Because at the time, I really didn't like Allelujah/the HRL as a whole for some reason, and so they tended to get shafted in terms of screen time in my drabbles. I actually set aside one episode to give them a good amount of time, but alas that was one of the episode drabbles I never finished.(What? I'm lazy to, and after a point I had no motivation to fill in the two episodes I had missed. With the disadvantage of knowing how the rest of the series goes, it actually gets harder.)
So, a10 thoughts from a very not-lighthearted episode.
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Gundam 00 Episode 11
10 Thoughts: Sumeragi
1. Zero-G
Space was a wonderful place: materials impossible to manufacture in gravity could form with ease, an infinite expanse of space with an infinite supply of energy to mold it, and an infinite amount of possibilities. Oh, and where else could beer form a perfect sphere in the middle of the air?
2. Back Support
Space is also said to be very good for the health (until your bones get weak), and Sumeragi would agree if asked. Nowhere else would she be able to curl a hundred pounds, and in space she never has back problems from holding her chest up straight.
3. Crush
One of the things she'd been expecting upon boarding the Ptolemy was to become the center of the male crew's attention. She was mostly pleased when she found out otherwise, though it was fun to tease Allelujah at times. (Setsuna was a lost cause, she had long realized. Not even a peek from him.)
4. Maniacal
For something as imposing and all-knowing as Veda, it was awfully boring. What was the point of planning in scheming the fate of nations in a hidden room in her room on the ship if you didn't do it in dim lighting over a chessboard?
5. Jealousy
As Christina stretched and attempted to ask Allelujah to put suntan lotion on her back, Sumeragi could just feel the undercurrent of jealousy coming from the girl as the Meister gawked at the strategic planner.
6. True Sight
Whenever anyone asked how Sumeragi could predict so accurately after seeing the data, she would just shrug. For her, the data translated itself into lines and patterns to be followed. It was just that simple to her.
7. Responsibility
Having worked in the Union military, she knew how strange her position was; she was neither captain nor combat coordinator, and had no real authority over the individual meisters. At most she was an adviser, and yet when plans failed it was she who took responsibility beyond her due.
8. Bitter
He asked why she drank something so bitter. The answer was simple. So long as that taste remained in her mouth, she would never forget the feeling of that day so long ago.
9. Memory
Sumeragi is blessed with a brilliant mind. It is the kind of mind that can understand complex math immediately, has an innate understanding for the complexities of human interaction, and the ability to use logic and reason without driving itself insane. And worst of them all, it was the kind that will never let her forget anything, no matter how much drink she partakes.
10. Torture
In her mind, perfect prediction is the greatest curse one can have. It means that the result of every miscalculation is clear long before the disaster befalls, and it means that there is no hope that the horrors will never happen again.
