This is Shoujou, also, it takes place at Anime Boarding School, she can't be holed up in her room building robots. She can't sew, either, shoujou girls can't sew.

And now that I think of it, Nanami is a much better Sayla.

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Another difference is that the protagonists in Gundam never really had a clear reason for joining combat, while Utena did. Lalah commented on how Amuro had no family to fight for and that it was unnatural for him to fight the way he did, Camille seemed to want nothing more than to prove his awesomeness and be praised by the AEUG, and Judau continued to fight against Axis Zeon even after he had attained his original goal of finding his sister. Utena, on the other hand, had a desire to become a prince so that she could protect Anthy that mutated into a desire to be a prince for its own sake but then turned into a desire to protect Anthy.

Nietzsche felt that having a strong belief system could at times function as a way of compensating for a weak sense of self, possibly serving as a crude substitute, which is definitely what we see with Gundam protagonists and possibly with Utena.

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Oh hey look someone made a thread just for me!

To be honest I think Akio is more Giren than anyone else. Calm, collected, brilliant, and utterly sociopathic in his manipulation of people. Char is more of a combination of Touga and Ruka IMHO, since he's not nearly as in touch with how terrible he is (ala Ruka's self-righteousness) and whatnot. I also think the way Giren uses his father is comparable to a combination of Akio's relationship with Anthy and the original Ohtori chairman.

,fhvilguilu would write some mighty tl;dr on this but I need sleep at the moment.   

Why haven't I written my essay on how Nemuro is basically Ghinius Sakhalin done right yet?

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My Gundam fanfic is going to have a Sparta-like society ruled over by a vat-grown 12 year old ubermensch. They're a collection of colonies orbiting Mars that was originally put there by the Earth Federation to research zero-gravity combat and stuff like that. Since then, they've diverged from the original mission quite a bit.

There are 4 castes in their society.

The first would be technocrats/philosophers/mandarins who design the living spaces, create social engineering policy, perform scientific experiments, and even draw up battle plans. While in Earth-bound societies, this would allow them to do things like accept bribes and stuff, these people are actually the most regulated people in Mars-Sparta. Cameras linked up to an AI are everywhere in the colony in which they reside, and they are almost never allowed to leave. There are about 2000 of them and they are basically prisoners of the ubermensch.

The second would be the genetically engineered soldier-citizens, the spartiates. These would be like the duelists from Utena. They even sleep in regeneration tanks to allow them to maintain optimal health and physical prowess, like the black coffins. Spartiates are taught to worship strength and mental ability and to be bold and, if necessary, self-sacrificing. A small percentage is sent to Earth to infiltrate militaries, corporations, and infrastructural bureaucracies. The ubermensch-child is the strongest and therefore is obeyed implicitly.

The third would be the free men, the perioikoi. Mars-Sparta owns a lot of corporations planetside for the sole purpose of manipulating Earth politics and funneling industrial capital towards the Martian colonies. The corporate heads act on orders from the technocrats, and the sleeper agents within their organizations ensure that these orders are carried out.

The fourth would be the prisoners/helots/slaves. Mars-Sparta runs a space prison that has maybe 15% of Humanity's prisoners, that is, over a million of them. They range from serial killers to religious and civil rights leaders to former prostitutes. The female/male ratio is consciously kept high at around 6:4 so that the possibility of and desire for revolt is minimized. Their environment is like the World of Tomorrow as Walt Disney envisioned it. The colony's "natural beauty" is far in excess of Earth's. Prisoners are given free access to Earth entertainments and are even encouraged to farm their own crops. And of course, maybe 1% of the helots are actually spartiate spies/assassins. Helots occasionally "disappear" into technocrat experiments. Overall, though, the people can't complain, as the prisoners generally are much more liberated socially than on Earth. No searching for jobs, no applications for every little resource expenditure, no laws aside from those banning rape and murder. There is not even enclosure of land.

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