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it's your birthday, but i'm the one asking for a gift.

wake up already please

[image description: a digital drawing Suletta and Miorine from the show The Witch From Mercury. the drawing shows an overhead view of a dim hospital room, lit from the right by a large window letting in orange light. on the hospital bed is Suletta with her eyes closed, covered in a blanket from the chest down, and with an IV drip inserted in one forearm. Sitting beside the bed is Miorine, stroking Suletta's hair. Slightly beside her on the side of the bed is a bouquet of flowers. In the top right corner of the bed there are balloons tied, with one saying "Happy Birthday". The bouquet and balloons were for Suletta's birthday. end description]

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you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

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to hell with fate and to hell with destiny—i'll hold onto you

[image description: a digital drawing of Suletta and Miorine from the show Gundam: Witch From Mercury. They are floating in space, back-to-back and holding hands, softly lit by starlight. Miorine is facing the viewer and holding onto a pair of scissors in her other hand. She has an angry, determined expression. A red string is tied to the pinky of the same hand, which leads out of frame. Suletta is facing away and her face can't be seen. Her hand is outstretched. A red string is also tied to her pinky but this one is broken, and we can see the frayed end. end description.]

thoughts below

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+ some closeups on the details

So I have. Extremely many thoughts about Sulemio and the idea of destiny

I love soulmate AUs, but choosing love IN DEFIANCE of fate is one of my favorite tropes. I prefer the idea of choice > fate

whether or not this is a Soulmate AU, here are some thoughts that inspired this art i guess

1) Scissors (not just for the lesbianism)

So early Miorine values absolute freedom above all else. As an heiress she's weighed down by so many expectations that other people call "destiny".

She reminds me a lot of a trapped-animal, especially in episode 1. Her brain is locked in survival mode and she can't see anything else (no personal dreams, goals, etc) besides freedom.

Even later on when she begins caring for Suletta, she still idealizes total freedom but now she wants it for Suletta. It's so meaningful when you realize she willingly creates ties (asking Delling for funding, making that deal with Prospera) to protect Suletta's right to choose.

Clearly, she views the threads of destiny as a cage.

Suletta helps her realize that she actually has dreams other than running away. Early Miorine is afraid to care/get attached, but she clearly does care and is just as soft-hearted & compassionate as Suletta; someone just had to show her that her attachments wouldn't be used against her. That it's not the absence of destiny/attachment that makes her free, but being able to live according to her own goals and dreams.

2) Suletta's broken string

In relation to Mio, this represents the divorce arc, kind of. Miorine is trying to free Suletta because she loves her, but doesn't yet realize that Suletta finds comfort and meaning in her attachments.

BUT I also had the idea that she was born with an incomplete string because she's a clone.

Eri has a destiny, but Suletta has a PURPOSE.

Because yeah Prospera loved her, but in the end Suletta was created in service of a goal.

Through Miorine advocating for her and pushing her to ask for what SHE wants, Suletta finds the courage to defy her mom and create her own destiny *outside* of her purpose. Not by cutting Prospera out of her life, but choosing to tighten their ties instead. Suletta isn't weak for being unable to live alone; she finds the strength to create a world where she doesn't have to give up anyone she loves.

3) The strings leading away from each other

I wanted it ambiguous whether or not their strings actually connect. How much of their chemistry is compatibility, and how much is their extremely specific circumstances?

So their strings may or may not connect. Maybe Miorine managed to cut them, or maybe Suletta always had a broken one. Maybe they were never "destined" for each other.

But throughout the show we watch them transcend their preordained destiny and *become* soulmates through their choices.

To me their clasped hands are a stronger bond than fate.

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day 3 - a wedding ✨❤️💍🤍✨

[image description: a digital drawing of Suletta and Miorine from the show Gundam: Witch From Mercury. Suletta is sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a big white wedding dress and with a lace veil over her hair. Miorine is wearing a white pantsuit and has a wedding band shining on her left ring finger. She is sitting on Suletta's lap, holding Suletta's face while leaning down to rest their foreheads together. Suletta has her arms wrapped around Miorine's waist. end description.]

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for sulemio week 2025 day 1 - domestic!

i like to think miorine takes her post-alarm nap standing up bc she refuses to let go of suletta. its part of her waking up ritual

[image description: a digital drawing of Suletta and Miorine from the show Gundam: Witch From Mercury. Suletta is standing in front of a stove, holding an iron pan and a metal flipper in each hand. Her head is turned to the side, giving a forehead kiss to Miorine. Miorine is hugging her from behind and has a grumpy expression. end description.]

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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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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sulemio but they’re a bit freaky and covered in blood🫶

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Seishun Frontier Ch01 TL Notes

Some notes that folks may find interesting.

Page 001

There are only 2 instances of furigana in the entire chapter: some words on the title spread (common readings for 魔女 and 新連載) and the gikun here when Prospera says "日本（そっち）は?" - translated as “And now you’re over in Japan.”

So we know she's saying the word socchi (there) to refer to Japan, without explicitly using Nihon (the country's name).

It could just be the writer wanting to show that the series is taking place in Japan right off the bat, or they’re trying to draw a specific association… we’ll see as the story progresses, I guess.

Page 012

Can confirm from first-hand experience that opening konbini onigiri is tricky if you don't know how it works, lol.

Basically the plastic wrapping is folded in a way to make double layers - to keep the nori from getting soggy, the internal layer prevents it from touching the riceball itself, while the external layer protects the whole thing. You have to pull the tab all the way around to rip open the plastic, then pull up each side of the wrapping to leave you holding the rice in the seaweed.

Suletta messes things up (it looks like she just kinda unfolds the plastic instead of properly pulling the tab) and is left with the riceball and nori completely separated.

Page 016

The school is called 神奈川アスティ力シア高等専門学園 / Kanagawa Asticassia Koutou Senmon Gakuen, which is literally the same name as used in the anime but with Kanagawa appended on. They're localizing the school name as "School of Technology," just like the anime.

Kanagawa just happens to be the prefecture where ISAS (the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, a division of Japan's space program JAXA) is located.

ISAS collaborated with BepiColombo in 2023 to launch the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter MIO - yes, the same MIO that had a promotional collab with GWitch. The launch site? Guiana Space Centre in South America... which is where Prospera is, working on a probe launch herself.

Page 026

Suletta is staying at a place named ガラス工"房"ゔぁなでぃーす / Garasu Koubou Vanadiisu, translated as "Glass Workshop Vanadis."

Koubou can also be translated as "atelier," which ties into the witch theme.

I wonder if there's a reason the artist has chosen to write Vanadis in hiragana here or if it's purely for the sign's aesthetics.

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16-page zine about a long-term interest of mine, atmospheric diving suits. I love these underwater "robots" and their strange & varied histories

Update: You can buy a physical copy of this zine from my shop, if you’d like!

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hold on since we have eri as a separate person, is aerial a motorbike ...?

ARE WE GETTING BIKER SULETTA

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oh my god we're gonna get to see eRI

why do i have a bad feeling nadim is still dead tho ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

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Scanlation of Chapter 1 of G Witch Youth Frontier

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it