#MIORINE TELL HIM WHO'S BOSS

[astraskylark]

As much as I love G witch I can't help my mentally prepare myself for some mind boggling plot twist... What if the reason Delling hates gundams is cause Miorine's mom piloted one and died. Or idk what if one of the people that iPad baby Suletta blew up into stars was Miorine's mom. If anything happens to Nikka or Chuchu I will never recover they need to be there for the Mioretta wedding GUNDAM PLS KEEP THEM SAFE LET THEM BE HAPPY DAMMIT

[md-guel]

hey everyone and welcome to the first guel wednesday!!! which is basically when i talk a little bit about some parts of guel for every episode every wednesday just so i can do something more in this sideblog. why wednesday? because it sounds a bit like guel's name and also that gives me time to queue things up for the rest of the series ahahahaha

anyway I'm gonna get started with episode 1! also known as the episode we all decided to unanimously hate guel's ass 🤣

though if you ask me now, I'm obviously going to tell you that that's one part of why I love guel the way I do. I'm a sideblog, after all. but so, that's the thing about the guel of episode 1, he's a textbook first boss antagonist. he's highly skilled which means he's someone whose ass needs to be beaten. he's wearing a fluffy mullet which, in his holder pilot suit, really gave me the vibes of the leader of a rowdy motorcycle gang in the american films of the 80s or 90s. and he's really arrogant, he's got his own clique, he's using phrases like "teach you some discipline" and "correct your ignorance" like some villain with a fake british accent.

and then there's this:

(i really want to know how miorine thought she could overpower guel's tits—i mean guel's chesticles. i mean—)

you could say he just read one too many fantasy books, you could say he just needs a different hobby outside of duels. but destruction of private property and attacking someone are definitely inexcusable. as far as episode 1 is concerned, this is his biggest villain arc.

personally, though, in light of how the whole show turned out, i think this was the first sign that he's started individuating from his dad. without the context of episode 2 and onwards, it's easy to see it as just a spoiled brat who got called something he didn't like. and I mean who wants to be called his daddy's little lap dog, right? but there must be something about what miorine said that really hit a sensitive nerve and I think there's every possibility that it's because he's finally coming to terms with how he's trapped by his dad's shadow.

there's also other lines like:

"Did you see that, Miorine? How Guel Jeturk fights his duels!" (Duels are pretty much the only things he can claim for himself)

"Both you and the company will be mine before long." (In the same way his father never knew how to separate his son from the fate of his company)

"You just need to shut your mouth and give yourself over to me." (As long as he obeyed his dad, Vim has no reason to discipline him)

these are just off the top of my head. it just sucks that the way he's retaliating against his abuse is to be abusive himself, especially when he and miorine are both just pawns being used by their fathers to extend the longevity of a broken capitalistic system. remember, kids, a victim of abuse is still capable of causing abuse. but considering how insular benerit companies are that their kids are only allowed to form factions within the boundaries of their individual companies, it isn't difficult to imagine how guel could have been raised in a similarly small world. his mother presumably didn't have much influence on him, and even though he has a sibling, lauda's only enabling his abuse. neither of them are aware of this, of course. and I think for the most part, at this point of his life, guel still doesn't understand the kind of abuse he's living in. he's just singing "there must be more than this [corporate] life" (to the tune of "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast)

(no, I didn't know until today that that was the title of the first song of the movie and yes, now that I think of it, guel is perfectly like Gaston in episode 1. call him "Gueston" I guess)

[skye-huntress]

The Witch from Mercury Reaction

Episode 10: “Circling Thoughts”

Zanelli is persistent. Why is Aerial given an exemption? If you have to ask, the answer is probably not the one based on common sense. If Gundams were outlawed for killing pilots, of course Aerial would get an exemption. But that’s not the real reason why they outlawed Gundams, which means Delling has his own reasons why he chooses not to act in this case. Which explains why Zanelli has been suspecting him of having his own schemes.

Seriously, another assassination plot from Jeturk? Prospera had already caught on to his schemes the first time, you’d think he’d be more cautious after she has consistently outsmarted and outmanoeuvred everyone.

Speaking of Delling scheming, there might be a reason why those Lfrith variants appear behind him in the OP

That song isn’t going to be a recurring thing, is it?

So she’s happy because her Mio-Mio and Aerial are returning, and she knows the length of Miorine’s trip down to the hour right off the top of her head. Of course, she does.

So, Shaddiq has been postponing the challenges against Suletta, is he an ally, or is there an ulterior motive. She didn’t get any challenges before. Either everyone was waiting for the three Houses to make their moves first, or they are doing it now since Aerial is temporarily out-of-action. I can’t imagine Lauda is too happy about that.

So Mio-Mio shamelessly bosses her fiancée to look after her greenhouse, and Suletta is ecstatic about it because she know what it means to her. Yeah, that tracks. They are an interesting couple.

That’s an awkward why to test legs. I’m wondering why they needed Suletta specifically to test them, you’d think Chuchu could do that. Belmeria isn’t doing anything suspicious yet, so I guess we’ll leave that for now.

Oh, so she actually has her wishlist typed up on her phone. Nothing really standing out, they’re all fairly typical things

Will Miorine like the keychains? I personally think it could go either way.

This is probably the closest thing to father-daughter bonding for the Rembran family. All this business talk goes over my head so no further comment.

So smuggler lady is actually part of some other group that are currently investigating Gundams. Another faction, but if we take her at her word, it’s unlikely the same people that Prospera is working with. We’re probably building up to some major event or conflict that will shake things up.

So Zanelli is just talking about Jeturk’s schemes with not just Shaddiq, but also his entire team? Personally, I feel like Renee (the one with all the “back-up boyfriends”) has too many screws loose to trust with sensitive information.

So is the real reason Shaddiq is keeping challengers away is to keep someone from outside the three Branches from claiming Holder status? We know he is not above going behind his father’s back, though he probably lost some trust after his recent failure. And as someone who always thinks outside the box, of course he’s for throwing a wrench in the whole duelling system.

Wow, Guel got a real job. Good for him. We’ll see where this takes him.

Of course Shaddiq is going behind his father’s back, again! And Nica, just who the hell is she involved with.

Oh crap, she’s standing! Secelia Dote is standing! The end times are here!

So I get why Ojelo and some of the others are cynical about Miorine, but she only started this business for Suletta. Now she has to commit to her new business fully to protect the one most precious to her.

They say the best lies have some version of truth to them, not that Suletta is good at telling when someone has ulterior motives. It’d be bad to leave her alone with Belmeria, even if she doesn’t know how Aerial works, she can still say something that might lead a knowledgable person to figure out the truth

Number 5, I presume? He’s certainly different from 4, taking full advantage of the fact that Suletta might have developed feelings for Number 4. I was worried Peil would take an approach like this.

Interestingly enough, since Suletta has spent so much time with Miorine, she hesitates to go on a date now, because their relationship is starting to feel real to her. But is it? He’s planted the seed of doubt

The Peil CEOs are only interested in Aerial, and why wouldn’t they? They invested and risked so much to perfect the technology for themselves and in comes Aerial, completing blowing away their Pharact, and then follows up by overriding Grassley’s “Antidote” technology.

Okay, Miorine is denser than I thought. In a way though, I think she is still doing things with Suletta in mind. She hired workers to take care of her greenhouse so Suletta doesn’t have to, and she hired “Elan” so Suletta doesn’t have to do all the testing herself. But she’s screwing up in the little ways, like not telling Suletta when she got back early, and not even looking her once during their whole conversation. And of course, giving the okay to date “Elan” because obviously Suletta is interested in him and not, you know, someone else.

Except, it is quite clear that Suletta does have feelings for Miorine. Otherwise it wouldn’t bother her so much that Miorine would trust strangers with her greenhouse. Or hire “Elan” to do Suletta’s job. Or tell her to go on a date with him after all the times, Miorine referred to herself as Suletta’s bride.

So even hearing it multiple times, I don’t remember the name of this location, but its the place where multiple major characters are converging. We’ve got Suletta, Miorine, Aerial, Guel, Prospera and Delling all in one place with an incoming assassination plot against the latter. We have two more episodes for the current cour, so I guess we’re getting a two-episode mid-season finale.

Oh, there’s the two Lfriths. Wait, what?! You can tell what they are by the heads, but how?

So Shaddiq’s real ambition is to break up the Benerit Group. I’m not surprised. I mean, we all want it but probably not in the way they plan to do it.