Tell me your thoughts on on Moonbay
How do I begin to describe Moonbay? //smacked
Oh god Moonbay. She is. SO FUCKING COOL OKAY. Zoid pilot, transporter, businesswoman, mom friend, mechanic, diplomat, doesn’t even need a Zoid with guns to fuck you up because she’s like 300% gun okay. Also she does pro Zoid racing and she has a rich boyfriend bc she’s tough as nails but is also a very pretty dainty lady??? like how fucking cool is that.
She’s a single, disarmed young lady, travelling across the desert in a Gustav (which isn’t even a battle Zoid. It’s pretty much just a trailer with maybe a couple beam things to defend itself) during an active bloody war between two big nations. One thing that the anime always neglects to mention is that she belongs to an independant nation that doesn’t participate or approve of the war and she stays that way even though the circumstances constantly pressure her into working for one side of the other. She disapproves of the conflict and manages to get involved in it and make things better just by using her brains and the resources at hand.
And she’s friends with this big menacing merc dude right? Irvine. He looks bad and tough as nails but to her she’s a trustworthy loyal friend, How did they even become friends? What’s their story? IDK but these two fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Moonbay could ask irvine to jump off a bridge and he’d do it because when has Moonbay been wrong?
AND THEN she bumps into these two kids, Van and Fiona. Come on, they’re just BABIES in a big Zoid with a small organoid prancing after them. It’s insane that they’re wandering alone. So of course she tags along, she makes no questions, she doesn’t try to trick them. Even though they’re probably bad for business, she takes care of them and helps them because she’s just that nice okay. Helping people is what she does. FuckiNG SHIT SHE’S SO GOOD TO PEOPLE I’M ANGRY. In many instances she has to fight for herself and for them and she does, without fear but never in a reckless way, saving the asses of her friends, because even though she has a temper she NEVER lets it take over if it means it’s gonna put her peeps in the way of harm. This tiny little woman stands up to soldiers of all flags with all sorts of weapons, to bandits, rogues, evil baddies in big scary Zoids without fear. She’s so cool okay. The Ultimate Mom Friend.
Of course she also gets to pilot the biggest fucking Zoid in the series-the Ultrasaurus. Like. How skilled do you have to be, first of all, to REPAIR and then pilot with so much ease and confidence a Zoid that is big as a fucking skycraper and that you have NEVER seen before? And she sits on the driver’s seat and nobody protests (except O’Connell) because everyone just trusts her SO DAMN MUCH. She’s not even part of the military. Is she part at all ofthe Guardian Force? Who knows but she’s like the team’s mom and she does what she wants and everyone fucking trusts her because she can do ANYTHING OKAY
MOON FUCKING BAY.
