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Where do I fit in in Discourse Suit Aries?

I’m sorry to say this, but as an experienced Gundam fan, you are the DSX-05L Custom Prototype Full-Autonomous Discourse Suit revealed by the World State in episode 18 and added to the ship’s crew, that sides against the mass-production autonomous discourse suits fielded by the Mysterious Organization in season 2.

It’s just how it is. Don’t worry, your self-sacrifice in season 2 episode 23 is touching and heroic.

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Discourse Suit Aries: Fires of Orion

@ranma-official: Argumentative girl thought to be flirting with protagonist in comedy filler episode 17, actually interested in protagonist’s love interest. Side plot is dropped entirely once she becomes member of ship’s crew.

@isaacsapphire: The ship’s no-nonsense mechanic.

@mitigatedchaos: Loyal officer of the season 1 main antagonist and ~~mobile suit~~ ~~knightmare frame~~ mech pilot. Actually believes in main antagonist’s plans to bring about World Revolution, and the Hard Choices this requires. Thought to have been defeated and killed by the protagonist ¾ through season 1, returns to investigate/fight the Mysterious Organization behind the World State in season 2.

@slartibartfastibast: Ship’s lab-coated biologist. Secretly working against the Mysterious Organization, as hinted in season 1.

@the-grey-tribe: Ship’s engineer. Keeps the protagonist’s Super Prototype ~~Mech~~ Discourse Suit functioning in between combat engagements.

@collapsedsquid: Journalist investigating the true motives of the season 1 main antagonist, thought to have been killed by the Mysterious Organization near the end of season 1, but revealed to be alive in season 2.

@kontextmaschine: Esoteric ‘hipster’ gets little screen-time, revealed as former member of the Mysterious Organization currently in hiding in season 2, annoying viewers as an underwhelming use of foreshadowing in season 1.

@xhxhxhx: Reasonable Authority Figure of World State District 11, origin point of the protagonist’s ship.

@wrathofgnon: Even more war-hawkish general of the main antagonist.

@silver-and-ivory: Handsome ~~Mech~~ Discourse Suit pilot from other battlegroup rescues protagonist twice in season 1, once in season 2. A fan favorite but doesn’t get much screentime.

@theunitofcaring: Peace activist focused on by plot but brushed aside by ludicrously destructive Discourse Suit war. Finally achieves goal in end of season 2.

@yudkowsky: Thought to be the secret identity of the main antagonist, turns out to be just a philosopher in one of the space colonies.

@bambamramfan: Additional philosopher on Earth. Encountered by the protagonist in season 1 to impart some wisdom with a few other philosophers before departing.

@wirehead-wannabe: Bridge bunny. (Sorry.)

@slatestarscratchpad: Another space colony philosopher. Explains the goals of the Mysterious Organization in season 2 when Yudkowsky is found, but not actually a member of the Mysterious Organization.

@argumate: Generic owl-themed harem protagonist of the spin-off series.

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@mailadreapta Is a gruff father, and an honorable loyalist colonel of the season 1 main antagonist. He is killed by a shady and corrupt member of the protagonist’s faction during the battle of Space Colony Alpha halfway through season 1, when the protagonist attempts to take him prisoner.

@thathopeyetlives is Col. Dreapta’s lieutenant, and somehow survives until the end of the second season, only to bravely die fighting alien invaders in the follow-up movie.

@brazenautomaton is the ship’s shy, stressed and anxious gynoid AI. The sideplot to fix her permanently burned-in pessimistic Personality Template is sadly dropped during season 2 due to budget cuts. ( :< )

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silver-and-ivory asked:

wait but why am i a fan favorite who saves the protagonist. this is inexplicable.

mitigatedchaos answered:

The very fact that you don’t understand why you’re a fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat is part of why you’re suitable for the part of fan favorite that saves the protagonist in the middle of Discourse Suit combat. ☆ ★

mitigatedchaos

@silver-and-ivory

…thank you?
what are the other parts

Okay, I’ll answer this more seriously.

I recall reading that selfie post where you asked about looking male-sexed but visibly femme. Also, said selfie had long hair. So, not so far off from a bishounen!

Now, in a space mech war anime, there sometimes is a bishounen or maybe biseinen character with long hair. Usually, he is a capable mech pilot, as you don’t want to spend that characterization on an unimportant side character.

Now, you’re more SJish than I am, and I am read as right-wing. The goal of the main antagonist in the first season is not so dissimilar from various Gundam antagonist factions - Space Nationalism - or just plain opposition to the World State. So since I’m on that side and I’m a villain, you of course are on the protagonist’s side.

It makes sense for the protagonist (since this is being hinted at as being harem genre) not to be upstaged by such a guy on his ship! So the logical thing is to place him on another ship. And since the two ships often won’t be together to avoid loss of narrative focus, they will encounter each other several times.

Now then, since the director would want this pretty male character to bring cross-demographic female interest, it makes sense for him to be an ace pilot that rescues the protagonist and maybe gets rescued by the protagonist again later to drive fandom shipping (and thus viewership and merchandise sales).

Fan favorite because this combination of factors leads to shipping wars and conservation of screen-time ninjutsu, but also you have a very earnest personality.

(Note that I’m not a proper mecha otaku. Sorry @rocketverliden!)

@wirehead-wannabe doesn’t seem like the type to pilot a mech in a space war, and also is not a Nationalist/Traditionalist/etc, and also this is an anime, and thus ends up as one of the bridge bunnies.

@brazenautomaton I like but left out on the first round because I couldn’t figure out a good one and also didn’t want to accidentally come off harshly.

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silver-and-ivory asked:

wait but why am i a fan favorite who saves the protagonist. this is inexplicable.

discourse suit aries :)

brazenautomaton asked:

so am I basically Marvin the Paranoid Android

Yes, but in anime girl form. Because anime.

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