after i finished souls weighed i kind of want to develop my own like. gundam oc setting... this is the protagonist, mileseo roskyis, who is legally distinct from any extremely minor ffxiv character i may have completely made up characterization for. i think mileseo pilots the gundam opus, or maybe the gundam lapis, because i also love historical alchemy motifs

it's always really striking to me how the climax of gundam 0079 is just as much about sayla as it is about amuro or char... "you're an adult now. it's time to stop playing war" really feels like a thematic summation of gundam as a whole. the shot of sayla reaching out for him with his broken helmet floating away is so iconic to me... and then she has to leave, and go back to her friends on the white base, and live.

you could make a really funny quiz that's like "is this original series gundam name a person or a vehicle" where it's got names like. m'quve, challia bull, depp rog, don escargot, humrau, rick dom, z'gok, fam bow, lackoc, marker clan, job john, dish, gogg, braw bro

okay so "miles" means soldier in latin, and "andare" means "to go" in italian (possibly from medieval latin?) so i'm trying to figure out if "milisandia" was intended as a pseudo-latin translation of "kidou senshi" (mobile soldier) as in "kidou senshi gandamu" (the japanese name of mobile suit gundam). this would be really pretty clever and fun but it would also be more thought put in than anything else in werlyt.

it belatedly occurred to me that her name is probably actually just meant as a variant of melisande. but she is named as meaning Gundam Protagonist in my heart