I'm going to do this chapter by chapter and explain the things that might have been a little difficult to understand in my fic. Keep in mind that all of this is at least partially my theory on 1.) the entire point of Gundam Wing, 2.) why the characters act the way they are, and so on. If I'm missing anything you'd like to know, just e-mail me at
I'm going to update this because I really didn't explain all the little points I had intended to, so if you're wondering if you missed a metaphor you might want to look this over ^_^
AC 206: The Change Time Brings (Part XV)
My FanFic's Reasoning
Overall: I know my fic doesn't have the most original plot but that wasn't my point. My fic is more philosophy than action, but FFN doesn't have a category for that. Yes, they are all a little OOC, but that's intentional. My idea was to show how I think 10 years would have changed the boys and girls as they passed into adulthood. Heero is much less antisocial, as generally becomes the case as people mature. Relena acts a lot less girly as she has matured greatly. Akiko's birth is what had the most major effect on their characters, because as much as 1XR care for each other they were bound to be overjoyed with a child. Obviously, they are all much more mature (with the possible exception of Duo) and mentally stable with themselves as compared to their teen years.
Chapter 1: All there is here is just some cleaning up, really. Heero lives Northwest of Tokyo, Japan, in the countryside. The other boys had to go looking for him because the records are kept locked away, because Heero doesn't want to be found. One of my beliefs is that Heero has a deep-rooted hatred of crowds and fame, because of the publicity he experienced during the war. The reason he doesn't like the idea of the rebuilt gundams - even without weapons - is because he's afraid for his family, which is clearly evident in later chapters. Heero is also worried about the peace. He's become anti-war (which I'll explain further down). The location of Heero's house is a bit of a metaphor, because of its solitude, the weather (cloudy, most of the time) and it's emptiness inside, despite the warm feel. This represents Heero's feelings toward the world and how he expresses them.
Chapter 2: There are two main points here: I think Relena would be the one chasing down Heero because she's done it before and Heero, being the way he was, would have never admitted he needed her. Later in the chapter, that admission was proof that the night had left Heero a changed man. It's a little metaphor, because it also marks Heero's transition into adulthood, his eighteenth birthday. Because he'd been away from Relena for so long, he'd forgotten how much he cared for her. (Supposedly, they'd had a good time, as I implied because Heero felt bad about leaving. He's a guy, come on.) The reason Heero felt he had to leave I covered in the fic, but I have to mention that I don't have proof that Heero doesn't know about his own past, that's only the impression I get from the show. As Dr. J. told Relena in episode 5, Heero isn't insensitive, just a little brainwashed. His little talk with the psychiatrist dude made him realize that his past really didn't matter, and his feelings for his lover took over and he went back.
Chapter 3: Umm, nothing much here that needs explaining, I think. It's more of an introductory.
Chapter 4: I just thought it would be perfect to stick Wuffie (Excuse the pet name. My mom actually called him that!) with a righteous-female type girlfriend. I just played around with some ideas in this one, basically what I would have wanted to do with Chang. I made up a lot of the Chang clan stuff, but from what I've read about them the sexism stuff fits. (The Chang clan was apparently forced to move to colony cluster L5 because the former China was afraid they would try to form a military coup and take them over.) Wufei denouncing his own clan sounded right to me, too, because I don't truly believe he would have gone with all those clan things. Wufei having a wife, Merian, that died is actually factual about his past. (It isn't mentioned in the show, but it is mentioned in the book that GW is based on.) I tried to elaborate on the clan traditions, and you may notice that Phailin's accented Basic (English) improves between Don't Call Me Nataku and later chapters of the story. The way Wufei behaves is my own opinion on his actual character, being very black-and-white yet at the same time quite complicated. Wu is one of my favorite characters, as is Heero, because his psyche intrigues me.
Chapter 5: I just recently composed a long rant to my friend The Pheonix on this one, which I'm going to post on the most part right here: (Referring to why Heero didn't blow himself up) After Akiko's little speech, Heero would NOT have done it. That's the whole point of my story. Heero loves his daughter very deeply, and she means more to him than pretty much anything else. Whoever said Heero was emotionless and cold did not pay enough attention to his character. My whole thing was about him coming to terms with himself and learning to express his emotions, which was bound to happen at some point of his life. (i.e., chapter 2) The reason I think Heero had to try and hide his emotions was that I believe that Heero never liked fighting. He only did so because of his soldiers' loyalty and because he was half-brainwashed by his training and genetic alteration, and that dislike of war was part of the reason he pushed that button in Siberia in the first place eleven years previous. Once Akiko made him realize that his death wouldn't advocate pacifism at all, mostly because no one would've really known what he meant to communicate with suicide. ("Adam's Song: You'll be sorry when I'm gone." Why?) He realized that all it would do was cause deep pain to those he cared about most.
Besides that, the self-detonation devices weren't even real. I really don't think the gundam engineers would have been stupid enough to put them back in.
Chapter 6: The only thing I'm going to say is that Une's head of the Preventers, so she naturally believes that rebuilding the gundams is going to lead to war. She wanted to make sure the pilots knew what they were doing. On the mystery characters: every good story needs some mystery characters looking out for the good guys. You can actually figure out who they are from that one conversation if you pay enough attention.
Chapter 7: I just kind of had fun with this one. Heero makes a powerful anti-war speech, but it doesn't seem to help much . . . His speech is mostly fact, as Heero has always been taught as a soldier to report the fact instead of opinion, but his powerful movement on trust and belief pries into his character a bit more. I don't think Heero is an untrusting person, just a bit paranoid sometimes because of his painful war memories (especially that dream). I think Heero mainly wants to trust everybody but knows he can't, and tries to change that.
Chapter 8: Just in case you hadn't noticed, I like to mood switch in mid-chapter a lot. I start out with Phailin and Wufei having some fun . . . then Duo having some fun with Wufei's "problem" (no, I'm not going to elaborate) . . . then I hit you with a shoot-out and near-death experience and a rape attempt. My main point here was to give Senator Beliv an evil cast, because - whoops, I can't let that slip just yet, sorry! I set the mystery characters back in there, and if you pay attention you can kind of gain a little insight into their identities (yeah, so if you know don't tell everyone, thank you).
Chapter 9: Duo somehow destroyed Deathscythe's leg armor. I'll leave that one a mystery. From here, I just stuck some Phailin-Wufei insights into it. I don't think there's much to explain, really.
Chapter 10: Basically just some character insights and how I think each one would act drunk. Quatre comes out of the closet, so to speak . . .
Chap 11: Just some lovey-dovey vows about what I think Phailin would have tried to build their relationship on. It's also a little metaphor to how Relena, Heero, Quatre, et cetera believe peace can be maintained by.
Chapter 12: Duo is especially prominent as a thinker in this one. (I did it kind of to compensate for bashing him so much.) The audience learns a little more about why/how I killed Hilde, and the pilots react to the violence and betrayal in the outer colonies. Heero's side of the discussion was actually what occurred to me when I was visiting the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. last year. The mood there struck me as quiet but not somber. There were kids laughing and people having fun in a polite, respectful sort of way, but very few people actually grieve over Vietnam any more.
Chapter 13: I just had a little more fun . . . A rescue mission-type thing is something I'd always wanted to write in there, because they seemed to be a major part of the GW series. Carpe Dium, as they say ("Seize the Day" in Latin).
Chap 14: The boys come home, have some peaceful moments and recover from their mental damage, then I slam you in the face again with the declaration of war. The main metaphor here is the moonlight playing across Heero's body, creating the deep shadows that are starting to appear in his personality under the deep stress of trying vainly to hold on to a waning peace. As my fic continues in AC 207, you begin to see him act more irrationally as a sign that he might be cracking. I'm not going to reveal the whole plot for you, so please continue on to AC 207: The Hands of Fate! Yes, it's up. You can find it under my author page if all else fails (please hurry, too, because I'm taking a survey of what I should do to continue the plot and I need votes by April 30)!
If that wasn't long enough for you, feel free to write me (I want mail, KUPO!). My fingers are just a little tired right now. So, Ja Ne 'till next time.
-ItsumademoOtaku