be happy, even if its not with them.

But what does Prospera, Elnora, want? What is her goal with Quiet Zero and would it be that much worse then the Benerit Group? The Quiet Zero project seems to be a collaboration between her, Delling and whichever organisation is helping her. Besides wanting to expand the range for Eri so she can live more freely, what else is the project for? They for sure likely cannot care less about Eri, thats not their daughter and for all they care its just an extremely advanced AI with the imprint of a dead child.

Quiet Zero, most likely, is an attempt to forcefully put an end to most of the fighting. Since basically everything uses permet, entire stations and other Spacian infrastructure and even some Earthian ones use Permet, they'll all be vulnerable to being taken over by the Quiet Zero data storm and thus Eri. This power would allow Prospera and Eri to forcefully take over all the organisations who oppose them and to get their revenge against those who ruined their lives. They and everyone else on their side who aid them are likely so disillusiomed with the system and the consatnt tragedies caused by corruption and greed, they are entirely willing to take over everything themselves. They are likely planning to take over the Earth Sphere and the rest of Spacian territory by force and to have them at their mercy, easily dismanteling them, especially as they'll be unable to resist.

There are no good good guys in gundam, there are only desperate people clawing for power and control.

Suletta and the Earth House aren't the "good guys" or "heroes", they're normal school kids going to a military academy under the control of major corporations who just wanna do their best and survive and are at the mercy of corporate giants and their spawn. The Benerit Group aren't heroes/good guys, and neither is the Space Assembly League, Ochs-Earth, Dawn of Fold, they're all evil as fuck imo. There are no good guys, there are only victims and perpetrators.

So tell me, what exactly are we rooting for in this show? Why should Suletta "talk" or "reason" with her mother? Why do we not want Prospera to succeed? I can understand Suletta reaching out to her mother and sister in order to understand where they are coming from and why they had left her, why they never told her of their plans even. To have open communications. But I don't understans for the life of me why Suletta or Earth House should give a single singular shit about Prospera upheaving all of Spacian society. Miorine and Guel perhaps do, but they are benign to the Earthians and likely wouldn't mind in the long run/could be reasoned with. It depends.

So, with all of this said: why shouldn't Prospera win?

(Anyway I have a whole lotta fears and specukation about the SAL and Suletta, as well absolute red flags for her and I am fucking manifesting annother season at this point for more Suletta and Eri development)

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Someone mentioned it and its absolutely batshit crazy but I'm gonna throw this theory out there cause its hella interesting and I'm trying to manifest it:

Belmaria Winston is Wendy Olent, the other hot headed pilot who fought side by side with Nadim during the prologue.

I will not elaborate.

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Alright I've seen this take plenty of times now and I feel like some of y'all are honestly kinda straight up loco.

Suletta Mercury is not and never has been anything even resembling to brainwashed at any point in this series. I repeat, Suletta is NOT brainwashed. She never has been and seeing so many of you all projecting your own woefully unnuanced moral compasses upon the characters in this show is honestly painful to watch.

If you bothered to read Cradle Planet, the short story related to G:WfM, one of the main things that would become clear to you is that Suletta was raised in isolation. Specifically she was isolated from other kids her age.

This wasn't done on purpose by Prospera to raise her to be the perfect little pawn for her plans y'all, thats so fucking stupid. At this point its clear that while Prospera likely favours Aerial when it comes to securing a future for one of her children, she has never shown at any point that she saw Suletta as something to be disposed of in the sense of killing her. Her belief in the ideals of the Vanadís Institute and her hatred for the misuse of the GUND-format, along with her love for Eri would make it thematically utter fucking madness for her not to love or be fond of Suletta.

The short story and Eri talking about the past in the anime shows that Prospera treated Suletta the best she could, along with Suletta being familiar with various forms of media that likely show the importance of love and kindness, such as reading/watching about highschool and stuff from Earth Sphere media such as mentioned in the short story.

How Suletta behaves at the school and how comfortable she is to interact and look for her mother for comfort shows that Prospera did not hurt Suletta for being vulnerable with her and that she supported her daughter when she was young. Aerial mentions that Suletta at 6 years old only came to her for comfort when she was scared if Prospera was busy with work, implying that Prospera was otherwise most of the time present when Suletta was young.

The reason why Suletta is so shy and uncertain as she was is because of the people on Mercury. The people who lived there did not trust Prospera and by extension Suletta. They were seen as potential liabilities. Aerial recounts that they wanted Prospera and Suletta to be send away. Children are extremely observant and absorb this kind of bullshit, so at a young age Suletta basically internalised the message that she's unwanted and a burden. THIS the the major trauma that makes Suletta as socially incompetent as she is.

Aerial mentions how Suletta's infamous catchphrase about gaining 2 if moving forward was a response to trying to make Suletta be brave about getting a shot. In other words TOTALLY FUCKING NORMAL MOM BEHAVIOUR. Prospera explained that while Suletta could gain 1 by not getting a shot and avoiding pain, but that by getting the shot she could gain 2 by not becoming sick in the future and to be seen as amazing by the people on Mercury.

This is Prospera, explaining to her young daughter, that sometimes you need to be a little brave in order to succeed in your goals or to live a happy and healthy life. You need to do something you might be afraid of or be a little uncomfortable with in order to gain somethings benefits. Thats not fucking evil and if you think that teaching a scared child to be brave to prepare for future is evil manipulation then I fear for your mental faculties.

Suletta internalized this phrase, using it as a source of comfort. Whenever she's scared or afraid but knows that something needs to be done. Its NOT a fucking trigger phrase ala Winter Soldier, thanks.

When Prospera justified the deaths of those terrorists, she was speaking from the perspective of a survivor. Literally all her collegues, friends and even her husband perished in the attack from Dominicus under the command of Cathedra. At our most basic, humans simply wish to survive and if you have to kill others to do so then so be it.

Suletta's "strange" behaviour after that isn't her being brainwashed, its her being in a stressful situation and compartimentalizing on the fly. Millions of people behave strangely or as if nothing is wrong in high stress situations because they're literally working on default. There is no time to think about ethics or morality when you or someone who you love is under attack, there is only panic and making split second decisions that you can only pray you will not regret in the future.

Thats also not to say that Suletta doesn't know or wasn't raised in a way that held life in high esteem. On Mercury she was the primary person responsible for emergency rescue operations with the Aerial, piloting and controlling the Aerial herself in order to save people, who often were rude and mean and were likely unkind to her in childhood. You think she'd do that if she didn't think human life was worth something? Or be as kind and friendly as she is?

Suletta is a kind, hopeful young girl with humble if ambitious plans for the future, who does not wish pain or loneliness upon other people. She isn't an "I suffered so why shouldn't you?" person, she's an "I suffered and I don't want you to suffer too" person.

Suletta was raised to be kind, to be honest, to survive and to do her best. She's not brainwashed she's doing her best. She's not evil she's doing her best. She laughs and cries and is anxious and happy. She's a gentle person who pushes on to do her best anyway, even if she's scared.

So get off of y'alls high horses and "Suletta is brainwashed/is gonna snap and kill a bunch of people" bullshit. Prospera didn't raise a weapon, she raised a daughter and capable Pilot who can survive on her own even once she no longer needed her to raise Aerial's Permet score. She raised a gentle girl who did her best.

Suletta deserves better and I can only hope that Earth House continues to support her. Y'all need to have more faith in her as the heroic gundam protagonist she is, she's not a shonen hero who takes no lives personally ever.

Suletta is capable and strong and you all better remember it.

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Fanfic authors and world builders where the fuck your asses get over here we NEED you

I wonder how large the Spacian population is and of they are even able to sustain themselves without earth in the first place. Like, from what we can see they seem to be really disconnected from earthian life both in terms of for example food as well as class. Earthians seem to be getting impovrished as all their resources get sucked up by the spacians but like, what the fuck is up with the government? Is there just 1 spacian government? What about earth? Which countries are even at play?

Who count as spacians? Everyone born in space even if they have earthian parents or? Is it decided by where theybare raised? Is the earthian health superior over spacian because they don't deal the hostile environment of space? Or is the pollution so bad that earth is essentially a dumping ground?

What about culture? Is Spacian culture just all late stage capitalism with 0 spirituality? Or are there cultures unique to certain regions?

I dunno this just keeps me up at night when thinking about G-witch. Why is the divide between Eartians and Spacians so wide?

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I wonder how large the Spacian population is and of they are even able to sustain themselves without earth in the first place. Like, from what we can see they seem to be really disconnected from earthian life both in terms of for example food as well as class. Earthians seem to be getting impovrished as all their resources get sucked up by the spacians but like, what the fuck is up with the government? Is there just 1 spacian government? What about earth? Which countries are even at play?

Who count as spacians? Everyone born in space even if they have earthian parents or? Is it decided by where theybare raised? Is the earthian health superior over spacian because they don't deal the hostile environment of space? Or is the pollution so bad that earth is essentially a dumping ground?

What about culture? Is Spacian culture just all late stage capitalism with 0 spirituality? Or are there cultures unique to certain regions?

I dunno this just keeps me up at night when thinking about G-witch. Why is the divide between Eartians and Spacians so wide?

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Not an anime analysis but fic idea:

Every character that reached Permet score 4 and up, weither they died while linked up or not, created an echo or a copy of their conciousness that exists within the data stream of Permet. This latent data, which is normally unobservable by operating systems, could perhaps be uploaded/carried from machine to machine as long as there is permet and a link present to carry said data.

What I'm trying to say is digital Daddy Nadim being found and woken up by Suletta within a discarded component of the Aerial after a copy of his data was uploaded during the prologue after he used Permet score 4 and saw the digital sphere. (Cause OG Aerial is a refitted Lfrith ala episode 18)

Now also include some detective of both Nadim and Suletta working together trying to figure out Eri and Elnora's plans.

Also the reason why Eri hadn't found Nadim within Aerial is because Eri was a part of the main OS and Nadim was dormant/fragmented. Weak in comparison to her who likely reached a way higher score and integration.

Like Eri this is the real Nadim, but potentially other characters who died from Permet data storms may be real too, such as Sophie. Potentially a ghostly copy of Elan 4 is around somewhere also but this one is really a copy because it might be more limited and because Elan 4 didn't actually die from a data storm like Nadim and Sophie.

I just want good dad Nadim to give Suletta some comfort in these trying times, damn it!

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OP here, still not evil XD. She also didn't slaughter anybody but she did start a full on attack. That said the road to hell is definately paved with good intentions.

Yes, Prospera loves Suletta. No, she does not care about anybody else except for her ideals and daughters. She seems to have a very clear cut enemy, that enemy being everyone who stands in the way of her hopes for a better future for both of her daughters as well as the ideals of her comrades.

Also it is not at all hard to see that she doesn't see Suletta as expandable, considering she very clearly treats Suletta as well as she can while going on to do her thing. Even agreeing with Eri that Suletta doesn't need to be involved in this whole revenge mess if its not nessecary.

That said on a scale of evil for parents? Not that evil at all. On a scale of evil in terms of getting lots of people killed? Very much on the darkside, I can admit that at the very least.

Hello everyone, time to christen this blog by inviting strife! XD

Prospera, even if she isn't a great mom, is not even half as bad or evil as people in this fandom try to make her out to be. She does, in fact, love Suletta and doesn't just see her as a means to an end.

That is not to say she's a good parent, I'm just saying she's not the momster so many of y'all try to make her to be. Hell, I'd wish she actually was a monster but she's not. At least then it would be easier to hate her or revel in her villainy.

Instead she's a victim, a survivor, a desperate visionary trying to carry the legacy of those she loved and admired while trying to gain revenge for the injustice done upon them.

The world of Gundam is not kind, nor are there any good guys. It clearly shows the inquality, the poverty and the extreme imbalance of power and wealth within the world. It is many shades of grey, with many different people all just trying to live their life running the rat race inside the system.

An antagonist isn't simply a villain, they are someone who creates obstructions or challenges for the protagonist. They are not nessecarily evil.

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Been wanting to scream about this for a while now, figured now is a good as ever time to do so.

So Gundam: Witch From Mercury really leans heavily into the whole witches and witchcraft theme, which is interesting for a sci-fi show. Not to say that they don't do it gloriously tho and in this post I will be pointing towards some of the symbolism that I noticed in the show.

The series starts with the first witch we see inside a Gundam Mobile Suit, none other then our dearest Elnora Samaya, also now known as Prospera Mercury. During the prologue, before anything else, we see her and once she exists the dark of the cockpit its revealed that she has fiery, blood red hair.

(Source: prologue G-witch)

Historically, witchcraft has been associated with red heads because of the many prejeduces against them. Red heads are a minority who have been associated with a lot interesting figure, from Judas who betrayed Jesus to the depictions of Lilith. This has given redheads a negative connotations in the Western World.

Next we see that the head researcher leading this project on GUND-format is also a woman, an older woman at that. Dr Cardo Nabo is the visionary leading this project, dedicated to the cause of making the GUND-format work in conjunction with humanity, in order to improve their lives and perserve their future. She knows that humanity, if it wishes to expand further into space and continuenits next steps into exploration and living outside of Earth, will need technology in order to aid their bodies in order to survive and thrive.

Older women involved in a form of medicine is an other motif in witchcraft and witch stereotypes. Witches were often involved in medicine and care. Cardo is the italian way of refering to a thistle, a purple green prickly flower that was said tp have medicinal properties in the middle ages.

(Source: Prologue G-witch)

During this prologue and later in the show it is revealed that the reason why the Vanadis Institute, of which Dr. Nabo was the head of, was doing resesrch into the GUND-format in conjunction with Mobile Suits because that was the primary way to get access to money for further research. Military funding through Ochs-Earth, an Earthian military company, would allow the Institute to further their goals and to show the viability of the GUND-format.

However, they encountered difficulties during their research. Mobile Suits are far larger and more difficult to control then prostethic limbs. The higher the permet score used by an individual to control more of the suit, the more the chance of death grows. Anything higher then score 3 caused deaths to the user because of, presumably, a data overload caused by the Permet link.

This caused a lot of ethical debates and strife, presumably, where the GUND-format was cast into a dangerous and even inhuman light because of its potential to not just kill others but also the users themselves. This led to the eventual forceful suspension of the project by the council, during which Cathedra used the Dominicus Forces to attack and kill all those present on Fólkvangr, the asteroid where the Vanadis Institute was located. Those present on Fólkvangr were both staff of the institute as well as their family. Everyone who was involved or related to the development of the GUND-format were killed in what is essentially a witch hunt.

Fólkvangr is an other reference to witchcraft, as in Norse Mythology this is a heavenly field in the afterlife ruled over by Freyja, a goddess of many things including magic (to see and influence the future). An other name for Freyja is Vanadís. Once again, this is a reference to paganism and witchcraft within the G-Witch universe thats quite obvious. Ochs also may or may not be a reference to the Old English word for "Oak" (not too sure about that one), if this is indeed true then this may be a reference to Thor, god of Thunder and Lightening as well as a warrior. I considered connecting oaks to Yggdrasil, the world tree, but that is an Ash tree, not an oak.

During the discussion in which the Mobile Suit council werebdeciding the fate of further development of Gundam Mobile Suits, Delling came forth and said that they had to "Wield the hammer of witches" in order to put a stop to the development of Gundams. The "hammer of the witches" is a reference to the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century guide on hunting and persecuting witches.

During his speech at the conference, he also calls the fact that gundams kill not only other soldiers but also their wielders a curse, once again a reference to witches. Prior to saying this he also says however that humans should kill humans, instead of humans being killed by just technology (really simplifying this) but essentially what he is saying is that the Gundams killing their wielders is unnatural and goes against the normal way of things.

(Source: Prologue G-witch)

The irony of this is also the name of these organisations. Cathedra is a literal reference to the throne upon which a bishop sits, Dominicus means "of the Lord/Lord's". Both are a reference towards christianity and its opposition to both withcraft and paganism.

Now we have established whom exactly this show calls "Witches", these are the people involved in the manufacturing, research, development and piloting of the GUND-format and Mobile Suits using said format, be it for medicinal or war uses. If you are associated or sympathize with the use of this technology, you are considered "a witch".

Putting this into context, we can now also look at the name "Witch From Mercury". Who does this refer to? I've seen people argue that this might be Aerial or Prospera, but I sincerely disagree. As of the knowledge we have come to learn of in both the short novel as well as everything from episode 16/season 2 episode 4 onwards, we can assume that Suletta was the only one actually raised on Mercury and who feels any connection to the planet at all. Suletta, as both a pilot of a Mobile Suit using the GUND-format as well as the daughter of a witch (Elnora/Prospera), is a witch.

(Source: G-witch teaser announcement)

Now onto my FAVOURITE part: the 2nd ED Red Birthmark. Oh boi this baby has some of the more blatant witch references, I absolutely love it ngl. Starting with the name itself, historically one of the methods to hunt for witches was to check for birthmarks/skin marks. Having strange birthmarkings or an insensitive patch of skin was basically proof enough of you being a witch, again a part of the witch hunt theme.

The song, which I am convinced is from Miorine's perspective (tho maybe/perhaps Aerial, tho thats a small maybe), makes references to seeing into the future, not liking whats in it and changing destiny yourself. Once again, these are themes of clairvoyance, the sort of magic Freyja is associated with (aka Vanadís). Witches were often said to be able to look into the future and change things as well.

Next we have the visual parts if the ED. I'm sure we all ate utterly in love with.

From 0:44 to 1:00 we have this beautiful sequence of Suletta dancing and conducting GUN-bits.

First Suletta creates a stylized version of the Triple Goddess Symbol, a well known pagan icon amongst both witchcraft practitioners as well as wiccans. The symbol contains 3 moons in different phases; waxing, full and waning. The symbol represents the 3 phases of the goddess; the maiden, the mother and the crone. This is both the life lifecycle of a girl as well as the eay that wisdom is often bestowed upon a person, from the elderly to the adults to the children. You could even argue that this could represent Dr. Nabo, Elnora/Prospera and Suletta.

(Source: G-witch 2nd ED)

Following this we have 5 Suletta's dancing together in which one can assume is a circle dance. Circle dances bave historically been associated with both witches, pagans and cultists. Something ritualistic.

Anyway I'm tired now but there are like way more witchcraft references in the whole show that I can't get into right now cause I'm tired lmao. Anyway have fun with the above, peace.

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Kinda wanna scream about all things Prospera, Politics and how likable all the characters are. Might go annoy some people about how likable certain characters may or may not be. Stomp on some toes about being a sympathyzer with certain characters who knows.

Gonna for now just have some Suletta Appreciation tho. Look at her! So, so cute. I mean yeah she's in a depressive period after getting told to get lost by basically her closest loved ones but she's surviving! And also giving into her inner-raccoon dog. Sneaking around to lessen her hunger. Her face is so fucking hilarious lmao, caught by Chuchu.

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Hello everyone, time to christen this blog by inviting strife! XD

Prospera, even if she isn't a great mom, is not even half as bad or evil as people in this fandom try to make her out to be. She does, in fact, love Suletta and doesn't just see her as a means to an end.

That is not to say she's a good parent, I'm just saying she's not the momster so many of y'all try to make her to be. Hell, I'd wish she actually was a monster but she's not. At least then it would be easier to hate her or revel in her villainy.

Instead she's a victim, a survivor, a desperate visionary trying to carry the legacy of those she loved and admired while trying to gain revenge for the injustice done upon them.

The world of Gundam is not kind, nor are there any good guys. It clearly shows the inquality, the poverty and the extreme imbalance of power and wealth within the world. It is many shades of grey, with many different people all just trying to live their life running the rat race inside the system.

An antagonist isn't simply a villain, they are someone who creates obstructions or challenges for the protagonist. They are not nessecarily evil.