All-Purpose Gundam Fanfiction Thread

Had an interesting little idea. Suppose you're Veda, and you need to choose some Gundam Meisters for Celestial Being. But for whatever reason, you can only pick characters from non-AD Gundam universes. Who do you pick?

edited 5th Sep '17 10:35:51 AM by EvaUnit01

Amuro Ray.

Late-series Kamille too.

Loran, maybe? He'd definitely sympathize with the cause.

I actually like Milliardo for it. Possibly even post-OYW Char, with the idea that he'd always have a place as a pilot without having to lead or politick.

You need people who are ideologically aligned, are loyal, and have zero compunctions about killing, in ascending order of priority. Celestial Being doesn't recruit heroes, it recruits weapons broken enough to be usefully jagged. Mikazuki would be a good pick, and so would Shinn and Darryl. Loran, on the other hand, is way too stable. Early-series Domon would be an interesting choice - his combat skills would make him top priority for Veda, but his grudge is extremely personal, and would likely conflict with CB's focus on the bigger picture. That would also allow an intriguing replacement for Alejandro Corner - Master Asia. Celestial Being's mission, to force humanity to unite through violence and trickery, betrays a deeply cynical attitude towards the human condition, and it's not hard to see why a sufficiently jaded Observer might just go 'fuck it, exterminate the brutes and let something better evolve in their place'.

edited 5th Sep '17 11:33:03 AM by Iaculus

Yeah, a big part of 00's Gundam pilots is that Veda wants to keep them under control. That means picking someone who shares Veda's goals and doesn't mind Veda's methods, or picking someone who can be controlled. Celestial Being is largely built around preventing someone like Amuro or Kira from deciding "screw you, you're an asshole, I'm taking your Gundam and doing what I want with it".

Which immediately disqualifies many of the most skilled Gundam pilots. The people you end up with are ones with chips on their shoulders that can easily be pointed at targets and told "they're the bad guys, go kill them". Kamille and Shinn, Kou, and Mikazuki are the only ones that really stand out in that regard.

What about Riddhe? He was recruited by Martha Vist Carbine's faction to keep the Unicorn busy until they could get Gryps 2 working again, right?

edited 5th Sep '17 1:00:03 PM by G2BattleConvoy

Riddhe's whole deal is that he's a staid conservative trying (and mostly failing) to deal with his weird, squiggly Newtype feelings. The revolutionary agenda of Celestial Being is the exact opposite of his thing, although he might make a serviceable Graham.

Been rereading the thread from the start, and what I would most be interested in seeing from the first third of it is a story where Shinn and Relena interact.

He'd call her stupid and idealistic.

And probably try to kill Heero.

edited 6th Sep '17 11:26:14 AM by G2BattleConvoy

Maybe not. Shinn strikes me as the type who hates Relena's type as ignorant to how the world really works but has, on some level, grudging respect for people not afraid to bring on the pain when there's a warmongering asshole whose ass sorely needs kicking.

For a minute, I thought someone wanted Shinn to off Relena.

edited 7th Sep '17 1:40:15 AM by Ominae

Nah, he'd consider her Not Worth Killing due to her not being able to hurt a fly.

It's funny that the last time the topic came up, it went the other way around — that between her natural charisma/leadership ability and The Dulcinea Effect, Shinn would've more-or-less taken to Relena like a "heroic Durandal".

I'd agree with that if I thought Relena had any charisma or leadership ability.

Oh, shots fired.

Relena is an attractive teenage girl with boundless drive, boundless idealism, and an unending hatred for war. Shinn would have a goddamned shrine to her if she got to him before Durandal did.

edited 7th Sep '17 3:23:47 PM by Iaculus

Yeah, but she doesn't really do much except make a pretty symbol. She talks big ideals, but leaves the real work to others. Shinn has generally reacted very poorly to that.

Her entire goal is to promote dialogue over armed conflict, and she's actually pretty decent at it, knowing who to speak to and how. As the ruler of a tiny European kingdom, she manages to make herself enough of an ideological threat to the all-powerful Rommefeller Foundation that they were forced to get her Kicked Upstairs in order to shut her up, and then she used her newfound access to start directly subverting them, until a majority of the Foundation were on her side and their leader, Dermail, was all but exiled. By the end, she's even managed to compromise Dorothy, her Evil Counterpart.

Endless Waltz doubles down on this - she provokes a popular uprising with an incomplete broadcast, and talks her captor around so effectively that she ends up Taking the Bullet for her.

Relena is consistently presented as totally fearless and incredibly persuasive, the sort of person who will walk into a bandit fortress and talk them into becoming an animal rescue instead. That sheer force of will is something that Shinn is extremely susceptible to.

Had another Gundam + Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha crossover idea, this time by method of having that series take place on Cosmic Era Earth, about a decade or so after the end of the Second Bloody Valentine War.

Wish Upon A Seed

Thoughts?

Good.

Something that came to me a few minutes ago. What if Rosamia actually was Kamille's sister instead of it being a product of her delusions?

Then Kamille's father has got some explaining to do.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of him sleeping around.

Specifically, they're both old enough to have been around during the OYW and Rosamia remembers the colony drop. So I thought, what if Rosamia was in a boarding school on Earth during Operation British, saw the colony on TV and, being a child, thought it was the one her parents and Kamille were living on? Even though people told her there are many colonies out there, she was convinced that it must've been the one because it looked exactly like it (remember, children don't think logically and are quite hard to shake out of childish delusions like chuuni). So she ran away and wandered for a while until she was picked up by peacekeeping forces sometime later, told them her family died in the colony drop and eventually ended up in the hands of the scientists who turned her into a Cyber-Newtype under the reasoning that there's no reason to double-check her story because even if her family is actually alive, there's no chance to track down her whereabouts anyway with all the dead left after Operation British.