History FanFic / WingsToFly

** No one has used Forsythe's first name yet; her nametag is "Forsythe, L." and that's the only clue to her first name.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Dyer in cites a book, chapter, and verse to Noin, but ''does not'' provide the actual quote. Noin knows the reference from memory.

* ReformedButRejected: Zechs 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.

* RoyaltyWhoActuallyDoSomething: Noin's father is the Duke of Aosta, and though he corrects someone for using the title as the family has not in about a hundred years, they point out that he still nominally retains his position as a Prince of the House of Savoy (the Italian royal family). Depending on possible siblings and succession laws, Noin may be the Duchess of Apulia or hold a lesser family title.

* ActionGirl: Noin. Hilde Schebeiker. Lucille Forsythe, Noin's wing. Several other characters.
* AffectionateNickname: Noin is "Boss" to Duo and Hilde, and "Skipper" to Richard Dyer and her wing, Forsythe. [[CultureClash She doesn't actually know what "Skipper" means the first time she hears it.]]

* LastNameBasis: Lucrezia Noin doesn't use her first name, exactly as in canon. ''Everyone'' is aware of this, which leads to a number of characters using respectful nicknames.

** Richard Dyer is described as having cold eyes and doesn't seem to have an expression unless he's speaking. Given the fact his extended family was nearly wiped out during Operation Daybreak, it's not that surprising.

* TheWarToEndAllWars: The concept is mocked not so subtly by Lady Une, and discussed by Noin and her wing Forsythe at one point. Noin says they only last a generation and references her family's history with the two World Wars.

** Preflight mentions that Trieze took a bullet for Noin once, nodding towards Frozen Teardrop. But see also DiscontinuityNod.

** During the dogfight at the end of Taxiing, Noin recognizes an Aries radar profile from memory. Similarly, her tactics are predicated on the fact that while she's not ultra-familiar with her newly upgraded Taurus, she knows ''exactly'' how well an Aries can fly.

* DiscontinuityNod: Noin is on good terms with her family, who actually do live on Earth and are actually Italian nobility. They exchange letters throughout the story, contradicting Frozen Teardrop.

* HighSpeedMissileDodge: In Taxiing, there are several. Two of the minor characters confuse a pair of missiles via the use of countermeasures. Noin actually starts to execute the classic missile defensive maneuver by putting the missiles on her 3/9 line, but doesn't complete it as one of her squadron kills the incoming missiles with his own.

** Aerody-whatsit?: The story reflects that the Taurus is the only mobile suit that actually has an overtly aerodynamic shape, with the others being various levels of the triumph of raw power over aerodynamics or having serious parasitic drag issues. In Taxiing the most power-over-aerodynamics suit in the series, the Aries, fights the Taurus, then the Taurus can basically outperform it in every meaningful aspect.
** Gravity Shmavity!: Bruising from the seat restraints, difficulty breathing, and the sheer fatigue of a high-gee turn are all namechecked. In fact, during Unstick Noin actually ''weaponizes'' a high-gee maneuver by forcing a pilot who climbed into the Gundam Epyon into a negative-twelve-gee downwards loop to evade her attacks. This is far beyond human tolerance; the pilot loses consciousness and crashes.

* 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.

** No one has used Forsythe's first name yet; her nametag is "Forsythe, L."

* AffectionateNickname: Noin is "Boss" to Duo and Hilde, and "Skipper" to Richard Dyer. [[CultureClash She doesn't actually know what "Skipper" means the first time she hears it.]]

* TeamMom: Forsythe plays this role on occasion.

* UnusualEuphemism: A “Pilot's Kiss” is the X-shaped chest bruise caused by rapid deceleration and the four-point harness mobile suits use.
* TheWarToEndAllWars: The concept is mocked not so subtly by Lady Une, and discussed by Noin and her wing Forsythe at one point. Noin says they only last a generation, referencing her family's history with the two World Wars.

* WarToEndAllWars: The concept is mocked not so subtly by Lady Une, and discussed by Noin and her wing Forsythe at one point. Noin says they only last a generation, referencing her family's history with the two World Wars.

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

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted from the original; an Aries 90mm chaingun can't penetrate most of the armor on a Preventer Taurus. At the same time played straight certain parts of a Gundam can be penetrated with standard Preventer weapons.

** Richard Dyer is described as having cold eyes and doesn't seem to have an expression unless he's speaking. Given the fact his extend family was nearly wiped out during Operation Daybreak, it's not that surprising.

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted from the original; an Aries 90mm chaingun can't penetrate most of the armor on a Preventer Taurus. Averted the other way too; certain parts of a Gundam can be penetrated with

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted from the original; an Aries 90mm chaingun can't penetrate most of the armor on a Preventer Taurus.

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

Following unspecified relationship troubles with Zechs Merquise, Lucrezia Noin returns to Earth and rejoins the preventers in AC 197, being posted to command of a reforming Space Mobile Suit squadron that originally belonged to the Alliance. The world is not as quiet as those who dreamed of peace might hope, for there are still thousands of mobile suits unaccounted for, and thousands of pilots who came of age with the wars of the new era. The demons of the past and the realities of the present will both have to be confronted by the pilots of Space Mobile Suit Squadron Twenty-Two.

ContinuityNod: All over the place.