Connection (Gundam Wing)

[edonohana]

Title: Connection
Words: 1700
Rating: G
Synopsis: It wasn't the first time Trowa had held Heero's life in his hands.
Spoilers: Through episode 21
Author's note: I swear that the next in the series "A Boy Loves His Gundam" will not be set in a repair bay.

Comments

[rilina]

This is great. I love Trowa's voice here and his perspective on Heero, especially on Heero forgetting what normal people can't do.

Also, the bit about Une's personalities staging a coup against each other totally made me laugh. That line really sums up the complexities of GW politics!

[edonohana]

Thanks! Such a shame that never happened in canon.

[oyceter]

I love the Trowa voice and how he thinks almost like a machine as well! Heero as advanced model, hee!

[edonohana]

Thanks!

[edonohana]

I'm not convinced either. ;)

[poilass]

You've got Trowa's voice perfectly. He's got that dry sense of humour and down to earth approach, but at the same time he's so lost, and such a mystery to himself. And Heero! I don't even have the words for how I love Heero! No, I really don't. I'm trying to think of some, but all i got is {{{{{Heero!11!}}}}} ! His longing looks at the self-destruct! His intensity! His forgetting what normal people are like!

I can't wait to see what you make of his relationship to Wing if you continue this series; also, you can set any number of stories in repair bays as far as I'm concerned.

[rachelmanija]

Thank you very much!

You mean Wing, or Wing Zero? I'm still trying to decide. I don't have as much of a sense of how Heero relates to Wing as I do with the other pilots and their Gundams, but it might be a bit difficult to write a Wing Zero story from Heero's POV.

[poilass]

I think Wing Zero might be more interesting - Jei's stories have an good take on that relationship if you haven't got to them yet. But I think the personality there is kind of in the program, not exactly the Gundam.
On the other hand, he just doesn't seem that attached to Wing.

I think the problem with Heero is that he mostly sees *himself* as a weapon, so he's not likely to anthropomorphize his Gundam much. it's more a tool for blowing himself up.

maybe you could write it from Zero's POV? ;]

SPOILERS FOR LATER EPISODES, BEWARE

[edonohana]

Yeah, I think you're right about Heero and Wing. Unlike every other pilot, I don't think he ever talks to it. Wing Zero, now, he does say was talking to him. (He probably means the Zero system, not Wing Zero per se, but close enough.)

I have been trying to figure out what Zero is supposed to do, and what it really does. It's supposed to increase the pilot's reaction time and tactical abilities by enabling the pilot to see the whole picture of the battle and how your decisions might play out, right? And that includes a rather glitchy anti-friendly fire capability in that it points out who your enemies are? ("YOU'RE ALL MY ENEMIES!")

Except what it mostly seems to do is make pilots hallucinate, go berserk, glow, decide to kill everyone in sight, and, occasionally, fix them up mentally if they were already crazy when they got in.

And then Epyon is supposed to show you your own personal future, but seems to mostly just make you go insane while your eyes spin like pinwheels.

Am I missing anything?

maybe you could write it from Zero's

[genarti]

Ooh, I like this. I really like the mix of introspection and silence and conversation, and the way Trowa's so perceptive and so oblivious at once. And Heero, of course, forgetting what normal people can do and eying that self-destruct button.

(The one thing that didn't quite work for me was the switching of verb tenses. If the introspection wasn't so related to what was happening right then I think it'd have worked better for me, but as it was I was mildly disconcerted to have present tense for "Heero's six inches away from me now" and then past tense again for "I watched him."

But that is minor, and again: I like this.)

[edonohana]

Thank you very much!