Because I am a madman, I have rendered into verse the duel(s) between Wufei and Treize, with a medieval twist. Tallgeese II has likewise been transformed into a destrier of draft-horse size, complete with Gundam Barding.
While the poem was done last year by Christmas, the illustration took me, appropriately, one year and a day to finish. I promised myself I would get it done by New Year's, and here at 8pm on December 31st, I have kept that promise by the skin of my teeth.
My rendition was inspired by the original 14th century poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", but it owes its modernized ballad format solely to Peter Pringle's incredible musical rendition of the Green Knight, which reads a lot easier for those of us who are less familiar with Middle English alliterative bob-and-wheel verse.
Tallgeese is known for two things: being ludicrously fast and ludicrously huge. Unfortunately, horses are sort of constrained to being one or the other, so I picked Hugeness over speed to represent its main features.
Some other influence included in the poem are Twa Corbies ("his hawk and his hound and his lady faire"-- which in this case I'm interpreting as Zechs and Lady Une), and a touch of The Highway Man ("Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat"), which I confess has always reminded me of Treize.
Notes:
• "The fifth of five" is doubly relevant, as Gawain is known for having a pentacle, or five pointed star, on his shield, and Wufei of course is 05.
•"A lion Or" on a field of azure is heraldic terminology, indicating a golden lion on a blue background. (aka. The OZ logo.)
•Wufei's sword has what I hope are the correct characters for "Shenlong", or "rising dragon".
• My favorite part of the Pearl poet's Green Knight is all the trashtalking.
• "Bob-and-Wheel" is the form of the original poem, which is the only consistent use of a recognizable metric scheme used. I'm using a bastardized version that ends the relevant verse in a four syllable line followed by a two syllable line.
No authors were beheaded in the making of this poem.
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