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Winged Gundam in Space – 4K Ultra HD Mobile Wallpaper

I wanted to write about someone who doesn’t seem connected to war at all.

Someone ordinary. Someone who volunteers not out of belief or hatred, but simply to survive— to solve a financial problem, to get through another day.

And then, little by little, that person is consumed at the very center of the war.

War absorbs everything. It pulls people in. It burns them down.

But war isn’t the only thing that does this.

Our lives do it too. Our society does it too. It quietly burns ordinary people until there’s nothing left to spare.

This story isn’t really about war.

It’s a fable— a way of looking again at how easily people are used up, and how natural it has come to feel.

I wanted to write something that makes us stop for a moment and think about that.

Imagining the world of Mobile Suit Gundam is always a pleasure.

For people who write fiction, Gundam is strangely convenient. Especially the One Year War.

It’s a setting that feels ready to receive stories. No matter how small the episode is, no matter how quietly you expand it, it still carries weight.

You can add another life, another moment, another point of view, and it doesn’t feel forced. It feels like it was always meant to be there.

War leaves so many empty spaces. So many unnamed days. So many people who existed briefly and then disappeared.

The One Year War makes room for all of that.

That’s why I wanted to try writing a story set in the Gundam universe. Not all at once. Just slowly, little by little.

Letting the world open up, and stepping inside it when it feels right.

When I first saw photos of Bunda Cliffs, I was stunned. I couldn’t believe a place this beautiful existed on Earth. And at the same time, a place this lonely.

I once thought, “Someday, I’d love to let my imagination wander in this place.”

And today, I finally wrote that story— blending it with the world of Gundam.

If you’d like to read the full story, please visit my Patreon. The link is below

No matter how far into the future, Bunda Cliffs will stay beautiful.

I love the piano. I want the piano to exist forever, even in the future.

So I asked myself—what if there was a piano in the world of Gundam?

Even though I’ve watched a lot of Gundam anime, I don’t think there’s ever been a story where piano truly matters.

So I wrote one.

The title is Song of Iron and Flowers. You can read it here:

A piano in the Universal Century… isn’t that incredibly atmospheric?