Nah, it's a whole different universe, but a couple of the characters are very similar, and it has similar themes, what with the main cast being child soldiers and the theme of oppressed space colonies rebelling against Earth (which, granted, only takes place at the end of GW but-). The Lead Girl is just very much like Relena, in that she is a Naive Rich Girl who is gotten involved in things over her head, but instead of following around a murderous boy for a whole season, she immediately starts making the effort to understand the poverty and suffering around her, and uses her privilege to try to make things better for other people. In the last episode, she was like "Okay, I'm done trying to do this the polite way, now I'm going to start fighting people."
It was great.
BUT YEAH, no, I completely get fandom burnout, and I do vaguely remember a lot of Bad Things about the GW fandom back in the day. I was like, 11 at the time, so mostly I just stuck to reading fanfiction and looking at pretty pictures, so I wasn't too involved. All that sounds pretty nasty though, so yeah, I don't blame you for not wanting to get back into the game. I can tell you that Frozen Teardrop is bad, though, like it's really weird and takes place in the future but also has flashbacks? I D K. I haven't heard anything about it that interests me, other than the fact that it reads like bad fanfiction 8I
Also, thanks for the warning! I didn't know people still RPed from Gundam Wing, but I will be sure to be on my toes if it comes up.
(Part of me is like, "I am not a summer child, I'm 26 8C" but I also realize that if I'm not old enough to have been as deep into the GW fandom as you seem to have been, then that's probably a fair assessment. I will enjoy my gundam, and I may eventually pick up one of the side characters to RP once the series is over.)
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It was great.
BUT YEAH, no, I completely get fandom burnout, and I do vaguely remember a lot of Bad Things about the GW fandom back in the day. I was like, 11 at the time, so mostly I just stuck to reading fanfiction and looking at pretty pictures, so I wasn't too involved. All that sounds pretty nasty though, so yeah, I don't blame you for not wanting to get back into the game. I can tell you that Frozen Teardrop is bad, though, like it's really weird and takes place in the future but also has flashbacks? I D K. I haven't heard anything about it that interests me, other than the fact that it reads like bad fanfiction 8I
Also, thanks for the warning! I didn't know people still RPed from Gundam Wing, but I will be sure to be on my toes if it comes up.
(Part of me is like, "I am not a summer child, I'm 26 8C" but I also realize that if I'm not old enough to have been as deep into the GW fandom as you seem to have been, then that's probably a fair assessment. I will enjoy my gundam, and I may eventually pick up one of the side characters to RP once the series is over.)