Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Gundam Wing I Learned From Reading Fanfic:
Being An Experiment Along Strictly Scientific Lines
(with apologies to Neil Gaiman)
by Irina Ruden, Lila Garott, and Ruth Wejksnora

 

            This list was compiled by three people, of whom one had seen the series (Ri-chan); the other two had simply read all they could stand of the fanfiction available on the internet (Lila-chan and Ruth-chan).


1. Wufei crashes through Treize Kushrenada's bedroom window every Thursday evening.
2. Quatre is a very nice boy. He cooks.
3. Quatre is never ever scary. Except when he is.
4. Never EVER touch Duo Maxwell's braid.
5. It is a very good idea to touch Duo Maxwell's braid.
6. Heero Yuy is a sadistic, raping bastard.
7. Heero Yuy is a big softie who needs a nice hug.
8. Duo Maxwell knows more sexual techniques than 500 French courtesans and Treize.
9. Relena is behind everything. No matter what it is.
10. Noin who?
11. Treize Kushrenada could talk anyone into bed, and does so on a regular basis.
12. Trowa sits around being the straight man, and doesn't actually do anything.
13. Wufei is, you know, kinda cool. Nice guy.
14. Treize is God.
15. There are no women in Gundam Wing.
16. Heero Yuy is an exhibitionist.
17. One has far, FAR too much fun with a Gundam.
18. Duo Maxwell does drag.
19. In a pinch, Zechs Merquise and Chang Wufei will turn to one another for fuzzy comfort.
20. All Zechs wants is a little understanding.
21. The Gundam Wing pilots spend about 10% of their time actually on missions, and about 90% of their time thinking about missions, waiting for missions, and giving each other sympathy fucks in order to recover from the missions.
22. Zechs and Treize Kushrenada have been sleeping together since they were kids planning to take over the world someday.
23. All of the assorted organizations the Gundam pilots are fighting are both indistinguishable and interchangeable.
24. Une who?
25. All of the guards and employees of OZ are sexual predators who have a taste specifically for 15-year-old pilots of the Gundam Deathscythe.
26. It is deeply meaningful that Duo Maxwell is Shinigami. He talks about it all the time.
27. Everyone has flashbacks.
28. Duo Maxwell has an IQ of 60.
29. Duo Maxwell has an IQ of 160.
30. Everybody can sing.
31. Nobody can sing.
32. Everyone sings in the shower.
33. Heero Yuy is in the shower ALL THE TIME. And doesn't always bother to shut the door.
34. None of the Gundam pilots ever do laundry; they keep getting interrupted by another pilot wanting a sympathy fuck.
35. Heero Yuy has a spandex fetish.
36. Duo Maxwell has a spandex fetish. But only when the spandex is on Heero Yuy.
37. Seiyuu jokes are a justifiable reason for slash fanfiction.
38. All of the pilots get beaten up and raped about once a week. This makes the other pilots very sad. And occasionally homicidal.
39. Wufei has a motorcycle, somewhere.
40. Duo has always wanted someone to brush his hair.
41. Trowa and Quatre have the most interesting time on trapezes...
42. Sexual experience was part of the pilots' "training" from an extremely young age.
43. Duo Maxwell will fuck anything that moves and quite a few things that won't.
44. Duo Maxwell is a victim of sexual abuse and doesn't enjoy fucking anything.
45. Every so often, Heero says "Ninmu ryoukai," which means something different every time he says it.
46. It is good writing to describe someone only by their nationality.
47. It is sexy to refer to your main character only as "the boy."
48. Heero Yuy has "Prussian blue" eyes.
49. Duo Maxwell has "liquid violet eyes you could fall into."
50. Duo was actually the main character of the show. Heero was only around to be his occasionally amusing sex toy.
51. The pilots all keep easily accessible diaries which keep mysteriously turning up on each others' laptops.
52. Heero Yuy has a laptop fetish.
53. Treize has always wanted a chance to let someone else be in control.
54. Duo Maxwell is extremely conflicted because his religion tries to suppress his sexuality, causing much angst.
55. Duo Maxwell finds anything involved with his religion to be a turn-on.
56. It is incredibly easy to get the Gundam pilots drunk.
57. All the Gundam pilots listen to 20th century American Earth music. This is possible because radios in the year A.C. 195 *play* nothing but 20th century American Earth music.
58. Ability to actually pilot a Gundam is not strictly necessary in order to be a Gundam pilot as long as one has sufficient charisma, angst and emotional hangups.
59. The impact of technology has in no way changed the way people live their everyday lives by the year A.C. 195.
60. The Gundam pilots, especially the ever-prepared Heero Yuy, bring copious quantities of lube and condoms with them on every mission.
61. Sex is the best and only way to deal with one's problems.
62. Heero Yuy reads romance novels for "research."
63. Zechs Merquise always wanted to sleep with Heero Yuy.
64. Zechs Merquise feels a need to explain his name every time he introduces himself to anyone.
65. Treize and Wufei exchange meaningful comments in Chinese all the time.
66. It is all explainable by the fact that Treize is French.
67. Treize is an unethical, dishonorable egomaniac.
68. Treize is a wonderful guy who wants the best for everyone.
69. No one understands Treize. Including fanfiction writers. And possibly the writers of the series. And possibly Treize.
70. Ethics and honor are the same thing. Especially in the eyes of Chang Wufei.
71. Heero Yuy disdains Treize because Treize acts upon his emotions.
72. Heero Yuy disdains *everybody* because they act upon emotion.
73. Heero Yuy thinks of Duo Maxwell as "that beautiful idiot."
74. Years of sexual repression have given Heero quite a sexual appetite.
75. Duo likes to... er... play with his food.
76. Duo has latent psychic powers.
77. Duo and Solo were screwing like rabbits since they were eight.
78. Duo enjoys being beaten up by Heero.
79. Everyone's breath smells like peppermint.
80. Everyone is a virgin until they meet Duo.
81. Duo has never been a virgin.
82. Duo is a virgin until he meets Treize.
83. Duo is a virgin until he meets Heero.
84. Duo is a virgin until he meets Wufei.
85. Math is erotic.
86. Wufei would be an abusive bastard in any relationship.
87. Except a relationship with Treize.
88. Wufei is secretly in love with Duo and wishes that Heero would stop beating him up all the time.
89. Duo is suicidal because Heero told him to shut up one too many times.
90. 1x2 does not equal 2x1. The same is true of 3x4 and 4x3, 5x13 and 13x5, etc. Also, 2x3 does not equal 1x6, nor does 6x2 equal 3x4.
91. Trowa wishes Quatre would help him bring out his inner emotions.
92. Heero wishes Duo *wouldn't* help him bring out his inner emotions.
93. Quatre is a mother figure to the other pilots.
94. Everyone survives the end of the series.
95. No one survives the end of the series.
96. Only Heero survives the end of the series and he feels just shitty about it.
97. The only way to react when someone begins making love to you is to shiver, gasp, and writhe.
98. Communication is bad for you.
99. Being in love will cause you to screw up your mission. This will inevitably cause the death of the person you love.
100. Pilots of all nationalities speak Japanese as a first language.
101. All of the pilots of all nationalities speak exclusively in American slang.

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