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Today I take a closer look at the Gundam 00 Easter poster.

And I just realised that Setsuna's bunny ears have a Gundam horn --Exia's horn -- attached to their base.

How do you think the horn ends up there?

In my head canon: someone in the group, most likely Lockon, has put a Gundam horn on the bunny ears headpiece to trick Setsuna into wearing it. Otherwise the boy wouldn't co-operate with an event like this easily.

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White day

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Twitter make me to stay here for awhile so Im gonna put some Graham & Setsuna pic in my tumblr

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glen said gay rights on chicks in the office podcast

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I draw this pic for his birthday in this year.

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Lt. Jake Hangman Seresin looking gosh darn handsome even when he’s just changing the song on the jukebox…. funfact: selecting 86′ was an easter egg throwback to the first Top Gun movie released in 1986.

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I was thinking about this for awhile

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Yep,He really love that boy

went digging through the old lj gundam 00 comm for s2 novel translations. this one simply must be shared: “P304 Mister Bushido talking to himself. Until my heart burns out, let us continue to dance, boy. It’s a martial dance of interweaving liveliness and sensitivity, boy. That’s right! You are my prima donna! Allow me to escort you!”

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this is very accurate to his story

The hannya mask portrays the souls of women who have become demons due to obsession or jealousy, similar to the Buddhist concept of a hungry ghost. […]

The hannya mask is said to be demonic and dangerous but also sorrowful and tormented, displaying the complexity of human emotions.

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setsuna and graham: reflections of each other

i have a lot of feelings about setsuna and graham’s arcs in s2 and how they parallel one another. the theme they have in common is “someone who only knows how to fight” setsuna starts as this kind of person, and his arc over the course of s2 is realizing that he can do more, be more than that. graham starts out as a pretty normal military guy whose life is upturned by the gundams. he loses comrades, friends, a mentor, his pride, again and again and again. over the course of s1, he becomes twisted. he’s torn down until he’s akin to the person setsuna was at the beginning of the series. “someone who only knows how to fight.” as mister bushido, he’s going to defeat setsuna or die trying. he’d probably die even if he succeeded. he’s only living for the sake of this one duel. he says it himself. and the reason graham chooses to duel setsuna, specifically, is because he acknowledges that they are the same. “someone who only knows how to fight”.

what better or more equal a rival than that?

i think that seeing graham – mister bushido – reduced to this kind of person is one of the things that helps spur setsuna’s character development. setsuna sees a reflection of himself, and he’s able to argue against this reflection of himself: what he doesn’t want to be anymore. setsuna does his damndest to convey both to himself and to graham that he’s resolving to change, and that neither of them have to remain as they are. setsuna’s not fighting because it’s all he can do and he’s still trapped in that endless, exhausting rut where nothing ever changes. he’s fighting because there’s a light glimmering at the end of the tunnel. because he believes now that people can understand each other, and he knows that his gundam is the means by which this can be achieved. he doesn’t need or want to kill graham when there’s still the chance he can get through to him, and so he tells graham why he fights and he, almost defiantly, lets him live. graham sees how setsuna has changed, he hears what he’s saying, and it impacts him. it resonates with him whether he likes it or not. no matter how doggedly graham clung to bushido, setsuna was someone that understood him, and he showed him then and there that maybe there’s an end to this that doesn’t lie in death, and that maybe that end, that future, is worth it. despite everything graham said as mister bushido, despite how determined he was to never waver, despite losing the duel he’d bothered staying alive for, he chose setsuna’s path. ultimately, they both are able to change, no longer people who know nothing but combat. setsuna, who had to learn this from the ground up, was able to make graham remember the man he once was. you don’t have to be who you are right now. you can’t undo your past mistakes, but you can be better, and that’s worth it. and to me, this is why graham is the perfect successor to setsuna.

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Gundam 00 Anastasia: Japanese Summary and Transcripts (feat. Deepl)

FOUND HERE “The series consists of four episodes, focusing on Celestial Being, Graham Aker, and Saji Crossroad after the final episode of the second season of the TV series. The main content is that the characters look back on their respective pasts and renew their resolve for their future lives. It is produced mainly from the TV series and special editions, with the addition of new footage.” if you don’t speak japanese you’re gonna need a mix of deepl and google translate to parse all of this (i don’t have it in me to go through the whole thing right now), but yes. it exists. a summary with transcripts. holy shit.