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What is Yaoi?:

Definition: Yaoi is a term of Japanese origin used to refer to manga or fan art that focuses on homosexual relationships between male characters. It can be compared with sho–nen-ai, which focuses on the same topic, but is (typically) not as graphic in its portrayal of homosexuality. Both categories are now commonly referred to as Boys' Love in Japan. From Wikipedia

You wouldn't find that definition in your normal dictionary. For those who don't know, Yaoi is a term used here in cyberspace to catergorize Homosexual relationships between manga and doujinshi characters. One can find that most yaoi focuses on the actual relationship. Thats not to say that some also focues on the sexual aspects, however it does tend to take a back seat to the relationships.

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Why Duo?:

I've always prefered Duo's out going appearance to any of the other pilots. To me his strenght comes from his willingness to do what ever pleases him. There are very few people who can truly accomplish everything they do in life without worry of its out come on the rest of there life. After everything that happened within his life to make him suffer the only true thing that came out of it was his belief that if he was to truly stop the war, there would be no more orphan like him to suffer.

Duo disposition generally changes everytime a battle begins. He becames Shinigami, The God Of Death. The history of this has always brought a tear to my eye. He believes this because everyone who's close to him has always come to pass before his eyes. Everyone expect him.

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Characters:

Main Characters

The Gundam pilots:

1 Heero Yuy

(Doctor J - designer of Wing Gundam) for L1

2 Duo Maxwell

(Professor G - designer of Gundam Deathscythe) for L2

3 Trowa Barton

(Doktor S - designer of Gundam HeavyArms) for L3

4 Quatre Raberba Winner

(Instructor H - designer of Gundam Sandrock) for L4

5 Chang Wufei

(Master O - Shenlong Gundam designer) for L5

Other Major Characters

6 Zechs Merquise/ Milliard Peacecraft

AKA the Lightning Baron, OZ major and pilot of TallGeese, later becomes a White Fang figurehead

9 Lucrezia Noin

OZ training officer, MS pilot and friend of Zechs'

11 Lady Une/Lady Anne

Treize's right hand, OZ colonel and ambassador, later head of the Preventers

13 Treize Khushrenada

Leader of the Alliance Special Forces (OZ), a director of the Romefeller foundation, later leader of the World Nation

15 Quinze

the man behind White Fang

R Relena Darlian/Relena Peacecraft

a political leader, the main advocate of Absolute Pacifism and heir to the Peacecraft throne of the former Sanq/Sank/Cinq kingdom and leader of the World Nation

C Cathrine Bloom

a circus performer who befriends Trowa

D Dorothy Catalonia

a free agent, associated with the Romefeller foundation and later with White Fang

S Sally Po

a former United Earth Sphere Alliance major, now leader of a resistance movement against OZ, an ally of Wufei's

H Hirde Schbeiker

OZ recruit and MS pilot, eventually Duo's ally and business partner

M Chang Meiran -deceased-

Wufei's wife, appears in Wufei's Episode Zero

More Characters

Howard (a superlative mechanic, ally of Duo's and a former acquaintance of the five scientists)

Mariemeia Khushrenada (a political leader, daughter of Treize Khushrenada and Leia Barton, appears in 'Endless Waltz' aged 7)

Dekim Barton (Mariemeia's grandfather, appears in 'Endless Waltz')

Sylvia Noventa (grand-daughter of Marshal Noventa, killed by Heero, she is probably the only innocent bystander around)

Iria Winner (one of Quatre's 29 sisters)

Solo -deceased- (no last name, appears briefly in Duo's Episode Zero)

Ralph Kurt former mercenary acquaintance of Trowa's (appears in Blind Target)

Odin Lowe -deceased- (appears in Heero's Episode Zero)

The Manganacs (40 MS pilots, including their leader, Rasid Kurama, allies of Quatre's)

Otto (an OZ officer, MS pilot/mechanic and subordinate of Zechs')

The Sweepers (an L2 group involved in the salvage business, to which Duo, Howard and Professor G belong)

Heero Yuy -deceased- (a major political leader for whom Heero was codenamed by Dr. J, his assassination in AC 175 heralded the Federation's tyrannical rule of the colonies which he was in the process of bringing together)

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This Information was used with permission by the web master of Gundam Wing Addiction. Mainly because I was to lazy to remember this stuff.

Warnings

Ever wonder what the warnings and ratings are when reading a good GW fan fiction.

shonen ai
boy/boy romantic love

shojo ai
girl/girl romantic love

yaoi
boy/boy or man/man sexual relationship

yuri
girl/girl or woman/woman sexual relationship

lime
contains an explicit sexual encounter

lemon
contains a VERY explicit sexual scene, described in graphic detail

fluff
humour, is likely to contain a lot of OOC (see below)

OOC
Out-Of-Character: denotes some characters acting in a manner difficult to reconcile with the Gundam Wing anime itself

AU
Alternate Universe

PWP
Plot, What Plot? Sheer smut, unencumbered by a plot

NCS
Non-Consensual Sex. ie, rape

OC
includes an original character

songfic
using a song's lyrics as a background

deathfic
includes a character's death

angst
includes emotional pain, likely to make you reach for your hankerchiefs

sap
a lot of tears and OOC as characters act in a 'Love Story' fashion, never mind their real character

squick
includes some gross concept or disgusting description that makes you go 'ewww!'

shotacon
sexual relationship between a child or an underage character and an adult (perfect illustration of the squick concept detailed above))

TWT
Timeline, What Timeline? indicates that the story will not bother with the niceties of sticking to the Gundam Wing timeline (49 episodes plus the OVA 'Endless Waltz', along with the handful of official mangas -the Episode Zero and Blind Target mangas-)

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This Information was used with permission by the web master of Gundam Wing Addiction. Mainly because I was to lazy to remember this stuff.