#This Week in Gundam Wing

[thisweekingundamwing]

This Week in Gundam Wing 19 October - 14 December 2024

Here’s the roundup for October 19th - December 14th, 2024!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make this next week!

~Mod Hel

So sorry I’ve dropped the ball on this again. V_V

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@duointherain

https://duointherain.tumblr.com/post/767277740072337409/random-gw-chatter

Random GW Chatter

@helenrourke

https://helenrourke.tumblr.com/post/769651571518849024/when-facing-things-we-turn-away-from

Fic idea

@janaverse

Pinch Hit https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/765593910487695361/fly-boy-in-the-sky

drabble

Bullshit https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/765991875282976769/bullshit-11012024-it-was-apparent-that-duo

Duo+Heero, drabble

Hopeful https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/768598919050575872/hopeful-so-much-has-changed-in-the-past-four

drabble

@ms-miserable-misery

this is getting ridiculous https://www.tumblr.com/ms-miserable-misery/764772564419641344/day-19-this-is-getting-ridiculous

Day 19

“This is getting ridiculous.” Duo glared over at Heero where he sat at the other side of their office. “You keep staring at me like you want to say something. Out with it!”

@vegalume

Welcome Home https://archiveofourown.org/works/60221575

Gen, M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei & Duo Maxwell, Chang Wufei & Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei

General Audiences, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Halloween, Friendship, Ghosts, no beta we die like men, Short and hopefully sweet, English

Roommates with a twist - Written for Halloween 2024

Yoiko

The Hunter https://archiveofourown.org/works/60334918?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_836326342

M/M, Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei, Treize Khushrenada, Zechs Merquise

Mature, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Gundam Legends, Horror, English

Heero had seen hunts go badly before, and lived to tell the tale.

Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:

@cephalopadre

https://cephalopadre.tumblr.com/post/764744281247383552/mechtober-day-16-duo-maxwell-and-gundam

Duo Maxwell, Deathscythe, fanart

@fionnegan000

https://fionnegan000.tumblr.com/post/766885742733623296/i-just-want-them-to-be-happy

GW Boys with fur, fanart

@ghost-proof

https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/766626952976220160/many-thanks-to-janaverse-for-the-inspiration

Duo/Heero, fanart

https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/765442437028167680

Heero/Duo, fanart

@hyper-girlcrush

https://hyper-girlcrush.tumblr.com/post/767378423002906624/old-trowa-drawings-that-i-made-many-many-years

Trowa Barton, fanart

@janaverse

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/765545408923615232/a-vision

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@katquasar-art

https://www.tumblr.com/katquasar-art/765977311091851264/i-made-this-for-my-boyfriend-because-he-was

Tallgeese the Goose, fanart

@keiko1183

https://keiko1183.tumblr.com/post/765773929031909376/happy-halloween-pt1

GW Boys, halloween, fanart

https://keiko1183.tumblr.com/post/765846116802740224/happy-halloween-pt2

Zechs, halloween, fanart

https://keiko1183.tumblr.com/post/769303953863213056/sketching-adult-quatre

Quatre, fanart

@mio222

https://mio222.tumblr.com/post/769013037619380224/a-kiss-for-duos-braid

Heero/Duo, fanart

@phantomdive022

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/765306174936596480/%E0%B8%A7-%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A3-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%94-%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%A3-%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%81

Duo Maxwell, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/765311185661919232/%E0%B8%94-%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%AD-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88-%E0%B8%81-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3-%E0%B8%8A-%E0%B8%99-%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%94-%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%AD-%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AD-%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5-%E0%B8%A7

Duo Maxwell, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/765309682307956736/%E0%B8%A7-%E0%B8%99-%E0%B9%86-%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A5-%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7-%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AA-%E0%B8%8A-%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%95-%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AA

Duo, Heero, Trowa, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/765308995745480704/trowa-lady-unes-favorite-boy

Une, Trowa, Nichol, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/768109390766227456/wip-quatre-raberba-winner-ver-nisca-%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%93-%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A2

Quatre wip

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/768326837660188672/just-some-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%81-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%99-%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5-%E0%B8%99

Trowa wip

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/768326466823946240/wip-again-chang-wufei-%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99-%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AE-%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AD

WuFei wip

@saykamachuhirik

https://saykamachuhirik.tumblr.com/post/766503731368951808/w

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@seitou

https://seitou.tumblr.com/post/766264619640684544/home-sunlight-sky

Merch Drop! (super late V_V getting it to y’all)

@thaumazomai

https://thaumazomai.tumblr.com/post/769697798360842240/i-just-think-duo-would-absolutely-wear-a-biker

Duo Maxwell, fanart

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@catherinearbour

https://catherinearbour.tumblr.com/post/767451913123971072/santa-sandrock-and-maganac-reindeer-centerpiece

Sandrock and Maganac, photoset

@janaverse

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/764971959190683648/heero-and-the

Heero Yuy, Sims, screenshot

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/765917336880414720/04-dressed-to-kill-1-of-ongoing-secret

Quatre Raberba Winner, Sims, screenshot

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/766086367154487296/gotcha-he-does

Duo/Heero, Sims, screenshot

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/767457346654961664/my-most-precious

Heero Yuy, Sims, screenshot

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/767520034599911425/it-is-more-frogfei-i-wish-i-could-say-i-was

WuFei Chang, Sims, screenshot

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/768318047783141376/small-and-cuddly-this-pose-makes-duo-look

Duo/Heero, Sims, screenshot

@reaper-pro-gamer-ua

https://www.tumblr.com/reaper-pro-gamer-ua/766341370058260480/deathscythe-hell-is-my-favorite-gundam-all-time-in

Deathscythe Hell, gif

@seaofolives

https://seaofolives.tumblr.com/post/764834482972950528/yes-sir-ill-bring-him-home-by-8pm-your-son

Trowa Barton, photoset

https://seaofolives.tumblr.com/post/766589012394868736

Quatre/Trowa, gifset

https://seaofolives.tumblr.com/post/768495348957233152/if-anyone-asks-me-why-i-like-quatre-its-bc-hes

Heero, Quatre, photoset

@vegalume

https://vegalume.tumblr.com/post/769269735984627712/five-golden-boys-in-the-tree-2024

GW Boys Tree decorations, photoset

Head Canons/Meta:

@ikuzeminna

https://www.tumblr.com/ikuzeminna/765803549594615808/is-it-tsubarov-or-tubarov

Name Meta

Fandom Discourse:

@cuteciboulette

½ NaNo Update https://cuteciboulette.tumblr.com/post/766255031847649280/12-nano-update

(I like that it can both be read as “half” and as “Heero/Duo”, lol.)

@lifeaftermeteor

https://www.tumblr.com/lifeaftermeteor/767713720363352064/and-lets-be-honest-a-tall-goose-is-quite-a

Tallgeese etymology

@theawfulledges

https://www.tumblr.com/theawfuledges/768721449271918592/i-hate-that-there-are-no-gundam-wing-figures-of

So much this!

Quotes:

@roseunspindle

https://roseunspindle.tumblr.com/post/765931530433576960/a-rap-at-the-door-made-him-pause-as-he-was-about

Heero Yuy, WuFei Chang, Fanfic quote

Calendar Events:

@gwcocktailfriday

Cocktail Fridays!

Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.

Here’s the prompts for Friday, December 20th: https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/769866163850297344/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-december

In need of prompts!

@thisweekingundamevents

Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/730188053636841472/updated-events-calendar

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2024

Getting Closer to the finish line!

[gwcocktailfriday]

This Week in Gundam Wing 22 September - 1 October 2024

Here’s the roundup for September 22th - October 1st, 2024!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make this next week!

~Mod Hel This one’s a bit late on purpose, so I could get the prompt lists and things in here. lol (Which *grumbles* were supposed to have posted YESTERDAY and didn’t... I had to just press post this morning.)

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@cuteciboulette

Beilteine night https://archiveofourown.org/works/59334844

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Odin Lowe

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, PWP, soft smut, magic in the air, Consensual Sex, Consensual Underage Sex, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Magic Made Them Do It, (they totally would have done it without the magic though), English

As he accompanies his father in his diplomatic visits to their Northen allies, Heero gets a chance at tasting their culture, for tonight is Beilteine night.

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@seaofolives

https://www.tumblr.com/seaofolives/762515998706466816/x?source=share

Quatre/Trowa, gifset

https://www.tumblr.com/seaofolives/761689212220243968/operation-meteor-show-me-the-hidden-3x4-lore

Quatre/Trowa + Duo, gifset

Calendar Events:

Gundam Wing AU Fest

https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/755108738617245696/yay

All info about the event is in the post!

@gwcocktailfriday

Cocktail Fridays!

Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.

Here’s the prompts for Friday, October 4th: https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/762865294729478144/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-october

In need of prompts!

@gwoc-october

Prompt List 2024: https://www.tumblr.com/gwoc-october/763150907755134976/gw-oc-october-is-back-going-a-bit-more-generic

@thisweekingundamevents

Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/730188053636841472/updated-events-calendar

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2024

Sign-ups CLOSED:

Participant List: https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/763152631083433984/gw-hge-participant-list

GW Hallows 2024

https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/763151583438618625/gw-hallows-2024

[miyurinq]

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Gundam Wing Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner Characters: Quatre Raberba Winner, Trowa Barton Additional Tags: Torokatober2024, Trowa x Quatre - Freeform, Melancholy, Fluff, cute stuff, little drama here and there Summary:

a collection of drabbles for the Torokatober 2024 (Tumblr)

15 chapters are online ♥️ 16 more to go!

[thisweekingundamevents]

Hey Gundam Wingers!

The Gundam Wing Holiday Gift Exchange is officially OPEN!

Registration begins today and ends on the 30th. Please only fill out a form if you feel like you’ll have the time to participate!

Here’s the link to sign up! https://forms.gle/Xwis5hsqPTKrzChC7

Here’s a link to the page with the rules: https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/giftexchange

Be sure to fill it out as completely as you can! YES repeat yourself over and over for me. It makes it so much easier for me in the long run if you do.

~Mod Hel

PS. …because google is filled with aholes… my previous googleforms do not work, so I had to redo the whole thing, it might not actually be as ridiculous anymore. I hope it doesn’t feel as tedious as the previous version. lol

Tagging: @feanaro07, @duointherain

[seaofolives]

for day 7 of all-ships ship week by #ficwip...!!

kiss and reunite

🎭 3x4x3, t+, ~4k

🎻 read it on ao3 or sqwa!

thanks to everyone who's been following along! 🫶🏼

[average-transdalorian]

I take back my earlier tag. All five Wing boys are in a polycule, plus Hilde and Relena and even Dorothy, sometimes

[sweet-rabbit]

Colors for the G-Boys? WUFEI! :

redoing this one because i had THOUGHT it was set to 1 week like the others but it was actually 1 DAY and also we had a three-way tie for the second color so yeah.... anyway!

i got a previous post talking about little snow hats for the boiz but find that they aren't super straight (heh) forward with their color schemes necessarily so i'm asking the fandom! top two colors will be wufei's snow cap colors <3

vote for heero here, duo here, trowa here and quatre here!

[wordsandrobots]

Yeah, no, for me at least, watching the Gundam Wing dub is definitely the way to get the most out of it. Having that extra mental cue to treat it as a theatrical performance really helps put me into the right mindset for appreciating it, to the point where things like Zechs cursing himself for not being able to strike down Noin, Une reigniting Treize's will to battle, and Treize revealing that he keeps an exact tally of the dead all hit like flipping freight trains.

Coupling that to having read Episode Zero means I finally have the tool-kit to really jibe with what the show is going for. And, I mean, come on. In context, more clearly understanding the philosophy behind his actions - Wu Fei's 'I didn't think I'd win'? That's an epic poem in a single line.

No wonder he's in such a bad state come Endless Waltz! Poor kid just cannot catch a break when it comes to building a solid world-view for himself. It's so very cathartic to see him backing up a crowd of unarmed protestors at the end of the movie (him AND Dorothy, let's not forget).

Once I knew to look, there's so many little details feeding the performative aspects of it, too. Treize and Zechs having conversations when they absolutely cannot hear the other side of the exchange. Dorothy's vamping. Duo entirely disregarding the fourth wall.

Is it a good engagement with the material reality of war and pacifism? Not particularly. But you don't necessarily need a high melodrama performance to be true to the reality of specific philosophies, as long as it remains emotionally grounded and compelling. And taken on its own terms?

Yeah. There's a damn good reason this show took a generation by storm.

Last time around, I complimented the Gundam Wing fandom on the show they'd hallucinated into existence. My sincere thanks to @tinyozlion for providing me the toolkit necessary to join them on the trip.

(Obligatory hot take: I like the TV version of Wing Zero much better than the Endless Waltz design. EW!Zero is just a bit too fey; TV!Zero has the beef necessary for it to be a believable engine of devastation.)

(Obligatory uncontroversial take: the mecha design for Gundam Wing is some of the best the franchise has ever produced, especially the OZ mobile suits. High Grade Aries when, Bandai?!)

That was a very fun way to spend my week. I am now going to go for a walk and resist the urge to splash out on a Real Grade Tallgeese because while I lack the space, it is extremely pretty and relatively inexpensive. For similar reasons, the upcoming Real Grade TV Wing Zero is going to be very dangerous to my wallet.

[yuurei20]

A lot of the Japanese voice actors seem to overlap a lot in what animes they are in. Is there a reason for that?

Hello hello! Thank you for this question! 🎙️

I know nothing of the seiyuu industry, having only surface-level impressions gained through accumulating twst-VA-related information, but my guess would be: it is maybe just a part of the work? ^^

From reading through interviews and watching videos it seems it is common for the same seiyuu to audition for the same projects or be offered roles by companies. Do the people in charge of production look back on previous collaborations to see who has worked well together in the past, integrating that information into the decision-making process? I do not know ^^ But it seems possible!

The VAs for Lilia and Baul, for example, are both veteran voice actors who have worked together on many projects such as Fushigi Yugi, Gundam Wing, Slayers, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Weiss Kruez―did Twst's development team think that it would be fun to bring them together again? 🐊🦇

But for all the overlap there is also situations like Rook's seiyuu, who had only voiced one other character at the time, and Jamil's seiyuu, who has never voiced any other character at all 🐍

Idia's parents are another familiar combination of talent, with both coming from Cardcaptor Sakura!

If you are interested in Twst-seiyuu combinations in other projects, there is this page!

It took a week to make and I am a little proud of it ♪ It is updated whenever a seiyuu has a birthday!

(Note: twstnote.com is ad-free and I do not receive any revenue for people visiting ^^ it is mostly a combination of information that has already been posted to this blog, but hopefully a little easier to find! I am learning html in real time so formatting is often strange, trying to improve as things progress m(_ _)m Thank you very much!)

[billveusay]

12 episodes into Gundam Wing, and @tinyozlion has kindly let me liveblog compulsively into their DMs, so with their permission, here's a little selection of screencaps: (spoilers)

I'll post more of these over the following weeks as I go through the show. Also, Gundam Wing is everything I hoped it would be and more, this is great, I'm having so much fun.

Part 2 >

[thisweekingundamwing]

This Week in Gundam Wing 14 December 2024 - 15 March 2025

Here’s the roundup for December 14th, 2024 - March 15th, 2025!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make this next week!

~Mod Hel

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@cuteciboulette

At the root of wars https://archiveofourown.org/works/63541102

Gen, Original Heero Yuy, Doctor J (Gundam Wing), Heero Yuy

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Pre-Episode Zero (Gundam Wing), In Universe, Light Angst, Personal Favorite, English

At the root of wars, according to History, is often one person. One death, one assassination. The loss of someone one wishes to avenge.

@girl-among-mts

Quixotic (Ch.17) https://archiveofourown.org/works/10381596/chapters/22927506

F/M, M/M, Multi, Relena Peacecraft/Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner, Duo Maxwell/Hilde Schbeiker, Zechs Merquise/Lucrezia Noin, Chang Wufei/Sally Po, Treize Khushrenada/Lady Une

Relena Peacecraft, Heero Yuy, Various Characters

Teen And Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Post-Canon, Post-Endless Waltz, Preventers (Gundam Wing), Angst, Mutual Pining, Duty, Politics, Sexual Content, UST, Romance, more strange things falling from space, Operation Meteor, Family, military, PTSD, Relena says "I'm sorry" a lot and Heero wishes she wouldn't, Preventers are basically the Secret Service and the CIA, The Barton Foundation, Not Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop Compliant, English

AC 202. Post EW. The Preventers are an elite force, designed to protect high-ranking government officials and ensure the Alliance's survival. Heero Yuy is the best among them, even though his position now is officially 'Bodyguard,' which he prefers. When a supposedly simple operation, to infiltrate a new-age cult within the capitol, heralds the arrival of a prophetic shooting star, Heero discovers that the Bartons invested in more than just the creation of the Gundams. Just what is a Perfect Soldier?

@janaverse

Ordinary https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/770170647619010560/ordinary-there-was-of-course-zero-chance-heero

Duo/Heero

There was, of course, zero chance Heero would be out.

Fallout https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/774870707767214080/fallout-duo-deserved-the-best-version-of-him-and

Duo/Heero

Duo deserved the best version of him and Heero was not that person – not by a longshot.

Conflict https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/775154561898921984/conflict-it-was-not-worth-arguing-with-duo-over

Duo & Heero

It was not worth arguing with Duo over who walked into that warehouse first.

Allusive https://www.tumblr.com/janaverse/776232274550194176/allusive-the-accommodation-was-met-with

Duo & Heero

The accommodation was met with exasperation and Heero insisted he was merely doing his job.

@ms-miserable-misery

Vocal Chords https://www.tumblr.com/ms-miserable-misery/774287239605878784/febuwhump-day-1-vocal-chords

Febuwhump Day 1, Duo Maxwell

@relenaforpresident

Mars Winter https://www.tumblr.com/relenaforpresident/773502926961491968/mars-winter

F/M, Relena Peacecraft/Heero Yuy

Heero Yuy, Relena Peacecraft, Chang Wufei, Duo Maxwell, Sally Po, Lady Une, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner

Teen And Up Audiences, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, POV Heero Yuy, POV Relena Peacecraft, Heero Yuy is Bad at Feelings, Preventers (Gundam Wing), Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Gundam Wing References, Newtypes (Gundam Wing), ZERO System (Gundam Wing), Romance, Drama & Romance, Eventual Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, English

A.C. 197/M.C. 022 (alternating timelines). Frozen Teardrop meets Snow White and the Huntsman vibes: "This was going to be the time and place when he would finally put an end to all of it. It had to be."

@tzigane

The Tinkerer Gets a Companion https://archiveofourown.org/works/62339944

M/M, Treize Khushrenada & Chang Wufei

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Cute, Animal Transformation, Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, maybe victorian with magic is closer, wetwiring, Steampunk, top hat vibes, pets as an excuse to build dollhouses, being professionally nosy, Cameos, Teen Wolf, Empire, English

He had come with a cage.

Wufei was, to be perfectly honest, offended. It was a cage that came with a pile of blankets and very little else. He supposed he ought to be grateful it didn't come with its own tray of litter. He wondered if it originally had and someone had changed their mind.

The man to whom he had been given seemed to find the situation perfectly acceptable, and had cleared a wide wooden table to sit it on. "You'll need... something bigger than this," he said while he fussed open the lock.

The lock.

The Tinkerer Solves a Case https://archiveofourown.org/works/62340175

M/M, Treize Khushrenada & Chang Wufei

Treize Khushrenada, Chang Wufei, Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Dorothy Catalonia, Zechs Merquise, Relena Peacecraft

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Tell me Duo doesn't make a great ferret, Steampunk, Animal Transformation, It's an evil empire lets be real, Clockwork - Freeform, wetwire, Cameos, teen wolf cameos - Freeform, off stage murder, light gore, English

Relena squeezed his hands in return and then let them go, moving to seat herself on the wide settee. "My brother was, unfortunately, quite unwell. The cost of victory was too high for all of us."

"He was a different person before the chip," Treize promised her. "He was warm and thoughtful and very sad about your father."

Heero jumped up into her lap and curled up, which gave her something to do with her hands, or perhaps just provided her with comfort. Treize realized that Wufei was still curled against his own chest in a moment of oh. "I barely remember him. He was always away when I was young, and then he returned as himself, of course." She politely did not mention his own Chip.

@vegalume

Navigating https://archiveofourown.org/works/61937659

Gen, M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Relena Peacecraft, Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Quatre Raberba Winner, Lucrezia Noin, Milliardo Peacecraft

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Holidays, Fluff and Humor, Idiots in Love, Matchmaking, GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2024, English

Relena just wants her boys to be happy and she knows just how to do it.

Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:

@cromwell300

https://www.tumblr.com/cromwell300/770134975371755520/leo-mobile-suit-gundam-gundamwing-mobilesuit

Leo Mobile Suit, fanart

@duointherain

https://www.tumblr.com/duointherain/771701635166633984/feanaro07-happy-new-year-the-gift-is-the-image

Duo trying to get Leïla to smile., fanart

@feanaro07

https://www.tumblr.com/feanaro07/771665311408832512/happy-holidays-to-vegalume-for-the-gw-holiday

Heero/Duo, fanart

@guttersblessing

https://www.tumblr.com/guttersblessing/774433458127798272

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@gwquatre4

https://www.tumblr.com/gwquatre4/775772066923315200/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E4%B8%AD%E5%BF%83%E3%81%AB%E9%9B%91%E5%A4%9A%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AB%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%92%E3%81%A6%E3%81%93%E3%81%86%E3%81%A8%E6%80%9D%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99

Quatre/Dorothy, fanart

@heeroduoessentials

https://www.tumblr.com/heeroduoessentials/774489634513256448/1-x-2-just-cant-get-enough-of-these-two

Heero/Duo, fanart

@iftadwascool

https://www.tumblr.com/iftadwascool/772234565135843328

Heero, Relena, Treize, photomanipulation

https://www.tumblr.com/iftadwascool/777304652744212480/heero-i-am-going-to-kill-you-relena-jokes-on

Heero, Relena, photomanipulation

@jukeboxhound

https://www.tumblr.com/jukeboxhound/773979225886687232/dying-at-this-fanart-i-found-in-old-college-notes

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@keiko1183

https://www.tumblr.com/keiko1183/771573117223092224/happy-new-year

Quatre/Trowa, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/keiko1183/775414490807320576

Quatre/Trowa, fanart

@lemontrash

https://www.tumblr.com/lemontrash/774040488634417152/doodling-tonighta-tiny-wu-with-some-orchid

WuFei Chang, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/lemontrash/774040670839160832/more-scribbling-from-this-evening-i-cant-even

Toga 5

https://www.tumblr.com/lemontrash/777291970199568384

5 plants

@phantomdive022

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/770124513033814016/dont-look-at-him-or-hell-become

“Don't look at him, or he'll become conceited.”, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/770691155907231744/just-some-simple-sketch-cuz-my-eyes-hurt-right

Trowa Barton, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/770690758551453696/ill-make-a-man-out-of-you

WuFei Chang, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/770731485438296064/some-of-my-silly-sketch-relena-today-is

Relena Darlian, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/770960311252582400/many-people-say-that-they-cant-read-thai-and-i

Duo Maxwell, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/772326851927490560/trowa-barton-my-favorite-boy-this-is-a-mini

Trowa Barton, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/775440245664743424/i-was-lazy-so-i-didnt-color-it-the-last

Relena Darlian, fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/phantomdive022/775441829540888576/gundam-wing-boys-x-aot

Quatre, Trowa, Duo, fanart

@sailorfutaba

https://www.tumblr.com/sailorfutaba/772508787421708288/for-thisweekingundamwings-holiday-exchange

Duo/Heero, fanart

@sapp0w0

https://www.tumblr.com/sapp0w0/744767029020704768/someone-didnt-get-their-daily-duo-hair

Duo, Heero, haircar, fanart

@the-ephemeral-bhg

https://www.tumblr.com/the-ephemeral-bhg/764863881866805248/priorities

Heero Yuy, photomanipulation

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@ashocombler

https://www.tumblr.com/ashocombler/773720432385851392/toonami-gundam-wing-series-completed

photoset

@crimehat

https://www.tumblr.com/crimehat/770526583488380928/we-cannot-linger-on-that-stunted-view-like-rabid

WuFei, Meilan, Glory of Losers, manga page

@gundam-wing-crossovers

https://www.tumblr.com/gundam-wing-crossovers/772239984007708672/from-gundam-news-on-facebook

photoset

@le-creuset

https://www.tumblr.com/le-creuset-71/774117206709665792

Noin, Zechs, Glory of Losers, manga page

https://www.tumblr.com/le-creuset-71/774546896670932992

Noin, Zechs, Glory of Losers, manga page

https://www.tumblr.com/le-creuset-71/775306664447541248/hi-there-if-youre-still-open-for-manga-coloring

Quatre, Trowa, Glory of Losers, manga page

@ringnis

https://www.tumblr.com/ringnis/773420859579875328/if-youre-not-printed-fanfics-and-fanart-off-of

(sad to say I never did this... didn’t really know “fandom” existed then), photoset

Head Canons/Meta:

@chimeratech

https://www.tumblr.com/chimeratech/774134723027058688/hello-gundam-wing-nation-how-are-we-feeling-about

meme scale

@doctorcanon

https://www.tumblr.com/doctorcanon/776952272373563392/i-do-love-the-fact-that-the-only-thing-keeping

Quatre Raberba Winner

https://www.tumblr.com/doctorcanon/776951653088772096/trowas-all-excited-to-find-quatre-again-and

(too true)

@lemontrash

https://www.tumblr.com/lemontrash/771926609946198016/something-something-wufei-has-the-energy-that-if

WuFei energy

Fandom Discourse:

Fandom Trumps Hate Auctions

https://seaofolives.tumblr.com/post/776177359008268289/heres-a-list-of-gundam-wing-fandomtrumpshate

A list.

https://www.tumblr.com/seaofolives/772901541802819584/go-to-fandomtrumpshate-go-about-fth

@a-river-of-stars

https://www.tumblr.com/a-river-of-stars/772161432450170880/i-would-have-liked-the-gundam-wing-30th

Yes

@crimehat

https://www.tumblr.com/crimehat/770963355465859072/sometimes-i-remember-frozen-teardrop-exists-and

Mood

@gundamzine

https://www.tumblr.com/gundamzine/773995850050469888/do-you-know-of-any-active-gundam-wing-discords-i

Discords

@kayura-sanada

https://www.tumblr.com/kayura-sanada/772517974489858048/hey-there-so-sorry-to-hear-about-sunhawk-but-a

Places to find things.

https://www.tumblr.com/kayura-sanada/772483091623215104/gundam-wings-sunhawk

List of SunHawk Duo/Heero fics

@sissytobitch10seconds

https://www.tumblr.com/sissytobitch10seconds/773781784980750336/i-dont-know-whats-going-on-in-this-show-and-at

(lol mood)

@tinyozlion

https://www.tumblr.com/tinyozlion/774587654247514112/something-very-cool-has-happened-vis-a-vis

Ohh?

Calendar Events:

@gwlemonyshenanigans

Lemony Shenanigans 2025 https://www.tumblr.com/gwlemonyshenanigans/777215383169122304/sign-up-for-lemony-shenanigans-2025

Sign-ups

@thisweekingundamevents

Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/730188053636841472/updated-events-calendar

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2024

Master List: https://www.tumblr.com/thisweekingundamevents/772665988074356736/gw-holiday-gift-exchange-2024-gift-master-list

[robotsareneat]

Just started Gundam Wing last week

What exactly is a wild beat communication?

[operationpride]

Welcome to Operation Pride - A Gundam Wing Pride event!

This is a fan-led event taking place over the course of June 2025 to celebrate stories, art and fanworks of all kinds for the Gundam Wing franchise, centered around queer themes, identities, conversations and issues.

Stay tuned as we prepare to post our weekly themes, prompts for each week, and invite everyone to participate! Reblog and like to help us gather any GW creators looking to celebrate Pride with us!

image credits to the wonderful @seaofolives !!

[thisweekingundamevents]

GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2024: Gift Master List

Happy New Year! by @duointherain https://www.tumblr.com/duointherain/771701635166633984/feanaro07-happy-new-year-the-gift-is-the-image For: @feanaro07

Navigating by @vegalume https://archiveofourown.org/works/61937659 For: @duointherain

A Week's Worth by @helmistress https://archiveofourown.org/works/61363399 For: @sailorfutaba

Happy Holidays by @feanaro07 https://www.tumblr.com/feanaro07/771665311408832512/happy-holidays-to-vegalume-for-the-gw-holiday For: @vegalume

Banged Up by @sailorfutaba https://www.tumblr.com/sailorfutaba/772508787421708288/for-thisweekingundamwings-holiday-exchange For: @kuailongs

No Saint Bernards in Maine by @kuailongs https://archiveofourown.org/works/62061940 For: @helmistress

Sorry I was such a mess with this this year. Here's hoping the new year treats us well and I'll see you all for the next exchange! ~Mod Hel

[seaofolives]

Now That’s What I Call 3x4

A Trowa Barton x Quatre Raberba Winner 90s Fanmix

Curated for All-Ships Ship Week by #ficwip

Listen to it on Spotify

[ask-the-oz]

I should like to request one unskippable cutscene regarding you AC timeline, please.

THE PACT IS SEALED.

I'm so glad you asked! :D *clears throat and gets out my little glasses*

SO: long have I held that one of the biggest problems with Gundam Wing is the anime-typical-ageism that plagues the canon age range of the adult cast of characters (the gundam pilots being 15 is fairly integral to the story and I don't have beef with it) -- something that becomes so, so painfully clear in Frozen Teardrop, where Sumizawa not only committed to but double and triple downed on there being genius infants participating in OZ's command structure. I stand by my objections to the canon ages of the adult characters-- BUT! 👆I realized recently that my actual objection has slightly less to do with the characters' ages themselves, and more to do with the timeline as a whole.

...and I DO have an entire timeline written out of an extended version of events that I have meticulously salvaged and spliced from series canon and Frozen Teardrop which I then reconstructed and modified according to my own vile needs and requirements, which I will definitely post here once I've... tamed it a bit, because right now it's eleven pages of very shouty bullet points and margin notes.

MEANWHILE-- here is Wesley's A.C. Extended Timeline Theory:

The events of the series supposedly take place over the course of a single year-- and as far as I'm concerned this is a bigger infraction than 11 year olds receiving field promotions. The original five Gundams supposedly took 10 years to develop with support of a major political entity, and yet by mid-series a single guy can apparently cobble together a Wing Zero or an Epyon if given a fortnight. They build a whole Death Star in the course of like a month. They standardize production of a revolutionary new model of MS in weeks. Treize musters the armed forces of the entire globe in days. Sure, one could do backflips to find in-universe reasons to justify any these things if one so chose-- but I find it way more plausible-- and, more importantly, more compelling-- to imagine the events of the series take place over the course of a few years!

The Gundam Pilots are child soldiers so young that it is shocking to the OZ pilots who see them for the first time-- this makes sense and is thematically important-- however! If you give them three or four years to mature over the course of the series, a lot of their emotional development falls neatly into place: the fact that they become more independent in their beliefs, especially as they must adapt to a much more complex world, and that they develop a more nuanced understanding of their purpose and learn to take responsibility for their actions, all go beautifully hand-in-hand with them growing up.

--For the OZ characters, their emotional development has some goddamn time to breathe. And! there's even more breathing room to be carved out of the timeline if you simply extend it backwards. Suddenly, the adult cast has a much more believable scale for their life histories, as well as for the HISTORY-history of the After Colony era. This moves the OZ characters' birth dates back somewhat, as well as key dates like the fall of Sanc and the assassination of Heero Yuy, but the characters’ ages in relation to each other remain the same. The adult characters are older at the time of AC 195, when the events of the series begin-- which themselves become more spaced out and take longer than a single year, allowing for a far more plausible timescale for the main events (space battleships, new gundams, regime changes, etc. etc.) as well as the various emotional growing pains. Zechs goes from a young hotshot pilot, to a hotshot renegade, to a very, very depressed renegade, and then finally does a Full Char (or at least gives the appearance of doing a Full Char, as I have essay'd upon previously). If this downward spiral happens over the course of his mid-to-late twenties, it pairs nicely with the prodigy-to-frustrated-adult pipeline. Much like the gundam pilots, he ALSO has to deal with a more complex world that he no longer has a clearly defined purpose in, and he's dealing with it about as poorly as is humanly possible. Treize is likewise meant to be a disruptive young upstart, but a "young" upstart in a truly old boys club could just as well be someone in their early 50's. He's a full Colonel/Major General at the start of the series with a significant portion of his past career spent in pilot training and command. Like... he just realistically needs to be older than 24. The Romefeller Foundation is incredibly influential, but not influential enough to bully the Alliance into letting a 15 year old give operational directives, no matter how much of a smartypants he is. Adjusting the timeline makes it so he undergoes a similarly frustrated arc to Zechs except sometime in his 30's. Treize begins the series with a slightly more nuanced view of world than the younger protagonists (which, I maintain, takes time and experience to develop *glares* ...Sumizawa.) and when this too is deconstructed his whole raison d'être unravels in a less explosive (haha) way than theirs.

IDK-- I apologize for the CW: suicidal ideation, but I don't really know how else to explain myself here other than to say that Treize's arc makes much, much more sense if you consider he is a guy, totally isolated, with depression, in his mid-to-late 30's, who has been told his whole life that the only true justification for existence is to seek Greatness, who completely loses faith in himself and the things he believed in-- who sees an opportunity to die for something meaningful as a blessing, a huge relief, a gift. He was ready to let Heero cap him 0 seconds after saying hello, but barring that, he was waiting for a way out that would even remotely begin to give purpose back to those 99,822 names in his ledger. Someone like Zechs might well choose to go out fist-fighting god and die historic on that fury road, because he's got energy left; he's still fueled by spite and anger along with the pain. What Treize does, by comparison, seems to me like a way of confronting the same level of despair and self-reckoning that's just a little more matured-- NOT as in "emotionally mature" but as in "has had longer to ferment" matured-- a vintage depression that has been aged in an oak barrel for an extra decade giving it a smooth finish. NOW, AM I PROJECTING A BIT? MAYBE SO, but I very much feel that Treize reads better as a character if he's been in play longer, had more time to contemplate the mess that is After Colony, and had a few years to appreciate the view while falling from a sky-high pedestal.

...And God, I WISH we knew more about the ladies. Oh, OZ ladies, where are your backstories? When do we get them? And if we did get them, would they be terrible? These are the questions that keep me up at night. --But regardless, the same holds true for them as the rest of the cast: EVERYTHING needs MORE TIME to COOK. It's TASTIER if you let it SIMMER!!!!

That is my theory, thank you for coming to my T(inylion)ED Talk