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But from Nyaan's perspective, her sense of having a true relationship with Kycellia is frustrated specifically by this maternal purpose. She wanted Kycellia to want her as her, as lover rather than a child or Kycellia ultimately describes her: a dog she tamed.
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But the thing is that Nyaan actually values Kycellia and I think in an overtly romantic sense. Just a few episodes she explains how she would want to feed her person, and upon Kycellia's death, she remarks remorsefully how she wishes she could have fed Kycellia cooking.
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Nyaan is a character who is pretty plain in what she wants: she wants power, but most safety and romantic affirmation. Each time Kycellia tries to impose her value on her, she rejects it internally, just like Machu did to her mom.
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Their age gap informs their pairing and what Kycellia tries to offer her. In a lot of ways, Kycellia's misjudgement of Nyaan's wants (a scholarship, "true freedom") mirrors the way that Machu's mom misjudged her desires. Both try to impose their values, their idea of their daughter should want.
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I think the other relationship this idea of Kycellia's frustrated maternal instinct gives depth to is the relationship between Kycellia and Nyaan. Now don't get me wrong, this relationship was recognized as a sapphic from go and in my read it still is, but the age gap is equally hard to ignore.
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Being awful about Quess is a red flag to me tbqh
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And this folds back into the ways that Char has always treated women. How he has treated Reccoa, Haman, Nanai even. Char says a maternal figure will fix him, but they can't. Partially because no one should forced to, but also because Char won't let them. Char won't even let Amuro.
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I think a bit of Gquuux's thesis when it comes to Char is that it is putting to a test Char's final deranged assertion from CCA. But how he reacts to Kycellia is as telling as how be reacts to Lalah. We have someone literally tell us she wants to mother Char and he kills her. Again.
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But going the other way, it also says a lot about Char. Gquux Kycellia is actually a lot like Rose Girl Lalah in that her grand plan will give Char everything she thinks he wants. She is giving him something we know he actually tried. She and Lalah are both trying to be a mother to him.
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I don't think it's a mistake they put her into the origin riding outfit for the flashback. They are trying to link this idea even to their confrontation in the Origin. They are trying to say this notion has always informed how she has treated Char, and how he always been her blindspot, a fatal one.
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It also ties a lot into her relationship to Char. Going back to original Gundam, she has always infantalized Char. During their face to face meeting, she brings up playing with him as child. Khara has obviously played up the Casval Boya thing here.
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Yes, this is a line from novel Tomino, but the delivery here is begrudging. (Rather than her fantasing about it, she states it wouldn't be so bad to have children who look like the Deikuns.) The implication is that this is something that she is surprised about herself and who her sense of self is
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Musk couldn't buy the Wisconsin courts. Super Pacs couldn't prop-up Cuomo. The wealthy can fail.
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At some point in there Andrew Cuomo thought "I should get Bill Clinton's endorsement" and Bill Clinton thought "I should endorse Andrew Cuomo" and I will puzzle over both men's thought process forever. Hubris? Forced favors? Hidden, Springtime for Hitler-esque motives for failure?
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Yeah, every time they make Gundam less than 50 episodes (less than 25!) it feels crunched.
The only other problem is the toxic waste line read from in the Japanese track of the last episode. But that is neither here nor there.
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Def curious what you thought about the line read.
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It's a Pokémon type match up thing. Kycellia-types are strong against Gihren types, Char-types are strong against Kycellia-types.
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Toxic yaoi, messy yuri, and doomed het all in the same episode. God bless Gundam
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I for one welcome our new Zeon overlord. Also got to appreciate the Ramba Ral cameo.
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There is a lot of stuff that I'd rather talk about other than that line read. I ultimately really liked this finale and I think it otherwise stuck the landing well. But the line read is distracting. A decision whose bafflement is not in what the artist hoped to gain, but their apathy to the downside
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Look, half the people Char end up shipped with try to kill him. It's basically a prereq.
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Or rather, I know it was not worth it. I honestly don't know how you make that moment work as effectively without Amuro's voice, but dude should not get work at this point. We know why. Like fuck guys.
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I think the Shirouzu reveal and the initial confusion over it shows how not having the original Gundam cast, the folks who have been part of this thing for 50 years, can be limiting. Like having the voice is an edge that allows a powerful moment to shortcut. But I don't know if it is worth it here.
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If you go full author is dead on that moment to ignore the real world context of the line read, it is an excellent moment. It would have been fine two years ago, in fact. But it is suss now.