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So what if she’s wearing a crop top? She’s a giant robot, she can wear whatever she wants uwu

Something I haven’t seen much discussion about but I think makes Lady Prospera so interesting as a character is just how we simply don’t get a good sense of just where she stands as a mother to Suletta.

Like I’ve seen a number of people theorize that at some point Prospera will drop some ‘It was all a lie’/’I never loved you’/’You were never my REAL daughter’ bombshell on Suletta and try to kill her or just abandon her. Or simply read Prospera as the shitty, manipulative parent as Delling, Jeturk, Piel and Grassley.

But the thing is, that is simply not the case. Unlike basically EVER other parent we’ve seen in a position of power, Prospera seems to display some surprisingly genuine care and affection towards Suletta. Certainly FAR more than Delling, Jerturk or any of the others.

Now it’s certainly possible that this is all some act. But if it is, Prospera has put a surprising amount of time and effort into this act.

We’ve seen multiple instances of Prospera going out of her way to check up on Suletta to see if she’s alright or putting other work on hold when Suletta calls her to talk about something. Not exactly the behavior we’d expect from someone who sees her daughter as nothing but a tool.

Now of course that’s not to say that Prospera hasn’t been SUPER shady and manipulative towards Suletta. Or that she hasn’t still been using Suletta as a pawn in her grand schemes. Rather, while it’s easy to look at Delling, Jeturk and the rest and say ‘they see their children as nothing but tool in their schemes’, with Prospera things seem to be a lot more layered, nuanced and generally complicated.

Like even as we approach the final episode of Part 1, I’d say we still CAN’T tell for sure just how exactly Prospera views Suletta. Is Prospera’s care and affection sincere, or does she truly see Suletta as nothing but a pawn?

in the Prologue, it was shown that a Gundam’s eyes went red when it activated Permet Score 4.

yet we never saw this with Gundam Aerial. in fact, other features of the HG like the beam rifle’s beam sword function and the blue beam sabers were never actually shown in Season 1. it used a blue beam saber against a green Dilanza, but that was only in the trailer.

And they might have used some concept or cancelled footage for the trailer.

welp i stand corrected. it did use the beam blade…in green…and looking longer than the HG. that’s probably why my brain thought it was a beam saber.

you’re right that some things in the trailer were scrapped. Bandai did make changes to keep the model kits anime-accurate though. the Lfrith Ur had pink beam sabers when the original promotional images came out, but later they were edited to reflect its use of blue beams. 

so we do have reason to expect the model kits to have features that are or will be shown in the anime at some point.

maybe in Aerial’s case, being different from other Gundams, the Permet indicators are green eyes -> red -> blue? but they could’ve included blue stickers too (or blue eyes instead of red). i guess there’s always the possibility that Banrise just made some last-minute changes, nothing more to it.

in the Prologue, it was shown that a Gundam’s eyes went red when it activated Permet Score 4.

yet we never saw this with Gundam Aerial. in fact, other features of the HG like the beam rifle’s beam sword function and the blue beam sabers were never actually shown in Season 1. it used a blue beam saber against a green Dilanza, but that was only in the trailer.

And they might have used some concept or cancelled footage for the trailer.

welp i stand corrected. it did use the beam blade...in green...and looking longer than the HG. that's probably why my brain thought it was a beam saber.

you're right that some things in the trailer were scrapped. Bandai did make changes to keep the model kits anime-accurate though. the Lfrith Ur had pink beam sabers when the original promotional images came out, but later they were edited to reflect its use of blue beams. 

so we do have reason to expect the model kits to have features that are or will be shown in the anime at some point.

maybe in Aerial's case, being different from other Gundams, the Permet indicators are green eyes -> red -> blue? but they could've included blue stickers too (or blue eyes instead of red). i guess there's always the possibility that Banrise just made some last-minute changes, nothing more to it.