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This is a comprehensive timeline organized by aboutgundamwing.com. Note that events occuring in The Glory of Losers/The Glory of the Defeated and Frozen Teardrop (which include events both from After Colony and Mars Century), are not yet included here. The said manga and novel are concurrently running in Gundam Ace magazine. We will add them as soon as official translations/information are released.
001: Several nations establish space colonies in Earth’s orbit. This marks the beginning of the After Colony (AC) era.
020: Colony L5-A0206 is completed. This colony would eventually become the home of the Long clan after they are exiled from China by the government. (Episode Zero - Wu Fei)
022: Construction of colonies begins at Lagrange Point 1. However because of conflicts and difficulties the construction proceeds very slowly.
050: The colony project is nearly stopped until the oil-rich countries from the Middle East start to invest in the project. Construction of new colonies begins at the other Lagrange Points.
070: Conflicts on Earth breaks out due to a reduction of materials needed to build the colonies. The Middle Eastern countries negotiate and the conflicts end. Colony building restarts using asteroids as raw material.
087: Colony L2-V08744 is completed. (Episode Zero - Duo)
102: An Island 2 colony is completed at L1. Soon afterwards the colony clusters are established and become population centers. Also due to conflicts on Earth many people flee to the colonies and soon a large part of the human population lives in space.
130: The conflicts on Earth die down after territorial lines are redrawn.
133: The United Earth Sphere Alliance is formed after Earth’s nations finally negotiate a peace treaty. However the peace is kept through military power. For this reason the Alliance Forces are established. A military-industry combine called the Romefeller Foundation is one of the Alliance’s major supporters.
140: Many countries join the Alliance, their colonies forced to do the same whether or not they like it. When the colonies start to oppose this integration the Alliance decides to respond with force to silence the critics.
147: All colonies are forced into the control of the Alliance in order to keep “peace and justice” - as the Alliance says.
149: The Alliance transfers control of the colonies to their mother countries, removing their autonomy. The nations begin a new wave of emigration to space.
150: Colonists who favor autonomy begin growing ever more dissatisfied with the Alliance.
165: Heero Yuy is chosen as the leader of the colonies by their citizens to peacefully oppose the Alliance. Because of his charisma the solidarity between the colonies is strengthened.
170: Many Earth nations are receptive to Heero Yuy’s course of nonviolence and demilitarization. One of these countries is the Sanc Kingdom.
173: The Romefeller Foundation subsidiary OZ starts development of humanoid fighting machines called mobile suits.
174: Heero Yuy makes a goodwill tour of the colonies to promote independence.
175: The first combat-capable mobile suit, the OZ-00MS Tallgeese, is completed. OZ goes underground, becoming a secret society.
April 8 175: Heero Yuy is assassinated by an unknown gunman, which throws the colonies into chaos. This causes the Alliance to plan a second military intervention. The engineers who designed the Tallgeese quit in protest after this.
176: The Romefeller Foundation begins production of mobile suits for military use, starting with the scaled-down Leo. (Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing) Many of their employees become members of the Specials, an Alliance mobile suit corps. Afterwards the Alliance deploys their new mobile suit troops to the colonies to stop the chaos, and communication between the colonies is forbidden.
180: Five of the Tallgeese’s creators work in secret, designing the ultimate mobile suit, the Wing Zero. However, their work is interrupted as OZ tracks them down, and they go their separate ways, each bearing a copy of Zero’s plans. OZ begins production of the Zodiac series of mobile suits, including the Tragos, Aries, Cancer, and Pisces. (Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing) The five young men who would become the Gundam Pilots are born this year. Among them is Quatre Raberba Winner, future heir to the Winner Corporation. His mother Katherine dies in childbirth, having insisted on bearing her husband’s heir naturally and still possessing the birth problems that arose shortly after colonization began. Quatre is never told of this, instead made to believe that he is a test-tube baby. (Episode Zero - Quatre)
April 7, 180: Princess Relena is born in the Sanc Kingdom.
182: The Sanc Kingdom is attacked by Alliance forces because their king is a follower of Heero Yuy’s total pacifism. King Peacecraft is killed but his children Milliardo and Relena are saved. During a crossfire in Europe, the traveling circus performers the Blooms are killed, orphaning their four-year-old daughter Catherine; her two-year-old brother Triton is thrown from the carriage and presumed dead. (Episode Zero - Trowa)
187: A virus breaks out on L2-V08744. The vaccine is reserved for the upper classes, putting the lives of the poor and “undesirables” at risk. When Solo, the leader of a gang of street urchins, falls ill, his best friend steals the vaccine, but returns too late to save him. The boy, who names himself Duo in honor of his late friend, is eventually adopted by the Maxwell Church after a string of disastrous adoptions. It is there, raised by the kindly Father Maxwell and Sister Helen, that the foundation of the future Shinigami’s personality is laid. (Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero - Duo)
188: A series of revolts breaks out across the colonies, all violently put down by the Alliance. At L3-X18999 Odin Lowe and the boy who would later become the Gundam pilot Heero Yuy try to assassinate the Alliance’s General Septum. However they fail and Odin is killed. (Episode Zero - Heero) On L2-V08744, rebels take the Maxwell Church and its residents hostage. Young Duo offers to steal them a Leo in return for the priest and nun’s safety, and though he succeeds, he returns too late; the Alliance demolished the church to defeat the rebels, destroying his surrogate family. (Episode Zero - Duo) During these rebellions, the five designers of the Wing Zero are contacted by Dekim Barton and commissioned to develop five new Gundams for the purposes of his ultimate plan, Operation Meteor. (Endless Waltz novelization)
189: L3-X18999 is completed; Mariemaia Barton is born there. Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin graduate from the Specials’ Lake Victoria Academy with the highest and second-highest grades in the institute’s history, respectively.
190: A nameless ten-year-old fights alongside a group of anti-Alliance rebels on Earth, and is the only survivor when a spy planted in the group betrays them. (Episode Zero - Trowa)
191: Leia Barton dies of an unspecified illness on L3-X18999. (Endless Waltz)
April 8, 191: Terrorists steal a prototype Aries mobile suit and hold Relena Darlian, daughter of the Alliance’s Vice-Foreign Minister, hostage; both the machine and the girl are rescued by Zechs Merquise, whose skill as a pilot is recognized at this time. (Episode Zero - Relena)
192: The Sweeper Group completes construction of the giant space ship Peacemillion and hides it on the Moon. As the members go their separate ways, Wing Zero co-creator Professor G discovers a young Duo Maxwell stowed away on his ship. Impressed that the boy was able to crack his security, G allows him to stay. (Episode Zero - Duo)
193: Treize Khushrenada becomes the head of OZ and the Specials following the death of General Catalonia, its previous commander. Winner Corporation heir Quatre Raberba Winner is abducted on his way to Earth by the mercenary Maganac Corps, whose leaders were negotiating with Quatre’s father for the release of workers unfairly detained on MO-III. The normally introverted young man forms a bond with the close-knit mercenaries and helps them twice, once by ferreting out a traitor and then by helping them fight off the Alliance in a borrowed mobile suit. For his actions, Quatre forever earns the gratitude and respect of the Maganacs. (Episode Zero - Quatre)
194: Zechs Merquise receives a two-rank promotion and the nickname Lightning Count/Baron (NOTE: Sunrise never seemed to decide which term was official). On an L1 colony, a young member of the Operation Meteor project carries out a late-night attack on an Alliance base, but a miscalculation causes the destruction of an apartment building. When the boy shows compassion for the victims, Dekim orders him retrained, feeling that such emotions are useless in a “weapon.” (Endless Waltz) The Alliance officially condemns colony L5-A0206, one of the first colonies constructed. general Septum, the man in charge of the operation, orders the use of poison gas to “sanitize” the colony; Treize, opposing this, sends mobile suits to get the job done first. The colony is defended by the newly-married Zhang Wu Fei and Long Mei Lan, piloting an incomplete Shenlong Gundam and a Proto-Leo respectively. They manage to thwart both attacks, though Mei Lan is killed in action. Alliance officer Sally Po erroneously reports that the operation was a success, further protecting the colony. (Episode Zero - Wu Fei)
195: Operation Meteor is set into the beginning stages. However, completely independent of one another, all five groups behind the main force have misgivings. This results in the death of Dekim Barton’s son Trowa and the “theft” of the five Gundams, entrusted by their creators to kind-hearted pilots who are given the mission of defeating the Alliance to ensure colonial freedom. (Episode Zero - Operation Meteor)
April 6 195: Operation Meteor’s launch date. (Gundam Ace)
April 7 195: The five Gundams land on Earth; Deathscythe lands in the American Midwest, Heavyarms in England, Sandrock in the Sahara, and Shenlong along the Yangtse River. Wing Gundam is thrown off course by an OZ attack and crash-lands off the coast of Japan. (Gundam Wing Episode 1)
April 8 195: Heero Yuy attempts to destroy the Wing Gundam using stolen torpedoes. (Gundam Wing Episode 2)
April 9 195: Zechs Merquise acquires the Tallgeese. Heavyarms and Sandrock attack the Corsica base at the same time by coincidence. (Gundam Wing Episode 3)
April 11 195: Shenlong attacks the Specials’ Lake Victoria base. (Gundam Wing Episode 4)
April 12 195: Heero destroys an OZ shuttle carrying a load of Gundanium Alloy. (Gundam Wing Episode 4)
April 20 195: Vice Foreign Minster Darlian is assassinated by OZ; rescued by colony rebels, his daughter Relena meets Doctor J, the creator of Wing Gundam. (Episode 5)
April 23 195: Relena Darlian returns to Earth and is attacked while at her school’s spring festival. The attack is thwarted by Wing Gundam, and eventually called off by Treize. (Episode 6)
May 19 195: The Alliance leadership meets at the New Edwards Base to discuss peaceful accommodation with the colonies. However, the Gundams are tricked into killing the leaders, causing all-out war between the Alliance and space. This is all a part of OZ’s Operation Daybreak. (Episode 7)
May 20 195: OZ’s Lady Une attempts to destroy the New Edwards Base - and the Gundams - by detonating the ICBMs stored therein; the attempt is thwarted by Heero Yuy. Trowa and Wu Fei attack the OZ fleet in a failed attempt to assassinate Treize Khushrenada. Zechs attacks and captures the Luxembourg base. (Episode 8)
May 21 195: Zechs launches an attack on the Alliance’s Sanc Kingdom base, piloting the Tallgeese for the first time, but its extreme thrust forces him to break off the attack. (Episode 9)
May 22 195: Lieutenant Otto takes the Tallgeese and destroys the Sanc Kingdom base, but is killed in the process. (Episode 9)
June 9 195: OZ launches a trap to destroy the Gundams by luring them to attack a Taurus transport route. The plan is thrown into chaos when Lady Une attempts to force the Gundams’ surrender by threatening the colonies with Alliance missile satellites, leading to the self-destruction of Wing Gundam. (Gundam Wing Episode 10)
June 10 195: Duo and Quatre hide out at the Maganacs’ home village. Relena attends a Romefeller party and attempts to kill Lady Une. (Gundam Wing Episode 11)
June 11 195: Duo and Quatre are forced to escape the village when OZ uses bombs in an attempt to flush them out. Relena is nearly captured by OZ, but saved thanks to Noin. (Gundam Wing Episode 11)
July 7 195: Heero Yuy regains consciousness for the first time following his self-destruction. Wu Fei helps a group of rebels battling Colonel Bundt. (Gundam Wing Episode 12)
July 9 195: Zechs aids Alex and Meuller’s capture of the Alliance’s Mogadishu base, but kills them after they murder surrendered soldiers in Treize’s name. (Gundam Wing Episode 13)
July 10 195: Trowa uses Heavyarms to attack OZ during a circus performance. He plans on self-destructing, but is stopped by his adoptive sister Catherine. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 11 195: Relena and Noin attend the Romefeller Conference in Bremen. Relena jumps up on stage and denounces the Foundation in front of Duke Dermail and Treize. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 14 195: Seeking redemption for his actions, Heero goes to Sylvia Noventa, the granddaughter of Alliance peacemaker he killed. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 21 195: Under orders from Romefeller, Zechs destroys Wing Gundam. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 26 195: After being contacted by Noin, Heero and Trowa head to OZ’s Barclay base in Antarctica. They are pursued by Romefeller’s Inspector Acht, who is killed by Trowa. (Gundam Wing Episode 15)
July 27 195: The arranged duel between Heero and Zechs takes place. Partway through, the duel is interrupted, first by Relena, then by Romefeller’s pursuit squad. Zechs attacks the squad, allowing the others to escape, but is himself captured. (Gundam Wing Episode 16)
July 28 195: Testing of the Gundam Geminass commences at the Asteroid Belt. The tests are witnessed by an OZ reconnaissance unit which, though destroyed, sends its information back to OZ Prize’s flagship, Grandshario. (G-Unit Chapter 1)
July 29 195: OZ begins making peaceful overtures to the colonies, claiming the desire to make up for the Alliance’s harsh treatment. Even as their homes denounce them, the Gundam Pilots break into OZ spaceports and steal shuttles to return to the colonies. At Singapore, Gundam Sandrock self-destructs to cover the escape of its pilot and his allies. (Gundam Wing Episode 17) Romefeller gives OZ Prize command of the mission to capture the Geminass. Prize has their first engagement with MO-V’s defense force. (G-Unit Chapter 2)
July 30 195: Zechs is tried for treason and found guilty. Treize proposes an alternate sentence to prevent morale loss from the execution of an OZ hero. As per this sentence, Zechs single-handedly battles a massive mobile suit force consisting of former Alliance pilots seeking to gain Romefeller’s favor. Zechs defeats all enemies and subsequently vanishes. (Gundam Wing Episode 18) Prize attacks MO-V again, this time resulting in the destruction of Geminass 02 and the apparent death of its pilot. (G-Unit Chapter 3)
July 31 195: Testing of the mobile doll system begins at Romefeller headquarters, but is interrupted by Treize, who opposes the system. An injured Quatre is recovered by a group of Alliance remnants who soon come under attack from OZ. Though they are killed, the leader manages to get Quatre away safely. The five Gundam engineers, captured by OZ, agree to build new mobile suits for them. (Gundam Wing Episode 18)
August 11 195: Gundam Deathscythe and its pilot are captured in battle against mobile doll Tauruses. (Gundam Wing Episode 19)
August 12 195: Heero breaks into OZ’s base and rescues Duo. (Gundam Wing Episode 19)
August 14 195: Trowa Barton enters OZ posing as a civilian and engages in pilot training with the Taurus. In order to ensure his loyalty, he is ordered to attack the nearly destroyed Deathscythe, which he does. Heero attempts to kill the Gundam engineers as they construct their new MS at the Lunar Base, but is captured. On Earth, both Sally Po and the Maganacs attempt to steal Sandrock’s remains from an OZ base; initially they come to blows, but end up cooperating. (Gundam Wing Episode 20)
August 24 195: Zechs, going by his real name Milliardo Peacecraft, is captured by OZ, but identifies himself as a goodwill ambassador from the newly-revived Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 21)
August 25 195: Quatre recovers on the Winner family satellite. After a tempestuous meeting with his father, the residents of the colony decide to join with OZ, resulting in Master Winner’s death right before his son’s eyes. (Gundam Wing Episode 21)
August 27 195: Milliardo Peacecraft meets with Lady Une, OZ’s public face in its move to make peace with the colonies. (Gundam Wing Episode 22)
September 1 195: OZ Lieutenant Nichol leads an attack against Alliance colony D120, which is thwarted by Milliardo. Nichol then attempts to destroy the colony with the Barge Cannon, but Trowa Barton intercedes and saves the colony. When Lady Une returns to Barge, she has Nichol thrown in the brig. (Gundam Wing Episode 22)
September 8 195: Duo meets Hilde Scheibaker and attempts to infiltrate the Lunar Base. After encountering the Gundam engineers and witnessing their rebuilding of Deathscythe and Shenlong, he allows himself to be captured.(Gundam Wing Episode 23)
September 22 195: Quatre destroys a colony with Wing Zero. (Gundam Wing Episode 24)
September 23 195: OZ dispatches Mercurius and Vayeate to battle Wing Zero at the L2 0X Point. The Vayeate is destroyed in battle. Duo and Wu Fei escape the Lunar Base, piloting the incomplete Deathscythe Hell and Altron. Disagreeing with the direction OZ is taking, Treize Khushrenada resigns and is confined to his mansion in Luxembourg. This causes a schism between Treize’s supporters and the Romefeller loyalists within OZ. (Gundam Wing Episodes 24, 25)
October 1 195: The Romefeller Foundation launches Operation Nova, deploying mass quantities of mobile dolls to forcibly capture the nations of Earth. Heero and Quatre escape the Lunar Base and return to Earth. (Gundam Wing Episode 26)
October 7 195: Relena formally declares herself ruler of the Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 27)
October 8 195: Treize completes the Gundam Epyon at his Luxembourg mansion. (Gundam Wing Episode 28)
October 14 195: Relena declares the Sanc Kingdom neutral and opens its borders to anyone wishing to escape the growing conflict. Heero and Quatre arrive on Earth and are briefly confined by Count Townsend, but make their escape. (Gundam Wing Episode 29)
October 20 195: Heero and Quatre split up; Heero joins the Treize Faction as a mercenary. (Gundam Wing Episode 30)
November 3 195: Heero battles OZ in a city, where he runs into Quatre again. They are rescued by Noin, who takes them the the Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 30)
November 8 195: Romefeller takes advantage of a group of Treize Faction soldiers seeking asylum in the Sanc Kingdom to stage an attack, but are repulsed. (Gundam Wing Episode 31)
November 9 195: Duo destroys a small OZ force and shuttle. (Gundam Wing Episode 32)
November 10 195: OZ’s Trant Clark tracks Duo to an L2 colony and forces him to test the ZERO System. Soon after, an OZ pursuit squad attacks; Trant attempts to use Wing Zero, but is driven insane by the System and killed.(Gundam Wing Episode 33)
November 11 195: Zechs attacks mobile doll carriers heading to the Earth for participation in Operation Nova. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 12 195: Relena is invited to OZ to speak about her nation. While there, Duke Dermail questions her about Zechs, who invokes the Sanc Kingdom’s name while attacking OZ, forcing Relena to declare him unconnected to her nation. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 13 195: Romefeller launches an attack on the Treize Faction’s final base in Luxembourg. Heero intervenes with Wing, but the Gundam is damaged and he abandons it. Treize meets with Heero and gives him the Epyon to use. In space, Zechs discovers the abandoned Wing Zero and captures it, though he self-destructs the Tallgeese to cover his actions. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 15 195: OZ locates Wu Fei at colony L5-A0205 and attacks. Rather than allow themselves to be captured, the colonists self-destruct the colony. (Gundam Wing Episode 35)
November 16 195: OZ begins its attack on the Sanc Kingdom. Zechs rushes to Earth with Wing Zero, hoping to save his homeland. At this time, Libra is completed in space. (Gundam Wing Episode 36)
November 17 195: OZ captures New Port City, the Sanc Kingdom’s capital. Rather than see her people harmed any further, Relena surrenders the nation and gives herself to Romefeller as a hostage. (Gundam Wing Episode 36)
November 18 195: Heero and Zechs, spurred on by the systems in their Gundams, engage in a lengthy duel that ends only when the systems shut down. After a brief consultation, they switch MS, giving Heero the Wing Zero and Zechs the Epyon. (Gundam Wing Episode 37)
November 20 195: With the dissolution of national borders, the World Nation is founded, with Relena Peacecraft as its Queen. The Artemis Revolution begins. (Gundam Wing Episode 38)
November 22 195: OZ Prize attacks MO-V with Aesculapius, a Gundam rebuilt from the Geminass 02. Dr. Berg, creator of the G-Units, is revealed as a spy and joins Prize. (G-Unit Chapter 4)
November 23, 195: Aesculapius, reassigned to the pilot Silver Crown, attacks MO-V. (G-Unit Chapter 5)
November 25 195: MO-V makes arrangements with Prize to allow civilian refugees to safely leave the colony. However, the shuttles are destroyed by Valder Farkill, who has been summoned to take command of the thus-far fruitless mission. Prize’s Broom Brooks is killed, and Rosshe Natono is injured, but rescued by MO-V’s Adin Barnett. Silver Crown begins planning Operation Pandora. (G-Unit Chapter 6)
November 26 195: Operation Pandora, an attempt to destroy MO-V by throwing a spent resource satellite at the colony, is launched. However, the satellite slows automatically, and Adin Barnett enters to discover a new G-Unit, Griepe. Silver Crown, now revealed as Odell Barnett, escapes to MO-V. (G-Unit Chapter 7, 8)
November 30 195: Queen Relena urges Romefeller to disarm, saying that weapons are no longer needed. This results in the hawkish Dermail losing most of his support. At the urging of his granddaughter, Dermail goes to space to oversee the battle with the rebels capturing OZ resources, and is killed. (Gundam Wing Episode 40)
December 1 195: The rebels in space, now identifying themselves as White Fang, name Milliardo Peacecraft their leader and formally declare war on the World Nation. (Gundam Wing Episode 40)
December 4 195: White Fang sends their Virgo mobile dolls to attack the space fortress Barge. Milliardo battles the Gundam Pilots who attempt to intervene, and Barge is destroyed. Treize returns to assume leadership of the World Nation, ending Queen Relena’s reign. (Gundam Wing Episode 41)
December 5 195: Several former Treize Faction members attempt to leave White Fang. Zhang Wu Fei decides to join forces with the other Gundam pilots and goes with Heero to Peacemillion. White Fang finishes construction on Libra. (Gundam Wing Episode 42)
December 8 195: OZ remnants capture Colony C421 and attempt to ransom it in return for Libra. Trowa uses Wing Zero to stop them and regains his memories in the process. Libra fires on the Earth with its main weapon. (Gundam Wing Episode 43)
December 9 195: Relena goes to Libra in an attempt to convince her brother to stop his war, but ends up a prisoner of White Fang instead. Dorothy Catalonia attempts to destroy the Gundam Team using a ZERO System-enhanced Mobile Doll program, but is thwarted by Quatre Winner’s use of ZERO in Sandrock Kai. (Gundam Wing Episode 44)
December 10 195: The World Nation begins assembling its forces at MO-II. Former OZ volunteer Hilde Scheibaker sneaks into Libra to steal data for the Gundam Pilots and is nearly killed by mobile doll versions of the Mercurius and Vayeate, but is saved by Duo. (Gundam Wing Episode 45)
December 15 195: A young woman named Luna Armonia arrives at MO-V, but is revealed to be a spy. Using explosives planted throughout the colony, she forces Adin to leave the colony with the Griepe. (G-Unit Chapter 9)
December 16 195: Adin is captured by Prize and confined on its flagship, Grandshario, but is released by Dr. Berg. He and Rosshe, who had come to stage a rescue, battle Luna and her sister Soris, Farkill’s right-hand women. After the sisters are defeated, Farkill orders Grandshario’s Grand Nova cannon fired on their MS, killing them. (G-Unit Chapter 10)
December 22 195: Treize challenges Milliardo to a duel to determine the outcome of the conflict. Milliardo declines by way of firing Libra’s main cannon at Treize, who is barely saved when Lady Une uses Wing to push him out of the way. The battle between the World Nation and White Fang begins. (Gundam Wing Episode 46)
December 23 195: MO-V’s engineering staff completes the D-Unit defense mobile doll. White Fang sends a force of mobile dolls to capture the G-Units, but they are defeated by Prize’s Kratz Shelby in his newly-built Burnlapius. The final battle between MO-V and Prize is joined. (G-Unit Chapter 11)
December 24 195: The Gundam Pilots join the battle on the side of the World Nation, attempting to stop Libra. Peacemillion crashes into Libra’s main cannon, disabling it. With the main weapon gone, Milliardo orders Libra dropped on Earth. Treize duels Wu Fei and allows himself to be killed; the World Nation surrenders afterwards. Heero and Milliardo duel pointlessly, which inspires the colonists to extend an olive branch to the Earth. With the war over, everyone - even Milliardo - fights to stop Libra from dropping on Earth, with Heero dealing the final blow. (Gundam Wing Episodes 47-49) At MO-V, Odell kills Dr. Berg by slamming the Aesculapius into Grandshario, but Berg is able to activate a doomsday program he implanted into the ship. Adin duels Farkill and, thanks to the PX System and the shocking news of Treize’s death, is able to kill the Dark General. However, as Grandshario prepares to destroy MO-V, Griepe is out of power. Adin, with the help of his friends, combines the G-Units into one final form, and uses its power to destroy Grandshario, ending the siege once and for all. (G-Unit Chapter 12)
196: The Earth Sphere United Nation is formed. Relena Darlian is elected to the position of Vice Foreign Minister, the same position her adoptive father held. Under her guidance, the United Nation begin dismantling the arsenals left over from the last war.
January 26 196: On colony X18722, a group of civilians breaks into a hidden Romefeller mobile suit plant and steals mass production versions of the Gundams, an unused weapon from the last war. The incident goes unreported and unknown by the world at large. (Tiel’s Impulse)
February 196: Odell Barnett and Tricia Farrel are wed on MO-V. The ceremony includes a final duel between the Barnett brothers, a last hurrah before MO-V’s mobile suit facilities are closed down and converted into a spaceship construction yard. (G-Unit Chapter 12)
Spring 196: Former members of White Fang begin agitating for another war, seeking the aid of the Gundam Pilots and the assassination of key figures in the peace process. Eventually, it is revealed that the White Fang leader has a deal with a mobile suit manufacturer, who wants the Gundams in order to produce the ultimate weapon. When his treachery is revealed, the rebellion falls apart. (Blind Target)
Summer 196: The organization known as the Perfect Peace People calls for greater disarmament, even beyond what Relena advocates; they especially want the Gundams destroyed. However, it is discovered that this is part of a greater plan that involves locating a lost mobile doll manufacturing plant. The plot is uncovered by the Gundam pilots and dealt with swiftly. (Battlefield of Pacifists)
December 24 196: The ESUN holds a Christmas party to celebrate how far it has come since the Eve War. Feeling that they are no longer needed, the Gundam pilots (sans Wufei) launch their Gundams towards the Sun. Meanwhile, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian is abducted while at a conference on the colony L3-X18999. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 1)
December 25 196: Mariemaia Barton, claiming to be Treize Khushrenada’s daughter, declares war on the ESUN. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 1)
December 26 196: The Mariemaia Army lands on Earth, capturing the Presidential mansion in Brussels. Quatre Raberba Winner retrieves the Gundams and starts back towards Earth with them. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 2)
December 27 196: The recovered Gundams, along with Preventers Fire (Lucrezia Noin) and Wind (Zechs Merquise, who was thought to have died in the Eve Wars), lead an attack on the Mariemaia Army in Brussels. The rebellion collapses when it is revealed that its creator, Dekim Barton, was carrying it out only for his own revenge for Heero Yuy’s assassination and not for Treize’s ideals. Dekim is killed and the Mariemaia Army soldiers, all Treize loyalists, surrender. Mariemaia is shot by Dekim, but survives the attack and is taken in by Treize’s former associate, Lady Une. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 3)
197: The world’s mobile suits, including the Gundams, are destroyed. The Gundam pilots return to normal lives, while Relena advocates the terraformation of Mars. Fire and Wind disappear; they end up taking a head start toward Mars. Gundams and Mobile suits are never seen on Earth nor space ever again. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 3)
April 197: Relena Darlian holds her 17th birthday at the Peacecraft castle, with several prestigious guests. However, the party is captured by a terror group dubbed “Epyon de Telos,” whose exorbitant demands are underscored by the threat of detonating a nuclear device within the Sanc Kingdom. Given little time to respond, Preventer recruits the Gundam pilots, who launch a successful operation, aided by Preventer Wind, who had infiltrated the group as an inside man. (Episode Zero - Preventer 5)
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This is a comprehensive timeline organized by aboutgundamwing.com. Note that events occuring in The Glory of Losers/The Glory of the Defeated and Frozen Teardrop (which include events both from After Colony and Mars Century), are not yet included here. The said manga and novel are concurrently running in Gundam Ace magazine. We will add them as soon as official translations/information are released.
001: Several nations establish space colonies in Earth’s orbit. This marks the beginning of the After Colony (AC) era.
020: Colony L5-A0206 is completed. This colony would eventually become the home of the Long clan after they are exiled from China by the government. (Episode Zero - Wu Fei)
022: Construction of colonies begins at Lagrange Point 1. However because of conflicts and difficulties the construction proceeds very slowly.
050: The colony project is nearly stopped until the oil-rich countries from the Middle East start to invest in the project. Construction of new colonies begins at the other Lagrange Points.
070: Conflicts on Earth breaks out due to a reduction of materials needed to build the colonies. The Middle Eastern countries negotiate and the conflicts end. Colony building restarts using asteroids as raw material.
087: Colony L2-V08744 is completed. (Episode Zero - Duo)
102: An Island 2 colony is completed at L1. Soon afterwards the colony clusters are established and become population centers. Also due to conflicts on Earth many people flee to the colonies and soon a large part of the human population lives in space.
130: The conflicts on Earth die down after territorial lines are redrawn.
133: The United Earth Sphere Alliance is formed after Earth’s nations finally negotiate a peace treaty. However the peace is kept through military power. For this reason the Alliance Forces are established. A military-industry combine called the Romefeller Foundation is one of the Alliance’s major supporters.
140: Many countries join the Alliance, their colonies forced to do the same whether or not they like it. When the colonies start to oppose this integration the Alliance decides to respond with force to silence the critics.
147: All colonies are forced into the control of the Alliance in order to keep “peace and justice” - as the Alliance says.
149: The Alliance transfers control of the colonies to their mother countries, removing their autonomy. The nations begin a new wave of emigration to space.
150: Colonists who favor autonomy begin growing ever more dissatisfied with the Alliance.
165: Heero Yuy is chosen as the leader of the colonies by their citizens to peacefully oppose the Alliance. Because of his charisma the solidarity between the colonies is strengthened.
170: Many Earth nations are receptive to Heero Yuy’s course of nonviolence and demilitarization. One of these countries is the Sanc Kingdom.
173: The Romefeller Foundation subsidiary OZ starts development of humanoid fighting machines called mobile suits.
174: Heero Yuy makes a goodwill tour of the colonies to promote independence.
175: The first combat-capable mobile suit, the OZ-00MS Tallgeese, is completed. OZ goes underground, becoming a secret society.
April 8 175: Heero Yuy is assassinated by an unknown gunman, which throws the colonies into chaos. This causes the Alliance to plan a second military intervention. The engineers who designed the Tallgeese quit in protest after this.
176: The Romefeller Foundation begins production of mobile suits for military use, starting with the scaled-down Leo. (Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing) Many of their employees become members of the Specials, an Alliance mobile suit corps. Afterwards the Alliance deploys their new mobile suit troops to the colonies to stop the chaos, and communication between the colonies is forbidden.
180: Five of the Tallgeese’s creators work in secret, designing the ultimate mobile suit, the Wing Zero. However, their work is interrupted as OZ tracks them down, and they go their separate ways, each bearing a copy of Zero’s plans. OZ begins production of the Zodiac series of mobile suits, including the Tragos, Aries, Cancer, and Pisces. (Encyclopedia of Gundam Wing) The five young men who would become the Gundam Pilots are born this year. Among them is Quatre Raberba Winner, future heir to the Winner Corporation. His mother Katherine dies in childbirth, having insisted on bearing her husband’s heir naturally and still possessing the birth problems that arose shortly after colonization began. Quatre is never told of this, instead made to believe that he is a test-tube baby. (Episode Zero - Quatre)
April 7, 180: Princess Relena is born in the Sanc Kingdom.
182: The Sanc Kingdom is attacked by Alliance forces because their king is a follower of Heero Yuy’s total pacifism. King Peacecraft is killed but his children Milliardo and Relena are saved. During a crossfire in Europe, the traveling circus performers the Blooms are killed, orphaning their four-year-old daughter Catherine; her two-year-old brother Triton is thrown from the carriage and presumed dead. (Episode Zero - Trowa)
187: A virus breaks out on L2-V08744. The vaccine is reserved for the upper classes, putting the lives of the poor and “undesirables” at risk. When Solo, the leader of a gang of street urchins, falls ill, his best friend steals the vaccine, but returns too late to save him. The boy, who names himself Duo in honor of his late friend, is eventually adopted by the Maxwell Church after a string of disastrous adoptions. It is there, raised by the kindly Father Maxwell and Sister Helen, that the foundation of the future Shinigami’s personality is laid. (Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero - Duo)
188: A series of revolts breaks out across the colonies, all violently put down by the Alliance. At L3-X18999 Odin Lowe and the boy who would later become the Gundam pilot Heero Yuy try to assassinate the Alliance’s General Septum. However they fail and Odin is killed. (Episode Zero - Heero) On L2-V08744, rebels take the Maxwell Church and its residents hostage. Young Duo offers to steal them a Leo in return for the priest and nun’s safety, and though he succeeds, he returns too late; the Alliance demolished the church to defeat the rebels, destroying his surrogate family. (Episode Zero - Duo) During these rebellions, the five designers of the Wing Zero are contacted by Dekim Barton and commissioned to develop five new Gundams for the purposes of his ultimate plan, Operation Meteor. (Endless Waltz novelization)
189: L3-X18999 is completed; Mariemaia Barton is born there. Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin graduate from the Specials’ Lake Victoria Academy with the highest and second-highest grades in the institute’s history, respectively.
190: A nameless ten-year-old fights alongside a group of anti-Alliance rebels on Earth, and is the only survivor when a spy planted in the group betrays them. (Episode Zero - Trowa)
191: Leia Barton dies of an unspecified illness on L3-X18999. (Endless Waltz)
April 8, 191: Terrorists steal a prototype Aries mobile suit and hold Relena Darlian, daughter of the Alliance’s Vice-Foreign Minister, hostage; both the machine and the girl are rescued by Zechs Merquise, whose skill as a pilot is recognized at this time. (Episode Zero - Relena)
192: The Sweeper Group completes construction of the giant space ship Peacemillion and hides it on the Moon. As the members go their separate ways, Wing Zero co-creator Professor G discovers a young Duo Maxwell stowed away on his ship. Impressed that the boy was able to crack his security, G allows him to stay. (Episode Zero - Duo)
193: Treize Khushrenada becomes the head of OZ and the Specials following the death of General Catalonia, its previous commander. Winner Corporation heir Quatre Raberba Winner is abducted on his way to Earth by the mercenary Maganac Corps, whose leaders were negotiating with Quatre’s father for the release of workers unfairly detained on MO-III. The normally introverted young man forms a bond with the close-knit mercenaries and helps them twice, once by ferreting out a traitor and then by helping them fight off the Alliance in a borrowed mobile suit. For his actions, Quatre forever earns the gratitude and respect of the Maganacs. (Episode Zero - Quatre)
194: Zechs Merquise receives a two-rank promotion and the nickname Lightning Count/Baron (NOTE: Sunrise never seemed to decide which term was official). On an L1 colony, a young member of the Operation Meteor project carries out a late-night attack on an Alliance base, but a miscalculation causes the destruction of an apartment building. When the boy shows compassion for the victims, Dekim orders him retrained, feeling that such emotions are useless in a “weapon.” (Endless Waltz) The Alliance officially condemns colony L5-A0206, one of the first colonies constructed. general Septum, the man in charge of the operation, orders the use of poison gas to “sanitize” the colony; Treize, opposing this, sends mobile suits to get the job done first. The colony is defended by the newly-married Zhang Wu Fei and Long Mei Lan, piloting an incomplete Shenlong Gundam and a Proto-Leo respectively. They manage to thwart both attacks, though Mei Lan is killed in action. Alliance officer Sally Po erroneously reports that the operation was a success, further protecting the colony. (Episode Zero - Wu Fei)
195: Operation Meteor is set into the beginning stages. However, completely independent of one another, all five groups behind the main force have misgivings. This results in the death of Dekim Barton’s son Trowa and the “theft” of the five Gundams, entrusted by their creators to kind-hearted pilots who are given the mission of defeating the Alliance to ensure colonial freedom. (Episode Zero - Operation Meteor)
April 6 195: Operation Meteor’s launch date. (Gundam Ace)
April 7 195: The five Gundams land on Earth; Deathscythe lands in the American Midwest, Heavyarms in England, Sandrock in the Sahara, and Shenlong along the Yangtse River. Wing Gundam is thrown off course by an OZ attack and crash-lands off the coast of Japan. (Gundam Wing Episode 1)
April 8 195: Heero Yuy attempts to destroy the Wing Gundam using stolen torpedoes. (Gundam Wing Episode 2)
April 9 195: Zechs Merquise acquires the Tallgeese. Heavyarms and Sandrock attack the Corsica base at the same time by coincidence. (Gundam Wing Episode 3)
April 11 195: Shenlong attacks the Specials’ Lake Victoria base. (Gundam Wing Episode 4)
April 12 195: Heero destroys an OZ shuttle carrying a load of Gundanium Alloy. (Gundam Wing Episode 4)
April 20 195: Vice Foreign Minster Darlian is assassinated by OZ; rescued by colony rebels, his daughter Relena meets Doctor J, the creator of Wing Gundam. (Episode 5)
April 23 195: Relena Darlian returns to Earth and is attacked while at her school’s spring festival. The attack is thwarted by Wing Gundam, and eventually called off by Treize. (Episode 6)
May 19 195: The Alliance leadership meets at the New Edwards Base to discuss peaceful accommodation with the colonies. However, the Gundams are tricked into killing the leaders, causing all-out war between the Alliance and space. This is all a part of OZ’s Operation Daybreak. (Episode 7)
May 20 195: OZ’s Lady Une attempts to destroy the New Edwards Base - and the Gundams - by detonating the ICBMs stored therein; the attempt is thwarted by Heero Yuy. Trowa and Wu Fei attack the OZ fleet in a failed attempt to assassinate Treize Khushrenada. Zechs attacks and captures the Luxembourg base. (Episode 8)
May 21 195: Zechs launches an attack on the Alliance’s Sanc Kingdom base, piloting the Tallgeese for the first time, but its extreme thrust forces him to break off the attack. (Episode 9)
May 22 195: Lieutenant Otto takes the Tallgeese and destroys the Sanc Kingdom base, but is killed in the process. (Episode 9)
June 9 195: OZ launches a trap to destroy the Gundams by luring them to attack a Taurus transport route. The plan is thrown into chaos when Lady Une attempts to force the Gundams’ surrender by threatening the colonies with Alliance missile satellites, leading to the self-destruction of Wing Gundam. (Gundam Wing Episode 10)
June 10 195: Duo and Quatre hide out at the Maganacs’ home village. Relena attends a Romefeller party and attempts to kill Lady Une. (Gundam Wing Episode 11)
June 11 195: Duo and Quatre are forced to escape the village when OZ uses bombs in an attempt to flush them out. Relena is nearly captured by OZ, but saved thanks to Noin. (Gundam Wing Episode 11)
July 7 195: Heero Yuy regains consciousness for the first time following his self-destruction. Wu Fei helps a group of rebels battling Colonel Bundt. (Gundam Wing Episode 12)
July 9 195: Zechs aids Alex and Meuller’s capture of the Alliance’s Mogadishu base, but kills them after they murder surrendered soldiers in Treize’s name. (Gundam Wing Episode 13)
July 10 195: Trowa uses Heavyarms to attack OZ during a circus performance. He plans on self-destructing, but is stopped by his adoptive sister Catherine. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 11 195: Relena and Noin attend the Romefeller Conference in Bremen. Relena jumps up on stage and denounces the Foundation in front of Duke Dermail and Treize. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 14 195: Seeking redemption for his actions, Heero goes to Sylvia Noventa, the granddaughter of Alliance peacemaker he killed. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 21 195: Under orders from Romefeller, Zechs destroys Wing Gundam. (Gundam Wing Episode 14)
July 26 195: After being contacted by Noin, Heero and Trowa head to OZ’s Barclay base in Antarctica. They are pursued by Romefeller’s Inspector Acht, who is killed by Trowa. (Gundam Wing Episode 15)
July 27 195: The arranged duel between Heero and Zechs takes place. Partway through, the duel is interrupted, first by Relena, then by Romefeller’s pursuit squad. Zechs attacks the squad, allowing the others to escape, but is himself captured. (Gundam Wing Episode 16)
July 28 195: Testing of the Gundam Geminass commences at the Asteroid Belt. The tests are witnessed by an OZ reconnaissance unit which, though destroyed, sends its information back to OZ Prize’s flagship, Grandshario. (G-Unit Chapter 1)
July 29 195: OZ begins making peaceful overtures to the colonies, claiming the desire to make up for the Alliance’s harsh treatment. Even as their homes denounce them, the Gundam Pilots break into OZ spaceports and steal shuttles to return to the colonies. At Singapore, Gundam Sandrock self-destructs to cover the escape of its pilot and his allies. (Gundam Wing Episode 17) Romefeller gives OZ Prize command of the mission to capture the Geminass. Prize has their first engagement with MO-V’s defense force. (G-Unit Chapter 2)
July 30 195: Zechs is tried for treason and found guilty. Treize proposes an alternate sentence to prevent morale loss from the execution of an OZ hero. As per this sentence, Zechs single-handedly battles a massive mobile suit force consisting of former Alliance pilots seeking to gain Romefeller’s favor. Zechs defeats all enemies and subsequently vanishes. (Gundam Wing Episode 18) Prize attacks MO-V again, this time resulting in the destruction of Geminass 02 and the apparent death of its pilot. (G-Unit Chapter 3)
July 31 195: Testing of the mobile doll system begins at Romefeller headquarters, but is interrupted by Treize, who opposes the system. An injured Quatre is recovered by a group of Alliance remnants who soon come under attack from OZ. Though they are killed, the leader manages to get Quatre away safely. The five Gundam engineers, captured by OZ, agree to build new mobile suits for them. (Gundam Wing Episode 18)
August 11 195: Gundam Deathscythe and its pilot are captured in battle against mobile doll Tauruses. (Gundam Wing Episode 19)
August 12 195: Heero breaks into OZ’s base and rescues Duo. (Gundam Wing Episode 19)
August 14 195: Trowa Barton enters OZ posing as a civilian and engages in pilot training with the Taurus. In order to ensure his loyalty, he is ordered to attack the nearly destroyed Deathscythe, which he does. Heero attempts to kill the Gundam engineers as they construct their new MS at the Lunar Base, but is captured. On Earth, both Sally Po and the Maganacs attempt to steal Sandrock’s remains from an OZ base; initially they come to blows, but end up cooperating. (Gundam Wing Episode 20)
August 24 195: Zechs, going by his real name Milliardo Peacecraft, is captured by OZ, but identifies himself as a goodwill ambassador from the newly-revived Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 21)
August 25 195: Quatre recovers on the Winner family satellite. After a tempestuous meeting with his father, the residents of the colony decide to join with OZ, resulting in Master Winner’s death right before his son’s eyes. (Gundam Wing Episode 21)
August 27 195: Milliardo Peacecraft meets with Lady Une, OZ’s public face in its move to make peace with the colonies. (Gundam Wing Episode 22)
September 1 195: OZ Lieutenant Nichol leads an attack against Alliance colony D120, which is thwarted by Milliardo. Nichol then attempts to destroy the colony with the Barge Cannon, but Trowa Barton intercedes and saves the colony. When Lady Une returns to Barge, she has Nichol thrown in the brig. (Gundam Wing Episode 22)
September 8 195: Duo meets Hilde Scheibaker and attempts to infiltrate the Lunar Base. After encountering the Gundam engineers and witnessing their rebuilding of Deathscythe and Shenlong, he allows himself to be captured.(Gundam Wing Episode 23)
September 22 195: Quatre destroys a colony with Wing Zero. (Gundam Wing Episode 24)
September 23 195: OZ dispatches Mercurius and Vayeate to battle Wing Zero at the L2 0X Point. The Vayeate is destroyed in battle. Duo and Wu Fei escape the Lunar Base, piloting the incomplete Deathscythe Hell and Altron. Disagreeing with the direction OZ is taking, Treize Khushrenada resigns and is confined to his mansion in Luxembourg. This causes a schism between Treize’s supporters and the Romefeller loyalists within OZ. (Gundam Wing Episodes 24, 25)
October 1 195: The Romefeller Foundation launches Operation Nova, deploying mass quantities of mobile dolls to forcibly capture the nations of Earth. Heero and Quatre escape the Lunar Base and return to Earth. (Gundam Wing Episode 26)
October 7 195: Relena formally declares herself ruler of the Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 27)
October 8 195: Treize completes the Gundam Epyon at his Luxembourg mansion. (Gundam Wing Episode 28)
October 14 195: Relena declares the Sanc Kingdom neutral and opens its borders to anyone wishing to escape the growing conflict. Heero and Quatre arrive on Earth and are briefly confined by Count Townsend, but make their escape. (Gundam Wing Episode 29)
October 20 195: Heero and Quatre split up; Heero joins the Treize Faction as a mercenary. (Gundam Wing Episode 30)
November 3 195: Heero battles OZ in a city, where he runs into Quatre again. They are rescued by Noin, who takes them the the Sanc Kingdom. (Gundam Wing Episode 30)
November 8 195: Romefeller takes advantage of a group of Treize Faction soldiers seeking asylum in the Sanc Kingdom to stage an attack, but are repulsed. (Gundam Wing Episode 31)
November 9 195: Duo destroys a small OZ force and shuttle. (Gundam Wing Episode 32)
November 10 195: OZ’s Trant Clark tracks Duo to an L2 colony and forces him to test the ZERO System. Soon after, an OZ pursuit squad attacks; Trant attempts to use Wing Zero, but is driven insane by the System and killed.(Gundam Wing Episode 33)
November 11 195: Zechs attacks mobile doll carriers heading to the Earth for participation in Operation Nova. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 12 195: Relena is invited to OZ to speak about her nation. While there, Duke Dermail questions her about Zechs, who invokes the Sanc Kingdom’s name while attacking OZ, forcing Relena to declare him unconnected to her nation. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 13 195: Romefeller launches an attack on the Treize Faction’s final base in Luxembourg. Heero intervenes with Wing, but the Gundam is damaged and he abandons it. Treize meets with Heero and gives him the Epyon to use. In space, Zechs discovers the abandoned Wing Zero and captures it, though he self-destructs the Tallgeese to cover his actions. (Gundam Wing Episode 34)
November 15 195: OZ locates Wu Fei at colony L5-A0205 and attacks. Rather than allow themselves to be captured, the colonists self-destruct the colony. (Gundam Wing Episode 35)
November 16 195: OZ begins its attack on the Sanc Kingdom. Zechs rushes to Earth with Wing Zero, hoping to save his homeland. At this time, Libra is completed in space. (Gundam Wing Episode 36)
November 17 195: OZ captures New Port City, the Sanc Kingdom’s capital. Rather than see her people harmed any further, Relena surrenders the nation and gives herself to Romefeller as a hostage. (Gundam Wing Episode 36)
November 18 195: Heero and Zechs, spurred on by the systems in their Gundams, engage in a lengthy duel that ends only when the systems shut down. After a brief consultation, they switch MS, giving Heero the Wing Zero and Zechs the Epyon. (Gundam Wing Episode 37)
November 20 195: With the dissolution of national borders, the World Nation is founded, with Relena Peacecraft as its Queen. The Artemis Revolution begins. (Gundam Wing Episode 38)
November 22 195: OZ Prize attacks MO-V with Aesculapius, a Gundam rebuilt from the Geminass 02. Dr. Berg, creator of the G-Units, is revealed as a spy and joins Prize. (G-Unit Chapter 4)
November 23, 195: Aesculapius, reassigned to the pilot Silver Crown, attacks MO-V. (G-Unit Chapter 5)
November 25 195: MO-V makes arrangements with Prize to allow civilian refugees to safely leave the colony. However, the shuttles are destroyed by Valder Farkill, who has been summoned to take command of the thus-far fruitless mission. Prize’s Broom Brooks is killed, and Rosshe Natono is injured, but rescued by MO-V’s Adin Barnett. Silver Crown begins planning Operation Pandora. (G-Unit Chapter 6)
November 26 195: Operation Pandora, an attempt to destroy MO-V by throwing a spent resource satellite at the colony, is launched. However, the satellite slows automatically, and Adin Barnett enters to discover a new G-Unit, Griepe. Silver Crown, now revealed as Odell Barnett, escapes to MO-V. (G-Unit Chapter 7, 8)
November 30 195: Queen Relena urges Romefeller to disarm, saying that weapons are no longer needed. This results in the hawkish Dermail losing most of his support. At the urging of his granddaughter, Dermail goes to space to oversee the battle with the rebels capturing OZ resources, and is killed. (Gundam Wing Episode 40)
December 1 195: The rebels in space, now identifying themselves as White Fang, name Milliardo Peacecraft their leader and formally declare war on the World Nation. (Gundam Wing Episode 40)
December 4 195: White Fang sends their Virgo mobile dolls to attack the space fortress Barge. Milliardo battles the Gundam Pilots who attempt to intervene, and Barge is destroyed. Treize returns to assume leadership of the World Nation, ending Queen Relena’s reign. (Gundam Wing Episode 41)
December 5 195: Several former Treize Faction members attempt to leave White Fang. Zhang Wu Fei decides to join forces with the other Gundam pilots and goes with Heero to Peacemillion. White Fang finishes construction on Libra. (Gundam Wing Episode 42)
December 8 195: OZ remnants capture Colony C421 and attempt to ransom it in return for Libra. Trowa uses Wing Zero to stop them and regains his memories in the process. Libra fires on the Earth with its main weapon. (Gundam Wing Episode 43)
December 9 195: Relena goes to Libra in an attempt to convince her brother to stop his war, but ends up a prisoner of White Fang instead. Dorothy Catalonia attempts to destroy the Gundam Team using a ZERO System-enhanced Mobile Doll program, but is thwarted by Quatre Winner’s use of ZERO in Sandrock Kai. (Gundam Wing Episode 44)
December 10 195: The World Nation begins assembling its forces at MO-II. Former OZ volunteer Hilde Scheibaker sneaks into Libra to steal data for the Gundam Pilots and is nearly killed by mobile doll versions of the Mercurius and Vayeate, but is saved by Duo. (Gundam Wing Episode 45)
December 15 195: A young woman named Luna Armonia arrives at MO-V, but is revealed to be a spy. Using explosives planted throughout the colony, she forces Adin to leave the colony with the Griepe. (G-Unit Chapter 9)
December 16 195: Adin is captured by Prize and confined on its flagship, Grandshario, but is released by Dr. Berg. He and Rosshe, who had come to stage a rescue, battle Luna and her sister Soris, Farkill’s right-hand women. After the sisters are defeated, Farkill orders Grandshario’s Grand Nova cannon fired on their MS, killing them. (G-Unit Chapter 10)
December 22 195: Treize challenges Milliardo to a duel to determine the outcome of the conflict. Milliardo declines by way of firing Libra’s main cannon at Treize, who is barely saved when Lady Une uses Wing to push him out of the way. The battle between the World Nation and White Fang begins. (Gundam Wing Episode 46)
December 23 195: MO-V’s engineering staff completes the D-Unit defense mobile doll. White Fang sends a force of mobile dolls to capture the G-Units, but they are defeated by Prize’s Kratz Shelby in his newly-built Burnlapius. The final battle between MO-V and Prize is joined. (G-Unit Chapter 11)
December 24 195: The Gundam Pilots join the battle on the side of the World Nation, attempting to stop Libra. Peacemillion crashes into Libra’s main cannon, disabling it. With the main weapon gone, Milliardo orders Libra dropped on Earth. Treize duels Wu Fei and allows himself to be killed; the World Nation surrenders afterwards. Heero and Milliardo duel pointlessly, which inspires the colonists to extend an olive branch to the Earth. With the war over, everyone - even Milliardo - fights to stop Libra from dropping on Earth, with Heero dealing the final blow. (Gundam Wing Episodes 47-49) At MO-V, Odell kills Dr. Berg by slamming the Aesculapius into Grandshario, but Berg is able to activate a doomsday program he implanted into the ship. Adin duels Farkill and, thanks to the PX System and the shocking news of Treize’s death, is able to kill the Dark General. However, as Grandshario prepares to destroy MO-V, Griepe is out of power. Adin, with the help of his friends, combines the G-Units into one final form, and uses its power to destroy Grandshario, ending the siege once and for all. (G-Unit Chapter 12)
196: The Earth Sphere United Nation is formed. Relena Darlian is elected to the position of Vice Foreign Minister, the same position her adoptive father held. Under her guidance, the United Nation begin dismantling the arsenals left over from the last war.
January 26 196: On colony X18722, a group of civilians breaks into a hidden Romefeller mobile suit plant and steals mass production versions of the Gundams, an unused weapon from the last war. The incident goes unreported and unknown by the world at large. (Tiel’s Impulse)
February 196: Odell Barnett and Tricia Farrel are wed on MO-V. The ceremony includes a final duel between the Barnett brothers, a last hurrah before MO-V’s mobile suit facilities are closed down and converted into a spaceship construction yard. (G-Unit Chapter 12)
Spring 196: Former members of White Fang begin agitating for another war, seeking the aid of the Gundam Pilots and the assassination of key figures in the peace process. Eventually, it is revealed that the White Fang leader has a deal with a mobile suit manufacturer, who wants the Gundams in order to produce the ultimate weapon. When his treachery is revealed, the rebellion falls apart. (Blind Target)
Summer 196: The organization known as the Perfect Peace People calls for greater disarmament, even beyond what Relena advocates; they especially want the Gundams destroyed. However, it is discovered that this is part of a greater plan that involves locating a lost mobile doll manufacturing plant. The plot is uncovered by the Gundam pilots and dealt with swiftly. (Battlefield of Pacifists)
December 24 196: The ESUN holds a Christmas party to celebrate how far it has come since the Eve War. Feeling that they are no longer needed, the Gundam pilots (sans Wufei) launch their Gundams towards the Sun. Meanwhile, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian is abducted while at a conference on the colony L3-X18999. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 1)
December 25 196: Mariemaia Barton, claiming to be Treize Khushrenada’s daughter, declares war on the ESUN. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 1)
December 26 196: The Mariemaia Army lands on Earth, capturing the Presidential mansion in Brussels. Quatre Raberba Winner retrieves the Gundams and starts back towards Earth with them. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 2)
December 27 196: The recovered Gundams, along with Preventers Fire (Lucrezia Noin) and Wind (Zechs Merquise, who was thought to have died in the Eve Wars), lead an attack on the Mariemaia Army in Brussels. The rebellion collapses when it is revealed that its creator, Dekim Barton, was carrying it out only for his own revenge for Heero Yuy’s assassination and not for Treize’s ideals. Dekim is killed and the Mariemaia Army soldiers, all Treize loyalists, surrender. Mariemaia is shot by Dekim, but survives the attack and is taken in by Treize’s former associate, Lady Une. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 3)
197: The world’s mobile suits, including the Gundams, are destroyed. The Gundam pilots return to normal lives, while Relena advocates the terraformation of Mars. Fire and Wind disappear; they end up taking a head start toward Mars. Gundams and Mobile suits are never seen on Earth nor space ever again. (Endless Waltz Gundam Wing Episode 3)
April 197: Relena Darlian holds her 17th birthday at the Peacecraft castle, with several prestigious guests. However, the party is captured by a terror group dubbed “Epyon de Telos,” whose exorbitant demands are underscored by the threat of detonating a nuclear device within the Sanc Kingdom. Given little time to respond, Preventer recruits the Gundam pilots, who launch a successful operation, aided by Preventer Wind, who had infiltrated the group as an inside man. (Episode Zero - Preventer 5)
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Join us for Operation Pride 2026!
Welcome to our Operation Pride prompts for 2026!
Each week features a duet of emotions - contrasting, related, and often intertwined. The prompts are meant to be broad and serve as a jumping-off point for your queer-centric Gundam Wing fanworks!
Week 1, June 1-6: Anger and Excitement
Week 2, June 7-13: Happiness and Anxiety
Week 3, June 14-20: Hope and Jealousy
Week 4, June 21-27: Melancholy and Contentment
Week 5, June 28-July 4: Grief and Courage
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What is a 'Summer Speaker' series? The Wing fandom is blessed with a diverse fanbase with many different fixations and special interests. In Fandom Ages Past, we've come together to host presentations about these topics - character deep dives, meta explorations, episode dissections - and share with fellow fans! Think something like a TedX talk - you talk, and we listen!
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a topic (fandom or Wing related)
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The 1969 Easter Mass Incident
Content Warnings: Religion, food, symbolic cannibalism, symbolic gore, penis mention, Blasphemy, SO MUCH BLASPHEMY, weapons, war mention. Mind the warnings and your health always comes first. Its a HILARIOUS story, I promise.
As always, all the names have been changed to protect people’s identities. This is a long one, so Press J now if you want to skip it.
When my dad was a young man and still a practicing catholic, he participated in a small church communion that nearly got him and six other people excommunicated.
Father Patrick ran a small church outside of California Polytechnical and tended to be… rather more liberal in his interpretations of scripture than most of the church was, which made him something of a hit with the local students and liberally-inclined populace. Pat went to all manner of civil demonstrations, condemned the shit out of the vietnam war and the politics that lead to it and so on. In January of 1969 a series of incidents lead him to start exploring “nontraditional” means of holding Mass as a means of reaching out to his community and exploring his own faith, which ultimately culminated in the 1969 Easter Mass Incident.
For those of you who weren’t raised catholic, Communion is this ritual where you become one with Jesus by eating a really horrible bland wafer cookie and taking a shot of wine (called hosts), which then *literally* become the flesh and blood of jesus in your mouth, allowing him to become one with you. It’s big McFucking deal, and you have the opportunity to take communion at every mass. All this had to be explained to me second-hand because after this and Dad’s 51 days in the army, Dad decided he wouldn’t inflict religion on any children he might have in the future.
*
“Hey dad,” Six-year old me asked the first time he told me this story after my practicing friends were talking about getting wine at church. “Isn’t that cannibalism?”
“We’re getting to that.” He waved.
*
The First Incident in January when, due to a serious cock-up by the church, all the hosts Father Pat received were moldering and spoiled and probably would have killed someone if he’d actually fed anyone them. But it was the first mass of the year, when a peak number of people came in after vowing to got to church more for new year’s. He couldn’t NOT have communion.
“I’ll bake.” offered Maria, the parish secretary and probably the best baker in the county. “So we have hosts. Jesus will understand.”
Father Patrick, not one to pass up the chance at Maria’s cooking, immediately agreed.
A Host is supposed to be composed solely of unleavened wheat flour and water, which is why they taste terrible. It’s a theological point of some importance relating to Exodus or something but Maria had an important theological counterpoint: Jesus both divine and loves all his children, ergo, Jesus would neither be a nasty bland cracker nor want his children to suffer as such and so instead, she made Mexican wedding cookies.
They were a SPECTACULAR hit. Many praises were heaped upon father patrick for the Much Better Wafers and that they’d be sure to show up next week as long as Maria kept making them. Father Patrick figuring that hey, anything that gets people in the doors is good and really, if it was turning into Jesus once inside the parishioner, did it really matter what the wafers were made of? So he continued to let Maria bake the Hosts, and encouraged her to try out new flavors, like nutmeg and cinnamon.
This went on swimmingly for a few weeks until The Bishop showed up for a surprise visit the same week Maria decided to experiment with rainbow sprinkles.
Dad remembers hearing the bishop through the windows roaring “THE HOLY BODY OF CHRIST DOES! NOT! CONTAIN! RAINBOW! SPRINKLES!”
The matter went clean up to The Archbishop, who decided that while Pat was probably right to not feed spoiled hosts to his parish, he should attend some remedial classes to remember what Communion was all about, so that if it happened again, he’s come up with a more suitable substitute.
Father Patrick returned in late March, full of spite and some fascinating new ideas.
*
“Is this where the Cannibalism happens?” Six-year-old me asked, eager to get to the good parts.
*
At his remedial classes, the teacher had stressed the importance of transubstantiation, aka “That bit where the wafer and wine, Actually, Literally, become the flesh of Jesus Christ and we expect you to swallow.” Also on the syllabus was understanding the importance of Christ’s suffering and sacrifice.
“So, I was thinking about Easter Service.” Said father Patrick one afternoon while dad was doing his computer science homework at the church because his dorm was a barely-standing fire hazard and the library was where you went to have sex.
“Well, we do re-enactments for christmas. Why not on easter? Why not re-enact the crucifixion of Christ right here? Make it real for everyone. Trauma’s great for bonding a community together.”
“Who’s playing Jesus?” asked Maria, always one for a good laugh.
“That’s the thing- A Host, it doesn’t look much like flesh, right? Doesn’t look like much of anything, really. Not great for reinforcing one’s belief.
What if, instead, we- and I mean you, Maria, I can’t cook to save my life- make a man-sized loaf of bread, maybe in the shape of a T, and we have some of the boys dress up as romans and whip the bread and we pour the wine on so it’s bleeding and them- then we make a big wooden cross and actually nail the bread to it with, I don’t know, railroad spikes, more wine all over. And we raise the cross, all while telling the story of the crucifixion.”
He paused to take a drink, Maria slowly crumpling onto the floor in horrified laughter and Dad now thoroughly distracted from his homework.
“Then we lower the cross, and invite everyone who wants to take communion up to tear a hunk of Jesus off. Just descend into his corpse like vultures. I think that’d really be a good bonding experience for the church.” he nodded thoughtfully. “The hard, part, I suppose, will be finding enough romans.”
“I WANNA BE LONGINUS.” bellowed my father, barreling into the room.
And so, the plan was hatched. Dad hit up every other guy in the Church and eventually rounded up four more romans, three of them from the Education Department of Cal Poly, and one guy from Chemistry, who just liked to watch things burn.
This, being a play, naturally meant that there was a rehearsal, and test Bread jesus. Maria had decided that if they were going to start being extra-literal, she needed to make the most lifelike Bread jesus possible, and made a distressingly buff and human-proportioned Jesus by Advanced bread-braiding, complete with plaited hair, quail’s-egg-and-raisin eyes, bready muscle groups, and an eight-pack because why not make the lord completely shredded?* She also made the important theological decision that since Jesus loves everyone and was happy to die in spite of all his suffering, he should be smiling, and had a toothy corn-kernel smile. He was Wonderful and Terrifying all at once.
“Maria,” asked Father Patrick after a few minutes of delighted and horrified cooing over Jesus’ toothy grin and abdominals. “Why is he wearing a tea-towel?
“Well, he’s the Son of God. A Man. With all that entails.” She said, pointedly staring at Father Patrick while everyone stared at the suspiciously lumpy tea-towel. “And he might have… burnt, slightly.”
Everyone nodded and agreed that the tea-towel was the best course of action. The rehearsal goes splendidly and everyone agrees that this is the most delicious Jesus they’ve ever had.
*
Easter Sunday arrives and the Church is PACKED, from the more lapsed Catholics showing up for a high holiday, parents visiting for spring break and a whole horde of newcomers who had gotten wind that something was up and they ought to come.
Dad is a lanky as hell 21-year old composed mostly of technical jargon and acne but he is STOKED to be playing Longinus, the roman that speared Jesus on the cross, because he gets to do the BEST technical effect in the whole parade. Since he came in at the end me missed a good portion of the sermon, but did hear the “oooh” from the crowd as the massive cross was dragged in by the other Romans, followed by horrified gasps and high screams and a discernible “What the FUCK” as they brought in Bread Jesus 2.0, whipping him enthusiastically, and hammering him into the cross, the sound of wine splashing onto the floor loud in the terrified silence of that Parishioners.
Finally Father Patrick gets to the part about Longinus, and Dad comes sprinting down the aisle as hard as he can, because in order for Bread Jesus to be seen by everyone, his middle had to be about 10 feet off the ground, so Dad had to run, shrieking latin curses, down the length of the church, with a big honking spear and take a flying leap at Jesus in order to spear him in the gut.
Please take moment to imagine you are some normal god-fearing catholic who has decided to visit little bobby or maybe patricia at college and you’re all going to church together like a nice family and this Fucking madman has decided to go all Silence of the Lambs on mass and now there’s some sort of underfed translucently pale man in ill-fitting Roman armor and cape flying at a horrifying glutinous effigy of your lord and savior, with an actual fucking spear, screaming like a madman. Don’t you feel yourself drawing closer to God already? Defensively, perhaps, like an octopus trying to ooze itself into a crevice against the horrors of the ocean.
However, two things happen that were not planned on
1. Dad misses. In his defense, Bread Jesus is close to but not quite the size of a man- more like the size of a doughy teenager, and his middle is a small target 10 feet up in the air and dad is has a computer science minor, not an athletics scholarship. He misses by about 8 inches and instead very solidly stabs Bread Jesus right through the groin, leaving a big hole in Maria’s tea-towel and the spear jutting out at a decidedly… attentive angle, as Bread Jesus’s Bread Dick drops to the floor with a splat. Nobody notices this, however because
2. In rehearsal, Dad had managed to get the spear right in jesus’s navel but neither Father Patrick nor the other romans could get the wine up there to make his middle appropriately bloodied.
Maria come up with the Genius solution that since wine is made of grapes and Jam is made of grapes, she could make a jelly-filled Jesus for Dad to stab. There was a normal-sized test loaf and when dad stabbed it on the table, it had a nicely gooey dribbling effect.
However, this time the loaf was torso-sized, still hot from the oven and upright, so when dad speared the very end of the loaf, all the steam-pressured jam had collected at the bottom and a spray of lukewarm smuckers exploded out from bread jesus, turning the first three pews into a splash zone of symbolic entrails.
There was a hot, sticky minute of complete silence in the church after that.
Then, Father Patrick indicated it was time for the cross to be lowered, and continued on with the normal preparations of the Host, he himself covered in hot smuckers, as though nothing particularly ordinary was occuring, quietly kicking the bread-dick under the altar. At the end of it all, Father Patrick and invited everyone up with the Last Oration:
“Thou, O God, has kindly allowed us to have a part in this Holy Sacrifice; for this we give Thee thanks. Accept it now to Thy glory and be ever mindful of our weakness. Amen.”
…And everybody came up, shuffling like terrified zombies, pinching off tiny bits at first but then the madness took them and they began tearing apart bread jesus by the handful, weeping as they partook, scattered prayers and begging for forgiveness. The whole congregation was kneeling about the altar, tearful and united in their guilt and their need for God.
*
“IS CHURCH ALWAYS LIKE THAT?” six-year-old me asked, absolutely stoked. I’d convert on the spot if I got a show like that.
“No, it’s normally bland wafers and lots of chanting in latin.”
“Well that’s boring as hell.” I remember muttering and Dad snorting the coffee he was drinking out of his nose.
*
As people filed silently out of the Church to a gloriously sunny California afternoon, faces wan and smeared with wine and jam, Father patrick turned to Maria and asked “You don’t think that was too much, do you?”
“No.” Said Maria with a sarcastic deadpan so intense it was hard to tell from sincerity.
It was the exact same tone she used when the Archbishop and Six other high clergy showed up, clutching a letter someone had written, Livid and almost foaming at the mouth, demanding to know if such blasphemy had transpired.
“No. That’s crazy.” She said, staring down the archbishop like he was an idiot.
“Such imaginations some people have!” Said Father Patrick, much less convincingly.
“And you- you didn’t… Spear an effigy of our lord and savior?” the archbishop demanded of my father.
“Do I look like I can jump that high?” Dad asked, having in the interim been drafted for 51 days then nearly died of pneumonia from it, and therefore no longer afraid of the Church, the Law or God.
Somewhat relieved that he’d only received the extremely detailed ramblings of a doddering parishioner, the Archbishop sat down and complemented Maria on her most excellent Mexican Wedding Cookies, may he please have another plate for his nerves? Perhaps the ones with sprinkles?
Dad went on to help build the internet, Father Patrick converted to Buddhism and Maria became a Nun.
*For those of you wondering, Jesus was made of Challah.
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Music League Wrap-Up - Howard's House Party
We ran a music league in our discord server and had a blast! This is the playlist we imagined for Howard's retirement party!
for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’
jerry is here
my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”
When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”
I was done for the day.
This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.
I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”
I did not find my husband in this way.
In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”
“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.
The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)
Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.
I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English.
When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.
“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”
“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”
Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG
My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…
I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.
That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.
Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.
I love those stories so much…
Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.
She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.
American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)
Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)
that’s hilarious
I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY
Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?
So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.
The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”
What the hell Biblical Hebrew.
Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.
^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one.
Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.
Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English. Or French. Or German. Or Italian. (He tried all of them.)
Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years). He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.
She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.
All of these *chef’s kiss* but the Medea one is hands down the best
s/o to my classics professor who managed to get a tire changed on his rental car while doing research in Greece by telling them his chariot had broken down
I was once in the Italian equivalent of Costco and could not find hide nor hair of some vegetarian meatballs that we had bought there before. I didn’t know the Italian word for vegetarian, but I DID know the words for “lie” and “meat.”
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I feel like the reason certain dog-lovers insist cats are evil is because they read their body language as if they were dogs. So here’s a very basic guide to common “mean” things cats do that actually aren’t mean at all if you know what they’re thinking.
Rolling and exposing belly- attacks you when touched Does not mean: Give belly rubs! - haha I tricked you! Actually means: I’m playful! If you reach for my belly I’ll grab your arm and bite it because I think we’re playfighting!
Lazily exposing belly - still attacks when touched Does not mean: tricked you again! Actually means: I’m showing you my belly because I trust you. Please don’t break that trust by invading my personal space. I might accept a belly rub if I’m not ticklish and I know you well. Snapping at you while being pet Does not mean: I suddenly decided I dislike you! Actually means: You’re petting me in a way that gives me too much restless energy. Please focus on petting my head and shoulders instead of stroking the full length of my back next time.
Is in the same room but makes no attempt to interact Does not mean: I’m ignoring you Actually means: We’re hanging out! I’m being respectful by giving you space while still enjoying your company. Slapping/scratching your hand when you try to pet them Does not mean: I hate you! Actually means: You’ve failed to establish that we’re not playing, or the way you’re approaching me scares me. Be calmer, speak more gently, make eye-contact and blink slowly at me before you try again.
I love this post omg, thank you so much. As a lifelong cat person, dogs perplex me because they’re so completely different behaviourally.
I love dogs too but, I’ve been trying to tell people, you canNOT treat cats like you treat dogs. They arent the same animals and have very different personalities
P.s.: people often pet cats way too hard. Dogs like a firm pet or a pat on the belly, cats dont have the same bone structure and are more flexible than dogs so what you’re doing probably hurts them
Sitting and staring Does not mean: I am challenging you/plotting your demise/just generally evil and creepy. Actually means: I am a desert-adapted species, so my natural tears are very thick and keep my eyes moist for a nice long time. I do find people interesting and enjoy watching them. I just don’t need to blink very often!
Staring and blinking slowly Does not mean: I’m smug and think I am smarter than you. Actually means: I like you! But I don’t need to get up in your face to show it. I can just sit over here and blow kisses at you to show you I am glad you are around!
It’s very frustrating for me when people expect cats to act like dogs, or act like they’re deceitful. They aren’t! They just AREN’T DOGS.
Pour les chats 🐈💞
Get ready for “more reasons why I fucking love cats”
Yes, the legends are true. Cats headbutt you to show their trust and affection. They also do it to show “hey look I see you as family.” Lions do it with members of their pride to say the same. It’s not just because they want food.
Cats nibbling is indeed literally cats grooming you. It’s what mom cats do to their kittens. If a cat is gently biting and/or licking you, they’re now your mom.
Meowing can simply be for the mere fact they want to say hello, want to play or be pet. Again, not just for food.
They barely meow at other cats (except for kittens, they meow at mom cat), mostly just humans. There are exceptions but overall, meowing is almost always for us.
Cats squinting/slow blinking is indeed basically the equivalent of us smiling and/or kissing.
Cats, like humans, prefer to get things without having to work for it- which isn’t very common within other animals.
Cat massages or making biscuits is because they happy! Kneading is another way of saying “hey I like this moment here I enjoy you and my life.”
Cats recognize us by smell, sound, taste, and touch. They recognize us after years as their long term memory is extremely good. This is why abused or neglected cats are so easily scared or hard to connect with. If your scent changes over the years or just in the day, your voice will them it’s really you. Also, they will only remember you if you had impact on their life. If you just existed in the same house, they obviously won’t care.
And yes, they know our patterns in the day. You notice it when it’s beneficial to them (feeding time!). They will often wait for you to come home as well.
To remember: cats think we are interesting as hell. They watch us do everything because we’re fascinating!!!
They also want you to be around when eating because they feel vulnerable. They focus on eating so they hope you protect them. They do the same for you, all the time.
CATS 😍😍😍😍
when a cat turns their back on you, they’re not snubbing you. they’re trusting you to watch their back.
notice how when you’re unfamiliar but nonthreatening, they might loaf facing you and sorta halfway watch you. you’re not fully trusted, but you’re ok by them.
when you’re familiar and liked, they’ll often sit near you facing the same way. imitation of poses is a weird little way cats show solidarity. they do it to each other too. check out these bff’s:
they are doing this on purpose. it’s a buddy thing. so if you’re watching tv and a cat sits next to you and pretends to watch tv too, they are basically calling you bro and declaring friendship.
and if they really love and trust you, they’ll turn their back on you and go to sleep. they’ll sleep facing a wall in your presence, or lounge where they can’t see the room. this isn’t a snub, folks, this is true kitty love. they’re saying, “i feel safe when you’re around. i know nothing’s going to sneak up on me, because you’re here. i feel so safe i can stick my head under a pillow and snore with my butt pointed at you.”
farts aren’t an expression of love, though, as far as i know. they’re just farts.
a witch and the princess she "kidnapped" will be living their best lives in their tastefully decorated tower complete with courtyard for their beloved pet dragon when suddenly Prince Compulsive Heterosexuality bursts in on his noble steed Property Damage
#wielding his enchanted sword Complete Failure To Read The Room
anyway that scene from sleeping beauty where the Prince is hacking at the writhing wall of thorns, but the wicked sorceress is screaming at him from the window because hey YOU ARE DESTROYING MY WIFE'S PRIZE-WINNING MAGIC THORNERY AND interrupting her nap??? you utter knave of a nutsack
I love the use of the phrase 'some strange alchemy' as a descriptor for a process you don't understand.
'Through some strange alchemy(crochet) they turned a bundle of yarn into a stuffed giraffe'
'Through some strange alchemy(bad cooking) they turned a perfectly marinated steak into a charcoal briquet'
'Through some strange alchemy(good cooking) they turned a pile of slop into the fluffiest bread loaf I'd ever seen'
'Through some strange alchemy(bad reading comprehension) they took my polite statement and turned into a disgusting act against the poor'
and so on
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