#lady prospera mercury

[amalgamasreal]

In the palm of her hand - by Jeyeahi

[comradeyurika]

Finally Suletta and Miorine have some time alone, and Suletta is able to find the courage to ask Miorine about what happened at the plant. Miorine is then able to tell Suletta what she has been holding in all this time; that she is thankful for her saving her and her father's lives, despite the brutal methods Suletta used.

However, when Suletta mentions Lady Prospera telling her that Miorine would understand eventually, that changes the mood completely. Miorine is already suspicious of Prospera's manipulation of Suletta, and this is only further enhanced when it becomes clear that Suletta just does not understand what is wrong about her being able to smile about having smashed someone to death. It's a chilling scene as what begins as a tender reunion turns to Miorine's dread at realizing something is deeply off with Suletta's values and what Prospera has been saying to her.

As this unease grows, Miorine has to find out just how far gone Suletta is when it comes to her mom. She starts out by asking probing questions, and then brings up Suletta's sincere dream to open a school back on Mercury. What she learns from that question is deeply unsettling.

But there's one final thing she needs to know. She knows Suletta would give up on her dreams, but what about her core values, the values that the two of them share about GUND-ARM being about saving people and not killing them? Would Suletta give that up? With a pause and a smile, yes, she would. And that is a heartbreaking moment for Miorine, and for the audience.

[ksantillus]

"Even though it's been more than 20 years, are you still afraid of witches?"

I've had a lot on my plate so I haven't had as much time for a daily October sketch challenge, but I might still do a few here are there

Anyway here's Lady Prospera, a very cool anime villain AND gender-swapped Shakespeare villain

[lovewritteninthestrands]

the milf from mercury painting

[just-like-aerin]

[hanabyka]

Longing and Tomatoes.

[s-lycopersicum]

[midnightechoes]

Miorine: “Sometimes a family is me, my wife, my lousy father, my lousy mother-in-law, my gundam sister-in-law, and my dozen digital spirit sisters-in-law.”

[lotus-3dart]

“THAT’S RIGHT MIORINE IT WAS A RUSE ALL ALONG! 

“I NEVER NEEDED YOU TO BE PRESIDENT, HELL I NEVER NEEDED YOU TO BREAK UP WITH MY DAUGHTER. I JUST WANTED TO RUIN THE ONLY GOOD RELATIONSHIP YOU EVER HAD OUT OF PURE SPITE

“I TRICKED EVERYONE, YOU BOUGHT IT, THE AUDIENCE BOUGHT IT, HELL EVEN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY BOUGHT IT!“

[takerfoxx]

So, something sort of amusing occurred to me the other day about how Gundam: the Witch from Mercury ended.

A lot of the time, there's a difference between what the character wants at the start of a story and what they need, and a lot of their journey involves realizing the latter and having to give up the former.

However, in the case of the Rembran/Samaya family, everyone pretty much ended up with exactly what they wanted at the start of the show. Yes, there were changes, and they all grew and matured as people, but they're still fundamentally the same people who also got both what they wanted and what they needed.

Miorine is the most obvious. She started the series as a corporate girlboss, and she ended the series as a corporate girlboss. She wanted to escape her father's control, take control of her life, and run away to Earth, and she achieved all of those things. She's just a more rounded, healthier, and happier person, largely on account of her wife. But she also totally became a massive corporate powerhouse, stuck it to the old man in a major way, and even got to Earth like she always wanted.

Suletta wanted to have make friends, have a complete school experience, and establish a school of her own, and she totally did all that. She also learned self-actualization, overcame her anxieties and insecurities, and became a more complete person, but she also totally got everything that she wanted from the beginning. Granted, we don't know if the school on Mercury also happened, but nothing says that it didn't.

And as for Elnora, she is easily the funniest. Because despite all of her manipulations and war crimes, she totally 100% WON! She wanted revenge for the massacre, and she got it. Delling and associates, disgraced and put on trial, having lost everything, if they weren't outright killed. Delling's daughter seizing everything her father had built and marrying Elnora's daughter, having chosen Elnora over her own dad. And while Quiet Zero didn't pan out, Eri still got some measure of freedom with hope of a more complete life as the medical GUND tech gets developed. Even her own infirmity seems like an acceptable trade-off. Her family basically runs the galaxy, the GUND tech that her mentor gave her life for is now the future, and and she totally got away with everything. I should be mad, but you just gotta admire the audacity.

Hell, Eri might be a keychain, but you can't argue that she's doing pretty okay as well, and no doubt they'll find a way to give her a GUND tech body of her own one day. Talk about calling their shots!

[amalgamasreal]

About Prospera/Elnora...

One interesting thing I noticed in Episode 18 is that we actually see Elnora acting truly motherly to Suletta in the episode:

That's not Eri, that's Suletta as a child, but it made me realize something: she still LOOKS like exactly Eri did before she died here. It makes me wonder if all the love she got from Prospera in her childhood stemmed from being a literal clone of the daughter she'd lost. But once Suletta started aging past this point and started looking more like a darker skinned version of Prospera in her youth:

That it really hit home that Suletta IS NOT Eri to Elnora/Prospera and that made it easier for her to distance herself and focus more on Aerial, where Erict's soul actually resides.

Or I could just be going too far into the weeds.

[comradeyurika]

And here comes the full moment. People who had watched the prologue and been paying attention to the series had already largely picked up on the fact that Suletta wasn't Ericht, but it's time for the truth to be stated plainly.

Eri is Aerial, and she always has been. She's been there the whole time. Prospera turned her daughter into a weapon for killing.

Prospera's villainy is fully revealed here, and Belmeria, like the audience, can only feel revolted at how unfeeling she is at laying it all out.

[yuecoocoo]

prospera is wrong

this is the first time we've ever seen her doubt herself. every move she's made so far, she was certain of. it was all planned meticulously. but for the very first time she's acted on impulse with not even an hour of thinking ahead.

just like miorine, prospera and eri want suletta to be free. to not have to worry about the bigger problems of the world. to be a normal girl living a normal school life. to not have to be involved with their tangled lives or the world of gundam.

but it can't be done. suletta never asked to be free. she only ever wanted to stay by their side.

[dotty-literati]

Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss.

[sapper-in-the-wire]

[saccharinescorpion]

gwitch 17

Prospera: Bel can you give that program any sound effect

Belmeria: i guess so, why

Prospera: okay listen we have the opportunity to do the funniest thing in the world