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Cockpit Gimmicks

I love a good control system for mecha and wanted to share some of my favorite control gimmicks I have seen so far in gundam. NTD: FUCK Conventional control systems, harness the power of space autism.

I love the gimmick of psycho frames. Like who cares if your mecha swallows your mindsoul look at the RBG colors.

Alaya-vijnana: Spine friends. Also, don't worry the thing you're now attached to is totally not a demon. Trust us.

Plug that shit into my veins, real cool how you can just have an open-back USB port to your mecha. What is cooler than being spinel friends with a massive metal war Machine? Why is my nose bleeding?

Mobile Trace System: The patient zero for a lot of anime fans growing up to develop a latex fetish.

I love the over-the-top nature of G-gundam and having a gimp-suit-Kinect-controller for your Wrestle robot adds so much charm to the show. Also Domom and Rain are the only ones who seem to struggle with putting in on (minus the horse). I think they're into it…

Also, shout out to the Zero System from wing. Got to midmax the ptsd of your child soldiers as much as possible. Tell me some of your favorites. From Gundam or otherwise would love to hear it.

Round TWO of mecha cockpit gimmicks

Here are some more. Some from the lovely comments I got thank yall so much.

Evangelion’s LCL: Inhale the gender-fluid Shinji.

Honestly, one of the less inconspicuous things in Eva, the giant mom/god robots, and Bisexual angst tends to overshadow some of the small bits. LCL is kind of hazardous. Given in Rebuild we learn prolonged exposure to it stops you from ageing. Which would be cool and all but I don't think anyone wants to be stuck in their 14-year-old body for years.

Escaflowne: a girl in gaea (2000)… I got nothing that's just kind of hot…

I saw this GIF and had to include it. I love a good organic mecha. Trust me I had to stop myself from including Aot on this. But I know nothing about this other than how cool that cockpit is. I now have a show to add to the watchlist.

VIBES BASED CONTROLS. Seijuu Sentai Gingaman/Power Rangers Lost Galaxy & Mahō Sentai Magiranger/ Power Ranger Mystic Force.

Shout out to the vibes base control systems seen in Super Sentai/Power Rangers. Just because your gimmick does not Involve tech doesn't mean you can't use giant robots. You don't need a joystick you just have to, as the kids say, Aura farm in your sick ass cockpit to punch the monster of the week.

Minor ff14 side quest spoilers from Shadowbringers but I been needing to include it.

OVERSOUL. FUCK YOU DAD. fuses with a mecha into an ungodly Abomination

Who needs high Synch Rates or New Type powers, with Garlean Engineering anyone can become a godless amalgamation of man and machine with the simple press of a button. Don't worry it will be absolutely excruciatingly painful. HAVE FUN.

Would love to now which ones I should include next time.

OK, I fully get the the point about an organic cockpit, but everyone needs to appreciate the clockwork glory that is the anime, rather than movie, version of Escaflowne.

This thing is made of brass and dead dragons and carries a 50% chance of inflicting cursed status effects such as 'getting overwhelmed by the souls of your dead enemies' or 'would you like to feel what it's like to be panel-beaten alive?'

Everyone should watch The Vision of Escaflowne. It's great. It has everything. Magitech! Dragons! Isekai-ing! Teen-fantasy romantic yearning! Gut-punch metaphysics that will hit you like a freight-train when you grasp the implications! Some extremely gender stuff going on with one of the characters, that I will not spoil!

Plus, the enemy mecha are made of quicksilver, which is extremely fun.

Ahem. Anyway. Sorry for derailing, there. Please continue.

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taking away a clowngirl's makeup telling her she doesn't have to be a clown she can just be a normal silly billy and correcting her any time she tries to juggle until she gets sadder and sadder and eventually stops talking altogether and just communicating via gestures and realizing with horror you've created a mimegirl

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1.neo is designed to look like metal is wearing clothes a distinctly feminine trait in sonic

2. this is metal own presentation of themself not an upgrade from eggman

I love how tumblr users play with Jorge I mean jpegs not Jorge who the fuck is Jorge

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thinking about transfem metal sonic again bc she’s like. the most transfem character in fiction whos not in any way actually transfem or coded transfem like it’s entirely unintentional and that’s what makes it so interesting to me. bc like her entire Thing is identity issues she was built to emulate, surpass, and be a superior version of sonic which like. we can talk about eggman hating sonic so much he literally made a better version of him as his own child another time but besides that metal's entire life has been being forced to fill the expectations placed on her to Be someone she can never be. and this is something that causes her a great deal of anguish! she literally has a mental breakdown over it it’s something that’s clearly traumatic and distressing to her bc she can’t do it! defeating and proving herself superior to sonic is something inexorably linked to her, and both cause her nothing but misery and are both very literally dehumanising towards her. she clings to them, bc she has nothing else and it’s the only path that she’s been allowed to even consider, but they don’t make her Happy. she wouldn’t be so fucking angry all the time if she was happy! but it’s what she’s literally been programmed to believe she wants even though chasing that ambition provides her no joy or relief.

and in sonic heroes, the pressure makes her snap. if she Has to fill the mould she’s forced into, then it’s the outside world saying she’s doing it wrong that’s the problem, because she Has to be perfect, right? metal sonic is the golden child out of all of her “siblings”, and while that means she’s not outright going to be destroyed by her father and faces much less verbal abuse and marginally more affection, it also means she’s forced to uphold the perfect image her father sees her as, else she fail and face the same treatment she’s seen her fellow badniks go through. and that image she’s always tried so, so hard to force herself to fit is that of her father's magnum opus, his masterpiece, a superior version of his enemy. and to be superior to sonic she has to Be sonic and so if everyone says she’s Not they have to be the ones in the wrong and not Her she has to be the real true superior sonic and she has to Prove it.

but the thing is, not only is she forcing herself into performing the perfect role set on her- one that’s specifically masculine- she also reinvents Herself. this is something in heroes a lot of people miss, but neo metal sonic isn’t an upgrade From Eggman to her (and also came After her breakdown, she did it Because she felt she couldn’t Beat Sonic And Therefore Be Him if she stayed the same) her neo form is entirely self designed, and it was done all by her own hands. neo metal sonic is probably the closest we can get to how metal actually wants to present herself to the world, that’s Literally just named to be the New Her, and. ma’am this is a goth girl.

like. not only is she Literally Wearing A Skirt, not only does she Literally Have Eyeliner, she's also designed in such a way it looks like she’s wearing clothes, which feels silly to bring up until you remember sonic anthro characters almost universally only wear clothes if they’re female. and neo metal sonic straight up has hatsune miku sleeves a belt with a flowy skirt and leg warmers but with spikes. like it’s already fem as shit (in a emo edgy fourteen year olds oc way) but like i'm pretty sure by mobian standards this is about as feminine as a murderous robot can reasonably get. and while obviously that doesn’t = gender, metal specifically presenting as feminine in her idealised form she designed herself, while having a meltdown because she’s unable to Be A Specific Boy and is having an identity crisis bc she’s miserable trying to chase that is… like, that’s just a closeted trans girl innit. like this is Very Obviously not the intended read but like… it’s an extremely obvious and resonant one?

metal is, canonically, a scared teenager. as in, she herself says that she was scared Before her transformation. she’s mentally like 15 afraid of failure with an abusive and neglectful father figure suffering from psychotic episodes brought about by golden child burnout. like that’s not how it’s phrased in a 2003 game rated 3 and up but that is like, objectively what’s happening in sonic heroes she’s very open about her motives that’s just canon. which doesn’t make her Trying To Burn A Toddler Alive in any way not absolutely horrible like people forget how excited she was to murder a group that included Multiple small children in it brutally she’s fucked up. but her issues with her identity are more tragic than anything. her being dehumanised and treated only as A Superior Sonic broke her. and when she finally is able to express herself in any way, she's able to present as, well, a very edgy teenage goth girl but in robot form! she’s a fucked up and evil person but she’s also unable to be her true self and she’s scared and frightened and alone. and she’s not incapable of good! she Did sacrifice her life for shadow in rivals 2 like she can care for people she’s not inherently evil she’s a Person just one that steals your IP address. but what Makes her evil is sticking to a path and presentation that makes her evil.

tl;dr: canonically transitioning would have saved her (this was not an intentional story decision they just accidentally made her ideal form goth girl hatsune miku before hatsune miku was even an idea)