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.
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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
Track List:
- Heartlines - Florence + The Machine
But in order to get to the heart of things
Sometimes, you have to cut through
- Hey Brother - Avicii
Oh, if the sky comes fallin' down, for you
There's nothin' in this world I wouldn't do
- Red:birthmark - AiNA THE END
The flower of my dream has already vanished
Becoming a red shining star [English translation]
- Who Are You, Really? - Mikky Echo
'Cause I've got nothing left to lose
See me bare my teeth for you
- If I Were A Weapon - Suzanne Vega
If I were a weapon you said I'd be a gun
Lethal at close range, I guess, with silencer and stun
- The Crooked, the Cradle - The Crane Wives
If mercies abound I'll be safe, I'll be sound
And the devil won't know all the love I just couldn't let go
- Growing Pains - La Roux
And oh, I've made mistakes
And yes, I know it's growing pains
- go to hell. - luhx.
I don't know how much I'll change
But I'll be better than I used to be
A playlist for Milisandia in my fanfic "Souls Weighed Down by Gravity."
On Spotify here