Bear with me, I'm still new at this

The following map shows the travel routes and activity of the five Gundam pilots and the traveling circus group. This does not show activities of other characters, though.

THE PROJECT

First, I took this map:

and promptly took a look at all the Japanese and went “NOPE. IMMA DO IT LATER”. I instead color coded the pilots’ routes. I didn’t color the circus route, because I was dealing with a new and strange program (Microsoft Visio) and couldn’t be bothered to fumble my way through it again. So we have this:

01 (Heero) is red, 02 (Duo) is green, 03 (Trowa) is yellow, 04 (Quatre) is blue, and 05 (Wufei) is orange.

Now, what follows is the map completely translated. The routes for each pilot are separated and their activities are in numbered order. You can match the numbers on their lists below to the numbers on the map. Aso included in the following list are “other locations”, or places that are written on the map, but may not have been visited by our pilots.

Some locations weren’t given exact names, just names of regions. The “Yangtze River Estuary”, for example, so a rough estimation was made based on current world locations (assuming these named locations still exist in the AC timeline). Some locations were just a dot on the map with few identifying words and no identifying landmarks, so a guess was made. The Maganac base, for example, is just a dot in in the Middle East, so I had to guess, based on current 2015 maps, where the base may be located.

RESULTS!

Who was the busiest pilot during episodes 1-17? Drumroll please…Trowa Barton, with 14 locations! Who took his sweet time deciding his missions? Duo Maxwell with 8 locations. Who was the most erratic and all over the place? Mr Chang Wufei who circled the globe, jumping around in one continuous path and visited nearly every continent except South America, Australia, and Antarctica and was a pain to write out since he didn’t really meet up with the others much.

Read further for each pilots’ detailed itineraries:

Now, how do I make this happen?

Sum sort of sketch

Gundam Wing Preventer-7 Mission 08

Finally, those two are working together!

@cuteciboulette, this is for you 😊

I swear to god Heero is doing this sexy shit on purpose:

Quatre: …

Quatre: At what?

Heero: can cook but shouldn’t

-I just think cooking isn’t a skill Heero would have been trained in outside of making sure he won’t die if left to fend for himself. So while he won’t die if left in the kitchen, everything he makes comes out as either horribly bland or edible but only because he was trained to ignore his taste buds too. All the food he makes is perfectly nutritious though, so there’s…that.

Duo: can cook and will if needed

-Duo was probably taught to cook for practicality. He would have learned a bit at the Church orphanage (who would have cooked for loads of people) and then took his turn cooking while with the Sweepers, ‘cause when you’ve got a kid running amok, you give them chores to make them useful and so you know where they are most of the time. He probably doesn’t cook the healthiest food, but it is the most filling and convenient; he’s the one that gets “the most bang for the buck.” He also probably makes too much at once because he’s usually only ever cooked for large groups, so there’s always leftovers too.

Trowa: can’t cook but does

-Trowa was also taught to cook for practicality but he just…sucks at it. Maybe his passion is BBQ. Maybe he’s the type to just throw everything into a pot of boiling water and declare it done. Look, it’s fine, he’s kept himself alive this long, so whatever it is, it’s working for him.

Quatre: can’t cook but tries

-I just feel like he would have been waited on for most of his upbringing (and I don’t think it was much different for his sisters, so I just hc that all Winner’s can’t cook for the most part), and the Maguanacs didn’t have the same kind of relationship with Quatre as Duo would have had with the Sweepers, where it would have made more sense to take turns cooking. I do think Quatre can make his own tea, it would be ridiculous if he waited for someone to steep his tea for him - but if the Maguanacs are eating together, it’s not too much trouble to throw on a little extra for tiny Quatre. He probably has some artistic pursuits, like playing the violin, to balance out the ‘I’m just a commodity’ mentality - but cooking had not really been a concern until he started working with the other Gundam Pilots. Then he felt like he should at least try, but wartime isn’t the best time to learn how to cook, so he’s still pretty bad at it.

Wufei: can cook and should

-The only one who cooks and cooks well. It’s a skill that he would have learned as part of his upbringing, and everything he makes is both delicious and nutritious. The only downside is that most of the dishes he can make take forever to cook and he’s picky about the ingredients, so he only cooks when there’s time to do so.

Heero

Interest in food: 5/10 food is fuel. Fuel can sometimes be nice. 

Natural raw culinary talent: 5/10. This boy is a rote, by the book chef. He can master technique, but lacks creative inspiration. Most of his dishes are well balanced and simple. At best he will end up with one or two signature dishes he does really well by dint of having done them forever, and that’s it. The dishes won’t be anything fancy, but on a cold night you bet someone’s gonna flashback to the one time Heero made them all omelettes. 

Biggest flaw as a cook: Repetitive menu. Often a little bland. 

Chef Stereotype: Dad. 

Duo

Interest in food: 9/10 but also 3/10. Duo is both highly focussed on food, and willing to try anything once… but also to a certain extent, his interest is that there IS food, and to a certain extent, Duo actually genuinely likes ‘bad’ food. 

Natural raw culinary talent: 7/10 could definitely pick up the technique and also be fairly experimental if he puts his mind to it. Would definitely be keen to try new foods and try them together with more familiar flavours. Tends to pick up new ideas from TV rather than checking recipes. Beware, you’re going to eat a lot of burnt offerings before he perfects anything. 

Biggest flaw as a cook: questionable taste. zero sense of portion control.

Chef Stereotype: Nailed it!

Trowa

Interest in food: 6/10 highly interested… if someone else is cooking it. Trowa likes eating out - he IS a foodie, but he’s a born food critic not a chef. 

Natural raw culinary talent: 4/10 Trowa could be a good cook if he tried but he’s not going to so it’s a wasted talent. He can happily survive on sandwiches, things on toast, basic fried things and basic pasta dishes. If he’s following a recipe that is. Otherwise it’s the good old ‘put things in a pan, boil. done’.  

Biggest flaw as a cook: Apathy. Cohesion - adds all the spices, none of it makes any sense. 5 second rule. 

Chef stereotype: Constantly stood in front of the drawer someone else needs to open. 

Quatre

Interest in food: 6/10 Has good knowledge of food and its varieties. Is interested in food and how it melds with culture, and enjoys the warmth of sharing food. He has a reasonably good palate. 

Natural raw culinary talent: 5/10 But mitigated up to a good 7/10 because Quatre would be a careful cook - double check his measurements, always cooking with the diner in mind, times everything, very clean.  Finds it exhausting. Knows he is not a great cook, so tries very hard because he wants to please. Tends to overreach himself trying to make it better, and it’s usually delicious, but you do wonder if 3 hours is too long for spaghetti in tomato sauce. 

Biggest flaw as a cook: Lack of time to practice. Fusspot. 

Chef stereotype: Ingredient list longer than method. 

Wufei

Interest in food: 8/10 highly interested… but doesn’t want to admit it in case people think anything of it.

Natural raw culinary talent: 4/10 knows about what good food should be but doesn’t know how to make it… except he’s learning. Wufei takes notes. He reads up on nutrition but there’s always a bigger priority so he only gives his cooking intermittent attention. Absolutely would not cook for anyone else because what if it was bad? If forced to cook for or in front of others will create something decent but unmemorable.

Biggest flaw as a cook: Secretive. overly perfectionist.

….accidentally took liberties with the jacket designs because I was too lazy to google references LMAO .. .