#char’s hyperfixation

[gently-decaying-flowers]

charlie spring is the most precious boy and he deserves better

[aphel1on]

AURGH auwarghh the autistic parental trauma... the epi was wacky hijinks then dropped this on us out of nowhere... (sobs) laios... laiiiiooooos

[farxnspring]

new wacky fe villain design just dropped

[lyss-butterscotch]

Sorry for the tag but @mewguca said something about Moon in makima's drip and I have not been normal since 👍

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

how it started

how it's going

[fisheito]

really enjoy seeing the comments whenever i post sopping yakumo the reactions are immediate like all the yakumo enjoyers wriggle out of the dirt and experience Emotion together , loudly the chorus of AUUWWGHHHGHGHHH we are one

[serenanymph]

Heads Up Seven Up

Tagged by @faytelumos um.*looks at smudged notes* a while ago. Find his post over here. Gently tagging uhhh @space-writes, @macabremoons and @scribbling-stardust, pulling from Beast book 2, Witch's Book:

It’s later in the night – when they’ve brought out the cake and sang ‘Happy Birthday’, and Zephyr has blown out all six candles (one of them larger-sized) – that Madge wanders out of the kitchen where mama and baba are divvying up the cake to track down Zephyr and Kas, who’ve somehow vanished in that short amount of time. The backyard feels quieter than before: peaceful, now, as if all the world is fast asleep. Madge inhales, again, the same way she did earlier with the cake, breathing in the scent of spring – stretching her arms out to the side, her fingertips straining, her head tipping back to look up at the sky. The longer she looks, the more stars seem to appear, spreading out and multiplying, thousands of tiny glittering diamonds spilling across the black. The breath she takes in morphs into a yawn. Murmuring, from up on the roof. She spins towards the ladder leaning against the side of the house, and ah – they must be up there, then.

taglist (lmk if you want to be +/-): @deer-in-headlights-stare, @allianaavelinjackson, @arctic-oceans, @space-writes, @reneesbooks

[o-i-w-u]

frowns

[bandtrees]

shes very close to my heart still

[gobstoppr]

transfem they/them sea slug 👍

[gently-decaying-flowers]

hate joining a fandom super late because i look at the same few fanarts and want to die

i need to consume them

[peterrrei]

average white devil super fan

[buggernaut-kal]

1 AM ramble here we gooooooooooo

So with Char’s Counterattack essentially being a novel (High-Streamer) and a movie and ANOTHER novel (Beltorchika’s Children) you get some version differences, the big ones being the Nu Gundam and Sazabi being replaced with the Hi-Nu Gundam and Nightingale, respectively. I wanna talk about the aesthetics of the Nightingale.

To begin, let’s take a brief look at how it looks next to the Sazabi

At face value the Nightingale is a more monstrous Sazabi, hunched with all sort of protruding parts, but it’s like a stretched-out Sazabi in some regards. Both even share design cues from Char’s helmet in 0079. Sazabi is clearly meant to harken back to bulky Zeon suit designs with its legs and pipes around the waist, it’s got Char’s signature color like his Zaku II, and the cockpit/escape pod is in the head just like the Zeong. I believe the Nightingale was purposefully meant to harken back to the “final boss” suits of each prior Gundam series.

As mentioned, the Zeong had a cockpit in the head which doubled as an escape craft and the Sazabi built off of that idea with the escape pod being inside the head, which Nightingale carries over as well. On top of that, the Zeong has a stupid amount of thrusters in its lower torso, so many that the skirt extends back and gives the suit a centaur-like appearance from the side. Nightingale ALSO has an elongated back-skirt packed full of thrusters. (You could also argue the chest mega-particle cannon in the Sazabi and Nightingale could be referencing the Zeong’s waist cannons but I think that’s a stretch.) The Zeong is also a massive suit even without legs, and while Sazabi is a big boy, the Nightingale is a goliath compared to other suits. The Hi-Nu is even slightly smaller than the Nu Gundam to emphasize this height disparity just like the Gundam vs the Zeong in 0079.

But another Zeon MS that Nightingale draws from is the Qubeley. The giant shoulder binders are a dead giveaway, with the Qubeley’s main thrust coming from those shoulder binders and the Nightingale ALSO having massive shoulder binders packed with thrusters. The Quebeley is based off the Elmeth and compacts its bit weaponry down into funnels, which become THE weapon for Newtypes in combat, and the Nightingale stores funnels on its shoulders. The extra tie all the way back to the Elmeth is kind of poetic given Char’s hangups about Lala, and ironic given his relationship with Haman. Both are Zeon MS so it’s not a big surprise, but what I find particularly interesting is how The O fits in.

Far bulkier than nearly any Zeon MS, Scirocco showed that suits from Jupiter were weird. The O has pipes around the waist like the Zaku did, but importantly the skirt armor is super thick and has square thrusters built into their sides, along with the legs and feet being very bulky and bulbous. Both Sazabi and Nightingale draw from that, but Nightingale also sports a set of sub-arms in its front-skirts just like The O did. Not entirely sure what this means in-universe (maybe that Char embraced a bit of Jupiter’s design sensibilities through Scirocco as a fellow Spacenoid?) but it’s a clear homage at the very least.

But yeah, Nightingale is like a chimera of the Zeong, The O, and Qubeley to create this kind of Ultimate Final Boss of a mobile suit while also warping the aesthetics of Sazabi in the process. Interesting to note that all of these suits were designed by Spacenoids for Spacenoids, even if a Jupiter design is an outlier. A very neat design and I quite like that visual aspect of it. It also helps that all of these suits look cool (I have a soft spot for the Zeong, okay?)

[lyss-butterscotch]

My savior, galyeonhan yeoin-iyeo

Make me your God, I can give you everything

[lightningfilledsaber]

Headshots + miscellaneous doodles of Copper, Dante, and Riot (oc of beloved friend and mutual @limonnazul of course)! Showing off more Content of them in preparation for Artfight <3

[d8tl55c]

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