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If i had a penny for every time someone died in Gundam: Witch From Mercury while singing Happy Birthday, I would have two pennies.

Which is not much but weird that it happened twice.

eyy Nika-nee

I know im late to it, but im still losing it over that scene in gwitch ep 10 where suletta shows nika the ugly keychains and asks her if she thinks miorine would like them and nika lies through her fucking teeth like o-oh, of course honey, im sure she’ll love it! She looked at those puppy dog eyes of suletta’s and said i am NOT breaking her heart today.

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▷ Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2 ▹ED Red:birthmark

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Okay. So I just finished watching Gundam: The witch from mercury prologue, and I figured I’d note down some thoughts and theories here, and see how they pan out.

There are some spoilers for The Witch from Mercury Prologue.

So, Delling

Who appears to be shaping up to be a main antagonist. Honestly, he seems to be Treize (from Gundam Wing) without the class. I think he’s going to be one of those villains you just cannot wait to see get their comeuppance (so, like Iok from Ibo). I do love the absolute hypocrisy of admonishing Ochs Earth for making a weapon that kills its own pilots, when he’s surrounded by other weapons merchants. Like, he’s really out here trying for the moral high ground with that?

It’s interesting that he stated that “Cathedra shall deny all Gundams” because if memory serves the Aerial and Lfrith aren’t the only Gundams:

The Gundam Pharact is an interesting addition, since it appears to use technology similar to the GUND system seen on the Lfrith, and I’ll be honest, it’s pilot, Shaddiq Zenelli, gives me a shady vibe. So perhaps there’s skullduggery afoot there.

The Heingra units seen in the prologue are interesting too, since they seem to resemble the Demi training units seen at the academy. So I’d imagine that whatever company makes them (apparently something called Dominicus?) profited from the events of the prologue, and secured some pretty lucrative contracts (like maybe building the default training unit used by a lot of trainee pilots, perhaps).

Which brings me to the other mobile suits seen in the prologue.

All in All, I really like them. Sometimes you don’t realise how much you like a design until you see it in motion, Y’know? I fully expect Bandai to release a premium kit of the Lfrith pre-production type at some point, because that thing is gorgeous. The Beguir-Beu was also lovely, I liked how it used something other than beam sabres, and the brutality of its attacks got to me. I fully expect its pilot to show up again in some capacity.

Last couple thoughts now;

We only heard that Cardo Nabo (the old lady professor) had been neutralised, we never saw a body, so I’m fully betting she’s gonna show up again. (Probably being forced to work on something against her will).

The fact that prosthetics limbs are not only commonplace, but look (at least to us, the viewers) fully real was cool to see.

Loving the MS battles. Like, if that’s the quality we can expect, then I’m certainly here for it.

Lastly, (HEAVY Spoilers now), hearing Nadim sing his Daughter happy birthday as he’s dying, and watching how the warship bridge staff got utterly freaked out that they can’t stop the transmission was just really nice. A father’s last thoughts of his daughter as he gives his life so she can get away.

EDIT: Apparently the shady-looking guy, Shaddiq Zenelli (image below) pilots a different suit, the Michaelis, to the one I thought.

However, I maintain my belief that he’s up to some shady shit, because the Michaelis is obviously made by the same people as both the Begir-Beu and the Heingra (Grassley Defence systems/House), and Shaddiq has a father on the Mobile suit development council.

The Gundam Pharact’s pilot, Elan Ceres, also looks shady to me, but for different reasons, so we’ll see how that goes.

Though if it is going to be a “Noble House” type arrangement, then that sounds very interesting, particularly since I would have like to see more of that kind of thing from Iron-Blooded Orphans, with its factions within Gjallarhorn.

Though really guys, Earthians and Spacians? UC gets away with it because it’s old, but now whenever I hear about tension between Earthians and Spacians, I’m just gonna think of this:

I am looking forward to seeing more of the Mobile suit development council, if only because of that one guy’s facial hair.

Lastly; Chuatury Panlunch

First off, that name. Of the noble Panlunch Family, I’m sure. Fully expect her to open as a Bitch, then soften over time. Though if she ends up unrelated to the Begir-Beu and it’s giant floating globes, then I will be disappointed.

Okay. So I just finished watching Gundam: The witch from mercury prologue, and I figured I’d note down some thoughts and theories here, and see how they pan out.

There are some spoilers for The Witch from Mercury Prologue.

So, Delling

Who appears to be shaping up to be a main antagonist. Honestly, he seems to be Treize (from Gundam Wing) without the class. I think he’s going to be one of those villains you just cannot wait to see get their comeuppance (so, like Iok from Ibo). I do love the absolute hypocrisy of admonishing Ochs Earth for making a weapon that kills its own pilots, when he’s surrounded by other weapons merchants. Like, he’s really out here trying for the moral high ground with that?

It’s interesting that he stated that “Cathedra shall deny all Gundams” because if memory serves the Aerial and Lfrith aren’t the only Gundams:

The Gundam Pharact is an interesting addition, since it appears to use technology similar to the GUND system seen on the Lfrith, and I’ll be honest, it’s pilot, Shaddiq Zenelli, gives me a shady vibe. So perhaps there’s skullduggery afoot there.

The Heingra units seen in the prologue are interesting too, since they seem to resemble the Demi training units seen at the academy. So I’d imagine that whatever company makes them (apparently something called Dominicus?) profited from the events of the prologue, and secured some pretty lucrative contracts (like maybe building the default training unit used by a lot of trainee pilots, perhaps).

Which brings me to the other mobile suits seen in the prologue.

All in All, I really like them. Sometimes you don’t realise how much you like a design until you see it in motion, Y’know? I fully expect Bandai to release a premium kit of the Lfrith pre-production type at some point, because that thing is gorgeous. The Beguir-Beu was also lovely, I liked how it used something other than beam sabres, and the brutality of its attacks got to me. I fully expect its pilot to show up again in some capacity.

Last couple thoughts now;

We only heard that Cardo Nabo (the old lady professor) had been neutralised, we never saw a body, so I’m fully betting she’s gonna show up again. (Probably being forced to work on something against her will).

The fact that prosthetics limbs are not only commonplace, but look (at least to us, the viewers) fully real was cool to see.

Loving the MS battles. Like, if that’s the quality we can expect, then I’m certainly here for it.

Lastly, (HEAVY Spoilers now), hearing Nadim sing his Daughter happy birthday as he’s dying, and watching how the warship bridge staff got utterly freaked out that they can’t stop the transmission was just really nice. A father’s last thoughts of his daughter as he gives his life so she can get away.

Thought: What if the original Elan (in the suit) is also just a clone? And the Peil CEO’s are lying to him so they’ll have a nice willing face for their company?

Huh. Can’t believe it took me this long to find out that Ericht Samaya is 4 in the prologue, 21 years pass, and now Suletta Mercury is 17.

Suddenly all those people who are saying stuff like the two characters not being the same, and Ericht being inside the mobile suit are making a lot of sense.

Then again, given the focus of birthday’s in the prologue (and in the series in general), it’s possible that Elanora Samaya decided that if she was going to be reborn as Lady Prospera, and Ericht was going to be similarly reborn as Suletta Mercury, then those four years should be discounted?

Then again, given that we know “surgically altered humans” exist in this universe, there are quite a few other possibilities.

Or maybe we’re gonna get a whole “rebirth” theme going.

Alright then. So we have another Witch from Mercury episode that hits like a goddamn truck.

Heavy spoilers follow for Witch from Mercury Episode 14 (and 13). Sorta a mix of feelings and predictions.

Not gonna lie, really loving the new season so far, basically because both episodes have been pretty jam-packed. Like, there’s a lot going on with expansion and character development to a lotta people. Standouts include Chuchu, Nika and Lady Prospera.

I did absolutely love how Lauda has this big dramatic speech and genuinely guns it for Suletta, but then gets absolutely stomped. I feel like things are probably gonna end badly for him, if only because Guel’s more interesting. Still, watching Pettra and Chuchu defend him was nice, everyone has someone that cares about them.

There was also a small bit of development for Elan…… five? (I really should’ve rewatched this prior, oh well). Like, he doesn’t step in to ruin Shaddiq’s plans, and he expresses fear when faced with dire odds. Like, I guess Elan Four was about necessity, whereas Elan Five is about cowardice? Its a neat contrast, or perhaps how Elan Four influences Elan Five?

I love how we’re finally getting some insight into Lady Prospera’s actions though. I mean, episode 14 confirms a lotta theories some people have been having, which is rad, but I’m honestly just here to see what the heck she’s up to. So, Quiet Zero, I’m guessing it’s some sort of shutdown weapon? GUND-ARM System suits are shown to be able to totally overpower any non-Gundam suit (“only a Gundam can defeat a Gundam” thanks, Elan Four), so presumably their only threat would be another GUND-ARM system suit, which quiet zero focuses on taking over/shutting down? Though having written that down, it sounds like something too small-scale for what Prospera’s talking about.

EDIT: I have remembered that the Gundam Schwarzette is a thing. Given that that mobile suit literally has a zero on its face design, it’s possible that it mounts the “Quiet Zero” system in question. It’s also possible that the quiet zero is somehow connected to the ms-style GUND-bits that the Lfrith’s were using.

It’s also entirely plausible that every word she says to Miorine is a lie. I don’t think she’s lying when she talks with Belmeria, that sounds like what she actually believes. But there she’s with an old friend who she holds a lot of power over. Miorine is different, so I’m less inclined to trust anything she says to her. It is interesting that while talking with Miorine, she steps out of the darkness and into the light, so it’s possible that these are her original, noble goals, that have slowly been twisted into things she’d go to terrible lengths over? Things to ponder.

Shaddiq’s been…. Interesting, to say the least. Since I just spent a whole two paragraphs talking about Prospera’s possible goals (and honestly, I might write more later), it’s good to see the show’s other resident Char Clone stepping up to the plate (The Elan’s have too much other baggage for me to weigh in on them, and we don’t really know what’s going on with Guel yet). Shaddiq’s essentially plotting a coup from under his own father, and is straight up financing terrorist operations. It’s unclear how this is going to end for him, since it’s being repeatedly proven that he isn’t quite as smart as he thinks he is, so I feel like he’s going to go down a couple pegs at some point. I honestly don’t have a clue on where he’s going from here, so I’m very much looking forward to it. Grassley defence systems seems to have a monopoly on non-aerial Gundam tech, so I’m betting that they’ve been supplying Dawn of Fold with the Lfrith’s and GUND-bits.

Alright, guess I can’t really avoid talking about it any more can I?

Sophie Pulone gets a really nice focus episode, then dies attempting to take down Suletta in the Aerial. I genuinely wasn’t expecting her to bite it so soon, and it’s only made me more interested in seeing what the whole deal is with her and Norea du Noc. It’s quite interesting because Sophie is essentially a Gender-swapped (and perhaps slightly more childish) Mikazuki Augus, from Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans. She fights because that is her choice, for the things she wants in life, because that is what she is good at. I just find it really neat how she’s basically a takedown of the protagonist from the last show, showing what would happen were they actually overpowered. It also loops back to earlier, her death being the thing that breaks Norea’s emotionless composure and shows how these Gundam pilots view Suletta - as a terrifying monster.

It has greater implications too, since for all Sophie’s combat ability and credentials as a mobile suit pilot, she dies fairly quickly, as a pawn in someone else’s (in this case Shaddiq’s) plan. It sends the message that it isn’t the characters with raw power and deadly mobile suits that are dangerous, but the movers and shakers behind the scenes. Like Shaddiq. Like Prospera.

Spoilers for Gundam Witch from Mercury episodes 13 and 14 follow.

So, now that we know exactly how Aerial’s been operating this entire time (well, give-or-take a couple details) it does raise the question of what Eri’s role in all this is.

Like, how cognisant is she of her actions? Is she just following Lady Prospera’s orders? Is she protecting her sister? Is she fully aware that she’s murdering all these people?

It’s worth noting that when Suletta expresses doubt about her actions, brought on by witnessing Sophie’s death, Eri (as Aerial) immediately steps in to reassure her that she’s totally on the right path, and should trust her mother (at least that’s the vibe Suletta’s response gives me).

But, in light of this new information, it’s worth considering Elan Four’s fight with (as we now know) Eri (again, as Aerial) and Suletta.

Eri essentially pulled the patented newtype therapy on Elan Four, reminding him of a significant time in his life. But the question is, why?

She had no problem murdering Sophie (though that was somebody actively trying to kill), but why give Elan this?

My immediate though is as a distraction, to give them time to set up that little coup de grace they hit Elan with, but the alternative is that Eri is a good deal more empathetic than someone under Prospera’s thumb should be.

It’s also possible that she was put into Aerial at an early age (I’m not sure how much of a representation what Sophie and Elan saw was) and as such a lot of her development has atrophied.

Other predictions and thoughts on this development:

1. Lady Prospera will almost certainly betray Delling.

Perhaps I’m reaching for the low-hanging fruit here, considering that this was already likely, based both on how they act around each other and Lady Prospera’s existence as a char clone (and therefore pretty likely to betray anyone). But I’m thinking that Delling either doesn’t know about this (highly likely) or this is just a small part of the larger quiet zero project, which he also doesn’t know the full details on. Given his position with Cathedra in the prologue, I just can’t imagine him backing this.

2. Lady Prospera will fight in the Aerial.

Okay, so this is the biggie. I’m thinking that Suletta comes around to Miorine’s way of thinking and backs her in the upcoming fight. Aerial is (initially) more loyal to Prospera than Suletta, and Suletta will be forced to use a different unit (though presumably still a Gundam). Throughout the fight, suletta will be desperately trying to appeal to Aerial/Her mother and eventually get through to Aerial, which will then refuse to dodge an attack that kills both Eri and Lady Prospera. Bonus points if it plays out similarly to Scirocco’s death in Zeta Gundam.

Alternatively Lady Prospera takes to the field in a shiny new Gundam, the culmination of Quiet Zero (I wonder if too many of my theories rely on the fact that we know absolutely nothing about the Gundam Schwarzette at this point), and trying to convince Aerial to take her side, while Suletta’s desperately fighting without Eri’s assistance.

*just finished watching Witch From Mercury episode 19*

Well suddenly the credits make a lot more sense.

And y’all were saying the last episode was a gut punch.

Alrighty so, Gundam the Witch from Mercury episode 20. Kinda hits rather hard. Another one to add to the list.

Alright then, since this is the last chance I’ll have to talk about it on its own, let’s have a look at episode 20, shall we?

I’m just rewatching it before the new Ep., since I had a lot I wanted to talk about, but couldn’t really focus.

*the following contains spoilers for Gundam: Witch From Mercury episode 20 (and 19)*

*Talk about imagery of Prospera destroying multiple other Lfrith frames and how that corresponds with suletta and Eri.* -(awk. Seems I left some notes here)

First off, I’m gonna nip back to episode 19, where Prospera destroys the Lfrith Prototypes (mass production lfrith’s?). I find this interesting for two reasons; One, the consequences of Prospera starting a firefight to cover this are kinda massive (ie episode 20), especially since it throws GUND-arm inc to the wolves, screwing over her daughter’s friends for her own gain. Second, these are machines that Prospera has worked on. These are the machines she built with Dr. Cardo Nabo. Her destroying them is her violently destroying aspects of her past. Furthermore, it parallels with Eri and Suletta. Assuming that the Multiple Eri’s Suletta saw are just representative, it shows Prospera destroying her older children in favour of Aerial, because she doesn’t need them. She doesn’t need the Lfrith’s like she doesn’t need suletta, and it cements her as a Char to me. She doesn’t actively wish harm or dislike suletta, she just finds something else more important, and thus abandons her. It’s a very charlike thing to do, at least to me.

But the first point is also very notable, because basically all of Norea’s actions in Ep 20 are down to Prospera. Due to Prospera causing the fight on Earth, not only is Shaddiq forced to move, but Norea loses it and goes on a full-on rampage in the school. Norea meets a violent end in response to Prospera’s direct actions, and her attacking the school could very easily have led to Suletta being killed, heck, if she’d been standing slightly to the right, she would’ve. Prospera told Suletta to go back to the school and live out her dreams, in a *safe* environment, but because of Prospera, the school is no longer safe. It’ll be very interesting to see Prospera’s reaction when she finds out about this, though of course she won’t realise the connection. I expect she either won’t even blink, or when she finds out Suletta survived she’ll rationalise it easily.

Elan 5 being a coward was not something I expected to be this relevant. Huh. Kinda a parallel with Guel. They both lose someone in combat that they care deeply about, and then (presumably) go and become a better person after the fact. It’s also interesting that this is essentially the first time we’ve seen any development with Elan 5, where he’s actually cared about something and not just been evasive.

Guel and Shaddiq’s big showdown, while great, I don’t really have a whole lot to say about, other than notice the ms differences and wonder how that’s gonna show on the model kits.

Lauda had a really bad time in this ep, which is…. Something? On one hand, that sucks for him, but I fully expect him to either die or get character development, so………yay?

Other general points:

It’s nice to see the Beguir-Pente’s seeing more use.

Weird thing to notice, but the Asticassia school bell sounds super nice. Just a lovely noise.

Anyone else think that that fight between Guel and Shaddiq ended similarly to Gundam Thunderbolt (December Sky)? Maybe I’m reading too much into the mutual kill.

Is it me, or does the Michaelis have a subtly different head design? Maybe it’s just the shot.

I’m honestly kinda annoyed we got so many great shots of the Lfrith Thorn this episode, since it got wrecked. Though both it and the gunvolva’s were very evocative at the end, intercut with the devastation of the school.

Not to sound like one of those asshole fans who are all like “oh, the REAL Gundam starts here”, but I do expect Asticassia’s destruction to shake up things quite a bit, and with Shaddiq pushing for the Space Assembly League AND Belmiria about to blow the whole Quiet Zero thing wide open I’m curious as to if things are gonna end up in a full-scale brawl.

Shaddiq also states “we’ll use the witch for as long as we can”. I’m assuming he’s talking about Norea here. Kinda hypocritical of him, and it shows that he’s fundamentally no different than those others who would exploit Norea.

Shaddiq says “weren’t you told to secure your target before you’re suspected”? So, does he have a mole in cathdra? Or is he just good a predicting?

Lastly, Petra. I’ve seen a lot of people drawing her with GUND Prosthetics or expecting her to have survived, but honestly? I think she’s dead. Her running and saying what she wanted to do makes it seem like she’s going to actually die here.

And now, Episode 21 (just some quick notes for now)

*spoilers follow for Gundam witch from mercury episode 21*

I really like the Calgores fielded by the Space Assembly League, those are lovely. Like someone blended a Heingra and a Jegan together, with just a pinch of the Geara Doga.

Alright, alright Petra’s alive. Fine I guess. Hope she manages to speak to Lauda. I like that Felsi’s getting more focus.

Are we getting 30 episodes, 50 episodes or something different here? Because I’m kinda grappling with the understanding that Shaddiq was essentially the Starter Villain, and that really doesn’t sit right. It is however, really nice just to see him and Miorine talking, even if Miorine is still coming to terms with quinharbour (I guess?). I am really looking forward to her and Suletta reuniting though. (But really, if Shaddiq’s the starter villain, and we get 50 eps, does that mean that Peil’s gonna be the big bad simply by virtue of having moved last? Like we know they’ve got shady stuff going on, but other than the two Elan’s, we’ve received very little to go off).

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