History FanFic / WingsToFly

* AllAPartOfTheJob: Forsythe will often include “a good wing looks after her lead” in a statement about why she is doing something for/with Noin that's manifestly beyond the normal responsibilities of a wingman.

** Events from the series are frequently mentioned. Ex-Alliance characters remember OZ's coup during Operation Daybreak less-than-fondly, and some of them lost family. Noin's position as an instructor at Victoria and the events of the episode “The Victoria Nightmare” are often referenced. And Hilde's infiltration of ''Libra'' is mentioned regularly.

* CultureClash: Noin understands European land military slang, not American naval military slang. When one of her pilots calls her “Skipper” she can only guess she's not being insulted from the reactions of others and has to look it up later. She later reflects on the danger of forgetting that it's a bulkhead, not a wall, in the same vein.

** A “Pilot's Kiss” is the X-shaped chest bruise caused by rapid deceleration and the four-point harness mobile suits use.

* {{Expy}}: [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Chao Lingshen]] is a pilot in the Mars Colonial Militia.

* BiTheWay: Forsythe, apparently, given the fact she's both hit on Noin and had a fling with Dyer in the past.

* ShellShockedSenior: Early on Noin has a few moments like this where she reflects on various things, ranging from nightmares about her first Gundam encounter to how few of her students survived.

* {{Expy}}: [[MahouSenseiNegima Chao Lingshen]] is a pilot in the Mars Colonial Militia.

A GundamWing [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10155395/1/Wings-To-Fly story]] following Lucrezia Noin, by @/{{Night}}.

* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Noin lied about her age to join up and has been on active-duty service since sometime in her early teens, which is why she's a squadron commander at twenty-two. She implies that this was actually very common to her generation. Hilde Schebeiker also lied about her age to get her slot in the OZ Colonial Militia during the actual GundamWing series. Contrast this with Duo and Hilde: ''everyone knows'' they are actually seventeen in the story's present, but it's treated as a non-issue because both proved able to fly combat when they were fifteen.

* HeDidntMakeIt: Focht's habit in referring to people who died during the Eve Wars is to say they "didn't make it to the end."

** She also did this for Richard Dyer when he was her lead, during AC 195, and used them same phrase. Noin recognizing he's describing Forsythe by the fact he says "a good wing looks after their lead" when describing the wingman that recognized he was psychologically self-destructing and arrested the process.

** Zechs Merquise is openly tormented by his time in Epyon's cockpit; the suit gave him certainty and power, but the certainty was very much in the wrong things and he knows it. He also seems to hear Trieze's voice at times.

* BadassNormal: The unnamed last survivor of the Io Militia Taurus squadron. Sixteen suits go into Mars' atmosphere; thirteen of them die before they can even defend themselves. Two more are killed seconds after they're able to maneuver. The lone remaining pilot manages to stand off Noin and her wing, trading fire with them on nearly even terms. Even when two more of Noin's squadron joins the fight, they manage to survive and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm make a run for it]] after a pair of Outer Colonies Gundams join the fight.

* ReformedButRejected: Zechs Merquise tried to kill the vast majority of humanity. Humanity has not forgotten. This is implied to be a major source of his personal emotional problems and hence helped drive Noin away before the story started.

** Survive combat against a suit with Zero System and you are considered a rare breed of pilot indeed.